Translator: transcendentwings
The four of them spent thirty long minutes in the infusion room.
The lights in the IV room were off and the curtains were drawn. Everyone hid against the wall on the side where the floor-to-ceiling glass doors were located such that the zombies on either side wouldn’t be able to see their silhouettes.
The first side to quiet down was outside the windows.
The zombies at the back of the building were initially laying siege at the window of the medicine room which was at a good distance away from the infusion room. After vying with each other to enter the medication room then realizing that it was empty, their irascible excitement gradually subsided.
The hallway was the last to quiet down.
The four of them didn’t dare to probe from behind the glass doors and had no choice but to listen with their ears perked up. The banging and ramming movements against the door probably lasted for another ten or so minutes, then it slowly weakened until the end where everything returned to tranquility.
Song Fei had basically recovered from the previous attack, although his entire body still felt as if it was about to fall apart. However, if he had to gear up to fight or flight, his movements wouldn’t be affected. The most important thing was that his mind was now clear.
He fished out his cell and hid it in his clothing before lighting up the screen with a tap. The time displayed on the screen was Beijing time, evening, 8:02.
Since departing from the canteen to retrieve the medications, only an hour and a half had passed. Compared to the bunch of them who had engaged in combat overnight before, the skirmish on this day was definitely swift and resolute.
Yet, it still wasn’t fast enough.
Three of their comrades were still sporting high fevers, thus every second they were delayed was a fraction more danger their comrades would be in.
Making every second and minute count was their only choice which meant that they couldn’t just wait until the danger was completely eradicated before they began their retreat.
“I think that it’s about time.” Darkening the screen with a press, Song Fei shattered the silence.
When he lit up his screen, the three of them had picked up on his mood, in other words, everyone present were harboring the same thoughts. Thus, as soon as his words fell, Wang Qingyuan, who was closest to the door, tilted his head slightly and surveyed the situation beyond the glass from the side.
His companions waited patiently in silence.
After a while, Wang Qingyuan frowned and shook his head lightly.
The hallway had calmed down, but the number of zombies didn’t decrease at all, they only recovered from their mania and returned back to a hollow and empty state, roaming around like specters. The flock of zombies by the revolving door also continued unabated whether it was in regards to the zombies who were having fun while being caught between the doors or the peanut gallery enjoying the show standing before it, the numbers were only greater than before, not less. Who knows why their childlike innocence was still so active and hadn’t yet perished.
They couldn’t leave through the door then they could only exit through the window.
The four of them tiptoed to the window then Song Fei furtively stuck his head behind the curtain.
In the darkness of the night, the area at the rear of the building was open and spacious, bleak and dreary. The pane of glass connecting to the corridor not too far away reflected the cold light under the moonlight. In the inpatient department further away, the many windows were like dark caves as if there were unknown evil spirits hidden inside.
Withdrawing his gaze into the distance, Song Fei turned his head to glance in the direction of the medicine room.
It was still void of the silhouettes of zombies.
The entire rear of the building was like a no-man’s land, only the cold wind and the chill could be felt through the windows.
Song Fei exhaled lightly and finally let go of his hanging heart.
Looking back, Song Fei gave his friends a reassuring declaration: “Very safe.”
This was good news, but the expressions of his comrade-in-arms were hard to describe.
“Can we not be so western?” Luo Geng held his forehead, he really wouldn’t feel comfortable if he didn’t grouch about it.
Song Fei was taken aback momentarily, then he realized what he had uttered and made a face vividly: “Qiao Siqi’s bad habit of not speaking properly is more contagious than the zombie virus.”
Luo Geng didn’t know whether he should cry or laugh and deliberately joked: “Then do you still want to save him?”
The expression on Song Fei’s face turned serious: “We must rescue him. Zhou Yilu warned that if Qiao Siqi died unjustly, he would come back in the middle of the night while each of us was dreaming and read English to us before our beds.”
Luo Geng: “. . . That’s too d*mned wicked!”
Qi Yan watched as Song Fei and Luo Geng chattered, the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose when he recalled the sullen look on the other’s face just now.
This was the first time that a quarrel between the two of them ended unsettled. There was no distinctive right or wrong, and neither was there a strong difference between a stronger and weaker argument. Yet, amazingly, it seemed that this squabble was more meaningful than any other before.
Although the last half of the sentence was very blunt, it was actually what he thought in his heart and it was also the source of his anger. It was just that if this were the past, he might not have brought that sentence up at the end of their dispute. As a result, he would’ve been indignant and the other party wouldn’t have been unable to recognize his good intentions and just become annoyed that he was making a mountain out of a molehill, then the relationship between the two of them would’ve only continued to gallop down the road of disagreement.
—Fortunately, due to an unexpected turn of events, a glimmer of hope shone at the darkest hour.
Song Fei was unaware that although it was cold and windy outside, the sun outside was shining brightly in his BF’s heart. He just felt that the man was beaming in a very suspicious manner, further the fact that it was directed at him made his heart shudder in response.
He suspected that there was some sort of unknown hypnotic virus floating around in this hospital, otherwise there was no way to explain why that guy became so affectionate as they traded insults. Even after half an hour had passed, it was still creepy when he thought back to it.
Well fine ba, he admitted that apart from the strangeness and the feeling of choking on his own words with nowhere to vent, there was still a hint of sweetness in the deepest part of his heart.
Qi Yan hardly ever voiced any blunt sweet nothings to him. Disregarding their arguments, even when they were glued to one another, he only showed affection with physical actions rather than platonic ones, as such, it poked at his heart when the other occasionally did.
Luo Geng’s eyes had already shifted back and forth between his two comrades Qi and Song for the Nth time. Others made eyes at each other in strands while they used baskets of them. Bearing the strict self-discipline and high moral character of a gentleman to hold back until now, Luo-tongxue was on the verge of his limits: “My two brothers, can we flee first and then flirt?”
Embarrassed, Song Fei swiftly turned around and softly opened the window.
The cold winds blew on his face.
His mind was blasted awake in an instant, Song Fei rapidly grasped onto the window frame and leapt out.
The moment Song Fei soared into the air, a person suddenly stood up right outside the window.
No, it wasn’t a person!
The coiled hair had been scattered, a large piece of flesh had been gnawed off the right half of the face leaving the right eye missing and only a gaping bloody hole present. It formed a weird contrast with the delicately made-up face on the left which was covered in exquisite make-up.
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Song Fei’s blood froze all over his body, yet his body, which was already up in the air. He had no time to undo it, making him slam straight into the other!
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Vbcu Mfl vfmlvfv atja tf wluta jr kfii cba ab vbvuf ja jii jcv pera mjgffcfv abkjgvr tlr bqqbcfca klat jii tlr ragfcuat.
With a dong, Song Fei crashed heavily into the zombie and fell over with the mouth of the zombie pressed against his chest accurately!
“Vbcu Mfl—”
Snfgsatlcu tjqqfcfv lc j oijrt, Hl Tjc mbeivc’a tfiq mjiilcu bea, yea atf raglcu bo afcrlbc atja tjv yffc ragfamtfv ab atf ilwlar atlr ktbif alwf ralii wjvf tlr nblmf glcu bea rtbga jcv vffq.
At the same time, he quickly flipped out the window.
Song Fei pressed down so hard that his down jacket was closely pasted against the zombie’s face under the pressure. Not to mention biting, the zombie struggled to even open its mouth.
Therefore, the moment Qi Yan shouted at him, in order not to attract any zombies, he quickly responded in a low voice: “I didn’t. . . Ao!!!”
If Qi Yan’s anxious holler was the strike of a match.
Song Fei’s abrupt yelp was a gas station explosion.
Not only did Qi Yan, who just vaulted out the window, almost fall onto the ground crookedly, Luo Geng and Wang Qingyuan behind him were also startled, their hearts skipping a beat.
Song Fei scream snapped Qi Yan’s last nerve, in fact, even before he finished “ah-ing”, Qi Yan had already reached out a hand, skimming along the ground to the other’s chest, gripped the zombie’s upper jaw, and dragged it away kicking, stabbing it hard into its temple.
When the zombie stopped struggling, its mouth still tried to snap at and latch onto Qi Yan’s hand, but Qi Yan’s movements were too agile and it didn’t even get the chance to bite him. However even if it chomped down, it may not have been able to hurt Qi Yan because of his thick leather gloves.
On this side, Qi Yan yanked the knife out that was inserted into the zombie’s head and on the other side, Wang Qingyuan pulled the body of the needle out of Song Fei’s back. The zombie definitely wouldn’t feel pain, but Song Fei would ah.
There was another “ao”, which sounded better than the tragic level it reached due to unsuspecting acupuncture earlier, but it still made those who heard it feel sad and those who saw it tear up.
Just when Qi Yan was about to open his mouth, he saw black shadows from the corner of his eye.
“Run—”
No need to take a closer look and Qi Yan would know that those were definitely zombies that were lured over by Song Fei’s howl of pain as he exclaimed immediately.
The bodies of his three companions jolted as they lifted their feet to sprint away swiftly!
Under the curtain of night, the four of them dashed away wildly with more than a dozen zombies in hot pursuit.
Fortunately the medicines were already at hand so now the companions had no more concerns and could just bravely charge forward like mad as hard as they could.
Uh, as for any sense of apprehension or something like that, they were still a teeny bit present—
Song Fei: “Was there any residual medication in the needle that stabbed into me ahhh!!!”
Luo Geng: “Probably not. . .ba.”
Song Fei: “Your tone can’t soothe anyone okay!”
Qi Yan: “When you pounced over, did you even consider if it would have a syringe in its hand?!”
Song Fei: “Handsome, not every doctor wearing a white coat idolizes Rong-momo ah!!!”
The four of them sped down the road they took when they came, Luo Geng and Song Fei, who were originally in the lead, were gasping for breath and were gradually overtaken by Qi Yan and Wang Qingyuan.
A majority of the pursuing zombies were shaken off, yet there still was a small group of die-hard fans who kept chasing after them without letting up.
Song Fei didn’t know if zombies would feel tired, but it was certain that their brains definitely don’t possess the concept of “weariness”.
The needle hole on his back still throbbed faintly and ruminating over this unexpected calamity made Song Fei want to cry but he could produce no tears.
When he reached the end of the little path, Song Fei ran so vigorously that there was a metallic taste in his throat and mouth. He peered behind and was met with darkness and couldn’t see clearly at all, but the sound of messy and heavy footsteps was still there as if what was chasing them was a squad of ghosts.
In a place far, far behind him, he could still barely make out the outline of the faculty residential area where sporadic windows were lit up with lights.
There must be survivors left in there, Song Fei thought, too bad they didn’t have any chances to seek them.
The end of the path thoroughly brought them into the main campus, where the roads were broad, decorated with numerous green belts and after entering the main grounds, it meant that they were already not too far away from the canteen. . .
Shasha.
Shashasha.
Song Fei’s breathing stopped.
This type of noise was something they were all too familiar with.
Qi Yan, who was at the helm, also stopped his advance abruptly.
Very quickly, ten or so dark shadows emerged from the shrubs of the verdant hedge ahead.
The glow of the street lights were dim, illuminating their shadows blurrily.
Suddenly a howl rang out from under the street lights!
More than a dozen zombies swarmed over like a wave of starved wolves!
As if to echo it, a cry also responded from the road behind and for a period of time ferocious racket undulated.
The companions exchanged a glance and for a moment, they couldn’t decide whether they should continue forward or backtrack, or if both were dead ends.
Qi Yan unconsciously clenched his weapon more tightly, if they wanted to return to the canteen, they could only break through forcibly, but a dozen or so of them. . .
“Follow me!!”
Song Fei suddenly roared.
That was a summons full of confidence, which Qi Yan could detect even if he were only half listening. At the same time the shout rang out, Song Fei had already changed his trajectory. He didn’t move ahead or backwards, instead he rushed towards the left, dashing forward as if his legs grew wings.
That wasn’t in the direction of the canteen at all, yet Qi Yan didn’t know why, but he hastened to catch up without hesitation!
In times like these, no one will care about so many things and the three companions sprinted madly with Song Fei with scant regard to anything else, even Luo Geng, who was exhausted to a fault, rebounded with a burst of stamina.
Upon visual inspection, they seemed to be running along the edge of the main campus. There were many desolate roads with lesser foliage, just like the surroundings of the Express Pickup Point, both could be regarded as forgotten lands. However, the mystical thing was was that after two or three minutes, a bamboo garden actually appeared before them.
White walls, black border, a round arched door, and the three gigantic words with a quaint classical beauty that hung above it—Changyi Garden.
The outer walls were about two meters high, but it still couldn’t conceal the hint of viridescence from the overflowing jadeite green bamboo.
A momentary distraction was enough to make people forget that this was a winter night in the north.
However, the poetic atmosphere should be left to be conceptualized in the future ba.
The four of them scrambled about using both hands and feet to pull and haul themselves onto the wall. They hadn’t even caught their breath yet when the great zombie army arrived in a hurry.
There were about thirty reinforcements in total after including those who pursued them from the hospital to the ones who joined along the way. At this moment, those standing under the wall were reaching out to scrabble and scratch and even if they couldn’t capture anything, by only watching, the scene frightened them.
Moreover, the exterior enclosure wasn’t high enough to allow people to feel worry-free.
In any case, any who were over 1.7 meters could seize their ankles with a stretch of their arm while any who were 1.6 meters or taller could latch onto them with an assisted hop.
Song Fei originally thought that they would finally be able to catch their breath, but in a moment of absentmindedness, he was abruptly seized and was nearly yanked down. After breaking free, he didn’t dare to take it lightly anymore and could only loop around along the wall continuously.
The other three companions also followed this plan to the T.
The surrounding fence was in a prim and proper square shape, save for the arc at the arch which forced them to turn back and backtrack to whence they came when they reached the bend. Unfortunately, the cross-section of the wall was only ten centimeters wide, which was barely enough for just one foot to be placed solidly upon it. Therefore, everyone could only walk in a single file line like they were treading on thin ice, similar to a T-shaped runway.
The people on the wall were walking and the zombies below the wall chased, however as long as the people above were more cautious, the zombies below were at a loss.
The companions could finally recover, especially Song Fei and Luo Geng, who could finally rescue their respective lungs which were about to explode from how hard they had had run. Their physical strength also gradually recovered as they made their circuits along the wall.
“Song Fei, you are pretty amazing ah, being able to find such a remote location. Did you just wander around the school whenever you had nothing to do?” Luo Geng’s thoughts finally started to turn after his breathing slowly steadied.
Song Fei nudged off a restless zombie’s paw and boasted proudly: “The extent at which Zhou Yilu is well-informed with our university’s architecture, is how familiar I am with our campus’s terrain. After all, I am a professional!”
“Ah right, you are from travel management.” Luo Geng recalled, “I seem to have seen you guys organizing a one-day tour of the university once before. . .”
“It’s not once before, it’s all the time, for the sake of combining theory and practice ma.”
“That just proves that it’s important to choose the correct major ah. Travel and tourism can recognize the roads, biology can recognize medicines, chemistry can create explosions, and sports can fight,” Luo Geng sighed as he peered at the zombies under the wall who were nearly able to help him polish his shoes to a shine, “What can mathematics do ha, make a data model of the zombie population?”
“Still, it has to be more powerful than conversing in English to the zombies ba?”
“. . . That’s true.”
Back in the kitchen on the ground floor of the canteen, Lin Dilei had just replaced the cool compress on Qiao Siqi’s forehead when the latter sneezed heavily.
Lin Dilei was worried that the rag was too chilly and inquired in a hurry: “Cold?”
Qiao Siqi, who was feverish until he was dazed, shook his head feebly. After a long pause, he moaned: “Maybe someone is missing me. . .”
Changyi Garden, on top of the wall.
Luo Geng: “We can’t just walk the balance beam all night ba, we need to think of a way to get out of this predicament.”
Song Fei: “En.”
Luo Geng: “What does en mean?”
Qi Yan, Wang Qingyuan: “He has an idea.”
Luo Geng: “. . .”
He swore that this was the last time he’ll go on an outing with the three of them alone!!!
Song Fei’s method wasn’t complicated, it just sounded a bit ridiculous at first, but after careful consideration, it seemed to be really feasible, even a slight bit ingenious.
Song Fei: “Ready?”
The three companions: “All set.”
Song Fei: “Let’s go!”
As for what he referred to with those words was its literal meaning.
Four people formed a column with Song Fei spearheading it, followed by Luo Geng, Wang Qingyuan, and Qi Yan. According to Song Fei’s order, he, himself, took the lead to start moving out and the other three kept pace at a steady pace.
As long as the four people on the wall shifted, the zombies below would follow suit. The only difference was that Song Fei and the others were making circuits on top of the wall while the zombies would be circling at the base of it.
At first, the four of them marched at a neither fast nor slow pace, and the zombies also pursed them at a moderate pace, occasionally finding the time to extend their hands for a grab.
However, gradually, the speed of the four of them became faster and faster, and in the end they were practically power walking. The zombies could only keep up at an increasing tempo until they had to trot to catch up, leaving them no time to stretch out their hands to harass them anymore.
The width of the wall was limited, no matter how rapidly the four of them went, they must maintain their positions in a line. On the other hand, the base of the wall provided a wide area, as such after a while, they started to become piled up making it seemed as if the neat column above was leading the mob below to jog around the perimeter at a faster pace!
Suddenly, the entire squad perched on the wall began to pick up their speed until they started to sprint wildly!
The blob of zombies below them couldn’t react in time and were left behind in the dust by four or five meters in the blink of an eye!
“Jump—”
With Song Fei’s command, four silhouettes leapt down!
Without exception, the companions charged directly towards the canteen as if they had rehearsed it countless times the moment their feet touched the ground!
When the zombie army finally reacted and wanted to give chase, they had already pulled away by a considerable distance!
Song Fei: “How was that ploy of mine hahahaha—”
Qi Yan: “You only have a lot of clever tricks up your sleeve.”
Song Fei: “Is praising me for being brilliant really so difficult?!”
Qi Yan: “. . .”
Song Fei: “Come on ba, don’t restain yourself.”
Qi Yan: “I admit that you are actually quite innovative.”
Song Fei: “That wasn’t heartfelt at all!”
Qi Yan: “. . .”
Luo Geng: “Song Fei, compared to you, Little Landmine is a good wife and a loving mother!”
The distance between the bamboo garden and the canteen was neither far nor close, but if they really began to sprint without any regard, it would only take two to three minutes.
It wasn’t known if it was because God thought that it had been a difficult night for them, but there were no major obstacles along the way, only three or four zombies scattered about here and there. All of which, either couldn’t react in time, were just bypassed, or shoved aside by one lunge of Qi Yan’s spear. They couldn’t touch a hair on their heads even if they wanted to.
In the blink of an eye, the four of them were only fifty or sixty meters away from the rear window of the canteen.
Song Fei could hardly hold back his stirred up emotions, yet Luo Geng was more emotional than he—
“Little Landmineeee!!!”
Luo Geng hollered an unknown number of mines in one breath, anyway, he successfully blasted the window open in a short period of time and when Little Landmine’s beautiful face appeared before the window, rolling her eyes, they were only about twenty meters away from it.
Song Fei fixed his gaze intently on the window to their base camp, mentally calculating the remaining path.
Fifteen meters!
Ten meters!
Nine meters!
Eight meters!
Seven. . .
Dadadadadada—
The abrupt cacophony of messy footsteps interrupted Song Fei’s mental countdown and a frightening chill ran down his spine—that noise didn’t come from the pursuers behind him, but from an unknown place ahead!
Song Fei couldn’t judge the origin during his sprint, but he didn’t need to determine it. Because the owners of the footsteps had already emerged from the darkness in the next second, and were even one step ahead of them in reaching Little Landmine!
“Be careful!” The four companions called out almost in unison.
Lin Dilei was caught off guard by the sudden situation. She had been focusing all her attention on responding to Song Fei, the four of them, and only allocated a portion to restrain the excitement and ecstasy in her heart, thus, how would she have the mental faculties to notice the other set of footsteps out of the blue until the uninvited guests had already popped up right in front of the window out of nowhere as if they had drilled directly out from the ground.
Little Landmine’s failure to react made the four of them go crazy with anxiety, and Luo Geng accelerated again with supernatural power that he had tapped into from an unknown source, surpassing the three of them, rushing to the window first!
However, they were still a step too late.
The one running at the head of the unwelcome guest parade had already leapt through the window!
It was just fortunate that he didn’t attack Little Landmine as the four companions had expected, but directly knocked her away, as if his purpose wasn’t to “strike”, but to “enter”.
Gain entry?
When this doubt rose, Luo Geng had already bumped into the second runner-up before the window. At the same time, Qi Yan, Song Fei, and Wang Qingyuan were close enough to scrutinize the uninvited guests borrowing the light that shone through the window.
They weren’t zombies, they were students.
“Let me in—”
“Help—”
“F*ck!”
“Who the hell is tugging on me—”
“Move the hell away!”
“F*ck you!”
“Don’t push me ah—”
Twenty or so male classmates.
Author’s Chapter Summary:
The road home was heart-wrenching and rough, the number of uninvited guests has increased dramatically!
The translator has something to say: everyone is getting their steps in today! And are the new additions going to be friend or foe? Once bitten, twice shy.
More and more uninvited guests is coming = the rations were be depleted faster = forcing them to leaving the canteen soon
Thanks for the chapter
jeez 20 students! i hope the guys can make it inside in time
20!? Where will they found food for everyone now!? O.o