Chapter 33 Eliminating Zombies
After the water was brought, Ji Zai no longer hesitated.
He poured oil on the zombies. "Light it up, light it up, but be careful, it's too hot, I'm afraid the fire will burn upwards."
Ouyang Yi had already thought of this.
She pointed to the website and saw people on the third and second floors, each carrying a bucket. This was the water collected from the air conditioner over the past few days, two large buckets a day. Since it couldn't be drunk, it was all used to flush toilets and cool down cars.
But the water kept accumulating.
I never expected it would come in handy at this time.
Ji Zai looked up and saw her nemesis roommate. She was shocked. "July, what are you doing out here working? Weren't you so hot you were like a salted fish that couldn't even turn over?"
Since the weather has been getting hotter and hotter.
Everyone sweats as soon as they move.
The same applies to the cool July.
He lay in the dormitory like a dead fish, looking like he was about to die.
Liang Qiyue's unusual behavior aroused Ji Zai's suspicion.
She was terrified that Liang Qiyue was that unlucky guy with too many viruses that were extremely prone to mutation.
So ever since she learned that they had the virus, she kept a close eye on her roommates, afraid that they might suddenly awaken their zombie instincts and get up in the middle of the night to eat her.
But unexpectedly, this guy who looked like he was about to die has now gotten up.
Ji Zai felt she had been deceived. "If nothing's wrong, why are you lying around in your dorm like a corpse? It's scary!"
Liang Qiyue, clutching the bucket of water, took a deep breath. "I'm just trying to conserve water. We're already short on water, and with the hot weather, I get drenched in sweat with every little movement, and then I need to take a shower..."
"To save our precious water resources, I have no choice but to lie around all day to conserve energy and reduce my food intake."
After she finished speaking, she said with a look of utter despair, "Okay, I confess. I was just too lazy to take a shower, that's why I didn't want to move."
Upon hearing this answer, Ji Zai felt a chill run down his spine. "I thought the virus had broken out when you were lying in bed, and I had secretly planned out eighteen ways to bury you, but you're telling me that was all fake."
Liang Qiyue: "......"
She looked at the water in the bucket, and sometimes it seemed a little immoral.
Now that everything is ready.
Without saying much, Ji Zai poured oil on the zombies, then lit a lighter, burned a piece of paper, and threw it at the iron gate.
That tiny fire produced flames that reached two meters high.
The fire frightened the people on the first floor.
"Holy crap!" Nan Yao exclaimed, taking a step back in fright. "We only put in a tiny bit of oil, how could such a big fire have started?"
Due to the intensity of the fire, they were forced to retreat to the stairwell.
Ji Zai felt it was too hot and kept fanning himself, but it was no use. The weather was just too hot; people standing outside would feel like they were being roasted alive.
Her skin is red and hot right now.
She glanced at Nan Yao and Ouyang Yi.
Seeing them is the same.
Her fair skin turned rosy.
Ji Zai was so frightened that he turned into a fish and managed to get some water from Ouyang Yi's bucket to save his life.
Ouyang Yi never expected that this water thief would be so brazen.
He smacked her on the head and said, "Get out of here! This is water for putting out a fire. If you waste it, what if a fire breaks out?"
That's true.
Looking at the water in the bucket, Ji Zai could only disappointingly abandon the idea.
The three people retreated back up the stairs and watched as the fire dwindled.
The group then approached.
Ji Zai squatted down and looked around. "There's no sound anymore. Fire really can burn zombies. They're just a handful of ashes now."
Nan Yao looked on and said, "It's strange. How come the bones were burned too? Human bones are very difficult to destroy. How come they're gone just like that?"
That's true.
Human bones require a very high ignition point.
Ordinary fire cannot completely burn bones.
However, after burning for about half an hour, the six zombies turned to ash, much like charred wood ash.
Oh, it should be called ashes.
Ji Zai looked at the zombies that had already been burned, paused, and then looked up. "Stop looking, come down quickly. Burn all the zombies by today, otherwise this place will smell of decay."
She was calling for the people upstairs.
Liang Qiyue nodded. "I'm here."
A group of people quietly came down.
I went closer to the door to take a look.
"Move aside..." A girl somehow got hold of a kettle and splashed water onto the door, making a hissing sound like she was grilling meat.
Liang Qiyue was stunned. She stared at the watering can and asked, "Where did you get so many strange things? Isn't this thing used to spray pesticides?"
The girl looked over and said, "I'm an agricultural student, isn't it normal for me to have this kind of thing?"
Hearing this, Liang Qiyue was convinced.
She turned to look at the zombie. "Ji Zai, were all these zombies completely burned away? Won't it be contagious?"
It's tragic enough that they have the virus in their bodies.
If I get infected again.
They can forget about surviving.
Ji Zai stepped forward and opened the door. "Then let's walk around these ashes. While these zombies are cooked, everyone hurry up and destroy the evidence. Once the zombies are gone, we'll be much safer."
"After the zombies are cleared out, everyone will no longer have to live in fear."
Liang Qiyue and the others looked at each other in bewilderment.
Someone asked, "But now that the zombies are cooked, they won't survive if we don't kill them. Why do we have to burn them?"
yes?
why is that?
Almost everyone present had this question.
It wasn't that they were afraid of being tired, they just felt it was unnecessary.
Since zombies are destined to be unable to survive in high temperatures, why don't they just lie low and wait for the high temperatures to kill these zombies completely?
This is both convenient and effortless.
Liang Qiyue stroked her chin. "Besides, it's so hot, going out is very risky. What if we get heatstroke and faint? In this situation, there's no hospital where we can call 120."
Ji Zai glanced at them and said, "I'm afraid the zombies will become infected."
The room fell silent after he said that.
Nan Yao recalled Ji Zai's words and her heart sank. "Zombies can mutate?"
Everyone present changed their expression.
Ji Zai paused for a moment, "I'm not sure either, but I have a feeling that's how it should be. Think about it, according to the information we've received, we have the zombie virus in our bodies, but we're just ordinary college students, where could we have gotten infected with the zombie virus?"
"Even if someone is unlucky enough to be captured and used as a test subject, that would only be a very small number of cases. The zombie virus could not possibly spread throughout the entire city in a short period of time."
Upon hearing this, everyone felt as if a giant hand had gripped their hearts.
What were they thinking?
But I'm not sure.
In the end, only Nan Yao spoke up, trembling, "That's right, it's impossible for it to spread throughout the city so quickly, unless they used some kind of substance as a means of transmission, mixing the zombie virus into these substances so that no one could detect it."
"And these substances must be widely distributed and extremely common."
Maybe it's water.
Maybe it's raining.
Or perhaps it's just the usual fog.
In any case, things they take for granted in their daily lives could be pathways for virus transmission.
Nan Yao felt as if someone was raising a sickle and slashing at him.
But she couldn't find the sickle.
Seeing that she had guessed what he wanted to say, Ji Zai gave a helpless smile.
She smiled wryly, "So now you know why I insisted on destroying the zombies, right? And you know why the city had to be locked down, right?"
“If we don’t do this, the whole country will suffer.”
"I want to live, so I have to be careful about these things all the time to avoid accidentally getting killed."
Ji Zai felt very tired as he recounted this.
She looked at everyone and complained, "Now I finally know why you guys don't play on your phones. It's because playing on your phones makes you feel like everything goes black, and you can't see any hope at all."
The more I look at it, the more I feel like I'm going to die.
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