Xiao Fan followed Xu Qiang onto the elevator to the 7th floor of the inpatient building, then the two of them climbed a metal ladder embedded into the exterior wall of the building from the window.
From here they could directly access the rooftop, which was originally a maintenance passageway.
After getting to the roof, they climbed onto the roof of the ventilation shaft, which was the highest point of the hospital.
Then Xu Qiang handed Xiao Fan a telescope, which was part of his scout's equipment.
"Commander, take a look down there."
Xiao Fan took the telescope and started observing carefully.
He couldn't help but gasp at what he saw!
Previously from the ward window he had only seen a smaller street, completely jammed with traffic.
At that time he thought the main streets would be better, surely there would be other routes in such a big city.
But at this first glance, Xiao Fan was dumbfounded.
In all directions, every street was the same, completely littered with abandoned vehicles, and there were countless zombies densely moving back and forth between the vehicles, wandering around on instinct looking for anything they could eat.
The whole city looked like a battlefield that had just ended fighting, with thick smoke everywhere, and under the overcast clouds the atmosphere seemed even more gloomy and oppressive.
Collapsed buildings, zombies howling, as far as the eye could see there was endless despair.
In this situation, leaving the city normally with Xiao Fan's current forces would be nearly impossible.
With a population of over 100 million, even tens or hundreds of thousands of zombies roaming the streets would be nothing surprising for a city this size, let alone groups of hundreds or thousands, which could be seen everywhere.
No wonder there was no rescue, how could anyone rescue this?
Xiao Fan felt anxious, but as he surveyed the area he happened to notice a brighter patch to the west of the city that seemed relatively calm.
"That must be Bao River," Xu Qiang responded immediately. "Yes Commander, that's Bao River, it flows from the northwest through Shenhai City into the ocean."
Xiao Fan nodded and looked again at the river.
He had a vague idea, but it wasn't fully formed yet, and there were still some key points he couldn't get around.
If they couldn't get out of the city smoothly, given his current situation even with the Red Alert system it would be extremely difficult to survive in the city.
But how to get out?
With heavy thoughts he returned to the cafeteria, also somewhat at a loss.
Outside the window the wind started blowing at that time, gust after gust of cool wind reminding that this summer was cooler than previous years.
Perhaps without factory emissions and car exhaust the weather itself was starting to change.
After a while, a heavy rain began to fall.
Xiao Fan lay down on the bed in his private room, soon falling into a dazed sleep.
He didn't know how much later, but a loud thunderclap suddenly jolted him awake.
Looking at the time, it was already midnight.
Outside the window was pitch black, only the pouring rain could be heard pelting down.
Xiao Fan had too much on his mind to fall back asleep, so he got up and opened the system to see if any supply boxes had refreshed.
He needed gold and silver, but these sorts of things weren't easy to come by. To say there were places with gold and silver in the city, there were basically only two: national big banks with gold reserve vaults, and jewelry shops.
But both places were deep in dangerous zombie-infested city centers, certain death with his current abilities if he tried going there.
Only once his forces grew stronger, with a powerful troop under him, could he consider attacking the city center to seize gold and silver.
In day to day life he could only collect gold and silver from ordinary zombie bodies or rural residences in the outskirts.
So supply boxes were good things now, he had to seize any he found.
But opening the system he was disappointed, there were no refreshed supply boxes detected within 100 meters. Looked like spawns were completely random, not on-demand.
Just as he was about to close the system in disappointment, Xiao Fan suddenly paused.
"Hm... feels like something is off!"
Xiao Fan carefully examined the radar screen for anomalies. After a while he noticed the issue.
Previously all the red dots on the radar representing zombies were moving. Normally zombies wouldn't stand motionless in one spot, even indoors they would wander around. Outdoor zombies even more so, thus the radar dots were always shifting.
But now, while dots inside the hospital building were still moving, the outdoor zombie dots were completely stationary.
"What's going on here? Could all the zombies be affected by a paralysis spell or something?" Xiao Fan wondered to himself.
Just then another thunderclap sounded outside the window, and Xiao Fan was suddenly struck with realization!
"That's it, it's the rain!"
"That must be why. Although mutated, zombies still rely primarily on three things to hunt prey - sight, hearing, and smell."
"The rain has blurred their eyes, but without much intellect they don't know to wipe them clean, so they can't see."
"The sound of rain from all directions has muffled their hearing, so they can't make out distinct sounds and thus don't move."
"The rain washing over them has also covered their sense of smell, so they can't detect scents. Blind, deaf and unable to smell anything, of course they'd stand motionless like statues!"
"So if we want to escape the city, now is the best chance!"
With no weather reports available, Xiao Fan didn't know how long this rain would last. As soon as it stopped the outdoor zombies would surely regain mobility, and by then even if they wanted to go it'd be impossible.
Time waits for no one, they had to take action immediately.
Xiao Fan leapt out of bed and promptly issued commands to the system.
"Annie, notify everyone to get cars from the parking garage right away and load up the prepared food, we leave now!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
