Zombie King Opens a Restaurant in Her Last Days

Editor: Evie

 By the time the fire had gotten smaller, the burned bodies gave off an even worse smell but in the end it still brought relief to everyone.

    It was hard to breathe, nevertheless it was good enough to avoid a zombie. The students and teachers all went back to gather everyone and moved all the desks and benches in the classroom towards the three doors.

    Those things don’t really help much, but they were far better than nothing.

   They were scared, but even more scared that anytime soon those zombies might march inside. So after knowing that the doorway had been cleared of the zombies, they all began to move their things there in droves.

    Even when they were careful not to make too much noise, it had not been too long before each item had been moved.

    Although they knew it was a tofu-dregs project; poorly constructed, looking at the piled-up doorway made them feel a lot safer.

    After he examined the surroundings, Zhang Zhongmin couldn’t even find a trace of the woman from before. He hurriedly used the intercom to contact Dongdaemun.

    “That girl seems to be staying in an exclusive hotel right next to the East Gate.” Although Liu Guoan didn’t stop Fu Cao when she went out, he did pay attention to her movements.

    “But..she just went out.” Liu Guoan found it strange that the woman seemed to have a lot of guts. How dare she go out in the middle of the night when there might be a zombie outside? Was she not afraid?

    Zhang Zhongmin frowned, going out in the middle of the night? Since, everyone had been hungry for one whole day, it was too late to bother about Fu Cao. After distributing the food in the canteen, they were all dead tired, sweat-covered and yet this wasn’t even the worst part of it, they had to remain as they were, without bathing for who knows how long. 

    Suddenly, he saw the young man sitting on a chair still tightly bound with ropes on the ground. Zhang Zhongmin walked over, glanced over and turned around to ask, “How long?”

    Liu Guoan was still standing on guard at the entrance of the East Gate when the zombies out of the blue attacked. For now they could only decide to have a few more men on guard.

    The other few gates were blocked and were just fine with one man left to guard them whereas, the security at the East Gate was simply too low and they weren’t in a position to get the matter of the security settled just yet.

    Xiao Bin had already returned and looked at the time: “It’s been eleven hours.”

    They walked over and looked, the boy only seemed to be a little tanned with no sign of death. The nails on his hands were trimmed cleanly and his slender fingers flicked slightly.

   His eyelashes fluttered, “Have I gotten rid of my fever?”

    Actually he woke up a bit earlier, but at that time there was no one on the playground and he slowly dozed off again. When he woke up he found out that his five senses felt as if they had been enhanced.

    The moment Zhang Zhongmin approached, he snapped out of his daze.

    Zhang Zhongmin raised his hand and placed it on his forehead: “Go tell Feng Han to get the thermometer.” The fever seemed to have gone down when he touched his forehead, but this was still too much of an important decision to make. He couldn’t be hasty.

    Lu Xuan lickedthe corner of his mouth: “I think I’m a little feverish and hungry… Instructor, I think that the source of infection might still be circulating in the air.”

    Zhang Zhongmin’s pupils contracted as he looked at Lu Xu seriously, “How so?”

    “When I had a fever, there was this feeling, for some time… I thought I was going to turn into a zombie…Good thing, I made it through.” He smiled, his face a little pale.

 His thin bangs were wet and plastered on his forehead: “I’m not hurt, and I haven’t even had tap water. Around this time of the night when the weather gradually begins to cool off, I might have caught a bit of cold.”

    “I think the air should contain a small amount of infection, which in good health would naturally have no effect, but once sick, maybe injured or something, would give the infection a chance to invade.”

    “Of course, that’s just my guess.”

    Lu Xuan’s speculation brought Zhang Zhongmin a great shock, if that was really the case…they were afraid that they would have to make a plan for the long run now. Because maybe the whole country will gradually be overrun by zombies.

    Even if the country was stronger, this kind of infiltration attack….that catches people off guard… They all had to make their way out and at once, Zhang Zhongmin’s eyes gleamed sharply.

    Meanwhile, Xiao Bin also brought a thermometer from Feng Han and measured Lu Xuan’s temperature.

    The test results were normal.

His temperature had returned to usual. Only after Zhang Zhongmin gave Lu Xuan a large bottle of mineral water did his heart gradually slow down.

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    After taking the bag of instant noodles, Qiu Ying Ying went back to her dorm room, she carefully plugged in the electric kettle, then filled it with water to boil the instant noodles.

    Fearing that the smell might get out, she closed all the doors and windows, while she also blocked the gaps underneath them with the lint from another bed.

    As the water boiled, she went inside the toilet and took a bath with fresh water. She was now able to let out more water and although it was cool, it was better than nothing.

    After taking a cold shower, she shivered, soaked up the noodles and poured herself a cup of hot water under a blanket.

    She wanted to cry after eating a bowl of noodles, hot and warm.

    How long had it been since she had something warm to eat? Since it was discovered that the water source was infected. The canteen was no longer open to ignition, after all, opening fire to cook means using mineral water, since the water source is infected, people can only drink mineral water, drinks and so on.

    Water was becoming more and more precious, so naturally they wouldn’t cook. Hence, people weren’t getting enough to eat.

   She carefully ate the noodles, bite by bite. She felt so overwhelmed that she even drank the soup and licked the bowl clean. Afterwards, she washed the lunchbox with water and sprinkled essence water in the dormitory before she went to sleep under the covers.

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    Lu Xuan was an art student and was in his junior year. He lived in a double dormitory and was lucky to get it as it was very expensive and not easy to snag.

    When he went back, his roommate was startled, and then said in surprise, “Lu Xuan, are you okay?”

    Lu Xuan nodded faintly.

    His roommate, who was also an art student, seemed particularly excited when he saw that he was fine: “Great, do you know, I was scared to death ah! When I saw what happened to you……. could it really be the end of the world? How did these zombies get here? How did the virus appear?”

    His roommate giggled excitedly.

    “Keep your voice down, do you want to attract the zombies?” Lu Xuan glanced at him, and his roommate instantly shut up.

    Early, the next morning, Lu Xuan got up. His roommate was still in deep slumber.

    He opened the door and walked out, even then his roommate was sleeping like a dead log. The school was quiet and the half light of morning eerie. As if he had walked into No Man’s Land, even then Lu Xuan was filled with strength, he stepped out of his slender legs and quickly walked to the East Gate.

    “Student, where are you going?” The men from the security team had just switched shifts with Liu Guoan, who was lying on his side sleeping. As a result, the people of the security team saw Lu Xuan as soon as they looked up.

    Back then, Fu Cao was an outsider thus he didn’t care, but Lu Xuan was obviously a student in the school, so he couldn’t be careless.

    “Have to go out, something’s up.” Lu Xuan said.

    “No way, it’s too dangerous out there right now. You can’t go out now, and even if you do, you won’t be able to go out under the squad leader’s arrangement until you’ve trained later.” The man from the security team said in a stern manner, with a very serious tone.

    Lu Xuan thought of what the woman had said earlier and pursed his lips tightly, “I have something very important.”

    “What’s more important than life right now!?” The people in the security group thought Lu Xuan was crazy, now everyone hated why they couldn’t just hide inside a turtle shell, but here he wanted to go out!

    “Please open the door, I’m going out.” Lu Xuan said as he looked at the security team.

    “Hey, you kid, what’s with the rebellious attitude? It’s full of zombies out there! What do you think will happen if you go out now and run into a zombie?” The security team refused to open the door, and the two men’s hushed arguments woke Liu Guoan up.

    “What’s wrong?” Liu Guoan opened his eyes, his eyes were sharp and clear, not at all like someone who had just been woken up.

    “Aah, Instructor, you’re awake? This classmate said he wants to go out, it’s so dangerous outside, how dare I let him go out? What should i do?  he just wouldn’t bulge.” At a glance, he knew Liu Guoan woke up thus he grumbled to him in quick succession.

  Liu Guoan got up and tidied up his wrinkled clothes for a moment, before walking over to look at Luo Xuan.

 With one look he recognized that he was that young boy who had fainted yesterday, whom Zhang Zhongmin had also told them about getting well. A bit later, he asked with some hesitation, ”What is it that you want to go out for? It’s not safe out there right now, it’s not that we won’t let you go out at all, it’s that first we’ll train you and when we’re done, you’ll be able to go out naturally.”

    But he promised that he would go to her when he woke up. Lu Xuan’s eyes flashed.

    Reaching out, he flipped out of the school walls, as he braced himself on the panning door.

    “…….”

    “…….”

    Liu Guoan and the people of the security team did not expect that this gentle looking male classmate would come to such a decision, even Lu Xuan himself did not expect that it was this easy.

    He just felt like he was full of energy, so he gave it a try, and it really worked. He gazed around and saw an exquisite sign, Exclusive Hotel.

    Just go straight that way. 

    “Inform the squad leader immediately.” Liu Guoan said, he propped himself up the door and went out with a flip. He chased after him.

    As a result, he saw Lu Xuan walking a few steps and stopped at the entrance of the exclusive hotel, he immediately remembered the woman from yesterday. It was about this time that a small head poked out of an upstairs window.

    She smiled sweetly and held out her hand, “Hi~ Hanging in there?”

    The corner of Lu Xuan’s mouth hooked: “En, I’m holding up.”

     He narrowed his eyes at the woman upstairs whose sweet dimples showed on either side of the corners of her mouth.

    “Hold on, I’ll go get the door.” Saying that, Fu Cao shrank back inside.

    Lu Xuan glanced back at Liu Guoan, but didn’t say anything, instead he turned his head to look at the roll-up door. In a moment’s time, the roll-up door was opened.

    The shopfront was large and the decoration was exquisite, Fu Cao beckoned, “Come in and sit.”

    Liu Guoan looked suspiciously at the girl in front of her. The sound of her opening the rolling door was just too loud. He couldn’t help but say, “Aren’t you afraid of attracting zombies like that?”

    Fu Cao froze for a moment, crooked her head to the side and thought for a moment, “I forgot, but there are also sliding doors with tempered glass inside the roller shutter door, in the future, I’ll just leave the roller shutter door open.”

    “You’re here alone?” Liu Guoan looked around, the place was clean, but there was no sign of people one other than them here at all.

    “Right.” Fu Cao blinked and brought over two bottles of mineral water: “There’s nothing to entertain you guys, just drink some mineral water.”

    Not to mention showing an ounce of courtesy, Liu Guoan, who had kept watch all night, had nothing to eat and absolutely no water to drink, was damn thirsty right now. He didn’t bother, just unscrewed the lid and gulped down a large portion of it.

    Lu Xuan stared at Liu Guoan with no expression on his face, the look made Liu Guoan feel a little embarrassed.

    He scratched his head impatiently, “It’s not safe for you to be here alone, why don’t you go and stay in the school dormitory, it’s safer.”

    On the contrary, it wasn’t safe for her to go inside the school, Fu Cao looked at him with a narrow smile.

    “No, I’ll stay here and be safe. These zombies won’t be able to beat me.” Fu Cao said naturally, making Liu Guoan think of yesterday when the woman came in and clearly spoke in a voice that wasn’t loud, but still clearly echoed by each of their ears.

    “Thank you for yesterday.” Lu Xuan looked at Fu Cao, if it wasn’t for her talking to him yesterday, he would have given up a long time ago. He might have already been mutilated and killed by now.

    Being able to live without becoming a zombie… he naturally wanted to live.as he thought of yesterday’s crisis, Lu Xuan’s eyes were slightly red.

    Fu Cao waved her hand and said, “Let’s see what kind of supernatural power you have, shall we?”

    “Powers?” Lu Xuan froze for a moment.

    Liu Guoan’s eyes glazed over: ”What? Abilities? is there really such a thing?”

    Although zombies appeared, but It never occurred to them that there were really special powers now, so he was a bit shocked.

This translation belongs to Centinni.