Chapter 11 Food
"Then let's swing across now."
Because they swung across using tree branches, the bottom of the pool is now full of thrashing zombies.
You can still see splashes of water every now and then.
But the rope had already returned to its original position on the other side.
Ji Zai's vision went black as he looked, and he had no choice but to look to the other side of the pavilion.
It's over by the small road.
"Is it safe to go there? I'm a little scared."
Liang Qiyue looked at the small path on the other side, but to be honest, she had no idea what was going on there.
If there are zombies over there.
All four of them will have to be killed.
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the afterimage of the sun, orange in color, looking very warm. From here, I could also see the fiery clouds at sunset.
With such a beautiful sky, who would have thought it would be the end of the world?
Ji Zai stood up. "We can't wait any longer. If we wait any longer, we'll be finished by tonight. We've put in so much effort, we can't let it all come to nothing."
She stood up and stepped onto the uneven road first, walking along it, only to see nothing ahead.
"There are no zombies. I'll lure the zombies out of the grove and then jump over from the other side."
Soon, Nan Yao followed. "You go over there, I'll go to the right. Liang Qiyue stays here to take care of Ouyang Yi. If things go wrong, run."
Ji Zai nodded.
The two quickly circled around and arrived at the grove of trees.
Nan Yao tentatively stepped forward, but before he had gone far, he heard the roars of zombies.
Soon, five zombies ran out.
Ji Zai stared in disbelief. "Holy crap, can't these two sluts pick a place outside the woods for their dates?!"
The zombies were about to arrive.
Ji Zai quickly ran to the rope in the grove and swung across with all his might.
A short while later, Nan Yao, who had gone deeper into the area, also ran out, followed by several zombies.
The first wave of kills was successful.
The record begins the second seduction.
We cautiously made our way through the jungle.
She immediately stopped in her tracks.
It's the logistics office.
When I saw that small bungalow.
Ji Zai's heart was trembling.
Nan Yao, who was standing next to her, was puzzled when she saw her in a daze, but when she turned her head, she saw a bungalow.
She opened her mouth.
I couldn't say it for a moment.
She finally understood why Ji Zai was stunned.
Because they went through countless hardships, traversing mountains and rivers, all for a single hope.
But now, this hope has appeared right before us.
They dared not touch it for a moment.
I was afraid it was fake.
The warehouse has been found.
They should be able to survive, right?
Ji Zai snapped out of his daze and, forcing himself to remain calm, surveyed his surroundings. "There are no zombies."
Before she could even feel happy for a few seconds, she heard a familiar roar.
She was startled and then saw that there was a zombie in the logistics room.
He's the uncle who guards the gate.
Ji Zai's joy was short-lived, lasting less than a second before it was dampened by a bucket of cold water, before her heart could even cool down.
Then Nan invited him to give him a push.
She snapped out of her daze, looked in the direction Nan Yao was pointing, and then her heart sank even further.
Inside the warehouse, behind the locked iron gate, was a truck, along with three other zombies.
Ji Zai looked at the zombie in the logistics room, then at the three zombies inside the large iron gate.
But we're just one step away.
We were just one step away from surviving.
Ji Zai gritted his teeth and said, "Let's release them together, and then we'll run towards the campus lake."
Nan Yao nodded, "But we need to get the key to the big iron door inside the logistics room first."
"Okay, I'll lure it away first, and you can open the door quickly after you get the key."
The logistics room has an automatic door handle and no lock.
It can be opened with a simple twist.
Ji Zai nodded.
She ran to the side first and waited at a distance.
Seeing this, Nan Yao released the zombie from the logistics room.
Then, unsurprisingly, the zombie chased after the person closest to it. Nan Yao ran while shouting, "Hurry up!"
After seeing the zombies lured away by Nan Yao, Ji Zai quickly ran to the logistics room. There was a row of hooks hanging outside the logistics room door, all of which were keys.
The records do not know which one is the key to the large iron gate.
So they took them all.
She was just one step away from survival, and her survival instinct made her think more clearly than ever before.
She ran to the big iron gate, which was locked on the outside, trapping the zombies inside, so their mouths couldn't come out.
Ji Zai aligned it with the keyhole.
The key to the gate was found very quickly.
With a snap, the large iron gate opened, and Ji Zai, seeing this, immediately turned and ran.
Soon, the three zombies were in hot pursuit.
Ji Zai ran to the lake on campus, saw the rope, swung across, and swung across.
All I saw were the three zombies, all of them falling into the lake.
Ji Zai stared at the three zombies, paused, and asked blankly, "Is this the last time I'll be used as bait?"
The air grew quiet.
Liang Qiyue looked into the lake and realized there were already countless zombies.
All she knew was that...
They kept running and running.
But there were still many zombies, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't shake them off.
Now, she cried.
Liang Qiyue had assumed that Ji Zai was calmer than them and must be bolder, but it was only then that she realized the truth.
Ji Zai was also afraid.
She was just pretending not to be afraid.
Just for that tiny, insignificant hope of surviving.
With tears in her eyes, she hugged Ji Zai and said, "Yes, that's right, this is the last time. From now on, no one can use us as bait."
Liang Qiyue couldn't help but cry.
Nan Yao and Ouyang Yi couldn't help but tear up.
This damned apocalypse.
How did it happen like this?
They were not used to this cruel apocalypse.
No one can adapt easily.
They had no choice but to accept it and learn to survive.
After all, the apocalypse is indeed that cruel.
Ji Zai wiped away his tears. "Stop talking. Let's hurry. It's getting dark, and we'll be too late if we don't move soon."
The four people rushed to the front of the warehouse.
Soon they saw the large truck; there was no one inside.
Ji Zai quickly went over and took out the key. "Which one of these is the key to the big truck?"
After comparing them, I concluded, "It should be this one, black, and it looks quite ordinary."
Nan invited him to take the keys and unlock the car.
Four people boarded the bus one after another.
The large iron gate was locked from the outside, so there shouldn't be anyone there, but those zombies were trapped inside. It seems that the person who locked it was the old man in the logistics room.
The uncle in the logistics room locked the door and then hid inside, but he didn't expect to get infected himself, so the door wasn't locked in time.
Nan Yao drove the large truck slowly towards the dormitory.
After getting on the bus, the four of them relaxed a little.
Ji Zai looked out the window; zombies were still following them.
But they were in the car.
They quickly shook off the zombies.
They quickly arrived at the girls' dormitory area.
The zombies that were stopped by the identification device are still there.
Ouyang Yi said, "The logistics office also has a spare key to the girls' dormitory door. We often have large items that need to be transported by truck, so they are kept there."
Ji Zai searched and, sure enough, found it. He went down and opened the door.
As the zombies poured out, he hurriedly jumped into the car, shouting, "The door's open, let's go!"
As they left, the zombies followed them, but could they withstand the weight of the truck?
It was crushed to pieces with one press.
On his way back to his dormitory, Ji Zai saw a drone in the air.
They are the girls who are still in the dormitory.
"Quickly, line up on the third floor. We'll meet you at the loquat tree up the slope. You can go straight in through the back door."
The drone swayed up and down, as if nodding.
On the other end of the drone.
As Xue Nai looked at the big truck, her throat tightened as if something was stuck in it, and her eyes unconsciously reddened. "Oh my god, they actually came back."
With so many zombies.
And they returned alive from the perilous campus.
From the dormitory building, you can vaguely see the big truck.
Ji Zai glanced at it and said, "Nan Yao, flatten all the zombies so they can't jump."
Nan Yao nodded, then squeezed towards the zombies.
Soon, more than a dozen zombies were crushed.
This car is really powerful.
After dealing with all the zombies, he reversed the car onto the side road.
Ji Zai got out of the car and opened all the doors. "Hurry up."
Xue Nai was the first to go down. As soon as she went down, she instinctively hugged Ji Zai.
The records did not understand what this meant.
Yukina took a deep breath. "I'm sorry, I'm just so scared."
Ji Zao understood her thinking.
The thrill of suddenly seeing a way out in a desperate situation.
"It's so good to see you all." Yukina came back to her senses, her eyes still red. "I thought we were doomed."
It wasn't just Yukina; everyone else was the same.
It seems like I've cried about all of them.
Ji Zai sensed something was wrong and looked at them, "What's wrong?"
"Just now, someone's phone connected to the internet."
Upon hearing the news, Ji Zai didn't stop moving. "The internet's up? Let's get in the car and talk about it."
It was getting dark.
There is no time to waste.
The six zombies downstairs in the dormitory quickly ran over.
However, it was blocked by the massive body of the truck.
Seeing that most of the people had come down, Ji Zai called out, "You two stay here and open the door for us in a bit."
The remaining two nodded.
Ji Zai went to the back of the truck and closed the door.
The train departs from the south.
As soon as Ji Zai squatted down, he asked, "What happened? Why are you all crying?"
Upon hearing this, some of the girls on the bus wiped away tears.
A girl opened the downloaded video.
Then, a gray sky appeared, the streets were in ruins, and the once bustling streets were now deserted.
This scene is even more terrifying than when COVID-19 arrived.
The host, with a somber expression, addressed the audience, "Dear citizens, this virus originated in Ning City and has spread widely. The transmission route is unknown. Please immediately self-isolate at home!"
"Because Ning City is the epicenter of the virus outbreak, it has been locked down."
"Several surrounding cities have also been locked down in succession."
"Due to home quarantine, there is a nationwide shortage of supplies, with priority given to areas with high survival rates..."
Upon witnessing this, Ji Zai was startled and visibly panicked. "If we prioritize supplying regions with high survival rates, doesn't that mean we..."
She glanced over at once.
Everyone knows what this means.
So they were truly gripped by despair just now.
Yukina's eyes were red and swollen. "We thought you weren't coming back, and then we saw this news. I thought we were really going to die..."
"I thought you had left..."
Ji Zai understood.
They haven't come back for so long.
The people in their building assumed they had found somewhere else to settle down.
Only they remained.
I saw this news again; the rescue has been delayed, which is why I feel so desperate.
She murmured, "It seems the higher-ups are too busy to help themselves, prioritizing the rescue of other areas unaffected by the virus. As for our area, which is already thoroughly infected, I'm afraid they..."
This is absolutely desperate.
The scene was eerily quiet.
Ji Zai's heart sank to the bottom.
The moment I saw this video, I had to say, it completely destroyed their joy at being able to survive.
The scene was eerily quiet.
They waited for five days.
I thought we would be rescued.
Unexpectedly, what we received were reports of nationwide home quarantine, insufficient supplies, and the government's inability to provide adequate support.
This undoubtedly plunged those who had just begun to have hope into hell in an instant.
The truck stopped very quickly.
Xue Nai said tremblingly, "If it weren't for the fact that one of my classmates had a wireless network, which is different from our network that relies on traditional infrastructure and can connect to other networks across the country without interruption, we would never have known."
This is absolutely shocking.
They were actually abandoned.
We're just left here to die.
Ji Zai closed his eyes. "Go get some food. Since they're not coming to rescue us, we can only hold out until they have the capacity to do so."
We've arrived at the warehouse.
Open the warehouse door.
After opening the door, Ji Zai stood outside for a while to make sure no zombies came out before he felt at ease.
When the door was opened, bags of grain were presented in front of them.
There are also noodles and seasonings.
Liang Qiyue got off the bus and rushed inside. "Hurry up, it's getting dark. As long as we get this food, we can live a wonderful life of leisure. Each of us can carry forty pounds. Come on!"
Ji Zai went up and carried two 50-pound bags of rice.
Then get into the car.
A group of people can move things quickly.
Because of the urgency, the group quickly filled the car with traffic in less than two minutes.
Get on the bus.
The record has been completed; there were a total of 112 people.
After confirming that everything was in order, Nan invited them to set off.
Completed in one go.
Close the warehouse door, but don't lock it.
There was also some food inside, which was reserved for other students at the school.
The truck returned to the dormitory gate and locked it upon its return.
The six zombies in front of the dormitory gate were still there. Nan Yao rammed into them and pinned them all to the ground.
All six zombies were crushed under the truck.
The two students who remained hurriedly opened the door.
Then the people on the vehicle quickly unloaded the supplies and carried them to the second floor.
In less than five minutes, the second-floor corridor was filled with rice, food, and a bunch of other miscellaneous items.
Park the truck in the middle of the front of the building and close the dormitory door.
It's safe now.
Seeing this scene, Ji Zai finally felt relieved.
"We said from the beginning that no matter what happens in the world, life goes on, so let's just grit our teeth and survive."
The scene was completely silent.
It's the end of the world, what else can we do?
Someone responded, "Okay."
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