Surviving the Apocalypse with the Young Miss - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Jump!

Everyone said Song Ge had a terrible temper.

Although Tong Xiangyu had given Song Ge a piece of cake that morning, seeing her take down a thief with just a few moves had left Tong Xiangyu feeling wary and afraid. Now that she had accidentally bumped into her and caused an offense, she naturally jumped in a cold sweat.

But she didn’t expect Song Ge to ask that.

Jump?

Only then did Tong Xiangyu notice that Song Ge was holding one end of the curtains, while the other end was already hanging outside.

She wanted to slide down the curtains?

Heavens, this was the third floor!!

Tong Xiangyu was a gentle person to her core. Even if Song Ge’s plan seemed reckless and dangerous, and despite her own paralyzing fear, her panicked voice remained soft as water. “W-what?”

“Aren’t you going to jump?” Otherwise, why did you come over here? That was Song Ge’s logic.

Before Tong Xiangyu could respond, Chu Qiao shouted from across the room, “Xiangyu, get back here! Don’t stay with that person! In fires, so many people die from falling when they try to jump. She’s crazy—is she actually encouraging us to leap out?!”

“Yeah, Xiangyu, come here quickly.”

“Stay with us. That girl is a lunatic, ignore her.”

Song Ge felt no emotion despite the overwhelming opposition. She glanced at the carnage in the classroom where classmates were biting each other. The boys were struggling just to fend off their turned friends. Seeing the young mistress still hesitating, Song Ge decided to offer a word of advice, for the sake of that morning’s cake.

“It’ll be too late if you don’t jump now. Or do you want to be bitten to death and turn into a monster?”

Hearing the word “monster,” Tong Xiangyu’s eyes instantly turned red. She was beautiful, and her expression was one of pure, pitiable distress. “But, I… I’m scared. I can’t hold on, my hands are shaking…”

“Then I’ll go first,” Song Ge said, as time was running out. “I’ll catch you at the bottom.”

Without waiting for an answer, Song Ge grabbed the curtains through the gap she’d created and performed a textbook-perfect rappel.

The process took only two or three seconds.

A more miserable scream erupted from the classroom this time not because of the zombies, but because of Song Ge “jumping.” Everyone assumed she had fallen to her death.

But Song Ge hadn’t.

the curtain fabric was sturdy. Although the strips tied together didn’t reach the ground, they ended about a meter above it. The final part of a rappel is meant to be a jump anyway, so it didn’t hinder her.

Song Ge landed smoothly. She scanned the area, confirming that aside from the people who had run past earlier, there were no monsters behind the school. She grabbed the end of the curtains, looked up at Tong Xiangyu standing by the window, and shouted, “Come down!”

Even though Song Ge had just landed with such agile grace, Tong Xiangyu had no such confidence in herself. Her limbs felt like jelly. She didn’t know if she should trust this girl who was, after all, quite thin and frail.

But in the classroom, there were other boys who were much stronger.

Tong Xiangyu looked at Song Ge’s calm expression in the face of crisis. She suddenly gritted her teeth, summoned a massive surge of courage, and stepped onto the windowsill.

The girls inside were frantic, all talking at once to talk her out of doing something “stupid.”

Tong Xiangyu felt a gust of wind that made the cold sweat on her face feel even chillier. She looked down and felt a wave of vertigo. It’s so high!

The curtains were strips, but they were wide. Song Ge had knotted them left-to-left and right-to-right, which meant the knots weren’t in the center. When pulled taut, the curtains formed a sort of fabric slide.

A girl’s grip strength wouldn’t be enough to hold on. Song Ge pulled the curtains wide, so Tong Xiangyu wouldn’t have to rely on her arms and core strength to descend; she just had to slide down.

Tong Xiangyu sat on the windowsill, terrified, positioned right in the center of the fabric. A thousand scenarios flashed through her mind: the knots failing mid-air, Song Ge losing her grip, or…

No, she didn’t dare.

Her face was white as wax, her calves were shaking, and large tears were falling. “I… I…”

Song Ge yelled, “Cross your arms, close your eyes! JUMP!”

The screams behind her were getting closer. Amidst the sounds of desks being shoved, those strange, inhuman roars seemed to be right at her back.

Tong Xiangyu didn’t dare delay any longer. Death is death, she thought, but I don’t want to be a monster. She instinctively followed Song Ge’s command. She crossed her arms over her chest, closed her eyes, and jumped!

“AHHH—!” she screamed in terror.

Then, after the brief sensation of weightlessness, she found herself caught in a soft, lean pair of arms.

There were no curtains for the last meter. If she had hit the ground directly, the force would have surely snapped her leg bones. Song Ge had said she would catch her, and she had timed it perfectly.

The body in her arms was fragrant and soft.

Song Ge saw her cautiously open her eyes. They were very, very close. She saw that the young mistress’s damp eyes were as beautiful as a fawn’s. For a moment, Song Ge forgot what she was going to say.

Tong Xiangyu reacted quickly, whispering a “Thank you.”

Song Ge snapped out of it, let go, and said it was nothing.

Before Tong Xiangyu could process her fear or relief, she turned and shouted to the girls who had crowded the window: “You guys come down too! It’s okay! Song Ge will catch you!”

Song Ge: “…” Did I say I was going to help them? Don’t use me to do your favors.

However, as soon as the words left Tong Xiangyu’s mouth, one of the girls at the window was dragged away by a biting monster. The boys’ defensive line had clearly collapsed completely.

These monsters wouldn’t die and didn’t fear death. If they jumped down too, they wouldn’t be able to escape.

Song Ge made a split-second decision. She grabbed Tong Xiangyu’s wrist. “Let’s go!”

But Tong Xiangyu refused to move. She looked at Song Ge frantically, grabbing her hand back. Tears were streaming down her face. “Save them, please! They’re still alive! They have a chance to live!”

The screams and cries from the classroom were becoming fewer, meaning the majority had already turned into monsters. And it wasn’t just the third floor students on the first and second floors were being bitten as well. Screams filled the air.

The situation was clearly out of control. With something this massive happening and no intervention from the school authorities, it meant that something even worse had already happened outside.

Song Ge saw that Tong Xiangyu wasn’t planning to leave. She decisively pulled her hand away. Survival was the priority. “If you want to save them, do it yourself.”

Then, she turned and ran.

Tong Xiangyu watched her run away without looking back. She was so panicked she felt lost, and her sobbing grew louder. She wanted to chase after her, but she felt she shouldn’t morally kidnap someone else. She could only force herself to endure the fear, grab the curtains, and try to mimic how Song Ge had held them.

She looked up at the girls by the window. “Come on, jump! Don’t be afraid!”

A girl was about to climb onto the windowsill, but in the next moment, she was violently shoved aside!

Tong Xiangyu gasped.

Replacing her at the window was a panicked Chu Qiao.

Tong Xiangyu heard a shrill, terrified scream she recognized the voice; it was Zhao Xiaoxi, the girl who had just been at the window.

Chu Qiao yelled frantically, “Xiangyu, catch me! Please, you have to catch me!!”

Tong Xiangyu didn’t dare get distracted. With trembling hands, she gripped the curtains with all her might.

But then, an even more cruel scene unfolded.

Chu Qiao had already grabbed the curtains and was preparing to slide down when she was suddenly pushed away by another person!

The person who pushed her was none other than Fan Mingyuan the boy who had been protecting Tong Xiangyu and leading the class’s resistance. He was covered in blood, both on his clothes and his face. He no longer looked like a “sunny” handsome boy; he looked like a demon crawling out of hell.

After a single scream, there was a heavy sound of a body hitting the ground—THUD!

The girl who had just been gripping the curtains was smashed to pieces on the ground below.

Tong Xiangyu screamed, her face deathly pale as she stumbled backward in horror.

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