Searching for Survivors

"Alright, enough joking around. Come with me quickly, it's not safe here. This library is swarming with zombies, at least a few hundred of them." After speaking, Zhao Tianlei pulled Cheng Yao along and they began to carefully move along the side of the wall.

Zhao Tianlei's original plan was to look for survivors, but the library had already become this way. The sports field was naturally also a large slaughterhouse. As for the teaching buildings and dormitories, Zhao Tianlei didn't dare to imagine what they would be like. Firstly, the doors in the dormitory buildings were all ordinary wooden doors, and there weren't many students inside at the time. If the apocalypse broke out, the students in the dorms would be unable to withstand the zombies' attack with their flimsy wooden doors.

Zhao Tianlei dared not even think about the teaching buildings. The more people there were, the more zombies there would be. He would likely be drowned by zombies before he could even rush in to save anyone. However, his humanity made it impossible for Zhao Tianlei to cruelly abandon rescuing people.

"Tianlei, what's wrong?" Cheng Yao couldn't help but ask caringly, seeing Zhao Tianlei's troubled expression.

Zhao Tianlei spoke without any concealment, "There are so many students in the school. Although they weren't very nice to me usually, I can't just abandon them now. Even though those zombies are terrifying and ferocious, there might still be survivors in the school. I'm thinking about whether or not to go save them. I've pretty much scouted all the major buildings in the school. The dormitory buildings can naturally be written off. I went to the canteen yesterday, and there wasn't a single person. As for the library, you've seen it, there are too many zombies inside, and perhaps no survivors left. Now it's down to the teaching building and the office building."

Zhao Tianlei's words touched Cheng Yao slightly. In this apocalypse, Zhao Tianlei's actions could definitely be considered foolish. But Cheng Yao knew that it was precisely because of his foolishness that she had survived. Therefore, Cheng Yao would absolutely not stop him from being foolish like this, because it was related to the hope of some survivors.

Cheng Yao immediately comforted him, "Do what you think is right, and don't let yourself have regrets. From your analysis just now, you've clearly made your decision. I think when the apocalypse broke out yesterday, most classes were in session, so there might not be many people in the office building. Why don't we check the teaching building? Since we're going to save people, let's save more."

"Okay, we'll go take a look around the teaching building. If there are too many zombies there, we'll leave. We can't risk our lives to save people. If there aren't too many zombies, and we find survivors, we'll save as many as we can." With Cheng Yao's suggestion, Zhao Tianlei's thinking became much simpler. After speaking, the two walked side-by-side towards the school's teaching building.

Along the way, Zhao Tianlei relied on his memory from yesterday's food-searching excursion to avoid areas with more zombies. He also avoided small groups of zombies whenever possible. Only when encountering individual straggler zombies that noticed the two approaching would Zhao Tianlei swing his fire axe and chop them down.

Thus, the straight-line distance from the library to the teaching building, which would normally take three to five minutes, took them a good twenty minutes, the difficulty of which could be imagined.

Upon arriving at the teaching building, Zhao Tianlei didn't go straight in. Instead, he first scouted the perimeter of the building. After all, there were many students in the teaching building, and thus many zombies. If they walked in directly, they would inevitably be surrounded by zombies. So, Zhao Tianlei first looked around from the outside, through the first-floor windows. As he looked, he saw that every classroom was a scene of hell. Blood splattered on the classroom walls, displaying the horrific state of affairs at the time.

Zhao Tianlei directly gave up searching any classroom with such a scene and moved on to the next. After checking over a dozen classrooms and finding them all the same, just as Zhao Tianlei was about to give up, a classroom suddenly caught his attention. Judging by the arrangement inside, this was clearly not a student classroom, but an office for several counselors. Although it was a bit messy inside, the white walls around were free of any bloodstains. Especially near the door, many desks and chairs were piled up, clearly to prevent zombies from entering.

Seeing this, Zhao Tianlei froze. He quickly climbed onto the window and gently knocked on the glass, wanting to see the situation inside.

As Zhao Tianlei lightly knocked, some figures suddenly appeared inside. It turned out that these people had been leaning against the walls, sitting or lying down, so Zhao Tianlei couldn't see them from the outside. At first, these figures appeared very tense, but when they saw the figure knocking on the glass, some people couldn't help but cry. Zhao Tianlei also clearly saw the situation inside: it was indeed some students hiding there, along with two teachers and a security guard.

Seeing their near-tearful state, Zhao Tianlei quickly gestured for them to be quiet and pointed at the window. A student immediately stepped forward and opened the window.

Then, the two teachers and the security guard also approached the window. A teacher spoke to Zhao Tianlei in a low voice, "Classmate, are you here to save us? You probably can't do it alone. There are many zombies in the corridor, they are too terrifying. If you really want to save us, go find more people first, then we can figure out a way. Perhaps you can go out and see if you can find the police and have them figure out a solution."

Regardless, Zhao Tianlei admired this teacher's composure at such a critical moment. Especially his suggestions, which gave Zhao Tianlei a strange sense of goodwill. Zhao Tianlei didn't need to think to know that these people inside were terrified to death, but this teacher's first thought wasn't about how to be rescued, but about Zhao Tianlei's safety, and then about finding a way to save people for Zhao Tianlei.

Hearing the teacher's words, Zhao Tianlei couldn't help but tell the truth, "Teacher, right now, there are probably very few people alive in the entire school. At least, I didn't see a single living person on my way from the library. Everyone is dead. Perhaps we are the only living people in the school. It's the same in the city, I imagine. Those police officers can't possibly come to save us."

Although Zhao Tianlei spoke in a low voice, the people inside heard him clearly. Especially after hearing Zhao Tianlei's words, some people immediately couldn't help but cry, holding their heads.

The teacher also looked very desperate, but didn't know how to express it. Seeing everyone like this, Zhao Tianlei quickly comforted them, "Everyone, don't worry. Although the world has become an apocalypse, we still have hope of survival. This morning, I was hiding in a library curator's office and saw rolling news on television."

"The government and the army activated an emergency plan the moment the apocalypse broke out. Now the army and government have split into two groups. One group is carrying out rescue operations, searching for survivors, while the other is building survivor bases. As long as we can survive and escape, and rendezvous with the rescue teams, we will have a chance to live."