12: Detect giant zombies

Qin Shilei looked at Zhang Xiaoli with a strange expression.

He couldn't understand why she insisted on following a stranger like him.

"I can use a drone to scout for you, and I can also use a drone to lure monsters for you," Zhang Xiaoli continued, stating her value.

Qin Shilei still refused, saying, "Following me is more dangerous. I'd rather give you more food."

Zhang Xiaoli shook her head and insisted, "Just let me follow you. When you kill zombies, I'll hide well."

Looking at her determined gaze, if he didn't let her follow, it would be difficult to find the silver treasure chest's location.

Qin Shilei pondered for a moment and said, "You can follow me, but if the situation becomes critical, I won't be able to look after you."

"Alright," Zhang Xiaoli replied decisively, but a hint of apprehension appeared in her eyes.

This was her first time relying on someone, and it was the biggest gamble of her life.

She didn't know if this decision would allow her to live longer and better, or if she would be kicked into the abyss by him.

"Then what about me?" Zhu Yurong suddenly felt as if she had been abandoned.

"You just stay here and wait for rescue," Zhang Xiaoli comforted her.

"But I don't have any food at all," Zhu Yurong's eyes kept glancing at the backpack in Qin Shilei's hand.

"This…" Zhang Xiaoli turned to look at Qin Shilei.

Qin Shilei handed the backpack to her and said indifferently, "This is your reward for telling me the silver treasure chest's location. You decide."

Before Zhang Xiaoli could even take it properly, Zhu Yurong snatched it away and began to wolf down the contents.

While eating, she said, "My dear Zhang Xiaoli, you'll be eating well with him from now on. Just give all of this to me."

Zhang Xiaoli frowned, but in the end, she only took about a quarter of the items.

"Now tell me the silver treasure chest's location."

After Zhang Xiaoli had eaten something, Qin Shilei eagerly asked.

"Okay."

Zhang Xiaoli took out two boxes, one large and one small, from the cabinet.

From the large box, she took out the drone controller, turned it on, and brought up the photos.

Suddenly, a photo of a male dormitory appeared.

The photo showed a handsome, sunny guy wearing only a pair of shorts, looking out with a surprised expression.

"Not this one."

Red-faced, Zhang Xiaoli frantically swiped the photo away quickly.

However, several consecutive photos were of different handsome guys.

"Zhang Xiaoli, you didn't even show me such good photos," Zhu Yurong said with disdain while eating.

Qin Shilei looked at the photos of handsome guys in just shorts and suddenly remembered something he had once seen online.

In universities, there are far more telescopes in female dormitories than in male dormitories.

"It's here, on the Cliff behind our school," Zhang Xiaoli said softly, pointing at the photo on the screen.

In the photo, there was a small, recessed cave in the upper right corner of the Cliff, and a silver treasure chest emitting a silver glow was wedged in a crack in the rocks at the cave's entrance.

"Zoom in," Qin Shilei said, pointing at the cave.

As the photo zoomed in, a half-built nest became visible.

"This might be the Crimson Eagle's nest," Zhang Xiaoli guessed.

Yesterday, when she used her drone to scout, to avoid a huge Crimson Eagle in the sky, she randomly flew to the Cliff behind the school and took this photo.

Then the Crimson Eagle appeared again and almost shot down her drone.

Then Zhang Xiaoli pointed to the back of the balcony and briefly described the specific path from there to the silver treasure chest.

"Okay, I understand. Now, use the drone to fly to the Five Dormitory Building and check on the Giant Zombie's situation."

Qin Shilei silently noted the silver treasure chest's location, then said to Zhang Xiaoli.

"The large drone is noisy, the small one is quiet. Which one should I use?" Zhang Xiaoli asked, opening the small box and taking out a palm-sized drone.

"The large one, let's also see the effect of this drone luring monsters."

Qin Shilei took the large drone to the balcony, turned it on, and placed it down.

Zhang Xiaoli skillfully piloted the drone towards the Five Dormitory Building.

Through the screen, one could see zombies wandering everywhere on the campus road.

Those zombies, hearing the wind above their heads, all looked up and around.

But the drone flew too high and too fast, so the zombies didn't follow it.

"This is your cafeteria, right? These zombies are too dense," Qin Shilei asked, pointing at the densely packed zombies in the southwest direction.

"When the game started, it was lunchtime, so the cafeteria had the most people," Zhang Xiaoli nodded and replied.

The drone continued to fly east and soon arrived at the male dormitory area.

A huge zombie appeared on the screen on the top floor, the eighth floor, of the Five Dormitory Building.

Two sturdy zombies followed behind it.

The Giant Zombie's head almost reached the ceiling, and its sturdy body almost filled the entire corridor.

He held an arm-thick iron pipe, obtained from who knows where, in his left hand, dragged half a corpse with his right hand, and blood dripped continuously from the corners of his mouth.

"Fly higher, quickly!" Qin Shilei suddenly said anxiously.

Zhang Xiaoli's reaction wasn't slow either; as soon as Qin Shilei spoke the first word, she controlled the drone to fly higher.

"Roar!"

Even from hundreds of meters away, a giant roar could be heard.

On the screen, the Giant Zombie was also seen turning and roaring, simultaneously forcefully smashing the iron pipe in his hand towards the drone.

The drone's image shook violently.

Zhang Xiaoli's heart tightened instantly.

"It wasn't smashed, was it?"

A second later, the image stabilized again.

On the screen, the distant Giant Zombie was still roaring at the sky.

"Was there a recording just now? Play it back in slow motion."

Through the screen, he couldn't even clearly see the trajectory of the iron pipe. Qin Shilei was somewhat surprised by the Giant Zombie's strength.

"Mmm!"

Zhang Xiaoli pulled the drone even further away, then opened the recording for playback.

After slowing it down three times, it was discovered that after the iron pipe smashed through the corridor glass, it instantly arrived below the drone.

Then the drone's image began to shake.

"It should be the air current generated by the rapid movement of the iron pipe affecting the drone," Zhang Xiaoli explained.

"Fly down a bit and look at his subordinates," Qin Shilei said, pointing to the floor below the fifth floor.

Zhang Xiaoli piloted the drone lower while also guarding against the Giant Zombie on the eighth floor.

As the drone's camera looked down, thirty to forty zombies stood in front of the Five Dormitory Building.

These zombies were almost all male zombies, and they all looked relatively strong and sturdy.

The only fortunate thing was that these zombies looked dull and didn't seem to be the special, Evolutioned kind.

"Can't go any lower, losing signal."

"Then come back."

The drone flew back from above, with no zombies following it.

"Handsome guy, this zombie is so powerful, you're not going to kill it, are you?" Zhu Yurong patted her chest, asking with lingering fear.

"Just getting some information," Qin Shilei replied casually, then said to Zhang Xiaoli, "Take the drone, let's go."

Looking at the two people walking downstairs, Zhu Yurong cursed in a low voice, "Only this much food and you have the nerve to take mine. You follow that short-sighted fool, and you'll be bashed to death by a zombie in less than a day."