Chapter 52: Narrow escape

Translator: NightinWolf Editor: GSD

Dudian was scared. He pushed against the door. The door was old and rusty. After the first punch from the undead cracks formed on the door. Fortunately there was a sofa barricading behind the door, because otherwise by then it would have been broken through already.

Mason and the other two were frightened and hurried to the sofa to reinforce it by pushing. The wooden frame inside the sofa had long been rotten, so after the forceful push by the four of them it cracked right in the middle.

Bang! The door was broken through and limp palms stretched inside casually clutching. Fortunately the undeads’ bodies belong to adults so they were much taller than Dudian. They couldn’t catch him on the first try.

Dudian had forgotten that most of these materials were useless after 300 years of corrosion. He shouted at the others, “Quickly, jump from the window down to 11th floor!”

Mason and the other two panicked but after three years of training experiences they quickly replied “I’ll help to slow them down, you should go instead!”

“Go!” Dudian shouted.

They didn’t want to talk anymore so they directly went towards the window and looked down. The height of 12 floors was too high so they felt vertigo. However there were no other options of escape routes but this. Sham scanned around the balcony and saw an object attached to the wall: “If we step on that object and we should be able to get down to 11th floor’s balcony”

It was an air-conditioner outdoor unit. Mason was the most daring one out of three. Although he was worried but still jumped over.

Bang! The air conditioning outdoor unit couldn’t bear his weight. It suddenly gave way. He was afraid but was prepared for a situation such as this. That’s why the moment his legs landed on the air conditioner’s outer unit shell he jumped towards the 11th floor balcony. The air conditioner’s outer unit plummeted and struck other air conditioning outdoor units which were vertically mounted right beneath it. All of the air conditioning outdoor units plumeted to the ground and made loud noises.

Mason had barely latched on to balcony’s outer wall. He climbed into the balcony and looked up at Sham and Zach. There was nothing to be leveraged upon so he said in a loud voice, “Sham you jump first, I will catch ya!”

Sham was the thinnest and lightest out of the three. Looking at the open arms of Mason, he let himself free fall.

Mason caught his body in hurry, but the inertia of the fall almost brought him down along from the balcony. He felt pain in his arms as if they were going to tear off. But he still held on to Sham.

Sham was frightened and blood had rushed into his head because of the adrenaline. He thought that he was going to die. He looked at the Mason’s painful expression and felt gratitude towards him. Then, Zach who was still stuck above hastily spoke, “Aren’t you guys ready? I want to jump!”

Mason shoved up his arms and said to Sham: “Let’s catch him.”

Sham nodded, both of them spread out their arms and said to Zach: “Jump!”

Zach leaped down.

They immediately caught Zach but Mason’s arm was in pain and Zach almost slipped loose through his hands.

Dudian was relieved as heard all three of them had managed to jump down. He wasn’t able to withstand the force the three undeads ramming to the door. Right now, door was as as fragile as paper scraps. He abandoned barricading the door and ran to the kitchen. Along the way he threw off the TV, tables, wires and other things that he could lift in the living room. He was trying to slow down the pursuitof the undeads.

His tactic worked. Although the speed of these undeads were far faster than him but their brains didn’t seem to work properly. The creatures didn’t know how to avoid obstacles and were tripping over while passing TV, tables and wires which were on the ground.

Dudian seized the opportunity. He went to another part of the kitchen and began to throw all the objects that he could utilize. All those plates and wares that were thrown at undeads did minimal damages but attracted their attention.

Dudian next hurried to the bathroom which was adjacent to the kitchen. He closed the door and looked at the toilet’s ventilation windows. It was made of aluminum alloy texture, but the edge had long been rotten in the last 300 years of corrosion. He put his leg on the toilet bowl and punched at the ventilation windows.

Bang! It cracked open.

The window was big enough to accommodate his body. Yet, if an adult tried to go through it would have been very difficult to do so.

However, when he stretched out of the window to look out, the height of the twelve floors made him afraid. The car in the street that was covered in the vegetation looked like a small bread from Dudian’s view point. He heard the hisses and roars of undeads from behind. He didn’t look back but climbed out of the window.

There was only one choice left and it was to jump!

There was no air conditioner outdoor units. After all, no one would install an air conditioner outdoor unit outside the toilet. There were two types of white colored water pipes which were used as toilet’s discharge pipe.

He jumped towards the pipes and grabbed onto one. In that instant he saw that he wouldn’t be able to hang on to pipes as they cracked right in front of his eyes.

Dudian’s face turned pale, he hastily made a backhand gesture and pulled out a dagger.

He nailed it onto the wall. The dagger pierced into the wall and his body was hung off it.

He had seen sword marks made by Hunters as they killed undeads and other monsters. The walls were no longer strong and reliable.

Argh! Argh!

At this time two hideous heads abruptly stuck out of the toilet window. They were using their claws and trying to grab him.

The undeads were frantically pushing out and the soft walls of window expanded and fell off as if they were made of mud. The gap was stretched out enough for both of them to stick out freely. He looked down to see that there was almost a meter of a distance between him and the toilet window of the floor beneath. If he had two daggers he would be able to easily reach the destination but right now he had only one dagger. If he tried to maneuver he would fall down.

He looked at the window which was only half a palm wide. Wanting to jump onto it was extremely difficult and required great courage.

However, as he saw the third undead began to crawl out, he didn’t dare to wait any more. He swayed his body slightly and suddenly let go of the dagger.

It was a free fall. However due to his body’s proximity to the wall he stretched his hands out while falling and seized the windowsill. It was a very short distance but he felt like his head exploded.

At that moment, he felt as if he was reborn.

Dudian looked up and saw that half the body of the undead had already crawled out of the window. He punched the window fiercely and smashed it. The broken pieces of the glass cut his fist and blood began to drip. He quickly climbed up and drilled down the window.

Sou!

As he went in he felt wind touched at his rear.

Dudian hastily looked down to discover an undead that had fallen from the toilet’s window plummeted down to the ground.?As one had fallen off, the space suddenly was more than enough for the other two undeads. He saw another one trying to attack him from that distance and also fell down slamming into the ground besides the other undead’s corpse.

Dudian was startled. Do they only know how to attack? Don’t they have awareness of self-protection?

He thought about Scott and the woman undeads’ battle that had happened previously. Suddenly an idea emerged in his mind.