The moment Lin Yuzhi rushed out, the zombies wandering on both sides of the stationery store roared and charged at him. Their speed was incredibly fast, practically like athletes.
Lin Yuzhi had gained a bit of experience with zombies yesterday, and he had even killed one this morning. So, when the zombies charged at him this time, he didn’t hold back. After all, if he held back, he would be the one to die. With a vigorous stride, he knocked down the fastest-running zombie, and then kicked away the one following right behind it.
The three people following behind hurried to help. Although they weren’t as experienced as Lin Yuzhi, they still managed to push a zombie away together.
The next moment, they quickly ran straight toward the opposite side.
The center of the road was cordoned off by guardrails. They ran across the flower bed and quickly reached the guardrails.
These guardrails couldn’t be pushed down because pushing one would cause a domino effect, bringing down a large section next to it. Besides, they didn’t have the strength or the time; they could only climb over.
Because of their appearance, the surrounding zombies also noticed them and charged over with roars.
At this moment, the sun had just risen, but the heat could already be felt.
“Hurry, hurry up!” The man who drove a truck went over first, then hurriedly pulled the rather thin girl up, while the other boy behind her helped push her over.
These guardrails were quite high; normally, it would take some time to climb over, let alone now with so many zombies chasing behind them. In their panic, they were scrambling frantically.
Lin Yuzhi didn’t dare to stop at all, helping to pull them over.
The zombies behind were getting closer and closer, and the zombies on the opposite side of the road had also noticed them, all running towards them in unison.
On the empty street, the roaring sounds became exceptionally clear.
Finally, right at the moment the zombies lunged at them, the group completely climbed over.
The zombies all crashed into the guardrail, and immediately, cracking sounds rang out.
It was this sound that actually attracted the zombies at the school gates, and the next second, they rapidly charged towards them.
The guardrail simply couldn’t withstand the weight of so many zombies and was instantly knocked over.
Lin Yuzhi had just knocked over a zombie running from the opposite side when he noticed the growing number of zombies around him. Naturally, he also noticed the collapsed guardrail. He was sweating anxiously, but his hands didn’t dare to stop moving for a second.
He hurriedly said, “Which car? You guys get over there quickly. I’m leaving too!” As he spoke, he ran forward quickly.
The girl didn’t dare to hesitate and hurriedly pointed to the location of her car.
The three of them looked at Lin Yuzhi, “You be careful!”
“Go, go, go! Don’t you know that cannon fodder die from talking too much?” Lin Yuzhi didn’t want to die. With the system in his hands, he had the world at his fingertips. But of course, he first had to confirm whether Xu An was still alive. He definitely didn’t want to die here because he talked too much.
Giving the three of them a quick parting gesture, he hurriedly ran towards the front of the school gate, searching for his tricycle as he ran.
Under the sunlight, that head of pink hair was extremely conspicuous.
From afar, he spotted his tricycle.
The zombies surrounding him were increasing in number. He felt he owed a debt of gratitude to his middle school PE class’s 1,000-meter run; he had to run it every class, and eventually, he got somewhat used to it. He also used to run to high school, and even after dropping out, he would run for a bit in the mornings.
Otherwise, at this moment, he really might not have been able to outrun them.
Right then, a zombie darted out from the bushes on the other side and lunged straight at him.
Lin Yuzhi was startled, but his body reacted faster, dodging to the side with a jump before continuing his run.
Looking back, he saw a whole horde of zombies, with the one that just lunged at him among them. He couldn’t help but laugh, “No way, do you guys really need to chase me like this? Growing up, no one ever chased me, but now that you’ve turned into zombies, suddenly so many of you are chasing me. Is your Brother Yu that easy to chase? Off I go!” With that, he took a quick sprint and vaulted straight over a guardrail.
When he vaulted over, he was amazed. I’m so strong, I could totally compete in the Olympics. But before he had much time to admire himself, the remaining zombies at the school entrance also charged over.
Lin Yuzhi could only keep running. Finally, he reached his tricycle. Thank goodness the vehicle was fine.
The zombies behind him swarmed up. He scrambled onto the tricycle’s seat and twisted the key to leave.
But the next second, he saw in the rearview mirror an elementary schooler zombie darting out from the side, about to bite him.
He kicked it away, twisted the throttle, and charged out, disregarding whether the road was smooth or not—escaping came first.
However, a tricycle was still just a tricycle; it had no protection on the sides. The chasing zombies all climbed onto his vehicle, trying to grab him.
He didn’t turn back, but instead headed in another direction where the zombies were visibly fewer.
With a sharp turn, the zombies clinging to the side of the vehicle were thrown off. At the same time, the front of the vehicle crashed into a zombie running head-on. With a violent jolt, he ran right over the zombie’s body.
If he hadn’t gripped the handlebars tightly, he would have been thrown off too, but even so, he didn’t dare to stop.
Finally, a moment later, he broke out of the zombie horde.
At the same time, the sound of a driving car came from behind. Looking in the rearview mirror, it was a small red sedan, and sitting inside were none other than the three people he had just parted with.
The sedan quickly pulled up beside him. The three of them didn’t dare roll down the windows fully; they only cracked a tiny slit to look out.
“A Family Bucket for 15 bucks!” A voice came from inside the car.
Listening to this, Lin Yuzhi felt the weight of parting. Not gonna lie, going through one night together made it somewhat sentimental.
Smiling, he reached out and made a “see you later” gesture, before riding his beloved tricycle, rumbling all the way towards the Lin’an City People’s Hospital.
But the next moment, he heard a strange noise. Looking down, he saw a zombie clinging to the side of his tricycle’s footboard.
“Holy crap!” Frightened, he couldn’t help but blurt out a classic curse word. At the same time, he saw the zombie reaching out to grab him.
He quickly lifted his feet to avoid being bitten by the zombie, then immediately started kicking it.
However, the zombie seemed entirely impervious to pain. Even though its body was being dragged along the ground, leaving a trail of bloody fluid along the way, it still kept its mouth wide open, trying to bite him.
Lin Yuzhi kept his eyes on the road while continuously kicking it. He couldn’t stop either, as there were quite a few zombies trailing behind him.
Finally, a moment later, he kicked the zombie off. Through the rearview mirror, he saw that due to the high speed of the vehicle, the zombie tumbled on the ground for quite a while before falling into that pile of corpses.
Immediately after, he saw that horde of zombies actually surrounding and biting it—it was chilling.
Lin Yuzhi quickly averted his gaze and focused on driving, not easing off the throttle at all. If he stopped, the zombies behind would catch up entirely.
Because his tricycle was making quite a racket, it attracted a lot of zombies from the surroundings.
Good thing he charged the battery fully every day; otherwise, he’d have nowhere to cry. Forget reaching Lin’an City People’s Hospital; he probably wouldn’t have even made it a few miles out.
But it was a tricycle, after all; it was open on all sides with no defenses.
It seemed he would have to find a car to drive eventually—at least that would offer some protection, unlike his current state, where a faster-running zombie could easily take a bite out of him.
The tricycle quickly distanced itself from the elementary school vicinity. He didn’t dare take the route through the city center, opting for an alternate road instead.
After all, Lin’an City was his home; having lived here for twenty-five years, he was quite familiar with the roads, and he used to go there often.
It was just that this zombie situation seemed incredibly severe. Even though he wasn’t driving through the city center, the roads were still filled with chaos: overturned cars on the roadside and zombies hunched over feeding.
When they heard the noise, the zombies would chase in his direction.
Along the way, he also saw many cars leaving, driving in the opposite direction from him; they were likely trying to get out of the city.
“Help! Help!”
At that moment, he heard cries for help coming from one side.
However, when he turned to look, he saw two or three zombies pouncing directly onto that person. Instantly, the cries for help turned into agonizing screams. He even thought he saw blood spurting out—it was truly terrifying.
For dinner yesterday, Lin Yuzhi had only eaten a small biscuit, and he hadn’t had breakfast today, but seeing this still made him feel like throwing up.
He had no idea what was going on. Everything was perfectly fine during the day yesterday, so why had it suddenly turned into this?
Not daring to overthink it, he needed to hurry to the Lin’an People’s Hospital. He just hoped Xu An hadn’t become a meal on a zombie’s plate.
Furthermore, this Xu An had been in a car accident, and it was unknown if he had recovered.
If he hadn’t recovered, or if he was knocked into a vegetative state, wouldn’t that mean game over too?
Wait, why am I thinking about all this?
Lin Yuzhi hastily cast off all those messy thoughts and rode his tricycle all the way there.
Because the roads were full of zombies, it took him almost an hour of driving before he finally found the Lin’an People’s Hospital.
He found a relatively safe spot to get off the vehicle. However, because of the noise his vehicle made, quite a few zombies from the surroundings swarmed over.
Therefore, he couldn’t drive any further inside. Who knew what the situation in the hospital was like? If he made too much noise and there were lots of zombies inside, he truly would have nowhere to run.
Seeing those zombies swarming up, he only grabbed his charger and power bank, as well as the scissors he used to cut sausages and chicken wings, and lastly, that door handle.
As for the food he left in the compartment, he didn’t dare to eat it. He couldn’t be entirely sure whether the food had been infected by zombies overnight, especially since the weather was so hot.
Just yesterday, Lin’an City had issued a high-temperature warning. He had seen earlier that the temperature would reach as high as forty degrees Celsius.
Under these conditions, even if it wasn’t infected, he wouldn’t dare eat it; it had probably already gone bad.
For the sake of his little life, he didn’t dare to take any risks right now.
Besides, he currently had some points in that Top Student System, which he could exchange for some chocolate. To stave off hunger, eating anything would do.
Stuffing the power bank and charger into that small satchel, he finally carried his door handle and headed in the direction of the People’s Hospital.
He hid behind several cars, inching forward step by step.
The zombies from earlier were drawn to the tricycle, so after he hid, they didn’t notice him and just crowded around the tricycle.
At the same time, he felt like someone was watching him. He subconsciously looked up around him; it was a residential building, likely survivors hiding in their homes.
Yesterday in the washroom, the internet connection was poor, so they couldn’t get much news from the outside world. Also, to save battery, they didn’t dare use their phones continuously.
But looking at the situation along the way now, it was estimated that the entire Lin’an City had a zombie outbreak; things weren’t looking good anywhere.
He quickly made his way to the inpatient building. He didn’t dare to go to the outpatient department, nor did he dare to walk past it. You have to know, hospitals are crowded, and the bulk of that crowd is in the outpatient department. The number of people registering to see doctors every day was staggering, not to mention the nurses and doctors.
The inpatient building also had a lot of people, but he figured the situation would be somewhat better than the outpatient department. Especially considering that from yesterday to today, it had only been one night; it shouldn’t be that the entire hospital had fallen. There should still be survivors, and besides, his destination was the inpatient building anyway.
Fortunately, the hospital had several entrances that could be used, and one of them happened to be right next to the inpatient building.
When he arrived at the inpatient building, he heard the roar of a zombie behind him. He saw a zombie sprinting over, its eyes bloodshot, its body covered in gore, and fresh blood dripping from its mouth.
Seeing it about to lunge at him, Lin Yuzhi took a step back, raised his door handle, and smashed it down.
He already knew by now that you had to smash a zombie in the head, just like in the movies. Good thing he frequently scrolled through those kinds of short videos; they were actually saving his life at a critical moment.
The glass shards directly grazed across the zombie’s face, instantly slicing off a large chunk of flesh. Purulent blood quickly oozed out, accompanied by a foul stench like the smell of a rotting corpse.
Even after having a large piece of flesh scraped off, the zombie didn’t stop moving; it got back up and rapidly lunged at him.
Seeing this, Lin Yuzhi quickly stepped forward. The moment the zombie lunged, he heavily smashed its head again, knocking the zombie straight down once more.
Following that, he continuously smashed it many more times, only stopping when the zombie completely stopped moving.
By now, the ground was a complete mess, the zombie’s head utterly pulverized.
Looking at this scene, Lin Yuzhi finally let out the breath he had been holding. His forehead was covered in sweat.
By this count, this should be the third zombie he had killed. Deep down, he still had a bit of a mental hurdle he couldn’t quite cross, even if they had already turned into bloodthirsty zombies.
However, he also knew clearly that if he didn’t act, the one to die would be him, and he didn’t want to die.
Subconsciously, he gripped the small jade pendant around his neck with his hand. He waited until his heartbeat gradually settled down before retreating to the enclosing wall, poking his head out to look into the inpatient building.
A hot wind blew past, carrying a nauseating scent. There were quite a few zombies at the entrance to the inpatient building. Fighting his way in was definitely impossible; maybe he should climb up the water pipe.
Thinking this, Lin Yuzhi looked to the side and saw the water pipe.
The only problem was that he didn’t know which hospital room Xu An was in. But he remembered Xu An’s family was quite wealthy, so he was likely in a private room, which would be on the fifth floor. Still, it was impossible for the room to be right next to the water pipe, and searching room by room was definitely out of the question.
The best method, in fact, was still to go to the front desk to see which room it was, or ask his classmates.
So, he took out his phone and sent a message to the classmate group chat, asking which room Xu An was in.
But all he got in return were questions asking what was happening outside; there was absolutely no news about Xu An. He didn’t know anyone from Class 1 either. Even if he did, after so many years, they might not necessarily remember him. Therefore, he still had to go find the front desk.
He poked his head out, looking around, searching for a way in as he watched.
Little Fish Lin: Riding his beloved tricycle to go find Xu An.