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Chapter 17 The Fall of the Shelter

DAY12

After the power went out yesterday afternoon, the dozen or so people in the supermarket ate some bread and biscuits and then went to rest.

In the early hours of the morning, Lu Yuan heard some rustling sounds, which sounded like someone was shaking the supermarket's electric fence. Remembering the SOS signal he had seen that afternoon, he guessed that it was the group from the hot pot restaurant sneaking over.

Inside the supermarket, Zhong Qiang, Yang Xiao, and two other boys reached the main entrance and, after confirming that none of them were injured or infected, quietly opened the door for them.

Around the same time, another group of people ran towards the supermarket from another direction of the mall, but they weren't as lucky as the group from the hot pot restaurant. They were surrounded by zombies after only a few steps, and in the end, only one person was left and retreated back to the original store. It's unknown whether he was injured. If he was injured, then they were all wiped out.

Five people escaped from the hot pot restaurant. When they returned to the rest area with Yang Xiao and the others, they were still in shock, especially the two girls among them, who kept crying, making everyone's heads ache.

By the time the group calmed down, it was almost breakfast time. The dozen or so people in the supermarket hadn't slept well the night before. The jerk was still a bit grumpy in the morning. When he saw the girl still wiping away tears, he snapped at her and told her to stop crying.

Zhu Nan couldn't stand it and slapped the scumbag across the face. Although she also felt that the girl's crying was getting a bit annoying.

After everyone tidied themselves up, they quietly started munching on their cookies.

"Senior Brother Gu, Brother Xiao, shouldn't we find a way to get to the shelter ourselves?" Ruan Wen asked while eating breakfast.

They ran out of the dormitory building with the original goal of going to the shelter. Although the supermarket has solved their food and drink problem, the power outage yesterday made them feel that staying in the supermarket indefinitely was not a long-term solution.

Especially since Ruan Wen and his group had witnessed Yang Xiao's violence in fighting zombies along the way, and had also slain a few zombies themselves, they felt that with so many of them, fighting the zombies and finding a few vehicles to get to the shelter shouldn't be a big problem.

“We have two cars in the underground parking lot, but they can’t fit so many people…” Li Zhe was the backbone of the five people who escaped from the hot pot restaurant. They drove back from outside the school that day, thinking they would have hot pot before going back to their dorm, but they got stuck in the hot pot restaurant.

The hot pot restaurant was originally crowded, but the five of them ran into a private room near the door. There was a passageway leading to the kitchen next to the room, and by some strange twist of fate, they have managed to survive until now.

It was Li Zhe's idea to escape to the supermarket. They originally had no way to get from the hot pot restaurant to the underground parking lot, but now that they were at the supermarket, he guessed there must be an employee entrance to the parking lot. They had a car, and they could get enough food at the supermarket. Whether they went to the shelter or went back to their dormitory in the villa area to hide, it would be safer than continuing to stay in the hot pot restaurant.

But to their surprise, there were so many people in the supermarket that even with two cars, they couldn't possibly fit all 21 people.

"Can we leave in batches?" one of the girls asked.

"Are you kidding me? Do you think they'll drive back to rescue you after they've escaped?" The scumbag glanced at the girl and smiled disdainfully.

"So tell me, what do we do now?" There was a supermarket employee who had been annoyed with this jerk for days and really wanted to push him out to feed the zombies, but she couldn't…

"Does anyone have a phone with a radio function? Let's see if we can get a signal, and then we can make a decision," Gu Nanfeng suggested, clearly tired of their bickering.

Originally, Lu Yuan's space contained a professional radio, which should have been able to receive many encrypted channels, but they couldn't take it out directly. After all, in today's society, even mobile phones don't necessarily have radio functions anymore, so who would carry a radio while fleeing? In order to ensure that Lu Yuan's space was not exposed, they had to find another way.

"Who still has that crappy feature on their phone these days!" The scumbag glanced at his latest phone, the newest wristwatch model. When he opened the function interface, the screen floated in front of him. He searched for a long time but couldn't find the function.

The others also checked their phones, and none of them had this function. The only phone present that might have a radio function was probably the old-fashioned touchscreen phone in Lu Yuan's hand.

As expected, this old-fashioned cell phone really did have a radio function. Gu Nanfeng spent a long time troubleshooting it, after all, he didn't know much about radios. Few people use them nowadays. He had only seen one before at Pei Sihao's grandfather's house. He was interested at the time, and the old man taught him some things, jokingly saying that in the event of a major disaster, the radio signal would be the most stable. That's why he made this suggestion now.

"Broadcast on July 7, 2074: Shelters in all districts are currently under attack to varying degrees by pathogens. Shelters in Districts X, J, and F of our city have already fallen. Citizens seeking refuge are advised to use alternative shelters in other administrative districts. Repeat broadcast, repeat broadcast: Shelters in all districts are currently under attack by pathogens..."

With Gu Nanfeng's adjustments, the radio finally produced sound.

He took a power bank out of his bag, plugged it into Lu Yuan's phone, and placed it on the table where they were eating. After the radio broadcast repeated the situation in the shelter several times, it began to broadcast other content.

Judging from the content, most areas of G City have fallen, and the number of zombies outside is beyond their imagination. Moreover, it's not just G City; many places across the country are in the same situation. Now, hoping for rescue from the government and the army is simply a pipe dream.

The broadcast concluded by mentioning that the city's central hospital is being transformed into a survival base for G city, and that it hopes any skilled individuals with relevant expertise can find a way to go to the central hospital and contribute to the city's rescue efforts.

Lu Yuan was completely dumbfounded. If he had known that the city's central hospital would be used as a base, why didn't he stay there a little longer?

"Urgent announcement! Urgent announcement! Shelter D has fallen! Shelter D has fallen! Citizens who have already gone to or are planning to go to Shelter D, please change your route immediately! Urgent announcement..."

"Is the D-sector shelter referring to our university town area?" someone suddenly asked in a low voice from the crowd.

“That’s right.” Gu Nanfeng pulled out the map he had printed earlier. “Our city has five districts and four county-level districts, with a total of nine shelters. Four districts have fallen so far. The closest one to us right now is the survival base at the city’s central hospital.”

"This zombie virus is too terrifying! The quarantine zone is completely gone, half of the shelter has been destroyed, and we can't make phone calls. I don't even know where my parents are or if they're safe." Lin Sisi hugged Zhu Nan and started crying. Her crying caused all the girls in the supermarket to start crying, and even Zhu Nan couldn't hold back.

Before long, Ruan Wen and the other men started to choke up. After all, who isn't a baby at heart? Who else has ever had such an experience in their life?

Lu Yuan could also tell that even Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao weren't as calm as before...