Zombie Siege: The Road to Survival Begins at School - Chapter 13

They were startled, thinking Zhang Wei was going to attack them, and didn’t dare come closer.

“Get over here!” Zhang Wei didn’t bother to be polite—right now, he was the master of this dorm room!

One girl was the first to approach, nearly collapsing in fear.

A boy followed slowly behind her.

They stood together, trembling, not daring to look at the corpses on the floor.

Zhang Wei had Li Xiaoqian check them one by one. None of them had any visible wounds, and he also checked Li Xiaoqian again himself.

“I don’t trust you three,” Zhang Wei said to the three people still standing at the door.

“I wasn’t bitten,” Xu Long said.

“That just makes me trust you even less.”

Zhang Wei took out the key to dorm room 510 next door. “Here, take this. It’s the key to Room 510. You can stay in the room next door.”

Liu Feng snatched the key immediately.

He went out and tried it. The door to 510 opened. Overjoyed, he turned back to the others, who all let out a sigh of relief.

Zhang Wei hadn’t lied.

Zhang Wei smirked coldly and suggested, “How about this: I’ll give you some food, and you can hide out next door. I’ve really got this urge to kill someone, so I’d rather live alone.”

“Huh? Sure!”

They were ecstatic!

One of them had been grabbed, another bitten—if they stayed, they figured Zhang Wei might really hack them to death.

Now he was offering both shelter and food—of course they were thrilled.

Xu Long, however, looked hesitant.

He hadn’t been injured, and staying with others who might turn into zombies was a big risk.

Zhang Wei had Li Xiaoqian gather some food, pack it in a bag, and hang it on the doorknob of 510.

The three of them resumed dragging out the rest of the unremoved bodies.

“Food and water are limited,” Zhang Wei reminded them kindly. “Don’t waste it, or I won’t be able to save you.”

The group quickly agreed and shut themselves in Room 510.

Li Xiaoqian looked at Xu Long’s retreating back, hesitating as if she wanted to say something.

Zhang Wei smiled in satisfaction. They were done for.

The reason he had been so “kind” was purely to establish a good image for himself.

But in truth, with three living people next door—two of whom were bound to turn into zombies—the outcome was almost certainly mutual destruction once a conflict broke out.

It was a strategy: using others to do the killing for him, avoiding direct confrontation with Xu Long.

In fact, Zhang Wei really wanted to head up to the sixth floor—it was far safer.

Yes, Zhang Wei’s goal was the rooftop.

Access to a continuous clean water source—that was what he was after.

The sixth floor was the closest to the rooftop.

Zhang Wei double-checked all the doors and windows, sealed up every gap, and leaned against the wall with his eyes closed to rest.

From the hallway came whispering voices:

“Damn, Zhang Wei is scary as hell. Good thing we don’t have to hide with him.”

“Yeah, the way he looked, so ruthless… One swing, one kill. Totally not the coward he used to be!”

“When the rescue comes and things go back to normal, we’re going to report Zhang Wei. The three of us will be witnesses!”

Zhang Wei chuckled to himself. You people are dead meat.

“But you better deal with Qin Shaofeng first. He’s probably turning soon.”

Bite wounds were more likely to lead to transformation than scratches.

Sure enough, about half an hour later, Zhang Wei heard a shout from the crew-cut guy, Liu Feng: “Qin Shaofeng, I’m sorry! We don’t have a choice—we have to throw you out!”

“No! I’m not going to turn!” Qin Shaofeng screamed in despair.

But this time, it seemed Liu Feng and Xu Long were in agreement. They had experience now. Without any explanation, they grabbed Qin Shaofeng and threw him out.

Qin Shaofeng rushed to Zhang Wei’s door, banging on it. “Zhang Wei! They kicked me out! Please let me in. They’re going to accuse you of murder—I’ll testify it was self-defense!”

Zhang Wei pressed against the door, unmoved. The others watched coldly from inside.

One person alone couldn’t break through the door.

Qin Shaofeng cried and begged on his knees for a long time, but Zhang Wei never opened it.

Eventually, Qin Shaofeng started slamming on the door again, screaming, “Zhang Wei, how can you be so heartless, you bastard! I’ll take you down with me!”

The commotion attracted zombies from downstairs. Qin Shaofeng scrambled away in panic.

Zhang Wei listened to his terrified screams as he was once again tackled and devoured by a pack of zombies.

In just a few minutes, everything went quiet again.

From 510 next door came voices of relief:

“Qin Shaofeng’s dead. We’re safe now!”

“Yeah. Let’s not say anything else. Just wait for rescue.” Xu Long gave the final instruction.

That night, Zhang Wei heard the sound of a body falling.

When morning came, he looked outside and saw what had happened—Xu Long had strangled Liu Feng, who hadn’t turned yet, with a towel during the night and thrown his corpse off the 510 balcony.

The sound of the body hitting the ground had drawn the zombies away from the fifth floor.

But rescue still didn’t come.

Zhang Wei took out the dorm manager’s phone, which he had previously unlocked by bypassing the fingerprint lock.

He opened the settings, disabled the screen lock, and added his own fingerprint.

He didn’t take the phone to contact the outside world.

He knew the world out there was already in chaos. Trying to reach anyone now was useless.

He just wanted the phone for entertainment later.

The city’s power would be restored in three months.

Two days later, on a sunny morning…

Zhang Wei heard increasingly dense zombie growls.

Three days had passed—the zombie outbreak had entered its middle phase.

Most of the survivors outside had been bitten. Now the zombies were tracking human scent and heading for the dorms.

In theory, Zhang Wei was safe.

The bl00d and decay left from his zombie kills had made the entire dorm reek of rot and gore.

Zhang Wei understood how molecules spread—like the way flower fragrance is carried by pollen.

He wasn’t sure if the stench of rotting flesh might be the cause of infection. To be safe, he had everyone wear wet towels over their noses and mouths.

They held out for two more days, and no one else turned.

The rotting corpse of Qin Shaofeng at the door—now stinking in the heat—also masked the survivors’ scent.

Zhang Wei returned to the bathroom, emptied out bottles of shampoo and body wash, and rubbed them all over the doors and on the survivors’ bodies to cover their human smell with fragrance.

He also found a bottle of floral-scented body spray and used it on himself and the others.

Just to be sure. To avoid being sniffed out.

He even brought Zhou An from the next room over.

The others were shocked—Zhou An had survived this whole time?

As expected, hordes of zombies made their way upstairs, some stopping to sniff around outside their door.

But soon, they were lured away by noises elsewhere.

“Looks like we’re safe.” Zhang Wei looked at the remaining survivors in the room. Now it was just himself, Zhou An, Li Xiaoqian, a couple, and Xu Long—whose fate was unknown.

He had already spotted Liu Feng’s corpse on the ground below from the balcony.

In these past three or four days, six people had died: Wang Peng, Zhang Ya, Qin Shaofeng, Liu Feng, and the unnamed couple in the bathroom.

Over half of the dorm’s hiding survivors were now dead.

If Zhang Wei hadn’t killed those three zombies in time, the rest of them likely wouldn’t have made it.

Even if they had thrown Zhang Ya out…

Liu Feng, who was scratched, and Qin Shaofeng, who was bitten, would’ve still turned.

And they wouldn’t have been able to deal with it.

“What now?” Zhou An asked, completely in awe of Zhang Wei.

Only he truly understood how brilliant Zhang Wei’s desperate survival moves had been.

“Ration the food and water. Let’s just make it through the next seven days.” Zhang Wei sounded grim—it had only been three days so far.

“You two—what class are you from?” he asked the unfamiliar couple.

“Class 4, Senior Year 3. I’m Lu Renjia, and this is my girlfriend, Hu Die.”

“Oh, hey. I’m from Class 6, two rooms down. I’m Zhang Wei, and this is my classmate Zhou An.” Zhang Wei introduced himself.

“I’m Li Xiaoqian, I already introduced myself earlier,” Li Xiaoqian said to Lu Renjia.

“Zhang-ge, we’re really sorry about what happened before…” Hu Die began to apologize.

“It’s not your fault. I had personal beef with Xu Long and Qin Shaofeng.”

“So, what now?”

“From now on, you all follow my lead. If not, don’t blame me for being ruthless,” Zhang Wei said seriously.