nycdaug Chapter 95 Arrival in J City Leads to Unexpected Incident
Chapter 95 Arrival in J City Leads to Unexpected Incident
DAY101
After drifting on the Lijiang River for two days, luckily, the heavy snow stopped at noon on the second day of their journey, and the temperature returned to the high temperatures of October in X Province. The rapidly melting snow along the riverbank caused the river to flow faster. After abandoning the two boats on the far side, Lu Yuan and his group finally arrived at the J City dock on the third day at noon.
The dock in J City is an inland river dock, where small cargo ships and passenger ships are moored. Before docking, they observed the area from the deck with binoculars and finally decided to abandon two more ships and only sail one ship to a place where there were no ships moored on either side to disembark.
As soldiers, Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing took the lead in disembarking to find a car. There were scattered zombies wandering around the dock. Because of the intense midday sun, although they were clearly second-generation or higher zombies, they were not moving very fast. Qin Yuan had evolved to enhance his physical strength. Although Du Wenqing's physical strength had not been enhanced, his more than 30 years of military physique was not wasted.
The two had already observed the area from the ship. Directly in front of the dock was an outdoor parking lot, which could be reached by crossing the dock's driveway and climbing over an iron fence. There were many cars parked inside, most of which were undamaged. Although they weren't as reinforced as the cars in the Lu Yuan space, driving from here to the port of X province shouldn't be a problem.
The two disembarked from the boat, only to be spotted by three zombies by the roadside. These zombies were indeed much more agile than before. Fortunately, Qin Yuan reacted quickly, drawing his gun and firing two shots that blew up the two zombies running towards him.
Du Wenqing's reaction speed was also not bad. The zombies behind him were very close to them. He didn't have time to draw his gun. He gripped the Tang sword at his waist with his left hand, raised the sword, and thrust it directly at the zombie that was rushing towards him. Because the Tang sword was not drawn, this move did not hurt the zombie. It just blocked the zombie from rushing at him.
Then he drew his Tang sword with his right hand, the scabbard still holding the zombie at bay to prevent it from getting close. Suddenly, he turned around and slashed the zombie's head with the Tang sword. He then pulled back his left hand and raised it to shield his face. The distance was too close, and the zombie's filthy, sticky blood splattered onto his left hand, which was in front of him. Fortunately, the zombie didn't have much blood left to splatter.
"Impressive." Qin Yuan turned around and gave Du Wenqing a thumbs up. The two quickly ran across the lane and performed a perfect leap, flipping over the wire mesh and landing safely on the other side.
Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing only spent a little over twenty minutes driving two cars back to their boat at the dock. However, neither of them expected that a dramatic change would occur on the boat in just over twenty minutes.
Lu Yuan stood alone on the deck. The doors to the first-floor cabins were tightly shut, and Gu Nanfeng was nowhere to be seen. Upon closer inspection, Qin Yuan discovered that Gu Nanfeng was tied to a chair on the second-floor deck, with two burly men from their film crew standing next to her.
"Hehe, little cutie, don't be nervous." The ship's loudspeaker blared again in Lan Yichen's annoying tone. Perhaps afraid of attracting the surrounding zombies, he deliberately turned the volume down.
"Team Leader Qin, Team Leader Du, don't worry, we won't be violent towards the researchers." Jiang Yun's voice also rang out from the loudspeaker. "We have no intention of going with you to that damn South China base, but we thank you all for bringing us out of Y Town."
When Jiang Yun and his film crew arrived in Y Town, there were nearly 200 cast and crew members, including artists' agents and film crew members. Just as they said, Jiang Yun had the foresight to lead everyone to hide on the boat at the beginning.
However, the more than two hundred people who were hiding on the boat quickly ate up all the supplies they had brought with them. After all, even in times of crisis, they couldn't afford to throw away their belongings, so they didn't actually take many supplies when they boarded the boat.
Afterwards, Jiang Yun and his group went ashore several times to search for supplies, but their haul was meager, and soon they were running out of food. The show's director, who was known for his lack of class in the industry, had six big shots on board. Of these, only Jiang Yun and Lan Yichen were willing to go ashore with their own teams to search for supplies; the other four were like unapproachable Buddhas, impossible to persuade. Finally, he suggested that the celebrities on board lure their fans and survivors in Y Town with the promise of getting them aboard and away from Y Town, in exchange for their help in gathering supplies.
Sure enough, most of the tourists in Y Town were fans of the six celebrities because they came to film a show there. They didn't initially consider how five boats could possibly hold so many people, and they all obediently went to plunder the town's supplies. The number of zombies in Y Town was not large to begin with, and most of them were trapped in the town government building, so they quickly obtained a large amount of supplies.
Jiang Yun knew the director wasn't a good person, but he never expected that after the main ship's cargo hold was filled with supplies, the director would direct the others to sail the ship away from the town. The fans on shore had no idea that all their hard work collecting so many supplies had been betrayed by the very person they admired.
During the first month on the ship, the production team controlled all the supplies. Except for the supplies that Jiang Yun and his group brought back themselves, which he did not confiscate, everyone on the other ships had to get his permission to eat or drink anything. He was the king of these five ships.
The world on the ship that month is something none of the thirty-odd people here want to recall. In fact, those four artists were willing to offer themselves up to be played with by the director and his men just to get a bite to eat. Lan Yichen had gone out with Jiang Yun and the others a few times and had saved up some food, so Jiang Yun took good care of him later.
A month later, Jiang Yun suddenly started hanging out with a few people from the production team. Lan Yichen was furious. He couldn't believe that Jiang Yun would be so shameless just to survive, especially since he had so much food and water.
Jiang Yun wasn't there to beg for food; he was just there to advise the production team. He convinced them that continuing like this wasn't a solution. If the crisis ended, they wouldn't benefit; if it didn't, they probably wouldn't receive government aid. It was better to set sail and leave as soon as possible to find a place with abundant supplies.
Jiang Yun knew that the production team wouldn't just sail away like that. They were convinced that the supplies in Y Town were enough for them to squander. Jiang Yun went to great lengths and spent many days persuading them.
But what he didn't expect was that those beasts in the production team actually wanted them to leave on their own.
Jiang Yun was considered one of their own, and they didn't intend to abandon him. However, they didn't want to waste resources on those female celebrities they had already ruined, and the same went for their teams.
It was at this moment that Jiang Yun came up with a foolproof plan. He suggested that the production team take the people they wanted to abandon to the small boat on the far right, hold a group activity they liked, and then sneak back at night to leave those people on that boat.
His plan was actually to leave the production team and those corrupt officials on the ship, then lure people from the shore aboard to kill them. It was a very unethical thing to do, but the experiences of the past month were too much for someone as experienced in the entertainment industry as him to bear. He and several core members of his team thought about it for a long time before deciding to have Jiang Yun integrate into their plan.
That day, the production team did indeed follow Jiang Yun's plan and brought more than a hundred people who wanted to exchange their bodies for food to the passenger ship.
At night, what started as a series of lewd sounds came from the far left. In the latter half of the night, heart-wrenching screams suddenly broke out. No one in the middle cabin dared to go over to look. Even if they did, they would find that the connecting rope of the boat on the far left had long been untied by Jiang Yun and his group, leaving only a long rope loosely holding it. With the added effect of the multiple people's activities on board, that boat was getting closer and closer to the Y Town ferry.
No one on board knew how the people from Y Town boarded the passenger ship, nor how they took the people away. In any case, when Jiang Yun and the others went to check the ship the next day, only the director's body remained.
Jiang Yun and his team pulled the boat back, threw the director's body into the river, cleaned up the boat, and then he became the backbone of the five boats.
Unlike the directing team, Jiang Yun ensured that the more than eighty people on the ship had food and water every day, but he couldn't guarantee they would be full. He wasn't sure if the food on the ship would last them until rescue. In order to survive, to leave this place, and to see his lover again.
Jiang Yun, an artist who only knew how to drive a yacht a little bit, spent his days and nights on the boat researching how to drive a passenger ship and studying offline maps. Finally, they were able to start the ship, and everyone on board was overjoyed.
Unfortunately, every time they tried to leave the area of Y town, they were driven back by schools of fish in the water—situations they had never heard of or seen before. Lu Yuan and his companions knew that at that time, zombies and frenzied animals had formed barriers between the cities, cutting off all communication between them.
After several failed attempts, Jiang Yun and his group reluctantly retreated to the waters near the center of Y town. Two female artists who had gone on the boat for a group activity with the production team hadn't returned, leaving only a man, a woman, Lan Yichen, and Jiang Yun. It's unclear how these two discussed things—oh wait, Lan Yichen's manager was also involved in their conversation.
They chose to leave the ship, taking their share of supplies with them, wanting to return to shore.
Anyone with a brain could see that they deceived their fans during the most critical moment. Even if they have returned to shore with their share of supplies, how can they possibly win back their fans' hearts? Who can continue to act like a fool when facing life and death?
Jiang Yun did not stop them, but he did not give them the supplies they wanted as they had expected. In Jiang Yun's words at the time, "You only brought a face, so take away the supplies for that face."
Their group of over thirty people, plus several others who also wanted to leave by land, totaling over forty people, quietly returned to Y Town one night. Lan Yichen was taken along by his manager at the time.
But they hadn't gone far from the ferry crossing when they were surrounded by the survivor alliance on the shore. Since Lan Yichen was already reluctant to be at the back, he quickly retreated to the boat when he saw this situation. With his own strength, he managed to pull the boat that was about to reach the shore. Fortunately, Jiang Yun saw this and immediately called for help. Otherwise, they would have lost another boat. From then on, Lan Yichen let his true nature run wild and became Jiang Yun's most loyal follower.
Later, they secretly went back to shore a few times to retrieve supplies. On one occasion, two members of Jiang Yun's team were bitten by zombies while protecting Jiang Yun and did not return. Several other members were pushed into a horde of zombies by survivors on shore and did not return.
Of the thirty-odd people on the ship, several were rescued by them later. Another male artist was also rescued when they went to find blankets. In order to survive on the ship, that man, who was usually a gentle and refined gentleman who couldn't lift or carry anything, carried five blankets by himself without ever complaining of being tired.
However, this unlucky fellow accidentally stood too close to the edge when they first encountered the zombie fish, and was swept into the river by a wave. Jiang Yun and the others were unable to rescue him.
The people on this boat didn't trust the government or anyone else; they only trusted Jiang Yun and themselves. When Jiang Yun made the decision to save Lu Yuan and the other three, they didn't object because they believed in Jiang Yun. And it turned out that he was right. Lu Yuan and the others successfully led them away from the river area of Y Town and successfully arrived in J City. But they wouldn't go with them to some so-called South China Security Base.
"We have no other requests now, we just hope the three of you can find us seven SUVs, each filled with water, and then we'll return Dr. Gu to you." It wouldn't be accurate to say Jiang Yun wasn't a good person; it was the circumstances that made him that way.
The thirty-odd people on the ship are his relatives whom he rescued. Now they are a big family. If they want to survive in this apocalypse and return to their hometown, they need more supplies. But he also knows that all of this cannot be achieved by Lu Yuan and the other two alone.
So he didn't ask for much. He had also observed from the ship that there were many convenience stores at the dock, and it wouldn't be difficult to gather enough water for seven cars. Once they brought the cars over, he would keep his promise and let Gu Nanfeng go.
Afterwards, he would take the people and supplies from the ship, drive the car they had prepared, and leave J City, heading towards their home.
Lu Yuan followed Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing off the ship. They got into one of the cars that had returned and drove towards the parking lot.
"Their request isn't too unreasonable. With so many cars in the parking lot, finding seven to drive back shouldn't be a problem," Qin Yuan said as he drove. "Xiao Yuan, do you have enough water in your space? If not, we'll find two convenience stores."
"That's enough. Let's find a car quickly and then go get Brother Gu. When I came out, he looked unwell." When Lu Yuan was ushered onto the deck, he could clearly feel that Gu Nanfeng next to him looked unwell, and his hand was also very hot. He didn't know if Gu Nanfeng was sick, but he thought there was no time to waste.
In less than an hour, Lu Yuan and his group returned in seven cars, each with its trunk filled with water. Jiang Yun hadn't expected them to be so quick, but he kept his promise and returned Gu Nanfeng to them.