Chapter 16: All Escape Routes Are Blocked
Chapter 16: All Escape Routes Are Blocked
The remaining three teammates, who also have family members, naturally can’t stay in the kitchen waiting for rescue forever.
In fact, sometimes, when facing critical moments of life and death, one realizes that the greatest regret might be not having had a proper farewell, not saying goodbye to those they love and are loved by, not telling them to take care, and not assuring them that everything will be alright.
Regardless of whether their loved ones are "sick," they want to go out and express all the things they have said and never said in their hearts.
A hellish ordeal awaits Zhan Lian and his team, while in the distant central China, at a hospital in Xiangcheng, Xing District, Anran stands in the bathroom, looking at herself in the mirror, repeatedly encouraging herself.
She has to be strong. It is useless to call the police now, and Zhan Lian is far away in the Northwest, making it impossible for him to come back immediately to save her and their daughter. However, she can borrow a phone and call Zhan Lian to apologize, to let him know that she has given him a daughter. Even if he doesn’t care about her, surely he will care about his own daughter, right? Maybe he can find a way to get some people to rescue their daughter.
With this thought, Anran's chaotic mind finally finds some clarity. She quickly leaves the bathroom, borrows a phone from Hu Zhen, and when she gets back to the bathroom and leans against the door, she sees that Hu Zhen’s phone has no signal at all.
Anran is completely dumbfounded.
What should she do now? What should she do?? All escape routes are blocked, and all chances of survival are extinguished one by one. What can Anran do? She suddenly feels utterly powerless, collapsing onto the floor, staring at the bathroom wall, wanting to cry but having no tears left.
Is she left to rely only on herself? No one else is available for her to lean on; she can only rely on herself, right? Even if she tries her best to think, there is no hope left. The only way to save her daughter is to find a solution herself. After all, from childhood to now, she has never had anyone to rely on; she has always had to rely on herself.
Outside the door, the cell phone signal of the girl in bed 18 also vanishes. Her frustration grows, and after pacing in front of Hu Zhen’s bed several times, she can’t hold back any longer and says to Hu Zhen:
“This damned guy, I’m going out to find him!”
“But~” Hu Zhen turns her head, frowning as she looks at the figure by bed 18, and advises, “Maybe you shouldn’t go out. Didn’t Anran say—”
“Do you believe her?”
Bed 18 scoffs as she walks to the bedside, pulls open the door, and steps outside. She figures that Anran in bed 16 is just crazy. The blood on her legs is certainly all from lochia, and a woman who lets her lochia flow like that without changing her sanitary pad is surely not sane.
So Anran says there are people eating others outside? Hahaha. Chen Jiao, still full of disdain for Anran, has not finished her internal complaints when she sees a man walk past her. The man’s forehead is covered in bulging veins, his eyes are gray, and he has long, beast-like fangs at the corners of his mouth.
“Ah!!!” Chen Jiao screams in terror. Her scream is sharp and piercing, almost echoing through the entire hallway. The “man” who is about to pass in front of her suddenly stops, slowly turns around, and swiftly locks onto Chen Jiao’s direction. At the same time, the zombies that had scattered from around Anran’s phone in the hallway begin to shuffle towards Chen Jiao.