Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 285 - Harvest Outside the Hospital

Chapter 285 -285 Harvest Outside the Hospital

If Guo Yang were here, he would have eagerly gathered everything that could be taken, but unfortunately, Su Jin wasn’t particularly interested in most of these items, which mainly consisted of gift boxes and pastries brought for visiting patients. As for the fresh flowers and fruits, they had long since rotted beyond recognition.

The merchandise from several general stores could still be worth taking. Many of these were set up for the convenience of family members staying at the hospital before the Apocalypse.

The folding beds and cooking utensils were also usable, and it seemed very easy for Song Sibo to pick up things—no wonder Liang Jiuhui brought him along. His Space must be considerable too.

“Apprentice, what is this?” Nie Qing picked up a small white plastic jug and asked.

“Pfft—”

Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t help but laugh. Nie Qing had actually picked up a urine bottle from the shelf to examine.

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“Master… that’s, a urine bottle,”

Lu Hao helped Nie Qing understand, and it was a relief that Xiao Jin and the others just glanced around the shop and left, especially since it was a male urine bottle…

“…”

Finding himself with a bedpan, Nie Qing awkwardly placed the item back where it came from.

Song Sibo, who was collecting items nearby, paused as well. To take it or not?

He looked at Liang Jiuhui, seemingly seeking guidance with his eyes.

“Take it, take it. Who knows if it might be useful for hospital patients?” Liang Jiuhui waved his hand.

Song Sibo nodded and began to systematically store the items from the shelves into his Space.

To Liang Jiuhui’s delight, there were even two pharmacies near the hospital, and only a few Zombies were inside—apparently, they hadn’t been looted by anyone.

Although Su Jin was envious, her Space already contained a large pharmacy, which she acquired along with the drug storage it had behind it.

However, since the Apocalypse, her family had barely needed that pharmacy’s supplies. Although they couldn’t avoid scrapes and bruises when going out, Lin Tianhui’s Healing Art or her Wood Element Healing sufficed to handle these injuries.

So now, she decided not to compete with Liang Jiuhui for the supplies, which could be life-saving for the base.

While Liang Jiuhui and his group were scavenging the pharmacies, Su Jin was drawn to a large flower shop. As a qualified Wood Element Ability User, she felt she should take a look inside.

“Xiao Jin, you go in, we’ll guard the door,”

Huang Yunxiang said with utmost caution, worried that someone might discover Su Jin if she gathered items.

Lin Tianzhen and Mao Zhihang also nodded seriously, agreeing to guard the entrance with Huang Yunxiang.

Suppressing a laugh, Su Jin had always been concerned that her family might accidentally reveal the secret of her Space. But she gradually realized that these elders were actually far more cautious than she was, always wanting to hide and protect the good stuff at home.

The flower shop was spacious and well-lit, with the walls on both sides fitted with floor-to-ceiling glass windows. If someone were to walk by outside, they could indeed see everything inside at a glance, so Su Jin agreed to have them stand guard outside.

Through Qiqi’s perception, there seemed to be nothing in the flower shop, but the group still entered cautiously, ignoring the withered flowers and dried-up plants. Su Jin just wanted to try her luck to see if there were any seeds to collect, which would be good for Yin Chengtian to practice his wood element ability. Otherwise, every time making him use vegetable seeds seemed like a bit of a waste.

“Sister-in-law, there are seeds here,”

Yin Chengtian found a bamboo basket at the bottom shelf in the corner of the wall, filled with bags of seeds. Besides these, there were rows of seeds for sale before the apocalypse hanging on the shelves. These seeds were all sealed in small individual packets, and most of them were flower seeds, but Su Jin still waved them into her space.

Su Jin also found quite a few seeds in the fridge, and a transparent box with sloppily written words in black marker that were hard to make out: Seed… Gift Box?

Through the box, one could see that it was filled with seed vials, each vial seeming to contain a variety of seeds, all labeled. Su Jin only glanced through the box at a few of the labels next to it, which seemed to include perennial flowers, sunflowers, dwarf morning glories, and other such seeds. However, due to time constraints, Su Jin only took a quick look before storing them in her space to study later when they got back.

Song Sibo was quick to collect things. Not long after Su Jin’s group left the flower shop, Liang Jiuhui’s group came out, clearly in high spirits.

“We must hurry,” Lu Hao said to everyone, or we might not be able to return to the base today.

Liang Jiuhui glanced at his wristwatch; it was nearly noon. They didn’t know what the situation was inside the hospital, so they certainly had to hurry.

From their current location to the hospital, they had to pass through a crossroads. At the crossroads was a pedestrian overpass, but there were no zombies on the overpass. However, everyone understood when they saw below the overpass: several zombies that had lost the ability to walk were crawling forward with one or both hands. They must have jumped or fallen from the overpass. A few others were limping towards the minibus.

“Xiao Liu, run them over,” Liang Jiuhui said as he looked at the disabled zombies outside.

“Yes!”

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The driver, Xiao Liu, stepped on the gas pedal forcefully, unflinchingly driving towards the zombies ahead. Everyone sitting in the vehicle could feel the wheels rolling over something rough, but no one showed any signs of fright or nervousness. Su Jin’s family was even chatting with each other.

“Qiqi, what’s the situation like inside the hospital?” Su Jin asked, seeing the car had traveled some distance, and Qiqi should now be able to sense what was happening inside the hospital.

“Zombies… many, but no mutated zombies,” Mao Qiqi said.

Su Jin nodded her head. If the zombies in the hospital had generally not been exposed to that rain, the chance of them mutating would be much smaller.

While they were still on their way to the hospital, Liang Jiuhui had Guan Hong take out a floor plan of the hospital to explain to everyone in the vehicle: “This hospital has pharmacies on the first, second, and third floors, and there is also a pharmaceutical warehouse behind the hospital building. Our goal is limited to these four places; we should avoid going any higher if possible.”

“How many floors does the hospital have?” Su Jin asked.

“Eight floors. Actually, the floors above the fourth are the inpatient wards. There might be even more zombies there,”

Guan Hong added, saying that they had collected all the information on city hospitals, and this one wasn’t a major hospital but was one of the closer ones to the base.

In the midst of the conversation, the entirety of the hospital came into view. What seemed strange to everyone was that looking through the entrance of the hospital, there wasn’t a single zombie in sight?!

Everyone instinctively looked towards Mao Qiqi, as if waiting for her explanation.

“I can only feel that all the zombies are inside the hospital building; there are none in the courtyard,”

Mao Qiqi found it strange too, but that was indeed what her mini-map was showing, and even Sheng Jing on the side said the same.

“It must be the mutated plants; everyone be very careful,” Su Jin said, looking ahead.