Chapter 182: Zombie Siege Practice (XIX)
The process of the four people coming down from the roof entrance was very smooth.
The ladder was placed in a small, dark warehouse, and the people in the base were probably unaware of its existence. Pushing open the narrow, dusty door, a large storage room appeared before them.
"Hiss——" Guo Guo took a light breath.
The amount of supplies stored here is at least more than that of two supermarkets!
It turns out that all those empty supermarkets that Yu Wei saw were here.
The four of them exchanged glances briefly and used a U-shaped lock to lock the storage room door from the inside.
They didn't reopen the door until the food was loaded onto the roof through the small door. The moment the door opened, they were face to face with the members of the stronghold passing by outside.
Tang Xinjue nodded and said, " Hello."
The visitor was stunned: "You are..."
Before he could even utter the word "who", he was knocked unconscious to the ground by Tang Xinjue's knife.
Tang Xinjue took off his red and white "sports jacket" and took out a lighter from it.
There was a slight snap and flames shot out.
When the fire on the top floor was discovered, the organizers of the stronghold were the fastest to move, rushing to the stairs at almost the speed of a 100-meter sprint.
If the fire broke out in the lobby on the first floor, they might not care at all - the students would put out the fire themselves anyway, and the worst that could happen was a few people would be burned to death.
But the third floor is different, all their supplies are stored there!
"Where are the people? Where are the people guarding this place today?"
A boy pushed through the crowd, yelling with a sullen face, and was nearly choked by the smoke.
At a glance, thick smoke billowed out from the two rooms at the end of the third floor. His eyes went dark. "Where's the water? Where's the water connected to the school water pipe?"
Even if it was just stored food, it would be fine if it burned, but the other room was...
His shouting finally had an effect, and another girl wearing the same clothes came over: "We have salvaged some of the things."
She pointed to the stairs where two boxes of injections were piled up, and black liquid could be vaguely seen in the syringes.
The person in charge finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Then hurry up and put out the fire! This fire is nothing, it doesn't matter if the food burns. There will be an airdrop in half an hour, we can just grab a few more."
The other side replied: "There is no water."
Person in charge: “???”
His eyes bulged out, veins popping out on his face. "What the hell are you talking about? How could there be no water? The school's water supply system is directly connected to ours—"
The shouting stopped abruptly, and the boy's eyes slowly rolled twice before he reacted.
Yes, just two hours ago, they seemed to have sent people to transfer all the water from those pipes to another student base.
So now, their stronghold is really...
"There's no water."
Another female organizer in the crowd repeated this with a sneer, "I've said it all along, don't make unnecessary trouble. Are those ant-like places worth our fuss? It will only damage our own luck."
"It will take at least 20 minutes to reconnect the water pipes. It would be bad if our resting place was burned. Isn't there drinking water downstairs? Let's use it first." Another organizer spoke up.
"Those boxes of water are for the current [qualified candidates]. The screening agents have made them increasingly weak, and they desperately need to replenish their fluids. If they don't eat or drink today, another batch might die."
"If he dies, he dies. At worst, we can just promote him more. There will always be new people coming in."
A short organizer said in a muffled voice:
"Don't forget, we've done this countless times in simulations. There's no way we'll fail."
The group exchanged glances in silence and nodded in agreement.
"In that case, the three of us will go downstairs to fetch water, and you, you, the three of you, go outside to change the water pipe."
The previously irritable man gave a few pointers to the crowd, issued the task, and then rushed downstairs impatiently, emptying the water in the horrified eyes of the students.
"You guys took it away, so what shall we drink?"
Someone crawled over and grabbed his trouser legs. Her body was still twitching from the injection in the morning, and her skin was visibly shriveling.
The boy glared at her with disgust, raised his foot and kicked her away, leaving a black mark on her face.
"It's good enough to give you a place to live, get out!"
He turned and went upstairs, passing several other organizers. He didn't notice that one of the short-haired girls suddenly tensed up and grabbed the clothes of the person next to her.
The girl with glasses and a hat immediately grabbed her, gently pinched her shoulders, and asked, "Did you see that?"
The short-haired "organizer" covered his temple and nodded, his eyes unable to help but fall on the weak girl who was kicked over in the distance.
Just as she passed by the grumpy man, she "saw" the same sacrificial scene again.
This time, the picture was randomly enlarged from a bird's-eye view, allowing her to clearly see the faces of some of the "corpses".
One of the girls was skinny and had the same black shoe print on her face.
Her temples were still aching, so she could only lean on the girl next to her and recall the scene she had just seen as she walked out.
At this moment, a rough voice suddenly sounded from behind:
"Wait, stop!"
The grumpy man was still carrying water in his hands, but his head turned strangely, his eyes fixed on the three girls who were walking out openly.
He had felt something was wrong since the fire started, and now he finally knew the source of this strange feeling:
Are there so many girls among them?
He clearly remembered that there were several other people guarding the sixth floor in the morning...but why did they disappear just now?
Facing these "colleagues," he frowned and asked, "Who are you all? Why are you carrying boxes when you go out? Turn around!"
Three girls in white sportswear with red stripes paused, then continued walking forward as if they didn't hear anyone talking at all.
Boy: "? I told you to stop!!"
He was about to run after him, but his arm was suddenly grabbed by a force. When he turned his head, the extremely low brim of the hat filled his field of vision.
The girl with a ponytail and a hat said in a very low voice: "Aren't you here to get water? The fire is coming out upstairs, where is the water?"
The boy subconsciously handed the water to her: "It's right here!"
The other person took the water without saying a word and hurried upstairs. The boy subconsciously followed him upstairs to check the situation, but when he took a step, he remembered that there was something behind him that had not been dealt with.
However, when he jumped down the stairs again, the lobby on the first floor was wide open, sunlight and air poured in, but the three "organizers" were nowhere to be found.
There's definitely something wrong with them!
"What are you doing here?"
Other organizers rushed over, grabbed him, and asked sharply, "Where's the water?"
The grumpy man was exhausted by the repeated bombardment and was furious: "The water has been brought up to put out the fire!"
The organizers looked at each other in confusion: "Who?"
Didn’t they see it at all?
“…”
The crowd fell into a strange silence for a few seconds, and then rushed upstairs at the same time!
When I reached the third floor, I found the lobby completely empty. The injection boxes that had been stacked at the stairwell had been replaced with drinking water tanks.
"Help! Someone broke into the storage room, and there's a fire! Come put it out!"
One figure supported another as they staggered out of the burning storage room. They were only wearing short-sleeved shirts, and the uniform jackets that represented their identities were missing.
——Four girls emptied the storage room, knocked out four guards, and stole clothes.
When the truth was revealed, everyone felt a surge of boiling heat rushing to their scalps, as if the fire was not burning the third floor, but the top of their heads.
The irritable boy chattered his teeth: "I'm going to capture them and peel off their skulls to use as sacrificial bowls..."
Crash——
His curse was interrupted by a series of frequent sounds of heavy objects falling outside the building.
At the same time, a voice amplified by a loudspeaker rang out from the roof:
"The East Gate Canteen student base is clearing out supplies. Please collect them on the ground outside the canteen. Please leave immediately to avoid them being reclaimed. I repeat, the East Gate Canteen is clearing out supplies..."
The grumpy man opened his mouth wide, like a fish thrown onto the shore, and it took him several seconds to react:
"The door to the first floor is not closed!"
They were certain that the students who came to seek refuge would not run away because these students were now weak and would die if they went out without food.
But if there is food, the situation is completely different.
However, by the time they rushed downstairs, it was too late. The cafeteria, which had been packed with people, was now completely empty, and outside the cafeteria, only a dozen people were left, still trying to grab their food.
…Usually they are so listless as if they will die in the next second, but when it comes to escaping and eating, they are faster than each other!
The first irritable man who ran out was so angry that he lost his mind and picked up an electric baton to rush forward recklessly. As soon as his foot stepped into the sunlight, there was a sudden buzzing sound at the back of his head and he lost his balance.
When he turned his head in disbelief, the last scene he saw was a thin girl with black shoe prints on her face squatting by the gate, holding an iron rod in her hand and watching him fall.
"You're not going to put out fires anymore?"
A nimble figure jumped down, helped the girl pick up the food on the ground, and patted her on the shoulder. The girl then gathered her strength and ran away quickly.
When the remaining organizers rushed out, they saw Tang Xinjue taking off his hat and asking with a smile.
The question is whether to take back the remaining food first or to seek revenge on the culprit first.
But soon the remaining people in the stronghold found that they seemed unable to complete any of them.
With a sharp and piercing whistle, dozens of black shadows appeared in the air and landed evenly under the help of parachutes.
Airdrop is coming!
Almost in an instant, the entire dormitory area was completely activated, including groups of strongholds, students fighting alone, and even zombies that came rushing over following the smell!
The two boxes of airdrops closest to the cafeteria landed just a few dozen meters away. Before the organizers of the East Gate stronghold could decide whether to grab them, a group of young students rushed over with incredible speed, waving brooms and mops.
The leader held onto his glasses and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Be careful of the environment! Don't trample! Charge! We must outrun the zombies! As long as we can, dinner will be served at the stronghold!!!"
