Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

Besides, his mind is on other things right now.

The Dean's office had already been searched in the three places Su Muhe mentioned where her parents might be found, and the remaining places were the inpatient ward and the laboratory. If they were in the ward and had survived yesterday's chaos, then there was a high probability that they had gathered in the safe zone.

But... there is a high possibility that the mysterious gunman is there.

The woman in front of him clearly had some small thoughts in mind. Just as An Suxin said, one must be careful of the malicious intentions of the living. However, at this time, she still had to rely on herself to survive. Unless she didn't want to live anymore, she would not trip herself up.

"Okay, you lead the way." Chu Xiao put away Dean Su's work diary, and there was no warmth in his voice.

Zhao Huanxi was very dissatisfied with Chu Xiao's attitude, and even hated him - even though the man in front of her saved her life. She had always been worshipped as a goddess by a large group of licking dogs, and she had never met such a cold man, but she knew that now was not the time to turn against him. The road to the safe zone was not peaceful, and she still needed to rely on the man in front of her.

"Damn you, stinky man. I wonder how long you can keep pretending." The woman said secretly. She was very confident in her appearance, so after suffering a Waterloo with Chu Xiao, she became more persistent. "When we are safe, I will make you crazy and squeeze all your money out. Then I will kick you out! You will beg me in pain! Even if you are gay, I will straighten you out before kicking you out!"

Unlike the previous escape downstairs in the company, they took the medical passage in the building, which required a medical staff badge to enter. Although Zhao Huanxi's authority was not high, she was still a formal nurse in the hospital.

Because it is relatively separated from the regular passages and the flow of people is much smaller, the zombies they have to face are not dense.

This time Chu Xiao had enough experience to deal with zombies. A lone zombie was not a threat at all. Only when there were more than two zombies would Chu Xiao choose to bypass them. Moreover, from the scattered zombie corpses with headshots they saw along the way, it seemed that someone had already cleared out a wave of zombies here in advance.

Chu Xiao smashed the head of a lone zombie with a baseball bat, then pointed at the zombie that had fallen to the ground and asked, "Did you see these corpses when you came up here?"

Zhao Huanxi shook her head. If she had encountered such disgusting things when she came up, how could she have survived? Many of the corpses were those who had chased her up.

...However, this sharp-eyed woman still noticed the wounds on the heads of these corpses.

...gunshot wound?

Zhao Huanxi didn't dare to say much, and followed Chu Xiao to the safe area downstairs.

With an insider leading the way, Chu Xiao did avoid a lot of detours, but in order to avoid the zombies, he still wandered around for several times before arriving at a closed fire door.

Chu Xiao noticed that there was a camera above the door aimed at them. The people inside should have known that someone had arrived at the door.

Soon, a voice came from the other side of the fire door: "Zhao Huanxi, why are you back again? You are not welcome here!"

Zhao Huanxi's face looked a little ugly. She lowered her voice and begged, "Doctor Zhou, please, I'm begging you. I'll die if I stay outside any longer. I already know I was wrong... I... I had no choice... I was scared too, I really didn't want to die... When I came to my senses, I had already done something so terrible... I... I regret it too..."

Seeing no reaction from the other side of the door, she quickly pulled Chu Xiao in front of the camera, pointed at him and said, "Look, I already know my mistake, and I saved an innocent person. If I hadn't led the way for him, he might have died in the zombie swarm."

Chu Xiao glanced at Zhao Huanxi and did not expose her lies. He was not interested in what Zhao Huanxi had done, and did not want to get involved in the things going on in the hospital.

"Young man, was it Zhao Huanxi who saved you?" the voice behind the door asked Chu Xiao.

Chu Xiao did not answer his question directly: "My friends and I need a safe place to stay. They are also trapped in the hospital. Some of them are injured and need treatment. One of them is your Dean Su's daughter, Su Muhe."

There was a sound of something falling over behind the door, and the middle-aged man's voice became uncontrollably hurried: "Are you talking about Su Su? You are with Su Su!"

If Zhao Huanxi had not just mentioned that the doctor across the door was a doctor named Zhou, Chu Xiao would have thought that he had finally found Dean Su because of his anxiety.

"Where's the evidence? How do you prove that you and Su Su are together?"

"Of course I can prove it, but can you let me in first?" Chu Xiao said, "It's too dangerous to stay outside. I don't know when zombies will come."

The person inside hesitated for a moment. After a while, there was a sound of something being moved from inside the door. Then, a crack appeared in the security door, revealing the tired face of a middle-aged man: "Come in!"

Chu Xiao quickly slipped into the door.

The middle-aged man was about to close the door again, but Zhao Huanxi saw the opportunity and rushed over, holding the door tightly: "Doctor Zhou, let me in!"

"Let go!" Doctor Zhou growled, "I told you, you are not welcome here!"

"No way! You're driving me away because you want me dead!" Zhao Huanxi stopped pretending and said viciously, "At worst, we'll all die together. The zombies are coming soon anyway! If you don't let me in, don't even think about closing the door!"

Zombies had already appeared in Dr. Zhou's field of vision not far away. They noticed Zhao Huanxi and were speeding towards the gate of the safe zone.

"Damn it! Come in!" Helplessly, Dr. Zhou turned sideways to let Zhao Huanxi pass quickly, and then quickly closed the door before the zombies arrived.

Chapter 36 Message

This safe area should be a temporary conversion of the former inpatient ward. Using the inpatient department's access control system, the main door was blocked and a temporarily safe space was isolated within the ward.

There were probably dozens of people inside, including doctors and nurses from the hospital, as well as patients and their families.

After he came in, someone immediately stepped forward and carefully checked Chu Xiao for any wounds on his body. After confirming that he was not injured by the zombies, they let down their guard and let Chu Xiao leave - it was even stricter than the security check at the airport.

The middle-aged doctor who opened the door came in front of Chu Xiao.

"If you hadn't mentioned Susu, we would have decided not to let anyone in," Doctor Zhou said to Chu Xiao, "We don't have enough food here, and there are still some surviving patients who need treatment. Since we don't know when rescue will come, we can only stop accepting survivors."

Dr. Zhou spoke very seriously, his voice was a little cold, without a trace of emotion, as if his refusal to accept new survivors was an unforgivable sin.

However, when Chu Xiao saw the patients lying on the beds, he felt that a doctor who did not forget to treat patients at such a time could not be considered a bad person in any way.

"Well, you said you were with Su Su, so I let you in," Dr. Zhou stared at Chu Xiao with bloodshot eyes, "Where is the evidence you mentioned?"

Chu Xiao took out his cell phone and dialed An Suxin's number.

"What's wrong?"

"I have arrived at the safe zone set up by the survivors in the hospital. The person in charge here wants to talk to Su Su."

An Suxin didn't say anything. There was a sound of footsteps on the other end of the phone, and then Su Muhe's gentle voice came from the receiver: "Brother Xiao, are you looking for me?"

The girl's voice was filled with fatigue and sleepiness that could not be concealed. She must have been woken up by An Suxin when she was taking a nap.

"Su Su, there's someone here you might know. He wants to talk to you." As he spoke, Chu Xiao turned his phone to hands-free mode and handed it to Dr. Zhou.

"Hello, who are you?" asked Su Muhe on the other end of the phone.

Hearing Su Muhe's voice, Dr. Zhou's expression relaxed a lot: "Su Su, it's me."

"Ah, Uncle Zhou! That's great, you're still alive." Su Muhe's voice suddenly brightened up, and she asked anxiously, "Uncle Zhou, where are my parents? Are they with you?"

This question was also what Chu Xiao was most concerned about at the moment. He immediately looked at Dr. Zhou and waited for his answer.

"President Su and the others are not here. I don't know where they are."

"Ah, how could it be... Doesn't Dad normally stay in the ward?" Su Muhe's voice trembled, and he obviously had a very bad association.

"Don't worry. Although I don't know where they are, I think they must be safe now, at least much safer than us." Doctor Zhou said quickly, "Yesterday, about an hour before the disaster broke out, a helicopter flew over and took the couple away."

Not only was Su Muhe on the other end of the phone stunned, Chu Xiao's expression also turned very ugly.

——If Professor Su and his wife were not in the hospital, then why did he risk his life and take so many risks?

He had originally decided to come to Qinghe Hospital just to give it a try, and only for a vague possibility. But after seeing Professor Su's work log, he had a real hope in his heart - the couple who had started researching the "virus" half a month ago and had achieved certain results could definitely save Chu Yan. But now he was told that he had been in vain from the beginning, and Professor Su and his wife were no longer in the hospital. The hope that he had finally ignited slipped away from his hands...

How could he accept this!

"What should I do? I have people here who need their treatment!" Su Muhe didn't even have time to feel happy about getting the news from his parents, he immediately became anxious.

"What's going on? Tell me in detail." Doctor Zhou noticed that Chu Xiao was acting strange, and guessed that the person who needed treatment might be an important person to the young man in front of him. "Maybe I can help."

Dr. Zhou is the vice president of Qinghe Hospital and a senior expert. He has close ties with Professor Su's family.

On the phone, Su Muhe quickly told Dr. Zhou about Chu Yan's condition and also told him his series of treatment methods.

When Dr. Zhou heard that the patient was scratched by a zombie, his face suddenly changed and he kept scolding Su Muhe for "making trouble". However, after hearing Su Muhe's treatment method, which did have some effect, his brows furrowed tightly and he seemed to be in deep thought.

"Susu, listen, I won't bother you for practicing medicine without a license for now." Doctor Zhou said, "You should give the patient a broad-spectrum antiviral drug right now, interferon or ribavirin or something, it should be able to have some effect."

There is a reason why Dr. Zhou said this.

During this day or so, he naturally came into contact with the survivors who were injured by zombies. As a doctor, he immediately tried to treat the injured. Although the results were all failures, he also found that the use of antiviral drugs could delay the time for the injured to transform into zombies to a certain extent, which was better than nothing.

To be honest, Dr. Zhou was quite shocked when he heard An Suxin say that the girl held out for more than ten hours after being scratched before her condition started to deteriorate. The injured person he met who was scratched, with the help of various drugs, held out for about half a day before he failed. The little girl broke his record without any medication.

"What an amazing girl." Dr. Zhou couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Dr. Zhou, who has been practicing medicine for decades, certainly knows that often when a patient is knocked down by an injury or illness, the first thing that collapses is the willpower. Once the willpower collapses, the body will naturally collapse. Regardless of the difference in the degree of wound exposure, in terms of willpower alone, the little girl is probably far better than the other injured people he treated.

"...Doctor Zhou, is there any solution?" Chu Xiao's face was filled with dejection. The blows he had suffered throughout the day had really exhausted him mentally and physically.

"The truth is, I have no way." Doctor Zhou's announcement almost sentenced Chu Xiao to death, but the next moment, he said, "But it's not completely hopeless."

"What method?" Su Muhe and Chu Xiao on the phone asked at the same time.

Doctor Zhou looked around and did not directly tell Chu Xiao what to do. Instead, he took Chu Xiao to an empty room in the safe zone.

"You may already know about this. Lao Su and his wife have been researching a mysterious 'virus' these days. It is very likely that this is the virus that caused the disaster." Doctor Zhou lowered his voice. "I heard Lao Su mention that there was finally a breakthrough in the research. It is very likely that they have developed a specific medicine. Yesterday, before Lao Su and his wife were taken away by the helicopter, they went to the laboratory to get a metal box. I asked him what was inside, but he didn't tell me. However, he asked me to tell Su Su a message when I see her."

"My dad has something to say to me?" Su Muhe on the phone was a little excited.

"Well, he asked me to tell you that your mother left a gift for you in the laboratory. You should use it well."

Chapter 37 Threat

The biochemical laboratory located in the annex building next to the main building of the hospital does not actually belong to the hospital, but is a private laboratory entirely belonging to Professor Su and his wife.

Thanks to investment from friends, this laboratory has the most advanced security facilities in the country, and no one has ever entered it except the Su couple.

"But...but I don't have the password to the door of that laboratory..." The door of that laboratory cannot be cracked by brute force. Su Muhe's mother told her that the laboratory did not have RPG-level firepower, so there was no way to break the door open.

"The password to that laboratory is a biological password. Only your parents or their immediate family members can open the door." Dr. Zhou said, "You don't need a password at all. In other words, you are the password."

At this moment, Chu Xiao suddenly realized something and looked towards the door: "Who!"

I saw a black shadow flash by the small glass window on the ward door, so fast that it almost made people doubt whether it was an illusion.

Chu Xiao quickly ran to the door and opened it. There was no one in front of him, but Chu Xiao was sure that there must have been someone eavesdropping on their conversation at the door.

Chu Xiao couldn't help but think of the mysterious gunman who might have sneaked into this safe zone.

If that person's target is also Professor Su's experimental results, then his next target is most likely that laboratory.

Chu Xiao looked at the survivors in the safe zone, his eyes gradually sank...the dangerous gunman was probably lurking among these people.

"What's wrong? Is someone eavesdropping?" Dr. Zhou frowned and walked to the door.

"Doctor Zhou, how many people have entered the safe zone since Zhao Huanxi was rejected for the first time?" Chu Xiao remembered that when Zhao Huanxi fled upstairs, he did not see the zombies with bullets in their heads. This means that at least at that time, the gunman did not enter the safe zone. Under this premise, the gunman may be among the refugees who entered the safe zone during this time period.

When the safety zone was first established, there were only about ten people, including Dr. Zhou. Later, they made a hospital-wide broadcast, and people gradually came to join them. Zhao Huanxi was one of the first few to arrive at the safety zone. Most of them were latecomers, who arrived after Zhao Huanxi. There were dozens of people in total.

After hearing what Dr. Zhou said, Chu Xiao felt helpless. He had no way of judging who the mysterious gunman was from among dozens of people.

—Should we look for them one by one? But how can we find him? He might even have a gun in his hand...wait...

Chu Xiao asked Dr. Zhou, "Does everyone who comes in have to be examined?"

"Of course. If someone bitten by a zombie sneaks in, this safe zone will be doomed." Doctor Zhou nodded. "I've already told them to be more thorough than the airport security check."

"Did you find anything strange? Like... a pistol."

Doctor Zhou's face changed, and he immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. He looked at the refugees with caution and said, "Young man, what do you know?"

After talking to Su Muhe on the phone, a preliminary relationship of trust was established between Dr. Zhou and Chu Xiao.

So Chu Xiao told Dr. Zhou everything he had seen, including some of his and An Suxin's inferences.

"No wonder the surveillance cameras on that floor are all broken. I thought there was something wrong with the wiring," Doctor Zhou sighed, a little regretful. "It's a pity for Shuonian. He is an excellent student and should have a better future. I am very careful when checking people at the entrance. After all, it is related to everyone's safety, so of course we will not be careless. I have never seen anything like a pistol before."

Chu Xiao thought: Could it be that they had run out of bullets and just threw them somewhere randomly? Or was it really just him being too suspicious and the gunman had never entered this safe zone at all?

"But it's really strange. The couple's research has always been kept secret. I only found out about their achievements yesterday. Why did a gunman come to our door by chance? It's rare to find someone who can produce firearms in this country."

There are too many doubts, and a gunman wandering around somewhere unknown is like a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.

The two were about to discuss the next arrangements when a little girl dressed as a nurse ran over in a hurry: "Doctor Zhou, come quickly, there's a fight over there!"

Upon hearing this, Dr. Zhou immediately walked towards the scene of the commotion and asked the nurse who notified her, "What's going on?"

The young nurse walked in front and led the way: "It's Doctor Chen and Zhao Huanxi. Doctor Chen is holding a scalpel and wants to kill Zhao Huanxi, but he is being stopped by everyone!"

Doctor Zhou immediately understood and quickened his pace, cursing, "Nonsense! That kid has no idea of ​​the seriousness of the matter! Is this the time to start a riot?"

It's not like he couldn't understand Dr. Chen's actions. Dr. Chen's name was Chen Qingzhu, a young doctor. He had a girlfriend who he loved very much, a nurse in the hospital named Sun Muqing. Both of them had decided to get married next month.

However, last night, Chen Qingzhu saw with his own eyes in the surveillance video that Zhao Huanxi pushed Sun Muqing into the zombie group.

A young man burst into tears while watching the surveillance video and tried madly to rush out of the gate of the safe zone, but was stopped by Dr. Zhou.

This was also an important reason why Dr. Zhou refused Zhao Huanxi to enter the safe zone. Look now, something unexpected has happened.

Chu Xiao followed him. He didn't care about Zhao Huanxi's safety at all. The woman's life or death had nothing to do with him. He planned to take this opportunity to observe the refugees in the safe zone to see if he could find the dangerous guy.

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