Chapter 5 Fight for Food
There was nothing to do all night, Yang Xiao sat on the big rock halfway up the mountain until more than 5 o'clock in the morning, the night subsided, and dawn came, before he lay down on the big rock and began to sleep.
I don't know how long I slept, Yang Xiao felt the dazzling sunlight, opened his eyes and sat up.
It was already noon, and the sun was shining directly down from mid-air, and through the gaps in the bushes, the sunlight was projected onto Yang Xiao.
Standing up, he walked to a nearby place of more than ten meters to pee, briefly checked the environment of the surrounding forest, made sure that there were no snakes and other deadly poisonous insects, returned to the big rock again, opened his backpack, and took out a bottle of water, a bag of beef jerky and half a pack of biscuits left over from yesterday.
Yang Xiao ate while watching the playground under the mountain through the gap in the bushes.
The number of people gathered in the playground was twice as large as yesterday, estimated at seven or eight hundred.
These people were talking about something around the orange gene store.
The smart people began to take the food and asked to join Xiao Zhe's team, Xiao Zhe only took in those who brought enough food, and the team had expanded to about one hundred and fifty people, and seven CDs were boys.
Today is the second day after the cataclysm, and most people can pick up food and water, but compared to yesterday, it is not so easy, and more people are starting to feel fear in their hearts, and many people have begun to collect food and water and take them with them.
However, this food is not enough to last for seven days.
The government rescue team that everyone had hoped for did not show up.
Some of the bold people started to walk out of the school, but they came back with the bad news that the entire city had been destroyed and that there were very few people alive.
Most people don't believe too much in the little old man of the gene store Gu Bo about the biological mutation after seven days, but it still caused a lot of panic in everyone's hearts.
Everyone is now a little relieved that this is a city, there are no large beasts, and even if the creatures mutate, they will not pose any threat to them.
The next night, Yang Xiao was looking up at the moon in the sky, and the noise suddenly came from the playground below the mountain.
Someone took advantage of the darkness to snatch other people's food, and the two sides fought, and finally they were persuaded to leave.
This was the first conflict caused by the snatching of food, like a small stone thrown into a calm lake, which caused a lot of ripples in the hearts of everyone.
If there is no rescue team, food will become less and less, and no more than half of the more than 2,000 surviving students at Shonan University will survive seven days, that is, more than half of them will starve to death.
Xiao Zhe was already sensitively aware of the impending crisis, and now if he asked to join his team, in addition to having enough food, he must also be a strong man.
The rest of the people also began to huddle in small groups, three or five classmates who knew each other, or people from the same department, everyone formed a small team that could help each other.
Food and physical strength are two important factors.
Girls have become weak, of course, beautiful girls have never lacked the protection of the strong who pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, so that the rest of the individual customers are some thin boys who don't have much food and some girls who have no food and look average.
In the face of survival, human beings return to their primitive selfish nature.
Abandoned wood can be seen everywhere, Xiao Zhe sent people to burn two bonfires, one to illuminate the courage, the other to keep warm, September belongs to autumn, the temperature at night is only a dozen degrees, a little cool.
The rest of the people did the same, and dozens of bonfires were lit in the playground.
There is a huge lamp outside the gene store, which is neither like a human oil lamp nor an electric light, but it is not small in brightness, and it can illuminate a range of about 30 meters near the gene store.
A lot of small groups, or individual customers without a group, gather around the gene store.
Yang Xiao ate another pack of chicken wings in the middle of the night, drank half a bottle of water, and when Yang Xiao finished eating the chicken wings in his hand, a strange feeling came from his body, like a faint electric current, and began to swim around his body, which lasted for about a few minutes, and then disappeared on its own.
What's going on?
Yang Xiao checked his body in surprise and found that there seemed to be nothing special.
Maybe I'm tired.
Yang Xiao suddenly remembered his parents.
I don't know what happened to my hometown now, is it the same as here, there has been a catastrophe?
Now that the city has been destroyed, there is no suitable transportation to go home to see, so I can only pray that my parents and older siblings are safe.
When the sun rose, Yang Xiao fell asleep again.
"Kill, I'll kill you!"
A sharp cry woke Yang Xiao up.
Yang Xiao turned over and sat up, picking up the iron pipe beside him.
The shouts came from the playground down the hill, and through the gaps in the bushes, two people could be seen chasing each other on the playground.
This was the second food snatching incident, and this time it was more serious, with the able-bodied party knocking the other to the ground, bleeding head.
The girls around screamed and begged, hoping that the two would stop fighting.
Many boys just watch from afar, and at the same time deliberately protect their food.
Eventually, the emaciated boy was knocked to the ground and his backpack snatched, and the snatcher glanced at the boy on the ground, dropped a bottle of water and a packet of biscuits, and drove away with the snatched backpack.
The onlookers were silent, and the things that everyone was worried about finally began to happen, even Xiao Zhe, who is now the largest force organization, was not without worries, although he had more than a hundred people, including dozens of physically strong boys, but in case this group of people went crazy with hunger, and besieged them together to snatch food, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Xiao Zhe thought of Yang Xiao again.
Why did this guy suddenly evaporate from the world and be nowhere to be seen, could it be that he had already left the academy?
Xiao Zhe left the team in the playground, in fact, he had the same concerns as Yang Xiao, that is, there was a mysterious gene store here, in case of a biological gene mutation accident after seven days, this gene store would be their last shelter.
Yang Xiao sat on the rock, silently watching everything that happened in the playground under the mountain, although he had long expected that there would be something like cannibalism, but when he really saw such a scene, he still felt a little sad in his heart.
The ugliness of human nature will be more vividly manifested in the next few days, selfishness, fear, greed, and cruelty will be exposed one by one.
Yang Xiao drank half a bottle of water, ate a piece of chocolate, a few biscuits, and then ate half a pack of beef jerky.
He temporarily put the empty water bottles he drank in his backpack, maybe it will be useful to keep them in the future, there are ten bottles of water in the backpack, and he is now limited to drinking only one bottle of water a day.
With enough food in his backpack, he is not stingy at all now, and he needs to maintain his strength for the more brutal battles that are coming.
A bag of beef jerky was swallowed, and the weird feeling of last night appeared in my body again.
An electric current rises from within, travels through various parts of the body, and lasts for several minutes before gradually disappearing.
This time the feeling was even stronger than last night.
"What the hell is this?"