Ch 10: Opening a Survival School Before the Zombie Outbreak

The system could clean up the contamination and damage caused by the zombies, regenerate severed limbs, and heal wounds, but it couldn’t one-click erase the students’ vomit.

So when that group of late students made it back to their dorms and had just managed to breathe again, Fu Qing had the system point them out one by one and forcibly summon them to the cafeteria.

What happened after that hardly needed saying, but they probably wouldn’t be late again for the rest of their lives.

In short… this cafeteria really did have a smell.

Luckily, the principal had privileges and could sit in her nice, fragrant office eating takeout.

Fu Qing didn’t look at the forum’s commotion at all. She ate her fried noodles and opened the management panel.

Once the opening ceremony ended, the status behind the main quest “An Unforgettable First Day” changed to Completed, and the 50 teaching points were in hand.

With the reward secured, Fu Qing first took a stroll through the construction shop.

She had already skimmed through all the sections of the management panel before, and in the end bought the drill item 【Full-Reality Simulation】. This wasn’t really the result of careful choosing, but because it was almost the only choice Fu Qing could make.

【Small Experimental Field】: 100 teaching points
【Small Cold Storage】: 200 teaching points
【Simulation Combat Pod】: 600 teaching points
【Water Treatment System】: 200 teaching points
【Solar Panels】: 300 teaching points
【Garbage Incinerator】: 100 teaching points
【Ground Spike Trap (Wood) *100】: 200 teaching points
【Ground Spike Trap (Iron) *100】: 500 teaching points
【Ground Spike Trap (Steel) *100】: 1000 teaching points
【Wall Upgrade · Spikes (Wood)】: 200 teaching points
……

Even though she’d known it would be like this, Fu Qing still grew quieter the more she scrolled. “.”

Too expensive. Completely unaffordable.

Even with the 50-point reward, she was still, in essence, poor.

In fact, just from the types of items sold in the game shop, you could roughly see the upgrade direction of this school, or rather, of this simulation management game.

Take the simulation combat pod, for instance. It was clearly for teaching, meant to raise students’ overall capabilities.

Meanwhile, things like experimental fields and cold storage, water treatment and energy systems, and defensive structures like traps and walls, were for renovating the school’s facilities.

If preparations were done properly within this year, then when the zombie tide arrived, the school itself could become an excellent shelter.

An area of over six hundred mu might not be big for a school, but it certainly wasn’t small either. In a true emergency, tearing down the artificial lake, the small forest, and the teaching buildings to convert them into livestock farms and warehouses, raising animals and stockpiling supplies, then turning the plains outside the campus into farmland and planting high-yield crops, would be enough to support the needs of the entire faculty and student body.

Fu Qing also recalled the task the system had issued at the very beginning: “Build a fully equipped survival school.” This was probably what it meant.

Unfortunately, almost on the first day after her rebirth, Fu Qing realized this world wasn’t the one she had originally lived in.

The clearest sign was that, unlike many protagonists in novels, she hadn’t been reborn into her original self on this timeline. She was more like an otherworlder who had suddenly appeared, with identification papers and the property left by her parents, enough for a normal life, yet without any further ties to this world.

Fu Qing even tried searching social apps for her former roommates and friends, but found nothing at all. She didn’t know whether they simply didn’t exist in this world, or whether they did, but were no longer the people she had known.

Maybe because Fu Qing’s rebirth itself violated the world’s rules, everything connected to her had produced a butterfly effect.

Aside from that, this world wasn’t very different from the one in her memory.

On TV there were endlessly new faces; one country was still at war with another; ordinary people on social media complained about the trivial dullness of life, the stress and anxiety of work and study, while still cherishing the small, ordinary joys hidden in quiet corners.

So it looked so familiar, and yet so unfamiliar.

Fu Qing wasn’t someone who quietly wallowed in sentimentality. Same as always: being alive was already good enough. People should learn contentment.

She looked through the shop again, sighed, closed it, and started planning her next move.

Since she didn’t have enough teaching points, the first step was obviously to see what new tasks she could do.

The task list had two entries lit up with “new”.

【Main Quest: “Publish the Timetable”】
【Description: You’ve made it through registration day smoothly. All freshmen have assembled, and everyone can’t wait to welcome their new academic life! Let them know their schedule for the upcoming semester, and upload it to the course selection backend.】
【Requirements: Create 4 new courses for the first semester, including at least 1 required course and 1 elective. (Incomplete)】
【Reward: 100 teaching points】

The system really didn’t let its host rest. As soon as the previous main quest was completed, it immediately chained into the next.

From the description, the two were sequential.

Fu Qing guessed that you only got the next main quest after finishing the current one, and that if she wanted more points, she could only keep doing tasks.

Who knew how many tasks there were. If she slacked off and progress got pushed too far back, and the zombie tide broke out before she finished, the points she could have earned might just be wasted.

The lie-flat-and-enjoy-peace plan had run into an unprecedented crisis.

Tasks outside the main quest were more random.

【Side Quest: “First Step”】
【Description: A good teacher-student relationship is the first step toward building a harmonious campus together. Try getting along with your students!】
【Requirements: Student Favorability reaches 20% (Incomplete)】
【Reward: 1000 teaching points】

A side quest meant it wasn’t mandatory, had no time limit, and wouldn’t affect the release of later quests.

In other words, failing it didn’t matter.

——Teachers didn’t necessarily have to be gentle and well-liked, so long as their teaching quality held up.

But Fu Qing couldn’t help coveting that generous reward.

This one quest was worth ten main quests.

A reward of 1000 points for only 20% favorability. Could this be the fabled newbie bonus?

She grew more interested and opened the teacher profile section.

Previously, student favorability hadn’t refreshed since classes hadn’t started. After registration day plus the opening ceremony, it finally showed something, but not as a simple number.

After the words “Student Favorability” was a long bar. From left to right the color shifted from red to green, with a vertical marker in the middle indicating the divide, and the scale at the marker reading 0.

Green was positive; red was negative.

And Fu Qing’s indicator sat at the far left, in a red so dark it was nearly black.

Fu Qing: “……”

She tapped it, and a value popped up.

-98%.

——Aside from pure fear and avoidance, there was still a faint 2% of respect.

The system tried to comfort her: 【At least it isn’t -100%.】

Fu Qing laughed. “Am I supposed to be happy?”

The system snapped its mouth shut.

Fu Qing wasn’t used to having a voice constantly chattering in her head. It always felt like it could read her thoughts, and that instinctively repelled her. Once the system went quiet, she actually felt more at ease. Staring at the huge -98%, she could only sigh.

She’d thought a mere 20% would be easy. Who knew it could go into negatives?

If she couldn’t do it, she’d stop thinking about it for now. She had to stay in the office until nine, and there was time to draft the timetable.

In the 【Campus Data】 section, there was an entry called “Courses.” Opening it revealed a blank page.

Fu Qing tapped the large plus sign in the center. “Create New Course.”

Besides basic details like course name, content, location, class size, and enrollment requirements, she also had to assign a lecturer from the existing staff list.

The first few items were fine. The last one gave Fu Qing a headache.

Fangzhou University was a gigantic slapdash operation. Classes started tomorrow, and today the entire school had only one teacher who also served as principal. Who would believe it?

According to the system, she needed at least four courses. Even if every course became a 200-person lecture, counting weekends, switching to alternating weeks… she still couldn’t manage it alone.

Even the worst sweatshops didn’t use people like that anymore.

She’d been reborn to enjoy life, not to be exploited.

But classes started tomorrow morning. With only one night, where was she going to find teachers?

Fu Qing suddenly remembered the “Recruit” button beneath the teacher info.

【Click to Recruit】

Ten teaching points per attempt. She spent them without hesitation.

A flash of light passed, and a sheet of paper drifted down from the empty air above her head, landing perfectly in her hand.

She looked down. It was a résumé: “……”

The name and personal information on the résumé also appeared on the management panel.

【A new applicant has come to interview!】
Attribute: N
Expected Salary: 1 teaching point/month

【Personal Information】
Name: Bai Tang
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Abilities: Intelligence A, Combat C-, Survival Skills S, Intelligence Gathering C
Overall Rating: A+ (Even a specialist can make a good teacher. Stockpiling is the dignity of a shut-in!)

【Hire?】
(Notice: If you decide to hire this employee, work hours will begin immediately, and salary must be paid after 30 days. If wages are not paid on time, teachers may go on strike or resign >)

₊˚.🎧📓✩

Sandy: but it doesn’t say what she’s good at tho