RLDRFH Chapter 42

“How can they have so many people?”

“Maybe they want to use this as a base.” There were many people in the car, young and old, and the idea of ​​using the instant noodle factory as a temporary base was understandable. But it was ill-thought out.

Fang Hao looked back at the fence outside the instant noodle factory with some surprise. Although the area was sparsely populated and the instant noodle factory occupied a large area, there was only a weak fence railing outside the factory. The safety was not as good as a school hospital! The number of zombies might be relatively small now, but once they increase in number, could those railings last long?

“It’s… not very safe here.”

“They should be able to see the problem. If they have an earth ability user who can build a high wall, they will be able to hold it for a while.” He Zizhong was not familiar with them. And even if he spoke, the others might not listen. Besides, they only shared they wanted to stay for a few days, and did not say that they would use it as a base. Everything was just their guess.

The two of them didn’t meet anyone else, nor did they face anymore attempted robberies, on the way to the pharmaceutical factory. After confirming that no one else was there, the two went straight to the warehouse.

Although production lines and assembly lines were also very useful, they had no idea what raw materials these medicines required or how to operate such things. Although there were solar generators in the space, the amount of electricity provided was also limited. They were unable to take the machines into the space and left them there.

Although some survivors were aware of the importance of medicines in the future, the pharmacies in the urban area can also supply them, so no one will come to this kind of large pharmaceutical factory when going out to collect supplies. Compared to the instant noodle factory earlier, the emptiness was like two different worlds.

Boxes of medicines were quietly sitting inside. After leaving the car and dealing with the few zombies in the factory, He Zizhong and Fang Hao began to work on collecting medicines.

Both the manual and the packaging needed to be collected. This brand mainly produced certain anti-inflammatory drugs, which were also in bottle and liquid forms. There is also a cold medicine too.

These were all good things, and since no one was there, the two of them were no longer polite, and directly start to sweep.

The pharmaceutical factory is very quiet, even if there are cars passing by on the highway, most of them ignore it. When the two entered, they closed the door, but it was not locked. None of the cars passing by stopped to see the situation either.

In the evening, the two of them simply took the car into the space temporarily, found a room in a nearby office building, and stepped into the space to rest.

The night in the space was naturally warm and peaceful. The two had dinner and completed the day’s ‘homework’ in the bathroom. He Zizhong, like yesterday, climbed up to the second floor to sleep with his dear, who had no strength to raise his arms.

Poor Tuanzi, his ‘parents’ were not in the space during the day, and no one played with him either. At night, they entered the bathroom and threw it out. It was not allowed entry. Only the two of them had fun inside, and they did not bring it with them! When it was night, they just went to bed and ignored it!

The white ball that was twisting and rolling around the pillow, depressed, was pushed away by a big hand. The child who no one wanted was hurt, lonely, and cold. After a few rolls, it almost fell out of bed, and shrank aggrievedly next to the pillow, only to bite the bed sheet and shed tears-you don’t take me, I follow you!

So early the next morning, He Zizhong and Fang Hao looked dumbfounded at a certain white dumpling who was acting like a baby in Fang Hao’s arms. It’s normal for the white ball to find Fang Hao, but what was abnormal was – it was outside the space! How did it come out?!

When the two came out, no one held it, and after leaving the space, it actually appeared next to them!

“How did you come out?”

Twist, twist, twist. Tuanzi who was finally able to sprinkle joy in the arms of its ‘mother’ kept twisting, ignoring its ‘dad’ who did not have the slightest feeling of pitying jade.¹Jade is metaphorical for something valuable, precious, like how it calls itself.

“It… can it leave space by itself?” Fang Hao looked at the white ball and then at He Zizhong, with a look of shock. “What do you want to do…?”

Tuanzi stubbornly refused to return to the space. Even when He Zizhong forcibly took it back to the space, as soon as he came out, it would follow out and then jump into Fang Hao’s arms and refuse to move! The pair of big, black eyes on a white mass, blinking and blinking at He Zizhong and Fang Hao constantly, made people feel sour.

“Zizhong… it doesn’t want to go in…”

He Zizhong raised the dumpling and it stared at him with big eyes. No doubt, the one with large eyes was Tuanzi who only had eyes on its face. Within the family of three, Fang Hao was originally the person with the largest eyes, but now that Tuanzi came out, who will fight for such a thing?

“You can also stay outside. When there are outsiders, you are not allowed to move by yourself. You can only stay obediently and are never allowed to move!” Since they can’t force it go back, they had to let it follow. But if this guy did not honestly stay… it was even more unexplainable than having a space or anything!

Fang Hao touched the head of the dumpling: “Be obedient, stay in my arms and don’t move. If you are seen, you will not be hugged.”

He Zizhong’s words made Tuanzi tremble, but he still had a grievance on his face. But after Fang Hao’s words fell, Tuanzi squinted and threw himself into his arms, rubbing and rubbing… This guy actually knew he had made a mistake. Afterwards, it who acted like a baby showed that the crystal nuclei was not completely eaten for nothing.

Tuanzi disguised as a pillow in Fang Hao’s arms. As long as it closed its eyes and remained motionless, it was really indistinguishable. At most, people would think it was a bit too white. Although the soft appearance does not have long hair like a doll, it could still look like a pillow, hand warmer, or the like in one’s hands.

The two of them carefully went downstairs and took out the car after confirming that there was no one around. Then they swept the remaining warehouses, taking away all the medicines that could be taken away, plus the diesel and gasoline stored in a warehouse in the factory, and left in the direction of city A.

When passing by the instant noodle factory from the day before, they saw the gate was locked, and the two zombies in the security room were nowhere to be seen. A few staggered large wood planks completely pinned the gate from inside. Regardless what happened between the two groups of people yesterday, the factory was now completely occupied.

Now that more than 20 days have passed since the apocalypse, most people had to leave their homes after finishing whatever food they had in their comes.

Although city bases were established, most people did not know exactly where the base is built. Without GPS navigation, most people have to navigate when driving… and it’s easy to get lost.

Many people knew the approximate location of city A, but could not find the base location mentioned in the broadcast. After He Zizhong and Fang Hao drove north again, as they turned onto a highway, they discovered that there was a traffic jam.

A traffic jam in the apocalypse was really terrible. When he saw there was a traffic jam ahead, He Zizhong decisively broke off to the side road next to him. Some zombies in the surrounding area arrived one after another after hearing the noises, their swaying figures matching the anxious appearance of the people on the highway, making people uneasy.

“How far is it from the destination?” He Zizhong asked as he drove. The traffic on the auxiliary road was more troublesome-there were roadblocks everywhere. He needed to find a small intersection and cut his way around from the small road.

“There is still about three kilometers. There is a small road ahead, but that road seems to go through an urban area.” Fang Hao looked at the map in his hand, pointing the way to He Zizhong. He also touched the ball in his arms that kept acting like a baby.

Although He Zizhong said it was a living area, it’s actually like the suburban counties outside city A. The population density of these areas is not small, so its hard to know how many zombies there will be.

He frowned when saw the slowing cars on the road ahead and the growing number behind. If there are many zombies, they can smash them. But when there are too many people on the road, there will be more troubles and accidents.

Seeing He Zizhong and their car rush onto the road where zombies wandered, none of the cars behind had the guts to continue following them. Crashing forward all the way, the glass windows were full of hideous zombies, and they kept raising their hands and tapping the car windows and doors.

Fortunately, the car had enough horsepower, a sturdy frame, and enough fuel to rush out all the way without any risk.

Fang Hao anxiously looked at the rear-view mirror with lingering fears, and hugged the dumpling in his arms. “They seem to be faster than before, and some of them have great strength too! The doors are all smashed!”

He Zizhong nodded, without saying a word. The last thing he regretted in his last life was that he didn’t go out of the house and find a safe place at the beginning of the apocalypse. By the time he finally decided to go out for supplies, most of the zombies outside had already evolved into first-level zombies. The result of having such a crystal nuclei in the brain was that their movements were more agile, and the gap between them and living humans grew closer.

Given the current date, more than twenty days after the apocalypse began, he estimated almost all zombies have completed their first evolution.

The car rushed forward at a frightening speed between the buildings and the zombies. The car windows and doors were slapped by the zombies. Smacked, flattened, and dented, not to mention making it dirty. The car was covered with all kinds of disgusting liquid that no one wanted to know the source of.

However, these things made a good protective layer. The outside of the car was covered with the smell of zombies, which masked the smell of the two people inside. Afterwards, although there were still zombies attracted by the sound, they couldn’t smell the flavor of humans anymore.

The two of them sped all the way, until around 3 o’clock in the afternoon when they arrived outside a certain paper mill He Zizhong focused on. Sure enough, like the pharmaceutical factory, the inside and outside of the paper mill was clean and empty. People could still imagine the role of the pharmaceutical factory, but a paper mill… Even if everyone settled down temporarily, not many people will think of collecting supplies here.

Hehe, that Tuanzi.

 

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  Jade is metaphorical for something valuable, precious, like how it calls itself.