Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

"That exit isn't that easy to get to," Zhang Zhan said with a wry smile. "The supermarket is where the zombies are most concentrated. The danger level there is definitely the highest. Moreover, there's a mutant lurking in the supermarket."

(ps: I originally wanted to arrange a wave of benefits in this situation, but later deleted it because I always felt that putting benefits here would ruin the atmosphere and the character setting)

Chapter 61 Teachers and Students

Wang Manyi covered her mouth and sneezed, startling Zhou Wanmeng who was standing next to her.

Zhou Wanmeng looked at the other person and thought that she was indeed a woman who had been a celebrity. Even a sneeze could be so elegant.

"Do you have a cold?" she asked with pretended concern. Although she didn't like this woman, they were partners at the moment, and Zhou Wanmeng didn't want Wang Manyi to have any health problems.

"Maybe someone is saying bad things about me behind my back." Wang Manyi didn't care at all. She had a faint smile on her face, but she was flipping through a fashion magazine that she found from somewhere. "Anyway, there are so many people who miss me and hate me."

Zhou Wanmeng agreed with this statement in her heart. Having seen this woman's methods, she knew that those who hated her were as afraid of her as they hated her.

Not long ago, Wang Manyi asked Zhou Wanmeng to call those people. The moment they saw Wang Manyi, the fear hidden in their eyes could not be hidden. However, what surprised the girl was that while those people showed fear, they also showed another completely opposite emotion - a sense of security.

Although it is not known what means Wang Manyi used, it is obvious that her previous attempt to sideline Sun Baishi was not in vain. This woman really dug out a team of her own.

With the help of these people and with the guidance of Wang Manyi, this poor girl who had never even been a squad leader actually began to look a bit like "Supervisor Zhou".

——Although she knew that she was just Wang Manyi’s puppet now.

Zhou Wanmeng walked out of the room and took a look at the scene downstairs. The originally crowded first floor seemed a little empty. The survivors were driven into the rooms on the first floor and imprisoned. Only the managers patrolling back and forth were left in the hall. Zhou Wanmeng looked at these people and felt as if he was looking at a group of ferocious sheepdogs.

Just a few minutes ago, she followed the instructions from Sun Baishi and escorted more than a dozen survivors to the West District. After taking full control of this place, Sun Baishi no longer concealed his purpose and used these people to conduct experiments openly. The method of selecting the sacrifice was proposed by Wang Manyi, who asked the survivors locked in each room to choose a sacrifice themselves. As long as one person died, the others could escape this time and wait safely for the next experiment.

Cruel but effective, it takes full advantage of the selfishness in human nature.

Looking at the compartments below, the girl couldn't help but think of the experimental subjects that were brought into the West District by the men in black, and she couldn't help but feel as if her hands were stained with blood.

She looked at her clean hands, wiped them vigorously on her clothes, and then returned to the gorgeous office that now belonged to her.

"I used to think that it was a bit crowded to accommodate so many people on one floor, but now it looks so empty that it's scary."

"I've seen a saying before that if all the people in the world were put into cans, Australia alone would be enough to hold billions of people in the world." Wang Manyi, who was hiding in the room, turned a page without taking her eyes off the page. "With the current management model, even if there are twice as many survivors, they can still fit in."

"It feels like a slave ship in the triangular trade," Zhou Wanmeng was still just a girl after all, so she still had some sympathy in her heart. "This feeling makes me very uncomfortable. I am not treated as a human being anymore..."

Wang Manyi suddenly raised her head, rolled up the magazine in her hand, and tapped Zhou Wanmeng on the head. She was like a teacher, teaching the young girl in front of her: "Put away your pity. Pity is the privilege of the strong. Think about your own experience. How can you have pity for others? Pity yourself first!"

Wang Manyi has experienced much more than Zhou Wanmeng. The darkness she has seen, experienced, and endured is far beyond what a young student can compare to.

"Remember your current situation and what kind of world we live in now. Don't treat them as human beings, and don't treat yourself as a human being either." Wang Manyi's speech was neither fast nor fierce. She seemed to want to engrave these thoughts into the young girl's heart with every word. "After the collapse of order, we have turned back into wild beasts in the wilderness. Our only choices are to eat or be eaten. There is only one thing left to do, and that is to save our lives!"

"So little girl, put away your worthless sympathy. You have to learn to look at others and yourself in a different way."

Zhou Wanmeng bit her lip and whispered, "I understand...Teacher."

Wang Manyi raised her eyebrows slightly, a little surprised by the title, but she didn't feel it was bad, so she didn't deny it.

"Then how should I view them? What should I regard them as?" Zhou Wanmeng asked, already in the attitude of a student humbly seeking advice.

"Chess pieces, tools, steps, toys, whatever you want." Wang Manyi replied softly, "But just don't treat them as the same kind."

"Then, am I also your chess piece?" Zhou Wanmeng stared straight into Wang Manyi's eyes and asked very directly.

The fox-like woman raised the corner of her mouth slightly: "What do you think?"

Zhou Wanmeng nodded slightly, already understanding what the other party meant.

"Since you call me 'teacher', let me remind you of one thing." Unlike the understatement just now, this time, Wang Manyi's tone was more serious, "Don't fall in love with anyone. Love will turn you back into an ordinary woman. You will get hurt and suffer."

Wang Manyi pointed at her chest heavily: "This will become our biggest weakness."

Hearing this, Zhou Wanmeng smiled brightly, a little sad and a little pitiful: "Teacher, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing. Do you think it's possible for me to fall in love with someone after going through that kind of thing?"

Wang Manyi saw the flame of hatred in the girl's eyes, and the woman knew that the girl had indeed lost the ability to love. Hatred is the strongest emotion, it will burn everything, and when the great revenge is taken, all that is left for her is the emptiness of ash.

"That's great." Wang Manyi looked at the girl in front of her, as if she was seeing her past self.

"What should we do next?" Zhou Wanmeng asked, "Continue to be the devil's accomplice?"

Wang Manyi waved her finger: "Of course not. Next, you have to secretly show kindness to the survivors and turn them from livestock into humans again. You have to be their savior and save the survivors from this hell..."

At this moment, their "class" was interrupted by a subordinate who came in a hurry.

He carefully entered the room carrying a woven bag, and immediately said to Wang Manyi respectfully, "Boss, I have something to report to you."

Wang Manyi raised her finger and pointed at Zhou Wanmeng: "She is the supervisor now, don't confuse the priorities."

"Oh, I understand," the subordinate quickly said to Zhou Wanmeng, "Manager Zhou, I have something urgent to report to you."

Zhou Wanmeng was still a little unaccustomed to this address. She glanced at Wang Manyi, pretending to be as dignified as possible, and asked, "What's going on?"

"Our men were attacked by several monsters while on patrol outside. When we heard the noise and rushed over, two of our brothers had been bitten to death and their bodies had been dragged away." The subordinate said, opening the woven bag in his hand. "I was quick and killed one of the monsters with my men. This is the body of the monster."

He threw the contents of the sack onto the ground.

After seeing clearly what it was, Wang Manyi looked puzzled, and Zhou Wanmeng turned pale.

It was a blood-red rat about the size of a medium-sized dog.

(ps: The three plot lines are advancing at the same time, which feels a bit difficult to grasp... The next chapter is about the heroines...)

Chapter 62 Hunting

Just as the personnel patrolling outside the shelter were attacked by blood rats, Ruan Mengmeng, who was on a construction building not far away, was holding a telescope and seeing clearly what was happening.

"Just as Sister Su Xin said, these ghosts were led here." The girl muttered to herself and stretched out a little tiredly. "After waiting for so long, I finally saw some useful images."

She held up the telescope, stuffed a piece of potato chips into her mouth, and took a big gulp of Coke - the girls who occupied a small supermarket at least had plenty of supplies, which could even be considered a luxury in the apocalypse.

Ruan Mengmeng saw the entire attack process clearly from her position. At the beginning, a patrolling guard walked to a corner alone, apparently to relieve the water. When he walked to the corner, he was suddenly attacked by a blood rat that jumped out from the blind spot and was bitten on the throat. His screams attracted his companions, and soon the second person rushed over, but there were more than one blood rat.

When the companion was about to rescue the man, another ten or so blood rats rushed up from behind and attacked the man, quickly biting him to a bloody mess.

Ruan Mengmeng even felt that these monsters seemed to be intelligent. They seemed to deliberately let the first person make a noise to set a trap and then attack the second person who came to rescue. However, the second person struggled hard and made a lot of noise before falling down, and soon more guards were attracted.

Ruan Mengmeng discovered that the size of these blood rats was obviously much larger than when she met them at school. She just didn't know what the even more weird and terrifying "Queen" looked like now.

When the blood rats saw more people approaching, they immediately dragged the two corpses away, leaving several blood rats entangled with the guards. During the struggle, one blood rat was killed and the rest fled.

"What are these monsters going to do by moving the corpses?" Ruan Mengmeng was a little surprised. Her eyes followed the direction in which the blood rats left. From her position, she could see that after leaving the shelter, these blood rats chose to avoid the group of corpses and carried the corpses quickly to a certain location, just like ants carrying food.

The blood rats gradually disappeared from Ruan Mengmeng's telescope's field of view, and the girl suddenly discovered something unusual: why those two corpses...didn't turn into zombies?

Ruan Mengmeng already knew that if a normal person died, the virus in the body would take over the body, causing it to turn into a zombie. This change usually happens in a very short time. But from the time the two were bitten to death by the blood rats until they disappeared from Ruan Mengmeng's sight, there was no sign of a zombie transformation. Moreover, the blood rats would deliberately avoid the zombie group...

"So... those two people are not dead yet? They just lost consciousness temporarily?" Ruan Mengmeng is not stupid, she is just too lazy to think. "Why would those dead rats catch living people?"

The girl thought for a moment and felt that she had no clue for the time being. Seeing that it was almost time, she decided to go back to the supermarket for the time being.

Just as Ruan Mengmeng was thinking in her heart, the girl's expression suddenly froze, and a strong sense of crisis exploded behind her. Without even turning her head, with a sound like a dragon's roar, the long blade in her hand came out of the sheath, and she turned around and slashed in the air!

A bloody rat the size of a medium-sized dog was instantly cut into two pieces in mid-air!

The body of the bloody rat fell at the girl's feet. She slowly stood up, wiped the blood off the knife, and faced the shadow behind her alone with an expressionless face.

In those shadows, pairs of small red eyes looked eerily like scarlet lights lit in the dark night.

Ruan Mengmeng grinned, revealing a smile as sharp as a knife: "Wow, it's been a while since I last saw you ugly things, you have changed a lot."

In the shadows, huge blood rats emerged one after another. There were about seven or eight of them in total. They had surrounded Ruan Mengmeng and completely blocked the girl's way to leave.

"You guys don't think I'm as useless as those useless people down there, do you? How dare you set your sights on me?" In the face of the crisis, the girl looked relaxed and even stretched herself lazily. "Well, well, I haven't had any proper exercise for a long time, so I can use you guys to... warm up!"

As soon as the words fell, the figures of both parties moved almost at the same time. Ruan Mengmeng, holding a long knife in her hand, rushed towards the rat group. Her body was as agile as a dragon, her eyes were fanatical, and she had no fear at all.

The positions of the prey and the hunter have been switched at this moment.

……

By the time Ruan Mengmeng returned to the supermarket, it had already darkened.

The girls in the supermarket were all guarding the intercom, no one spoke, and the atmosphere was a bit solemn.

Ruan Mengmeng immediately understood the current situation. She looked at the time and found that the contact time agreed upon with Xiao Ge had passed.

Ruan Mengmeng's mood suddenly became very heavy.

"Mengmeng, why are you back so late? Did something happen?" Chu Yan asked softly. Her voice was a little hoarse, probably because she hadn't spoken for a long time.

"Well, something happened," Ruan Mengmeng shook her head. "I'll talk about my affairs later. Did Brother Xiao really not contact me?"

Chu Yan shook her head.

Although they had been mentally prepared, the loss of communication still cast a shadow over the girls' hearts.

Chu Yan bit her lips unconsciously, her cherry-colored lips turning white from what she had bitten. Although An Suxin had no expression on her face, she could not hide the worry in her eyes no matter what.

"Brother Xiao...didn't contact me..." Su Muhe whispered, "Do you think he just forgot..."

She didn't even believe what she said, and her voice became smaller and smaller.

"First of all, calm down." An Suxin said. She took a deep breath and glanced at the girls in front of her. "There's no need to panic now. Aren't we preparing for this kind of thing?"

Her voice was calm, temporarily calming the anxiety of the other people.

Chu Yan rubbed her face vigorously and said through gritted teeth: "You are right, panicking won't solve anything. What needs to be done has been determined, and now we must act."

She looked at Ruan Mengmeng: "Mengmeng, have you found out anything?"

"The situation over there is quite troublesome."

Ruan Mengmeng told Chu Yan and the others what she had seen for most of the day, especially the attack on the guards by the blood rats. When they heard that Ruan Mengmeng had also been attacked by the blood rats, they all showed worried expressions.

"…Those things were no match for me. I killed more than half of them, and one was injured and ran away. It's a pity that I couldn't catch up with it, otherwise I would have wiped out that group of dead rats." Ruan Mengmeng said it easily, but everyone else knew that this battle was also extremely thrilling.

Ruan Mengmeng herself had to admit that if there were two or three more blood rats, she would probably have to consider how to escape.

"We can't go into the shelter for now, so let's start from outside the shelter and muddy the water first." An Suxin said, "Mengmeng, forget it tonight, it's too dangerous, you should find a way to find the location of the 'Queen' tomorrow. Since the blood rats have appeared nearby, the queen should also be somewhere near the shelter. Those blood rats carrying living people are likely to provide food for the queen. Maybe we can make use of that monster."

Ruan Mengmeng nodded and agreed.

(ps: If you like Miss Ruan’s squeak, please)

Chapter 63: Thirst for Blood

"Xiao Yan, what's wrong with you?"

Su Muhe's worried voice woke Chu Yan from her thoughts.

"You look so scary..."

Chu Yan was stunned for a moment, and looked at herself in the mirror, only to see that her face in the mirror was abnormally pale. She was originally a delicate beauty, but at this moment her brows were slightly furrowed, and there seemed to be a scarlet color in her eyes, which vaguely revealed a bit of inhuman beauty.

"I... I'm fine." Chu Yan said in a low voice. She thought she might just be a little tired.

"You should go and have a rest." Su Muhe said, "If Brother Xiao comes back, he will be sad to see you exhausted."

There was no need to force it at this time, Chu Yan nodded and prepared to go back to her room to sleep for a while. But as soon as she stood up, she felt dizzy and almost lost her balance. Fortunately, Ruan Mengmeng was quick and reached out to support Chu Yan in time. Su Muhe was so scared that she screamed.

"Sister Yan?" Ruan Mengmeng was very worried, because Chu Yan's skin was so cold when she leaned against her. The temperature in the room was not low, but Ruan Mengmeng felt like she was holding a piece of ice.

This is never normal!

"It's okay, I just need to rest for a while." Chu Yan said in a low voice, gently pushing Ruan Mengmeng away, indicating that she was fine.

After saying that, Chu Yan walked into the room alone, then closed the door, leaving her two best friends looking at each other in bewilderment.

Chu Yan fell on the bed in the room, curled up into a ball. She panted softly, gritted her teeth as if she was suppressing something, and a trace of sweat oozed from her fair forehead.

She didn't actually feel that uncomfortable, but she suddenly felt very...thirsty.

There was a bottle of mineral water that had just been opened on the bedside. The girl crawled over, unscrewed the cap, and poured the water into her mouth. However, the water did not quench her thirst at all. Instead, it was like adding fuel to the fire, making the thirst in her throat even worse, as if there was a fire burning in her throat.

The girl couldn't hold it in, so she lay on the edge of the bed and vomited out all the water she had just drunk.

She turned over with difficulty and lay on her back on the bed, breathing heavily. The girl's face became paler and paler, and she held the edge of the bed tightly with both hands. Without realizing it, her fingers actually left deep marks on the hard wooden board.