On the way back, Su Yun didn’t retrace her original route. Instead, she went along the street she used to take to work. There were many zombies wandering around on this street.
A lot of taxis lay scattered crookedly across the road. After crashing, many of them had leaked gasoline and diesel all over the ground—it was a pity.
Now that she had a gasoline-and-diesel generator, she needed to stockpile some fuel. Su Yun looked at the cars along the street.
She decided to leave things as they were for tonight. In any case, no one would come to take these things now.
A few zombies, having caught the scent on Su Yun, were already chasing after her. She didn’t linger and ran straight toward home, only stopping briefly to rest when she felt her stamina failing.
Glancing at the pitch-black intersection ahead, Su Yun avoided the street with the bar and turned into a nearby alley, sprinting straight toward the garbage alley.
She had no idea how many zombies she had shaken off behind her.
In the garbage alley, the corpse that had been gnawed on earlier had completely turned into a zombie. Blocked by several trash bins, it wandered back and forth in the narrow alley.
Su Yun leapt onto a trash bin and struck viciously, chopping off its head in a single blow. However, several chips appeared on the cleaver’s blade—clearly, this weapon was ruined as well.
She casually tossed the cleaver into the trash bin.
With a backpack weighing dozens of pounds on her back, Su Yun struggled a bit as she jumped over the wall.
Most of the zombies wandering around the garden residential complex were property staff and security guards. After the residents were infected and turned into zombies, most were trapped inside their homes or only moved around the stairwells.
Fortunately, this was an old residential complex with relatively few people.
Arriving downstairs at her building, Su Yun glanced at the floor where the elevator was stopped. There were probably several zombies trapped inside the elevator.
Holding a cleaver, she quickly made her way upstairs. Zombies chased after her from behind; Su Yun slashed at one and immediately followed up with a hard kick.
The zombie rolled down the stairs, crashing into the ones coming up below, causing them to tumble down a couple of steps as well.
Su Yun rushed all the way up to the eighth floor. During the climb, her backpack was torn open in several places.
The zombies that had been wandering on the eighth floor were nowhere to be seen. Su Yun carefully opened her apartment door. Wanting to sleep peacefully tonight, she casually placed her backpack on the sofa.
After entering the kitchen, she put the refrigerator into her spatial storage. When she came back out, she used the refrigerator to block the front door—her door wasn’t made of particularly sturdy material and wouldn’t withstand several zombie impacts.
After everything was set, Su Yun took off her vest and removed her hat and mask. She drew two buckets of water from the well in her spatial storage and washed herself clean.
She only stopped once the rotting stench on her body had faded somewhat. Killing zombies up close had splattered her with black blood all over.
It was impossible to completely wash away the smell of decay—she could only suppress it a bit.
After bathing, Su Yun wanted to use the toilet. Lifting the toilet lid, she saw that the water inside was gray-black and full of sediment.
This was all polluted water, but it was just fine for flushing the toilet.
The air conditioner in the living room was on. Taking a thin blanket to cover herself, Su Yun slept directly on the sofa.
There was no air conditioner in her bedroom, and the sofa was soft—sleeping here was perfect.
Lying on the sofa, Su Yun let her consciousness sink into the spatial storage. She sorted and organized all the supplies she had collected that night, and only then did she fall into a deep sleep.
……
The blazing sun was high in the sky, and the temperature climbed to around forty-two degrees Celsius.
After getting up in the morning, Su Yun thought about what she needed to do next—she would probably be busy for quite some time.
She took out the chili sauce she had collected the previous night from her spatial storage and let it slowly thaw, drawing a bucket of water to set aside in the meantime.
The natural gas at home could still be used for the next couple of days, and before the power went out, the induction cooker was also still usable.
Su Yun boiled a pot of water on the gas stove and cooked noodles once it was boiling. At the same time, she heated a pan on the induction cooker and stir-fried crayfish tails once the pan was hot.
Following video tutorials step by step, the taste was far inferior to what you’d get in a restaurant, but for Su Yun, it was still delicious.
There weren’t many crayfish tails. She evenly distributed them, making seventeen bowls of crayfish noodles, adding all the seasonings, and leaving just one bowl on the table.
She put the rest into her spatial storage. She would be going out frequently in the coming days, so she needed to prepare more food to store away.
If she got hungry while busy outside, she could just take food out of the spatial storage to eat, instead of having to rely on unsatisfying snacks like chips and bread as she had the night before.
Home-cooked food used generous ingredients, and one bowl of crayfish noodles was enough to fill her up.
She glanced at the dishwasher under the cupboard. Lu Xiumei had probably used it in the past few days—the inside was full of black sediment.
Obviously, it had been washed with water contaminated by zombies.
The dishes inside hadn’t even been taken out.
Su Yun didn’t dare use those dishes. She took out a small dishwasher from her spatial storage and placed a bucket of clean water from the storage at the sink connection.
This small dishwasher was something she had taken from the supermarket warehouse the night before. After putting the dirty kitchenware from the morning inside, Su Yun began kneading dough.
In the hot weather, the dough fermented quickly just sitting in the room. Taking out two steamers, Su Yun placed the prepared dough into them.
She steamed batch after batch and stored them in her spatial storage, staying busy in the kitchen without taking a break.
Her thoughts drifted again to the appliances in the shops along the food street—dough mixers, steamers…