Chapter 81: Landing

What can now be confirmed is that Qingbei's main base is located on the playground, while Yi Zhong is entrenched in the cafeteria.

The storage room where Chen Mu and the others are located is roughly midway between the two.

Of course, the open space in between is large, and the path on this side of the storage room is not a necessary route connecting the two; on the contrary, because it requires a detour, few people would normally take it.

Aside from these places, Chen Mu is very curious about what the situation is like inside the other buildings.

Qingbei has been searching for survivors outside, and logically they wouldn't miss those trapped in the teaching building, but the problem is that their search for survivors presumably only began on the third day after the apocalypse.

As for how many people could have survived during those first three days, that is unknown.

Chen Mu believes that some of them will awaken Special Abilities and, under the pressure of survival, quickly master and use them, but even so, the chances of survival are probably only a minority.

By now.

Worrying is useless, and with Qiming's ability, it's still not enough to send people out to compete with Qingbei for resources.

……

After the lookout tower was completed, He Ying was the first to go up and try it out.

"There's even a bed?"

She saw that inside this spacious, square area hollowed out of the door, there was a solid platform resembling a kang in the corner.

"Wasn't there supposed to be night duty? If you can't hold out, you can still sleep a bit."

"You've thought of everything quite thoroughly."

He Ying sat on the hard-board bed that temporarily had no towel laid on it, swung her legs, and seemed quite satisfied.

"I was thinking, since we have glass, could we try making a telescope so we can see farther?"

"That's actually a good idea; a telescope shouldn't be hard, I know — just a convex lens plus a concave lens stacked front to back, and you're done." He Ying said with a giggle.

Chen Mu laughed: "It's not that simple; I've tried several times and couldn't make it work well — there's a slight effect, but it's almost useless. It seems I still need to ask Tang Jing for guidance."

"Speaking of Tang Jing..."

He Ying turned her head to look around, then asked in a low voice: "Was she always this capable? She seems to know everything."

"Um… I guess so; Tang Jing has always been known for her erudition in class, but…"

"But what?"

"Nothing much; having a smart person help with ideas and plans isn't bad, right?" Chen Mu said with a laugh.

"That's true; without Tang Jing, we might have to take many detours."

"That's right."

"And there's Dong Junwei."

"Class monitor? Yeah, without her we'd probably struggle to cohere as a group; maybe we'd have fallen apart right from the start."

"Dong Junwei told me about the early days — you killed several of those big bow-backed ants before you even awakened, right?"

He Ying said this while spreading her hands to show the size of the ants.

Chen Mu laughed: "That was just being forced into a corner; you could do it too."

He Ying was about to speak when she heard footsteps on the stairs.

Du Jia Jia's panting voice came through: "Wow, these stairs are so long, they're exhausting me."

After Chen Mu finished everything, he let everyone come up to take a look, so they could give feedback and see what still needed repairs; but because the space above is relatively narrow, only two people can go up at a time, and the first batch of visitors were He Ying and Du Jia Jia.

He Ying is light as a swallow, running up these stairs feels like walking on flat ground; Du Jia Jia doesn't have that ability, so He Ying went up first while she walked slowly herself.

Only now has she caught up.

"How is it?" Chen Mu asked the second visitor.

"Let me catch my breath."

Du Jia Jia panted heavily for a while, then calmed down and looked around in all directions.

In fact, this place is only that big, and there's not much to see.

"Not bad, there's even a bed; next time bring a set of bedding up here, sleeping here would certainly be atmospheric, and if we could see the outside stars, it would be even more romantic."

"Hey, good idea." He Ying said, then immediately lay down, head facing outward, tilted her head, and directed her gaze toward the window, delighted: "It really works."

"Let me check — sure enough, you can see the sky."

"This bed is also quite big; it can sleep several people."

"You move over a bit; I'll try to see if I can see the ground."

"Oh oh."

The two girls lay on the bed, heedless of anything else, rolling around excitedly and chattering nonstop; Chen Mu couldn't look or not look, so he finally said: "I'll go first; you can come down when you're done."

He Ying then seemed to realize it was a bit improper, immediately got up, and said: "I'm going down too; let someone else come up to have a look."

"Hmm."

"I'll take a look a bit longer; I haven't had this kind of view in a long time." Du Jia Jia obviously still felt reluctant to leave.

After people became small, the limitations on their field of vision are easy to imagine; and this lookout tower is 80 centimeters tall — although it still doesn't reach people's former height, at least it can barely be used to relive past sensations.

Leaving Du Jia Jia up there, Chen Mu and He Ying prepared to go down.

However, He Ying didn't take the stairs; she went to the stairwell entrance and directly leapt down, performing a diving motion.

This startled Chen Mu, who hurried over, only to see He Ying in midair with arms outstretched, making an elegant landing move.

After her body became lighter, the impact of the fall was further reduced; He Ying was obviously not doing this for the first time, and after landing she made a light roll and immediately stood up.

80 centimeters — the same height as when he used to climb onto desks to get cake — but for Chen Mu now, his mindset has already undergone a major change.

He clearly knows that even if he jumped down from this height, he might not get hurt, let alone He Ying.

But for him to do the same thing is also impossible; on one hand it still carries some risk, and on the other, he has never liked doing things purely for thrills.

After He Ying jumped down, she glanced back at Chen Mu, her feelings of showing off and provoking evident.

Chen Mu gave a heh heh laugh, then, too lazy to bother with her, prepared to walk down the stairs.

However, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

In the next moment, he likewise imitated He Ying, leaping down from the air.

The crowd below had been clapping and cheering for He Ying, and incidentally jeering at Chen Mu, but upon seeing Chen Mu actually jump down, they instantly fell into chaos.

"Holy shit, Chen Mu is crazy."

"He wouldn't, right? It's just a joke, don't take it seriously."

"Boss!"

Wei Dalei, without a word, rushed forward to catch Chen Mu; if necessary, he'd even use himself as a meat pad.

However, this was beyond everyone's expectation.

Chen Mu remained calm, and when he was midair, a huge umbrella suddenly opened in his hand.

That umbrella, compared to humans at that time, was much larger than an ordinary rain umbrella, more like a large outdoor parasol.

Chen Mu's descent came to a halt.

Afterward, he floated down lightly, more relaxed and graceful than He Ying's movement.

He landed safely.

Only then did the crowd snap out of their daze.

"Holy shit!"

"This move is so cool!"

"Huang Feihong!"

Chang Junyan, Sun Yuan, and others couldn't help but applaud.

And Wei Dalei, having overexerted himself, had already rushed past; he turned around, looking at Chen Mu, who was unharmed behind him, and scratched his head in puzzlement.