Chapter 47. Chapter 47. It seems that part of it is dead, and...
When the eighth resume fluttered down, the temperature in the room noticeably dropped by two degrees.
The system was too guilty to utter a word, and Fu Qing's glare had nowhere to land, so she could only grit her teeth and stare at the resume.
Like the previous seven sheets, it was an A4-sized white sheet of paper. No matter how you looked at it, you couldn't see any halo around it.
"System, is your lighting malfunctioning?"
system:【……】
It mustered its courage and said tremblingly, "[You still have two more chances, don't be discouraged, host.]"
[Human luck is conserved between good and bad. You've already won 7 N cards and 1 R card; such a low winning rate is rare. You're sure to get what you want next!]
If the system had a physical form, it should now be making an adorable fist-clenching gesture to encourage itself.
Fu Qing was laughing at his own bad luck.
Unlike Bai Tang and Liu Yingchun, those seven N cards were not rare talents who died young, and they did not have any outstanding skills, so she canceled the hiring without hesitation.
R-cards aren't much better; hiring them would be a complete waste.
But isn't the 10-point "card draw" fee another kind of waste?
The 130 teaching points had yielded no results, and that "little bit of luck" still had two last chances. Fu Qing stared intently at the button floating in the void, his gaze deep and unfathomable.
[Cost: 20 teaching points]
[Click to Recruit]
She drew two at once.
Two resumes fell from the sky, both radiating a golden light, with sparkling points of light that seemed to be surrounded by flower petals.
Fu Qing's mood immediately improved.
That bit of luck has been used up; only two suitable candidates have appeared.
Among the three types of talents who make wishes—medical, infrastructure, and devout believers—these two individuals may both possess one of the three qualities, or each may possess two of the three qualities, or one of them may possess multiple qualities...
To know the specifics, I would have to review the resume and ask the person in question.
Fu Qing was quite satisfied with the result. He grabbed the resume and glanced down at the name column, but then paused.
The scene flashed before my eyes, freezing into a fair and handsome face.
The boy who was green and inexperienced when they first met has become more and more handsome as the years have passed. In the photo, Lu Yan looks at the camera with bright eyes and a slightly playful smile on his lips. Through the photograph, across the years, he looks straight at Fu Qing.
That's how we used to talk and joke around during countless nights when the campfire burned brightly in the camp.
She was also seriously injured, and he braved the horde of zombies to go out and find medicine. Before leaving, he patted her on the shoulder and told her not to worry.
Fu Qing's fingers, resting on the resume, unconsciously tightened, leaving marks on the paper. The thin sheet of paper felt heavy at that moment.
She muttered to herself, "How did I even get this?"
That's a bit too much of a coincidence.
She had previously thought it was too much of a coincidence to draw Bai Tang, whom she had only met once, among so many people, but Lu Yan... the appearance of this guy could no longer be explained by coincidence.
In retrospect, the system did secretly give her a backdoor.
She didn't rush to click "recruit," but flipped to the next resume and fell silent again.
The appearance of so many familiar faces suggests that all the good karma accumulated from the previous eight times has finally come to fruition in these two instances.
[A new applicant has come to apply!]
Attribute: R
Expected salary: 7 teaching locations/month
【personal information】
Name: Xu Mingyue
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Abilities: Intelligence A+, Physical Ability B+, Survival Skills S-, Intelligence A
Overall rating: A+ (Can fill in any position, a useful cog in the machine of a big company, hairline check-up report and vacation can be compromised, but salary is non-negotiable.)
[A new applicant has come to apply!]
Attribute: SSR
Expected salary: 0 teaching points/month
【personal information】
Name: Lu Yan
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Abilities: Intelligence S, Physical Ability S-, Survival Skills S+, Intelligence S
Overall rating: S (A precious SSR, I don't know why it's free?)
Should we hire them?
During his escape, Fu Qing met many people and briefly stayed in some groups and organizations.
For example, the survivor team that met Xiao Juan and Uncle Liao, and the shelter where the first zombie believer they met—the madwoman—lived.
Some people only stay together for a short time before parting ways, while others stay together for a long time because their personalities are compatible or their skills complement each other.
Lu Yan and Xu Mingyue are an example of this.
The former was someone Fu Qing met after starting university. The two met in a game; one was a dedicated damage dealer, and the other a long-time support. Their partnership was seamless, and they even briefly topped the game's leaderboard. Although they knew they were in the same university, they had never met until the zombie horde broke out and the school fell, at which point they unexpectedly encountered each other while escaping.
In a fight over a bucket of instant noodles, two starving people with eyes practically glowing green immediately started taunting each other. Halfway through their exchange, they realized they recognized each other.
Later, zombies suddenly invaded, and Fu Qing rolled up her sleeves and went to fight. The young man found a knife from somewhere and silently handed it to her at the perfect moment, allowing her to stab a zombie in the head for the first time.
The two hit it off immediately and decided to team up, with the bucket of pickled cabbage as the witness.
The power of Lao Tan pickled cabbage is very reliable; this team has been together for more than four years.
According to Lu Yan's own account, his ancestors for eighteen generations all studied medicine. They knew a little about both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. By his generation, as soon as he could crawl, he was already learning to use his little hands to hold needles and prick dolls. At the age of three, he could follow his grandfather up the mountain to collect herbs, stumbling along the way. Although he chose forensic medicine as his major in college, which almost made his grandfather jump into the river in anger, forensic medicine is still medicine.
They are particularly skilled at dealing with zombies.
The reason his resume shines is obvious: he's definitely a medical professional.
As for Xu Mingyue, Fu Qing and Lu Yan met her on their way to the next city after Xiao Juan and Brother Liao died, when they left the survivor team.
She won over two hungry wolf cubs with her superb quick and easy cooking skills, perfect for busy working professionals, and they successfully joined her team.
As the team expanded, Fu Qing and the others would go out hunting and foraging, while Xu Mingyue would take charge of logistics.
Aside from cooking and cleaning, she used her spare time to improve the shelter. After a while, the dilapidated farmhouse she found at random on the mountainside was repaired into an airtight iron bucket.
Fu Qing then realized that this glamorous white-collar woman, who graduated from a prestigious university and worked in a large factory, actually had all the skills she had acquired in her rural hometown during her time as a test-taker in a small town.
She taught Fuqing how to identify ingredients found in the mountains, how to quickly build a campsite using dead trees and scraps in the forest, and how to make traps and build houses.
Therefore, the reason why Xu Mingyue appeared here is also very clear.
[Infrastructure] type of talent.
These two stayed with Fu Qing until their deaths, and she was certain that none of them were devout zombie believers, nor did they know more than she did.
In other words, the last wish came true.
Fu Qing felt a little disappointed, but quickly put it aside. Looking at the two resumes side by side in front of him, he clicked "hire".
A flash of white light appeared, and two familiar figures appeared in the room.
If Yu Cheng were here, he would probably find that Lu Yan in front of him was more mature than he had seen before. He had grown taller, shed his immaturity, and his shoulders had become broader.
Just like Fu Qing back then, she was younger than she is now and hadn't completely shed her student-like demeanor.
Their way of getting along remained unchanged.
They were so familiar with each other that Lu Yan's first reaction upon seeing Fu Qing was to reach out and touch her stomach.
Fu Qing: "?"
What's wrong?
With a sharp crack, a solid red mark was left on the back of my hand.
Lu Yan yelled, his face contorted in pain. Ignoring his reddened hands, he glared at Fu Qing with fury: "No way, with such a big hole in your stomach, why aren't you lying down? What are you doing standing here?"
Xu Mingyue was still blinking in confusion, looking left and right, feeling that this place was completely different from the familiar dilapidated house. Upon hearing this, she immediately disregarded these abnormalities and, before her mind could process it, her body had already taken action to help Qing lie down on the sofa next to her.
As for the sofa? Who cares where it came from!
"Where are you hurt? Where are you hurt?"
"Where's my medicine box? Where's my medicine box?"
The two of them paced around the room anxiously, seemingly searching for something, their movements resembling a two-person comedy act, making Fu Qing dizzy.
Where did these two clowns come from?
Her temple twitched, and she pushed away the two heads that were leaning towards her, one in each hand, pressing her forehead against them.
"The injury has healed, almost half a year ago."
No, adding the two months since I came into this world, that's more than half a year.
Moreover, if we're talking about the severity of their injuries before they died, weren't they both in worse condition than her?
After all this commotion, the sense of distance that had grown between Fu Qing and the others over the years vanished completely, and she felt as if she had returned to the time when everyone lived together in the same small house.
At that time, survival was more important to them, and they didn't care about social distance or gender differences in civilized society.
In winter, to save fuel, they huddle together for warmth; in spring, to guard against wild animals that become even more ferocious after mating, they stay in the same room and take turns sleeping.
Having seen each other at our most vulnerable and disheveled, and still able to entrust our backs to one another with complete peace of mind, this friendship is far more resilient than most relationships in civilized society.
But after Fu Qing finished explaining the series of events, including rebirth, school establishment, and teacher recruitment, she clearly saw a fleeting moment of surprise in Xu Mingyue's eyes.
When Xu Mingyue looked down for the first time, she saw the mud left on her palms and the stains on her canvas shoes that she had brought with her with her time travel.
She wiped her hands on her work pants, looked at the bright and clean office, and felt as if she were in another world.
Before the apocalypse, she also worked in a place like this, wearing a perfectly pressed suit without a single wrinkle, and walking in and out of towering office buildings in high heels.
But now she seems a little unworthy of this place.
Years later, Xu Mingyue recalled the embarrassment she felt when she first entered the provincial capital during her university years, a feeling that suddenly arose in the heart of a country bumpkin.
She cleared her throat: "I see."
An invisible, thin barrier is being rebuilt silently.
Lu Yan sensed something and turned to look at Xu Mingyue.
Xu Mingyue sat down on the sofa. Seemingly feeling that her pants were a bit dirty, she only sat on half of her buttocks, and still wanted to pretend to be relaxed and reminisce about the past.
Fu Qing raised one eyebrow and said, "What are you being so reserved about? I was the one who helped you scatter your ashes."
Xu Mingyue: "………………"
The newly established barrier shattered with a crack, along with Xu Mingyue's rationality.
"How come you haven't been poisoned by licking your own lips while you're eating?" she wondered, completely baffled.
Xu Mingyue reached out angrily, wanting to pat Fu Qing's head on tiptoe like when they first met, but suddenly noticed a subtle change in Fu Qing's demeanor.
It seems... I've become less approachable than before.
"What happened to you after that?" Xu Mingyue withdrew her hand, frowned, and asked subconsciously, then quickly added, "Never mind, I won't ask."
Xu Mingyue quickly changed the subject, leaned back, and sank into the soft sofa, letting out a comfortable sigh.
"Do you remember that little shack at the foot of the mountain? It had been abandoned long before the apocalypse. The furniture inside was all chewed up by rats, leaving only a broken mattress with springs punctured and teeming with insects. We emptied out the insect eggs, cleaned it, and left it in the sun for two days before daring to use it. Back then, who would have thought we'd be sitting on such a comfortable sofa again?"
As she finished speaking, she looked nostalgically at her friends and noticed that Fu Qing and Lu Yan had disgusted expressions on their faces.
During the conversation, Fu Qing, who had been drinking from a carton of yogurt, put it down upon hearing this. (Eek.jpg)
Xu Mingyue: "???"
She slammed her hand on the table: "What exactly is your opinion on middle-aged people's time for reminiscing about the past and appreciating the present?"
Fu Qing politely said, "The World Health Organization defines middle age as 45 to 59 years old. Twenty-nine years old is still far from middle age. Also, I hope you won't bring up the topic of insect eggs next time I'm drinking passion fruit yogurt."
Lu Yan also comforted her: "Actually, it's more bitter now. Considering we're already dead—if you want to remember the bitter past and appreciate the sweet present, why not think about when we were still alive?"
Xu Mingyue: "..."
She rolled her eyes, realizing she couldn't connect with these two when it came to sentimental musings.
The moment he opened his mouth, the atmosphere was completely ruined.
Lu Yan seemed lost in thought, his gaze occasionally sweeping over Fu Qing's abdomen, which was covered by the fabric of her clothes, before he restrained himself and looked away, his brows furrowing slightly. Xu Mingyue didn't start a new topic either, instead staring longingly at the yogurt in Fu Qing's hand.
Fu Qing understood and tossed them two boxes. The two caught them and popped them open, leaving only the gurgling sound of the straws filling the room.
After finishing a carton of yogurt and throwing the empty carton into the trash can, she finally got down to business.
"Let's talk about the work ahead."
Xu Mingyue, a former office worker, shivered and trembled.
Fu Qing pretended not to see: "Time is tight. We only have less than a year left. Most courses will have midterm exams this week, and the new courses will officially start next week. You have less than a week to prepare your lessons."
"As for the courses each of you will be responsible for, I have already prepared them."
She tossed the watches to the two men, and after they put them on, she waved her hand.
The newly generated course schedule was sent to the two teachers and appeared on an automatically popping-up holographic projection.
[Course Information]
Title: Basic Medical First Aid (Required)
Teaching location: Room 201, Building 1
Lecturer: Lu Yan
[Course Information]
Title: Introduction to Building a Secure Outpost (Optional)
Teaching location: Room 202, Building 1
Lecturer: Xu Mingyue
"You can log in to the teachers' forum using the wristband, but there aren't many people chatting there usually. If you have something to say, just knock on the door of the next dormitory. The map and instructions for using the facilities on campus are also in the wristband."
"By the way, remember to import the dungeon into the simulation combat pod when you have some free time these next couple of days. You can find the location on the map."
After a brief explanation, Fu Qing turned to Lu Yan: "I will build a clinic later. When you don't have classes, please go there and work for a while."
She hadn't forgotten that there was still a school hospital construction task within the system that hadn't been completed.
Because of her tight funds and the scarcity of medical talent, Fu Qing delayed building a school hospital, but this matter always weighed on her mind.
The longer it drags on, the greater her worries become.
Over the past two months, students have suffered numerous abrasions and sprains during training, but fortunately, most of them were able to treat themselves in their dormitories. Just two weeks ago, a student fell and fractured his leg during training. After receiving a system alert, Fu Qing drove him quickly to the nearest hospital.
This served as a wake-up call for her. A fracture was one thing, but if she encountered some kind of sudden illness next time, the school couldn't be without emergency response measures.
Now that Lu Yan has arrived, the task of building the school hospital can finally be put on the agenda.
He said "troublesome," but in fact he was quite ruthless when it came to causing trouble. Lu Yan came back to his senses and actually missed this feeling a little. He nodded.
After seeing the two off, he told them to go and check out their respective dormitories and think about the course content. Before leaving, he stuffed a big bag of miscellaneous items, such as preserved plums, dried meat, and potato chips, from his desk drawer into Xu Mingyue's hands and told them to divide them up when they got back. Fu Qing then sat down at his desk again.
The item "A Little Luck" cost 50 points, and "Drawing a Card" cost 100 points. She has a total of 314 tutorial points left in her account.
Fu Qing opened the shop, found the medical type building, and hesitated among several options.
[Small Medical Clinic]: 100 teaching points
[Medium-sized medical clinic]: 300 teaching points
[Medical Station]: 1000 Teaching Points
According to the product description, the small medical room is similar to the school clinics commonly found in universities, a room of about ten square meters divided into two spaces, front and back. The front part is the consultation area, with a doctor's desk, chair, and bench for resting. Behind the desk is a medicine cabinet that also serves as storage, separated by a curtain. Behind the curtain are the treatment bed and disinfection and cleaning area, where intravenous infusions and wound treatment can be performed.
Due to insufficient equipment and space, small medical clinics can only handle a very limited number of diseases.
The medium-sized medical clinic is larger and more like a small community hospital, accommodating more patients at the same time. After the upgrade, it has inpatient areas, isolation areas, sterile operating rooms, and can perform simple surgical procedures.
The medical station is a comprehensive upgrade of the medium-sized medical clinic, capable of performing more sophisticated surgeries such as organ transplants. It features an intensive care unit, a psychological counseling room, and a rehabilitation room, and can treat the vast majority of diseases. Expanding to an entire building, it is now comparable to a small general hospital.
Although the medical station costs 1000 points, which she cannot afford right now, Fu Qing's student popularity is approaching 40%, and she will soon receive the 1000-point reward, so it's not that she can't afford it.
The question is, is it really necessary?
Fu Qing scanned through the product descriptions and finally made up her mind.
Fangzhou will be transformed into a large shelter that needs to accommodate thousands of people. A small school clinic is definitely not enough to meet its medical needs. In addition, compared with the latter two options, a school clinic of a dozen square meters would cost 100 points, which is not cost-effective. The first option can be eliminated directly.
While medical stations may seem high-end, their maintenance costs are also substantial. For example, dedicated psychological counseling rooms and rehabilitation rooms could be easily replaced with separate rooms and homemade props. Furthermore, high-cost surgeries like organ transplants, which require complex post-operative care and are designed to save a single life with no guarantee of success, have an extremely low cost-effectiveness ratio. Their utilization rate and return on investment are disproportionate to the daily maintenance costs.
Those resources could be used to improve the quality of life for many ordinary people.
People always say that life is priceless and no one's life should be given up, but that's just a beautiful belief in peacetime. In the apocalypse, the trolley problem plays out in reality every day. When the lives of one person and a group of people are placed on opposite ends of a scale, who can say that they are truly equal?
Only by saving more people can we preserve the flame of humanity.
The 700-point difference between medium-sized medical clinics and medical stations can be used to strengthen campus defenses and increase stockpiling space; both are important.
Moreover, it has both the most important "isolation area" and "operating room", making it the most cost-effective option among the three.
Fu Qing clicked to purchase, and a medium-sized medical room occupying several floors was temporarily placed in the system space.
Instead of immediately finding a place to put it, she continued scrolling through the mall page, down until she reached another building.
[Pharmacy]: 300 teaching points
There's another reason for not buying a medical station and choosing to save money—in the apocalypse, medicine is more important than anything else. Ordinary people who know some medical common sense and basic pharmacology can also use appropriate drugs to save many people.
The reason why the pharmacy in the mall is separated from the clinic and sold separately is because it is not just a building or a storage warehouse, but also contains a lot of medicine resources.
It's like buying a cold storage room that comes fully stocked with frozen meat.
Medicines are difficult to stockpile in large quantities in the real world, but the pharmacy in the system's store solves this problem very well.
With those 700 points, Fu Qing would rather buy two pharmacies in one go, and still have some left over.
Unfortunately, after purchasing the medium-sized medical clinic, she only had 14 points left, and could only look on longingly at the pharmacy that everyone would frantically fight over in the apocalypse, envious but without the money to buy it.
After glancing at it a few more times, Fu Qing opened the system space, used the map, and moved the buildings.
The No. 2 teaching building had been vacant, so she placed the medium-sized medical room there, occupying the first to third floors.
Because of its special nature, the isolation area, which will be used as an isolation space in the future as a shelter, must be separated from the living area by a certain distance. The system specifically allows the isolation area and the main medical room to be separated separately, but there are certain distance restrictions.
In addition to the main gate, Fangzhou campus also has a slightly smaller east gate as a side gate, which is rarely used. When necessary, it can be used as a separate passage to the isolation area.
Fu Qing then placed the quarantine area near the East Gate, turning it into an independent building with all windows blocked by barbed wire and an internal air circulation and cleaning system.
After placement, a settlement page pops up in front of you.
[Completed: Side quest "Building the Campus - School Hospital"]
[Requirements: Add a new campus building, "School Hospital," which must have at least one empty room equipped with basic medicines and medical facilities, and a physician with basic medical knowledge. (Completed)]
[Reward: 100 Medical Supply Boxes]
The medicine cabinet in the medium-sized medical clinic has a small quantity of medicines, which is sufficient to meet the requirements of the task.
Fu Qing breathed a sigh of relief after finally completing the task.
The medical supply kit is the size of a suitcase and looks like a regular aluminum alloy medical case. It contains a lot of medical equipment and medicines, which is enough to meet most needs. It can also be taken out of school, making it very useful.
Taking the contents out greatly enriched the school hospital's medical resources.
Fu Qing allocated thirty supply boxes to the infirmary warehouse, leaving the rest in the system space for future use. She and the school doctor, Lu Yan, each had a key to the warehouse.
After finishing all this and closing the system page, Fu Qing looked up and suddenly saw his shadow cast on the wall in front of him by the sunlight.
As the sun slowly sank behind the mountain, the indoor light dimmed, and the silhouette appeared lonely and frail.
The silence in the room was suddenly broken by a knock on the door.
Xu Mingyue's loud voice rang out from outside the door: "Fu Qing, let's go eat together!"
Within Fangzhou, students and teachers alike habitually call her Principal. In addition, during the last period of her previous life when she was alone, no one had called her by her name for a long time.
Not to mention the familiar and intimate tone.
Fu Qing snapped out of his daze and opened the door. The light from inside the room spilled into the corridor, illuminating the person outside the door and making his light-colored pupils shine slightly.
Lu Yan was about to knock on the door when she suddenly opened it, startling him. His hand, which he hadn't had time to retract, turned and pushed her shoulder towards the corridor: "Hurry, hurry, hurry! If you don't come out soon, Xu Mingyue will starve to death! She hasn't eaten for two minutes—"
Xu Mingyue poked her head out from behind and shouted indignantly, "You clearly ate half of those snacks too!"
The once quiet corridor was now filled with the sounds of people, creating a lively and bustling atmosphere.
As Fu Qing listened, she suddenly felt quite pleased with herself.
My steps unconsciously became lighter.
It's as if a part of it that died has returned to the body.
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