During a break from eating, Ye Yunyi checked her phone, scrolling through the neighborhood and community for any new notices or news online. Aside from notices from the community and property management, the neighborhood remained under home quarantine, patrols were increased, and security personnel were stationed on key roads, primarily to reassure residents. The property management and community had expressed their sorrow over the incident at the shopping mall entrance that day and assured the victims' families of the consequences. However, they made no mention of Li Biao, who had fed the human to the zombies, and the neighbors dared not bring it up in the group chat. They treated it as an accident. But Li Biao had pushed the person quickly and ruthlessly; aside from Ye Yunyi, who was watching him closely in that moment of confusion, probably no one else saw it.
When asked about the source of the suddenly appearing zombies, the community said they were still investigating and would notify everyone as soon as the investigation was complete. A neighbor posted a comment saying it looked like someone they'd gone shopping with earlier that day, then immediately deleted it, but Ye Yunyi happened to see it. She was terrified by the comment; if that were true, it would be incredibly dangerous.
His face was clearly bitten. When was he bitten? Did he return on the bus? If not, there would be empty seats on the bus; there are dedicated personnel to count people and heads, so it's impossible to miss anyone. Based on the previous zombie transformation process, someone bitten would turn into a zombie within seconds, so he couldn't have been in that state on the bus. Therefore, it must have been after getting off the bus. Why was he the only one seen after getting off? Everyone was collecting their supplies in the afternoon, so where were his supplies? Therefore, he shouldn't be a passenger on the bus. Perhaps the neighbor is mistaken, or perhaps he's exaggerating. No, it's not exaggeration, otherwise he wouldn't have withdrawn it immediately after posting it.
Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. I can't figure it out anyway, and even if I did, I could only do the same thing as now: store up grain and defend.
After reviewing the information about the neighborhood, Ye Yunyi checked Douyin and Baidu. Actually, Douyin has become the fastest-spreading platform for news in recent years. Sure enough, the news that Wang Zixiang had mentioned about a zombie attack at the supermarket where they shopped that day was already widely reported. In addition, similar incidents had occurred in several other neighborhoods in the city center, resulting in hundreds of deaths in a single day.
Ye Yunyi felt a growing unease. Even with heightened defenses, zombie attacks were still occurring. If not effectively controlled, a single zombie could destroy an entire neighborhood; its contagiousness was too high—one became two, two became four, multiplying exponentially. Killing them was also difficult; it required destroying their brains. Currently, most people, like Ye Yunyi, were in a sub-healthy state, making resistance extremely challenging.
Thinking about this, Ye Yunyi decided that she definitely had to get her family to practice self-defense techniques together tomorrow.
After scrolling for a while, Ye Yunyi saw a post from someone called "Apocalypse Survival Master." In the post, he said: "Humanity cannot defeat the zombie virus in a short time; we must prepare for self-rescue. First, strengthen our shelter. Second, stockpile food, ideally achieving self-sufficiency. Third, if the virus cannot be controlled, water, electricity, and gas supplies will be cut off within a month; those in cities should evacuate to the suburbs as soon as possible. Fourth, if possible, go to sparsely populated rural areas or mountains. Fifth, guard against the mentality of the people; in the face of extreme scarcity, social norms and morality will cease to exist, leaving only the law of the jungle."
Ye Yunyi strongly agreed with her post, and she basically followed the post in her preparations. However, currently, there are many attacks under the post, with people believing that she is spreading dangerous rumors, badmouthing the government, and is a foreign spy trying to sow discord among the people.
Ye Yunyi sighed deeply. The less she believed it, the less prepared she was, and the more dangerous it was for those who were prepared. She thought for a moment and decided to resist the urge to reply. She lacked even the ability to protect her family, so she should just stay out of the way and remain as inconspicuous as possible.
Ye Yunyi scrolled down and saw that there had also been zombie attacks in S City. S City was her sister's city. When she called yesterday, it was safe there, and there hadn't been any such incidents.
Ye Yunyi, no longer bothered to watch the news, immediately made a video call to her sister. No one answered the first time, so Ye Yunyi called again, and thankfully the second call went through. Her sister's beautiful face appeared on the video.
"Sister," Ye Yunjuan called out cheerfully.
Hearing this voice, Ye Yunyi felt relieved.
"What's the situation over there? I saw that there have been zombie attacks in your city too?"
"Yes, it's still dozens of kilometers away from here. We're safe for now."
"You live in an old neighborhood. How's the security? Has it been strengthened? Have the unit doors been closed these days? Are you also under home quarantine? Have you stored enough supplies?" Ye Yunyi asked several questions at once. She had visited Ye Yunjuan's place once, five years ago. They lived too far apart; usually, it was her younger sister's family who came back, since their parents lived here, and they only came back once a year. In her memory, they lived on the sixth floor of an old neighborhood with poor security and average building quality.
"Don't worry, sister. We're also under home quarantine here. After you called yesterday, Zhao Yong and I went to the supermarket and bought a lot of food, supplies, medicine, and self-defense tools. We also reinforced the doors and windows."
"Yes, yes, you live in a high-rise building in a residential area. If things really get out of control, there will be water, electricity, and gas outages. You must be prepared. Stock up on alcohol fuel, barbecue charcoal, and wood. You should start storing water now. It's very cold now, so if you lose your heating, be sure to take precautions to stay warm. This is developing too fast. Prepare for the worst." Ye Yunyi gave her detailed instructions.
They chatted for a while longer, then their parents chatted with their younger sister for a bit before hanging up. Wang Zixiang also called his younger brother and parents to give them some instructions.
The cities where Wang Zixiang's younger brother lives, Chongqing and their city, D, are neighboring. Chongqing is a municipality directly under the central government, while D is a city you don't want to leave once you've arrived. They're quite similar; several zombie attacks occurred there today as well. However, they moved to a new house last year, and the neighborhood and house are of good quality. They've also stocked up on a lot of food and supplies. Wang Zixiang relayed what Ye Yunyi and Ye Yunjuan had told his younger brother.
Ye Yunyi looked down at the news again. Several more cities that hadn't previously experienced zombie attacks had also seen them. Currently, only City X was free of them. In just one day, 33 provinces and municipalities had been affected. The speed of this spread was truly terrifying.
Foreign countries were not spared either, but their spread was faster than that in China.
Seeing this, Ye Yunyi had a bad feeling; this time, she probably really couldn't rely on the country.
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