Translator: phizzlepop
Editor: mantou
Seeing that the zombie that had fallen to the ground was about to get up again, Song Fei didn’t dare to tarry any longer. With a twist of his wrist, the lock opened up with a kacha. Qiao Siqi and Zhou Yilu then seamlessly proceeded to pry open the doors. The girl didn’t wait for the doors to be fully opened, gracefully sliding in as soon the gap was big enough, the empty thermos in her hand knocking against the glass door with a crisp sound.
The two door guardians hurriedly shut the doors again, and without wasting any time, Song Fei locked it back up lightning-fast.
The moment the lock was back in place, the zombie that’d climbed back up again just so happened to lunge over, fiercely slamming right into the tempered glass!
A fist-width’s gap was opened up between the glass doors, instantly yanking the dangling chains perfectly taut!
Song Fei briskly propped his body against the doors, afraid that the bicycle lock would really be broken, then shouted to the other three people, “Go find a chain lock! A broom or mop will also do, hurry—”
Receiving their commands, the three of them scampered away, quickly disappearing into the maze of vertically and horizontally distributed gondola shelves, like three small fish leaping into the vast ocean.
Wait a second.
Three?
Song Fei exerted himself contending with the zombie outside the door, while putting fingers down inside his head. Qiao Siqi, Zhou Yilu, the newcomer beauty… f*ck, where was Luo Geng?
Song Fei’s expression abruptly changed. It seemed that he hadn’t seen Luo Geng at all ever since they ran inside the supermarket! But, he clearly remembered everyone darting in together…
“Haven’t you guys closed the door yet, I’m about to die ahhhhh—”
Think of the devil and he doth shriek.
The heart in Song Fei’s throat sank back down halfway. However, his voice had clearly come from the depths of the supermarket, remote and nearly indiscernible, making his gut-wrenching cry sound marginally less miserable.
“Where are you!!!”
The one who responded was an anxious Zhou Yilu.
“Lao Gan Ma—”
Luo Geng’s location was very precise.
Assuming that his companions were probably on their way to rescue Luo-laoshi, along with the fact that the person in question’s own shouts were full of spirit, Song Fei’s heart finally settled back in place. Presumably, there were still a few zombies in the supermarket that hadn’t left yet, and had stumbled upon Luo Geng.
The zombie outside was still hammering away at the door, but didn’t have the advantage of overpowering strength over Song Fei. Furthermore, the main entrance to the supermarket was nothing like their dormitory balcony sliding doors. It wasn’t made of ordinary glass, but rather, high-strength tempered glass, so no matter how much rampaging was done, it was left with nary a scratch.
“Don’t waste your energy,” Song Fei looked at the other through the glass, as if they were chatting, “Unless you brought along an emergency hammer, then no dice.”
Song Fei knew that the other couldn’t understand what he was talking about anyway, but strangely enough, the false bravado dampened his fear. It felt as though the one outside the door wasn’t a zombie, but just a student looking for a group fight.
Of course, this “student” didn’t think that way. This holy trinity of having someone in sight that couldn’t be bitten, while still babbling on nonstop, made it even more irascible, virtually ready to put its life at stake to bang on the door.
No matter how sturdy the glass door was, Song Fei was still kept on tenterhooks by the unremitting thunks. Towards the end, his heart had synced in rhythm with the door, thumping with each thunk, on the brink of bursting out at any minute.
“Are you not f*cking tired ah—”
Song Fei cursed a bit, purely for the sake of venting, and to embolden himself on the side.
Zombie-tongxue outside had just been about to smack itself against the door for the 101st time, when it abruptly paused.
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The unexpectedly quiet atmosphere made Song Fei widen his eyes in astonishment. So even after mutating, they still bullied the weak and feared the strong ah.
Struck with courage, Song Fei spewed out a series of unduplicated curses circumnavigating the nation in 360° Thomas flair fashion!
At first, Zombie-tongxue only listened in stunned silence. Approximately forty seconds later, its left leg suddenly took a small step back, followed by its right leg shuffling back, and just like this, stiffly backed away sluggishly from Song Fei little by little.
In ancient times, there was Zhuge Liang who’d verbally spar against Confucian scholars. This generation now had Song-tongxue who could curse out zombies!
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Song Fei collapsed. Why, this wasn’t bullying the weak and fearing the strong, this was a d*mned hot-blooded, impetuous type ah!!!
Dong—
Ktf gfwjgxjyif obgmf bo lwqjma vlgfmais xcbmxfv Vbcu Mfl yjmx, tjio tlr ybvs mbwqifafis cewy jr tf ofii ab atf ugbecv!
There was no slack left in the chain lock that had been stretched tight. One of the zombie’s arms was already outstretched through the gap between the doors, its entire body desperately trying to squeeze through!
Song Fei was as agitated as an ant on a hot pan. At last, he gritted teeth, and flicked open his Tai Chi fan with a huala, blocking an area where the other might stick its mouth through the gap in the door, while firmly holding onto his opponent’s hand, pressing down with his arm to push it out!
Zombie-tongxue‘s palm was very cold.
Song Fei-tongxue’s palm was very hot.
But at this time, no matter how passionate Song-tongxue was, he couldn’t heed the calling of his heart, and dedicate his love. Seeing that he’d managed to shove most of its arm back out, Song Fei used his shoulder to shut the glass doors once again!
Without missing a beat, as soon as the doors were sealed, Song Fei jumped up and tugged down the thermal shades— something he’d inadvertently discovered after raising his head in the middle of their hand-holding impasse. Entering the winter season, whether it was the education buildings, dormitory buildings, or supermarket, thick cotton shades like this would be installed inside, serving its major function as both a wind-blocker and insulator. Someone must’ve raised the supermarket shades at some point, but with Song Fei’s hard yank, he ripped through the ties holding it up at its corners. With a hula, the shades dropped down!
After finishing the right side, Song Fei followed suit on the left side. Soon, the glass doors were shielded by army green cotton shades, so he and Zombie-tongxue could no longer gaze at each other through the glass.
About a minute later, the knocking against the door gradually weakened.
Song Fei lay on the ground, opening up a little crack from the bottom to peer outside, and saw that Zombie-tongxue seemed to have lost its target, and was looking around, sniffing left and right. Although it was still standing in place without leaving, it didn’t continue its attack.
Still saturated in the strong scent of Six God, Song Fei exercised his brain for once. He vaguely felt that the zombie attacks were primarily triggered by visual and olfactory stimuli. Once they spotted living human beings or caught their scent, they’d attack and bite instinctively. A reaction could also be generated by auditory stimuli, such as songs played on a phone drawing them away, or loud voices inside dormitory rooms leading them to knock against doors. But, if it was confirmed in the end that the thing wasn’t a living person, then they wouldn’t attack. For example, the phone that Qiao Siqi had sacrificed had robustly sang the praises of Genghis Khan until the very end.
Thus, he let go of the shades. Now, the zombie could neither see him, nor could it smell him because of the eau du toilette. Its frenzy gradually subsided, becoming the same as those wanderers inside the dormitories.
Deep inside the supermarket, in an area with a variety of sauces.
Luo Geng had no idea how he’d landed himself in such a situation— standing on top of the shelves, using steak sauce, mushroom sauce, chicken sauce, spaghetti sauce, and all kinds of glass jars as weapons, smashing them down on the faces of three zombies, springing side to side en pointe, just like the tiny ballerinas found inside music boxes.
He’d obviously only wanted to come over first to find a tool that could pin the door shut, ah!
Was it a crime to be clever!!!
“Luo Geng—”
Finally, the wind carried over the sound of Zhou-tongxue‘s call.
“Over here—”
Luo Geng swore that the very first thing he’d do after being rescued was give Zhou Yilu a big hug!
Familiar faces finally appeared at the end of the aisle. As expected, Zhou Yilu was at the forefront. Without a word, he began to wave his arms and stamp his feet to attract the three zombies’ attention!
Luo Geng was a step faster than the zombies, running on top of the shelves towards his companions, paying no heed to the many bags of hot pot seasoning he kicked off along the way.
Three zombies followed shortly after, and with a single stab, Zhou Yilu pierced the head of the zombie in the lead!
His knife was still lodged there, but the zombies from behind were already rushing straight towards Zhou Yilu, looking as if they’d go right past their companion to chew on him!
Yet, Zhou Yilu made no attempt to move out of the way, as if confident in his plans!
Sure enough, a figure flew down from the sky, and landed squarely on one of the zombie’s backs. In the blink of an eye, Luo Geng’s combat knife had already impaled the crown of the zombie’s head!
And at the same time, Qiao Siqi’s Swiss Army knife had plunged through the third zombie’s eye.
After finally pulling out his sushi knife, Zhou Yilu rushed over to assist John’s side with another stab.
Within a minute, three zombies had collapsed to the ground.
One-on-one, Luo Geng could only flee, but three-on-three made for an instakill. Luo Geng didn’t know when he and his companions had formed a tacit understanding amongst themselves, and how exactly their strength value had secretly doubled, and…
“Young lady, did you come to the supermarket to buy some things?”
As for his first order of business regarding giving Zhou Yilu a hug or something, let’s put it off for the time being, ba.
The girl who’d suddenly appeared in front of him was wearing a blue woolen coat, a very muted shade of blue, with a white knit sweater inside, appearing both soul-stirringly youthful and delightfully innocent. Her straight, black hair cascaded down like a waterfall, her eyes like brilliant stars, her perfectly rounded twin peaks like an infinity symbol, her face impossibly beautiful! Luo Geng couldn’t think of any more terms to praise her beauty, just feeling that even his soul would be taken away!
“Um, I, my name’s Luo Geng,” Luo-tongxue hurriedly extracted his combat knife from the top of the zombie’s head, then impatiently rushed to the beauty, his face blooming with a smile that was brimming with enthusiasm, “Department of Mathematics, third-year. Xuemei, which department are you in?”
The beauty was startled into blinking a few times in succession. After a long while, she said, “Senior, striking up a conversation while carrying an awl dripping with blood, what exactly are you thinking?”
Although it was a rebuke, the beauty’s tone was too gentle, and her voice was so pleasant that Luo Geng almost became intoxicated.
Qiao Siqi and Zhou Yilu held their hands to their foreheads simultaneously. No wonder they all said that men could conquer the world, but women could conquer men. They could be scholars or combatants, flexible or firm, gentle or valiant, and even when they were scolding you, you couldn’t help but want to hear a bit more. If beings like these weren’t able to conquer the world, then that’d really be f*cking unreasonable!
“Now, there’s no blood left,” Luo-laoshi had already wiped off the combat knife until it’d been polished shiny and bright at some point in time, while his smile had never left his face, his rough voice softened like noodles, “Xuemei, what’s your name?”
“Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Lin Dilei,” Lin-xuemei didn’t act coy, and after giving her name, thought for a bit, before softly adding, “I think the senior at the front entrance may be unable to hold on for much longer.”
By the time he saw his three comrades-in-arms return with the girl, Song Fei was practically ready to swear at them, “Did you guys go looking for tools or run off to make tools on the spot ah!!!”
“Forget that, three of them didn’t run out, so it was hard to deal with them!” John-tongxue, whose battle had lasted less than a minute, said this without a single prick at his conscience, then bustled over to attach the bike locks that they’d found.
A full seven courses.
Zhou Yilu said, “We could only find these.”
Song Fei breathed a sigh of relief, “Should be good enough.”
The temporarily stable situation finally reminded Song Fei of the beauty who’d fallen from the sky. And back when he’d been chatting with the zombie, he’d suddenly remembered, wasn’t that the girl who’d been holding the placard for the Mass Comm Department at the sports meet ma, no wonder he felt as though he’d seen her somewhere before!
“Beauty, you…” Song Fei glanced at the empty thermos that she was still carrying, now without a lid, feeling markedly stressed from the conjecture to follow, “Came out to fetch water?”
The water room was right next to the supermarket, just a few steps away after going out and turning right.
“En.” Lin Dilei nodded very naturally. Fortunately, she added three more words, “Five days ago.”
Luo Geng was incredibly taken aback, and squeezed in to ask, “So you’ve been in the water room these past few days?!”
Exhaustion finally colored Lin Dilei’s face, “Luckily, I locked the door quickly. Otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to wait until you guys arrived. And good thing I had some snacks in my bag. There’s no hot water left in the water room, but there’s still cold water.”
Zhou Yilu took a look at her crossbody Cambridge satchel that only had a capacity of three textbooks at most, much to his amazement, and exclaimed, “You lasted five days on just this amount?!”
Lin Dilei subtly flipped her hair, then grinned, “Perfect for losing some weight.”
Would women eventually dominate the world?
No.
Their goal was the entire galaxy!
“There shouldn’t be any more danger, ba?” Lin Dilei suddenly asked in a soft voice.
Luo Geng personally cracked open the cotton shades and surveyed the outside, “No issues, it’s safe for the time being.”
Lin Dilei suddenly dropped her thermos and dashed off!
The remaining four male students exchanged looks, utterly lost.
Suddenly, a thought struck him, and Song Fei also dashed off!
John couldn’t stop him in time, and could only leave his hand outstretched behind him as he shouted, “The girl’s headed for the feminine hygiene product area, what’re you doing chasing after her—”
Zhou Yilu abruptly grabbed onto Qiao Siqi’s hand, almost crushing his fingers with the amount of force he used.
Qiao Siqi yelped with pain, “What. Are. You. Doing!”
Zhou Yilu stared into his eyes, his voice slow and rough, “The ventilation window… seems to be in that direction.”
Outside the ventilation window, on the edge of the roof.
A phone was laying on the ground diagonally ahead, still adamantly singing its song.
Their original plan hadn’t required them to sacrifice a phone, but the prolonged provocation had already caused the zombies to get closer and closer to the eaves after their unabating assault, so there was no choice but to lose a pawn to save the rook.
The person on the roof wrapped himself more snugly inside his army green cotton jacket, but was still very cold.
The window below him was close within reach, yet felt as though it was thousands of miles away.
Qi Yan raised his head to look up at the hazy sky, feeling excessively fatigued inside.
Should he just jump right down, then go back to them with a smile on his face? It was cold outside anyway, so they could all just mutate together ba.
Author’s Chapter Summary:
Three people instakill some slippery fish, one person stands alone in the chilly wind!
The translator has something to say: Dilei-meimei OP… Qi Yan, uh, jiayou ah…
did anyone catch all the mentions of how many of them there were in the last ch and realize Luo Geng was missing? also, was anyone able to guess who this girl might’ve been beforehand? haha, author-dada is very clever and rarely describes anything in detail superfluously. indeed, she’s the super pretty placard-bearer meimei in the procession that smiled at the stands in ch3, sports meet
P.S. since there are so many mentions of how beautiful her voice sounds, in case anyone wanted to hear exactly how oriole-like it is, i figured this would be a perf segue for this. This is the trailer for the audio drama, which includes the voice actor lineup, where each person speaks a few lines
00:20 – Song Fei; 00:25 – Qi Yan; 00:30 – Zhou Yilu; 00:38 – Qiao Siqi
00:46 – Luo Geng; 00:52 – Lin Dilei; 1:03 – Wang Qingyuan
I figured out who the girl is when I listened to the audio drama before.
Poor Qi Yan, everyone forgot about him.
Thanks for the chapter
she has such a lovely voice~
i can feel how close Qi Yan is to just jumping down out of spite haha
thanks for reading!
thanks for the chapter <3
thanks for reading! <3
Good luck, Qi Yan~
Thank you for the chapter 💜
lolololol poor Qi Yan they were so busy chatting, fighting… flirting with a girl….
thanks for reading! <3
I like the voices they used for these characters. But I like Qiao Siqi’s and Song Fei’s more
ohhh Qiao Siqi’s is rlly pleasant and I think Zhou Yilu’s is as well~
Don’t diss a zombie that it can’t eat you… maybe it understands you lolol
Hmm, the voices all sound familiar.
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
lights a candle for QY (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘) But it’s windy up there ups, well… you won’t freeze to death xD
LOL zombie-tongxue got mad mad and became aggressive
hehe the entire squad has nice voices~
Qi Yan… well… oop
I would DIE for Lin Dilei and kmfjskfja I’m so glad I went and listened BC HER VOICE IS SO CUTE!!!!!!!! Also Qi Yan AAAAA
Im sorry. I just can’t take these people seriously. Lol. I just can’t convince myself this is a zombie apocalypse novel. Our boys are just too funny I can’t stop laughing every chapter🤣 They are just too cute! ❤️❤️