Opening her eyes, Shiro Ayame found herself in a classroom filled with high school students. There were forty high school students inside the classroom including Shiro Ayame.
Ayame ignored the lectures of the teacher and she focused her attention on the game screen in front of her.
[Welcome, Shiro Ayame, to the Zombie Survival Game developed by Aspro!]
[The first wave of the zombie virus will be released in 30 seconds.]
[Do your best to survive and become one of the top 3 survivors. You can receive unimaginable rewards that can be brought to the real world if you win this game. But if you die in this game world, you will also die in the real world.]
[If you want to check your status, just think of summoning the player status. In the player status, it will also show the remaining survivors in this game.]
[If the zombie virus enters your body and you mutate into a zombie, you will directly be eliminated from the game.]
[Furthermore, killing other players is allowed in the game but raping and sexual harassment isn't allowed. This rule applies to both the players and the NPCs. Anyone who breaks this rule will instantly be disqualified and disqualification will result in death!]
[For the sake of fairness, players and NPCs cannot be distinguished from each other unless a player reveals their identity as a player. All players' memories of other players' appearance have already been erased except for those players who formed an alliance with each other.]
[May all the players survive and play to all your hearts' content! You can only live once so go out with a bang!]
[In Aspro's Will!]
[Good luck!]
[The first wave of the zombie virus has already been released!]
After reading those game screen announcements, Shiro Ayame discovered that she could indeed not remember any of the appearances of the players she encountered in the Game Lobby.
Ayame didn't form any alliance with other players so she couldn't remember even one player's appearance.
'To think that the developer of this game is this powerful. He could even program a game that could not only kidnap us players but even affect our memories.'
Ayame gazed out of the classroom window as she was in awe of the game's capabilities.
Even when the game had announced that the first wave of zombie virus was released, Ayame didn't panic.
'Although I'm confident of my martial arts skills, it still is better to get a metal bat from the baseball club in this school. Fortunately, the game had not only given me the identity of a high school student but also included information regarding the school and everything related to my identity.'
'It's still uncertain whether there are players in the same classroom as me. However, there isn't that much advantage in keeping my identity as a player a secret. Even if I expose my identity as a player, it's still more important to acquire weapons against those zombies.'
After making that decision, Shiro Ayame stood up from her seat and walked out of the classroom.
"Shiro, get back to your seat! The class hasn't ended yet!"
Ayame ignored the teacher's command and proceeded to leave the classroom.
When those high school students saw Ayame's action, two of the high school students stood up from their seats as well and left the classroom while the rest of the students remained in their classroom.
"You two! The class hasn't ended yet! Get back to your seats!"
Like Ayame, those two students ignored the teacher and proceeded to leave the classroom.
***
In the hallway, Ayame saw the other two students who left the classroom.
'Those two must be players as well. Only players who knew that the zombie virus had been released would leave the classroom while NPCs would remain in the classroom.'
'Unless… those two are NPCs who want to go to the bathroom but the chances of that are very low since they left the classroom after I left. It's too coincidental so they might also have the same idea as me which is to find a weapon.'
'They must have already guessed my identity as well as intentions and since they didn't want to be left behind and have no weapons left, they also took the initiative of leaving the classroom regardless of exposing their identity as a player.'
When that analysis came to her mind, Ayame gazed at the other two students and the two students gazed back at her.
The other two students nodded at Ayame and Ayame returned with a nod. Afterward, they parted ways and didn't want to interfere with each other's actions.
From that alone, Ayame and those two students had already guessed and confirmed each other's identities as players. But none of them wanted to form an alliance so they went their separate ways.
All players who obtained an identity in this game world also received information regarding their respective identities. So there wasn't any case where a player became a high school student yet didn't even know the layout of the school premises.
While running in the school hallway, something caught Ayame's attention as she headed towards the windows of the school hallway.
Peeking through the window, she saw that the school gate was open.
A pale-looking civilian was limping towards the school, entering the school by passing through the school gate.
When the security guard was about to stop that civilian, that civilian immediately wrestled the security guard and bit his arm, causing the security guard to scream!
Several seconds after, the security guard no longer screamed and stood up. The civilian no longer wrestled the security guard and let go of him.
The civilian was limping towards the school but this time, the security guard did the same. After being bitten, the security guard seemed to have lost his sentience.
When Ayame saw all of that transpire, she muttered, "The zombies have already entered school premises so I have to hurry and find a weapon as well as loot for food."