Corpse Transformation

Facing Zhao Tianlei's words, Ye Sitong pointed to the panic ahead and stammered, "The girl who jumped to her death just now suddenly came back to life and turned into a zombie. She pounced directly at an unsuspecting student and started biting."

"What? Died and came back to life? Corpse transformation?"

Zhao Tianlei was stunned and quickly said to Wu Bin, "Wu Bin, watch Ye Sitong for me, and keep an eye on the back door at all times."

After speaking, Zhao Tianlei, holding a fire axe, rushed towards the transformed girl. At this moment, the front and back doors were surrounded by a large number of zombies, and the students in the lobby had already fallen into chaos. If zombies were to break out in the crowd at this time, everyone would be terrified and at a loss. What Zhao Tianlei had to do now was to kill the zombie girl in the library first, and then think of another plan.

When Zhao Tianlei rushed over, the transformed girl had already bitten a student to death. Then, seeing people fleeing around, she began to pounce on others, targeting a terrified boy. The boy fell to the ground, looking at the approaching zombie, so scared that he wet himself.

"Pfft." Just as the zombie was about to grab the boy who had peed himself, Zhao Tianlei accelerated and rushed forward. With a wave of his hand, he swung his axe and directly severed the zombie's head. The headless body immediately spurted a large amount of blood, then toppled to the ground. Seeing this, the boy saved by Zhao Tianlei immediately lay on the ground and began to vomit profusely.

After beheading the zombie, Zhao Tianlei walked towards the student who had been bitten to death. He raised his axe and directly chopped at its head, instantly blowing its head off. The sudden corpse transformation of the suicidal girl served as a reminder to Zhao Tianlei: these people would turn into zombies after death, and Zhao Tianlei had to eliminate these threats.

"Bang."

Just as Zhao Tianlei resolved the crisis inside the library, there was a sudden loud noise. The library's main door was smashed open by the zombies. To be precise, the heavy solid wood door did not break.

It was just that under the constant battering and crowding of the many zombies outside, the metal fittings on both sides of the door were torn off. The door was pushed down by the zombies, but because there were library tables blocking it from behind, it didn't burst open directly. Instead, two gaps appeared on both sides. However, it was these two gaps that gave the zombies outside an opportunity. In an instant, five or six zombies squeezed in from both sides.

"Zombies are breaking in, run for your lives!"

As the zombies broke through the door, the students in the lobby screamed. Someone shouted, and everyone started to flee. Almost everyone's first reaction was to rush to the second floor via the stairs, but due to the limited width of the stairs and the hundreds of students in the first-floor lobby, it became extremely crowded. Many people were knocked down by those behind them and couldn't get up, only to be trampled by the crowd.

"Holy crap."

Zhao Tianlei originally wanted to rally some students to counterattack, drive back the zombies trying to break in, and then have someone block the door again. Only then would there be a sliver of a chance to survive. But now, everyone had fled. No matter how capable he was, he couldn't fight the constantly incoming zombies with his bare hands.

Zhao Tianlei was not an idiot. The situation was out of control, and he wouldn't stay to die. If it were just a few zombies, he would have tried to fight even without help. But judging by the zombies continuously pouring in from both sides of the main door, it was clearly not just a few. If it were only a few, they wouldn't have knocked the door down. Zhao Tianlei immediately turned and ran. However, as he ran, he saw Shen Xinyu and her female assistant also planning to follow the crowd and escape to the second floor via the stairs.

"These two idiots."

Zhao Tianlei quickly rushed forward and grabbed Shen Xinyu. Before Shen Xinyu could scream in panic, he said, "Follow me quickly."

After confirming it was Zhao Tianlei, Shen Xinyu quickly pulled her female assistant and ran behind him. They saw Zhao Tianlei heading directly towards the fire escape. Ye Sitong and Wu Bin were also waiting for Zhao Tianlei there. Zhao Tianlei waved at them and said, "Follow me quickly, go up through the fire escape."

As Zhao Tianlei led the four of them up the stairs through the fire escape, other students were rushing upstairs from the main staircase in the lobby. Lin Mu and Qian Hao, hiding on the second floor, saw this scene and quickly hid in the curator's office, locking the door from the inside and barricading it with desks, bookshelves, and sofas. The fleeing students, upon reaching the second floor and finding nowhere to hide, rushed directly to the third floor.

At this moment, the breached main door on the first floor, under the pushing of more and more zombies outside, had its gaps widening. As more and more zombies poured in, the students who tripped or were trampled to death on the stairs became unlucky victims. People were continuously caught by the incoming zombies, and desperate screams echoed through the library, sounding particularly tragic and terrifying.

"Clang." With another sound, Zhao Tianlei couldn't help but be startled. This sound was clearly the escape door being broken open by the zombies outside. Now that both the front and back doors had been broken by zombies and a large number of them were rushing in, there was no third door to escape. Were they all going to die here?

It wasn't just Zhao Tianlei who heard the sound of the door breaking. Wu Bin, Ye Sitong, Shen Xinyu, and the female assistant, Sister Hua, also heard the noise, and everyone fell into a state of panic. If the situation hadn't been so dire, the three girls would have likely been crying their eyes out.

"Tianlei, the zombies are breaking in, what should we do? I don't want to be eaten by those zombies." Faced with death, no one remained calm. Wu Bin, in particular, said to Zhao Tianlei in panic.

"Don't be afraid, there must be a way to escape."

As Zhao Tianlei spoke, a flash of inspiration struck him. He immediately beckoned to the four of them and said, "I've found a place, follow me closely."

At this moment, the four of them would not question Zhao Tianlei's words. Even if they had doubts, they wouldn't have the chance to ask. The constant roaring of the zombies after breaking through the door deeply assaulted everyone's ears and nerves. Zhao Tianlei led them through the fire escape to the second floor, but instead of continuing to the third floor, he headed directly for the men's restroom on the second floor. The girls didn't mind the situation anymore and followed him in.

As soon as Zhao Tianlei saw them enter, he quickly locked the restroom door, then braced himself against it. He pointed to a window at the end of the men's restroom and said, "Quick, you all open the window and climb out through the pipe outside. There's a platform below. You can hide on the platform first, and when there are no more zombies below, you can jump down. It's a lawn below, and it's not high, so you'll be fine."

"Bang bang bang..."

Suddenly, a series of violent knocks on the door shook everyone present.