PFC Chapter 89 Above the Li River
Chapter 89 Above the Li River
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The next morning, when Lu Yuan woke up, only he and Du Wenqing were left in the cabin. Du Wenqing was still asleep, and he wondered if she had really been injured the night before. He slung his bag and Tang sword over his shoulder, grabbed a bottle of mineral water, and prepared to go to the deck to find a place to rinse his mouth and wash his face.
"Little cutie, you're awake?" Lu Yuan didn't expect to see Lan Yichen's big face as soon as he opened the cabin door. With such a face and his carefree tone, Lu Yuan really couldn't get used to it. He turned aside and walked towards the deck.
"Hey, don't be like that, don't ignore me like that!" Despite being ignored by Lu Yuan, Lan Yichen wasn't angry. He skipped and hopped after Lu Yuan to the deck. This person's true nature and his public persona are really worlds apart. Lu Yuan finally believed that celebrities all have public personas.
On the deck, Lu Yuan found a sink, slowly brushed his teeth and washed his face. He didn't see Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng when he came out, guessing that they must have gone to the middle ship. Anyway, even if he went there, he couldn't help much. After washing up, he found some good angles and took pictures with his old touchscreen phone, planning to show them to Yang Xiao later.
"It's a bit of a shame you missed today's sunrise." Lan Yichen leaned closer again, looking at Lu Yuan's old-fashioned computer and smiling. "Are all researchers this poor?"
“I’m older than you!” Lu Yuan really didn’t want to be friends with this eccentric male celebrity. If he thought he was easy to bully just because he was the youngest of the four of them, he was wrong.
"Huh? But you look very young!" Lan Yichen reached out his hand, wanting to touch Lu Yuan's face, which was slightly red from the morning sun, but before he could reach it, Lu Yuan slapped his hand away.
"It's just that we people from G Province look small." Lu Yuan ignored him and continued taking pictures of the scenery along the river.
Lijiang is truly beautiful. Lu Yuan felt that every angle he took a picture from was like a landscape painting; no wonder so many artistic youths love this place. He took photos here for over ten minutes, and Lan Yichen watched him for the same amount of time. Lu Yuan really couldn't understand it, and finally spoke up.
Are you alright? Why have you been staying here all this time?
"Aha, little cutie, you couldn't resist anymore!" Lan Yichen was as happy as if he had won a game. His smiling face was completely different from his appearance on TV. At least Lu Yuan thought he looked good when he smiled.
"Xiao Yuan," Gu Nanfeng's voice came from behind Lu Yuan, who was staring blankly at Lan Yichen's smiling face, "You're awake?"
Gu Nanfeng and Qin Yuan emerged from the middle cabin, followed by Li Wen, who was there to examine Du Wenqing, and Jiang Yun with her messy hair.
Lu Yuan had seen Jiang Yun last night. Although it was the apocalypse, he had still kept himself clean and tidy, looking like a celebrity, not at all like someone trying to survive the apocalypse. But now, he certainly looked like he was in the apocalypse, very unkempt.
"Haha! Old Jiang hasn't even woken up yet, and your Captain Qin is already here. He hasn't even had time to get ready." Lan Yichen's laughter was loud, and at the same time, he was met with an eye roll from Jiang Yun.
Jiang Yun's hair is very soft, and he is also someone who is particular about his bed. Although he has been living on this ship for more than two months, he still has a hard time sleeping well at night. So when he wakes up in the morning, his hair is basically a bird's nest. Fortunately, one of the film crew's stylists is still alive, otherwise Jiang Yun would have to show up in this style every day.
Gu Nanfeng walked over to them. Qin Yuan led Li Wen into the cabin, while Jiang Yun stood by the pool on their ship, slowly wetting his hair with mineral water so that the stylist could fix his unruly hair later.
Their five ships have underground hydroelectric power generation, which is much better than the survivors on the shore. At least they don't lack electricity. However, water resources are scarce. Unless they are in a government-secured base, they can only rely on bottled water to survive. Since their base is on the ships, their supplies are actually very tight.
Gu Nanfeng relayed the information they had exchanged that morning to Lu Yuan, and Lan Yichen chimed in, adding, "See that dilapidated little building over there with the small ferry landing? That's our only place to stay on the shore."
On the day the virus broke out, all the tourists in Y Town were guided by various departments to various quarantine areas in Y Town. At that time, no one would have thought that this virus would turn people into zombies.
Some rebellious young people in the town had survived several viral outbreaks in their lives, so they took it all for granted. They secretly ran away from the quarantine zone, wanting to photograph the beautiful, deserted town of Y, but on the day of the first viral rain, they became the first zombies in Y town.
Because of these past lessons, the Y Town government immediately strengthened its epidemic prevention work. However, unfortunately, there were many tourists but few resources, and the military forces of X Province were still far away. The Y Town government was overrun in just a few days, and the town government's quarantine area became the largest zombie gathering area in Y Town.
Jiang Yun and Lan Yichen's film crew had a stroke of luck; they had rented five passenger boats to build a water-based entertainment area, which are the five boats they have now. They were filming on the water when they heard screams from the town, but they didn't know what was happening. Although there were news reports of a virus outbreak at the time, Y Town only had the news; no zombies had actually appeared.
They followed the boatman ashore and were quarantined in an isolation zone along the Lijiang River. After the viral rain, the first batch of zombies appeared in Y Town, and Jiang Yun immediately realized that the isolation zone was not necessarily safe.
Taking advantage of the relatively small number of zombies in Y Town at the time, Jiang Yun led the male actors and staff of the film crew, fully armed, to run through many shops in town and collect a lot of food and water to take back to the five boats they had rented.
The female artists and female staff members of the film crew arrived on the boats earlier. The five boats were tied together because of their activities. At first, they planned to untie them, but now they think it's a good thing they didn't, otherwise they would have been wiped out by the zombie fish.
Because their film crew reacted the fastest, they obtained a considerable amount of supplies from Y Town. After boarding the ship, they stayed on board for more than a month before the second wave of viral rain. Their supplies were depleted, but there was still no sign of rescue.
Only a few male celebrities on board had experience driving yachts, so they were simply not capable of operating all five boats. Moreover, they did not know the specific situation in Lijiang, so it would be quite dangerous for them to sail away rashly.
In the end, they had no choice but to go ashore and then to Y town to get some supplies.
Upon reaching the shore, they discovered that the town government of Y Town had quickly fallen. The proportion of zombies in Y Town was now far lower than the number of survivors. Survivors from other quarantine zones had formed their own small groups to survive in Y Town, facing not only the occasional appearance of zombies but also their own kind who were competing for food. Meanwhile, the film crew on the ship was the common enemy of all the survivors in Y Town.
“You guys…” Lu Yuan couldn’t help but laugh when he saw Lan Yichen gritting his teeth as he described how they were regarded as public enemies by the town’s survivors.
"Little cutie, that's not very kind of you." Lan Yichen's anger became more obvious when he saw Lu Yuan laughing, but Gu Nanfeng and Lu Yuan knew that Lan Yichen was not actually angry. "It's a matter of life and death, who cares about whether they are public enemies or not? It's because our Boss Jiang is so great that he has foresight and can get the most supplies and find the safest stronghold."
To be honest, Qin Yuan had praised Jiang Yun more than once on the passenger ship in the middle. As a pampered artist, it was truly commendable that he was able to make a clear judgment in the face of such a disaster and lead the entire film crew to safety.
"Then how come some of you have died?" Lu Yuan remembered that yesterday they seemed to have said that another male artist and three female artists who were recording the show together were gone. There should be some other accompanying personnel. After all, it is impossible for a production crew with many famous artists to be reduced to only twenty or so people.
"What goes around comes around." Lan Yichen didn't want to slander the deceased anymore, but something unbearable had indeed happened that day. Many people died, and Lan Yichen himself almost died. The day after returning to the passenger ship, he shed the burden of his persona and told Jiang Yun, "Life is coming to an end. Live one day at a time. Why wear that fake skin?"
Lu Yuan and Gu Nanfeng didn't ask any more questions. After a while, Jiang Yun from the middle passenger ship tidied up his appearance and invited the people on their side to come over and eat.
Knowing that they were also short of supplies, Lu Yuan and his companions felt embarrassed to just eat their food, so the four of them took out all the compressed biscuits from their backpacks.
Because they were rescued last night, Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng went to find Jiang Yun as soon as it was light to see if there was anything they could do to help.
Then they learned about the shortage of supplies on the ship, but Jiang Yun and his group could not dock. If their ship docked, they would be attacked. Moreover, several of the larger warehouses and convenience stores in Y Town were controlled by different survivor groups. Their several attempts to sneak ashore failed to find any supplies.
"How much supplies are left on the ship?" After Li Wen's check-up this morning, Du Wenqing was fine, so he joined them for a meal.
"Not much left, at most ten days." Jiang Yun ate a compressed biscuit. He ate very little, trying his best to make sure that the women and elderly people on the ship were full.
Y Town is located in a remote area of X Province. The nearest towns in all directions are three to four hours away by car, and they are all small towns with limited supplies.
“We came from the service area upstream, and everything there has been looted.” Lu Yuan thought of the service area they had visited before, which was the closest to Y Town. It seemed that it was looted by other survivors from the town.