Chapter 67.1

Hedgehog-head instantly became agitated, “How can I be dead? I didn’t die!”

He seemed to be eager to prove that he wasn’t dead and hurriedly leaned in front of Xiao Tangqiu, “Look at me! I am obviously a living person! How can I be dead?!”

Before hedgehog-head could get close to Xiao Tangqiu, Shen Yuan stepped forward and stood in front of Xiao Tangqiu. He coldly said, “Scram, don’t approach him.”

Hedgehog-head felt upset, but after seeing Shen Yuan’s unrelenting look, he could only swallow it down again.

Xiao Tangqiu looked back at the collapsed teaching building. Although he had guessed that the scene before him was likely something that had already happened, he still couldn’t help feeling emotional. Even though humans considered themselves the master of all things, in the terrible face of natural disasters, human beings were too insignificant.

Without knowing when, the originally endless screams, yells, and wails completely disappeared. Only an air of death remained above the still violently shaking ruins. There was only silence all around.

Tang Mianmian looked at the ruins in front of him and asked with a look of confusion, “…So what are we here for?”

From the corner of Xiao Tangqiu’s eyes, he caught a glimpse of a certain place in the ruins that suddenly moved. He paused and gave a wry smile, “I have a bad feeling…”

Tang Mianmian immediately replied, “f.u.c.k! Shut up! Shut up!”

However, it was too late. The ruins not far in front of them suddenly moved, and then a hand stretched out from a pile of broken bricks and rubble!

“f.u.c.k!” Tang Mianmian blurted out instantly, “Plants vs. Zombies!”

As soon as his voice fell, the owner of that hand struggled to crawl out of the rubble. It was a student covered in blood.

“f.u.c.k! It actually came!”

It was a male student whose neck was broken. It crawled out slowly, its head swaying and twisting about. When it smelled the breath of a living person, it immediately became excited and rushed towards them.

Behind that male student, more and more students who “resurrected from the dead” crawled out of the ruins of the teaching building and staggered towards them.

Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t help but curse, “Why this again? We need to fight zombies again?!”

As soon as his words fell, he learned the truth. Because Kisaragi once again drew out the longsword in her hand, and without hesitation, she cut off the head of the student zombie who leaped at them.

“What are you doing?!” Hedgehog-head’s eyes were almost popped out and he rushed to stop her, “That’s my cla.s.smate!”

Kisaragi said coldly, “That’s not your cla.s.smate anymore.”

Xiao Tangqiu looked at hedgehog-head and saw that there was nothing unusual about him and he didn’t look like a zombie. He seemed really normal. Although he felt a little strange about it, he still said, “They are all dead, can’t you tell?”

Hedgehog-head gritted his teeth, “Even if they are dead, you can’t do this to them…”

Tang Mianmian couldn’t help but say, “Trouble you to wake up! If you don’t kill them, they will kill you!”

Hedgehog-head gritted his teeth and said, “Why are we killing them? We just have to run away!”

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly said, “Do you think we can still get out?”

Hedgehog-head was taken aback, “What do you mean? What do you mean by being unable to get out?”

He turned around and rushed towards the school gate. But when he got to the school gate, he was blocked by an invisible barrier and even bounced back and fell to the ground.

“What the h.e.l.l is going on? Why can’t I get out? Did you do something to me?”

Duan Hongzhen sneered, “Don’t worry, we are not that leisurely.”

Hedgehog-head was dazed for a while, and then reluctantly asked, “Then what should we do to escape?”

Kisaragi did not answer.

Xiao Tangqiu gave a wry smile, “…I’m afraid we have to clear all the zombies in the campus first.”

Hedgehog-head immediately cried, “How is that possible? We can’t do it with just the few of us!” How many students were there in the school? How could it be possible with just the few of them?

Tang Mianmian added, “Not only that, but it must be done before dawn.”

Hedgehog-head shook his head, “That is impossible to do…”

Xiao Tangqiu said lightly, “Otherwise, we will never be able to leave here.”

Hedgehog-head hesitated, “Does it have to be this way?”

Xiao Tangqiu, “It must be this way.”

Hedgehog-head was silent for a long time. It wasn’t until more and more zombies approached and surrounded them that he gritted his teeth and shouted, “Fine then! I will join you!”

He bent down and picked up a broken steel bar from the ground, but hesitated and dared not start.

Everyone in the Reincarnation Team glanced at each other. Based on their previous experience, it seemed that they had to clean up the zombies in this school with the Miko again. Although they were exhausted physically and mentally, they could only bite the bullet and do it.

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian each took out their weapons. They weighed their own strength, and then chose a corner with a small number of zombies. That hedgehog-head probably thought that it wasn’t good to let Kisaragi, a girl, be alone, so he rushed to help her.

While dealing with the zombies, Tang Mianmian asked Xiao Tangqiu quietly, “What’s the matter? Why can’t we leave this school? When we were fighting zombies at the abandoned station before, those newcomers were obviously free to leave…”

Xiao Tangqiu shook his head, “We should be able to leave, but that hedgehog-head might not.”

Tang Mianmian was taken aback, “What do you mean?”

Xiao Tangqiu said, “I was just guessing. I guessed that hedgehog-head can’t leave this school. I didn’t expect my guess to be right.”

Tang Mianmian was stunned for a while, and there was a glimmer of insight on his face, “So, you mean…”

Xiao Tangqiu interrupted him, “Don’t think about too much right now, we still have a fierce battle to fight. It’s more important to clear the zombies here.”

Tang Mianmian nodded and clenched the dagger in his hand, “Understood!”

Hedgehog-head couldn’t bear to attack his former cla.s.smates and friends at first, but after being scratched several times and almost dying in the hands of zombies, he gradually let go of his unwillingness and started to wave the steel bar in his hands with red eyes and killing intent.

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian were already veterans of killing zombies. The previous fierce battle allowed them to deal with these zombies with ease, and the two could even chat while beating the zombies.

Tang Mianmian cut off the head of the zombie with a dagger. His dagger had been specially modified to expand and contract freely. It was very suitable for sneak attacks. “Qiuqiu, I always feel that something is off. Do you feel that way?”

Xiao Tangqiu shot a zombie’s head with an arrow, “I felt it long ago.”

Tang Mianmian quickly asked, “So what is wrong?”

Xiao Tangqiu looked up at the sky, “…It’s not light yet.”

Tang Mianmian paused, and then suddenly realized, “Yeah! Why hasn’t the sky turned bright? This night is too long, right?”

It stood to reason that they should have returned to the tunnel before dawn. But even now, the sky showed no sign of brightening.

This is obviously against logic. Although they couldn’t accurately tell the time and could only estimate within the instance, the both of them still felt that the pa.s.sage of time was abnormal. So there must be something wrong.

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian looked at each other and Xiao Tangqiu nodded, “Let’s wait and see.”

While Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian continued to kill zombies, they began to pay attention to the pa.s.sage of time. But until they cleared the zombies in this area, the sky above their heads remained pitch black with no signs of brightening.

If they had only suspected that there was a problem with the pa.s.sage of time before, then they were sure now that there was definitely a problem with the pa.s.sage of time!

Xiao Tangqiu frowned and asked Xue Junli and others, “Did you realize? The sky still hasn’t turned bright.”

Xue Junli’s gaze darkened, “That’s right.”

Duan Hongzhen scoffed, “I realized a long time ago. It’s really strange. The day before, it couldn’t wait for us to kill the zombies before it dawned. Today, it seems like dawn is waiting for us to kill the zombies first.”

Yu Fuling also frowned and said, “It really is strange.”

At this moment, Sai Lulu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, “Maybe it is because we successfully triggered the plot.”

Tang Mianmian’s eyes suddenly brightened, “Yes! That is possible! That proves that we are not on the wrong path!”

Xiao Tangqiu still faintly felt that something was wrong. If successfully triggering the plot meant that they wouldn’t return to the tunnel again, then what was the point of the plot in Hundred Ghost Town?

At this moment, hedgehog-head suddenly asked, “Trigger the plot? What do you mean?”