Wu Leiting was one of the people who had gone out to hunt zombies. He had run fast enough to make it back to the dormitory.
Now, as he watched the names of the lower-floor players dim one by one, sweat beaded on his forehead and his whole body trembled with fear.
What should he do?!
That huge monster was about to kill its way up here!
From the steadily dimming names, it was clear that the Big Zombie only needed ten minutes to break through an iron door!
That speed was already terrifying enough.
There were only eighty-five players left in total!
In other words, this Big Zombie only needed fourteen hours to 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 finished.
"There are only a little over ten hours left 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 am I supposed to run?"
"Where the hell am I supposed to go?"
Wu Leiting's mind had gone numb. Hot sweat streamed down his face without stopping.
At this moment, many people had fallen into the same predicament as Wu Leiting.
"Right, I can ask the players upstairs for help and become a tenant. I'm done being this shitty landlord!"
With that thought, Wu Leiting started toward the door.
But halfway there, he stopped again.
A problem now lay right in front of him!
During the day, the lower-floor players had consumed almost all the resources. Many of the upper-floor players' rental rooms only had wooden doors!
"Doesn't that mean the Big Zombie won't even need that long to kill all of us?! And there seems to be another special zombie too..."
Before one problem was solved, another had already appeared!
He couldn't keep thinking about it. If he did, he would go insane!
At this moment, many people had fallen into the same predicament as Wu Leiting.
But there were also people even more devastated than him.
The First Floor, once a gathering place for elite players.
Now it was filled with misery, and everyone was in danger.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Terrifying impacts against doors rang out one after another, making the First Floor players dizzy with fear.
At this moment, the Big Zombie had targeted room door 9.
[9 Sun Heng: Trade me iron materials now! If I die, you'll die too!]
When he shouted that in the group, people actually did trade iron materials to him.
There was no choice. Once his door was breached, the monster would move on to someone else.
With wave after wave of aid, Sun Heng actually managed to hold on.
After an unknown amount of time, the banging suddenly stopped.
Then, the direction of the banging changed!
This time, Dormitory 10 was under attack!
The Player hiding inside was instantly dumbfounded.
Just moments ago, he had been the most eager person to trade materials to Sun Heng.
He immediately called for help in the Chat Room, using exactly the same words Sun Heng had used.
Yet tragically, no one was willing to help him.
Everyone had panicked and handed Sun Heng raw materials for free, but now they had come to their senses.
Wasn't that idiotic?!
They were about to die themselves, yet they had still given their blood to someone else. Were they insane?!
Boom! Bang!
Before long, Dormitory 10 was breached. In less than thirty seconds, that Player's name dimmed.
Now it was Dormitory 11's turn!
"Help..." The Player in Dormitory 11 opened his mouth and muttered to himself, but he did not even send a message to the Chat Room.
Because he knew no one would help him!
Players' names dimmed one after another, each representing a life lost.
Only after several more deaths did the Big Zombie's cold, mechanical rhythm finally change.
In order to survive, the players began extreme parkour!
At first, some First Floor players tried to sneak out of their dormitories, only to explode the instant the monster glanced at them!
When it saw a living target in plain sight, the Big Zombie would not continue playing its door-breaking game. Once those long legs started running, almost no one could outrun it.
But that also gave other players an opportunity to escape from their rooms.
The entire Chat Room was now 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 running wildly through the Dormitory Building, as if they were playing hide-and-seek with a ghost.
"Bro, how much iron material do you still have?" In the stairwell, a muscular boy spoke to a shorter boy.
"Forty-six portions. Why?" The shorter boy turned around, confused.
Splat!!!
A dagger plunged directly into his throat.
After taking the shorter boy's supplies, the muscular boy used his large stockpile of iron materials to find an upper-floor residence with an iron door. He also suggested to the owner that he only accept tenants with iron materials.
As long as they endured one round, the Big Zombie would switch rooms and attack elsewhere!
Xu Lang looked at the screen full of pleas for help in the Chat Room, his expression growing grave.
Then, instead of sitting around and 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 on the steel door alone," Xu Lang replied seriously.
Tong Qi was amazed that Xu Lang even knew how to set traps.
"Can these traps kill the Big Zombie?" Cao Yaxuan swallowed.
"No." Xu Lang shook his head. "So you need to be mentally prepared. Once the traps restrain the zombie, we'll run upstairs!"
"Why run upstairs? Isn't that a dead end?" Cao Yaxuan immediately felt that this was unreliable.
Xu Lang explained:
"I talked with Zhang Dahai just now. He said the zombie he killed could climb walls... That means one of the 'pursuit slots' is already dead!"
"Once we reach the top floor, we can use my rappel rope to descend quickly. We don't need to go down far, just one or two floors. In theory, we can keep kiting the ghost like that."
"Do you understand?"
Cao Yaxuan swallowed. "That sounds really difficult."
"This is the last resort... Since it's already our last resort, there's absolutely no way we can survive safely and steadily!" Xu Lang said earnestly.
Actually, the best method would be to upgrade his handgun right 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 now was actually to wait for the night to pass. Once the beds refreshed during the day, he could sleep immediately, gather three hundred Nightmare Coins, and reinforce the door.
Only by staying alive could he keep dealing damage!
That had been Xu Lang's original plan.
If he had known the players would be this useless, he would not have adjusted his sleep schedule.
Theoretically, every round of the game should have at least a few survivors.
And he had already upgraded to a level-three steel door, practically securing his survival odds until the end!
Yet the players were in such a pathetic state that their survival rate was clearly approaching 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 hardly done anything right.
The economy was already more than ten thousand behind, and they still wanted to turn things around? Wasn't that a joke?
Who said a beginner round had to leave you a way to survive?
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