Apocalyptic Island - Chapter 18

Chapter 18

You Ning ran incredibly fast. When she got up, she subconsciously wanted to check on Wen Yishu.

Everyone’s attention was focused on her friend, but she found that Ji Shuyi, who had just been lying on the ground looking exhausted, was now standing up easily.

Seeing her shocked expression, the other person glanced at her, patted the dust off her body, mouthed “goodbye,” and turned to run away.

You Ning didn’t know how she got up or how she kept up with the other person’s pace. She ran at the fastest speed of her life, chasing Ji Shuyi.

Her friend’s life was still hanging in the balance below, and she absolutely could not let the person in front of her escape.

Even though her physical fitness was good, she just couldn’t keep up with Ji Shuyi. The person in front of her seemed to be deliberately teasing her. Every time she was about to catch up, she would disappear with a flick of her tail.

You Ning was not familiar with the layout of the rooms below. It was a little difficult for her to follow, but her mind became clearer.

She had originally thought that Wang Li was the one in charge and completely ignored this assistant who stood beside the minister, listening and obeying.

But the mastermind didn’t distinguish between the main and secondary. She had to catch this fleeing fox.

When Ji Shuyi turned a corner, she completely disappeared.

In front of her were two fork in the road.

The lights behind her slowly caught up. The lights in the fork in the road never turned on.

You Ning did not rashly choose a path to chase. She carefully looked at the two roads in front of her, observing left and right. She saw a figure flash by in a room on the right, and she quickly ran after it.

Ji Shuyi flashed out from inside and was a little surprised to see that she was still there and hadn’t left.

Ji Shuyi did not stay any longer and did not give You Ning a chance to catch her. She ran upstairs.

Her speed was so fast that You Ning immediately lost her. She was a little frantic.

But she gritted her teeth and followed her up. The lights in the center of the lobby turned on. She ran very fast. The door of the apartment was wide open, and she actually ran out.

Ji Shuyi stood at the door, calmly waiting for her to come over, with a playful smile on her face.

When You Ning approached, the door slammed shut with a bang.

The loud noise triggered all the lights in the lobby that weren’t broken. The red lock on the smart lock shone glaringly.

You Ning punched the door hard. It was useless to chase anymore. It was so dangerous outside. She couldn’t chase Ji Shuyi out there. She then quickly went back downstairs.

The group was gathered around Wen Yishu. Before she could be happy, she saw Wen Yishu fall straight down.

Huo Xiaoguan’s blank eyes saw her. You Ning took a few steps forward: “What’s wrong with her? Why did she faint? Was she injured downstairs? That assistant ran outside. I just went to chase her but didn’t catch her. Damn it. It seems like she’s the real mastermind.”

Ling Shuang’s voice was hoarse, and her eyes were full of confusion. She instantly interrupted her: “She has a fever.”

You Ning looked at her in disbelief and put her hand on Wen Yishu’s forehead.

Her forehead was burning hot. Her cheeks were unnaturally flushed, and her whole body was burning hot.

The quantum computer on her wrist was also issuing an alarm. The group looked down and their faces were very ugly. She already had a fever of 40°C. If a fever reaches this level, it won’t be long before it causes permanent brain damage.

The most urgent task was to lower her temperature first. You Ning planned to carry her on her back: “I’ll take her up. You guys go find some medicine.”

Rhine’s apartment had a small pharmacy. After each person moved in, they would receive a notice from the butler about the small pharmacy.

So it was not difficult to find the pharmacy.

The only thing to worry about now was the high fever. Everyone had seen the characteristics of human mutation on the live feed.

If it was from exhaustion, that would be fine. But if it was…

You Ning planned to take her to her original room but was stopped by Bai Mi.

She effortlessly carried Wen Yishu on her back, standing steadily.

You Ning: “What are you doing?”

Bai Mi: “It’s not safe here. I’ll take her back upstairs.”

You Ning was a little angry: “What are you talking about? Why aren’t you going back to the nearest place?”

Bai Mi carried Wen Yishu on her back, her footsteps not stopping: “How much time can it take to go upstairs? Don’t forget, there are still two Variants down here.”

You Ning was left speechless. The Variants did indeed gather in crowded places.

She had been out of her mind just now to leave Wen Yishu down here. Not to mention the Variants, the people behind them with bad looks in their eyes were enough to cause trouble.

Some people in the rooms came out. She looked back and saw that they were all looking at them with cold eyes.

They must have known something from the commotion just now.

Seeing that Wen Yishu had a fever, these people would definitely not let them go back.

Similarly, these people also didn’t know that there might be two Variants already hidden in the crowd.

You Ning did not speak. Instead, she helped carry Wen Yishu.

The group quickly went upstairs. Even though they were very tired now, no one said anything. They tacitly found the medicine and took all the things they could with them back to the eighth floor.

The group laid a blanket on the sofa and carefully placed Wen Yishu on it.

Other than the continuous fever, she didn’t seem to have any other abnormalities.

When a person is unconscious, it’s difficult to feed them medicine. Bai Mi brought water to her mouth. Wen Yishu subconsciously started to swallow.

After she had adapted for a while, she put the medicine in Wen Yishu’s mouth.

She half-opened her eyes in a daze. After taking the medicine, she fell into a deep sleep again.

The group watched her nervously for half an hour and found that her fever seemed to have gone down a little.

But it was still at 38°C. At least it wasn’t at 40°C anymore.

It wasn’t until Huo Xiaoguan’s stomach growled inappropriately that the group realized it was already afternoon.

After not eating for a few hours and a huge amount of physical exertion, when the group suddenly relaxed, they felt hungry and cold.

Ling Shuang’s eyelids were almost fighting with each other. She rubbed her face, just about to drink some water to cheer herself up.

She saw Bai Mi handing out canned food to everyone expressionlessly.

It was instant luncheon meat. Sometimes, when Wen Yishu was too busy to eat, she loved to eat this kind of luncheon meat from a can.

This was a product from an old era. To this day, they were still using this convenient and durable packaging.

Rhine had edible nutrients. She didn’t like to bother and didn’t pursue delicious food when she was busy. She would just squeeze two tubes and consider it a meal.

Of course, she had also been recommended by Wen Yishu and had occasionally eaten this kind of luncheon meat. It was very ordinary, neither good nor bad. It was more filling than the nutrient liquid.

It was just that she found it inconvenient, so she still ate the nutrient liquid later.

At this moment, as she opened the can, the smell of the luncheon meat drilled into her nostrils the moment she dug into it with the spoon.

She couldn’t wait to taste it. The luncheon meat, which seemed ordinary before, became incredibly delicious.

She was a little excited and scooped a second spoonful. She also felt a little embarrassed by her eagerness to eat.

She looked up, wanting to see if the others had seen her like this, but she saw Huo Xiaoguan eating like a mad dog, having already eaten more than half a can.

She looked as if she hadn’t eaten in eight hundred years. She turned to look at You Ning, and the two of them doing the exact same thing left Ling Shuang speechless.

Only the team leader was a little better. She ate elegantly, one spoonful after another, but her eyes were always fixed on Wen Yishu and never moved.

Wen Yishu frowned, as if she was having a nightmare. The moment she fainted, her consciousness seemed to have been pulled away from her mind.

In front of her, where it was originally a void, a three-meter-high grassy green door seemed to appear. There were countless tree roots coiled around it. In the cracks were tender green grass and nameless wild flowers growing out.

She tried to push it, but the door did not move at all. She was trapped in the open space in front of the door and could only pace back and forth in front of it, vaguely hearing intermittent conversations floating from a distance.

Wen Yishu did not wake up from day to night.

But everyone was relieved. The information on the live feed was constantly being updated. The group took a moment to look and found that the humans who had turned into Variants would quickly become Variants when they had a fever.

If they didn’t, it might just be a normal fever.

You Ning looked at her friend’s sleeping face. She didn’t know if Wen Yishu was injured. After all, if the wound was infected, it was also possible to have a fever.

The weather outside had not been good these past two days. It was impossible to know what time it was without looking at a clock.

This was even more true for the people living in the underground shelter. However, after waiting for a day, they found that the danger outside seemed to have been lifted.

Everyone in the group spoke up. The food in the temporary shelters was not much. Most of it was still in the central lounge.

People who ate a lot had already finished the food they had stored. Now they were starving. Taking advantage of the large number of people, many were brave enough to come out and head to the central lounge to find food.

The groups of two or three looked at the others warily. They had all agreed that even if they encountered a Variant, they would stick together so that everyone could survive.

The people in these groups were basically members of the same team, so they had a little more trust in each other than strangers.

“Tang Han,” who was sitting in the corner of the lounge, spoke to the fish person who had transformed into the man from the top bunk next to him: “Do you believe that when these people meet us, they will push the person next to them out first?”

The fish person had a few scales on its gills kicked off by Wen Yishu. Its transformation was a little incomplete. Its entire neck was sunken in. It could only cover it with a long scarf, making it look like it had no neck, which was a little comical.

“Weren’t those people just now very united? What’s the difference between these humans and them?”

“Tang Han” sneered and stood up lazily. The first team to arrive here had already eagerly entered the central lounge.

They didn’t care about the floor covered in blood and minced meat. They frantically stuffed the food that had not been contaminated into their backpacks.

They did not notice the person walking toward them until that overly clean shoe stepped on the food he had just picked up.

The person who was picking things up looked up and cursed furiously: “Are you crazy? You have so much, but you’re trying to take mine! Are you looking for…”

Before he could finish his words, his head was swallowed by the fish person.

Blood sprayed out in an instant, splashing onto the girl picking things up next to him.

She was scared to death but still ran toward her team leader. She scrambled on her hands and knees and grabbed the other person’s hand. The team leader, who would normally have helped her, pushed her away hard. She grabbed her unzipped backpack and ran for her life.

The girl was dumbfounded by the fish person’s mocking laugh and contributed the second head without any pain.

At the same time, the air on the second basement level became thinner and thinner. Wang Li, dragging her legs that were bloody and mangled from the explosion, waded through the water and climbed to the elevator entrance on the second basement level that had already stopped operating.

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