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

Chen Xia carefully walked around the woman. The woman was holding some food in her hand, mostly packaged bread and fruits, but she was still coughing violently.

I don’t know if it was Chen Xia’s illusion, but he always felt that the woman was whiter than before in the elevator. But not the kind of white with a good complexion, but a creepy pale white. And when he looked closely, he seemed to be able to see the protruding gray-green blood vessels from under her neck.

Normally, only the blood vessels on the back of a person's hands are obvious. The blood vessels in the neck and other parts of the body will not be exposed unless they are squeezed externally. However, Chen Xia clearly saw the obvious traces of blood vessels under the woman's neck.

The most terrifying thing is that there is something slowly swimming beneath its veins.

The woman suddenly twitched, not a tremor, but a sudden twitch without any warning, her neck tilted to one side, and then her fingers curled up.

This scene made a certain image flash through Chen Xia's mind.

Many years ago, he traveled to Country H with his friends, and happened to catch the release of a zombie movie "Train to Busan". The movements of the zombies in the movie in the early stages of mutation were not exactly the same as those of the woman in front of him, but they were about 70% similar.

However, the woman quickly regained her senses. She looked at Chen Xia with frightened eyes, then immediately took a few steps back. Finally, she got into the elevator carrying the things in her hands. She almost bumped into a waiter on the way, but she still apologized to the other party before leaving.

She is still rational and can speak, which means she is not a zombie.

Chen Xia's originally nervous heart tensed up again, and finally comforted himself that it must be an illusion caused by watching too many movies.

How could there be zombies? If humans were going to mutate in the early days of the apocalypse, they would have done so long ago. It is impossible that zombies have only just broken out now.

Chen Xia smiled and then entered the cafeteria.

It is noon time now, so there are still many people eating in the restaurant. However, the dishes are not as many as during dinner time, and only part of the dim sum and meat dishes are displayed. Even so, there are still dozens of buffet dishes in total.

You cannot take away the buffet food, but there is a small convenience store inside the buffet restaurant where you can pay for anything you want. You use the card number issued by the hotel when you stay, and each person can pay for unlimited items every day.

The hotel is not worried about losing money because the food in the convenience store consists of small snacks, compressed biscuits, dried meat, mineral water, beverages and other convenient foods. Most of the people who can afford to stay at the Diamond Hotel have a certain status in the base or are elites. They usually have very high material living conditions and are relatively arrogant. They don't even think highly of the things in convenience stores.

Of course, there are occasionally people like Chen Xia who are sent by the company to attend seminars or go on business trips and will make some purchases in convenience stores, but most of the things in convenience stores are purchased from supply and marketing cooperatives or local farmers' markets, and they are not very valuable things in themselves. Even if you carry a big bag, you will only get a few hundred points.

Originally, convenience stores were managed by a waiter. Although people could take whatever they wanted, most people would feel embarrassed to take so much under the "enthusiastic" gaze of the waiter.

But the waiter was not there at the moment, so Chen Xia started the "take, take, take" mode, and threw almost everything he wanted to eat or that was easy to preserve into his bag.

Although Chen Xia was buying snacks, he actually took some small bagged breads, compressed biscuits and some canned desserts. He even bought out all the sausages and chocolate bars.

In less than ten minutes, the suitcase he brought from the room was full.

The things he picked can be preserved for a long time in the apocalypse. For example, the bagged bread has a shelf life of about nine months, the compressed biscuits can be stored for two years, and the canned biscuits can be stored even longer.

He didn't take many drinks, but asked the front desk to send a box of mineral water to the room where he and Tan Xin were staying before going upstairs.

After explaining everything to the front desk, Chen Xia immediately returned to the ninth floor.

However, as soon as he got out of the elevator, he found several people in hotel work clothes blocking the door of Room 902. There was a lot of noise inside and he didn't know what was going on.

Just as Chen Xia was watching the fun, someone suddenly pulled his elbow. He turned around and saw that it was Tan Xin with a serious face.

"Oh my god, you scared me to death, what happened in there?" Chen Xia breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was his friend, but then he became curious about the situation in the room. After all, Tan Xin had been standing in the corridor and should know the whole story.

"Go back first, I'll talk to you when we get back." Tan Xin said seriously.

Originally Chen Xia wanted to continue asking, but seeing the anxiety in Tan Xin's eyes, he nodded.

The two had just turned around and walked back when they heard a wailing sound coming from room 902, and then a hotel room attendant ran out, covering his arm.

Blood could be seen oozing from the place where he was covering his arm, and this scene immediately reminded people of the "rabies" incident that occurred downstairs yesterday.

Tan Xin's whole body suddenly froze, and then she immediately pulled Chen Xia forward.

"Hey, wait, wait, why are you in such a hurry? You can stay and see what's going on."

Chen Xia is the type who loves to watch the fun. When he saw him running out, he had to go up and take a look.

In fact, it was not only Chen Xia who thought so. Many people around him also thought so. After all, eating melons is deeply ingrained in the Chinese people's bones, and they like to get together when there is something exciting.

But Chen Xia soon realized why Tan Xin was so anxious to pull him back to the room.

Because just as they were running forward, another man rushed out from room 902. There were a lot of blood stains on his face and body, and his eyes had obviously turned blood red. When he saw the resident in front who was watching the fun, he immediately pounced on him.

The man was caught off guard and thrown to the ground. He felt a heart-wrenching pain in his shoulder. It turned out that the mad man was biting his shoulder.

"Help, ah, help!" the man screamed in fear and tried to push the man away with his hands.

But the mad man had amazing strength, his bloodshot eyes looked like they were soaked in blood, and blood was flowing from the corners of his mouth.

The people nearby immediately rushed forward to pull the man away, but unexpectedly this instead stimulated the man. The man instantly changed his target and pounced on another person.

Everyone was stunned by the scene before them, because this time the man started biting the carotid artery on the man's neck after knocking him down. One could even clearly see a piece of flesh and skin being torn off the man on the ground.

It was not until Chen Xia was dragged back to the room by Tan Xin that he saw Tan Xin walk to the living room without saying a word and pour herself a glass of water. Then he turned his head and whispered, "I'm afraid this is not rabies or influenza, it's a mutation!"

Chen Xia knew that with Tan Xin's personality, it was unlikely that she would say these words without thinking. Thinking of Tan Xin's previous strange behavior, he paced back and forth with his hands on his hips. Suddenly, the strange appearance of the woman in the elevator popped into his mind for some reason.

So Chen Xia quickly asked: "Are there any characteristics or manifestations of this mutation in the early stage? For example, fever or cold, or coughing and shaking uncontrollably?"

There are quite a few people with fever and cold these days, so it is not surprising that Chen Xia could guess this. However, the last word "malaria" made Tan Xin's heart skip a beat. She looked at him sharply, "How do you know they will suddenly have malaria? But malaria is not in the early stage, it should be in the middle stage."

Chen Xia gritted his teeth and told the story of meeting the woman in the elevator, so Tan Xin nodded grimly: "It is very likely that she is infected."

Chen Xia scratched his head in annoyance: "The infected will mutate into zombies? The kind we just saw in the corridor?"

"That kind of thing hasn't mutated completely. If it hasn't mutated at all, two or three people may not be able to suppress it." Tan Xin sat on the sofa, but his thoughts drifted to the laboratory where he had stayed a long time ago.

At that time, the apocalypse had just broken out, and Tan Xin was working in a private research institute in Y City. The boss of the institute was a blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigner, but the strange thing was that this foreigner could speak fluent Chinese and even had a good understanding of the culture of China.

At that time, Tan Xin was working as an assistant to a well-known professor at the research institute to conduct a biological experiment. The professor was a top figure in this field and had published many books and research reports on biological genetics even before the end of the world.

Originally thought to be just an ordinary experiment on the mutation process of mutant organisms, but unexpectedly, the ultimate goal of this foreigner was to create mutant humans with the physique of mutant animals, and called it the greatest scientific research achievement at the end of the 21st century.

Later, the professor and Tan Xin could not stand the institution's anti-human experiments, and they were unable to harm humans, so they finally escaped with the professor one night. However, they unexpectedly encountered extreme cold on the way, and finally died in the forest on an extremely cold night.

Later, Tan Xin came to the Jiangcheng base and finally joined this biological company, but he never mentioned anything about the past, because he had seen too many cruel methods in that organization. Anyone who went against the ideas of the organization, or the foreigner named Mr. Smith, would not have a good ending.

When he and the professor were escaping, there were people chasing them. If they had not accidentally entered the big forest in the north, the people from that organization would not have given up.

They must have thought that there was no way they could get out of the northern forest alive, or even survive the extreme cold of the apocalypse.

Chen Xia didn't expect that Tan Xin had such a past, so he quickly asked, "What organization is that?"

"Illuminati" Tan Xin's eyes darkened and his tone became unusually heavy.

Chen Xia was also shocked at this time. He was not unfamiliar with this name. He had been pushed to the forefront of public opinion on the forum before and had caused quite a stir in the base, but in the end he was able to disappear perfectly, and even no clues about the organization could be found until now.

Tan Xin bit her lip, and suddenly raised her head and stood up: "No, we can't stay in the hotel any longer, we have to leave here immediately."