Du Xu continued, "Later, Hu Fei suddenly appeared here with you, who was sick. It really startled me. I really didn't expect you to suddenly appear here, especially in such a state. At the time, I thought all of you were dead and that you were the only one left."
I swallowed hard and said, "Thank you so much for this. Don't worry, we're fine. We're living quite well now. We're in Mingzhu City, which isn't far from here. It won't take long to get there. If you'd like, I can take you there when I go back."
Du Xu smiled and said, "No problem."
Hu Fei said, "I originally planned to come to Jiajiang to see you, so this time I'm going back with you."
I looked at Hu Fei, nodded, and didn't say much.
Du Xu asked, "But since you know this guy, what do you plan to do with him?"
I shook my head and said, "My head still hurts a lot. Since he's here, it means there's nothing wrong in Mingzhu City, so I don't need to rush back. Let me rest for a while, and I'll deal with him when my head stops hurting."
Du Xu nodded and said, "No problem, I won't worry about this. Here's the key. Just come over when you need to do what you want."
"Okay." I took the keys and put them in my pocket.
We closed the door again and ignored Zhang Jianzhou's calls from inside the dorm. We decided to let him stay locked up for a day first. I needed to get some rest. He had locked me in the pharmacy for several hours before, and it took me a lot of effort to get out. Now that we'd caught him, we couldn't let him have it easy. Let him experience what it's like to be locked up.
I went back to my old dorm room and lay down on the bed to rest.
I really didn't expect Zhang Jianzhou to run into Du Xu on the way, and what a coincidence that he was caught here. This guy is really unlucky.
If he hadn't been caught by Du Xu, the research institute would definitely be gone by now, and Sister Jing and the others would probably be missing and their fate unknown.
Since this guy didn't make it back to the central town, I don't need to worry about anything. I'll rest for a bit first; I used my brain too much just now, and my head really hurts.
There are no painkillers available right now, so I can only endure it. I don't know when the pain will go away.
It's six o'clock in the evening, and it's still light outside. I'm lying in bed, and I've fallen asleep without realizing it.
...
When I woke up again, I found that my head no longer hurt, and I felt an indescribable sense of comfort and relief.
I picked up my watch and glanced at it, realizing it was already around 1 a.m.
I started sleeping at 6 p.m. and have slept for about seven hours now, so it's normal for me to wake up now.
I got dressed in the dark in my dorm room and went outside. I found a flashlight on the railing in the corridor, grabbed it, and left the dorm building to wander around the school.
It's been several months since I last strolled around this school, hasn't it?
So many things happened here back then; it feels like a lifetime ago.
As I arrived at the school gate, I thought back to when we first arrived here. We tried every possible way to clear the zombies from the school. At the time, we thought we could stay in this school for a very long time, but we never expected that we would all leave later. The people in the school now are not the same people we used to be.
I came to the playground and thought about the time when I was captured by that drug trafficking gang. They forced me to fight Hu Fei on the command platform. Thinking about it now, it's really a bit scary.
Fortunately, it's all in the past now, and those people are long gone.
There are also dormitory buildings, where quite a few things have happened.
I felt my pocket and found the key that Du Xu had given me earlier.
Zhang Jianzhou is still locked up in his room on the fifth floor of the last dormitory building. Since there's nothing else to do, let's go check on him and ask him why he did this.
I arrived at the entrance of the last dormitory building. There are patrols all over the school, so when the patrolmen saw me, they would inevitably stop me and ask me questions. Fortunately, Du Xu had notified everyone in the school during the day so that they would not stop me.
That's how I can move around safely here.
Entering the last dormitory building, I slowly made my way to the fifth floor, and arrived at the door of the dormitory furthest to the side. I took out my key, opened the door, and shone my flashlight into the room.
Zhang Jianzhou lay on the bed, one hand handcuffed to the ladder above the bed, unable to leave.
He's still snoring and sleeping soundly.
I don't know if he was too tired or just carefree, but he was able to sleep so soundly in a strange place.
I went to the bedside and tapped the ladder between the upper and lower bunks with my flashlight. Immediately, a crisp thumping sound came from it.
Hearing this sound in bed, Zhang Jianzhou turned over impatiently.
Seeing his commotion, I decisively knocked on the ladder again, making an even louder noise.
Zhang Jianzhou grew increasingly impatient in bed, suddenly opening his blurry eyes and cursing, "Who is it! Are you crazy! Can't you see I'm here..."
He was cursing for a moment, then opened his eyes and saw it was me in the beam of the flashlight, and he immediately fell silent.
His previously hazy eyes widened, and his confused mind instantly cleared up.
"You, how did you get here?" Zhang Jianzhou asked knowingly.
I shone a flashlight into his eyes and said, "Get up."
He yawned deeply, sat up in bed, and stared at me with a slightly fearful look in his eyes.
I stared at him back and said, "Don't you find it strange that I'm here?"
Zhang Jianzhou nodded.
I said, "Do you know where this place is?"
Zhang Jianzhou shook his head.
"I can tell you this: this place is practically my territory, do you understand?"
Zhang Jianzhou's eyes showed disbelief.
I smiled and said, "Tell me, why did you do that?"
Zhang Jianzhou knew what I was asking about and said, "Does this even need to be said? What else could it be? Everyone's just trying to survive. There's no need to push us so hard, don't you think?"
I asked, "So you've already got the medicine?"
Zhang Jianzhou shook his head and said, "I didn't get the medicine. To be honest, I only had one attack after being bitten by a zombie, and I haven't had one since. Even without the medicine, I'm fine now. So those medicines are useless to me."
I stared at him, unsure whether he was telling the truth or lying.
"So you still don't want to take me to that research institute?"
Zhang Jianzhou said, "When they captured me last time, they experimented on me. Now that I don't need to take the drugs anymore, why would I go looking for them? Would I be asking for death?"
(End of this chapter)
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