Chapter 187: Zombie Siege Practice (Twenty-four)
Whether it can cheer people up is still unknown, but what is certain is that the student union’s playlist has successfully ignited a fire in the school——
"Classmates! How can we tolerate this? We can't tolerate this!"
In the East Gate cafeteria, the leader slammed the table in anger.
Music can be down-to-earth, but it cannot be too down-to-earth. Is this a song for people to listen to? It is clearly a funeral song!
This is simply a naked curse and contempt for them!
"right!"
The hall was filled with outrage, and many people in the bustling crowd stood up directly:
"It's like we're not going to make it through tonight. Who are you looking down on?"
"Good boy, if I really die here tonight, wouldn't it be like having a disco on my grave?"
"I have to hold on until tomorrow. At worst, I can just pick up the mop and get to work. Even if I can't beat the zombies, I still have a lighter! Oh, and if anyone has a lighter, can I borrow one..."
Since yesterday, more and more people have joined the third base, and the Student Affairs Center has been overcrowded, so they simply took over the East Gate Canteen and completed a comprehensive upgrade of the location, equipment, and supplies.
Seeing the noise in the cafeteria getting louder and louder, the leader slammed the table several times before concluding:
"Everyone, the closer we get to this point, the more we need to have strong will and determination. We must not give up. Think about all your unfulfilled wishes. Think about how, as long as we survive, we can impeach and overthrow this worthless student union. Think about the antidote that the lab is about to develop. Don't let it be the last new product of the season that we grab in our lifetime!"
"For life, for living, for continuing to be a human being, hold on to the end!"
Amid the depressing music on the radio, the night deepened and the zombies began to bare their fangs.
They were banging on the door non-stop outside, while 606 was eating in the dormitory.
Yu Wei stuffed her mouth with food and asked, "Is this okay for us?"
Why does she feel like she has some disrespect for the zombies outside?
Tang Xin Jue: "Replenishing physical strength is the most important preparation before battle."
Once the door is broken down from outside, what awaits them will be a long and exhausting battle of physical exhaustion.
“Hungry… so hungry …”
A shrill scream suddenly came from outside the door.
Yu Wei suddenly choked and felt that the bread in her mouth became difficult to swallow.
"It smells so good... I want to eat it..."
"Help me...open the door...I want to go in...and eat!"
More indistinct voices howled, rising and falling in the strange rhythm of the radio.
“Don’t let them affect your mentality.”
Zhang You handed Guo Guo a bottle of water and said, "Don't say they are just corpses now. Even if they have consciousness, they are still a group of ghosts."
There is essentially no difference between being banged on the door by a group of zombies and being chased by a group of ghosts. In either case, you will die if you are not careful.
Guo Guo's cheeks were puffed up like a hamster's. He chewed his biscuits vigorously to calm himself down. "Yeah! I'm ready! First, put on the shovel, then add oil. I'll hit my heart on the left and my head on the right..."
Zheng Wanqing: "You got the wrong thing. That's not a shovel handle, it's my arm."
…
At 10 p.m., the radio finally finished its playlist and went back to play it again. The still-creaking radio became a little fuzzy, and the zombies' screams made it particularly piercing.
Because there were so many zombies gathered outside, they had even begun to learn long sentences through "infecting" each other, howling endlessly at the top of their lungs. The entire campus seemed to be filled with the zombies' roars.
In the end, even Yu Wei went from being frightened to being annoyed. Amidst the noise, she asked in agony, "When will they come in?"
Tang Xinjue listened quietly for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Right away."
As soon as he finished speaking, the iron chains made a series of dull sounds - all three chains broke!
But the zombie that had pushed the iron door open a little was soon blocked by the cabinet behind it. It stopped making noisy noises and continued to push the door open again.
Zhang You frowned: "How did they break open so quickly?"
Although the zombies of the fourth wave of mutation are indeed very strong, they have also compared and found that even if the entire corridor is filled with zombies squeezing in this direction, they will not break through the dormitory defense line before 12 o'clock.
Tang Xin Jue: "Because they didn't just hit it with their bodies."
She held the toilet plunger and tapped the table. "If I tied the toilet plunger to my hand, I could break the table even faster."
Zhang You's eyes changed slightly: "You mean, they used tools?"
When she listened more carefully, she realized the noises outside were indeed different from the previous few days. Amidst the muffled thud of flesh colliding, there was also a faint clatter of metal on metal. However, most of it was drowned out by the howling, making it difficult to hear clearly.
"They have metal on them. No, they should be the iron spikes we placed in the corridor."
Those tools that were originally used to defend against zombies have now become weapons to attack their dormitory !
Yu Wei was horrified: "Help! It's okay that I can't beat the zombies, but now they even have a higher IQ than me?"
Even zombies can use weapons, what else can she do?
"Look at it in a positive light. Maybe they just pricked me when they squeezed in, and now they just happened to prick the door." Zhang You said mercilessly.
All they can do now is continue to reinforce the gate.
If the cabinet is gone, there are still chairs. If the chair is gone, there are still bed frames. If the bed frames are gone, there are still washbasins... There are only walls that are not nailed enough, but no furniture that cannot block the door.
After almost manually dismantling the dormitory, everyone's eyes turned to the balcony again.
"...What are the chances of zombies crawling in from the balcony?"
Tang Xinjue answered concisely:
“Very high.”
As time went on, they could see more clearly that countless dark shadows were crawling on the ground, rapidly approaching Building 33 like a swarm of insects attracted by a light source.
606 didn't hesitate: "Seal the windows!"
"What is that, is it..."
"Zombies, it's zombies! Help! How can zombies get on the roof? Help..."
Not long after, even more terrified screams were heard from the rooftop.
The former laboratory members who originally chose to stay on the roof are now frightened and fleeing in all directions by the zombies pouring up from the ground floors.
606 was not having an easy time at this time either.
Glass windows and open balconies were harder to seal than dormitory doors. Besides those coming from the ground, there were also infected people crawling in from other dormitories and balconies. Some people simply waited at the windows with weapons and dishwashing liquid, pouring a bucket of liquid on any group that came up, then sweeping them all back home like dumplings.
"Damn it, I dropped my shovel!"
Yu Wei once again used all her strength to knock down two zombies, but accidentally left the shovel in the zombie's head. Her wrist lost its strength and she watched helplessly as the weapon and the zombie fell to the ground together.
Guo Guo quickly dragged her back, dodging two zombies that were lunging down with their mouths wide open. The two corpses fell to the ground, and Tang Xinjue kicked them away one by one.
"No, this is not a solution."
Zhang You shook off the blood on his glasses and checked the time.
11:30.
The songs on the radio have already played for the third time, there is still no news from the laboratory, and there are still 30 minutes before the virus mutates for the fifth time.
"I can't hold on any longer here!" Zheng Wanqing's gritted teeth groaned from inside the house.
Tang Xinjue took off his gloves without saying a word, poured oil on them, stuffed them into the mouth of the zombie that was rushing towards him, and pressed the lighter on its teeth.
Then she pressed him against the railing and said simply, "Set fire."
Seconds later, a burning corpse screamed and fell into the pile of corpses. Amidst the spilled gasoline, the huge corpse nest collapsed with a loud bang!
"Twenty minutes left!"
Inside the third stronghold, a group of students blocked the entrance to the third floor stairs with iron plates and fought against the zombies that kept rushing up.
The leader didn't even bother looking for his glasses that had been knocked off, shouting at the top of his lungs, "This isn't where the most infected are! Building 33 has taken away most of our firepower! We can still hold out! We'll hold out for a minute!"
33 rooftops that were forced to attract fire.
With nowhere to escape, the man with glasses poured the last bottle of injection into his mouth, trembling and muttering words that no one could understand, and jumped down from the building -
Snap! A blood-stained hand grabbed his calf first. Looking back, he saw the member who had defected with him squatting behind him, a bright smile on the half of his face that remained.
"……ah!!!"
In the bloody and chaotic night, no one seemed to notice that the radio had stopped silently.
After a moment, a reluctant voice replaced the music:
"Congratulations, everyone! The laboratory has developed an antidote ahead of time. Please leave the room—"
On the balcony, Zhang You suddenly stopped moving and asked, "Did you hear any sound?"
Guo Guo turned around in confusion. "No, I feel like it's raining. My arms are all wet now... Is my nose broken? Why does the rain smell like medicine?"
"It's not raining."
Tang Xinjue's gaze suddenly turned towards the interior of the house. The next second, Zheng Wanqing rushed out like a flash:
"It's the antidote! Jump outside!"
Before he finished speaking, water vapor poured down from the sky. Countless roaring, surging, and biting bodies slowly stopped moving in the rain, returning to the silence of corpses.
The moment her feet touched the ground, Yu Wei felt as if she was still dreaming.
She wrapped her clothes tightly and followed the four people from Class 606, stumbling across the suddenly silent campus.
Occasionally, someone would rush out from other dormitory buildings, jump down from trees, or crawl out from manhole covers... There were more and more people on the road, and the faint light in the sky seemed to be getting brighter and brighter. The early morning had never come so early.
Looking at the backs of the four people walking forward side by side, Yu Wei suddenly felt a strong urge to say something to them.
But perhaps because of the heavy rainfall, she could not see the four people clearly. She ran to catch up, but the distance between them continued to increase, becoming difficult to reach.
Until she seemed to understand something, she slowly stopped and watched them merge into the bustling crowd and disappear at the end of her sight.
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[Congratulations to the candidates who successfully passed the "Dead Rising Practice" exam!]
[This exam is scored as follows: Basic Question "Overcoming Disaster" 60 points, Additional Questions "Saving Yu Wei" 10 points, "Student Base" 10 points, "Mysterious Sacrifice" 7 points, "Crazy Experiment" 6 points... Total 93 points]
[Congratulations to the candidate who received a "perfect" rating in this exam and successfully entered a first-tier university!]
[Data is being updated...Data has been updated successfully]
[After calculation, you are the first batch of candidates admitted to a top university in this game. The educators are very pleased and have prepared a warm welcome ceremony for you. The teachers and classmates will celebrate your arrival, so go and see it!]
"Ding, the welcome meeting has been loaded!"
With a crisp ring, Tang Xinjue opened his eyes.
What I see before me is no longer the dark dormitory area, but an endless pure white space.
At the highest point visible to the naked eye, there were two rows of large red banners:
A First-Class University Welcomes New Students
Warm welcome from all teachers and students
Suppressing the bad premonition in his heart, Tang Xinjue shifted his gaze to the left and right.
Two neat rows of large eyeballs of different colors were staring at her without blinking.
At this time, a deep voice sounded loudly:
"Ready—applause—"
The next moment, both sides were neatly arranged:
"Snap! Snap! Snap, snap, snap!"
Tang Xin Jue: "..."
