Chapter 177: Dead Siege Practice (XIV)
When Tang Xinjue received Zhang You's call, he was cleaning the blood off the shovel.
Too much dirty blood solidified on the shovel would make the tip of the shovel lose its sharpness, making it inconvenient to cut the zombies - especially when the third wave of mutations is completed.
During the phone call, Zhang You also emphasized this matter:
"Headshots don't kill zombies anymore."
Strictly speaking, zombies are already corpses, so there's no question of whether they can be killed or not. However, a headshot will deprive the zombie of its nerve center's mobility.
With the arrival of the third mutation, this killing move became ineffective.
After a morning of siege and experimentation, Tang Xin Jue had already figured out that even without a head, the zombies could still use their hands to capture people. This time, to completely eliminate them, they had to sever a large portion of their spinal cords, which made the difficulty exponentially higher.
Zhang You said in a serious tone, "I'm at the First Sports Field, exactly where Guo Guo had predicted."
Just as they'd analyzed before, the more open and open the location, the fewer zombies there were, while indoors, there were surprisingly more. She'd originally wanted to find a temporary resting place, but she'd accidentally stumbled upon a zombie den. She'd barely used the iron door of the gym teacher's office to keep out the "pursuers" outside.
"I'm planning to climb out the window and observe the situation in the teaching area first, then go back to the dormitory area through the middle of the sports field... Where are you now?"
Tang Xin Jue: "I'm on the roof."
Zhang You: “…”
If the two of them could have a video call now, Zhang You would see: Tang Xinjue was sitting cross-legged on the flat roof, standing still despite the countless zombies roaring below.
Of course, the tied-up zombie next to her was still twisting wildly, emitting roars that were enough to attract others of its kind. Next to her was a trash can, and the flesh and blood piled beside it gave off a strong smell of blood.
"It's too troublesome to solve them one by one. I just happened to find an interesting place nearby."
Tang Xinjue glanced down lightly. As more and more zombies swarmed in, the building that had been standing quietly became obviously different.
Zhang You immediately realized: "Are you at the student base?"
At the same time, two floors below Tang Xinjue's location, two huge "Canteen" signs shook, and the glass main door below the signs was pushed open a crack.
A boy in security uniform walked out cautiously, carrying an iron rod. He didn't see any students outside, only zombies running towards the cafeteria one after another.
The boy screamed "Oh my god" and immediately ran back to the glass door. However, his movements had already been detected by several zombies, who immediately turned their heads slowly and "looked" towards the cafeteria entrance .
At this time, Tang Xinjue no longer used the tied zombies to attract attention. The zombies that had originally surrounded the cafeteria gradually lost their target and wandered aimlessly to the main entrance of the cafeteria.
The boy behind the glass door didn't dare to breathe. He quietly got back into the cafeteria through the second line of defense - the gap at the bottom of the iron rolling door, and reported the situation outside to the people inside.
As soon as the boy disappeared, Tang Xinjue lifted the trash can covering the flesh and blood again and pulled the cloth out of the zombie's mouth. The group of zombies that had just begun to leave downstairs immediately turned back and continued to make noise against the cafeteria wall.
As she expected, not long after, the rolling door opened with a slight sound and the boy was kicked out again.
This time, there was a man and a woman who were kicked out with him. The three of them only had one iron stick in total. They didn't dare to get close to the zombies at all and could only walk huddled together in the corner.
"What did you observe?" Zhang You's slightly panting voice came from the other end of the phone while moving quickly.
Tang Xin Jue said, "The East Gate Canteen has taken in a lot of students. There are garbage bags piled up outside, but they are almost all destroyed weapons and burned body parts. There are very few plastic bottles and food bags."
This means that either the force that initially raided the supermarket was not the student base in the East Gate Canteen, or they did not provide much food to the students they took in.
"The three students who were forced out to check on the situation were all very thin and timid, and clearly had no experience dealing with zombies."
Rather than being the organizers of the student stronghold, they were more like chosen cannon fodder.
Hardly had he finished speaking when the three inexperienced students accidentally made a noise: the leading boy was caught off guard and kicked his toe on the pillar, letting out a painful groan from his throat.
The boy had barely uttered half of his words when he suddenly realized what he had done, and his face turned pale.
The first zombie had already pounced over upon hearing the noise, and the three of them turned and ran without hesitation.
However, when they returned to the glass door of the cafeteria, they discovered in despair that the rolling door, which served as the strongest line of defense, had been completely lowered, and no matter how hard the three of them tried to lift it, they could not.
They were left outside!
The boy who had been kicked earlier let out a wail from his throat and wanted to vent his anger and curse in despair, but the girl next to him covered his mouth tightly: the zombie had already pounced on the glass door and started banging on it frantically.
There was no doubt that these fragile glass doors could not hold out for long, especially with more and more zombies . They could only desperately knock on the shutters, praying that the people in the cafeteria would be kind enough to let them in.
Bang!
A crack finally appeared on the glass, and the blood on the zombie's face seeped into the door along the crack and dripped onto the arm of another silent boy.
"Wanwan!"
The frail boy finally broke down. Facing the female zombie banging on the door, he opened his mouth and wailed loudly, "You, you recognized me, didn't you... I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to not save you last night. They said you weren't qualified. If I had kept you, I would have starved to death. I'm so hungry, I don't dare... Wuuwuwu, do you want me to come over and keep you company, wuuwuwu!"
"Stop crying!"
After covering this person's mouth, the girl slapped the other person fiercely:
"As a zombie, you'll never be hungry! There's endless human flesh to eat every day, so you'll be full!"
The boy sobbed twice, and finally regained some of his desire to live: "Then what else can we do except wait to die?"
The girl ignored him and ran to the glass door at the edge, picked up an iron rod and started smashing it.
The remaining two were stunned for a second before reacting: "Yeah, if the zombies are knocking on the door this way, they can also knock it out from the other side! As long as they stagger their positions, there's still a chance to escape!"
They hurriedly stood up and were about to go over to help. As they stood up, the glass door on the left shattered, and a zombie rushed in, pinned the boy with tears still on his face, and bit him in the face!
The boy next to her was so scared that he stopped cursing and his feet no longer hurt. He ran towards the girl at a speed as fast as an Olympic sprinter. They broke open the glass door and ran out, but they ran into a security zombie who had just arrived.
The zombies' fat faces showed a smile that was bigger than their heads.
The two of them turned around in a hurry, but the zombies behind them had already caught up with them. They were surrounded on several sides and were shaking and shrinking, leaving them no room to escape.
The screams of the boy who was knocked down in the distance had disappeared at some point. They knew clearly what his fate would be, and only deep despair remained.
If they had known this, they might as well not have come to this student base. Maybe they could have lived two more days...
Unfortunately, it's too late to regret now. All that's left in my sight are a few bloody mouths with a strong smell of blood.
…
"Wake up, you are not dead."
The two of them seemed to hear a human voice beside their ears, but they felt no pain. Could this be the hallucination caused by near-death...
……What?
The girl suddenly opened her eyes, and those horrible zombie faces disappeared from her sight. Only a girl with a ponytail was left, her skin was white and almost transparent in the sunlight, her pupils were dark, and she looked a little listless.
The white-skinned girl stretched out her hand. The girl thought she was going to help her up, so she reached out her hand dazedly. But she saw the other party pull out a cell phone from her sleeve, raised it to her ear and said:
"Something happened here. Three people were locked out. Um, how are you doing?"
I don't know what was said on the other end. The girl with the ponytail nodded and hung up the phone. She looked at the two of them and said concisely:
"Leaving?"
When they were taken to a safe corner, the three students were still confused.
Especially when the two people behind saw that the first crying boy who was knocked down was still alive, they almost jumped three feet high: "He was bitten and will mutate immediately. We can't bring him here!"
The boy quickly proved himself: "I wasn't bitten, I wasn't bitten. The big guy helped block it, seriously!"
Even he himself could hardly believe that he was able to save his life.
The three men looked at the girl who saved them nervously, feeling excited but also a little scared. After all, being able to knock over a group of zombies with just a shovel was beyond their comprehension.
Even the organizers in the cafeteria did not dare to come out alone to face the zombies. Most of them could only hide in the cafeteria and throw people out when they wanted to eliminate them.
Because leaving the base means death.
Tang Xin Jue got straight to the point: "When did you all join the student base? Why were you left out?"
She led the zombies to run wild in the cafeteria just to see their reactions.
When the rescued girl mentioned this, a hint of resentment appeared on her face. "Because they think we are [unqualified] and unworthy of staying in the base. Even if there were no excuse for the zombies coming, they would still knock us unconscious and throw us down from the second floor at night..."
"Unqualified?" Tang Xinjue grasped the key point.
"Right!" another boy quickly explained, "We originally thought the student base would take in all healthy students, but after actually getting here, we realized we were just being optimistic."
"These organizers would conduct an examination every night by injecting a tube of unknown liquid into our veins. If there was no abnormal reaction, they would consider us [unqualified] and expel us that night."
"It is said that only truly qualified students can be protected by them and survive to the end. But the liquid they inject every night is different, and every day there are new unqualified students who are abandoned. Today it is our turn..."
The boy had a sad face and was indignant. "But who can guarantee that I'll pass the test in the end? I don't think they want to save anyone at all. They're just a bunch of mentally deformed perverts who enjoy torturing people!"
