Chapter 117: Zerg Invasion 11
Look at what he said. It’s just crashing on a couch, but he described it as if they had some illicit relationship.
Chu Yian nodded at his words and slipped out of the room.
She didn’t return directly to her dorm but headed to the building’s underground parking lot.
There was also a safe room she had discovered there, a storage room only two square meters in size, filled with many brand-new brooms, mops, and shovels.
Moving these items aside to clear a space, Chu Yian took out her treasure chest.
[Three human parasite detection reagents.]
[Note: These will be retrieved after this round of the game.]
[Good Item’s Voice: Insert the narrow end of the reagent into the tester’s nostril, at least three centimeters deep. After one minute, the test result will be visible. If the test strip shows one line, it’s normal. If two lines appear, it indicates a parasitic infection.]
Good stuff.
Chu Yian carefully put away the three reagents and then looked at the brooms and mops in the storage room.
A moment later, she successfully pulled out a 1.2-meter-long solid wooden stick.
She still needed to go back to the dorm for her belongings.
Now, Li Yun and Xu Yangyang, confirmed to be infected, had been sent out, leaving only Zhang Lu as an uncertain factor.
Even if she hadn’t been infected the day before, she had slept in the dorm for a whole night, a dorm suspected of having parasites.
She truly couldn’t be sure now if Zhang Lu was infected.
Chu Yian then took out her phone and checked her class schedule. She had classes for the first and second periods this morning.
She lingered around the school for a while, deliberately waiting until the first class had started before jogging back towards the dorm building.
Inside the dorm room, it was indeed empty.
Taking advantage of Zhang Lu’s class, Chu Yian took her identification and unused money. As for daily necessities and food, she could buy them again.
During this time, she received several messages from Zhang Lu.
Some asked where she had stayed last night.
Others asked why she hadn’t gone to class this morning.
Chu Yian deleted them after reading, not replying to any.
9 AM.
She came out of the dorm room.
Even though autumn was approaching, the sun was still pleasant.
Chu Yian originally loved the cool weather, but today she deliberately walked in the middle of the road. The sun shone on her, strong and warm, as if disinfecting her entire body.
This feeling actually allowed her long-strained nerves to relax slightly.
But this feeling didn’t last long. A bus carrying students entered the school, instantly reminding Chu Yian of what she had heard Lu Qingyuan talking about on the phone last night.
The students suspected of food poisoning had recovered, and their check-ups at the City Center Hospital showed everything was normal.
They were all brought back by the school bus today.
Chu Yian stood not far away and clearly saw Li Yun among them.
When she got off the bus, her eyes were dull, but upon seeing Chu Yian not far away, her expression instantly changed from stiff to lively, and she ran towards her.
“Little Chu, why are you here?”
“I just happened to be passing by.”
Chu Yian put her hands in her pockets, subtly creating a little distance between them. “Are you feeling all better?”
“Of course, I’m all better!”
Li Yun smiled and reached out to link arms with Chu Yian. “Thank you all so much the day before yesterday. You must have been scared.”
“It’s fine, the most important thing is that you’re okay.”
Chu Yian gave a stiff smile, pulled her hand out of Li Yun’s embrace, and then squatted down, pretending to tie her shoelaces. In reality, she was wondering whether to use the reagent she had just obtained on her.
“Little Chu, haven’t you tied your shoelaces yet?”
Just then, Li Yun unexpectedly crouched down, staring intently at her. Their gazes met, making Chu Yian involuntarily recall the eyes where parasites had crawled across the surface of the eyeballs.
“Okay, okay.”
Chu Yian stood up, her expression a little stiff as she smiled.
The other person clung to her again, holding her arm and saying, as if they were very close, “Let’s go back to the dorm together.”
“I… I’m not going back to the dorm. I’m planning to go to the supermarket to buy some things. You go ahead.”
Seeing an opportunity to shake her off, Chu Yian quickly said.
However, the other person was determined not to let her go. “I’ll go to the supermarket with you. There’s nothing else to do right now anyway.”
…This is very bad.
Chu Yian stiffly followed her to the supermarket, clutching the reagent in her hand. She decided to test her. If she wasn’t infected, it meant there might be a way to treat this parasite in the City Center. If she was infected, it meant everyone on this bus who returned today was unsafe.
Inside the supermarket aisle, the surrounding items blocked the view from outside, and the two were wrestling there. Li Yun was especially strong. Although Chu Yian had the initial advantage, she was almost pinned to the ground by her.
Fortunately, she managed to subdue Li Yun.
“Little Chu, what are you doing?”
“Let’s talk this out. What do you want?”
…Li Yun’s reaction and words at this moment were exactly like a normal person’s. Chu Yian pinned her to the ground and inserted the reagent into her nostril. After testing, she quickly withdrew her hand and stood up, leaving a quick apology before running away.
She ran out of the supermarket but didn’t leave immediately; instead, she found a place to hide.
The reagent in her hand only needed one minute to determine the other person’s condition. If she was truly fine, she would go apologize.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned: two lines.
Two bright red lines appeared on the test strip, indicating that Li Yun was indeed infected. Not just Li Yun, but the entire group of people brought back today must also be infected!
They had the appearance, behavior, and intelligence of normal people.
They were very good at disguising themselves.
These were all no different from normal people!
Li Yun would definitely return to the dorm.
The already unsafe room now had someone definitely infected, so she absolutely couldn’t go back. Chu Yian wanted to pass the level, and the only one who could help her now was Lu Qingyuan.
She packed up her belongings and walked towards the Fourth Laboratory Building.
In Teacher Lu’s office, he was the only one there.
Chu Yian poked her head in to look around, then knocked and entered, taking out the reagent. “Teacher Lu, look!”
Lu Qingyuan’s gaze swept over it, and he frowned. “Are you pregnant?”
What?
Chu Yian was stunned for a moment, then realized that the reagent did look a bit like a pregnancy test stick.
“No, it’s for testing parasites!”
She pointed at the reagent, leaned closer to Lu Qingyuan, and whispered, “I detected this on a classmate who just returned from the City Hospital. Two lines, meaning they brought parasites back.
These parasites should be contagious.
At first, I thought it was spread from the Cafeteria, but based on last night’s situation, it seems a bit off. Now that these people are back, I think the problem is getting more and more serious.”
