Chapter 2011 Hospital Zombies

Ji County is a three-hour drive from Lijia Village.

After half a year of practice, Liu Rui has become an experienced driver and can handle all kinds of cars. He drives the car while Ning Yuan sits in the passenger seat, holding a pen and paper to outline a new map. They will draw all the places they pass along the way to make it easier for them to find their way again after the end of the world.

"There are two larger hospitals in Ji County, one is the People's Hospital and the other is the Women and Children's Hospital. The two places are not far apart, but Zhuzi said that there is a section of road in between that cars can't pass. Should we take a shortcut and walk or take a detour?" Ning Yuan compared the approximate city street distribution map drawn by Zhu with the enlarged electronic map before the end of the world. After asking, he turned to look at Lu Weiyi, "I forgot to ask, should we go directly to the hospital?"

"No, let's take a look at the situation first." They had passed through a limited number of towns along the way, and they were not sure about the level of most of the zombies now, Lu Weiyi said cautiously.

More than three hours later, they saw the stone marker of Ji County.

There are more and more zombies visible to the naked eye. After half a year of exposure to wind and sun, their clothes have long been dirty. The zombies with missing limbs and half of their scalps are wandering aimlessly in the streets. They no longer look like their own kind. Their movements seem like dying old people. Once there is a living creature or blood, they can transform into long-distance running champions.

"We will arrive at the end of the street if we go straight. The People's Hospital is on the right. The nine-story building you can see is it. It's not the Jixian Center, but there are a lot of zombies. I was here last month, so I'm not sure if anyone has been there. The Women and Children's Hospital is in the Jixian Center, so it's not easy to get in." Fang Dazhuang slowed down his car and drove parallel to the others. He might be worried about them, or maybe he just wanted to tell them the way.

"Okay, thank you." Ning Yuan said with a smile, "Let me ask you one more question. If we go to Liucheng County, do we have to go back to the previous intersection?"

"Yes, that's the closest," Fang Dazhuang said, "Are you going to Liucheng County today?"

"I'm just asking. Let's look at the current situation first," Ning Yuan said.

"Okay, then we'll go first," Fang Dazhuang said, driving quickly to the front.

Ning Yuan turned around and asked, "How do we get there?"

"Go towards the hospital," Lu Weiyi said.

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Ning Yuan and his companions slowed down a bit. When they drove into the county town, the first zombies that appeared had been attracted away by the people in front. Apart from attacking the zombies through the windows with their supernatural powers, they did not stop and drove past at high speed, with a string of zombies following behind the car.

I didn't pay attention and didn't notice it on the road before, but now in the quiet county town, I realized that the rumbling sound of their two tricycles could directly attract all the zombies within a radius of several kilometers.

Ning Yuan could see that many zombies that were originally wandering around the streets on both sides were chasing them.

"What a nice guy," he exclaimed.

"Ning, we are here to kill zombies. Why would we kill them if the zombies run away?" Antonio spread his hands.

"There are always zombies for us to kill," Ning Yuan said, looking at the zombies that followed them again, "What level?"

"There are B-level ones, about four or five," Li Zhuang replied.

"It seems we have to be careful too." As he spoke, Liu Rui had already driven into the street. This side was indeed located in the suburbs, because there was a hospital next to it. There were mostly restaurants on both sides of the street that were not destroyed by the earthquake. The buildings were well preserved, and most of the doors were wide open, showing that they had been visited before.

"Could someone have been here before?" Ning Yuan condensed an ice cone and shot it into the forehead of a female zombie that was running over from a distance, "Collect the crystal core."

"The shops in front are closed." There were more than a dozen zombies, but Antonio didn't do anything at all.

As they got closer to the hospital, the number of zombies increased significantly, including some Class B zombies. Lu Weiyi replaced Liu Rui in driving and asked the five of them to cooperate, while he was only responsible for collecting the crystal cores.

"I roughly calculated that in such a large hospital, if the people in every department plus all the wards are full, the number of people must be over a thousand. Are we just going to just march in and clean it out so brazenly?" Six against a thousand, Ning Yuan felt that they seemed a little arrogant.

Lu Weiyi looked at Ning Yuan as if he were an idiot, suspecting that what he learned in the army might have been returned to him.

He took out a few guns from the space and handed them to him and Antonio, "They contain bullets made with supernatural powers, which are better than ordinary bullets. You two find the shooting points, clear out a batch of them remotely, and also feedback the effects."

"Li Zhuang, seal the hospital door. Gu Qingji and Liu Rui will enter through the main gate. The four of us will be in the yard. You two will be in remote control and clean up in batches. Also, pay attention to the zombies with special abilities a little further away."

The car rushed to the hospital gate, and the zombies in the yard rushed out, followed by a group of them behind the car.

Five people got out of the car at the same time. They built a dirt wall to block the out-of-control electric gate, cleared out the zombies that followed, and then entered the hospital in batches.

Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang went in first. Under the mental barrier, the two of them were like entering an empty space. They quickly circled the hospital, blocked all the doors and returned to the main entrance. Silenced whooshing sounds were heard in the yard, and the zombies in the yard began to fall down - Ning Yuan and Antonio had already chosen their shooting points.

Lu Weiyi removed the mental barrier, and the breath of the two living people attracted the zombies left in the yard, and the gate was not so crowded anymore.

"Get ready to come in," Li Zhuang shouted to the two people outside the door, "three, two, one." As the words fell, an entrance wide for two people appeared in the earth wall. After Liu Rui used a powerful fire dragon to eliminate some of the zombies in front of him, the two people came in and started fighting.

There are at least a hundred zombies in the yard, and everyone is trying every means to kill them. At this point, they no longer have time to pay attention to how many B-level zombies there are.

Lu Weiyi blocked the door, ignoring the fact that zombies had no intelligence and they might not necessarily enter or exit through the door.

Not long after the fight began, zombies fell from the upstairs windows, and the whole scene was like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

The hardness of zombies' bones increases with the increase of their ability level. It's not that they won't break. Those on higher floors directly hit their skulls and died. Some broke their legs and ran towards people with a limp. There were even some with obvious broken spines, crawling forward, and being stepped on by the following zombies.

Due to the misjudgment, Li Zhuang didn't even need to open the door as he had a steady stream of zombies to support him. Behind Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang was the hospital building, while Liu Rui and Gu Qingji were leaning against the door that Li Zhuang had built.

The four people stood in the same position and did not move at all from beginning to end. Only the corpses of zombies rushing in front of them kept increasing in number, forming a circle of protective wall.

"Gu Qingji, are you okay?" The zombies that jumped down from the building were close to Lu Weiyi and the others. Most of them came towards them, and some that couldn't squeeze in rushed towards the other two.

Because of Lu Weiyi's mistake in his plan, he was put together with Gu Qingji and Liu Rui, two people whose superpowers were restrained. In addition, Gu Qingji, who was of the wood element, was not as strong in superpowers as Liu Rui, so he was easily affected.

"It's okay," Gu Qingji's voice was a little breathless, "Liu Rui helped me."

"There will be nothing left after cleaning up this batch," Ning Yuan's voice came from the intercom, "There are already many empty windows upstairs."

Half an hour later, the yard had completely turned into a pile of zombies. The four people who were in close combat were all taking a rest. The overwhelming number of people, coupled with the various supernatural powers, left the four of them with bruises all over their bodies. Their blood and corpse fluid were sprayed everywhere on their clothes and faces.

A piece of Li Zhuang's clothes was burned by the flames. Lu Weiyi didn't even notice how he put out the fire. With the help of his mental barrier, he suffered minimal injuries. Most of the time, he was controlling the little green branch in the battle, and his supernatural powers were not consumed very much. While everyone was resting, he collected a bunch of zombie crystal cores.

Ten minutes later, Lu Weiyi came back after a circle, and Liu Rui threw several fireballs that burned the piles of zombies into ashes.

Li Zhuang reopened the blocked main door of the hospital, and dozens of zombies rushed out, even causing a stampede. Compared to the fragility of humans, they were strong enough to get up and run at any time.

With the combined efforts of several people, they were all dealt with in a few minutes, and only a few came out sporadically.

"We will meet," Lu Weiyi informed the other two.

"This bullet is good. It can kill someone in one shot if it hits him between the eyebrows. But the gun is not good," Ning Yuan came over and talked to Lu Weiyi about "user experience." At the same time, he took out the gun and let him look inside the barrel. "The inside will be badly worn out after a while. The deviation will affect the accuracy. It can only support about twenty shots."

It seems that the gun barrel also needs to be recast using supernatural powers.

Most of the zombies left in the hospital are primary zombies. The stronger ones have already destroyed the surrounding facilities and rushed towards the living people, so it is not difficult to deal with them.

The entire hospital building has ten floors, including the main floor and the basement. The basement is where examinations are done, the first floor has a Western medicine pharmacy, the second floor has Chinese medicine prescriptions, and the rest are wards for various departments. For them, the only valuable things are some medical equipment and medicines.

Ning Yuan and Antonio took action, Gu Qingji followed behind to collect the crystal cores, Li Zhuang and Liu Rui were the rear guard, and Lu Weiyi stood in the middle to collect various things, even taking away many hospital beds, not to mention the piled up bedding.

"Why do I feel that the number of zombies doesn't match my calculation?" After Gu Qingji handed the crystal cores he had collected along the way to Lu Weiyi, Ning Yuan raised his eyebrows and said, "It feels a lot less."

"Zombies upgrade by eating zombie crystal cores." This is equivalent to eating crystal cores of their own kind. Compared to humans, the upgrade is faster and safer.

Lu Weiyi looked around and finally stopped his sight at the parking lot. "Is there a car you want?"

"Private cars are not suitable for long-distance travel and they consume a lot of fuel. Nowadays, gasoline cannot withstand consumption," said Ning Yuan.

"Take everything if possible. Metal and tires are all useful," said Li Zhuang.

"..." The others turned to look at him silently.

Despite Li Zhuang's calm look, Lu Weiyi still packed up all the cars. After all, he was right. He also decided to go back and consume a few more jade spaces. With the speed of plucked feathers from a passing goose, no matter how big the space was, it would not be enough.