IDMLA 13

Sometimes, the very thing you fear most is exactly what ends up happening.

That morning, Tang Tang had been worried, if a torrential downpour hit and the wind blew hard enough to shatter the windows, they’d be in serious trouble.

Sure enough, by noon, as the rain hammered down harder and the wind howled more ferociously, the windows began to buckle under the strain.

“Damn, this is bad! The wind’s too strong—the window’s about to give way!” Yan Chen shouted.

Outside, the wind was raging like a madman, battering everything with reckless fury and reducing visibility to a blur just a meter away.

The rain poured down with relentless fury, pelting the windows with a relentless *pat-pat-pat* sound. If they hadn’t clearly seen it was liquid, they’d have sworn it was hail!

The dorm’s window was set into a small balcony, and the space was too cramped to fit the bed frame they’d planned to shove against it as reinforcement. In the end, they had to resort to using quilts as a makeshift barrier.

Tang Tang and Yan Chen stood on either side of the window, straining to press the quilt against it. But the wind seemed almost targeted, constantly pushing the quilt out of the gaps they’d wedged it into.

Once the quilt slipped out, wind and rain would surge in together, sending a chill through the room.

Tang Tang sniffled, seriously worried she’d catch a cold.

She couldn’t afford to ease up on the pressure she was applying to the quilt.

“Thump-thump-thump—creeeak—”

!!!

Tang Tang suddenly heard a familiar, eerie sound and jolted in fright.

She looked up and saw that the zombies, which had rarely visited their window lately, had unknowingly begun to gather again.

“Damn, the wind and rain have washed away all the Fengyoujing(essential oil) we sprayed!” Tang Tang frowned.

Yan Chen noticed it too. “So what do we do now? We can’t just abandon the window!”

Right, the window still needed guarding.

For the first time, Tang Tang felt utterly at a loss.

Even when she’d planned to charge out alone to survive, she hadn’t been this scared. But now…

She glanced back at the three mutant figures still tied to the desk, unconscious yet straining with all their might to break free and attack her, as if to dull their own pain…

What a headache!

This wasn’t a one-person battle anymore!

This was a death combo of five people, with only two able to move!!

“Spray yourself all over with the essential oil first. I’ll hold the fort here for now.”

Under these circumstances, it was the only plan Tang Tang could think of.

Looking back, she was full of regret.

She should’ve clung to the system and demanded more advantages. At the very least, it shouldn’t have let her die the moment she entered the apocalypse.

This was only the second day into the end of the world! And she was already facing the threat of six or seven zombies banging their heads against the glass.

Tang Tang listened to the repeated thuds against the window, her heart pounding nervously in sync.

She was genuinely afraid she’d drop dead from a heart attack at this rate…

They took turns spraying themselves with the essential oil, and sure enough, it worked. The zombies outside sniffed the air, sensed the human scent fading, and slowed both the speed and force of their head-butts against the glass.

At least those two small bottles of essential oil hadn’t been wasted.

The two of them breathed a temporary sigh of relief.

Only then did they realize they’d been busy for hours and were starving.

“Growl—growl—growl.”

…Well, this is awkward. Given the current situation, there was no way to free up time to eat.

“Go eat, I’ll hold the window,” Yan Chen said, hearing the growling from beside him.

“That would be a waste of time. Let me find some string to tie the instant noodles to my wrist, when I want a bite, I’ll just lean over and take some.” Tang Tang had a flash of inspiration and came up with this brilliant idea.

“…Then tie one for me too.”

They fought tooth and nail, but by the next day, the window had a gaping hole in it.

A human-sized hole that let in a fierce draft, with rain pouring in unceremoniously.

Tang Tang was stunned, staring at the ‘person’ that had suddenly appeared on the balcony, crashed through the glass, and was drenched in rainwater.

The ‘person’ writhed on the ground for a moment, then stood up in a bizarre posture. Having shattered the glass, its body was riddled with shards, but from the wounds didn’t bleed.

Moments ago, Tang Tang and Yan Chen had been doing the same as yesterday, pressing the quilt against the window to shield themselves from the storm. But out of nowhere, a ‘person’ had flown in, and in the next second, it not only smashed through the glass but also sent both of them flying back.

Tang Tang stood there, clutching the quilt, frozen in shock.

The next second, the zombie that had flown in lunged at her.

“Watch out—!” Yan Chen, startled by the scene, shouted and charged over.

Tang Tang cursed under her breath.

She quickly rolled to the side.

Then she kicked the zombie hard in the back. In her panic, she didn’t care anymore, she grabbed the quilt in her hands and flung it over the zombie’s head, then proceeded to unleash a barrage of kicks.

Oh my god! Damn!

What the hell!

Not only could these zombies climb walls now, but they could freaking fly too?!

Was this some kind of joke? Did they have invisible wings or something?!

Tang Tang had no idea whether kicking like this would work, but she didn’t dare stop.

Yan Chen watched this delicate-looking woman suddenly unleash such a violent scene, and his originally charging footsteps faltered.

It wasn’t until the rain sweeping in through the broken glass hit his face that he snapped back to reality. He rushed over and grabbed Tang Tang.

“Wait, wait, stop kicking first, let’s lift it up and throw it out the window!”

Tang Tang also felt that she had become too irritable because of the apocalypse.

Hearing this, she calmed down a bit and gradually stopped her feet.

But her eyes never left it for even a second, afraid that the zombie’s resilience might be strong and it would be disastrous if it unexpectedly fought back.

Fortunately, the zombie’s intelligence seemed to have diminished considerably. Once covered with the quilt, it could only flail blindly, unable to find the exit.

The two of them worked together to lift the zombie along with the quilt, and following the large hole it had smashed through, they hurled it out with a whoosh.

Even though they were on the tenth floor—and despite the biting wind and torrential rain raging outside—they heard the heavy thud of something hitting the ground directly below their dorm room.

They looked at their own hands.

Just now, they had personally pushed the zombie down.

But the current situation didn’t allow them to reflect on what they had just done.

Because the window had a large hole, the scent of the other three people in the room was caught by zombies wandering nearby, and soon the first zombie close by rushed to the scene.

Tang Tang had neither a weapon nor a quilt in her hands. Looking down, she spotted the fitness equipment placed nearby.

A black iron rod, presumably used for stretching muscles.

She bent down, grabbed it, and thrust it at the zombie’s body. The zombie fell with the strike.

Hey!

This was way better than a fruit knife!

Tang Tang marveled with pleasant surprise, but then a second zombie rushed over, and she quickly focused her attention to stab at it.

Then came the third and fourth, each thrust hit its mark with precision, and it barely took any effort.