BC Chapter 116

Under the guidance of Zhang Yan and others, Yao Jinglin and her team successfully searched for the first wave of survivors near the area, taking advantage of the zombies’ silence before dawn.

The survivors were almost all students from the medical university who, during the previous chaos, had luckily rushed into a nearby sales hall that had long been deserted. The hall was spacious enough to accommodate many students and some faculty members who had fled there. Gathering together, they relied on a clear division of labor, trembling with fear but managing to get through a day and a night peacefully. However, the hall was empty, without any supplies for food or drink. The supplies from the school had been exhausted before everyone escaped, so everyone was hungry, thirsty, and tired, huddling together and not wanting to say an extra word.

It felt like most people were surviving on a strong will to live, but if the harsh reality was not resolved, how long could they continue to persevere?

“Get up! Don’t pull me.” Finally, a large male student in the crowd, feeling that he could no longer endure it, impatiently pushed away his roommate who was trying to stop him.

“Jiaolong, bear with it a little longer, maybe there will be a turning point soon,” the roommate said anxiously, standing up and continuing to dissuade him.

“Bear with it? I’ve been bearing it long enough! If we keep bearing it, we’ll all die here, cough cough… If you can bear it, go ahead! I can’t bear it anymore!” The big guy named Jiaolong was burly and had a huge appetite, known as a big eater in the dormitory. But since the disaster started, he hadn’t had a full meal. After enduring it for so long, the physical discomfort had become increasingly obvious. Especially in the past day and night, they had all been enduring on empty stomachs, without even a sip of water. So, when the male student spoke, his throat felt like the flesh was being torn, burning hot, and he couldn’t help coughing while arguing with his roommate.

The students, whether lying down or sitting, remained listless and silent. Some people raised their eyes to look at the two standing male students and then lowered their heads again. They had seen too many arguments, disputes, and even physical conflicts these days. Their emotions had gradually become numb, and they no longer cared about such things.

“Old Zheng! Open the door for me! I want to go out!” The male student called Jiaolong strode to the security guard Zheng Jianye, who was guarding the door for the students at the hall entrance, looking arrogant and shouting resentfully.

Zheng Jianye, who was sitting at the door taking a nap, raised a face that was so shriveled that his bones were visible, and glanced at him casually and contemptuously, saying, “No way.”

Zheng Jianye was in his early fifties and had been working at Qingshui Medical University for a long time, so many students at the university were familiar with him and had good relationships with him. Usually, everyone affectionately called him Old Zheng, which was just a nickname to close the relationship. He was usually easy-going and never got angry with students because of this title. But this also led some frivolous students to not respect him at all – after all, he was just a security guard and an older person. In short, the existence of this type of person is generally labeled as “easy to bully” in most people’s minds.

Just like children with little resistance, women with generally poor physical strength, ordinary people who are sick, and the elderly with mobility issues, all fall within this label. The moral bottom line of society is to protect and treat these types of people preferentially, but some people with weak moral values ​​do not care at all, and even deliberately make things difficult for them, taking pleasure in trampling the weak under their feet.

Previously, Wang Jiaolong did not belong to the impolite category of people. He always addressed older faculty and staff like Zheng Jianye as “uncle” or “aunt,” and would not call him so casually. It’s just that when people are affected by continuous external mental stress, most of them will become irrational, and their behavior will naturally undergo great changes. When uncontrollably releasing their own pressure on the people around them, the expression of words and physical movements will become excessive.

“What?! What do you mean!! Are you looking down on me?!” Wang Jiaolong raised his eyebrows, bent down, and grabbed Zheng Jianye’s security uniform collar, clenching it tightly in his hand. His cheeks were bulging because of gritting his teeth, and he glared angrily at Zheng Jianye’s face. Obviously, because the psychological pressure was too great, his emotions had reached the verge of collapse.

“What do you want to do when you go out? Are you tired of living and want to die?” Zheng Jianye, whose entire upper body was lifted up by Wang Jiaolong, had no change in expression on his face, and still asked coldly.

“I don’t need you to care even if I die!! You won’t open it, right? Then I’ll do it myself!” Wang Jiaolong noticed from the corner of his eye that several male students in the crowd near him had stood up and turned towards this side. Knowing that if he dared to attack Zheng Jianye, he would not have any good outcome, he flung away Zheng Jianye’s collar and rushed angrily towards the blocked hall door.

However, just as he walked towards the door, the several male students who had stood up in the crowd also walked towards that side, but it was clear that they were not going to help Wang Jiaolong open the door.

At this moment, a black figure suddenly darted very quickly behind Wang Jiaolong, and a leg swing slammed into Wang Jiaolong’s back. Wang Jiaolong, who was over 1.8 meters tall, was directly staggered forward two steps by this kick and fell to the ground.

Several male students were shocked by this scene and immediately stopped. Upon closer inspection, they realized that the one who had kicked Wang Jiaolong down was actually Zheng Jianye, who always smiled slightly while watching the door, their Old Zheng.

Don’t think that Zheng Jianye had always shown himself in a kind manner during his time working at the school, but in fact, he was known for being ruthless in the army during those years when he was young. The recruits trained under him would be trained very miserably, but at the same time, their skills would also be honed exceptionally well.

After retiring from the army, he had done many jobs, but he had never talked about his experience in those years as a glorious past, so even many school leaders did not know about his past.

“If you want to die, die here for me! Don’t think about implicating the innocent students here!! Think it through and get back! Don’t act aggrieved here! If you insist on dying, die far away, don’t scare the others!!!” At this time, Zheng Jianye, with one leg pressed on Wang Jiaolong and one hand grabbing Wang Jiaolong’s hair, had a surge of decisive and resolute aura, suppressing the several male students behind him, who looked at each other and sat back in their places.

Once a person enters university, it signifies that they have stepped into the ranks of adults, and the adult world is always cruel and realistic, tragic and bloody. What the family environment cannot teach him, someone will always stand up and make him remember forever in a painful way.

Growth is sometimes just a matter of a moment, such as Wang Jiaolong, who was restrained by Zheng Jianye at this time. When he felt the cold and oppressive aura behind him and heard the cold and ruthless words in his ears, his head, which had been impulsive due to hunger and anger, instantly sobered up.

What had he just done? Go out? Why go out? In this situation, going outside alone would only lead to a faster and more miserable death! He was really confused.

Just as the farce in the hall had just come to an end and had not been completely resolved, someone in the crowd sitting on the side of the hall near the window suddenly shouted, “Look! There are living people outside! The ones in the lead are wearing rescue uniforms!!”

“Where? Where is it?”

“Let me see!”

“Really?!”

“The rescue team is here??”

“Don’t squeeze, don’t squeeze! There are still a lot of zombies outside.”

“Shh! Keep your voices down, if you accidentally attract those guys, we’ll all be in trouble!!”

Because of the appearance of hope, the entire hall of students and faculty members became restless. Everyone instantly perked up, asking questions nervously while looking out from the slender windows in the direction pointed by others.

There was no source of light in the hall, so at this moment, looking at the hazy blue outside, they could see some things more clearly.

Sure enough, a team of people slowly appeared at the street corner outside, the two in the lead wearing black uniforms with the word “Rescue” written on them.

It was Yao Jinglin and Lin Xiang, who were being careful and cautious.