Chapter 249 Laboratory Investigation
Lu Sheng observed along the way and found that the zombie activity area was still near the subway station for the time being. After leaving the subway station for a few hundred meters, there were no traces of zombies on the street.
Beijing University is still quite far from the subway station, so it seems that it will be safe for a few days.
The snow on campus was getting thicker and thicker, almost reaching Lu Sheng's knees. The four of them moved the fish in the trunk upstairs several times, and were exhausted after entering the dormitory.
Even for someone like Lu Sheng, whose body has been strengthened, his arms are still a little sore after a day of tossing.
"It's you and Teacher Xu who are doing the hard work today. Leave the work of cleaning up the fish to me and Tiantian."
Originally, Lu Sheng planned to skewer the fish together and hang it outside the window for freezing, but Xiao Yu and Sun Tiantian refused to agree and pushed Lu Sheng and Xu Yi to the sofa to watch TV.
The TV station is live broadcasting the snow clearing work on the expressway in the suburbs of Beijing.
"The municipal engineering project has mobilized all personnel to work overtime to clear the snow. I believe that with everyone's efforts, the highway will be open to traffic soon."
The host's upper and lower teeth were chattering due to the cold, and he forced a stiff smile on his face.
Lu Sheng's expression was serious. In the live broadcast footage, a man wearing a cotton-padded jacket suddenly stumbled from the snow clearing team and ran towards the host.
The man's complexion was gray and his eyes were cloudy. He had obviously been infected by the zombie virus.
Chi.
The man suddenly attacked from behind and bit the host's slender neck.
The live footage was splashed with red blood, and a piercing scream came from the TV. Then there was a commotion in the footage. The on-site personnel rushed to separate the zombies and the female host, but were bitten by the zombies and injured several people one after another.
After they finally subdued the male zombie, the bitten female host's eyes rolled strangely and she bit her colleague next to her.
All the viewers in front of the TV watched this chaotic scene.
After a few seconds, all TV signals were cut off.
"It seems that the zombie virus has broken out in other parts of the city." Lu Sheng's expression was calm, he had to face it morning and night.
Xiao Yu and Sun Tiantian had already taken care of all the fish, washed their hands and sat next to Lu Sheng.
"My buddy just sent a message saying that he eavesdropped on his family's emergency calls at work. The government has decided to close the city. All exits from the city will be blocked within half an hour." Xiao Yu handed the WeChat page of his mobile phone to Lu Sheng.
Soon someone in the mutual aid group spread the news about the city’s lockdown.
Most people thought that there was just a fatal infectious disease in the city, and they did not expect that the outbreak was a zombie virus.
Many people are discussing in the group whether they should flee to other cities together before the city is closed.
"What should we do?" Sun Tiantian looked at Lu Sheng.
"Stay unchanged to cope with the ever-changing situation. Stay still for the time being and wait and see what happens."
It's too late to leave the city now. According to Lu Sheng's memory from his previous life, the government has not yet recognized the zombie virus, and all handling methods are based on emergency infectious diseases.
There is heavy snow outside now and the roads are blocked. Cars cannot leave the city at all. If you want to leave the imperial city and walk dozens or hundreds of kilometers, you will freeze to death even if you are not bitten by zombies.
Moreover, the zombie virus breaks out not only in the Imperial Capital, but other cities will only become more chaotic. What's more, the Imperial Capital, as an economic and political loyalist, will organize repair work as soon as the situation stabilizes, making it the fastest place in the country to restore basic order.
"It's so cold, let's have hot pot?" All four of them chose to stay put for the time being, and Lu Sheng stood up and suggested.
"Okay! I want spicy hot pot! I also want an oil dish!" Sun Tiantian was the first to raise her hand in agreement.
Taking out a bag of Haidilao red oil base from Sun Tiantian's inventory, Lu Sheng asked Xu Yi to help cut the mutton.
Sure enough, Xu Yi even cut the mutton squarely and meticulously.
If Lu Sheng hadn't watched Xu Yi take the knife with his own eyes, he would have thought that the mutton slices of exactly the same size and thickness were carved out of a mold by some obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Seeing Lu Sheng staring at him with a hesitant expression, Xu Yi's usually calm face showed a trace of unnaturalness for the first time.
Sun Tiantian is a die-hard foodie, and there is an ancestral copper pot brought from her hometown in Northeast China in her dormitory.
Lu Sheng took some charcoal, heated it red, set up a copper pot, and poured in a pot of stock and base ingredients for cooking the bones. When the stock boiled, he poured the mutton and fresh crabs into the pot.
There are also abalone and lobster, cut into slices and put into the pot together.
The charcoal fire is very slow, but the mutton cooked out is tender and fresh, with a special flavor that cannot be matched by an electric hot pot.
I also soaked some fungus and chrysanthemum, which were crispy and tender after being rinsed.
After a day of hard work in the ice and snow, the four of them finally relaxed and ate happily around the copper pot.
The fresh mutton is wrapped in fragrant sesame sauce, and one bite will dispel the coldness all over your body.
The crabs, abalone, and lobster are so full of gravy that they are so fresh and slippery that they can't stop eating.
The heavy snow outside the window is still there, and occasionally the barking of mutated wild dogs can be heard. The once prosperity and glory of this city seems to have been deeply buried by this heavy snow, leaving only the decline of civilization that is about to wither.
But all this had nothing to do with the four people in the room. Lu Sheng swallowed a mouthful of fresh and elastic abalone slices and silently loosened a button on his belt.
Really fat.
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After eating and returning to 403, Lu Sheng placed the bag full of crystal cores on the ground.
Putting on a comfortable vest and shorts, Lu Sheng leaned on Zhuang Zhuang and sat on the floor to study today's gains.
Ever since the floor heating became available, she was used to sitting on the ground with bare feet, which was very warm and comfortable.
Not counting the additional rewards from the system, today they found 362 primary crystal cores and 5 intermediate crystal cores through brainstorming.
In the apocalypse, crystal cores can not only upgrade abilities and restore physical strength, but are also the most useful universal currency.
Calculated based on the purchasing power of crystal cores in the early days of the end of the world, their harvest today is equivalent to the small goal that Master Wang's father said.
Originally, Lu Sheng planned to divide the crystal cores equally, but one of Sun Tiantian and Xiao Yu said that they had no superpowers and the other said that the street lamp superpowers were not worthy of upgrade, so they gave both the crystal cores to Lu Sheng.
Xu Yi also said that he would keep it with Lu Sheng for the time being, and all the crystal nuclei would be in Lu Sheng's hands.
Zhuang Zhuang curiously approached Lu Sheng's hand and stuck out his tongue to lick the shiny thing in the bag.
"You can't eat it!" Lu Sheng patted Zhuang Zhuang's big head, and Zhuang Zhuang retracted his head angrily.
As a little transparent person, Lu Sheng had not been able to see the crystal nucleus with his own eyes in his previous life, but he had never eaten pork and had seen pigs running away.
The crystal nuclei dug out from the zombie brain flowers cannot be eaten directly. They need to go through a purification process.
In the last life, the method of purifying crystal nuclei has always been a barrier that ordinary people cannot reach. In order to maintain their hegemony, major bases have kept the purification of crystal nuclei secret.
Some people do not believe in evil and eat it directly. They either explode to death or mutate into low-level zombies.
Lu Sheng searched for a long time using the system's built-in Q&A collection for novices in the apocalypse.
Chapter completed!