Chapter Seventy-Six: Hunger
Zheng Jieming and Hua Bong decided to go to the third floor to investigate, and by the way, take a look at the situation on the second floor.
"I'll go down too?" Jin Yue looked up and asked.
"No, it's dangerous when there are too many people. If the two of us go down and come up quickly, you can pick us up at the entrance and tell the men to clear the bodies to the side, and don't throw them downstairs! Also, guard against hunters and corpse boys! Zheng Jieming explained to Jin Yue softly.
"When I used to divide the food, I prepared a quarter on the third floor, and if it was safe, I could take it out so that everyone could fill their stomachs, and it was in the room next to the corridor." Li Yu reminded the two that this was the backup left on the third floor when the food was put in the cellar before, just in case everyone was trapped upstairs after the downstairs was lost, they could still have something to eat, so as not to starve to death. I didn't think I would have the opportunity to use it right away.
When everyone heard Li Yu say this, they all came to their senses. Everyone hadn't eaten for a day, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes were looking at Zheng Jieming and Hua Bong expectantly.
"But if there are zombies that contaminate the food, I'm afraid you can't eat it." Zheng Jieming said in an extremely low voice, praying that such a thing would not happen.
The two went down cautiously, and Hua Feng went down first. A few zombies in the corridor heard the sound and slowly stood up. Hua Bong went down to the ground on the third floor as lightly as possible, and the range of action to slash and kill the zombies was also very small.
Zheng Jieming also came down, he carried a bent iron pipe, this thing smashed on the zombie's head made a lot of noise, he saw that there were not many zombies, and he did not step forward to support, so as to avoid causing a bigger noise. Jin Yue nervously stood on the roof of the building, watching the situation of the two.
After cleaning up the zombies in front of them, the two began to slowly walk to the side of the corridor.
Hua Bong cautiously walked over the corpses left behind by the previous battle, and stuck out his head to look at the corridors on both sides. There are a few zombies wandering in the corridor, the left corridor is shorter, and there are only three or two zombies, and the right corridor is longer, about a dozen, but fortunately, most of them are sitting on the ground or leaning against the wall. Hua Feng motioned for Zheng Jieming to stay where he was, guarding the staircase, and slowly walked to the left corridor to quickly solve the zombies. He tried to wipe the neck of the zombie as much as possible to minimize the noise.
Zheng Jieming listened to the sound of the knife cutting through his skin, every blow made his heart beat, he stared at the second floor, for fear that the corpses on the second floor would be disturbed and rush up, and at the same time he was worried that the zombies in the corridor on the right side would be disturbed.
A zombie in the corridor on the right seemed to be aware of the movement, and just raised its head, Hua Feng rushed up and slashed his throat with a sword, and continued to kill softly into the depths of the corridor.
Zheng Jieming only dared to carefully probe to check the situation on the second floor at this time. As soon as he stretched out his head, he found that there were still more zombies moving back and forth on the second floor, and he didn't count them, so he quickly held his breath and took his head back, not daring to make a sound, for fear of alarming the zombies downstairs and attracting another wave of attacks.
Now Zheng Jieming doesn't have the slightest thought and strength to fight with the zombies again.
He raised his head and shook his head at Jin Yue, signaling that he couldn't act rashly yet.
Jin Yue's heart sank and she bit her dry lower lip.
After a while, Hua Feng walked back gently and patted Zheng Jieming on the back.
"The corridors are all cleaned, there are no zombies in the room for spare food, it's clean, come on." He leaned over Zheng Jieming's ear and whispered.
In the room, a few hours ago, food and water were neatly stacked by Jin Yue in the filing cabinet, a lot of money, enough for a dozen people to eat four meals.
"Li Yu's decision in the morning was a bit prescient, when he was going to distribute the food to the third floor, I thought he was worried." Zheng Jieming said to Hua Feng.
Hua Feng took out the bread and water, and there were plastic bags and paper bags piled up next to the cabinet, he didn't dare to use the plastic bags, for fear that the sound of the rattling would attract the attention of the zombies on the second floor, so he grabbed the paper bags with a smaller capacity, stuffed two packs of food, and walked out with three breads and three bottles of water in each package.
Zheng Jieming took the paper bag and sent the two bags of food to the rooftop in turn.
When everyone saw that the food was being transported, they couldn't help but smash their saliva, and Dong Yuan coaxed him up like a hungry wolf. A handful of paper bags were pulled open and a bottle of mineral water and a loaf of bread were taken out of it.
"Do you need to be in such a hurry? It's not enough. Wang Shuangman said a word to him, but Dong Yuan ignored it at all, and moved to the side to eat. Qin Qin was behind him, greedy and anxious as he watched Dong Yuan take out the food, stand up, step aside, open it and eat... She also wanted to get one for Ling Er first, but she was too embarrassed to go up and grab it from the men.
Li Yimeng and Ye Ran also reached in and grabbed it, Wang Yueshan also wanted to grab it, but his hand was a step too late, and there was nothing in the paper bag, so he accused, "You bastards!" The women haven't eaten yet! What to grab! He glanced back at Fang Xinping, but Fang Xinping didn't speak.
Ye Ran heard Wang Yueshan speak, stopped tearing the bag, and handed his bread to Leng Yuhan, who took it, but did not immediately open the package and eat it. She looked at Jin Yue, who was reaching down to pick it up.
"Why don't you eat it?" Ye Ran's stomach growled and asked Leng Yuhan.
Leng Yuhan glanced back at his cousin, and handed the bread back to Ye Ran.
"You go first, there should be more below. You're more tired than I am. ”
Ye Ran was no longer polite, and opened the bread and nibbled on it.
Jin Yue picked up another bag of food, and this time she handed the food directly to Qin Qin. She whispered to the crowd, "Yes! There is a lot of food stored on the third floor, don't grab it, it's all there! They went and took it again, and it wasn't a famine! ”
Qin Qin took the food, first took one for Ling Er and Leng Yuhan, and wanted to keep the remaining one, but took it in his hand and looked at it, and handed it to Fang Xinping.
Hua Bong and Zheng Jieming brought four more bags of food, which finally met everyone's needs.
Havag closed the lid, sat down and began to eat.
"What's next?" Li Yu asked as he nibbled on bread.
"The third floor has been cleared by me, and it's safe now, but there are a lot of zombies on the second floor, and it's still dangerous to go down now." Hua Bong replied.
If you go to the third floor for the night, you may be attacked by zombies on the second floor, but wouldn't it be more dangerous to spend the night in the open air on the rooftop? Li Yu weighed it in his heart, and decided to take the risk of taking everyone back to the third floor.
He tentatively spoke his thoughts.
"Sleeping on the third floor? So what if the zombies on the second floor suddenly rush up? Li Yimeng asked worriedly.
"Then you can only carry it. At night, if you stay on the rooftop, it is cold and dangerous, and no one can see a hunter or a corpse boy when it comes up. Although there is a risk of being besieged on the third floor, there is a cover, and it is unknown that he will not die. Although Li Yu did not make a clear statement, the meaning conveyed was very resolute: you must go into the building for the night, otherwise there is no guarantee of safety.
Li Yimeng frowned and nodded.
Li Yu roughly swept around the crowd, most of them looked more solemn, Dong Yuan looked at it with the leg of the chair, his expression worried, but no one showed a dissatisfied look. Zheng Jieming and Jin Yue nodded in support.
Li Yu knew in his heart that Jin Yue must be firmly on his side, and Zheng Jieming was more at ease to support others and more sensible. With the help of these two people, there is no need to worry too much about the morale of others, the only thing he is worried about now is Wang Yueshan.
"Wang Yueshan, what do you think? Advice for everyone? Li Yu saw that everyone no longer expressed their objections, and specifically named Wang Yueshan to hear his opinion. That actually means that if you have any objections, raise them first, and don't come back to find fault after seeing the unsatisfactory results.
His fear was not so much that his authority would be attacked, but that his finding fault would affect morale and even the effectiveness of the people's defense.
Wang Yueshan is a good picker, but he lacks foresight in putting forward opinions, and he always thinks that he is very capable, and others have ideas that are inconsistent with him, and he is always used to thinking that others are wrong. At this time, he was suddenly named and consulted, because he didn't expect the outcome of the matter, and he had nothing to find fault with, but he had no opinion.
"Okay, all right! At night, it's best indoors! You're the boss, you're going to do it! He made a perfunctory remark, which can be regarded as shirking the responsibility of making decisions and giving a supportive attitude.
Li Yu nodded slightly, turned around and said to everyone, "In this way, this suggestion has been approved by everyone, then I will make a decision for everyone." Take turns on duty tonight, if you encounter zombies attacking from the second floor, you can only use the chair legs to carry it, and no one will say anything deflating or doing deflating things! What the consequences are, everyone has to bear them together! ”
"No problem." Zheng Jieming immediately expressed his support.
"The chair legs can also knock over these primitive instincts!" Jin Yue also took it out and looked like she was full of food.
After solving the problem of understanding, Li Yu began to think about how to live more safely.
"Has the room at the end of the corridor been cleaned, are there any zombies?" The room Li Yu said was the room where Zhang Xiushan's broken arm was before, which was the largest room on the third floor.
"The rooms on the third floor have basically been cleaned up, and there are no problems." Hua Bong replied.
"Downstairs I remember there were two houses that were bedrooms. Hua Feng, I have to trouble you for a while, guard the staircase, cover Li Yimeng, Dong Yuan, Ye Ran, the three of you will transfer all the bedding and cotton wool to the room at the end, and everyone will sleep there. ”
While Li Yu was arranging, he imagined the scene of different people moving sundries in his mind, and suddenly Dong Yuanmao had a picture of his hands and feet, holding a ball of quilt and falling without looking at the road, and hitting the vase, so he immediately changed his words, "Let Li Yimeng, Jin Yue and Ye Ran go down and move the soft." Dong Yuan stayed on it. ”
"After moving the fine soft, the three of you will check the windows again, and close all the doors, and when you are all done, we will all move down slowly." Li Yu finished arranging, "Have you four finished eating?" ”
Li Yimeng stuffed the last bite of bread into his mouth and took a sip of water.
"I'm done."
"Okay, then please!"