Chapter 25 Trapped at Home
On the second day after Youxi entered the zombie apocalypse, she spent her time being fed, finding various excuses to cook and hide cooked food.
In the evening of that day, Chen Ya came to inform her to go to the property building for a meeting, mainly to talk to everyone about the situation outside and discuss what to do next.
For example, food problems, how to clean up the infected people in some residents' homes and corridors, and to encourage everyone not to panic, not to go out alone because of worrying about family members outside, and to wait patiently for rescue.
After the previous cooperation, Chen Ya had automatically ignored You's father and mother, and treated her as the backbone of the family.
"Do we have to go to every household?"
"Not really. The office in the property building can't accommodate so many people. At least one household in the unit building that doesn't have a zombie should go. This way it will be more convenient to bring back any news."
"Then I won't go. Anyway, you can bring me any news." She can handle the food and mentality issues by herself. There are too many people in the community. It is impossible for everyone to work together to deal with difficulties. Such meetings have little effect, whether they participate or not. This
can be seen from the fact that several of them went out to clean up the zombies this morning, and no one from other buildings came down to help.
Most ordinary people are indifferent to things that do not concern them. No one is willing to be the one who rushes to the front. As long as there are people rushing in front, others can comfort themselves and say that they are just ordinary people, without force and ability, and they can't take care of themselves. It is better not to rush in the front. Let those difficult things be done by capable people.
"Okay, then you stay at home. I will notify you when there is news." Chen Ya is not stupid, of course he can guess what You Xi is thinking.
There are nine zombies in total. There are so many people in the community, and they are only five people. But when they risk their lives to lead the zombies around the community and do their best to subdue the zombies, the people in the building can only hide behind the window and watch secretly.
It is true that some people are afraid to go out because there are zombies wandering in the corridors, but some units are safe.
Those people don't dare to risk their lives for themselves, so what obligation do they have to risk their lives for these people?
He has no choice. He has a wife and children. In order to protect them, he will do everything within his ability.
This is different from Gao Yun's mentality. Gao Yun's parents are both dead and he has no worries. The great changes have made him jump out of his mediocre life.
He is undoubtedly a good person, responsible, calm and smart, but compared to Chen Ya's idea of only wanting to protect his own small family, he obviously wants to protect the community.
I just don't know how long this idea and the current balance can be maintained.
You Xi nodded, and before Chen Ya left, he said to him, "Be careful, you can come to me if anything happens."
"You too. I'm sorry for you today, otherwise I'd be hard to explain... I've made a note of this, and if you need any help in the future, just ask."
At night, You's father and mother still closed the curtains and dared not turn on the lights. Fortunately, the power was still on and they could turn on the air conditioner, otherwise it would be too hot in this weather. Dinner
was relatively simple, a pot of white porridge with green beans, green vegetables and mushrooms, braised pork with eggs, and cold cucumber.
A large pot of pork bone soup and most of the braised pork, as well as roasted lamb chops, were eaten at noon, and most of them were packed and moved into the Xingwu warehouse with the cooperation of You's father and You Xi.
There is only half a pot of pork bone soup in the refrigerator now, which is for making noodles tomorrow. You Xi planned to eat some of the small pot of braised pork on the table today, and add bean curd knots and bamboo shoots to continue cooking tomorrow. These two vegetables will be especially delicious after absorbing the braised pork soup.
So she quietly opened the refrigerator after dinner and put some bean curd and bamboo shoots in.
Then she remembered that You's mother had a poor appetite, so she put two small watermelons in the refrigerator. In such hot weather, you still have to eat ice watermelon to cool down. The
freezer was missing pork bones, pork belly and lamb chops, but there were oxtail bones left. She put two bags of chicken wings, a large piece of beef and a whole chicken that had been cleaned and cleaned.
Father You saw his daughter unable to move at the door of the refrigerator, and knew that she was probably filling it with something again.
Although he was a little strange and couldn't figure out when his daughter prepared the dishes, he would not ask her about it.
Anyway, if she wanted to say it, she could say it. If she didn't want to say it, he wouldn't force her. He just had to silently assist his daughter behind her and do everything he could to help and protect her.
Father You thought about it and couldn't help but go to the refrigerator. He watched his daughter filling it with things under the cover of the refrigerator door, and gave some suggestions in a low voice from time to time.
"Xiaoxi, you should put away these frozen dumplings. They are convenient foods that can be eaten after being boiled in water. You should put more unprocessed raw meat in them. Your mother and I will make them tomorrow."
"Okay." The two bags of dumplings disappeared from the refrigerator and were replaced by three boxes of pork chops. "We will fry the pork chops tomorrow."
"Okay, by the way, do you have any leeks? I plan to make dumplings with your mother tomorrow. I will use all the flour and fill them with leeks and eggs."
Youxi loves leek and egg dumplings the most. Without saying a word, she put two large bundles of leeks in the refrigerator: "I will make them with you tomorrow. I don't know how long the gas and water can last, so we should hurry up. I also want to make more rice balls, stuffed with meat floss, chicken chops, beef, and lettuce, and wrapped with seaweed on the outside."
"Okay, we'll do it."
Mother You came out of the kitchen with the cut oranges and saw the father and daughter huddled together in front of the refrigerator, muttering, "What are you two grandpas doing? They're almost getting into the refrigerator."
You Xi immediately took out three cups of vanilla ice cream, turned and signaled to Mother You, "Mom, look what I found in the refrigerator. It's so hot, let's eat these."
"I don't remember when you bought this."
"It seems that Dad bought it before. He hid it so well that I didn't find it." She closed the refrigerator, and Father You went to the kitchen to get three spoons. The family of three sat down on the sofa and began to eat the icy and sweet vanilla ice cream and the sweet and sour oranges.
Cold drinks are the most refreshing in this kind of weather. As she ate, Youxi thought of iced cola and iced coffee.
So, after her father and mother went back to their room to rest that night, she emptied the refrigerator, set the temperature to 0 degrees, and then put the six or seven boxes of cola and three boxes of bottled coffee stored in the Star House Warehouse into the refrigerator in turn.
After she tried the temperature of the iced cola, she changed a batch every hour or so. After four hours of rotation, all the cola and coffee became iced cola and iced coffee.
Although the Star House Warehouse cannot be refrigerated, it can maintain the state it was in when it was entered, and this is true for hot food and iced drinks.
It is still unknown how the weather in this apocalypse will develop in the future, but judging from the current situation, the more iced drinks the better. It seems that she will have to make a lot of ice cubes tomorrow.
Youxi had just finished taking a shower and had just laid down when she heard a loud bang outside and a red light outside the window.
This was - an explosion!
Hearing the sound was quite loud, she lifted the thin blanket, rushed to the window in a few steps, opened the window and looked out.
The window of Youxi's room faced south, and the direction of the explosion was northwest. From her room, she could only see the sky full of red light, but not the scene of the incident.
She came out of the room and went to the small room facing north. There was also a small window here, facing due north. She opened the window and looked out.
There was a landmark building near the place where the explosion occurred. She knew that building. It was close to the West City Elevated Road, and there was a gas station under the elevated road. Judging from the magnitude of the explosion, it was most likely that something happened at the gas station.
Far away, in addition to the sound of vehicles colliding in the direction of the explosion, there seemed to be gunshots mixed in.
Youxi frowned.
You's father and mother were also woken up, and most people in the community were also woken up. Youxi looked downstairs and saw many heads sticking out of the windows facing north to watch.
The roar of zombies could be heard faintly in the community, and the frightened infected people banged hard on the door panels. The noise came from the homes of some residents in the building and reached Youxi's ears clearly.
In the second half of the night, many people were so scared that they couldn't sleep. Everyone soon discovered that this night was different from the previous night. The sound of police cars and ambulances was almost inaudible outside, but from time to time there were car crashes and cries for help, and no one knew what terrible things were happening outside.
All residents of the community prayed silently in their hearts that this chaos and terror would not spread to the community.
The Internet was even more chaotic. Infected people appeared in several major cities, such as City B, City T, City G...
Most people were like frightened birds. When they found that their family, friends, colleagues, and classmates were listless and had no appetite, they immediately sent them to the hospital. This action caused the medical facilities to be paralyzed, and soon the hospital was almost completely collapsed.
Because of the extremely fast mutation speed, it was hard to guard against it. There was no time to treat it. Once a type A zombie infected the first type B zombie, the whole area would soon collapse.
Everyone soon discovered that when a suspected type A infected person appeared, the best way was to tie him up and isolate him at home.
The TV stations have stopped broadcasting any programs or series. They are almost all repeating the same news, which summarizes several characteristics of type A and type B infected people and temporary response measures, and also calls on everyone to stay at home or take shelter indoors nearby and store emergency supplies.
Finally, they encourage and comfort everyone not to panic. There are still many normal cities in the country, and rescue operations are being carried out in full swing. Citizens must stay indoors as much as possible and wait for rescue to arrive...
However, after a few days, S City was completely in chaos. From the videos uploaded by netizens, we can see that there are almost no pedestrians on the streets, only zombies wandering around.
The entire city stopped work and school, and all business and transportation were suspended.
By the third day, a large number of videos were released not only in other cities in China, but also abroad.
It turned out that the infected people appeared earlier, but the news was blocked before. The Internet was full of panic, but soon even these could not be seen.
Because that night, the mobile phone signal was cut off, and the Internet was also cut off.
That night, many people completely collapsed. Normal people turned into monsters and bit people everywhere. Their lives were turned upside down and they could only live in a space. They lived in fear for a few days due to lack of food and water...
But no matter how desperate they were, at least they could use their mobile phones to learn about the situation outside and know that the same tragedy was not only happening to them.
However, the disconnected signals and networks completely cut off their connection with the outside world. Some people could not bear it any longer and found various handy tools to start cleaning up the zombies outside the door.
Once someone started this action, others immediately followed suit.
Some people successfully cleared the zombies, walked out of the trapped place, found a car and fled. Some people made a wrong estimate and fell into the zombies' encirclement, were bitten to death, and became a member of the zombies.
Cries for help, crying, and wailing rang out in every corner of the city.
The community was also not peaceful. The reinforced South Gate could block the zombies outside, but it could not reduce the panic of the residents.
As the food of each household was consumed, many residents faced the problem of food shortage.
Therefore, Gao Yun and his team organized a group of people to go to the nearby supermarket to look for food.
There were not many people in this group, about 17 or 18 people, all of them were tall and strong young people.
Because this community is old and remote, far from the city center, the occupancy rate is not high, and many residents are over 50 years old.
Just like Youxi's family, the next generation either went to study or work in other places, or happened to be stuck outside because of a weekend trip and couldn't come back.
But even so, there couldn't be only so many young people in the community. Many people were afraid, and there was still a lot of food stored at home. The elders were eager to protect their children, so they stayed.
For Gao Yun, going out to find food is not about the number of people, but everyone has the ability to protect themselves. He hopes that several people can go out and several people can come back.
So he didn't care whether those thin and trembling young men followed him or not.
Among the group of people who went out with him now, six of them entered the community later. They fled here on the second night and found that the electric gate had been raised and reinforced, and there were people on guard in the security room at the gate, so they decided to stay here temporarily.
The six people were all young and strong. The leader was a man with a crew cut, handsome, and nearly 1.9 meters tall. He was called Brother Long.
They cleaned out a house in Building 1 where all the owners were infected and turned into zombies, and moved in.
The six people had killed zombies all the way while fleeing, and they were no longer afraid, so they all went together this time.
There are several small supermarkets near the community, but the zombie outbreak happened in the afternoon. There were basically people in these small supermarkets. After only four or five days, most of the supermarket owners were still hiding in the store.
When the people in the community cleaned up the nearby zombies and wanted to pry open the shutter door, a voice suddenly came from inside, saying that they would not do business and asked them to leave quickly.
In the early days of the apocalypse, social order could not collapse all at once. Gao Yun and his team had just changed their minds and could start cleaning up the zombies, but they could not kill people and rob them directly.
Brother Long and his group were obviously a little unhappy. There are ways to rob without killing people. After all, they have made the people in the store clearly aware of the threats outside, and it is okay to ask for something appropriately.
However, Gao Yun was unwilling to do so. Bian An, Wu Di, Chen Ya and others all listened to him, and in the end everyone followed Gao Yun.
Everyone continued to move forward, hoping to find an unowned store.
Finally, they found a supermarket with its door open at the intersection. They killed the two zombies lingering at the door, and then carefully checked the inside of the supermarket and killed the two zombies behind the shelves.
This supermarket is slightly larger than the average small supermarket, but at this moment, the shelves are overturned and the items are scattered. Many filling rice, instant noodles, canned sausages, chocolate bread, etc. have been swept away, even the warehouse at the back is no exception. The only things
left are some puffed foods, snacks that don't fill the stomach, bottled drinks, and some scattered fruits.
Gao Yun asked people to search these things, and then consulted with Chen Ya and the others to see if they should continue to go out.
Because if you walk north along the main road outside the intersection to the next intersection, there is a shopping mall, and there is a large supermarket on the first floor below the shopping mall. There must be something inside.
"There may be a lot of zombies inside." Bian An reminded him.
"We don't have to go into the shopping mall. I know where the supermarket unloading area is. We can go directly to the warehouse behind the supermarket from there."
Chen Ya used to work in the gym on the fifth floor of this shopping mall. Because he went there many times, he naturally knew it.
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