Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Chapter 2

Although he gave up going to college, Luo Shizhen still studied very hard when he attended classes.

As the college entrance examination approaches, senior high school students have entered the late-night studying mode. After school at 10 o'clock, day students go home to continue studying, while boarding students can study in the dormitory.

At ten o'clock in the evening, because the senior students were out of school, the dark playground seemed a little more lively even with the street lights on.

Students left alone or in groups, and talked about recent news or gossip while walking on the road.

"Have you heard that there's a Pen Fairy incident at No. 1 Middle School? They say four people died."

"It must be fake. Did he jump off the building because of the stress of studying?"

"Have you ever seen four people planning to jump off a building together? And those people were all sophomores. How could they be under so much pressure now? If anyone was going to jump, it would be us juniors."

"Did you read the reports about what happened in Wangyun City? It seems like there was a school fire that killed 32 students and a teacher."

A student immediately asked, "Huh? I have a relative who's a teacher in Wangyun City. My mom said yesterday she didn't reply to my message. What's that teacher's name?"

"Hmm... I can't remember. It's strange. I can't remember what he looked like. How old is your relative?"

"I think she's about twenty-five or twenty-six. She's my cousin."

The student who read the report immediately said, "That's definitely not your cousin. Although I can't remember what he looks like, I remember he's a man."

"That's good. Hey, why do things like this always happen recently? Our neighbor said their school is haunted and there's a ghost wall."

"I've heard that too, but I think it's fake. Someone in the group said there was a tiger in No. 2 Middle School that ate people. But you guys, this is in the city, where did the tiger come from?"

"This is too exaggerated. It sounds fake. It might as well be called Pen Fairy."

When Luo Shizhen heard this, he thought that the tiger was more trustworthy.

At least there are tigers in the world, but there are definitely no pen fairies.

Luo Shizhen, who has been exposed to materialism since childhood, firmly believes in it.

He was waiting for Chu Xiao downstairs of the teaching building.

Chu Xiao ranked first in the province when he took the high school entrance exam. Several major middle schools in Hongxi offered him an offer, but Chu Xiao did not choose other middle schools with stronger educational resources, but chose No. 3 Middle School.

Many people think that this is because the scholarship amount is the highest and the additional benefits given to outstanding students are the most.

One of the benefits was that Chu Xiao had a single dormitory. When his grades in his second year of high school were still excellent, his dormitory even evolved to the point where he didn't need to cut off the power at a set time, and he could place various electrical appliances there without being checked by the school.

Chu Xiao did not enjoy the treatment of a single room alone, but after discussing with the teacher, he let Luo Shizhen live with him.

He and Luo Shizhen were from the same town and were friends. Luo Shizhen was always well-behaved and obedient, so No. 3 Middle School naturally agreed to Chu Xiao's request, the precious egg they had finally found.

Maybe if Luo Shizhen and Chu Xiao live together, their grades can improve.

Although this wish was not fulfilled, Luo Shizhen and Chu Xiao still lived together for three years.

Luo Shizhen was in Class 3, Chu Xiao was in Class 1, and he was also the class monitor, so he had to be the last one to leave and lock the door. So every night after evening self-study, Luo Shizhen would wait for Chu Xiao to come downstairs of the teaching building.

Before, he always waited at the door of Class 1, but starting from the first half of the year, Chu Xiao suddenly didn't like him waiting at the door.

So Luo Shizhen changed his mind and waited downstairs of the teaching building.

Zhang Chuan, a day student in the same class, patted Luo Shizhen on the head as he passed by him with a backpack full of homework.

"Shi Tou! Do you want to eat sesame cakes tomorrow? I'll bring them to you!"

Zhang Chuan's family is rich, and he has a generous and cheerful personality. He is very popular in the class. He likes to give people nicknames. Luo Shizhen's name contains the word "Shi", and he is a little dull, so he was nicknamed "Shi Tou". Now many people in the class follow suit and call him that.

Luo Shizhen didn't really care about this nickname. Zhang Chuan also had another nickname called "Slippery Fast" because he had fought with other classes several times before, and when the teacher went to catch him, he always ran very fast.

He expectedly agreed:

"Please help me bring five. Thank you, Zhang Chuan."

He really likes to eat the sesame cakes sold at the sesame cake stall at the school gate, but unfortunately boarding students are not allowed to leave the school. If he wants to eat them, he can only ask day students to bring them for him.

Zhang Chuan's nonchalant look:

"Why are you being so polite? Didn't you always eat four before? Why do you want five tomorrow? Did you do badly on the second mock exam and are you sad and want to eat one more to comfort yourself?"

"No." Luo Shizhen said: "The other one is for Chu Xiao. He doesn't have a big appetite like me, so one pancake is enough for him to have as a snack."

Zhang Chuan rolled his eyes. He had always disliked Chu Xiao.

"Chu Xiao is the teachers' darling. The cafeteria chef is so eager to fill his lunch box. Is it your turn to worry about him?"

Luo Shizhen still insisted: "His leg is not healed yet, he needs to be healed."

"Okay, okay." Zhang Chuan patted Luo Shizhen's head again: "If this is Shitou's request, then I must meet it. Don't worry, tomorrow, five sesame cakes, not one less."

"Oh, right." He asked, "You went in after me today. What did the teacher say to you?"

Luo Shi really couldn't lie. When Zhang Chuan asked him, he told the truth.

Zhang Chuan asked, "So you're going to be developing in your hometown from now on? That's great. My dad told me to come back and help with the family after I graduate, and then we can be together again!"

"When I inherit my father's business, Shitou, you can be my family chef. I'll pay you 20,000 yuan a month!"

Without waiting for Luo Shizhen to answer, he lowered his head and looked at his watch: "Okay, Shitou, I won't talk to you anymore. I'm leaving. You can wait for the big pancake tomorrow!"

Zhang Chuan ran a few steps quickly, and several students passing by greeted him, even some girls.

He looks very cool and handsome. Although his grades are not good, he is cheerful, eloquent and straightforward. If anyone in the class is bullied, he will take the initiative to help out. Not only is he popular among boys, but I heard that some girls even confessed their love to him.

Luo Shizhen looked at Zhang Chuan's back with envy. He has always been a silent and invisible person in the class, slow to react and not good at speaking. Sometimes when classmates come to talk to him, he doesn't know how to fit in.

Unlike Zhang Chuan, he seems to be able to get along well with everyone. Even the invisible man in the class is willing to help carry things for him and remembers that he likes to eat sesame cakes. No wonder people greet Zhang Chuan wherever he goes.

"What are you looking at?"

Chu Xiao's voice suddenly came from behind him. Luo Shizhen turned his head and saw him standing behind him with a new crutch.

The new crutch was bought by the class teacher directly from school in the afternoon, which shows how high Chu Xiao's status is in the teachers' hearts.

Luo Shizhen smiled when he saw Chu Xiao: "I saw Zhang Chuan. He promised to bring me some sesame cakes tomorrow. I even asked him to bring an extra one for you."

Chu Xiao didn't appreciate it: "Why didn't you tell me you wanted to eat sesame cakes? I asked someone in our class to bring them to you. No need to trouble Zhang Chuan."

Luo Shizhen saw that he still seemed unhappy. He didn't know why he was always like this today. He said in confusion:

"Zhang Chuan is in our class, so it will be easier for me to find him."

Chu Xiao naturally extended his hand and let Luo Shizhen support him as he walked:

"We live together, it will be more convenient for you to find me."

Luo Shizhen always felt that this was not the case, but he had the heavy responsibility of helping Chu Xiao, so he didn't bother to refute and helped him move forward seriously.

No. 3 Middle School is willing to invest in school buildings. The teaching building is a bit far from the dormitory. The street lights are all on, but not too bright. As the two of them walked, they could vaguely see other boarding students walking in groups of three or four around and in front of them.

Luo Shizhen looked up inadvertently and suddenly found a figure standing upright about six street lights ahead of them.

It was strange, his eyesight didn't seem to be so good before. It was so far away and at night, he shouldn't be able to see clearly, but for some reason his gaze was drawn to it.

The figure was standing behind the street light, just out of the range of the light. His face could not be seen clearly, and it was looming. When Luo Shizhen looked over, his whole body turned sideways, as if he was looking at him.

For no apparent reason, Luo Shizhen's hair stood on end.

Chu Xiao had been walking in silence, but was suddenly stopped. Feeling Luo Shi's nervousness, he lowered his head slightly to look at him, and softened his tone:

"Shi Zhen, what's wrong?"

"That person..." Luo Shizhen pointed to the front, but before he finished speaking, something unexpected happened.

A figure suddenly jumped out from under the streetlight and ran straight towards the two students who were approaching.

"ah!!!"

Frightened screams echoed throughout the campus, and large shadows appeared in the brighter light under the streetlight than the surrounding lights.

It's blood.

That person was attacking students.

"Help!!!"

The suppressed students cried out for help desperately.

Luo Shizhen recognized that this was Zhang Cai from their class.

He quickly helped Chu Xiao sit on the flower bed.

He picked up another brick used to build the flower bed, weighed it, and felt that it could be used as a weapon, so he held it in his hand.

"Chu Xiao, you sit here first, I'll go help."

Chu Xiao had just sat down when Luo Shizhen ran over quickly.

“Be careful!”

Chu Xiao shouted from behind and subconsciously wanted to catch up, but almost fell because of his leg injury.

He cursed his legs softly, and a beeping sound was heard. He raised his hand and found that the silver watch on his wrist was beeping to remind him. His expression suddenly became ugly.

Chu Xiao looked at Luo Shizhen who was running forward and pressed his watch.

He leaned on his crutches and walked faster towards that side.

——The physical education teacher guessed wrong, Luo Shi really knows how to fight.

He has been very strong since he was a child. Although he always fails to notice that others are bullying him, Chu Xiao can notice it. As soon as Chu Xiao says that someone is bullying him, Luo Shizhen will rush up to fight.

Children a few years older than him could not beat him. Once, a wild boar rushed into the town, and Luo Shizhen even chased it away in order to save Chu Xiao.

Luo Shi is not very smart, but he was taught to be kind by his grandmother. He has experienced such brave deeds many times since he was a child and is very experienced.

When he got there, he hit the person who was pressing on Zhang Cai with a brick, kicked the person down, and then seized the opportunity to hit him with another brick.

When dealing with bad guys, we should beat them until they can't stand up.

Luo Shizhen slammed down a few bricks, stood in front of Zhang Cai, and stared vigilantly at the person who rolled to the side after being hit by him.

Logically speaking, he should have no ability to attack now.

But the next second, this person jumped up out of thin air.

Jumped up? ! !

Luo Shizhen was stunned and saw the other person's face clearly under the street light.

His face was pitch black and covered in rotten flesh, his pupils were completely white, and maggots were slowly wriggling in his ears. Most of his lips were rotten and two long fangs had grown out, with blood and flesh residue around his teeth.

This, this is not a human being, it is clearly a corpse that has been dead for many days.

No, it wasn't a corpse. His arms were stretched out, and there were long black nails on his outstretched fingers.

It's a zombie, the zombie in the TV show.

Luo Shizhen's mind went blank. He subconsciously dodged the zombie's black nails, tilted his body, and hit the other person on the head with another brick.

The brick knocked off half of the zombie's head, but it seemed unaffected. Its terrifying face opened wide at Luo Shizhen.

"ah!!"

Luo Shizhen was so scared that he kicked the zombie away.

He was born with great strength, and when he was a child he often couldn't tell the difference between strength and heaviness. Later he learned to control it, and even when he was doing something righteous he would control the strength. But now he was scared, and he didn't even remember how to control his strength.

--Bang!

The zombie fell into the flower bed.

Before Luo Shizhen could breathe a sigh of relief, it bounced up.

Luo Shizhen kicked it away again.

It bounces again.

Luo Shizhen kicked again.

After several times, the zombie seemed to get angry, let out an indistinct roar, dodged Luo Shizhen's kick, and flew towards him.

Why can he still fly?!

Luo Shizhen dodged sideways with difficulty in an awkward posture, and tried to stretch out his leg to kick, but his leg was held by the zombie.

The zombie opened its mouth and stretched it towards him. In desperation, he pushed the brick into its mouth.

The distance was so close that he could even smell the stench of the zombies.

The man and the zombie were temporarily in a stalemate. The zombie couldn't bite him, and he could only lift one leg and couldn't change his position.

--"roar!"

The zombie roared angrily, and Luo Shizhen's face wrinkled up because of its breath. He was trying to turn his head away to avoid the smell, but suddenly the stench was covered by a fresh smell of winter snow.

Luo Shizhen was surprised to see that the zombie was quickly climbing up the frost with its chest as the base, then its arms, face, and lower limbs.

In a second, it turned into a frozen zombie.

Before Luo Shizhen could react, the next second, it suddenly started burning, burning quickly and rapidly.

His legs were no longer restrained, so he quickly pulled them back and took a few steps back.

In just a few seconds, the zombie was burned into a mummy and fell to the ground with a loud bang.

Only after it fell did the two people it had blocked appear.

One is Chu Xiao who is leaning on a cane.

The other is Qin Yinian, who just transferred to Class 1 in the first half of the year.

Luo Shizhen looked at the dead zombie and suddenly felt a strange surge of...appetite rising in his heart?

Seeing Luo Shizhen staring at the zombie's corpse in a daze, Qin Yinian snapped his fingers at him:

"What are you doing, idiot? Are you scared? Don't you want to thank me for saving you?"

Qin Yinian is also a standard excellent student, firmly ranking among the top three in the grade.

Besides his good looks, he was most famous for having his hair highlighted and wearing earrings even though dyeing hair was not allowed at No. 3 Middle School. He also wore gloves all the time, even in class.

The school didn't let him dye his hair back and even allowed him to wear earrings.

Therefore, the story began to spread among students that Qin Yinian's family was super rich and donated three teaching buildings to the school.

Luo Shizhen rarely gossips. He knows Qin Yinian because Chu Xiao doesn't like this person.

Before, when he would wait for Chu Xiao outside the classroom, Qin Yinian talked to him several times. Chu Xiao was very unhappy and almost attacked Qin Yinian once.

Liu Ying from Class 1 secretly told Luo Shizhen that the relationship between the two was very bad.

Luo Shizhen thought that he was Chu Xiao's good friend. He and Qin Yinian had a bad relationship, so it was not easy for him to play with Qin Yinian.

But he felt embarrassed to ignore Qin Yinian when she started talking to him, so he simply avoided Qin Yinian. After all, they were not in the same class, so if he saw her in the cafeteria or other places, he would just stay away from her.

But now, Qin Yinian said he saved him.

Luo Shizhen was still a little dazed, and replied subconsciously, "Thank you."

Qin Yinian was immediately amused: "Just thank me when I asked you to. Are you so obedient?"

Luo Shizhen slowly came back to his senses: "That fire, no, that ice... this..."

Zombies, ice, fire, these are all beyond Luo Shizhen's worldview.

Qin Yinian looked at Chu Xiao with some surprise, narrowing his fox eyes:

"You didn't tell him?"

Luo Shizhen looked at Chu Xiao, then at Qin Yinian, and suddenly thought of something. He shuddered and turned around.

“Zhang Cai!!”

Luo Shi is really stubborn. He thinks his classmates' lives are more important than exploring the ice and fire of zombies.

He ran to the bloody Zhang Cai. Zhang Cai's neck was covered in flesh and blood, but fortunately he was not dead yet. He kept his eyes open and cried out in pain.

The students who had heard the noise and ran over here before also came over, and they were at a loss as to what to do. Fortunately, there was a teacher nearby. He ran over to take a look and quickly called 120 and 110.

The group of people were making a lot of noise, but Qin Yinian and Chu Xiao did not join in. They just stood not far away.

Qin Yinian was still a little surprised: "You really didn't tell him? I saw that you were so close to him, so I thought you would tell him."

Chu Xiao said coldly: "What to tell him? Tell him that there are monsters appearing all over the world now, and they may appear at any time and take people as food?"

"That's right, he's obviously very timid." Qin Yinian shrugged. "But you can't hide it anymore. The effectiveness of the National Defense Four Square Formation has weakened, and even the school has had problems. There will only be more and more incidents in the future."

"The aura is becoming more and more mixed. When the aura is mixed, these evil things can lurk. The two of us were in the school, but we didn't even notice it coming in. If you hadn't happened to run into it, it might have contaminated several students before it was discovered."

In the past, if you wanted to know where the safest and cleanest places were across the country, it would only be universities.

Students are young and are forced to study every day, so their minds are pure, just like the rising sun. Places like schools, where students gather together, have always been able to suppress all kinds of evil spirits.

But now it seems that school is no longer safe.

Qin Yinian suggested: "Tell the truth to your friend. It won't be long before the whole country is informed. Instead of scaring him then, it's better for him to hear it from you."

"Or if you don't want to say it, I can say it for you."

Chu Xiao didn't respond.

He knew that Qin Yinian actually had no interest in Luo Shi.

Qin Yinian's ability is fire, and his is ice. The two are incompatible like water and fire, and they dislike each other.

It's just that they are all at high levels and have just awakened, so it's too easy for them to lose control. That's why the higher-ups specially arranged them together so that they can suppress each other normally. If one person loses control, the other can immediately take control.

At that time, either Qin Yinian or Chu Xiao could transfer schools, but Chu Xiao refused to transfer, so in the end, Qin Yinian transferred to Hongxi.

Therefore, Qin Yinian became more and more displeased with Chu Xiao.

He guessed that Chu Xiao refused to transfer schools because of Luo Shizhen, and he deliberately teased Luo Shizhen in front of Chu Xiao several times, just to anger him and make him unhappy.

Chu Xiao ignored him, and Qin Yinian sighed, feeling a little bored.

There was a sudden commotion in the crowd ahead. Zhang Cai, who had been unconscious, began twitching all over, even twisting his body in a strange posture.

The students who had gathered around screamed in fear. Some thought of zombies and dared not move forward. The teacher, who had seen epileptic seizures before, rushed over and held Zhang Cai's hands.

"Come and help her, don't let her bite her tongue!"

Qin Yinian listened to the noise but didn't look, but the smile on his face had faded:

"She's showing signs of contamination."

Chu Xiao lowered his eyes: "What a pity, she struggled for so long."

This zombie is a flying zombie, and its level is not low. Humans attacked by a flying zombie will quickly be contaminated and become the lowest level walking zombie.

But after being attacked, Zhang Cai remained in human form until just now, and they thought she had survived.

Qin Yinian gathered a small flame in his palm: "I'll give her a ride."

Chu Xiao was injured and had difficulty walking, so he was the only one who could clean up.

Humans who are contaminated by the weird will either go crazy in pain or turn into various monsters. At this time, they can no longer be called themselves and will attack people around them.

Therefore, the first lesson for the awakened is that no matter whether they are awakened or ordinary people, once they are confirmed to be contaminated, they must be killed immediately.

In the past, we had to keep secrets, but now even high schools are weird, and there will be even more in other places. It doesn’t matter whether it is kept secret or not.

Qin Yinian walked forward slowly and was not in a hurry to take action.

Zhang Cai has not been completely contaminated yet.

Before being assimilated into a monster, Zhang Cai was still Zhang Cai, an ordinary student at No. 3 Middle School and a human being.

Perhaps she has an exceptionally strong will, or perhaps she has the talent of an awakener that allows her to resist the contamination of flying zombies.

The probability of this happening is naturally very small. Humans who have already shown signs of pollution will be assimilated into monsters 100%.

But Qin Yinian will not take action until Zhang Cai is still a human being.

He stood silently in the crowd, like a sword waiting to be unsheathed, hiding the flame that could take his classmates' lives at any time in his palm, ready at all times.

Qin Yinian saw Luo Shizhen.

The other students were frightened by Zhang Cai's appearance, mainly because she was not only twitching, but also had several scary black veins bulging out from the place where she was bitten on her neck. These black veins were wriggling on Zhang Cai's body like a living thing.

Under the dim street lights, the scene looked like a horror movie.

They didn't dare to go forward and ran away screaming. Even the teacher was so scared that his face turned pale. He just gritted his teeth and held Zhang Cai down.

But Luo Shizhen stepped forward to help. He pressed Zhang Cai's legs with his legs and reached out to control her twitching jaw to prevent her from biting her tongue.

Qin Yinian thought that this Luo Shizhen was really the complete opposite of Chu Xiao.

Chu Xiao is cold and always weighs the pros and cons before doing anything, and has a plan.

Luo Shizhen is kind and honest. He has no idea how to seek benefits and avoid harm. He is really stupid.

How did these two become friends?

Luo Shizhen actually didn’t know why he wasn’t afraid. He should be afraid, but he just wasn’t.

It seemed like there was a voice in his heart telling him: There's nothing to be afraid of.

Besides, he was very hungry.

In such a tense atmosphere, Luo Shizhen felt a little ashamed.

Even though his classmates were like this, he was only thinking about eating.

But I’m really hungry.

I’m so hungry. This smells so good. Do cooked zombies smell so good?

Luo Shizhen, who was holding Zhang Cai down carefully, was so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore. For some unknown reason, the hand that was on Zhang Cai's chin fell on her wound.

Several black threads that were almost invisible to the naked eye followed the black tendons, moved forward, flowed out of the wound, and penetrated into Luo Shizhen's palm.

——I’m not so hungry anymore, just like I just ate a small vegetable.

Luo Shizhen had just come back to his senses from the trance of having filled his stomach a little when his hand was suddenly held by Qin Yinian, who opened it to look at his palm.

He stared at Qin Yinian blankly.

Qin Yinian is also famous for one thing in No. 3 Middle School. He is a mysophobe, which is very much like the setting of the male protagonist in a TV series.

Not only does he wear gloves wherever he goes, he also never has physical contact with people.

But now, Qin Yinian grabbed Luo Shizhen's hand tightly, and he didn't even wear gloves.

Luo Shizhen didn't care about being surprised. He shook off Qin Yinian's hand:

"What? I'm helping!"

Having said that, he quickly used his free hand to hold down Zhang Cai.

But Zhang Cai suddenly stopped twitching, and the huge black veins bulging on her face and neck disappeared. Her twisted body gradually calmed down, and her pupils, which had gradually turned white, returned to dark brown.

“It hurts…it hurts…”

She regained consciousness and weakly cried out in pain. She opened her eyes dazedly, saw the teacher, and cried out again: "Teacher, it hurts."

"Okay, okay, we've called 120. They'll be fine soon. Someone's already called the infirmary. Zhang Cai, just bear with it for a while and don't fall asleep yet."

The teacher was shaking all over. She had also seen zombie movies, and she really thought that Zhang Cai was going to change.

She herself didn't know where she got the courage to touch Zhang Cai in this situation.

Fortunately, Zhang Cai was still able to cry out in pain, so he shouldn’t be a zombie.

The teacher tried his best to comfort Zhang Cai. Seeing that Zhang Cai had stopped twitching, Luo Shizhen also let go of his hand, stood up, and watched nervously from the side.

If Zhang Cai had another attack, he could immediately pounce on her and stop her.

He was so focused on Zhang Cai that he didn't notice at all that Qin Yinian was staring at him with a very strange look on his face.

Qin Yinian stared at Luo Shizhen. Seeing that he was full of energy and had a rosy face, as if he could kick ten or eight more flying zombies, he couldn't help but look him up and down again.

It is impossible for a person to absorb stiff energy and still appear so natural.

Unless, this person is an awakener, and has the rarest and most precious ability.

Qin Yinian kept staring at Luo Shizhen, as if he wanted to stare through him, muttering to himself:

"Purification..."