bayedsolid Chapter 20 A Small Sweep of the Warehouse
Chapter 20 A Small Sweep of the Warehouse
Gu Nanfeng answered the phone immediately when he dialed again. He and Pei Sihao's older brother were about the same age, so communication was quick. The virus was indeed behaving much as they had predicted; in less than 15 days, many small Middle Eastern countries had already been completely overrun.
The zombies that ordinary people turn into after being infected with the virus are already extremely lethal. When special groups of people are infected, the overall level of the zombies is even higher. Just like the female zombie that Lu Yuan and his friends saw in the dormitory, she was probably originally a student of archery in the physical education department. Even after becoming a zombie, she could hit a flying drone with an arrow.
Then there are the soldiers who have become zombies. They possess superior physique, obedience, and discipline compared to ordinary zombies, making them extremely powerful in combat. The shelters in Beijing are much better than those in the remote G province, and naturally, the mutated zombies there are also much stronger.
Pei Simin sounded rushed on the phone. He told Gu Nanfeng to take good care of Pei Sihao, and then Gu Nanfeng heard other people talking on the other end. Now that he understood the situation, he didn't bother him any further and hung up. After all, Pei Sihao was the first in his generation to join the army, and he must be extremely busy right now.
"The situation in Beijing isn't too good, but it's much better than here." Gu Nanfeng is no longer worried about his family's situation. Most of his family members are technically skilled, unlike the Pei family, who are unlikely to go to the front lines. They are probably being protected and doing some technical work now.
"Are you still going to Beijing?" Lu Yuan asked.
“We’re not going for now. If the two of us go to Beijing now, wouldn’t that be like sending teammates to the zombies?” Pei Sihao laughed.
"We don't know what we'll encounter on the way to Beijing, so the safest thing to do is stay here." Gu Nanfeng glanced at the warehouse office; it was indeed a bit rudimentary. Although the warehouse itself was sturdy, the few employees left in the supermarket knew its location. As more people entered the supermarket, they might try to take advantage of the warehouse. "It's not safe here either; we still need to go to my villa."
"What about those three people outside?" Pei Sihao asked, looking at the three people outside who had already started eating.
“Yang Xiao is amazing. I feel like he’s the kind of person who has killed zombies for more than ten years and then been reborn.” Lu Yuan added, “He was also very certain before that we wouldn’t receive any rescue, so I felt like he was a reborn person.”
“Regardless of whether he’s a reincarnated person or not, he is indeed a powerful fighter, but he’s a bit crazy and uncontrollable. They have to follow us now, but we can’t let them know about your space for the time being.” Gu Nanfeng’s concerns were reasonable. Of the three, Yang Xiao seemed crazy, Ruan Wen was gentle and weak but had a lot of ulterior motives, otherwise she wouldn’t have thought of coming to them to freeload off their G-Wagon in the first place, and Zhong Qiang, although a troublemaker, seemed to be the most innocent one among them now.
The current problem is how to persuade the three people outside not to go to the safe base, but to seek temporary refuge elsewhere.
Just as the three of them were at a loss, Yang Xiao strolled over, leaned against the door, and asked, "So, where do we go next?"
"You're quite clever, knowing we're not planning to go to the safe base?" Pei Sihao thought Yang Xiao was really crazy, but he didn't expect him to still have a brain.
“I’m not the only one who knows,” Yang Xiao glanced sideways at Ruan Wen, who was still squatting down eating behind him, “You can take it as that kid telling me.”
Lu Yuan guessed that Ruan Wen had probably just given them a thorough analysis. Although Yang Xiao might have guessed it a long time ago, he was pretending to be stupid and was being used as a pawn by Ruan Wen to ask them about their next steps.
"So you're planning to continue following us?" Gu Nanfeng asked directly.
"Of course, if I didn't follow you guys, I might not even have anything to eat," Yang Xiao said with a smile. Perhaps because he was an art student and a bit obsessive, his appearance was also somewhat gloomy. His smile made Lu Yuan shudder.
"Then pack your things, take as much food as possible, we need to go to my other house for temporary refuge." After Gu Nanfeng finished speaking, he took his backpack and prepared to go out to pack his things.
"Your backpack isn't that big, it can't hold much, right?" Yang Xiao seemed to be testing him, but none of the people in room 1203 answered him. They just went to pack food, mainly things like compressed biscuits.
"Why don't we stay here?" Zhong Qiang asked, swallowing the chicken in his mouth. Now, he was really at a loss as to how to pack enough food for a month before leaving. He wanted to take everything, but his backpack was too full.
"Are you stupid? The group of people who just came to the supermarket are no good. Who knows what kind of people will come next? There are supermarket employees over there. It's not safe here." Yang Xiao gave him a slap on the head without any politeness, forcing him to continue filling his food container.
Ruan Wen, on the other hand, remained quiet and focused, carefully selecting the supplies he needed. Yes, he wasn't just packing food; he also took some items that could be used as weapons for self-defense. Lu Yuan, who was still picking out compressed biscuits two shelves away, witnessed this clearly.
As expected, in this apocalyptic world, no innocent flower is truly innocent.
"A month's worth of food in our backpacks shouldn't be a problem, but what about water? We don't even know if the water in the pipes is usable. We can't all carry a case of water to avoid the zombies, can we?" With the backpacks full, Yang Xiao reappeared. He was nothing like the cold and gloomy person Ruan Wen had described before, who had a bad relationship with his roommates. He was just a talkative madman.
“You’re right, so we still have to see what Brother Feng can do.” As Pei Sihao spoke, he had already pushed several cases of bottled water to the warehouse entrance using a trolley.
Soon, the sound of brakes and the sound of many zombies hitting the metal plate could be heard outside the door.
"I hope your G-Class is of good quality." Pei Sihao listened intently by the door for a while, his voice still ringing.
Gu Nanfeng ignored him and continued carrying the drinking water. The others probably guessed that Gu Nanfeng had used his phone to control his G-Wagon to park in front of the supermarket warehouse. The invention of fully automated driverless technology has truly saved the world. Of course, even the three idiots realized that Gu Nanfeng's G-Wagon hadn't actually been taken for maintenance; there were just too many people, so he chose to abandon the car.
"I didn't expect you had a backup plan." Yang Xiao was delighted to see that he didn't need to fill the container with water, so he took out all the water he had already filled and filled it with some other food.
"Senior Brother Pei, do you also have a car that can be driven by itself? If we have two cars, can't we take more food?" Ruan Wen suddenly thought that Pei Sihao's family situation was similar to Gu Nanfeng's, so he must also have such a car that he could use in an emergency.
"I do have one, but the signal is weak. This car was modified by Brother Gu." That's right, all self-driving cars on the market need to be connected to the internet for control. Gu Nanfeng's G-Class was also modified by him out of boredom, so that he could control it directly with his phone without being restricted by the network.
"Let's take what we can first. If we run out, we'll figure out how to get more." After pushing the last cart of water, Lu Yuan found a place to sit and rest by the door. They had to wait until the zombies outside calmed down before going out.
“Indeed, the underground parking garage in the villa area is very close to here, so there’s no need to rush,” Yang Xiao agreed.
While waiting, they chatted idly, all of them recalling the unusual situation with the zombies the day they escaped from the dormitory. The zombies were all frozen in place for over ten minutes, and this hadn't happened again. Gu Nanfeng had listened to the radio broadcasts for a long time, but none of them mentioned this incident. Could it have only happened to a few of them?
"Do you think any of us might have mutated, or have some kind of superpower?" Pei Sihao, who often reads apocalyptic novels to pass the time when he's bored, had the same thought as Lu Yuan.
"You're probably poisoned." Surprisingly, Yang Xiao, whom they suspected was a reincarnated person, didn't believe it at all.
Lu Yuan and Pei Sihao exchanged a look that seemed to say, "Didn't anyone develop superpowers during his previous life's zombie era?" This inexplicable understanding between Lu Yuan and Pei Sihao made Gu Nanfeng feel inexplicably annoyed; he had a strong feeling that he was being excluded from a three-person team.
However, it's not a big deal...
The sounds of impact outside gradually subsided, presumably because the zombies had returned to their wandering state. They also stopped their unimportant discussions, since they couldn't reach any conclusions anyway.
Although there were security cameras at the warehouse entrance, the entire network was down, rendering all the monitoring equipment useless. They could only rely on Yang Xiao, the bravest member of the team, to peek through the crack in the door.
Gu Nanfeng parked the G-Class perfectly, with the entire rear end of the car right up against the gate. They could easily and painlessly load the goods and people by opening the warehouse door and then the trunk of the G-Class, and then make their escape.