Ch 91: Opening a Survival School Before the Zombie Outbreak

Sun Wei jumped onto the roof of the car, partly so the two people rushing over could see her clearly.

Through the car window, Song Rushuang and Zhang Han immediately locked onto the person standing at the highest point. Zhang Han quickly pulled the car to a stop as close to the truck as possible.

The three exchanged a glance. Song Rushuang waved, signaling Sun Wei to get down quickly.

Standing there was far too conspicuous. Not only had she drawn their attention, the zombies were being attracted as well.

Yet many living people were still trapped in the flow of traffic, unaware of what was happening. Over a hundred meters away, where the zombies had broken in, corpses already lay everywhere. The drivers stuck in cars ahead were still shouting angrily, blaming the vehicles in front for not moving after so long, unaware that their raised voices were only gathering more zombies around them.

Sun Wei hesitated for two seconds, glancing left and right. The small truck was practically the highest point in the entire traffic jam.

From her vantage point, she could see quite a few blocked drivers stepping out of their cars, craning their necks to look back in complete ignorance.

She cast one last glance at Song Rushuang and Zhang Han’s car, made up her mind, cupped her hands around her mouth like a megaphone, lowered her voice slightly, and shouted, “Someone’s killing people behind us! If you can run, run now! If you can’t, get back in your cars and lock the doors! Stop watching the show!!”

“Murder! Run!!”

The onlooking drivers were startled. Turning their heads, they saw a young woman standing high above, shouting herself hoarse.

Not far away, zombies were already scrambling onto car roofs on all fours, their eyes fixed directly on Sun Wei.

Song Rushuang could clearly tell that these zombies were far more agile than the “low-level zombies that appeared at the beginning of the last apocalypse” shown in the simulation pods.

Remembering what the principal had said earlier, that intermediate zombies might appear from the very start this time, her mood suddenly grew heavy, and she worried even more about Sun Wei’s safety.

Some drivers were cautious by nature, or had families with them, and didn’t dare gamble with their lives. They obediently abandoned their cars and fled.

Others relied on the safety of numbers, convinced nothing would happen. Drivers from several adjacent cars gathered together instead, clustering to watch the excitement.

Unaware that zombies loved crowds the most.

Several phones were raised high. Translated on Hololo novels. When people couldn’t capture anything interesting, they turned their cameras toward Sun Wei instead.

Thinking about how Sun Wei was risking her life to warn everyone, Zhang Han grew furious. “Are these people sick? Someone’s killing people and they’re enjoying watching it?”

Song Rushuang shook her head, already unfastening her seatbelt. “There are still people ahead who don’t know what’s happening. They probably think it’s just normal traffic. Someone really does need to warn them.”

She could see clearly that two people were still seated in the back of the truck, nervously observing the surroundings through the windows. They were likely Sun Wei’s parents.

Zombies were steadily closing in on the truck. The priority now was to get her parents out first.

She slung on her weapon bag and was about to get out when a hand suddenly shot out from the back seat and grabbed her tightly.

Song Jianguo, frantic with worry, said, “What are you doing?”

From their position on the outskirts, their view wasn’t blocked like the drivers trapped inside the traffic. At a glance, they could see people both within the traffic and along the roadside rolling on the ground in agony, their faces and bodies covered in torn wounds.

Several others staggered forward, chasing people and biting them, their deranged appearance identical to the man they had seen earlier on Fangzhou’s street.

Recalling short videos they had watched before, where people attacked in the same way, the same word surfaced in both their minds at once, zombies.

You’ve got to be kidding…

If they were still at home scrolling social media, they probably wouldn’t have believed it. But now both victims and attackers were right before their eyes, and seeing their daughter about to get involved, they had no choice but to believe, and no courage not to.

“We have to get my friend and her parents out,” Song Rushuang said directly, knowing she couldn’t persuade her father otherwise. “Come with me, Dad. Protect me. I’m scared.”

Song Jianguo could no longer refuse.

He glanced at Sun Wei, heart tightening, then steeled himself. Sweeping his eyes across the car, he grabbed a fire extinguisher to bolster both his courage and his daughter’s. “Let’s go!”

He was about to open the door when someone beside him jumped out of the car even earlier.

Fu Qing adjusted the pouch at her waist and walked toward the small truck. Song Jianguo couldn’t help calling out, “Why don’t you wait in the car? We’ll be back soon.”

Fu Qing glanced back at him, her gaze lingering for two seconds on the dry powder extinguisher in his hand. “No need. We can go together.”

After all, Song Rushuang could protect the two of them.

But Song Jianguo misunderstood her meaning entirely.

Thinking back to the time Fu Qing had saved Song Rushuang on the pedestrian street, he was deeply moved.

The two fathers, believing themselves fully prepared, carefully stepped out of the car with their daughters. The moment they turned around, they saw a blood-covered man rolling his eyes as he staggered toward them.

Song Rushuang immediately recognized him as an infected person. Her hand slipped into her waist pouch, weapon only halfway drawn, when a pfft sounded beside her. The infected was engulfed in a cloud of fine white powder.

Everyone froze.

Song Jianguo stood there gripping the nozzle warily. “Don’t come any closer! Come closer and I’ll spray you again!”

After speaking, he sprayed twice more, pfft pfft, as a warning.

Song Rushuang: “…” Her dad was actually warning a zombie.

She turned to look at the principal and saw that she had already reached the edge of the traffic, flipped lightly onto the roof of the first car, and instantly all her worry for Sun Wei vanished.

Fu Qing’s movements weren’t fast. Though the scene was chaotic, it wasn’t yet urgent enough to rush. To outsiders, she appeared to be strolling leisurely across the car roofs, as if taking a walk through the traffic.

Until she passed one car, when a zombie that had been hidden somewhere suddenly burst out, scrambling onto the hood in a few leaps and opening its bloody maw toward Fu Qing.

“Roar—”

The sound caught in its throat as Fu Qing reached out and clamped a hand around its neck. Anyone standing close might have clearly heard the gradual crushing and deformation of bone, until, at a certain moment, a sharp crack signaled it shattering completely.

On the truck, Sun Wei’s voice had already gone hoarse, yet several people still stood by the roadside watching, unwilling to believe.

Her desperate warnings seemed to them like a dramatic performance. Sun Wei’s heart went cold.

Footsteps suddenly sounded beside her, firm and clear against the metal roof, accompanied by an unfamiliar scraping noise. Confused, Sun Wei turned her head. The moment she saw the scene before her, her pupils shrank sharply.

Fu Qing strode over with long steps, dragging a dead zombie with one hand. She stopped beside Sun Wei, swept a cold glance over the onlookers, and released her grip.

The corpse hit the roof with a heavy thud.

Its head lolled weakly to one side, a bright red tongue slipping from its half-open mouth. The lower half of its face was smeared with blood. Whether by coincidence or intention, its unfocused eyes faced directly toward the crowd of spectators.

Silence fell over the entire scene.

After more than ten seconds of deathly quiet, someone suddenly screamed:

“Murder—!!!”

“Help!!”

“Call the police, call the police!”

They turned and fled over one another in panic, scrambling away. In no time, the area cleared completely.

Sun Wei: “……”

She looked at the principal with deep admiration.

After shouting herself hoarse for so long, it still hadn’t been as effective as the principal’s single silent action.

Sun Wei greeted the principal and quietly added a thank-you.

Fu Qing glanced at her. “Call your parents over and follow Song Rushuang’s car back.”

“But this truck is still loaded,” Sun Wei hesitated. “I brought a lot of meat to share with my classmates.”

Fu Qing looked slightly surprised and turned to glance back. If the cargo compartment was really filled, the quantity was considerable.

After a moment’s thought, she said, “You go first. I’ll drive the truck back.”

With that reassurance, Sun Wei immediately relaxed. She didn’t worry that Fu Qing would keep the meat for herself after all her effort bringing it here, and happily replied, “Thank you, Principal!”

Just as she was about to jump down to find Liao Yahui and the others, Fu Qing suddenly reminded her, “Your livestream is still on.”

As she spoke, she tapped her right ear.

Only then did Sun Wei notice the inconspicuous earpiece in Fu Qing’s right ear. She pulled out her phone and saw the scrolling comments on the screen: “It really is.”

Ever since Sun Wei had shouted “Murder!” earlier, the livestream chat had exploded. Now that her face reappeared on camera, viewers flooded the screen with messages of concern, warming her heart.

Sun Wei glanced at the time in the upper-right corner, 2:58 PM. The stream had started at one o’clock and was scheduled for two hours, leaving only two minutes remaining.

Su Huaijin had already heard Sun Wei greeting Fu Qing. Seeing her return, she suddenly had an idea. “Welcome back, Yuyu! Can you switch the camera to the rear view?”

Rear camera… which meant…

Sun Wei instantly understood Su Huaijin’s intention and decisively turned the lens toward Fu Qing.

Noticing the movement, Fu Qing glanced over. Her familiar facial features immediately sent the chat into a frenzy.

The mysterious sixth person, the mysterious guest TaoTao had mentioned, really was her!

The latter half of the stream had been chaotic. Viewers had been distracted by the news, then worried about Sun Wei’s safety. Everyone assumed the livestream would simply end like this. Yet in the final two minutes, the mysterious guest appeared in such an unexpected way.

People couldn’t help but wonder if everything had been prearranged.

Was the so-called “unexpected incident” on Greenhead Fish’s side actually staged?

Those thoughts quickly faded. After all, trending topics were genuinely filled with sudden murder and assault cases erupting across the world. There was no way all of that was acting.

Then what exactly was Fu Qing’s purpose as the mysterious guest?

At this point, fewer than half the viewers remained. Many had gone offline due to real-life emergencies. Those still watching didn’t fully understand what was happening outside yet and warmly welcomed Fu Qing’s appearance.

[She’s not wearing a mask this time, what a surprise!]

[Finally seeing her face, just as handsome as I imagined~]

[Wait, are Yuyu (t/n: Yu = fish) and the guest standing on a car roof? Am I seeing things?]

[Why is it so chaotic over there? I see people running in the background. What happened?]

Seeing the comments, Sun Wei didn’t know how to explain, so she simply stayed silent and continued acting as the principal’s camerawoman.

This livestream had been planned in advance after Fu Qing discussed it with the five others. The time, format, and content were all decided together, including the gimmick of the “mysterious sixth person” appearing during the stream.

But what the principal would actually do after appearing was unknown to the five of them. Even Fu Qing herself had only said during the meeting, “We’ll see when the time comes.”

So although Sun Wei was filming her, she herself was completely confused.

System: 【Host, because apocalyptic scenes have appeared in the livestream, your world influence value is increasing slightly.】

Since the stream began, Fu Qing’s influence value had been steadily rising. Now she was only one step away from the next reward threshold.

Receiving the system’s reminder, she curled her lips faintly. Her gaze swept across the area and landed on the infected person stuck against a car door.

The front passenger door of the sedan trapping his lower body hung half open, and a figure crawled out from inside.

Sun Wei noticed it too and thought, no wonder the man had tried to escape through the window. The other escape route must have been blocked.

The zombie had been drawn by their voices. As soon as it left the car, it climbed straight toward the truck with a clear objective. Passing the trapped infected, it stepped directly on its companion’s face without hesitation, using it as leverage to clumsily climb upward. Step by step, it drew closer to Fu Qing and Sun Wei. Upon catching the scent of living humans, its breathing grew heavier.

Comments:

[Are these the same zombie guys from earlier?]

[No, they look different. Not the same one.]

[They look exactly like the crazed people in the news. Did Yuyu actually run into them…?]

[So scary, streamer stop filming and run!]

[This first-person view is way too immersive. Feels like it’s about to bite me.]

At that moment, the trapped zombie shook its head irritably and let out a snarl. The climbing zombie slipped and was about to fall back down.

The next second, someone grabbed its collar. With a single pull, Fu Qing lifted the entire zombie one-handed as if pulling up a scallion from dry ground.

Not only Sun Wei and the livestream audience, even the zombie itself seemed stunned for two seconds.

It looked utterly confused to be helped by its prey.

In truth, Fu Qing had watched it struggle upward for so long that when it was about to fall back to the starting point, she grew impatient and simply gave it a hand.

Held by the collar, the zombie was slammed heavily onto the car roof. Only then did it remember to struggle angrily, tilting its head to bite Fu Qing. But her grip was perfectly placed. No matter how it twisted, it couldn’t reach the prey right in front of it, howling in frustration.

Fu Qing somehow produced a dagger, lifting the zombie’s chin with the tip as she said, “When a person turns into a zombie, the skin begins to take on a bluish tint, facial and neck veins protrude, pupils constrict, the whites of the eyes become cloudy, and language ability is lost. These are the primary identification signs.”

“The zombie’s weakness is the brain. The temples, eyes, and ear canal are all vulnerable points. However, stabbing through the ear canal is more difficult, so the eye socket is usually more convenient.”

“For slow-moving zombies like this, killing them is simple. As long as you find a suitable weapon, anyone can try it—”

Her wording sounded exactly like one of those short videos titled “Three-minute household tips anyone can master.”

Her extremely calm tone contrasted sharply with the howling zombie beneath her.

Behind the camera, Sun Wei swallowed hard.

Whether simulated zombies, intelligent infected like Skull, or real zombies like this one, once they fell into the principal’s hands, they seemed destined only to become teaching materials…

Too brutal.

While her thoughts wandered, Fu Qing’s dagger pierced the zombie’s eye, pulling out a mixture of red and white matter.

The zombie twitched for two seconds, then went still.

“—Did you learn it?”

The lesson finished, the principal asked.

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