Chapter 186: Zombie Siege Practice
If they were on a video call, the four people in 606 would be able to see that Yu Wei was currently hiding in the wardrobe in an egg-shaped position, with a washbasin covering her head, staring at the doorway in a state of extreme tension.
As if she were contemplating a sorrowful question concerning life and death.
Fortunately, in the end she did not need to make this choice—Tang Xinjue jumped back from the balcony.
Strictly speaking, the position of the people in 606 was just over three meters above Yu Wei’s head. If something really happened in the dormitory, even without the phone, they would be able to hear it.
After Tang Xinjue returned, there was obviously only one more person in the dormitory, yet Yu Wei instantly felt that her life had gained another layer of solid protection. She let out a long sigh of relief: the air was no longer tense, the door lock was no longer loose, and even her back straightened!
The knocking stopped for a moment, then sounded again: “Are you the one who came back?”
It was an unfamiliar female voice.
Tang Xinjue walked to the door: “Who are you?”
The girl answered: “I’m from Dormitory 616, my name is Fang Zhou, and I live directly opposite your dormitory.”
The voice outside the door was clear and crisp, and the sentences were fluent. It did not sound like the muddled state after being infected.
Yu Wei could also tell that this person who had come this time had a distinct contrast with the “class monitor” who had knocked on the door earlier.
But she had personally heard zombies imitating humans speaking after the fourth mutation, so even if the person outside performed a rap on the spot, it was absolutely impossible for her to open the door.
“Dormitory 616?”
Tang Xinjue’s brows lifted slightly.
They had “cleared” the dormitories on the sixth floor one after another before, but they had all looked for “neighbors” through the balconies. Across the corridor, nearly half of the rooms had still not been visited.
The dormitory opposite was among them.
“Rest assured, I’m not infected.” The person outside calmly stated: “Ever since the virus began spreading, I have been hiding in the dormitory and almost never gone outside. If I had been bitten by a zombie at some point, I would have mutated by now.”
She paused, then continued: “If you’re still not reassured, you can give me a math problem through the crack in the door. No matter how much zombies mutate, they can only retain language functions. It’s impossible for them to recover logical thinking.”
Tang Xinjue had no objection to this method and nodded: “Calculus? Linear algebra?”
The person outside: “…It can’t be beyond middle school mathematics!”
Otherwise, even if she could solve it, there would be enough time for a zombie to chew her to pieces.
Tang Xinjue laughed: “Actually, there’s no need to go to so much trouble.”
She directly opened the door and stepped into the corridor, facing the girl: “This way we can determine it.”
Various remnants of ambush mechanisms still remained in the corridor, mixed with the filthy blood and slurry of zombies, red and white patches making it difficult to step anywhere.
Right in the middle of all this, a tall and slender bald girl stood at the doorway. Her skin was somewhat unnaturally pale from having not seen sunlight for a long time, but compared with Tang Xinjue, she actually seemed a little healthier.
The girl seriously looked at Tang Xinjue: “I’ve always heard your voices. This is the first time I’ve seen what you really look like. You’re a little different from what I imagined.”
Just from her appearance, it was difficult to associate Tang Xinjue with the creator of these terrifying mechanisms in the corridor.
Tang Xinjue also observed her: “The class monitor yesterday was also knocked unconscious and taken away by you?”
They had guessed that there had been living people on this floor all along. They just did not expect that, coincidentally, the person was directly opposite their door.
The girl smiled helplessly: “I’m sorry for only showing myself now and causing you some unnecessary trouble. Because my memory is very confused and I couldn’t confirm the situation outside, I have been hiding in the dormitory and adjusting myself.”
She lowered her head. Because she was bald, her skin could be seen clearly, and there were no characteristic cadaverous spots of infection.
After safety was confirmed, Tang Xinjue did not waste words and brought the person back into the dormitory, blocking the pungent smell of blood outside the door.
Yu Wei was greatly startled inside: “You’re really a survivor?”
Fang Zhou’s gaze lightly fell on her. She nodded and then shook her head, finally only saying:
“Thank you for being willing to trust me. Without you, I also wouldn’t have been able to persist until now… I know you should be very busy right now, so to avoid disturbing you, I’ll keep it brief.”
She took a piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to Tang Xinjue, concise and to the point:
“This is another part of the experimental records.”
Opening the paper, rows of messy handwriting could be seen printed across the wrinkled and worn surface:
[091 Experiment Statistics: 965 Successes, 33 Failures, Intrusion Failure Data, Experiment Continues...]
[17 Experiment Anchors, 922 Successful Sacrifices, Pairing Requirements Not Met, [Unclear]...]
[Application Failed, Reason for Rejection: Even in death, I will be tortured by you, you bunch of [unclear]...]
[Rating Decreases, if the final experiment is unsuccessful, it will be completely abandoned. This record was completed on—]
The final date was a string of garbled characters.
Tang Xinjue’s brows twitched. When she raised her head, she saw Fang Zhou already getting up.
“I once tried to find a way to recover my memory, but all of them failed. Therefore, I can only give this to you, hoping it will be of some help. No matter what the final outcome is, thank you very much for appearing.”
Yu Wei was still listening in confusion. Seeing the girl’s movements, she froze: “Are you going back?”
Fang Zhou looked at her steadily for two seconds, then gave a faint smile: “I should go to the third base and wait for the final result. Do you want to come with me?”
Although she did not know why, Yu Wei always felt that the other person was somewhat familiar. But she still firmly refused.
—What a joke, there was no place safer than 606!
Fang Zhou left very quickly. By the time Yu Wei remembered to ask whether she knew the location of the base, there was already no one in the corridor. Only the door of the dormitory opposite stood wide open, revealing the scene inside:
Several zombies whose heads had been separated from their bodies were cut apart and soaked in countless containers, resembling a small experimental base.
Yu Wei: “…Urgh!”
When she turned back, Tang Xinjue was still studying that piece of paper, but the phone rang again, still coming from the rooftop:
“They successfully opened the instrument.”
Zhang You said.
On the rooftop, the enormous black instrument emitted a sizzling sound like electrical sparks. The bespectacled man had finally almost finished tinkering with it. He had just wanted the person beside him to lend a hand when he discovered that the other two organizers had also fainted from exhaustion.
The bespectacled man: …I hate this!
He could only grit his teeth and adjust it alone. The voices inside finally became clearer and clearer:
“Hello? Who is this?”
“Why aren’t you saying anything… Could it be that the thing is broken?”
Hearing the muttering from the other side, the bespectacled man was as if he had heard heavenly music, tears streaming down his old face: “It’s me! I’m Dongying!”
“Oh, so it’s you, you dog bastard?!”
The other side was stunned, then immediately became excited and started cursing, the signal becoming several times clearer at once: “You bunch of traitors still have the face to come back and look for us? If you’ve got the guts, stay where you are. I’ll come over right now and kill you—”
“No, no, it’s not me looking for you, it’s…”
“It’s us.”
Tang Xinjue cut in.
……
After they relayed all of their discoveries regarding the injection agents, the laboratory side remained silent for more than ten seconds before finally giving an answer:
“If that’s true, then it may greatly accelerate the progress of our current research. But we still need to obtain the actual substances before we can determine anything. Can you wait there for a while?”
“No problem.” 606 answered decisively.
Ten minutes later, a small drone descended from the sky. After receiving the injection agents, the camera on the drone suddenly turned 180 degrees, locked onto the bespectacled man and the others, and began cursing furiously.
The bespectacled man: “……”
He did not dare make a sound and simply woke up all the sleeping organizers by pinching them awake. Everyone endured the scolding together.
Only after finishing a round of scolding did the drone turn back again and move up and down toward the four people in 606, as if a person were nodding in greeting:
“Thank you for your efforts in saving the disaster. The laboratory will remember your names forever!”
After saying that, the drone turned around and flew away at full speed, disappearing into the horizon.
Guo Guo looked up and watched it for a long while, then belatedly reacted:
“Wait?? You didn’t even ask for our names?”
……Regardless of whether the laboratory was reliable or not, they had already done everything they could. From here, there was only one thing left.
“Wait.”
Wait for the laboratory to develop the antidote ahead of time—or for the fifth-day mutation to arrive.
After recognizing this point, the bespectacled man and the others also became dispirited and decided to simply wait on the rooftop. That way, even if the apocalypse came in the end, at least they would be the last ones to die.
As for how they would be dealt with if the apocalypse ended, that was another matter entirely.
The four people from Tang Xinjue also returned to Dormitory 606 and continued modifying the defensive facilities.
The dungeon had practically given them an explicit indication that the fifth-day mutated zombies would reach an unprecedented level of danger. The current corridor ambushes and iron door and iron chains alone would not be enough to stop them.
Yu Wei had originally planned to simply lie flat and leave it to fate, but she did not expect that after the four people from 606 discussed it for a while, they actually rolled up their sleeves and started working again.
“Since one door can’t stop them, then make several more.”
Tang Xinjue said faintly.
The dungeon would not leave candidates with an unsolvable difficulty—if they had not participated in the matter of the bases and had instead followed the “advice” from beginning to end and honestly stayed in the dormitory to guard it, would they inevitably have died on the final day?
No. No matter how difficult the situation was, there would inevitably be a glimmer of hope.
Next, Yu Wei personally witnessed their process of surviving in a desperate situation:
The four of them did not start with 606. Instead, they directly went to the other dormitories and moved all of their wardrobes out, blocking from the stairwell until half the corridor was completely jammed!
If the zombies wanted to get in, they would either have to climb through the ceiling or smash through all the wardrobes in one go and first complete a ten-meter obstacle course.
Even if they successfully broke through everything, when they reached the door of 606, there was still a “surprise” behind the iron door: they had also blocked the wardrobes from the dormitory behind the door, nailed the wooden boards through the wall, and manually increased the thickness of the iron door.
“It doesn’t matter if they break through all of these.” Zhang You comforted Yu Wei. “We still have the bathroom. Come, help me dismantle this cabinet. We’ll use this board to reinforce the bathroom door.”
Yu Wei: …She had thought too narrowly.
On the other side, as if cooperating with the atmosphere of an impending storm, the student council radio also announced that it would temporarily change to a nighttime broadcast, beginning at nine in the evening.
In the exceptionally quiet campus, time sank inch by inch, until a complete full moon rose above the clouds and the radio finally came.
Only this time, they no longer used voices sickeningly sweet to disgust the listeners continuously, but instead changed to playing songs:
“On this night of special significance, let the student council accompany you through the long night and cheer everyone on. Next, please enjoy tonight’s playlist——”
“‘Die Before Dawn’, ‘Say Goodbye to the Beautiful World’, ‘The Last Night of Life’, ‘No One Survives’……”
Everyone listening to the radio: “……”
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