Lu Sheng intended to pretend he hadn't heard anything, put on an eye mask, and go to sleep, but Sun Tiantian's loud voice kept bothering him.
"Lu Sheng! Open the door!"
"The squad leader is back!"
Li Minghao is back? Lu Sheng was suddenly wide awake and carried Zhuangzhuang out of the bedroom.
"Someone in the group just said they saw Li Minghao come back with a lot of food."
Sun Tiantian pulled Lu Sheng to the window and pointed to the figure moving slowly not far from Dingxiang Tower, "Look! There it is!"
It was already six in the morning, and the temperature had risen back to over 45 degrees Celsius. There wasn't a breath of wind in the air, and even with the windows open, only sweltering heat blew in.
After being enhanced by the system, Lu Sheng's five senses became much more acute. Looking down, she saw a small figure struggling to pull a handcart on the playground, having to stop and wipe her sweat every few steps.
“Let’s go down and take a look.” Sun Tiantian nudged Lu Sheng’s hand. “Although the things we’ve stockpiled can last us for a while, the whole building has gone down to distribute supplies. If we don’t go, people will definitely get suspicious. If the mall doesn’t open, it’ll be troublesome if we get targeted.”
Lu Sheng was very pleased to see Sun Tiantian displaying her intelligence for the first time.
Xiao Yu was worried about the two girls going downstairs, so she found a hat to cover the lantern fruit on her head and followed them downstairs.
When the three arrived on the first floor, Li Minghao was already surrounded by layers of people.
After disappearing for two days, Li Minghao looked extremely disheveled.
His short-sleeved shirt was soaked with sweat and covered in salt stains, and his arms and calves were covered with a dense network of insect bites, a shocking sight.
The cart behind him was piled with more than a dozen large bags of instant noodles and biscuits, as well as some sausages and braised eggs.
The packaging was covered in mud and water, indicating that the journey had not been easy.
Led by Lin Dong and Su Zicheng, a group of people crowded around Li Minghao, reaching out to grab the items from the cart.
"The class monitor is awesome!"
"I'm starving, hurry up and get me some food."
Li Minghao, panting heavily, lay on the cart, weakly protecting the food. "Everyone, don't rush. Let's count how many people are in the building first, and then divide it equally among everyone."
"What's the point of dividing it up! First come, first served!" Lin Dong didn't care about all that and used brute force to pull two large bags of instant noodles from the cart.
Those at the back, afraid of missing out if they were too slow, all rushed forward to grab some. The girls, not being as strong as the boys, could only watch helplessly as they squeezed to the back to pick up what was left.
"Don't grab it! Everyone gets one!" Li Minghao tried to stop them, but was immediately pushed to the ground by the crowd who were blinded by greed.
Lu Sheng stood on the outskirts of the crowd, frowning slightly. "Li Minghao is acting strangely."
In Lu Sheng's memory, Li Minghao was very thin, and his cheeks were so thin that only a layer of skin was hanging on his bones. When he smiled, several wrinkles would appear.
But after only two days, Li Minghao looked like he had been inflated; his limbs were swollen, and his face was shiny as if it were stretched by flesh.
As soon as Lu Sheng finished speaking, Li Minghao, who was not far away, suddenly tensed up, his face turned purple, his eyes bulged out, and his expression was ferocious and terrifying.
Li Minghao's swollen hands gripped his neck tightly as he gasped for breath, like a dying fish.
Just a few steps away, in the crowd scrambling for food, someone uttered a curse.
"Holy crap, what's that smell? It's so pungent."
"Who peed?!"
"Stop fighting! Get the class monitor to the hospital!" A girl with an ordinary appearance and slightly dark skin rushed out from the crowd and ran over to help Li Minghao up.
Lu Sheng and Sun Tiantian exchanged a glance, somewhat surprised.
The girl's name is Zhao Xiaodan. She doesn't get along with others in class or dormitory. She usually keeps to herself and doesn't have any friends.
I never expected that she would be the one to step forward at this time.
Zhao Xiaodan, holding Li Minghao's head, anxiously pleaded with Lin Dong and Su Zicheng, "You boys, quickly take our class monitor to the hospital, he seems to be dying."
“We don’t have a car either… how are we going to deliver it?” Lin Dong pouted, then took two steps back.
Lin Dong's lackey grinned and peeked over before slipping away, saying, "The class monitor is probably just joking with us. Let's go."
After they finished speaking, they tried to leave.
"Don't you have any conscience? Our class monitor worked so hard to find you food, and you took the food and left us to die!" Zhao Xiaodan was almost crying as she pointed at Lin Dong and the others and shouted.
“We didn’t hold a knife to his neck. He went willingly, so what’s it to us!”
Lin Dong angrily threw down a sentence, grabbed his instant noodles, and hurriedly ran upstairs.
"Oh dear, you should do things within your capabilities..."
"We're not doctors either..."
Seeing this, the remaining people all made a hasty retreat, not forgetting to take the remaining supplies from the corridor with them as they left.
Looking at the group's ugly behavior, Lu Sheng's lips curled into a cold smile. In the three years since the apocalypse, she had witnessed far too much of the coldness and selfishness of humanity.
Animals know not to kill their relatives, but humans can exchange offspring to eat each other, and when they are starving, they will even eat their own partners and relatives.
In the end times, the thing you can least trust is human nature.
"Go back, it's beyond saving." Sun Tiantian and Xiao Yu wanted to help, but Lu Sheng stopped them.
During the three years of the apocalypse, Lu Sheng had seen many cases like Li Minghao's in the high-temperature purgatory.
Edema, cramps, and a urine-like odor in the breath are typical signs of acute renal failure caused by heatstroke.
There is no other way but to start dialysis immediately. However, even if Li Minghao is taken to the hospital, it will be too late.
In the apocalypse, the Holy Mother dies first; this is the first lesson Sun Tiantian and Xiao Yu must learn.
Back in room 402, Lu Sheng saw from the window that Xu Yi and the dorm supervisor were carrying Li Minghao away. After all that commotion, Lu Sheng was wide awake and decided to submit the system task first.
[Time-limited task completed.]
[Reward the host for their high-temperature resistance]
As a cool sensation spread from head to toe, most of the summer heat on Lu Sheng's body immediately dissipated, and his body temperature remained at around 27 degrees Celsius.
[Is Level 2 security at the base required? Activate immediately.]
Can security personnel choose when to use their services?
Lu Sheng had a sudden inspiration and called over Sun Tiantian and Xiao Yu, "Is room 403 next door still empty?"
Sun Tiantian nodded, "After Wang Yuanyuan checked out of the dormitory for studying abroad, no new students have come to 403."
"Then I'll move to 403. It's not convenient to always be with you guys." Lu Sheng said and quickly packed her things.
There's always a third wheel in a group of three, and Lu Sheng is practically burning out from being under 200 watts of light every day. Plus, having a separate dorm room makes it easier for her to come and go.
Since moving to Dingxianglou, Lu Sheng hasn't had time to tidy up the space, and he hasn't even taken care of the chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits he bought.
The dormitory doors in the entire Dingxiang Building were not very sturdy, and Lu Sheng simply used a meal card to open the door to room 403.
After a quick clean, Lu Sheng brought up the system menu and activated the base's Level 2 security.
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