Chapter 45
When Qiao Tang's eyes met a pair of lifeless pupils, everything around seemed to enter eternal silence in that moment. Only her heart was pounding faster and faster. With a little carelessness, her heart felt like it could escape from her frail body and be free.
Caught in confusion, Qiao Tang quickly adapted to the current situation. When she finally realized that it was a zombie leaning on the railing, she saw a hand holding the head on the railing and fiercely smashing it against the railing.
"Bang~"
Apart from hearing sounds, Qiao Tang also repeatedly heard the buzzing vibration of the fence, and felt something splashed on her face, which was a bit cool.
"What's wrong?"
Inside the dormitory, Gu Xici's voice came out, probably hearing the strange noise on the balcony.
"Nothing, I accidentally bumped into a bucket."
Qiao Tang hurriedly explained, glancing at the interior of the house, making sure Gu Xici hadn't gotten up, and then looked back at the fence, while opening the faucet with her hand again.
The sound of water gushing.
At the moment she turned her head to look at the fence again, the person holding a zombie head on the fence also looked at her.
The girl was facing her, with her back to the moon, her face in shadow. Although it couldn't be seen clearly, Qiao Tang instantly guessed who the person outside was.
Under her gaze, she saw the zombie lying on her dormitory fence being casually thrown backwards by the girl, as if throwing away trash, and then the zombie disappeared from Qiao Tang's sight.
Immediately, she looked at the girl, slightly bending her body as if preparing to run, while the girl clearly was gathering strength.
And before Qiao Tang could react, the girl suddenly fell down, completely disappearing in front of her eyes.
Looking at the now empty fence, Qiao Tang felt a sudden panic for some unknown reason. She instinctively leaned towards the fence, but she rushed too fast and hit her head on it. It made a buzzing sound and she bit her lip from the pain, but her gaze still firmly looked down.
Watching everything happening below, she didn't know what expression to use to describe her turbulent state of mind.
The girl hanging on the fence with only one hand was incredibly agile, giving a sense of invincibility. But as she saw the girl dragging the zombies down one by one, she still gasped in shock.
If she hadn't mistaken, the zombies that used to just wander around were actually able to climb. Doesn't this mean that the entire 8th Building... is in danger?
"Ah!"
Immediately, as if responding to her thoughts, a scream from upstairs shattered the tense atmosphere around her. Qiao Tang covered her chest, feeling like she couldn't breathe and needing a heart pill.
Before long, the footsteps upstairs started to get noisy.
Gu Xici heard strange noises upstairs and immediately sat up from the bed. The footsteps from the upstairs dormitory sounded very strange, which made her suddenly feel uneasy.
Knowing that Qiao Tang hadn't returned to bed, she didn't want to disturb Qiao Tang, so she didn't actively break the atmosphere of wanting to be alone. She had originally planned to wait until Qiao Tang returned to the dormitory and then talk to her again. But it was clear that she had other things to do now.
"Qiao Tang, stay in the dorm room and don't wander around."
After Gu Xici said that, she picked up a sharp wooden stick and walked out of the dormitory.
Hearing the sound of the door closing and seeing Gu Xici disappear, Qiao Tang realized that it would be very dangerous for Gu Xici to go out when she had just seen the zombie. Gu Xici seemed to be completely unaware of what was going on.
With the intention of reminding Gu Xici, she couldn't care about anything else and followed her out of the dormitory.
As for Su Mo who was hanging on the fence, she finally kicked everything that was trying to climb up down to the ground by her own efforts.
Su Mo didn't know what these things were for, but she felt their aggressiveness towards Lu Jia. They seemed to be coming straight for Lu Jia.
At this moment, anyone who could shine a light on this group of zombies would find that there was a group of zombies surrounding Su Mo. They were almost all wearing hospital gowns, not like the students here, but more like a group of patients running out from a hospital.
And around them, those wandering zombies, because Su Mo wanted to stop these zombies, they actively gathered towards Su Mo.
As for those patients in hospital gowns, they still disregarded everything and rushed towards Su Mo. Then they watched as one after another of the zombies guided by Su Mo crashed into them, only to get back up and continue attacking.
The obvious purpose made them distinctly different from the surrounding zombies.
Until this distinctiveness was broken by Su Mo.
A patient zombie, who had managed to avoid the controlled zombie pile, charged straight towards Su Mo. Then, his arms were torn off by Su Mo, and she grabbed him by the neck, lifting him up.
Su Mo looked into this person's eyes, and there was a strange wave that appeared in her mind through that zombie.
That thing wanted to try and touch her brain, but instead, it was tightly restrained by Su Mo. Through this eerie wave, Su Mo saw a person.
She couldn't see the person clearly, and this person wasn't here.
As Su Mo tried to explore this person, she gradually closed her eyes. Then, as the collisions in her mind became more intense, she couldn't help but let out a low growl. At the same time, her hand gripping the zombie's neck tightened.
The bone made a cracking sound in her hand, and the zombie in her hand kept opening and closing its mouth, but no sound came out.
Gradually, Su Mo's face became strange. There were tiny red blood vessels, like spider webs, covering her entire face. It seemed like they could burst at any moment. The wound hidden under the gauze was torn open, and the bloody flesh was exposed to the air again.
Immediately, the atmosphere around Su Mo became strange. The zombies, who were previously very determined, became confused. They were no longer obsessed with climbing up the building. Their behavior was similar to the zombies that surrounded the dormitory earlier.
As the strange wave in her mind disappeared, Su Mo suddenly opened her eyes. Before she opened her eyes, she remembered that the person she was fighting against had already knelt down on the ground, admitting defeat.
Releasing the zombie's neck in her hand, she heard it thump as it fell to the ground. Su Mo silently approached the zombie, getting close to its head. She watched as it struggled to turn its head towards her feet, and with a silent kick, she crushed it.
Watching the group of zombies wandering aimlessly due to losing control, Su Mo silently wiped her slightly dirty foot on the patient's gown on the ground to clean it.
At this moment, the red lines on her face gradually became transparent, until they completely disappeared. At the same time, her memories were fading away.
Then, she noticed a zombie and grabbed it casually, rushing into the crowd of patients' gowns. Soon after, the game of bowling with bumps and collisions began.
......
Qiao Tang still couldn't catch Gu Xici, and when she arrived at Room 317 on the third floor, she saw a crowd gathered at the dormitory door.
She watched as Gu Xici was about to enter the dorm, and immediately thought of the zombie. So, at the moment when Gu Xici was about to enter the dorm, she grabbed the person's hand.
"Don't go in, there's a zombie."
Hearing her anxious tone, Gu Xici looked at her with a puzzled look. How did Qiao Tang know about the zombie? But before she could think too much, Jiang Bei and his group had already arrived on the third floor.
Looking at the motionless zombie on the ground, Gu Xici poked it with a stick to make sure it was completely dead. Then, she stood up and looked at the girls in the dorm.
"Did you kill it?" she asked.
Hearing her words, one of the girls shook her head repeatedly, indicating that they were almost scared to death and had no ability to do anything.
Hearing her words, Jiang Bei was a bit confused. "Then how did this thing get here?" He wasn't quite clear about the current situation. He had just been woken up and his mind was still a bit fuzzy.
"I don't know what happened either. I just heard a loud noise from the balcony, and I thought something fell to the ground. I wanted to go and see, but as soon as I opened the door, this thing was lying there on the ground. I got scared and screamed," the girl explained the situation. She was also puzzled about the appearance of this zombie. They were on the third floor, so someone must have played a prank on their dorm.
Listening to the girl, Gu Xici took the candle from her hand and shone it on the zombie lying on the ground. She looked closely at it, and Jiang Bei followed suit.
Only Qiao Tang, she quietly moved to the edge of the balcony. Taking advantage of no one noticing her, she discreetly looked down at the ground. Then she saw two heads collide and a forced explosion of brains. Because it was dark, she couldn't determine the details, so the above situation was purely her guess based on the collision of shadows.
The candlelight swept over the zombie, and to Gu Xici, the zombie didn't look much different from what they had seen before, except for the strange attire. Gu Xici had been at the school for a long time, but she had never seen a zombie dressed like a patient.
Did zombies from outside flood into the school? Although Gu Xici had also gone out to kill zombies, it was only a few times. She thought that asking Li Hua and the others about any new zombies would be more appropriate. After all, Jiang Bei had never been outside, so it was better not to bother him.
"Nothing special," she said, and as he listened to her words, Jiang Bei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Immediately after, Gu Xici stood up. This was the second time she stood up. This time, she thought about Qiao Tang. After all, she hadn't paid much attention to Qiao Tang since coming in, but now she was starting to care a little.
But when she didn't see Qiao Tang in the dormitory and instead found her on the balcony, her concern was replaced by confusion.
And it's not just now. In fact, Qiao Tang has been acting strange since she stopped Gu Xici from entering the dormitory. It's just that Qiao Tang's behavior now amplifies the doubts in Gu Xici's mind.
