Chapter 7 Plan
When Ji Zai finished speaking, the room fell visibly silent.
After Liang Qiyue pulled the person back to a safe distance, she heard these shocking words.
"You're going to go out and find food!" she exclaimed incredulously. "Are you crazy? We don't know what's going on outside. If it's a sea of corpses, going out is just suicide!"
"It's too dangerous."
Liang Qiyue found it unbelievable that this apocalypse had lasted for five days, during which the internet had been completely cut off.
So they stayed in their dorm rooms the whole time.
The food was almost gone.
They seemed to have reached their wits' end.
But to everyone's surprise, Ji Zai, despite appearing calm, was actually already planning to leave.
Ji Zai was certainly aware of this. "We've been waiting here for five days, five days now, and there's still no rescue, not even any supplies. This proves what we were discussing at the beginning: the higher-ups really don't intend to care about us anymore."
"I don't quite understand why this is. Even in novels, shouldn't supplies be sent down by plane?"
"But they do nothing."
As Ji Zai finished speaking, he looked outside, where six zombies were eyeing him menacingly outside the iron gate.
She looked on, then looked away. "To be honest, I initially thought there would be planes delivering supplies to us, which is why I was so calm. But it's been five days, and they haven't sent anything."
"We can't just sit around doing nothing anymore. If we wait any longer, we'll only be facing certain death."
Upon hearing this, Liang Qiyue paused for a moment, "Maybe the supplies will arrive soon? Can we wait until we can't hold on any longer before going out?"
Ji Zai shook his head, "I can't wait."
She clenched her fist. "The food I've been eating these past few days has been so monotonous that I feel like I'm losing my energy. I don't know if I'll be able to run again in a few more days."
"I must store enough food before the situation worsens."
Upon hearing this, Liang Qiyue fell silent.
She knew that Ji Zai was right.
They haven't been exercising these days, and their diet is monotonous. Their bodies are getting heavier and heavier, and they don't know if they'll be able to run in a few more days.
If you don't eat when you have plenty of energy.
Then they will most likely be powerless to continue.
While the scene remained silent, footsteps could be heard coming from upstairs.
It's that beautiful woman on the second floor, the one eating sunflower seeds.
She came downstairs, dressed in a high-end designer casual outfit, looking every bit the part of a rich heiress.
She looked at the three people and said, "Are you going out to find food? Count me in."
Ji Zai looked at her and said, "Okay, but safety cannot be guaranteed. You are responsible for your own life and death."
The young lady nodded haughtily, "Of course, my name is Nan Yao, and I majored in journalism."
Seeing this, the girl who was about to walk right into the trap weakly raised her hand and said, "Let me state first that I am a complete failure. I fall when I run and I am not suitable for hard labor, but I can provide you with my drone."
"Although the network is down, my drone has dedicated wireless communication."
"Before we set off, I can use it to scout out the route for you and help you see which road has the fewest zombies."
"I wonder if you can accept this?"
Upon hearing this, Ji Zai looked at Nan Yao and asked, "What do you think?"
Qianjin nodded reservedly, "Okay, if we can seize the initiative, it can indeed help us avoid risks, but we'll take the lion's share."
Hearing this, Liang Qiyue's eyes widened. "Who said it's just the two of you? I'm going too."
"I may not be good at anything else, but I'm great at climbing trees. Maybe if we encounter zombies, I can even help you out."
The four people looked at each other for a while.
Then I made up my mind.
Ji Zai looked at the zombies and said, "Let's talk somewhere else. There are too many zombies here."
"etc..."
They hadn't even left yet.
The people from 101 opened the door and came out.
When Liang Qiyue saw her looking so dashing in flip-flops, carrying a clothes pole, she exclaimed in surprise, "Isn't this the heroine! Judging from your posture, are you out swatting zombies again!"
The female warrior rolled her eyes. "I wasn't planning on coming out, but I couldn't resist listening to you all talking so loudly."
"If we're going to find food, I'll go with you."
She said helplessly, "I really can't take it anymore. I'm scared to go alone. Now it's great, we can go in a group."
Ji Zai paused, then looked at the people present. "Let's go inside and talk."
Just as they were about to go inside, a faint voice came from the corridor, "Um..."
The zombies immediately became agitated.
Ji Zai was puzzled, turned around and was startled.
The stairs were packed with people.
She was stunned. "Holy crap, when did you guys get here? Why didn't we hear any footsteps?"
Before Ji Zai could say anything, he saw the zombies downstairs writhing wildly, rattling the iron gate.
She felt uneasy. "Go up, go up, go up to the rooftop! Staying here is like letting the zombies smell meat. What if they get excited and rush up here!"
A group of people rushed to the rooftop.
There was a locked door on the top floor, but they had unlocked it for internet access and quickly made their way to the roof.
Liang Qiyue pulled Ji Zai along, saying, "Be careful, the fence here is too short. If you're not careful, you'll just be food for the zombies."
"Don't get eaten to bits before you even start fighting."
Ji Zai thought it made sense, so she directly chose a spot near the center and sat down.
Then the others sat down as well.
She looked around and said, "Now tell me, why are you all there? And why is there no sound? I've been living in the girls' dormitory for two years, and I never knew your footsteps could be so quiet as to be invisible."
This is absolutely horrifying.
Although the girls' dormitory is indeed clean, it is still quite noisy. It has never happened before that a hundred or so people suddenly stood at the stairwell without making a sound.
This is a level that no human can reach.
A girl spoke up timidly, "We went down because we heard the zombies screaming a bit too loudly, but we didn't expect to overhear your conversation."
Ji Zai paused for a moment, then asked, "And then?"
The person next to the girl adjusted their glasses. "Our food supply is also running low, so we're planning to join in."
Ji Zai stared at the group of people, his eyes wide. "114 people, all of them?"
"This isn't what you said. Rather than waiting to die, we might as well take a chance. Maybe there's still hope."
The girl with glasses said, "At least, I want to try to survive."
Those present were shocked to hear this.
If one could live, who would willingly choose to die?
However, they dared not act alone, so when they heard that someone was going, they naturally had the idea.
Ji Zai looked at the people in front of him and said, "But we can't all go! 114 people, it would be too cumbersome if all of them went."
"And there probably isn't enough food either."
The girl with glasses said, "I know a place where a lot of rice is piled up. There are 171,000 jin of rice in total, enough for the entire school to eat for a month."
“There are only 114 people here now. Based on each person’s intake of 0.5 jin per day, if we bring back nearly 3,420 jin of rice, it will be enough for us to eat for two months.”
Upon hearing the data, Qianjin looked at the girl with glasses and said, "It's you, Student Council President Ouyang Yi. No wonder you know Da Mi's location so well."
“But how are we going to move 3,420 kilograms of rice? Even if we all go, each of us would have to carry 30 kilograms.”
Upon hearing this, Ji Zai shook his head, "We're already trying to avoid zombies, and if everyone is carrying heavy loads, the chances of them coming back are even smaller."
Ouyang Yi's expression was serious. "No, because that place is a warehouse, so trucks are often parked there. We can locate the trucks first, go get them, and then drive them back to pick up the people in the dormitory building to move rice and other food."
Upon hearing this suggestion, Ji Zai asked one last question: "What about the warehouse keys and the truck keys?"
Ouyang Yi said confidently, "The warehouse key and the truck key are in the school's logistics department office, and the logistics department is right in front of the warehouse."
“I know this plan is very risky, but as long as we pull off this, we won’t have to worry about food for the next two months.”
"The risks are high, but the rewards are also very high."
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