The corridor on the second floor of Linghui Academy was stained with blood, but the classroom of Class 1, Grade 2, was spotless. This cleanliness wasn't an illusion with a strong sense of incongruity, but genuinely cleaned.
Because there were still some hard-to-clean bloodstains in the corners.
The desks and lectern had all disappeared, replaced by two large steel doors that completely sealed the back door, directly embedded into the surrounding walls, and a few roughly made cold weapons casually strewn on the floor.
"It's almost time."
A young man leaning against the wall in the classroom pushed up his glasses and muttered to himself, while also looking meaningfully at the figure soundly asleep in the center of the classroom.
That person had white hair and pale skin. If not for her slightly childish, utterly sleepy, delicate face, she would definitely have been mistaken for a corpse that had died of old age.
"Bai Lingdong, wake up." The indifferent voice carried a hint of magnetism, revealing the speaker's genuine impatience.
"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."
Bai Lingdong remained "motionless."
Seeing Bai Lingdong's behavior, the young man stopped talking. With a flick of his right hand, an iron sword floated up from the ground and shot straight towards her with a whoosh.
Swish!
The flying sword pierced through the back of the chair without suspense. However, the moment it pierced the chair back, Bai Lingdong vanished from her original spot, leaving only a set of female school uniform pinned to the desk... No... To be precise... Only Bai Lingdong's clothes remained on the spot...
"Tang Buyu! You bastard!"
The next moment, Bai Lingdong's voice, full of shame and indignation, came from behind the young man.
Tang Buyu's expression was indifferent. He reached his left hand back and accurately grabbed a fair, slender leg that had already kicked out.
Bai Lingdong lost her balance, stumbled, and nearly fell.
"You let... let go!"
"Oh."
As soon as Tang Buyu finished speaking, he loosened his grip, but the position of his palm remained unchanged. At the same time, he silently counted in his mind.
Three... Two...
Crack!
A fair, slender leg appeared in his hand once again.
...I mean, can't you kick somewhere else? Do you have to hit my hand?
Then if you're so capable, don't block your butt!
...Do you really have to kick my butt?
Stop talking nonsense, let go of my foot! And don't look back! Throw my clothes over my head, don't look at my panties! And definitely don't pinch!
Tang Buyu didn't answer. He had already raised his hand, and immediately the iron table leg, along with the clothes, floated up and flew behind him.
"Hmph, at least your ability is practical!" Bai Lingdong looked displeased and began to put on her clothes.
"Yes, it is quite practical."
Tang Buyu said meaningfully.
"Much better than some people's one-second undress."
"Hey, hey, hey, shut up! What do you mean 'one-second undress'? This is a space-type ability, okay? I'm a noble space-type! And this is a drawback that only happens when I'm passively trying to save my life. Normally, when I teleport, everything's fine! And don't ever wake me up like that again!"
"Alright, alright, hurry up and get dressed. Li Bing will be back with supplies soon. You don't want to be... ahem... right?"
"Hmph!"
Just as Bai Lingdong was about to say something, a dull thud of metal interrupted her.
"See?"
Tang Buyu said meaningfully. He raised and waved his right hand, and a large iron door immediately opened a crack. At the same time, Tang Buyu gestured with his chin towards the now dressed Bai Lingdong, who immediately glared at him.
"Isn't this just the signal? So you woke me up before he came back just for this?"
Tang Buyu nodded, "No choice, it's too awkward."
Bai Lingdong snorted and loudly said to the outside of the door:
"What I want is a burning, passionate soul beneath a calm facade!"
The answer came immediately from outside the door:
"But I only have a passionate facade and a frozen heart."
"Even if my soul becomes indifferent to fame and fortune because of it!"
"I wish my rationality would become the heart demon that has drifted with me all this way."
"Idiot!"
"Mentally challenged!"
"I wish..."
"Alright, alright, alright, alright, your mental state is truly as good as ever!"
Tang Buyu felt his values about to collapse, and just a few days ago, his worldview had collapsed once.
He waved his hand, completely opening the large iron door. Standing outside was a smiling young man, his black and white school uniform stained with some minced meat and blood. In his left hand, he carried a school bag that had been scratched a few times.
Tang Buyu was startled at first, then quickly asked,
"What about the survivors who went with you? Why are you the only one back?"
Li Bing shrugged, "As you can see, they're all dead."
"Completely gone?"
"Completely gone."
"Didn't you say it wouldn't take so many ordinary people to go to the cafeteria?"
"Ah, don't even mention it. Originally, after that zombie tide yesterday, there were only a dozen or so classmates left alive. A few died on the way there, and a few more should have made it back, but a half-human, half-dog thing suddenly appeared on the way. I couldn't beat it, so I could only sacrifice them."
"It's not good that they all died. What if the military comes for rescue and asks about it? Won't there be trouble?"
Tang Buyu rubbed his temples, feeling quite a headache.
"It's not certain when the military will arrive. Last time, Bai Lingdong couldn't be woken up no matter what, and we just missed them. Ah, really."
Bai Lingdong, who was beside them, finally couldn't hold back.
"Hey, do you two have any sympathy? That's a dozen lives!"
Tang Buyu glanced at her, his tone meaningful.
"Since you care about them so much, then tell us exactly how many lives those 'dozen' are? We've forgotten the exact number. Since you care so much, you should remember, right?"
"Uh... roughly..."
Bai Lingdong's voice faltered, a little embarrassed. She had actually forgotten too, but just felt that a dozen lives being gone was pitiful.
"Don't play the saint at this time, Miss Bai. It's easy to be disliked ~"
Li Bing rested his chin on his hand and chuckled, teasing the exasperated Bai Lingdong, while with his other hand, he opened his backpack, spilling bottled water and packaged food all over the floor, which made Tang Buyu frown.
"You sacrificed a dozen lives just to get this much?"
Li Bing was chewing on a piece of bread, his words muffled by the food in his mouth.
"Ashification! Do you think I could bring all the food from the convenience store back? Seven bottles of water, 30 chocolate bars, five loaves of bread, and a pack of sanitary napkins and two rolls of toilet paper. This is already the limit of this backpack."
"Why did you bring toilet paper and sanitary napkins?" Tang Buyu asked instinctively.
"Heh, bookworm." Li Bing scoffed, then looked at Bai Lingdong and raised his chin towards her.
"You might not have a need, but others do, don't they? Besides, do you just eat and not poop?"
Tang Buyu immediately realized, and couldn't help but laugh at himself. Indeed, he had grown up pampered, where would he get life experience?
"Oh, right."
"I ran through the 2nd and 3rd floors, and everyone was gone. There were only a few unconscious guys at the 3rd-floor staircase, seemingly from the 4th floor, but on the 4th floor, I didn't even see a single mutated creature, not even corpses, only piles of bones."
Tang Buyu was also chewing on bread at this point, and his movements paused when he heard this.
"Were they eaten?"
Li Bing nodded and added, "To be precise, something sucked out their blood, and then tore off their flesh."
The atmosphere in the classroom immediately tensed up a few notches. Everyone felt a chill down their spines and couldn't help but look at each other. What kind of thing could eat over 100 corpses in just one day? A single class only had about 50 people, and that thing had almost completely emptied two and a half classes.
Over a hundred people...
Instantly, a bone-chilling cold enveloped the three of them.