The day we embarked on the journey seemed to be anything but ordinary, except that a little light rain fell in the sky to suit the occasion.
Su An didn't come to see Su Yu off because the school didn't allow her to ask for leave, and Su's mother's job didn't allow her to ask for leave, so there was no parting as imagined.
Su's mother made breakfast before going to work, handed a glass bottle filled with blue liquid in front of Su Yu, and carefully warned: "Put this away, and remember to check in when you get to school."
Su Yu nodded in agreement, and Su's mother wiped her eyes and went to work.
Su An looked at the glass bottle in Su Yu's hand and said to Su Yu: "Sister, this bottle of perfume cost half of our family's savings. You can use it sparingly."
Before Su Yu could answer, Su An continued: "But you can't save it at critical moments. You'd better use it generously."
After saying that, he picked up his schoolbag and walked out the door. When he reached the door, he turned back and showed his little tiger-tooth smile: "Sister, there shouldn't be any danger to the first-year students, right? You..." He paused: "Be careful. point."
"Don't worry, I have to wait for you to report next year." Su Yu replied.
Su An was stunned for a moment, as if he was a little surprised by Su Yu's tone. Maybe Su Yu had never spoken to him like this before.
"Okay, I will definitely go."
Su An smiled and turned around, leaving Su Yu with a chic back.
But the Zombie Research Institute is not a safe zone.
None of them knew that this class of first-year students would suffer a huge disaster since the school was founded...
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Su Yu's luggage was not very large, it was just barely full of a small schoolbag. She carried this shabby schoolbag and embarked on the road alone.
Since District C18 is economically backward and there is no underground station, she has to take a form of transportation called the Perfume Bus to get to the station in District C15. This means that you have to pass by groups of zombies wandering outside the area, which is a somewhat dangerous way of traveling.
It's a bit inaccurate to say it's a bus, because the shape of this car simply doesn't look like a bus. From Su Yu's point of view, this looks like a super heavy armored vehicle. It was boxy, had no windshield, and no tires. It was replaced by steel tracks, with cold-gleaming spikes standing around the body. If you accidentally touched it, you would get a bloody hole. Su Yu took a closer look and even saw dry brown blood stains on these thorns.
The entire perfume bus looks like a big boxy hedgehog. This kind of intimidation is simply not worthy of its cute name.
"Hey, little girl, step aside, don't get so close." Someone called Su Yu.
Su Yu turned around and saw the uncle on the side carrying a large sprayer and spraying a liquid on the car. When Su Yu looked over, he patiently explained to her: "This high-concentration perfume cannot be sprayed on the body."
"Perfume" again?
Su Yu touched the backpack behind him, and there was something hard and scratchy inside.
She obediently stayed away from the car, then stepped back behind the uncle to watch him spray perfume on the bus.
"Uncle, what is this perfume for?"
The uncle smiled and said while spraying: "Spray this layer of perfume, and the zombies will stay away from you."
Su Yu sniffed and asked, "But I didn't smell anything. What is this perfume made of? How does it drive away zombies?"
The uncle paused and felt a little embarrassed: "I don't know about that. This is all done by those zombie researchers. It's very complicated."
The uncle sprayed three layers of perfume carefully before leaving with his sprayer on his back. The driver opened the door and let Su Yu and the others waiting for the bus get in.
There are two rows of seats in the car, which can accommodate about ten people, but there were only five passengers today, so everyone sat down casually.
The interior of the car is like a large airtight container, with no windows or even a vent for ventilation. In addition to the ten seats for passengers, there is also a more spacious position at each of the four corners of the carriage. There is a series of operating buttons in the northwest corner, undoubtedly the driver's seat, while the other three seats remain empty.
When Su Yu was guessing who this was a seat specially prepared for, a man in combat uniform suddenly walked up to the car door, followed closely by two more men in the same clothes. They all held a long gun in their hands, carried tactical backpacks behind their backs, and had densely packed grenades on their combat jackets, making everyone in the car instantly nervous.
The three people got on the bus and walked around, then each took a seat in the remaining three corner seats.
In such a posture, they should be soldiers from the combat troops who came to protect the perfume bus. But this kind of personnel and vehicle configuration made the next journey even more terrifying.
Only then did Su Yu discover that the four corners of this tin box-like perfume bus had something similar to submarine periscopes.
The driver and three soldiers use this mirror to drive and observe the situation outside.
When everything was ready, the driver closed the door and locked it seven or eight times, and the perfume bus finally set off on time.
The driver started the car, and the sound of rolling tracks came from the bottom of the car. In the dim car, the five passengers were silent.
The three soldiers in the corner aimed their eyes at the spyglass, always paying attention to what was going on outside. The silent and boring atmosphere made Su Yu drowsy.
"I said driver, why don't you open the protective window?" The man in the corner suddenly said: "It makes me feel bored."
The driver turned around and smiled after hearing this: "It's not like there is a child here. I'm afraid I'll scare her again."
After saying that, he looked at Su Yu again: "Little girl, have you seen zombies?"
"No." Su Yu really wanted to see it, so he added: "But I'm not afraid."
The driver chuckled: "Then I'll open the window." He turned to look at the soldier who came in first in the corner: "Captain Wang, it's no problem."
"Let's go and let the brothers rest their eyes."
Everyone who was about to fall asleep immediately cheered up.
The driver pressed the button on the steering wheel, and the perfume bus wrapped in iron sheets responded. First, the iron sheet at the rear of the car flipped upward, revealing the outside scene. Then, the iron sheet on Su Yu's side also disappeared, and a thick transparent cover appeared.
Su Yu reached out and knocked on it, and found that the transparent protective cover seemed to be glass. Can it resist zombies?
When Captain Wang saw Su Yu knocking on the glass, he seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, and explained succinctly: "Bulletproof glass has three layers."
Su Yu nodded, and the next second he was attracted by the scene outside the window. Not far from the perfume bus, there were dense zombies wandering aimlessly. Most of them wear clothes from when they were humans, and one can even tell what their occupation was before death or what they were doing when they were infected. But some of them were already half-clothed, or even their whole bodies were naked, and their bodies and faces were covered in blood.
The female zombie closest to the bus was holding a small baby and standing under the window on Su Yu's side. The poor baby still had a dirty little bow on its head. But the baby could only barely distinguish its nose and eyes, because only half of her head was left after being eaten. This mother and daughter passed in front of Su Yu, which made Su Yu's heart twitch.
So many people have become like this, and more people will become like this. The threat of zombies fills the entire world. Su Yu faced this reality for the first time. She remembered the passage on the title page of the Zombie Research School's admission notice, and suddenly she had a clear understanding of where she was going and what she was going to do. If the purpose of a school is to "sacrifice oneself" , save the world." That is not just the greatness of one person, but the greatness of a group of people for generations.
This made her look forward to the Zombie Research Academy.
The perfume bus didn't drive very fast, and the three soldiers seemed not surprised by the scene outside the bus. Only the five people on the bus opened the windows curiously to look.
"Oh my god, there are so many." The woman sitting in front of Su Yu couldn't help but sigh, her voice was a little frightened: "You said they can't see us."
"Invisible," Captain Wang responded good-naturedly: "And because the car is covered with perfume, they are not interested in us."
Su Yu wanted to ask why, but he heard the man sitting behind shout: "Look, they are chasing something."
Everyone looked behind the car, only to see groups of zombies rushing in one direction. Their speed was astonishingly fast, even surpassing the perfume bus, and the area around the bus was instantly emptied.
"Go take a look." Captain Wang turned to the driver and shouted.
"Okay, my car can definitely outrun these monsters." The driver responded and suddenly increased his speed.
The rumble of the tracks made everyone's ears hurt, but as the driver said, the Perfume Bus quickly caught up with the running zombies.
Looking past the dense zombies, everyone saw what they were chasing madly:
It's actually a black Labrador.
This Labrador knew that it was in danger, so it ran on all fours, running in front of the zombies at an incredible speed.
But everyone knew that this running method would not last long, and sooner or later the dog would fall into the mouths of these zombies.
