NOVEL NEXT Chapter 7 - Shimao Department Store
Bai Qi listened to the roar of the zombies coming from the corridor, identified the zombies’ positions, and said to Tang Ruo, “We should leave.”
This action clearly tells that person that they no longer need teammates.
Tang Ruo glanced at the man in his thirties and followed Bai Qi without saying anything.
Of course, the man would not leave on his own. Judging from the two people’s appearance, they were capable of leaving. Only idiots would leave! He followed behind Tang Ruo, and from time to time he looked back to see if the zombie following behind him was following him again.
The three of them killed their way down the stairs.
In fact, there were not many zombies on the stairs. After all, when the virus mutated into zombies in the middle of the night, many people locked the door of the hotel, and there were only four zombies along the way.
Every time they encountered a zombie, Bai Qi would let Tang Ruo go up and hit it with a stick first, and then he would directly and skillfully pierce its head.
After killing four of them, Tang Ruo no longer felt the nausea she had before.
She never cried even when she faced the disease with her broken body, let alone now that she has a normal human body and her own special space.
She must not show weakness.
After walking out of the lobby, Bai Qi picked up a map of H city. This map was of no use to him before, but it would be very useful for driving in the future without mobile phone navigation.
They walked out the door.
Some people had already realized that something was wrong in the morning and drove out of the hotel. As a result, many zombies that were originally in the hotel lobby also walked to the flat ground outside.
Bai Qi looked around and saw a small car and a sports car parked there. Perhaps the owners had seen better cars and abandoned them, or perhaps they had encountered some emergency. The door of the small car was open, and the car key was hanging on the starter, while the sports car was locked.
The man who was following behind saw the car and the attitude of Bai Qi and the others, and he knew that they would definitely not take him with them. Without waiting for them to say anything, he ran over, got in the car, started the car, and drove away.
Tang Ruo: “…”
At least they brought the person down here, but he just left without saying thank you.
Bai Qi had lived in the apocalypse for three years, and he was no longer surprised by such people. He remembered that he had a car in the underground parking lot here before the apocalypse, but the underground parking lot must be a very dangerous place now. As for this sports car, with the means of survival he had learned in the apocalypse for three years, it was easy for him to open the door of this sports car and start it.
Bai Qi quickly opened the car door and started the car. He and Tang Ruo got in the car and rushed out of the hotel square.
When the two came out, it was around ten o’clock in the morning. The sunlight was particularly dazzling at this time, causing Tang Ruo to pull down the sunblock in front of her.
The zombies don’t seem to like the sun, and there are few pedestrians and zombies on the streets at this time.
Bai Qi glanced at her and reminded her, “You can put on a long-sleeved shirt. The sunlight in the apocalypse not only has very strong ultraviolet rays but there is also a small amount of radiation in the air.”
Tang Ruo was no longer interested in asking Bai Qi about all the things he knew. “Why do you know so much?” It was a stupid question. The world was already so unscientific, so what was the secret of this person?
She nodded and took out a quilt from the hotel from the space and covered herself with it.
Bai Qi: “…”
It’s August, isn’t it hot?
No one is seen walking alone on the city streets.
From time to time, cars that were trying to escape would drive onto this road from various corners and hurriedly pass by Bai Qi’s car. If there was a car blocking the road in front, they would rush straight up, knock the car in front away, and continue forward.
No one cares about traffic accidents like rear-end collisions anymore. If you stop the car, zombies like grapes will come from all directions and fall onto the back of the car.
The early zombies had very ferocious facial expressions, but their movements were sluggish and slow, walking about twice as slowly as humans. But once the zombies found food, they would follow it relentlessly, gathering towards the food without any fatigue or effort.
So one zombie is actually not scary. What is scary is a group of machines that don’t know how to get tired and only know how to move forward bravely.
Machines don’t get tired, but people have to stop and rest to replenish their energy.
If you stop, you will die…
Bai Qi had been away from this city for three years. The strange yet familiar feeling made him choose a relatively quiet road in his memory. At this time, most of the people who reacted were targeting the large, medium, and small supermarkets in the city center. It was human nature to choose the safest route.
Therefore, he was going to a large shopping mall far from the city. Materials were indispensable in the apocalypse. If one wanted to survive in the apocalypse, one had to prepare enough materials.
Looking at the zombies outside the car window that were gnawing on humans or staggering on the road, Tang Ruo felt that everything in front of her was so illusory and unreal.
She traveled through time and lived again in such a weird and terrifying world.
However, no matter what, she must live a good life.
After driving out of the city center, the avenue was straight and empty, and they didn’t encounter any zombies at all. They kept driving forward. Not long after, Bai Qi saw the tall sign of a large shopping mall: Shimao Department Store.
This is the largest department store in H City, which was invested in and built by the real estate developers themselves in order to increase the selling prices of this generation of houses in the suburbs.
What’s funny is that the end of the world has come before the property has even been opened for sale. At the end of the world, the least valuable thing is a house without any security.
Before the end of the world, department stores generally opened at 10 o’clock.
The apocalyptic virus began to mutate at three or four in the morning, and the first victims were often the closest people who lived in the same house. When this happened at night, naturally, there were very few people going to work the next day.
The department store that usually opens at 10 o’clock is now closed.
Bai Qi parked the car on the flat ground in front of Shimao, got out of the car holding the lamp pole, and checked the surroundings: “There should be no one, but we still have to be careful.”
Tang Ruo nodded, took out the lamp pole, and followed Bai Qi, carefully observing the surrounding environment: “Didn’t you say you were going home? Why are we here…?”
Bai Qi: “There’s nothing to eat at home. We have to find something to eat here.”
Tang Ruo: “…”
So we have to choose to rob in the daytime?
Bai Qi didn’t turn around: “In the next few nights, I may have a fever. In order to prevent any accidents, we need to store some things to deal with the next things.” He clearly remembered that in his previous life, he would have a fever every evening, and no matter how much he took antipyretics, the fever would not go down. After three consecutive days, he finally awakened his supernatural power…