Translator: transcendentwings
CW/TW
Some gore and human depravity, the lighthearted have been warned!
Qi Yan was startled awake from a sleep paralysis nightmare. He snapped his eyes open and his first thought was that it was still night. But he soon discovered that it was indeed daytime, only that it wasn’t a sunny and cloudless day. There was no sun, even the lighting in the closed stacks was still dim.
He unceremoniously hauled away the leg Zhou Yilu had pressed onto his stomach and the Zhou-tongxue who made a small muffled noise only furrowed his brow and rolled over before he continued to sleep soundly.
Qi Yan sat up and the down jacket that was covering him slid onto his lap. All the other companions were still asleep, their expressions were calm, sweet, nervous, or. . . greedy.
Qi Yan appreciated the drool of classmate Song, which nearly flowed downwards for three thousand feet, for a long time with relish and only when he realized that this reaction carried the slight suspicion of being a creep did he reluctantly retrieve his gaze.
After fumbling for Zhou Yilu’s cell phone, he made the screen light up. Beijing time 8:01 was displayed on its lock screen.
Since he had lost his phone, Qi Yan’s work and rest schedule was completely disrupted. At first, his biological clock was still operating, but the act of fleeing for one’s life itself had no regularity to speak of. The constantly tense nerves and the relatively isolated environment of the closed stacks gradually blurred his sense of time.
Everyone slept very late last night. The reason being that after they laid down, it was unknown who started it, but they started to brainstorm the canteen raid. Originally, they had only wanted to borrow the festive air of the holiday to boldly pursue unconstrained and ludicrous strains of thought. Ultimately however, with their back-and-forth chatting, they really did end up devising a feasible plan.
The unintentional joy from serendipitous actions bringing unexpected success made everyone excited for a while. Considering that their current stock of stored food wasn’t robust enough and since the canteen was a key strategic location at risk of becoming a highly sought battleground, it was better to take action sooner than later. So with six votes in favor, one vote against, and one abstention, the resolution to leave the following night was passed.
The Li Jingyu who suffered a huge blow mentally, was depressed and didn’t speak for a long time. The Qiao Siqi who was already numb to it all, hooked an arm around his shoulders comforting, it’s okay, Zhou Yilu and I also can’t climb trees, later they’ll climb up first and use a rope to pull us up when they can. Zhou Yilu, who became collateral damage for no reason, tugged his shoe off and chucked it over, but John dodged it agilely so the sole of the shoe ended up kissing Little Landmine’s forehead instead.
The events that followed was something Qi Yan didn’t want to recall for fear of shaking his confidence in survival.
Draping the down jacket loosely, Qi Yan got up and walked towards the window. The weather outside was gloomy and dark as dusk. There were specks of snowflakes like scattered stars riding the wind, a few fell onto the windowsill while most of them still drifted in the air, their destinations unknown. It was difficult to determine when this snowstorm started because the snowflakes were too fine and too small. No matter where they fell, they would quickly melt into water stains. Thus, it wasn’t so much like snow as it was rain, wetting the edges of the windowsill and decorating the glass with droplets of water.
“It’s raining?” It was unknown when Song Fei got up with a half-asleep and half-awake dazed look on his face as he sported a chicken coop on his head.
Qi Yan looked back and his brow smoothed out in amusement due to his appearance: “It’s snowing. But before concerning yourself with the weather, do you want to wipe away your drool first?”
Song Fei blinked slowly, stupefied, then swiftly wiped the corner of his mouth indiscriminately with his hand. As expected, his palm came away damp.
Qi Yan couldn’t help but laugh. He had always liked the way Song Fei looked when he had just gotten out of bed. The other was obviously awake, but his brain couldn’t keep up, giving him a foolish air, so muddled that it was the perfect time to bully him.
After a huge yawn, Song Fei finally woke up about 70-80% and looked out the window again as some unease crept into his eyes: “Fortunately, it isn’t coming down so hard. We can only hope that it’ll stop when we move out for our raid at night.”
In the following hour, the students of Fight for Survival Class 1 regained consciousness one after another. The snowy weather outside made everyone a little depressed, but at least it was only early January which was before the coldest time and this type of powdered snow wouldn’t stick when it landed on the ground, most of it would just melt. As long as this doesn’t drag out into the night where it’ll become semi-melted and frozen on the ground, then it wouldn’t be too difficult to traverse.
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The snow stopped at noon which was earlier than anticipated, but the sun never came out. The dreary weather continued until 5 PM when the sky darkened fully.
Eight, with either cotton jackets or down jackets— Wang Qingyuan and Li Jingyu already had their coats on when they were trapped in the breakroom and Lin Dilei replaced her woolen jacket with the name brand down jacket confiscated from the Express Pickup Point— companions, wore the masks and goggles as one, and affixed their weapons, backpacks, and travel suitcase properly, then they sprayed on Six God, and set out!
The evening after the snow fell, the wind became biting.
Eight silhouettes were perched on top of the outer wall of the library, shuffling downwards bit by bit. The brilliant lights of the library illuminated them until they had nowhere to hide, but very quickly, they reached the base of the building and then melted into the night in the blink of an eye.
If it weren’t for the occasional light noises of the luggage caster wheel against the ground, everything would’ve been as quiet as if nothing had happened.
It was still the same pine-and-cypress-tree-lined trail that was used when they first came. With its gentle slope, the eight companions progressed forward vigilantly and orderly. They tried their best to make their steps as light as possible, like a troop of ghosts.
At the end of the trail was the main road. From the beginning of the incident until now, the group attempted to avoid using the main paths whenever they carried out their plans because the roads were too wide and their field of view was also too broad making it hard to hide or take cover. However, the side door on the west side of the canteen faced this very road directly and that door was the one closest to the kitchen, so this time they could no longer evade it.
On both sides of the main road, a broad-leafed tree was planted every three to four meters. Different from the small, half-grown trees in front of the Express Pickup Point, the trees here were tall and straight. In the summer, the branches of the two rows of trees were flourishing and verdant, intersecting with each other to form an avenue covered by mottled tree shade. At this time, the leaves had all fallen and the bare tree branches could no longer provide any cool shade, they only stood alone in the cold wind.
The group of people stopped about ten meters from the side of the road. Looking into the distance, there were about four or five dark shadows wandering on the road—the likelihood that they were fellow students wasn’t very high based on a cursory look.
“You guys should get ready, I’ll lure them over.” Qi Yan suppressed his voice until it was extremely low.
At this moment, it wasn’t necessary to carry out a farce and argue about who would lead the charge. Qi Yan’s speed and combat prowess were all second to none. Everyone could only exhort: “Be careful.”
Qi Yan nodded and made his way forward.
The companions scattered to the two sides tacitly and hid.
In just half a minute, the sound of rapid and messy footsteps rang out and the companions held their breaths. When Qi Yan and five zombies entered into the ambush range, everyone rushed forward as one and split up into the groups they had agreed upon in advance. Two against one while Qi Yan and Zhou Yilu each were in single combat. The entire process was carried out smoothly in silence, a reenactment of white knives in and red knives out!
Li Jingyu paired up with Wang Qingyu to form a group, but before he could hold down the fallen zombie, the latter had already ridden on the opponent’s stomach and skewered it through the head in one strike. The zombie was still struggling. One stab didn’t do the job so a second followed, a second still wasn’t enough so came a third, again and again up until the zombie no longer moved.
After that string of actions, Wang Qingyuan turned around and asked coldly: “Did you see clearly?”
Li Jingyu stiffly nodded his head, feeling that his head was currently similar to the zombie’s, just bleeding out.
The companions who fought a quick battle didn’t delay for even half a second and used their fastest speed to reach the roadside trees. Luo Geng, Zhou Yilu, and Qiao Siqi went straight for the first tree at the intersection while Song Fei, Lin Dilei, and Li Jingyu rushed to the second tree that was three to four meters away, aiming to be neighbors of the other three. Qi Yan and Wang Qingyuan acted as the rearguard and followed up behind. What they aimed for wasn’t the third tree, but the fifth which pulled open the distance with the main unit to a little over ten meters.
Song Fei and Luo Geng arrived at a suitable foothold almost simultaneously, then fished out a rope to let down at the same time to haul Li Jingyu and Zhou Yilu up respectively. Lin Dilei and Qiao Siqi were slightly slower, but they relied on themselves to climb up on their own.
When the eight people were in their respective positions, the wind suddenly halted as if in anticipation of the foreseeable danger, even the wind held its breath.
Gazing through the western side door, the canteen hall was a pitch black cavity where nothing could be seen.
“Ready?” Qiao Siqi inquired nervously.
Luo Geng and Zhou Yilu both shot him a glance in contempt: “As long as you’re ready.”
Qiao Siqi adjusted his breathing, and once he felt more calm, he abruptly opened his mouth—
“Help ahhh!!!”
The first syllable of Qiao Siqi’s words were stuck in his throat, he was stupefied for a long time and only when the second “quick, open the door ah” resounded through the atmosphere, did he finally react: “That wasn’t me!”
Of course his companions knew that it wasn’t him, because they didn’t plan for such a hoarse and desperate call for help in their tactics!
The people on the tree followed the sound to seek the source and proved the so-called saying of standing high and seeing far in real time, only to see five or six people show up out of nowhere desperately banging on the door of the supermarket which was still illuminated. However, from the interior which was vaguely visible through the cotton curtain that was drawn closed, no one answered.
“We’re begging you, please open the door ah!!!”
The students outside the door were already crying, each sob pricking one’s heart.
There was no movement beyond the door, as if there was no one inside at all.
But the eight people on top of the trees knew there were.
Although you couldn’t see it very clearly, there was a blurry patch of darkness near the inner door handle which was obviously the multitude of bike locks they had personally chained up. Before they left, Song Fei had given them all of the keys, although he knew that it was useless, he still left them with an extraneous parting sentence. If there are any other students asking for help, think about how you guys made it in.
However, looking at it now, they really weren’t willing to bother with all of that.
There were zombies that left the dormitories to pursue them.
The students who were slapping the door didn’t notice at all, but the companions saw it clearly from their view in the trees.
“Behind you—”
Song Fei nearly exhausted all of his strength, hollering until his lungs were about to explode!
The figures of the several students in front of the door all started, then turned their head one after another and scattered to flee in all directions in the next second!
Where would a place to hide exist in such an open student life district? It didn’t take long for the zombies that chased them to catch up. Every time one was tackled, several zombies would pounce and gnaw on the meal together until, in the end, there was no one left to pounce on.
Under the curtain of a moonless night, no blood could be seen, no savagery would be witnessed clearly, even the piteous wails couldn’t be captured completely, but all of the companions gritted their teeth as if each bite was taken out of their own bodies.
There were also those in the canteen who heard the noises and came out to join in on the commotion, but maybe it was because everything happened too quickly that it didn’t constitute a strong enough attraction and only a limited number emerged.
Very soon, the night gradually returned to tranquility. A dozen or so zombies were still crowded around there in groups of three or five, gnawing on their food quietly, but even more zombies seemed to have lost interest in flesh that had lost its freshness and dispersed aimlessly, continuing to wander.
Song Fei’s voice just now also brought out a few zombies from the door on the west side of the canteen and were circling around below the tree he was on at the moment. But the trunk of the tree was way too high and the zombies couldn’t do anything about it.
“We shouldn’t have saved them back then.” Zhou Yilu wrung those words out through his clenched teeth.
Everyone was silent.
“It’s all because the development of science and technology is too slow!” Qiao Siqi abruptly complained, “If it developed faster, everyone should have a QR code printed on their faces, then with one scan, those that were as quiet as chickens would be human, pass, and the ones that sound the alarm are scum, kill!”
The rest of the companions made a face, Lin Dilei even directly burst into laughter and the originally depressed and solemn atmosphere eased slightly.
The things they’ve seen and experienced these days were far more than they had in the past ten to twenty years. Perhaps their hearts still haven’t reached invincibility, but they’ve already gradually grown stronger.
“Ready?” Qiao Siqi adjusted his breathing and asked for a second time.
Luo Geng, Zhou Yilu: “En.”
Lin Dilei, Song Fei: “En.”
Li Jingyu: “. . . En.”
Qi Yan and Wang Qingyuan’s voices drifted over last: “OK.”
John took a deep breath and using the loudest volume he had ever used in his life, raised his head and released a long cry: “Get ready— start!”
The first and second trees: “We will we will. . .”
The fifth tree: “Rock you!”
The author has something to say:
Last night I didn’t update, today I’ll make it up with two chapters, houhou. This is only the first chapter you~~~
Author's Chapter Summary:
Emotions aroused when seeing the old hideout from afar, while rushing towards the new lair with full momentum
The translator has something to say: At first I thought Zhou Yilu would say “It’s all because the development of science and technology is too slow! If it developed faster, we could screen fertilized eggs in the womb. . .”, you guys get what I’m trying to say, right, fufufufu~
ahhh!! I’ve finally caught up!
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