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

[BGM: My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark-Fall Out Boy]

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Jiang Chen was unaware that his slight display of skill had shocked the entire Golden Scale City command center.

He was leisurely driving his red Ferrari, speeding along the city walls of Golden Scale City at a speed of around 120 km/h.

Jiang Chen rested his left hand on the steering wheel, his elbow against the car window.

Jiang Chen rolled down all the car windows.

The wind whistled in my ears, and golden leaves were swept up from the treetops by the airflow, chasing the rear of the car for a distance before falling back to the ground.

Jiang Chen didn't see many groups of zombies along the way.

Occasionally, a few incomplete corpses can be seen on the road, lying beside the highway guardrail or in the grass at the edge. Their bodies have stopped moving, and only the headless necks are left with blackish-brown liquid slowly dripping from the severed ends.

It seems that when the girls' bus passed by, the Gatling gun on the roof had already cleared away all the Japanese zombies along the way.

The red Ferrari drove along the city wall, whose curves extended to its right, the gray-white surface gleaming with a cool light in the beautiful sunlight.

However, the closer one gets to the west gate, the more noticeable and bloody the dark brown blood and severed limbs and remains become on the gray-white walls.

The road surface is not very smooth, and there are already craters of various sizes.

Gradually, Jiang Chen saw the shadow of the [100,000-level zombie horde].

It was a black wave, seemingly rising and falling with the gale, and the roars of the zombies were deafening, as if an airplane was taking off overhead.

Bullets rained down from the city walls, forming a continuous curtain of crimson smoke. Every second, countless bullets, trailing crimson flames, crashed into the black waves.

From a distance, Golden Scale City appears as if it is using a crimson rain curtain to resist the gradually encroaching black ocean.

The crimson rain curtain kept most of the D-level and C-level Japanese zombies out of the barrage, but the A-level tank zombies were able to ignore the bullet damage and charge toward the west gate.

The A-class tank zombie was significantly taller than the surrounding zombies. When it walked, its thick arms supported it on the ground, making it look like three thick pillars were slamming into the ground, and the ground would tremble slightly with each step it took.

This made it seem as if the West Gate was experiencing a small earthquake.

When bullets hit an A-level tank zombie, they only create a layer of tiny sparks; ordinary bullets simply cannot penetrate it.

However, a few sniper bullets still managed to hit the eyes of the A-level tank zombies directly, instantly blowing their heads off.

The bullet was fired by a sniper, but there weren't many snipers deployed at the west gate of Golden Scale City. The People's Liberation Army had to risk their lives to drop cluster bombs on the A-level tank zombies near the city gate.

Cluster bombs have a limited range and are therefore less effective against tank zombies.

Getting too close could affect the city gate and comrades.

This was a standard suicide mission; every soldier carrying a cluster bomb knew they were unlikely to return.

As Jiang Chen drove his red Ferrari along the city wall toward the West Gate, he turned his head to the right.

He discovered that behind the [6-level zombie horde], the six red portals that could continuously spit out Japanese chicken zombies were long gone.

Presumably, after he killed Kageyama Hitomi, the red portal lost its mental support and closed directly.

With his left hand, Jiang Chen steered the red Ferrari, dodging craters, while with his right hand, he drew his A-grade Golden Desert Eagle and unleashed a barrage of headshots on the A-grade tank zombies beside him.

Jiang Chen's bullets dealt approximately 3000 damage, plus a 50% penetration effect that ignored defense.

The bullet precisely pierced the side of the tank zombie's skull, taking a large chunk of skull and its already decaying internal tissue with it as it exited from the other side.

The tank zombie lost its support and fell forward due to inertia, kicking up a cloud of dust as it hit the ground.

Most of the bullets Jiang Chen fired blew the head off one tank zombie, but there were also cases where a single bullet blew off two or even three A-level tank zombies.

Under an endless barrage of bullets overhead, amidst a horde of A-class tank zombies, the bright red Ferrari unleashed its frenzied engine, piercing straight through like a sharp sword. Wherever the sword passed, the A-class tank zombies fell to the ground.

The People's Liberation Army soldiers on top of the city wall witnessed such a shocking scene, and they were all filled with astonishment.

They all knew how difficult it was to shoot an A-level tank zombie in the head from a moving vehicle at high speed. Only a sniper who trained day after day could do that, right?

If the People's Liberation Army soldiers knew that Jiang Chen was using a Desert Eagle without a scope as a sniper rifle, they would probably be even more surprised. Snipers would definitely want to learn from Jiang Chen.

After all, the Desert Eagle's recoil is the highest among mass-produced handguns. It's like using a hammer drill to drill into a wall; once the drill is powered on, your arm will be shaken along with it.

If an ordinary person fires a few shots with a Desert Eagle, their wrist will feel excruciating pain, and their hand could even be shattered by the impact.

If you want to use this thing as a sniper rifle, you need to have great strength and control in your arm.

But for Jiang Chen, it was just an everyday occurrence.

Amidst the exclamations and shocked gazes of the People's Liberation Army soldiers, Jiang Chen sped toward the west gate of the city.

...

In front of the West City Gate.

A tank zombie has broken through the outermost defensive line and is less than 5 meters away from the city gate entrance.

Several soldiers stationed at the city gate were firing wildly with rifles and machine guns. The bullets struck its thick body with a dense thud, like a downpour hitting a tin roof.

The tank zombie did not slow down; it continued its heavy march toward the city gate, leaving a shallow dent in the ground with each step.

Behind the bunker, the squad leader was rapidly installing cluster bombs.

This was the second cluster bomb he had taken out of his equipment box. The first one had been used by the squad leader a few minutes earlier, and he had personally helped the squad leader put it on.

Before the squad leader rushed out with the cluster bomb, he just yelled at his brothers to take care of his mother, and then disappeared into the black smoke column produced by the explosion at the same time as the two tank zombies outside the city gate.

The deputy squad leader will remember the muffled thud of the explosion for the rest of his life, as well as the squad leader's severed finger that bounced in front of him.

The deputy squad leader strapped the cluster bomb to his front, with two intersecting straps wrapped around his shoulders and locked behind his back, quickly completing the wearing and securing of the cluster bomb.

He stood up from behind the bunker and walked toward the city gate, his eyes bloodshot and his gaze resolute.

The squad leader has already blocked an invasion of A-level tank zombies with his own body and even killed two A-level tank zombies. This time, we must not let the squad leader's sacrifice be in vain.

The deputy squad leader turned to his brothers behind him who were shouting at him and smiled:

"Don't tell my mom..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly pulled the fuses on the left and right and rushed towards the city gate.

Sparks popped out from the end of the fuse, hissing and reflecting his imposing, mountain-like back.

As the deputy squad leader ran, he could hear the sound of the fuse burning and could barely make out the shouts of his comrades behind him, which were drowned out by gunfire and explosions.

He saw the outline of the tank zombie ahead rapidly enlarging in his field of vision; the beast seemed to have spotted him as a delicious meal and was charging towards him.

The vice squad leader smirked disdainfully.

He suddenly remembered the defense of Sihang Warehouse, and how his predecessors, one by one, carried cluster bombs and leaped towards the group of Japanese soldiers holding shields at the bottom of the warehouse. The deputy squad leader suddenly felt incredibly honored and less afraid.

Just as the deputy squad leader was preparing to resolutely sacrifice himself, a very loud gunshot suddenly rang out.

The deputy squad leader suddenly saw the head of the A-level tank zombie explode.

The tank zombie lost its balance and was thrown to the right by inertia, its bulging body crashing onto the ground in front of the city gate, raising a cloud of dust and gravel.

The screeching sound of tires rubbing against the ground suddenly rang out.

A red Ferrari suddenly appeared in the deputy squad leader's field of vision, its tires leaving a short black trail on the ground. The bright red body was positioned in front of him, blocking the other A-level tank zombies that wanted to invade the city gate.

The Ferrari's driver's seat door suddenly opened, and a figure flashed out of the car.

The deputy squad leader only felt a gust of wind pass by him, and then he saw a boy standing in front of him, and the cluster bomb on his body was actually in the boy's hand.

The boy's figure disappeared again in the next moment.

An explosion rang out outside the west gate. The flash of light from the explosion was followed by a cloud of black smoke that billowed into the city gate, causing the squad leader and the People's Liberation Army soldiers behind him to cough.

The black smoke was dispersed by the wind, and only then could the squad leader and the People's Liberation Army soldiers see the city gate clearly.

The boy was standing on the roof of the red Ferrari, with his back to the crowd, facing the horde of 100,000 zombies outside the city gate.

He held a katana with a white scabbard in his left hand and the golden Desert Eagle, which was still emitting wisps of smoke, in his right hand. His hair and the hem of his clothes were being pulled backward by the airflow coming from the direction of the city gate.

Standing on the roof of the vehicle, Jiang Chen turned his head to look at the stunned People's Liberation Army soldiers and said this sentence calmly:

"Everyone step back. I will take over the battlefield."