Dusk arrived, and Shen Feng and Chang Jianyi sat on the rooftop, gazing at the distant sunset. Chang Jianyi leaned against Shen Feng like a small bird, their previous misunderstandings now cleared. After their honest conversation, both understood that the earlier friction was merely due to Shen Feng's unintentional mistake.
Chang Jianyi spoke softly, "Shen Feng, you must know that you are my only reliance and my only concern now. If you get hurt, I will be the most heartbroken. Therefore, I will always be with you, no matter what happens. So, you can trust me without reservation, and I will support you with all my might!"
Shen Feng also felt a pang of guilt and said, "I misspoke. I shouldn't have doubted your love for me. I just don't understand why you don't seem anxious about rescuing your brother. Why is that?"
Chang Jianyi replied with a sigh, "Of course, I worry about my brother, but the environment he's in is too harsh! Twelve days have passed since the zombie outbreak. Can a primary school student really survive in the center of a city overrun by zombies? I'm not foolish. The reason I can remain rational is because of you. I don't want you to risk your life for my brother, so we must make thorough preparations!"
"This is why we must proceed step by step in the plan. I understand, but it's just too slow at this rate!" Shen Feng said helplessly.
"It's alright. Everything is difficult at the beginning. I've already made plans. After we retake the school, we will have the support of thousands of people, all of them young and strong university students. Then, we will retake the nearby vocational and sports schools in the shortest possible time, gaining the support of more young people, and then proceed with the rescue!" Chang Jianyi said slowly. In her plan, the retaking of the school was already a certainty, and her plans had extended much further.
Suddenly, a voice came from the rooftop entrance, "Boss, Big Sister, dinner is ready. Are you done?"
Shen Feng and Chang Jianyi hurried downstairs. Today, over two hundred students were rescued. If the students on the fifth floor hadn't been killed, even more could have been saved. These fortunate survivors were not infected and were now looking at Shen Feng in the large classroom. Before eating, they had to listen to instructions, either Chang Jianyi's lecture or Shen Feng's speech. In short, they couldn't eat before speaking.
Thus, everyone could only gaze at Shen Feng, hoping he would finish his speech quickly, as they hadn't eaten yet.
Shen Feng stood on the stage, striving to paint a picture of the future, promising the students below that as long as they followed him in fighting zombies, they could return to a happy and peaceful life. In reality, the combat order was mandatory: males had to fight, and females were responsible for logistics. Otherwise, idle individuals would only receive half the food and wouldn't be able to eat their fill!
Afterward, with a command, everyone finally began to eat. The atmosphere instantly became lively, with people queuing up to get their food and fill their stomachs.
After Shen Feng and Chang Jianyi finished eating, they began their usual rounds of visits. Currently, the fifth teaching building housed four hundred students. Some rooms were still piled with food and necessary tools, clearly unable to accommodate more people. The two planned to make the fourth teaching building another stronghold after rescuing more people tomorrow.
At this moment, they approached four professors and began to inquire, directly asking, "Professors, can you get enough to eat? How is your living situation? Do you need any help?"
Professor Chen, seeing them approach, understood clearly that these two young people were the current leaders. He quickly replied, "We can eat enough, we can eat enough. Thank you for your hard work."
Professor Hao also nodded, saying, "There are no problems with eating and sleeping, and we don't have to fight, so we are considered lucky!"
All four professors did not need to fight or transport supplies, as they were too old, and some had high blood pressure or heart disease. Accidents during work would be unfortunate. Of course, the four professors were also very sensible and took out their car keys, allowing the students to use the cars freely.
However, at this moment, Professor Zhang couldn't help but say, "We have no problems, but what about the other teachers, and..."
"Cough, cough..." Professor Hao immediately coughed, signaling Professor Zhang not to speak carelessly. At this time, how could these two allow others to share power? Of course, they would rescue the teachers in the office building later, or perhaps not at all. It was better to pretend to know nothing for now.
Chang Jianyi did not get angry but smiled and explained, "Professor, I know your concerns. We also want to rescue the teachers quickly, but we have to take it step by step. The students are eagerly waiting in their dormitories, so we should prioritize rescuing the students!"
Professor Zhang felt uncomfortable with such eloquent words and directly said, "If you want to rescue students, that's fine. But the two girls in the experimental building have been waving for three days, and you haven't gone to rescue them. I think you are utilitarian, rescuing people only where there are more, completely disregarding how much help the rescued can provide."
"It seems that the teachers in the school have not played a greater role than the students in this crisis!" Chang Jianyi said with a smile.
"You, you, you... you dare to talk back? I think you don't respect teachers at all. The world is going downhill!" Professor Zhang was so angry that his face turned red. In his opinion, teachers possessed sufficient wisdom and life experience. In the face of a crisis, every suggestion they made was a brilliant plan, which was much more effective than fighting!
Professor Hao, seeing that the conversation was about to get out of control, quickly stepped forward to intervene and said, "Let's come over here. I'll explain this. Shen Feng, Professor Zhang is also worried about his colleagues, so don't be angry. And Chang Jianyi, we are grateful for your care and have absolutely no complaints."
Shen Feng smiled and said, "Professor, you think too much. We won't be angry. It's only natural!" Chang Jianyi also nodded with a smile.
Professor Hao took the two aside to talk, preventing any conflict.
Professor Chen looked at Professor Zhang helplessly and said, "Old Zhang, you know these two are the current leaders. If you openly disrespect them now, you might face retaliation!"
Professor Zhang snorted coldly and said, "They dare? I've been teaching for over thirty years and have had countless students. If they dare to harm me, my students will definitely come forward. Then, let's see how they win people's hearts! For now, they won't dare to touch me."
After they walked aside, Professor Hao continued, "Shen Feng, I want to tell you something. I didn't mention it before because I thought it might not be useful, but now that I recall it, I'll tell you. Actually, there is a microbiologist in the experimental building!"
"A microbiologist? Wouldn't that mean we can find out the source of the zombie virus?" Chang Jianyi immediately realized. Although she had long suspected that zombies were infected with a virus, there was a lack of scientific explanation, and the broadcast also provided no information about the virus.
Professor Hao nodded and then said, "However, this old professor is over sixty years old and is from Yanjing. It's highly likely she's infected with the virus. But, when she came over, she brought a doctoral student. Perhaps this doctoral student can help you."
"I see. Thank you!" Shen Feng said quickly.
Afterward, Shen Feng and Chang Jianyi began to discuss. Currently, everyone was in the dark about the zombie virus. Moreover, the mutation of zombies was particularly strange. If this wasn't clarified, they wouldn't know what to do in the future.
"Tomorrow morning, you go and clear the zombies in the experimental building. We need the microbiologist's help. If the professor is dead, finding the doctoral student would be good too," Chang Jianyi said.
Shen Feng also nodded in agreement. Microbiologists would definitely have research on viruses, especially now when they needed to understand the source of the zombies. This meant they had to rescue the experimental building. Originally, the school also had professors of microbiology, but these teachers were unlucky and were infected and turned into zombies on the day the zombie outbreak occurred.
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When morning arrived, Yu Renshu slowly woke up. Staying in the laboratory was not a pleasant experience; she could only sleep on the experimental table. She sighed helplessly and said, "Why did I come to such a small place? If I were in Yanjing now, I would have been rescued already!"
Yu Renshu deeply regretted it. When her mentor said they were going to Luzhou for experiments, she followed. At that time, she was thinking of sightseeing and relaxing, but she never expected that after arriving in Luzhou, before she could experience the local customs and traditions, the zombies appeared.
Then, Yu Renshu slowly put on her lab coat, put on her glasses, and quietly walked to the window, staring blankly at the teaching building in the distance. Fires were already being lit for cooking in the teaching building, while she was stuck here with very limited food.
The freckled junior also woke up, rubbing her eyes and asking, "Senior, has anyone come to rescue us?"
Yu Renshu looked at the cooking smoke from the teaching building and said helplessly, "No! According to my estimation, those people must be controlling the majority of people first before rescuing the few remaining ones, and we happen to be among those few."
The junior walked to the window and suddenly saw a group of people walking below. She couldn't help but ask, "Senior, look, aren't those people below coming to rescue us?"
"I guess they are going to kill zombies. They've passed by many times before, and now they're probably going to kill zombies and rescue students again." Yu Renshu leaned against the window, watching the approaching crowd below. She stopped waving her lab coat, as she felt it was useless!
Shen Feng led more than thirty people to the bottom of the experimental building and said sternly to those behind him, "This time we are going to rescue people. Killing zombies is secondary. So, once inside, knock on the doors first. If a person answers, open it. If a zombie answers, ignore it!"
"Okay! We'll try to be back by breakfast!" everyone responded quickly.
Then, Shen Feng led his classmates into the building. The corridors of the experimental building were narrow and easily visible, so the zombies appearing in the corridors were killed. Afterward, they gently knocked on the laboratory doors. Most received no response, and a small number of laboratories emitted the roars of zombies.
Then, they searched all the way to the fifth floor. As soon as they went upstairs, a zombie lunged at them. Shen Feng kicked it away and then smashed it to death with a steel pipe. Only then did they start knocking on doors one by one. Soon, one of the rooms was opened, and a girl with a face full of freckles rushed out, saying, "Thank you so much, I'm finally saved!"
Shen Feng didn't care about that and directly asked, "I heard there's a professor of microbiology here, who came from Yanjing. Have you seen her?"
Then, a beautiful figure slowly walked out and pointed at Shen Feng, saying, "The zombie you just killed was the professor!"
Shen Feng looked down. The zombie he had smashed to death was indeed an old man with white hair, but unfortunately, he had been killed by him.
The woman who appeared before them gave a gentle impression. She was about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a lab coat and glasses. She seemed a bit older, exuding a mature aura. She was remarkably calm, unlike the other rescued individuals.
"I heard there was also an accompanying doctoral student. Do you know?" Shen Feng continued to ask.
"I am!" Yu Renshu said faintly, "Hello, you can call me Senior, because I am older than you!"
"Doctor, let's go quickly. This place hasn't been cleared yet and isn't safe. Let's go to our base. We can guarantee your safety!" Shen Feng didn't call her Senior because he felt the title of Senior could only be used for specific people, and he couldn't just call everyone Senior just because they were older than him.
Yu Renshu was very calm and said, "I can go, but I have a lot of data to take with me. Please wait a moment."