While they were delayed on the third floor, the eight zombies on the second floor had already approached the stairwell, and the zombies on the first floor had also arrived at the stairwell.
Moreover, the first floor had the most zombies, several hundred of them. When the apocalypse broke out, everyone was trying to escape, and because only one door on the first floor was open in the morning, the other two side doors were locked.
With so many people trying to escape at once, very few managed to squeeze out. Those who didn't escape either became zombie food or had already turned into zombies.
Then more and more gathered. It could be said that all the students in the entire building, except for a few lucky ones who escaped, or like Jiang Hao's entire dormitory who didn't turn into zombies and didn't go out, were left.
The rest were basically gathered on the first floor.
With so many zombies, even Jiang Hao felt it was tricky, let alone having to protect Jiang Tian and the other two in this situation.
"We can't go to the first floor. Let's go to the side balcony on the second floor."
Jiang Hao quickly analyzed the situation, used a steel pipe to headshot three rushing zombies, and then led Jiang Tian and the others along the corridor towards the side balcony.
Although the side door on the first floor was locked, those on the second floor and above were open, and there was also a small balcony.
After his strength increased, even his speed improved. When running at full speed, the zombies behind him couldn't catch up at all.
It only took a few seconds to cross a corridor of tens of meters and arrive at the small balcony outside.
"Jump!"
After glancing at the surging zombies behind him, Jiang Hao decisively jumped down from the balcony.
The second-floor balcony was not high from the ground, only a little over three meters. If a normal person was careful, jumping down would be fine, let alone them.
After Jiang Hao jumped down, he cleared out the few scattered zombies that rushed over, and Jiang Tian and the other two also jumped down.
They often jumped from here when they sneaked out at night, so they were already familiar with it and didn't hesitate much before jumping down.
"Run towards the library, there are the fewest zombies there!"
Relying on Unspecified, the four people avoided all densely populated zombie areas and finally circled to the outer perimeter of the school's building complex via a small path behind the library.
There were very few zombies here, only scattered ones. Jiang Hao didn't even need to act; the three of them could handle it.
While clearing zombies, the four people moved towards one of the department stores in the school supermarket.
Because this supermarket was the farthest from the dormitory area and only operated during the day, no zombies were seen here.
However, when they arrived at the supermarket entrance, they found it was locked from the inside.
"Brother Hao, there's someone inside!"
Jiang Tian said, gripping the blood-stained steel pipe in his hand.
"That's normal, there are always some people who successfully escaped!"
Jiang Hao didn't take it to heart. After all, they only left in the afternoon. In the morning, when zombies were fewest and the most chaotic, some people must have successfully run away.
"Thump-thump!"
"Open the door, people inside."
Jiang Hao stepped forward and knocked on the door.
He could sense five people inside, all males, but he didn't know them; after all, there were over ten thousand people in the school.
After knocking, there was no movement inside, but under his Unspecified, they had nowhere to hide.
"I know there are people inside. Open the door, don't force my hand!"
Jiang Hao said in a cold tone.
This time there was movement inside. Only a male voice said strongly, "People outside, I don't care who you are, get lost quickly. This place has been occupied by us, go somewhere else!"
Hearing this, Jiang Hao didn't react much, but Jiang Tian, who had a bit of a fiery temper, got angry.
By clearing zombies along the way and using the crystals he obtained, he had already reached level two, with a strength of two hundred eighty kilograms.
He went up and kicked the door.
"Bang!"
Although the door made a loud noise when kicked, it didn't open.
"Oh my goodness?"
Seeing that one kick had no effect, Jiang Tian prepared to deliver another.
"Let me do it, don't attract the zombies!"
Jiang Hao pulled him back, then also kicked the supermarket door.
"Bang!"
"Ouch!"
With his kick, which had over five thousand kilograms of force, the locked door was directly kicked open and flew off, even hitting someone inside.
One of the five people was directly incapacitated.
"Who are you? Are you being unreasonable?!"
Seeing their companion fall to the ground, the remaining four picked up broken table legs and pointed them at Jiang Hao and the other three, questioning them.
"You idiots!"
Jiang Tian rolled his eyes and directly showed his blood-stained steel pipe, scaring the four people back a step.
"Quickly grab the things and leave here, such a big commotion will definitely attract zombies!"
Jiang Hao was too lazy to bother with the four people opposite him. He walked directly to the shelves, grabbed a large backpack, and started putting things inside.
"Hey! These are our things!"
Seeing Jiang Hao sweeping the shelves, one of them was about to go over and stop him.
"Try moving again, you bastard."
Zheng Yi directly pressed the steel pipe against him, staring with wide eyes.
Zheng Yi's two hundred ten kilograms of strength was nowhere near what an ordinary person could compare to. The steel pipe, with a sudden push, knocked him to the ground.
"Tch!"
Zheng Yi spat, too lazy to bother with him, and then joined the scavenging team.
The four people were indeed intimidated and didn't dare to speak again until Jiang Hao and the others left.
Soon after Jiang Hao and the others left, a large group of zombies was attracted by the commotion here.
Second floor of the gymnasium.
Jiang Hao and the other three arrived here. There were no zombies here either, and no one else came here besides them.
Each of the four people had a large backpack, all bulging, and now various foods and drinks were spread all over the floor.
"Comfortable, haha!"
Zheng Yi, with a sausage in one hand and a cola in the other, filled his stomach, and a smile finally appeared on his face.
They all chose high-calorie foods, such as sausages, and quickly filled their stomachs.
"Now we have two choices: continue to stay in school, or leave school.
However, my suggestion is to temporarily stay in school. At least searching for supplies is relatively simple, and we can also fight zombies to become stronger, allowing for stable development."
It was the beginning of the apocalypse, and everything was chaotic. In school, at least the zombies outside couldn't get in.
Moreover, the school area was very large. Although there were tens of thousands of zombies, with his Unspecified, it was not difficult to avoid most of them and develop steadily.
"I also suggest staying in school for now, but I found something: these crystals are useless to me now!"
Jiang Tian took out a few crystals and pointed at the level one crystal in his hand.
"Me too, this kind of crystal is useless after I eat it!"
Mu Feng and Zheng Yi also took out a few crystals.
"How many of these crystals have you eaten?"
Jiang Hao took a level one crystal, swallowed it, and asked, feeling his slight improvement.
"It seems to be ten, and then it has no effect."
"Yes, us too. After eating ten, it has no effect."
After Jiang Hao ate all the remaining level one crystals, he indeed felt that after ten, there was no effect. Although the Spiritual Qi inside could still be absorbed, it could not be used to improve cultivation.
Thus, the initial idea of compensating with quantity fell through.
However, it was not entirely a bad thing. At least one level one crystal could increase strength by ten kilograms, and ten crystals could allow an ordinary person to increase strength by one hundred kilograms.
Level two crystals add twenty kilograms of strength, level three adds thirty kilograms of strength. If this pattern continues, and ten crystals of each level can be eaten, the improvement is quite considerable.
At the very least, Awakened can reach the second stage, equivalent to Qi Refining, by eating crystals, while ordinary people are a bit behind, after all, their foundation is not as good as Awakened.