"I know, before they turned into zombies, they didn't have a good relationship with me, so let me give them a release."
An Qian swung her sword and charged at the three female zombies.
She quickly and cleanly severed their heads.
Women!
Qin Shilei shook his head and followed.
"An Qian, is that you?" a girl's voice suddenly came from the fourth dormitory.
"It's me, Guan Shiman, are you alright?" An Qian approached the front of the fourth dormitory, wanting to twist open the door, but paused, sword at the ready.
"An Qian, are there still zombies outside?"
"They've all been killed, open the door."
With a creak, the door opened a crack, and a short-haired boy appeared in the gap.
An Qian almost swung her sword, startled.
"An Qian, this is my boyfriend."
Guan Shiman behind him also saw An Qian through the gap and quickly explained.
Qin Shilei followed An Qian into the dormitory.
Upon entering, he felt a strange smell.
Looking up, he saw the boy with his upper body bare, only wearing shorts.
And Guan Shiman was also somewhat disheveled.
No way?
Did the roars of zombies provide more passionate accompaniment?
Or did they want to have a good time before dying?
"You guys chat, I'll go out for some air."
Unable to stand the smell, Qin Shilei said and retreated to the corridor.
"Be careful, I'm leaving."
Soon, An Qian also held her breath and walked out.
Afterward, the two found some snacks like potato chips and chocolate in a few open dormitories, distributed them, and put them into their respective space rings.
They also found a few bottles of drinks. Unfortunately, they had all been opened and drunk from.
There were also a few fresh cucumbers.
"What are you doing with these cucumbers?" Qin Shilei asked meaningfully.
"Eating, of course. You don't think I'm still using them for face masks, do you?"
An Qian rolled her eyes at Qin Shilei and explained, "I love eating cucumbers raw. With zombies everywhere now, it's hard to get cucumbers."
"As long as you like them, I'm just worried they're not clean." Qin Shilei handed all the cucumbers to An Qian.
"They washed them clean for face masks, how could they not be clean..."
An Qian felt increasingly that something was wrong, and she seemed to smell another strange odor.
She frantically threw the cucumbers on the ground, "I don't want them either."
"Hehe."
Qin Shilei smiled and walked towards the third floor again.
After more than an hour, Qin Shilei and his group had cleared all the zombies on the second and third floors that could move freely.
The dormitory on the far right of the second floor was relatively clean.
They chose to absorb the crystal cores here.
The fourth floor yielded 10 crystal cores, the third floor had 14, and the second floor had even more, reaching 19.
Each person received 21 crystal cores, with one extra to keep.
Soon, Qin Shilei absorbed four crystal cores.
A flash of white light indicated he had leveled up.
His fatigue vanished, and his strength increased.
Checking his stats, the experience needed to reach level two became 15.
After more than twenty minutes, the remaining crystal cores were completely absorbed.
Both of them reached Plastic Two Stars.
The white crystal cores contributed eight experience points to Qin Shilei.
Feeling the surging power in his body, Qin Shilei felt his physical fitness was at least comparable to that of elite athletes.
He was no longer a frail otaku.
Combined with his swordsmanship proficiency, Qin Shilei felt he could easily handle seven or eight ordinary zombies.
Even that evolved zombie could likely be killed if he and An Qian worked together.
"Let's go to the convenience store now."
An Qian licked her dry lips, eager to find a bottle of water at the convenience store.
Qin Shilei walked to the corridor and pointed at the zombies outside, saying, "There are thirty to forty zombies downstairs. If we get surrounded, we'll inevitably get injured, and then we might turn into zombies. We need to think of a good plan."
Their building was about ten meters away from the convenience store building, where thirty to forty zombies roamed.
If any noise were made here, hundreds of zombies from further away would also be attracted.
That would be certain death.
"Can we throw things far away to make noise and lure the zombies away?"
An Qian suggested.
Qin Shilei weighed the glass bottle in his hand and shook his head, "I can only throw it twenty to thirty meters, not very useful."
He paused and added, "Let's lure the zombies over and kill them one by one."
The two went to the stairwell and threw a plastic bottle downstairs.
As the not-too-heavy sound rang out.
Four zombies a few meters away immediately turned and rushed towards the stairwell.
Qin Shilei tapped the stair railing with his sword.
The four zombies then scrambled to climb up to the second floor.
With two cold glints flashing simultaneously, two headless zombies rolled down the stairs.
The other two zombies behind them stumbled and almost fell.
Qin Shilei and his companion stepped down simultaneously, swinging their swords diagonally, cleaving half of the other two zombies' heads off.
These ordinary zombies, without the advantage of numbers, no longer posed any threat to Qin Shilei and his group.
After collecting the crystal cores, Qin Shilei threw a cosmetic bottle not far ahead of the stairwell.
Zombies from further away were attracted by the sound and围ed closer.
Upon approaching and smelling the scent of the living, they rushed towards the stairs again.
And so it went. After half an hour.
More than twenty zombies nearby were lured over and killed by Qin Shilei and his group.
"Those two groups of zombies are too close, the lure method might not work well."
An Qian pointed at the zombies near the convenience store, frowning.
Two to three meters to the left of the convenience store entrance, seven to eight zombies were on the ground gnawing on a corpse.
Another three to four meters past them, six to seven more zombies were tearing at another corpse.
If noise were made, these more than ten zombies might be attracted together.
Suddenly, the dormitory of the building manager across the way opened a crack, and a boy poked his head out, looking around.
"Ah, why is it him?"
An Qian exclaimed in surprise.
The boy seemed to have also seen An Qian and waved vigorously in their direction.
He glanced again at the zombies to his left, hesitated for a moment, and then slowly revealed half of his body.
Seeing that the zombies had not noticed him, he stealthily walked out.
Crouching low, he ran towards them.
"Oh no!"
Qin Shilei clearly saw the group of zombies to the left of the convenience store stop gnawing on the corpse.
They must have smelled the scent or heard the boy's footsteps.
Indeed, before the boy had run halfway, the seven or eight zombies turned and looked in his direction.
"Goo goo!"
The zombies not only pursued him but also made sounds, attracting the other group of zombies.
"Let's go upstairs first."
Qin Shilei grabbed An Qian and they ran upstairs.
"An Qian, it's good that you're alright."
The boy exclaimed in surprise.
"Run!"
An Qian only had time to warn him before quickly running upstairs.