BC Chapter 77

Chapter 76

Now that she was certain she was indeed infected with the virus but hadn’t completely mutated, Lu Ziming’s courage grew accordingly.

Like now, Lu Ziming, who should have been hiding in the convenience store to endure the night, was out on the street, her foot stepping on the head of a mutated zombie. Behind her, several college students who had been scared out of their wits relaxed slightly, and their strength completely drained, they all collapsed on the ground like mud.

After rescuing them, Lu Ziming brought them back to her previously prepared hiding place – the All-Time Convenience Store.

On the counter was an inverted glass with a lit flashlight on top, serving as a simple lighting tool to diffuse the light.

Lu Ziming had fortunately rescued a total of five people, two women and three men, all students from Qingshui Medical University. They were originally part of the group hiding in the dormitory building. Later, about ten of them, anticipating the problems of water and food shortages, managed to escape from the dormitory building, hoping to find another way to survive. However, during their escape, they accidentally attracted the attention of mutated zombies, so most of their classmates were bitten to death by the zombies. Only a few of them ran for their lives, trying to escape the pursuit of the mutated zombies. Unfortunately, the mutated zombies were too fast, and after killing their classmates one by one, they were still able to catch up…

Having lost all hope, they cried out desperately for help on the street while mobilizing their full athletic potential to run for their lives.

Fortunately, the university campus area was in the suburbs, so there were basically no wandering zombies on the streets. Otherwise, with their shouting, they would have attracted all the zombies on the street to surround them.

After letting the students into the convenience store, Lu Ziming cautiously stood outside the store for a while, making sure that no other zombies were chasing them before entering the convenience store.

Using tape and paper from the store to seal the door of the convenience store, Lu Ziming stopped and turned to see the young people huddled together, still in shock. She took a few bottles of drinks from the store’s beverage cabinet and threw them to them.

“C-can we call you sister?” One of the girls, Zhang Yan, who had recovered first, nervously rubbed the beverage bottle in her hand, glancing timidly at Lu Ziming before asking softly.

“Just call me Lu Ziming.” Lu Ziming twisted open the cap of the mineral water bottle in her hand, took a sip, and looked at them, introducing herself.

“Oh, I’m Zhang Yan.”

“Li Zihao.”

“Yuan Na.”

“Sun Tianyu.”

“Fan Yiwen.” Out of courtesy, the students introduced themselves after hearing Lu Ziming’s name.

“…Sister Ziming, are you also… a mutant?” Zhang Yan, the girl who spoke first, was obviously the most socially skilled of the group. Even in the current situation, she quickly composed herself and began to inquire about the facts she most wanted to know.

“Mutant?” Lu Ziming was stunned. “Are you talking about those guys outside who eat people?”

“No, no.” Zhang Yan put down the bottle in her hand, looked up at Lu Ziming’s eyes and said, “Those people who became more powerful than ordinary people after receiving injections of research drugs.”

“…What do you mean?” Lu Ziming obviously knew very little about the current situation. After chatting with Zhang Yan, she understood what the other party was referring to.

It turned out that some students at their Qingshui Medical University had successfully conducted virus isolation experiments during these days of the virus outbreak, and some students had injected the isolated extract and successfully changed their physical qualities. Although these students hiding in the dormitory building rarely actively participated in the experiments, they were still in the same school, and the news quickly spread among the surviving teachers and students.

Most of the students were not optimistic about this, thinking that those people were actively seeking death and would also involve the students sheltering in the teaching building. A few people felt that someone had to do dangerous things, and if the virus was not cracked, there would be no way to completely prevent this kind of riot from happening again.

And Zhang Yan and her group of about ten people maintained a neutral attitude, believing that hope was created by oneself. They did not agree with doing nothing and waiting for death, nor did they agree with rashly injecting unknown drugs into their bodies. So they risked great danger and escaped from the school.

“Are you saying that before you escaped, you heard that the students doing research had already successfully conducted the relevant experiments?” Lu Ziming sorted out the information she had heard in her mind and asked Zhang Yan.

“Yes, when we escaped, they were preparing to do a second experiment, which was said to be using the substances extracted from those super-fast zombies. But this time, although we were in a hurry to escape, so we didn’t get to wait for them to experiment with specific results, I always feel that this time may not be successful.”