Luo Yuan was woken up by the noise outside. He grabbed the handle of his knife and opened his eyes after a while. He carefully moved Wang Shishi and Huang Jiahui's arms and legs away, but his movement had woken them up.
"What's wrong?" Huang Jiahui asked cautiously as she took out her gun.
"Nothing! You guys go back to sleep, I'll go take a look, "Luo Yuan said as he unzipped the tent and walked out.
…
It was a mess outside, but everyone was trying their best to keep their voices down.
"You guys want us to eat this?"
"How can we be full with such thin porridge? I think we can see our own shadows in it. "
"Get your boss here! I don't believe you guys don't have enough food for us. I think you guys are looking down on our Boss Luo!"
"Brothers, don't be agitated. Everyone, please be considerate. We do have some food, but we can't eat it all at once. We don't know when we'll be able to leave this place. We can't just eat everything we can and wait to starve to death, right?" A middle-aged man smiled bitterly and kept explaining.
Everyone's anger subsided a little. Thinking about the situation they were in, and not knowing when they would be able to leave this place, most of them gave up on the idea of having more food.
"Say … say … say … say …" The middle-aged man was about to continue when he saw Luo Yuan walking towards him with an expressionless face. His face froze and the words stuck in his throat, unable to continue.
"Boss Luo!"
"Boss Luo, you're awake. I'm so sorry to have woken you up," the middle-aged man said with a smile and a bow.
Luo Yuan remembered that this man was one of Su Jianhao's people. He was experienced and eloquent, so he could easily deal with these people. Obviously, he was not an easy person to deal with.
Luo Yuan frowned as he looked at the big iron pot in front of him. The porridge was so thin that he could almost see the bottom of the pot. There was a plate of salted vegetables next to it, but there was not much of it either. Luo Yuan picked up the spoon, stirred it a few times, and put it down again.
The middle-aged man's name was Huang Zhongchan. He looked at Luo Yuan and noticed that he was frowning. Huang Zhongchan was worried that he might have been possessed. How could he have habitually thought of embezzling this murderous devil's food? His forehead started to sweat as he thought of Luo Yuan's methods. Although Luo Yuan looked calm, who knew if he would suddenly kill someone? If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have followed them. However, it was too late for regrets now.
Luo Yuan raised his head and looked at Huang Zhongchan. The man suddenly shivered, his face turning pale and his body wobbling. He forced a stiff smile on his face, and before Luo Yuan could say anything, he quickly said, "I … I'll bring the porridge back and get some rice."
Luo Yuan looked at him in surprise. He had not expected that the man he had killed the day before would leave such a deep impression on them. He just wanted to scare them so that they would not cause any trouble. He nodded and said, "Then hurry up."
Huang Zhongchan was relieved. He did not even dare to wipe the sweat off his face. He quickly asked his two subordinates to carry the iron pot and run away in a hurry, as if they were leaving a dangerous place.
…..
After a small interlude, the meal was quickly delivered. This time, it was more sumptuous. Of course, it was only relatively speaking. Not to mention before the apocalypse, even if it was just a day ago in the villa, it was still far from being comparable.
Luo Yuan did not eat with the people outside. Instead, he took the food and walked into the corridor.
Huang Jiahui and Wang Shishi had already woken up. They took turns washing their faces and brushing their teeth with a small basin of water.
"How many bottles of mineral water are there in the bag?" Luo Yuan asked. They had lost all their luggage during the escape last night, but their backpack was still on their back. However, the backpack was too small to carry much.
"I just counted five bottles and a few compressed biscuits. The rest are gold bars and food stamps, but I'm afraid they can't be used here, "Huang Jiahui said.
"Throw away the food stamps, they're useless. Don't touch the water or the hardtacks for now. Save them for an emergency. " Luo Yuan frowned. He could feel the ground shaking slightly, and he looked worried. "We can't stay here for long. We have to leave soon."
"Brother Luo, why? It's very safe here. The air-raid shelter is very strong, so no mutated beasts can come in, "Wang Shishi said anxiously. She had thought that they would be able to settle down here, but they would have to leave after just one night.
"Do we really have to leave?" Huang Jiahui was much calmer, perhaps because she had been through a lot.
Luo Yuan nodded solemnly. "This is not an underground base after all, so we don't have any supplies. The most important thing is that we don't have enough food. Most people only have some leftover food with them. It's fine for three to five days, but I'm afraid there will be trouble if we stay here for too long. I've never starved, but I can imagine what a group of starving people would do. Should we leave after resting for a few days? "
Huang Jiahui's heart skipped a beat. She recalled all kinds of cold descriptions of famines in ancient times, as if she could foresee the tragic scene that would happen soon. Her face turned pale. "Where are we going?"
"Let's go back to the villa first. There's enough food and supplies there to last us for a year, maybe even longer. By then, the mutated beasts would have run out of food and would have retreated," Luo Yuan said uncertainly.
Wang Shishi's stomach churned as she listened to Luo Yuan describe the mutated beasts' food in a calm tone. She retched a few times and her face turned pale.
Huang Jiahui felt suffocated when she thought that most of the people here would die. After a while, she asked softly, "Are they all going to die?"
Luo Yuan knew what Huang Jiahui was thinking. He sighed and said, "Compared to the people outside the dugout, the people here are considered lucky. At least it's peaceful for a while. If there were only three or four people, I would have saved them, but there are too many people here. I took a quick look last night and estimated that there are more than a thousand of them, and they are all ordinary people. Even if we give them all the food in the villa, how long can it last? Don't think too much. Let's eat first. "
Luo Yuan picked up his bowl and suddenly lost his appetite. He could not eat anymore after a few mouthfuls. He felt an inexplicable sense of guilt.
However, he knew that this kind of guilt could kill people. Even if he risked his life to go out and hunt mutated beasts every day, he would not be able to feed so many people. The poor only cared about themselves, while the rich helped the world. When the time comes, I'll see how it goes. If they want to follow me, I'll save as many as I can.
Luo Yuan thought to himself.
…..
The next day, some of the people who came with Luo Yuan started to vomit and have diarrhea. Their skin had red spots. Some of them even had a high fever and were unconscious. In the afternoon, even Huang Jiahui started to feel tired and weak.
At first, they thought they had an acute infectious disease. The whole dugout was in a panic. There was a lack of medicine during the apocalypse. Once an infectious disease was contracted, it would be fatal. Moreover, no one knew if the infectious disease had mutated or not. Without the antidote, death was certain.
Soon, a young man who came with them reminded them that it was the side effect of the nuclear radiation.
He was a doctor, but unfortunately, there was a lack of medicine and there was nothing he could do. He only asked Luo Yuan to prepare some salt water for everyone to swallow.
Luo Yuan was not a doctor, but he had studied science in university. The iodized salt contained potassium iodide, which could only prevent the radioactive iodine from entering the thyroid gland. It could not prevent other types of radiation, including nuclear radiation. However, they had no choice but to try.
A few hours after taking the salt water, Huang Jiahui recovered naturally. He was not sure if it was because of the iodized salt or because of her physical fitness. On the second day, the three people with the most severe cases died, but on the third day, everyone started to recover. The doctor kept calling it a miracle.
Luo Yuan knew very well that although humans did not evolve as drastically as animals during the apocalypse, their physique was significantly stronger than before because of the food they ate. Some light or moderate radiation was no longer fatal to the human body.
Luo Yuan and Wang Shishi did not even have the slightest reaction due to their physical fitness.
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