Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

As soon as Shen Zechuan and his group returned to the residential area, the first thing they did was to go and meet Gu Tianqi with Song Lian, the captain of the supernatural combat team who had accompanied them.

Upon hearing that they were back, Gu Tianqi was already waiting in his office. As soon as he saw them enter, he asked, "You're finally back! How did it go?"

"Reporting to the commander, everything went smoothly! We found more than a dozen surviving medical staff at the hospital and brought back a large amount of medical supplies, which are being inventoried by our specialists. We will report back to you later! In addition, we also rescued five researchers from the North City Research Institute, two of whom are professors. We also transported some of the institute's research equipment back, but the rest will require a large transport vehicle to bring back."

"Okay! Go and arrange for the medical staff and researchers first, then let the team members get some rest. You can write a report for me later about the details. As for the remaining equipment, I'll send someone and a vehicle to bring it back later."

"Yes!" Song Lian saluted and turned to leave.

After Song Lian left, Gu Tianqi looked at Yan Fei and the others, frowning deeply: "Why do you look like you've fled after just one day? How are you? Is any of you injured?"

Yan Fei shook his head: "It's nothing, he just looks a little dirty, but he's actually quite energetic."

After being out for more than a day, everyone had killed quite a few zombies, and their bodies were covered in blood and the smell of rotting flesh. In addition, the hot weather had caused them to sweat a lot, so they could only find a safe place to sleep on the ground at night. Therefore, they looked quite disheveled.

The soldiers in the team were actually similar to them, except that they wore camouflage uniforms, which were more resistant to getting dirty.

"It's good that you're alright. By the way, you didn't come back last night. Little Zhou even came to my place late at night asking about you. I'll send a guard to tell Little Zhou right now. You two should go back and take a shower and rest." Gu Tianqi breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly remembered that Zhou Yang had come to him last night to ask about you, and he had promised to have someone inform him.

Yan Fei stopped Gu Tianqi from calling for help and said, "Uncle, no need. Let's go back and take a shower first, then go straight to Zhou Yang's house and pick up Yao Yao."

Shen Zechuan nodded in agreement, "Uncle Gu, there's no need to trouble the guards with such a small matter. We can go by ourselves."

Hearing this, Gu Tianqi didn't insist anymore and agreed: "That's fine! Yao Yao has been troubling Xiao Zhou for almost two days, I feel really bad about it. You guys should pick her up quickly, and we'll have a good meal together tonight."

"Uncle Gu, let's head out! I feel like I'm about to stink!" Lu Xingye sniffed his collar and almost fainted from the stench. Seeing that they were almost done talking, he immediately wanted to leave.

Gu Tianqi waved his hand with amusement, dismissing the group: "Alright, alright, go ahead!"

The group rushed back to the villa. For the first time, they didn't take a shower, and they all tacitly washed themselves several times with shower gel before they finally felt clean.

Half an hour later, the group gathered in the living room and then set off together for Zhou Yang's house.

Yan Fei originally planned to pick up Gu Yaoyao by himself, but Shen Zechuan insisted on going with him. Then Lu Xingye heard this and clamored to come along for a free meal. Chai Jin also expressed his desire to eat something delicious. Since everyone wanted to go, Xu Zhiyi couldn't be left out, so in the end, everyone went together.

By the time the group climbed 18 floors and arrived at Zhou Yang's house, it was already past 7 p.m., and the sun had long since set.

Meanwhile, Zhou Yang and Gu Yaoyao were still making dinner together inside. The little girl was sitting to one side, helping to wash the bok choy and baby bok choy with a small basin, carefully peeling off the leaves from each vegetable.

Although the process was a bit inefficient, Zhou Yang didn't rush her. After quickly finishing the other food preparation work, he patiently watched over her. He waited for her to finish washing the vegetables before helping her put them into the colander.

I had just heated the oil in the pan when I heard the doorbell ring, so I had to turn off the heat and go open the door.

Zhou Yang guessed that Shen Zechuan and the others might have returned, so General Gu sent someone to inform him. When he opened the door, he saw Shen Zechuan and the other four standing outside, and he was overjoyed.

"You're back! Why didn't you rest first? Have you eaten yet?"

"Uncle Gu originally said he would send someone to inform you, but we figured we were coming to pick up Gu Yaoyao anyway, so we just came directly. As for dinner, we haven't had it yet... Lu Xingye insists on eating here for free, doesn't he know if that's convenient?" Shen Zechuan's face became a little embarrassed as he spoke.

Zhou Yang was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "That's convenient! I haven't even started cooking yet anyway, but you'll have to cook another pot of rice yourselves. I only cooked rice for myself, Yao Yao, and Wan Dou."

“No problem! I’ve already learned how to cook!” Lu Xingye was the first to raise his hand in agreement, looking very proud.

"Then you can come in first. By the way, has Lieutenant General Gu had dinner yet? Why don't we invite him to come along? We're going to make a big feast anyway, one more person won't make a difference."

Upon hearing Zhou Yang mention Lieutenant General Gu, Chai Jin suddenly remembered that Gu Tianqi seemed to have mentioned having dinner together: "Oh right! Uncle Gu seems to have said we'd have dinner together tonight, we all forgot. Why don't you call Uncle Gu now and ask, Brother Yan?"

"Alright." Yan Fei only then remembered this, took out his satellite phone, and went to the side to call Gu Tianqi. Luckily, he had brought this thing with him when he left home, otherwise it would have been a real hassle.

Two minutes later, Yan Fei returned after hanging up the phone: "My uncle said he'll be over in a bit. Thanks, Zhou Yang."

Zhou Yang smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay, you guys cook first, then play with Yao Yao in the living room for a while. I can cook very quickly."

After saying that, he took out a new pressure cooker from his spatial storage, taught the group how to use it, and then went to cook.

With six more adults to be added, the amount of food prepared earlier was definitely not enough, so Zhou Yang took out a few more kinds of vegetables and meat from his space.

Besides the original dishes of sweet and sour pork with pineapple, stir-fried pork liver with greens, and baby bok choy in broth, he added five more dishes: stir-fried beef with green peppers, braised fish head, boiled sliced ​​pork, stir-fried celery with enoki mushrooms, and a mutated chicken giblet soup.

Finally, fearing it wouldn't be enough, he took out a portion of Kung Pao Chicken made with mutated chicken thigh meat that he had previously stored in his space, as well as some spicy rabbit heads that he had packed from a restaurant before the apocalypse.

That makes a total of 9 dishes and 1 soup, which should be enough for us.

When the last chicken giblet soup was ready, Shen Zechuan took the initiative to come over and help serve the dish.

Seeing this, the others came over to help set the table, and even Gu Yaoyao helped get chopsticks.

Looking at the time, it was almost 8 o'clock. Seeing that Gu Tianqi hadn't arrived yet, Zhou Yang turned to Yan Fei and asked, "Is Uncle Gu almost here?"

"I'll make another call and ask."

Just as Yan Fei finished speaking and was about to pick up the satellite phone, there was a knock on the door.

"It must be Uncle Gu, Pea, open the door." Hearing the knock, Zhou Yang guessed that it must be Gu Tianqi, so he called out to Pea, who was closest to the door.

"Woof!" Pea responded, lifting half her body and skillfully opening the three doors.

Gu Tianqi, who was carrying two bags of rice and two jugs of oil outside the door, found it quite strange that a dog had opened the door for him for the first time.

"Hey, Zhou, your dog can even open doors!"

“The pea has evolved intelligence, equivalent to a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, so opening a door is no problem for her,” Zhou Yang said with a smile. Then, noticing that Gu Tianqi was still holding something, she looked quite embarrassed and asked, “Uncle Gu, why did you bring something with you?”

Gu Tianqi put the things down against the wall, then waved his hand dismissively, his expression leaving no room for refusal: "I can't just come empty-handed and expect to eat and drink for free, can I? Besides, my daughter Yaoyao has been sitting here with you for two days already. Consider this payment for our meals. If you don't accept it, I won't dare come again!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yang could no longer refuse and quickly invited everyone to sit down.

Everyone sat down to eat together happily. Gu Yaoyao took her small bowl and sat down in the seat closest to Wandou, secretly feeding Wandou bits of meat while eating herself. Everyone saw this but just smiled at each other, pretending not to notice.

Midway through, Gu Tianqi and Shen Zechuan discussed the details of the mission, including the bizarre incident of rescuing more than a dozen medical staff at the hospital.

It's not unusual for a hospital to have more than a dozen survivors; what's unusual is that these people were all on duty in the emergency department on the night of the apocalypse, and they were all tied up and locked in different examination rooms.

"When we found them, they were all so hungry they were dizzy. If it weren't for the bottled water in each examination room, they would have died long ago. It's amazing how the person who saved them went through all that trouble to tie them up and lock them up. Why didn't they leave some food, or at least a few packets of glucose solution from the hospital?"

Lu Xingye took a sip of the chicken giblet soup and then made a comment.

Zhou Yang, feeling guilty, kept poking at the bottom of the rice in his bowl.

As soon as they mentioned the survivors in the hospital's emergency department, he knew he was the one who did it.

However, he was in a hurry to collect medical supplies and only focused on how to tie people up and lock them up safely. He didn't even remember to leave them food.