Turning his head, Su Yu stared fixedly at Zhang Zhongmou, and a few words escaped through his gritted teeth: "Really?"
Zhang Zhongmou nodded, a strange and terrified look in his eyes.
With a sigh, Su Yu lay back down calmly. At this moment, he felt as if his head was about to explode. The events of this day were simply too shocking and unimaginable. And the most astonishing thing was that the area around the school had completely changed. It was no longer the familiar world they knew. It was as if they had entered a strange world they had never seen before.
After lying there for a while, the door opened, and several people walked in. Among them were Lei Rui, the monitor of their class, and Su Yu.
The two of them were carrying lunch boxes and walked to the beds where Su Yu and Zhang Zhongmou were lying.
"I'm starving. It must be dark outside, right?" Zhang Zhongmou said as he sat up on the bed.
Although Su Yu could move his left hand, his body was immobile, so he could only count on others to feed him.
"Su Yu, you do it." Lei Rui handed this task to Su Yu.
Su Yu blushed, gritted her teeth, and let out a soft snort as she sat down beside him, looking a bit reluctant.
Su Yu became furious. He thought that he had risked his life to save her, and yet she looked so reluctant to feed him. He snorted and said, "I'm not hungry." Then he turned his head away.
Su Yu was taken aback. Lei Rui seemed to sense something. She took the lunch box from Su Yu's hand and smiled, saying, "Let me do it. Su Yu, you should at least give me, the monitor, some face. You're a hero in our class. If you starve, everyone won't forgive me. They all said they wanted to come and see you, but I stopped them. You're injured now and need to rest the most."
Lei Rui no longer had the airs of a monitor when she faced Su Yu. She had a smile on her face, looking cute and friendly.
Su Yu also put on a beaming expression and said, "My appetite has suddenly improved. Ah, I just realized that I'm almost starving to death." He opened his mouth and took a bite of the food.
Seeing this, Su Yu was so angry that her teeth itched. She snorted and turned around.
Lei Rui fed Su Yu a few mouthfuls, and then her expression suddenly turned gloomy.
"What's the matter, Monitor Lei?" Su Yu saw this and was a bit curious.
Lei Rui looked at the food in the lunch box, let out a slight sigh, and said, "If no one comes to rescue us, in a couple of days, we won't even have anything to eat. And this electricity..." She looked up at the light in the room, her expression a bit anxious.
Fortunately, the school had a generator, and there was still electricity for the time being.
Su Yu was a bit puzzled and said, "Even if it has become a forest outside, didn't the school authorities organize people to go out and explore the way?"
"Outside..." Lei Rui shivered and said in a low voice, "There are all those green-skinned monsters. Fortunately, the walls around our school are high enough, and the iron gates are tightly closed, so we've temporarily blocked them. But... we won't be able to hold on for long."
Su Yu felt a chill in his heart. Were there these green monsters all over the forest outside the school?
Looking at the people around him, everyone had a solemn expression and a worried look on their faces. There was no longer the vitality and vigor of 20-year-old young people. What filled the room now was a faint sense of despair and horror.
That night, everyone spent it in fear. Outside, all kinds of terrifying roars could be heard from time to time. Su Yu could tell that most of them were from those green-skinned monsters, but occasionally there were also roars from other creatures, which were even more terrifying and made one's hair stand on end.
Lying on the bed, Su Yu could clearly sense the strange power in his left arm flowing slowly, surging through his whole body, as if it was changing his physique over and over again, making him break out in a cold sweat.
Su Yu's injuries were very serious. Three of his finger bones were broken, and the bone in his right arm was also fractured. The wound on his abdomen was quite deep, almost reaching his internal organs. Such injuries would normally keep a person in bed for half a month.
But just after one night, it seemed that due to the special effect of that strange power, Su Yu felt that his injuries had improved a lot. His right arm, because the bone was broken, was recovering more slowly. However, the flesh wound on his abdomen had almost healed. He could get out of bed and walk around without any problem.
This was another new discovery for him. That strange power not only made the strength of his left hand terrifying but also had the magical effect of accelerating the recovery of his physical injuries.
But what exactly was this strange power, and what were those black scale-like things that had risen on the back of his left palm?
Su Yu couldn't figure it out. Many of the things that had happened to him now went beyond common sense.
Zhang Zhongmou's injuries were much lighter than his. Except for the bandage still wrapped around his head, the other places were just minor cuts and bruises. He would be fine after resting for a day.
At Su Yu's request, he supported Su Yu and slowly walked out of the infirmary.
As soon as they got outside, they could see the gloomy sky and the dense towering trees in the distance.
Zhang Zhongmou hadn't lied to him. Outside the school now, it had indeed become a forest, a strange forest full of terrifying monsters.
Everywhere around, groups of male and female students with confused eyes could be seen. After such a big event, classes were naturally suspended. Although the university they attended was a third or fourth-rate one, there were nearly two thousand students. At the moment, all of them were trapped here, and food and drink immediately became the top priority.
As Lei Rui had said, if this situation didn't change, they wouldn't have anything to eat in less than two days.
And the forest outside full of green-skinned monsters had trapped them here. If they were to be trapped for a few more days, without food, they would end up dead with no place to be buried. A sense of despair filled everyone's hearts.
"No, we have to get out of here." Su Yu suddenly murmured to himself.
"Right!" Someone chimed in from behind.
Su Yu turned around, and Meng Bo, the tall, fair-skinned, and round-faced counselor, walked over.
"We can't just wait to die here. Your injuries are getting better, right? Come with me. The school leaders want to see you."
When Su Yu and Zhang Zhongmou followed Meng Bo to the dining hall of the cafeteria, there were already a lot of people gathered inside. Most of them were men. Among them, Su Yu saw his familiar classmates, Qin Jiagui and Ning Yan.
"Su Yu, Zhang Zhongmou." Qin Jiagui greeted the two of them, and Su Yu and Zhang Zhongmou nodded at him in return.
Su Yu took the opportunity to secretly glance at Ning Yan. She was standing there calmly with her eyes looking inward, not looking around.
He was a bit curious as to why everyone was standing in the cafeteria. What was even more surprising was that a large number of students were gathered by the door outside the cafeteria. At the moment, they were all looking inside but not coming in.
"Everyone, have a seat." There were several middle-aged men standing at the head of the hall. Su Yu recognized that the one in charge was the school's President Zheng, and the other few were also school leaders.
Su Yu, with a puzzled look, found a chair and sat down. Zhang Zhongmou sat beside him. To his surprise, Qin Jiagui came over and also sat beside him.
Although they were in the same class, in fact, the relationship between Su Yu, Zhang Zhongmou, and Qin Jiagui was just so-so. He didn't expect that Qin Jiagui was now being very friendly to them. The others also found a seat and sat down one after another.
"Qin Jiagui, do you know what this is all about?" Su Yu asked in a low voice.
Qin Jiagui clenched his right hand and then said in a low voice, "Didn't Teacher Meng tell you? We were summoned here because we have an important task."
Su Yu shook his head. President Zheng above had already started speaking.
Su Yu remembered that President Zheng was usually very long-winded when speaking officially. Unexpectedly, this time he was concise and to the point. In just a few words, Su Yu and Zhang Zhongmou understood the reason.
It turned out that they were gathered here to be an advance team, to venture into that unknown large forest to find out what was going on. The best outcome would be to get in touch with the police or those who had the ability to rescue them. At the very least, they hoped to find food and other supplies.
Among the people gathered here, more than a dozen of them, like Su Yu, had killed green-skinned monsters and possessed special strange powers. Of course, the only one who had killed four of them was Su Yu, which made him a particularly noticeable figure among this group of people. Even President Zheng glanced at him several times while speaking.
There were a total of seventeen green-skinned monsters. Su Yu had killed four, and a female student from the Foreign Languages Department had killed two. The remaining eleven were killed by eleven other people. This meant that there were thirteen people on the scene who had obtained special strange powers.
And what surprised Su Yu the most was that the seemingly calm and weak Ning Yan had also killed a green-skinned monster and became one of the two girls among the thirteen people.
Of course, Su Yu knew that in such a chaotic situation, luck played a big part in whether one could kill a green-skinned monster, just like him and Qin Jiagui.
Before absorbing the power of the strange object, in terms of physical strength, Qin Jiagui was definitely much stronger than him. But by sheer luck, that green-skinned monster got stuck in the iron window lattice, allowing him to kill one monster and obtain the strange power, which led to his subsequent achievement of killing three more monsters.