There is always a way out, and Song Yue actually found three other survivors in Hotel Z.
Due to being in a state of hunger for a long time, they were completely emaciated. Normal-sized clothes on them now looked like oversized windbreakers hanging on a hanger, empty and loose.
Since the insect plague, the three people have been huddled in a narrow cabinet in the back kitchen, relying on the water pipe next to them as their main source of survival, and have survived for more than ten days by relying solely on drinking water.
Seeing Song Yue, a living person, pushing the door open, they thought they were hallucinating due to hunger. Until she squatted down, opened the cupboard completely, and looked into her eyes in medical gown, the three of them could no longer hold back their tears.
"Get in the car first, it's safe inside." Song Yue helped the three people with trembling legs and helped them sit in the back seat.
The three grown men were so grateful that they cried and didn't know what to say.
"...Wait, you... aren't you going to get in the car?" One of the men asked, suppressing his sobs when he saw that she had no intention of getting in the car.
Song Yue: "There's still room for three more people in the car. I'll go look inside. There might be survivors."
After saying that, he turned around and quickly slipped into the hotel.
The man looked at her back, feeling mixed emotions.
"That's great... We finally waited for the rescue team... Fortunately we didn't give up..." He couldn't help but sigh.
Unexpectedly, a girl in the passenger seat turned her head and looked at the three of them: "No, Xiaoyue is just a tourist here, not a rescue team."
The man was suddenly stunned.
What? She's not from the rescue team?
"Then why did she..." He couldn't help but mutter.
At the same time, a sense of admiration arises spontaneously.
As for Song Yue, she knocked on all the rooms in Hotel Z but received no response.
There was no choice but to go downstairs and take another look at the XX Hotel where their department had previously stayed.
The situation at XX Hotel was much more serious than that at Z Hotel, because when the insect plague broke out, the back garden of XX Hotel was the first to be affected.
At that time, their department was holding a bonfire party in the back garden. Many people were infected with insect eggs. They were unaware of it at first and walked around everywhere. After the insects burst out, they became walking insect bags and spread the insects wherever they went.
Lucy is one of those bug bags.
After her death, the mature black worms left her body and crawled from Room 503 to various places, occupying the same floor at an extremely fast speed, and then parasitized and reproduced on the new mother body, further expanding their territory.
Song Yue searched from the first floor to the fifth floor, and all he saw was a tragic scene of corpses scattered all over the ground.
In this situation, it is almost impossible for anyone to survive.
Song Yue searched without hope, and suddenly, it seemed as if someone was looking at her from behind!
She turned around quickly.
But the gaze disappeared.
Her brows furrowed, she took out the pistol from the space, and walked step by step towards the place where her eyes appeared.
It was a staff restroom.
She stretched out her left hand and gently pushed open the toilet door, while her right hand kept the gun steady.
"Is anyone there?"
No one responded to the toilet.
Song Yue narrowed her eyes and slowly moved towards the toilet.
There were three cubicles in the restroom, and she pushed them open one by one.
The first room was empty.
In the second chamber, a half-skeletal corpse lay in the trough. No blackworms were found on the corpse. They had probably eaten everything and gone to look for food elsewhere.
Song Yue calmed down and shifted his gaze to the last room, which was the third room.
Her intuition told her that there was someone inside.
She kicked it gently with her foot, and the door panel suddenly hit something soft, like a human body.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you."
As she spoke, she stared intently into the compartment.
A female corpse was lying before my eyes.
With his mouth wide open and his face bitten to pieces, his death was exactly the same as everyone else's.
Song Yue didn't show any emotion about this. She just frowned suspiciously, feeling a little confused. He was obviously a dead person, so why did he look at her from behind just now?
Could she be wrong?
No, it's basically impossible.
She was still very confident in her own acumen and there was no way she was wrong.
Just as she was suspicious, suddenly, a blood-red face and black eyes came into her sight.
Swish!
Point the gun at the other party!
However, the next moment, Song Yue opened his eyes and stood there in a daze.
It's a little girl, a living little girl!
The third compartment was larger than the first two, so she couldn't see what was behind the door until it was fully opened.
On the right side of the innermost part of the cubicle, there was a mop washing pool filled with water. The little girl was squatting in it, with only half of her wet head exposed, staring at Song Yue motionlessly.
Song Yue stared at the half-black, half-red water in the pool, and suddenly realized something.
No wonder the little girl is alive.
Susan later told her that when she escaped from the hotel to the medical center, she accidentally fell into a sewage pool. When she climbed out, she was covered in the stench that almost made her vomit.
But precisely because of this, the black bug accidentally failed to catch up.
The same situation happened to the little girl. The water in the pool was originally clean, and the little girl's mother, the female corpse lying on the ground, originally wanted to let the child hide in the water.
Later, the woman was attacked by black bugs, and before she died, she grabbed the edge of the pool with her hands because of extreme pain.
As the body slowly rotted, the rotten flesh on his hands mixed with the pool water, both red and black.
The little girl was covered in a foul smell, so the black bugs did not attack her and she escaped.
Song Yue put away his gun, strode to the edge of the pool, and picked up the little girl.
Even through the protective suit, Song Yue could smell the foul odor the moment he came into contact with the girl.
She held the little girl in her arms, turned around, and was about to step out of the third compartment.
The little girl suddenly reached out and grabbed the toilet door, sobbing: "...I want my mother..."
Song Yue pulled the little girl's hand down and said nothing.
The little girl didn't make any noise, just lay on her, staring at the toilet that was getting farther and farther away.
The results of this trip were not very good, with only 4 survivors found in total.
Song Yue handed the child over to Susan as usual. She glanced at the little girl and then reminded her, "Her mother is gone. Please take good care of her for the next two days. If you are too busy, call Sister Zhang (Chef Zhang's wife). She has experience."
Susan's throat choked when she heard her words. She looked at the little girl lovingly and nodded: "Okay, don't worry, I must pay attention to this matter."
This child was only five or six years old, and she lost her mother. What a painful experience it must have been for her.
Susan sighed, took the little girl's hand and led her upstairs.
The current number of survivors in the shelter is 136, 24 short of 150.
Thinking that there was still some time, Song Yue packed up simply and went out again.
The trip didn't end until evening.
When they came back, the car was packed with people. Not counting her, they brought back a total of 7 people.
Everyone's face was filled with irrepressible excitement and joy. Some were crying, some were laughing, and they supported each other as they went upstairs under Susan's leadership.
After dinner, Song Yueben planned to go out and look for someone again.
After all, who knows how many people will die every night.
However, just as she was about to go out, the sky at the seaside changed.
Cumulus clouds rolled, lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled faintly from the sea.
A third thunderstorm is approaching.
Song Yue stood in the lobby on the first floor, looking at the dark clouds outside. After thinking for a while, he decided to take the risk and go out again.
While Bruce and Susan weren't paying attention, she opened the door herself and left in a hurry.
The insecticide had only been used twice, and there was 18 ml left. She sprayed some on herself, got in the car, and continued searching in other corners of the island.
Shopping stores, rental shops, night markets...
After going around in circles, she actually found more than 20 survivors.
Unfortunately, one truck couldn't fit all the items, so she had to transfer them in batches.
Before she was about to leave, a skinny old man grabbed her tightly and wouldn't let her go.
"Who knows if you will come back after you leave? I don't trust you. You must take me with you."
The emotions that had finally been calmed down exploded again because of the old man's words.
"That's right, why should we take them first? Let them get off and we'll go in!"
"A thunderstorm is coming soon, and those black bugs are going to start killing again! What will we do if you leave?"
"No, no, you can't leave!"
A group of people pulled and tugged, surrounding Song Yue, trying desperately to get the chance to leave first.
Song Yue was too lazy to waste any more words, so he simply pulled out his gun and fired into the air.
The crowd suddenly quieted down, staring at her, not daring to say a word.
Song Yue glanced at them coldly: "If you want to live, get out of my way. Otherwise, the delay will cost you your own lives."
Everyone lowered their eyes, looking at each other, weighing things up.
Finally, the crowd silently stepped aside to make way for her.
Song Yue got in the car and glanced at them: "I'll be back in half an hour."
The vehicle sped out and quickly disappeared around the corner.
The skinny old man was so angry that he stamped his feet and scolded the group of young people who gave in: "What a bunch of cowards! It's just stopping someone, what's there to be afraid of! If she doesn't agree, we can even rob her car!"
He thought everyone would cater to him like before, but this time, no one paid any attention to him.
The air was quiet for a moment, and suddenly, someone said quietly: "Uncle Lin, don't forget that your life was saved by several people in the car. Without them, would you be alive now?
Also, this cellar was provided by them. Everyone here, ask yourselves, what qualifications do you have to rob it?"
After this speech, everyone's expression changed.
Suddenly, a loud thunderclap sounded in their ears. Everyone's heart trembled and they hurriedly hid back in the cellar.
On rainy days, time always seems extra long.
After an unknown amount of time, everyone heard the sound of a car stopping on the ground.
It's her! She's really here!
Everyone's eyes lit up, and they wrapped themselves in mats, linen bags and other self-defense items, and pushed open the cellar door in the wind and rain.
After three consecutive trips, Song Yue finally brought all the more than 20 people in the cellar back to the medical center.
The quantity on the task is also updated to 151.
[Congratulations to the host for successfully completing the required task 2]
Looking at the system prompt, she breathed a sigh of relief.
All that's left is to just stay in the shelter. After another three weeks, this dungeon will be over.
"By the way, Uncle Huang," she called out to the retired soldier passing by, "Please be careful with these newcomers."
She didn't quite trust the people in the cellar, especially the skinny old man who was causing trouble.
If you find that the other party is restless, deal with it as soon as possible.
Uncle Huang turned his head, glanced at the seven or eight people following Susan, and nodded: "Okay, I'll keep an eye on it."
As it turned out, her intuition was correct.
On the third day of staying in the medical center, the skinny old man behaved in the same way as Aunt Li.
He refused to participate in the labor on the grounds that he was old and had difficulty moving, but at the same time he was jealous of the better rooms others lived in and wanted to move to a single room.
After being rejected, he became more and more angry, so he secretly instigated two young people to make trouble with him.
Unexpectedly, when he raised the flag and shouted slogans, several people suppressed them in the next second.
Uncle Huang: "Xiaoyue, you're really good at judging people. You're definitely not someone you can handle. Come on, I'll give you two choices: either join the labor force right now and keep your multi-patient ward, or leave the medical center immediately."
Unlike Aunt Li who knows the current situation, the skinny old man is as stubborn as a cow and insists on not working.
"I am an old man! Do you understand the principle of respecting the old and loving the young? You are a bunch of uneducated people. How dare you get me out? I tell you, young man, you are killing people and you should be sentenced!" The skinny old man was sure that they dared not to do so, and he spoke loudly.
When Song Yue heard the noise, she said nothing but raised her chin slightly.
Uncle Huang received the order, uttered a sigh, and directly grabbed the old man with his arms and threw him out in public.
"Let me in! You are killing people! You are so cruel! You will be struck by lightning!" The skinny old man slammed the glass door in fear and cried at the top of his voice.
However, everyone in the hall just glanced at him, then looked away, not paying any attention to him at all.
"Mom, that old man looks so pitiful, why don't you let him in?" A little girl held her mother's hand and looked at the person outside the door with sympathy.
The mother touched her daughter's head and said softly, "People who don't follow the rules are not welcome anywhere. Jiajia must obey the law in the future~"
The little girl didn't understand what he said, but finally she looked away and said okay.
Outside the door, the skinny old man looked at them in despair and collapsed to the ground.
Time passed week by week, and in the blink of an eye, it was the last day of the copy.
Song Yue went to the cafeteria and farmland, then followed Uncle Huang and Song Bochen to patrol the entire building in turn to make sure everything was in order.
That night, she lay on the hospital bed with her eyes closed.
[Congratulations to the host, you have completed the required task 1]
[C+ instance cleared, lifespan calculation in progress...]
[A total of 80 life points are obtained in this instance]
[The next instance will be opened in the early morning of October 1st, please prepare in advance]
[Leaving the current instance...]
Her vision was a blur, and she should have returned to reality, but she never did.
"099, what's going on?" Song Yue was floating in the black void and suddenly felt uneasy.
[…Um, back to the quester. I'm currently matching you with an opponent in the same dungeon.]
"What do you mean by the same copy?" Song Yue's eyes widened. "Didn't I pass the C+ copy?"
Feeling the silence of the system in my mind, the sense of unease in my heart grew stronger.
"099, I want to hear the truth." Seeing that the system was silent, Song Yue gave a cold order.
The system finally spoke slowly: […To advance from rank C to rank B, each tasker must enter a promotion dungeon. Promotion dungeons, as the name suggests, require advancement before continuing to the next dungeon.]
Song Yue's voice deepened: "What if I don't advance?"
[…It will be considered as a failed promotion. The main system will reclaim all lifespans of the tasker.]
Doesn’t this mean that everything is reset to zero and disappears directly?
Song Yue was a little angry and a little flustered at the same time.
She was angry because the system had concealed the truth from her for several months and only told her now; she was panicked because if she failed to advance, she wouldn't even have the chance to say goodbye to her parents properly!
Uncomfortable emotions surged in her chest. After an unknown amount of time, she let out a deep breath and clenched her fists.
"Okay, I'll participate in the promotion."
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