odessanovel Chapter 43 A Reluctant Decision
Chapter 43 A Reluctant Decision
After the seven of them discussed their plan of action, Lu Yuan and the other five still wore raincoats to protect themselves from blood splatter. Qin Yuan looked on with some envy, and Lu Yuan, without being polite, took two more raincoats from his backpack and gave them to him and Lin Yun.
After Zhong Qiang finished his warm-up exercises, Lu Yuan pulled a chocolate from his pocket, saying it was a reward for him. Qin Yuan, who was standing next to him, was even more surprised, "Lu Xiaoyuan, where did you get so many snacks?"
Lu Yuan chuckled and said nothing. Lin Yun pulled Qin Yuan to his ambush point. After everyone was ready, Lu Yuan secretly slipped a protective shield to Gu Nanfeng. After all, he didn't have any ranged weapons. If there were too many zombies and they came back to find him, he could use it if it was too dangerous. Gu Nanfeng knew that Lu Yuan must have a lot of things in his space, so he didn't stand on ceremony. He took the small ball of the protective shield, put it in, and headed towards the elevator.
Once everything was ready, they began their operation, otherwise they were afraid that something unexpected might happen after it got completely dark.
There are only two elevators to the right of the hotel lobby reception. They are not regular guest elevators, but elevators reserved for SVIP guests. One elevator is on the third floor and the other is on the fifth floor. After Gu Nanfeng pressed the button, he stepped aside and moved to a small safe area that they had cordoned off with the hotel's luggage transport cart.
The elevator began to descend slowly, and the elevator on the third floor opened with a "ding".
Perhaps they had used up all their bad luck for the day, as there was no one in the elevator. To avoid the possibility of zombies in the elevator coming down from the fifth floor on the right, they quickly gathered and rushed into the elevator on the left. Just then, the doors of the left elevator slowly closed, while the doors of the right elevator opened, and two zombies staggered out.
Pei Sihao and Qin Yuan didn't hold back either, one shooting and the other using a crossbow, blowing the heads off two zombies. After all, they were already here, so losing one more was better than nothing.
Gu Nanfeng used fingerprint recognition to take the elevator to the sixth floor. The hotel was built in an arc shape, with a main building in the middle and two wide annex buildings on the left and right. The first floor of the main building was the lobby and lounge area, the second floor was a food court, the third floor was a high-ceilinged banquet hall, the fourth floor had VIP suites, the fifth floor had SVIP suites, and the sixth floor was a private floor with a total of five large suites. Since Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao were both studying in G City, Gu Nanfeng's sister had reserved a room for each of them so they would have a place to stay when they came to visit.
The seven people went up to the sixth floor and, for safety reasons, went to Gu Nanfeng's suite first. The room was neat and tidy, with a total of five bedrooms: two with twin beds and three with double beds, which could accommodate seven people.
The hotel's water supply was unreliable, so they had no way to shower. They worked at the gas station for half a day in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius, and they were all covered in sweat and quite uncomfortable. What was most frustrating was that all their hard work had been for nothing.
After the seven people were assigned rooms, Qin Yuan and Lin Yun entered their rooms and immediately used walkie-talkies to report the situation to the base. The vehicle and supplies had been stolen, and the people were still unable to return. Some people at the base were actually quite happy, but they couldn't show it. They could only comfort each other by saying that the vehicle wasn't important and that it was good that the people could return tomorrow.
To prevent Lu Yuan and his companions' other car from being stolen by shameless people at the base, Qin Yuan didn't mention that they had another car. He could guess with his eyes closed that those people were hoping that he and Lin Yun wouldn't be able to go back.
Lin Yun was in a much better mood than Qin Yuan. He knew that the people in the base didn't want them to go back, and he also knew that Lu Yuan and the other four didn't want to go back to the base. Although he didn't know why Lu Yuan and the others didn't want to go back to the base, after all, their food and lodging were guaranteed in the base.
"I..." After considering it for a moment, Lin Yun decided to tell Qin Yuan his thoughts, "I've decided not to go back to the base."
Qin Yuan was somewhat surprised. In fact, he had been thinking about this issue as well. It was clear that the base did not welcome them. Their return would indeed be an unstable factor. Who knew if they would suddenly turn into zombies? After all, no one had ever encountered such a situation before. The infected in the first viral rain were wiped out in eight hours. Their group of twenty-odd people was indeed an unexpected one.
He sighed and smiled helplessly, "That's what I was planning to do too."
Lin Yun smiled slightly. It seemed he hadn't guessed wrong; none of them wanted to go back and become a hidden danger. So now there was a new problem.
The car downstairs belongs to Gu Nanfeng and his group. It's a five-seater car, and while it's fine for them to squeeze into the trunk, it takes up space that Lu Yuan and his group would use for storing supplies, which is definitely not acceptable.
"We need to find a car," Qin Yuan thought, just like Lin Yun.
Along the way, the two saw cars parked at gas stations and on the road, seemingly abandoned by drivers who had been attacked by zombies and infected, or for other reasons, while on their way to the base or out to find supplies. Some of the better-quality cars were mostly intact, while others had been torn to pieces by zombies.
When Lin Yun was still a junior soldier, his captain was a car enthusiast who loved tinkering with and modifying all kinds of cars, so he learned a bit from him. As long as they found a basically intact and drivable car and collected some scrap metal from other cars, modifying it into a suitable vehicle was no problem at all.
The two were planning how to find a car in the room when there was a knock on the door. After three knocks, Lu Yuan's fluffy little head poked in, "Brother Qin, Brother Lin, time to eat!"
Qin Yuan and Lin Yun thought they just wanted to gather everyone together so they could redistribute all the food and water. They didn't care, since the two of them were the captain and vice-captain of the team, and if they were to continue working together, they would still have to take on the main responsibility for survival.
But to their surprise, when they came out with compressed biscuits and bottled water in their bags, they saw a table full of stir-fried dishes in the suite's dining room, and even a hot pot in the middle.
Qin Yuan and Lin Yun rubbed their eyes. Zhong Qiang was sitting to one side, excitedly unpacking meat, while Lin Xiao was fiddling with various meatballs. Gu Nanfeng stood by the table, leisurely stirring the hot pot broth in the divided pot. This dinner looked like an ordinary meal before the virus outbreak. But Qin Yuan and Lin Yun hadn't had one for over two months.
"Is this still edible?" Qin Yuan looked at the slices of beef that Zhong Qiang was tearing apart. They looked very fresh, like fresh beef that had just been bought from the supermarket this morning, with some blood still on them. But the virus had been breaking out for more than two months, so how could there be fresh beef?
Lin Yun was also incredulous. He saw fresh vegetables on the table, both in season and out of season, which clearly couldn't have been stored in the refrigerator.
The two hesitated before sitting down. Lu Yuan immediately handed them disposable bowls and chopsticks, and asked with a smile, "Beer, drinks, mineral water, what would you two like to order?"
"Beer, oh beer, summer is all about hot pot and ice-cold beer!" Before Qin Yuan and Lin Yun could answer, Zhong Qiang shouted without any politeness.
"Iced beer is great!" Pei Sihao, who came out of the bathroom, nodded frantically. How could there be no iced beer on such a hot day?