Zombie Siege: The Road to Survival Begins at School - Chapter 12

Zhang Wei sat against the door of Room 512, cold sweat soaking his back.

Memories from a dream were one thing. Watching someone truly die in front of you was another.

He knew he hadn’t done anything wrong—he just needed a moment to compose himself.

As screams echoed from next door, Zhang Wei found a dry towel in Zhou An’s bathroom. He cut it in half with the watermelon knife—wrapping one piece around the knife handle and securing it to his hand tightly. The other half, he wrapped around his left hand, then stapled it in place with a stapler taken from one of Zhou An’s roommates’ desks.

It was time to reclaim the supplies.

Without hesitation, Zhang Wei used the dorm supervisor’s spare key to unlock Room 511, then kicked the door open.

The chaos caused by Zhang Ya’s sudden transformation had caught everyone off guard. No one had blocked the door with the metal bed or locked it.

Inside, the zombified Zhang Ya was being pinned down by a few boys using a large water bucket over her head.

As soon as Liu Feng saw Zhang Wei, he didn’t think twice—he yanked the bucket off and kicked the zombie Zhang Ya toward him.

Zhang Ya lunged with bloodshot eyes, disheveled hair, and a piercing shriek.

But only people seeing a zombie for the first time would still be afraid.

Zhang Wei smiled. He had rehearsed this moment countless times in his head.

He had spent the whole previous night sitting on a toilet bucket, thinking about how to take down Zhang Ya—even if she had turned into a zombie.

“Let’s see how well I do!”

He charged forward and leapt slightly.

With a swift motion, he slashed in a spinning arc.

The razor-sharp watermelon knife sliced clean through the zombie’s neck.

With a dull thud, Zhang Ya collapsed to the ground.

Zhang Wei’s precision cut had severed her spinal cord.

Her head was still attached, and her mouth was still moving, but her body twitched a few times before slumping into a motionless heap.

Zhang Wei knelt and stabbed her again—this time driving the blade through her eye socket, piercing her brain.

Now she was truly dead.

He gripped his knife tightly, eyes locked on the bathroom door.

He had just seen Zhang Cheng, now a zombie, crawl into it.

The door hadn’t been locked, and there had been no sounds of struggle from inside.

Zhang Wei looked carefully—two people were missing: one boy and one girl, unfamiliar faces among the four he didn’t know well.

But he had clearly seen them earlier when he left the room.

That meant they had sneaked into the bathroom during the chaos.

But now that Zhang Cheng had gone in, the bathroom was eerily silent.

It was around 7 p.m. by now. Dusk had fallen, and darkness was creeping in fast, even during summer.

Then came a noise from the bathroom—Zhang Wei’s eyes narrowed.

“Not good!”

Suddenly, a loud crash of shattering glass rang out. Three figures burst out of the bathroom—now all zombies.

Liu Feng, Li Xiaoqian, and the remaining two survivors—a boy and a girl—were hiding under the top bunks, trembling beneath blankets.

Xu Long and Qin Shaofeng were crouched in the corner of the balcony.

“Zhang Wei… hurry, hurry!” Liu Feng cried from the bunk. He was deathly pale, his previous cold arrogance completely gone.

The rest of the survivors were frozen, just watching, secretly hoping the zombies would go after Zhang Wei.

But Zhang Wei wasn’t panicking.

He quietly locked the door behind him and braced it with his back, pushing a bed to block it.

“Kill Zhang Cheng already! What are you doing?!” someone shouted in desperation.

The scream diverted the zombie’s attention. Instead of charging at Zhang Wei, Zhang Cheng turned and lunged toward the sound.

Xu Long and Qin Shaofeng scrambled and climbed onto another upper bunk.

Zhang Wei still didn’t move.

Zhang Cheng and the other two zombies were manageable threats. The dorm’s defenses were what really mattered.

He kept bracing the door, worried more zombies might be drawn over by the noise and catch him from behind.

“Zhang Wei, what the hell is wrong with you?! Zhang Cheng is coming at you!” Liu Feng shouted in panic.

Sure enough, Zhang Cheng, unable to reach the others, had turned and was charging at Zhang Wei.

The other two zombies roared and began closing in as well.

Zhang Wei raised his knife.

Just as Zhang Cheng lunged at him, he slashed horizontally.

The twisted, grotesque expression on Zhang Cheng’s face froze in place.

A large, infected head flew into the air, bl00d splattering everywhere.

Cutting through a neck vertebra was tough, but it still had gaps—Zhang Wei’s strike had landed perfectly.

Luckily, the watermelon knife was large and sharp enough for the job.

“Ahhh!” the girls screamed. The scene was terrifying.

But Zhang Wei remained unfazed. He stepped forward and thrust his blade into the eye of a female zombie closing in on him.

Her mouth gaped open, a silent shriek forming as her bloodshot gray eyes turned crimson.

Zhang Wei pulled the knife out, flicked off the bl00d, then angled the blade and stabbed the final male zombie up through the jaw—avoiding the dense skull bones.

And with that, all immediate danger was gone.

The dorm was back under Zhang Wei’s control.

He hadn’t even wiped the bl00d off his knife when another zombie lunged at him, snarling.

Zhang Wei recognized him—it was the one who had bled out earlier from a severed arm.

He’d turned too.

Zhang Wei slashed across the zombie’s eyes and followed up with a kick.

Though blind, the zombie still had its instincts and sense of smell. It turned and stumbled straight toward Liu Feng.

Liu Feng tried to flee, but his legs wouldn’t move, heavy as lead.

The zombie tackled him instantly.

Zhang Wei walked over, grabbed the zombie by the hair, and sliced its throat clean through.

Almost no bl00d flowed out. The zombie collapsed with a thud.

It had already bled out earlier—even Xu Long’s makeshift tourniquet had been useless.

Liu Feng struggled back to his feet, shivering as he looked around.

The dorm reeked of urine—someone had clearly lost control in fear.

Zhang Wei opened the door and peeked into the hallway. No other zombies had been drawn over yet.

It was safe for now.

He pushed the door shut. “It’s probably safe now.”

“Zhang Wei… how are you alive? Didn’t you die?” Qin Shaofeng stammered.

Zhang Wei froze in suspicion. Hadn’t Qin just been bitten by Zhang Ya?

Why hadn’t he turned?

Zombie bites usually caused immediate transformation.

Zhang Wei looked at Qin’s ear—bl00d was still trickling from it. He’d definitely been bitten.

“Besides Qin Shaofeng, did anyone else get bitten?” Zhang Wei looked at the others.

“Not me…” Liu Feng said quickly. The two girls also shook their heads.

Li Xiaoqian was too scared to speak.

Qin Shaofeng looked pale. “It was just a scratch. They saw it—it didn’t break the skin…”

Li Xiaoqian hesitated.

Liu Feng, trying to hide his injury, clutched his bleeding arm tightly.

“Your arm got bitten too?” Zhang Wei frowned. He’d seen Liu Feng get tackled—there was no way he came out unscathed.

“It’s a scratch!” Xu Long cut in. He’d seen it happen—the zombie had clearly clawed Liu Feng.

“Zhang Ya turned just from a scratch…” Zhang Wei pointed to her corpse.

“You sure your ear’s just a scrape?” he asked Qin Shaofeng again.

“Yes. I never lie.”

“Alright. I believe you,” Zhang Wei nodded and extended his hand. “Where’s Zhou An’s photo?”

“Here! I’ve kept it with me the whole time!” Qin Shaofeng produced a photo of Zhou An and her grandmother, gently wiping the creases from the plastic cover before handing it over.

Zhang Wei took it and rubbed his neck. “I forgive you. Now, I want you two to drag these corpses out of here—as far as possible.”

He pointed at Qin Shaofeng and Liu Feng with his knife.

“Huh?” Both were terrified out of their minds and clearly didn’t want to touch the bodies.

“If we let the corpses rot in here, do you think we’ll survive in this environment?”

Zhang Wei glanced at the corpses. “I’ve already scouted around—there are no zombies nearby. You two need to move fast.”

The two exchanged glances, unsure but slightly reassured.

“Move it. I don’t have all day,” Zhang Wei tapped the knife against the bed frame, the grating sound sharp and piercing.

Having witnessed him kill four zombies, the two had lost their nerve completely. They had no choice but to obey.

Zhang Wei personally opened the door and watched them drag the bodies out.

“Xu Long, you take Zhang Cheng’s head,” Zhang Wei added.

Xu Long hesitated but eventually did as told.

The three of them were trembling, but after some effort, they got one body out—likely tossing it from the fifth floor.

They returned soon after, only to find Zhang Wei blocking the doorway.

One of the unfamiliar girls in the room finally snapped out of her daze.

“You… you killed Zhang Ya?” she stammered.

“Didn’t you see it yourself? Want me to give you a demonstration?” Zhang Wei replied coldly.

“N-no! You’re amazing… I… I’m sorry…” she rambled.

Zhang Wei ignored her, raising his bloodied watermelon knife and pointing it at the last remaining boy and girl he didn’t know. “You two—move. Now.”