Translator: transcendentwings
The electricity had been cut off so when the sky darkened again, the entire departmental sector plunged into silence and darkness again.
Fortunately the weather was beautiful and the night was clear as the day, not to mention that the gusts were also gradually weakening. The moon hung leisurely in the sky, although only three-quarters of its face was exposed, but it was still shining brightly.
It didn’t take long for the sky to completely darken, and there was the sound of a xiao coming from the Yixin Building, which was the code agreed upon by the eight of them to move out—With the xiao as the command, they would set off immediately.
The melody Feng Qibai played was very unfamiliar and of the seven companions, six of them have never heard it before, but the rhythm was bright and quick even with the melancholic atmosphere of the xiao, one could detect the impassioned feelings, thus the companions cheerfully accepted the signal and set off one after another.
Of course Song-tongxue, who had extensively browsed through many songs, was the only one of the six.
When sliding down the fire hose, he could even hum along to the sound of the xiao: “Advance~~Advance~~The responsibility of a soldier is heavy~~The hatred of a woman is deep. . .”
Qi Yan, who was hanging up above, looked down at the crown of his BF’s head, took a deep breath, and firmly grasped the hose in his hand: “Singing is fine, though can you not twist your body to the rhythm at the same time?’
The three companions from the Gewu Building were the first to make it down.
The three fire hoses were connected from end to end and there was still a lot of surplus coiled on the ground. Their movements were extremely light that even when they landed, they didn’t attract any zombies. Most of the zombies in the Gewu Building were still within the confines of its walls to avoid the frigid night air, only a small number were attracted by the sound of the xiao and also headed for the Yixin Building, which made the lower levels of the Gewu Building even emptier.
Song Fei took the lead with the metal chopsticks, Qi Yan brought up the rear with the mop-spear, and He Zhiwen was sandwiched in the middle with the radio, a perfect 1-1-1 formation. The three of them furtively made their way to the intersection between the Yixin Building and Luban Building, swiftly ascended the trees, and when everything was finally in place, violent rock and roll instantly replaced the melodious xiao notes—
“I’m shirtless facing the wind and snow~~I’m sprinting on that hospital escape route~~Don’t bar my way I don’t want clothes~~Because I don’t feel sick at all~~Give me some meat and some blood~~Change my steel-like aspirations and iron-like will~~Make me cry and make me laugh~~Let me run wild on the snow. . .”
Song Fei roared heartily while Qi Yan and He Zhiwen enjoyed being members of the audience. It was rare for them to feel anything other than twitchy when listening to Song Fei sing. When the chorus repeated, they had even hummed along to a few lines.
As for the three companions upstairs in the Yixin Building, who only focused on sliding down regardless of what was happening, only dared to confirm that the energetic rock and roll that was covering for them this entire time really came from Song Fei’s vocals when they were about to touch down.
The sound of the xiao stopped as the singing started, making the zombies naturally surround the tree. Zhao He, Feng Qibai, and Wu Zhou, who made it to the ground later, didn’t dare to draw closer to the rock and roll group and continued to traverse the crossroads heading directly for one side of the Luban Building where they clambered up the tree one after another.
Zhao He chose a tree that looked the sturdiest and climbed a branch that seemed the thickest.
Fortunately, it was stable enough for the time being. Finally, the Heavens never seals off all trees.
Seeing that their comrades reached a safe height, the rock and roll band shut down and the surroundings rapidly quieted down.
The two teams exchanged gazes from a distance, in the end it was Song Fei who called out first: “Together?”
“No need, rest your voice ba,” Wu Zhou returned, “We have equipment!”
Song Fei was enlightened, ruminating that Wu Zhou was probably referring to Feng Qibai’s xiao in his heart.
Feng Qibai ultimately did whip out the xiao, but Zhao He on the other tree wasn’t idle either—he produced a triangle from his lapel.
With a lingering “Ding—” the sound from the xiao drifted out melodiously.
Song Fei and Qi Yan looked at each other, deeply moved, the environment really transforms a person ah, it really is different for those who have been influenced by art.
When Song Fei recognized that Feng Qibai was playing the rock song that he had just sung, he was very startled. He wasn’t sure if Feng Qibai had this tune in his repertoire originally or if he had memorized the melody just by listening to him belt it out. However no matter whichever it was, the mere fact that the other was able to play it on an instrument so skillfully was enough to surprise him.
“Isn’t Feng Qibai from the sculpting major? Did I recall incorrectly and he’s actually a part of the department of music?” At these moments, it was natural to seek his boyfriend to discuss it.
“He is from the sculpting department, maybe he has a passion for music ba.” Qi Yan speculated very rationally then added at the end, “After all, music is the nature of human beings.”
Ding—
Dingding—
Ding, ding, dingding—
Song Fei: “Then how do you explain the guy who’s knocking on the triangle randomly?”
Qi Yan: “There will always be people who inherently possess a deficit.”
Rappelling from the Gewu and Yixin Buildings required a “rope”, the former was fine, Qi Yan cut it when he went to look for the batteries, but the latter spent a lot of effort in order to take care of it, while the two at the Luban building didn’t have these sorts of troubles.
Zhou Yilu wasn’t familiar with the internal structure of the building, but he was well-informed on the external shape and the visual impact of it. Therefore after considering multiple variables such as length of the journey, the risk factor, the drop location, and various others, he extremely accurately planned a path with the most efficient execution costs. According to this route, after the second team were positioned in the trees to lure the enemy, he would swiftly lead Qiao Siqi to descend barehanded.
“Although it may be a bit late to say this now,” Qiao Siqi stepped on a strange bump by the sixth level, forcing himself to only look at his feet and not below them, “But are you really not considering strapping a rope or something around our waists for safety?”
“Stop saying useless things.”
Zhou Yilu didn’t like to repeat himself, after he countered with one sentence, he continued to concentrate on where his feet should be placed on the next floor.
With a mournful expression, Qiao Siqi also tremblingly reached his foot downwards. . .
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Zhao He.” Zhou Yilu answered quickly.
Qiao Siqi was shocked. He squinted at the trees in the distance, which were still a blur: “You can see clearly?”
Zhou Yilu: “I don’t need to be able to have a clear view, just need to sensitive to changes in light.”
—On top of a certain thick and mighty tree in the distance, there were two smears of light reflected brightly, one with a metallic luster and the other with an indescribable glare.
“Zhao He, stop knocking on it.” Feng Qibai finally couldn’t bear it any longer. He stopped playing and sighed, “The rhythm has been messed up by you, where did you find this toy?”
“I picked it up when I cut the fire hose. I don’t know who tossed it on the ground, I just thought that it seemed interesting.”
“Then please let it remain as just a thought.”
Before Zhao He could quibble, Feng Qibai had already resumed playing.
Zhao He resentfully stuffed the triangle back into his clothing, feeling that his newly acquired dream for music had been strangled to death in the cradle.
After Zhou Yilu and Qiao Siqi reached the ground, they stuck to the side of the building and slipped quietly onto the main road. However the location at which they entered the main avenue deliberately avoided the trees where Zhao He and Feng Qibai were perched, thus the zombie army still surrounded the base of the tree where the sounds of the xiao drifted out and they were completely unaware of Zhou-Qiao, who were sneaking past behind them.
According to the original plan, the two of them would slip away first, and the remaining six would find ways to cooperate with each other and escape back to the canteen.
Everything went smoothly, Qiao Siqi and Zhou Yilu were about to completely conceal themselves in the darkness silently, but at the last moment, a burnt zombie suddenly ambushed them out of nowhere, its appearance was the same as the one Zhao He came across before, the only difference being that it still had one eye that wasn’t burnt to a crisp, meaning it could see!
Zhao He may have seen it before, but this was the first time Zhou Yilu and Qiao Siqi had come across it, just like the first time a maiden got on a sedan chair ah. As such when a dark, unknown figure abruptly barred their way, their minds went blank on the spot.
Just for a moment, the zombie howled at the sky!
Zhou Yilu reacted immediately and realized that it was calling for its companions hovering below the tree!
Compared with prey that could be spotted on the tree but unable to be eaten, the two of them obviously had a higher value to be hunted!
This howl was obviously more useful that the melody from the xiao and the large army of zombies surrounding the bottom of Feng Qibai and Zhao He’s trees and the small detachment of zombies still swaying under Song Fei and Qi Yan’s tree immediately changed targets and flocked to Zhou Yilu and Qiao Siqi!
There was nothing more treacherous than this!
Zhou Yilu stabbed that evil harbinger of a charcoal zombie with his spear then tugged on Qiao Siqi before booking it together!
But did Qiao-tongxue still need the other to yank him away?
In less than two seconds, the one who was doing the pulling became the hindrance. Zhou Yilu swiftly let go of his hand and tried his best to keep up with the legendary oriental deer. He even spent the time to look behind at the same time, not only to peer at the pursuers, but also to glance at his teammates. And now, because of their accident, the danger risk for their comrades in the two teams dropped drastically, so he simply directed: “Don’t worry about us, you guys hurry back to the canteen—”
Only, how could they ignore it?
Those two were chased and intercepted so they could only choose to flee in the direction they were able to, but that direction was not the way to the canteen at all. If their comrades didn’t interfere, then the two of them most probably wouldn’t be able to survive the night!
Zhao He leapt off the tree first.
He Zhiwen was the last one to be received down the tree.
It took less than ten seconds for the six of them to reach the ground, and then everyone rapidly ran in the direction Zhou Yilu and Qiao Siqi headed, shouting as they sprinted—
“Wei! Your Zhao-yeye is over here!!!”
The remaining five companions also wanted to lure the enemy away at first, especially Song Fei that the words “quick, look over here ah” was already at the tip of his tongue. Yet in the end, Zhao He already shouldered all the hatred by himself. After shouting, the zombies braked hard with a pilipala, a few even stopped too quickly and fell over, and most of the ones who didn’t fall ne, slowly turned around and ultimately chose to abandon the two to chase after the six.
The six people who finally became the lead sheep of the zombie army bolted in the direction of the canteen without any hesitation!
After Qiao Siqi and Zhou Yilu took down four zombies who were reluctant to part, they also circled back in the direction of the canteen!
With this back and forth, the two teams actually regrouped at a place three hundred meters away from the canteen!
Under the bright moonlight, the scene of eight male classmates sprinting side by side was quite spectacular.
But soon, some people rushed ahead while others fell behind, forming the first, second, and third batches.
The ones in the lead were naturally Zhao He and Wu Zhou, but as they ran, they abruptly noticed that a Qiao Siqi joined their formation.
Zhao He stared wide-eyed and as he was gulping pockets of air, he exclaimed through the wind whistling with a hulala brought by charging wildly: “Qiao Siqi, you shouldn’t have entered the the foreign studies department, you should be a d*mned legacy like a pearl from the depths of the sea of our sports department ah!”
Wu Zhou nodded sharply and echoed: “The word legacy was used very eloquently!”
Zhao He: “Can you focus on the key point!!!”
He Zhiwen couldn’t resonate with Zhao He’s emotions because he was f*cking last place! He was separated from Legendary Deer Qiao by too many comrades-in-arms and couldn’t even catch sight of his heels! The only thing he wanted was to pray that he wouldn’t get bitten! And why was Qi Yan able to sprint faster than him even with the radio in his arms ah, this world is treating straight little fatties, who don’t even possess the strength to truss a chicken, way too cruelly!!!
In the midst of the chaos, the canteen entered their line of sight!
Qiao Siqi opened his mouth wide in ecstasy. He didn’t know if he wanted to sigh or cheer, but he ultimately didn’t accomplish either and even nearly coughed his lungs out instead—he was too excited that he choked on the wind.
Zhao He yelled in his stead: “Huang Mo! Open the window—”
They were only a hundred meters away from the windows of the ground floor of the canteen they were so familiar with!
There were no changes by the window.
Song Fei felt that this might have had something to do with Zhao-tongxue’s hoarse and sensual voice: “Little Landmine—mine—mine—”
When the lingering syllable dissipated into the sky, the canteen was still silent, however a window had been quietly opened and a cooking spatula was stretched out halfway, swaying gracefully.
The eight of them captured it with their eyes and were delighted in their hearts. Most importantly, the lights of the canteen were on!
Qiao Siqi, Zhao He, and Wu Zhou made it to the window the quickest. Zhao He, with his long legs, slipped in first, followed by Wu Zhou. Qiao Siqi was good at running, but not leaping, thus he could only rank third and waited for Wu Zhou to enter before he crawled in with his hands and feet.
Who would have thought that as soon as one leg was placed over it, Lin Dilei screamed in fright: “Watch out!”
Then came a cool gust!
Qiao Siqi subconsciously looked towards the spot where the breeze was generated, but before his eyes could focus on it, a black shadow loomed over him and then he felt a spike of pain in his shoulder, the exact same d*mnable spot he was gnawed on by a zombie at the Luban Building not too long ago!
Song Fei, who arrived afterward, ended the zombie with one blow after pouncing on it. Seeing that Qiao Siqi was still in a daze, he crudely scooped up Zhou Yilu’s other leg and forcibly stuffed John in!
Only a short interval was needed for all eight of them to file in. The zombie who was hot on their heels was still twenty to thirty meters away from the canteen when Lin Dilei slammed the window shut.
On this side of the room, Lin Dilei locked the windows and pulled the blinds while on the other side, Wang Qingyuan, Li Jingyu, Luo Geng, Huang Mo, and the other companions of the two Wusheng classes already gathered around. Just when those who wanted to embrace them were going to glomp them and the ones who wanted to inquire after them were going to greet them, Qiao Siqi suddenly broke out of the crowd and zipped to a corner!
“All of you don’t approach—”
The abrupt change made all of the companions taken aback.
Qiao Siqi rapidly came back to his senses and immediately changed his words: “No no, come quickly—”
“So did you want us to go over there or not ah!” Zhou Yilu was about to lose it.
“Come, draw close, tie me up!” a sobbing tone already bled into Qiao Siqi’s voice, “I was bitten. . .”
The expression on everyone’s face changed.
“Where were you bitten?” Zhou Yilu asked, pretending to be calm, but there was an obvious tremor in his voice.
Qiao Siqi collapsed onto the ground with limp legs and burst into a tearful cry: “My shoulder. . .”
“What the hell can you accomplish!”
“I’m about to die and you’re still scolding me—”
“Die my friggin’ ass!”
Song Fei hauled the backpack towards himself and flipped it upside down, spilling out all its contents with a hualala, then picked out the rope that was poured out and went forward to tie Qiao Siqi up.
Zhou Yilu was furious: “Song Fei—”
“Otherwise, what can be done! Who will do it when he mutates? Will you stab him or will I!” Song Fei snapped back with red eyes.
Zhou Yilu turned his gaze away, tears bursting like a dam.
Qiao Siqi was already out of breath from sobbing: “Bind, secure it more tightly. . . And then, afterwards. . . don’t jab me in the face. . . Just run it through the back of my head. . .”
“Scram!” Song Fei cursed loudly.
Qiao Siqi pursed his lips and fell silent.
After constraining him tightly, Song Fei sat down before him. He didn’t speak, rather fiercely bit word after word: “I’ll just stare at you like this, let’s see what you’ll transform into.”
Qiao Siqi was weeping so hard that he couldn’t make a peep.
Zhou Yilu kicked the wall heavily.
Five minutes later.
Song Fei fixed his eyes on Qiao Siqi.
Qiao Siqi sobbed.
Zhou Yilu was silent.
Ten minutes later.
Song Fei bore into Qiao Siqi.
Qiao Siqi shed tears at times and stopped at times.
Zhou Yilu was mum.
Fifteen minutes later.
Song Fei was muted.
Qiao Siqi stopped crying.
Zhou Yilu walked over and sat down, observing Qiao Siqi.
“Uh,” Zhou-tongxue’s gaze was too frightening, Qiao-tongxue couldn’t quite bear it, “It’s so strange, why haven’t I morphed ne, ah, ahah. . .”
“Which shoulder?” Zhou Yilu suddenly asked.
Qiao Siqi didn’t react: “En?”
“Which shoulder did the zombie get you?”
“Right. . . Aiai, why are you acting like a hooligan ahhhh. . .”
In the blink of an eye, John-tongxue revealed his beatific shoulder. There was only a red imprint, but the skin wasn’t broken.
Zhou Yilu dug tissues out from his pocket and blew his nose.
Qiao Siqi twisted his neck with difficulty to glance at his shoulder. After a long time, his eyes gradually widened with unconcealable ecstasy inside: “It isn’t open, it didn’t get chewed through ahahahahaha—”
Tossing his ball of snot away, Zhou Yilu slowly narrowed his eyes.
Under Zhou-tongxue’s glare, Qiao Siqi’s laughter haltingly faded away and even felt a bit of a chill.
“Uh,” after much deliberation, he still chose Song Fei, “That, untie the rope for me first bei. . .”
“No way.” The refusal was staunch, “What if you mutate ne.”
Disaster that was self-inflicted couldn’t be forgiven, only honestly begging for forgiveness could.
“I really didn’t mean to trick you guys. It hurt a lot when I was bitten, and I was so sure that the wound would see blood. Would I take this sort of thing as a joke ma, am I right?”
Song Fei rolled his eyes.
Qiao Siqi moved his gaze towards Zhou. . . Just forget it.
In view of the two whose feelings were deceived the most, Qiao Siqi decided to try and appeal to his other comrades, who were less emotionally injured first.
“Don’t you guys think so? Little Landmine, you’re the most understanding, Luo Geng, you’re the most rational, Little Whale, you’re the most kind, Wang Qingyuan, you’re the most objective, Huang Mo, you’re the most transparent, Fu Xiyuan, you. . . who is that next to you?”
After surveying all of his comrades, Qiao Siqi was surprised, and belatedly realized that in the vast kitchen space on the first floor, there were not only the students from the two Wusheng classes, but also more than a dozen new faces!
It was not only Qiao Siqi, who was shaken, but also the other seven comrades who came in with him together. Song Fei and Zhou Yilu needn’t be mentioned as they were single mindedly engrossed in the permanent separation of life and death. Although Qi Yan and the rest weren’t that stimulated, their hearts and minds were also just concentrated on the flustered Qiao Siqi and only after being reminded at this moment did they realize that there were thirteen more classmates that they didn’t recognize in their base camp!
The radio squad was shocked and the thirteen new classmates weren’t any better. They only wanted to quietly and seriously mull over what happened just now.
The author has something to say:
Today’s track is “Let Me Go Wild in the Snow” ~Recommending Li Ronghao’s cover version oh~ The original song by Uncle Cui Jian was too wild haha~
Author’s Chapter Summary:
Scrambling back to the canteen, the separation of life and death caused a scene!
The translator has something to say: I don’t know if I should laugh or cry, but give me back my tears QSQ, my heart was in my throat the whole time. I really hope our author-dada spares us the emotional distress and not off any of our lovelies by the end of this novel. . .
Also second update coming shortly
I was laughing until the bitten part. Don’t tease me like this author. Seriously that isn’t funny.
I got such a heart attack man, qiqi really scared me