The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 96 Stranded in N City

The eight cars that Lu Yuan and his two companions retrieved were all relatively sturdy domestic cars and D-series cars. After returning, Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing went on the ship to exchange for Gu Nanfeng, while Lu Yuan sat alone in the back seat of the car to wait.

The zombies outside the car kept scratching at the windows and the car body with their hands. Lu Yuan even saw a zombie lying on the hood leaving a series of five-finger scratches on the hood. He counted the seconds in his mind while waiting, worried about whether the car could withstand the zombies' attack.

About ten minutes later, Lu Yuan saw Qin Yuan and the other two. Gu Nanfeng seemed to have lost consciousness, and Du Wenqing was supporting him. Qin Yuan was wielding a Tang sword beside them, forcing back the zombies that were approaching them. Since Gu Nanfeng had already switched back, he didn't bother to hide anymore. The Tang sword was no longer enough to stop the zombies' attack, so he raised his hands and two tongues of fire shot towards the zombies on both sides.

Du Wenqing quickly led Gu Nanfeng to the car, opened the back door and shoved him inside, then got into the passenger seat. He quickly closed the door, then opened the window a crack and reached out. In an instant, a row of earthen walls rose up behind Qin Yuan, separating him from the zombies around him. Qin Yuan seized the opportunity, quickly got into the car, stepped on the gas, and their car disappeared from the dock.

"Am I seeing things? Are those superpowers?" On the deck of the passenger ship, Lan Yichen looked at everything that was happening on the dock, his jaw almost dropping in astonishment.

"Heh, it seems that the necessary stage of the apocalypse is the evolution of superpowers." Jiang Yun looked at his palm. In fact, he himself had also evolved superpowers, but he hadn't told anyone yet. He stopped watching the zombies rushing across the dock and turned back to the cabin.

"Brother Jiang, do you think I can evolve superpowers like them?" Lan Yichen followed Jiang Yun into the cabin, excitedly imagining what kind of superpowers he could evolve.

In the back seat of the car, Lu Yuan supported the unconscious Gu Nanfeng, whose whole body was burning hot, indicating he had a fever. Lu Yuan took out a cooling patch from his spatial storage and applied it to him, and then found some fever-reducing medicine to feed Gu Nanfeng.

Qin Yuan didn't plan to stay in J City for long, so the three of them drove the domestic car, which was covered in scratches from the zombies, onto the highway and headed towards N City, the capital of X Province.

More than three hours later, the four of them entered the suburbs of N City. Although Lu Yuan kept changing the fever-reducing patches for Gu Nanfeng, his high fever not only did not come down, but seemed to be getting worse.

Snowflakes were visibly falling outside the car window. It was almost six o'clock, and Gu Nanfeng still showed no signs of waking up. It would take about three or four hours to drive from N City to the port. If they drove there without stopping, they would probably arrive at ten o'clock at night. It was still snowing. After thinking about it, Lu Yuan and the other two decided to find a place to rest for the night.

The number of zombies in N City was more than double that in J City. Qin Yuan drove his beat-up car around the outskirts of N City and searched many places before finally finding a building in a residential complex where the security door was half-open.

Gu Nanfeng's breathing became more and more rapid, and his high fever did not subside. Qin Yuan did not have time to think and swerved the car to stop in front of the building. Du Wenqing immediately surrounded the car with an earthen wall.

Qin Yuan, being the strongest fighter among them, naturally got out of the car first. Holding a gun in his right hand, he slowly pushed open the emergency exit with his left. Sure enough, several zombies rushed out. With a few loud "bangs," Qin Yuan killed the zombies in the elevator.

Lu Yuan and Du Wenqing then helped Gu Nanfeng out of the car. Du Wenqing casually closed the emergency exit, and the earthen wall outside the door disappeared. Several zombies rushed over and pounded on their car, which was parked in front of the emergency exit. The car had already been scratched beyond recognition by the zombies, and now it was being scratched by several more zombies. Soon, the repeatedly damaged metal parts also died, leaving behind a series of wounds.

The elevator in this building has stopped working, probably because there is no emergency power, or someone in the building deliberately cut off the power. After all, there is a high possibility that there are still survivors in this kind of community.

They found the fire escape staircase at the corner behind the elevator. The first floor of this type of building is an open-air space, and the second floor is the residential building. When Qin Yuan went up to the second floor, he pushed open the fire door and took a look. The building has a layout of two houses and four households. The doors of the two households on the second floor were closed. The doors and locks were uniformly provided by the developer and were covered with a thick layer of dust, so it was highly likely that no one had lived there.

After going up two more floors, they encountered two zombies coming down from upstairs. Qin Yuan quickly shot them, blowing their heads off. However, he glanced up from the stairwell and saw nearly ten zombies rushing down from upstairs, following the sound of gunfire.

The security door on the first floor of the building was not closed. They knew from the beginning that there would be a lot of zombies here, but seeing more than a dozen second-generation zombies rushing down from upstairs still put some pressure on the four of them.

Before the zombies came down, they pushed open the fire door and entered the elevator lobby on the 6th floor. Du Wenqing, who was at the back, pulled the fire door shut and then used the large hose of the fire extinguisher to secure it. As soon as it was secured, he clearly felt the zombies outside trying to pull open the fire door.

Of the four households on this floor, one had its door wide open, and the inside was covered in blood and filth. It seemed that the family had met with misfortune, but it appeared that they had been attacked by zombies a long time ago. The blood on the ground had dried, and the smell of decay in the air had mostly dissipated. Qin Yuan went in and looked around. There were no human remains in the house, so it was highly likely that the whole family had turned into zombies.

The other three houses were all locked. One of the locks was obviously different from the other two, indicating that the house was occupied. However, they couldn't tell if there were any living people in the house, and Qin Yuan was too embarrassed to decode the security door.

Du Wenqing and Qin Yuan had both learned how to open electronic door locks during their time in the military, since sometimes they needed to break down doors to carry out missions. After determining that someone might be home in that apartment, Qin Yuan prepared to open the door opposite it.

Du Wenqing opened the front door first, then opened the door to the house next door. As soon as the door opened, dust and cold air rushed in. This house was still unfinished. Large snowflakes drifted in, and the cold wind made Lu Yuan shiver.

Fortunately, the door Qin Yuan opened led to a bridal chamber. It was decorated in a simple European style, and the room was very clean. It was filled with the couple's wedding photos, and some red festive decorations needed for the wedding were piled on the sofa. It seemed that they were decorating the new house before the outbreak of the virus, and the wedding date should be within the next three months.

Qin Yuan gestured for Du Wenqing and Lu Yuan to help Gu Nanfeng into the apartment. They opened the door to one of the bedrooms, where a large wedding photo hung on the wall above the bed, showing the young couple smiling happily. Lu Yuan glanced at it, feeling awkward about disturbing the couple's bedroom, and instead settled Gu Nanfeng in the guest room next door.

Qin Yuan walked around the house and found that there was no water, electricity, or gas. It seemed that this was the case in all cities.

Gu Nanfeng's condition was not good. He had taken medicine and changed fever-reducing patches several times along the way, but his fever had not subsided. Du Wenqing and he put him on the bed, and Lu Yuan covered him with a blanket. He cleared a space in the corner of the guest room, took out a battery that was more than one square meter in size from his space, and connected two heaters. The temperature in the guest room slowly rose.

After giving Gu Nanfeng the medicine again, Lu Yuan also came out of the guest room. Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing sat in front of the French windows, looking at the heavy snow outside. Because Du Wenqing's situation was different from Qin Yuan's, he was still wearing short sleeves in such low temperatures. Even though he had the physique of a soldier, he was still shivering from the cold. Qin Yuan, on the other hand, was not polite and spread a ball of fire in his palm to temporarily warm Du Wenqing.

Lu Yuan came out of the warm guest room and sneezed a few times because of the temperature difference. He walked over to Qin Yuan and the others, took out a battery, two heaters, and thick clothes. The three of them didn't care and changed their clothes on the sofa.

By the time they finished cleaning up, it was completely dark outside. Looking out the French windows, all they saw was deathly silence; not a single light shone through. In just over an hour, a thin layer of snow had accumulated downstairs, but the zombies, completely unfazed by the cold, continued to roam freely.

"It's even colder today." Du Wenqing sighed. He felt he could handle the previous two snowfalls, but today's temperature really made him shiver.

"Yes, I can feel it too." Qin Yuan looked at the snow outside the window, which was getting heavier and heavier. At this moment, a strong wind was blowing, and the wind was blowing the snowflakes onto the window. The large snowflakes were very rare even in the northernmost part of China.

"Let's eat first, Captain Qin, Captain Du." After changing his clothes, Lu Yuan strolled to the restaurant to prepare dinner. Most of their dinners this time were prepared by Lin Yun in the RV, and they were still warm when they were taken out.

After the three finished eating, Lu Yuan went to the guest room to check on Gu Nanfeng again. He was still unconscious, but the good news was that his fever was gradually subsiding.

The four of them hadn't had a proper rest on the ship for the past two days, but now they finally had a warm and normal room to rest in. Lu Yuan and the other two didn't bother the other couple's bridal chamber anymore. He took out three sleeping bags, and Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing went to sleep in the living room around the heater. Lu Yuan spread his sleeping bag out in the guest room, worried that Gu Nanfeng's condition might relapse at night.

DAY102

The night passed peacefully. Lu Yuan woke up twice during the night to check on Gu Nanfeng. His fever had subsided, but he still showed no signs of waking up.

Around six in the morning, he quietly came out of the guest room. Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing were still asleep. He walked to the French bed. It was already a white expanse outside. The living room was larger than the guest bedroom. Two heaters were not enough to maintain the temperature in the living room. Qin Yuan was fine, but Du Wenqing had already shrunk into his sleeping bag, with only his eyes showing.

Lu Yuan then took an extra-large battery from the other side of the living room and connected it to two heaters, and the temperature in the room gradually warmed up again.

He sat on the sofa eating breakfast, rummaging through his space to see if there was anything or any method that could wake Gu Nanfeng up. Although there were many medicines and even medical equipment in the space, there wasn't a single relevant book.

He searched for a long time and found a medical machine. This medical machine looked different from the one his father used in the hospital. There were no descriptions of the items in the space. Looking at this item, only the item name was displayed. The name of this medical machine was "X. Medical Machine".

Although he couldn't understand the meaning of the name of the medical machine, Lu Yuan still went back to his room after breakfast and took it out, just to try anything... even if it seemed hopeless.

He took out the medical machine and set it up. He turned around to help Gu Nanfeng, but as soon as his hand touched Gu Nanfeng's skin, he was burned. Gu Nanfeng's body temperature was much higher than the highest it had been yesterday. Lu Yuan was frightened and rushed out of the room to call Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing.

None of the three had any medical experience. Gu Nanfeng's body temperature was alarmingly high. Not only was his face extremely red, but his entire body was also flushed with a light red hue.

Lu Yuan used a thermometer to check Gu Nanfeng's temperature, and the thermometer stopped working immediately. Despite this, he didn't sweat at all. He looked like he was being roasted in the desert, and every drop of sweat that seeped out of his body was immediately dried.

"No, no, they'll burn to death like this!" Qin Yuan glanced at the medical machine beside the bed. When Lu Yuan called them in earlier, he mentioned that he had found a medical machine in his space, but he didn't know if it would work.

Fearing that any further delay would mean Gu Nanfeng would either burn to death or become mentally impaired, the three quickly picked up the burning-hot Gu Nanfeng and placed him inside the medical pod. The moment he let go, he felt as if his face had been roasted in front of a heater for several minutes, with scalding hot air hitting him.

After Gu Nanfeng was placed into the medical machine, the machine automatically closed the hatch. Lu Yuan glanced at the ground next to him. He hadn't had time to power on the machine yet. So this thing was rechargeable? Such a high-end machine didn't need a direct power supply.

After the medical pod shut down, a string of garbled characters appeared on one of its screens, which Lu Yuan, Qin Yuan, and Du Wenqing couldn't understand at all. Soon after, the medical pod entered loading mode, leaving the three of them completely bewildered.

After reading about three or four lines, about five minutes later, the screen showed the treatment time: 48 hours. Then, another long bar appeared below, slowly crawling along.

"This thing, we have to wait 48 hours?" Qin Yuan looked at Lu Yuan. The medical pod was huge. After all, Gu Nanfeng was also a 190cm tall man. If they wanted to leave, how to move the medical pod downstairs would be a big problem.

After seeing that the medical pod showed a 48-hour treatment time, Lu Yuan decided to be on the safe side and connected the power cord to the battery he had taken out. He couldn't even imagine what would happen if the battery ran out of power midway through.

“We might not be able to leave even if we wanted to.” Du Wenqing had just walked around to the other side of the bed when he helped move Gu Nanfeng. He lifted the curtains and saw the thick snow downstairs, and the snow had been falling all night and hadn’t stopped.