"December 5th, Monday. Today I went out with them, mainly to return the bodies of the deceased to their families. To be honest, when I saw the shock and grief on the faces of those families, I was terrified. I'm afraid that one day I will also be sent out of the research institute as a corpse. I'm afraid my parents and daughter will see my body. How will they bear the grief of losing me? To be honest, I'm already starting to not want to stay here anymore. Two of the five people who came with me have the same thought. Three people have already died, and they still won't tell us the truth. Do they have to be dead before they're willing to tell us the truth?!"
This is the third recording, and there seems to be a supplement following this one.
"Actually, I went to the archives before I left this morning. It turns out that the so-called victims are not just those three people. Since September of this year, researchers have been inexplicably infected and died almost every month. Judging from the number, there are more than twenty people who have died! No wonder this research institute has to send in new researchers every month. Isn't this just messing with us?!"
After listening to this recording, I became curious about what had happened in this research institute.
However, because my head is hurting so badly right now, I can't think or listen to any more recordings, so I have to put down the recorder for now and take a nap.
I'll listen to the recording again after my cold has almost completely healed.
The recording must have documented a lot about the research institute, and judging from the recording just now, the institute has many unspeakable secrets.
People have been dying since September, and after the zombie outbreak, they announced that they had created an antidote for the zombie virus. There must be many secrets in between.
Perhaps the contents of this recording pen will allow me to access the secrets of this research institute.
There's also the surveillance system in the research institute. Wen Guochao had tried to access the computer before, but accessing the computer requires an outer password, which Wen Guochao's skills weren't good enough to crack. It would take a long time to do so.
But that doesn't matter. We'll be living here all the time, so we'll definitely find a way to access the computer and see the surveillance footage.
...
Two days later, my cold was almost gone. Apart from a stuffy nose, I was basically fine.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that I was alright.
We've had a very peaceful, or rather, boring, experience these past two days.
They would occasionally wander outside, because the place was really empty. Apart from us, there weren't even any zombies. Only yesterday did a zombie occasionally appear, and then Lu Yun started playing with the zombie when she was bored.
When Wen Guochao and his wife saw this scene, they were completely speechless.
The zombie was eventually killed by Lu Yun, and its body was disposed of by her; its whereabouts are unknown.
The weather has been cooler these past few days, and the sun isn't as hot as it used to be.
And now that my cold is better, a group of us moved the tables and chairs outside and started playing cards because we were bored.
While playing cards, I remembered the problem with the flush toilet and asked, "By the way, Wen Guochao, is there any way to divert water from the river to the east? Relying solely on rainwater collection is simply not enough."
Wen Guochao looked at me, shook his head and said, "I don't understand this, and I don't know how to do it."
I said, "Oh, is that so? It's alright, we'll figure something out later. We need to solve the water problem first. Jing-jie, how much water do we have left?"
Jing thought for a moment and said, "There are also five barrels of purified water, and quite a few drinks and small bottles of mineral water. That should be enough for us to drink for quite a while."
I frowned and said, "It still doesn't feel like enough. How about this, we'll go out again this afternoon to find drinking water. Wen Guochao, go see if the research institute has any filters, see if they can filter out potable fresh water. There should be filters in the lab, you know how to make them, right?"
Wen Guochao received the message: "I think so, I'll go check it out later."
I said, "Yes, we can do without water for daily use, but we must have enough water for drinking. Sister Jing, I'll go out with you this afternoon."
“I’m going too!” Lu Yun looked up at me and said.
I thought about it and figured it might be safer to bring Lu Yun along, so I nodded and said, "Alright, you come too. As for the rest of you, stay here. If we can solve the filtration problem, we'll figure out how to divert the river water from the east."
Zhang Xue then said, "But I have a question?"
"What's the problem?"
Zhang Xue said, "I think there must be zombies in that river to the east. If there are zombies, is it really okay for us to use the water from that river like this?"
I said, "I intend to use the river water for flushing the toilet or washing clothes, and it will definitely need to be distilled and filtered before use. As for drinking it, to be honest, I wouldn't dare drink the river water, so you don't need to worry about anything. It's just for use, not for drinking."
Zhang Xue breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
Regardless of whether there are zombies in the river to the east, the riverbed is still very dirty, so drinking it is impossible, but it is perfectly fine for domestic use.
Around 1 p.m., the Lu sisters and I set off to leave the research institute.
Heading to Mingzhu City.
To be honest, the last time I went to Pearl City was three years ago. Back then, I was still in school, before the zombie outbreak, and the world was still the same.
At that time, I was in a negative state towards everything.
I came to Mingzhu City, this international metropolis, with Zhou Yang and his girlfriend Jiang Xiaoxiao.
I stayed here for two days. Strangely, when we slept in the hotel at night, Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't want to sleep in the same room as Zhou Yang, so Zhou Yang ended up sleeping with me for one night.
I remember that night he hated me so much he gritted his teeth.
I originally didn't want to come to Mingzhu City, since I would just be a third wheel! It would be so boring! But Jiang Xiaoxiao dragged me here anyway. At the time, I didn't understand why, but I found out that night that it was because Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't want to sleep with Zhou Yang, so she dragged me along.
Honestly, I felt really sorry for Zhou Yang back then.
However, these things are now just memories.
Zhou Yang is dead, and nobody knows where Jiang Xiaoxiao is, or whether she is alive or dead.
It's all up to fate.
(End of this chapter)
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