Chapter 35: The Utility Room

Zheng Jieming stuck to the door and listened carefully to the sound on the other side.

Zhou Jitang looked up and saw a sign for a safety exit hanging on the wall on the side of the door.

Behind this fast food restaurant is an office building, that is, this exit may be able to lead to an office building.

"Let's prepare for defense, it's necessary to go out and see." Zheng Jieming seemed to hear the sound of rustling on the other side.

Zhou Jitang didn't speak, turned around, and organized the female dependents upstairs.

"Dong Yuan! Close the front door and come over for a moment. Zhou Jitang beckoned Dong Yuan, who was moving the table.

"What are you going to do?" Dong Yuan put down the table and walked over quickly.

Zheng Jieming removed his ears, turned around and said, "There must be zombies on the other side, I don't know if there are many." There are also risks associated with opening the door, but sooner or later it will be necessary to determine where this leads to it. ”

"Come on, then." Zhou Jitang prepares the knife.

Zheng Jieming also held his weapon, this door was open outside, and he carefully pushed the door open a crack.

It was dark on the other side of the door, and there was a whisper of zombies. This appears to be the stairwell of an office building.

About three zombies leaned on the stairs, gurgling sounds coming out of their throats.

After Zheng Jieming turned his head to signal, he gently pushed the door open.

The three confirmed that there were no zombies on the front, and Zhou Jitang took the lead in rushing out the door and killing the three zombies on the stairs.

The zombie was shot in the head before he could stand up.

Zheng Jieming waited for Dong Yuan to come out and closed the back door of the fast food restaurant. Zhou Jitang pushed open the door of the stairwell, and in front of him was the hall of the office building, in the middle of the hall was the plastic scenery of rockery and flowing water, and the reception desk was on the left side of the hall. Two female zombies in red uniforms leaned against the wall, their heads bowed, some liquid coming out of their mouths, as if they were vomiting.

"It seems pretty good." Dong Yuan glanced at it stupidly.

Zhou Jitang glanced back at him, and rushed forward with two knives. The female zombie fell to the ground, and Zhou Jitang used a knife to help the zombie's face.

"You don't look at your face first and then evaluate, you've been bitten like this!" Zhou Jitang looked back at Dong Yuan.

Dong Yuan came up to take a look and shook his head.

Zheng Jieming walked to the main entrance of the hall. The main entrance is a glass door that opens automatically, but it is now impossible to open due to a power outage. The sliding doors on both sides are locked with padlocks. He ran to the empty duty room next to it, and found two large bunches of keys, all tied to large oval key tags, each with about 60 keys.

Each key is affixed with a strip of cloth indicating the location of the door to which the key corresponds or the purpose of the room. Zheng Jieming lowered his head and found two keys with "Gate" written on them. He carefully held the keychain in his hand to avoid the sound of the keys hitting each other, and walked to the door to try to open it.

The doors on both sides have corresponding keys, and Zheng Jieming opens them separately.

Zheng Jieming then walked outside the door and locked one of the doors from the outside, then returned to the hall and locked the other from the inside.

"Why lock it like this?" Dong Yuan was puzzled.

"The door is locked to try to keep zombies out; If our people come back from outside, leave the lock facing outward, and they can open the door as long as they have the key. Zheng Jieming explained his thoughts.

The trio continued to search for the rooms connected to the hall. Dong Yuan asked Zheng Jieming for the keychain, and as he walked, he looked down at the cloth strip on the key.

"108 is marked as a utility room!" Dong Yuan pulled out a key from the keychain, and then walked straight to the room corresponding to the key.

The room is large, with about seven rows of shelves lined up inside. It was filled with office supplies such as A4 paper, oil-based pens, and file bags.

"What's the use of these?" Zhou Jitang looked at these messy clutter, and felt a mess in his mind.

Dong Yuan walked inside, and found dozens of boxes of mineral water from the innermost shelves, and on the penultimate row of shelves, there were more than a dozen boxes of instant noodles, more than a dozen boxes of biscuits, sausages and other foods.

"Brothers, come and have a look!" Dong Yuan proudly greeted Zheng Jieming and Zhou Jitang.

The two of them looked at these precious materials dumbfounded, you must know that Zheng Jieming has been hungry all day, and Zhou Jitang and the others have also been hungry for most of the day plus one night.

"You guys are underestimating the company's storeroom! Still young! "Dong Yuan, hey, hey, a pleasure. He looked left and right and saw a blue cargo cart lying in the corner.

He tugged and tried, but there was no sound.

"Yes, not even a sound." Zheng Jieming couldn't help but praise the quality of the car.

"Haha! This kind of car is of good quality and generally has no noise! Do you think, in an office building, if you pull something a little, it will make a bang, like words? ”

Zheng Jieming recalled his company, and the trolleys seemed to be rattling.

It seems that our company is still weak, and even the trolley is not silent. Zheng Jieming thought to himself.

Dong Yuan found another empty room, found an empty tin cabinet from the utility room, and lay on the ground with barbed wire on it.

"Now, that way you can heat up the food."

I saw him throw all kinds of waste paper into the cabinet, ignite it with fire, and then smash a stool and stuff the wooden strips into the cabinet, and after a while, the fire ignited the wooden strips. There was a puff of smoke in the house.

Dong Yuan opened a package of sausages, a total of eight, and grilled the sausages on a barbed wire fence. After a while, the smell of meat overflowed. The three of them were hungry, and one of them got one at the moment. Then Dong Yuan ran back to the fast food restaurant and brought back five roots for the women. I secretly ate the extra one in the stairwell.

Zheng Jieming found another kettle, so he opened a box of mineral water and boiled two pots of boiling water. Using this water, each of the seven people was given a bowl of instant noodles.

Dong Yuan called the female dependents over, and the seven of them had a beautiful hot meal. This is the first hot food eaten by seven people since the zombie crisis, and Dong Yuan himself was moved to tears while eating.

"I've lost weight these days!" Dong Yuan shed tears of happiness.

Ling Er also gobbled up all the noodles and drank all the soup, not even the dregs left, she just needed nutrition, and when she was growing her body, she hadn't eaten anything with temperature for many days.

"See what else?" Dong Yuan continued to return to the utility room to rummage through the cabinets.

Retrieve a big box of beef jerky! These are all daily benefits that the company sends to employees!

"So you see, how important it is to have a company that is generous to its employees!" Dong Yuan carried the beef jerky back to the empty house, and everyone smiled!

Taking advantage of the gap after eating, Qin Qin applied plasters to Chang Bing and Zhou Jitang, replaced them with gauze, and used the remaining hot water to give the two of them anti-inflammatory drugs.

"This building has 11 floors, do you need to clean every floor?" Chang Bing asked.

"You should look for it, you will definitely find more supplies!" Dong Yuan was full for the first time and seemed extremely motivated.

"Then I'll join in. Chang Bing has a leg injury, you help me take care of Ling'er and Grandma Li, just don't stay too far away from everyone. We can search layer by layer, and at least I can help carry and sort things. Qin Qin said. In the female dependents before, although Chang Bing was younger than her, he had always been open to everyone. Now that she was injured, Qin Qin felt that she should stand up and share some tasks for the team.

The office building belongs to an internet company from the first to the fifth floor. Above the sixth floor are a number of small companies.

With the help of the trolley and Qin Qin, the search for the four of them became more efficient. The three men were responsible for cleaning the corpses and turning over the cabinets, and the things were placed on the trolley, and every time the cart was collected, Qin Qin pushed the supplies to the room next to the stairs on each floor. Based on the experience of the last time residential buildings were under siege, it was decided that the materials would be stored separately and then consider whether to concentrate them in a few days. Soon, the four of them cleaned the first to second floors, because it was an office building, they found less food, but they found a large number of tools, coils, ropes, masks, daily medicines and other supplies. They also vacated the filing cabinet and moved it to the door, intending to pile it up at the staircase or move it to the first floor as a barricade after the search.

During the search, Qin Qin took the initiative to come over and chat with Zheng Jieming.

Only then did Zheng Jieming know from Qin Qin that the residential building had been besieged by people and zombies at the same time, and that everyone had escaped from a high altitude.

"Zhou Jitang also has his difficulties and sore spots, don't blame him." Qin Qin said to Zheng Jieming. But he didn't ask Zheng Jieming what had happened.

"I know. I understand him. Zheng Jieming replied.

People tend to put more weight on their own suffering, but they don't pay enough attention to what others are going through. In the last days, everyone experiences great joys and sorrows, but who can understand the way of survival in this world?

Dong Yuan pushed open the door of the computer room on the third floor.

A piece of corpse gas came out, choking Dong Yuan out of breath. He hurried out of the doorway.

"Everybody, come here! Qin Qin helped get a few pairs of masks. Dong Yuan beckoned everyone over.

"What's the situation?" Zhou Jitang ran over.

"You put on your mask and go in and see it yourself." Dong Yuan couldn't stop coughing.

Zhou Jitang took the mask, put it on, and pushed the door open.

In front of him, computers and desks were all piled aside, and a large number of corpses were piled up in the room, most of them with knife marks on their heads, apparently having been manipulated. The corpse had just begun to decompose, and the flies swirled around the corpse with an annoying buzzing sound, and the corpse's slurry seeped out from beneath the pile of corpses and flowed all the way to the doorway, solidifying on the ground. Two rats were gnawing on the corpses at the top of the pile, apparently at the top of the food chain.

"Holy! What the did this! Even though Zhou Jitang was wearing a mask, the smell of blood and stench still seeped into his nose and made him gause.

"Is this room still need to be cleaned?" Zheng Jieming frowned. He thought of the moment he woke up in the morning, surrounded by corpses. It's just that those zombies have just been cleared and haven't rotted yet.

"I'll forget it, it's so disgusting, it's a computer room anyway, and there are no supplies."

"I can't ask for it." Zhou Jitang said, closing the door.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door in the computer room.

"Shhhh There's something in there. Zhou Jitang reopened the door and took a closer look.

Bang!

There was another bang, and there was a small white door inside the microcomputer room, and it was from there that the impact sound came from.