In every city, hospitals and stations are high gathering places for people.
Unfortunately, the only hospital and station in this city are only one street apart. It can be said that the zombies here are like ants, and there are no less than 20 zombies hanging on two heavy trucks all the way.
The heavy trucks drove into the open space in front of the hospital building, and Li Xuanyuan, Jiang Tao, and Qiao Daye got out of the car and opened the way. Not long after, Qiao Daye drove out an ambulance from the hospital and took Gongsun Jing, Ji Yao, and Su Fenghe with him. Hou Ying and Liu Zhan stayed on the two heavy trucks. Hou Ying took care of Wang Hehe and Meng Hanghai who woke up from illness while Liu Zhan defended them.
Wang Hehe sadly took Hou Ying’s hand, and whispered, “Old uncle, am I very useless?”
His ability level is too low. Even if it’s the rare psychic predictive ability, it has little use except to make him have nightmares, sleep uneasily, and wake up remembering nothing but the negative energies. As an adult, his physique is still so poor even as an ability user. He always drags down the team, which makes the proud son of heaven, who has always been smart, produce self-loathing.
Hou Ying looked at him in surprise, “Why do you think so, everyone has strengths and weaknesses, why should you use your own shortcomings to compare with others’ strengths? Is it too boring to be sick, or I will bring the computer over to let you watch TV?”
Last time when Ji Yao was collecting supplies, he found his coveted latest high-end game book at a fellow technical house's home. He couldn’t hold back so he brought it back. Unexpectedly, he would use such good equipment to watch videos. The hard disk was full of American and Korean dramas that were as long as a foot binding cloth, as well as many classic movies and cartoons.
Wang Hehe said dissatisfied, “Old uncle, do you treat me as a kid?”
Hou Ying laughed, “You’re not as good as a child. Look at Xiaohai, he’s not as meddlesome as you.”
Wang Hehe mumbled, “He’s a kid…”
Children should be taken care of by them. Even if they are sick, they can’t be regarded as a hindrance. How can their situation be the same as his? Hearing this, Meng Hanghai, who’s obediently recuperating, said, “Brother Xiaohe, Sister Gongsun said that I’m no longer a child. Don’t be sad. When we find more white crystals, you will definitely become very powerful.”
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Wang Hehe imagined the scene where he’s invincible when he reached Level 3 and was instantly healed. He pulled Meng Hanghai and said that he must exercise hard in the future and help him find the zombie crystal nucleus that matched him. The two children unrealistically looked forward to it and were coaxed to watch cartoons by Hou Ying.
While they’re talking, on the other side, Li Xuanyuan and his team are divided into two groups. Gongsun Jing, Qiao Daye, Su Fenghe, and Ji Yao rushed to the hospital pharmacy to collect supplies while Li Xuanyuan and Jiang Tao separately hunted and killed the zombies.
Gongsun Jing deserves to have the teachings of Li Xuanyuan and others. Not only did all the medicines within the shelf life be wiped out, but she also didn’t even let go of any medical supplies that could be taken away. Bandages, medical alcohol, saline, and glucose are even more afraid of dropping. After emptying the pharmacy, they headed for the hospital’s storeroom. When they reached the hospital’s warehouse, Su Fenghe, with his level 2 mid-level power ability, didn’t put the lock in his eyes. He directly kicked the door open. Gongsun Jing and Ji Yao rushed forward to move the medicines inside onto the cart.
They filled the ambulance with medicines then Qiao Daye sent it to the heavy truck. When he returned, they were busy. He’s about to come forward to help, but he suddenly yelled out, “Be careful!” He dragged the three of them back and the three people, who were unaware, were shocked.
Looking in the direction he pointed, Gongsun Jing gave a low cry.
It turned out that there was a zombie in a nurse’s suit curled up in the small compartment above the warehouse, hiding. If it weren’t for Qiao Daye’s ability, it couldn’t have been discovered for the first time. They waited for a while. When the zombie didn’t move, Gongsun Jing muttered, “It doesn’t seem to be a zombie…just a corpse.”
Qiao Daye frowned, “Well, there are worms on her body.”
For a religious believer, he really can’t leave the corpse alone. He asked Ji Yao to send the dead nurse down with the wind, preparing Jiang Tao to cremate her. It wouldn’t be in vain that they discovered her by fate.
They didn’t expect that a person they would meet after such a long time would be a dead person. After they brought this unfortunate news back, everyone was silent for a while.
Gongsun Jing sighed, “It looks like she had starved to death. It’s not easy for her to escape to a safe place with so many zombies. Even if she’s more daring and she relied on the normal saline and medicine in the warehouse, it may not last until we find her. It’s a pity… ” Since the person is dead, it’s too late to say anything.
They started working at 4 a.m and returned to the lounge at 10 a.m to rest. Waiting for the hottest time to pass, they planned to start hunting zombies at 3 p.m.
After half an hour’s rest, everyone got busy. Li Xuanyuan temporarily put down the work of the satellite station and devoted himself to the temperature control mechanism. Jiang Tao helped him. Gongsun Jing and Liu Zhan went to sort out the medical supplies harvested in the morning. They put these supplies in the second-floor lounge for emergency use. The others held a crystal nucleus each to find a way to absorb them.
Hou Ying, on the other hand, took advantage of the time when the temperature was not yet the hottest. Holding a parasol, he went to the station across the street to look for a map of the city.
Generally speaking, the station will have relevant map or real estate information for free or for sale. And this small-scale station did not disappoint Hou Ying.
Originally, Qiao Daye was still worried about his safety and kept staring at his whereabouts. He didn’t expect Brother Hou, holding a colorful parasol, to leisurely walk through the camp among the zombies. It’s a scenery that dazzled people’s eyes.
Hou Ying came back with the map, tore off the folded city map summary, and spread it on the table. He said to everyone who came around, “We are here now. Although the urban area of this city is not large, we can see that the citizens are rich and the real estate development is very high.”
The marks on the map are quite clear. Residential areas, schools, supermarkets, clothing markets, grocery markets, hospitals, even bus stops, and bus routes have notes. It can’t be said to be careless.
Hou Ying first targeted several residential areas, he said, “I think we should first sweep the residential buildings near the supermarket, and then go to the supermarket to collect supplies. First, use the crystal nucleus to destroy the zombies that can be attracted. Then we’ll split into two teams and go building to building. One team will focus on the zombies, and the other on collecting materials. Work in cooperation with a due division of labor, proceeding at the same time.”
No matter how small the city is, it’s also the most densely populated place in this area. They can’t clean up the ability zombies before collecting materials as they used to do in villages and towns. They have limited time now. Because of the weather, they can’t leave the truck for too long.
Everyone has no objection to this arrangement.
They drove the two heavy trucks to their first mission site, waited until the clock pointed to 3 p.m before everyone started to move. Wang Hehe and Meng Hanghai already felt better and wanted to follow them. Hou Ying said that they would be allowed to join tomorrow morning if their physical condition did not change. When they left, there was no one to look after them. Instead, the two of them were allowed to enter the cab with the highest safety factor after modification. They’re left with a loudspeaker, and if they’re in danger, they just have to shout for help.
They didn’t leave the truck too far when they went out. In the relatively open small square in front of the supermarket, Li Xuanyuan used vines to prop up a green canopy to shade the sun. They used all kinds of zombie crystal cores they had to attract zombies in batches.
The five-element zombies are still the most numerous, but they are all below level 2, so they’re not difficult to deal with. However, the pure white crystal nucleus that Hou Ying left behind hadn’t attracted a zombie. The zombies with psychic powers were too rare.
With the successful precedent of raising zombies before, they’re now very active in harvesting low-level zombie crystal nuclei without any complaints. After all, the crystal nuclei of all attributes have been tried, it’s already 5 o’clock in the afternoon. The surface temperature has lessened a little, this is the best time to act. Li Xuanyuan formed a team by himself. He first went to the residential building to check if there were any zombies that had slipped through the net or any ability zombies they hadn’t seen before. Others actively began to collect supplies.
Su Fenghe also pried open a safe with jewelry and a stack of gold bars. He couldn’t help sighing that there were such rich people hidden here. Unfortunately, these things were worthless in the apocalypse. However, Liu Zhan, who’s in his group, kept an eye on it and asked him to take these with him. If they arrive at the survivor base in the future, they might be able to use it.
After sweeping the supermarket, several people returned before 7:30.
Except for instant noodles and rice, all the food in the supermarket is rotten, and there’s a strong rancid smell when you walk in. But even so, they still collected a lot of materials, especially paper towels, cigarettes, and other dry goods. Looking at the materials piled up on the road that haven’t been put into the container in a regular manner, the people who have been busy for most of the day finally realize that they’re facing a serious problem. That is, there are more materials but less loading space.
Even if they had vacated half the space of the two container trucks because of food decay, this space is far from spacious for the usable materials they had hoarded from every household and the entire supermarket. They haven’t yet gone to the two large supermarkets and residential areas in their original plan but these supplies and the materials they collected before can fill up two trucks of containers! In addition, on the second floor of the second truck, they have prepared to reserve two-thirds of the space for growing vegetables, so there will be less storage space.
It’s not that they’re greedy, but they all understand the importance of materials. Food and paper towels are all consumables and must be replenished when they are used up. Although they have been successful so far, who can predict what kind of difficulties they will encounter tomorrow? Naturally, if they can collect more materials, they should collect more.
Jiang Tao thought of a way. He proposed to find a large truck and the two cars to be joined together, just like the end-to-end trains. It’s especially used to put light goods such as paper towels and clothes, which take up space. Although this will slow down the truck, the amount of things it can take is definitely multiplied.
Several people thought it was feasible, so Qiao Daye and Li Xuanyuan went to look for the truck. The others took down the daily supplies on the second car and reorganized them. The second card was especially used to store food. After a few people loaded half of it, Hou Ying heard the sound of a car driving back here.
After working for several hours, it’s late at night that the materials were finally placed.
Before going to bed, Hou Ying convened a small meeting with everyone. He said, “I still hadn’t thought about it well enough before. There are still many cities along the way. We can't be fat with one bite. Our space is limited and we should leave some of them to be used on the road. So when we collect some of the materials in the remaining two supermarkets, we’ll try our best to hunt zombies. We don’t have to waste too much time here.”
The doomsday gave them too much sense of crisis and urgency, but Hou Ying realized that their horizons weren’t wide enough. There’s still a long way to go.
Thank you very much for translating this story –
I am pretty much binge-reading it since yesterday (damn I have to work today
🙀)
But just a question – could it be that a part of the chapter is “hidden” in the Translators note of “normal saline”?
Again – thanks for translating!
Hope you’re not late for your work 😅😅
And it’s a typo and I already edited it hehehe
Hope you’re not late for your work 😅😅
And it’s a typo and I already edited it hehehe
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
I find it troublesome for constantly driving with the trucks. I hope they can find a secure base of their own soon.
Podría ser que se refiere a que aunque haya sido más atrevida y bebiera solución salina, porque beber eso es más malo que bueno pero de todas formas al parecer no tenía comoda