Chapter 2: Fear

I once heard a saying that in the face of a crisis, people often die not from inexperience or lack of strength, but from ignorance of the crisis. Not long after the incident, the TV station should still be relaying the relevant news, so now is our last chance to understand the full picture of the incident.

After changing a few channels, I finally found one with a picture.

“…… We were the first to confirm that this incident was a city-wide disaster. But we don't know anything about the cause, the process, and why it was so fast. And there's not much time left for us to find answers. It is reported that the government has activated the emergency plan to deal with the crisis at the first time, but it seems that it is helpless in the face of this highly contagious crisis......"

Riot police and the army were shown on TV to suppress zombies, only to be infected and turned into enemies.

“…… Let's call this crisis 'Resident Evil', because all the conditions show a high degree of consistency with the movie, and from a scientific point of view, we can only guess that it is a plague that is unimaginably strong......

Those of you who are still tuning in, prepare for the worst, make sure your hiding place is safe enough, and save as much as you can with whatever supplies you have at hand...... From this moment on, we will repeat the video of the disaster, and all of us, including me, will be evacuated urgently, so please forgive me and wish you all the best of luck......"

I switched a few more channels, but they were all the same clips of the disaster area.

"How so?" The girl covered her mouth, dumbfounded.

Obviously, the whole city is now finished. It's despairing, but it's good to see the news, otherwise we would have been trying to escape from here.

That's right, since it's useless to flee anywhere, then obediently prepare to defend to the death.

"It's not safe here, we'll have to find a better place to hide!" I took the girl's hand.

Unexpectedly, she shook me off and said, "I'm not leaving!" I'm going to wait for Xiaoqian to come back. ”

She smiled stiffly, "She is my best friend and will never abandon me." If she doesn't see me when she comes back, she'll hate me to death. ”

Her eyes were full of innocence and stubbornness, and I knew that nothing could persuade her, let alone time for me to convince. I took a step back and told myself to let go. I knew in my heart that running for my life with a lame man was not a wise decision in itself. After only a moment's hesitation, I turned around and left.

The clamor of the staircase has turned into a riot. Those who poured from the second floor to the third floor and those who poured down from the fourth floor to the third floor were crowded together, and those caught in the middle were struggling and almost suffocating.

I brought a stool from the classroom and stood on it.

From the slit of the staircase, I vaguely saw that "those things" had arrived at the corner of the second floor, and everywhere I went, I cried and grabbed the ground, and pushed the people in front of me down as shields, and at the same time turned my head and climbed up desperately, until I was bitten by the zombies below, and I became a zombie. In this way, the people who turned around because they saw the situation below and the people who kept squeezing down because they didn't understand the situation stepped into the ghost gate step by step in the chaos.

"Save Me ......"

Through the gap in the stairs, I saw a girl with five fingers stretched out at me, her eyes were bloodshot, and her face turned from white to gray, and she looked very frightening. Suddenly, a row of teeth appeared on her neck, followed by a splatter of blood, staining the hallway red. She rolled her eyes and fell.

My feet shook and I almost fell off the stool.

This...... It's horrible......

I couldn't stand up straight, stumbling through the crowd and running towards the bathroom.

The bathroom was cold and damp, and I was chilling when I held my hands. I'm standing there at the moment, but I don't know what to do.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, there was a crisp metallic sound from the window, and I poked my head out, only to see a long drain pipe leading from the wall by the window to the top floor.

This school building existed before I was born, and it is said that it has been renovated countless times, including the exterior walls, except for the drain pipes, which are the thick old cast iron pipes that stretch from the ground to the roof. At the joint of each section of iron pipe is a ring-shaped protruding flange on which one can climb with one foot.

I let out a long breath and jumped on the ledge, anyway, to the top of the building.

Three floors from the ground, a group of "ghouls" in school uniforms are roaming below, and some of the corpses lying on the ground are being snatched like vultures. I don't know when the sky became gloomy, and there was a feeling that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings, and at this time, the strange smell and mournful cries that filled the sky added to the horror factor in the atmosphere.

Thinking that once you fall from here, it will be a dead end, and the trembling on your feet can't be suppressed. It's fine if you fall to your death, but if you fall and become crippled, you can't escape and can only be slaughtered by the "ghoul", and that kind of pain will make any flesh-and-blood life unbearable.

I gritted my teeth and began to reach for my right foot towards the joint of the drain, the suspension of my body making me tremble. As soon as he lowered his head, a monster was looking up, and his blurred face could not see his facial features clearly, but it looked particularly terrifying because of it.

My heart sank, and I clung my crumbling body to the cold drain. There was the sound of liquid being washed down from the drain pipe. I suddenly felt a sight coming from above, so I looked up and saw that Leng Buding appeared alone above, startling me.

It's Ke Jingfeng!

He was climbing the same drain not far above my head.

"Hey, can you kid stop being so scary?" I cursed and started to climb up.

The rust of the drainage pipes in the past is now an effective means of increasing friction. Soon, I climbed to his feet, but he didn't move.

I hurriedly said, "My grandfather, you didn't see that you were in a hurry, can you hurry up for me?" ”

I only heard him say, "Li Chen, I just climbed up from the first floor...... Do you know? Just now, those people in the class, as well as the teacher, all became freaks, hahahaha, some of their jaws were knocked off, and there were ......"

The more he talked, the stranger it became, and he never climbed up. He suddenly lowered his face, and his bloodshot eyes were very terrifying: "Why can you live?" I want to live too, you're so lucky......"

"Hey, what's ...... you want" Before I could finish asking, a line of icy liquid slid down the surface of the drain. It's blood! When he looked up, he saw that something was missing from his thigh, as if a piece had been ripped off, and blood was gushing from there.

My mind went blank with fear, and my mouth trembled so much that I couldn't say a word.

Suddenly, I saw his body leaning back slightly, bending like a mollusk, falling, then hitting me hard, and finally falling downward.

I clung to the drain to keep myself from being implicated. "Poof!" The corpse fell to the ground with a muffled thud, and in a few moments all that remained was twisted limbs and a pool of blood.