Wu Leiting was one of the people who had gone out to hunt zombies. He had run fast and made it back to the dormitory.
At that moment, he watched the names of the lower-floor players dim one by one, sweat beading on his forehead as his entire body trembled with fear.
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What should he do?!
That giant monster was about to kill its way upstairs!
From the increasingly regular rhythm at which the names dimmed, it was clear that the giant zombie only needed ten minutes to break through an iron door!
That speed was already terrifying.
One had to know that there were only eighty-five players in total!
In other words, in just fourteen hours, that giant zombie could slaughter its way through the entire dormitory building!
This time, the people living downstairs were truly doomed!
And unfortunately, Wu Leiting lived on the fourth floor. In a few hours, he would be done for.
"There are still more than ten hours until the game ends. Fuck, there's no way I can survive on this floor... I have to run. I have to run!"
"But where can I run?"
"Where the hell am I supposed to run?"
Wu Leiting's mind had gone numb. Hot sweat streamed down his face, impossible to stop.
At that moment, many people were trapped in the same predicament as Wu Leiting.
"Right, I can ask the upper-floor players for help and become a tenant. To hell with being this lousy landlord—I'm done with it!"
With that thought, Wu Leiting moved to open the door and leave.
But halfway there, he stopped again.
A problem now lay before him!
During the day, the lower-floor players had consumed nearly all the resources. Many of the upper-floor players' rental rooms had wooden doors!
"Doesn't that mean the giant zombie won't even need that long to kill us all?! And there seems to be another special zombie too..."
Before one problem could be solved, another emerged!
He couldn't keep thinking. If he did, he would go insane!
At that moment, many people were trapped in the same predicament as Wu Leiting.
But there were also people more desperate than Wu Leiting.
The first floor, once a gathering place for elite players.
Now it was filled with misery, everyone fearing for their own safety.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The terrifying sounds of doors being battered came one after another, leaving the first-floor players dizzy with fear.
At that moment, the giant zombie had targeted Room 9.
[9 Sun Heng: Hurry and trade iron materials to me! If I die, you'll die too!]
When he shouted that in the group chat, people actually did trade iron materials to him.
They had no choice. Once his door was breached, the next target would be someone else.
With wave after wave of support, Sun Heng actually managed to hold out.
No one knew how long it had been when, suddenly, the banging stopped.
Then, the direction of the banging changed!
This time, Dormitory No. 10 was under attack!
The player hiding inside was instantly dumbfounded.
Just now, he had been the most enthusiastic one in trading materials to Sun Heng.
He immediately begged for help in the chatroom, using exactly the same words Sun Heng had used.
However, tragically, no one was willing to help him.
Everyone had panicked just now and given Sun Heng raw materials for free, but they had come to their senses.
Wasn't that idiotic?!
They were about to die themselves, yet they were giving blood to someone else. Were they insane?!
Boom! Bang!
Before long, Dormitory No. 10 was breached. In less than thirty seconds, that player's name dimmed.
Now it was Dormitory No. 11's turn!
"Help..." The player in Dormitory No. 11 opened his mouth and muttered to himself, not even sending a message in the chatroom.
Because he knew no one would help him!
The players' names gradually dimmed, each one representing a life lost.
Only after several more deaths did the giant zombie's cold, mechanical rhythm finally change.
In order to survive, the players began pulling off extreme parkour!
At first, some players on the first floor tried to sneak out of their dorm rooms. The result was that they exploded the moment it looked at them!
Seeing clearly visible living prey, the giant zombie had no interest in playing some door-breaking game. Once those long legs started running, almost no one could outrun it.
But that also gave other players the chance to escape from their rooms.
Now, the chat was filled with cries for help from lower-floor players.
—As long as you let me into your room, I'll give you all my supplies!
Players without rooms began scurrying all over the dormitory building, as if they were playing hide-and-seek with a ghost.
"Brother, how much iron do you still have?" In the stairwell, a burly male student called out to a shorter one.
"Forty-six units. Why?" The shorter student turned back, confused.
Squelch!!!
A dagger plunged straight into his throat.
After stealing the shorter student's supplies, the burly student used his large stockpile of iron as leverage to find a high-floor room with an iron door. He also suggested to the owner that they only accept tenants with iron.
As long as they endured one round, the giant zombie would switch rooms to attack!
Xu Lang's expression turned grave as he looked at the screen full of desperate pleas in the chat.
Then, rather than sitting around waiting to die, he took out ropes and other tools and began measuring things around the room.
"Xu Lang, what are you doing?" Cao Yaxuan asked.
"Setting traps. We can't rely solely on the steel door," Xu Lang answered seriously.
Tong Qi was amazed that Xu Lang even knew how to set traps.
"Can these traps kill the giant zombie?" Cao Yaxuan swallowed.
"No." Xu Lang shook his head. "So you need to be mentally prepared. Once the traps hold the zombie down, we run upstairs!"
"Why run upstairs? Isn't that a dead end?" Cao Yaxuan immediately felt that this was unreliable.
Xu Lang explained, "I just talked with Zhang Dahai. He said the zombie he killed could climb walls... That means one of the 'pursuers' is already dead!"
"When we reach the top floor, we can use my rappel rope to quickly descend. We only need to go down one or two floors. Theoretically, we can keep kiting the zombie."
"Do you understand?"
Cao Yaxuan swallowed. "That sounds really difficult."
"This is the last resort... And since it's the last resort, there's no way we can survive safely!" Xu Lang said seriously.
Actually, the best option would be to upgrade his pistol now, go outside, and kill those two zombies.
But there was another problem.
The other zombie had never shown itself!
What ability did it have? That was completely unknown!
The best approach right now was actually to wait for the night to pass. Once the little bed refreshed during the day, he could quickly sleep, gather 300 Nightmare Coins, and reinforce the door.
Only by staying alive could he deal damage!
That had been Xu Lang's plan from the beginning.
If he'd known the players were this useless, he wouldn't have bothered adjusting his sleep schedule.
Theoretically, there should have been at least a few survivors after one round of the game.
And he had already upgraded to a Level 3 steel door, practically guaranteeing his survival rate until the end!
Yet with the players acting like this, the survival rate was clearly inching closer and closer to zero!
He had underestimated the cruelty of the Dormitory Survival Game!
Come to think of it, the players had made one wrong move after another. They had barely done anything right.
Their economy had already fallen behind by over ten thousand, and they still wanted a comeback? What a joke.
Who said a beginner round had to leave you a way to survive?