dtnovels Chapter 8 Surviving in the Dormitory
Chapter 8 Surviving in the Dormitory
“I’ve checked both sides. There are people in the dorm on the right. If it’s full, there are four people, but I remember that two of them have girlfriends and have rented new dorms in the villa area. There are probably only two people here right now. The four people in the dorm on the left are all zombies. The window in the next room is open and there’s no one there. You can’t see anything beyond that.”
"Gu Nanfeng, you even know he got a girlfriend and applied for a couples' dormitory!" The villa dormitories in the university town have different rules than other dormitories; the rent is high, and they are managed by a separate company. Originally, they were intended for mostly wealthy or powerful students, but not many people lived there. Later, a general manager came down from the head office of this management company and proposed a new operating model. Now, the villa area has become a place for young couples to share apartments. This general manager is Gu Nanfeng, and he just has a good memory, remembering the latest rental information in the monthly report.
"Pei Sihao, are you asking for a beating?"
"The doors to the rooms across the street are all closed, so we can't tell if anyone's home." Pei Sihao knew from Gu Nanfeng's tone that if he continued to be so unreliable, he would probably be thrown out and turned into a zombie. So he could only earnestly report what he saw through the peephole at the door.
"Senior Brother Gu, do you think this virus won't end soon?" To be honest, although he suddenly had a space, Lu Yuan was still a little confused. He always felt that in 2074, although the zombies looked scary, the government's response was so fast that it should be brought under control soon.
"Didn't you say you lost four days' worth of memories?" Gu Nanfeng sat down next to Lu Yuan and pushed the cup of milk tea, which he hadn't drunk a drop of, in front of Pei Sihao. "One day, I heard you talking about so many things in your room. You should be able to hold on for a long time, right?"
"At the time, I thought you were like one of the kids in our lab who had read too many apocalyptic novels and whose father had an accident, so you bought a lot of food to stock up. Now it seems that what you were talking about back then was this space. With so many strange things happening at the same time, I don't think it's a good omen. We need to be prepared."
“Gu Nanfeng is right. We have so much food, but many people probably don’t. With today’s rain, we won’t even have water to drink for a while, and there are more zombies now, making it very difficult to find food and water. Xiao Yuan, you don’t have to answer, but we still want to know roughly how much water and food you have.” Lu Yuan had never seen Pei Sihao so serious before. He suddenly felt that he was the only one in the dormitory who was a pure, innocent, and naive person—or rather, not even sweet.
"Hmm, I haven't counted them all yet, but there are a lot, and a wide variety of things. Besides food and water, there are many daily necessities. I even saw a car, but I couldn't take it out to confirm if it was a real car." Lu Yuan had been looking at the supplies in the space. It seemed that there were 9999 of everything he had seen in the apocalyptic text. Some similar but different items would have many 9999 of them. In short, the capacity was enough to feed and bathe the dormitory every day for decades.
"The best-case scenario is that we can hold out for a few days in Xiaoyuan's space until rescue arrives. The worst-case scenario, like in those apocalyptic novels, is that we still have a long way to go." Gu Nanfeng, judging from Lu Yuan's expression, roughly guessed that Lu Yuan's space contained plenty of supplies. He spoke seriously to the two people in the dormitory and the machine, "In this special environment, people's hearts are unpredictable. Officer, you can no longer arbitrarily upload all our audio and video images to your central control system..."
“Otherwise, we don’t mind playing the zombies and tearing you in half right now.” Pei Sihao raised an eyebrow lightly and said, “Or you could change it to single-player mode, Gu Nanfeng.”
"Currently, modifying the mechanical police is illegal. Let's wait and see. If that day ever comes, I can rebuild its central control system in just a few minutes."
As Lu Yuan listened to their increasingly fantastical conversation, as if tomorrow were the end of the world, he glanced at his watch—it was past 10 p.m.—and wondered if it was related to the opening of the space. He was very sleepy, and his eyelids were already drooping.
Suddenly, the scene from that day at the bar flashed into his mind again. Lu Yuan buried his face in the other person's arms and cried. He wanted to lift his head to see the other person's face clearly, but slowly, he leaned against the sofa behind him and fell asleep.
"Xiao Yuan said he lost four days' worth of memory. Do you know something about this?" Pei Sihao glanced at Lu Yuan, who was asleep on the sofa, and sized up his childhood friend.
He knew perfectly well that Lu Yuan was completely attracted to Gu Nanfeng, so after Lu Yuan was assigned to this dormitory, out of friendship, he didn't go back to the dormitory unless absolutely necessary, instead staying in the internship hospital's break room so his friend and his crush could properly cultivate their relationship. But now that Lu Yuan had suddenly lost his memory, he couldn't help but wonder:
"Gu Nanfeng, you wouldn't be so perverted as to force Xiao Yuan, would you? You even gave him some kind of amnesia drug. You can't have drugs like that..."
"Shut up!" Gu Nanfeng glanced at him, picked up the sleeping Lu Yuan and went back to the room. "I'm not as boring as you."
Pei Sihao didn't need to think to know that Gu Nanfeng wasn't that kind of person, but now that Lu Yuan had a spatial ability, maybe Gu Nanfeng was reborn? It wasn't impossible that she would do this to Lu Xiaoyuan first and then do that to avoid regrets.
Pei Sihao glanced meaningfully at Gu Nanfeng's back. They had just roughly divided the tasks. He and PC004261 would be on night watch tonight. At this stage, their main concern was that the four zombies next door might climb over the balcony and come to their dormitory. After all, the two-layer reinforced glass windows would only be a matter of minutes against the powerful zombies.