Chapter 116 [Request for Assistance Summary Thread]

The third day of the apocalypse, Fangzhou.

Water and electricity restrictions have begun outside, but those living on campus have not been greatly affected.

The largest proportion of agricultural water use is supplied by rivers that run alongside the plains, which greatly reduces the burden. Domestic water use mainly relies on the water treatment system that Fuqing installed long ago.

In addition to wastewater recycling, the system also includes a rainwater collection and filtration system as a supplement.

Originally, if they had been careful with their water supply, it would have been enough for everyone in the shelter. But now that the outside world is almost without water, and with summer over and winter approaching in a few months, rainwater will inevitably become even scarcer, while the number of people in the shelter will gradually increase, so Fu Qing is somewhat worried.

To be on the safe side, she wanted to dig another well.

While it may be said that a single well is needed, providing for the needs of thousands of people in the shelter is certainly not as simple as just a well.

Fortunately, the system's online store sells a complete groundwater extraction system, including the well itself, pumping equipment, and supporting facilities.

Fangzhou is close to the river and has abundant groundwater resources. Once the well is built, the school will no longer have to worry about water supply.

Of course, such convenient facilities come at a very reasonable price.

[Groundwater Extraction System] 500 Teaching Points

[Currently holding: 216 teaching points]

Fu Qing sighed as he watched.

To make matters worse, Zhao Yunxiao, who was in the capital, still had 24 teaching points deducted from his account every day.

She didn't have enough left in her account for him to stay another week.

If this continues, who knows, one day before long, while everyone in the Capital Laboratory is having a heated discussion, someone sitting next to them will suddenly disappear into thin air and reappear on campus...

Let's not scare those elderly professors into anything bad.

Fu Qing wanted to send a message to remind Zhao Yunxiao to be careful, but she found it difficult to bring herself to say it.

How should I say it? Should I say that my family is so poor they can't afford to eat, and they can't support me working away from home anymore?

That's so embarrassing.

Teaching centers don't accrue interest when left unused in the account, but purchased items immediately generate value. So, except when saving money to buy more expensive equipment and facilities, Fuqing almost always spends all the money she receives as soon as she gets it.

She had thought before that the teaching points might not be enough one day, but she really didn't expect it to be this tight.

Fu Qing rested her chin on her hand and looked through the main channels for obtaining teaching points outside of the mission.

First, the popularity rating jumped from 83% to 87% in just two days, a meteoric rise compared to its previous stagnation.

Fu Qing guessed that this might be related to the parents coming to Fangzhou.

They were protected in Fangzhou, spared the risks of surviving outside, which was obviously a major factor affecting students' popularity after the apocalypse.

Secondly, regarding the impact, after telling the truth to the big shots and gaining their trust, Fu Qing received a system reward.

After buying the wristbands for the parents, the extra teaching points in the account were the result of that reward.

But it's just a drop in the bucket when it comes to the expenses to come.

Having just amplified the impact, Fu Qing really couldn't think of where to squeeze out more rewards in the short term.

Thirdly, there's the exploration value, which is the reward the system gives when the existence of devout believers is discovered.

Fu Qing already knows the truth about the world, including the existence of world consciousness and the antagonistic relationship between the zombie king and the system. If all of this were a game, Fu Qing would say he has completed this storyline.

So, where else can we find some more teaching sites?

Fu Qing sat in his office, deep in thought.

Meanwhile, the students were not idle either.

In the dormitory, Song Rushuang was raising her arm to smell if she had any odor.

Finding the hooded woman's whereabouts would take a considerable amount of time, and Xue Ran's training would also require some effort. Therefore, during this period, Fang Zhou's classmates actually had some free time.

Song Rushuang continued to maintain her regular daily exercise routine.

She had just returned from her morning exercise and felt covered in sweat.

Fangzhou has a water shortage, so Song Rushuang can only shower once every two days, and each shower must be limited to five minutes. But the weather is too hot, and she gets covered in sweat as soon as she goes out. When she can't shower, she can only use the wet wipes she has stockpiled to roughly wipe herself down.

Even so, it still feels sticky.

She could only console herself that this was already much better than what people living outside did.

She has also been online these past few days, chatting with classmates and friends on social media, and has a general idea of ​​the hardships they are all going through.

Since yesterday, if I want to chat, I have to wait for the half hour or so when I have internet access. And after only a couple of sentences, I'm gone again.

The conversations also changed from the mutual comfort, fear, and complaints of the first day to just a few very short sentences.

Today, Song Rushuang even received a group message from her junior high school classmates. It was clearly a long message that had been edited before the internet connection was established. It started with a large line: "[Urgent help needed from villagers of xx village! 367 people are trapped, mostly the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled. There is no electricity or water, the helpline is busy and cannot be reached, food is scarce, and they have nowhere else to go. Please help spread the word!]"

To make it more eye-catching, several red exclamation mark emojis were added after it.

Song Rushuang carefully read the student's letter seeking help.

This student seemed to have gone back to his hometown with his parents for summer vacation. He had originally booked a train ticket to leave the day after the outbreak, but ended up getting stuck in that village.

Whether it was lucky or unlucky, if they had left a day earlier, they might have been stuck on the return train, which would have meant they would have had no way to escape.

Being trapped in the village wasn't much better, because their village wasn't actually that remote; there were several roads connecting it to neighboring villages, and people frequently traveled there. So that night, several zombies crept over along the main road leading to the village, smelled human presence, and decided to stay there.

Many of the villagers are elderly people and children left behind, who have no ability to fight off zombies. Some were bitten to death, and the rest hid in their homes, not daring to even leave their houses.

I tried to call the police, but the line was always busy. Even when I managed to get through once, all they did was tell me to register my situation on a website and wait for rescue.

The number of people who could register was well over a million, but the rescue force was far from sufficient. They waited for two days, but they couldn't wait any longer.

This morning, Song Rushuang's classmate, a college student, took the lead. Taking advantage of the fact that the zombies were not nearby, he called out to the neighbor across the street through the window and passed the message among the neighbors, one after another, to first count the number of survivors in the village and how many zombies there were.

Then, I edited the message and, taking advantage of the internet connection, sent it to various group chats and social networking sites, hoping that kind-hearted people would see it and come to my aid.

After reading the message for help, Song Rushuang glanced at the address of the village and felt a little regretful.

It's too far away; even if she wanted to help, she simply couldn't get there in time.

Unfortunately, I had no choice but to share it to other group chats and my Moments first.

Having just posted on her WeChat Moments and returned to the homepage, Song Rushuang found a neat row of exclamation marks, indicating that the message had failed to send. She glanced at the upper right corner, and sure enough, she was offline again.

Remembering something, she switched back to her Moments and found that, sure enough, the post hadn't been published. Song Rushuang almost laughed out of anger.

I'm angry about the unstable internet connection again, and I'm worried about that classmate.

Because that means he might have to wait another 24 hours.

How many similar villages are there across the country? The village mentioned in the plea for help was able to seek help online because Song Rushuang, a college student, was away for summer vacation. But there are many more elderly people and children living in villages who don't know how to use mobile phones and can only listen to the busy tone of the rescue call, waiting for death in despair.

Not every village can encounter a Shen Qingqing; most people are completely powerless when facing zombies.

Not to mention, even if you manage to send the message successfully like this student, there's a high probability you won't receive any help.

While civilian rescue teams might be able to handle natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, and typhoons, zombies are completely beyond their expertise.

Song Rushuang thought for a moment and then opened the student forum on her wristband.

The internet is down, but the forum is still working perfectly. If I can't ask for help from various group chats, I can always ask my classmates for help, right?

Maybe some of the people who haven't returned to school yet are near xx village?

According to the student's description in the letter seeking help, the zombies appearing in their village are all low-level zombies, and there are only eleven or twelve of them scattered throughout the village. Any student from Fangzhou could easily handle them.

When the forum page refreshed, Song Rushuang was stunned for a moment when she saw the homepage.

[At the Hongxin Hot Pot restaurant on Qing'an Road in City A, a total of 31 people, including waiters and customers, are trapped. There is no shortage of food, but one customer has a heart condition and urgently needs medication.]

More than 100 workers are trapped at the Huiguang Furniture Factory in the western suburbs of City O. They have been without food and water for two days. Urgent!!

[Forwarded from a group chat: A landslide occurred in Yong'an County, City C, due to heavy rain. Many injured people need to go out for medical treatment, and there is a lack of shelter due to collapsed houses. Rescue workers said they would go, but they haven't arrived after a day. It's suspected that something happened en route, or that an infected person in the incubation period may have gotten into the vehicle… Is anyone nearby who can go check on the situation?]

Is anyone in F City? Near Chunyuan Kindergarten on Heping Road...?

I'm currently in Z city and will be returning in two days. Please compile any requests for help related to Z city and send them to me...

[Those in F City, please assemble here! We need to organize a temporary team.]

These past two days have been so busy—hosting Bai Xianglei and his group, running around with the principal, and taking care of her parents—that Song Rushuang hasn't really had much time to browse the forums.

In just over a day, countless posts appeared on the student forum. As she scrolled down, she discovered that this wave of postings occurred right before and after the power rationing began.

Clearly, many people share the same thought as her: unable to share their posts on social media, they have no choice but to seek help from forums where they haven't lost contact with the community.

Just as Song Rushuang was about to join the massive army of people seeking help, she moved her finger and accidentally refreshed the forum, only to see a newly posted thread at the very top.

Title: [Request for Help Thread | No Water Allowed | See Main Post for Posting Format]

Main post: [There are already too many related discussions on the forum. After a quick glance, I found that many are even duplicates. I'm taking the liberty of creating a summary post to avoid information duplication and to prevent irrelevant discussions from drowning out my requests for help. I will be posting what I see here. If you have any new submissions, please check if they have already been posted here. If not, please refer to the following format when posting. Thank you for your cooperation!]

Location (province, city, county)

Specific address and surrounding conditions (whether it's accessible by car, etc.)

Request for help (killing zombies/running out of food/water/medicine/confirming the situation...)

Danger assessment (highlighting key zombies and their strength)

Have you sought help from the authorities and received a response?

Assess the urgency level (whether it can be sustained, how long it can be sustained, to help people prioritize).

Name of the person seeking help or online ID

Contact information of the person seeking help

...

There may be areas that haven't been fully considered; please feel free to add your suggestions! In addition, the original poster has created a separate thread to facilitate students from different regions teaming up for rescue missions. Those interested in participating can find it here → [Click here to jump to link]

A reminder: when forwarding requests for help, please verify their authenticity. Prioritize posts where the person can be directly contacted or whose identity can be quickly verified. Additionally, to avoid wasting valuable rescue resources, for those who have already contacted official channels, please take the time to confirm their queue order on the official website.

If you would like to claim a rescue mission, please send a private message to the poster. The poster will confirm and reply to the corresponding post in a timely manner, and you can then focus on other missions.

Finally, all students involved in the rescue efforts must also pay close attention to their personal safety.

Posted by: Cheese is Power

...

Seeing the poster's name, Song Rushuang had a feeling that this was exactly what she expected.

Xiao Su is really a man of action; how come she's always one step ahead of everyone else?

There are still a few days before the official hunt for the believers begins, but some requests for help are circulating online. Many people have been trapped for three days and urgently need help. The best time for rescue is in these remaining days.

This way, neither side will miss anything, and it also prevents the students from having nothing to do at school these few days.

With the outside world cut off from the internet and civilian rescue teams unable to deal with zombies, Fangzhou Forum is the most suitable place to post similar requests for help and the place where those seeking help are most likely to get a response.

The post was quickly marked as a featured post and pinned to the top, indicating that Su Huaijin had contacted the principal for help immediately after posting it.

In just a few minutes, more than a dozen requests for help appeared in the building, and that's only because many people were still editing and confirming them.

Song Rushuang thought this was a really good idea, and then filled out the request for help from her junior high school classmates according to the format and sent it up.

Then I was redirected to another group chat to see if there were any local missions in S City.

But upon closer inspection, she was somewhat taken aback.

There are missions in City S, but they're simply impossible to secure...

Fangzhou is located in S City, so local students naturally make up the largest group. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen teams were formed in the team-building building, and each team was full.

Each team consisted of five people. Everyone knew that the hunting mission was about to begin, and while they were rescuing people, they probably also wanted to warm up.

Otherwise, given the strength of the Fangzhou group, they wouldn't need five people at all. Simpler tasks could be completed in groups of two or three.

But then there would be even less hope of getting one.

Song Ru stared wide-eyed at the summary thread on the other side. The new task had just appeared, and the corresponding post to claim it had already been published here. It was even faster than a food delivery rider grabbing an order.

Song Rushuang: "..."

Condemn, strongly condemn! Can't we at least give someone as slow-handed as her a chance to survive?