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Chen Fei leaned against the windowsill and gasped.

"This grass is taller than me. Are we just going to walk through like this? We won't see a soul in here, and we wouldn't even know if a zombie dog crept up behind us."

Su Hao didn't speak, and his expression was also very unpleasant.

The visibility is better during the day.

However, these plants are significantly more active when exposed to sunlight than at night. The wriggling vines are the best proof of this.

"drop--"

Just then.

Xia Youwei's voice came through the team channel.

"I've set up the crossbow on the balcony."

"Are you coming over?"

Xia Youwei's voice remained cold, but Su Hao could still detect a hidden seriousness through the channel. Clearly, she had also seen the extremely grotesque jungle downstairs.

"Pass. Of course we'll pass."

Su Hao gritted his teeth and turned to look at everyone in the dormitory.

"Time to get to work."

"Fatty, take the door off that metal cabinet by your bed."

"Huh? Why are you taking the cabinet doors apart?"

The fat man was taken aback.

"To be your shield."

Su Hao pointed to the thick iron door.

"Since you've taken on the role of a human shield, you can't just rely on your body to withstand the attacks. If you can't hold your own in this tough battle, we'll all be wiped out downstairs."

Wang Pangzi stood there, stunned, and glanced at the green tin wardrobe door.

In Jiangcheng University's older campus, the furniture in the dormitories is quite old.

Although this metal cabinet looks old and has bad paint peeling, it is made of solid, heavy materials.

Normally, when moving dorm rooms, it's difficult for two guys to even lift an empty locker.

"Fourth Brother, you're not kidding, are you?"

The fat man swallowed hard and pointed at the cabinet door.

"This thing is so heavy, I can't even run with it as a shield. Besides, it's school property; dismantling it will cost me credits..."

"What kind of time is this to still deduct credits?"

Chen Fei rolled his eyes, walked over and knocked on the metal cabinet door, making a muffled "bang bang" sound.

"Believe it or not, even if you blew up the principal's office now, no one from the academic affairs office would care. We've even patronized the dorm supervisor's hidden shop, are you afraid of losing this broken cabinet?"

Su Hao stepped forward, turned the fire axe in his hand upside down, and used the back of the axe to block the gap in the cabinet door.

"Stop talking nonsense and come help. You're the fittest on the team right now, if you don't carry the load, who will?"

"The cabinet doors are large. When you go downstairs later, if there are any poisonous insects or zombie dogs pounced from the bushes, you can just crouch down on the ground, and it will be a natural air-raid shelter."

The fat man thought about it and realized that made sense.

The trauma of being chased and bitten by that stitched rat king last night is still lingering, so having extra metal plates on my body always gives me a greater sense of security.

"Okay! Demolish!"

Three boys got together and began to violently demolish the house.

Su Hao used the back of his axe as a crowbar, inserting it into the gap in the hinge and pressing down hard. Zhao Lei and the fat man, on the other hand, grabbed the edges of the cabinet door tightly from the left and right, pulling it outward with all their might.

"One, two, three! Let's go!"

"Crackling sound—bang!"

With a piercing metallic twisting sound, several rusty screws were flung out.

The heavy green metal cabinet door was forcibly ripped off and slammed onto the floor with a loud bang, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Phew...it's pretty heavy."

The fat man bent down and tried to lift the cabinet door, barely managing to hold it steady with both hands.

"Just holding it won't do; there are no handles, it'll fly away if you hit it."

Zhao Lei frowned and looked around.

"I need to find something to tie to my arm."

Chen Fei, quick-witted, immediately turned around and searched the other empty beds.

"Got it! Here are a few old leather belts left behind by a senior student, and some nylon packing rope!"

Chen Fei ran over carrying several dusty straps.

Su Hao took the belt and told the fat man to stick his left hand out and place it on the back of the cabinet door.

He used the tip of a fire axe to violently chisel several holes in the sheet metal, then threaded a belt and nylon rope through them and tied them tightly to the fat man's forearms and wrists.

It was tied three or four times, forming a tight knot.

"Try moving it."

Su Hao took a step back.

The fat man raised his left hand and waved it twice forcefully. The heavy iron door stood in front of him like a tower shield, making a dull metallic sound with his movements.

"It's alright, pretty sturdy. It's just really damn heavy, I feel like the left side of my body is going to fall off."

The fat man shook his arms, his face turning red.

Just then, a white light flashed on the fat man's system panel.

Immediately afterwards, a small data frame appeared on the broken cabinet door.

[A crudely made homemade sheet metal tower shield (gray junk)]

[Type: Off-hand defensive equipment]

Defense: +2

Weight: 18kg

[Characteristic: Clumsy (When equipped, Agility decreases by 2 points, and movement speed decreases by 15%).]

[Note: This is not only serious damage to school property, but also an insult to the manufacturing process of protective gear. However, it must be admitted that it is indeed very tough.]

The fat man's defenses crumbled the moment he saw the panel.

"This damn system is targeting me! Why did the fourth guy get a green fire axe, while the shield I painstakingly crafted with blood and sweat only got a 'gray junk'?"

"It even has a slowing debuff! That's only two points of defense, barely enough to fill a tooth gap!"

"It even has a slowing debuff! That's only two points of defense, barely enough to fill a tooth gap!"

Chen Fei laughed heartily and patted the fat man on the shoulder.

"Be content, even gray junk counts as equipment. You've been reclassified as a 'heavy armored tank,' and from now on, the safety of our entire team depends on this door."

Lin Chacha stood in the corner, watching these boys causing trouble so enthusiastically so early in the morning.

There was none of the despair I felt last night, a sense of life or death hanging in the balance. Instead, it felt as exciting as playing games all night in an internet cafe.

She was a little unaccustomed to this rhythm, but she also felt inexplicably more at ease.

"Alright, equipment all set."

Su Hao glanced at the increasingly bright sun outside the window.

"Gurgle..."

Just as everyone was about to discuss how to get downstairs, a loud rumbling sound suddenly came from Su Hao's stomach.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Lei, Chen Fei, and even Lin Chacha's stomach started growling.

Su Hao frowned and opened his status bar.

Below the originally healthy green health bar, two yellow abnormal status icons have appeared at some point.

Mild hunger: Stamina recovery rate reduced by 20%.

[Mild Thirst: Reduced concentration; 1 point of sanity is lost every ten minutes.]

"Look at the status bar."

Su Hao's face darkened.

"It's dawn. A thirst mechanism has been added to the system."

Chen Fei's expression changed upon seeing this.

"It's true! I played all night and didn't feel thirsty at all, but now that the sun's up, I feel like my throat is on fire. Does this game have a weather system?"

"That's normal, it's a standard feature of survival games."

Zhao Lei sighed.

"During the day, the temperature rises, and we lose water quickly. If we don't replenish our water, we might die of thirst before we even get killed by the monsters."