“Hey! Yu Ni! Wake up!”
“Yu Ni!”
In her hazy consciousness, Yu Ni, who had nearly drifted off to sleep, suddenly snapped her eyes open.
In front of her, Quan Anrong, who had been slapping her cheeks hard, finally let out a breath of relief.
“Anrong…” Yu Ni still hadn’t figured out the situation. “What happened to us?”
“That bastard You Wende fed us truth serum. Did you forget?”
Quan Anrong said through gritted teeth.
“They tied us up here and left us to live or die on our own!”
At Quan Anrong’s reminder, Yu Ni finally remembered what had happened earlier.
By now, this side of the dormitory building had first been pierced through by a giant Steel-Jaw Worm, then suffered a monster attack, and was already in ruins.
The interrogation room the two of them were in looked equally on the verge of collapse, cracks covering the walls everywhere.
The thought of the many monsters still outside made Yu Ni unable to stop herself from looking toward the window.
In the pitch-black night, countless monster roars came from outside, and she could faintly hear the sounds of humans resisting and fighting the monsters in the distance.
Below the floor they were on, the sounds of monsters moving about were especially clear in the night.
The two of them had drunk a large amount of truth serum, then been tied up here in a daze with no one watching them.
That they had survived until now without anything happening could only be called a miracle.
But their situation was far from good.
It could even be said that they might run into irresistible danger at any moment.
Originally, they had planned to use pheromones tonight to lure Whisperers to the dormitory and attack Gu Qianqian and the other girl.
Now the whole scheme had backfired.
Not only had their conspiracy been exposed, the academy had also dumped them here to live or die on their own.
It wouldn’t be long before they were surrounded by monsters.
Yu Ni couldn’t help cursing.
“Fuck! Those mongrels actually left us here and washed their hands of us!?”
“Do they really want us to die here? They’re a disgrace as teachers! A bunch of animals!”
Then a hint of fear appeared on her face as she looked at Quan Anrong.
“Anrong, what do we do now?”
Find a way to regroup with the main force?
Never mind that they had no idea what the situation outside was, or where most of the people were.
Even if they knew…
Given their current identities, whether You Wende and the others would even take them in was still a question.
Even though they didn’t feel they had done anything wrong, they also knew that in other people’s eyes they were two damned criminals who weren’t worth protecting at all.
But if they didn’t follow the majority, how were they supposed to survive?
At least when there were more people, there would be cannon fodder to die in their place.
“I don’t know either.” At this moment, Quan Anrong was out of ideas too. “Look outside. There are too many monsters. There’s no way we can charge out.”
“Th-these… they wouldn’t all have been drawn here by that pheromone of yours, would they?” Yu Ni asked with some fear.
“We haven’t even opened it and used it yet. How can there be this many monsters?!”
“Could the stopper not have been sealed properly, so the scent leaked out early?”
“Shut up! How would I know!?” Quan Anrong was equally frustrated.
She hadn’t known much about that bottle of pheromone to begin with.
She had stolen it from her father.
She had only heard him mention the effect in passing and didn’t know the full picture.
How could she have known it would attract this many monsters?
In the end, it was all that damned biological father’s fault. Something like this, and he still let me steal it without telling me the exact effects…
He was truly damned!
“It’s all that bitch Gu Qianqian’s fault!”
Yu Ni saw the anger on Quan Anrong’s face and didn’t dare poke her sore spot at a time like this, so she pointed the spearhead at Gu Qianqian.
“If she hadn’t turned on us, would we have been abandoned?!”
“That’s right.” The thought of what had just happened in the interrogation room made Quan Anrong angry as well.
“Those idiots You Wende and Zhao Zirou actually believed that bullshit Gu Qianqian was spouting.”
“We only took one box of Magic Crystals and two magic-energy guns. We didn’t touch anything else. And they were so blind they pinned everything that bitch Gu Qianqian did on us!”
It had to be said: a roadside villain was still a roadside villain.
Even at a time like this, they were still hung up on who was taking the blame.
If Gu Qianqian had been here, she might even have felt a little sympathy for how their brains worked.
The monsters outside were about to charge in and eat them, and they were still chatting here!?
“I’m going to kill that little shorty and chop her up to feed to the dogs!” Ever since the conflict in the school cafeteria today, Quan Anrong had wanted to kill Gu Qianqian.
Right now, that desire had reached its peak.
But for the two of them, the most important thing at the moment was still how to escape.
The roar after roar of monsters outside yanked the two of them back from their delusions to reality.
“Anrong… that bitch Gu Qianqian has to die, that slut Lin Feiyu deserves to die too, and You Wende, Zhao Zirou, and the rest of them…”
“But, but shouldn’t we… think about how to stay alive first!?”
Yu Ni’s words made Quan Anrong nod.
They might be stupid and vicious, but at this critical moment, they still had the instinct to survive.
Unfortunately, for two roadside villains, they had no strength, no brains, and no weapons in their hands.
All they could do was take it one step at a time.
“Let’s go back to the dorm first and see if there’s anything useful. There are some things we can use in my bag, and in those roommates’ bags too.”
“But Anrong… it sounds like there are monsters downstairs…”
“Then we’ll look for any survivors left and use them as bait!”
To stay alive, Quan Anrong and Yu Ni were going all out.
***
Pain.
Her head hurt so much.
Thirst. Her mouth was so thirsty.
“Water…”
“Water. I want water.”
With her little head already in so much pain that she had lost most of her vision, Gu Qianqian mumbled in a daze like a patient with a bad cold, muttering words that sounded like sleep-talk.
Lin Feiyu, who was carrying her tucked under one arm, had lost the rebar in her hand at some point.
She had already been injured during the fight with Zhou Yuankai, then fought several monsters to the death.
Right now she was exhausted to the extreme.
Looking at Gu Qianqian in her arms, who was like an infant, Lin Feiyu suddenly wanted to throw her away.
The planned escape had run into an unexpected situation.
Lin Feiyu once again realized that even as a reborn person, she couldn’t grasp everyone’s movements.
Still less could she make everything seamless and flawless because of it.
The current situation was a perfect explanation.
If she had been alone, it wouldn’t have come to this.
Gu Qianqian…
A burden.
An unmistakable burden.
Without her, she could shed half the load, travel light, and find a safe place to hide and rest.
In her previous life, she had been more than familiar with the environment around the base.
Where there were caves, where there were safe hiding spots—she couldn’t say she knew the exact locations one hundred percent, but she knew quite a few.
But bringing this little shorty along would slow her down.
In the wilderness at night, every extra minute they lingered was one more measure of risk.
Throw her away.
Just throw her away.
A voice in her mind kept advising her like this.
Anyway, she was her enemy.
Half a day ago, she had still been thinking about how to torment her and kill her…
Throwing her into the wilderness to be swallowed by monsters would settle it once and for all.
It would count as revenge for the self who had been bullied by her in the previous life.
The successive injuries and battles made Lin Feiyu feel pain, and her body and mind were also utterly exhausted.
Plop.
She dropped Gu Qianqian into the grass nearby.
The little shorty who landed on the ground let out a muffled grunt, but still didn’t wake.
Her cute face still frowned from the pain under the moonlight, though it was no longer as twisted as it had been at the start.
If one looked carefully, there was even a hint that made the heart ache.
She was still murmuring in her sleep about being thirsty, wanting water.
Lin Feiyu only sneered inwardly.
You’re about to die, and you still want water. Where the hell am I supposed to find water for you?
Fine then, Gu Qianqian.
I know you have a lot of secrets, but it doesn’t matter anymore. Just die here quietly.
Without Gu Qianqian’s weight, Lin Feiyu only felt her whole body lighten, and she walked much faster.
Come to think of it, the little shorty hadn’t actually been that heavy.
To her, she had been as light as a feather.
But with her there, she couldn’t go all out.
Behind her, Gu Qianqian’s voice grew more and more distant, more and more faint.
This was for the best. Otherwise, if she kept bringing her along, she herself would be in danger.
The night wind in the wild blew across her face and brushed over the wounds on her body.
Yet Lin Feiyu had never felt pain like this before.
But it wasn’t the pain of her wounds…
She should have felt lighter.