Chapter 77: Living but Dead

Everyone waited for half an hour before Wang Mingyang slowly removed the iron plate blocking the staircase.

This iron plate, which was formed by the fusion of the anti-theft door, stair railing, and window railing, had already turned red under the scorching temperature of Su Yu's dark flame.

If Wang Mingyang hadn't been controlling it with his supernatural power, it would have turned into a pool of molten iron.

When the iron plate was removed, an indescribable disgusting smell came to the face.

The four of them covered their mouths and noses and kept fanning.

"I say, this corridor can't be walked now, the temperature is so high, it's scalding!" Li Yuchan poked his head and glanced upstairs, speechless.

"All the zombies are dead, are you still afraid that you can't go upstairs? Let's see if there is anyone on the first floor first!" Wang Mingyang rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to this guy, and walked straight to the side of the dormitory.

"Su Yu, go to the other side with Mu Ningxue, be careful."

"Okay!"

Su Yu pulled Mu Ningxue to the other side after hearing this. Mu Ningxue's mind moved, and an ice shield quickly appeared beside Su Yu.

"Hey, where should I go?"

Li Yuchan saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he had to turn around and follow Wang Mingyang.

"You go left and I go right, hurry up and look for anyone."

Wang Mingyang glanced at him, activated his metal ability, and directly pushed open the dormitory door.

"Okay...you decide."

Li Yuchan shrugged, activated his telekinesis to unlock the door, and kicked it.

The dormitory door opened wide, and a black shadow rushed in from inside.

Li Yuchan said "Fuck", and the Taiyi divine mind was activated instantly, and the female zombie wearing only underwear was immediately ejected.

The next moment, a flying sword pierced the female zombie's head like lightning, and her struggling hands and feet suddenly collapsed on the ground.

In the dormitory opposite, Wang Mingyang saw the situation inside the dormitory clearly, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

"Lao Gebao, you are so stupid... This is a girls' dormitory!"

"Damn, what's wrong with a girls' dormitory? Can't girls be from the School of Life Sciences?"

Li Yuchan also noticed this situation and turned his head to refute.

"Uh..."

Wang Mingyang was stunned by the retort, although he felt something was wrong.

But it seemed to make some sense...

"Hurry up and find someone! Ask which building has students from the School of Life Sciences."

Waving his hands helplessly, Wang Mingyang left the dormitory. There was no one inside, no corpse.

The two quickly checked the dozen dormitories on this side. Except for finding some zombies and cleaning them up, there was nothing else to gain.

Returning to the stairs, Su Yu and Mu Ningxue also walked back.

The two girls shook their heads and also found nothing.

"It seems that we can only go upstairs..." Wang Mingyang sighed, his eyes drifting upstairs.

"But the stairs are a bit unsafe!" Su Yu said with some annoyance.

The fire was very effective, and the zombies were all burned to death, but the stairs were also burned red. They hadn't cooled down yet, and if you walked on them, they would collapse.

Mu Ningxue could cool the stairs quickly.

However, due to thermal expansion and contraction, the stairs collapsed without even stepping on them.

"It's okay, I have a way." Wang Mingyang smiled slightly and rubbed Su Yu's head.

Looking at the iron plate discarded aside, Wang Mingyang's mind moved.

The iron plate quickly melted and deformed, and under his control, it quickly narrowed and stretched to form an iron staircase.

Controlling this iron staircase to slowly cover the stairs and quickly solidify.

Wang Mingyang stepped on the steps and stomped his feet, nodding with satisfaction.

"Brother Mingyang, your ability is so practical!" Su Yu happily gave a thumbs up. The metal control ability is indeed more comprehensive than her dark flame ability.

There are many tricks...

"Okay, let's go upstairs to look for people. It's getting dark. Be careful."

Wang Mingyang smiled calmly and took the lead to go upstairs.

Everyone stepped on the metal steps to the second floor. The corridor was charred black. There were many stinking limbs and arms in the distance, and blood was splattered everywhere.

The four people acted separately and quickly checked the thirty or so dormitories on this floor.

Still nothing was found. There were even four zombies locked in two dormitories.

Good classmates, good girlfriends, you must be neat and tidy in this life...

Most of the dormitories had their doors wide open, and many incomplete corpses were crowded at the door and in the corridor.

It is obvious that when the zombies broke out, they were crowded together, which eventually hurt others and themselves.

When the zombies broke out, the lower the floor, the easier it is to be wiped out...

Everyone had to do the same and continue to search upstairs.

The four people acted separately, and Wang Mingyang checked all the way, but found nothing.

Push open the only remaining dormitory at the edge and walk in.

There are no zombies inside.

It was already dark, but Wang Mingyang's vision had improved a lot after several enhancements.

He could still see the situation in the dormitory clearly at this moment.

The four beds were hung with pink and white gauze curtains, and all kinds of girls' toys were hung on the bedside.

If it were normal, this would definitely be a garden that many boys yearned for.

But now...

Wang Mingyang's sight was focused on the lower desk. A girl with disheveled hair and wearing a nightgown was huddled there and shivering, and seemed to be mumbling something in her mouth.

"What's your name? Come out!" Wang Mingyang said lightly.

But the girl under the desk did not respond at all, still buried her head and muttered in a low voice.

"I said, come out!" Wang Mingyang was a little impatient, and his voice suddenly rose.

"Ah... Don't come over! Don't eat me!"

The girl seemed startled by Wang Mingyang's voice, waving her arms in the air and rubbing the floor with her feet.

"I'm not a zombie, I'm a living person..."

"I just have something to ask you!"

Wang Mingyang stepped forward and pulled the girl up, holding her shoulders with both hands and shaking her hard a few times.

The girl's true face was revealed as she leaned forward and backward, with a lot of dust on her pretty face, but her eyes looked very dull.

The cute dress seemed to have been rolling on the ground for a long time, wrinkled and covered with dust and vomit.

Seeing the girl's expression clearly, Wang Mingyang was stunned and silently let go of the girl's shoulders.

"There are monsters... eating people..."

"Ran Ran is scared... Ran Ran wants to find her mother..."

"Blood... blood everywhere, Wen Jing is still downstairs, she is still waving at me!"

"But... Wen Jing was eaten!"

"So many monsters ate Wen Jing... chewed her bones... crunchy..."

"Ran Ran is so hungry... hehe... hehe..."

The girl's eyes were empty, her head tilted, drooling, and she had a silly smile on her face.

She uttered unclear words intermittently...

Su Yu and the others heard the noise and quickly ran over from other dormitories.

At a glance, they saw Wang Mingyang standing in the dormitory, with a disheveled girl in front of him.

"Brother Mingyang, she..."

Before Su Yu finished speaking, the girl suddenly turned around and looked at her.

Then he raised his index finger and put it to his lips:

"Shh... don't make any noise, the monsters will hear it..."

"The dormitory opposite... Lanlan, Xiaolin..."

"It's just that the noise is too loud... they were dragged away and eaten by monsters!"

The girl tilted her head, turned slowly, and continued to stagger towards the balcony, still muttering.

Su Yu and the other two looked at the girl silently, as if they understood something, with a trace of sympathy and a hint of sadness in their eyes.

"Boss Wang, what should we do?" Li Yuchan asked in a low voice with his Adam's apple moving.

Wang Mingyang sighed lightly and turned to walk out the door.

"Let's go, she's gone crazy, maybe... it's better for her to stay here."

Li Yuchan and the other two trembled slightly when they heard this. This result was within their expectations.

But they were so helpless. In fact, they knew very well that even if the girl was still normal, Wang Mingyang would definitely not make any other choices.

In the end of the world, if you want to survive, you can only rely on yourself.

This is a point that Wang Mingyang reminds others and them again and again.

And a girl whose spirit has collapsed...

Although alive, she is still dead.

PS: I wrote the draft the night before, and saw the Douyin video yesterday at noon. The well-known online historical novelist July New Fan (real name: Li Yunfan) died of lung cancer at home in Kunming on September 27, 2023.

Previously, July New Fan said that he hoped his writing would last longer than his life.

Recalling the content of this chapter, it just ended with four words.

"Although alive, she is still dead."

There is an inexplicable feeling that this post-90s writer has created many words that readers enjoy talking about.

I believe that his words will definitely be circulated for a longer time.

July New Fan...

Although dead, she is still alive!

I prefer to believe that,

July's new series,

has traveled back to ancient times,

and at this moment,

a young man named Li Yunfan,

is racking his brains to figure out how to support the Han Dynasty...

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