Rotting Land: Survive

Chapter 958: Chapter 943

Old Xu found the gun and the hand-held radio with little effort.

The gun was a Type 92 with only three bullets inside, and seeing this result, both Old Xu and Li Xiaoxin let out a helpless smile.

To think that nearly a hundred Huaxia students were frightened into submission by these three bullets, ultimately becoming prisoners of the Japanese bastards.

But that’s no longer important, most of those beasts have gotten what they deserve, and as for the rest, Old Xu certainly won’t let them go.

To establish contact with the outside, the package brought by Hua Biao specially included large batteries.

Old Xu took them out and inserted them, then immediately adjusted the radio frequency.

Fortunately, the radio had not malfunctioned due to long disuse, and soon Old Xu was able to contact the emergency team guarding outside the school.

"Old Lin, this is Old Xu, respond if you receive this, static, respond if you receive this, over!"

The sudden voice from the radio startled Old Lin and the others, and everyone instinctively exchanged glances.

Old Lin then picked up the radio, pressed the communication button, and said: "Old Xu, this is Old Lin, signal received! I repeat, signal received! Over!"

Receiving Old Xu’s radio signal meant that the operation within the campus had concluded, otherwise, Old Xu would not have been able to use the radio to contact the outside.

Upon realizing this, Tang Xiaoquan’s tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed, ending the torment of their two-day wait.

"How are things on your end? Is the situation under control?" Old Lin couldn’t help but ask urgently after confirming the signal was clear.

Old Xu promptly replied: "The situation is under control, the teaching building is in our hands, but..."

That single "but" immediately held Old Lin and the others in suspense: "But what, Old Xu?"

"But something unexpected happened midway, now... now we’re trapped in the teaching building by zombies."

"What?" Old Xu’s words were like a bolt from the blue for everyone inside the car, and Old Lin couldn’t help but confirm: "Old Xu, are you saying you’re now trapped in the teaching building by zombies?"

"Yes, we’re trapped."

"How did this happen?"

"Well... sigh!" Old Xu let out a helpless sigh and recounted all the details of their recent actions to Old Lin, including the situation of corpses mutating.

A stunned Old Lin took a while to recover from his shock: "Can the passage beneath the building still be used?"

This was an extremely important question that directly related to whether the rescue team could escape smoothly.

But Old Xu’s answer was disheartening: "The passage is still safe for now, but the surrounding iron fences won’t hold for much longer."

"Then evacuate while you still have the chance!" Overwhelmed with concern, Old Lin urged hurriedly without thinking.

However, Old Xu responded with a helpless bitter smile: "That path is no longer viable, the moment we reveal ourselves, the zombies will immediately frenzy. Besides, neither Demmi nor Lina can climb. So... sigh."

Old Xu sighed again, completely blocking Lin Junfu’s thoughts.

"Old Xu, how’s the situation inside the teaching building? Is the location you’re at safe?" Tang Xiaoquan, noticing Old Lin’s frustration, stepped in to ask.

"We’ve reinforced the doors with desks and chairs, safety isn’t an issue. The key is the supply of resources... I calculated, enough for everyone here for only two days."

Tang Xiaoquan wasn’t naive; he knew that when Old Xu described the condition of the teaching building yesterday, he repeatedly emphasized the poor living conditions there.

Thus, estimating based on the possible number of students in the building, Tang Xiaoquan could infer the corresponding result.

"Old Xu, you know the situation better than we do. I know it’s inappropriate to bring this up now, but... don’t forget our main objective for this operation. We must rescue those we can, but if the situation doesn’t allow it, we’ll have to abandon those who must be abandoned."

As to what should be abandoned, Tang Xiaoquan didn’t specify, believing Old Xu understood his implication.

Old Xu remained silent, for indeed, not giving up and not abandoning is their battlefield creed.

For ordinary people, giving up unrelated individuals might seem natural, incurring little psychological burden.

But for National Guardian Old Xu, it was a violation of his faith principles.

Yet now Old Xu was first the commander of a survival team before he was the commander of the Sharp Blade Company; he had to put the team’s interests first.

"What’s the situation with the corpses mutating?" A calmed Lin Junfu suddenly grasped the point Old Xu previously mentioned and asked out of curiosity.

"I’m not sure; in short, those Japanese beasts we killed mutated into zombies. I already described the subsequent events, and it’s my fault for not disposing of the bodies, or this wouldn’t have happened."

Thinking of this, Old Xu was full of remorse.

But everyone knew this was not Old Xu’s fault because who could have anticipated that corpses would mutate?

"Do you mean all the dead Japanese students mutated?" Tang Xiaoquan asked out of curiosity.

"Yes, they all mutated." Old Xu confirmed.

"I see... did they exhibit any abnormalities before death?"

"There shouldn’t have been... none at all!!" Carefully recalling the time after returning to the campus and interacting with the Japanese students, Old Xu confirmed their behavior was normal.

"Did they consume anything?" Although Tang Xiaoquan didn’t clearly know how to express his thoughts, he believed the Japanese students couldn’t have mutated suddenly.

"I don’t know what they ate. But if it was really food that caused the mutation, everyone should have mutated, but the living were fine, which doesn’t make sense." Old Xu more or less guessed Tang Xiaoquan’s thought and offered his analysis.

Indifferently nodding, Tang Xiaoquan pondered, running a hand through his hair and mumbling to himself: "No abnormalities before death... didn’t eat anything bad... weren’t bitten by zombies... so why would they mutate? Unless... could they have had the zombie virus in them all along?"

Tang Xiaoquan wasn’t a doctor, but he’d heard of terms like virus carriers, similar to hepatitis carriers, where the individual isn’t affected by the virus under normal circumstances but can fall victim under specific conditions.

Relating this to the current situation, the Japanese students could have experienced that.

Pre-death, certain factors may have suppressed the virus within them, but after death, when their bodily skills ceased, the virus spread, controlling their bodies and causing mutations.

This scenario is understandable on an individual level, but the entire group of deceased Japanese students exhibiting mutations? That means...

"Hiss~" Suspecting a possibility, Tang Xiaoquan involuntarily gasped.

The young man’s sudden reaction caught Old Lin’s attention, who curiously asked: "Are you okay, Xiao Tang?" (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)

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