Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

"Correct."

"Then drive to that alley over there. I know a place that's just across the wall from the playground," An Suxin pointed to an alley full of garbage, with memories in her eyes. "When I was studying here, I skipped a lot of classes from there."

Chapter 9 Rescue

The garbage-filled alley was filled with a foul stench, but at this moment, the garbage served as an excellent cover.

Just across the wall is the playground of Yuntai High School.

Chu Xiao climbed up the wall by stepping on the roof of the car. The scene in front of him made him gasp. The entire playground was full of hideous zombies. The green lawn was covered with large patches of dirty blood. The bloody smell was so strong that it couldn't even cover up the stench of the garbage dump.

In the teaching building farther away, the screams never stopped. It was a densely packed place where nearly ten thousand people gathered. God knew what kind of horrible nest of flesh and blood it had become.

In the opposite corner of the playground was the sports equipment warehouse where his sister was hiding. From a distance, the door of the equipment room was closed, and the people inside should be fine for the time being.

My sister replied on my phone: "Be careful, brother. I'm waiting for you."

"...Ah, I'll be right there."

Faced with such a large number of zombies, rushing in directly would be almost like seeking death. Fortunately, An Suxin had already prepared for the current situation when she was at the convenience store.

In addition to collecting a large amount of water and food, she also stockpiled several strings of firecrackers - this was truly an unexpected surprise. In those days, fireworks were prohibited in the city, so it was considered a great fortune to come across some.

An Suxin tied a cigarette to the fuse of a firecracker to make a simple timing device, and then hung the firecracker on the wall on the other side away from their location.

"When the firecrackers go off in a while, we will climb over the wall into the school and rescue your sister as quickly as possible. If everything goes well, we should return here immediately, climb over the wall back to the car, and then quickly leave the crowded area." An Suxin has adapted well to her role as a think tank partner. With her thinking, Chu Xiao really feels a lot more relaxed. "There is a circle of greening shrubs outside the playground. We can hide in the shrubs and move. The green belt can take us all the way to the back of the equipment room, but we also have to take sudden situations into consideration, so I have also planned a second escape route..."

Seeing An Suxin's well-organized appearance, Chu Xiao couldn't help but sigh: "Sometimes I really think that you are so smart that you should be able to survive on your own even if you don't rely on me."

"I used to think so too," An Suxin said calmly, "and then you know, I went to your company and was so helpless that I was ready to sell my body and become the 'secretary' of that middle-aged man."

Chu Xiao heard the self-mockery in An Suxin's voice, and there seemed to be a hint of relief.

"This is for you." He handed the pistol he had just found on the policeman's body to An Suxin, which still had three bullets in it.

"What are you doing for me? This thing is an SSR-level artifact at a time like this."

"I'm always the one who gets criticized when I play FPS games. I'm called the 'body outline master'. Forget about playing with guns," Chu Xiao shrugged. "I'll feel more at ease if you hold it."

Having said that, An Suxin knew that a pistol with bullets could save her life at a critical moment.

An Suxin hesitated for a moment, then took the pistol and said, "Well, at least if I'm caught by the zombies, I have a way to kill myself."

Chu Xiao didn't know how to continue this sentence. He just remembered the agreement just now. On a whim, he suddenly raised his hand to hold An Suxin's cheek and stared at the secretary's delicate face: "This kind of thing will not happen unless I die."

"Really?" Facing Chu Xiao's sudden attack, An Suxin's response was very calm, "I hope you can really do it."

Chu Xiao felt a little embarrassed, thinking that after all, she was not a young girl who had never seen the world, and of course she would not be moved by a promise. After all, they had only known each other for a short time, and even if they had had extremely intimate physical contact, they were still "strangers" in essence.

Chu Xiao felt a little disappointed, but soon, the sound of firecrackers rang out not far away, and the time for their action had come. He had to cheer up and focus on the adventure that was about to begin. As a result, he failed to notice that the ears of the calm and beautiful female secretary beside him had been burning red without knowing when...

……

"Sister Yan, did you hear any noise?" In the sports warehouse, Ruan Mengmeng suddenly raised her head and looked in a certain direction.

Chu Yan's spirit was already slightly weak, so she forced herself to be alert: "What's going on?"

Su Muhe let Chu Yan lean on his arms and listened carefully: "There seems to be some noise outside..."

"It's the sound of firecrackers." Ruan Mengmeng's senses were obviously more sensitive than the other two girls. "Is someone setting off firecrackers in school?"

Hearing Ruan Mengmeng's words, Chu Yan's spirits perked up, her face glowing, and she said with great certainty: "My brother is here to pick me up."

As if to confirm what she said, not long after, the girl's phone screen lit up, and a message from her brother came on her WeChat: "The small window behind the warehouse."

There was a window high up in the sports warehouse. It was very small and narrow, and at most only enough for a thin person to pass through.

Chu Yan said to Ruan Mengmeng, "Mengmeng, you are very agile, go up and take a look."

"Okay." Ruan Mengmeng agreed. She didn't even look for something to stand on. She just jumped up, easily placed her hands on the window sill, and then pushed hard, leaning half of her body out of the window.

Outside the window, Chu Xiao and his companion, who had just carefully emerged from the bushes, suddenly saw a beautiful, energetic and pretty face emerge from the window above their heads.

"Brother Xiao." Ruan Mengmeng smiled at the two people under the window.

Chu Xiao had met his sister's best friend a few times before. He only remembered that the girl's surname was Ruan and her family was well-connected. At this time, Chu Xiao naturally had no intention of greeting her. He lowered his voice and said quickly, "There are zombies guarding the main entrance. Let Xiaoyan jump down from the window. I'll catch her here. Be quick."

Ruan Mengmeng made an "OK" gesture to Chu Xiao, then retreated back into the warehouse.

"Sister Yan, it's Brother Xiao. He's here to pick you up." Ruan Mengmeng deliberately did not conceal her voice so that everyone else in the warehouse could hear it.

Chu Yan stood up with the help of Su Muhe. She glanced at the other people in the warehouse, her former classmates, her former friends: "Although some unpleasant things happened, we have also been through life and death together. It's time to say goodbye."

The girls looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

A rather fragile-looking girl couldn't help but persuade him, "You...you really want to go out? You might really die...We can stay here and wait for the government's rescue."

She seemed to have forgotten that she had once threatened to kick Chu Yan out.

"No one knows when or if rescue will come. There is a lack of food and water here, so it's not a place to stay for long." Chu Yan glanced at the girl and kindly reminded her, "I suggest you find a chance to leave here as soon as possible."

"Um...I also want to go with you, can that be okay?" The girl asked, as if she was persuaded by Chu Yan.

However, Chu Yan flatly refused: "Sorry, no."

At this time, the more people there are, the greater the risk. Chu Yan couldn't let her brother take unnecessary risks just for a moment of kindness. Besides, she herself might not be able to survive. Leaving here was just to be with the most important person in her life before she died.

"Sister Yan, it's time to go." On the other side, Ruan Mengmeng had already set up the jump box.

Chu Yan nodded, and with the help of Su Muhe, she climbed towards the window above.

"Su Su, I'm going to ask you to accompany me on an adventure." Chu Yan was not actually sure that she could survive if she left here. She was not afraid of death, but she felt guilty for bringing her best friend into a dangerous situation.

"Nothing, staying here is just waiting to die." Su Muhe said with a smile, "Besides, I don't like people like Feng Junnian. I feel that if I stay, I will most likely become a tool for him to vent his lust."

Chu Yan was injured, so she was the first to go out, Su Muhe was the second, and Ruan Mengmeng was quick and efficient, so she was placed last to prevent others from causing any trouble.

Chu Xiao caught his sister under the window. The girl's light body fell into his arms, and Chu Xiao felt like he had caught a falling butterfly.

"I picked you up." He stared into his sister's deep and beautiful eyes and said softly. His heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.

"I've been waiting for you, brother." Chu Yan ignored the dirty blood on Chu Xiao's body and hugged her brother tightly, as if... she was hugging her whole world.

Chapter 10: Twists and Turns

"I'm sorry to interrupt your sweet moment, but now is not the right time for intimacy."

Chu Yan was disturbed by the strange female voice beside her and frowned. She climbed up from Chu Xiao's arms and then noticed that there was a woman following her brother.

A young and stunningly beautiful woman.

The moment she saw her, Chu Yan instinctively felt disgusted: "Who are you?"

"Your brother's escape partner and physical lover." An Suxin shrugged, and this one sentence raised Chu Yan's blood pressure to the limit.

Almost instantly, a hint of murderous intent flashed across Chu Yan's eyes, but soon, this dark emotion was covered up by her.

——As the woman said, now is not the time to chat.

"Let's get out of here quickly." Chu Xiao saw that his sister was unwell, and without time to ask more questions, he picked up his sister and prepared to retreat.

"Wait a minute, brother," Chu Yan stopped Chu Xiao, "Meng Meng and Su Su come with us."

As he was speaking, a quiet and elegant face, as beautiful as a lotus in clear water, appeared from the window above his head. However, for some reason, her pretty face was red and she even had difficulty speaking: "Wait... wait a moment... wait a moment... I have some... some small problems here that need to be overcome..."

Su Muhe got stuck when he was climbing through the window.

"I...I want to make it clear first, this is not because I'm fat. I'm not fat at all, it's just...just..."

It's just because a certain part of her chest is really larger than that of her peers...

This brief farce diluted a lot of the tense and dangerous atmosphere. Chu Xiao grabbed Su Muhe's slender, white and tender little hand that was stretched out as if for help. Without caring about being gentle with her, he exerted force on his hands and forcibly pulled the girl out of the window.

Su Muhe let out a suppressed cry of pain, and fell into Chu Xiao's arms. Chu Xiao felt as if two balls of soft but elastic jelly were squeezed into his chest, and he intuitively felt how big the quiet girl in front of him was... well... broad-minded.

"It hurts so much..." After falling into Chu Xiao's arms, Su Muhe rubbed the pair of huge fruits on her chest with tears in her eyes.

This made Chu Xiao not know where to look. The girl in his arms had a slender and well-proportioned figure and seemed quite fragile, but the pair of weapons on her chest were trembling, which was truly amazing.

Ruan Mengmeng, who came out last, did not need anyone to help her. This little girl was agile and moved very neatly through the narrow window and landed steadily on the ground... But after she came out, she looked at Su Muhe with a complicated look...

"We have to hurry, there are more and more zombies on the playground." An Suxin, who was on the lookout, reminded.

According to the plan before coming here, they should now return to the car along the green belt at the corner of the wall, but something unexpected happened.

A young but resentful face appeared in the window.

"I'm very happy, Chu Yan, congratulations on reuniting with your family." Feng Junnian said sinisterly.

He was almost killed by Ruan Mengmeng just now. The resentment and jealousy that caused his spirit and ambition to be thwarted in an instant gathered into a mad poisonous fire, leaving the only thing on his mind was revenge.

"Feng Junnian, what do you want to do!" Ruan Mengmeng growled.

"What? We've been classmates for so long, and now we're going to separate. Of course I have to give you a big gift." After saying that, the boy suddenly took a deep breath, and then shouted at the top of his voice, "Zombies! Come over and eat!"

The volume was so loud that it could probably be heard clearly throughout the entire playground and even the teaching building.

"I really regret sparing your life!" Ruan Mengmeng wished she could rush back and tear the boy apart with her bare hands.

Listening to the roars of the approaching zombies, Feng Junnian just said "You have no chance" and quickly retreated back to the warehouse - he had to let his "men" block the warehouse door to prevent the zombies he deliberately lured from rushing into his "shelter".

Several people's faces turned very ugly, and they had no time to care about the boy who was deliberately doing bad things, because the nearest zombie had appeared in their sight. The zombies in the whole school had been attracted, like sharks smelling blood, and began to madly surround them.

"There's no way out!" Chu Xiao shouted - there was no point in lowering his voice at this point, "Plan B!"

An Suxin had made two preparations before taking action. If the plan encountered setbacks, she would immediately change the route to escape - she was also a graduate of Yuntai High School and remembered the routes in the school quite clearly.

"Run over there! To the lab building!"

Chu Xiao carried his sister on his back, picked up a golf club, and smashed a zombie's head head-on: "Quick!"

Several girls quickly followed, and An Suxin even took out her pistol and ran beside Chu Xiao - she only had three bullets and they had to be used at critical moments!

At this time, Ruan Mengmeng shouted to Chu Xiao: "Brother Xiao, lend me a weapon!"

Chu Xiao didn't think much about it and pulled out the samurai sword from behind and threw it over.

Ruan Mengmeng took the knife with one hand, and her expression suddenly changed. There was no trace of fear, and a slightly fanatical joy appeared on her face: "Good guy!"

She shouted, rushed to Chu Xiao's side, and then drew her sword. The sword flashed, just like a strong wind spreading dry grass, lightning tearing through the clouds, and the zombie blocking their way was instantly decapitated. The girl easily jumped over the fallen corpse, dancing as lightly as a butterfly, swinging the sword powerfully and crisply like thunderbolt, and for a moment, no zombie could get close to her!

——What a skillful move! Who would have thought that this little girl is such a master with a knife!

Chu Xiao sighed in his heart, but his movements did not slow down at all. With Ruan Mengmeng as a strong supporter, Chu Xiao's pressure dropped sharply. He carried his sister on his back and rushed to the front before they were completely surrounded by the zombies. The high-speed swinging metal bat was no less lethal than Ruan Mengmeng at this moment. With almost desperate efforts, they managed to carve out a bloody path.

The group fled desperately, but the zombies behind them kept gathering and getting closer. Chu Xiao could even smell a strong smell of blood coming from behind him.

Fortunately, the school’s laboratory building was not far from the playground, and we arrived there quickly.

An Suxin chose the laboratory building for a reason. This building is usually not crowded, with only a few laboratory teachers' offices. Unless students are taking laboratory classes, there are almost no people.

Several people immediately stepped onto the stairs and rushed into the laboratory building. Chu Xiao put his sister down, turned around immediately, closed the tempered glass door of the laboratory building, and held it tightly with his body. Ruan Mengmeng decisively rushed up to help fasten the bolt. Zombies rushed up one by one, making a series of muffled sounds. The strong smell of blood hit Chu Xiao's sense of smell at close range. Through two layers of tempered glass, Chu Xiao clearly saw the zombies roaring with bloody mouths, constantly scratching the glass, leaving a trail of blood marks.

At this moment, Chu Xiao was extremely grateful that Yuntai High School did not use inferior glass.

An Suxin rushed into the security room of the laboratory building first, saw the key on the table at a glance, and exclaimed in her heart that she was lucky.

The main door of the experimental building is divided into two parts, one is an electric rolling door, and the other is a tempered glass door that Chu Xiao and Ruan Mengmeng blocked.

As the metal rolling door slowly fell, separating them from the hideous and disgusting zombies, the few people could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Su Muhe, who had the weakest constitution, gasped heavily and collapsed to the ground, unable to stand up for a while. Even Ruan Mengmeng, the former bad girl, sat down on the ground after escaping death.

"It's not time to relax yet," Chu Xiao lowered his voice, "Does anyone know if there are any zombies in this building?"

The corridor of the laboratory building was very dark, and as the sky gradually darkened, it looked extremely eerie.

Chapter 11 Hope

There was a slight chill in the dark building, and the roars of the zombies outside the door could be heard faintly, but Chu Xiao already knew that after losing their target, the zombies would quickly disperse.