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Chapter 36: Necessary Trade-offs

On the second night of the zombie disaster, although the lights of the city are still bright, the creatures hovering under the lights have changed.

At this time, more than 30 hours have passed since the first case of "homicidal disease" patient in Bed Master City, or the first zombie appeared.

If the night before, humanity had kept at least half of the city safe, then with the collapse of the Mibetsu River Barrier, the entire modern city has been reduced to a hell on earth tonight.

On every street and alley in the entire urban area, there is no longer a shuttle of vehicles, but you can see zombies wandering around as if they were drunk. Occasionally, a short scream pierced the night sky, and it quickly disappeared into the darkness that the dim street lamps could not illuminate.

On the west bank of the Mibetsu River, near the high-end residential area where the group of Ki Qì Mao and Fuji Meien had just left, there is a street that is neither wide nor narrow. On one side of the street are tall reinforced concrete apartment buildings, while on the other side are single-family houses with courtyards.

Although most of the windows on both sides of the street are no longer lighted at this moment, there are a few houses that still stubbornly shine through the light of electric lights. These candles in the wind, which symbolize human industrial civilization, cannot attract the sightless zombies in the slightest. But the remnants of the living came together like moths that saw the light - and unfortunately, most of them seemed to end up like moths that put out fire.

In the courtyard of a certain house, a middle-aged office worker in a suit and tie, but not carrying a briefcase, was sitting with his back against the wall with a pale face, covering the wound in his abdomen with his hands, enduring the severe pain, and holding on silently, so as not to attract the hearing zombie to him—his wound did not have a dead tooth mark, but a narrow, deep hole, apparently poked by a sharp weapon.

Although the middle-aged man had already exerted all his strength and used all his will to fight against death, more and more blood still slowly but surely oozed out, and then, his consciousness became more and more blurred......

“…… Father...... Father...... Father...... Wake up...... Daddy......"

Beside the middle-aged man, who was about to die of blood loss, the young girl was crying and calling out to her father over and over again.

As a young child, she didn't know what was going on in the world, except that in the elementary school that suddenly became a slaughterhouse yesterday afternoon, thanks to the timely arrival of her father, who is an office worker, she was able to save her from the teachers and classmates who were biting each other.

However, after a day of hiding, they could not escape home, and my father was stabbed in a pool of blood forever while calling for help.

“…… Bastard! Whisper to me! ”

Through a thin door, the owner of the room, another middle-aged office worker, let out an angry roar.

However, I don't know if it was because he kept his voice low, and the crying girl turned a deaf ear to it.

A few minutes ago, it was the owner of the house who had stabbed to death the middle-aged man in the courtyard who had come to call for help with a mop and a self-made spear with the iron tip of the fence.

However, this murderer also has his helplessness - the zombie's vision is almost none, but it is quite sensitive to sound. If it weren't for the loud noise caused by the middle-aged man's incessant banging on the door and begging, he would not have been able to take in the father and daughter at a time when one more mouth required an extra serving of water and food, but he would not have been ruthless enough to stab someone in the belly with a spear.

Seeing that the little girl outside ignored herself, still screaming and crying, the middle-aged homeowner turned his head in distress and looked at his wife, who was biting her lip with fear, and her daughter, who was clutching her apron...... His fingers on the homemade spear were so hard that he was white.

Turning around and opening the curtains slightly, he saw that the nightmarish shadow had appeared in the range of the street lamp in front of his house with the girl's cry...... There are more zombies gathering from afar.

“…… Bang Dang! Bang Dang ......"

The zombies in front were blocked by the iron gate in their own courtyard and couldn't get in for a while. But one, two, three...... More and more zombies began to pile up in front of the iron gate. Although the father and daughter bolted the iron door before entering, the problem is that the strength of the zombie is much greater than that of the living, listening to the sound of the clang, the middle-aged houseowner seems to see that the bolt holding the iron door hinge is shaking and falling off the wall......

And the little girl's voice is still getting sharper and sharper, attracting more and more zombies to move closer to this side.

It can't go on like this! Otherwise our family would all die!

The middle-aged owner wiped the cold sweat oozing from his forehead, and glanced at his wife and daughter again - if it weren't for them, he would not have been able to make up his mind to kill someone if he was an ordinary office worker yesterday, let alone a little girl who was about the same age as his daughter!

But now, in order to protect the safety of his family, this office worker has to make a difference, and he can't care about it anymore!

Anyway, I've already killed an adult, and now it's not much worse to kill a small one, doesn't it?

He touched the doorknob with his trembling left hand, took a deep breath, spun, and opened the door...... Then, raise your sharp spear and stab it with all your might!

- Short screams, splashes of blood, falling bodies...... The young girl's crying stopped abruptly.

Little Lori Ciri Alice, death confirmed!

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At the same time, on the balcony of the Gaocheng family mansion on the east bank of the Gobetsu River, Wang Qiu frowned and saw a line of dazzling red letters from the "Book of Crossing":

“…… Ciri Alice, an important team character in the original book, dies early, and 1ooo reward points will be deducted. ”

- Combined with the bonus points obtained for arriving at Takashihiro's house early, the current total points for this plot are 122oo points.

So, he closed the book, sighed faintly, and secretly mourned for half a minute for the return of this little Lori who had not yet met.

In general, Wang Qiu is not a cold-blooded man in the iron mask, let alone a bloodthirsty murderer, but he is also not a mother of boundless love. As for whether to follow the direction of the original book, wait until dark in Nan Lixiang's house, and then rescue the last person of the protagonist team in the original book, the little Lori Hilly Alice holding the puppy "Jiku", Wang Qiu also thought carefully for a long time...... But in the end, he chose to give up.

First of all, for Doraemon's debt repayment plan, he must hurry up and reach a cooperation agreement with the Gao Cheng family, and use the manpower and connections of the "Worry about the Country" to loot property and realize the "Three Lights Plan of the Bed Owner City" - the time and space debt collection company only gave a grace period of seven days, if he can't repay a considerable part of the money before the deadline, Doraemon is really in danger of being sent to the scrap machine qì dismantling factory!

Second, with all the high school students looking forward to rushing to the other side of the Mibetsu River to join their families, he could not have forced them to stay in Minami Satoka's mansion for a night without any reason, unless violent coercion or verbal coaxing was used, but the consequences were really disastrous.

Third, Wang Qiu is also not sure whether little Lori Xili Alice and her father will run to the vicinity of Nan Lixiang's villa after the plot has been greatly changed...... Wouldn't it be too much of a loss if it ended up being a failure?

The most important thing is that Wang Qiu has been practicing in the past two days, and in the plot space of this "School Apocalypse", it is really easy for them to brush up the scores, and there is no lack of this point reward from Ciri Alice's father and daughter. On the contrary, the work of raising money for Doraemon to pay off his debts is not an ordinary difficulty. Only 200 million yen has been collected so far, which is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the total debt of 218 billion.

Therefore, the most urgent task nowadays is to make money, not earn points, so some side plots that waste time and energy can be abandoned.

As for the lonely little Lori Alice...... I can only say I'm sorry. Anyway, we never met, and we didn't have any obligation to save you - and on the same night, I don't know how many unlucky and cute children died in the jaws of zombies!

What's more, he had done enough good deeds on this night...... Wang Qiu put away the "Book of Crossing", turned around and looked at the lounge inside the door, and immediately saw several high school students in the Fujimei Garden, hugging their parents and loved ones, crying and laughing excitedly, crying silently, and tears welling up in their eyes.

――After successfully arriving at the Takashiro family's mansion and obtaining the consent of Soichiro Takashiro, the remaining five Fuji Bien high school students in the local area also used Doraemon's "Pickup Tote Bag" to drag their parents over one after another, thus reuniting the family......

In this kind of death and ruin, the most worthy thing for everyone to rejoice in is probably nothing more than this.

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…… I'm ...... What's wrong?

…… Here again...... Where?

From the dim and bumpy narrow carriage, he was suddenly taken to a spacious room with bright lights, and Miyamoto Masashi (the rank of a Japanese policeman, the actual position of deputy director), who was curled up in the back seat of the police car and dozing off, suddenly woke up involuntarily.

But he was still pierced by the too bright light, and his messy mind was a mess.

-- Two days of sleepless "riot suppression" operations, watching familiar citizens and colleagues turn into man-eating monsters one by one, and finally failing to hold the police station...... This qiē made his energy and body completely overdrawn, and even his thinking seemed to be glued.

“…… Father! ”

Before his mind could run, in the next moment, a lively and weak body slammed into Miyamoto Masa's arms.

The warm body temperature and familiar breath suddenly came to his face, which made Deputy Director Miyamoto stunned.

…… Oh, my God! Could this be...... Dreaming?

Oh - even if it's a dream......

“…… Daddy, Daddy, Daddy ......"

First there was a shout, and then the girl's voice turned into a cry.

"......" Miyamoto looked at the girl in his arms in disbelief, as if even his soul was taken by the miracle of this moment.

That's right, this is indeed his only biological daughter, Miyamoto Rei!

At that moment, his heart, which had been hanging for dozens of hours, finally fell. And the body, which was originally as strong as King Kong, seemed to have been drained of all its strength, and it almost collapsed on the spot.

-- If someone hadn't pulled him in time, he might have fallen to the ground with his daughter in his arms.

“…… Thank you...... You! Quiriko! Are you okay?! It's great!! Looking at his wife Takako Miyamoto's face, which was slightly haggard, but still full of vitality, another burst of indescribable joy surged into Miyamoto's heart like a tsunami.

At this moment, Miyamoto feels as if he has become the happiest man in the world!

As a result, this police officer, who had always been unsmiling in ordinary times, finally could no longer restrain himself, and for a moment he burst into tears, and could no longer care about any majesty and decency, only knowing that he opened his hands and hugged his wife and daughter tightly, as if he once again hugged the whole world that belonged to him.

Well? What the hell is going on with this qiē...... Whatever! Let's make Lao Tzu happy enough first!

A few steps away, Takashi Komuro hugged his mother, who was an elementary school teacher, and wept bitterly with excitement. There are also Jing Haoyong and the remaining two local girls, who also hugged their respective families, pouring out their irrepressible excitement with tears and cries......

- Because, once again, they have found their home.

The so-called "home" is to be with the family...... Otherwise, no matter how beautiful a house is, it is just a house.

After a short period of loss, everyone will feel more truly the preciousness of home and family......

On the other side, Wang Qiu opened the "Book of Travel" again with great interest, and watched rows of golden characters emerge on the pages one after another:

“…… Merge Rei Miyamoto with her father in advance to earn 1ooo bonus points. ”

“…… Merge Rei Miyamoto with her mother in advance to earn 1ooo bonus points. ”

“…… Let Takashi Komuro meet his mother in advance to get 1ooo bonus points. ”

……

――In the plot space of this "School Apocalypse",It's really easy for a time-traveler to brush up points.,Isn't it?

However, outside this happy place of family reunion, the whining and wailing of hordes of zombies and the dying wails of fugitives have already sounded.

-- The defense line of the Mibetsu River has collapsed, and thousands of zombies have crossed the bridge and poured into the eastern urban area...... At this point, the entire Bed Lord City has completely fallen!