In fact, the moment Duan Minmin said that, she already understood why the idea would not work.
When fruits matured, farm players could predict the harvest time based on when the crops were planted.
But the only way for players to enter another player’s farm was through the fruit maturation broadcast.
And even that broadcast required at least three seconds of reaction time.
If a third party swooped in and took the harvest, there would truly be nowhere to cry.
It was already not easy for them to guard their own small plots, so why make things harder by going against the game mechanics?
Thus, the five of them temporarily formed this mutual aid alliance.
Since Liu Huan was here, Ying Ran also shared another idea with her.
Their dorm had the intention of forming an alliance with four dorms, but they did not know whether Liu Huan would agree.
If even one of the four dorms was unwilling, the alliance plan would definitely fail.
“Four dorms?” Liu Huan was surprised by the idea. After thinking for a moment, she realized it referred to dorms 617, 618, 619, and 620, which were separated by empty rooms.
She said she had no objections, but she did not know what the students in 617 and 620 would think.
Ying Ran said they could try contacting dorms 617 and 620 tonight, but something like this depended on chance, and no one could force it.
When Chen Jianwei came out of the bathroom after finishing her shower, Liu Huan had just returned to her own dorm.
“Did Liu Huan agree to the alliance?” Seeing Ying Ran tapping on the floating game interface, Chen Jianwei came out holding her clothes and asked.
“Forming an alliance benefits her far more than it benefits us,” Ying Ran said.
Luo Mushi also turned her phone screen toward Chen Jianwei. “This is the group announcement the dorm manager just sent.”
Chen Jianwei leaned in to read.
[Lanzhou Garden Building 2 Dorm Group Announcement]
It seemed the first announcement was aimed at situations like Liu Huan’s.
There were certainly empty dorms in the Lan 2 building. Students who were now living alone could be reassigned and grouped together for easier management, to prevent incidents like Liu Huan’s from happening again.
But students would definitely not be happy with such an arrangement.
Living alone had been something to enjoy, and suddenly being reassigned to live with several strangers again was simply miserable.
Moreover, if these students were all “Farm Game” players, having one farm per dorm was comfortable, but merging dorms would make some people even more unhappy.
When Chen Jianwei opened the link shared by Auntie Lian, the [Haishi University Student Service Center] mini program, she was truly stunned, as if struck by lightning three times.
She had never expected the school to do something so… bizarre.
Duan Minmin even complained that the school had gone too far, stabbing students in the back during a zombie outbreak.
Upon opening the [Haishi University Student Service Center] mini program, the first thing they saw was two rows of ten buttons, corresponding to different reporting categories.
The earlier ones were fairly normal, but the last two were the most outrageous.
And also the most eye catching.
…
…
[Mutated Zombie Report]
[Student Death Report]
Chen Jianwei: …
So if a student really died in the dorm, whether by accident or being eaten by zombies, would the school come to collect the body?
In any case, they all felt the school was unreliable.
In a natural disaster where zombies roamed, relying on others was worse than relying on themselves.
If they completely depended on the school to supply them, sooner or later they would starve to death in the dorm.
For now, they should focus on farming properly.
At ten thirty, they harvested another batch of fruits.
Duan Minmin specifically checked how much experience they still needed to reach level four. When she found that they only needed ten more experience points, they all became energized again.
As long as they kept leveling up, they could expand more land and earn more points within the same amount of time.
Once their farm became stronger, it would grow like a snowball…
Duan Minmin had already spun countless fantasies from this starting point.
As long as zombies did not break into the Lan 2 dorm building and bite them, they could still survive for now.
Anyway, surviving one moment at a time was all they could do.
As people who rarely even fought and had become physically weak college students after entering university, they did not dare claim they could defeat a group of frenzied zombies.
“It seems there are zombies again at Meiyuan,” Ying Ran said. She had more up to date information from the faculty student leader group and forwarded the message to the [Wall Street Presidents Exchange Group].
According to information from the student leader group, it was said that the first batch of zombies that appeared the morning before yesterday had already been dealt with that very night. People had entered the campus through the south gate, used guns to shoot the zombies in the head, and then cleaned them up.
However, it was not possible to eliminate all zombies in a short time. After those zombies were cleared, in the past two days, two or three more zombies had somehow wandered back in.
The Meiyuan area belonged to the Faculty of Science and the School of Biochemistry.
As Duan Minmin put it, those people had both physical attacks and magical attacks, completely beyond what they, with their underdeveloped brains and simple limbs, could compare to.
Yesterday, a “kitchen knife squad” from Meiyuan had gone out to chop zombies, and it was said their results were quite impressive.
As a result, all kinds of outrageous rumors began spreading in the school’s group chats.
[Shocking! Haishi University’s Biochemistry Department Suspected of Creating a Weapon of Mass Destruction]
…
“If we had some skills, we could also go out with kitchen knives and fight zombies,” Luo Mushi sighed, resting her chin on her hand.
Duan Minmin burst out laughing. “You took five minutes and thirty seconds to run the 800 meters in your fitness test, and you want to fight zombies? You’d probably get bitten the moment you step outside, then come back as a zombie and bite us.”
Luo Mushi pounced on her and started playing around. “When I turn into a zombie, I’ll bite you first.”
Chen Jianwei and Ying Ran watched from the side, chuckling softly.
As for Luo Mushi’s famous five minutes and thirty seconds, none of them were much better.
Only Duan Minmin was slightly better, having run the 800 meters in four minutes and twenty nine seconds last year, just barely passing.
As for Ying Ran and Chen Jianwei, both were over five minutes, so neither was in a position to criticize the other.
After browsing through various group chats for updates about the school, they turned off the lights and went to bed around midnight.
Although their fever had subsided after taking medicine, they had still been sick, so going to bed early and waking up early was better for recovery.
After the lights were off, Chen Jianwei lay in bed, still tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
From the morning when zombies first appeared until now, in just three short days, it had felt unbearably long.
She did not know when zombies would appear in front of them.
She did not know when the zombie outbreak would end.
She did not know… whether they would still be able to graduate smoothly.
But that was Ying Ran’s biggest concern.
Ying Ran was a top student, ranking in the top 1% of her grade with straight A’s. Even though she was only in her second year, she had already been preparing with Qu Miao and the others for various academic competitions and research papers, aiming for graduate school recommendations.
Unexpectedly, the zombies arrived at this moment, and all their preparations had been ruined.
Even now, Ying Ran was still drawing circles and cursing the zombies.
Thinking about all sorts of messy and bizarre things, Chen Jianwei gradually fell asleep.
That night, she finally had a good dream.
She dreamed of many things from the past.
In the dream, there was the excitement and anticipation when she had first enrolled at Haishi University, and the freedom and ease of her freshman year.
Only after waking up did she realize how much she missed the past.
Their university life had ended abruptly just as it had begun.
The fourth day of the zombie outbreak arrived once again under the glow of snow.
Chen Jianwei pulled open her bed curtain and saw that it was still snowing outside. Looking into the distance, the low hills had already lost their green branches.
Today’s schedule was still to stay in the dorm, daze around, harvest crops in the farm, and form alliances.
After recovering from her illness, Liu Huan felt especially energetic today.
At six thirty in the morning, Liu Huan had already sent a “good morning” sticker in the group chat they created last night.
By the time Chen Jianwei woke up and saw the message, two hours had already passed.
Her roommates had not gotten up yet. After thinking for a moment, Chen Jianwei also sent a “good morning” sticker in the group chat.
Liu Huan must have been quite bored. Five seconds after Chen Jianwei appeared, she immediately replied, “Good morning.”
“You woke up so early,” Chen Jianwei said, still lying in bed, reluctant to get up, typing while lying on her side.
“I’m used to waking up early,” Liu Huan replied.
Only then did Chen Jianwei remember that Liu Huan was also a student in the English translation program.
The School of Foreign Languages had always had a tradition of morning reading, so their schedule was different from other faculties.
Chen Jianwei then added that she had already added Ye Wan from dorm 620 as a friend last night, but Ye Wan said she needed to discuss it with Wu Zhenyi before giving a reply.
As for dorm 617, they had not been able to get in contact yet.
Last night, after harvesting crops and checking all the gossip outside, it had gotten very late. They had not heard any movement from dorm 617, so they decided to try contacting them today instead.
If they could successfully form an alliance among the four dorms, that would be the best outcome.
But even if it did not work out, it would not be too bad.
After a while, the alarm rang, eight twenty.
In five more minutes, another batch of fruits would be ready for harvest.
And based on the ten experience points they were lacking last night, after this harvest, their farm would successfully reach level four.
After the alarm rang, the other roommates also woke up alertly.
Then they all crouched in front of the Farm Game’s floating panel, waiting to harvest the fruits. Chen Jianwei and Ying Ran quickly got dressed, got out of bed, washed up, and prepared to rinse rice and cook porridge.
There were still two thirds of the green beans left from last night’s exchange, just enough to cook them all today as side dishes for all three meals.