Chapter 365: The Bright Cabin
"No matter what, she is the number one, and she will not be treated badly wherever she goes!" Two men whispered far from the crowd.
"Isn't she, she needs to grab food from us? Definitely not. We are like dogs, but they can be pampered. Another person said, "As long as she takes good refuge in the surviving country, she can continue, but we are ordinary dicks, so we can't." β
"Tickets are always for a few! Others either can't get on the boat, and when they do, it's a refugee cabin! β
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"I have informed the Eagle State Government of everyone's needs, and now we can only trust and hope." Ms. Yang gave unconvincing speeches like a missionary.
The refugees seem to have only one hope.
They know that it is difficult to improve their living conditions, but it is good to have someone who is willing to speak for them.
Just as Zheng Zhilan needs Dupin to anesthetize his own mind, these refugees also need this kind of spiritual opium to anesthetize their current painful situation, so that at least they can feel better.
"Take me to the living area below" Ms. Yang looked compassionate, and when she turned around, she saw a refugee from the crowd when she came last time, and his daughter was suffering from a high fever at that time, "You are Xiao Lu, how is your daughter now?" β
Fearing that a high fever was a precursor to the mutiny, the other refugees threw the father and daughter to the far corner of the cabin on the ground floor, where no one dared to approach them.
"She" the father couldn't hold back tears, "she's already
Zheng Zhilan looked at Ms. Yang holding the father's hand, but thought to herself, Master Yang*, you are here to make a guest appearance as a priest, but I want to see what the situation is in the living cabin below.
Taking advantage of the fact that everyone's attention was almost on Ms. Yang, she quietly squeezed out of the crowd and walked to the other side of the deck.
The ship has obviously been remodeled, the hull was originally a hollow cabin, with rooms for the crew to work and rest in front, etc., and now two decks have been erected on the hull so that more people can live inside.
The man who was sitting in the distance complaining just now saw Zheng Zhilan coming over and became interested.
"Hey, look, have you seen this woman?"
"Haven't you seen anything clean? Did you come with Yang just now? β
The two men stood up and walked towards Zheng Zhilan.
"Hey, where are you going?"
Zheng Zhilan turned her head to look at the two men and did not answer.
People who are about to starve to death, skinny and skinny, and still come to stir up trouble? She thought to herself, how dare you have evil thoughts like this? If you have evil thoughts, you will not have enough power in your heart.
"Don't go?"
Zheng Zhilan didn't want to make a fuss, so she simply ran two steps quickly and rushed directly to the bottom of the deck.
"I ran pretty fast, I didn't have the strength to chase after me, and I couldn't find it when I went down, so I confessed," the two men said regretfully, and sat back on the ground.
As soon as Zheng Zhilan entered the cabin, a strange smell came to her face.
This stench is mixed with the smell of food scraps, excrement, sweat, semen, and even corpses.
There was no light, no lights in it, no candles, and she only took a few steps inside, and then she couldn't see anything.
She stepped on something strange, sticky to her shoes, and she couldn't rub it off on the ground next to her.
"How are you going to live here?" Zheng Zhilan thought in surprise, "Even if you are in the company of zombies and live in a dangerous abandoned building, it is better than living in this kind of place and raising you like a beast, right?" β
She thought about the two men she had just seen on the deck, hesitated, and instead of continuing deeper, she prepared to step back. She was worried that if she was attacked by someone, she would also have suffering.
What's more, it was so smelly inside, she couldn't help but wonder if these people would suffocate if there was no ventilation.
Just then, there was a cacophony of footsteps above the deck.
The deck was made of ordinary steel plates and wooden shelves, and people walked on the deck with a series of loud noises.
Ms. Yang then walked down with a group of refugees.
"It's still so dark"
"Yes, they've given out candles three times, and they haven't been given again, and we usually walk by touch."
"Last time you came, we lit candles, but now they're all gone." One man said, "You touch the wooden board on the right, and every two boards have a 'room', which is where the family lives, and we all find our own place by counting the boards." β
It's miserable, isn't it? How could the Eagle Nation not give them better treatment? Zheng Zhilan felt incomprehensible. This was not very different from the Eagle Nation she knew, could it be that the change of time could have such a heavy impact on the actions of a country?
But when she thought about it, this was a special period after all, so she slowly understood.
"It's better than doing nothing, and it's also a humanitarian relief." She thought a little ambivalent in her heart.
At this time, she once again felt strongly that she urgently needed a little "medicine" to stimulate her chaotic mind.
"Did any of you show signs of a corpse mutation later?" Ms. Yang is still talking to the refugees.
"Then there was a time when there were two floors in this cabin, and there were people on the lower floor who had been mutated and killed a few people, and it seemed that some of them had been re-mutated, and if someone hadn't shouted, we would all have been that day," one woman said, and began to cry, "I can't help it...... I was also living on the lower floor, and we couldn't see it at all, so we ran out one by one...... We don't know if it's a person or a person who stepped on it, although a lot of them ran up, but how many died, and we don't know how many people died, how to count it, there were about a hundred people who died below, and some were trapped below even if they were alive."
Speaking of which, there are many people in a group who are crying, but it seems that more people are numb to adapt to everything.
If a hundred people die, a quarter of them will die in this accident, Ms. Yang listened sadly. Her tears couldn't help but form a river.
"Now on the floor below, we don't dare to open the hatch."
Zheng Zhilan heard the refugee's description, so she simply walked to a "room", lay on the ground and listened carefully, and indeed heard the roar of zombies below.
She simply tried to lie on the ground and feel what it would be like if she slept hereββββ she immediately felt a bitter cold coming from the steel plate floor, and under the steel plate was the sound of zombies, and she felt like she was sleeping in a huge coffin.
"That's enough, why don't you organize people to trap the zombies below?" Zheng Zhilan couldn't help but whisper.
"Do you think it's that easy?" A woman's voice suddenly came from the darkness, which startled the unprepared Zheng Zhilan.
"Who? Someone next to you? Zheng Zhilan quickly sat up from the ground, half-squatting in place, and made a defensive gesture against the darkness.
"It's someone, you can't see me, I can't see you, my eyes are black. So what if it's a zombie? If you bite you silently, you will die, and who else will organize to trap zombies? "Besides, we don't even have weapons, so we won't be allowed to take anything with us on board." β
"Hmph, you misunderstood, you're all refugees, and I know you can't help it. I'm saying, the Eagle Nation army has guns and flashlights, so why not notify the army and let them organize a zombie booby-trap? Zheng Zhilan said.
"'You' are all refugees? It seems that you are no longer a 'refugee'? The woman immediately grasped the subtle information in Zheng Zhilan's words, "You are from the government, you know better, if the government of the Eagle Kingdom finds out that our group of refugees still have self-corpses, how will they treat us?" It will only discriminate and guard against us more, right? β
"Are you thinking too much or do I want to be simple? Since they have taken you in, they will surely come to protect you. Zheng Zhilan said.
"Really? Even the food supply is not sufficient, and now the candles are simply not given, do you think there will be manpower to protect it? To protect security, we must first protect the military and dignitaries of various countries, right? They are the 'hope of humanity', and we, as refugees who have been wiped out, are there any difference between one more and one less? The woman in the dark said unceremoniously, "I think, are you used to being high, you don't know how to be grounded, and you don't understand the pain of us refugees?" Then I'll send you a word, why not eat minced meat? β
Zheng Zhilan was speechless, she was in a painful entanglement.
Although she has long been an Eagle nationality and has been acting as a special commissioner of the Eagle State Government and a key member of SJS, she is still a Zhongzhou after all.
She felt that what the woman said was indeed reasonable, and for a moment she doubted her judgment of many things.
"What's your name?"
"Lu Muqing." The woman replied.
Zheng Zhilan suddenly had an idea to take this woman who thought differently from herself away from the refugee ship and let her assist her in her work.
But before that, she had to choose, and if she was too weak, it wouldn't be of much use to come. After all, Zheng Zhilan's work is mostly playing with his life.
"Are you alone?"
"Alone."
"Can you come with me on deck?"
"Why did you promise to go up to the deck in order to admire us refugees in the light? Then you should have seen it when you came. Lu Muqing replied, "Or do you want to play a trick to save me from the dire situation?" So there are so many people here, you can choose someone who is more useful. β