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In every city, hospitals and stations are high gathering places for people.\n
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.\n
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.\n
Wang Hehe sadly took Hou Yingâs hand, and whispered, âOld uncle, am I very useless?â \n
His ability level is too low. Even if itâs 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 heaven1, who has always been smart, produce self-loathing.\n</ins>\n\nHou Ying looked at him in surprise, âWhy do you think so, everyone has strengths and weaknesses, why should you use your own shortcomings to compare with othersâ strengths? Is it too boring to be sick, or I will bring the computer over to let you watch TV?â\n
Last time when Ji Yao was collecting supplies, he found his coveted latest high-end game book at a fellow technical housemateâs<sup>2</sup> home. He couldnât 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<sup>3</sup>, as well as many classic movies and cartoons.\n
Wang Hehe said dissatisfied, âOld uncle, do you treat me as a kid?â\n
Hou Ying laughed, âYouâre not as good as a child. Look at Xiaohai, heâs not as meddlesome as you.â\n
Wang Hehe mumbled, âHeâs a kidâŠâ\n
Children should be taken care of by them. Even if they are sick, they canât be regarded as a hindrance. How can their situation be the same as his? Hearing this, Meng Hanghai, whoâs obediently recuperating, said, âBrother Xiaohe, Sister Gongsun said that Iâm no longer a child. Donât be sad. When we find more white crystals, you will definitely become very powerful.â\n
Wang Hehe imagined the scene where heâs 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.\n
While theyâre 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.\n
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 didnât 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 hospitalâs storeroom. When they reached the hospitalâs warehouse, Su Fenghe, with his level 2 mid-level power ability, didnât 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.\n
They filled the ambulance with medicines then Qiao Daye sent it to the heavy truck. When he returned, they were busy. Heâs about to come forward to help, but he suddenly yelled out, âBe careful!â He dragged the three of them back and the three people, who were unaware, were shocked.\n</ins>\n\nLooking in the direction he pointed, Gongsun Jing gave a low cry.\n
It turned out that there was a zombie in a nurseâs suit curled up in the small compartment above the warehouse, hiding. If it werenât for Qiao Dayeâs ability, it couldnât have been discovered for the first time. They waited for a while. When the zombie didnât move, Gongsun Jing muttered, âIt doesnât seem to be a zombieâŠjust a corpse.â\n
Qiao Daye frowned, âWell, there are worms on her body.â\n
For a religious believer, he really canât leave the corpse alone. He asked Ji Yao to send the dead nurse down with the wind, preparing Jiang Tao to cremate her. It wouldnât be in vain that they discovered her by fate.\n
They didnât 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.\n
Gongsun Jing sighed, âIt looks like she had starved to death. Itâs not easy for her to escape to a safe place with so many zombies. Even if sheâs more daring and she relied on the normal saline<sup>4</sup> and medicine in the warehouse, it may not last until we find her. Itâs a pity⊠â Since the person is dead, itâs too late to say anything.\n
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.\n
After half an hourâs 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.\n
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.\n
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.\n</ins>\n\nOriginally, Qiao Daye was still worried about his safety and kept staring at his whereabouts. He didnât expect Brother Hou, holding a colorful parasol, to leisurely walk through the camp among the zombies. Itâs a scenery that dazzled peopleâs eyes.\n
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, âWe are here now. Although the urban area of ââthis city is not large, we can see that the citizens are rich and the real estate development is very high.â \n
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 canât be said to be careless.\n
Hou Ying first targeted several residential areas, he said, âI 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 weâll 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.â \n
No matter how small the city is, itâs also the most densely populated place in this area. They canât 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 canât leave the truck for too long.\n
Everyone has no objection to this arrangement.\n
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, thereâs no one to look after them. Instead, the two of them were allowed to enter the cab with the highest safety factor after modification. Theyâre left with a loudspeaker, and if theyâre in danger, they just have to shout for help.\n
They didnât 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.\n
The five-element zombies are still the most numerous, but they are all below level 2, so theyâre not difficult to deal with. However, the pure white crystal nucleus that Hou Ying left behind hadnât attracted a zombie. The zombies with psychic powers were too rare.\n
With the successful precedent of raising zombies before, theyâre now very active in harvesting low-level zombie crystal nuclei without any complaints. After all, the crystal nuclei of all attributes have been tried, itâs already 5 oâclock 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 hadnât seen before. Others actively began to collect supplies.\n
Su Fenghe also pried open a safe with jewelry and a stack of gold bars. He couldnât help sighing that there were such rich people hidden here. Unfortunately, these things were worthless in the apocalypse. However, Liu Zhan, whoâs 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.\n
After sweeping the supermarket, several people returned before 7:30.\n
Except for instant noodles and rice, all the food in the supermarket is rotten, and thereâs 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 havenât been put into the container in a regular manner, the people who have been busy for most of the day finally realize that theyâre facing a serious problem. That is, there are more materials but less loading space.\n
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 havenât 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.\n
Itâs not that theyâre 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?<sup>5</sup> Naturally, if they can collect more materials, they should collect more.\n</ins>\n\nJiang 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. Itâs 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.\n
Several people thought itâs 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.\n
After working for several hours, itâs late at night that the materials were finally placed.\n
Before going to bed, Hou Ying convened a small meeting with everyone. He said, âI still hadnât thought about it well enough before. There are still many cities along the way. We canât be fat with one bite<sup>6</sup>. 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, weâll try our best to hunt zombies. We donât have to waste too much time here.â \n
The doomsday gave them too much sense of crisis and urgency, but Hou Ying realized that their horizons werenât wide enough. Thereâs still a long way to go.\n\n