Chapter 15

When the virus comes, the normal order disappears and subverts, replaced by chaos, barbarism, killing and death. The unprepared survivors are at a loss. The water and electricity for the survival of civilized society are interrupted overnight. Hesitation and fear make people lose hope. With the passage of time, food, medicine and safety have become the most concerned topics of survivors.

Cheng Chen said decadent, "I can still eat these things now, as if I were dreaming. Now there is not much food at home. Every meal needs to be quantified. I don't know how many days I can eat, and I don't know if I can get food in the future.".

Lu Ziming didn't know what Cheng Chen was thinking and didn't give much advice: "life must go on. Even for children, we must live strong.".

"You're right! Not only for children, but also for yourself, big living people can't be suffocated by urine."

Cheng Chen gives Lu Ziming a place to go to bed. Lu Ziming looks at Cheng Qianwan and carefully eats the biscuit: "it doesn't matter. Eat it quickly. After eating, my brother still has it." the relationship is a little messy. What to call doesn't mean anything.

"Isn't brother leaving tomorrow? If you leave, there will be no cookies. I'll keep them and eat them slowly." Cheng Qianwan carefully hid several cookies in his pocket.

Lu Ziming rubbed his wet eyes and felt an impulse to cry. Tamar's forced the children who didn't grow up into this. Is God blind? Tamar really shouldn't live like this.

Lu Ziming poured all the food in his mountaineering bag onto the sofa: "don't worry, brother, there are a lot here. If it's not enough, brother will get it again and eat it quickly".

Cheng Qianwan picked up a piece of chocolate and said, "this is my mother's favorite chocolate. Dad, can I give it to my mother?"

"Yes!" Cheng Chen hugged his daughter and was touched by her daughter with tears: "mom is sleeping. Wan'er is good. Don't wake her up. Mom knows you have this filial piety and will wake up in your dream...", Cheng Chen has choked and can't speak.

Cheng Qianwan's words reminded Lu Ziming of his parents. He clearly remembered the day when his parents left the mountain village and went out to work. The sky was very blue without a cloud. It had just rained in the valley. He stood at the entrance of the village and looked at the background of his parents' departure. He kicked the living expenses left by his parents in his pocket: 523 yuan, That's all the money my parents have except the fare. From that day on, I never saw my parents again. Since then, I silently told myself in my heart: I must live strong.

Cheng Chen went to the balcony and stood side by side with Lu Ziming: "the child doesn't know that his mother has become a zombie. I'm afraid she can't accept it, so I've been hiding her. Now I don't know what to tell her in the future.".

"Do you have a cigarette? I want to smoke one."

Cheng Chen hesitated and handed Lu Ziming a cigarette. He lit one and said, "it's not good to smoke. Her mother used to let me quit smoking, but I can't quit. Her mother always complains. The family's economy is not rich, and children need money to go to school. I haven't even bought her a good dress. Am I a jerk...".

"Now no one wants me to quit smoking, but I'm always nagging in my heart. I seem to lack something... I don't have much ability. I can only do car repair. My monthly salary is only more than 2000 points. I always feel guilty if I can't take good care of their mother and daughter... I know how to cherish when I lose it. I'm willing to do anything for Wan'er. I just hope to let Wan'er have a carefree life My childhood... "

"I don't know what happened outside. People in the building said it was a virus outbreak. Damn the virus, why didn't the child and her mother survive?" Cheng Chen cried in a low voice for fear of disturbing Cheng Qianwan: "I want to leave this ghost place, but I don't know where I can get there. In a few days, there will be no food at home. I really don't know what to do..." 。

This is a sad man, a small husband and a father with true feelings. They also have dreams and hopes. They don't ask much, but they are deprived of their last hope.

The 16th floor is really high. You can see stars all over the sky when you look up. It seems that you can catch one with your hand. Standing on the balcony on the 16th floor, overlooking the whole city, once a city with brilliant lights like the Milky way, this moment seems to have entered a dormant state. In a trance, you can vaguely hear the scream in the distance, just like a ghost floating over the city.

"Leave here and go to the countryside. I'll find a house in the countryside. It's safer than here. If you want, I'll take you."

"Suburban safety!"

"It's safer there than here." Lu Ziming can't guarantee anything. There are zombies everywhere, so nowhere is absolutely safe. "There, you can laugh and cry. There are a lot of farmland around. You can grow some food. Food and clothing should not be a problem.".

Cheng Chen looked back at Cheng Qianwan who was playing in the room. Finally, he made up his mind and said, "OK, I believe you. I'll go with you tomorrow!"

"No hurry, I have something to do. I have to find No. 51 Huxi road first."

"I... No. 51 West Lake Road is right there," Cheng Chen said, pointing to a dark shadow downstairs. "It's a transformer substation of the power supply bureau. There should be no one in it. What are you doing there?".

"Transformer station", Lu Ziming muttered in his heart, is Huo Yihang cheating himself or making a mistake.

Lu Ziming laughed and said, "a friend dragged me on one thing. I'll go inside and have a look.".

"Go inside. What's good there?" Cheng Chen didn't understand. "In the past, you couldn't get in there at all. There was a power grid outside. Now the situation inside is not clear. It shouldn't be better than there. You'd better not go.".

"You must go and have a look at the entrusted and loyal things". Since you have come, how can you not go?, Even if there is nothing, Lu Ziming can't lose anything.

Lu Ziming doesn't understand that this is a substation of the power supply bureau. Why does Huo Yihang say it's an arsenal? Is there a secret in it.

······In the morning, the noise of dawn did not come from the city. The city lost its laughter, the greetings of morning exercisers, the whistle of cars, the Hawker's Hawking, the abuse of urban management... We could no longer hear the sound of reading. Everything was so quiet, as if the whole city still didn't wake up.

Breakfast is a bowl of porridge, a piece of tofu and a few biscuits. These are the best breakfast Cheng Chen can prepare.

Lu Ziming stood on the balcony and looked into the distance with Cheng Qianwan's Toy Telescope. 400 meters below him was No. 51 Huxi road. As Cheng Chen said, it looked like a substation of a power supply bureau. The substation covers an area of about one mu and is surrounded by a fence with a power grid. A monitoring probe is also installed on the fence. A two-story building is particularly ordinary, and no one can be seen walking inside.

"Is Huo Yihang lying? What good is lying to Huo Yihang!"

Lu Ziming wondered why Huo Yihang lied. Didn't he need a motive to lie? What good is lying to him? Doesn't Huo Yihang want to leave the Royal No. 1 club? A series of problems appear in Lu Ziming's mind.

To be exact, the substation is a small quadrangle surrounded by high-rise reinforced concrete buildings. In the urban residential area with an inch of land and an inch of gold, it seems so eye-catching, which is completely unlike the behavior of the land and Resources Bureau sitting in the eyes of money.

"Master Cheng, how long has this substation been in existence?"

Cheng Chen found Lu Ziming very strange and said he was looking for someone in the substation. As a result, he stood on the balcony for a long time and asked a lot of inexplicable questions, as if he were investigating something?

"I don't know. The surrounding community existed before it was built. It should have existed for a long time."

"Have you seen anyone in the substation before?"

"No attention!" who has nothing to do to pay attention to a substation? There is no one. Cheng Chen doesn't understand. Lu Ziming asks what to do.

"Do those cars at the gate of the substation often park there?"

"Car?" Cheng Chen stretched his head and looked at the substation: "there is no parking at the door of the substation. These vehicles should be parked there after the outbreak of the virus".

Lu Ziming smiled: "Master Cheng, I'm going out. Pack up your belongings. We can leave here as soon as this evening.".

The questions have been asked. Cheng Chen really doesn't know much. The substation should be the cover of the arsenal. The Arsenal should have existed for a long time. In order not to attract the attention of residents, it was artificially disguised as the current substation.

Soon, Lu Ziming's figure appeared under the fence of the substation. The fence is not high and should not stop him. What I hate is the power grid and monitoring probe on the fence. I don't know if it's still useful.

After walking around the fence, I came to the outside of the back wall of the substation. Looking around, I found that the back wall of the substation is close to the underground garage of the community. Next to the circular slope of the garage, there is an unrecognized corpse sitting in a pink "Bentley" sports car. The meat of the upper body was eaten away by the zombie, and the spine support revealed that it did not fall from the body, The ragged bra was hung on the ribs in front of the chest, and a beautiful hair dyed purple covered the face. The door was half open. A long leg full of blood had stretched out of the car. The Milky high-heeled shoes were stained with blood, but the seat belt was not untied. It could be forgotten in panic. It can be concluded that the car driver is a beautiful woman.

"Excuse me, miss, can I borrow your arm?"

"If you don't answer, it means you agree. There's no loss for you. Anyway, you can't use it now." Lu Ziming evil pulled an arm from the body, walked to the bottom of the substation wall, and threw his arm into the power grid on the wall.

The power grid did not respond, "try again", or did not respond. There was no imagined electric shock. It can be concluded that there was no standby power supply in the substation. Even if there was, it should be consumed in the past few days, which is consistent with my own judgment.