Thanks to Xu Anran's information, none of the people in the group were injured.
Looking at the scene outside, Uncle Li couldn't help but feel grateful that he had met Xu Anran.
As the hailstorm stopped, things outside became lively again. People were busy repairing houses and distributing relief supplies. The hospital, which was usually crowded, was now overcrowded, with patients filling both the wards and the corridors. The hospital lobby was also packed with people picking up medicine and registering; there were so many people that even those getting injections were being directed to the lobby.
While people were busy, the weather subtly changed. A man who had just come out of his house asked, "Don't you feel a bit cold today?" The woman behind him, wearing a down jacket, replied, "Really? It's been hailing these past few days, hasn't it been quite cold?"
The man thought it might be his imagination, and the two started talking about other topics.
As the temperature changed day by day, heavy snow began to fall. At first, people didn't pay attention, but as the snow fell heavier and heavier, reaching up to an adult's calf; and the temperature dropped from 0 degrees to minus 20 degrees, people finally realized something was wrong.
People started rushing to supermarkets to hoard food and also scrambled to buy heating supplies such as coal and honeycomb briquettes. The prices of these items were driven higher and higher, and ordinary people could no longer afford them. The powerful and wealthy hoarded the supplies for themselves.
Xu Anran and the other passengers had already stocked up on their belongings beforehand. Thanks to her announcement in the group, the members of the mutual aid association had also prepared heating equipment in advance, and everyone was very grateful to her.
In the heavy snow, Xu Anran wore a black heated suit with the temperature set to 40 degrees Celsius underneath, along with long trousers and a down jacket, and cotton-padded trousers and boots. She went out with Uncle Li and Xu Liang to look for train tickets. Xu Anran's heated suit was very useful; she couldn't feel the cold outside at all while wearing it.
The three followed the map and went to crowded areas to search. Other passengers did the same. They didn't know what would happen next, but it became more and more dangerous as they went on. Everyone wanted to find their tickets in the early stages of the disaster.
After searching for two days without success, Uncle Li was called back to work by his unit. He took this opportunity to use his access to view the city's surveillance footage, while Xu Anran and Xu Liang listened to Uncle Li's instructions from outside.
Working together, the three finally found the train tickets. Uncle Li spotted two faint yellow lights at the hospital entrance on the surveillance footage. Xu Anran and Xu Liang rushed over and confirmed they were train tickets. One ticket was for train A71 to star C101, with a one-year countdown; the other was for train A412 to star T23, with a six-month countdown.
Since they found train tickets at the hospital entrance, there might be some inside as well. Xu Anran and Xu Liang split up and searched every accessible part of the hospital. Sure enough, they found three more tickets: two for train A112 to K37, with a two-month countdown; and one, like the one found at the entrance, for train A412, with a six-month countdown.
So they have the following tickets:
Two tickets with a two-month countdown; two tickets with a six-month countdown; and one ticket with a one-year countdown. They just need to find one more ticket with a six-month or two-month countdown, and they also need to find a ticket for Uncle Li in the VIP waiting room.
Today's harvest made them very happy, and they felt they would be able to find the remaining train tickets in a few days. That night, Xu Anran had another precognitive dream: In the dream, the heavy snow had stopped, the snow had covered two stories, and the temperature had dropped to -70 degrees Celsius. The streets were covered in ice and snow as far as the eye could see; electricity and internet were destroyed, and both groundwater and drinking water were frozen. The city was without water and electricity, and unable to contact the outside world. People had to go out themselves to break ice, chop firewood, and boil water. The elderly in their families had all frozen to death, but the disaster did not end there.
Under the frozen sea, schools of fish swam up. These fish were very large, about two meters long, and their sides were bright red. They pierced the ice from bottom to top in the sea, crawled out of the ice, and climbed ashore. Their fins turned into limbs like those of a human, and they walked on the shore.
They emerge from the sea and head towards human cities. They are incredibly strong, and their arms can transform into sharp, dagger-like fins to slash and kill humans.
Xu Anran woke up from her dream, found Uncle Li, and described the scene she had seen in her dream to him. After listening, Uncle Li asked with a serious expression, "Do you know when those fish-men appeared?"
"The snow is only up to people's calves now, and the mermen appear when the snow covers the second floor."
After hearing Xu Anran's answer, Uncle Li said, "This place is relatively close to the sea. We need to hurry up and find tickets, collect supplies, and leave here as soon as possible to get to an inland city."
Xu Anran nodded in agreement: "Okay, once we find the tickets, we'll post the news about the fishmen in the group chat. We'll blend in with the other passengers and travel together without drawing attention."
"Good, let's do it that way."
In the waiting hall, three people covered in blood arrived and were taken away by the medical staff to treat their injuries. They were Sister Lan, the female college student, and the boy who had given Xu Anran the train ticket, all of whom had come from K69.
After Xu Anran left, the virus swept across the world, and people built shelters and developed medicines. Just as the vaccine was showing initial success and people were overjoyed, the virus evolved.
Some of those infected died and came back to life, becoming monsters, while others evolved due to the virus and gained superpowers.
After that, monsters and humans began to fight and clash constantly.
The boy infected with the virus also developed superpowers. He looked at the train ticket in his hand, recalling Xu Anran's words, and thinking about how he had to find the person who gave him the ticket.
Later, he met Sister Lan and another person on his way down the mountain, and the three of them formed a team. Because there were monsters everywhere outside, they all went to live in a shelter, where they constantly fought against the monsters.
During this process, Lan Jie and Hu Shuhan also activated their special abilities. Lan Jie has a water-based ability that allows her to launch water spheres, while Hu Shuhan has an ice-based ability that allows her to condense ice blades to kill monsters.
Due to the activation of their supernatural abilities, the primary school tickets in the hands of the three became invalid. In the process of fighting the monster, they found tickets for the high-class waiting room that were emitting a faint red glow.
On G12, after the group left the room, Liu Yue vowed to avenge Fatty. She waited in the ventilation duct until the countdown to teleportation began, then went to the waiting hall.
In the waiting hall, she walked alone to the conveyor belt to the second floor. Before, she had Fatty with her, whom she could rely on, but now that she was all alone, Liu Yue felt a little uneasy.
She found a weapons stall and, forcing herself to remain calm, coldly asked, "How much for this gun?"
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