Chapter 139: Hunger (5th Month)

"What is your world like? Is there only six satellite islands in the whole world like Tranquility that surround the main urban area? Haven't the farther places been explored? Liu Qian asked Zhou Mingliang again, he had a lot of questions about this world, and he usually didn't have a chance to understand it, but now it was a good opportunity to understand it thoroughly.

"No, we are a big country, and there are many other countries on the vast ocean, but after the catastrophe, communications, transportation, and so on were all cut off. We stayed in Tranquility City, and we didn't even know what was going on in the provincial city of Hope on the other side of the main city, let alone other provinces and even other countries that were very far away from us. Zhou Mingliang replied to Liu Qian.

"Is most of the surface of your planet oceans? How many countries are there? Liu Qian asked again.

"Well, more than 95 percent of the sea is on the surface, there is only a small amount of land, and there are more than 100 countries in total, separated from each other by the sea. Our Huaxia Kingdom is relatively large, and some small countries are even smaller than Ningning City. Zhou Mingliang continued.

"Does everyone on your planet speak our same language?" Liu Qian thought about it and asked again.

"There are people who speak other languages! The blonde whites, the briquette-like blacks, speak a different language than we do. Even some of the people around us who are the same color as us speak a different language than us. Zhou Mingliang shook his head.

After hearing what Zhou Mingliang said, most players had a very strange look on their faces, and this world seemed to have a lot of similarities with the real world they originally lived in. But there are also a lot of differences.

After Liu Qian didn't squeak. The communication between the players and the survivors became more lively. The survivors also asked the players about the world they were in, and they even discussed the games they played, the novels they read, the songs they sang, the ball games, the stars, and so on, and they talked about almost everything, and it can be seen from these exchanges that the two worlds do have many differences, but there are also many similarities.

For example, music, many songs that are familiar in the real world are also available here. But the person who writes the song is not the same as the person who sings.

"There are more than 100 survivors in your hospital, where do you find food to eat these days?" Han Guangming's sudden question made several survivors quiet down together.

"yes, we didn't see you come out much in the next few days?" Wang Decheng also looked at the survivors with some strange eyes.

The survivors of the hospital attacked the supermarket camp, on the one hand, because Deng Hu had abducted the women in the hospital camp, and on the other hand, because there was no food, and wanted to snatch some food from the supermarket city to go back.

During this period, they also caught a player, but they didn't use that player to exchange for the woman caught by Deng Hu. Instead, he proposed to Deng Hu to exchange for a bag of fifty catties of rice, but Deng Hu ignored it at all. The leader attacked the exchange venue, causing the player to have his throat cut on the spot.

When I was evacuated before, there were a lot of old, weak, sick and disabled people in the hospital, and the total number was nearly 100.

"Would you believe if we told you that we had eaten the flesh of zombies in addition to bark and grass roots in the past few days?" After being silent for a while, Hu Jun, one of the young men and women, spoke back to Han Guangming and Wang Decheng.

"Eat zombie meat!?" After hearing Hu Jun's answer, the players showed extremely shocked expressions on their faces, and some players with poor tolerance even had the urge to vomit.

"There is a biochemist in our hospital, he is very knowledgeable, the supermarket was occupied by you, and after we couldn't find food nearby, he found a room to secretly study the ingredients of zombie meat because he was hungry......

According to his research, the meat of zombies is not carrion in the traditional sense, but some kind of poisonous meat that has been modified by the virus, and the egg whites in it have not been completely denatured. If you eat it raw, you will definitely not be able to get the virus, but the high temperature of steaming can kill the virus in the meat......"

"If you only treat it at high temperature, it can only kill the virus in the meat, but it cannot remove the toxins produced by the virus inside, which are very deadly, and eating a few pieces can be fatal. So the biochemist used his expertise to isolate most of the toxins from the meat by means of drug soaking, extraction, distillation, etc., and then ......" Hu Jun said here and did not continue.

In order to survive, in order to keep the final bottom line of human beings, and not to eat people due to extreme hunger, I can only do this.

"What does the zombie meat you have handled taste like?" A player with a heavier taste asked Hu Jun.

"It's hard to eat, it smells very strong, but I don't have a choice under extreme hunger. In addition, the process of handling zombie meat is not so simple, and there are more than 100 people in the hospital camp, so ...... Most of the processed zombie meat was only supplied to some of the very important people, and the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled were only supplied in small amounts, as long as they were not starved to death......" Hu Jun's voice slowly lowered.

The players didn't say anything anymore, and under the persecution of the cruel reality, people sometimes really had to give up everything in order to survive.

Speaking of which, the survivors still hate the players, and there is so much food in the supermarket that the players haven't eaten until they are evacuated by the zombie tide. But the more than 100 people they stayed in the hospital were starving, and even risked breaking through the psychological bottom line to try to eat zombie meat.

Hu Jun said some things and some things didn't...... For example, during the trial production of safe meat, the expert found some old, weak, sick and disabled, and fed them the meat without explaining the situation to them, and at least seven or eight people died in the early experimental subjects.

That's a sad story.

After everyone was silent for a while, Zhou Mingliang pulled out another topic and diverted everyone's attention, so everyone else deliberately changed the topic, and no one mentioned anything about zombie meat anymore.

While the player and the survivors chatted in the recesses of the steel beams, the steel beams never continued to tilt, and there were no new cracks or fractures on the bridge deck other than the previous ones, and there was no loosening between the slings and the bridge deck.

The burning cars on the bridge deck were also slowly extinguished, and the more than 1,000 zombies that rushed to the bridge deck were all burned to death, and the road to the other side seemed to have been cleared. (To be continued......)