Chapter 5

Lin Tan Tan, finding herself clueless, scratched her hair and rummaged around to find her current address. Suddenly realising something, she turned on the phone, unlocked it with her fingerprint, and logged into the map software.

The antique machine proved very difficult to use, it contained so many apps that it was difficult to find the map software she was looking for. You had to click and poke at various spots; watching the small circle on the top keep spinning, it was quite interesting.

After tossing for a while, she finally saw her position.

“Um”, Lin Tantan found that she was not very good at reading this kind of map, she scratched her head and looked at it for a long time before finally realising that she was in the dormitory area of XX University in Yang City, Jin Province…

Lin Tan Tan’s heart started to jump crazily again, wasn’t this the city Ye Xiao was in at this time?

She had thoroughly studied Ye Xiao’s life; she clearly remembered where he appeared on a certain day, what he did, and what impact it had. This kind of list that could fill several large sheets naturally also contained information about all the places where he appeared.

There were two university towns in Yang City, one was in the South and the other was in the North, and she was currently in the South University Town, and the place where Ye Xiao would appear tomorrow would be the North University Town!

A sentence popped up in Lin Tan Tan’s mind suddenly, from the South to the North, the swallows fly apart*… Ahh! What was she thinking? If she could be in the same city as her idol, she should raise a glass to celebrate. If one of them is in the South of the whole country while the other in the North, she would try to reach him as soon as possible even if she has to use an airplane and fight against zombie birds.

…Well, she didn’t seem to be able to fly a plane.

She hastened to study the map carefully, and then started to pack up.

She had read some guides about what to prepare if you were in the last days.

Weapons, medicine, food and drinking water, all of these were indispensable.

However, Lin Tan Tan looked around, was a fruit knife a weapon? Cold spirit was also a medicine, right? Food? What about biscuits, buns, milk, instant noodles, potato chips, spicy chicken wings, plums, nougat, apples and bananas, Lin Tan Tan ransacked the entire dormitory like a sweeper, and only managed to collect supplies enough to fill a schoolbag to eat, most of them being snacks that wouldn’t fill the stomach.

As for water, there were two bottles of mineral water. She went around again, found a clean bottle, and poured out the little hot water left in the kettle.

When she was about to leave, she found herself still wearing pyjamas, so she had to look for clothes everywhere, and then remembered that the clothes should be in the closet, but the closet was still blocked by the bed, so she had to drag the bed out again.

She managed to put on her clothes, although it was still cold, she was worried about hindering her movements, so she gave up the big coat and changed into a light one. The pants were a pair of jeans resistant to dirt and wear. For shoes, she hesitated between the fleece boots with mid-heeled waterproof hard soles, and breathable sneakers, eventually choosing the more convenient sports shoes.

She found a hat for herself to wear, and also spotted a pack of masks in the closet, so she took one and put it on; stuffing the rest in her bag. In fact, when she beat the zombie just then, she was still quite worried that the mucus would splash on her face.

Lin Tan Tan jumped on the spot to cheer and warm herself up, then put on her bag and opened the broken wooden door.The zombie with its head and body separated was still lying at the door. The corridor was quiet, but still a little dark. It was long and scary.

Lin Tan Tan stepped over the corpses of the zombies and walked out carefully, walking past the closed bedroom doors. It was unknown whether it was because of the human scent; but when she passed the door of 311, the door suddenly slammed, and something inside kept banging on the door, which obviously meant there was a zombie inside.

In 314, there was a low cry, presumably a living person who was hiding and did not dare to come out. The other rooms were very quiet. Since today was the New Year’s Day, and there are three consecutive days off, not many people stayed in the school.

Lin Tan Tan came to the stairs smoothly. When she was walking down the stairs, the sensor light above her head automatically turned on. Lin Tan Tan was startled and held her breath, but then continued to walk down lightly. She could hear faint noises near the door; looking around, two zombies at the end of the corridor were slamming into a bedroom door, and then there was a screaming ensemble from inside, the sound was so loud that she could hear it from far away.

Lin Tan Tan continued to walk towards the first floor. As soon as she reached the end of the stairs, the smell of blood and rancidity came straight to her face. Not far from the stairs, there was a wide open bedroom door, and a zombie was biting a corpse there. There were long bloody splotches on the ground.

Lin Tan Tan could imagine that there should have been two people in the dormitory at that time; one suddenly turned into a corpse, and without giving the other party a chance to escape, threw them down as soon as they opened the door.

When Lin Tan Tan reached the zombie, the other party also raised its head and “looked” over, then decisively throwing away the corpse on the ground, rushed towards Lin Tan Tan with a mouth full of blood.

Lin Tantan suddenly thought of a line she had read before: Zombies that ate humans would improve in all aspects of attributes, the more they ate, the stronger they would become, and the sooner they would be able to evolve.

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*The original saying was: “”

So… I did a little research and came to the conclusion that this saying (from the South to the North, swallows fly apart) refers to the fact that when Spring arrives, barn swallows migrate from the South to the North; and in the process, they are separated since they use different paths. So Lin Tan Tan basically meant there was very little chance for her to meet with Ye Xiao since they were in opposite parts of the city.

If any reader is fluent in Chinese and in fact this saying means something else, do inform me in the comments.