Chapter 28: Deadly Infection 13
Peace was only temporary.
In the residential area, dozens to hundreds of households had varying circumstances. Some families had no one sick and ample supplies; others not only had sick people but were also on the verge of starvation.
There were also residents who were robbed, and residents who robbed others.
All sorts of hidden dangers lurked, and all of this destined the residential area not to be peaceful for long.
Lu Qingyuan estimated two days, but events unfolded even faster than he anticipated.
Nighttime.
People in the residential area started acting again.
Lu Qingyuan was always a light sleeper, with an extremely keen awareness of outside sounds. As deep night approached, faint sounds of scraping against the wall came from the outside of the building, making him open his eyes instantly.
Someone was climbing the building from the outside.
This building had a total of sixteen floors, and their location was considered high up in the building, on the 12th floor. Even a gecko would find it difficult to climb that high. So, those people’s targets were residents on lower floors.
Should he warn the people on the lower floors?
Lu Qingyuan wouldn’t. He wasn’t that overly kind person living across the way.
After about ten minutes, familiar screams and cries erupted, waking everyone from their sleep. Chu Yian heard the crying and cursing from downstairs and suddenly sat up. The commotion clearly sounded like it was coming from below their floor.
She suddenly sat up and sent a message to Lu Qingyuan.
After seeing his reply of ‘Got it,’ she sat up and peered out the window to check.
The incident was happening downstairs in their building, and what she could see from the window was less informative than what she learned from the WeChat group.
“What’s happening in Building 2? Didn’t they just announce yesterday that the special medicine would be ready soon? Why is someone breaking in and robbing again today?”
“I saw it! Someone climbed from the building’s window to the third floor and used something to smash open a family’s window. Two men went in; I don’t know what’s happening inside now.”
“Are these people really not afraid of being caught? We’ve already called the police!”
Of course, the people committing the home invasion and robbery showed no reaction.
Instead, some people with limited supplies and sick family members urgently inquired in the group. “Do you have food? Do you have medicine? Can you give them some medicine?”
When condemning people in the group, everyone spoke very well. But when it came to asking for help in the group like this, the group became as quiet as if it had been muted.
Quite a few people in the group were asking for supplies and medicine.
Chu Yian looked at the content of the group chat and suddenly felt that the residential area wouldn’t have many more days of peace and safety.
Game Day 15—
In the morning, two bodies were found downstairs in the unit building. Because they were far away in their own building, they couldn’t even clearly see the faces of the deceased, only that they were a man and a woman by their clothes.
The police phone was unreachable again, and panic spread throughout the residential area.
Between 2-3 AM, home invasions and robberies occurred again.
This time, the scale of the robberies was larger; some succeeded, some failed. Several more bodies appeared downstairs in various buildings of the residential area.
That afternoon, more vehicles left.
They weren’t looking for medicine for those infected with the contagious disease, but rather fleeing for their lives.
At least three cars left the residential area that afternoon, mostly people with substantial family wealth and relatively healthy family members. Their departure was witnessed by all, and that same day, several rooms were completely ransacked by unknown individuals.
Game Day 16—.
When Chu Yian used the skill ‘Creation from Nothing,’ she drew a large bag of apples.
After such a long time, she no longer had any fruit in stock, so the apples came at just the right time.
There were six in the bag. At noon, she specifically washed two and shared them with Lu Qingyuan.
Game Day 17—
News about the special medicine being almost ready was continuously broadcast on TV, yet the situation in the residential area continued to worsen.
Originally, the proportion of people in the residential area facing both infection and food shortages was small, but robbery exacerbated this situation. Everyone who was robbed, in order to survive, had to go and rob others. Many of those who robbed and those who were robbed also contracted the contagious disease in the process.
“Around five o’clock this morning, someone was loitering at the door.”
At noon, Lu Qingyuan told her this rather bad news.
He wasn’t constantly monitoring the surveillance, which meant those people might have come more than once.
“Someone must be targeting us. For the next few days, we’d best take turns watching the surveillance.”
“Okay.”
Chu Yian nodded, “One person for half a day?”
“That’s too long; focus will wane. Each person watches for 4 hours at a time, then rotate. Ensure ample rest time, and if there are any problems, send a message to notify.”
“Okay!”
The two began to take turns watching based on the situation.
Around eight or nine in the evening, Chu Yian again spotted someone loitering in front of the door through the surveillance’s infrared. There were a total of three people in the camera’s view. They were looking at the main door. She didn’t know what they were doing, but they fiddled around for quite a while before leaving.
She quickly took out her phone and told Lu Qingyuan what she had observed.
Chu Yian’s handover of the observation task was already deep into the night.
Normally, she should have been sleeping and resting at this time, but after seeing the surveillance today, she had a feeling that she wouldn’t be able to stay here much longer. So, instead of sleeping in the middle of the night, she got up and started organizing her things.
Her treasure box space was one cubic meter.
The size… it was there, but not much.
Medicine was definitely the most important.
Chu Yian took some plastic bags and opened all the boxed medicines to put them into the plastic bags, reducing the space the medicine would occupy. Fever reducers were the most important, and disinfectant could be kept outside, ready for use at any time.
The medical protective suits took up the most space.
Because the box wasn’t big enough, it couldn’t hold fifty sets of medical protective suits at all. She forcibly stuffed twenty sets of protective suits inside, based on a ten-day supply for two people.
The remaining gaps and small corners were filled with compressed biscuits and bottled water.
This alone was not enough.
She also found a normal backpack and an extra-large suitcase in the room. The suitcase was something she had specifically bought earlier for easy transport, and the backpack was an exclusive item from when she entered the game.
She stuffed six more sets of protective suits into the suitcase, and the remaining space was used for other medicines, compressed biscuits, self-heating rice, instant noodles, and seven or eight bottles of mineral water.
After organizing these, the suitcase became extremely heavy.
To facilitate escape, she put less in the backpack. The drone had a reconnaissance function, then there was a power bank, as well as the beef jerky she had made earlier and two bottles of mineral water.
Even after organizing all these things, there were still items in the room that couldn’t be taken.
These were things she had painstakingly moved in little by little back then! In these times of scarcity, they seemed especially precious.
Chu Yian looked at the self-heating food she had bought. Since she couldn’t take it with her… “Teacher Lu, it’s a long night, would you like some supper?”
