Translator: transcendentwings
“All prepped?”
“En.”
“Then let’s go.”
“Ai, wait, let me think about it.”
“You’ve thought about it for half an hour already!”
“When I was filling out my university of choice for the college entrance examination, no one informed me that I would have to engage in an armed struggle as well!”
Under the clear blue sky, a certain window on the west side of the topmost floor of the library opened and closed, then closed and opened over and over again.
“Vending machine trashing and looting defense war” is coming soon, so for safety reasons, the little companions decided to train Li Jingyu and Wang Qingyuan who had no prior combat experience. However it was easier said than done.
Song Fei sighed, gathered himself, and patted Li Jingyu on the shoulder lightly: “Look at these lovely classmates behind you, which one of them initially came to this wasteland to fight for their lives, but now, our cruel reality is forcing us to grit our teeth to be strong and save ourselves!”
Li Jingyu took a look at the utility knife in his hand and then glanced at the classmates who were “gritting their teeth”— two were playing five-in-a-row on a grid they drew themselves, marking it with circles and crosses; one was leaning on a bookshelf, reading avidly; one was putting on a face mask; and one was sitting next to the one putting on a face mask, imagining their beautiful future together. . .
It wasn’t persuasive at all, okay!
“Why don’t you think about it again as we go first.” Wang Qingyuan’s voice was calm and natural, but Li Jingyu inexplicably detected that the other was too impatient to wait any longer.
Taking a deep breath, Li Jingyu went all out: “Let’s go!”
It didn’t take long for the three to shimmy out of the window and land on the balcony. Song Fei agilely jumped next door and then next door to next door, swiftly opening up the distance away from the two to a spot six windows away.
After staying here for a couple of days, Song Fei and the rest discovered that on the uppermost floor of the library where the closed stacks were located, most of the rooms were actually rare book rooms and storage rooms. Other than for that breakroom, no students would usually come here and because the rooms also remained closed, no zombies broke in after the outbreak, making the whole slew of balconies on this floor relatively safe.
Song Fei who had shifted his position slightly pulled out his phone and started to play a song and in order to improve efficiency, he deliberately chose a quick and lively melody—
“You said that you are my bro~~ That I can always believe in you~~ That we’d share our blessings and hardships~~ Such a great bro. . . Don’t touch my girlfriend~~ Even if you drank a little~~ Now I want to see clearly what you call a good friend . . .”
Song Fei held the phone in his hand and stared down below. Sure enough, as soon as the chorus was broadcasted, seven or eight zombies gathered and one had even rushed out onto the second floor balcony. Song Fei’s heart clenched, thankfully when they climbed the second floor balcony they didn’t come across this one.
“Take a good look, you need to get used to their appearance, and also, their fatal point is their he. . . Have the two of you even been listening to me ah!” Song Fei almost died of anger after lifting his gaze. He himself was professionally giving instruction, but the two over there received it with an intoxicated look and blank eyes, who knows where their minds had long flown off to.
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Li Jingyu was dazed, then came back to his senses: “Uh, what did you say?”
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Wan Qingyuan and Li Jingyu were both study-type players, once they understood the theory, then everything that followed would pose no issues. But when it comes to actual combat, things still wouldn’t be as simple as it seemed. Although the two understood in their hearts that the zombies were no longer human, they still couldn’t bear to strike. In the end, Song Fei also didn’t force them. In the current situation, there already was a chance to overcome the fear, as for the rest, they could only break through and gain experience through actual combat.
The two days spent in the happy times of just eating and sleeping without a care passed in the blink of an eye. In the past, there seemed to be ample time for everything. All they had to do was start with working relentlessly in order to gain the capacity to arrogantly stand a cut above, but now they had a clear realization that life was terribly short and only when they’ve lost their fragile lives would they not let themselves down.
The food reserves from the Express Delivery Point had already reached its last dregs. Everyone was tacitly aware that the time to act was now.
In the early morning, Wang Qingyuan’s cell phone alarm was the first that went off, followed by Lin Dilei’s, Zhou Yilu’s. . . one after another. After getting up, the companions weren’t as lively as they used to be and were all rather subdued as if they all knew that they were about to face an uphill battle.
After splitting into groups to wash up in the breakroom, the bouquet of eight flowers of the motherland finally regrouped feeling refreshed. Luo Geng fished out two gas masks from his bag and gave them to Wang Qingyuan and Li Jingyu, both of whom accepted it silently.
And still no one spoke.
Song Fei felt too oppressed and uncomfortable so he wailed at the heavens: “I can’t stand it anymore, time for a class meeting!”
The seven companions looked at each other and ultimately elected Lin Dilei as their de facto representative to raise questions: “What class?”
“Would Rather Die than Yield Fighting for Survival Class 1.” Song Fei had this idea brewing for a long time already. “The eight of us are now a collective. Who cares which department and major you were in before, from today onwards, we’ll all be in the same class!”
Qiao Siqi raised his hand: “I agree to the unyielding part, but that rather die part. . . can we use a different term?”
“Sure ah,” Song Fei was easy to talk to, ,”I was just throwing around my insights. I welcome everyone to express their opinions directly.”
Lin Dilei: “Strong and unyielding or mighty and unyielding are both okay.”
Zhou Yilu: “Mighty is good, it’s domineering.”
Luo Geng: “What about the class leader? Don’t all classes need a class leader?”
Song Fei: “. . . Things are already like this, let’s not engage in power struggles. Everyone is equal, and are all this class’ leaders.”
On the sixteenth day of the zombie tide outbreak, Mighty and Unyielding Fighting for Survival Class 1 held its first class meeting. At the meeting, the positions and responsibilities of the students in the next battle were arranged in detail. Then after all aspects were addressed, all the members pledged as a group and the atmosphere was fired up for a while.
Finally all the classmates stood in a small circle and eight hands stacked on top of each other, palms against the back of the hand—
“Mighty and Unyielding Fighting for Survival 1, all monsters and demons will be eliminated!”
Following the neat and uniform slogan, eight hands pressed down and then the eight students scattered in the blink of an eye, each rushing to their assigned strategic locations!
The library in the new campus had a rectangular structure which was similar to the design of many modern shopping malls. The middle was an empty space while the reading rooms and self-study rooms were built around it. Looking up from any spot in the lobby on the first floor and you would see the corridors on each floor with the roof above that. The corridors on each floor were pretty much similar and were all connected in one circuit. There were two elevators in the library, located at the center of the east and west sides and then a staircase in each of the four corners of the cardinal directions. And the vending machine stood at the top of the stairs in the southeast corner.
The library in the early morning seemed as if everything had yet to awaken and the zombies that were wandering in the corridors were as quiet as lingering ghosts.
Song Fei climbed along the balcony to the archive room situated in the southeast corner and broke in through the window. Wang Qingyuan remained in the closed stacks room on the northeast corner while Li Jingyu returned to the breakroom on the northwest corner.
Qi Yan, Zhou Yilu, Luo Geng, and Lin Dilei, the five of them, snuck into a random, but safe room in the southwest corner from the balcony.
Song Fei opened the solid wood door of the archive room a sliver with light movements and took a peek outside. He found that the first floor corridor was densely packed with zombies, then the second floor corridor followed closely behind, then finally the third floor corridor had an obvious significant reduction in zombies while the fourth floor only had around seven or eight at a glance.
Song Fei had good luck. Those seven or eight were distributed in the corridors on the west and south side and he just so happened to be at the junction in the middle.
He took a deep breath, now’s the time!
Song Fei opened the door abruptly and leaned half of his body out into the corridor as he hollered: “Hey, I’m over here—”
Seven or eight zombies stopped their stride in an instant and turned to stiffly look over towards this side, then in the next second they immediately rushed over!
Sweat had already formed on the palm Song Fei had placed on the doorknob. He wanted to the retreat several times, but still held back. He endured some more until finally, when the first zombie that rushed over was only two steps away from the door and was about to pounce like a tiger to gnaw on him, he decisively shrunk back and slammed the solid wood door shut with a guangdang then locked it!
Almost at the same time, all five of the people in the southeast corner room barreled out. Lin Dilei and Luo Geng made a beeline for the vending machine while Qi Yan, Zhou Yilu, and Qiao Siqi sprinted immediately to the top of the stairs. With a hua, the glass covering the vending machine was shattered by the metal chair in Luo Geng’s hands! Lin Dilei wore Qi Yan’s black leather gloves and hauled all of the snacks mixed with glass shards into the suitcase without hesitation! She wasn’t allowed any moment of delay in this race against time, let alone the time to be picky and choosy!
The deafening smashing sound attracted the attention of the zombies who gathered in front of Song Fei’s door. The zombies on the first, second, and third floors also heard it and involuntarily turned towards it before each and every one reacted quickly to swarm towards the southeast corner staircase.
Fortunately, the number was small enough that the three, Qi Yan, Zhou Yilu, Qiao Siqi, were able to handle it alone. However, as the situation continued to develop, there would be more and more, but Lin Dilei and Luo Geng weren’t done over there yet!
Actions moved faster than words, Wang Qingyuan and Li Jingyu opened their doors simultaneously!
“The roc will fly with the wind one day~~~ Using the power of the wind to directly reach the heavens~~ Who was it that wrote this poem and what does it have to do with me~~”
“You also speak of Liaozhai~~ I also speak of Liaozhai~~ Joy, anger, sorry and happiness are all washing over my heart in unison~~”
Two cell phones, two songs, one at the northeast, and one at the southwest caused the zombies who were attracted by the smashed glass in the southeast to suddenly become confused and lose direction. The ones densely packed on the first floor were especially affected and could only continuously look up as they searched aimlessly, unable to lock on to a specific target.
This is exactly the effect that the companions wanted. Be unafraid of chaos, instead be afraid that it isn’t chaotic enough!
In comparison, the zombies on the fourth floor were coping a little better. Whether it was Wang Qingyuan or Li Jingyu, both were within earshot so whoever was closer was whoever they darted towards!
However before they reached their preferred door, the one who had initially enticed them sneakily stuck out a hand holding a cell phone from behind the solid wood door again—
“You come from the Pandora Star~~ I come from Tianmen Mountain~~ You are green with blue~~ I am a yellow Dior man~~ Come, come together~ Party, party together~~”
The zombies were completely mixed up.
Qi Yan kicked down the last zombie and looked back just in time to see Lin Dilei slam the suitcase close and lock it!
“Retreat!”
Lin Dilei shouted a simple command and dragged the suitcase as she sprinted back first!
Luo Geng, who got up after a beat, felt a pang of terror because there was still one zombie left over on the path from here to the closed stacks! And Lin Dilei was unarmed. . .
Guangdang!
The zombie was pushed against the glass railing panel in the corridor by the suitcase, the force behind it directly caused half of its body to tilt shakily over the railing.
Lin Dilei didn’t give it a chance to recover its balance as she heaved the suitcase to, guangdang, strike again!
The zombie was like a kite with a broken thread as it fell over crookedly.
And the suitcase was returned to the ground, making a heavy and dull sound. Lin Dilei didn’t pause at all as she tightly grasped the handle of the suitcase in one smooth motion like flowing water and continued to race forward with a hulala!
The hem of her blue woolen coat danced in the wind generated from the extreme speed, graceful and moving.
The author has something to say:
This chapter’s playlist: “Don’t Touch my Person” – Jordan Chan “Jian Bin Man” – Tan Weiwei/Hu Yanbin; “Discussing Liaozhai” – you guys understand; “Avatar and Loser Boy” (Xu Hébīn). PS. Why is there a sense of shame every time I use laymen terms to explain songs OTZ. . .
Author's Chapter Summary:
Might and Unyielding Fighting for Survival 1, the goal is the vending machine!
The translator has something to say: I feel like our squad here always focuses on the wrong things. . . And author-dada, let me answer that question for you, the shame comes from the exposure of your true age. . .
Also, sorry for the tardiness my dear readers!
I gotta say one thing, it is that they are geniuses at this.
well I could have never thought of this way lol
Thank you for the chapter!
They’re getting better at this, also Lin Dilei is so cool!! Thanks for the chapter 😊
Lin Dilei is so cool. They’re getting better at this by confusing the zombines.
Thanks for the chapter
Thanks for the chapter!
I wonder how they will breakout of the library next. This was so ingenious and smooth. Lin Dilei is quick on her feet! She’s kickass on her own!!
Thanks for the chapter<3
Thank you for the chapter 💜