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Chapter 5 - Chapter 0005: The Collapsed World

"There are so many corpses outside, do you think they will leave after they are full?"

Tian Yuanyuan opened her mouth, every time the glass door in the distance made a crashing sound, her body trembled, and her face was pale.

"Help... ah..."

Someone hiding in another house on the mountaintop was found by a giant rat, and just let out a cry for help, which immediately turned into a heart-wrenching scream.

"Who knows." Yunhai turned his head to look at Cui Hao beside him, and said with a bitter smile: "A rat's nose is more sensitive than a dog's. As long as we can't leave the mountaintop, it's useless no matter where we hide. Besides, bamboo rats are very good at digging holes. Even those that haven't mutated can bite through hard bamboo, let alone biting through bricks now..."

As he was speaking, he suddenly sensed something strange, his eyebrows raised, and under the surprised gazes of the others, Yunhai suddenly ran out of the passage and entered the lobby, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, raised the curtain, ignoring the giant rats circling at the door, occasionally hitting the floor-to-ceiling glass wall, he looked far away.

On the top of a tree on the edge of the back forest, a smooth blue-black skull protruded from the dense foliage, silent and extremely hidden. Even ordinary people would hardly notice it even if they stood under the tree, but with that faint spiritual connection, Yunhai immediately discovered the Alien Queen.

Although it didn't have the organ of eyes, the Alien Queen also discovered Yunhai's existence, its smooth skull tilted slightly and looked over from afar.

"What's wrong?"

Big Head appeared beside Yunhai, seeing the corpses scattered on the mountaintop being bitten tragically, his right hand holding the police baton trembled violently.

"What happened?"

Cui Hao also followed.

Before Yunhai tried to send a command in his mind, the Alien Queen retracted her head into the dense foliage and disappeared.

Just as he was about to appease Datou and Cui Hao, he suddenly felt something, Yunhai raised his head and looked at the sky.

The sky was clear blue, not even a speck of cloud could be seen. Following his gaze and looking up, Datou and Cui Hao were puzzled and hadn't had time to speak...

A "whoosh" sound rang out, in the pupils of Cui Hao and Datou that suddenly shrank, a group of large birds flapped their wings and flew from the back forest.

Their body length was about seventy or eighty centimeters, their beaks and claws were sharp, and there were hundreds of them. The blue-brown birds flapped their wings and fell rapidly like bullets, their sharp claws caught giant rats and immediately flew into the air.

A very spectacular scene appeared. In an instant, they flew to tens of meters above the sky. The birds released their sharp claws. Under the surprised gaze of Yunhai and Cui Hao, a large number of giant rats let out terrified "squeaks" and fell from the sky with a "thump," their stomachs burst and their intestines spilled out.

Some fell under the cliff, more giant rats fell on the hard stone ground on the mountaintop, the other giant rats on the ground were terrified, and they scattered like a hornet's nest, some ran to the back forest, some fled aimlessly, and actually rushed towards the cliff.

Flapping their wings and slowly falling, the birds began to eat, their sharp conical beaks easily tore pieces of flesh from the bodies of the giant rats, and swallowed them whole as they raised their heads.

The other people in the lobby heard the strange noise and couldn't help but run out to see. When they saw this scene, joy overflowed on everyone's faces.

However, in just three or five minutes, when an exceptionally large bird flapped its wings and flew into the sky, the group of birds flapped their wings and flew into the sky, flying directly south.

"God bless us, we're finally safe!" A middle-aged woman cried with joy.

Noticing something, Yunhai turned his head to look at Cui Hao beside him, only to see his expression was strange as he stared at him, seemingly hesitant.

Guessing what he wanted to ask, Yunhai raised his eyebrows and turned away.

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"Attention all citizens, attention all citizens, this is Radio City A, this is Radio City A."

"Yesterday, a large number of meteorites fell in the northern hemisphere, the meteorites carried some unknown virus, causing many citizens to die."

"According to the latest investigation, it's not just humans who are infected with the virus, many living things have also been infected and mutated, and have begun to attack humans."

"The police and army have exerted all efforts to clean up the mutant creatures, please everyone stay at home and close the doors and windows, do not go out, we will restore normal social order as soon as possible."

The radio on the table kept repeating, from the initial joy to silence, the stiff voice of the radio host fell into everyone's ears, and did not arouse any waves.

On the wall behind the front desk, the LCD TV was on, a tourist was holding the remote control and constantly changing channels, besides the change in channel numbers, all the TV stations looked the same, blue and very dazzling.

Outside the glass door of the hotel, muffled collision sounds were heard from time to time, and in the distance, the roars of unknown beasts were heard. At first, everyone was shocked and frightened, but gradually, everyone became numb.

The survivors sat in the lobby, not only because they sat together to seek a sense of security, but mainly because it was time to eat.

The rice was dry rice balls, no bigger than a baby's fist.

Because they didn't know when there would be a rescue, there wasn't much food stockpiled in the kitchen. Liu Ming, Cui Hao, and hotel manager Qi Xiangyu jointly discussed and decided that from now on, they must save food as much as possible.

There was also the most important issue of water. The water flowing from the water pipes was green, and even some moving microorganisms could be seen. No one dared to drink such water even if it was boiled.

By the way, water that has been stored for too long will grow small parasites in it, which move back and forth, but water now doesn't have this function...

Fortunately, there were many gallons of water in the hotel, and more bottled water in the warehouse, which could barely last for a few days. Liu Ming, Cui Hao, and the others had also discussed that limited drinking water would only be distributed centrally at specific times.

Water was more important than food, so even drinking thin porridge was a luxury. Everyone could only swallow dry rice mixed with some cooked meat and vegetables.

Some people slowly gnawed on the rice balls, lowered their heads and silently shed tears.

Some people looked dazed, not knowing what they were thinking.

Some people couldn't eat at all, holding the rice balls and sitting blankly.

Swallowing the rice ball in a few bites, Yunhai had just swallowed it, when Cui Hao beside him, who was restless, immediately spoke.

"What kind of bird is that?"

"We call it Qing Tiaozi, also called Eurasian Hobby. To be precise, it is a mutated Eurasian Hobby."

"Are there many animals in the mountains?"

"It can be said that there are quite a few. Bamboo rats, Eurasian Hobbies, sparrows, squirrels, mountain cats, pangolins, wild boars, pheasants, songbirds, eagles, etc..."

After finishing speaking, Yunhai solemnly added: "These are just the animals on this mountain. The eighteen peaks behind Yang Mountain are connected and extend to the tropical rainforest of Yunnan Province. There are more animals and wild beasts there. Before tourism resources were developed a few years ago, there were also wolves, leopards, black bears, giant apes, and monkey-eating eagles, these large beasts and raptors appeared nearby."

Hearing Yunhai's words, Cui Hao took a cold breath, and didn't say anything for a long time.

"Bastard, did you steal food in the kitchen? Only this little rice ball was made from a bag of rice, not even enough to fill the gap between my teeth."

Raising his hand and throwing the vegetable cup on the table, Si Yan cursed at a woman in a red jacket in the distance.

Her husband had died last night, only thinking of her son in the provincial capital, she had the thought of surviving. She forced herself and cooked a meal with several other women. Hearing Si Yan's scolding, and seeing their unfriendly gazes, the middle-aged woman in the red jacket was frightened and trembled, tears couldn't stop flowing.

His eyebrows furrowed slightly, Yunhai didn't say anything.

Seeing everyone turning their heads to look over here, Liu Ming glared at Si Yan beside him, and didn't know what he said in a low voice.

Si Yan glanced at Cui Hao and the others from a distance, his gaze paused on Yunhai, then he got up, and led several gangsters along the corridor towards the depths of the hotel.

"I'm going to take a look, the manager called me."

Datou sat blankly beside Yunhai, not knowing what he was thinking. Hearing Qi Xiangyu's greeting from a distance, he stood up and walked over.

Qi Xiangyu gave Yunhai a reluctant smile from a distance, lowered his head and said something. Together with Datou, the remaining five scenic area security guards followed Si Yan and the others, and walked into the interior of the hotel.

"You guys follow them and see, although it has been counted, you must also be careful that they don't hide food in the kitchen, including the more important drinking water in the back warehouse. The three keys are respectively on me, Liu Ming, and Qi Xiangyu. If the food and water are stolen, then it won't be clear."

Cui Hao said in a low voice, obviously he had influence among this group of college students. Immediately, several young men got up and followed closely.

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