#108 - Chapter 108 Finding Food
Lin Zhijie was more than 50% confident that he could find 30 kilograms of food in a day!
Although it involved a bit of risk.
As for why he was so confident?
Because he had a secret that only he and his sister knew!
Since the beginning of the post-apocalyptic world after the night of mutation, he had discovered that his legs were constantly changing.
Becoming stronger and more powerful.
Once, during the day, the siblings had roughly tested it outside, and he was able to achieve an astonishing result of 8.5 seconds in the 100-meter dash!
You should know that the world record in the Blue Star era was only 9.5 seconds! (This is Blue Star, please don't match it to reality~)
In other words, he had unknowingly possessed a running speed that surpassed the world record!
The two siblings were a little stunned.
If Qin Jin saw this, he would definitely recognize that this was a leg-type evolver just like him!
Unfortunately, this ability might have brought him countless fame and fortune in peaceful times, but in the post-apocalyptic world, it only allowed him to escape faster and increase his chances of survival.
Even so.
It was still not bad.
Lin Zhijie once relied on his legs to outrun the pursuing zombies, successfully obtaining some food to survive until now.
Moreover, since that test, his legs had been slowly getting stronger, and now he didn't know what level they had reached.
The two siblings also didn't waste time going outside to run and consume energy during the day.
Anyway, they knew he could run very fast, that was enough.
It was better to find more food.
At this time, Lin Zhijie, in order to obtain enough food to save his sister within today, could only make a risky decision.
He knew there was a place where there must still be a lot of food!
That was a small wholesale market.
During peaceful times, he had been there many times to buy things, with many shops selling grain, oil, and various daily necessities.
It was also one of the places that the survivors in this area had been coveting.
Everyone knew there was a lot of food there, and of course, many people had risked going in.
However.
Very few survivors were able to come out of there alive with food.
Because there were too many zombies there!
The entire small wholesale market used to have many U-shaped fences to block electric vehicles for easy management. On the night of the mutation, many people were there, and as a result, they all fell inside.
This led to the current situation where the zombies inside couldn't get out.
Then, the survivors kept rushing in, which further increased the number of zombies inside.
After a month of development.
It had become a place that the survivors in the nearby area both loved and hated.
Lin Zhijie had no other good options, so he came up with this idea.
He had to take a gamble.
Betting that he could find enough food there and run out of the zombies' pursuit!
After making the decision, he left the residential complex where he had settled his sister and headed towards the small wholesale market.
Going to find the group to exchange medicine in the morning, communicating with each other took a lot of time, and then settling his sister, most of the morning had passed.
He didn't know how much longer his sister could last!
Time was of the essence.
It took about ten minutes, with his speed and endurance far exceeding ordinary people, he quickly arrived at the destination a few kilometers away.
(His original car had been damaged by acid rain, and he hadn't had time to find a new usable car recently)
Outside the wholesale market, he carefully examined the place in front of him that looked unusually quiet.
The entire wholesale market was not large, square in shape, with a roof.
Various sundries were scattered all over the market road, and there were many stains of unknown substances on the ground. The occasional patches of dried blood showed that terrible things had happened here.
There were many shops on the periphery, and all the roller shutter doors were open at this time.
This was normal. When the mutation night happened, it was only the beginning of the night, and normally operating shops would not close so early.
But at this time, looking at these shops, almost all of them were a mess, empty.
Needless to say.
They must have been searched by other survivors many times.
These peripheral shops were golden targets in the early stages. During the day, when the zombies hid in other places, people could go in and move food.
So now it was basically impossible for anything to be left in the outer shops, and the survivors had scraped them clean.
You have to believe in their abilities.
Lin Zhijie's goal was certainly not these outer areas.
His target was the grain shops deeper inside the wholesale department.
He needed to actually go in and face the zombies that he didn't know where they were hiding.
He observed for a while. At this time, the weather was still okay, the sun shone on the earth, and also on the roof of the wholesale market.
Taking a deep breath.
He began to slowly step inside.
Crossing the iron fence, he carefully avoided the various sundries on the ground, preventing too much noise from attracting the zombies inside.
He was careful all the way, and it took him half a minute to enter the shadow of the wholesale market.
Various strange smells came.
There were common market odors, the stench of rotten vegetables and meat, and an unknown, nauseating, pungent fishy smell.
He didn't know what produced it.
He didn't have time to worry about these things, his goal was just to come and search for food.
Continuing to carefully avoid the sundries under his feet, his eyes saw a shop not far ahead with a sign that read xxx Grain and Oil.
His eyes lit up.
Confirming that there were no abnormalities around for the time being, he slowly walked towards there.
At this time, this place already belonged to the shadow under the roof. In theory, zombies hated sunlight, and even with the attenuation of the tarpaulin, there would still be some ultraviolet rays penetrating down.
In theory, zombies would continue to find deeper places to hide.
In order to not make a sound when landing, it took a full minute.
He carefully touched the door of the grain and oil store.
Looking around, his heart beat violently!
He saw several bags of xxx fragrant rice piled in a corner of the store!
Found it!
He suppressed the excitement in his heart and carefully walked into the store, while also paying attention to the surrounding situation.
Coming to the place where the rice was piled, he touched the rice bag with his hand, feeling the kind of fullness inside where the grains were squeezed together.
There's stock!
There are so many bags of this rice!
It is estimated that there are several hundred kilograms!
Jackpot!
He didn't dare to make a sound, he could only excitedly wave his fist to vent, his face flushed, grinning.
He must get the food as soon as possible to save his sister!
He selected a 25kg bag of rice, hugged it tightly with both hands and lifted it up, using the inertia, he put it on his shoulder.
His body sank.
He had been malnourished for many days. Although his legs had evolved, his arm strength had not changed, and was even inferior to that in peaceful times.
This 50kg weight made him feel a little strenuous.
But there was no way, this was not only precious food, but also the key to his sister's survival!
He slightly adjusted his posture to achieve balance, gritted his teeth, and began to walk towards the outside of the house.
Just as he reached the door, he strained, his eyes narrowed.
In the depths of the market, several zombies had appeared on the periphery without him knowing when!
Damn it!
They appeared too fast!
He saw the zombies twitching their noses towards him, perhaps they had already smelled his scent, and had already started jogging over!
Damn it!
He didn't care about kicking the sundries and causing a louder noise.
He was already carrying the rice bag and running away!
Run!
(End of this chapter)
