"Big sis! Can you tell us this story again?"
A group of children held Seraphyne's hand and begged eagerly. Seraphyne sighed, knelt down and gently said to the little girl:
"That's history, real history, but of course I can tell it again."
Seraphyne touched the little girl's head and led the group of children, all of whom hoped to hear again this history that almost all children are familiar with, to the reading room. Seraphyne casually pulled up a chair and sat down. She looked at the group of children and said with a smile:
"Then, this story will start from the star calendar year 205."
At this time, a boy raised his hand and asked politely.
"Sis, I heard from my parents that you were also from that time and participated in this matter. Is it true?"
"Oh..." Seraphyne paused.
Seraphyne smiled, scratched her hair(Cut this paragraph out), and said with a cheerful smile:
"Of course, I was indeed a person at that time, and I did participate in this matter..."
Before Seraphyne finished speaking, the reading room exploded with energy, children are still children after all, and they will be very excited when they encounter new things. Seraphyne stretched out her hand and pressed it down, signaling them to be quiet.
"...Listen children, if you still want to hear the story, you must keep quiet."
The reading room gradually returned to silence. Seraphyne glanced around and said in a low voice.
"That day, he suddenly regained consciousness..."
Star calendar 205 years
Caelum's consciousness suddenly returned, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he found that he was no longer among the zombies in his memory, and nothing bloody happened. Everything was safe and sound.
The memory of being surrounded and bitten by zombies with Malrik and Cyrus beside them, unable to withstand the impact of the zombies and collapsing is still vivid in my mind. Caelum's face couldn't hide the complexity.
Yes, Caelum was reborn. He returned to the two weeks before the zombie virus spread. Now it was time for free practice in the last class. Caelum looked up and saw Karyna and Elowen looking at the instruments in front of him in shock.
"you......"
"Be careful in two weeks"
"The zombie virus will break out in two weeks."
"There will be a zombie virus outbreak in two weeks."
The three of them spoke together, but they didn't expect that what they said was completely different. The three of them looked at each other in silent understanding and confirmed that they were all reborn people.
The door was pushed open, and the person who came was Malrik, the leader of the band. Caelum was a little emotional. In the previous life, in order to fulfill the responsibility of the leader, Malrik tried to block the zombies surging in like a tide, but he and Cyrus stopped them with their single-minded effort. The three people finally blocked it, but due to the number of people, everything turned into a handful of losses.
Malrik came to this small practice room and only said one sentence
"Be careful in two weeks"
"Sister Chu, what about you?"
A child asked. Seraphyne was not angry at being interrupted and answered with a smile:
"I'm also among those three people. I just have a low sense of presence."
"But Sister Chu, you are the guardian..."
Before the child could finish speaking, his mouth was pinched by Seraphyne
"When listening to a story, you must be conscious of the story. Not spoiling is the best help to other children, especially when they are listening to this period of history." (These are all to be told later in the story. Please listen to the previous story carefully without spoiling it)
Seraphyne shook his index finger and continued talking.
After hearing Malrik's words, Caelum understood that this person was also reborn, and he stretched out his hand.
",welcome back"
Malrik was stunned for a moment, then understood and held Caelum's hand.
"I'm Back"
After some exchanges, Caelum quickly learned from Malrikthat not only their group had been reborn, but also the entire band.
Malrik gathered everyone together. After all, everyone was reborn. Except for Cyrus, Malrik and Caelum died in the battle at the beginning. The remaining people were either killed by the campus survivors or crushed by each zombie outbreak. In the end, no one was alive.
Malrik thought for a moment and finally decided to voice this potentially unpleasant question.
"Everyone should tell us when they died, so we can have a timeline."
Everyone looked bad, even the three people who died in the first battle looked bad. After all, they were talking about their own deaths. Even if they had to do it again, the shadow would be indelible.
Malrik cleared his throat and took the lead in breaking the silence.
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"I'll go first... I, Caelum and Cyrus died in the first battle. I think everyone knows this."
Everyone nodded in silence, and Mavren spoke with difficulty under everyone's gaze.
"I died during the second zombie outbreak to protect the remaining members. At that time, the band members had had countless quarrels. Some people said they wanted to find their friends and never came back. Some people went out because of food shortages and never came back. So later we all chose to stay together so that we could have someone to take care of us. By the way, at that time there were already zombies that could stay sane after mutating."
Ellian on the side also nodded, and Malrik understood that these two should have died together. Unexpectedly, Mireille also nodded, and Caelum was a little surprised.
"Did you also die protecting it during the second outbreak?"
Mireille shook her head gently
"During the second outbreak, the school survivors gathered into a small group and came to attack us. I felt that even if I stayed, it would be of no use, so I took the initiative to lure them away as bait, and then I was thrown into the zombie swarm and died."
Everyone did not think there was anything wrong with this behavior, but instead showed respect for Mireille. In the situation at that time, it took a lot of courage to make such a move. Not everyone can realize their own shortcomings and the pros and cons to the interests of the entire group. Everyone is afraid of death. As long as there is a little hope, they will do everything possible, especially in this doomsday-like scenario.
"Okay, okay, we are all reborn people, so don't be so sad."
Cyrus opened his mouth to adjust the atmosphere, and Karyna spoke immediately.
"I know that Darian died together with Bastian during the third outbreak. At that time, the zombies in the campus had evolved to the point of retaining their sanity and acquiring special abilities. At that time, the only ones left in the band were me, Elowen, Salem,Tiselle, and some survivors who came to us by accident. Medicine and food were in short supply at that time. Elowen and I went to look for food and medicine respectively. I was killed by the sane zombies on the way to find food. Trapped and killed, I don't know about the other remaining people.”
Malrik nodded and motioned for the remaining people to tell. Salem took Elowen's hand and slowly said
"After we separated, Mengyao and I were killed by survivors who occupied the infirmary while looking for medicine."
Tiselle blinked her eyes
"I stayed to guard the place where we stayed temporarily, but for some unknown reason, the remaining survivors reached some kind of agreement with those sane zombies, and they killed me. I heard a little bit of their chat before I died."
"Sister Chu, where were you at that time?"
Seraphyne smiled
"Do you mean my last life? I was right next to your sister Huang, watching her being cut into pieces."
The children didn’t know what dismemberment meant, nor did they understand the meaning of betrayal. Seraphyne smiled and didn’t explain much.
Malrik frowned
"What did they say?"
"It seems like I said something... Those five adults seem to have crystals, superpowers and the like."
Tiselle recalled the content carefully, but after all, it was something he heard before he died, so it was impossible to remember it so accurately. Malrik sighed
"So how long have you all survived?"
"If we say the longest, then one year"
Bastian said, only his watch could still run with difficulty at that time. Everyone was living one day at a time. After today, they didn't know whether tomorrow or an accident would come first. How could there be free time to calculate how long one had lived?
Malrik and Caelum looked at each other
"Only one year?"
"One year is a long time to live."
Karyna thought it was because Malrik and the others were dissatisfied, so he explained. Malrik shook his head and explained:
"One year is the longest time limit for all of us to die. What if this virus cannot be solved in 3 years? We have to find a way to survive, not to mention that food cannot be preserved for such a long time."
"There is also the issue of shelf life. We have no way to purchase reasonable self-defense equipment through channels. Without suitable tools and no way to properly reinforce our area, sooner or later something like the previous life will happen."
Malrik added. This is a big problem. Everyone just wants to figure out the timeline, but they don’t expect that even if they figure it out, they may not be able to survive without taking measures.
"There is a ladder at the training place of He Ruizhe's branch that can go up to the top and go to the rooftop. It can be used as a warehouse."
Seraphyne who has always had a low sense of presence, spoke up. Her sense of presence was almost zero. If she didn't speak, even Malrik would forget that there was this person in the band.
"Sister Chu, since your presence in the band is not high, why do you still remind them?"
A little boy with blond hair raised his hand and asked. Seraphyne thought for a moment, pointed to the environment where they were now and asked:
"Where is this?"
"Dawn Zone 3"
All the children answered in unison, and Seraphyne continued to ask
"Then, do you know how Dawn was established?"
"I know!"
A little boy with light orange hair jumped up, and everyone looked at him. The little boy who could speak smoothly at first was a little scared now, and he hesitated and did not dare to speak. When Seraphyne saw that the little boy seemed to know something, he calmed him down with interest and motioned for him to continue.
"Tell me, what do you know?"
The little boy swallowed and spoke timidly:
"I...I heard my father say that Shuguang was an area (diamond bar) opened up by...a brother named Malrik and 11 people at that time. It was only through their efforts that Shuguang District was established."
Seraphyne nodded appreciatively, but shook his finger.
"No, there are 13 people in total, and I am also here."
"But isn't only in her 20s?"
The boy looked at Seraphyne carefully, for fear that he would say something wrong.
"What my father told me happened hundreds of years ago. How could you, Sister Chu, live for hundreds of years?"
Seraphyne smiled and flicked the little boy's forehead with his finger.
"It's a secret, this is my responsibility"
Malrik looked at Seraphyne. Of course he knew that there was this person in the band, but because he was too lonely, no one remembered him.
"How did you know?"
Seraphyne shrugged indifferently
"I've been to the top, and there seems to be a very strange place inside. You can go and take a look."
Caelum looked at Malrik, waiting for his decision. After a while, Malrik came to a conclusion.
"I and Caelum will go take a look. You all stay here and don't move around."
There was no teacher left here at this time. Malrik stood in front of the ladder that had accumulated a lot of dust and looked up. He could only see the dark second floor and the ladder covered with spider webs. Caelum moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something but swallowed it back. In the end, Caelum just gave Malrik an unclear look, and Malrikclimbed up, setting off a burst of old dust. He saw two doors, one of which was ajar. He slowly walked over to open the door and froze in place. v followed up and saw Malrik frozen in place. Caelum walked over
"Isn't this the useless space Karyna and the others found? There is nothing but cables and spider webs. Why are you looking at this?"
"If you think about it carefully, we didn't have a classmate named Seraphyne in our last life. She led us here. Maybe this space has changed in this life, but I don't think this person who appears suddenly is credible."
Malrik felt that it was impossible for a free pie to fall from the sky, not to mention that Seraphyne's appearance in this life was too sudden, and he didn't know what kind of butterfly effect it would bring. He didn't believe that a person who was full of doubts could have any good intentions. Caelum thought for a moment and patted Malrik on the shoulder.
"Don't trust the people you employ, don't use the people you doubt, Malrik"
Malrik sighed helplessly
"That's all we can do for now. Do we want to tell them about Seraphyne?"
Malrik waved his hand and said no.
"Ellian is still here, so don't worry about them."