Escape

I couldn't see.

After taking about seven or eight steps, I suddenly felt the IV stand in my hand bump into something. At the same time, a muffled sound rang out: "Bang!"

Was that... the sound of hitting a door?

Squinting, I felt my way along the wall with one hand while holding the IV stand with the other. At last, I successfully reached the main door. I still hadn't felt the handle, but then

the moment I raised my head!!

I shuddered violently. Even in weather nearing thirty degrees, I broke out in a cold sweat in an instant...

Four eyes met!

A pair of blood-red eyes! They were staring at me through the tiny window in the door, less than twenty centimeters wide, staring fixedly at

me!!

What kind of eyes were those!

They held not the slightest trace of emotion. Bloodlust and killing intent surged from my tailbone straight to the top of my head, and a chill instantly swept through my entire body!

Time seemed to freeze in that instant!!

"Roooar!!!" Suddenly, the thing outside the door let out a furious roar, as if it had confirmed something, and began savagely pounding

on the main door!

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!" The wild, rhythmless pounding spread through my entire body. I could no longer worry about anything else.

I turned and ran. Although I couldn't see what lay ahead, I had an IV stand in my hands that could help me probe the way forward!

After running a dozen or so steps, I suddenly felt the IV stand in my hand strike something. At the same time, the sound of shattering glass rang out!

"Crack! Crash~"

I had finally found the window!!

I shuddered all over! I raised my hand and yanked open the curtains blocking the window!

"Whoosh!" Moonlight flooded into the room. My eyes couldn't adjust for a moment, and only after squeezing them shut did I manage to see

the scenery in the distance...

It was still the familiar city. Still the familiar streets... But why were all the cars scattered haphazardly across the roads?

Why? Why were figures staggering crookedly down the streets, and why...

"Why hasn't a single light come on?!" I was close to breaking down! The visual shock of this scene was far more real than anything in an American blockbuster!

That tangible feeling was something no movie could ever give me!

Looking at everything before me, I stood there in a daze.

Chapter Two: Escape

Wind poured in through the shattered window. It wasn't strong, merely a gentle breeze. My neck felt itchy, and I instinctively reached up to slap at it.

A strand of hair fell loose

and slipped inside my shirt. An itch spread across my chest, but I suddenly jolted awake!!

The sounds outside the door had grown clearer. Every impact was accompanied by the sound of wooden boards splitting apart!

"Bang! Crack! Bang! Crack crack~"

The main door was about to give way!

I turned my head and, by the moonlight, finally managed to make out the thing behind the door, which had already been smashed open into a huge hole...

It was a person...

A person whose entire face was covered in purple clotted blood.

A person whose face was covered in purple blood, whose eyes were blood-red, and who was madly roaring and pounding on the door... A person!!

Impossible... That couldn't be a person!

What kind of person could keep wildly pounding on a door with an arm that had already been broken off? Even a madman couldn't do that!

The pain alone would have been enough to make anyone pass out.

"A Zombie...?!" I cried out in terror. A low female voice came from my mouth, reminding me once again

of where I was now!

Outside the door was a frenzied Zombie. Behind me was a window more than a dozen stories above the ground?

Be bitten to death by a Zombie or jump to my death?

No! I didn't want either choice!!

I didn't approach the window, because the area around it was covered in shards of glass. The nearest place to me should have been my hospital bed, since the other bed was still clean and

neat, completely unlike one that had ever been occupied.

I took several steps to my bed. There was a pair of slippers on the floor. Although they were a size too large, I had no choice but to put them on. At least they would keep the glass from cutting into my soles.

I laid the IV stand in my hand to one side and used the moonlight to inspect my bed. There was a cabinet beside it. Without the slightest hesitation, I opened

the cabinet. Sure enough... all my personal belongings were inside, including the iPhone 16SP I had painfully bought. It was probably

out of power, though.

I took the phone directly in my hand, because I knew... my phone case was a power bank, the legendary battery-pack case. If nothing unexpected had happened,

my power bank should still have some charge!

There was also a pair of glasses inside, but I had no use for them now. When I had just looked out by the moonlight, I had discovered that my vision had recovered to the point where I could see even more clearly than

when wearing glasses!

Although that was a good thing, I had no time to celebrate. There were still a few other things in the cabinet.

A pack of my Changbai Mountain cigarettes, my Zippo lighter, and my house keys. I guessed... the cabinet beside the main door probably held my clothes,

but I couldn't get over there anymore. The Zombie pounding on the door with repeated "bangs" had already smashed half the door to pieces,

and it had paid a terrible price for that. The exposed white bones of its remaining half-arm had already torn free of the flesh's control and fallen to the floor. The pale bones stabbed at my nerves like that, while the door was covered in dark-red blood and mangled flesh!

It probably wouldn't take even a minute for this Zombie to smash through the door!

I wrapped these personal belongings in a bedsheet, tied it to my back, then casually picked up the IV stand leaning nearby.

I twisted it and found that it really could be dismantled, so I hurriedly twisted it several more times, separating the base from the stand.

My strength really had increased. At the very least, I was stronger than I had been in my original shut-in man's body. But there was no time to think about it now. I directly dragged

the bed beside me to the main door and rammed it hard against the already battered door!

As the metal bed scraped across the floor, it made a piercing "screeech~" At the same time, the entire building suddenly erupted into chaos, with roars rising

one after another!

Footsteps in the hallway grew disordered and rapidly approached!

I yanked over the bedsheets and tied together all the sheets from both beds. Fortunately, the metal bed had bought me enough time. The Zombie, whose arm was already ruined, could only squeeze half its body inside, while the other half remained trapped outside the door.

All the bedsheets together were several meters long. As for exactly how long, I had no time to check. Quite a few sounds had already stopped outside the door. If I hesitated any longer,

I might well die here today!

I tied the sheets to my metal bed, then wrapped the bundled sheets twice around the IV stand to act as a buffer. Once everything was ready, I strode

to the window and raised the stand's pole. After a burst of clattering, I looked at the window before me, wide enough for me to climb through, and climbed out without hesitation.

At that moment, the main door behind me had also reached its limit. With a loud "Bang!", the door was smashed open, and a large group of roaring Zombies surged in chaotically.

"Roar, roar, roar!!"

I crouched outside the window with one hand gripping its edge. Watching the Zombies rush in, I truly experienced the feeling of the apocalypse. Their bodies were mangled and ruined, the room was filled with dark-red bloodstains, and some Zombies had even been disemboweled, their abdominal cavities completely empty.

A nauseating stench drifted over from that direction. I stopped hesitating, gripped the stand's pole tightly, and jumped backward!

Something shot rapidly past my ears. At first... I thought I would slide down into the window below by the pull of the bedsheets, but...

Because it was my first time using this method, I had never expected my descent to be so fast. In the blink of an eye, the sheets had already slipped free of the stand.

Reacting on instinct, I grabbed the bedsheets just as they were about to vanish into the distance. All I heard beside my ear was a ripping "Riiiip~" The bedsheets couldn't withstand the sudden impact

and tore apart completely.