Chapter 17: Deadly Infection 2
Chu Yian spent 80 yuan to change the lock and an additional 500 yuan for a security door.
By the time she finished having people help her, it was already evening.
It was dark outside.
She dragged the remaining construction waste downstairs to throw it away when an ambulance wailed past on the road outside the residential area.
Because of the nature of this round of the game, she instinctively stepped back two paces, then quickly threw away the trash and went upstairs.
The game period this time was 30 days, and it explicitly stated that she needed to hold out for 20 days before the special medicine would be developed. The safest plan Chu Yian could think of now was to stay in her rented apartment for twenty days, and only go out once the special medicine was successfully developed.
However, she still had too few medicines on hand, so she could go to the pharmacy again tomorrow.
As for today… she had been busy for too long, so it was time for a good rest!
Without immediate death threats, her mindset was much better than last time.
The city lights sparkled at night, cars flowed back and forth downstairs, and lights glowed in every household in the tall buildings. Even if an occasional abrupt ambulance siren sounded, the city still seemed peaceful.
Day two of the game.
Chu Yian woke up very early.
She simply cooked a bowl of noodles in the kitchen, ate breakfast, put on a mask, and went out to shop.
There was also a pharmacy near the residential area, but Chu Yian still headed straight for a large pharmacy in the city.
It was eight in the morning, and the pharmacy had just opened.
Chu Yian went straight to the medicine section, sweeping up all the antibiotics and fever reducers on display, which left the salesperson next to her dumbfounded.
“Hello, do you have medical protective suits in the store?” she turned and asked.
“Yes, we do, we do.”
The salesperson nodded when she heard this. “A complete set consists of a face shield, gloves, shoe covers, medical goggles, a protective suit, and a mask. One set is 40 yuan. How many do you need, please?”
“Then… give me 50 sets.”
After all, she wasn’t short on money now.
“Huh?”
The salesperson was slightly stunned. Protective suits were rarely used in the past. “We only have 20 sets in stock at our pharmacy.”
“Then I’ll take all 20 sets.”
Chu Yian waved her hand, telling her to pack everything up. The second time she bought medicine, it cost 2,200 yuan, plus the money she spent on changing the door yesterday, leaving her with 12,578 yuan.
She still had over twelve thousand yuan in her bag, and she always felt guilty if she didn’t spend it.
She first took a car to send all these medicines and protective suits home. Then she took out the remaining money and went out, looking around for anything else she needed to buy.
A car!
The first thing Chu Yian thought of was this escape tool she used in the last round of the game.
But… she didn’t have a driver’s license.
She didn’t have a driver’s license in the game either.
Although her driving skills were solid, she couldn’t drive on the road without a license.
Chu Yian’s original idea of renting a car was shelved, but she saw another good thing — a drone.
This thing could work! Later, when she couldn’t go out, she could use the drone to check the situation outside. Chu Yian was instantly tempted, went in to browse, and chose one for two thousand.
Now she had 10,578 yuan left.
Still over ten thousand yuan!
What should she do now?
Chu Yian never expected that one day she would be troubled by how to spend money.
Just then, a rich aroma wafted over.
That was… the smell of hotpot!
Chu Yian, who had been busy all morning, quickly salivated, and her mind kept conjuring up images of tripe, duck intestines, hanging tenderloin, fatty beef, lung slices, yellow throat… Oh my goodness!
Her legs moved uncontrollably towards the hotpot restaurant.
Just as she stood at the entrance of the hotpot restaurant, she heard a waiter’s voice, “Hello, guest, how many people?”
“Uh… I was just passing by.”
Reason still triumphed over appetite.
An infectious disease!
Although there were no visible signs yet, eating out was simply too suicidal. Sacrificing her life for a bit of food was not worth it, absolutely not worth it.
With that, she turned and walked away.
A sudden, urgent cough erupted inside the hotpot restaurant, a tearing cough as if to expel internal organs.
Chu Yian subconsciously touched the mask on her face and looked inside, following the sound.
It was a young man in a shirt, coughing with a flushed face. The girl opposite him quickly handed him a glass of plain water, but as soon as he took a sip, he suddenly felt nauseous, and yellow liquid mixed with the food he had just eaten, splattering all over the girl opposite him.
Customers at nearby tables looked disgusted, probably losing their appetite.
Not just the nearby tables, Chu Yian also felt a bit like throwing up at this point.
The man apologized to the woman in front of him while coughing. He quickly used a tissue to wipe her, revealing many sesame-sized red spots on his exposed arm… There were too many people, she should just run.
Chu Yian withdrew her gaze and left the hotpot restaurant.
She walked to the street to hail a taxi to go back, but on the way, she saw several ambulances wailing past.
“There are so many ambulances today. Four have passed by in just half an hour.”
A woman with a big wavy hairstyle next to her said to her companion, “Do they not have to pay for an ambulance or something?”
Another woman in a floral dress shook her head when she heard this. “I heard from my daughter that Da’an Airport… something happened.”
Chu Yian quietly pricked up her ears when she heard this.
“What happened?”
The big wavy-haired woman was also curious.
“Isn’t my daughter working at the Hospital? She worked overtime last night and didn’t come home. I heard that Da’an Airport received a critically ill patient who couldn’t be saved after a night of treatment. Later, they received two more people with vomiting and red rashes all over their bodies. It seems like the staff caught some kind of flu.”
The floral-dressed woman said, “Da’an Airport was shut down this morning for disinfection and staff checks. I heard that if it’s too serious, the entire airport will be quarantined…”
Da’an Airport, wasn’t that where she came from yesterday?
Chu Yian felt lucky after hearing this that she ran fast at the time.
And the red rash and vomiting mentioned by the woman, that’s exactly what the man in the hotpot restaurant was experiencing just now!
Clearly, the infection was no longer confined to Da’an Airport. Luckily, she hadn’t been greedy and idiotic enough to go eat hotpot!
As she pondered, a taxi stopped in front of her.
Chu Yian was about to reach out, then put her hand down again.
“Not going, sorry.”
She shook her head at the taxi driver.
If the infectious disease had truly begun, then a taxi, which traveled through streets and alleys every day and picked up all kinds of passengers, was itself an extremely dangerous factor.
She looked at the people riding various shared bicycles and electric bikes in the streets and alleys, and a new idea suddenly came to her.
Half an hour later.
She found a small shop specializing in electric vehicles.
In this world, there was a type of four-wheeled car called a’senior scooter’.
Enclosed on all sides, private space.
And the price was quite attractive, only 8888.
