Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 19 Discovery
The dormitory was in a mess, and it seemed that the deceased on the bed had lived a decadent life before his death.

Lu Xian did not find any notebook or anything like that in this room, so he could not confirm what exactly happened here before the person died.

There was a mobile phone, but the screen was completely shattered and bent over, as if it had been deliberately destroyed.

All the food in the dormitory had been eaten. Chocolate wrappers and other food packaging were thrown on the table, and empty instant noodle bowls were scattered all over the table and the floor.

This person must have eaten all the food before committing suicide.

Lu Xian could only hope that the other rooms were still available.

After leaving the bedroom, I continued exploring and finally found something different.

——There was another metal door in front, and when the dog shone his eyes on it, there was a reflection.

The door was also opened. After entering, the separated rooms were no longer dormitories. Compared with dormitories, they were much larger.

The first thing the two saw was the kitchen, which was equipped with a stove, sink, table, pots, pans, and everything else.

But this place also seemed to have been smashed and looted, with pots and pans scattered all over the floor, and the table was tilted, obviously having been moved.

Lu Xian and Yao Wei had to be careful where they stepped, tiptoeing over the broken pieces of dishes and porcelain on the ground.

There was no food in the kitchen, but in the innermost part, Lu Xian and Yao Wei found something unusual.

There's a skeleton there too, leaning against a metal door.

However, this skeleton was different from the previous ones. It had a set of clothes on its body that almost covered the skeleton.

Judging from the figure, it looked like a chef. A chef's hat had fallen off the chest of the skeleton, and it had already deflated.

The metal door was closed and locked tightly with a mechanical combination lock, isolating the room behind it.

When the mechanical dog's eyes shone up, there was dried black blood on the door, like raised lines hanging from the door to the ground.

Lu Xian examined the red and black blood lines on the door and asked, "How do you think he died?"

Yao Wei shook her head.

Judging from the dragging trajectory, it looked like he had been hit to death. But the door was flat and smooth, with no protrusions or anything like that. How could it be so easy for someone to break it open and cause him to bleed to death?

But Lu Xian soon made a new discovery——

He found some broken porcelain pieces on the ground. The shape was different from the broken pieces of dishes. When he put them together in his mind, they looked like knives.

"Is this... a porcelain knife?"

He looked at the ground and asked.

Yao Wei nodded: "Yeah."

Lu Xian sighed softly: "He also committed suicide. I wonder which of these two people committed suicide first?"

As he spoke, he looked at the skeleton again.

There was a nameplate on the skeleton's clothes. Lu Xian asked the dog to take a look at it and saw that it said:

Chef: Li Xun

Clearance Level: Three
Yao Wei said nothing. She didn't know anyway, and she didn't bother to guess.

Lu Xian moved the dead skeleton away and asked the dog to scan the combination lock.

There's nothing valuable in this kitchen. If there are supplies, are they behind the metal door?

Lu Xian was thinking wildly, and was already speculating that the death of these two people might be because they were trapped here, exhausted their supplies, fell into despair, and thus committed suicide?
The deceased Li Xun was a chef in the kitchen, but he did not have the authority to open the metal door in front of him. Perhaps there were supplies stored behind the metal door, and only someone with a higher level of authority in the shelter could open and allocate them.

Could it be that the two dead people in the shelter had come in in advance to make arrangements and then were trapped here?
Their authority prevented them from unlocking supplies, so they could only use up everything available and edible, and then commit suicide in despair...

Lu Xian didn't tell Yao Wei about these speculations. It didn't matter anyway.

So many years have passed, and this place is just an empty shelter. What's the point of exploring the past?
It’s better to find supplies quickly.

"Five, eight, seven, nine, four, one, seven, nine."

The dog cracked the code, and his eyes began to flicker regularly. Lu Xian read out the numbers in the blinking pattern, then turned the mechanical combination lock. With a "click", the combination lock opened. Lu Xian pushed the heavy metal door, and a strong musty smell came out from behind the door.

Both he and Yao Wei had to cover their noses and retreat, and they only stopped after retreating a long way.

"Dog, see if there's any problem. Can we go in?"

Lu Xian ordered.

The dog was fearless and looked straight in with its eyes.

Lu Xian and Yao Wei saw plastic boxes and shelves piled up behind the door, filled with vegetables and meat, which had become rotten and dry due to the passage of time.

"Alas... there's no hope."

Lu Xian sighed.

He could guess that there must be a cold storage inside.

If the cold storage has electricity all the time and the cooling effect can continue, the things inside may be preserved.

But the current situation is that the cold storage can no longer provide refrigeration, and the things stored in it have become scrapped.

Yao Wei was also a little disappointed and dejected, and didn't say anything.

Lu Xian quickly perked up and said, "Let's go and keep reading. There are still places we haven't seen yet. Maybe we can find something here."

But at this moment, the mechanical dog that had already walked behind the metal door suddenly lit up its eyes, and light reflected from behind the door.

Lu Xian's heart moved, and he quickly looked at it, and immediately showed a look of surprise.

"and many more!"

He grabbed Yao Wei's arm.

Yao Wei had already turned around and was about to walk out, but when Lu Xian pulled her, her body suddenly stiffened.

Lu Xian noticed Yao Wei's abnormality, let go of her hand and said, "Sorry."

Yao Wei shook her head: "I should apologize. I almost hit you just now."

Lu Xian: "..."

This violent woman...

Luckily, it was just a close call...

Yao Wei followed Lu Xian's gaze to the light behind the metal door and saw a lot of bags piled against the wall.

The bag was flat and solid, and was filled to the brim with the things inside, forming a square shape and stacking layer upon layer.

"what?"

She had never found anything like this before, so she felt a little strange, and hope rose in her heart.

It didn't matter if she didn't understand. Anyway, Lu Xian seemed to understand.

This guy always knows everything, and I don't know where he knows it from...

"Rice bag, or flour bag... probably a rice bag."

Lu Xian said, speaking very quickly because of the surprise, "Flour cannot be vacuum-packed, but these bags are obviously vacuum-packed, so they must be filled with rice."

“Isn’t it contaminated?”

Yao Wei asked.

There was a lot of rotten stuff inside and the air was polluted. According to her experience, in such an environment, the food was usually inedible.

Then she heard Lu Xian say: "Maybe not... Food can be stored for a very long time in a vacuum environment, and vacuum packaging proves that the contents are sealed very tightly.

"Besides, we have dogs. We can check whether they are contaminated or not. We can check whether they are bad or not."

(End of this chapter)