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

Just as Gu Tongwan was trying to find a way to reunite with Bai Lu, the situation at 917 was not optimistic.

Living in room 917 are two men in their twenties, and they are also the tenants who borrowed stomach medicine from Ye Mei before.

The man lying on the bed staring blankly at the ceiling was called Chen Xia, and the other man sitting on the floor leaning against the bed was called Tan Xin.

The two people worked in the same biological company. They were not only colleagues but also roommates. Because they were both single and had no relatives in the apocalypse, and because they had similar interests, the two young people quickly became close friends and even rented a 30-square-meter two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment near the company.

Chen Xia is from the business department and Tan Xin is from the technical department. The two of them entered the Diamond Hotel this time because a three-day biological forum exchange meeting will be held here a few days ago. At that time, not only the base but also various small and medium-sized biological enterprises from other provinces will participate in the exchange meeting, and there will also be special experts attending the exchange meeting to conduct academic research.

The biological company where Chen Xia works is a medium-sized one. It has been trying to develop into a large enterprise in the past two years, so it needs a large number of technical talents. The reason for sending two people this time is that Chen Xia, who is excellent in business, is suitable for dealing with other companies, while Tan Xin has some academic research and can have more academic discussions with researchers from other companies if there is an opportunity.

At first, they were very happy to come to the Diamond Hotel on a business trip. Although they were both at the base, their current income could only be considered a middle-class living standard at the base. Although they had no worries about food, clothing and accommodation on weekdays, it was still a bit difficult for them to stay at the Diamond Hotel at any time, which required several thousand points for a night. After all, the price of one night was equivalent to half a year's salary for an ordinary person.

Moreover, during the three-day stay, in addition to the seminars every morning, you can enjoy five-star services in the hotel in the remaining half day, including free buffets, swimming pools, gyms, private cinemas and even leisure and entertainment clubs. There are all kinds of activities inside. Even if you don’t want to exercise, you can sleep and massage in the sauna room. This is much more comfortable than staying in the rental house when you are not at work. Therefore, the competition for business trip quotas among various departments was very fierce.

I had been in the Diamond Hotel for two days and could return to work as normal after the last day. But who knew that something would happen on this day.

Chen Xia and Tan Xin have been trapped here for more than thirty-six hours. From the beginning when the hotel began to isolate the first batch of suspected rabies patients, the two vaguely realized that something was wrong.

Because the rabies outbreak occurred in the afternoon, the first person who was attacked made a lot of noise, and almost all the residents on the ninth floor heard the screams of the bitten person.

To be precise, the first person to fall ill was a male waiter in the hotel who was responsible for carrying luggage for customers and running errands and other related services.

It is said that the waiter had shown some redness and heat symptoms since the morning, but because it was not serious, he just thought it was a common cold.

When he was delivering a charger to a resident of Room 903, he suddenly trembled all over and then fainted on the ground. When the resident realized something was wrong and wanted to check, he was unexpectedly bitten on the arm by the man with such force that he almost bit off a whole piece of flesh. The scene scared a lot of people.

The bitten people were immediately sent to the health center, but on the same morning, many residents began to show symptoms of fever and cold.

But Tan Xin went out for a while and when she came back she was carrying two bags, which were full of snacks.

Chen Xia was wondering why this guy had been out for so long, and it turned out to be just to get free snacks? He even laughed and said that maybe he wanted to take home some free food on the last day.

"There are people with colds and fevers on several floors now. I feel that something is wrong. In case it is a flu outbreak, we should stock up on food in advance."

"What's there to be afraid of? Can the hotel just ignore our food and drink? Besides, we're leaving tomorrow and this flu won't affect us." Although he had experienced the end of the world, Chen Xia still believed that this was just an ordinary flu.

After all, Tan Xin is a researcher. Before the apocalypse, he worked as a researcher in a foreign biological research institute. Later, he encountered the apocalypse when he returned to China to visit his relatives. In the early days of the apocalypse, Tan Xin lost his grandmother who raised him, and then lost some other close relatives. After the earthquake, he completely lost contact with his relatives. It took him a while to get out of the haze of the apocalypse, and then he joined his current company with his excellent professional skills.

Unlike Tan Xin, Chen Xia's family background was not good. He dropped out of school and worked in society at an early age. He was very smooth in dealing with people, but fortunately, he was not a bad person by nature, so he accumulated a certain amount of connections and was introduced by acquaintances to enter the company.

Tan Xin was not angry at the joke of her colleague and friend. Instead, she explained, "I think we should be more careful. When I came up from the elevator just now, I saw that the people from the health center had taken the bitten person away. I saw that the wound of the bitten person was festering. It stands to reason that the wound of a rabies patient is unlikely to fester. I suspect that this may not be rabies."

Chen Xia also became interested at this time, so he asked, "If it's not rabies, what else could it be?"

"Maybe... it's a new type of virus that controls the human central nervous system. Once the brain is infected by the virus, the person will lose all ability to think and act, and eventually make some irrational behaviors, or even become irritable and start attacking other people indiscriminately." Tan Xin frowned and put forward his guess.

Chen Xia knew that Tan Xin would not make these speculations without any purpose. He was a true scientific researcher who would raise questions and speculate on related possibilities as soon as he encountered a problem.

Therefore, the smile on Chen Xia's face gradually faded. He glanced at the things in the bag, which were some biscuits, chocolate bars, and some drinks.

Seeing Chen Xia turn around and start putting on his shoes, Tan Xin was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly asked: "Where are you going to put on your shoes?"

"I remember there's a self-service convenience store over there in the sauna room. I'll go see what to eat. What you have here are just snacks. They won't fill you up at all."

After putting on his shoes and standing up, Chen Xia smiled and said, "I'll listen to you. We should prepare for a rainy day. We can't think that there is no danger now that the apocalypse is stable. People still need to have a sense of crisis."

Just before Chen Xia was about to leave, Tan Xin called out to him, "Hey, wait a minute."

I only saw Tan Xin taking something out of the suitcase and handing it over.

Chen Xia discovered that it was a mask and a bottle of spray.

"Wait, I can understand the mask, but what is this?" Chen Xia shook the liquid in the bottle, confused.

"The anti-wolf spray is effective against humans and some mutant animals. We can't carry dangerous items with us in the hotel, so let's take this with us for now. It can be used to deal with any situation."

Chen Xia frowned when he heard this. He didn't expect that Tan Xin would bring these items with her when she went out.

"This is a product developed by our team. In fact, it was originally designed to interfere with small mutant beasts, but I personally use it as an anti-wolf spray. You can take it with you. You'd better be more careful in the apocalypse."

"Okay, then I'll take it." Chen Xia nodded and did not reject Tan Xin's kindness. After all, he had seen many evil hearts in the end times and understood that Chen Xia's worries were not groundless.

When Chen Xia passed by room 905, he heard violent coughing through the door, and room 906 happened to open the door at this moment. A woman with red eyes, pale skin and a haggard face appeared at the door.

Chen Xia subconsciously felt that something was wrong, so he hurried to the elevator before the woman spoke, but he didn't expect that the woman followed him into the elevator.

Fortunately, when we reached the sixth floor, several people came into the elevator one after another, talking and laughing, and didn't notice anything strange about the woman at all.

The woman's cough attracted a lot of people's attention. She seemed to be coughing out all her internal organs. Her face became unusually red and she did not look very well. Her eyelids drooped and there was no spirit in her eyes.

Seeing this, the others couldn't help but retreat a little to other directions. Perhaps it was because of the epidemic in previous years, and everyone was still afraid of contact in enclosed places. Coupled with the strangeness of women, they just felt that they should have as little contact with women as possible.

Perhaps noticing the strange looks from others, the woman stopped at the leisure area on the third floor.

As soon as the woman left, someone started to whisper behind her, "This woman looks sick, she coughs so badly, I hope she doesn't infect others."

"Didn't they say that many people have the flu recently? This morning I saw someone from the health center going up to the seventh floor?"

"I heard it was rabies, but I don't know if it's true or not. Let's just be careful."

"What are you afraid of? I think it's just a common fever and cold. The health center was hired by the hotel. A five-star hotel should have this kind of service awareness." The other man smiled indifferently.

Chen Xia ignored these people and stepped out of the elevator immediately after arriving. He went to the first floor first. He remembered that there was a self-service beverage machine on the first floor. It contained a lot of multifunctional beverages. Regardless of whether what Tan Xin said was true or not, these things could be consumed in the rental house later. In addition, it was too late to worry about face issues. The self-service beverage machine only required the input of the universal card given when checking in at the hotel. Each person's card was different. After inputting, the card could be used to swipe at any entertainment venue to use equipment or eat for free.

It is said that this equipment was imported from abroad and was based on a certain self-service hotel.

After Chen Xia entered the card number, the self-service beverage machine quickly dispensed several bottles of drinks.

Although it is free, the quantity is limited. Each person is only allowed to take a maximum of three bottles of drinks per day.

After getting the drink, Chen Xia went to the front desk to inquire about today's situation. In fact, his main purpose was to understand the current situation of the hotel and to confirm the time of the lecture tomorrow morning.

However, Chen Xia had just entered the elevator with a drink in his hand, intending to go to the buffet restaurant on the third floor. As a result, as soon as the elevator reached the third floor, he saw the woman who had coughed before outside the restaurant door. At this time, the woman's face became paler and her body was shaking abnormally.