Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Before Meimei and Ye Mei could react to what was happening, they heard shouting downstairs followed by a "bang" sound, and this sound came from downstairs, like something hitting the ground heavily.

The luxurious suite where Ye Mei was isolated had a balcony, so Meimei hesitated for a moment and decided to go out and take a look.

Ye Mei originally wanted to stop her daughter, but Mei Mei persuaded her: "Mom, it's okay, I'll go out and take a look."

"Okay, then I'll accompany you." Ye Mei breathed a sigh of relief and followed her daughter.

Fortunately, the balcony is not far from the bathroom. To be precise, the suite has two bathrooms. The suite is more than 40 square meters in total, with one bathroom in the living room and another in the room, and the balcony is right in the room.

This is why Meimei felt a little more at ease. Even if the zombies broke through the first door, they still had the door to the room and even the door to the bathroom. Normally, they could delay until rescue arrived.

Meimei and Ye Mei walked to the balcony. Meimei held her mother's hand and moved outside.

The balcony in the room is very large. The hotel originally wanted to give guests a better experience, so the balcony was built into a large platform for viewing the distant scenery. It is at least one meter wide and about three meters long.

Meimei took trembling steps and cautiously stretched her head out to look down.

The ninth floor is actually quite high, because after the end of the world, except for residential buildings, there are no height restrictions on other self-built residential buildings, government and enterprise buildings, and restaurants, so the height of each floor of the Diamond Hotel is basically about three meters. In addition, the lobby on the first floor can reach about five meters, so the height of the ninth floor is not low. At least from the balcony, you can directly see most of the appearance of the entire base.

Meimei looked down, and was stunned by the situation in front of her, so much so that when Ye Mei wanted to look down together, she was stopped by Meimei.

Across the balcony is a straight road, but this road was only opened to traffic in recent months. Behind the road are various private residences or shops that are still under development, so there are not many people here. In addition, it belongs to the west gate of the hotel, so only the Self-Defense Forces patrol nearby, and no special personnel are arranged for supervision.

In addition, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and there were only one or two lonely street lights outside, making the road seem even more empty and desolate.

But there was another reason that shocked Meimei, because she saw corpses lying flat on the concrete platform two floors below the ninth floor in various postures. Although she was looking down from a high place, she could still see the bodies stained with blood, and some even had their bodies twisted into strange postures as they fell.

"Meimei, did something happen?" Ye Mei asked worriedly from behind.

Meimei exhaled deeply, and then she controlled her trembling voice a little bit: "It's okay, there's just something underground, Mom, don't look at it, let's go back."

Seeing her daughter like this, Ye Mei's eyes fell on her slightly trembling wrist. She could guess what was underneath, so she said softly, "It's okay, I'll just take a look. I have to face it. I'm not as fragile as you think. Have you forgotten who held you in his arms when the apocalypse broke out six years ago?"

In the first year of the apocalypse, Meimei had just started high school. Her family had experienced attempted burglary and door robbing, as well as threats from people in the community who were snatching supplies. They also encountered various mutant beasts during the transfer to the Jiangcheng base. It was always Ye Mei who protected Meimei at that time.

Meimei was silent. She had indeed forgotten. In fact, her mother was stronger than she thought.

Ye Mei took Meimei's hand and walked to the railing. She just looked down with shock in her eyes, but she didn't shout out. She just bit her lower lip tightly.

At this time, there were some quarantined people standing on the balconies on the seventh and eighth floors. These people had not mutated. They hid in the corners of the balconies. The doors of the balconies had been closed. This was their last safe area.

There are luxury suites on every floor of the Diamond Hotel. However, except for the restaurants and entertainment rooms on the first and second floors, there are six luxury suites on each of the six floors from the third to the ninth floor. The rooms were randomly assigned during the previous quarantine. Those who originally lived in the luxury suites were quarantined on the spot, while the staff implicated could only choose from empty rooms on the sixth to ninth floors.

Ye Mei was lucky, as she had chosen this temporarily unoccupied luxury suite. If it had been an ordinary guest room like the one Chen Moran stayed in, which had neither an innermost bedroom nor a balcony, she would have been able to squat at the end of the bed and wait for the day of judgment to come.

As more and more people stood on the balcony, Ye Mei's doubts gradually deepened.

That is why some people, including myself, have not started to mutate yet?

"Mom, what are you thinking about? Are you okay?"

Ye Mei looked at her daughter, who looked anxious and concerned, and then she tightly held her daughter's hand and said, "It's okay. I was just thinking about something."

"What are you thinking about?" Meimei became confused at this moment.

"Look, the person on the eighth floor to our left is a guest who stayed in our hotel before. I cleaned his room before and it left a deep impression on me. He was a bit of a germaphobe and didn't like to be cleaned when no one was around. There's a young couple in the luxury suite in the other room, but they didn't leave the balcony. And listen, there's some strange noises."

"Roaring sound?" Meimei and her family's balcony was just one floor above the couple's, so it wasn't very far away. Therefore, over the sound of the wind, they could clearly hear the scratching sound of the door in the room.

Meimei reacted immediately after she finished speaking, and then whispered: "Mom, you mean, the people living over there have mutated?"

Ye Mei nodded with a heavy face, then pointed to several other suites and said, "No one has come out of rooms 804 and 807 either. Those who are quarantined there are hotel staff." After all, they are her colleagues. Ye Mei's voice was slightly choked when she said this, so Meimei quickly held her mother's hand tightly.

After calming down a bit, Ye Mei continued, "My colleagues were not bitten before they were isolated. The same is true for the fathers. We previously speculated that the mutant zombies were spread through blood or saliva, but if that was the case, why did the people in the institute question the need to isolate everyone in the building? Also, my colleagues were not bitten, but they still mutated."

Meimei's mind worked quickly, and she immediately responded, "This means that there may be more than one way of transmission. These mutated people must have been exposed to something that caused the mutation."

Ye Mei nodded: "I thought so too, but I can't think of the reason for the mutation, and I'm also worried that I might..."

"No, Mom. The quarantine period has already passed 24 hours. If you were really infected, you would have mutated long ago. Now that it has been confirmed that you will not mutate, is there a possibility that these mutated people, except for those who were bitten, may have come into contact with the same objects, or may have eaten the same food and drank the same water."

"Food, water? Wait, water?" It was as if some slight clue flashed through her mind, but Ye Mei couldn't grasp it for a while. She just felt that she seemed to have overlooked something very important.

Meimei also knew that Ye Mei was thinking about something, so she just waited quietly by the side and was not in a hurry to ask any more questions. She wanted to wait until Ye Mei had thought it through before speaking.

Ye Mei was thinking carefully about what Mei Mei had just said, and suddenly she looked at Mei Mei and asked, "Maybe tea?"

Meimei didn't know what Ye Mei meant by "tea", so she asked in confusion: "What tea?"

"It was osmanthus tea. Before the quarantine, the hotel manager said that every guest would be given free tea. The tea leaves were osmanthus tea bought from other provinces. It smelled very good when brewed. At that time, many people in the kitchen rushed to drink it first. I was busy cleaning the ninth floor, so I didn't drink it. But when I went to clean the room, I happened to meet the gentleman on the ninth floor who refused the tea. That person has a serious obsession with mysophobia. It is said that he only drinks unopened bottled water and only eats eggs and some vegetarian dishes. He never touches meat. It is said that he is worried that it is frozen meat."

Meimei nodded as she listened: "So, if it really was tea, then it makes sense. You didn't drink the tea, and the people in the room with mysophobia didn't drink it either. People in other households might not have mutated for that reason, but if it's a water source problem, that shouldn't be possible. I washed my face last night." Meimei shuddered at the thought.

Ye Mei quickly explained: "It's not tap water. The water for making tea is well water that Chef Yue from the kitchen specially found. He even boasted about it to us at the time."

Meimei learned a little about the so-called "ancient well water" from Ye Mei, and she frowned and said, "It's not that I like conspiracy theories, but how can there be an ancient well in this place? Besides, there were floods, extreme heat and acid rain during the natural disaster. Even if there is groundwater now, it is not his turn to find it, and someone brought it there. I think something is wrong. Could this be planned by some organization or cult? I encountered an incident in the guesthouse before, where the child of our guesthouse chef was kidnapped. The police said it was a gang crime. If it wasn't for our boss's wife that day, the child would have been in trouble."

Ye Mei had heard about this matter from Meimei at the beginning. Thinking about it now, it was quite terrifying.

"No matter what, the most important thing now is that we haven't mutated. But we still have to consider how to leave here next. There has been no movement next to us just now, I guess there is no mutation, but there has been a banging sound from the other two rooms, which is very strange. I guess nine out of ten times they have mutated and turned into zombies."

"As long as we don't go out, we will be safe for the time being. Mom will protect you no matter what." Ye Mei couldn't help but gather up Meimei's scattered hair.

Meimei felt a little sad and choked up, "Mom, I'm grown up now. I'm the one who will protect you from now on. I can't always stay under your protection. We have to face this together. Don't worry, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, we shouldn't give up. You were right before. We have an advantage where we live. It's on the ninth floor with the most stringent security, and it's a suite. We've taken the necessary measures in advance. No matter what, we have to hold on until rescue arrives."

As the mother and daughter were hugging each other, they heard a noise coming from the balcony across the street.

"Excuse me, I live next door. I'm really sorry, but I want to know if you have any stomach medicine? My colleague has a stomach problem and is feeling very uncomfortable now."

After hearing the voice, Meimei subconsciously protected Ye Mei behind her, and then she saw a man in a suit looking at her anxiously on another balcony about three or four meters away.

"This is the resident of the next room. I've seen him. He came here from another province for inspection." Ye Mei has a good memory. She also worked in a large company before the apocalypse. If it weren't for the saturation of employment in the base company after the apocalypse, and if most of the jobs were not chosen by young people, people over 40 would have no choice but to think about working in an office. So Ye Mei could only find a job as a hotel cleaner in the end.

"Listen to what they are going to do first, don't be impatient." Ye Mei saw that the other party did not seem to have any bad intentions, so she spoke softly to her daughter.

Although Meimei did not show a look of disgust, she did not let down her guard. Instead, she asked, "So? What do you want to do?"

"I have no ill intentions. I just saw that there are still people here and they haven't mutated yet, so I wanted to ask if you have any stomach medicine."

"Stomach medicine? No, I'm not a doctor. But are you sure your colleague just has stomach problems? Could it be a precursor to mutation?" Meimei looked at the other person warily.

The young man immediately answered confidently, "It's definitely not a mutation. We weren't injured before the quarantine, and we didn't drink the water and food sent by the hotel. Unless it was airborne, it's impossible to mutate. Secondly, it's been 24 hours since the quarantine, and I've observed that people in the next door rooms have already started to mutate, which means that the mutation time of those who weren't bitten is basically the same. With this idea in mind, I planned to go out to the balcony to observe the next door, but I didn't expect you to really show up."

Meimei and Ye Mei looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

They didn't expect that the other party was so meticulous and immediately figured out that the mutation had nothing to do with airborne transmission.

"Meimei, I remember there is a medical kit in this room. It's on my cleaning cart. Since the other party hasn't mutated, give it to them. At least we can't just stand by and watch them die." Ye Mei said and turned to leave. Meimei didn't even have time to stop her.

Fortunately, there was no danger in the end. In less than two minutes, Ye Mei returned to the bedroom from the living room, closed the room again, and there was indeed a medicine box in her hand.