Survival in the Class: I'm the Only Boy on the Bus

Jiang Chen had just taken a step when he fell forward due to the shaking of the ground.

He quickly braced himself against the ground with his unsheathed katana to avoid falling.

Jiang Chen looked at the pebbles on the road. The pebbles bounced up and rolled everywhere with a clattering sound.

A deep rumble came from underground, like a giant bull roaring from the ground.

The river beside the road began to slosh, splashing against the bank like a mischievous child shaking a fish tank, only this fish tank was a bit bigger.

The ground didn't look like land at all; it looked more like ocean waves. Only the section of road where the bus was located was relatively stable; the rest of the road was undulating.

The surrounding mountains also began to sway irregularly.

The rubble and clods of earth on the mountain gathered together and rolled down with a whoosh, passing directly through the invisible wall and piling up between the bus and the portal.

The area two or three hundred meters behind the bus was also blocked by gravel, making it impossible to go forward or backward.

The mountain behind Chuanbei Middle School, Jiajingshan, shook the most violently, with the entire hillside collapsing downwards.

Trees, rubble, and mud slid down along with the horde of corpses, piling up directly behind Chuanbei Middle School. Fortunately, a river provided some buffer; otherwise, the landslide could have swept directly into the school.

However, the horde of zombies under the pile of rubble and mud was only a bridge away from Chuanbei Middle School, not to mention that the back gate of Chuanbei Middle School had collapsed, allowing zombies to come and go at will.

The buses on the highway were also shaking as the ground trembled. The girls inside the buses felt the shaking very clearly, and that's when they realized it was an earthquake.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen had made them wear seat belts beforehand; otherwise, they would have been thrown about and might have bumped their heads or scraped their arms.

Because the bus was swaying, many of the girls didn't have time to fasten their seatbelts, and it was thanks to Lu Wanzhou that they were able to fasten them quickly.

The girls only felt a pink figure flash by, heard the sound of seat belts being fastened, and then smelled Lu Wanzhou's pleasant rose scent. They then realized that Lu Wanzhou had already fastened their seat belts.

Lu Wanzhou herself became the last person on the bus to fasten her seatbelt.

Although she listened to Jiang Chen and fastened her seatbelt, she still turned her head and looked at Jiang Chen outside the bus with a worried expression.

Fortunately, this bus was a Class 4 bus, with much better shock absorption than a regular car, so the shaking inside the bus wasn't as intense as Jiang Chen felt outside.

Wen Ruyan sat in her seat, gripping the armrests tightly with both hands.

She quickly scanned the carriage, and after confirming that the girls were not injured, she immediately activated her talent.

A pale yellow crystal shield instantly covered each girl, as well as Jiang Chen outside the bus.

Wen Ruyan's shield can withstand 181 points of damage. Even if the bus overturns and rocks fall, it can definitely withstand a lot of damage. Although this four-story bus's B-level defense is not afraid of ordinary rocks, it's always better to be safe.

Outside the bus, Jiang Chen, protected by a shield, stood firm, supporting himself with his katana.

He wanted to confirm one thing: whether the system would prevent players from interfering with NPCs outside the instance area.

Jiang Chen slowly stretched his right hand out of the road, his palm pressed against the invisible wall, the touch feeling like touching glass.

Ripples spread across the surface of the air wall, centered on his palm.

The next second, a system notification exploded in Jiang Chen's and the girls' minds:

[WARNING! Team 43999, your instance is complete. Interfering with any NPC actions is strictly prohibited!]

On both huge screens, a line of red text appeared simultaneously, exactly the same as the system message:

[WARNING! Team 43999, your instance is complete. Interfering with any NPC actions is strictly prohibited!]

Jiang Chen withdrew his hand, already certain in his heart.

As expected! Captain Zhang was right!

Players can only perform actions that affect NPCs within dungeons.

But what if I force my way into Chuanbei Middle School?

Will I be able to get in?

Will the system simply erase me and the girls?

Jiang Chen didn't want to gamble, nor was he willing to gamble with the girls' lives.

He took one last look at the gate of Chuanbei Middle School.

At this time, the main gate of Chuanbei Middle School had collapsed, and the plaque with the four characters "Chuanbei Middle School" engraved on it was also broken.

Jiang Chen sighed softly.

If he were alone, he might try to break through the invisible wall and enter Chuanbei Middle School.

But Jiang Chen wasn't alone; there were about forty girls waiting for him on the bus.

Jiang Chen had no choice but to walk towards the bus.

For some unknown reason, the section of road where the bus was located swayed much less than other areas.

Jiang Chen gradually adapted to the undulations of the ground. As he walked back to the bus, he watched expressionlessly as the row of red characters on the screen slowly disappeared. Then he looked at the mounds of earth blocking the road in front of and behind the bus.

The mound of earth blocking the road is as tall as a person, completely blocking the road. Buses can't get out at all, and cars from outside can't get in either.

Chuanbei Middle School is completely trapped!

Jiang Chen frowned.

He felt that this instance was definitely not that simple.

The system first used a countdown to urge players to leave, and now it's blocking the road and broadcasting footage from Chuanbei Middle School to them.

Could there be a hidden quest? Or perhaps there's a hidden dungeon within the dungeon?

Otherwise, Jiang Chen couldn't understand why the system would go to such lengths.

Surely it can't be the system's twisted sense of humor that makes players watch helplessly as the teachers and students of Chuanbei Middle School leave, right?

"Xiao Chen! Come back!" Lu Wanzhou's anxious shouts pulled Jiang Chen back to reality.

Jiang Chen looked up and saw Lu Wanzhou gripping the car door frame with her left hand and stretching her right hand toward him with all her might. The girl's face was full of worry.

Lu Wanzhou breathed a slight sigh of relief when she saw that Xiao Chen was finally looking at her.

"Xiao Chen! It's not so bumpy in the car, get in first!"

Lan Xingyao rolled down the car window and called out to Jiang Chen:

"Sports Committee Member, get on the bus first!"

Bai Nuonuo pressed herself against the car window, her little face deathly pale, even her tuft of hair looked droopy with fright.

"Brother Jiang Chen! Come back first!"

Even on Sakura Hiyuki's usually icy face, a look of worry appeared.

She didn't want anything to happen to her master. If her master insisted on breaking into Chuanbei Middle School, she would definitely stand by his side!

The other girls were also calling out to Jiang Chen, urging him to get in the car first.

Without further hesitation, Jiang Chen grasped Lu Wanzhou's hand, leaned on his katana, and returned to the bus.

As soon as Jiang Chen got in the car, he felt that the shaking was significantly reduced.

But the atmosphere inside the carriage was very oppressive.

The girls stared intently at the two screens, and no one spoke.

Bai Nuonuo buried her face in the teddy bear, her ahoge drooping unhappily, revealing only a pair of worried eyes, which were fixed on Lin Wanfeng and the other firefighters on the screen.

She hugged the teddy bear tightly, worried that something might happen to Sister Wanfeng and the others, as well as to the students and teachers of Chuanbei Middle School.

After seeing Jiang Chen get into the car, Bai Nuonuo quickly reached out her little hand and grabbed his clothes, gently pulling him to sit next to her.

Jiang Chen also sat down next to Bai Nuonuo.

But as soon as he sat down, Bai Nuonuo rested her droopy head on his shoulder.

Her small, white hands tugged at Jiang Chen's clothes, as if that made her feel less afraid.

Wu Maiduo hugged the candy jar, her eyes fixed on the screen on her left.

Her fingers nervously rubbed back and forth on the jar.

This scene reminded her of the day her parents sacrificed themselves to protect the students.

She will never forget that day.

The sky was just as gray and the ground was shaking violently.

Her parents, in order to protect the students, remained permanently in that collapsed school building.

At that moment, the sound of machinery turning came from the roof of the vehicle.

The automatic Gatling gun seemed to have detected the zombies, and its six barrels slowly turned, aiming at the collapsed Jiajing Mountain.

But the distance wasn't enough, so the Gatling gun didn't fire. Even if it had, the bullets wouldn't have been able to penetrate the air wall.

At this moment, from the pile of rubble and mud at the back gate of Chuanbei Middle School, countless pale, rotting hands broke through the soil and grabbed wildly in the mud and rocks.

Only a small number of zombies trapped under the rubble and mud could crawl out.

The zombies that crawled out were covered in mud, with broken arms and legs.

Some people, in order to climb out of the mound, tore their lower bodies apart, dragging their rotting intestines along with them.

The zombies dragged their tattered bodies forward, then gathered together and slowly walked towards the bridge leading to Chuanbei Middle School.

Among these fifty or sixty zombies, there were even three mutated zombies.

Two C-rank Smokers and one B-rank Hunter.

Misfortunes never come singly...