Chapter 31 Thank you, I feel so bad...
After receiving the baby carriers, Song Rushuang and the other three felt much more at ease.
With nearly 2,400 students in the whole school, and only 100 baby carriers available, it's an average of 24 students to get one carrier. These four girls are already very fortunate to have one each.
Zhang Han jumped up and down excitedly, almost causing Sun Wei to fall.
Shen Qingqing, seeing Song Rushuang remain silent, knew that she was still thinking about Yu Cheng.
Shen Qingqing thought for a moment and whispered, "He's blaming himself."
Yu Cheng has probably been blaming himself ever since the opening exam.
This even led to a stress response and an excessive sense of sacrifice, preferring to "be a good person" in front of them rather than carry them.
Song Rushuang nodded, then shook her head: "We can't help him."
Qin Yufei could help him, but it depended on whether he was willing. Outsiders couldn't force him, after all, Qin Yufei himself was someone who had been traumatized by that incident.
Song Rushuang forced herself to put this incident out of her mind.
Just then, the four of them passed by the window in the corridor.
The sun had already dipped low in the sky, its golden rays outlining the distant mountain peaks. As dusk deepened, Song Rushuang suddenly realized a problem she had overlooked.
"It's getting dark..." Shen Qingqing murmured, then suddenly turned to Zhang Han and asked, "What time is it now?"
Zhang Han said, "Six-thirty."
The assessment was only halfway through, with an hour and a half left before it ended, but the sun was about to set below the horizon.
This means they will have to spend the second half of the assessment in the dark!
Having just ended the long days of summer, they hadn't even recovered from the shock when it started getting dark earlier and earlier each day.
The four of them froze for a moment.
They heard the roars of the zombies downstairs, but what occupied their minds more were Zhao Yunxiao's words in class:
"Primitive zombies have deteriorated eyesight, but their sense of smell and hearing are more acute than humans, giving them an advantage when night falls. Remember, unless absolutely necessary, do not engage them in the dark..."
This is the principal's real reason for scheduling the assessment at five o'clock.
How could they have overlooked this before?
The four exchanged glances, simultaneously understanding each other's thoughts: find a place to hide and survive the second half of the assessment!
Song Rushuang glanced at the suspenders in her hand and made a quick decision: "Let's go, to the rooftop!"
...
Sooner or later, the students realized the impact of darkness on the assessment.
Those still outdoors also began to look for places to hide.
The sense of urgency created by time caused everyone to lose their previous composure, and the mistakes caused by anxiety increased. In a short period of time, the mortality rate began to soar.
Hao Zhenye looked at the rising death toll without being surprised, but still frowned: "Principal, I would like to apply for an adjustment to the physical education class schedule. At least two classes per month should be held in the evening. They need to adapt to nighttime operations as soon as possible."
The teachers were unaware that Fu Qing's real purpose in arranging the monthly exams was to complete a system task; they treated it purely as a periodic assessment.
Hao Zhenye had initially thought that Fu Qing's exam arrangements were a bit rushed, but now those doubts had completely disappeared.
Real-world practice is indeed a good way to discover oversights in daily teaching. He had not realized before that his students were so unaccustomed to and inexperienced in nighttime combat.
This is a serious problem.
Since that conversation with Fu Qing, Hao Zhenye's communication with her has become smoother and smoother. Although there are still occasional awkward moments due to their personalities, the tone of his requests and discussions is much more peaceful than before.
Fu Qing nodded: "That's what I think too."
The sky had completely darkened, and the most difficult part of this monthly exam was only just beginning.
*
The night sky was filled with twinkling stars, making it a rare night with exceptionally high visibility, but for some reason, Cheng Yihui still felt it was much darker than usual.
He waited patiently in the tree for a long time, blinking hard, even wondering if something was wrong with him.
It took me a while to realize—
Damn it! The principal didn't turn on the streetlights tonight!
The grove where he was hiding was a place with few streetlights. There were only a few lights along a winding path through the grove. Now that the streetlights were off and the dense foliage overhead blocked out the starlight, it was pitch black.
Cheng Yihui regretted it.
He originally thought that the grove had the most trees, making it convenient to climb up and hide, and deal with the zombies, so he ran into the grove at the very beginning of the assessment.
But he never expected that the woods would be so terrifying after dark.
Not only was the terrain complicated, but the whole forest rustled whenever there was a breeze. The sound of every branch breaking and every leaf rustling made him suspicious.
It's as if behind each of those trees, there's a pair of unseen eyes.
Cheng Yihui grew increasingly panicked. His hands, gripping the tree trunk, began to sweat. He rubbed them vigorously on his pants and felt something scrape his belt against his wrist.
It's a watch issued by the school.
……etc?
Cheng Yihui suddenly woke up, as if grasping at a straw, raised his wrist and turned on the screen.
The bracelet has many built-in functions that can be used without an internet connection. In addition to the most basic time display, temperature display, heart rate monitoring, and a map that can be used offline after downloading, he also remembers that there is a compass and flashlight for wilderness survival!
When Cheng Yihui flipped to the flashlight function icon, he almost shouted out in excitement.
He decisively turned it on, and a straight beam of light emanated from the face of the student watch, illuminating a large area in front of him.
Because the bracelet uses solar power for charging, it can even adjust its brightness to maintain battery life for nighttime use, narrowing or widening the aperture. The former is suitable for illuminating distant objects, while the latter helps users see a larger area in front of them.
Cheng Yihui excitedly debugged it for a while, his thoughts wandering. He realized that in the future, they could even use flashlights to communicate with each other.
Turning it on and off allows you to send Morse code... Isn't that how it's always portrayed in TV dramas?
The more Cheng Yihui thought about it, the more he realized how incredibly clever he was.
If I suggest to the principal that we add a cryptography class, will she give me extra credits?
Cheng Yihui was lost in his own thoughts and only noticed the commotion around him a beat late.
A cough came from not far away.
Are there people hiding in the nearby trees?
Cheng Yihui shone his flashlight over and searched. Sure enough, he found a person huddled among the tree trunks high up. When the light illuminated the person's face, the person's expression changed drastically, and they made a gesture of waving their right hand.
Then he pointed at him again, turning his finger downwards.
Cheng Yihui took a moment to understand and finally realized that the two sets of gestures meant:
Don't shine your flashlight on me, move it away!
Look down there.
There were rustling scratching sounds, all coming together.
Cheng Yihui belatedly moved the flashlight to the tree where he was standing.
As the beam of light moved, it suddenly illuminated a pale, ghostly face.
Cheng Yihui was so frightened that he almost fell off the tree.
One, two, three... a total of five zombies surrounded his tree!
It turned out that his feeling that someone was hiding behind the tree was not his imagination.
Cheng Yihui finally understood why, even though there were other people around him hiding in the trees just like him, no one had turned on the flashlight on their watches.
In the dark, zombies are attracted to nearby light sources.
Turning on a flashlight in a dense, dark forest is practically inviting all the zombies to your side.
Why didn't he remember this point sooner?
Cheng Yihui wanted to cry but had no tears.
He turned off his flashlight, clung tightly to the tree trunk, and resolved to spend the next hour or so in the tree.
as well as--
When I get back, I must cram for the zombie characteristics lesson!
Cheng Yihui had never felt so frustrated about his usual slacking off.
*
Rapid breathing filled the darkness, the beam of a flashlight swayed violently as the runner ran, tree branches snapped underfoot, and the runner fell heavily to the ground.
"Get up quickly." Liang Yi turned around anxiously to pull his roommate up.
"How come there's a protruding tree root here? We shouldn't have come to the woods in the first place; the terrain is too complicated." My roommate stood up despite the pain, then suddenly hissed, "Damn, I think I twisted my ankle."
Several zombies let out mournful whimpers as they searched for food to escape.
Liang Yi silently dimmed the flashlight beam, leaving only the faintest ray, and quietly helped his roommate up.
In the silence, the two of them simultaneously heard the clanging sound of metal colliding.
The sound came from the pendant around their roommate's neck.
The boy who sprained his ankle was on the verge of tears: "I shouldn't have let him participate in the assessment with that flashy chain! He got caught in a tree halfway through the run and almost strangled himself. The metal chain got tangled in the branches, and because he couldn't untangle it, it was gnawed on by the zombies that came running... What kind of unlucky way to die is this?"
"He's already in trouble, and now we're dragged into this too. We've got another zombie chasing us!"
The two of them wished they could end the assessment right now and beat up their dear roommate.
"Enough with the talk, let's think about what to do." Liang Yi frowned in thought.
They had been running around like headless flies for so long that they could hardly tell where they were. He gritted his teeth, turned on his flashlight, and in the sudden bright light, he saw the fleeting shadow of a familiar building.
"What are you doing!" my roommate exclaimed in surprise, his voice barely audible.
The roars of zombies echoed a few meters away.
Before he finished speaking, Liang Yi had already swiftly unbuckled the watch strap, taken off the watch, and tossed it far away in a certain direction.
The watch got stuck on a tree branch, and the swaying light distracted the zombies. Liang Yi helped his roommate up and said, "Quick, I know where we are."
"You can do that?" his roommate exclaimed in shock. "But what about your watch?"
"I'll come back to get the weapon; I'm counting on it to keep track of my points," Liang Yi said.
He clearly already had a plan in mind.
His roommate's sprained ankle wasn't too bad, and he limped along with him. The blurry outlines of the buildings in the distance gradually became clearer as they got closer, and he finally recognized them: "This is... the tool shed next to the experimental field?"
He was overjoyed.
The two of them decisively went inside, closed the door, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did his roommate remember to ask Liang Yi, "You clearly didn't choose the farming course, so why do you recognize this place?"
“You have to be familiar with your own school, right?” Liang Yi said, adjusting his glasses. “That’s exactly why it came in handy.”
My roommate was incredibly impressed: "Wow, when our dorm went out shopping before, you would always look for the emergency exit first and then look at the map every time we arrived at a place. I used to laugh at you for being so fussy, but I was wrong..."
Looking at it now, it was clearly a case of planning ahead.
"And there are weapons in here."
He gestured to his roommate to turn on the flashlight, dimmed the brightness, and then began rummaging through the storage shelves.
Before long, he returned with an axe, a hoe, a sickle, and a piece of hemp rope.
“Based on our experience last time, the campus facilities damaged during the assessment were restored after the exam, so we should be able to damage these facilities as well,” Liang Yi said thoughtfully.
He sat down on the ground, chopped off the top of the hoe with an axe, leaving a long wooden handle, and then tied the sickle tightly to that piece of wood with hemp rope.
"Just make do with this. You can use the other end as a crutch." Liang Yi handed the newly made tool to his roommate, picked up the axe, and swung it a couple of times. "Are you rested enough? Come on, let's get my watch."
My roommate took a couple of deep breaths, then pushed himself up from the ground: "Let's go!"
...
In the darkness, some people are brought into trouble by the light of a flashlight, while others cleverly use it to turn danger into safety.
The teachers watched, sometimes nodding, sometimes shaking their heads and sighing.
When encountering those who had no idea that the watch had a flashlight function, one might wish to crawl into the projector and give them a good whack on the head to wake them up.
They also discovered the principal's cleverness in scheduling the second half of the assessment after dark.
With the introduction of the uncertainty of darkness, students reacted in various ways. Some simply gave up trying to earn more points and opted for a safer approach to the exam. Those with safety harnesses hid on high walls, while others hid in trees or found an empty classroom, locked the door, and waited quietly for the exam to end.
Some people, like Cheng Yihui, overlooked the attraction of light to zombies in the dark, or lost their judgment due to the darkness, and were unfortunately eliminated in the second half of the race.
The students' strengths, weaknesses, and personality traits were laid bare during the sudden arrival of night.
Only a few people can adapt to the environment as quickly as Liang Yi, and even turn it around to their advantage, gaining an edge for themselves when others give up.
...
On the roof of Teaching Building No. 2, the four members of Class 1111 sat cross-legged on the ground, staring at each other.
They had already blocked the door leading to the rooftop behind them with something, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, they should be able to survive here until the end of the exam.
The journey upstairs was fraught with danger, as they discovered that turning on the incandescent lights would also attract the zombies inside, so they had to turn off the lights and rely on flashlights to move forward.
However, there were countless places inside the building where people could hide. As they passed a classroom, the half-closed classroom door suddenly creaked open.
In the darkness, the sound sent chills down one's spine.
Fortunately, after a month of training, their hearts had become much stronger. Song Rushuang and Shen Qingqing once again worked together to deal with the zombies that appeared. On the way forward, the group paid special attention to using flashlights to illuminate the shadowy areas, making sure there were no strange things hiding there before daring to continue.
Having reached the top floor without incident, they rested for a while and began to take stock of their day's achievements.
"How many points did you all get? Tell us one by one."
After Song Rushuang finished speaking, she first reported her own score: "I currently have 2 points."
Shen Qingqing: "3 points."
The two basically cooperate to kill zombies; whoever is responsible for the final blow gets the points.
Sometimes there were too many zombies in front of me to kill them all. In order to escape, I had to give up finishing them off. I killed a total of five zombies, which was quite an achievement.
Zhang Han and Sun Wei were extremely ashamed: "We both got 0 points..."
"We are useless little trash who contribute nothing..."
Song Rushuang comforted Sun Wei: "It's okay, didn't you contribute your crutches?"
Shen Qingqing thought for a moment and comforted Zhang Han, "It's okay, didn't you take over Weiwei's crutch?"
Zhang Han and Sun Wei: "..."
It seems like they're not as useful as those two crutches.
No, it's not a feeling, it's the truth.
The cane-wielders had more kills than them, and they became withdrawn.
Song Rushuang glanced at her watch: "There are 42 minutes left. Are we really going to waste the rest of the time?"
Shen Qingqing hesitated and said, "Could you find a way to let me kill one more? Our kill count should be the same. It's not fair that I have one more kill than you now."
Song Rushuang didn't care much about that, but Zhang Han and Sun Wei hadn't gotten any points yet, and since they all came out together, she didn't want her roommates to go home empty-handed.
The four of them fell silent at the same time and began to think.
While thinking, Song Rushuang caught a glimpse of the safety harness that Sun Wei had been holding in her hand, which she hadn't had a chance to use yet. Her eyelids twitched, and she suddenly let out a soft "uh".
"Gentlemen," she said after a moment of contemplation, her expression grave, "I have a plan."
Three heads came closer at the same time.
After muttering to herself for a while, Sun Wei's expression became quite indescribable.
Song Rushuang: "Will you do it or not?"
The remaining two people looked at Sun Wei.
Sun Wei gritted her teeth and said, "Let's do it."
...
A minute later, Sun Wei watched her three roommates frantically fasten the safety harness around her neck, and then looked at the teaching building, which appeared taller than usual due to the dim light, and asked sincerely.
"I just want to know, why me?"
According to Song Rushuang's plan, one of the four people would be strapped downstairs, while the other three would be responsible for receiving and assisting from above.
The three roommates who were checking the straps all paused at the same time.
“Well, aren’t you lame with one leg and unable to use it?” Zhang Han said sincerely first, “You can’t use your leg even when you’re hanging in the air.”
"Moreover, if we're a step too slow and a zombie really pounces, you still have one leg to kick it away," Shen Qingqing said earnestly.
"Don't worry, once you stay in Fangzhou for a while longer and your muscle mass increases, we won't be able to lift you anymore," Song Rushuang comforted her.
As if to prove their low body fat percentage, the trio rolled up their sleeves and showed her their nascent muscles.
Among them, Shen Qingqing and Song Rushuang were beaten into submission, while Zhang Han was dug into submission.
Sun Wei: "..."
Sun Wei: "Although I don't know if this counts as comforting you, thank you all. I feel much better now."
With a pained expression, she hopped to the edge of the rooftop.
The latch was already engaged. Song Rushuang found an abandoned chair on the rooftop, laid it down, and extended the back of the chair. The safety rope was secured to the back of the chair so that when the rope was lowered, it would not be pressed against the outer wall of the teaching building, but would be kept at a distance.
Song Rushuang sat on the chair, using her weight to stabilize it and prevent it from slipping. The three of them pulled on the safety rope together, and instead of using the usual rappelling method, they lowered Sun Wei down entirely by relying on their arm strength.
They controlled their speed while keeping a close eye on her, watching as her figure slowly disappeared into the night.
As she descended vertically, Sun Wei passed by many windows.
Occasionally, a classroom light would be on, and her silhouette would be briefly illuminated by the light.
Rooms with lights on are usually occupied by people hiding, and when they saw Sun Wei "passing by," their expressions were full of surprise. When they noticed the cast on her foot, their expressions changed to a complex mix of shock, admiration, and doubt.
Sun Wei clearly sensed the subtext: "Everyone else is already lying down, why are you, an injured person, so curled up?"
Finally, as she descended to the fourth floor, she heard a faint noise coming from the window.
Sun Wei quickly raised her arm; in the darkness, only this movement was large enough to be quickly spotted by the three people on the top floor.
The landing stopped abruptly.
Suspended in mid-air, Sun Wei felt her heart beating faster and faster. She realized that this might be the first time she had truly faced zombies alone.
Trying to calm herself down, she reached out and gently knocked twice on the closed glass window.
The room was pitch black, with moonlight reflecting off the glass. By the moonlight, Sun Wei could see her own tense expression.
With no response for a long time and unable to see the view inside the window, she had no choice but to adjust her position in mid-air and finally press her hands firmly against the cold glass.
Sun Wei leaned closer, and the shape of the table and chairs next to the window gradually appeared in her pupils. Her breath gently brushed against the window, but suddenly a bloodless, pale face jumped out from inside the window!
Bang!!
It slammed heavily against the glass window, causing the entire window to shake violently.
The zombie seemed oblivious, its eyes wide open, revealing large areas of white with blood vessels like a spider web.
It stared intently at Sun Wei through the glass.
Sun Wei had never had such a terrifying experience in the first eighteen years of her life, and she almost screamed.
She hadn't noticed the zombie at all, no matter where it had been hiding, until it quietly approached and gave her a huge "surprise".
The bracelet issued an alarm for a spike in heart rate, but she had already switched it to Do Not Disturb mode. Now, it was buzzing and vibrating tirelessly on her wrist.
Sun Wei took a deep breath, stretched out her trembling hand, covered the window, and gently pushed it to the side—
The window wasn't locked, and she easily pushed it open a crack.
As the outdoor air blew in, the zombie seemed to feel the coolness of the night breeze and instinctively squeezed its cheek into the gap.
The gap was being squeezed wider and wider.
Finally, the zombie grew large enough to extend its arms and wildly wave them at Sun Wei.
Using the rope for leverage, Sun Wei swung her legs and avoided its claws in mid-air.
Knowing that there would be a mock exam, the students did their best to wear thick long pants and long sleeves without affecting the activity. Unless they were bitten hard, the parts covered by clothing were unlikely to get infected, so Sun Wei was not worried.
Despite her instincts constantly reminding her to run away and get away from danger.
But she suppressed her instincts with reason.
Looking at the zombies, Sun Wei suddenly understood what a cat toy felt like.
Finding the attack ineffective, the zombie let out a deep, angry growl from deep within its throat, grabbed the window with its hand, and stepped onto the window frame.
Sun Wei quickly tugged the rope twice.
This was their pre-arranged signal; pulling twice meant they could slowly lift her a certain distance.
Song Rushuang and the others did as instructed.
The height was raised by about half a meter, so that the human and the zombie were no longer at eye level, but now the zombie could only barely touch Sun Wei's calf when it reached out.
Realizing its prey was trying to escape, it became even angrier, and its anger accelerated its climb up the windowsill.
The window was pushed open even wider, now allowing a zombie to squeeze in, albeit only halfway. Sensing the decreasing resistance of the glass window, it eagerly reached out to Sun Wei.
Sun Wei held her breath.
The three people upstairs also saw an arm sticking out of the window.
Dirty, cracked fingernails almost grazed the hem of Sun Wei's sweatshirt.
"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer..."
Shen Qingqing couldn't help but mutter to herself.
When the maximum distance is reached...
A gust of wind blew by, and Sun Wei's body swayed in the wind, moving her further away from the zombie. It roared, completely unaware that it was in danger of falling. One foot dangled in the air, and it took a shaky step.
—Now!
Sun Wei suddenly lowered her arm.
Upon receiving the command, the three people above exerted force together, causing Sun Wei to rise abruptly.
Almost simultaneously, the zombie lunged at Sun Wei, but failed to reach its target.
A dark figure fell from the windowsill and crashed into the boundless night.
The sound of bones shattering upon impact with the ground is terrifying.
The three of them felt a shiver run down their spines, but their hands didn't stop. They pulled Sun Wei back to the rooftop, and only then did their tense muscles start to ache.
Without taking a break, the four heads stood side by side, all looking down in perfect unison.
"Did it succeed?" "Did it succeed?"
a long time.
You have successfully killed a low-level zombie!
[Points +1]
"I've got it! I've got it!" Zhang Han jumped up on the spot.
Song Rushuang was pleasantly surprised that the plan she came up with on a whim could be successfully implemented.
Using a roommate as bait to lure zombies to fall from a building, she planned to use the height as terrain to kill them. She originally thought the success rate of this plan would not be very high, but it was safe. Unexpectedly, it succeeded on the first try.
Thinking about it carefully, according to Teacher Zhao, the skulls of zombies that have been infected for a long time are more fragile, and a hard object can even directly crush the skull and damage the brain, so it is normal for them to die from a fall.
While this plan could be implemented during the day, other students would be moving around the campus during daylight, making it difficult for zombies to stay in one room for an extended period.
Only when it gets dark and both humans and zombies are quiet can it be easier to lure out a lone zombie in the room with a little noise.
...After reviewing the situation, Song Rushuang was surprised to find that her plan was actually quite reliable.
However, since there was no team formation mechanism for the assessment, it seems that the points were randomly awarded to someone in the team, and this time the points went to Zhang Han.
Zhang Han was therefore the most enthusiastic: "Keep going, keep going, there must be zombies in the other rooms."
"Let's try to kill three more before the assessment ends, so that everyone can get a point."
The other two looked at Sun Wei.
Sun Wei reluctantly lifted her long hair and, without using any hair clips or hair ties, neatly tied it into a bun at the back of her head.
“Come on,” she said, her demeanor shifting instantly.
Zhang Han's eyes sparkled: "Weiwei, you look like a leading lady! I'm about to fall in love with you."
Sun Wei: "..."
Which female lead gets the treatment of being used as bait by her teammates because she has a limp?
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