BC Chapter 21

Chapter 20

Although they were sneaking in under the cover of darkness, fortunately, the two of them had already walked this route once before. This time, with the lessons learned from the previous experience, they proceeded with extreme caution, and finally returned to the warehouse without any mishaps.

Hearing Lu Ziming’s return, Dai Qianya inside was clearly very excited. After all, in the current situation, every second of waiting for Lu Ziming’s return was a torment for her. Although she had to face the inability to help Lu Ziming due to her child, besides guilt, there was more concern for the situation of herself and her son. Moreover, during the time Lu Ziming was away, she had thought a lot. After all, there were limitations to doing anything with Jin Shengzhe, and if they didn’t have Lu Ziming’s help later, the situation for her and her son would be even more pessimistic. So even for the sake of the child, hiding here all the time was not a long-term solution.

Although she had never given up trying to contact her family at the beginning, she thought that her parents were already old and lived several cities away, so even if she contacted them, they wouldn’t be able to help much. Moreover, if the old couple really came over now, they would probably face more danger than safety on the road. So although Dai Qianya had used her mobile phone to contact her family on the first day, she was afraid that they would be too worried, so she didn’t tell them about her situation. Later, she lost contact directly because the phone battery ran out.

But then again, judging from her current situation, she couldn’t afford to think about her family’s problems anymore. The most important thing at the moment was her and her son’s lives, and how to protect them.

Therefore, when Dai Qianya saw Lu Ziming return unharmed, and seemed to have brought a helper, she immediately felt relieved. At least for now, there was no need to worry about food and drink. Little Jin Shengzhe had been hiding behind his mother’s legs. Although his little heart also knew that he should be grateful to Lu Ziming for bringing food back to him and his mother, he was still scared and didn’t dare to look directly at Lu Ziming, nor did he have the courage to say thank you.

Lu Ziming didn’t care about those things at all. She took out the packed meals for the mother and son from her backpack, handed them directly to Dai Qianya, and gave her water and milk. Then, she gestured to Zhou Yuanyuan to find a place to rest.

The sky was changing very slowly, but it was no longer suitable to go out, especially with Dai Qianya and Jin Shengzhe, the action would inevitably be slow, and they had to be very careful to avoid the zombies’ ears and eyes. It was obviously not appropriate as the sky gradually turned bluish-white.

The warehouse already had a noticeable smell of dust, presumably stirred up by the arrival of Lu Ziming and Zhou Yuanyuan. Fortunately, when Dai Qianya opened the lunch box with a surprised look on her face, the aroma of the food gradually spread and filled every corner of the warehouse, making the entire space come alive.

“She is Zhou Yuanyuan, whom I met in this building. I met a man at Walmart, and he made us food. He sealed off the entire second floor of the supermarket and lives there. He has everything, and the door is strong enough. If possible, would you accept going there?” Lu Ziming spoke little and concisely enough. She didn’t say anything about the experiences in between, nor did she need to. From the beginning, Dai Qianya and she had different goals. Although it was now that she should recognize reality, people’s choices and priorities would only become clearer. So she never thought about changing anyone, she just hoped that Dai Qianya could be more realistic and not think that she was doing this as a stopgap measure to push her away.

“I’ll go.” Things were different now. Solving the problem of food solved the problem of survival. She could not care what she ate next, but looking at the way little Jin Shengzhe was gobbling up the food box, she made a judgment without thinking.

Lu Ziming certainly didn’t expect her to agree to the transfer suggestion so readily, but thinking about it, it wasn’t hard to understand. It was just that from the beginning, Lu Ziming was worried that after hearing this suggestion, she would think too much, feeling that following the man was only safe temporarily, and it would be more dangerous in the long run. Now it seemed that this idea was completely her own worry.

Then now it was to wait through the whole day today, so it would be easier to act at night.

“Cough cough.” Zhou Yuanyuan leaned against the wall and sat on a low stool. After holding it in for a while, she finally couldn’t help coughing twice. Looking at Dai Qianya looking at her, she smiled embarrassedly and nodded as a greeting.

Lu Ziming heard Zhou Yuanyuan cough and remembered that the two of them had only been concerned with rushing on the road and hadn’t even had a good drink of water. So she threw a bottle of water to Zhou Yuanyuan.

Zhou Yuanyuan was startled, and belatedly picked up the water bottle and explained: “Oh, I have it in my bag.”

“Just drink it.” Lu Ziming frowned, too lazy to talk nonsense with her. Although she and Zhou Yuanyuan had met later, perhaps because the two of them had fought side by side, Lu Ziming’s attitude towards Zhou Yuanyuan was more casual than towards Dai Qianya, with less of the politeness of treating strangers.

“Oh.” Zhou Yuanyuan was retorted by Lu Ziming and obediently opened the water and took a sip. She did feel a little itchy in her throat, and drinking some water should make it better, she thought, and took a few more sips. She also felt that her face was getting a little hot, so she put the bottle against her face to cool down.

Lu Ziming packed her things, got a backpack for Dai Qianya, and packed some food and drinks inside. At this time, the warehouse energy-saving lamp that had been on for a few days suddenly went out with a crackle. She didn’t know if it was burned out or if the whole building had lost power. The emergency light that had been charged some time ago lit up, and the warehouse was very large, so the emergency light could only illuminate a few square meters at the entrance.

Seeing this, Lu Ziming went to the door and tried the switch. She pressed it a few times, but the light didn’t respond, so she gave up. She took out the flashlight she had brought from her backpack and shone it in Zhou Yuanyuan’s direction, and found that she was drooping her head and listless. So she walked to her side and squatted down, pulled away her hand holding the water bottle, put her hand on her forehead to try it, and felt that Zhou Yuanyuan’s body temperature was indeed hotter than hers. So she pulled her to the place where she had rested before and let her lie down.

Zhou Yuanyuan really had no energy at this time, and she was like a doll, letting Lu Ziming manipulate her. She hadn’t rested well for many days before, and she had experienced so many things in these ten hours today, Zhou Yuanyuan really felt very tired. At this moment, her body lay down on the down quilt, and she immediately felt a heavy consciousness and couldn’t open her eyes.

Lu Ziming took out the extra clothes from her backpack to cover Zhou Yuanyuan. She wet a towel with mineral water and wiped Zhou Yuanyuan’s face to cool her down, just like she did when her mother was sick. It wasn’t deliberate, but like a habit, she did it very naturally. In fact, Lu Ziming was originally such a person, but she had never made any friends. The long time of being alone made it difficult for her to be kind to strangers, so no one had ever received Lu Ziming’s care. If Dai Qianya and Jin Shengzhe had pestered Lu Ziming so much that they took the initiative to enjoy Lu Ziming’s care, then Zhou Yuanyuan was the first to passively enjoy it.

After Dai Qianya and her son ate the food brought back by Lu and Zhou, they also rested, planning to recuperate and prepare for the evening’s actions. Only Lu Ziming didn’t rest after taking care of Zhou Yuanyuan. The previous weapon was very useful and easy to carry, but because it had been used to chop zombies several times, the blade was rolled. If she left here tonight, there shouldn’t be much chance to come back, so she had to take advantage of the resources at hand to re-fix the weapon.

Lu Ziming looked at the various sundries on the rows of shelves, and began to calculate in her mind what she needed, and then found them one by one and placed them on the open space by the door. When she used to go mountain climbing, she often camped on the edge of the forest. There were often times when there wasn’t enough to eat and drink, and there were times when she had to build things. At that time, she needed to solve problems on the spot like she was doing now. So Lu Ziming’s strong hands-on ability was also thanks to her love of mountain climbing. Her strong walking ability, great strength when chopping, and neat hand and foot coordination were all trained by mountain climbing. The only bad thing was that she tanned Lu Ziming’s originally fair skin to the current wheat color. She didn’t like the things that girls fiddled with, such as applying things, so she didn’t apply sunscreen or anything like that when she went out. At most, she would bring a bottle of moisturizing things, fearing that her skin would be too dry and cracked.

Time passed in every movement of Lu Ziming assembling the weapons she was going to use, one part at a time. The sky slowly brightened, and a few hours later, the sun came out. Lu Ziming finally made three weapons for her to use, and only some scraps of things she had used were left on the ground. In fact, to carry these weapons, she needed to make some matching straps, but Lu Ziming was too sleepy, so she could only put the things aside for the time being, and nestled in the corner on the down quilt and closed her eyes.

……

Wu Hao and the other two also successfully escaped from the surrounded office building using the rope ladder made by Lu Ziming and left from there. Because they didn’t find much food in the office building, the three decided to find some more food, and if possible, find a large car that could be started. Of course, Yin Zhouhang and Yin Suna, the two siblings, couldn’t drive, so Wu Hao could only be the driver. The reason why Yin Zhouhang was willing to follow the taciturn Wu Hao was also because of his skill and his thorough plans every time.

But what was different between the three and Lu and Zhou was that the three were walking swaggeringly on the still relatively quiet street, occasionally hearing the meaningless roars or wails of zombies from the distance and nearby. Lu and Zhou would try their best to avoid zombies, fearing that they would attract more zombies and be surrounded. But obviously Wu Hao didn’t think so. He would actively meet the lone zombies on the street, and then slash at the zombies’ necks with his sword, actively engaging in battle. Although he was using a quaint heavy sword that had been sharpened, it was not so easy to cut off the zombies’ necks, and it was even more of a fantasy to solve it with one sword.