Chapter 10: The War of Schools (I)

  There was actually someone in the dormitory, and it was a girl - Du Yifei. August 1st.

  I looked at Du Yifei in confusion and couldn't help but ask, "How did you end up in the boys' dorm? Aren't you afraid that the administrator will catch you and kick you out?"

  Du Yifei smiled slightly: "I've already spoken with the administrator before entering, how could I be taken away? On the other hand, you suddenly fainted, are you not a man? Can't even withstand that little blow?"

  I knew Du Yifei misunderstood my fainting spell was because I knew my friend was injured and hospitalized, so she would say such things. So I patiently explained: "It's not because of you, last time you were hurt and didn't recover well, then you went to donate blood again, as a result your body couldn't take it..."

  Du Yifei was taken aback for a moment, and then he understood the truth about my fainting. He took a few steps forward, somewhat apologetically, and said: "Sorry, it's my fault, don't blame me..."

  I hastily shook my head: "How could that be?" But in my heart, I secretly said: "How dare I? If I dared to blame you, wouldn't you just find another excuse to scold me again?"

  Du Yifei didn't know what I was thinking in my heart. Seeing that I said it wasn't her fault, she smiled again: "I'll tell you a good news, do you want to hear?"

  "What's the good news?" I asked subconsciously: "What happened in school?"

  Du Yifei's big eyes rolled around and said, "If you want to know, first tell me if you saw our student union's Ma Feifei when you were hospitalized?"

  "Ma Feifei?" I shook my head: "No, what's wrong with her? Won't she be hospitalized too?"

  Du Yifei nodded: "Ma Feifei is sick in the hospital, and I also asked her to bring you some things. How come you didn't receive them?"

  "What? When did this happen?"

  Du Yifei's face showed a hint of disappointment: "Maybe Ma Feifei was transferred to the city central hospital, so he wasn't able to bring you the thing I gave him..."

  I thought so too, and then I asked her: "Then what did you bring for me? Something to eat or drink?"

  Du Yifei's face suddenly turned red, then quickly returned to normal: "It's not something to eat or drink, just some... Ah, never mind, anyway you didn't receive it, so let's wait until Ma Feifei comes back and she can show it to you herself."

  I feel even stranger, what would Duyu Fei give me? It shouldn't be anything good, otherwise why wouldn't she hand it to me personally?

  Du Yifei had been in the dormitory for a while, and she also roughly saw that the boys didn't like to clean up. She frowned and looked around, then turned around and said: "I'm leaving, it's fine if you're okay, otherwise others will say I don't take care of my fellow villager... Oh, there are less than five minutes before class starts, if you want to go to class, you should hurry up."

  I watched her leave, and suddenly there was nothing more to say. So I quickly picked up my textbook and rushed to the classroom for class.

  What I didn't expect was that this time's class would almost be the last class of my life, of course, what I mean by class is class in school.

  When I arrived at the classroom, there weren't many people in it. This class was philosophy and many students were not interested in it, so many of them skipped class.

  I found Xiao Li and Zhang from the same dormitory, walked over to greet them, and sat down beside them ready for class.

  Dazhang and others were somewhat surprised when they saw me, because I didn't tell them about my discharge from the hospital, so they thought I would stay in the hospital for a few more days.

  The teacher came over quickly to start class. Philosophy is a very dry subject after all, so many classmates started dozing off as they listened, and several even began snoring.

  The teacher spoke helplessly and didn't care if anyone was listening. He probably thought that at least some people would listen, so he still spoke very seriously.

  I also had a feeling of wanting to sleep, and unknowingly closed my eyes. Although I didn't fall asleep, the drowsy feeling was getting heavier and heavier.

  Just as I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep, a loud noise echoed in my ears, and then the whole classroom started shaking.

  Something exploded! My first reaction was that something had exploded, because I was very familiar with the sound. In the past, my old home was on a mountain where they were excavating a highway, and when they encountered rocks that couldn't be dug through, they would use explosives to blast them open. This kind of explosive sound I've heard tens of thousands of times, it's already deeply ingrained in my memory, as soon as I hear it, I know it's the sound of an explosion.

  Won't there be another terrorist attack? Many classmates stood up, and a few people even started running out.

  The teacher shouted loudly: "Don't move, it's not an earthquake!"

  It's not an earthquake, it must be an explosion. Nowadays, explosions scare us more than earthquakes. So as soon as the teacher spoke, we immediately fell silent. Very neatly and suddenly, we became quiet, as if there was no sound of breathing at all.

  The eerie silence lasted less than ten seconds before a second loud crash reached our ears.

  This time the explosion seemed closer and louder than before.

  The teacher no longer pretended to be calm and shouted loudly: "Get out of here quickly, go back to your dormitories and stay there, don't run around everywhere!"

  The teacher's words had barely fallen when we students began to rush frantically towards the classroom door... After a moment of chaos, only I, Dazhang and Aqiang were left in the entire classroom, and the teacher had also run out.

  I ran to the window and saw that the street outside the school was filled with people running around everywhere, with thick black smoke billowing out of many houses on one side, and the sound of explosions growing more frequent, as if a war had broken out. Amidst the explosions, there were also the sounds of gunfire, police car sirens, people's screams and wails... it was a scene from the end of the world.

  Dazhang and Aqiang were also standing by the window, looking at the chaos outside. For a moment, we two forgot to run back to our dormitory like other classmates.

  The explosions grew denser, and the gunfire sounded like firecrackers on a holiday, ringing out nonstop. The two of us involuntarily crouched down, afraid that a stray bullet might fly over and hit us.

  "What...what should we do?"

  "A Qiang also stuttered: "I... I don't know..."

  I was also at a loss, so I could only stand in a place without windows as much as possible to prevent bullets from flying over and hitting me.

  The scene now is really like a war scene in wartime, but it's even more chaotic and terrifying than what you see on TV.

  The three of us stayed in the classroom for a while, feeling more and more unsafe, so we looked at each other and ran out together.

  At the moment I got up and ran away, my eyes swept to a building on the opposite side, where another intense explosion occurred. In the midst of flying smoke and dust, a person was blown out of the window of that building and fell onto the highway below, becoming a bloody mess.

  I couldn't help but stop in my tracks, and before I could take a closer look, my stomach was churning violently, and I started vomiting, to the point where I couldn't continue running.

  Dazhang and Aqiang have already run far away, I wanted to call them back to pull me up, but I couldn't make a sound. Even if I had called out, they wouldn't have been able to hear me, the explosion was too loud. Watching them run further and further away, I was still vomiting violently, vomiting so hard that I could hardly stand up straight.

  After a while, I slowly calmed down. Looking at the vomit on the ground, my stomach cramped again, and I quickly turned my head away, not daring to look again.

  The explosion seemed to be right next to my ear, the whole classroom shook violently, I ran out of the classroom with all my might and fell directly outside.

  This classroom is on the first floor, I ran out and saw the library not far away. The entrance of the library gathered many classmates, all of whom ran out of the classroom and hid here again.

  The library building is earthquake-proof and fireproof, so it's relatively safe. Those classmates' choice was undoubtedly the most correct one. So I also ran desperately into the library, hoping to have a temporary safe place to protect me.

  War broke out before my eyes, which is something I never thought would happen. It's not just me, almost all of my classmates and teachers didn't think that war would break out around us either. So in addition to the shock, there was also a third part of disbelief.

  But the fact is that war has broken out, and it's a very intense one. From the sounds of explosions and gunfire, it can be determined that this terrorist attack has exceeded its previous scale and has reached the level of war.

  I calmed down and immediately called Zhou Hui. The most intense explosion was on the side of the hospital where Zhou Hui was, I was worried about her safety: "Zhou Hui, are you okay?"

  As soon as the phone was connected, I asked her eagerly. Zhou Hui seemed a bit surprised: "How is it you? Oh, I have nothing to do with it, don't worry."

  I breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, how is the situation at your hospital? Have you found a safe place?"

  "Intensive explosions and gunfire could be heard on Zhou Hui's phone, along with the cries and wails of many people: 'We're all at the hospital now, it's very busy, there are too many injured... The hospital has not suffered any losses so far...'"

  Her words were cut off before she could finish, and when I hastily looked at my phone, I found that the signal was suddenly gone. It's possible that the telecommunications department was also attacked, so we lost our signal.

  The librarian was also desperately shouting into the library's landline phone: "Hello! Hello! Speak! You speak!......"

  Another colleague also exclaimed: "What's going on? The entire network is gone!"

  It seems we've lost all communication at once and are trapped in a desperate situation.

  The continuous explosions and gunfire in our ears made us students, who had never experienced great winds and waves, involuntarily crouch down one by one, and some people's legs were trembling wildly, almost losing control.

  Just then, a sharp-eyed classmate shouted loudly: "Look quickly, someone has rushed into the school!"

  We hastily followed the classmate's pointing and saw that more than a dozen armed men were rushing into the school from the main gate. The security guards of the school had already run away, without a single person in sight.

  The classmates saw this scene and were frightened, running wildly in all directions. The female classmates were even more screaming, chaotic.

  I'm a member of the student council, although I was also scared to death at this time, but still summoned up the courage to stand up and shouted loudly: "Fellow students, everyone don't panic, listen to me say one sentence. Although we are not very clear about the current situation outside, everyone has seen that the current terrorist incident has escalated to the scale of war. The government department will not have time and energy to rescue us at this time, so we must self-rescue."

  As soon as I finished speaking, my classmates immediately quieted down. Many of them knew me and were aware that I was a member of the student union, so they still had some trust in me. Someone then asked, "How are we supposed to save ourselves? We're on the verge of chaos, we have nothing, how can we possibly save ourselves?"

  I didn't know how to save myself either, but I knew I couldn't run around randomly because bullets are blind and running around might get me shot by stray gunfire.

  Almost all of my classmates are staring at me, waiting for me to make a decision. I take a glance at the **** who has already rushed into the school, anxiously like an ant on a hot pot, with sweat dripping down their forehead like rain. They say that wisdom is born in urgency, and indeed it was so for me - after a moment of inspiration, I thought of a way to temporarily ensure everyone's safety. So I shouted loudly: "Listen to me! All the girls immediately go to the second floor of the library, don't get close to the windows and doors, crouch down, and don't look out; all the boys and teachers, quickly shut the library door, everyone work together to push the bookshelves in front of the doors and windows, remember, block all the doors and windows! Hurry up, act now!"

  The library and ordinary houses are different, with a very simple building structure. The first floor has one large gate and more than ten wide windows, with no other walls. Therefore, it is necessary to use those huge bookshelves to block all the doors and windows in order to ensure that people outside will not rush in. The second floor is row upon row of desks, all provided for students to read and study. However, because the first floor is as high as ten meters, the second floor is relatively safe. After all, there are not many people who can climb up a ten-meter-high building with their bare hands.

  In view of this, I let all the girls go upstairs to hide and left the boys to block the doors and windows on the first floor.

  At the moment of life and death, under everyone's concerted effort, within a few short minutes, all doors and windows on the first floor were blocked. Those bookshelves weighing hundreds of kilograms were actually pushed to the edge of the doors and windows by us, these pampered greenhouse flowers. Many classmates even piled up those books that are usually considered treasures by the school at the edge of the doors and windows to enhance resistance. This is something that cannot be imagined in normal times, but now everything has been completed in a very short time, it's a miracle.

  I took a rough look and thought that my classmates had done a good job. So I gave my second "order": "Now, leave two classmates by each door and window, report and make up for any unexpected situation in time. The rest of you immediately go to the second floor, pile all the desks against the windows. Hurry!"

  At this time, dense gunfire was already coming from outside the library. Those **** must have rushed over. They seemed to be driven to desperation by the government's army and ventured into the school. They seemed to be running while shooting, and in the midst of the intense gunfire, there were occasional cries of despair.

  I and thirty or so male classmates stayed on the first floor of the library, each one as silent as a cicada in winter, yet having to muster up the courage to stick to our respective posts. Not one of us spoke, the entire first floor fell into a deathly silence. The sound of moving desks from the second floor also quickly disappeared, hundreds of people stayed in the library, yet there wasn't even half a sound, as if the entire library didn't have a single person existing.

  The library's gate was pushed from the outside with great force, but it didn't budge. Then a burst of angry roars erupted, accompanied by several gunshots, and immediately several transparent holes appeared on the gate and the windows beside it. We were so scared that we immediately lay down on the ground, not daring to check if the gate and windows had been pushed open.

  Luckily, the people outside tried a few times and found it difficult to open the doors and windows here, so they hurriedly went elsewhere. As they left, I heard one of them cursing: "Bastards, little bastards, actually knowing how to block the doors and windows... preventing me from getting in..."

  The intermittent curses slowly faded away, and surprisingly, the direction was the teaching building where I, Dazhang and Aqiang had just been.