Chapter 11: Chaos
“Are you out of your mind?” He frowned deeply as he scolded her. “We still don’t know where the zombies have gone. What if you rush out and run right into them?”
Gu Chenyi was not risking this for the woman.
She was foolish and arrogant, constantly bossing others around like a spoiled princess.
He was simply afraid of putting everyone else in danger.
The zombies had finally left, and if they were drawn back again, it would be the end.
Fortunately, his words worked—the woman was frightened, her face drained of color as she shrank back.
The others quickly stopped crying, realizing that although they had temporarily escaped danger, they were not yet safe.
Calming himself, Sheng Anyu regained his rationality. After a moment’s thought, he said, “You’re right, but we cannot stay here long. We must leave quickly. Everyone, be careful not to make any noise. Avoid the zombies and use the safe exit through the back door.”
There were too many zombies in the hospital. If they waited for them to return, being trapped here would mean certain death.
Though Sheng Anyu disliked those who refused to help in critical moments, they were now all in the same predicament. To prevent any sabotage, he gave careful instructions.
Everyone nodded, utterly lost and unsure of what to do, they could only follow the plan.
Sheng Anyu and Gu Chenyi each grabbed an IV stand, exchanged a glance, and nodded before cautiously moving the medicine cabinet that blocked the door.
Pulling open the half-fallen ward door, Sheng Anyu was the first to lean out, ensuring all the zombies had left before signaling for the group to quietly step out.
Sheng Anyu and Gu Chenyi led the way while the others followed, their footsteps chaotic and harsh in the eerie silence of the corridor.
As he guided them toward the back door’s safe passage, Sheng Anyu listened intently.
The music that had echoed through the floor was no longer audible.
A heavy unease settled in his heart.
That sound wouldn’t have appeared without reason, and it was growing more distant—it was clear someone was deliberately luring the horde away.
With so many zombies chasing them, the danger was obvious. Whoever was doing this was risking their own life to save them.
But who could it be?
Sheng Anyu felt compelled to go check—otherwise, he would regret it.
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At this moment, Lin Wanmei was lying on the stairs, watching a spectacular scene unfold.
Countless zombies surged through the hallways, kicking up dust and filling the air with the thunder of their footsteps and guttural roars. They moved faster than she had ever seen before.
At such speed, most people wouldn’t stand a chance of escape.
After all, they never tired.
Earlier, she had thrown the phone playing the music down the stairwell. The blaring old-fashioned ringtone echoed through the air, attracting the zombie horde and driving them into a frenzy that pushed open the safe door in the corridor.
Luckily, she had quickly climbed to the rooftop, avoiding the chaos.
Seeing the zombies retreating, Lin Wanmei finally breathed a sigh of relief. She returned to the twentieth floor, intending to check the ward.
She wasn’t sure if her second brother was inside, but whoever it was, anyone trapped in such despair would cling to any glimmer of hope.
Putting herself in their shoes, she had no hesitation in trying to help.
However, when she found the ward empty, she slapped her forehead.
How foolish—no one would stay here to die. She had arrived too late and missed them.
Frustrated, Lin Wanmei hurried to search the twentieth floor for another way out.
A few minutes later, she found what she was looking for next to the restroom.
Her face lit up with joy as she activated her talisman and quickly descended in pursuit.
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Sheng Anyu and the group ran down ten floors in one go, panting heavily. Several patients could no longer keep up and collapsed onto the floor.
“I can’t go on... I’m exhausted... Let’s rest for a bit.”
“Yeah, if we use up all our strength now, even if we get out of the surgical building, we won’t be able to escape the hospital.”
A patient’s relative gasped for breath but tried to encourage everyone, “Just a little more! As long as we get out of the hospital, we’ll be saved! With all this chaos, the police must have noticed by now! Maybe the army is waiting outside!”
Their phones had been lost during yesterday’s escape, so they had no idea what was happening outside.
But Sheng Anyu’s eyes were heavy with doubt. He dared not hope.
The zombie outbreak had come suddenly and fiercely. If things were fine outside, rescue would have come already. They had waited a day and a night—nothing.
Perhaps... the outside was just as chaotic.
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Still, what they said was true: while the corridor was clear of zombies, they needed to rest. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to cope with any sudden danger.
He lifted his shirt and sat down. “Rest for ten minutes, then we move.”
Gu Chenyi glanced at his once-obsessive-cleanliness friend now sitting wherever, and couldn’t help but laugh.
Indeed, sometimes you have to be pushed to know your limits.
He casually sat at Sheng Anyu’s feet, beside the stylishly dressed woman.
For a moment, no one spoke. Silence filled the corridor, broken only by distant, indistinct howls drifting in from unknown places.
It felt like a dream. Yesterday morning, the hospital had operated peacefully; suddenly, people were biting each other, chaos and bloodshed everywhere, screams echoing like hell on earth.
They truly wished this was just a nightmare—that once they escaped the hospital, everything would return to normal...
“Roar—!”
“Ahhhh!!”
Suddenly, the zombies’ roar exploded in their ears. Several people shuddered, turning in terror to see a zombie leaping from the tenth floor, jaws wide open toward the group’s edge.
“Help!”
“Zombies! Run!”
Panic-stricken, they flailed wildly to push the creature away and fled deeper into the tenth floor, abandoning others.
A dozen people below on the stairs also scrambled up in fear, pressing past each other to flee downwards, leaving only Sheng Anyu, Gu Chenyi, two doctors, and the terrified fashionable woman behind.
In the blink of an eye, the zombie pounced on a female doctor, biting deeply into her neck. The creature’s head jerked up, tearing off a large chunk of flesh.
The doctor screamed, weakly pushing at the attacker as blood spurted out.
Another doctor nearby was paralyzed by fear, leaning helplessly against the wall.
Sheng Anyu snapped out of his shock, swiftly raising the IV stand to fend off the zombie. “Help me!”
Gu Chenyi rushed forward at his call. Together, they shoved the zombie back several steps, pinning it against the stair railing, immobilized.
The female doctor collapsed, clutching her bleeding neck, her face contorted in pain, muttering incoherently as her body began to convulse violently.
Yet, in moments, to the horror of the male doctor and the stylish woman, she slowly rose to her feet.