CH 14

Hao Jian also wasn’t sure, “It may be that I bumped into those zombies just now, so some parts are damaged!”

Lian Ru Ning suddenly felt lite it was going to be cold.

Hao Jian sighed, “Leave here first. Please pay attention to the door. It looks like the lock is a little broken even if it looks locked. Don’t let the zombies open the door.”

The car drove past long before the group of zombies cam around, but the movement of the car was too loud, and it felt that the zombies within a radius were all alarmed. Even if the car did not enter their field of vision, they all moved with the wind.

However, zombies have no explosive power, and their speed is far less than half that of humans, and soon, they will no longer be able to see them. Even so, they also know that although zombies are not fast, they don’t get tired and they will always chase the. Everyone knows what happened between the tortoise and the hare, and they will not become arrogant rabbits.

The sound of the car is getting louder and louder, and the car was also slowing down. Hao Jian gritted her teeth and asked Lian Ru Ning to open her offline map to see if there was a suitable shelter nearby.

“There are town government office buildings, a health clinic, a bank, two elementary schools, and a middle school nearby.”

“Town government offices and health centers are not safe, but banks and schools are worth considering.”

“There are more residential houses and supermarkets near the bank.” Lian Ru Ning reminded Hao Jian that these types of places are the often filled with a lot of people, and it is also a place where zombies were most likely to wander. In comparison, elementary and middle school students would definitely choose to go home when the incident occurred, so there would be a lot fewer zombies left in schools.

“The neighborhood of the school id relatively remote.” Lian Ru Ning added.

The town’s school is not as good as the city’s school. Generally, this type of school is relatively run-down and the students who attends are those from nearby villages, so it is not too big and the location is not very good.

“Lead the way.” Hao Jian said.

She turned the car to the left and after passing by a dozen residential buildings on the side of the road, a building could be seen standing alone on the side of the field. There is an iron plate in front of it with the words “Xinhe Primary School.” engraved on it.

There is a building next to the school. According to its style, it looks like a small shop. On the right side of the school is a village road going deep and private houses.

This elementary school looks a bit dilapidated, and even the iron gates are rusty and it looks like it hasn’t been repaired for a long time. But the iron door was closed tightly and they didn’t even know if it was locked.

“I’ll go down and have a look, you can help pay attention to the situation.” Hao Jian grabbed the crowbar and the walkie-walkie before getting out of the car. Lian Ru Ning also got out of the car, holding a flashlight in her hand and said, “I’ll go with you!”

Hao Jian thought for a while, but didn’t refuse. She walked to the iron gate, touched the lock and found that it was locked. looking up above, the entrance of the school was around three meters high and the iron hate is more than two meters high. There are spikes on it to prevent people from climbing over.

“It was locked from the inside, there should be someone inside.” Hao Jian said.

Lian Ru Ning glanced back at the roads and quiet houses that disappeared under the dark night filled with thick ink. She gritted her teeth and shouted inwardly, “Is there anyone there?”

“Is there anyone. . . anyone. . . anyone. . .”

Her voice echoed on the empty court and reverberated across the sky at the same time. Finally, there was some movement in the houses, but no one still came out.

Hao Jian was taken aback by her shout but she didn’t stop her either. She was instead paying attention to whether there were attracted zombies around.

After a while, there was finally a slight movement in the school and they saw a beam of light dangling over. Lian Ru Ning shone the flashlight and saw a petite woman approaching cautiously.

Suddenly, Hao Jian roared, “Open the gate!”

The woman was taken aback and immediately stopped. Lian Ru Ning was confused as to why Hao Jian was suddenly so anxious, but she saw Hao Jian biting the flashlight, raised the crowbar and waved it back.

‘Ah. . .’ The groan of the zombies sounded in her ears, and she got goosebumps all over her body. She couldn’t help but knock on the gate quickly, “Open the gate!”

The woman was even more reluctant to open her eyes. Her eyes were on Hao Jian who was fighting with the zombies. She saw Hao Jian calmly knocking zombie heads like breaking watermelon. She felt her stomach churning and suddenly vomited.

“Open the door.” Hao Jian knocked on the iron gate with the crowbar when the woman vomited. She hesitated for a moment before coming over and open the gate for them.

Hao Jian placed the bloody crowbar on the sink and cleaned it. Lian Ru Ning also washed her face with water on the side. The woman stood two meters away from them, looking at them warily.

“You can rest assured that we’re not infected.” Lian Ru Ning explained.

The woman was relieved when she heard Lian Ru Ning.

“By the way, my name is Lian Ru Ning, and she’s Hao Jian. I haven’t thanked you yet for opening the gate.” Lian Ru Ning said with a smile.

“I, my name is Xin Ting.” The woman responded weakly.

Xin Ting was an intern teacher in the school. Because she was far away from home, she has always lived in the school’s teacher dormitory. She had to stay in school on duty when the zombie virus broke out, so she was never aware of the situation outside. When she discovered the situation in hindsight, she had already missed the time to escape, so she could only continue to stay in school and wait for rescue.

She knew the situation outside from Lian Ru Ning’s mouth, and knew that the rescue might never come and suddenly felt a little disappointed. She had always been very timid and fearful. It’s impossible for her to go home like Hao Jian and Lian Ru Ning and go through the hordes of zombies. Thinking about it this way, she seems to be trapped here to die.

“Uuuuu. . .” Xin Ting’s tears fell and Lian Ru Ning suddenly got a little flustered. She knew how it feels losing all hope, as if the whole world had collapsed. If she hadn’t been obsessed with finding her family, she was afraid she would’ve lived like a zombie.

She wanted to persuade Xin Ting to cheer up but her timidity was rooted in her bones and she couldn’t instigate Xin Ting to find a goal to live like she did.

“I’m sorry.” Lian Ru Ning apologized in a low voice. She shouldn’t have told Xin Ting this cruel fact.

Xin Ting cried harder and harder. Lain Ru Ning panicked and wanted to ask Hao Jian for help, only to find that she had opened the front cover of the car and was focused on checking the car’s condition.

“You can repair cars?” Lian Ru Ning asked in surprise.

Hao Jian turned her head, “No.”

“. . .” Lain Ru Ning paused, erasing the thought of her asking help in comforting Xin Ting.

It was impossible for Hao Jian not hearing Xin Ting’s loud cry but she still pretended to fix the car without even knowing how to just so that she would not interfere with Xin Ting’s affairs.

Xin Ting heard Hao Jian’s answer and replied weakly while sobbing, “I, I can repair the car”

Lian Ru Ning was so startled that she didn’t speak for while. Xin Ting wiped away her tears and explained, “Although I’m a teacher, my family runs an auto repair shop. I learned some simple car repair skills.”

“Then we are really lucky!” Lian Ru Ning smiled.

Xin Ting sobbed an walked to Hao Jian’s side and asked, “Can you help me?”

Hao Jian nodded, raised the flashlight to help her with the light and explained the situation. Xin Ting first inspected the chassis and found no abnormalities, she then inspected various ball joints. After inspecting the balance bar connecting rod, she found that there was a problem with the shock absorber strut bearing.

“There’s no new shock-absorbing strut bearing that can be used to replace but there is still no big problem with this amount of damage.” Xin Ting explained.

Hao Jian scratched her head and said, “As long as there is no major problem, let’s go ahead!”

“Thanks for your hard work.” Lian Ru Ning handed Xin Ting a water bottle to rink and she took it and smiled.

“By the way, have you eaten anything?” Lian Ru Ning took out the lunchbox that the You couple had packed for them from the car.

Xin Ting looked at the lunchbox and swallowed imperceptibly. But her education told her, “No, it’s not easy to find something to eat at this time, eat it!”

“It’s not an easy-to-preserve food, eat it before it rots away!” Hao Jian also said.

Xin Ting took the lunch box hesitantly, looked at them again, and said. “Let’s eat together!”

Neither Lian Ru Ning nor Hao Jian objected. They have consumed a lot of energy and needed a lot of energy after dinner. Although they were not hungry, they still have a lot of appetite.

After eating their meals, Xin Ting glanced at her watch and found that it was already four o’clock in the morning. However, Lian Ru Ning and Hao Jian had taken a very short break so they listened to Xin Ting’s suggestion to sleep first in the teacher’s dormitory.

Xinhe Primary School is not very big. It only has three-story teaching building, a basketball and a badminton court. Opposite the teaching building is a two-story teacher’s dormitory with a total of seven or eight rooms.

“Usually they are assigned to teachers who live far away from here. They don’t have much here but they didn’t take away anything like mattresses when they left, so you can choose a room at will. Go and rest.”

Lian Ru Ning wasn’t as embarrassed, “Where to sleep isn’t important right now, but want to know if there’s electricity and hot water. . .”

Xin Ting understood that Lian Ru Ning was already sweating when she was just helping in looking at the car just now. If she didn’t take a shower, she might smell in the morning.

“We have been out of power here, but power outages here are common and in order for daily teaching activities to carried out normally, our school owns a generator.”

“Forget it, if the generator makes too much noise, it will attract zombies.” Lian Ru Ning said.

After Lian Ru Ning rubbed her body with cold water, she went to rest first. She and Hao Jian agreed to rest one at a time while the other watches the night, in case any zombies come over. She rested for four hours first, and the walkie-walkie was placed next to her pillow so that Hao Jian could wake her up at any time.

When Hao Jian was patrolling around the school, she found several one-meter-long wooden sticks. She weighed them in her hand and found a kitchen knife. She sharpened one end of the stick and tried it on a basketball. It was very effective.

Hearing the unusual sound of footsteps, Hao Jian became vigilant and aimed the wooden spear behind her.

“Ah!” Xin Ting exclaimed. If she got any closer, the spear would’ve scratched her face.

“It’s you!” Hao Jian withdrew the wooden spear. Her experience these past few days has made her nerves a little more sensitive and her movements sharper.

“You, why don’t you rest?” Xin Ting was so scared that her heart was still thumping.

“I’ll take a rest later,” Hao Jian said, and asked questioningly, “On the contrary, how about you, why don’t you take a rest?”

“I, I can’t sleep.” Xin Ting took a deep breath. “As soon as I close my eyes, I see students who just got back from their cleaning duties biting other children of the same age. At that time, the school was in chaos. A few students, teachers on duty. . . Everyone tried to flee desperately. The school that was already ruined became even more desolate after that. I’m scared. . .”

She wants to escape too, but where can she escape? She was assigned here for an internship. She was hundreds of miles away from home, without transportation, and it was very chaotic outside. How could she escape from here?

“Will you stay her too? It’s safe here. There is a small shop at the door, and there’s enough food to support us for a while. There are farmlands nearby and we can also pick some vegetables in the fields to eat.” Xin Ting was nervous, enough to make her suggestion.

Hao Jian looked at her in silence for a while before saying, “Lian Ru Ning is also scared.”

Xin Ting looked at her in confusion, only to hear her continue saying, “Lian Ru Ning is also afraid of all this, but she wants to go home and find her family, So even if she feels scared, she bravely stood up, went out, and head to the most dangerous place just for the obsession in her heart.

It’s normal to be afraid when you encounter such a thing. But if you shrink back because of fear and retreat blindly without a fight like that, might as well be dead.”

Xin Ting shook her head and said, “But you don’t even know how terrible it is!”

“The worst thing that could happen is dying.” Hao Jian said lightly.

“Do you not cherish life so much?”

“It’s not that I don’t cherish life, but there are many ways to live. You can choose the one that you think is the most meaningful. I chose to leave with her, and it won’t necessarily lead to the loss of my life. Just like if you stay here, it won’t necessarily mean that you’re safe.”

Xin Ting couldn’t understand, but after five hours, she soberly realized that Hao Jian was right.