Lu Yuan exclaimed in surprise, while the other party simply nodded repeatedly.
He grabbed his hair and scratched it hard, revealing his gaunt face.
"It's me, Brother Lu, it's me!"
Wang Mingming was sobbing uncontrollably. Lu Yuan watched him cry, but there were very few tears, indicating that his body was extremely dehydrated.
Lu Yuan helped the other person up, then put down his backpack and took out some food from it.
"Just a sip of water with the compressed biscuit, drink it quickly!"
Lu Yuan knew that the other person's body was in its final stage, and if they didn't eat, they might starve to death.
However, eating too much food can lead to overeating and even death.
So Lu Yuan took out a thumb-sized compressed biscuit from his pocket.
These compressed biscuits were left over from a long time ago and had never been used up.
It is designed for emergency use in such scenarios.
Wang Mingming nodded as she picked up a compressed biscuit, popped a bite into her mouth, and then took a sip of mineral water from the bottle Lu Yuan handed her.
Only then did he feel the warm water flowing down his mouth and into his stomach. He hadn't eaten anything so delicious or drunk such clean water in so long.
He couldn't resist wanting to drink the water in one gulp, but Lu Yuan pulled the bottle back.
You shouldn't eat too much food, and of course, you shouldn't drink too much water either.
His body can't handle drinking too much; he's extremely weak right now and can't eat that much.
Xu Changbing stood on the ladder and closed the cover again, while Lu Yuan carefully examined the engine room.
This wheelhouse is the helm house that controls the direction of the entire ship. The area of this place is not very large, but it is extremely important and requires several people to control the ship.
However, it now appears that there is only one person left in the house, and there are some bones on the ground.
Lu Yuan knew that this must be someone who had been with Wang Mingming before, but now he had become Wang Mingming's food.
However, Lu Yuan couldn't understand why Wang Mingming was still so thin after eating these people.
After Wang Mingming's stomach rumbled for a while, she finally looked up at Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan saw a trace of sadness and a trace of guilt in his eyes.
Lu Yuan patted him gently on the shoulder, and Wang Mingming began to speak before he could even open his mouth.
"Brother Lu, I'm sorry, I did the thing you hate most, I ate them! I'm not human! Kill me!"
Lu Yuan quickly stopped the other person from continuing.
"That's enough, that's enough. I know your predicament, I know you're here out of necessity. Alright, get some rest, we'll figure out a way to leave here in a bit."
When Wang Mingming looked up again, a few tears had already appeared in the corners of her eyes.
"Brother Lu, I really didn't mean it, I was just hungry."
When he heard the other person say they were hungry, Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and sighed, not knowing what to say.
He looked at the other person. Wang Mingming was such a simple and innocent person, yet she had been forced into this state by this apocalypse. Helpless, Lu Yuan said to the other person.
“I don’t mean to blame you. This is all the work of the apocalypse. How have you been doing lately? Are you the only ones left alive on the ship? Where are the others? I just heard some noises outside.”
Wang Mingming then spoke.
"We had a terrible time during this period. 80% of the people on the ship turned into cannibals, and the rest either starved to death or died of disease during this time!"
Some people couldn't bear the hunger and committed suicide. The entire place was filled with dead bodies; people died every day. It was quite possible that you would wake up to find a corpse next to you!
Wang Mingming recounted her past experiences as if she were telling Lu Yuan a story.
It turns out that he was with Zhou Tong and a few others, and they were mainly responsible for the engine room and safety management of the entire ship.
These senior managers mostly live in the lowest-level power warehouse, which, although the environment is not good, is quieter.
They didn't want to stay in the cabin because there were too many people there, and there was trash everywhere. They only needed to be responsible for security and didn't want to care about anything else.
A ship that can hold nearly 300,000 people is an astronomical number; just thinking about it sends chills down your spine. They simply can't manage it all.
However, a cannibal virus suddenly broke out and spread throughout the ship.
The first person to be infected was infected by something unknown. The person simply had a persistent high fever. Even though the high-ranking officials and the expert team conducted a consultation, they were unable to identify the person's symptoms.
Everyone treated it as a common flu and isolated him, but little did they know that it was not a common flu, but a highly contagious ghoul virus.
In its early stages, the cannibal virus spread through the air and various other means.
Later, the cannibal virus suddenly broke out one night, throwing the entire ship into chaos. Everyone desperately tried to escape, but there were just too many cannibals, and they almost swept through all the cabins of the ship.
Even their own engine room crew has been invaded by cannibals. A large number of cannibals have swept in, and 80% of the thousands of people in the engine room crew have been infected.
Fortunately, these high-ranking personnel are only responsible for remote command and control. Because the ship is so large and has a low throughput, they only appear when there are serious problems.
So at that time they were not infected, and they had plenty of guns and ammunition. Relying on this position, they continuously gathered those who were not infected and kept all those who had been infected and turned into cannibals outside.
However, the places occupied by the cannibals were almost all vital locations, such as fuel depots, their food supply depots, food trucks, and family livestock farms and planting areas.
So many places have been occupied by cannibals, and this place is the furthest from their bottom position, so they have no choice but to hide here and huddle together little by little.
When they ran out of food, they tried to find ways to get food, but each time they went out, they paid a huge price, and those who went never came back.
So they eventually gave up and could only huddle here, enduring hunger and thirst.
Later, their living space was not compressed at all. In order to get the ship back as soon as possible, Zhou Tong and his group fought their way out of a road with great difficulty.
However, the way out was blocked, and Wang Mingming and the others who were locked together were all left in the power compartment.
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