The bald man's name was Huang Guang, a chef at a hot pot restaurant on the fourth floor of the cafeteria.
When the apocalypse broke out, there weren't many people on the fourth floor. This was because the fourth floor primarily offered hot pot, barbecue, and karaoke, with business typically starting in the afternoon and evening.
At that time, only he and a colleague were in the kitchen preparing things, talking as they worked.
Unexpectedly, his colleague suddenly began to convulse and then lunged at Huang Guang, baring his teeth and looking ferocious, more terrifying than someone with rabies.
Huang Guang used his hands to push his colleague away, intending to call for help.
However, he discovered that his colleague, who was originally thin, possessed abnormal strength. Despite being a burly man of 1.8 meters, Huang Guang couldn't resist him.
Out of options, he tripped the man and ran outside, locking his colleague inside.
He couldn't lock the door from the outside as he didn't have the key. Fortunately, his colleague, for some unknown reason, couldn't turn the doorknob and only kept pounding on the wooden door.
After getting out, he saw that the two employees from the adjacent barbecue restaurant had also turned into the same state as his colleague.
They were shambling around in their kitchen, occasionally baring their fangs and letting out guttural growls.
Their "Heh! Heh!" sounds were truly chilling!
At the same time, he heard an incredibly chaotic noise coming from downstairs.
The most prominent sounds were screams, cries, and the crashing of objects.
Two drops of cold sweat trickled down the sides of his forehead, and his throat involuntarily bobbed.
This situation... was hard not to associate with Resident Evil...
"It must be utter chaos downstairs. If I go down now, I might be in danger."
With a decisive move, he crouched down and stealthily went to the next door, closing the kitchen door to prevent those two zombies from getting out.
Yes, Huang Guang had already jumped to the conclusion that these suddenly frenzied people were zombies.
Afterward, he was moving tables to block the stairs.
But then, more than a dozen people escaped upwards, both men and women.
They must have come up from the third floor. Those on the second floor would likely flee downwards, trying to escape.
However, these dozen people escaping upwards also ended up leading the zombies this way.
"What rotten luck!"
He snatched a mop nearby and used it to push down the two zombies on the stairs, shouting, "Quick, help me! Grab that table and smash them down, hurry!"
The two young men who had just arrived quickly and flusteredly helped Huang Guang move the table, slamming it onto the zombies.
The two zombies had just gotten back on their feet when they were knocked down again, tumbling to the landing in the middle of the stairs.
"Keep bringing tables and chairs, block the stairs, hurry up!"
Everyone who had come up sprang into action, bringing many tables and chairs to completely block the stairs.
Forget about clumsy creatures like zombies; even normal people would find it impossible to climb up.
Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief, collapsing onto the ground and gasping for air after narrowly escaping.
After a while.
Some of the girls started crying, while the boys remained silent, their faces grim.
Huang Guang inquired and learned that the situation downstairs was as he suspected: many people had suddenly turned into zombies and savagely bitten those next to them to death.
Blood stained the brightly lit floor.
The survivors began to flee, with the vast majority running downstairs, believing they would be safer outside, at least having more space to run.
Only about a dozen of them chose to run upwards, thereby saving their lives.
They were mostly college students, with only two being staff members from the third floor, both men in their thirties.
Upon hearing this, Huang Guang also fell silent.
He was just a middle-aged chef with little education, not particularly clever, merely ten years older than these students and with more life experience.
He frowned, took out a pack of cigarettes costing 15 yuan from his pocket, lit one, and stood by the window, smoking.
Zombies were chasing people all over the ground.
Some were pounced upon and bitten on the neck, with blood spraying out.
Others had their arms bitten, and with their free hands, they relentlessly pounded on the zombies' heads, but to no avail.
The more Huang Guang watched, the more his heart sank, the fingers holding the cigarette trembling.
Four words naturally surfaced in his mind: The End of the World!
He dared not watch any longer, tossed the unfinished cigarette onto the ground, and ran back to throw more tables and chairs down the stairs.
He didn't stop until the stairs were so blocked that not a single chair could fit.
The others, noticing the zombies in the two kitchens, asked Huang Guang what they should do.
After all, he was an employee of the fourth floor, the largest and most mature person among them.
Huang Guang shook his head, "I don't know what to do. Maybe... someone will come to rescue us in a day or two."
The students agreed with this plan, believing that someone would definitely come to their rescue. The two staff members from the third floor, however, were not as optimistic.
They had personally witnessed, on the third floor, at least half of the people simultaneously turn into zombies.
Under such circumstances... whether there would be rescue was hard to say.
At least not within a few days.
Thus, everyone went hungry for a day. On the second day, unable to bear the hunger any longer, Huang Guang led everyone to subdue and tie up his colleagues from the hot pot restaurant, thus obtaining food.
Since the cafeteria had water tanks on the top floor, people didn't need to worry too much about food and water for the time being.
The water in these tanks was uncontaminated and could be drunk directly.
Two days later, seeing that there was still no news of rescue, Huang Guang reduced everyone's food rations.
The others were constantly hungry, not eating enough at each meal, while only Huang Guang ate his fill, claiming that everything in the restaurant belonged to him.
On the fourth day, Huang Guang, along with the two staff members from the third floor, directly took down the two zombies from the barbecue restaurant and acquired a large amount of food.
However, due to the power outage, much of the food stored in the refrigerators began to spoil.
Even so, Huang Guang did not increase the food supply.
This was because he had other motives.
The students were naturally dissatisfied, but they were helpless as Huang Guang and the other two had knives, while they did not.
On the fifth day, Huang Guang began to woo the other male students, telling them that if they recognized him as their leader, he would provide them with food.
The boys immediately agreed, as there was no downside for them.
On the sixth day, the girls, seeing that the other boys had significantly more food, protested, demanding gender equality.
However, the outcome was predictable; their protest was in vain.
In fact, their food rations were further reduced from their original amount.
On the seventh day, some of the girls couldn't hold on any longer and began begging Huang Guang, agreeing to any of his demands.
With the first one, there was soon a second.
And so, the women on the top floor of this cafeteria became Huang Guang's playthings with little resistance.
Of course, after Huang Guang had his way with them, he would let other men have a turn.
Being the boss, one had to consider the feelings of his subordinates.
On the eighth day, the most beautiful of the girls also started pleading with Huang Guang.
Given her looks and education, she would never have expected to be with a bald middle-aged man like Huang Guang in her lifetime.
She had originally escaped with her boyfriend, who was tall and somewhat handsome. However, under Huang Guang's intimidating power, even knowing Huang Guang's intentions, he still dared not resist.
Moreover, they had been dating for two or three years, and had already experienced everything. The boyfriend was somewhat tired of her and simply ignored her.
Even when she pleaded with him, the boyfriend remained indifferent.
Thus, Huang Guang, as he wished, obtained this campus belle, a university student from a prestigious school.
And just now, after seeing Wang Yu and others pass by and seeing one man slapped, he had walked into this campus belle's room.
The person who was slapped was precisely this campus belle's boyfriend...
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