Chapter 22: Departing
Xiao Yu nodded and said, “We are the students and teachers of the Fine Arts School; where are you from?”
A young man with yellow hair interjected with a shout: “Could you give me something to eat first? I haven’t had anything for two days straight, and I’m starving to death!”
Xiao Yu mentioned behind him, and Jin Shi immediately put a fruit basket underneath their feet. All the people there showed surprise. Except for the middle-aged police officer named Huang Jianmin, everyone else seemed to have forgotten their fear and rushed to snatch a piece immediately. Gnawing on the fruits as if they hadn’t eaten for a few lifetimes.
Huang Jianmin didn’t criticize their actions; instead, he just sighed and said: “It turns out that you were students from Fine Arts Academy. Xiao Chen and I are police officers from the XX Police Station in the same city as you. These two were detained for some things at the time and sent out to join our team due to insufficient manpower. At that time, the streets near the police station were suddenly surrounded by a large number of monsters, and a group of us fought to death. We fled originally looking for rescue, but now the situation outside is really… You were right; there will probably be no more rescue.”
“You’re the advance team? Only two people?”
Huang Jianmin shook his head and said: “No, originally, there were more than forty people, but some of us were attacked by monsters and killed on the way. We managed to get here using our pistols, but the ammunition got exhausted in a short amount of time, so we were easily captured by a bunch of green monsters. Every day several people get dragged out by those monsters, and those who were dragged away never came back.”
Hearing this, Xiao Yu realized that the pile of bones they found before should be the leftovers of those people. He nodded slightly and asked him a succession of questions: “How many people are locked in the police station, where is it located, and how much time it takes to reach?”
“The earthquake caused all buildings to fall, resulting in several casualties. Some of us were killed in the monster’s onslaught, but we gathered the two hundred survivors nearby. However, it has already been several days since then, and before we left, everyone got besieged by monsters. So now it’s hard to say how many of them survived.” Huang Jianmin pondered for a moment and continued: “The location of the police station is probably in the southwest direction, and it will take about five hours to reach there.”
Hearing this, the young police officer Xiao Chen immediately stood up and said: “Captain Huang, there are more than a hundred people in the station waiting for us to return. Most of our colleagues are killed. Now you are the spiritual pillar of everyone. Without your leadership now, how can we go back? The gangsters who escaped from the detention center will definitely cause trouble, so we must go back immediately!”