#106 - Chapter 106 Seeking Medicine
Morning.
After the acid rain, countless houses and roads were damaged to varying degrees.
Many trees had also succumbed to the damage and died.
Not to mention the grass.
The vast majority had died in that terrible acid rain.
However.
In just two days, new buds had sprouted again on some of the previously withered trees, and various new grasses had begun to emerge from the ground.
They may have temporarily fallen in the face of disaster, but they would not give in.
When the time was right, they would still stubbornly release new vitality.
Dragon Gate County.
Beside a highway.
Several new grasses had just broken through the soil, stretching their tender leaves towards the sunlight, absorbing energy from the star for photosynthesis.
A rumbling sound accompanied by a strong wind swept past.
These grasses swayed.
Then, they continued to be blown back and forth by the wind from the cars passing by.
It took nearly half a minute for the grasses to stabilize again.
This was the commotion caused by a long convoy passing by.
This convoy was undoubtedly the Green Origin Base's outbound combat team.
Whether other places had such a powerful convoy was unknown, but in Guangyuan City, it was definitely unique.
The people of Green Origin had this confidence.
After leaving the base, they drove quickly, choosing to take the highway directly, abandoning the idea of slowly driving along the national road.
During the day, as long as they didn't encounter a large group of zombies, what did they have to fear!
Before the emergence of mutated zombies and powerful human enemies, they were currently the most powerful existence!
The last time they went to find the helicopter, they had already taken this highway once, and not much time had passed, so there were no blockages, and the highway had fences for protection, so zombies outside generally wouldn't wander onto the highway at night.
As for the zombies that were originally on the highway, they had already been mostly cleared.
Many surviving humans had also passed this road, and they could still deal with the few scattered zombies during the day.
Survivors who had managed to live to this day had basically mastered certain zombie patterns.
Knowing that these monsters were afraid of light during the day, and their strength would weaken.
At night, they would come out of the shade to look for prey, and their strength would increase overall, with sensitive reactions to sounds, blood, and human odors.
However, their eyesight was terrible, only slightly used for light perception.
If humans want to survive.
Besides relying on the strong.
Otherwise, they must learn to actively adapt to this new world.
At the front of the convoy, in the co-pilot seat of the Saber-toothed Tiger, Qin Jin opened a tablet and looked at the location of his convoy.
It had been an hour since they left the base and arrived here, and the destination of Zhu City was still very far away.
The entire journey from the base to the destination was about 470 kilometers, and they had only traveled about 1/6 of the way, and it was still a relatively easy highway section.
When they arrived at Zhu City, they might have to slow down and clear the highway there while driving, and then get off the highway and take the national road.
The final national road was the beginning of the challenge.
This section of the road was estimated to be forty to fifty kilometers according to the navigation, and it would be extremely difficult. He had roughly seen it in the previous helicopter reconnaissance records, and he needed to avoid several sections with serious traffic accidents.
He also needed to pass near the centers of several towns.
It was unrealistic to reach the military region directly today.
Even if they barely made it, there wouldn't be enough time to clear it.
So tonight, they would first go to a planned temporary residence for one night, and then officially explore the target tomorrow.
The convoy continued to move forward at a speed of 60-80 kilometers per hour.
Striving to reach Zhu City as soon as possible.
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Zhu City.
A small town.
An old residential area in the suburbs.
There were not many buildings in this residential area, about ten.
And the buildings were not high, only six or seven stories high.
After the acid rain, there were very few plants left in the residential area, a barren and desolate scene.
On the fourth floor of one of the small buildings, it was a large unit, and like most of the residences with closed doors, the iron door here was also tightly closed.
Some faint voices could be heard inside.
"You guys, go out and find more food as soon as possible! Otherwise, your families won't be able to last long!"
In the living room of this unit, nearly ten people were sitting around.
Perhaps due to the cold weather (in the south), everyone was dressed very warmly.
The words just now came from the mouth of a middle-aged man with messy, short hair, wearing a leather jacket, with fierce eyes.
"As long as you can provide enough food, your family can get treatment!"
He sat on the sofa in the middle of the living room, crossed his legs, and continued to speak leisurely.
But looking at his eyes, these words seemed to be directed at someone in particular.
"Lin Zhijie, you don't want your sister to be disabled in the future, do you? If you don't find anti-inflammatory medicine to treat the injury on your sister's foot, it will be useless~"
As he spoke, his gaze turned to a beautiful girl beside him, but her face was pale.
"You guys should also know what the world is like now, right? The value of medicine is very precious, and we can't just give it to you for nothing, can we? So we need you to pay a higher price in food."
The middle-aged man in the leather jacket took out several rows of vacuum-packed medicines at this time, showing them to the person he was talking to, as if proving something.
One of the objects he was talking to.
One of them, a man named Lin Zhijie, looked about twenty-eight or nine years old, with short hair and wearing a dirty sportswear.
The leather jacket man was right, his sister was indeed injured in the foot.
He and his sister lived a few streets away.
But the day before yesterday, the two siblings went out to find food during the day, and encountered two zombies inside when entering a building!
This was not uncommon, survivors often encountered zombies hiding inside when searching for food in buildings.
Originally, according to their plan, one person would face one zombie, and with the two siblings having killed some and having some experience, they could be dealt with.
But.
Reality was different.
They didn't know that after the acid rain, zombies around the world had been enhanced to varying degrees!
Lin Zhijie himself was fine, barely managing to solve the one he was facing alone.
But his sister had a problem!
She couldn't defeat the female zombie!
After wrestling, she was pinned to the ground, fortunately, her sister grabbed the zombie's hands, and a stalemate ensued, and he quickly came over to help solve the zombie on his sister's side after he finished.
Fortunately, his sister was not directly injured by the zombie, and there was no risk of mutation.
Unfortunately, his sister's foot hit a rusty sharp object during the wrestling, and blood flowed like a river.
Without caring about continuing to look for food, he quickly took his sister back to their residence.
After some simple treatment, although the bleeding stopped, the wound was still deteriorating!
She developed a high fever that night!
They couldn't find any antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs that could treat this kind of wound.
The hospitals outside were basically dens of tigers and wolves.
Pharmacies had also been basically looted by survivors who reacted quickly.
Just yesterday, when his sister's condition continued to worsen and she was unconscious, a survivor he knew introduced this leather jacket man and his group.
They were the ones who had searched the pharmacies and hoarded a lot of medicines!
(End of this chapter)
