“Our team’s RV is on the highway down below.” Yun Qingyue looked at the other’s leg. “What’s the specific situation with your leg injury?”
There was still a layer of pants covering it, so Yun Qingyue couldn’t see the details clearly.
Experiment Subject No. 59 could sense the condition of his own leg. When he escaped, the serum had activated, and he was literally hit by a car. Naturally, his leg was severely injured. But for him, this type of injury would only take two or three days to repair. The trouble was the serum inside his body.
So, No. 59 told the truth and said, “It’s not serious.”
“There’s medicine in the RV. You can see how to deal with it when we get there.”
Seeing that he couldn’t stand up, Yun Qingyue guessed in her heart that he didn’t dare to say how serious the injury really was, probably afraid she would find him troublesome.
On this point, Yun Qingyue truly didn’t find him troublesome. After all, it wasn’t her colleague’s fault.
“The RV is at the foot of the mountain, about two kilometers away. We only have a mountain bike right now.” As Yun Qingyue spoke, she pulled the mountain bike out from the bushes on the other side.
Originally, with her colleague unconscious, she had planned to find some things to make a raft, tie the person onto it, and then ride the bike in front, dragging him down.
This plan was feasible in her mind, but she didn’t know how many flaws it would have in actual practice.
Now that the person was awake, the difficulty wasn’t so high.
“Sit here, I’ll take you down.” Yun Qingyue pointed to the rear rack.
For the other person, it was actually very inconvenient. She had also considered other options, such as him waiting here while she went down the mountain first to drive the RV up.
But as the captain, she had to weigh the pros and cons and consider the risks. The zombie dog from before had been scared off by her, but who knew when it might come back down? Not to mention there could be zombies in the village up above.
Leaving a colleague with an injured leg here felt a bit like abandoning him to fend for himself.
Yun Qingyue still chose to have him sit on the back and take him down.
It was just that his leg was so injured he couldn’t stand, so sitting on the rear rack would definitely be very uncomfortable.
Yun Qingyue originally thought the other party would have objections. Unexpectedly, after she said it, he had no objections. The two of them exerted some effort and got him seated on the back.
Yun Qingyue got on the bike and took the person downhill. The person sitting behind her didn’t make a sound. Along the way, when they passed a speed bump, the bike and the people on it were jolted up together.
Just as Yun Qingyue was about to say something, she saw several people up ahead doing something on the roadside.
Yun Qingyue prayed in her heart: Please don’t be zombie humans, please don’t be zombie humans.
The people over there heard the commotion and collectively turned their heads, revealing eyes glowing red in the darkness.
Great, they were zombie humans!
And the other side also realized that the two people here were edible humans and immediately started charging towards them.
Thank goodness they still had a bike, and thank goodness it was a downhill road.
Yun Qingyue gritted her teeth and said to the colleague behind her, “Hold on tight to the bike, don’t panic.”
It was crucial that her colleague didn’t fall off right now.
Luckily, the other party was very sensible and immediately held on tight, without screaming in fear.
Yun Qingyue rushed forward fiercely, controlling the handlebars to swerve left and right, dodging these zombies.
However, the zombies were not willing to let the two of them go and continued chasing the bike.
No. 59 watched the zombies catching up and made a suggestion: “Put me down first. You go drive the RV up yourself and then pick me up.”
Yun Qingyue almost doubted she had misheard. Put him down now for what?
As a snack offering for the zombies?
Then come back up to pick him up later? Pick up what? A colleague who had turned into a zombie?
This colleague really had a spirit of sacrifice.
That definitely wouldn’t do. She had just started leading the team. If she abandoned a team member at the first sign of trouble, what would happen in the future?
“Just hold on tight. There’s a big turn coming up ahead. We can shake off these zombies there.” Yun Qingyue looked ahead and said calmly.
Her bike was very fast, and the zombies behind were also running very fast.
No. 59 could hear the zombies behind them about to catch up.
He could also hear the extremely rapid heartbeat of the person in front of him, a heartbeat of fear.
Soon, the big turn arrived. Yun Qingyue controlled the handlebars, made a wide turn, and perfectly steered onto another road.
Are you kidding? When she first graduated, the place she lived was 42 kilometers from her workplace. The subway didn’t go directly there. Every day after getting off the subway, she would find a shared bike and start riding. Her skills were all honed through life-or-death speed races.
“Your captain is amazing, right?” Yun Qingyue couldn’t help but say.
The colleague behind her said, “Amazing.”
The road ahead had no more zombies. Yun Qingyue rode the bike and brought the person down to the foot of the mountain.
This area was a gravel yard, bumpy and uneven all the way. The colleague behind her still didn’t make a single sound. If it weren’t for the weight still on the bike, Yun Qingyue would have thought the person had fainted again.
Yun Qingyue stopped the bike, turned her head, and found the other party’s face was pale, his forehead covered in sweat, clearly from the pain.
But he hadn’t been a hindrance the entire way. The new colleague was a bit better than she had imagined.
Yun Qingyue returned to the RV, found the medicine, and handed it to the person sitting to the side.
His hands were fine. She wasn’t a doctor or nurse, so she didn’t prepare to help apply the medicine.
She went to another room and took out her phone. She only then realized the signal had briefly recovered. When there was no signal before, she had opened her social media feed. Almost everyone was panicking about the zombie situation.
Yun Qingyue quickly saw a post from the RV rental boss.
[Offering a huge reward for cephalosporin and penicillin.]
It was already the post-apocalypse. The chaos of the previous two days had caused the world to lose order. These medicines couldn’t be found anywhere now.
Yun Qingyue was very glad she had checked her phone. She hurriedly sent a message to the RV rental boss.
“Boss, do you still remember I stored a bag with you?”
The other side quickly replied, “Sorry, there’s something going on at home. I can’t handle business matters right now. We’ll talk about this when things get better.”
“There are medicines in my bag, cephalosporin and penicillin. Go look for it.”
The other side seemed to disbelieve it at first, and probably went to look for the medicine. After a while, they replied, “Found it! Thank you so much!”
“Boss, I might not be able to return the RV for a while. I might need to use it a bit longer. You guys use the food and medicine in the bag first.” Order had collapsed the moment the apocalypse arrived, but Yun Qingyue still remembered that she was in this world on a business trip. She would return to her own Workplace World in the future, so she tried her best to maintain the order in her heart.
“No problem! No problem!” For an RV rental boss, he hadn’t expected to get this RV back anyway, and he had other RVs. These medicines were much more important.
Yun Qingyue resolved the RV issue and also sent a message in her dorm group chat.
“The apocalypse seems to have arrived. I can’t come back to the dorm. There’s food and drinks in my closet, along with some of my usual medicine. Since I can’t come back anyway, you guys can make do with it first. There are also some post-apocalyptic novels I’ve been reading. You should take a look too.”
On the other end, the three female college students trapped in the dorm had been starving for a day, dizzy from hunger, when they received a message from their dormmate.
They originally thought the food the other party mentioned was just a few bags of chips. But when they opened the closet, it was filled to the brim with biscuits and bottled water.
Yun Qingyue’s identity in this world had been directly inserted by the System two years ago. She didn’t have any other social connections. After handling these matters, she went to check on her colleague.
The other party had already treated his wound and was now looking at the iodine solution, pondering something unknown.
Yun Qingyue couldn’t understand this person. He was too different from anyone she had met before.
She couldn’t claim that a few years in the workplace had allowed her to see through human nature, but the other party didn’t even conform to basic patterns.
Firstly, he had no curiosity about the arrival of the apocalypse. If he were a normal person, he should be talking to her about what exactly was going on with the apocalypse right now.
Secondly, his leg should be severely injured. Yet he had no curiosity about why he himself had ended up in this state. He had slipped into this miserable state almost seamlessly, as if it were only natural for him to be treated this way.
Lastly, his pain tolerance was too strong. He hadn’t made a single sound the entire journey.
Yun Qingyue began to suspect: was this really her rich-second-generation colleague?
Her gaze towards him was filled with scrutiny. So, she started a conversation with him: “Do you know why that person threw you out there?”
No. 59 looked at this person. He knew why, but he was very curious if she knew.
Seeing that he didn’t know, Yun Qingyue explained to him, “Because the apocalypse has arrived. Many people fall into a state of high fever and coma. People who wake up from that state turn into zombies, the kind we encountered on the road.”
As Yun Qingyue spoke, her eyes were on the other party. Sure enough, this person still had no emotional fluctuation, as if listening to someone else’s story. He just said, “He thought I would turn into a zombie, so he threw me out.”
Could this colleague of hers have an emotional disorder? If so, it might explain how he could let go of his benefactor’s death.
“Don’t you feel angry?” Yun Qingyue asked.
Not angry.
Because Experiment Subject No. 59 realized something.
The person before him had mistaken him for someone else.
He hadn’t had a high fever and coma. When he escaped, the serum in his body had been remotely released. He was briefly controlled and happened to encounter a car accident. Under the massive impact, his body entered a state of false death. If he remembered correctly, he should have also been thrown into a refrigerator. Even in a false death state, his body would still have memories.
The person who threw him didn’t know his constitution. So, the other party thought they had killed someone with their car. What followed was probably body disposal.
But this person’s understanding was “he had a high fever and fell into a coma, so he was thrown out.”
High fever and coma, such specific details.
She should know that someone with a high fever had been thrown out. She was preparing to save that person. He recalled the video she had recorded.
Why was she certain he was ‘that person with a high fever’?
Experiment Subject No. 59 thought of that car.
Could it be… that the person she originally wanted to save was the owner of that car?
She had mistaken him for that person.
So, the other party wasn’t after him but after someone else.
As for what she wanted from that other person, Experiment Subject No. 59 wasn’t interested.
He simply realized that the person she wanted to save wasn’t him. With this understanding, he considered that, in this case, he could temporarily stay by this person’s side and leave after the drugs in his body completely broke down.