A dozen monsters lunged forward at the edge of the balcony. Their jaws hung wide open, ready to tear flesh apart. Filthy claws ripped through the air. The escape route was an absolute dead end.Daniel’s logic yielded to the most primal survival instinct. He did not take a step back to crash against the wall. He exhaled sharply, spun his body toward the open space, and leapt over the iron guard railing.Daniel threw himself into the open air just as sharp claws grazed the back of his jacket.Gravity dragged his body down toward the ground floor of the cafeteria at a lethal speed. His eyes stared straight down, searching for a landing point. His body crashed into the thick canvas tarp of an empty food stall. The fabric ripped with a loud screech, absorbing most of his vertical momentum.Daniel continued to slide down through the torn canvas. He crashed into a long wooden table, shattering it completely.Daniel forced his body to roll across the cafeteria floor tiles to reduce the impact.

Hundreds of deformed silhouettes flooded the asphalt area from three directions.The first wave came from the lower cafeteria. The second wave surged down from the eastern fence. The largest wave poured rapidly from the campus main gate. The car alarm of the luxury black sedan continued to wail deafeningly. The mechanical noise acted like a giant magnet for the starving monsters."Damn it! Bastards!" Xavier yelled frantically, his voice straining over the alarm. "We’re completely surrounded, Daniel! The asphalt path is totally blocked!"Daniel stood rigid at the boundary between the asphalt tiles and the grass field. His eyes swept the environment with the rapid precision of a machine. He ignored the chaos behind his back."Ignore the rear area," Daniel commanded loudly and sharply. "Focus on the grass field ahead of us.""They're on the field too, Daniel! Do you see the silhouettes behind the mist?""I see them."Daniel narrowed his eyes through the thin mist and the night drizzle. At

Their barefoot steps echoed softly across the wooden floor. The massive room swallowed the sound of their breathing. Absolute darkness dominated the Sports Warehouse. The pounding on the steel door now sounded muffled, leaving only the drone of a constant threat from the increasingly mad world outside."Keep walking toward the center of the court," Daniel instructed, his voice bouncing off the distant concrete walls. "Stay away from the main door area."Xavier supported Chania. The woman walked with a limp, nursing the sharp pain in her sprained ankle. Bianca followed behind, her body trembling violently. They sat in a circle at the center of the basketball court. This area provided maximum visibility from all directions, even in the darkness."Collect all of your communication devices now," Daniel commanded, extending his left palm."What for, Daniel?" Xavier reached into his jeans pocket, handing over his backup phone."We need to verify the connection status of this area."Chania pu

The black shadow struck the wooden floor with a heavy thud.The teak planks of the basketball court splintered and snapped under the pressure of the object falling from a height of over a dozen meters. Noah screamed hysterically. Their restful circular formation shattered into utter chaos instantly. Bianca crawled backward away from the impact zone in pure panic. Chania immediately yanked Bianca’s uniform collar to keep her moving away.Daniel leaped backward with precision. His hand gripped the utility blade tightly. His eyes scanned the form of this new threat within milliseconds.The creature's posture was vastly different from the auditory monster in the corridor this afternoon. Its body was gaunt and withered like a starving living corpse. Its ribs jutted out sharply through extremely pale skin. The creature's lower jaw was unnaturally elongated. The jaw looked as if it were forced downward to accommodate the tearing of facial muscles. Thick black slime dripped heavily from the ga

Noah’s body arched, snapping on the wooden floor.Thick black foam erupted from the gaps of his wildly trembling lips. The foul odor of organic decomposition wafted sharply, poisoning the surrounding oxygen. The sound of his ribs cracking echoed loudly, like dry twigs forced under a heavy boot."Noah! Wake up, damn it!" Alex screamed in panic.The engineering student froze in his tracks. His adjustable wrench fell with a heavy thud onto the floor. Alex was incapable of raising his weapon. The sturdily built man was locked by the memory of their friendship, refusing to believe that the guy in front of him was already gone.A raspy, high-pitched growl tore from Noah’s throat. The sound no longer belonged to a human; it was purely the hiss of a heavily starved, deformed beast.Noah’s stark white eyeballs locked onto Alex’s face. The dirty gray arm shot out, clamping onto Alex’s shirt collar. His blackened nails ripped the thick fabric. Noah dragged Alex’s body downward, opening his jaw in