Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

When Gu Tongwan heard this, the chopsticks in her hand paused. Although she did not have special powers, her hearing was much better than that of ordinary people due to years of wandering. She was less than two meters away from the people, so even if the other party had lowered the volume, she could still hear it clearly.

"What corpse? What are zombies?"

The boss was over fifty years old, and even before the apocalypse, he was running a restaurant. He worked from dawn to dusk just to earn more money for his children to go to college. He knew nothing about movies and TV series, so when he heard the man with the crew cut talking about zombies, he thought it was some new virus.

Instead, the proprietress next to her looked up in astonishment. She had been forced to accompany her daughter, who was on vacation from college, during the summer vacation to watch several foreign zombie movies, both from South Korea and abroad, such as "Train to Busan" and "The Walking Dead". She was so disgusted at the time that she thought those monsters that were obviously human but would bite people wantonly were very scary. If her daughter hadn't insisted on letting her accompany her, she really would not have watched it a second time.

"Aren't zombies the result of mutation? How could they appear in our Jiangcheng?" The proprietress stopped counting the bills and threw the computer into the drawer, a look of fear flashing across her face.

The crew-haired man shook his head and said, "The specific cause is still unclear, but we can be sure that it was transmitted through T fluid. People in the same space will not be infected as long as they have not come into contact with blood or saliva. However, if they are bitten or have exchanged T fluid, or even drank the water that the mutant zombies drank, they will mutate."

"Wait, what are you talking about? I don't seem to understand." The boss became more and more confused. Isn't this an infectious disease? Now it's all about mutated zombies. What exactly are these mutated zombies?

Seeing the boss frowning and looking confused, the boss's wife suddenly thought of something, so she found an old laptop from the drawer.

This is a computer discarded by the now working daughter. It is seven or eight years old and has been well protected by her after the end of the world. It is probably her only spiritual food besides her mobile phone. Although it may be delayed or stuck occasionally, it can still be turned on and off and play TV and movies, and it can also surf the Internet normally. However, after the daughter started working, she used her salary to buy herself a second-hand tablet, so this computer is rarely used, so it has become a tool for the boss lady to watch TV series in her spare time.

There are quite a lot of resources in this computer. Before the end of the world, my daughter liked to stock up on dramas, variety shows, movies and the like, filling up an entire F drive.

The proprietress slid the mouse and found a movie called "Train to Busan". She clicked it and moved the progress bar to the middle before turning the computer screen to face the boss.

At this moment, the screen is frozen at the moment when the zombie's body twists and begins to mutate, followed by the mutated zombie being able to bite humans.

The boss lady forgot to turn off the nerve earlier, so the biting sound seemed particularly unusual in the store. Many people had already set their eyes on the screen, so they smiled and said, "Isn't this Train to Busan? I really liked this movie before. The boss lady actually still has the resources. Can I come over to make a copy some other day? I want to go home and watch it with my brother."

"Hey, I want to make a copy too, Madam Boss, I have a USB drive with me, can you help me make a copy, since we are a regular customer?"

Everyone was so absorbed in the movie scenes at this moment that they didn't notice the boss's frightened pale face.

Fortunately, the boss lady responded promptly and joked with a smile: "Come back next week if you want to copy. The computer is a bit slow right now. Wait for my daughter to come back and sort it out at the weekend. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll lose some of her information when I copy it later. That would be terrible."

Fortunately, after the proprietress spoke, fewer people came to ask to copy resources. Later, more people came to eat, and the proprietress was busy preparing for others.

The boss hadn't come to his senses yet. He just glanced at the man with the crew cut and asked, "Are there really zombies that bite and eat people?"

"It's not clear yet whether it's zombies, but judging by the speed and method of infection, it does look like the zombies shown in the movie just now. But don't worry too much, uncle. The situation is not that serious yet. The people at the Health Center and the Biological Research Institute are trying to control the virus infection. Our Self-Defense Forces are also under control, so it shouldn't spread too quickly. But for safety's sake, I suggest that you temporarily close your business this morning and go home after last night. After all, there are always accidents, so safety comes first."

The crew-haired man stuffed a steamed dumpling into his mouth and spoke slowly. The busy proprietress served the food to the new diners and then turned around and sat down. "I think Xiaobei is right. We can open the business at any time, but we only have one life. We should be careful. By the way, I just called my daughter. She happened to take a day off this week. I asked her to take an extra day off and go home early. You can drive to pick up my daughter this afternoon."

The couple's daughter works in the inner circle, about ten kilometers away from the restaurant. Because the company has a lot of business, her daughter basically only comes back once a week or three or four days.

"Okay, okay, let's finish our lunch business and then I'll go pick up Zhenzhen."

The boss nodded hurriedly. After all, their daughter was the apple of their eye. Even though the boss didn't quite believe in zombies, he was worried about his daughter's safety and felt most at ease when the family was together. Just like when the natural disaster first broke out, if the family had not worked together to overcome the difficulties and encouraged each other, their family would never have survived until now, and they could not even settle down in the base. Their lives were getting better day by day.

After breakfast, the man with a crew cut hurried to go on patrol. Before leaving, he reminded the couple to be careful in the next few days and not to go out casually.

After seeing the man leave, Gu Tongwan also paid the bill and left, keeping a distance behind the man.

There were other pedestrians on the street, and this block was different from other blocks. It seemed much more lively. At least the shops along the street here were open for business as usual.

It takes about 25 minutes to walk from here to the Diamond Hotel, which is about two kilometers away and three blocks away.

According to what I heard in the store, the control is generally within a range of about three kilometers around the Diamond Hotel, so this place will sooner or later fall within the control range.

It was ten forty in the morning, and more and more people were coming onto the street, including office workers who were sneaking out to pick up money, street vendors who had just returned from purchasing goods, mothers who were taking their children out for a walk, and teenagers who looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old who had nothing to do and were out playing.

The streets here are indeed very lively, but I'm afraid that there will be more and more people around noon.

"Jingle Bell……"

It’s Xiaofeng’s call.

"Madam boss, my aunt just sent me another message, saying that the situation in the health center is very bad now. There are two mutants... No, two bitten patients have escaped."

"Hasn't the hospital been sealed off? How could someone escape?" To be honest, this was something Gu Tongwan couldn't understand. Logically speaking, the outside of the hospital should be strictly sealed off, and the level of control could not be lower than that of the Diamond Hotel.

"It is said that he escaped from the back door of the cafeteria on the first floor of the hospital. The person in charge of the hospital did not tell the Self-Defense Force that there was an emergency escape route in the back kitchen on the first floor. The patient was an employee of the back kitchen. He was afraid of being sent to the isolation room, so he ran away when he went to the bathroom. Another female nurse ran with him."

"Hasn't the Self-Defense Force tracked me down yet?"

"Ten minutes had passed when we discovered the person was missing. These ten minutes were enough for them to escape, but they should be in the outer circle. The inner circle requires identity verification." Xiaofeng's voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little helpless.

Gu Tongwan raised his head and saw the dark clouds that had gathered above his head. His voice was a little cold, "But the outer circle is very large. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the outer circle. Once these two people bite other people, this unknown mutant virus will instantly erode other people, causing them to become zombies."

Xiaofeng on the phone fell silent after hearing her words, but after a while he said, "My aunt said that the incubation period of this virus is about twelve hours, but if the virus mutates, it is very likely that the mutation time will be shortened."

"What this means is that the time of mutation is still unclear, so what about the secondary mutation?" Gu Tongwan asked another key question.

Apparently, this question stumped Xiao Feng. "Second... mutation? What is that?"

"Okay, maybe I'm overthinking it. I mean, will the zombies that were originally mutated by being bitten have secondary mutations? For example, the first mutation is the development of sharp canine teeth and nails, the eyes turning red, and the skin showing obvious signs of whitening. Then the secondary mutation is the color of the pupils, and whether the zombies' running speed will increase. These are secondary mutations."

"Madam Boss, what you said is so professional." It was the first time that Xiaofeng learned about the possibility of secondary mutation.

In fact, Gu Tongwan was inspired by the strange creatures called mutants. Since mutants have been evolving, will zombies also evolve? Isn’t this kind of evolution a secondary mutation?

"Okay, if anything happens, please call me again. No, just send me a text message because it may not be convenient for me to answer the call later." Gu Tongwan looked at the dark sky and his voice became cold.

Xiaofeng was slightly startled, and when he came to his senses, the tone on the other end had become busy.

Xia Tian, ​​who was standing behind him, saw Xiao Feng holding the phone in a daze, so he asked, "What's wrong? Did mom and dad say they found Mei Mei?"

"I forgot to ask, but she probably wasn't found." Xiaofeng always felt that the proprietress's last sentence meant something very strange. She wouldn't really want to sneak into the hotel to look for Meimei, but now the hotel might be full of monsters that would bite people. Even if she was nice to her employees, they were just strangers after all. Was it really necessary to save her employees?

On the one hand, Xiaofeng hoped that Meimei was fine, but on the other hand, she did not understand Gu Tongwan's behavior. This conflicted emotion made Xiaofeng fall into deep thought.

After listening to Xiaofeng, Xia Feng just patted her on the shoulder and said, "Okay, everyone has different ideas. You can't use your own ideas to measure other people's practices. Anyway, you can be responsible for what you have done. Go to the restaurant to help. It's almost noon and there are many people eating. Let's take care of the restaurant work first."

Xiaofeng opened her mouth, but could only manage a slight smile.

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Gu Tongwan was only about a hundred meters away from the Diamond Hotel. The entire street nearby had been controlled, but there was no restriction on the entry and exit of vehicles and pedestrians. However, it was absolutely impossible to enter the hotel. There were at least ten Self-Defense Force members standing outside the door, and hotel security guards were also patrolling the other door.

However, before coming here, Gu Tongwan specifically looked up some relevant information about the early days of the Diamond Hotel on the Internet, and finally found a comment in a post from two years ago.

The comment was posted by someone from the construction team under the developer at the time. It roughly complained about the hotel's failure to pay for the project. It also said that the hotel manager requested the installation of two additional escape passages, and that the design of the sewer pipes was even more outrageous, as they could lead directly to the main roads of the other two blocks outside.

There are circular manhole covers on the two roads, and the hotel's sewer pipes are connected to these manhole covers, which lead all the way to the back kitchen on the first floor.

To be honest, it was an accident that she found this post. In the early days of the opening of Xingxing Guesthouse, she and Liao Yunyun spent every day on the forum checking out introductions to various hotels and guesthouses in the base, in order to refer to the layout and structure of each hotel, so that when she really looked for a construction team, she would not be cheated because she knew nothing.

However, at that time, she and Liao Yunyun were actually more concerned with interior decoration and hotel layout. As for professional designs such as sewer pipes and escape copper sleeves, they only learned about them by chance.

But she was lucky that she had read this post at the time. She was still shocked at the time that a five-star hotel actually connected the kitchen sewer to the main road of the next block, and she even said that the designer was absolutely a freak.

Unexpectedly, this eccentric designer actually helped me a lot one day.

In fact, Gu Tongwan’s plan to sneak into the hotel this time was not entirely to save Meimei, but she wanted to know whether those mutated people in the hotel were really zombies. After all, she had never heard of zombies appearing in her previous life.

But if it is caused by the butterfly effect, it is hard to say, after all, many things are changing quietly in this life.

But she always felt that those zombies looked very similar to some monsters she had seen in Hai City, especially the red pupils.

No matter what, she had to go there in person and at least find a way to get some of the zombies' blood.

Just as she made up her mind, the system voice that had not sounded for a long time suddenly issued a new instruction.

[Killing zombies will give you a chance to win a prize. The prize may contain rare space seeds.]

Tsk, damn the system, it's really good at taking advantage of me now! It seems like I have to go to the hotel this time.