I am in the last days, I can connect to reality

After Qin Zhong briefly recounted what he had seen and heard, Sun Jiayi sat down dejectedly, holding her head in her hands, and muttered, "After all the hardships of drifting back, it turns out...it turns out...I've always been skeptical, I just...I just couldn't believe it."

Qin Zhong said helplessly: "You have been on the ship and have not received any news?"

Sun Jiayi replied weakly: "No."

Qin Zhong was a little skeptical and asked, "How is that possible? There's no communication on the ship?"

"Ugh!"

Sun Jiayi sighed and shook his head. "So many things happened that day. In the chaos, a fire broke out on the ship, which just happened to burn out the communication equipment."

Qin Zhong was speechless after hearing his words. After some hesitation, he asked, "Why are there only two of you? Where are the others? This ship is so big, there must be thousands of people on it, right?"

Sun Jiayi sighed and said, "Many people survived that day, but as the number of man-eating monsters increased, many places on the ship became unsafe. We narrowly escaped death and only managed to hide here, but we can only muddle along. We don't know when those monsters will find us."

Listening to Sun Jiayi's complaints, Qin Zhong felt helpless. He had thought that he had finally ended his drifting and boarded a boat, perhaps heading back to the Magic City. Unexpectedly, he encountered such a situation.

Qin Zhong turned his gaze to the unconscious girl and asked, "Who is this? She's quite pretty. Was she bitten?"

Sun Jiayi sighed and said, "Her name is Chi Xinru, my boss's daughter. She was just knocked unconscious, but she wasn't bitten!"

As the two chatted, the girl whimpered and woke up. When she saw Qin Zhong, a stranger, she was stunned at first, then said in surprise, "Jiayi, we... we are back on land?"

Sun Jiayi smiled helplessly, helped Chi Xinru sit up, and said, "This place shouldn't be far from the Magic City..."

At this point, he pointed at Qin Zhong and continued, "I just heard someone shouting outside, so I opened the hatch and rescued him. He said he drifted here from Hengsha Island near the Magic City and had been drifting for about three days..."

After a brief pause, Sun Jiayi hesitated and continued, "However, according to him, things are not peaceful on the shore either. What happened on the boat is also happening on the shore!"

When Chi Xinru heard this, she immediately became confused: "How could this happen? I thought it was only happening on the boat!"

Qin Zhong interrupted at this time, "Although I only stayed in the Magic City after the disaster day, I learned from the radio and television that zombies had occurred all over the world."

These words were like thunder in Chi Xinru's ears. She cried out "Ah" and tears streamed down her face. "Then my dad, my dad..."

Seeing her so sad, Sun Jiayi didn't know how to comfort her. He could only whisper to her anxiously. It was obvious that he still cared about her very much.

Qin Zhong looked at the two people talking in low voices, shrugged his shoulders and looked around.

Although he no longer has to drift on the sea, it seems that this cruise ship is not very safe. Otherwise, Sun Jiayi and this woman named Chi Xinru would not have to hide here.

There weren't many things in the cabin. A table near the inside was filled with canned food, biscuits, bacon, cola, and even several cans of bean sprouts soaked in empty cans of luncheon meat.

It can be seen that Sun Jiayi and the other person have been hiding here for some time. Moreover, they have nowhere to run on the sea, and hiding in such a cabin is really difficult.

……

Just as Qin Zhong was looking around, Sun Jiayi came over and said with a wry smile, "I'm sorry to have laughed at you, Brother Qin. She's been spoiled since she was a child. Her mother died very early, and her father raised her. We always thought it was only like this on this cruise ship, but we didn't expect it to be like this all over the world! Sigh!"

As he spoke, Sun Jiayi sighed heavily, his face full of worry. Qin Zhong patted his shoulder, took out a pack of cigarettes from his bag, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then threw the pack of cigarettes directly to Sun Jiayi.

"Hey, Greater China!"

Seeing that he was also a smoker, Sun Jiayi quickly took out a cigarette, lit it with the lighter handed to her by Qin Zhong, and took a deep puff.

Feeling the smoke circulating in his lungs, Sun Jiayi exhaled heavily and sighed, "I haven't smoked in a while. I've been to all the safer places on the ship. The food here is all collected bit by bit by me..."

Having said that, he turned his head to look at Chi Xinru, who was sitting not far away and wiping her tears. He lowered his voice and said, "I thought I would die here in this life. I really don't want to see you, Brother Qin."

Qin Zhong could understand Sun Jiayi's mental changes very well. In such a doomsday, being trapped in such a narrow space and having to risk his life every day to search for supplies, it was impossible not to be tired.

"What's the situation elsewhere on the ship now? Can the ship still sail?"

As he asked, Qin Zhong pointed at Chi Xinru, who was not far away, and asked, "How did you two survive? It's such a big cruise ship, there must be thousands of passengers, right?"

"Ugh!"

Before Sun Jiayi could finish her words, she sighed heavily and said with a wry smile, "The six months I spent drifting on the sea were like a nightmare from which I would never wake up. Why even talk about it?"

Qin Zhong smiled and did not force him to do anything. Instead, he took out things from his backpack, including a small liquefied gas tank, a stove, and a not-so-small iron pot, and placed them on the stove.

Turning on the liquefied gas stove, blue flames popped out. Qin Zhong took out a large bucket of mineral water and poured it into the pot. Then he smoked and waited for the water to boil.

While waiting for the water to boil, Qin Zhong kept taking out bags of beef and mutton, different canned goods, and even bags of vacuum-packed dehydrated vegetables from his bag in front of the astonished eyes of Sun Jiayi and Chi Xinru.

Soon, after the water boiled, Qin Zhong put the beef and mutton into the pot, opened various cans, took out two bottles of Moutai and several cans of Red Bull, and looked at the two people who were already standing there in a daze.

"Stop staring and take your seat. I've been drifting on the sea for so long and have always wanted to eat hot pot. Today I finally got my wish!"

After two glasses of white wine, Sun Jiayi, who had already opened up her chatterbox, looked curiously at the backpack beside Qin Zhong and asked, "Brother Qin, your backpack..."

Looking at Qin Zhong who was looking at her with a smile, Sun Jiayi hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Is this a treasure bag?"

"Hahaha!"

Qin Zhong laughed loudly, patted his backpack, and said with a smile: "I guess so!"

Then, Qin Zhong changed the subject and asked about the situation on the boat. Sun Jiayi probably understood that Qin Zhong didn't want to talk to her more about the backpack.

Of course, Sun Jiayi was not a fool. He knew that this backpack must be Qin Zhong’s secret, and he certainly couldn’t ask too much.

When Qin Zhong asked about the boat again, Sun Jiayi didn't refuse. She exchanged a glance with Chi Xinru, smiled bitterly, and said, "On July 4th..."