Chapter 73: Won't it be nuked?

"Tan Huajun, you don't need to test us. To tell you the truth, we aren't bad people, but we definitely can't be counted as good people either!"

Zhang Su said solemnly.

Tan Huajun nodded repeatedly. "I know, big brother, but I... I'm really worried about the situation at home. Do you know when there will be a rescue?"

"Rescue..."

Zhang Su pursed his lips and shook his head. "Don't think about rescue. Actually, I don't live far away, just in Shengqin Garden to the north. A few days ago, I saw a SWAT team in a firefight with zombies. There were thirty or forty of them, but in the end..."

Speaking to the end, Zhang Su shook his head slowly, his face full of desolation.

Tan Huajun covered her mouth with her hand, unable to believe it. "I... I feel like zombies aren't that hard to deal with. SWAT has guns, how could they not handle it?"

"Not that hard?"

Zhang Su curled his lip strangely. "It's not hard because there aren't many zombies! Dealing with one or two is no problem, and you can run away from ten. What if a hundred surround you? That night, the SWAT team was facing a siege of more than ten thousand zombies. How high do you think their odds of winning were?"

Thinking of the densely packed zombies that stretched as far as the eye could see that night, Zhang Su still felt a chill in his feet. He later realized that he could only see the situation on one side, and there might have been just as many zombies besieging the other side...

He admired Qin Ya for being able to snatch a chance of survival from the jaws of death; it was truly not easy.

"Bad!"

Tan Huajun was suddenly stunned, the blood draining from her chubby face.

"What's wrong?"

Zhang Su asked hurriedly.

Zheng Xinyu and the others stopped their work when they heard Tan Huajun's exclamation and looked at her.

At a time like this, everyone was a bird startled by the mere twang of a bowstring, their nerves in a state of high tension, and any abnormal reaction would make people suspicious.

"If... if there are zombies everywhere in Qincheng, will they throw nuclear weapons to control the infection?"

Tan Huajun asked Zhang Su with a mournful face.

Zhang Su was taken aback, a strange expression appearing on his face. He rubbed his face and said, "Even if they could still launch a nuke, little Qincheng would have to wait in line."

"It's all like this outside, not just here, big sister."

Wang Guangjun added at the right time, the wrinkles on his face seeming to deepen a bit.

The term "big sister" made Tan Huajun feel a little warmth, but the shocking news made her feel like she had fallen into an ice cellar.

"It's all like this outside, no rescue, then aren't we dead for sure?"

Tan Huajun subconsciously looked at Zhang Su.

Zhang Su smiled lightly and shook his head. "No rescue, so we won't live? Being this negative won't do. To tell you the truth, there are plenty of people who escaped from the residential complex like us. There were dozens or hundreds of people just today!"

"Things are very bad, but not as bad as you think. It's terrible outside, but not as terrible as you think. Faith, understand? You must have faith!"

Zhang Su patted Tan Huajun on the shoulder vigorously, spouting nonsense to fool her.

Burning passion doesn't necessarily mean you'll survive, but a heart turned to ash basically means no way to live!

Tan Huajun looked at Zhang Su in a daze, and suddenly her eyes turned red. She said solemnly, "Big brother, you're right. I must have faith. My daughter and father might still be waiting for me to save them. I must pull myself together!"

"Hmm... you still need to be psychologically prepared. But... where is your husband?"

Zhang Su changed the subject and asked.

"The dog thing cheated. We divorced years ago. Men are not... not one of them is good, heh heh."

Tan Huajun subconsciously wanted to curse, but thinking that this fierce-looking guy in front of her was also a man, she hurriedly stopped.

Zhang Su pretended not to hear and turned to Zhong Xiaoshan. "Xiaoshan, Old Wang, stop working. Pick some things you like to eat and have a good meal!"

"Eh, okay!"

Zhong Xiaoshan agreed readily and went out to call Zheng Xinyu.

"Then I won't be polite?"

Wang Guangjun asked tentatively.

Zhang Su smiled. "Eat whatever you want, and then let yourself fill a backpack. That's enough, right?"

"Enough, enough, Brother Zhang, you're too righteous."

Wang Guangjun beamed with joy.

Zhang Su looked at Tan Huajun again and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"Not... not yet today." Tan Huajun answered subconsciously.

"Then let's eat together. We know you're not a bad person, so we won't do anything to you. You saw it earlier—that guy attacked me first, so I finished him off. Come, pick for yourself, whatever you like to eat, take it."

Zhang Su had already treated himself as the owner of the convenience store.

"Eh, eh, thank you. Also, big brother, there's a generator here. If we start it, we can boil water."

Tan Huajun saw Wang Guangjun take two bags of instant noodles and suddenly thought of the generator behind the house.

"There's a generator?" Zhang Su was overjoyed and asked hurriedly, "Where is it? How do we start it?"

It wasn't easy to get hot water these days!

"It's in the back, turn around from the bathroom. But it has a small malfunction, and it's been dragging on and not repaired. And... there are two zombies in the back."

Tan Huajun said.

"It's broken?" Zhang Su waved his hand, feeling uninterested. "Whatever, anyway, the generator is very noisy. If it starts, wouldn't that be like blowing a charge horn for the nearby zombies?"

Tan Huajun smiled rarely. "It won't. It's a silent generator. The noise doesn't exceed fifty decibels when it's running, and that fat guy Xu you mentioned also did soundproofing, so there's basically no movement."

"I see... Old Wang, do you know how to repair a generator?"

Zhang Su turned his head and asked Wang Guangjun.

Wang Guangjun shook his head, then nodded. "I've tinkered with farm machinery at home, so I can try."

"That..."

Tan Huajun raised her hand with a smile. "I know how to repair it, but I don't have tools. If we can go to the repair shop across the street and get some tools, it should be repairable."

Zhang Su looked at Tan Huajun with some surprise. "You have this skill? I really couldn't tell! I have some tools here, see if they're enough. Xiaoshan, bring the toolbox we found on the Q5 earlier."

If possible, Zhang Su still hoped to use the generator. Hot meals were desirable, and people always hoped to live better.

Before long, Zhong Xiaoshan brought the toolbox over. The brand-new latches hadn't been opened many times.

Tan Huajun opened the toolbox, looked at it, and nodded. "These are enough. But if I go alone, those two zombies might..."

"Aren't there just two zombies? Old Wang, let's go, protect our technician Tan and repair the generator!"

Zhang Su greeted, and Wang Guangjun immediately picked up his crowbar and responded.

The three went around to the back of the convenience store, and sure enough, as Tan Huajun said, there were two zombies wandering in the corner.

Zhang Su whistled lightly, immediately attracting the zombies' attention, and they started running toward the three of them with their thin, long legs.

*Pfft, pfft, thump! *

Zhang Su and Wang Guangjun took action, naturally finishing off the zombies quite neatly.

Tan Huajun stood to the side, feeling slightly uncomfortable seeing the bloody scene. "A-actually, you just need to use a steel bar to poke into the eye socket, and... and you can kill it."

Zhang Su and Wang Guangjun looked at each other and turned to look at Tan Huajun. "That's how you killed zombies? Poking eye sockets?"

"Yes..." Tan Huajun nodded.

"Okay, okay, okay... let's go, repair the generator."

Zhang Su didn't know what to say for a moment. Of course, he knew it was easy to kill a zombie by poking its eye socket, but he couldn't aim!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 74 =====