I have to say Pei Jin is really capable. He got into the driver's seat and braked in time, but the car still made a sharp turn due to inertia and hit a tree. Fortunately, they are now in the suburbs, surrounded by fields and wetland parks. If they were in the city, there might be big problems.
Ruan Lingran handed the little curly-haired boy to Pei Jin and opened the driver's seat to check the driver's condition.
The driver had his eyes closed, his face grim, and veins bulging on his neck. Ruan Lingran sighed and asked Pei Jin to drag the man out. She went to the trunk to see if there was a rope or something.
"After I tie him up, you put him in the trunk."
"Didn't he just pass out?"
"He's passed out, so we have to tie him up now. I don't know if he'll still be alive in half an hour!"
Ruan Lingran skillfully tied up the driver with a rope, then looked at Pei Jin, who was standing aside with an expression of disbelief. "If you don't believe me, then we'd better separate as soon as possible."
"Not a human? Then what is he?"
"Have you ever seen a zombie movie? The kind where zombies bite people!"
"Huh? Are you kidding me?"
"Believe it or not! Just don't get me into trouble!"
Pei Jin felt that in just half an hour, his worldview had been refreshed. At first, he thought Ruan Lingran was a spy sent by another country. Later, when he heard her speak, he thought she was a lunatic from a mental hospital. Now, Pei Jin felt that there might be something wrong with him. He found that he could no longer understand what she was saying.
Aren’t zombies creatures that only exist in movies?
Even fighting wits and courage with drug dealers has never given him such a headache!
"Wait, explain clearly, what zombies?"
"I'm telling you, in half an hour, monsters called zombies will appear all over the world. They have no sense of pain and will attack humans involuntarily. Once you're scratched or bitten by them, you'll become like them. Falling into a coma is a sign of mutation! Is that clear enough?"
Pei Jin was silent for a while after hearing this. The driver who was tied up on the ground began to twitch again, foaming at the mouth.
"Stop worrying about it, he's about to mutate!" Ruan Lingran hurriedly dragged the driver's feet into the trunk, but she didn't have enough strength and couldn't get the person in even after trying her best.
"I won't ask how you know these things yet. I'll trust you for now. But for Lele's safety, I'll have to tie you up too!"
"Tie, tie, tie! Hurry and stuff this guy in there first. If he mutates later, we might not be able to defeat him!"
The two of them worked together to finally stuff the driver into the trunk. Ruan Lingran followed her promise and asked Pei Jin to tie her to the passenger seat, and he drove to the hotel.
The car drove for about ten minutes, and Pei Jin finally saw the luxurious hotel that Ruan Lingran boasted about - a shabby little villa.
The little curly-haired boy howled immediately: "You're lying, there's nothing here!"
Ruan Lingran felt guilty for a rare moment, and explained awkwardly: "It will be available in the future." Then she turned around and asked Pei Jin to quickly coax the person in.
"Don't look. It was wrong of me to lie to you, but I promise, no place is safer than my hotel!"
Pei Jin half-believed and half-doubted as he carried Curly into the house and placed him on the sofa. "There's no point in crying. We don't even have a place to stay right now."
It was obvious that Pei Jin didn't know how to coax people at all. When the little curly-haired boy heard this, he cried even louder.
He coughed and turned his head away, pretending not to hear the little curly-haired boy's crying, and went to check around the villa with his hands behind his back.
Pei Jin walked around inside and out and found that although the villa was shabby and old, there were indeed no surveillance cameras or dangerous items. Only then did he feel at ease to untie the ropes on Ruan Lingran.
Just as he was about to explain the previous misunderstanding, he heard a shrill alarm in the villa.
[Beep—beep—beep—]
[Beep—]
[The ten-second countdown to doomsday begins: ten, nine, eight... four, three, two, one!]
The sudden alarm and electronic sound coming from the villa startled Pei Jin and Xiao Juanmao, and they quickly looked at Ruan Lingran.
But now Ruan Lingran had no time to care about their strange behavior. She was busy activating the defense device in the system.
[Do you want to enable defense mode?]
Ruan Lingran quickly clicked OK. She had already heard a zombie howling in the trunk of the taxi at the door, and it probably wouldn't be trapped in the trunk for long.
The moment the defense mode was activated, the ground outside the villa cracked and a metal mechanical wall slowly stood up. Under the illumination of the light, a silver-white arc of light was revealed.
Even though Pei Jin had been in the army for many years and had never seen such high-tech gadgets, there wasn't even a crack in the wall. He felt more and more that Ruan Lingran was not an ordinary person.
There were also two more transparent screens in the villa hall, made of the same material as the one in front of Ruan Lingran, the only difference was that everyone could see the content on them.
The screen is suspended in mid-air, and your hand can even pass through the screen. Although such projection capabilities are now available, it is far less clear and realistic than what is in front of you.
Pei Jin frowned and looked at the content on the screen. One screen showed the situation around the villa. Except for the taxi parked at the gate that kept vibrating, there was no other unusual movement for the time being.
On another screen, a live broadcast of the situation in the city center was playing: cars collided repeatedly on the road, innocent bystanders were thrown to the ground and mauled, leaving them bleeding. Those bitten soon stood up tremblingly and continued to pounce on the next person. Soon, the entire street was filled with only the biting monsters. Broken limbs and splattered blood were everywhere. It was a true tragedy.
Pei Jin couldn't even bear to continue watching, so he quickly covered the little curly-haired boy's eyes and asked in a trembling voice.
"Is this what you called... zombies?"
"This is a zombie!"
Ruan Lingran stood at the front desk and gave Pei Jin a formal smile.
"Welcome to the Doomsday Hotel!"
The check-in process is similar to that of an ordinary hotel, including registration, entry, and payment.
However, in the doomsday world, the RMB has no use and is just a stack of waste paper that can barely be used as firewood. Ruan Lingran naturally would not accept such a thing.
"So what do you want?"
Ruan Lingran pointed at the points displayed above the electronic screen and said, "See? We'll take this."
“How do I get these points?”
"Everything of value can be exchanged for points!"
As she spoke, Ruan Lingran used the system to scan Pei Jin's entire body and found that the only valuable item on him was his gun.
"Your gun can be exchanged for 300 points!"
Pei Jin was not willing to change it. Not to mention that the country did not allow ordinary people to own firearms, this gun was the only thing he had that could ensure the safety of Little Curly. Moreover, he had an important mission on his shoulders, and without a gun, he could not move a single step.
"I can give you anything but this!"
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