Chapter 15: The Siege of the High-Level Zombies

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Jiang Yao exchanged a glance with the others. Following her line of sight, Xie Huaili also noticed the zombie’s movement.

Without a word, Xie Huaili slipped around behind it.

Ji Yuanyuan and Huo Xiuqi forced themselves to remain calm and continued singing amid the zombies’ enthusiastic encirclement.

“Looks like our audience is feeling especially lively today! Come on, keep waving your hands and let me see that you’re still with us!”

Unable to resist, someone quietly opened the door for a peek. The moment they saw the two of them surrounded by a horde of zombies, their vision went black.

You can’t even criticize these two. Their mental fortitude is genuinely impressive!

Gradually, people began to realize that something was wrong. Were they deliberately luring the zombies over?

“Are these guys insane? They’ve gathered so many zombies in one place. Don’t tell me they’re planning to wipe them all out at once?”

But even if they killed all the zombies, they still wouldn’t be able to get out!

Just then, Jiang Yao shouted, “Catch that zombie in the white dress! Don’t let her get away!”

Everyone hiding in various places froze, then instinctively looked toward the horde.

Where was there a zombie in a white dress?

Before they could react, the people on the other side had already moved.

Jiang Yao stared intently at the zombie. Perhaps sensing that she had been exposed, a cold gleam flashed through her dark eyes as she swiftly concealed herself among the corpses.

The zombies crowded around her, making it difficult to approach her for the moment.

Seeing that Xie Huaili was already very close to her position, Jiang Yao pressed her lips together.

“Lure the enemy into the trap!”

Within her line of sight, the white-dressed zombie and the two zombies beside her stared blankly for a moment.

But after only a few seconds, she regained consciousness. Her gaze shot straight toward Jiang Yao, a vicious glint flashing in her eyes.

Jiang Yao’s heart tightened.

Her ability lasted for one minute, yet this zombie had broken free after being controlled for only a few seconds.

As expected of a high-level zombie!

By then, Xie Huaili had also appeared not far behind the white-dressed zombie. His slender fingers gripped a scalpel, its flashing blade moving too quickly to follow.

After dispatching several nearby zombies, the white-dressed zombie warily turned around and let out a low growl. The zombies around her instantly launched an attack on Xie Huaili.

Xiang Yu’s eyes widened in disbelief. “That zombie can actually command the others. Is this the strength of a high-level zombie?”

Jiang Yao shook her head. “It isn’t strange. In nature, the strong rule over the weak, and zombie hordes are no different.”

What worried her now was Xie Huaili’s situation.

He was surrounded by zombies!

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At that moment, many students rushed out from various corners.

“We’re here to help!”

They had more or less noticed that something about the zombie was unusual. Though they did not know why, they vaguely understood that all the commotion earlier had not been mere playacting.

With more people joining the battle, the situation changed in an instant.

There were many zombies, but there were also plenty of them.

Everyone worked together to surround the zombies, cutting off any possibility of the white-dressed zombie escaping.

Seeing that she had been completely exposed, she no longer bothered to hide. With a series of guttural growls, she ordered her underlings to charge into battle for her.

As for the few who were especially troublesome…

The white-dressed zombie’s gaze gradually turned hollow, and Jiang Yao immediately sensed that something was wrong.

“She’s about to use her spatial ability again!”

Almost as soon as the words left her mouth, the scene before them suddenly changed.

Jiang Yao found herself in a pitch-black space. With her were Xie Huaili, Xiang Yu, Ji Yuanyuan, and Dou Zimo.

Looking at this familiar scene, they all silently felt a herd of invisible curses stampede through their minds.

“Seriously? She locked the same few of us in a dark room again?”

Dou Zimo adjusted his glasses, which had nearly slipped off, his voice carrying a hint of helplessness.

Ji Yuanyuan angrily raised an obscene hand gesture. “When you can’t beat us, you lock us in a dark room. Is that all you’re capable of?”

“Wait.”

Jiang Yao frowned and swept the flashlight around them.

What she saw startled her badly.

Standing around them were more than a dozen identical zombies in white dresses.

They looked like perfect one-to-one copies, their eyes radiating a mechanical coldness as they slowly closed in.

“What the hell? What’s going on? Can this woman use a cloning technique too?”

With so many white-dressed zombies standing together, their eyes began to blur.

More importantly, which one was the real one?

Xiang Yu’s brows drew tightly together. “What does this mean? Is she making us pick out the real one?”

Xie Huaili narrowed his eyes and slowly rolled up his sleeves. A hint of ferocity rose in his gaze.

“Who cares? Beat them all up.”

The group stood back-to-back, each using their own abilities.

Ji Yuanyuan spoke tensely. “We’re done for. I’ve reached the usage limit of ‘A Moment of Clarity Upon Hearing Heavenly Music,’ and it’s gone into cooldown!”

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They had already used their abilities many times that day.

She stammered, “But I still have ‘A Grating, Discordant Noise Too Painful to Hear.’ You may just have to suffer through it…”

Before anyone could understand why they had to endure anything, a melody—or rather, something that could barely be called a melody—began to hum through the darkness. It sounded exactly like someone tone-deaf desperately trying to show off.

Under the impact of the sonic attack, everyone’s eyes suddenly became much clearer.

“…”

A Grating, Discordant Noise Too Painful to Hear really was exactly what the name promised.

Jiang Yao’s summoning ability was still in cooldown, but she had one control ability left.

She thought carefully. When she had used her area-control ability earlier, that zombie had clearly been affected only slightly.

Her puppets should not be as powerful as she was, right?

Xie Huaili was already fighting the puppets. He had clearly received combat training, and close-quarters fighting did not trouble him in the slightest. His only disadvantage was that there were simply too many zombies.

Jiang Yao quickly joined the battle. She had practiced taekwondo since childhood, so her physical condition was fairly good.

She swung the wrench in what seemed like a wild, disorderly fashion, but in reality, she was testing each zombie one by one.

Perhaps because the white-dressed zombie’s spatial ability was primarily used to confuse and deceive, its offensive power was not particularly strong. At most, it was merely more agile than an ordinary zombie.

In the end, Jiang Yao narrowed down her suspicions to three of the zombies.

She stared intently at the three of them and recited the name of a historical stratagem.

“Cross the sea while fooling the heavens.”

The three zombies she was watching froze simultaneously, their eyes turning blank.

In appearance, there was no difference between them whatsoever. Even their frozen postures were identical.

Ten seconds passed, yet the three zombies remained motionless.

Could her instincts have been wrong?

Jiang Yao did not think so. High-level zombies possessed a certain degree of intelligence. Surely they were capable of disguising themselves?

She abruptly raised the wrench and brought it down on one of the zombies. A split second before the wrench struck, the zombie instinctively dodged, but its arm was still cut. It bared its teeth at Jiang Yao in fury.

Jiang Yao remained calm and tugged at the corner of her lips.

“This time, let’s see where you can hide.”

Ji Yuanyuan stared in utter disbelief. “What? How did she figure out which one was real?”