Chapter 274 Encountering Claire's Convoy

On the barren desert plain.

The scorching sun is like a brutal tyrant, coldly exerting its scorching power and absorbing the last bit of moisture in the desert.

Endless sand dunes stretched as far as the sight went. There was no sign of life. Only a few irrational zombies, left with only bloodthirsty instincts, were wandering around on the road that crossed the wilderness.

Cheng Long, who arrived here quietly, couldn't help but frown.

The abandoned buildings in villages and towns are like giant steel dragons with their backs exposed in the desert. Judging from the degree of wind erosion on the surface of the buildings, it can be judged that the disaster in this doomsday wasteland world has not lasted long.

Many buildings buried by sandstorms have intact glass, and the lightning rods on the roofs have no trace of rust.

"There are zombies on the road, and the town is buried by sand. Could this be..."

Cheng Long had just made some guesses when a convoy consisting of two tanker trucks, a school bus, and three off-road vehicles quietly broke into the range of his spiritual perception.

"Hi, Carlos, it's me, do you have any cigarettes?"

"Gone."

"It seems I should believe you."

"Claire, what good is there in me lying to you?"

"LJ, any cigarettes?"

"No……"

After hearing the conversation between several people in the convoy, Cheng Long immediately had an idea in his mind.

The world he descended into this time was not some strange apocalyptic wasteland, but a doomsday world evolved from the classic zombie series, Resident Evil.

The main plot of Resident Evil revolves around the heroine Alice. At the beginning, it tells the story of a deadly virus in the Umbrella laboratory being broken by humans, causing hundreds of thousands of people in the entire laboratory to be infected with the virus, lose their lives, and become zombies with only the primitive desire to eat...

Cheng Long is currently experiencing the plot of the third film of Resident Evil. Many years have passed since Raccoon City was flattened by a nuclear bomb.

The T virus not only infects organisms, but also plants, causing permanent damage to the environment, leading to the death of large areas of vegetation and eventually desertification.

But desertification takes time. It will take many years to turn the Great Plains of central America into a desert.

"Claire's convoy is a bit far from me, let's kill a few zombies first to see what the harvest is."

Cheng Long, who was in the desert, walked leisurely towards the road. At first, the zombies wandering on the road did not notice him. It was not until the distance was shortened to thirty meters that the slow-moving zombies discovered him and rushed towards him one by one as if they were injected with chicken blood.

"Boom bang bang..."

The heads of the four zombies exploded like watermelons under the pressure of powerful mental force.

"It's so fucking disgusting!"

Cheng Long had a look of disgust on his face. The zombies were covered in rotten flesh and blood. Even from more than 20 meters away, he could still smell a fishy stench even if he squeezed their heads.

The worst thing is that the harvest is quite scarce.

The energy and spirit gained from killing four zombies is far less than that gained from killing a living person, which is only about 20% of that gained from killing a living person.

In other words, killing twenty zombies is equivalent to killing one villain.

"It's a little less, but it's better than nothing. What's more, evil people are rare, and the biochemical world is full of zombies. Even if you don't save the world, you can gain a lot by spending some time cleaning up the zombies."

When Cheng Long thought about this, he instantly felt a lot more relaxed.

However, he still has to save the world. The merits gained from ending the biochemical crisis and saving the world will definitely make his golden wheel of merit expand several times and become thicker and stronger.

"I have nothing to do anyway, so I might as well cut some watermelon to quench my thirst!"

Claire's convoy was a little distance away from him. The distance of more than 20 kilometers would take more than ten minutes to drive.

Cheng Long had nothing to do, so he walked to a distance, took out a big watermelon from the fruit container in the storage column, cut it in half, and walked to the roof of a scrapped car on the side of the road with the two halves of the watermelon in his arms, and started eating while waiting for the convoy.

……

About ten minutes later.

Carlos, who was leading Claire's convoy, noticed Cheng Long standing on the roof of the car eating a watermelon. His pupils suddenly contracted, and he quickly picked up the intercom and stammered, "Claire, I might be dazzled. I just saw a survivor standing on the roof of the car eating a watermelon! It was a big watermelon!"

"I saw it too."

Claire's eyes were full of disbelief.

"And I……"

The voice of the black man LJ also sounded from the intercom.

At this moment, Cheng Long, who was standing proudly on the roof of the car eating melons, was like a big star at a concert, attracting the attention of everyone in the convoy.

Soon, the speeding convoy slowly stopped by the roadside.

Claire, Carlos, LJ and others jumped out of the car one after another.

When they came to Cheng Long, they found that he was really a survivor, and what he was holding in his arms was indeed the watermelon that everyone had missed for a long time. They swallowed their saliva in a very ungraceful manner.

"Gululu~~"

Cheng Long lifted up the half watermelon with the flesh dug out, tilted his head back and drank the watermelon juice.

"Gulu~~"

Claire and others began to swallow their saliva.

This is... too cruel!
They even had to save water, but the survivor in front of them not only had incredibly clean clothes, but he could even eat fresh watermelon.

Bang!
Cheng Long threw the melon rind that had been drained of juice onto the ground, held the other half of the watermelon that he hadn't eaten, and smiled at the heroic Claire, "Hey, can I take a ride?"

"Of course..." Claire nodded blankly.

She, Carlos, and everyone around them all looked at the half watermelon in Cheng Long's arms.

Before the T virus spread, they had never cherished this thing. They could buy it anytime and anywhere when they wanted to eat it, especially in the summer, when they would buy several at a time.

And now, these are the fresh fruits and vegetables they have always dreamed of. If they can taste them, they will definitely feel refreshed.

In this weird atmosphere, a dozen children suddenly rushed out from the school bus in the convoy, picked up the watermelon rind on the ground, broke it into pieces of different sizes, and started eating them one by one.

Everyone was eating with gusto!

Not dirty at all!
The melon rind contains a lot of water, and Cheng Long didn't eat it all, so there is still a lot of sweet flesh on the rind.

In a world where there is no serious shortage of fresh fruits and vegetables, the watermelon rinds picked up by children are undoubtedly the most delicious food.

In fact, not only these children like it, but also the adults and women in the car like it, but they just don’t have the courage to snatch it.

At first, Cheng Long wanted to use half a watermelon to amuse Claire, Carlos and others, but now his mood suddenly became heavy.

"Take this half of the melon and divide it among you!"

Cheng Long took the initiative to pass the watermelon to Claire and others. "Thank you~~"

Claire was not polite. A cut watermelon cannot be kept for long and will soon go bad if not eaten. What's more, the survivor in front of her had just eaten half of it and threw away the rind generously, which showed that this guy had never suffered before. If they got fresh fruit, they would eat the core in one bite, let alone the rind.

"Claire, cut me some to taste."

LJ, the black man who escaped from Raccoon City in the second film, couldn't wait to gather in front of Claire. This half watermelon weighed at least seven or eight kilograms, which was enough to ensure that everyone in the convoy could have a taste of it.

Claire didn't act pretentiously. She immediately took out the dagger from her trouser leg, cut the watermelon into thin slices two fingers wide and one centimeter thick, and distributed them to everyone in the convoy.

"Mmm, such sweet juice! I love this taste!"

"Me too……"

"Even melon rinds taste better than cigarettes..."

Carlos, LJ, Otto, K Matt and others who were given watermelons could chew each bite for a long time and were reluctant to chew it in big mouthfuls.

Only Claire ate faster, but she swallowed even the remaining melon rind in one gulp.

In the end, he even didn't let go of the juice on the knife and licked it clean with his tongue.

After licking.

She realized that Cheng Long had been looking at her. Most women would blush if they encountered such a thing, but Claire did not. Instead, she said calmly, "Sorry, we haven't had fresh fruit for a long time."

"No need to explain, I understand..."

At first, Cheng Long actually didn't understand the human desire for food in the apocalypse, because he had never experienced famine. Although he saw that many ancient people in the copy world were starving, they at least had water to drink and could find ways to borrow money to buy food.

It was not until a dozen children on the school bus rushed out and scrambled to grab the melon rind he had thrown away that he realized firsthand how difficult it was for the survivors of the doomsday to survive.

"Get in the car!"

Claire smiled and invited Cheng Long to get in her car.

After a short stop, the convoy set sail again.

K-Matt, the girl who was in the same car with Cheng Long, asked curiously, "What's your name?"

"Cheng Long, you can just call me 'Long'."

"My name is K-Matt."

kMatt is not a person's name, but a place name. Claire found her in this place a few years ago. At that time, she had lost all her relatives, friends, and acquaintances, so she named her place after this place to bid farewell to the past.

But this name made it impossible for her to forget the horrifying scene of her relatives and friends turning into zombies!
"how about you?"

"Claire."

After a brief acquaintance.

Claire asked curiously while driving, "Where did you get the melon? Even plants are not common in this place, so they can't be grown, right?"

"I'm quite mysterious. I can give you anything you want, including food, drinks, clothes and daily necessities..." Cheng Long didn't plan to hide his identity because he didn't want to eat expired canned food or be crowded with a group of people at night.

"But you don't even have a bag on you!" Matt questioned.

"I have space equipment, I can take out anything I want, just like now."

Cheng Long reached into the air with his right hand, and a bottle of unbranded bottled water appeared out of thin air in his hand.

"Wang Defa!"

Claire looked at Cheng Long in shock as he grabbed pure water out of thin air.

The girl Matt was so shocked that she was speechless.

"Claire, watch the road!"

"Oh, Saury..."

Claire quickly gripped the steering wheel to prevent the car from going off the track. After a long pause, she finally said, "Long, do you have a lot of food and water stored in your space equipment?"

"It's not a lot, just enough for a hundred people to eat for three to five years."

After hearing that it wasn't much, Claire's expression didn't change much. But when she heard the following sentence, that it was only enough to feed a hundred people for three to five years, she couldn't hold it anymore.

"real or fake?"

"Of course it's true, but I won't give you all of these things. I'll only give you a little bit to pay for the bus fare. If you want more food, you have to take me to a place where I can find food that will last you for decades..."

Cheng Long never stops talking until he shocks someone. Claire and Matt were so shocked that their mouths were wide open.

They were first shocked by the space equipment, and then by the food reserves of a hundred people for three to five years. However, they never expected that the blockbuster bomb was still to come.

The food reserves can sustain their convoy for decades. Could it be that Chenglong is going to a hidden granary in a certain city?
"Long, where is the place you are talking about?"

Claire's breathing became rapid.

Why did she travel around the world with her convoy? She just wanted to keep the survivors alive.

If there was a place where there was food hidden that could sustain them for decades, there would be no need for them to wander around and collect food everywhere.

"I don't know the exact location, I just know it's in the desert near the Desert Ship Hotel..." At this point, Cheng Long smiled and said bluntly: "Actually, I'm looking for the desert base of Umbrella. That place is easy to find. As long as you see a large group of zombies gathering in the desert, you can determine the location."

"The Umbrella Corporation's research base is heavily guarded and it's difficult for us to break in."

When Claire heard that Cheng Long was going to the Umbrella Corporation's research base, she did not question the huge amount of food stored there.

Umbrella Corporation is a multinational corporation with scientific research bases all over the world.

On the surface, the company is an international super monopoly enterprise, covering most high-tech industries such as drugs, medical hardware, and defense industry products, but the real source of profit comes from unknown high-tech military technology and secret industries such as life engineering and biological weapons, including many top-secret plans that cannot be made public.

Claire had no idea about the Umbrella Corporation's plan.

"You don't have to do anything. I can take over this desert base by myself. However, if we want to completely occupy this base, it may be troublesome later..." Cheng Long said confidently.

With his strength, it would not be difficult to take over the desert base, but the various mechanisms inside might hinder his life.

There is also the artificial intelligence White Queen in the base, and someone is needed to subdue it.

"It's more than a problem. It's even a question of whether we can survive."

Claire is very wary of the Umbrella Corporation. Her eyes are full of fear and anger. At this time, any capable survivor can basically conclude that the doomsday may come from the Umbrella Corporation.

If Umbrella, which once benefited the people and developed various medicines, had not developed the T virus, billions of people around the world would not have died and turned into walking corpses.

"Don't be so pessimistic! Maybe in another three to five months, the doomsday will suddenly end."

Cheng Long remembers the plot of the Resident Evil series very clearly, especially the final chapter of the last film, which clearly states that an antidote to the T virus is kept at the Umbrella Corporation headquarters. As long as the antidote is taken out of the base and smashed somewhere, the antidote will spread in the air and spread to the world with the wind.

Just as the virus infects billions of people around the world, the antidote can solve the problem of billions of zombies around the world.

(End of this chapter)