novelaction Chapter 320 Initially, everyone thought it was just a regular subway biting incident.
Chapter 320 Initially, everyone thought it was just a regular subway biting incident.
At first, everyone thought it was just an ordinary disaster.
A nuclear wastewater discharge, a maritime blockade, the anxieties of fishermen who depend on fish for survival, and the extinction of marine life caused by human actions.
Until this disaster became relevant to everyone.
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"Have you seen the recent news? The subway biting incident, tsk tsk, it's obviously someone deliberately hyping it up for traffic. That zombie is quite convincing."
Hearing voices, Jiang He groggily lifted her head from the table.
Sunlight streamed through the glass window and fell directly onto the table, filling the air with the scent of summer.
The light swept across Jiang He's face, and she felt a blur before her eyes, instinctively raising her hand.
On a bright and sunny afternoon, with familiar desks, chairs, and whiteboards, Jiang He felt a moment of disorientation. If it weren't for the fact that there was no chalk slot next to the electronic whiteboard but instead a retro electronic pen, she would feel a sense of loss.
Jiang He almost thought she had traveled back in time.
I've traveled back to high school.
Wearing the loose-fitting sports uniform, Jiang He was only stunned for a moment before her mind immediately cleared.
This is not a high school, nor is it China.
It's a hidden copy.
The two voices around her allowed Jiang He to make a quick judgment.
The timeline of the instance she arrived in was roughly during the initial outbreak of the zombie apocalypse.
Based on the background clues of the hidden dungeon "Zombie Siege".
This is a dungeon containing a special species called "zombies," and the ultimate mission is to find the zombies hidden among them.
Jiang He glanced down at her name tag. The "Zombie Siege" instance was different from "Pig God Village." In "Pig God Village," her identity was that of a tourist, but her body was her own.
In this instance, Jiang He looked at her current body, which was obese, probably due to the character identity given to her by the instance.
It's somewhat like an immersive escape room.
Jiang He felt the abundant spiritual energy surrounding her.
However, sensing the spiritual root within her body, she realized that this "high school student" identity within the instance also possessed a spiritual root, but unfortunately, it was the same as hers—the five chaotic spiritual roots.
The items and spirit sword in the backpack were all grayed out, clearly locked, just like the spiritual energy—visible but unusable.
As soon as the school bell rang, Jiang He glanced at the teacher walking into the classroom, then quickly looked away.
The geography teacher has a Mediterranean hairstyle, which is quite fitting.
The dungeon environment Jiang He was in was so realistic that it gave her a strong sense of disconnect. The classmates and teachers around her had obvious similarities with most high school teachers and students in China.
The constructed instance model and environment are realistic, but apart from bugs and some items appearing out of place, Jiang He once hallucinated his former alma mater.
Using the desk and the stack of books in front of her, she quickly found the cell phone hidden among the textbooks, relying on her familiarity with the area.
Jiang He was overjoyed. She was completely unaware of her own identity and personality. According to the two students, there had been zombie-like humans biting people in the subway.
On the surface, the plot hasn't progressed to the zombie siege yet.
Jiang He opened her phone and searched for news about zombies in her browser. A video quickly popped up.
In the video, a man is seen frantically attacking another boy with his teeth. The video is very shaky, and it's clear that the person filming is also trying to avoid the attack or is afraid.
Jiang He looked at the crazed man, whose eyes were horribly bloodshot, almost completely filled with blood vessels, and there was a bite mark on his neck with green blood oozing from it.
Just as Jiang He zoomed in to view the video, the URL he had just searched for became invalid. After refreshing the page, all the keywords related to Jiang He's search had disappeared.
She searched on other apps, but without exception, she couldn't find a single video of "subway biting". Even if the keywords appeared, the original text or video would disappear after a few seconds.
Jiang He exited the search and quickly browsed information about this world online.
Historical news continues to appear in Jiang He's life.
The geography teacher on the podium frowned slightly. He looked at Jiang He, who was making subtle movements, and wanted to give her a gentle reminder, but the next second, he was knocked to the ground.
"Zhang Feng, are you crazy?!"
"...It hurts! Help!"
A scream and the sound of a body hitting the ground occurred simultaneously. Jiang He picked up her phone and tucked it inside her clothes, her nerves instantly on edge.
"Teacher, are you alright? Zhang Feng, you..."
Several classmates went forward as a group, wanting to see what had happened, but they saw that Zhang Feng had blood on the corner of his mouth and was biting the geography teacher's neck repeatedly.
The students who were watching were stunned by what they saw, until screams of agony echoed from other classrooms in the corridor.
"The teacher seems to be... dead. Zhang Feng killed Teacher Zhang..."
The incident happened so suddenly, and coupled with Zhang Feng's frantic actions, most of the students were frozen in place in extreme panic.
Jiang He frowned. Upon hearing the sound, she immediately pushed the others away. When she discovered that Zhang Feng had bitten the geography teacher to death, she also saw the faint bite marks on Zhang Feng's body that were covered by his school uniform.
Just like the man who bit someone on the subway.
Zombies have appeared in the instance, and there's more than one.
This conflicts with the task instructions given by the mechanical female voice.
"Please find the zombies hiding among you."
People who clearly fit the characteristics of zombies had appeared, but the mission hadn't been triggered. Jiang He didn't have time to ponder the hidden rules in the mission details; she immediately stood on the desks and chairs and shouted at the stunned crowd:
"Zhang Feng bit the geography teacher to death. Anyone who doesn't want to die, run!"
To avoid the students not taking it seriously enough, Jiang He made the consequences sound extremely serious.
If she's not mistaken, the truth is actually a hundred or a thousand times more serious than she's saying.
Having watched zombie movies and read zombie novels, Zhang Feng and the subway man had the same symptoms.
The distance from this school to the subway in another city outside this city is quite large.
This indirectly proves that this behavior, or rather the disease, is contagious, and that it spreads widely and develops rapidly.
Whether or not they are zombies, Jiang He was unwilling to gamble on the possibility that anyone afflicted by Zhang Feng or other people suffering from the same illness would be injured or killed.
If the evacuation is not timely, most students in the class will likely be bitten.
Jiang He's body is obese, so she can't run fast. In addition, she hasn't yet reached the point where spiritual energy enters her body. In a fight, she can manage a few people, but she'd be in big trouble against dozens.
If she turns into a zombie after being bitten, there are more than fifty zombies in one class, plus other students in the school, making it extremely difficult for her to leave this place.
Saving a group of people would be advantageous for her.
At Jiang He's prompting, the students inside the classroom gradually ran out.
Meanwhile, similar biting incidents occurred in other classes at the school, just like in Jiang He's class.
Some people thought it was just a case of someone falling ill, until more and more people were bitten to death by the "illnesses," and then they realized they had to run away.
Someone in the crowd mentioned the word "zombie," and everyone began to panic.
A large number of people poured into the stairwell.