Apocalypse: Transmigrated General's Daughter Uses Space to Survive-Chapter 132: Reaching the Institute
Chapter 132: Chapter 132: Reaching the Institute
The house was clean despite the owner’s jumpy personality. However, he still looked thinner than before and one could tell that he wasn’t having enough to eat.
He went into the kitchen as soon as he invited Ye Xuan to sit down in the living room and came back with a glass of water.
"This is all I can offer you, I am sorry. We have run out of food and have survived on water for two days. Yesterday two of my colleagues and I were discussing going out to look for food.
Unfortunately, as soon as we got to the gate we found it surrounded by zombies and knew that even if we left, we wouldn’t make it past fifty meters before turning into zombie food.
It’s a disgusting way to die so we felt that it’s better to starve to death here." The scientist was indeed talkative and had told his situation to Ye Xuan within five minutes of walking into the house.
"Did you come with other people? Why didn’t you let them come up with you to rest a bit? Passing by those zombies must have been exhausting and terrifying." Song Ting added as he took the seat opposite Ye Xuan.
"I came alone." Ye Xuan replied.
"You came alone? What about those zombies? How did you manage to bypass them without being covered by others?" Song Ting asked again with some apprehension.
"I killed them all." Ye Xuan replied again, as concise as ever. It was a fact that he only talked more when facing Chu Miao and her family.
"There were so many zombies, how could they be killed by one person...." He stopped before finishing his sentence when he remembered how Ye Xuan had infiltrated a highly secure institute in Country M and rescued him when he had been kidnapped.
Maybe getting in here amidst so many zombies was impossible for many people, but it was not for Ye Xuan.
"Have you packed your stuff? If you are ready, we can leave now." Ye Xuan said as he looked at the talkative guy opposite him.
He never understood how someone can have such a long monologue by himself without getting tired or feeling awkward.
"I will pack the remaining research data I was writing in the study. I thought that I would die of starvation so my colleagues and I had been working almost round the clock to document as much as we could while we still had the strength to think and write.
Even if we die, we can leave something for humanity that could help them.
Now that you are here, I can refine the research and ascertain some facts." Song Ting said with some joy in his voice.
"Okay, go collect your research." Ye Xuan sighed internally and told him.
"Uhmm....can we take my two colleagues too? Don’t worry, they are hardworking and very trustworthy. I have worked with them for many years and I can vouch for them.
If we leave them here, they will starve to death in less than a week. The government doesn’t seem to care about us who refused to follow the others to the arranged rescue center.
They only brought some relief supplies once and disappeared." Song Ting asked with some difficulty and embarrassment.
He was embarrassed because Ye Xuan had volunteered to come and rescue him and give him a place to stay, but now he was begging him to take extra burden with him.
However, he just couldn’t leave his colleagues here to die. He may not have much ability, but he was loyal to his friends.
Ye Xuan had actually already decided to take the other two when he heard that they had been working hard to write research materials so that they could leave a legacy behind even if they starved to death.
He could tell that these are people who didn’t care about fame or money, but we’re simply interested in helping humanity. This also explained why they refused to leave and why the government had abandoned them after realizing that they couldn’t squeeze any value out of them.
However, he was sure that this situation was only temporary. Once the government realises the real cause of the apocalypse, Song Ting will be targeted by multiple groups of people.
However, looking at the situation now, if he hadn’t come, the government would have had no one to take advantage of.
"Okay, ask them to pack too." Ye Xuan replied to Song Ting.
Upon hearing this reply, Song Ting was overjoyed and even felt his energy return even though he hadn’t eaten for two days.
He immediately stood up to go next door to inform his colleagues.
"Ask them to come here first." Ye Xuan said.
Song Ting thought that he just wanted to meet his colleagues first and readily agreed.
Five minutes later, two more people were sitting opposite Ye Xuan. One of them was an old man in his sixties. His name was Professor Wu, and the other was another professor in his forties, Professor Jun.
They sat opposite Ye Xuan like primary school kids waiting for instructions from their teacher.
Ye Xuan couldn’t take it when three old men behaved like that and simply took his backpack and opened it.
From inside, he brought out three packets of biscuits, each packet had thirty energy biscuits inside. He also took out three boxes of half a liter milk each and placed them on the table.
"Take one of each and eat first. We will leave after you are done." He said as he closed his backpack and put it down.
The three men looked at him with astonishment and then looked at the biscuits and milk on the table. They couldn’t believe that someone would give away something so valuable without even blinking.
Yes, they had lived their lives in comfort and had never lacked food or water, but in the last month or so, they had experienced hunger and thirst. They had also seen how human nature can change in the face of challenges.
Except for the three of them who shared whatever they had, other people would watch someone die in front of them and not offer a sip of water.
Now that they saw Ye Xuan give them a whole packet of biscuits and milk without asking for anything in return, they were so touched that their eyes teared up. freёnovelkiss.com