Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

"What's going on outside?"

Liu Ruyan asked as she sat up.

Because she had just woken up, Liu Ruyan's voice was still a bit hoarse.

Zhang Yuan shook his head. "I don't know either. But judging from the sound, it should be that someone has come back. I'll go and have a look."

With that, Zhang Yuan stood up and walked towards the door.

Just as Zhang Yuan reached the door and hadn't had time to open it yet, someone knocked on the door.

Hearing this noise, Liu Ruyan moved even faster. She got out of the sleeping bag and quickly walked towards the door.

At this time, Zhang Yuan had already opened the door of the room.

"How many people are there in your room? Let us go in and rest."

The person outside was speaking very quickly, and his tone was very tough and brooked no doubt.

However, Zhang Yuan, who was standing at the door, didn't move. "No."

"Why not? This isn't your room. This is a place for everyone. Why can you go in but we can't?

Some of us are injured. There are too many people and it's too noisy in the lobby. We really can't have a good rest there..."

"Then you can go and find another room. This place is big, and there are many empty rooms."

"It's already pitch-dark outside now, and it's so cold. If we go to find another room and then have to make a fire, after all that trouble, the injured people might even lose their lives."

Zhang Yuan asked coldly in reply, "What does it have to do with me?"

"How can you say that? We all came from the base. As partners, shouldn't we help each other?"

"Who's your partner?" Zhang Yuan's voice turned cold. "Just because we all came from the base only means that we took the same road. Apart from that, we have nothing to do with each other."

"So you've made up your mind not to let us in? Then don't blame me for being rude."

The man outside said this and directly punched Zhang Yuan in the face.

However, just as his fist was halfway in the air, it was firmly grasped by Zhang Yuan and couldn't move an inch.

Zhang Yuan was standing lazily. With a slight exertion of his hand, he pushed the man out.

The man staggered back and bumped into the people behind him, causing several screams.

"With just this little ability, you still want to be rude to me?"

Zhang Yuan sneered. "While I'm still in a relatively good mood, you'd better disappear from my sight quickly, or—"

Zhang Yuan didn't say the rest of the words, but the people standing outside felt a chill rising on their backs.

It was even colder than the biting cold wind and icy snowflakes.

The group of people hurriedly turned around and left. In the end, they still went to the lobby.

After watching them enter the lobby, Zhang Yuan withdrew his gaze.

Just as he turned around, Zhang Yuan saw Liu Ruyan standing behind him.

"It's still early. You'd better go back and continue sleeping." Zhang Yuan said gently.

However, Liu Ruyan shook her head. "The group of people just now were injured, and there was a strong smell of blood on them."

Hearing Liu Ruyan's words, Zhang Yuan's expression gradually became serious.

Although he didn't ask how those people were injured, he thought that they should have been injured while fighting with wild animals.

It was lucky that they could run back, but they brought disaster to the holiday villa.

Were those wild animals really letting them go because they were lucky or capable, or was it that the animals were playing a long game?

If it was really the latter, the wisdom of these animals couldn't be underestimated.

Just thinking about it made one's scalp tingle.

However, this situation couldn't be ignored.

In case it was true, tonight was bound to be eventful.

Zhang Yuan's tone became serious. "You stay here. I'll go find Captain Kong."

"Okay."

Watching Zhang Yuan leave in a hurry, Liu Ruyan put away the sleeping bag and put it in her backpack.

Liu Ruyan checked the time. She hadn't slept for long, just a little over an hour.

However, she was indeed in much better spirits than before.

Liu Ruyan looked at the burning fire and then thought of a problem.

When she was sleeping just now, she always felt that the temperature around her had risen a lot and it was very warm.

But after waking up for a while, she clearly felt that the temperature in the room was a bit lower than before.

Could it be that the sleeping bag was really good at keeping warm?

Before Liu Ruyan could figure it out, Zhang Yuan had already walked back quickly.

"I've told Captain Kong about our speculation. He said he would ask people to be more vigilant."

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan nodded noncommittally.

It was already the best they could do to remind Captain Kong.

If Captain Kong didn't take it seriously and finally there was some irreparable loss, it had nothing to do with the two of them.

Neither of them spoke again. They just leaned on their backpacks and rested with their eyes closed.

Time passed bit by bit. In the room, there were only the popping sounds of the firewood burning and the gentle breathing sounds of the two of them.

After about an hour, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Before the apocalypse, nightlife had just begun at this time.

But now, it was already the time for many people to go to sleep.

In fact, quite a lot of people had already fallen into a deep sleep.

However, Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan were still waiting. Neither of them felt sleepy at all.

One could sleep forever after death. It was better to be more vigilant when alive.

Just after nine o'clock, Liu Ruyan heard some noise outside again.

It was the sound of heavy objects stepping on the snow. The sound wasn't loud, but because there were many and it was complex, Liu Ruyan could hear it.

Liu Ruyan looked at Zhang Yuan and saw that Zhang Yuan was also looking at her.

The two of them exchanged a glance and nodded at the same time. They quietly picked up their weapons, got up, and walked towards the window.

Windows made of wood couldn't be closed tightly.

Looking out through the gaps, they could see that there were many black figures in the yard at this time.

These black figures were gradually approaching the lobby, showing a tendency to surround it.

Even though this scene was within Liu Ruyan's expectation.

When she saw this scene, Liu Ruyan's heart still sank.

After such a long time, these animals had just surrounded them. Did it mean that they had been waiting outside all along and were going to launch an attack when it was late at night and everyone was asleep?

Only by taking the enemy by surprise could one win.

Although it was known that animals had the ability to hunt, which was their natural instinct.

It was still shocking.

Originally, there were constant natural disasters, and it was already very difficult for people to survive.

Now that the animals were so smart and fed on humans, wasn't people's living environment becoming even more difficult?

The speed of the animals in the yard wasn't very fast, but given the distance, it didn't take them long to approach the lobby.

Just then, the windows of the lobby were opened one after another, and the black muzzles of guns poked out. As gunshots rang out, the whole holiday villa was thrown into chaos.

The animals in the yard were startled by the gunshots and fled in all directions, but they didn't turn around and run away.

And in the lobby, there were bursts of screams and wails.

Even though Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan were some distance away from the lobby, they could still hear these sounds clearly.