Chapter 90: The Government’s Deceit
"The situation is just as we thought. It’s way worse than what we see on TV. There are thousands of zombies everywhere. It looks like at least three-thirds of the city turned into zombies.
What the government shows on TV are the areas that are lightly populated with fewer people. Some survived, others awakened superpowers, and others turned into zombies.
With the military intervening and killing a large number of the zombies, the remaining ones are obviously fewer. That is the number projected onto our screens.
I don’t know if they are doing this to avoid panic or if they have other motives, but they are not doing the citizens a favor. They are making them complacent thinking that there aren’t many zombies and the government can deal with the few that emerge. However, the truth is the complete opposite.
From this place we rode to the city center and the number of zombies on the way is unimaginable. There are hundreds of zombies everywhere you look, some are locked in abandoned cars on the streets and roads, others are inside buildings and unable to open the doors and come out.
The city center is worse. You could find a single road with thousands of zombies. You haven’t even entered high-traffic areas like malls or schools. How could the government lie to people so openly? If you tell me nothing is going on I won’t believe it." Leng Pan ranted with frustration once she remembered everything they had seen.
What she described wasn’t even everything. She was afraid of scaring her family so she only skimmed over the details. But who wasn’t smart? How could they not understand the things left unsaid?
They had truly not expected things to be so bad. They had thought that even if the government wasn’t been too honest, it wouldn’t be too far off. But what Leng Pan described was too different from what was shown on TV. It was like they were talking about two different worlds.
"If they do this when people run out of food and start to leave their houses to go and look for food and other supplies, they won’t be too vigilant. They will have the mentality that they could avoid the zombies or since the number was so small, they could easily kill them.