Ch46 - Finding Supplies and Chaos

“Huu—” A quiet, deep sound came out of the old man’s mouth, but because the old man’s previous illness had made it difficult for him to speak, the family members who hadn’t left the base for a long time didn’t take it seriously at this time.

The old man opened his cloudy eyes, his expression was dull, and his face was a little pale.

This appearance made the girl who first noticed the old man move feel a sense of fear in her heart. She always felt that grandpa looked like those terrifying zombies outside! Grandpa’s skin was still sickly before, but now it looks so pale… and the staring eyes…

Thinking this in her heart, she subconsciously retreated backward.

“Huu…huh!” The old man who sat up slowly suddenly jumped up from his son’s arm supporting him, and bit his son’s throat with one bite!

“Ah!” There was a scream in the room, and the girl who retreated to the door screamed and ran out of the room, and the survivors who also lived in the nearby building came out to check the situation in doubt.

“Zombie!! Someone has turned into a zombie!!!”

“What’s going on?! How did Lao Liu suddenly become a zombie?”

“I don’t know… did you somehow bring the virus in when you went out to clean up the zombies outside?” 

“Doesn’t the zombie virus spreads extremely fast, and it only takes a few minutes to enter the body to completely zombify people?”

Several people gathered with lingering fear around a zombie that was just killed. 

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“What’s the situation? Who shot just now?” A man hurriedly walked towards the wall, frowning and asking in a low voice.

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Another person said hesitantly: “Old Lao Liu had cardiovascular problems, and a stent was placed near his heart… But that should have nothing to do with his zombification, right?” 

The other person shook his head with a sneer and said, “Even if his stent is broken, it’s still inside his body. What does it have anything to do with turning into a zombie?” 

“Yes, could it be that you secretly brought something back when you came back yesterday? Mabey the zombie virus got on your clothes and then he got infected with it through his eyes or mouth? “

“It’s quite possible.” 

“Yes, yes, it is possible, very likely!”

In T City, at a school base discovered by Wei Xuan, a riot erupted from within.

On the second floor of Teaching Building No. 1, a person who had just mutated into a zombie was chasing several former friends, his bluish-white face was full of excitement and ferocity.

“Boom, boom!” Several explosions aroused the excitement of the zombies surrounding the school walls wanting to rush in for a meal. However, the place where the explosion sounded was deep in the school, and the school’s walls were still extremely strong.

When Wei Xuan finally arrived at his target location, he immediately looked around for the shop he needed while the sky was still bright. 

The solar panel sales store he was looking for is more difficult to find as the internet is completely cut off. Fortunately, Wei Xuan had already searched for supplies when the communication network in T City was still barely functioning.

At that time, he found a total of seven or eight stores in T city that were selling this kind of equipment, he chose the nearest and smallest one. All the equipment there was taken by him and moved back to the community. Fortunately, on the way, he paid attention to another shop with a larger scale but a little further away as an alternative, which is the one he came to now. 

In other words, if all the equipment in this shop had been taken away by others, then finding another store would become a big problem. At that time, he could only vaguely remember the general direction of the store location shown on the map. If he wanted to search carefully, then it would be a little more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack, right?

“Ah yes! It’s over there!” Seeing the shop sign half-hanging under the eaves from a distance, Wei Xuan recognized the name of the shop at a glance and immediately pulled Du Hang there excitedly. 

Taking Du Hang to the store in a hurry, the area of ​​this specialty store is not small, the store is at least twice as big as the one Wei Xuan visited before, and there is a smaller warehouse behind the store. Although the inventory inside is not too much, if all these things are transported back, it will be enough for Wei Xuan to use! You can even leave a lot as spares.

Seeing these things, Wei Xuan heaved a long sigh of relief – he can count on these during winter. 

The post-apocalyptic winter is difficult, not because people can’t find thick quilts and clothing, or wood for heating. The most uncomfortable thing about winter is that there is no heating.

Those who were used to central heating and burning natural gas before the apocalypse, don’t even know how to start a fire without a lighter or natural gas. In winter, even if there is no air leakage in those unheated houses because there is no way to go out to get coal for heating, the efficiency of burning wood is too low, and the smell of smoke is very choking, so the first year of winter is simply hell mode. 

But fortunately, at least in the base, because there are a lot of residents assigned to each room, everyone thought of their ways and even moved the beds closer together to snuggle together, and managed to survive. And because of the large number of people in the room, if something happened to someone because of the low temperature, others would be able to find out the problem immediately, which finally made the decline in the number of people in each base in the severe winter cold not so serious.

Of course, I don’t know if there is a zombie virus in the snow that snows in winter. Every winter, some people inexplicably turn into zombies after one night. This has also led to the fact that even people living in the base and living with others will still subconsciously remain vigilant and guard against the people around them at any time. 

The winter sun was not strong enough, so Wei Xuan felt grateful that God had not given up on him when he found a large number of batteries in this store. He can fully charge these batteries in advance when the autumn is high and clear, and then use solar panels to collect energy as much as possible to maintain daily consumption in late winter. If it is not enough, he can use the stored batteries to supplement it.

In this way, even if he uses the electric heater a little extravagantly every day, it shouldn’t be a problem, right? 

If he is lucky, the sun would shine regularly enough for him to use every day!!

Wandering around the store, Wei Xuan confirmed that although some of the solar panels placed in the store as samples had collapsed due to the previous earthquake, the goods in the storage room at the back were no problem. Only after he breathed a sigh of relief, he began to take Du Hang to carry those things down and prepare to take them back. 

There are a lot of things and they are very heavy, so heavy that the two of them need to go back and forth at least ten times to transport them back on foot.

But for the sake of the future, Wei Xuan decided to take a trip as many times as possible to get these things back quickly, so as not to have any accidents later. If the building here is accidentally destroyed, then he will cry. 

After lamenting again that the road conditions are difficult to walk, and that he does not have any mobile tools at hand, Wei Xuan began to carry this equipment without complaint. Although he could find some shopping carts from the nearby supermarkets, there was almost no flat ground to push the shopping carts on because of the collapse of the viaduct, so this time they had to rely on manpower to move them back slowly. 

When a batch of things that needed to be taken away was transported and placed on the ground of the shop in front, the sky outside completely darkened. Wei Xuan, who has been running around all day, decided to have dinner first, and tomorrow he will walk around the neighborhood to see what else he needs in the surrounding shops, and take them with him. 

It was okay to deliver things this time because they were dressed in a low-key manner and the streets were full of zombies wandering outside, so the actions of the two of them would not be eye-catching.

But when they go back, it can’t be so smooth – they will carry a lot of things with them, and if they go out during the day, God knows if there will be people in high-rise buildings just looking outside? If someone found out at that time, the other party would be able to deduce that the two of them were not zombies! 

Therefore, even if he wanted to move things back, he could only choose to go out late at night to minimize the possibility of being discovered.

He and Du Hang leaned against each other in a relatively small room and rested for the night. Early the next morning, Wei Xuan, who had had breakfast, took Du Hang and started to go out for a stroll to check out the other stores.