After strenuous exercise, one should not drink ice water. Banxia took out a case of 12 bottles of room temperature mineral water from her space. Since there were many rat carcasses, which would consume a lot of fuel, she also took three 15-liter barrels of diesel oil.
Nanxing loaded the things onto the small trailer: "Wife, let me do it."
“I almost forgot,” Banxia said, taking a box of 10 bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid and a 500ml bottle of hand sanitizer from her spatial storage and holding them to her chest, “to prevent the virus from entering the body and to prevent heatstroke.”
While moving things, Nanxing said, "Wife, my body seems to be gradually adapting to the high temperature."
He gave an example to support his point: "Su Yao and the others were the same. If it were before the apocalypse, and we were wrapped up tightly and doing strenuous exercise for one or two hours in temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius, we would have definitely fainted from the heat."
Banxia turned her head to look at him: "Maybe in a few more months, you will be able to fully adapt to the high temperature outside."
When the two of them pulled their things back to the side of the rat carcass, Fang Yunyun and the others were squatting by the roadside resting.
Don't ask them why they don't just sit on the ground; it's because the ground is too hot and would burn their bottoms.
Banxia handed the hand sanitizer to Fang Yunyun, who was a little impatient: "Sister Yunyun, wash your hands."
Fang Yunyun took off her gloves and threw them at her feet. She squeezed out a large dollop of hand sanitizer, rubbed her hands together, and exclaimed, "You're such a sweet little darling. Sigh, why am I not a man?"
Nanxing's lips curled up slightly, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Sister Fang, Banxia is my wife!"
He emphasized the word "I".
Su Yao moved closer to Fang Yunyun and said, looking aggrieved, "Wife, don't you love me anymore?"
Fang Yunyun snorted: "You have the nerve to say that? Who stole three of my steamed buns for breakfast?!"
Su Yao felt even more aggrieved: "You helped Su Xiao snatch my shrimp dumplings first, then I'll..." snatch yours.
"Beep beep beep—"
The sound of a car horn interrupted Su Yao's words.
Banxia and the others looked toward the source of the sound and saw five or six large military green trucks driving into the residential area, with soldiers carrying guns in the truck beds.
Banxia poured mineral water into Yinzi's wide-open mouth: "The army is coming. Who will come with me to ask about the plague?"
Nanxing and the others exchanged glances: "Let's go together."
"No need, the truck is coming this way."
As soon as the truck came to a stop, a tall man got out and walked straight toward the group.
He looked at Nanxing, who had taken off her gas mask to drink water: "Nanxing, long time no see."
Nanxing smiled faintly: "Long time no see, Minister Li."
Due to the special circumstances, the two only greeted each other but did not shake hands.
Looking at the mountain of rat corpses piled up, Li Kongyuan exclaimed, "As expected, there are many hidden masters among the common people. You..." He looked around at everyone, "Seven people actually killed so many mutated rats!"
Zhou Wen, who had just walked over, couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "There must be several hundred of them! You guys are amazing!"
This small mountain contains about five hundred dead rats, and if you add the ones that haven't been collected yet, there are probably seven or eight hundred in total.
Nanxing said gently, "We were lucky, but it wasn't just the seven of us."
He patted Jinzi's big head that was leaning in. "Want some more water?"
Jinzi's wet, dark eyes looked warily at Li Kongyuan and Zhou Wen: "Woof—"
It smelled an unfamiliar scent and, feeling uneasy, came over to check!
Li Kongyuan and Zhou Wen looked at Jinzi, who was even taller than them, and couldn't help but gasp: "A mutated golden retriever?!"
Several furry creatures were resting on the other side of the mountain of rat carcasses, which is how the two discovered the presence of other mutated animals.
Nanxing nodded: "My family raised me from a baby."
"Don't hide, Orange. Come over if you're curious." He beckoned to the peeking Orange. "We have three mutated cats and two mutated trees to help us. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the seven of us to kill hundreds of mutated rats."
It's not impossible, but it's impossible to kill that many in a short period of time.
Li Kongyuan and Zhou Wen's pupils dilated in shock. No wonder these three families, despite having the opportunity to live at the base, were unwilling to go.
With so many powerful mutant animals and mutant trees protecting them, life wouldn't be too bad anywhere. They wouldn't want to leave home either!
The orange cat looked at its owner, Su Yao, and waited for him to nod before gracefully walking over to sit down next to Jinzi.
Everything on the mountain is great, except there are too few people. It's rare for it to see so many people!
Nanxing hugged Jinzi's warm, big head, as if that would give her the courage to face the cruel truth.
He looked at Li Kongyuan and Zhou Wen with a serious expression: "Director Li, Director Zhou, has anyone in the city been infected with the plague?"
Upon hearing the word "plague," Li Kongyuan's face immediately broke into a smile that was more like a grimace: "Yes, some survivors ate the flesh of dead rats..."
He briefly recounted how the city's survivors, unable to find food, ate the flesh of dead rats, contracted the plague, and then spread it to other survivors.
Banxia and the others were speechless: "More than 230,000 people? A 50% infection rate?"
Banxia silently calculated in her mind that, in just one official base, there were already 115,000 people infected with the plague!
Before the apocalypse, City A had a permanent population of 20 million. After deducting those who died during the extreme cold period, those who moved to the base, and those infected with the zombie virus, there were at least 10 million living people in the city!
Given the highly contagious nature of the plague and the current shortage of medical supplies, it is only a matter of time before the entire city of A falls!
After finishing the calculation, Banxia felt dizzy. In her previous life, Nanxing had taken her to live at the S City base after the meteor shower and before the extreme heat. She had no idea that A City had been infected with the plague. Otherwise, she would have moved before the apocalypse no matter what!
She grabbed Nanxing's hand: "We must burn the mutated rat carcasses as soon as possible!"
"Yes, yes, yes," Su Yao and the others, who were also in a panic, seemed to have found their backbone, "burn the rat carcasses!"
Li Kongyuan swallowed back the words he was about to say: "I'll get the soldiers to help."
Banxia didn't stand on ceremony: "Thank you!"
Li Kongyuan brought a total of two hundred soldiers and five mutated military dogs. With their help, they collected all the remaining mutated rat corpses in just over ten minutes.
Nanxing, Suyao, and Zhao Xuan each carried a bucket of diesel fuel and poured it on the mountain of mutated rat corpses, then set it on fire with a lighter.
With the help of diesel fuel, the mountain of rat corpses quickly burst into flames, filling the air with a sour and foul smell, with a faint aroma of roasted meat that made people want to vomit.
"Meow--"
Yinzi tried to cover her nose with her paws like a human, but she couldn't stop the pungent smell from getting into her nose. She buried her head in Banxia's arms with a wronged expression and acted coquettishly.
Jinzi, Daju, and Lihua followed suit, with Jinzi even nudging Nanxing so hard he almost tripped.
Banxia touched Yinzi's warm, large ears and vaguely felt that she had forgotten something.
What exactly happened?
She carefully recalled everything that had happened after the mutated rats appeared...
"There are also mutated rats in the western section of the villa area!"
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