Chapter 2: Escape from No.1 Middle School

Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School implements a closed military management system. The two towering iron gates at the school entrance are airtight and have iron spikes hanging on them. Anyone who wants to sneak out will risk their life.

In the previous life, it was these two hopeless iron doors that locked all the teachers and students in the school, turning the entire Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School into a huge petri dish, nurturing a powerful army of zombies.

If you want to go out, you can only go through the formal procedures and ask for leave.

In the third year of high school, it was harder to ask for leave than to climb to heaven. Even if someone died in the family, as long as it was not a direct relative, no leave would be granted.

Luo Jiu thought that Zhong Jialing was able to go out for vaccination because of her father's relationship with the principal, and was allowed to go out. But what reason could the three of them use to go out at the same time?

The head teacher, Hu Lai, touched her eight-month-old belly and looked at the three students standing in front of her with a worried look on her face.

"The college entrance exam is just over a month away. Why do you have to take a leave? I wish I could stay up 24 hours to study for you. I only took two hours off for my prenatal checkup. Why do you want to take ten days off?"

They would definitely be disdainful if others said this, but when the zombie tide broke out in the previous life, Hu Lai was the teacher who risked his life to protect everyone's escape.

Disaster is the best test of human nature.

In the end times, they saw with their own eyes the principal who usually talked about morality and justice, pushing the students around him into the zombies to be eaten, using other people's lives to pave his own way out. They also saw the old men and women in the cafeteria wielding spoons to fight the zombies, shouting: Children, run!

Luo Jiu once led a dozen classmates to climb the fire escape outside the teaching building. In order to prevent the zombies from climbing up, Hu Lai walked at the end and moved the bottom ladder away.

When Luo Jiu turned around, he saw her clumsy figure staggering and dragging the iron ladder, using all her strength to move it away.

Not far away, two or three zombies were staggering towards this side.

"Class sergeant, come up quickly! They are coming!" Luo Jiu lowered his voice and called out anxiously.

Hu Lai looked at his belly and shook his head sadly, "Hide quickly and leave me alone. I'm too heavy to run away."

"Let's work together to pull you up!"

Luo Jiu stretched out his hand, and Feng Qi immediately hooked the ladder, hanging upside down and stretching his hand towards Hu Lai. The two students who climbed up first also came back, and everyone called out together: "Teacher, come up!"

Feng Qi made another move and finally caught Hu Lai's wrist. He pulled her up with all his strength until her face turned red. Luo Jiu reached Hu Lai's hand, but suddenly found that her face turned pale in an instant.

Her lips trembled. "They...caught me..."

The first zombie to arrive grabbed Hu Lai's ankle, and with great force he instantly pulled her down several dozen centimeters.

"Ah!" Feng Qi roared, gritting his teeth. He used so much force that veins on his neck bulged, and he forcibly lifted her up again.

This is a battle for human life, but they have no chance of winning.

Hu Lai couldn't bear to look at the flower-like faces in front of him.

"Let go! We can't let them grab me and climb up! You have to survive!"

"Old class!"

Hu Lai broke away from her hand and fell down instantly. In mid-air, she shouted at the top of her lungs: "Go, don't look back!"

Luo Jiu's vision went blurry. He looked back and saw Hu Lai and her unborn child engulfed in the swarm of zombies.

Perhaps the three of them standing in front of Hu Lai couldn't help but recall this scene, and their eyes became red at the same time.

Hu Lai looked at their red eyes and quickly changed his tone, "What's wrong? I didn't say anything, why are you all crying? Are you having difficulties in life or are you being bullied in class? Tell me, I'll solve it."

Luo Jiu rubbed his sore nose and said, "No, we just had a dream..."

The end of the world, zombies, and escaping together, these words sound like a fairy tale.

After Luo Jiu finished speaking, he looked at Hu Lai's puzzled expression and said hurriedly, "Please write a note for us. Write that the reason for going out is that we are under great psychological pressure and have suicidal tendencies. We must leave school for treatment. Ten days is not long. We will be back after ten days if everything is fine."

Hu Lai sighed, "For this reason, the parents must come to pick up the child, but your family..."

Luo Jiu was an abandoned baby. The old couple who raised her passed away a few years ago. Feng Qi's parents divorced and remarried, so no one cared about her. Cheng Yaoyao did have a grandmother, but she got Alzheimer's last year. She was so demented that she didn't even answer the phone. How could we contact her?

Hu Lai held the note in his hand, a little worried, "What are you going to do when you go out?"

"Buy things, stock up on supplies, and prepare for the nightmare to come."

"It was just a dream..."

"That's not a dream," Luo Jiu interrupted her, "That will really happen."

Her firm tone made Hu Lai swallow what he wanted to say. "Even if what you said about rebirth is true. But maybe it won't happen this time? If it doesn't happen, you will have wasted so much time. How are you going to take the exam? What about your future?"

"Teacher, your future is worthless compared to your life. I advise you to think about it. It would be best if you could find a way to take some time off, find a safe place, stock up on as much food and water as possible, and give birth to the baby safely."

"Yes," Feng Qi couldn't help but speak, "The more people there are, the more dangerous it is. You should run too. Let us go, and then you can go too."

Cheng Yaoyao said: "Just think of it as a vacation for yourself, it's only ten days, after ten days you will know if we are talking nonsense or not."

Hu Lai seemed to be persuaded by them, but he also felt that these statements were too crazy.

She stood up with difficulty, put the note book in a drawer and locked it in front of them, "This is a matter related to your personal future. I can't bear such a big responsibility, and the school will not allow me to approve such a leave. I have a meeting to attend, so you should think about it carefully."

Feng Qi was so anxious that he knocked his head, "Teacher, teacher, please think about it again..."

Hu Lai strode forward, and a bunch of keys fell from her, making a crisp sound, but Hu Lai seemed not to hear it.

"Master, you dropped something..."

"Shh!" Luo Jiu hurriedly covered Feng Qi's mouth, "Yaoyao, go pick it up quickly."

Feng Qi suddenly realized that Hu Lai had dropped the key bunch on purpose!

Luo Jiu opened the drawer and found that the top leave note had been signed. She added the reason of leave due to illness and the names of three people, then took out the seal from the drawer, and the job was done.

"Wait a minute!" Cheng Yaoyao tried to open the bottom drawer, where the cell phones of all the classmates were kept.

Luo Jiu smiled, "Fortunately you are careful, I almost forgot!"

The three of them took back their phones and headed straight for the school gate. As soon as they left the teaching building, they couldn't help but run.

Feng Qi asked as he ran: "Do you want to go back to the dormitory to pack your things?"

Luo Jiu: "The dormitory is full of bottles and cans. It's not worth wasting time on these junk. Time is money for us now. We must find Jia Ling immediately and stock up on supplies."

Cheng Yaoyao: "I just tried to contact her, but my phone was out of battery."

Luo Jiu: "Me too, I'll go out and borrow a cell phone to call her."

The three of them rushed to the guard room, showed their leave requests, looked at the delivery man with complicated eyes, and began to feel nauseous again.

As soon as the big black iron door opened a crack, the three of them rushed out like arrows.

A black luxury SUV came speeding towards them, catching both parties off guard. The brakes sounded shrilly and it was about to hit their legs. Feng Qi, who was running in the front, quickly jumped up and hit the hood with a bang.