Zhou Ruins: Unreal Dimension 1

Chapter 14 Ringtones
As the light of dawn lifts the veil of night, bursts of crisp bells rang softly from a distance.

The group of corpses became active again, scrambling to find the source of the vibrant ringtone.

The ringtone was like fairy music, gently plucking at Liu An's heartstrings.

Like a traveler walking in the desert, an oasis suddenly appeared in front of him.

……

Squad chat interface:

Liu An: "Did you hear the ringtone just now?"

Jin Yao: "I heard that, the ringtone is different from the one in our world, I thought someone made it."

Wei Yu: "I didn't hear that."

Meng Yuanxi: "I heard this too, but it's not loud."

"Liu An, come out of school quickly. I saw a large wave of corpses looking for the bell. Let's gather at Jinyao's place."

"By the way, Jin Yao, are there any obvious buildings near you?"

Jin Yao: "I'm going to open the curtains and take a look. I didn't dare to look at it last night. Wait for a while."

Wei Yu: "I didn't listen!"

Liu An: "Then I'm going to go out now. Don't come near this school. There are a lot of living dead here. I almost died here last night."

Meng Yuanxi: "As long as you're fine, be careful on the road, and don't take the road."

Jin Yao: "I can vaguely see a lot of living dead people climbing to the heights of a building, and there is a clock hanging on the roof."

"The ringtone should come from there. It seems that Liu An and I are not too far away."

"My place is facing the direction of the clock, so it will be much more convenient to find a good reference."

Wei Yu: "I didn't catch it! What am I doing?"

Meng Yuanxi: "Didn't you say that you have found a survivor base? You are the safest right now, so be on the lookout for the three of us to gather first and then study how to find you."

……

Last night, Meng Yuanxi and Wei Yu chatted for a while in the team chat group, and briefly talked about their respective situations.

Liu An was in no mood to pay attention to this because his mentality exploded.

Jin Yao was already asleep at that time.

Meng Yuanxi's words reminded him, and he immediately opened a bag of emergency rations to replenish his strength.

Because of the sound of the bell, more living dead are rushing here, so we must hurry up and escape here.

He first lifted a corner of the curtain to check the situation outside.

There is no trace of the living dead on this side. From the height point of view, the current dormitory is located on the second floor, but because there is a protective fence outside the window, it cannot be turned out from the window.

It is difficult to distinguish the situation in the corridor through a layer of anti-peeping film, but there are no vague black spots in the visible range.

The doorknob turned slowly, not daring to make a sound.

Looking out along the crack of the door, everything you see is dilapidated, with coagulated blood clots and stumped limbs everywhere, and the putrid smell of the corpse cannot be completely blocked even with a mask.

Liu An poked his head out to check around, took off his shoes after confirming that there was no danger, and moved towards the stairs in small steps, for fear of making any noise.

He passed a window on the way, and he hunched over, and then peeked out from the corner of the window.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, your whole body feels numb.

Wherever you see, there are mountains of corpses and seas of corpses!
Since the bell had disappeared for a while, the group of corpses lost their direction and seemed very confused, crowding each other, and the living dead on the edge had begun to evacuate outwards.

Liu An's heart tightened, and he realized that he had to speed up. If he waited for the corpses to evacuate after a while, it would be tantamount to committing suicide, and he had to find a hiding place before the next bell rang.

Because every time the bell rang, it would attract a group of undead from other regions.

Moreover, the school generally has a backup power supply, and I don't know when the clock here will be powered off.

Over time, all the living dead within the range of the ringtone may gather here. The introduction also introduced that this is a world with a large population.

In short, the longer the delay, the less likely it is to escape.

Half of the corpse was stuck in the protective railing of the stairs. Countless worms swelled up in the festering place. Most of the stairs were covered with intestines. Black blood flowed slowly, exuding a strange aura.

Suddenly, just as Liu An passed by the half of the corpse, he heard the teeth-stinging sound of bones rubbing against each other again.

It came from that half of the corpse!
Its head turned 180 degrees strangely, and its pale eyeballs looked at it.

One eye exploded, leaving a blood-red hole.

The nose also disappeared, leaving only messy teeth marks.

The lower jaw was torn in two.

Now perhaps it is more appropriate to call it the stick of the living dead, or the stick of the corpse.

Even though Liu An had dissected countless corpses and seen all kinds of tragic deaths, seeing this scene in front of him now, he couldn't help but feel a chill.

Swallowing back the feeling of vomiting, suppressing the discomfort in his heart, he picked up the flesh and blood from the half of the corpse and smeared it on himself, hoping to cover up the smell of a living person on his body.

The smell of the corpse was like a hook, tightly tied to the nasal cavity.

It was torment like roasting the soul.

The heads of the corpses have been quietly watching Liu An hollow out one by one.

After all, the vocal cords were also torn, and it was difficult to make a sound.

In the end, accompanied by another burst of toothache, the head's gaze was fixed on a distant figure...

In the distance, the sun rose slowly, and the survivors once again celebrated that they had survived another difficult night.

However, most people fell before dawn.

The warm sunshine poured on Liu An's body, but nothing could dispel the chill in his heart.

The scene that happened just now was too unimaginable, and he directly rubbed the human body knowledge he had learned on the ground frantically.

Fortunately, there was a man-made hole in the wall not far from the dormitory building.

After some near misses, he finally escaped from the campus.

But before he had time to rejoice, he saw a few undead people walking towards him not far away.

Liu An's back was instantly soaked in cold sweat, his right hand subconsciously clenched the dagger tightly, leaning his back against the wall nervously, holding his breath.

Just when he was hesitating whether to strike first or turn around and run, the living dead continued to move forward in the original direction as if they hadn't seen him.

He breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that applying this stuff on his body really works.

It was the black blood that was about to freeze, and he didn't know if it would be effective by then, so he didn't dare to stay any longer.

What's more, there was this indelible corpse smell. Even though he often dealt with these smells, he still couldn't stand it.

"Jin Yao said it was in the direction opposite to the clock, but where is the clock..."

"Bah-"

As Liu An was walking, he suddenly heard the sound of limbs kissing the ground.

Looking up, a bunch of living dead were climbing up the teaching building.

They said they were climbing, but they were actually building a wall of corpses.

The living dead who kissed the ground just now was smashed down by a person on the top of the building with a stool.

After glancing at it, he changed direction and moved forward. He couldn't help secretly rejoicing that his birth point was located in the dormitory building.

If you were born in the teaching building, you will die sooner or later.

"By the way, Jinyao seems to have said that she vaguely saw a bunch of undead people climbing upstairs. Maybe she was talking about this teaching building? But I didn't see a clock just now..."

However, at this moment, as if to refute him, a clearer bell sounded from the teaching building.

"Ding-ding-ding-"

(End of this chapter)