“What did you just say? A mysterious person broke in and beat you up like this?”
“Yes teacher. He rushed over directly and beat me up like this with a stick. Ability users like me are the backbone of the school. Isn’t he doing this to harm our school? That said, I was lucky and my arm only got dislocated. If there is an accident with my arm, how can I help maintain the security of the school?”
Ye Xuan was originally observing Ling Jiaze’s condition. Hearing the movement of a group of people going upstairs outside, and the voice of the ability user whose arm was broken by him just now, he lowered his face in displeasure. After confirming that Ling Jiaze’s condition was stable, he got up carefully and went out the door.
“It’s him! Teacher Zhao, it’s him! He hurt me like this although I did nothing!”
Ye Xuan had just gone out when he heard him shouting. Zhou Jian rushed over but as if he suddenly remembered something, he stopped abruptly three steps away from him.
Ye Xuan looked at him and the group of people behind him, and said with a cold face, “You didn’t do anything? Ling Jiaze had locked the door of his dormitory. You were being so noisy outside, and you were going to break in. Now you are saying that you didn’t do anything? Being this shameless could be considered an ability, right?”
Zhou Jian was stunned, and stubbornly retorted: “I care about my classmate! He was silent in the dormitory alone. Who knows if something has happened to him?” At this point, he remembered his first aim, walked quickly to a middle-aged man behind him and said, “Teacher Zhao, let me tell you that Ling Jiaze hasn’t gone out since he woke up this morning. Do you think he will become like other people who turned into zombies after being sick? Don’t forget about those classmates who were sick before they became zombies, and ended up killing several people!”
The person he called Teacher Zhao was named Zhao Ping. Before the apocalypse, he was in charge of many things in the school. His experience in life and that of Zhou Jian, a student who just gained an ability, were naturally not on the same level. He had basically seen all the survivors in the school after the apocalypse, but he had no recognition of Ye Xuan at all, which could only mean that he was someone from outside.
At this time, he was able to enter the school from the outside, and he was neatly dressed with a rosy face. Hearing from Zhou Jian, he had dislocated his arm without much effort. Even if he was not an ability user, this person was not a little sheep that could be easily slaughtered by others.
After getting the conclusion that he was not easy to mess with, Zhao Ping naturally wouldn’t be as arrogant as Zhou Jian. He walked over with a serious face and said, “This friend, I am Zhao Ping, a teacher of C University, and the two of us have no bad blood. Can you tell me how Ling Jiaze is doing right now? There have been several cases of ordinary people turning into zombies after a fever recently in the school. If Ling Jiaze really has a fever, then we have to deal with him.”
“Deal with him?” Ye Xuan repeated and asked, “Can I ask how you ‘deal’ with those who have a fever?”
Zhou Jian hurriedly replied: “Of course they are locked up to prevent them from harming others!”
Zhao Ping glanced at him and said, “We lock them in separate dormitories. If nothing happens, it’s good. If unfortunately they become zombies, we do not keep them alive.”
In line with the principle that helping one can save another, Ye Xuan asked: “Do you know that there are two types of fever in ordinary people?”
Zhao Ping said in surprise, “What?”
“One is an ordinary illness, which can be treated with medicines from before the apocalypse; the other is a fever that is a harbinger of becoming an ability user.”
Zhou Jian said excitedly: “You are talking nonsense! People with fever end up becoming zombies. How can they become ability users?”
Zhao Ping interrupted him and said, “Can you tell us more about this, friend? As far as we know, all the people with fever in the school have turned into zombies. Why do you say that they could also become ability users? “
“According to the announcement, people injured by zombies will either become zombies or ability users. You should know about this, right?” Ye Xuan said after seeing him nodding: “This shows that ability users and zombies are basically the same. Originally, it was a thin line between them. If they survive, they will become ability users, but if they can’t, they will become zombies. In addition, there are many other situations that can lead to this mutation. This mutation is usually preceded by a fever. In fact, the mutations caused by being injured by zombies also have a fever process, but the speed of mutating is too fast making the fever process not so obvious. “
There were too many factors that could mutate ordinary people. Being injured by zombies was the most common situation. In addition, being overstimulated, exposed to zombie-related things, life-threatening situations, even sleep for no reason may cause it to occur. Ye Xuan couldn’t count how many kinds of reasons there were for sudden awakening.
“This…” Zhao Ping said incredulously: “You, how did you know?”
Ye Xuan lied with a straight face: “Someone has mutated in the place where I live. His family didn’t give up on him so he survived and became an ability user.”
Zhao Ping’s mind turned fast. He pointed to the dormitory behind Ye Xuan and said, “Then, Ling Jiaze, is he going to become an ability user?”
Zhou Jian interjected: “Maybe he will become a zombie!”
“He’s awakening.” Ye Xuan answered Zhao Ping’s question. He looked at Zhou Jian with a bad expression and said, “If you feel you have lived long enough, I can send you on your way.”
“Zhou Jian shut up. If you say one more word, you will be asked to leave here!” After scolding Zhou Jian, Zhao Ping said to Ye Xuan as calmly as possible: “How do you know so much? As you said, in our school, there are examples of being injured by zombies and then turning into ability users. However, why are there no people who suddenly have a fever and become ability users?”
Ye Xuan explained: “I was part of the first group of people who got abilities after being in a coma so I am not very clear about the principle of ability awakening. But as far as I know, this is a very dangerous process which depends people’s own physique and willpower. It’s a big mutation. After all, many people with fever don’t know what is happening in their bodies, so they don’t have the willpower to push through it. In addition, the external environment also…”
Having said that, Ye Xuan suddenly stopped. If he remembered correctly, Zhou Jian was going to break in before he came. As a strength ability user, it would have been absolutely no problem to enter the room. So what would have happened when he saw Ling Jiaze who was having a fever after he broke in?
Ye Xuan thought along this line. Ling Jiaze, who was on the verge of awakening, was stimulated. Whether it was his own situation or the external environment, it would have had a great effect on him. With this negative impact, could he still wake up smoothly?
He hadn’t been able to see him in his last life. Was it because he was stimulated when he awakened his powers, failed to awaken, and then became…
“Zombie.”
“What?” Ye Xuan’s voice was too low, Zhao Ping didn’t hear it clearly and asked: “What did you say? What happens with the outside environment? And you said that you were the first batch of people to get your ability. Then you, your ability is…”
Before he could finish speaking, he saw several vines suddenly appear in Ye Xuan’s left hand, entangling Zhou Jian’s neck, wrists and ankles, hanging him in the air, and sealing his mouth.
“Zhou Jian!”
“Boss!”
“Big brother!”
The students behind the two who had not dared to make a sound were startled by the incident and exclaimed, and the entire corridor was in chaos for a while.
Zhao Ping didn’t expect Ye Xuan to make a move suddenly. He tried and failed to break the vine. He stepped forward and grabbed Ye Xuan’s arm and said, “Let go of him! Violence is not allowed in the school!”
“Then his attempting to break into someone’s room doesn’t count as violence?”
Zhao Ping choked and said, “Put him down first and then I can ask him to apologize to you”
Ye Xuan tightened the vines around Zhou Jian, and said calmly: “Not everything can be solved by apologizing. Are you saying if I turned him into a zombie, it would be useful to apologize afterwards?”
“You!” Zhao Ping looked at the vine wandering around Zhou Jian like a poisonous snake, and at Ye Xuan, who didn’t take Zhou Jian’s life seriously at all. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down. He paid attention to the keyword ‘zombie’ and said, “You did it because he almost disturbed Ling Jiaze’s breakthrough?”
“Do you think I am wrong?”
“He is Ling Jiaze’s classmate, and it was Ling Jiaze who was disturbed by him. If you really want to deal with him, you should wait until Ling Jiaze wakes up, right?”
In the late apocalypse, when human infighting was serious, Ye Xuan didn’t kill many people, let alone in the early days of the apocalypse, when human beings were still bound by laws. He didn’t want to kill Zhou Jian. At least he didn’t want to kill him in front of everyone. Moreover, what Zhao Ping said made sense. He didn’t know how Ling Jiaze felt, and it was not a good thing to kill his classmate rashly.
Ye Xuan stared at Zhou Jian for a while, opened the window with the vines, and then instructed the vines to move him out. He hung him in the air outside and left him dangling.
“You!”
“He almost interrupted Ling Jiaze’s awakening. I will only hang him out until Ling Jiaze’s awakening is over. That isn’t it too much, is it?”
Zhao Ping said angrily: “It’s more than minus ten degrees outside! What’s the difference between you hanging him and killing him?”
“As an ability user, you should also know that minus ten degrees is not too cold for someone like him. Besides, since he has the mind to come out and find trouble, can he still be afraid of the cold?” Ye Xuan glanced outside the window, looked at the struggling Zhou Jian and said to him: “I think you’d better stop struggling. My ability level is not high. If you really break away and fall off from the third floor, I don’t know what will happen. The strength abilities don’t seem to be very resistant to falling, right?”
Zhou Jian was stunned, but did not dare to move.
Ye Xuan pointed at Zhou Jian outside, smiled and said, “You see he has already accepted it, so what are you doing talking for him?”
Zhao Ping: Did he accept this treatment, or was he too frightened to move?!
However, Zhao Ping also knew that this matter was Zhou Jian’s fault, and the young man in front of him was definitely not someone to provoke. After all, he hadn’t bothered anyone. He just arranged for someone to stay outside the dormitory and waited for Ling Jiaze to wake up before dealing with this matter.
