1152: Buy flower pots

Thinking of this, Hong Lei said with a serious expression: "Wai Bi Ba Bu."

The moment his voice fell, the Soldier at the door gave him a strange look.

Hong Lei didn't explain anything. At this moment, he could clearly see the brand new plant catalog unlocked on the System panel after achieving the previous achievement.

Delicious Nut: 3 Energy / each [Catalog Unlocked]

Introduction: This item tastes extremely good, comes in a huge portion, and also has a taunt attribute. It is a delicious treat that ordinary Zombies cannot refuse.

Evaluation: A front shield with thick HP, possesses general monster-attracting ability, has a small chance of stuffing Zombies to death, and will have miraculous effects when used with long-range attack type plants.

"Delicious Nut?" Muttering to himself, Hong Lei had a rough understanding of this unlocked plant catalog.

Unlike the gourmet nuts he initially imagined, this plant is mainly meant for Zombies to eat.

In the introduction, Hong Lei also learned that this item is positioned similarly to a meat shield and can stand at the very front of the line!

If they had this plant catalog in the Hospital, it would have been relatively easier for their family to leave.

However, it didn't make much difference. In the end, he and his family could only be brought here and isolated.

Three days of isolation disrupted all of Hong Lei's plans.

Eating the rice topped with stir-fried pork and chili, Hong Lei secretly made up his mind that he definitely couldn't stay here forever.

Lin Yue's wife and Hong Lei's daughter were fine; under this level of isolation and care, there was no possibility of life-threatening danger.

But he himself had to leave!

It would be best if there was no doomsday, but if doomsday really arrived, then he would need to make preparations during this final period of time to provide safety assurance for his family later on.

After quickly finishing his meal, Hong Lei consciously went to sleep on the simple single bed nearby.

When he turned his head, he could see a Sunflower placed on the ground beside him.

Before their family of three was separated, Hong Lei gave all three Pea Shooters to his wife and daughter, while he kept one Sunflower.

The energy produced by the Sunflower could only be discovered and picked up by him, so it was naturally most suitable for him to keep it with him.

From the time he arrived here until eating and sleeping, Hong Lei had also picked up two points of energy.

Enough to exchange for one Potato Mine.

However, exchanging for a Potato Mine at this stage didn't have much significance,

After all, there wasn't the terrifying situation like before in the Hospital.

Deep night.

The surroundings were completely silent. The moment the heavy rain stopped, Hong Lei slightly opened his eyes.

"Buzz buzz buzz~"

In the night sky outside the window, helicopters, accompanied by the noisy sound of rotating wings, shone dazzling searchlights as they headed towards the Hospital.

On the streets outside, there were also rows of vehicles moving.

Had the Army integrated their new forces and launched a large-scale attack?

Just by looking at the situation outside the window, Hong Lei had his own guess.

He turned his head to look outside this isolation Classroom.

In the area by the door, there was still a Soldier guarding him.

However, the other party was only guarding the door to go out.

Looking at it this way, it seemed he could go out through the window at the back.

When he came up, Hong Lei had observed that the Classroom he was in was only on the second floor.

The height of the second floor of the School was not as exaggerated as the Hospital. Hong Lei even felt he could jump down directly and leave without injury.

With this thought, when he came to the window, Hong Lei immediately sighed slightly, a bit silently.

He thought to himself, why was the Soldier outside the door only guarding the entrance?

It turned out that on the playground behind this Teaching Building, there was a team of seven or eight Soldiers frequently patrolling.

Even if he jumped out of the back window, he would likely run into these people and would still be caught and brought back in the end.

The Army was quite strict with survivors like them who had seen Zombies.

After observing for a while, just as Hong Lei was planning to find another way later, suddenly, an urgent whistle erupted from the upper floor of his Teaching Building!

"Beep beep beep!"

Under the urgent whistle, all the Soldiers Hong Lei could see quickly ran upstairs!

"Roar!" As this familiar roar emerged from upstairs, Hong Lei roughly understood the situation.

Someone upstairs had hidden their infection with the virus and had now become a Zombie!

The appearance of the Zombie caused the Army here to fully enter a state of combat.

He turned his head to look outside the door.

The Soldier who had been guarding the door also got up at this moment.

He glanced at Hong Lei in the Classroom, then quickly headed towards the area where the whistle had sounded.

"It's time to go." Seizing this opportunity, Hong Lei opened the window, held the Sunflower, gritted his teeth, and jumped down!

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... ...

When Hong Lei left the School with some mud on him, he could also see that during this time, several people had also slipped out from outside the School.

Everyone had run out taking advantage of the chaos.

After exchanging glances, no one in the crowd said anything more. They quickly stepped onto different streets and ran into the darkness.

The isolation area seemed strict, but in reality, there were big loopholes. Those who truly wanted to leave couldn't be stopped.

After quickly leaving the School area, Hong Lei arrived at an Old Street in the County.

The entire street was still bustling with people, and the shops on both sides were operating normally.

No one had completely noticed the appearance of Zombies.

He took out his telephone from his pocket.

There was finally a signal on the telephone.

The moment the telephone connected to the internet, several messages were pushed through.

"An extremely malicious group fight involving hot weapons has been discovered at the County Hospital. Our County has deployed a large number of military forces to handle the issue. We hope the public remains calm."

"Seasonal influenza has swept across our province. We hope the public will minimize going out as much as possible to ensure their own safety."

... ...

On the internet, it was still the same state of entertainment supremacy as before.

The news of a celebrity's crime caused the entire internet to fall into a heated discussion.

When flipping through news articles, there was no news whatsoever about Zombies or even the virus.

The series of information learned from his telephone made Hong Lei basically understand why this Old Street still maintained its original state.

These people simply didn't know anything about Zombies!

He quickly came to the largest shopping mall on the Old Street.

With just one glance, Hong Lei's eyelids twitched.

Inside the entire mall, the goods hadn't changed much.

But there were patrolling Soldiers walking around.

Even beside the cashier, there stood a Soldier.

"Mr., due to the spread of seasonal influenza, our food must undergo strict inspection before it can be sold. New food sources will take a considerable amount of time to be put on the shelves. Because food sources are limited at this stage, food products currently cannot be purchased more than fifty catties per person at one time, and no more than two hundred catties per family."

"We hope Mr. cooperates."

As Hong Lei walked towards the interior of the mall, he happened to see the cashier at the counter on the other side patiently explaining to a customer who had taken a large pile of rice, flour, grains, oil, and toilet paper.

The customer checking out was not old, at most twenty-three or twenty-four. His messy, wet hair fell in strands on his forehead. On his face, there was a clear look of lingering fear, as if he had just narrowly escaped from some extremely terrifying place.

"Can't buy more than fifty catties? Why not? It's not like I can't afford the money, why won't you sell it to me!"

"I have money, I'll pay double the price!"

After the young man learned that he could only buy fifty catties of food, his already startled expression, like a bird startled by a bow, completely turned into irritability at this moment!

"Mr., please cooperate." The Soldier beside the cashier kindly reminded him.

"Cooperate? I'll cooperate with your mother! Limiting grain purchases, are you thinking of taking all this grain for yourselves? I said why you were isolating me, so it turns out you were taking advantage of this time to snatch all the grain!"

"Talking about cooperation with us here, if you have the ability, go talk to the Zombies!"

The young man's words exposed a lot of information, yet he himself no longer cared at all.

Seeing the people in the mall looking over one after another, the young man said loudly: "The Zombie apocalypse is coming! I saw Zombies eating people with my own eyes! Under this doomsday disaster, the officials we provide for are still telling us lies, deceiving us that everything is normal, so we can just wait here and die!"

"Hahaha, a bunch of ignorant and pathetic people."

The young man's mental state had clearly suffered considerable stimulation.

His words at this moment all seemed to have a neurotic quality, detached from reality.

"Mr., please trouble you to come with us." After the Soldier beside him finished speaking, another Soldier stepped forward and then took away the young man who was widely spreading doomsday theories.

Hong Lei witnessed the entire process, only shaking his head in silence.

That young man should have also thought that his ability to escape and buy food was all due to the Army turning a blind eye.

After all, just buying a large pile of food had already exposed himself.

The Army hadn't pointed this out either.

Originally, if he had cooperated, he could have added fifty catties of grain reserves for his future days. By knowing about the doomsday situation one step ahead and preparing, he would clearly be much better off than most people.

After the matter was made clear, the surrounding Soldiers had no choice but to control him again.

In fact, under this kind of uncertain disaster, it was the correct approach for the Army to control these key materials.

If there were no restrictions, the public would buy grain in large quantities, and panic would disintegrate people's morale even faster than the Zombies.

Unfortunately, that young man couldn't figure it out.

Fortunately, Hong Lei's demand for grain was not primary...

More than ten minutes later, Hong Lei came to the counter with the things he had chosen.

Fifty catties of rice, and an entire cart of plastic flower pots.

These were almost all the flower pots in the mall.

This way of buying items by an individual was a very Heaven-Defying scene, whether placed in a doomsday environment or normal society.

After confirming that the grain did not exceed fifty catties, the cashier didn't ask any more questions and let him check out and leave.

Standing at the entrance of the store, Hong Lei let out a heavy breath and dialed a telephone number.

"Hello, Hong Ge?"

"Drive here to pick me up. I'm outside the largest shopping mall on the Old Street in the County."

"Be right there."

... ...

"Whoosh~"

Water splashed from the puddles by the roadside as an SUV stopped on the road in front of Hong Lei.

"Hong Ge!" The car door opened, and a burly man wearing a large gold chain around his neck walked towards Hong Lei with a sincere smile.

"Haven't seen you for half a year, your build is getting stronger and stronger, kid." Hong Lei looked at the other party, who was about the same build as himself, and punched his shoulder.

"Heh heh, it's all fat, looks good but isn't useful," the burly man wearing the gold chain said with a chuckle.

"Alright, give me a ride," Hong Lei said directly after a brief moment of familiarity.