Chapter 4: Escape from the Dormitory Building

Ye Xuan was awakened by a gust of salty, smelly wind.

The smell came from the rotten-gut zombie on the balcony next to him, which was trying to cross the railing to eat him. Its belly was scratched into pieces by rust, but it was still persisting and waving its two deformed hands in the air.

Ye Xuan pinched his nose and stepped back a little.

He slept on the balcony all night last night.

He remembered that Xia Chenxi told him to go to the balcony, and then he leaned on the glass door and saw Xia Chenxi walking around the dormitory and stopping in front of his desk. The flashlight was turned off, so he couldn't see what was happening in the room and only heard small noises.

After that, he just curled up and sat on the balcony and fell asleep without realizing it.

So, how is Xia Chenxi doing now?

Ye Xuan wanted to go in and check the situation, but then he thought of what Xia Chenxi said to him yesterday.

He is not afraid of death, he can be reborn. Once he is beaten into a cripple by Xia Chenxi, he will be unable to live or die, and that will be the end of him.

Ye Xuan was lying on the glass door and saw Xia Chenxi walking towards him with a pack of instant noodles.

Xia Chenxi opened the door and handed the instant noodles in his hand to Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan swallowed his saliva, looked up at Xia Chenxi, and was attracted by the bite stopper on his face.

When Xia Chenxi put his hand to his mouth yesterday, he could clearly feel that Xia Chenxi had a strong desire to bite him, but he pushed him away.

It turned out that he drove him outside and put a bite stopper on himself in order to stop me from biting him.

Xia Chenxi touched the metal bite stopper and said to Ye Xuan, "This is a prank by my friend."

"Oh." Ye Xuan took the instant noodles from Xia Chenxi's hand and asked him why he was explaining this to him.

Xia Chenxi glanced at the zombies roaring beside him.

"Come in."

He turned and walked through the door.

Ye Xuan held Xia Chenxi's sturdy forearm and asked him, "You won't hit me, will you? If you really hate me, why not take off the bite stopper and bite me to death."

Xia Chenxi paused.

"Won't."

Ye Xuan felt relieved and went in with Xia Chenxi.

There was no change in the room, and resources such as food and water were still in their original places. He thought that Xia Chenxi would destroy everything beyond recognition in his mad state.

The two of them sat on each side, Ye Xuan ate instant noodles and Xia Chenxi closed his eyes to recuperate.

“Are you considered a zombie now?”

As if because of being disturbed, Xia Chenxi frowned unhappily and slowly opened his eyes.

Unlike the pair of bloodshot eyes that Ye Xuan saw last night, Xia Chenxi's pupils are now light brown.

“Not a zombie.”

Ye Xuan nodded. He was indeed not an ordinary person. He could resist such a fierce virus.

“But not really a human being.”

Ye Xuan suddenly raised his head. It was neither a human nor a zombie. So what was it, a half corpse?

Xia Chenxi didn't seem to know how to explain it, his hands resting on his knees.

"Anyway, I can feel changes in my body, but I can't tell what exactly has changed."

Seeing that he can still speak these words clearly, he should still be considered a human being.

Ye Xuan asked: "Are you hungry?"

Xia Chenxi: “Yes.”

Ye Xuan: "Has your hearing become more sensitive?"

Xia Chenxi: “No.”

Ye Xuan: "What about the sense of smell?"

Xia Chenxi: “No.”

Ye Xuan: "Taste?"

Xia Chenxi: “I don’t know.”

Ye Xuan spread his hands: "It seems that you are just an ordinary person with antibodies in your body. I thought you would suddenly have special abilities like in TV dramas."

Xia Chenxi lowered his eyelids, not knowing what he was thinking.

After Ye Xuan finished his instant noodles, he asked Xia Chenxi to return his phone to him.

He opened the dormitory building and saw some people crying for help because they had no food.

Some people also said that the door of the person's room next door was kicked open last night, and he screamed miserably when he was bitten.

Ye Xuan glanced at Xia Chenxi. He wondered if the method he asked him to stack the chairs was useful.

Ye Xuan counted the remaining food and found only eight packets of instant noodles. He and Xia Chenxi shared them. They only had two meals a day and could only last two days. There was not much water left in the water dispenser, only one third.

The news said that someone would come to rescue, but no one has come to control Baihe River, the starting point. What is going on?

If no one comes to rescue, he and Xia Chenxi must find a way to get out of here on their own.

Hopefully things won't get this bad.

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One day later.

Things were still going in the worst direction.

Not only did the entire school start to experience water and power outages, but even the internet was cut off.

The last text message received on the mobile phone was a notification from the relevant departments: The R virus has broken out rapidly and has appeared in various places. The existing military forces across the country are insufficient and cannot rush to support all areas. Residents are requested to seek shelter in nearby areas with abundant supplies and maintain vital signs.

This text message is telling them that no one will come to save them and whether they can survive or not is up to fate.

Ye Xuan lowered his head and sighed deeply.

Moreover, they are now on the fifth floor. If they run from the fifth floor to the first floor and then out from the first floor, they will have to face countless zombies.

What's more, what can you do after you get out?

But if he doesn’t get out, he’ll starve to death, and the cycle will continue.

Ye Xuan looked at Xia Chenxi and said to him: "Why don't you just bite me."

Xia Chenxi stood at the door, his eyes scanning the entire room.

"Even if I bite you, you won't necessarily turn into a zombie. You'll become like me, and the result will be the same."

That makes sense.

Ye Xuan temporarily gave up the idea of ​​letting Xia Chenxi bite him and rummaged through his drawer for something.

Then he found a whole roll of tape, took down the quilt on the bed, cut the cotton inside with scissors, and wrapped the cotton around his hands.

"What are you doing."

"Protect my vital parts, and then we'll leave here before tonight." Ye Xuan replied to Xia Chenxi, his hands moving non-stop.

"Do you want to pester me?" Ye Xuan asked Xia Chenxi, "No, you are half a corpse now, will the zombies still bite you?"

"have no idea."

Xia Chenxi got on the bed, threw everything on it down, and lifted the entire bed board off.

Under Ye Xuan's stunned eyes, Xia Chenxi broke the bed board in two, picked up one piece and threw it to him.

"Xia Chenxi, you...are you the reincarnation of some strong man?"

Xia Chenxi stepped on the broom head and broke it, then threw his body to Ye Xuan.

"Pack everything and just take the necessities. There's no need to bring too much."

Ye Xuan packed up everything he needed and picked up the broom handle and "shield" that Xia Chenxi threw to him.

Xia Chenxi didn't take anything with him, just held another bed board in his hand.

He pushed away all the chairs blocking the door, turned around and said to Ye Xuan, "Are you ready? I'm going to open the door."

At the critical moment, Ye Xuan stopped Xia Chenxi.

"Wait, let's test whether the zombies will attack you first."

Xia Chenxi narrowed his eyes and thought about the feasibility of what Ye Xuan said.

He nodded slightly.

Ye Xuan switched places with Xia Chenxi. He said to Xia Chenxi, "I'll open the door a crack later. You try to go out slowly. If a zombie shows any intention of attacking you, you must retreat quickly."