Building C1, 823.

Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou sat on the bay windowsill, watching the soldiers in protective suits, carrying corpses to the playground.

The sun shone on the corpse.

Rao was far away, but he could still see their withered bodies like tree bark and their staring eyes in the light.

It was clearly a temperature of thirty-seven degrees, but Chi Yue had a chill to the bones.

She had experienced the pain of life worse than death, and like them, she watched her skin turn into a parched skin.

That powerless despair is still imprinted in her soul to this day, and she shuddered every time she thought about it.

Wen Qizhou was also uncomfortable.

Just thinking about it, Chi Yue had gone through the same torture in a place he couldn't see, and his heart ached.

"Yueyue." He exhaled a breath of turbidity and withdrew his gaze from the corpse: "Let's go into the space and exercise?" ”

Private rooms are not available.

Every time they exercise, they enter the space.

Chi Yue came back to his senses: "Okay." ”

She led Wen Qizhou into the space and walked straight to the area where the gym equipment was placed.

They run on the treadmill for 40 minutes, then get on the rowing machine and follow the on-screen fat-burning class.

Sweating can make you forget about anything else.

Chi Yue, who was immersed in exercise, no longer thought about the hardships she experienced in her previous life, let alone trapped in infinite despair.

"Knock knock—"

"Looks like there's a knock on the door outside?" Wen Qizhou, who came down from the rowing machine, seemed to hear a sound of "knocking".

Chi Yue stopped.

She listened carefully and made sure that the sound of "knock" was not their hallucination, and immediately pulled Wen Qizhou back to the private room.

The knocker asked, "Is anyone there?" ”

"Yes." Chi Yue walked to the security door and glanced into the corridor through the cat's eye: "I'm sorry, I didn't hear it just now." ”

"It's fine." The soldier with a notebook and a pen looked keenly at the cat's eye: "May I ask if you live alone?" ”

"No, and my husband."

"Name me."

Chi Yue said their names.

She took out a towel and wiped the sweat from her forehead and neck, waiting for him to ask the next question as usual.

The soldier wrote down the house number and name, and again spoke through the mask: "Have you been to the shopping street last night?" ”

"I've been."

"Do you have any traces of mosquito bites?"

"Nope."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure." When they took a shower last night, they checked each other and found no signs of bites.

Listening to Chi Yue's determined tone, the soldier ended his routine investigation: "Then please close the doors and windows and don't go out." ”

"Well, thank you for your hard work."

When he knocked on Mingzhang's door, Chi Yue walked to the two-seater sofa and dragged a movable TV, ready to watch the drama.

Wen Qizhou followed and sat beside her.

He stretched his legs, leaned back on the couch in a languid position, lifted his eyelids, and looked at the screen.

After watching the episode intently, there was a sound of "knock" from the security door.

This time, it was up to him to walk to the door.

"Chi Yue? Are you two there? He Chengfeng, who had just been sanitized to the eighth floor, turned his face to the cat's eye: "It's He Chengfeng." ”

"Brother He?"

"Huh." He helped Ge Qinyao finish speaking, and asked with concern: "How are you doing?" Didn't encounter any bugs, did you? ”

"No, we're fine."

When they chatted through the door, Chi Yue took out six catties of pork belly and a bag of grain seeds to be donated to the base.

She sealed the mouth of the bag, opened the door quickly, and before He Chengfeng could react, she put two things at his feet, and then closed the door with a "bang".

He Chengfeng: "?? ”

He only felt a gust of wind blowing, and before he could see who was opening and closing the door, there were two more things at his feet.

He asked, "What is this?" ”

"The burlap bag contains the grain seeds we found outside some time ago, please help us donate them."

To avoid attracting attention, she didn't plan to donate too much at once, and the small burlap bag only had fifty packets of seeds.

"Okay, I'll go back and apply for you ...... award"

"No, you don't." Chi Yue does not need official rewards or bonuses: "We donate anonymously. ”

The base can be donated anonymously.

Residents in the middle and upper classes, who occasionally want to be kind but are worried about being noticed by people with intentions and causing unnecessary trouble, generally choose to anonymously donate materials to the base.

He Chengfeng was not reluctant: "Okay." He looked down at his feet again: "What's in the other plastic bag?" ”

"Pork belly, I'll give you a meal."

"I can't do it! We have food and drink in the team, and we can't ask for anything from the two of you. He hurriedly picked up the plastic bag like a hot potato and motioned for them to open the door.

"Then you can leave it at the door and wait for it to stink."

“……”

"What's wrong?" Zhuo An, who sanitized the corridor on the left, saw him there and asked suspiciously.

"Those two will bring us meat."

He Chengfeng explained the situation.

He grabbed the plastic bag, raised his hand and knocked on the door twice, and found that Wen Qizhou and his wife did not care about people, and became more and more distressed.

“…… Then keep it away. "You can't really put the pork belly at the door and wait for it to stink.

Zhuo An thanked him loudly.

After hearing Qizhou's "you're welcome", he reluctantly chuckled, picked up the burlap bag and He Chengfeng and left the eighth floor.

*

After three days of comprehensive sanitization, the office sent a small team to notify the employees of the factory and the planting area to take up their posts with double wages and an additional ten pounds of grain.

The office area is voluntary.

According to the statistics, the majority of employees who are willing to return to work put on the protective clothing issued by the government and return to their respective posts the day after receiving the notice.

As for the shops on the commercial street, the official decision was made to temporarily close them, and only the military were sent to take over the supermarket.

Due to the lack of protective clothing, they adopted a distribution system in the early stage, and delivered supplies to residents from door to door.

Wait for the factories to expedite production and gradually keep up with the quantities they currently need, and then the military will send them protective clothing.

One free piece per household.

Families who have already received protective clothing need to go to the supermarket and pay points to buy daily necessities or protective clothing.

The number of people stepping out of the door is increasing day by day, but the base of Nuoda still seems lifeless.

Every time people stop in front of the bulletin board and look at the official death toll the day before, there is unspeakable sadness.

An old man said: "All of them have been issued protective clothing, why are so many people dead?" ”

"Don't you see that 80% of the people who die are in residential areas? Bugs must have crawled into their house. ”

"Haven't pipes and corridors been sanitized?"

"Sanitizing is only for a while." Unless the army continues to sanitize, mutant bugs will still be running around.

"Alas......"

All sorts of people gathered around the bulletin board, leaving sighs of emotion and regret, which quickly dispersed.

When the sluggish atmosphere enveloped the base, a dilapidated van carrying three people also drove towards the entrance of the base.

There are not many vehicles queuing at the entrance.

The people in the car didn't wait too long, stepped on the accelerator to the straight bar barrier, got off the car and went to the window of the registration desk to register.

"Is there a pest plague here?" Yao Chengwei, who took off his mask, looked at the registrar who was also wearing a protective suit.

"Yes."

"When did it start?"

"Two months ago." After the registrar took a picture of them, he reminded: "Please hand over the controlled knives and firearms." ”

"Huh?"

"Weapons are not allowed at the base."

Zhao Peng inquired again and again, making sure that there was no room for maneuver, so he had to ask Yao Chengwei to take out the gun they had treasured for a long time.

The guns had no bullets in their magazines.

But it stayed with them for too long, and when it was handed over to the registrar, they showed a trace of reluctance.

Sun Rui asked, "If we leave the base one day, can you give it back to us?" ”

"I'm afraid not."

"Okay." She collected the emotions in her eyes, took a copy of the "Check-in Instructions", and sat in the van with them.

Yao Chengwei, who was in charge of driving, drove the two of them around all areas like Wen Qizhou did when they first came.

After that, go to the office to rent a room.

They exchanged 2154 points and could rent a one-bedroom apartment, but Zhao Peng said: "A large area means that there are many windows, and mutant insects are easy to climb in, so let's rent a single room, right?" Squeeze in first and get through this time. ”

They don't have the tools to seal the windows.

Instead of spending your attention on the window, it is better to cut off the trouble at the source and rent a single room with only one window.

Yao Chengwei nodded: "Okay." ”

He swiped his credit card to pay the rent, got the key to his new home, and drove to Building D1 in District 2.

The number 707 was attached to the key, and they walked to 707 according to the house number, and cleaned up quite carefully.

For safety, Yao Chengwei asked the caretaker downstairs to borrow insect repellent and disinfectant water, and sprayed all corners; Zhao Peng used the cement they brought from Huaining to seal the toilets, pipes and sewers in the bathrooms.

After cleaning up, they went to the parking lot to move the luggage on the car, and by the way, they asked the caretaker to change the three single mattresses.

Sun Rui laid out the sleeping bag: "I'm tired to death." She sat alone by the windowsill, looking at the buildings around her, her thoughts drifting away: "Brother Peng, did you say that Sister Yue and they arrived in the capital?" ”

"It's definitely here."

If they hadn't been trapped on the island for too long, and during this period, due to disasters such as earthquakes and cold waves, they had been diverted and stagnant, and they might have joined Chi Yue and them in the capital.

Zhao Peng sat against the wall.

He took off his goggles and mask and looked out the window in the sunlight: "Let's go out tomorrow morning and ask someone." (End of chapter)