Chapter 81: CH 81

The craze for killing zombies for crystal cores had subsided a little under the 30% mortality rate. Yesterday there were people in their forties and fifties mixed in the hunting group, yet today was mostly young adults. Those who did not have a car looked enviously at Gu Ning as they got into their military truck. Some were even more daring to come forward and ask them for a lift to the nearby area.

“We can submit our supplies, just bring us near to the Yellow Bridge.” A young man found the courage to approach Brother San, who appeared to be in charge among these men. They were a group of five, four men and one woman, all in their twenties. They were holding knives, most of which had been curled, and waited for the reply with a look of apprehension and vague expectation……

They were requesting this because it was difficult to find any more supplies and zombies within the distance from the colony to the Yellow Bridge.  It would take at least two hours to walk from here to the Yellow Bridge, and there was a chance of encountering danger in the midway. Thus, when they saw Brother San’s truck, they decided to take their chances.

Originally, Brother San wanted to refuse straight away, but after looking at their wretched and pleading faces, he inevitably thought of those soldiers under his command. After a moment’s hesitation, he took a piece of bread from the young man’s hand and agreed: “Get in, we’ll give you all a ride.”

They were not expecting much but when they heard that Brother San had agreed, they were overjoyed and thanked him. Fearing that Brother San might back out suddenly, they all hurried and got into the last military truck.

Luo Long looked at the somewhat dirty piece of bread in Brother San’s hand and asked in disbelief: “Brother San, if you’re bringing them for a ride, why do you have to take this piece of bread from them? It’s not like we’re short of supplies to eat.”

Brother San glanced at him and explained: “This is to let them know that we aren’t any saint. At least the rest won’t bother us like some pests. Stop nagging and get in the truck.”

Luo Long scratched his head and followed Brother San into the truck. He was simple-minded and naturally not as thoughtful as Brother San.

The five men wore clothes that hadn’t been changed in who knows how long, and their bodies reeked of unpleasant sour odours. Their exposed skin was caked with a thick layer of mud and dirt, except for their slightly cleaner faces. In the military truck, Gu Ning, Cheng Ming, and the others were all dressed in clean clothes and good spirits, and the carriage was kept clean and tidy, free of odours. When those five men got into the truck, the carriage was instantly filled with their sour smell, and they were a little embarrassed, afraid that Gu Ning and the others would kick them out because of this.

However, to their surprise, Gu Ning and the other’s expressions always looked very calm and frank. There weren’t any disgusted expressions, not even a subtle movement like a frown, as if they couldn’t smell the stench on them at all which slowly calmed down their fidgeting bodies.

It took around 20 to 30 minutes to reach the Yellow Bridge, Zhang XiaoBai and the others were not too comfortable chatting and laughing when they were presented with a few strangers. Thus, the atmosphere in the truck was somewhat dull, as the few men exchanged glances and swallowed away the introductions they were about to make in silence.

Once they got to the Yellow Bridge, the truck stopped to drop them off before driving away immediately.

“If only we could join their team.” A young man said enviously as he looked at the military truck that was speeding away.

“Dream on.” Another youth sneered but also stated with slight envy: “I heard that they can eat three meals a day. Did you see that big truck that was parked in their yard? I heard that the truck was full of supplies. Just look at their clothes and you can tell that they are from a different world as compared with us……” At this point, he gave an awkward smile: “Let’s work hard too, so we can be just like them after we’ve become special abilities users.”

Everyone else felt their spirits lifted.

Many others thought like them too, and all were searching in groups for the crystal cores as that were their last hope for this world.

Parked in an outskirts area of the downtown, probably it was still early so they were the first batch of people to arrive here and no others were here yet.

Today, they were heading deeper into the downtown area, targeting the hospital downtown.

As they had to go deeper into the downtown area, soldiers like Zhang Yang, who hadn’t developed their powers had to stay behind at the colony and were responsible for keeping watch. Right now in Gu Ning’s group were Brother San, Fang Fa, Cheng Ming, Zhang XiaoBai, Huang MengYao, Jia DaoZhang, and Xiang Xu, all seven special abilities users were present, along with Xiang Yi who requested strongly to follow and was responsible for protecting Xiang Xu. Gu Ning had considered that if there was really any danger, there wouldn’t be anyone who would be more capable than Xiang Yi of taking care of Xiang Xu instantly, so his request was granted. Although Gu Ning still subconsciously rejects the leader position, unknowingly her responsibility in this team was growing.

Everyone except Gu Ning and Xiang Yu had two transparent crystal cores on standby in case of emergency.

Due to Gu Ning’s healing ability being too consuming, they didn’t want to use her psychic power unless they were forced to, so they needed a lot of medicine on standby. Moreover, Brother San had mentioned in his conversation with Gu Ning that he was interested in bringing Dr. Gao to the team and Gu Ning agreed. She had trusted Gao Yue ever since she had operated on Father Gu, and the sensible and calm manner displayed by her in several contacts had also left a good impression on Gu Ning while their team was indeed a shortage of doctors.

Therefore, they were going to sweep the central hospital and use those items and equipment to pull Dr. Gao into their team when they returned.

The city’s central hospital was the largest public tertiary hospital in Jinyong city and was ranked among the best in the country. It was located in the middle of Golden Gate Street and Eleventh Square.

Golden Gate Street was very crowded than Eleventh Square, and the hospital was at its peak during weekends. At that time, people who were infected by the zombie virus and fainted would first be sent to the hospital. Afterward, they would transform into zombies in the hospital while those medical staffs who treated them were completely unaware of the situation, as well as those visitors who came to see the patients. One could imagine what a tragic disaster it was.

However, imagining it was not as gruesome as witnessing it.

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The glass doors of the hospital were half ajar and several unrecognizable bodies were lying in front of the entrance. It included half-severe bodies, bodies with missing parts, a pool of dried blood on the floor, and various internal organs that had dried up ——

Gu Ning asked: “Xiang Xu, what’s the situation in there?”

Xiang Xu’s spiritual energy had long covered the entire building, and her brow furrowed slightly as she replied with a strange feeling: “Only a few zombies were checked out….. Could there be monsters like last time?” Xiang Xu was referring to the previous mutated zombies that could avoid her spiritual power detection.

There were nine floors in the city’s central hospital and it would be too strange if there were so few zombies in it.

Everyone, including Gu Ning, thought that it was unlikely to have so few zombies, but they were unwilling to head back without knowing what was inside. After a moment’s of hesitation, they decided to go in and find out what was going on, and if they noticed anything wrong, they would immediately retreat,

As soon as their retreat path was planned, Gu Ning was the first one to step over the blackened bloodstains on the floor and walked into the hospital lobby.

Everyone else followed Gu Ning’s footsteps one by one and entered.

The hospital was eerily quiet and only the sound of their footsteps could be heard. The first floor lobby was strewn with countless bodies, few of which could be found intact while most were missing arms and legs. There were also disembowelled bodies with their heads cracked open and dried brains juices spilling everywhere, and what was even more chilling was those fearful expressions with their eyes wide open. There were too many severed limbs on the ground that even walking had to be done in between the gaps of the bodies. When Huang MengYao accidentally stepped on a severed hand, she shrieked in shock. The group of them who were already on the edge were all startled by her.

“Still haven’t found anything yet?” Gu Ning asked again.

Xiang Xu shook her head with a gloomy expression.

By now, Fang Fa who had already walked to the entrance of the elevator in the lobby was standing by the bulletin board in front of the elevator entrance and called out to them: “Hey, come over here and take a look. Here is the map of the hospital layout.”

Gu Ning and the others gathered over. There was indeed a map of the hospital’s layout posted on that bulletin board, with details of the locations and directions.

Their main targets this time were the pharmacy and the operating theatre which were on the first floor.

“Hey?! How strange, this elevator actually still works?” Jia DaoZhang suddenly said as he unintentionally pressed the down button and only to find that the button lit up.

The others glanced over and sure enough, the down button was lit up in red.

Fang Fa explained: “It should be the hospital’s backup electricity.”

Jia DaoZhang continued: “When the time comes, we shall get a few generators too. It’s really inconvenient now that there’s no electricity anywhere.”

As they spoke, the screen above the button showed that the lift had reached the fourth floor and was continuing its descent.

Gu Ning suddenly made a gesture of silence, the others subconsciously focused at that elevator door. Gu Ning focused on her listening for a moment before her expression changed slightly: “Be careful!”

The next second after Gu Ning had shouted this out.

The elevator made a “ding!” sound.

The elevator doors opened silently in front of the nervous crowd, it was too late to retreat and everyone held their breath for a moment while getting ready to unleash their psychic powers for whatever came out of it.

Yet inside the opened elevator was empty except for the blood all over the floor and a corpse in the corner with half of its body bitten off. There was nothing at all for them to be careful about.

The elevator door stayed open for a short while before slowly closing again which made it looks like a false alarm. Everyone’s tensed nerves were instantly relaxed after the shout by Gu Ning. Zhang XiaoBai even gave Gu Ning a slight grumbling look and said: “Gu Ning, do you know that people could scare other people to death?!”

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