Shocked, I'm the Favorites in the Survival Game - chapter 4

Chu Yian hurriedly retreated back onto the balcony, her legs going weak as she listened to the screams next door. Further away, people were still fleeing across the playground and the cafeteria-everywhere she looked was a living hell.

Fear, confusion.

Her clothes were soaked with sweat, her whole body trembling uncontrollably, as if she’d just been pulled out of water.

Ringing in her ears-she couldn’t hear anything.

Her mind was blank, her vision blurry.

She didn’t know how much time had passed before she remembered she still had her phone.

Her messaging apps were exploding with notifications.

Chu Yian looked at the group chat labeled [Geology Class of 2022].

[Help, there’s-4:12 PM]

[I’m in the office of the Fourth Laboratory Building, can’t get through to the police-4:06 PM]

[Has anyone escaped? I’m hiding in the bathroom in Phase 3 of the teaching building, I’m so scared-4:06 PM]

[If you hear the broadcast, find somewhere to hide! There’s a group of lunatics attacking people outside the school, the security guards can’t hold them off much longer-3:59 PM]

[Why is the air raid siren going off? I was resting, it’s so loud.-3:55 PM]

…

[I heard there’s a riot at the high-speed rail station, the area near the Shopping Mall is sealed off. Does anyone know what’s happening?-3:43 PM]

The earliest of these messages was from twenty minutes ago.

So, from the start of the riot until now, not even half an hour had passed, yet it felt to her like a lifetime.

Knowing there were still other survivors in the school, she began trying to call various public numbers. When she couldn’t get through, she started searching for official news releases.

There!

She stopped at a blue-and-white page, which contained only two lines of text.

[There is currently a large-scale riot in Shigang City. The Shigang City Police Department issues the following information:

All citizens are advised to stay indoors as much as possible, avoid riot crowds, and prepare at least three days’ worth of food and water while awaiting rescue.]

Seeing this, she decided to follow the instructions for now. She plugged in her phone to charge and began taking stock of the items in her dorm room.

A girls’ dormitory never lacks snacks.

She found four mangoes, half a bag of milk powder, some dates, and a snack pack bigger than her pillow, which contained more than a dozen bags of snacks-mostly twisted dough sticks, chips, dried fruit, and dried meat.

Enough to last her for a while.

Wait, she couldn’t just stay here and wait for rescue.

The reality of the situation almost made her forget she was in a bizarre game, and the final requirement was to reach the rescue point within five days.

But where was the rescue point?

How was she supposed to go out and look for it in these circumstances?

As soon as Chu Yian remembered this, she became restless again. She searched her phone for any information about the rescue point, until she was completely exhausted and fell asleep at her desk.

Day Two

Chu Yian was startled awake from a nightmare.

The sky outside was gray and gloomy, and everything was quiet except for the occasional roar and the heavy, slow footsteps of the infected.

She picked up her phone and saw it was five in the morning.

There was no signal, no pages would load.

The power was out, too.

Luckily, she’d charged her phone all night and hadn’t unplugged it; now the battery was at 97%.

But with no network and no way to make calls, what use was a phone?

Chu Yian washed her face, then sat back down, eating snacks to fill her stomach while scrolling through whatever else was on her phone. But without internet, the phone was useless for anything except serving as a glowing flashlight.

She felt completely shut in and anxious.
She’d been fumbling with her phone for a while and was about to put it down, when she suddenly noticed a hidden little icon-the radio.

The radio is also called a wireless radio.

It’s a device that uses electricity to convert radio wave signals, allowing people to listen to audio broadcasts from radio stations. Anyone with a bit of knowledge about radios knows that when telecommunications and the internet are down, this kind of device that relies on radio waves to transmit signals is utterly reliable (internet slang: god-tier, always dependable).

Chu Yian instantly perked up. She opened the radio function on her phone and started tuning.

At first, all she heard was static.

Trapped in her room with nothing else to do, Chu Yian devoted all her time to studying this. Just before ten o’clock, the static suddenly turned into a voice broadcast:

[Hello listeners, this is District 11 Radio.]

[A global viral disaster has broken out. Normal people who are bitten will be immediately infected. The virus acts quickly; the infected die within ten seconds and then transform into zombies that attack healthy humans.]

[Main features of zombies: normal vision, hearing five times that of a normal person. While spreading the virus, they attack targets with peak physical strength from their human period. When there are no targets to infect, they enter a dormant state.]

[Attention: There is currently no vaccine. Stay away from the infected.]

[Attention: Fulun County, City X, is the only Safe Rescue Zone in District 11.]

[This message will repeat in a loop.]

Safe Rescue Zone!

Chu Yian’s spirits lifted; she hadn’t expected to hear the location of a safe zone. Suddenly, she felt she had a goal to strive for, something to look forward to.

But where exactly is Fulun County in City X?

Thinking of this, she felt troubled again.

But soon, she noticed a line of small print at the bottom right of a stack of documents issued by the school on her desk-

[Issued by the Publicity Department of Guangda College (City C)]

Besides the flyers, she found several tickets in her dorm, all clearly showing routes from various cities to City C.

Good, she could perfectly rule out the possibility that she was in City X.

Chu Yian took a deep breath, feeling the pressure of her uncertain escape route.

But she still had to go.

Otherwise, even if she stayed safe in her dorm for five days, the outcome would still be death.

She looked at the water and food she had gathered, preparing to pack them up and get ready to leave.

Wait!

Chu Yian suddenly remembered that before entering the game, she had drawn a prop. She opened her hand and looked at the small icon in her palm.

Her palm grew slightly warm, and a box instantly appeared in her hand.

The box was only the size of an earbud case, far too small to hold anything. At her mental command, the box instantly expanded to a cubic meter in size. The entire box glowed with golden light, and several large words floated above it-

[Would you like to use the skill: Create from Nothing]

Skill: Create from Nothing. In the game, the treasure chest randomly produces an item. After use, the skill requires a three-day cooldown.

Chu Yian recalled the relevant details and finally felt a hint of the game’s flavor.

She chose yes.

The box opened automatically, white light filling its interior. She reached in and fumbled around for a while, finally touching something cold and heavy, like a block of iron.

A transparent game screen popped up in front of her.

[A single-shot 9mm pistol with unlimited ammunition]

[Note: Will be reclaimed after this round of the game ends.]

[Item’s inner voice: Having me is your good fortune!]

Yeah, right-as if!