Translator: transcendentwings
In the kitchen on the ground floor of the canteen, two and and a half hours had passed since the medicine hunters team set off.
Feng Qibai and Zhou Yilu’s consciousness had completely fallen into muddle-headedness, while Qiao Siqi barely maintained one string of clarity, although his body began to tremble more and more violently.
Lin Dilei and Huang Mo took care of their three comrades without rest, not only paying attention to keeping them warm, but also continuing to cool their foreheads through physical means, working up a sweat in the chilly kitchen that had no heating.
The male students had energy but no outlet and were so anxious that it was like their hearts were set aflame, they could only fight for the chance to run some errands, retrieve stuff like water or something else. Even Zhao He, who was not feeling 100% himself and the thirteen youths of the chemistry department, who had no close relationship with the patients, didn’t just stand idly by.
At this moment, there were no divisions between different departments, no majors, no acquaintances or strangers, no familiarity or unfamiliarity in the kitchen. Everyone was just a classmate, a good pal, sharing joys and woes, working together in unity.
Zhao He’s throat was still unable to make a sound and what was even more terrible was that the inflammation spread, involving his whole body until he began to develop a low-grade fever. He didn’t notice it at first because he hadn’t felt anything but his fatigue. When it was time to eat and drink, he would and he could actively participate in communicating with others using his gaze and his facial expressions to convey things.
It wasn’t evident until Huang Mo put it together through the clues from his increasingly frequent frowns. She reached over to test his temperature with her hand, observed that it wasn’t too hot, thus simply asked: “Is it a low-grade fever?”
Zhao He was taken aback on the spot.
In fact, what Huang Mo questioned about didn’t reach his ears at all. At this moment, all he could see was a petite girl who was raising her hand to feel his forehead. He was much taller than the maiden, so it was a bit of a struggle for her to actually touch him.
Fortunately he wasn’t another centimeter taller, Zhao He thought, otherwise the girl would be on tiptoe, which might make her positive feelings towards him decrease.
“Zhao He?” Huang Mo’s persistent call finally reigned her comrade-in-arms senses back.
Zhao He wanted to respond with a “En?” and didn’t realize the actual circumstances of his body until he held his breath until he almost couldn’t breathe. He swiftly mobilized his facial muscles, lifted an eyebrow then widened his eyes forming a standard inquisitive demeanor.
“I’m asking if you have a low-grade fever,” Huang Mo repeated patiently, “Just nod or shake your head.”
Zhao He shook his head and realized something after a few moments and switched to frowning heavily before shaking his head again.
Huang Mo understood: “You don’t know either?”
Zhao He’s eyes lit up as he promptly nodded.
“Then let me ask this in another way. Apart from your throat, do you feel unwell anywhere else? For example, your entire body has no strength or feels fatigued?”
Zhao He silently immersed himself in the feeling, and nodded a few times in succession with a look of admiration that Huang-laoshi was truly godly.
Worry appeared in Huang Mo’s eyes: “Sure enough, there is still an inflammatory response.”
Zhao He rarely displayed weakness outwardly, but after hearing what Huang Mo was worried about, he somehow was hit with the sudden urge to bargain for sympathy and his expression immediately became pitiful.
Huang Mo looked at him tenderly for a moment, then sighed softly: “Since you are sick already, then let go of my hand ba.”
Zhao He made a face, it was only then that he realized that he had raised his hand to press down on Huang Mo’s probing one that was resting on his forehead at some point. The big hand was pressed on the smaller one in such a way that it seemed like a perfect fit, nice and snug.
He withdrew his hand in a fluster, as if he had burned it.
Huang Mo patted his arm lightly to express her understanding, but they were all comrades in the same trench, so what should be advised must be lectured upon: “You’re body is still weak, don’t think about all those messy things first, it will be detrimental to your body.”
Zhao He: “. . .”
Huang-tongxue, wait a second, things really weren’t thought as far ahead as you think ah!!!
“Little Landmineeee!!!”
The shocking earth-shattering and heavens-shaking howling call and the cry of Zhao He’s soul were fired at the same time, creating a mess.
However his other comrades couldn’t hear the cry of Zhao He’s soul and were all startled into a little jump by Luo-tongxue’s throat wrecking roar. Lin Dilei reacted the quickest and instantly shot to her feet, dashing to the window. After quickly confirming that there were no zombies in the vicinity, she shoved the window open decisively!
Under the moonlight, the comrades were sprinting madly.
Amidst the sound of messy footsteps, Lin Dilei watched as her comrades got closer and closer. . .
“Watch out!”
Before the comrades arrived, they suddenly warned in unison.
Without giving Lin Dilei the opportunity to think, an unknown male classmate abruptly appeared in front of the window and jumped in directly. The speed of the movement as well as the tumultuous momentum of the crash caused Lin Dilei to stagger.
“Are you okay!” Luo Geng hopped in immediately after, catching Lin Dilei solidly, and swiftly pulled her away from her position directly facing the window.
As soon as they dodged, the window was filled with a group of students scrambling to get ahead. They tried their best to squeeze in, yelling and kicking, everyone had a ferocious and almost crazed expression on their faces!
Lin Dilei keenly noticed that the first student who came in had already made a beeline towards the industrial stove. Spotting the pot, he instantly removed the lid, yet after finding that it was empty, he threw the pot heavily on the ground as if to vent his anger! The guang sound couldn’t be covered up even with the loud and rambunctious shouting and cursing!
Lin Dilei promptly thought that he must’ve been starved to the extreme, adding on running over here from the outside, he must’ve experienced endless dangers, especially since this was now a zombie overrun environment which caused unimaginable torment to a person’s spirits. It wasn’t incomprehensible that the emotions and even the state of the entire person’s well-being would be abnormal.
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Luo Geng watched helplessly as Lin Dilei was shoved away, her body crashing into the display case next to her that was as tall as a person. The shelf shook violently and the pots and pans fell down with a pili pala, most of them striking Lin Dilei!
Fortunately, she had protected her head, thus apart from the pain in her arm, she didn’t suffer much subsequent damage.
Yet Luo Geng wasn’t having it and suddenly became furious as he stormed over and punched the boy until he staggered!
The boy wasn’t a vegetarian either and fought back immediately after standing firm again, promptly getting entangled in a scuffle with Luo Geng.
Counting all the healthy members of the Wusheng classes who stayed behind and the thirteen youths of the chemistry department, not a single one stepped forward to assist Luo Geng. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to, it was just that they had no skills.
Suddenly, more than twenty young men had poured in through the window, the foremost one zoomed to the pot, but to no avail. It was unknown if those who came in later had learned a lesson from their predecessor or if their own preferences had originally been different, but their havoc-wreaking raid switched targets to the freezers and warehouse.
The boy who went to open the freezer first, couldn’t yank the frozen glass open for a long time and actually went ahead to use a hammer to shatter it!
Fu Xiyuan and Wu Zhou weren’t even able to clearly capture whether he pulled out the hammer later or whether he was initially holding the weapon in his hand. But that wasn’t important anymore, the moment the glass of the freezer shattered, the two charged forth to restrain the other party!
Yet they couldn’t withstand the second, third, then the eighth, tenth!
All the freezers were agape and while it was clear that only raw meat was housed within, they were still ransacked into a mess!
Even Li Jingyu and He Zhiwen, who weren’t among the rankings for combatative prowess and courage, couldn’t stand it anymore. Each one they could stop counted as one more taken care of and if they could fight off a pair, then it was double the results!
The thirteen youths of the chemistry department were startled into a daze at first, but they swiftly reacted after a few seconds.
“Brothers, charge ah—”
The secretary of the regiment roared and lent a hand when it was time to act.
Qi Yan, Song Fei, and Wang Qingyuan weren’t supposed to have been lagging behind, but the uninvited guest didn’t care about those behind and only rushed ahead as if after they were able to enter, the pursuing zombies would stop chasing them, nor would they jump through the windows either.
They had no choice but to guard the window. Fortunately, the speed of the intruders was fast enough. When the last person leapt in, they had only actually had to fight three zombies. One came from the hospital and two from the uninvited guests, they should be the ones that were leading the chase from the pursuing armies on both sides.
Following Qi Yan as the last one to enter, Huang Mo, who had been insisting on ignoring the scuffle behind her, closed and locked the window in one neat motion.
She was the only one left by the window.
What entered Song Fei, Qi Yan, and Wang Qingyuan’s field of vision was the chaotic free-for-all encompassing the entire kitchen.
“You’re f*cking crazy ah—”
“Whoever blocks laozi will die!”
“Calm down!”
“F*ck you—”
“Can you f*cking speak properly!”
“F*ck off!!!”
“Ahhhh—”
Dozens of people were in a tussle with pots, bowls, ladles, and pans scattered all over the floor, even the countertop was knocked crooked. Wang Shan joined forces with two others from the chemistry class off to the side to drag the three sick patients into a corner along with their bedding.
And the fourth patient, Zhao-tongxue, was already engaged in an inseparable fracas with one of the unwelcome guests.
Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, a frigid silvery flash of white glared.
Someone pulled out a knife!
Song Fei traced the residual light and saw someone trying to make a stab towards Zhao He’s belly with it!
Zhao He didn’t seem to expect that the other party would actually be so ruthless and actually forgot to dodge.
Seeing that the blade was about to tear Zhao He’s stomach open, a kick came flying over from the side and the assailant was knocked heavily onto the ground!
“You brat dare to use a blade?!”
Wu Zhou was obviously triggered and after one kick, he wasn’t able to relieve his anger, thus he lunged forward and added several more in a row!
Dong—
The loud noise made Song Fei jump, and when he turned his head to look, the door of the warehouse had already been rammed apart!
When it came down to it, the intruders only went berserk for a mere bite to eat. However, it was far from necessary for things to come to this for the sake of one morsel. Whether it was the Wusheng class or the chemistry class, no one had thought of monopolizing this place.
But the uninvited guests didn’t know that.
When it was difficult to distinguish between good or evil, some people would assume that the other party was benevolent while others would suppose that the other party was malevolent and the intruders surmised the latter.
“Ah—”
In a moment of stupor, He Zhiwen’s scream resounded from somewhere in the warehouse.
Song Fei didn’t even see when the other had followed them in.
His legs started to move before his brain, and in the next second, he had already entered the warehouse only to see He Zhiwen raising a bag of flour in an attempt to resist the attack of a hulking male classmate and that very same aggressor’s switchblade had already been inserted into the sack!
“He Zhiwen—” Song Fei’s anxious voice changed pitch.
“I’m fine!” He Zhiwen panted with a ghastly expression on his face.
“If you’re okay then why the hell did you howl ha!” Song Fei was so alarmed that his heart almost leapt out of his chest.
“He crazily tried to get me with a knife ah!!!” He Zhiwen was wronged to death.
The burly male student in the room had already drawn his blade, then he seized the pack of flour in He Zhiwen’s grasp, tossed it aside forcefully, and went in for a second attempt!
Song Fei rushed over with a kick, a repeat of the exact same action Wu Zhou had taken when the other had kicked the other b*stard before!
“You’re insane!” Song Fei was so furious that his voice trembled, “You’d murder someone just for a bite to eat?!”
The boy stood up from the ground, glaring at Song Fei with undisguised ferocity in his eyes: “F*ck off.”
The other party’s voice was terribly low and the silence at this moment was a stark contrast to the intensity of the previous “slaughter mode”, yet it was still inexplicably unified.
For some reason, Song Fei was reminded of Yu Zisheng from the past.
The only difference was that the person before him was a little more deranged than Yu Zisheng.
Upon running into Yu Zisheng, the zombie tide had only erupted less than ten days ago.
As of now, twenty-three days have passed.
“I can step aside, the things here were originally meant to be mutually shared.” Song Fei tried his best to make his voice sound gentle and friendly, “But you are not calm right now and you also aren’t in the right mind. Can you compose yourself a bit and listen to me.”
The uninvited guest narrowed his eyes dangerously: “I’ll say it for the last time. Scram, don’t seek death.”
Song Fei’s voice became icy: “In the future, everyone will be living under the same roof, are you sure you want to tear all relations down now?”
The unwelcome guest didn’t waste any more words and just sprung forward with the knife!
Song Fei gritted his teeth in hatred. Conversing civilly wasn’t good enough, the other just had to make the first move. Did he think that his twenty-odd days of fighting with zombies was all just for show?!
Agilely dodging the blade, Song Fei snatched the opponent’s knife-wielding wrist and at the same time pushed forward with all his strength, slamming his opponent against the wall.
Before the opponent could recover from the collision, Song Fei gripped the other’s wrist with both hands and smashed it against the wall with force, once, twice, three times without even giving the other a chance to catch a breath.
In less than five strikes, the switchblade was knocked out of the other’s hands.
The sound of an object hitting the floor rang out with a danglang and the tips of Song Fei’s metal chopsticks were only 0.01 cm away from the intruder’s neck.
“Which one of us is actually courting death?” Song Fei enunciated word for word.
The other didn’t speak, but his legs were already trembling in fear.
Song Fei acted as the villain for the first time and even found it funny when he uttered those lines. But the other party took it seriously. Because the killing intent in his heart was genuine when he waved his blade around, thus when the situation was reversed, putting himself in the other’s shoes, he believed that the killing intent exuded from his opponent was also real.
Song Fei was in a complicated mood, but before he had the time to mull it over, another concern abruptly popped into his head.
If the killing intent of the person in front of him was sincere, then what about those outside?!
A chill flashed through his heart, Song Fei didn’t dare to think too much. In an act of ferocity, he captured his opponent directly, locked the other’s neck in a chokehold while he used his other hand to control the metal chopsticks with precision, stopping at a position extremely close to the side of his “hostage”’s face.
“Song Fei?” He Zhiwen didn’t understand what was happening and probed shakily.
“Shut up!” After simply and rudely shutting He-tongxue down, Song Fei slowly moved out of the warehouse with his hostage step by step.
The kitchen was in shambles.
The invaders had a slight numerical advantage over the original residents, but their individual combat effectiveness was slightly inferior so the two sides clashed and were evenly matched for the moment.
Both sides were wounded in battle.
Neither side showed any intention of a ceasefire.
The intruders were not of a stable mind in the first place, while the original residents lost their minds as they fought.
No wonder why Qi Yan and Wang Qiyuan didn’t follow him into the kitchen as they had probably long since been embroiled in conflict and were now fighting one against three and one versus two respectively.
“Everyone stop!” Song Fei hollered with all of his might, “Continue and I’ll kill him!”
The sounds of a brawl and torrent of curses resounded endlessly in the kitchen, but the threat, which came out of nowhere, actually worked.
Everyone stopped reflexively and swept their gazes over at Song Fei in unison.
For a while, the kitchen fell into an eerie silence.
Song Fei grasped this opportunity to repeat himself: “Stop fighting, one of yours is in my hands, can we all calmly exchange a few words now!”
“Can’t!”
“F*ck off!”
“Nonsense!”
“Who are you ah!”
“. . .”
Based on a rough estimate, there were no fewer than ten voices of rejection.
The rest didn’t refuse, but if they were able to raise their fists, then they didn’t continue to prattle on—just reentered the fray.
The flames of war resumed and it was worse than before.
Song Fei had lived a little over twenty years and today was a real eye-opener: “The connections you’ve established, really like no other.”
The “hostage” was furious and Song Fei could feel the other’s whole body tremble in anger: “Screw you, you f*cking—”
This was a grassroots team and it was highly likely that they may not be familiar with each other at all.
Huang Mo raised her eyes and hollered so loudly that it shook the skies: “Wang Shan—”
After waiting for a long time, they had finally reached this day. The organization’s secretary from the Yinghua class 1 threw off his opponent, zoomed to a corner, pushed a broom and dustpan to the side, and retrieved an unknown spherical ball the size of a shot put. It was so dusty and gray that no specific color could be picked out, the only thing that was attention-drawing was the white fuse dangling from the top half of the sphere.
Holding the homemade bomb with one hand, igniting the lighter with the other, in the faint flames, Wnag Shan’s face overlapped with the faces of countless revolutionary martyrs—
“If anyone dares to move again, I’ll light it!”
Wang-tongxue’s method of coercion was too novel, and some of the uninvited guests not only weren’t unnerved but had even laughed in mockery.
Wang Shan had already been briefed by Huang Mo about the countermeasures they should take in these situations and immediately revealed a sinister smile: “Sure, then let me have the honor of broadening your outlook. Hao Bin!”
Hao Bin, that is, the classmate who always loved to pretend to be the little girl in the Emperor’s New Clothes had been on standby for a long time. Now that the secretary of the regiment gave the order, he withdrew something from his pocket and threw it on the floor without saying a word!
Guang—
The sound of an explosion detonated in the kitchen. Theoretically speaking, the noise wasn’t too loud, but in a confined space where the doors and windows were locked, it sounded sufficiently frightening. In particular, there was also a wisp of white smoke like that of a flare, slowly rising from the spot where the unknown object was blasted apart. For a while, from the circular epicenter where it burst, a three meter radius around it visibly crumbled.
The canteen was finally quiet.
Veritably, completely.
Suddenly, a flare of sparks flashed amidst the white smoke.
Wang Shan was startled, just as he was about to step forward, Hao Bin had already doffed his cotton padded jacket and flapped it twice, snuffing out the little flame in the bud.
Wang Shan breathed a sigh of relief, but in retrospect, he was still very scared: “Who told you to detonate the trial device interiorly!”
Hao Bin was aggrieved: “In my moment of anxiety, I forgot to toss it out the window. . .”
Wang Shan was disappointed: “You can’t even throw a bomb properly, what can you even do!”
Hao Bin wanted to cry: “. . . Secretary of the organization, I’m just an ordinary college student ah!”
Author’s Chapter Summary:
The intruders were on the verge of insanity, the original residents had no choice but to raise a defensive mentality!
The translator has something to say: it seemed as if ZH was developing a budding romance staring himself, but HM nipped it in the bud very swiftly, the last scene between HM, WS, and HB was hilarious, a way to end the chapter with a bang!
See, I know food will be a problem…
Badass Song Fei is something I live for!! Hope we get to see more of it in the future…