Translator: transcendentwings
Song Fei was unaware that his ex-boyfriend, whom he trusted so irrevocably, was currently exercising on the globe, just like how Qi Yan didn’t know that his sweetheart was currently prying the elevator doors. The former thought the latter was crashing through thorns and brambles while the latter thought the former was panicking and at a loss.
Especially at the exact moment the lights just went out, Qi Yan almost leapt down to rush towards the elevator impulsively.
Fortunately, the globe started turning yet again.
“What’s the situation—” Zhao He’s call echoed from outside of the building.
The sudden darkness caught the hot-blooded man who was serenading on the apple tree by surprise. Although he tried his best to lure the enemies away just now, he could still hear the chaotic shouts of his comrades within the lobby. However, the racket silenced when the lights were suddenly snuffed out. In the boundless silence, Zhao He, who usually wasn’t afraid of the heavens or the earth, also became a little apprehensive.
“Power outage!” Qi Yan’s voice drifted out from the wide open doors, “What about outside—”
Zhao He hurriedly raised his head to look around and all he could see was darkness. There seemed to be glimmers of light far into the distance, but he couldn’t really distinguish if it was an illusion or reality. He could only answer with reservations: “The department specific buildings area seems to be completely out, but I can’t tell if the residence life district is the same!”
After he finished speaking, he asked anxiously: “You guys are alright ba!”
The one in the building paused for a while before replying: “Song Fei and He Zhiwen are in the elevator—”
Zhao He had a breakdown: “Did luck have to be that bad ah!”
After breaking into the Gewu building, their original plan was to make a break for the elevator, if that route was a dead end, then they would try the stairs. Although countless safety tips warned the masses not to take the elevator in case of an emergency, the teachers’ offices were on the topmost floor, the twelfth floor. Under normal circumstances, climbing to the twelfth floor in one breath was already extremely tiring, not to mention they didn’t have any data on how many zombies were in the stairwell. If there weren’t that many, they could still give it a try, but if there were a lot, with just the few of them, even making it up halfway would be a cheat. Faced with an unknown situation, they couldn’t afford to bet on it, nor could they afford to lose. Secondly, the physics teacher’s office was on the right hand side as soon as one exited the elevator. If the elevator was feasible, even if they had to face the zombies blocking outside after alighting from the elevator, the odds of success were much better than charging to the twelfth floor in one breath.
However, no one could have anticipated for there to be a blackout after their meticulous calculations. Besides, with the few seconds the elevator would have used to ascend from the first floor to the twelfth floor, how precise would the timing have been to get stuck within that time!
“Don’t even mention the others, I still have eight here, preserve for a few more refrains—” Qi Yan already gradually adapted to the darkness and could vaguely make out where the window, the door, and the elevator was, as well as the zombies patrolling down below in the moonlight.
“You’re up against eight?!” Zhao He was shocked, and what stunned him even more was that Qi Yan could still relay things calmly in this kind of battle situation?
“I’m not fighting,” Qi Yan had to disclose his tactics more plainly, “I need you to lure them all out!”
“OK!” Zhao He was completely clear on the plan now. Since he was needed to attract the enemies, then the comrade in the lobby must’ve already found a hiding place, “Hide well and don’t make a peep. Prepare for a protracted battle!”
Qi Yan got what Zhao He hinted at. The uncertainty of using this method to bait the enemy was very large. Sometimes the zombies could be drawn over with one holler, and other times the other wouldn’t be at all interested in the person shouting their voice hoarse. However: “No, my time is running out!”
Zhao He heard him, but didn’t understand, making him anxious to death: “Where the hell are you!”
“On the globe!”
“. . .”
Different trades, worlds apart. The tactical thinking of students belonging to the biology department was too difficult to comprehend. Seeing that the zombies that were originally surrounding his own tree were starting to go back due to Qi Yan’s shouts, Zhao He ran out of time to discuss things in depth, he could only take care of himself and allow the other to do whatever they wanted ba!
The booming male voice cut through the night sky yet again.
In the fine beams of moonlight, the youth was alone in a tall tree while everyone else looked up at him from its base, just like at an open-air music festival.
Under the globe, the three zombies who came in after being attracted by Qi Yan’s voice hesitated for a moment under the effects of the singing, then ultimately turned and wandered back out. However, the five who were originally admiring the statue of the pioneer of physics were still unmoved.
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Qi Yan didn’t intend to continue acting as a sitting duck. Since they didn’t want to leave, he simply latched onto the surface of the sphere with one hand and brandished the spear with the other. If he could take one down then it would be one less to deal with.
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After one song was over, only one in the lobby was successfully skewered into swiss cheese. There were still four of them eyeing him covetously while Qi Yan, who worked out at the same he fended off the zombies, was already out of breath.
“Keep singing—”
“My throat is already hoarse, can you do it or not—”
Facts have proved that Qi Yan could do it, because not only did he give a bold reason such as his five elements were lacking a sphere, he even pointed out the direction for improving the appeal of the chosen tracks—
“It’s not as simple as just using a loud voice, rhythm and emotion are all important as well!”
Zhao He felt that Qi Yan was making a fool of him. Saying that rhythm was important was certainly true, after all, triumphing through several bouts, he did notice that the clearer the beat of the classics, the more the zombies like it. Perhaps they still retained the instinct to follow the beat, but what the hell did emotion have anything to do with it!
“Hurry up ba, I almost can’t hold on anymore!”
Qi Yan wasn’t the type of person to easily admit defeat. If he did declare it then it would really be when he was at the end of his rope. If he still couldn’t succeed, then it was estimated that Qi Yan really would have no choice but to leap down and fight with lesser numbers.
Zhao He tried hard to recall Song Fei’s performance when he lured the enemy—The other party was recognized by the two Wusheng classes as the NO.1 in captivating the enemy. Even if he sang the same song, his appeal to the zombies was different from that of others. It was just that magical.
So what state was Song Fei in when he sang?
He quickly rummaged through his sea of memories and finally, a distinct silhouette was extracted—Intoxicated, devoted, brimming with emotion and wanton indulgence!
Taking a deep breath, Zhao He sang again. This time, he didn’t fight with volume, didn’t roar roughly, he just filled it up with emotions, letting the flood of memories hold him and the zombies into its embrace.
“I love you deeply~~Yet you love a fool~~The idiot doesn’t love you~~So you are worse than a fool~~”
“Oh~~You even knit a sweater for that idiot~~”
The moonlight was like a stage spotlight, illuminating Zhao He on the tree with a melancholic and deeply affectionate air.
Men who possessed a story were the most charming.
Qi Yan watched with astonishment as two more zombies under the globe went to pursue the voice serenading them and suddenly understand what it meant for four ounces to move a thousand catties. In the quiet night, there was no need to roar as the singing would be led into the other’s ears along the wind. Sometimes rather than using excessive force, it’s better to be moved with emotions.
As for whether Zhao He ever truly had such a bitter love, that was someone else’s story.
Looking at the timing, Qi Yan suddenly stopped fighting against the rotating sphere and followed its rotation to land on the base on the globe. The zombie that, although didn’t leave, but was still distracted by the song reacted half a beat too slow, so when it tried to reach for Qi Yan’s ankle, the latter had already impaled it through one of its eyes!
Borrowing the piercing force, Qi Yan directly shoved the zombie back more than a meter away then suddenly yanked it back, making the zombie stagger until it sat on the ground!
At the same time, another zombie had already wrapped its arms around his legs and was about to gnaw on him!
Qi Yan raised his knee and slammed it violently into the zombie’s face!
Yet the zombie didn’t loosen its hold at all and even switched to chomping on his knee directly!
Qi Yan didn’t have time to break away and his knee was unceremoniously bitten! Fortunately, the skin over the knee was extremely taut when in a bent state, so the zombie was only able to sink its teeth into the fabric of his pants above his knee.
But the feeling of teeth scraping the knee through the fabric was horribly distinct.
The zombie couldn’t tell for a moment whether it had taken a bite of flesh and still gnawed on it vigorously.
Qi Yan grasped the right opportunity and stabbed the opponent through the back of its head!
The zombie that had fallen to the ground earlier had already climbed back to its feet and lunged over yet again. Qi Yan kicked the corpse of the zombie that was hanging on his knee towards the other.
The charging zombie was solidly hit by the carcass of its companion and its movements were restricted for the moment.
Qi Yan jumped down nimbly and landed right by its side. Pulling out the metal chopsticks pinned to his waist that had been sharpened with the whetstone in the canteen, he jabbed the opponent through the temple steadily and ruthlessly.
The two corpses fell to the ground simultaneously and Qi Yan swiftly stretched out his arms and caught them both at the last moment to slowly lay them on the ground.
The lobby was finally silent, the moonlight was clean and cold, like a specter.
The closed metal doors of the elevator were covered by a gloomy luster. Qi Yan knew that Song Fei was definitely not behind those doors because after the elevator doors were shut, he clearly saw the floor numbers rising, but he still couldn’t help from glancing at this set of doors as if doing this would make him feel more at ease.
After the power outage, there was no loud noise of the elevator car falling to the bottom floor, so Song Fei and the other companion should be safe for the time being. As for which floor the elevator stopped at. . .
Qi Yan narrowed his eyes, clenched the body of the spear and moved silently towards the stairs.
The stairs were much emptier than expected. Qi Yan easily reached the second floor and not even the silhouette of a zombie could be spotted. The moonlight streamed through the window, creating dappled light and shadow on the floor of the corridors.
However, the more it was like this, the more disturbing it became.
Qi Yan crouched down and slipped to the base of a window looking into a classroom by sticking close to the wall. He exposed his head slightly and glanced into the classroom at the fastest speed, then quickly retracted his head again.
He had nothing to show for it.
The lighting was so dim that through the window pane, the classroom just seemed like a black hole.
Qi Yan gulped and stopped worrying about whether the classroom was safe, whether it was bereft of zombies or full of zombies. He could only take things one step at a time!
One classroom.
Two classrooms.
Three classrooms.
Although his speed was slow, the effect was remarkable. He just had to bypass one more classroom and he would be able to reach the elevator!
Qi Yan tried his best to suppress his excitement and apprehension as he came to the door of the fourth classroom. The door of this classroom was agape. Qi Yan could only lean on one side and steady his breathing, only when he felt ready did he set off to pass the door at a very fast speed. In this way, if there were any zombies in it, they may not notice the silhouette of a person flashing by in the darkness.
However, as soon as he moved, before his body actually moved forward, a zombie abruptly stepped out of the classroom!
Qi Yan nearly yelped in surprise and had to use all of his strength to stabilize his forward leaning motion, but the tip of his nose still brushed against the side seam of the zombie’s pants.
Fortunately, the touch was so light that it seemed like nothing. Except for the fact that Qi Yan was covered in cold sweat, the zombie didn’t notice at all and continued to wander forward leisurely.
Judging from the view of its back, the way it was dressed, and the balding head like the sea within land, this should be a professor from the Computer Science Department.
Qi Yan suddenly realized that it was the weekend when the zombie outbreak occurred. There were no classes being carried out in the department specific buildings, nor was it being used as a test center for the level four and six tests. Therefore, at most there were only a few self-study students in the building or professors who came to work overtime. The Gewu building was the farthest among all the faulty and departmental buildings. Even for the sake of self-study, most students would choose the Wenbo building—Although the Yixin and Luban buildings were also considered to be close, there were pretty much no self-study classrooms. There were only painting studios, music classrooms, sculpting workshops, and more. There definitely was one self-study classroom, but whether or not you would be able to find it, or whether or not you could leave the building and make it in time for lunch after self-study was a problem—That was why the fact that there were only a few who were here in the first place, and few zombies after infection seemed to all make sense now.
As the zombie gradually wandered away, Qi Yan let out a long sigh of relief and slipped past the doorway, the elevator was close at hand!
Danglanglang—
Who the f*ck discarded an empty soda can on the ground!!!
Qi Yan was about to lose it, and then rapid footsteps resounded from afar—That professor was coming back!
Qi Yan instantly clung to the wall, gripped the spear, and fixed his eyes in the direction of the sound.
At the end of the darkness, the figure of the balding zombie gradually emerged.
Qi Yan held his breath, just waiting for the professor to come before him in a fight to the death!
The zombie was approaching.
Even closer.
It was right before him!
It brushed past him!!!
Uh, yi?!
Qi Yan watched in amazement as the professor swept past his face like a gust of wind then disappeared down the other end of the hallway without any reluctance. He wasn’t sure if he was just too unappealing or if the other party had a higher standard of pursuit.
However, after a little thought, he understood.
The sight of the zombies didn’t evolve which was one of the reasons why they chose to act on hazy days and nights in the first place. In this extremely dark environment they were in, unless the brain passed down instructions that “the prey was hiding in the dark”, the zombie would act solely on the basis of their instinct for sound and pursue it while ignoring himself who was concealed in the dark with little human scent left to be detected because of the Hualu Shui wasn’t entirely impossible.
So it was fair to say that God was fair. He may have stumbled over an empty soda can, but it also let him escape by a hair’s breadth.
Qi Yan wasn’t afraid of a one-on-one encounter, but there were still other zombies in the classroom and if they were lured out by the scuffle, then he would be dead meat.
Carefully dodging the accident-inducing aluminum can, Qi Yan swiftly came to the elevator doors. Though in these circumstances, he couldn’t call out or hammer on the door. Qi Yan became extremely anxious when he was abruptly enlightened by a flash of inspiration.
The author has something to say:
The song in this chapter ”Knitting Sweaters”—Zhang Weiwei~~
Author’s Chapter Summary
Luring the zombies with intense feelings like always, entering deep into the tiger’s den to save fellow comrades!
The translator has something to say: ZH has been enlightened while QY reminds me of a hamster exercising on its hamster wheel
Also, we’re halfway through the novel! Thank you for all the support and patience with my slow translation speed, I look forward to finishing this wild rollercoaster ride with you all~
How thrilling😖😖 I was holding my breath while reading this
Wohoo halfway done, congrats!
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thanks for the chapter <3
God is fair. Lucky Qi Yan now the power outage is an advantage!
Can’t believe we’re halfway through great work. Thanks for translating this novel!
I love you deeply,Yet you love a fool.
That idiot doesn’t love you,So you are worse than a fool.PEAK LYRICISM, TAYLOR SWIFT COULD NEVER.