Chapter 125: Zerg Invasion 19
Of course, these professors, who had been saved with great effort, couldn’t be allowed to die. The glass door was yanked open, letting all of them out.
Principal Li led them to the adjacent disinfection room, where the group was stripped, cleaned, and given new clothes.
The five of them were still shaken. “What was that thing?”
“Parasites.”
Chu Yian took on the responsibility of explaining the current situation to them. “We brought seven teachers and one student, and three of them were Parasitized. We don’t know how many people in the entire school are Parasitized now.”
“Saving people is urgent.”
“Principal, didn’t you call the police?”
“What can we do now?”
The five people listened, then started discussing animatedly, making it impossible for Principal Li to know which question to answer first.
“All signals are currently blocked. All signals within the campus are cut off from the outside world, so we can’t call the police.”
“Many teachers need to travel between three different campuses for classes. There are four dedicated shuttle vehicles at 6 AM, 12 PM, 1 PM, and 5 PM. Furthermore, there’s a lot of student movement between the three campuses, and those parasites could spread to other places due to the flow of people.”
“We can drive out to call the police. Also, to prevent further spread, students on our campus should be restricted from leaving the school gates.”
The five professors had already begun discussing the relevant issues among themselves.
Principal Li nodded.
He also wanted to express his opinion, but he couldn’t get a word in.
“What’s the use of nodding? Exercise the authority you have as Principal.”
A professor looked at Principal Li, who was standing beside them. “As the esteemed Principal, with all the teachers and students in the school facing a crisis, you’re not even anxious.”
“Even if the internet is down, don’t we still have the school broadcast? At least the students should be informed, so they don’t get Parasitized without even realizing it.”
“No.”
Hearing this, Chu Yian shook her head. “Those who are already Parasitized can still think and possess the same intelligence as normal people. Announcing this matter when we can’t distinguish them would be like beating the grass to startle the snake. If the Parasitized don’t get discovered, they can still find ways to Parasitize normal people, and if normal people panic, the school won’t be able to control the situation.”
“Moreover, the security guards should all be Parasitized.”
“The security guards are all Parasitized?!” The professors’ eyes widened.
“They patrol at night.”
This explanation didn’t quite make sense to the professors, so Chu Yian rephrased it. “The Parasitized are very active at night. Normal people wandering around the school are their targets for parasitism.”
Furthermore, the school’s internet outage might also be their doing.
They discussed for a long time, but Lu Qingyuan, who was beside them, remained silent.
Why was Teacher Lu so quiet today?
Chu Yian looked over at him, only to see him staring intently at the dead egg sac in the observation room.
“Teacher Lu, have you discovered anything new?”
“Zhang Lu’s death is different from the others.”
Before this, everyone else had died from a direct head explosion, but Zhang Lu had pried open her own mouth with both hands, tearing her head apart. The egg sac inside was even still moving, trying to attack the nearest person.
“Was there anything unusual about her before?”
Lu Qingyuan lowered his gaze to her. As the person closest to Zhang Lu, Chu Yian should know her best.
“She showed no abnormalities before I left.”
Chu Yian’s brows furrowed tightly. “We didn’t see each other for a day and a half in between, and you know what happened after that. However, there’s one of the first batch of Parasitized in our dorm room, someone who returned from off-campus.”
She didn’t know who was first infected by this parasite, so she provisionally referred to all those who were infected on the first day and went to the Hospital as the first batch of Parasitized.
Li Yun.
“Is she still at school? Should we catch her for research?”
“If we encounter her, we can catch her, but there’s no need to act specifically for her.”
Lu Qingyuan replied.
The implication was that the value of catching her alone was not high.
“Okay.”
Chu Yian nodded, then remembered the current dorm room.
The Parasitized were not only outside the school but also hidden within the dorms. As time went on, the normal people living inside were no less in danger than those outside, and who knew how many normal people would be left in the school in another two days.
Girls’ Dormitory
Room 1-320
At this moment, three girls had locked their dorm room door and were huddled together, trembling and discussing something in hushed tones.
“Xiaoxu, what should we do now? How about we escape together?”
“It’s the same situation outside. The school is full of these Parasitized. How can we escape?”
“But I’m so scared.”
“What’s the use of being scared? This round of the game still has ten days left.”
The girl growled at the weeping girl opposite her, then looked at the third girl who hadn’t spoken a word yet. “Xiaoxu, you’re the strongest among us. Tell us what we should do.”
The girl who had been called twice was their leader.
As players, the three of them didn’t live together from the start but gradually came together over a few days. Among the three girls, only Li Xiaoxu was the strongest. She had not only successfully cleared two rounds of the game but also possessed a special item.
The microphone that compels the truth.
When used on anyone, they must speak the truth.
This ability could be used five times per game round.
It was precisely because she had used this item on the other two that she dared to team up with them. She had thought that since they were all players, they could look out for each other, but it was clear that these two players lacked both strength and intelligence, especially Liu Xin, who would only cry when something happened.
Her brows furrowed in annoyance. “Nowhere is safe. If you don’t want to die, just stay here obediently.”
They had stocked up on a large amount of food and drinking water in the dorm room. No matter what, it was safer than outside. If they could stay in the dorm for ten days, this would also be a way to clear the game.
“Xia-Xiaoxu…”
Liu Xin’s expression suddenly became strange, and she struggled to get her words out for a long time.
“What is it now?”
Li Xiaoxu looked at her strange expression and, seeing her not speak, followed her line of sight.
It was towards the dorm room door.
Above the two-meter-high dorm door was a small window. For safety, they had kept this small window tightly shut. But at this moment, a pair of eyes appeared on the window.
A receding hairline revealed a smooth forehead above these eyes, which were wide open. The black pupils were only a quarter the size of the whites of the eyes, and they darted left and right with extreme frequency, peeking at the three girls inside the dorm…
