Campus Confession Wall Bulletin: The Balala Squad from Meiyuan Building 4 has already smashed the heads of all the zombies in Meiyuan.
The members of the Balala Squad have officially joined the Haitong sub-division group of the Haishi Anti-Zombie Office.
After the zombies appeared, the first official public account post pushed by Haishi University was about the kitchen knife squad that had been active across various group chats on campus during this period.
Of course, their actual name was the “Balala Squad.”
The purpose was to tell students that even in adversity, they should not give up hope. The current predicament was only temporary, and humanity would eventually defeat the zombies and return to a peaceful life.
“The captain of the Balala Squad, Lin Xiyue, is a senior from the Faculty of Science, a student from Professor Zhang Yu’s laboratory.” Chen Jianwei scrolled through the article, feeling great admiration for the squad members who were being widely discussed. “They’re not even using kitchen knives to fight zombies, they’re using high-tech methods.”
Duan Minmin stroked her chin thoughtfully. “You know, we’re all in our twenties, so why are they so amazing while we’re such rookies?”
The reputation of the kitchen knife squad had spread around Haishi University for several days.
Now the entire campus knew that there was a group of outstanding students in Meiyuan who were extremely skilled at killing zombies.
Lin Xiyue was the captain of the Balala Squad. Her seven teammates were all her dormmates, an eight-person mixed dormitory.
Aside from Lin Xiyue and another member who were from the Faculty of Science, there were also three from the School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, and three from the School of Medicine.
In short, the squad sounded incredibly formidable.
As for the earlier report from Lin Hewan about someone possibly swinging down from the second floor with a rope, that explosive piece of news was temporarily overshadowed by the official post about the kitchen knife squad.
Everyone began discussing it again in the group chat. In particular, the girls who had also fantasized about wielding kitchen knives and venturing out into the world felt a surge of excitement, thinking that perhaps they too could become the next Senior Lin.
Meanwhile, the “hamster faction” could only gasp in amazement, and after marveling for a while, they went back to being hamsters.
After lunch, Wu Zhenyi and Ye Wan from Dorm 620 were also pulled into the group chat by Liu Huan.
At this point, the “isolated island dorm alliance” on the sixth floor was officially formed.
For a while after they joined, the chat was filled with welcome emojis, until the Lanzhou Garden Building 2 group chat started discussing again the girl who had left the dorm building from the second-floor corridor. Auntie Lian tagged everyone asking if anyone knew what had happened, but everyone responded that they had no idea.
Lin Hewan said that she had heard a loud thud outside and thought someone had jumped off the building. She nervously opened her door a crack and peeked outside, only to see a blue figure outside the dorm building pulling on a rope. After retrieving the rope, the person quickly ran away.
That was how she deduced that someone had swung down from the second-floor corridor using a rope.
They all agreed that this girl was truly bold.
After all, it might be easy to climb down with a rope, but it would be difficult to come back.
The dorm building doors were locked, and it was impossible for her to throw the rope back up to the second floor and climb back in.
So they could not understand her line of thinking.
Moreover, according to the school’s policy from the past two days, once someone left the campus without authorization, the school would no longer be responsible for their safety.
In a zombie siege, a few deaths would not even count as anything unusual.
The school had not abandoned the students or fled, and was still trying its best to meet their daily needs, which was already considered quite responsible.
Chen Xiaoqi from Dorm 617 was the girl who had cried on the balcony on the first day the zombies appeared because she missed home. She listened to Liu Ruyan in everything, and from now on, any plans or ideas would also follow Liu Ruyan’s lead.
As for Wu Zhenyi and Ye Wan, they felt that they should just endure and get through this period for now.
After some more time, their farms would also reach higher levels.
If they were lucky, the Farm Game might even provide them with a safety net.
Ying Ran then raised her opinion in the group chat.
[618 Ying Ran: I also think the situation outside is still unclear. We should first focus on developing our dorm and maximizing the use of our resources.]
[618 Ying Ran: The zombies have only just appeared, and it’s uncertain whether things will improve or worsen in the future.]
[618 Ying Ran: If the zombies can be eliminated quickly and life returns to normal, that would be the best outcome. As long as the outbreak remains under control, the school definitely won’t abandon us.]
What Ying Ran said actually implied the unspoken second half.
If one day the number of zombies surged and the situation became uncontrollable, then they could no longer rely on the school.
Everyone wanted to survive. If things truly reached that point, they absolutely could not continue hiding in this small dorm and wait to die.
Everything that had happened in the past few days had been too sudden, leaving them with almost no time to mentally prepare.
Chen Xiaoqi was still clinging to Liu Ruyan and crying, saying that she had only come to Haishi to attend university. How had things suddenly turned into zombies and death? This was completely beyond her understanding.
“Xiaoqi, we have to stay alive.” Liu Ruyan gently patted her back, her tone firm.
Every day, the class groups and dorm groups required students to check in through a mini program under the supervision of the Dorm Manager Auntie and counselors. Although most of them were staying in the dorms, some students who had left campus earlier had never been able to return.
But the number of people checking in within the class groups was decreasing each time. Even the disappearance of just one or two people was noticeable.
Whether they had been eaten by zombies or had turned into zombies themselves was now unknown.
Because Ying Ran had brought up zombies and future plans in the group chat, everyone’s mood grew heavy.
If the zombies continued to spread, the dorm would ultimately not be a safe haven.
They would also need to seek another way out while they still had temporary stability.
[619 Liu Huan: I saw a lot of useful weapons in the [Market].]
[618 Liu Huan: As long as we have enough points, we can buy weapons for self-defense.]
[617 Chen Xiaoqi: But the weapons in the [Market] are very expensive.]
[619 Liu Huan: So the premise is that we need to obtain enough points.]
They then compared their farm levels and points in the group chat.
Room 618 had been among the earliest batch of players in the “Farm Game.” At present, they had the highest farm level, Level 4, with 26 points.
Dorms 617 and 619 both had Level 3 farms, with around twenty points each.
Dorm 620 had clearly joined the game the latest. Their farm was still Level 2, with only 8 points.
Wu Zhenyi admitted that they had only entered the game yesterday afternoon.
At that time, a floating game interface had suddenly popped up on their phones, which had truly startled them.
Ye Wan also asked Liu Huan in the group whether she had been afraid when she first entered the game. After all, the others had faced the situation together with their roommates, while Liu Huan had been alone in Dorm 619.
“It was alright.” Liu Huan’s reply sounded rather forced. “After I checked the forum and looked into it, I wasn’t that scared anymore.”
Only she herself knew how terrified she had actually been at the time.
Later, after discovering through the crop-stealing range that quite a few others in the dorm building had also entered the game, she immediately felt much more at ease.
“Wait, I saw something strange on the forum.”
Chen Jianwei had been washing clothes in the bathroom. Hearing Luo Mushi speaking outside, she walked out in surprise. “What is it?”
Duan Minmin and Ying Ran had already gathered around. The four of them stood by the floating game panel and looked at it together.
Luo Mushi opened a forum post she had just been browsing and explained to her roommates, “There are probably still many features in this game that we haven’t discovered yet.”
The post she opened was from the original poster sharing their excitement that their farm had successfully reached Level 12.
Their dorm had been among the earliest players to enter the game, and they had never had their crops stolen. Even so, they had only just reached Level 4.
Yet now, someone had suddenly appeared with a farm level three times higher than theirs.
Based on the farm’s leveling mechanics, there were only three ways to gain experience: planting, harvesting, and stealing crops.
It was known that planting seeds and harvesting crops were both restricted by time, while stealing crops was restricted by distance.
Even if someone refreshed the notification feed nonstop all day, they would still need enough players within range whose crops had ripened but had not yet been harvested, so that they could happen to catch the moment and steal them.
What kind of absurdly lucky player was this?
Since they had not found any in-game payment system, and in the apocalypse money would gradually lose its value, they felt it was unlikely to be due to spending money.
As for cheating or hacks, that also seemed highly improbable.
The very existence of this game was already against scientific logic. Who could even install hacks into something so unscientific? That person would have to be unbelievably powerful.
So this poster was either an extremely lucky player.
Or there were still many undiscovered features in the game, and those features were the real key to leveling up quickly.
If they only relied on farming and harvesting, they could farm for a lifetime and still not be able to afford a single bottle of zombie virus antibody from the [Market].
If they were destined not to afford it, then was that item in the [Market] just there for display?
The appearance of this Level 12 farm player had indeed caused a stir on the forum.
Some people asked in the comments how exactly he had leveled up.
Others accused him of stealing everyone’s crops, leaving no way for others to survive, calling him a selfish thief and even a murderer disregarding human life.
But the original poster never appeared again to respond.
Ying Ran specifically told the others in the group chat to check out the post, explained their speculation, and then suggested that everyone try exploring their farms to see if they could trigger any new features.
However, after spending nearly half a day searching around their farms, they still found nothing.
The information under [Daily Tasks] still only showed three items, and the fourth tab remained in a “pending update” state.
Given that the game kept claiming it was still in beta testing,
they could not help but suspect that the game might have secretly updated itself without telling them.