Why is she here?

Did she know they were coming?

Countless thoughts flashed through Chen Zhou's mind in an instant, and in the end, all pointed to one answer -

Don't mess with it.

The other party is someone you can't mess with.

Chen Zhou had watched her live broadcast and knew how she survived in the desert alone.

But among the thirty-odd livestreaming rooms currently available, only three are female. Furthermore, of these three, only Qianyue operates independently, without a fixed team.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a delicious piece of cake that everyone wants to take a bite of.

Before the game started, Chen Zhou and Sun Chu wrote a "hunting plan" that listed all the anchors they thought they could take down, with Qianyue ranked third. In their opinion, it wouldn't be difficult to take her down.

But... that's if they both act at the same time.

Now, facing off silently, Chen Zhou was instantly frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. His original 80% confidence level dropped to 50%.

He moved his cheeks and stared at Qianyue, "Sorry, I don't understand what you mean."

As if afraid that she would make any unusual movement, Chen Zhou took two steps back with a vigilant look on his face while speaking, avoiding the range of vertical attack.

However, Qianyue just looked at him expressionlessly from beginning to end, as if she was fearless.

This made Chen Zhou, who was already suspicious, even more fearful.

His thoughts raced, and he raised his hands. "It's all ash outside now. I just wanted to search the hospital for supplies. I mean no harm."

"It's been hard for everyone to make it this far. How about we each take a step back?"

Hearing him say that they should each take a step back, Qianyue finally responded.

She still leaned heavily on the handrail, one hand resting on her cheek. She tilted her head and asked in confusion, "I haven't done anything yet, so how can I take a step back?"

"You guys..." She paused, then bluntly said, "You followed the red dot on the map to find it, right?"

Chen Zhou's face froze.

Seeing this, Qianyue sneered in her heart.

They are all thousand-year-old foxes, why are they performing Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio here?

She had seen them clearly from the window when the two men entered the hospital just now. They walked straight in, not like they knew nothing.

So she expected that the other party would come upstairs to find her.

The reason why Qianyue was waiting here was to see how strong the other party was, whether she needed to strike first - or whether she could harvest another wave of supplies for free.

But now it seems that the other party is smarter than the "couriers" she had met before.

So she thought about it and changed her mind.

"But it's not impossible to coexist peacefully."

Chen Zhou frowned slightly when he heard this.

It sounds like the word "but" was omitted in this statement.

He asked directly: "What are your conditions?"

Qianyue: "You are free to use the inpatient wards, but you must not go to the third floor."

Chen Zhou thought she was going to say something like "The outpatient department is yours, and the inpatient department is mine", but when he heard that they could use the rooms on the first and second floors, his brows immediately relaxed.

But this feeling of being threatened really doesn't make people happy.

Furthermore, Qianyue lives on the fourth floor and they live on the second floor. If others want to go to the fourth floor, they can only pass by them first.

However, the red dots on the virtual map only showed vertical positions, with no indication of whether they were on the second or fourth floor. This meant that if someone else used the virtual map to find them, they would be the first to be caught.

It felt like they were helping Qianyue guard the door.

When Chen Zhou thought of this, he suddenly felt offended. His expression changed, and he did not agree immediately.

But at this moment, Qianyue suddenly said, "If you continue to hesitate, I can't guarantee the safety of your companions."

Chen Zhou was stunned for a moment, then his face darkened: "What do you mean by that—"

Before he could finish his words, a scream suddenly came from the outpatient department!

"ah!!!"

It’s Sun Chu’s voice!

"You arranged an ambush with other people?!" Chen Zhou's face changed immediately. His first reaction was that Qianyue had teamed up with other people in this copy, and they were ambushed by Qianyue.

Without even bothering to care what Qianyue was saying, Chen Zhou immediately rushed downstairs.

But the direction was not to the outpatient hall, but to the side door of the hospital next to the inpatient department!

Qianyue caught a glimpse of this scene from upstairs and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Is he planning to abandon his teammates and run away?

As it happened, he had to pass through the atrium on the way to the side door. Just as Chen Zhou ran downstairs and before he stepped out of the inpatient department lobby, he saw Sun Chu running out of the outpatient building in a panic.

Looking up and seeing Chen Zhou, she quickly shouted, "Chen Zhou, give me a bottle of inhibitor!"

Chen Zhou paused.

Not asking for help, but asking him for inhibitors?

Chen Zhou immediately retracted the foot that was about to escape. As usual, he asked anxiously and concernedly, "What's going on?"

The other party gasped and replied, "The situation is a bit complicated. I'll tell you in detail later! Quick, throw me a bottle of suppressant!"

Sun Chu looked extremely embarrassed at this moment.

When they ran from the ashes to the hospital, they were already covered in dust. It would not be an exaggeration to describe them as "dusty and exhausted".

Now her whole body was dirty and messy, with a sticky mass hanging on her hair and dripping down. The already chaotic air was suddenly filled with a sour and smelly smell.

But Chen Zhou's focus was on the fact that although Sun Chu looked disheveled, she had no signs of injury. Not even a scratch, let alone bleeding.

Could it be that he guessed wrong and there was an ambush?

Chen Zhou's eyes rolled, and his uneasiness faded. But when he heard her asking for supplies, he immediately became wary. "I can give you the inhibitor, but you have to explain it clearly first. Otherwise, how can I know if you're deliberately trying to steal my stuff?"

"...You're such a stingy person!"

Sun Chu was extremely anxious now, and he wanted to roll his eyes when he heard what Chen Zhou said!

But she herself did not have a few extra bottles of neuroleptics in stock, and she had used them all up after being infected. If she didn't take the medicine quickly, she would probably go crazy soon!

She gasped and said, "Why would I lie to you? There's an infected nurse hiding in the pharmacy!"

"She vomited all over me, and now I'm infected. My mental state keeps dropping. Hurry up and give me a bottle of suppressant, or we're both done for!!"

Chen Zhou was stunned, and his eyes subconsciously looked at the vomit on Sun Chu's body, and he immediately became defensive.

Sun Chu urged: "Hurry up, my spirit value is about to drop!"

"Here, here, here, stay away from me!"

Chen Zhou quickly took two steps back and threw a bottle to her from a distance.

“…”

Seeing that expression of avoiding the plague, Sun Chu's heart suddenly surged with anger, but on the other hand, she knew very well that the relationship between her and Chen Zhou was really just a cooperative relationship of interests, so it was not good to lose her temper.

To put it bluntly, when the two first started working together, they tacitly agreed that they could "fly away on their own when disaster strikes."

If the roles were reversed now, her reaction would probably be similar to Chen Zhou's, so it would be difficult for her to say anything blaming now.

However, despite saying so, Sun Chu still took this opportunity to ask for two more bottles of mental suppressants to vent his dissatisfaction.

Sun Chu remained calm and extended his hand to Chen Zhou, saying, "Hurry up and give me another bottle. I just used up all of mine. This negative status is actually a persistent buff!"

Chen Zhou: ???

Why would you need more? Is it worth spending so much on inhibitors just for a disease?

Chen Zhou felt something was wrong, but the word "epidemic" was indeed scary. He was worried that Sun Chu would really go berserk and drag him down with him, so he could only accept it with some doubts.

Sun Chu used the excuse that he had to clean up these things quickly, and took the inhibitors to the women's restroom at the end of the corridor. But in fact, he turned around and put all the inhibitors into his backpack.

But it is also true that we need to clean up the filth.

Fortunately, places like hospitals have their own backup water tanks, so even if the external pipes are destroyed, the water supply will not be cut off so quickly.

Sun Chu cleaned himself up with the cold water in the toilet.

After she was vomited on by the infected person dressed as a nurse, she suspected that the drop in her spirit value might be related to the vomit.

Sure enough, when her skin came into contact with those things, her spirit value, which had just been raised, dropped a lot again.

The feeling of dizziness enveloped her again, but because the value was not particularly low, the discomfort was not very strong.

Sun Chu gritted his teeth and washed off the last bit of filth. Finally, he walked out of the bathroom with wet hair and the word "unlucky" written all over his face.

Because she washed her hair with cold water, she now had an additional negative status of [Cold] and her health points were slowly decreasing.

Originally, she went to the pharmacy just for the pile of medicine. Now, in order to make up for her lost health, she had used up some of the medicine in her backpack. Add to that the lost bottles of mental suppressants, and Sun Chu felt like her heart was bleeding.

After Chen Zhou learned all this, his expression suddenly became more subtle.

So did that woman know from the beginning that there was an infected person there, or was it she who placed the infected person there?

Sun Chu: "How's your exploration going?"

Chen Zhou couldn't help but frown when he mentioned Qianyue. "She's the woman we listed as third before. If nothing unexpected happens, she should be the only one."

Sun Chu was stunned and immediately jumped off the bed. "Isn't that easy? What are you waiting for? Hurry and do it while no one else is around!"

Chen Zhou: "Don't go!"

Sun Chu: "Why?"

Chen Zhou was silent for a while.

How is he going to explain it?

Was it that he was frightened back by the other person's calm aura as soon as he reached the third floor, or was it that the other person's strategic look made him subconsciously feel very uneasy?

Chen Zhou: "...This person gives me a completely different feeling than he does in the live broadcast. On the surface, he seems to be a lazy fish, but in reality, he is very dangerous. If we really fight, we may not win."

He exhaled, feeling a bit of a headache: "Anyway, let's just stay quietly in the hospital for the next two days. It's best not to have any conflicts with her."