Chapter 15: Survivors
Living in the last days, Chen Dong is always afraid of the unknown. The zombies in the kitchen use knives and don't howl like other zombies, and Chen Dong is not sure what happened to the female zombie.
The moment Chen Dong saw a blade appear on the kitchen door, a fear suddenly surged in his heart, and he had a premonition that the crisis caused by the zombie outbreak might not be as simple as he currently understood.
Humans mutate and zombies appear, but what about other animals or plants? Have they mutated?
The outbreak of the zombie crisis was originally a big variable, and Chen Dong didn't know if there would be other variables in the future. Perhaps in the near future, everything that Chen Dong knows now will also change, and the survivors who survived the zombie catastrophe will face a greater crisis next.
Next, Chen Dong quickly searched the household, and the food in the refrigerator had deteriorated and could not be eaten, so Chen Dong gave up and did not collect it. Bagged rice noodles, eggs and other non-perishable foods are all in the kitchen, and Chen Dong also decisively chose to give them up.
There were no materials found in the bedroom that could be retained, and Chen Dong was a little disappointed. Through his search, he found that the furnishings and decoration styles of the two bedrooms of this resident were feminine, and they should be the bedrooms where the female zombie in the kitchen and the female corpse lived separately before her death.
The search yielded little useful and the car keys were still not found, and in the end, Chen Dong only got a bucket of pure water from the water dispenser.
The reserves of pure water at home have not been much, Chen Dong searched all the residents in the second unit where his house is located, integrated it, and finally only got five full barrels of pure water. In the past few days, Chen Dong has exercised a lot of activity, and a lot of pure water has been consumed, and now there are only a little more than three buckets of five barrels of pure water left at home. This time, the pure water that Chen Dong got was just enough to make up for the lack of water storage at home.
Carrying the pure water to the door, Chen Dong turned around and closed the security door heavily. The female zombie in the kitchen is no longer able to move, but even if it recovers, the heavy security door will presumably be able to trap it.
Leaving the pure water in place, Chen Dong didn't take the key to try to open the door from house to house, he walked directly down the stairs and went down to the first floor. Along the way, Chen Dong knocked on the security doors of other residents with a steel gun, and roughly counted which households had zombies in their homes.
Chen Dong did not find that the security doors of other residents were open, and according to Chen Dong's knocking on the door, there were zombies in the homes of the two residents on the sixth floor, and there were also zombies on the fourth and third floors downstairs, and these zombies would not open the door.
Coupled with the zombies in the house on the seventh floor, there are a total of five households with zombies in the four units, which is much more than the second unit where their home is located.
Most of the residents in Chen Dong's community are ordinary people with average working incomes, living in the city, and they, like Chen Dong, are facing the pressure of housing loans. During the daytime, except for the elderly or mothers with children, most of the people in the community will go out and work hard to make money.
Now that housing prices are rising, some wealthy people are still hoarding houses and speculating in houses, and all the residents of the second unit that Chen Dong smashed open found that four households may be renting houses. Because Chen Dong found that although there were beds and bedding in the rooms of these residents, the furniture and electrical appliances were very simple.
These people should be migrant workers who rent or share a house with others, and the property rights of the houses they rent may be in the hands of some big money speculators. These renters, they have to pay rent and utility bills, naturally they will not be idle, and they have to go out to work during the day.
People in the community go out to work during the day, and after the zombie crisis breaks out, there are fewer zombies trapped at home.
went down to the bottom floor, and Chen Dong finally relieved himself when he saw that the security door of the unit building was closed. The security door of the unit building is closed, but there is no lock, the zombies will only move forward, and they only know how to push and hit when they encounter things, and the security door of the unit building is open outward, even if it is not locked, the zombies cannot enter.
Sure that no zombies would come in, causing a sudden crisis, Chen Dong was slightly relieved.
Walking to the first floor, Chen Dong took out the key and began to continue trying to open the door, this time, Chen Dong just inserted the key into the lock hole of the anti-theft door of the west resident on the first floor, just twisted it slightly, and heard the door lock make a "click" sound, and the door was easily opened.
Chen Dong didn't expect such a coincidence, he grabbed the doorknob, but did not rush to open the door, but first cautiously hammered the anti-theft.
Knocking on the door to attract zombies in the residents' homes has become Chen Dong's habit of trying to "ask for directions". Chen Dong now doesn't dare to knock on the security door outside, so he simply judges whether there are zombies in the household.
The female zombie trapped in the kitchen on the fifth floor reminded Chen Dong that zombies may actually be trapped in the kitchen, bedroom or toilet, in that case, even if Chen Dong knocks on the door outside, it may not attract the zombie behind the security door.
With Chen Dong's few taps, the residents' homes were very quiet, and there was no reaction in the bedroom and kitchen, so there should be no zombies.
Pulling open the door, Chen Dong entered the living room of the resident, where the door to one bedroom was open, and the doors to the other bathrooms, kitchen, and bedroom were closed.
Chen Dong first searched the bathroom and kitchen, and also used the method of "knocking on the door and asking for directions". The kitchen and bathroom were empty, there were no zombies, the kitchen was a mess, the cupboards with dishes had been opened, and the stove was a mess, apparently rummaged through.
Has anyone ever come to the kitchen for food?
Chen Dong suddenly found that until now, he had ignored an important question, since the second unit can have a survivor like him, then there will be no other survivors in this community?
When the zombie crisis first broke out, there were not many survivors active on the Internet, and there were many active people in the local forums of Jinxiang City.
Chen Dong has been hiding upstairs, and there are not many other buildings that he can see, and he can't think that he is alone in the community by seeing that there are no lights in other residents' homes at night. Besides, what if the survivors in other households just like the dark and deliberately don't turn on the lights at night?
Looking up at the anti-theft window on the window, there was no trace of being damaged by external forces, Chen Dong retreated to the living room, opened the refrigerator, and found that there was no food in the refrigerator.
If no one comes in from outside, and the food is empty, it means that there may be a living person in the house!
Chen Dong suddenly had a spirit, turned his head to look at the bedroom with the door closed, the only one in this room was closed, and his intuition told Chen Dong that there might be someone in this house.
There may be survivors! Chen Dong is a little excited, maybe he can have a companion in the future!
In the past few days, except for the mouse, Chen Dong has not seen a normal creature, and Chen Dong, who was in a high mood, did not hesitate and walked directly to the bedroom.
"Hey! There are no people in it, is there nothing to eat? Dude, here! Need help from buddy? ”
Chen Dong shouted excitedly, knocked on the door, and at the same time clenched the steel gun in his hand, Chen Dong must be prepared for possible dangers in advance, and make all plans, the experience of the past few days has made him understand that living in the moment of zombies is rampant, no matter how cautious it is.
No one in the room responded, and nothing happened.
"Damn, ignore me! I'm telling you, it's a zombie mess now, and I want to live forever! If you need food, I can help you, I have no ill will, I need a car, do you have a car? ”
"If no one speaks, I'll just assume that there's no one inside, and go in and find it!"
Chen Dong shouted loudly with some irritation, and after waiting for a while, there was indeed no reaction inside, and there might really be no one inside.
There was no reaction in the room, at least it could prove that there were no zombies, reaching out and twisting the doorknob, the door was not locked, and Chen Dong pushed the door open.
When the door was opened, there was silence in the bedroom, and Chen Dong could see everything in the bedroom clearly when he stood at the door. Chen Dong's eyes were instantly attracted to the bed, because on the edge of the bed in the bedroom, there was a child lying on his stomach.
Chen Dong could only see the child's back, look at the clothes and hairstyle, he could vaguely distinguish that it was a little boy, the boy was kneeling on the ground, his arms folded on the edge of the bed, and his head was lying on his arms.
The little boy lay motionless on the edge of the bed, not knowing what was going on......
Chen Dong slowly walked into the room and took a light breath of air. There was no strange smell in the room except for the feeling of being stuffy without opening the window for a long time.
Chen Dong breathed a sigh of relief, the rancid smell of the female corpse in the kitchen on the seventh floor actually brought a great stimulation to Chen Dong's spirit, living in a peaceful era, Chen Dong had never smelled the smell of corpse decay before.
There was no unusual smell in the room, which meant that the little boy was not a corpse, or at least not a rotting and stinky corpse that had been dead for many days......
Chen Dong cautiously approached the little boy to make sure that there was nothing unusual about him, so he gently picked him up and put him on the bed.
The boy's face was very pale, his cheeks were a little blue, Chen Dong put his hand under the boy's nostrils, and waited for several seconds before he noticed a little weak air flow under the boy's nostrils.
There is breathing! Although the snort is faint, it at least proves that the little boy is still alive!
Chen Dong was suddenly a little excited, and even a little in a hurry, he actually found a living person!
In fact, Chen Dong has been watching zombies for nearly half a month, and his spirit has begun to appear depressed and anxious!
Scientific studies have shown that severe depression and loneliness can make people feel hopeless and even make people want to commit suicide! Now that the survivor has been discovered, although it is only a child, this makes Chen Dong's loneliness disappear in an instant.
People need company, even if it's a goldfish or a mouse. Chen Dong even regretted throwing the mouse out of the window a few days ago, and in the middle of the night in the past few days, Chen Dong listened to the howling of zombies downstairs outside the window from time to time, and he even began to miss the husky that he could often see in the green belt of the community before.
Although the husky was often driven away by the property staff and controlled by its owner, the appearance of the husky was clearly recalled by Chen Dong in the middle of the night.
Pouring the contents of the small backpack on the bed, Chen Dong picked up the milk he brought, tied the straw, and stuffed the straw into the little boy's mouth. Chen Dong carefully pinched the milk carton, and slowly squeezed the milk into the boy's mouth while ensuring that the milk would not spill through the straw prick.
The little boy should have been hungry when he fainted, because Chen Dong found an empty plastic bag on the ground next to his bed, and there were still a few grains of raw rice on the ground.
The little boy probably had nothing to eat, and after rummaging through the kitchen and refrigerator, he finally found only rice, perhaps because the child could not cook, or because the electricity was out, the child could only eat raw rice, and finally until the rice was also eaten, he was starved and lay on the side of the bed.
The milk was squeezed into the child's mouth, and the child had no Adam's apple, so he couldn't tell if he was swallowing, but Chen Dong clearly felt that the milk in the box was a little less. Pinched the milk a little more and squeezed it into the child's mouth, Chen Dong pulled out the straw and turned his head, but his eyes were attracted by a piece of paper placed on the side of the bed.