"Oh no, I got squished!!" The third girl yelped.

Sister Zhou and the second girl quickly moved aside.

The third girl clumsily got up and was about to dust off her clothes, when she suddenly saw Lu Zhao, who had already walked to the front of the Teaching Building.

"Huh? That person looks familiar. Wait, isn't that Lu Zhao? No, something's off about his breath..." The third girl widened her eyes and, ignoring the fact that Lin Yi was being inconsiderate, quickly signaled to her two teammates, "Sister Zhou, Sister Li Zhi, isn't that Lu Zhao? Did something happen to him? Why do I feel his breath is disordered, he doesn't seem alive?"

Sister Zhou naturally also noticed Lu Zhao, but compared to the third girl's hesitation, she immediately saw that Lu Zhao was not human.

"He's already dead." Her expression turned serious as she said this, "According to the information, they entered the school yesterday, how... did he just die like this?"

She felt a bit of darkness in front of her, as though the world was collapsing—not that she and Lu Zhao had any intimate relationship, but she subconsciously placed their trio in the same shoes—as elite members of their organization, the domain Lu Zhao belonged to was far superior to theirs. If a team as strong as Lu Zhao's got killed on campus at first sight, then wouldn't they also be doomed?

Sister Zhou's gaze flickered, and within moments, she devised a strategy: "After a pseudo-human takes over an identity, it will firmly believe it is Lu Zhao. We don't know how much memory this Lu Zhao has retained after being replaced..."

"How about we engage with it a bit, pretend it is Lu Zhao, and see if we can extract some information?"

Real-time information and intelligence are extremely crucial resources. Compared to what's provided by the organization, firsthand information gained on the scene has more significance on the direction of the situation.

Considering this, Sister Zhou suddenly realized that Lin Yi was still beside her.

She immediately thought of Lin Yi's actions in the classroom and looked at him, inquiring: "Classmate Lin, pardon the intrusion, but Lu Zhao was somewhat of an acquaintance to us while he was alive. Could we talk to him first to find out what happened?"

Lin Yi was slightly stunned and couldn't help but say, "You seem to know I'm going to send him on his way?"

Sister Zhou responded with a self-deprecating smile: "If I couldn't even see that much, I wouldn't have the face to talk to you."

Since mentally acknowledging Lin Yi as someone who has touched the path of Supreme Judgment, she treated him with much more respect.

"Then you do as you please, I'll just watch from the side." Lin Yi's confidence stemmed from his ability to back up his decisions with strength. Nowadays, he could eliminate the pseudo-human Lu Zhao in an instant, leaving it to them to mess around a bit was just as well.

Besides, he was curious about what they wanted to say to the pseudo-human Lu Zhao; maybe he could get some information himself.

"Thank you," Sister Zhou said politely, almost surprisingly so.

The second and third girls felt as if the sun rose from the west.

So they waited in the hallway, waiting for Lu Zhao to step by step climb the stairs.

Lu Zhao soon arrived, its steps up the stairs were somewhat sluggish, and tiny particles on its body, almost like dandruff, occasionally dispersed as powder. Compared to ordinary pseudo-human students, it seemed more spirited.

Lin Yi leaned against the wall, leisurely watching them, but as he leaned back, he suddenly realized the raw materials of this wall might not be very "clean," so he straightened up again.

At this time, Lu Zhao finally reached the steps. Its face was pale, its frame somewhat thin, and it still held its fire axe in its hand.

However, its uniform was already tattered, and the copper chain on the axe handle had snapped.

And because it had turned into a pseudo-human, there were no visible wounds on its body.

Observing closely, Lin Yi couldn't help but squint his eyes. How did this Lu Zhao feel a bit different from the usual pseudo-humans?

This Lu Zhao, its skin continuously undulated in some strange rhythm, as if an invisible powerful fan was blasting at it.

Yet its tattered uniform showed no signs of being blown.

From underneath its skin, sounds resembling arthropods crawling or a group of crabs blowing bubbles kept emanating, making one's skin crawl.

Its mouth kept mumbling: "I want to live... I want to live..."

Its eyes were a dull gray, as if it couldn't see anything, and upon climbing the stairs, it didn't notice the "Hell Rose" group, but vaguely pointed itself in Lin Yi's direction.

It seemed to have perceived Lin Yi's presence, and in its originally dull eyes, a trace of resentment began to flow.

But before it could take any further actions, as it was about to brush past, Sister Zhou spoke: "Lu Zhao?"

Originally, Lu Zhao hadn't noticed them. But after being called by Sister Zhou, its perception process seemed interrupted as if a spellcasting had been disrupted, then it paused and slowly turned towards her.

"I am Lu Zhao... I want to live... I am Lu Zhao..."

"I discovered the secret of ashes... I want to make my name famous..."

"I want to live... I want to live... leave the campus..."

"I... I... you... who are you? I seem to... recognize..."

"You are... Zhou... Zhou... Yi?"

"It's me." "Sister Zhou" Zhou Yi breathed an internal sigh of relief. This Lu Zhao actually retained some memories; truly worthy of an elite, in zombie movies, it would definitely be classified as a millennium-old corpse at least!

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