Huomei and Meibing moved out cautiously over to the second floor.
They have blocked the stairs of the floor below with iron bars. The entire complex of their university is in a horizontal I shaped building with each of the annexes containing girls dorms and boys dorms respectively.
The building in the middle is the administration building, library, classrooms so on and so forth.
Admin building is connected to each of the dorms through various catwalks.
They moved over to the second floor.
They removed the iron bars sealing the stairs to the second floor for the first time. Though they called it the second floor, it is more like the fourteenth floor, what with girls' dorms starting from tenth floor.
The freshmen stayed in the first to third floor, fourth to sixth is the second years, and the sixth to pent house is upper class men, individual rooms and professors quarters respectively. Girls Dorms first floor is tenth floor.
first to tenth floors are professors quarters, along with the studios of PhD students.
Top four floors are paid dorms. Simply put, they are for the super rich and super finicky. Given the university is remote, they decided to make money out of rich's need for space. Most of them are currently empty.
All the girls were curious about how the zombies got killed.
Wuli blocked the entrance the second floor on top of stairs with an half solid, half bars iron door, and retreated all the way back.
"WuLi! Why are you standing so far? You are a strong metal power, aren't you? Even I am standing in the front, yet you look like you want to run away the first second." one of the girls said meanly.
The girls nearby tittered at the words of the mean girl.
Almost all these girls woke up without any zombies in their rooms, for the phoenix team cleared away all the zombies by the time they woke.
Only Wuli has seen a real zombie other than the phoenix team girls.
Even Biyu and MingZhu have only dealt with the tied up zombies, not a real fighting ( and frightening) zombie like the one that exited from Wuli's room.
In other words, they have no fu**ing idea what they were going to face.
Huomei prepared a red fire sickle in her hands, prepared to fire as soon as the first zombie arrived.
There is a half solid iron door blocking the steps, the rest is sealed by horizontal iron bars with three fingers width between them.
Bi Yu volunteered for ringing the bell.
It's not a great task, at the same time, it's not a simple task either. They tied a simple shaman's ringing bell to a flattened out hanger.
They all stayed silent and ready, then someone extended this bell and rings it.
The zombie, with its strong sense of sound, will attack the bell. It's important for the person holding the bell to stay calm at this time. It is one of Biyu's strengths. She's not frightened easily.
Suyan and Meibing will go for legs, while Huomei goes for the throat.
Biyu and Mingzhu will stay on standby to provide emergency support with cold weapons. MingZhu held a skinny halberd, she kept a short spear on the side for the times she lost the halberd.
Bi Yu raised her hand as a symbol and splayed out her hands.
Two red eyes in the dark gleamed, un-noticeable to the naïve newbies waiting on the stairs for a good show.
Biyu started folding her fingers one by one.
The girls on stairs waited with bated breath.
The monster in the dark licked it's chops.
Biyu folded all her fingers.. Brought down her hand. On the cue, the bell rang.
The monster smiled with it's ugly teeth.
It extended one of its hands lightning fast.
The hand did not go towards any girls of the phoenix team, but the bystanders.
Three claws emerged from the neck of the girl who tittered at the comments of the mean girl.
Blood splashed onto the faces of everyone waiting by the stairs.
Wuli reacted first, she ran away fastest to the dorm of the phoenix room, shut the door down and melded the room all over with the iron bars.
The mean girl screeched like there's no tomorrow.
With that screech, half the girls awakened from the stupor they were in, only to fall in to a worse state of wild panic.
They started running pell-mell towards the iron doors, some stumbling over and stepping on those who fell down in the rush to escape.
However, when they got to the phoenix room, which contained all of their supplies, they found the door locked all the way through.
The mean girl, named Xu Xueli shouted the loudest, banging on the door to open the damn door.
When she banged on the door for the third time, the outside of the iron door turned into sharp spikes. Her hand got pierced all the way through by the spikes.
The people around got scared by the blood…
However, someone in the back seems to have recovered their senses. They went to the room next to the phoenix room, shut the door and locked it from inside.
It's like a dam broke.
All the other girls moved as if they had pre-determined this outcome, each ran as groups to a different room, locked the rooms from inside.
On the other side, Suyan sent water towards the creature on the ceiling, Meibing froze it as soon as water touched the creature.
However, the monster was stuck on the ceiling like a spider, hanging upside down. Thus when they froze the monster, rather than sticking to the ceiling as they expected, it fell down on the floor.
Huomei attacked immediately, however, due to the zombie falling down, the attack that should have cut off its head only cut its hind legs.
The monster screeched in pain, sent out another claw towards Huomei's heart.
Biyu blocked it with her own palm.
The monster's claws became similar to threads as soon as they passed through Biyu's palms.
Mingzhu reacted finally, cast her ability on every one, hardening their skin.
The monster screeched and sent out another claw towards Huomei.
This time, Meaning reacted fast, froze the monster with all her power.
However, the monster was more than a tier above them.
All MeiBing could do is freeze it's arms.
Mingzhu swung the halberd in her hands, the extended arm cracked like glass.
Huomei burst a fire sickle with all her power.
However, the monster wiggled out of the way, so all it did was cut off the monster's legs.
The monster screeched in response..
It's a hellish sound.
It reverberated all the way through their ears, making their eardrums burst.
Biyu vomited out what little food she ate.
She has motion sickness, she is the most vulnerable to such things in the first place.
However, in those few seconds they have been disabled, the monster has crawled away from them.
If they want to kill the monster, they would have to bring Wuli to modify the iron door.
Meanwhile, there is a commotion downstairs..
By this time, they have become experts in hearing and identifying the zombies slow sliding gait.
They needn't even talk to understand the situation.
The monster upstairs has called all the zombies to their floor. Or perhaps the zombies were already moving towards them because of the ruckus the girls caused.
Now, the process will be faster because the mutant Zombie called them to help.
If something goes wrong, they all will die here.
They all froze in horror at the understanding.
"You guys escape. I will hold the fort here. Yanlong said I am the most powerful among all of us, I should be able to hold them down long enough for you guys to escape." Huomei said.
"No. You die, we will all die." Biyu shot her down instantly.
The rest, who were frozen in indecision woke up at those words.
"Yes, Biyu is correct. The only way for us to survive is to fight together and win." MeiBing said decisively.
"What about the monster here? If it survives, it will only get more powerful." Suyan said worriedly.
"One of us needs to inform Yanlong about this. We will seal this floor so that monster can't come down." MeiBing decided.
"I will tell Yanlong what happened here." Mingzhu said, picking up her phone.
Suyan brought out the water from the pail they have readied, she floated the water up, while Meibing froze it instantly.
They went down the stairs slowly and steadily, with determination to survive burning in their eyes.
Meibing froze the first zombie all the way through.
This time when Huomei's fire sickle went out, it cut off the head cleanly.
Before the head so much as touched the floor, Suyan and MeiBing froze three more zombies.
Biyu found a cloth somewhere, wrapped it around her wound.
She and Mingzhu stabbed the zombies with a spear and halberd when they could.
They have set the weapons aside in the corridor.
Many of the girls cut themselves on these weapons when they were running away.
The zombies kept piling up…
Eventually, the entire corridor is filled with corpses of zombies…
Thankfully, it seems zombies are averse to blood of their own.
As the stink spread around the corridor downstairs, less and less zombies came upstairs to die.
The entire phoenix room collectively took a breath..
Mingzhu and Biyu brought pails of water from the bathroom.
Suyan and Meibing sealed up downstairs completely with ice walls as well.
It is only then they were able to sit and breathe in relief.