The moon is high, and when the streets of Chicago are occupied by vampires at night, the shelter on the third underground floor is completely isolated from the disturbances of the outside world and is surprisingly quiet.
At this time, everyone gathered together, eating the biscuits collected from the store today as usual, and joking around easily, until Jack suddenly started talking about something that had puzzled him this year. thing....
"Do you feel weird? We have been living in this for a year, but the network system and electricity are still working... Are there actually only a few cities occupied by vampires, and there are more people alive outside?..... "
Jack's words made everyone who was already lying down tired from playing get up and look at him.
"I do not think so."
Nate made a sound and got up and showed the laptop to everyone, while saying:
"The news I have learned in social chat rooms over the past year is that all countries in the world have fallen. Half a year ago, no one in the chat room left online messages anymore. Unfortunately, most of the people must be gone. .”
Although Knight said this, Jack said:
"The existence of electricity and the Internet is a fact. That means there must be at least people from the government, and maybe the military. We should investigate and see what's going on? Maybe we can escape from here to a place with people. What do you think?"
After hearing what Jack said, everyone felt that it made sense and agreed, so everyone came over and gathered around the table to start the discussion seriously.
Jack spread out a map of the United States on the table and pointed out the Braidwood Power Station, the nearest power plant to Chicago.
"Exactly...!You can walk here, you can't go back and forth in one day."
Jack pointed to the location of Braidwood Power Station on the map.
But it’s a bit far here...can’t go back and forth in one day, right?"
Amanda immediately discovered the problem and raised it...
"That's right...! You can walk here, so you can't go back and forth in a day." Jack looked at everyone and continued:
"We can use a drone to fly over first... to observe the situation. If we are sure that there are other survivors there, we may be able to move there first... After all, living here is not an option."
Everyone was looking forward to it after hearing what Jack said, especially Frank and Olivia, a self-proclaimed couple who wanted to leave this shabby shelter as soon as possible.
"Where are we going to get a drone?"
Bill wondered.
"I know where to get a drone, I'll do it."
Knight automatically took over the mission and landed the drone.
" For now...it's getting late, let's take a rest!"
, when Jack finished these words, everyone stood up and yawned and returned to their respective rooms.
After the others walked into their respective rooms, Monica finally couldn't help but stood up while touching her ankles and wailing softly.
"Are you okay? I'm sorry... I forced you to watch the sunset before you fell. You fell so hard... where did you get hurt?"
Jack helped the limping Monica sit on the chair next to her and cared about her injury. He found that her ankle was swollen...
"It's okay~ We've all been hurt many times... This is normal..."
Monica deliberately pretended that her injury was not serious. On the one hand, she was afraid that Jack would blame himself. On the other hand, she was also a strong girl who swallowed all the bad things by herself, even though her ankle was really hurting now...
"Take off your shoes and I'll help you."
When Jack asked her to take off her shoes, Monica blushed and said quickly,
" No thanks..!"
However, in order to carefully examine the injury, Jack gently took off Monica's boots while comforting her...
Jack gently and carefully turned Monica's ankle. However, although Monica felt the pain, she couldn't help but stare at Jack's serious look...
"Does it hurt?..."
Jack lowered his head intently and asked Monica.
Monica shyly replied "No..." She was glad that Jack didn't raise his head, because her face was as red as an apple...
"Nate! Can you get me massage ointment?!"
Jack called to Nate, and after a while Nate came to Monica's room with a medical kit.
The strange thing is that when Knight came over and saw the scene between Jack and Monica, his expression was very strange, as if...
Like very disappointed.
"What's wrong with you?"
Although Knight looked disappointed, he was very concerned about Monica and asked about his injury.
Nate's expression made Jack aware of Nate's thoughts, which made Jack silently let go of his hand, thought for a moment and said to Monica:
"...... Monica... I'll go collect the food tomorrow by myself. You stay here to rest... and also help Nate. I think he needs your help!"
"It's just a little injury...it's okay!" Monica seemed to still want to take on the task of finding food with Jack, and wanted to stand up to prove that she could still walk.
Jack didn't let Monica stand up reluctantly, soothed her and said:
"You really need to rest, listen to me."
Jack stood up, patted Knight's shoulder as if on purpose, and said with a smile:
"Actually, I'm not very good at bandaging people's wounds, but I heard that Nate is good at bandaging wounds... Just let him bandage them for you..."
After saying this, Jack walked back to his room without looking back, leaving Monica who was stunned and didn't understand what was going on, and asked Nate to bandage her feet.
But when Jack closed the door to his room, he leaned behind the door and laughed silently at himself:
"Jack…jack…. you are stupid...good things are not yours."
He didn't want to explore his mood at the moment, so he just lay down quietly where he slept, took out his mobile phone that had no signal, and started to browse the photos before this disaster, looking at those family members and friends who no longer existed... There was also a girlfriend whom he once deeply loved who had died long ago, until he couldn't help but silently covered his face and sighed and asked himself...
"How to survive in this world..."
Then slowly fall asleep......
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When the sun rises from the direction of Lake Michigan, Chicago becomes a silent and empty city shrouded in morning fog. All the vampires, like bees returning to their nest, burrow back into the depths of the building to sleep before the first ray of sunlight shines.
"Fresh!.."
Monica walked out of the top floor of the building where their shelter was located. She stretched out and breathed in the air. Although she was limping with an injured foot, this was still the first thing she wanted to do every day.
Monica walked to the wall, saw Jack who was about to go out, and blew a whistle.
"Hey! You really don't need me to go with you?"
Monica shouted, and Jack stopped and looked back, saying nothing but waving no, and then continued walking down the street.
"Idiot..." Monica muttered while looking at Jack's figure.
I saw Nate coming from behind and asked Monica:
"Is your foot... okay? Let's start working on ours..."
"Oh...Okay..." Monica was supported by Nate as she walked back up the stairs, but she still couldn't help but look back...
Bill and Amanda just happened to walk out of their shelter and go on their respective missions.
For example, Bill must go to various buildings to observe the vampires sleeping during the day and then record them. No matter what is different from the previous day, he must record it.
Amanda, on the other hand, goes to the tallest building in the city every day to spread out a giant piece of cloth with SOS written on it, and keeps observing the movement in the distance with a telescope, staying there all day long.
Mark is always mysterious and never says where he is going, but he always brings prey when he comes back. Although Frank and Olivia are unwilling to execute the household
Outside tasks, but at least know how to take care of the shelter environment and cook food.
Jack collected food from various stores today as usual. Because there was not much food left in the major stores in Chicago this year, he had to try his best to find merchants around the city who still had food.
After searching, he found a store he had never been to before. He walked in and saw a lot of dry food inside, which made him feel overjoyed.
"Great! Now I don't have to worry about food for a while!" Allen happily opened his backpack to sweep some dry food on the shelf into it.
Just as Jack was concentrating on stuffing the backpack full and trying to zip it up, he didn't notice a figure approaching him quietly...
The figure actually hit Jack on the head with a blunt instrument from behind, and Jack immediately fell to the ground in pain and passed out…
Jack passed out like this, and time passed again and again. In the blink of an eye...Jack finally woke up...
"Uh...my head hurts...what happened just now...it seemed like someone attacked me from behind..."
Jack touched his head and found that it was really swollen. But suddenly he realized that this was not the worst thing. The worst thing was that the sun was going down!
When Jack realized that something was wrong, he immediately picked up his backpack and ran out of the mall. He ran back as fast as he could.
Unfortunately, Jack really walked too far today. He was running on the highway. The sun had entered the countdown to disappearing behind him, but he was too out of breath to run...
"What should I do!?..."
At this time, Jack was very nervous, tired and panting. He realized that there was still a long way to go back to the shelter and he couldn't reach it, so he decisively ran down the intersection to look for someone to hide in. building.
At this time, the sky was covered with night, and there was only a little bit of the sun left, almost submerging into the horizon. The creepy whispers sounded again and began to surround Jack.
Whispers and a terrifying aura hit. What should Jack do in this critical situation...?
