Chapter 172: Zombie Siege Practice
When the sixth phone call from 606 came in, the student union finally broke:
“Isn’t there only four people in your dorm? How can there still be five phones?”
Tang Xinjue, calling in for the second time: “First of all, the student union shouldn’t casually speculate about and disclose student information without basis; secondly, technology is advanced and society has progressed, so having slightly more phones is also a very normal thing; lastly, please don’t affect the Q&A time. Our question this time is…”
Student union: “...”
I really want to escape, but I can’t.
Although the radio station didn’t play a song, Yu Wei seemed to hear the silent BGM inside, and couldn’t help feeling a faint trace of sympathy in her heart.
However, before long, this little bit of sympathy disappeared completely when the student union dodged the question for the Nth time and refused to answer directly.
She angrily joined the SIM card-prying faction: “This is too much, they simply don’t want to answer the questions properly!”
Even she could tell that if it weren’t as though they were restricted by some kind of rule, the host would wish every second to immediately pull out the phone line, let alone answer every question.
No wonder they needed so many phone cards.
Fortunately, all these phones had been kept quite intact during the escape, and the phone cards had suffered no damage. Zhang You even found several dual-SIM dual-standby phones among them, and accepted all of them without the slightest courtesy.
At this time, Yu Wei thought for a moment, then took several small and exquisite old-person phones out of her trouser pocket.
“I almost forgot just now, can these be used?”
Of all the phones she had obtained, only that “Qiuqiu” person’s phone could be used, because the zombie had been firmly pressing down on the fingerprint button, conveniently keeping the screen lit. Apart from that, the others either couldn’t be unlocked because of the fingerprint lock, or were non-smartphones that couldn’t even get onto QQ, so she had casually stuffed them away and forgotten about them. She hadn’t expected them to become useful again now.
606: …How many phones did you actually plunder back?
And with this many phones hanging off you, weren’t they heavy when you were running away?
After Tang Xinjue finished another questioning, she glanced at the remaining time and smiled: “It’s fine if they’re not smart phones. Having phone credit is enough.”
As for them, they only needed to change phone cards faster than the student union could hang up.
...
When the 12th phone call connected, Xiao Ming couldn’t even control his volume:
“Your dorm has an average of 4 phones per person?”
Tang Xinjue’s tone was indifferent: “Does it? This is only my first time calling, you’ve mistaken me for someone else.”
Xiao Ming: “You’ve obviously been calling the whole time, you haven’t stopped at all!!”
Tang Xinjue ignored him: “My question is, after the antidote is developed, what requirements must be met in order to receive treatment?”
After a long while, the person on the other end of the phone ground out through clenched teeth: “…As long as you’re alive.”
“——Ding dong——”
The 30-minute prompt suddenly appeared, and the radio immediately erupted in wild delight: “Time’s up!!”
“Alright, today’s radio station ends here, let us meet again tomorrow. I wish you all a wonderful night——and that you survive until the next broadcast.”
The word “wonderful” was emphasized, as if foretelling that this night was destined to have nothing to do with this word.
The radio stopped working, and the surrounding environment suddenly became quiet again.
Zhang You was somewhat regretful: “There are still several numbers we didn’t get to use.”
Tang Xinjue put away the phone cards: “It’s fine, we’ll continue tomorrow.”
The information they had asked for today had already yielded quite a lot.
These answers were information that 606 needed to analyze further, but for Yu Wei, they were practically equivalent to reshaping her worldview.
The kind where the more you recalled it, the more frightening the aftereffects became.
“Help, help, we aren’t trapped in some kind of terrifying experiment, are we?!”
Yu Wei’s mouth fell wide open, her expression terrified.
The sudden laboratory leak, the mysterious and bizarre student union, the virus that could evolve again even after everyone had fucking turned into zombies, the outside signal that couldn’t be reached...
She suddenly covered her mouth, as though she had seen through the truth of the matter: “Could it be... a cult? Were we offered as sacrifices?”
Tang Xinjue looked deeply at her: “Good idea. We’ll have to survive until the end to verify that.”
After the few people had just briefly summarized things, their previous conclusion regarding the method of clearing the dungeon still remained:
They could only rely on surviving quietly.
Unless they could, without supernatural abilities, kill all the thousands upon thousands of zombies in the school in one go, then dig three feet into the ground to find the student union and laboratory, perhaps they could trigger a special ending, or be directly ejected from the dungeon.
But based on the information they had now, it could be clearly known: the laboratory was the most mysterious existence in the entire school. Simply put, nobody could find it.
Even the student union didn’t know its exact location, and naturally knew nothing when asked about the development of the antidote.
They even suspected that only the accidental incident when Yu Wei happened to overhear the conversation in the cafeteria was the only opportunity in the dungeon to obtain key information about the laboratory.
While everyone was analyzing, Guo Guo carefully scrutinized Yu Wei for a long while, then said seriously: “You’re not actually a spy from the laboratory, are you?”
Yu Wei: “…You flatter me.”
A hidden location with a high safety factor, not getting bitten by zombies, getting the antidote first, and perhaps even receiving an internship certificate as a bonus...
Such a good thing, even zombies would want to go.
“Look on the bright side. At least we know the time of the zombies’ second wave of mutation.”
Tang Xinjue drew out a number from a chat record: midnight.
Before this, the zombies were still at the average level of the zombies in zombie movies they remembered, and their numbers had not yet become so numerous that they could flood up to the sixth floor.
What they would become afterward was difficult to say.
Even though it was the height of summer, Yu Wei shivered, feeling an indescribable chill in the air. She suddenly thought of a question: “Ah, right, didn’t the student union also say that several student strongholds had appeared outside?”
Judging from the literal meaning, these places must have gathered quite a few students. Perhaps they could both resist the zombies and have stored a lot of supplies?
“That sounds very tempting.” Tang Xinjue smiled: “Do you want to join them?”
Yu Wei originally wanted to nod wildly, but suddenly became a little hesitant: “But after the radio broadcast, there should be a lot of people wanting to seek refuge with them, right?”
And she currently knew nothing about these “strongholds”. What if she got there and was unfamiliar with the place, had nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep? It would be better to cling tightly to her good friend’s thigh here.
Although Yu Wei had known the four people for less than an hour in total, she had already established an extraordinary sense of trust in them—from being brought up to the sixth floor by a single hemp rope held by Tang Xinjue, to witnessing her stomp on three zombie heads at an angle.
She inexplicably firmly believed that even if all the zombies in the entire building ran to the door of 606, the iron door in front of her would definitely hold... Wait, iron door?
The girl suddenly realized what was wrong and abruptly raised her head: “Right, why is your door an iron door?”
When she had escaped through other dormitory buildings, all the dormitory doors she saw had been thin wooden doors. How was it that this dorm room had a clearly larger and sturdier iron door?
They were both dormitories, could the configurations really differ this much?
“Oh, this?” Zheng Wanzhing said carelessly: “We paid for the replacement ourselves.”
“I see.” Yu Wei suddenly understood. Her gaze moved away from the door, then fell onto the metal weapon rack beside the door.
“...”
She swallowed: “These weapons were also bought by you yourselves?”
She remembered that this school seemed not to be an agricultural university, and besides, even if you went to the fields to steal them, you couldn’t steal ones this sturdy!
Zheng Wanzhing was extremely proud, but still stated the facts honestly: “Only the rack was something I picked myself. The rest were dismantled from lottery blind boxes.”
Yu Wei: ?
What lottery? What blind box?
Previously busy escaping for her life, and then catching her breath only to run into the radio broadcast, she had only now finally managed to spare some attention to observe the dormitory in front of her. The more she looked, the wider her eyes became:
It was clearly a normal dormitory layout, yet the area was obviously one size larger than the four-person dormitories she knew; not only was there a weapon rack on the wall, there was actually an LCD wall-mounted television installed above the door? She even saw an extremely exquisite large refrigerator, sitting beside four uniquely shaped beds.
By the time she finished looking, she understood: “A rich lady is actually beside me. Keep me, I’m super good at living off someone else!”
Mom, she saw living money power!
606’s four people: “...”
Without puncturing Yu Wei’s beautiful fantasy, Zhang You returned to the main topic: “Regarding the student strongholds, I always feel there are some hidden dangers.”
After all, the more people there were, the more uncontrollable the zombie virus would become once it broke out from within, not to mention that this was the very day they had encountered a huge upheaval, and the students might not yet have calmed down.
Of course, the main problem was still——this information had been proactively announced by the student union.
They did not think that on the first day of the dungeon, the other side would kindly provide such a beautiful hope to the examinees.
Guo Guo grasped the pendant, sensed it for a moment again on the line of messages “student strongholds”, then opened her eyes and shook her head: “The pendant is scorching hot, great misfortune!”
Without hesitation, the group moved past this point and fast-forwarded to the final—and most critical—issue:
How to deal with tonight.
“Same old rule, soldiers come, we block them; water comes, we cover it with earth.”
*Chinese proverb, meaning whatever comes our way, we’ll find a way to handle it.
The four people exchanged a tacit glance, then simultaneously turned their gazes toward Yu Wei.
The back of Yu Wei’s neck went cold, and she immediately raised her hand: “I can do anything! I can stay up all night keeping watch, I can wash clothes and cook, and I can also share silly videos with you... Oh, this won’t do, we can’t waste the phone battery.”
Mentioning this, Tang Xinjue’s gaze shifted slightly: “Then can you keep watch?”
Yu Wei answered without thinking: “I can!”
...
Five minutes later, she understood what Tang Xinjue meant by “keeping watch”.
The scorching sun hung high overhead. She nervously crouched on the balcony, observing whether any zombies would suddenly leap out from the high places around them. On the other side, Tang Xinjue stood on the railing, estimating the distance to jump to the neighboring balcony.
“Si-sister, are you sure you want to jump over?”
Seeing the large iron shovel strapped to the other person’s back, Yu Wei still couldn’t help asking softly.
Tang Xinjue nodded: “It’s daytime now, we only need to look around nearby.”
Yu Wei: “…Then what about nighttime?”
Tang Xinjue: “When it’s dark and the wind is high, it’s suitable for going far away.”
The student union only said not to go outside, but strictly speaking, what she was doing now was visiting another dorm.
Zhang You and the other two were responsible for jumping toward the balconies in the other direction. Guo Guo considerately explained: “We’re afraid we won’t have enough numbers to call the student union tomorrow, so we’re going to visit the other dorms first and make some connections.”
Yu Wei: The logic is this logic, but why are you bringing a sack?
She didn’t dare ask, and could only quietly keep watch. Fortunately, Guo Guo was accompanying her. The two crouched down and divided up a bag of cucumber-flavored potato chips. Yu Wei suddenly spotted something and poked her head out: “Outside, downstairs, about three buildings away, there seem to be people.”
Not just one, but a whole row!
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