Game Begins: Maritime Banquet 13
"No, please don't!"
The voice came from the dining room again, followed by a loud crash. The sound of shuffling feet could be heard outside the door.
Wen Nannan looked through the peephole and frowned. "How many people are left in the kitchen? Are they running out of supplies?"
"All the food from the entire ship is in the kitchen, plus two large tanks of water. What do you think?"
Lu Huai was busy drawing on a map, answering Wen Nannan's question without looking up. "There's a four-person player team in there. They're doing this to find the Spatial Item."
"Spa…Spatial Item?" Wen Nannan remembered her previous mistake and tried to act more convincing this time.
"Don't you have one?" Lu Huai stopped drawing and looked at Wen Nannan.
"What are you talking about?" Wen Nannan shook her head immediately, looking at him with feigned sincerity. "I don't even know what the Spatial Item is."
"Rule 3: Players with Spatial Item are more likely to survive." Lu Huai finished speaking and returned to his map, drew a circle around the captain's room on the map.
"According to the game rules, Spatial Item cannot be taken from a player unless they die, in which case they can be obtained by another player."
"Oh, I see." Wen Nannan nodded, a hint of fear in her eyes. She was glad she hadn't revealed her own spatial item. "But their methods are too cruel."
"There are even crueler methods." Lu Huai said indifferently, then rolled up the map and reopened the ventilation duct.
"What are you going to do?" Wen Nannan asked, standing up.
"I'm going to the captain's quarters to look for something. Lock the ventilation duct when I'm gone." Lu Huai grabbed the edges of the duct and easily climbed up, disappearing into the darkness.
Wen Nannan stood at the door, continuing to observe the zombies outside through the peephole.
The time it took for new zombies to mutate had decreased to four hours, and it was still getting shorter.
In addition to the shorter mutation time, Wen Nannan also discovered something else very important: the zombies were becoming less affected by noise.
Loud music was playing at the back of the ship, and at first the zombies were attracted to it, but they quickly dispersed again.
It was as if they were being guided by something, and they were gathering in the largest numbers outside the kitchen and her door.
Their sense of smell seemed to be getting stronger.
Wen Nannan looked straight ahead at a zombie with a mangled nose and exposed cartilage. The nerves in its nostrils were twitching frantically as it sniffed the air like a normal person.
It was getting closer and closer to the door, and then its cloudy eyes met Wen Nannan's, hidden behind the door. It twisted its limbs and began to bang against the door wildly.
Its banging attracted more zombies.
Wen Nannan hurriedly backed away from the door and took out a bottle of insect repellent, spraying it all over the door.
The zombies continued to bang on the door, shaking the furniture that was blocking it. It seemed like the zombies would break through the door at any moment.
Damn it!
Wen Nannan grabbed her kitchen knife and moved the table under the ventilation duct.
Just then, Lu Huai returned from outside.
"What are you doing?"
"Quick, let's go, this place isn't safe anymore." Wen Nannan put down her knife and pushed Lu Huai's head towards the ventilation duct.
"Stop pushing, I'll go down and take a look."
Lu Huai held her hand, threw his backpack on the ground, and landed silently.
The next moment, the zombies broke down the door.
Even though the cabinets and sofas at the door were blocking most of the space, the zombies were still able to squeeze through. They smelled something and rushed into the room.
Wen Nannan followed Lu Huai with her knife. "Be careful, I'll cover you!"
Lu Huai's pistol was equipped with a silencer. With a few muffled shots, the zombies in front fell to the ground.
Then Lu Huai pulled the long table next to him and placed it across the doorway, kicking the zombies at the door. The zombies behind them fell over like dominoes.
Wen Nannan watched as Lu Huai took out something and threw it outside, then closed the door in one smooth motion.
The loud music briefly distracted the zombies, and Wen Nannan took out another bottle of insect repellent and sprayed it at the door.
"What's going on?"
Lu Huai took a step back, repelled by the smell.
"These zombies are evolving!" Wen Nannan looked at the two corpses at the door with lingering fear and sprayed Lu Huai with insect repellent.
He tried to avoid her, but she didn't give up. "Bear with it, we ran out of flower water, so we can only use this to cover up the smell."
"Their sense of smell has evolved?"
"Yes." Wen Nannan nodded. "To be more precise, the virus is constantly evolving."
Wen Nannan took out her notebook. "It's not just their sense of smell that's getting stronger.
According to my records, it took two and a half days for the virus to infect Xiao Li, and less than two days to infect Dr. Song and Chef Zhu.
The time it takes for the virus to mutate is getting shorter and shorter, and now it's less than four hours."
Lu Huai took the notebook from Wen Nannan and looked at it. "Your notes are very detailed."
"I do this to survive." Wen Nannan squatted in front of the two corpses, looking at them, feeling like she was going to vomit. "What should we do with these two?"
"Pile them up at the door." Lu Huai wiped his fingers with a handkerchief.
"According to what you said, this room probably won't hold out much longer. We need to find a new safe place soon."