BC Chapter 70

Chapter 69

The day they discovered the existence of the super-speed zombies was when one of Yan Shaohang’s classmates was on duty, searching for supplies outside. Originally, everything was going smoothly. Because the supplies on campus were almost exhausted, the boy had to go to a small supermarket outside to scavenge. On the way back, he was in a hurry and tripped over a corpse, falling directly onto the playground.

As he fell, he involuntarily cried out in pain, attracting the collective pursuit of scattered zombies around the playground.

Seeing the situation was bad, the boy quickly endured the pain and scrambled up from the ground, running towards the first floor of the teaching building where someone was waiting to open a window for him.

Logically speaking, with his boosted speed and stamina, escaping from a normal-speed zombie horde shouldn’t have been too difficult, and he should have been able to save his life. So, although the run was dangerous, he wasn’t too worried.

Even the boy waiting at the window only felt a bit of excitement, staring intently at the figure running towards him, his hand on the handle of the glass window, ready to help him in.

However, just as the boy shook off the pursuing zombie horde, and saw that he was only ten meters away from the glass window that served as an entrance, a hunched, thin, dark figure suddenly darted out from the zombie horde behind him. The black figure’s speed far exceeded the ordinary zombies behind it, even faster than the boy who had sped up. It was like a black lightning bolt in the dark night. It only braced itself forward twice in a hunched posture and had already caught up with the boy carrying a backpack. An arm, like a dry branch, reached out and tore the entire zipper of the boy’s backpack apart. Most of the water and food in the bag fell out.

With the sudden tear, the boy felt a sharp pain in his armpits from the straps of the backpack, and at the same time, cold sweat of terror instantly soaked his back. As if Death himself, draped in a cloak and wielding a scythe, had appeared behind him in an instant, the fear of death overwhelmed him, and he desperately rushed forward…

But it was clear that his resistance was already too late. The dark figure, now close to him, used a single lunge to knock the boy to the ground. The boy instantly rolled over but only had time to raise his arm in front of him.

Driven by hunger, the zombie was extremely sensitive to the smell of fresh flesh. At such a close distance, it was practically being handed a meal, so the super-speed zombie unceremoniously opened its big mouth and bit down on the boy, but only managed to bite his wrist due to the boy’s instinctive movement.

Hot blood instantly flowed from the corner of the zombie’s mouth.

The boy cried out in pain and punched the super-speed zombie’s head. In the process, the zombies that had fallen behind relentlessly caught up, and the first few pounced on the boy and began to tear at him.

“Save me! Save me!!” The besieged boy quickly lost the ability to fight back, and could only scream for help towards the teaching building while enduring the excruciating pain of being torn apart.

However, no one appeared in the building.

The survivors all knew that once someone was injured by a zombie, there was basically no escape from death. After so many days of observation, they had seen that the only people who could survive were those who hadn’t had direct contact with zombies.

So the current situation where no one appeared wasn’t due to selfishness, but because everyone knew what the boy’s end would be. Even if they could perform a miracle and rescue him from the zombies, they wouldn’t be able to save him in the current situation where they lacked everything. It would be a futile effort.

The sounds of tearing, biting, and chewing gradually drowned out the cries for help. Hearing the sounds, everyone gathered by the windows on the playground side. Scattered figures stood before the windows on several floors, silently watching the tragedy unfolding on the playground.

The boy on the first floor, who had failed to help his friend, had collapsed against the wall, his whole body trembling uncontrollably. He clutched his ears tightly, unwilling to hear the cruel sounds. Yan Shaohang also came out with the others. Watching his classmate, with whom he had spent so much time, become food for zombies in the blink of an eye, many people couldn’t bear it and turned their faces away, unwilling to watch any longer. Only Yan Shaohang had a solemn expression, his eyes focused on the zombies gathered together, devouring the torn body of the boy.

They had been safely moving around those zombies many times these days, so why was it that the boy today couldn’t escape the encirclement of the ordinary zombies? What variable had occurred that they hadn’t noticed in time?

Yan Shaohang stared intently at the horde of zombies wriggling together. In the darkness, when the zombies gathered together, they resembled an alien creature with many legs. When they squeezed together, they didn’t consider whether the zombies being crushed underneath would have their limbs broken or their brains explode. The crushed zombies also didn’t resist much, so each time they fought over prey like this, many zombies would be killed in the process.

But this time was different. Yan Shaohang clearly saw that many zombies were being pushed in a corner of the horde, as if there was something more terrifying than ordinary zombies lurking beneath them.