Upon receiving Smith's order, the people inside the activity center immediately sprung into action.
There were over twenty foreign teachers here, most of whom were men.
About ten of them had obtained firearms, and they were the strongest force inside the activity center.
They shouted loudly, gathering some female students to welcome the soldiers from their country.
There were over two hundred students inside the activity center, with the male to female ratio being about one to one. Among the female students there were quite a few who were youthful and beautiful.
Smith and the others had harbored some indecent thoughts before, but these students were also very united. You could make them work and they would endure it, you could make them eat less and they would also endure it, but if you wanted to take advantage of the female students, then regardless of gender, they would resolutely fight back.
Smith and the others were low in numbers, so it was not easy for them to forcibly do those things in a fit of rage while provoking public wrath, and both sides had reached a stalemate. But now as he looked at this group of female students, he thought it was about time.
Having been tormented by hunger and gunpoint threats for so long, the will to resist of these students had already been worn down to almost nothing. As long as John and the others arrived, these students would have no choice but to obey even if they were unwilling.
"When our warriors arrive later, you must show them your best side to welcome them. If you do this well, we can add a meat dish to your dinner!"
"Don't be unappreciative. Let me tell you, the people coming are warriors who protected the consulate. They are the most elite soldiers of our country, each of them with blood-stained hands, having killed countless people. If any of you mess things up, even your countries would not be able to save you!"
Seeing that reinforcements were coming to their side, Smith and the others adopted an even tougher stance, practically forcing the students to welcome them.
About twenty beautiful female students were organized and made to stand in two columns at the doorway.
Xiao Tian stood at the forefront of the crowd, a plastic red flower cradled in her hands, her head lowered slightly, her heart filled with gloom.
She did not know when this nightmare would end. If she was not thinking about her father and brother, she would have longed for death.
But who could come and save her and her classmates?
Would that brother of hers who had protected her since young still show up?
After waiting at the doorway for a while, the roar of zombies could be heard from outside.
There were zombies in the area near the activity center. To avoid the zombies, they had not gone out for over ten days already.
Now the sounds of fighting could be heard from outside, but there was no sound of gunshots.
"They're here! Open the door, give them cover!"
A few foreign teachers immediately opened a side door and waved the people outside in.
John and his men swiftly dashed through the small door into the activity center, each of them covered in dust and bloodstains from head to toe, looking as if they had gone through countless battles, very much matching the image of people in these apocalyptic times.
However, Xiao Tian felt that the traces on these people looked a little too new.
This reminded her of her elder brother Xiao Fan. Xiao Fan would always manage to dirty his brand new clothes very quickly when he was young. These men inexplicably resembled her elder brother.
Moreover, she didn't know if it was just her imagination, but the gaze of the leading white soldier seemed to have lingered on her for a bit, seemingly deliberately sizing her up, and even revealed a trace of pleasant surprise or...affection.
Xiao Tian couldn't help but shudder. She must have been missing her elder brother too much, why did she feel this foreigner was becoming more and more like her elder brother?
While she was lost in thought, the foreign teachers beside her reminded them that it was time to welcome the guests.
The group of female students clapped neatly in welcome with passionate greetings.
Smith seemed to have the intention to introduce the girls to this soldier named John, but John waved his hand. "We need to understand the situation here and the vicinity. Let's find a place to talk."
John followed Smith to his office, while the remaining soldiers dispersed to stand guard at various important locations, like the windows on the second floor and the escalators, places convenient for monitoring and shooting.
This immediately gave the other foreign teachers an added sense of security.
See, these are our most elite warriors, swiftly occupying strategic locations. Their safety was now assured.
Inside the office, Smith made a cup of instant coffee for John.
"We don't have very good coffee here. This is what we found at the nearby supermarket. It's barely drinkable."
John took a sip of the coffee. "Mr Smith, how about you brief me on the situation here first."
"Alright. To be honest, before contacting you all, I was already in despair. It hasn't rained recently so we simply can't head out to collect supplies. If we don't get any replenishments soon, I'm afraid we wouldn't even last three days."
"With so many of you and firearms as well, if more people head out, there should still be a chance to collect some supplies right?"
"That was indeed the case, but two extremely dangerous zombies showed up in the school. Our guns barely hurt them. Heading out would be too risky. Initially I could still make the students act as cannon fodder, but now those students have started disobeying my orders. And we don't have enough bullets to kill them all either, so things have gotten rather tense."
John nodded. "Those are all minor issues. I will cover for your evacuation to somewhere safe."
"What? There's somewhere safe nearby?"
"That's right. We know that 300km away from here, some have already set up an extremely secure shelter. We can head there right now."
"Wonderful, that's just perfect!" Smith was extremely excited. He could finally leave this place that kept him on tenterhooks.
"Then it's decided. Mr Smith, please go inform the others. With so many of us, we would surely occupy an important position at the new base too once we arrive."
"Then may I...?"
"Don't worry, I will fight at the new base for a rather high position for you too, so that Mr Smith can remain an influential figure at the new base."
"Great, I'll go inform them right away. Oh, thank God!"
He made the sign of a cross over his chest, before hurrying off.
After John had done all these, he contacted Xiao Fan.
With John's vision, Xiao Fan could now see everything that had transpired. His objective was now largely achieved.
As long as Smith and his gang left the stadium, nothing else would be a problem.
They agreed on an evacuation route. Xiao Fan and his men laid in ambush, waiting for Smith and his people to take the bait.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
