The end of the world: Copying global supplies at the beginning (MTL)

Chapter 23 Water shortage

　The fourth day of the end of the world.

　　Among the 13 building owner groups, the more than 40 surviving households are still discussing the issue of water supply.

　　Some people put forward a scientific theory circulating on the Internet.

　　It is said that humans can live for several days without eating.

　　But if you don't drink water, you can only live for three days.

　　And now it's the second day since the water supply was cut off.

　　About ten households have been without water for two days.

　　For these hungry people.

　　Why all of a sudden, life began to count down.

　　It was as if fate had played a huge joke on them.

　　There is a dreamlike unreality.

　　They all felt terrified.

　　Under severe crises, human beings can burst out with a very strong will to survive.

　　These people are no exception.

　　So, they began to take desperate risks.

　　They knew there were hundreds of zombies roaming the community.

　　I want to get past these hundreds of zombies and go outside to find water.

　　This is undoubtedly an extremely unreliable idea.

　　It is extremely dangerous and can easily lead to sudden death and become food for zombies.

　　But what if we find water from other houses in this building?

　　The risk seems to be much smaller!

　　After such a bold idea emerged, these people began to put it into action.

　　Under the monitoring of micro-drone, Lin Chen could see every move of these people in the monitoring room.

　　These people took advantage of various people and began to walk to their respective neighbors' houses.

　　Some people's neighbors already had no survivors, and there were only zombies wandering around the house.

　　So they only need to forcefully open the door and then clean up one or two zombies.

　　You can find some mineral water, drinks, biscuits, rice noodles and other supplies that are still left in your neighbor's house.

　　And some people are not so lucky.

　　It is possible that there were living survivors in the neighbor's house.

　　The will of survivors to protect existing survival supplies is equally strong.

　　After all, if the supplies are taken away by others, it means that they are also facing a crisis of survival.

　　Facing supplies being robbed, survivors are likely to risk their lives.

　　Therefore, these unlucky people can only avoid houses with survivors.

　　They are far from ready to risk their lives yet.

　　Then he went to look for the next one.

　　Under Lin Chen's observation, he felt that the behavior of these people was a bit like opening a treasure box in a game.

　　Every door that has not been opened is like a treasure chest that has not been opened.

　　No one knows how many supplies or zombies there will be inside.

　　Lin Chen felt that this process of opening a treasure box might become addictive.

　　Then he saw the next scene from the surveillance screen.

　　It proved his idea as expected.

　　On the screen was an irritable old man who went to teach the Chu family a lesson two days ago.

　　He was lucky. The other three houses on the same floor were all zombies and there were no living people.

　　He quickly plundered the supplies of these three families and obtained a large amount of water and food.

　　But he seems to have become deeply addicted to this process.

　　After searching his own floor, he started walking towards the floor below.

　　Seeing this, Lin Chen couldn't help but realize some truth.

　　Human desires are indeed powerful.

　　When a person gets more rewards with smaller efforts.

　　Then this person will be deeply attracted to this process and become addicted.

　　Once this addiction process is formed, the price you need to pay will become larger and larger later.

　　This person will not give up easily.

　　So, wait until all the dead people's supplies in this building have been plundered.

　　The only homes left alive were not yet plundered.

　　Then people like the grumpy old man are very likely to take action against these living people.

　　When the time comes, conflicts may arise, leading to bloodshed and even death.

　　No surprise then.

　　Lin Chen felt that the materials in this building should be able to withstand about two or three days of looting.

　　Wait until everyone's supplies are almost consumed.

　　Then the conflict between the living and the living is inevitable.

　　Lin Chen has high expectations for this.

　　After all, most of the people in this building are actually his enemies.

　　In the previous life, the people in this building couldn't get in because the door was closed in advance, so zombies couldn't get in.

　　So there were many survivors left at first.

　　And many of these survivors later lived for two years like Lin Chen.

　　On the day Lin Chen died, many of these people participated in the carve-up of Lin Chen.

　　Therefore, Lin Chen could see these enemies killing each other in a few days.

　　Of course he was looking forward to it.

　　At this time, a message came from Lin Chen's mobile phone.

　　That was a friend request from "Cao Ah Ma" in the group.

　　"Hello, Brother Chen, I am Cao Ben in the group."

　　Lin Chen recalled it and quickly remembered it.

　　This Cao Ben was the only person who risked his life to close the door of this building and came back alive.

　　This guy later killed his neighbor across the door.

　　In Lin Chen's mind, Cao Ben was labeled with two labels: "Dangerous Person" and "Ruthless Person".

　　Under Lin Chen's surveillance, Cao Ben received a large amount of food from the neighbor across the door.

　　But only water is lacking.

　　So he joined in the search for his neighbors today.

　　He searched the other two houses on the same floor that had no living people.

　　But now Lin Chen couldn't imagine the purpose of Cao Ben becoming a friend.

　　What does he want to do?

　　Want to go up to the 23rd floor to grab my supplies?

　　Out of curiosity, Lin Chen agreed to Cao Ben's friend request.

　　"Brother Chen, I have quite a lot to eat here."

　　"Do you need me to share some with you?"

　　Cao Ben directly stated his purpose as soon as he started.

　　This made Lin Chen confused.

　　Now everyone is in a state of shortage of supplies.

　　No one can guarantee that their supplies are sufficient.

　　This Cao Ben actually wants to share some supplies with him?

　　Is there any ulterior purpose?

　　What's the sinister plan?

　　Lin Chen kept speculating in his mind.

　　Seeing that Lin Chen didn't reply for a long time, Cao Ben sent another message.

　　"Brother Chen, I don't mean anything else."

　　"I thought what you said in the group was quite reasonable."

　　"I just think that Brother Chen should be a friend worth making."

　　"Brother Chen doesn't trust me now. It's normal."

　　"Whenever I need my little brother in the future, just ask Brother Chen." Biquge said,

　　"I won't bother Brother Chen."

　　After these messages, Cao Ben didn't send any more messages.

　　Only then did Lin Chen understand Cao Ben's intention.

　　I have to say that Cao Ben has a very high sense of crisis.

　　He should know that these days will never end soon.

　　Therefore, we need to gather together early and accumulate strength early.

　　But unfortunately, Lin Chen doesn't need such a group right now.

　　He has unlimited supplies and an indestructible safe house.

　　No need for other humans at all.

　　But Lin Chen changed his mind again.

　　There are many enemies in this building.

　　It's not like he can go out and solve them one by one.

　　So sometimes there will be an embarrassing situation that is beyond reach.

　　At this time, there was a younger brother like Cao Ben who took the initiative to surrender.

　　Maybe it will be of some use at some point.

　　But soon, Lin Chen felt that this idea was not practical.

　　After all, humans use each other.

　　While you are using your little brother, he must also want to get something in return from you.

　　But now Lin Chen just wants to live well alone.

　　He also doesn't want to do any favors to others.

　　So he felt that this idea should be shelved for now.