boyutpedia Chapter 88 Survivors of Y Town
Chapter 88 Survivors of Y Town
The four of them finally climbed up using the rope ladder lowered from the passenger ship. The giant zombie fish, perhaps stunned by the boulder, hasn't reappeared since.
As soon as they boarded the ship, they were surrounded by more than a dozen people. Du Wenqing and Qin Yuan quickly glanced at them and made a judgment in their minds that the two of them were more than capable of dealing with these people.
"Wow, it's three little cuties and an uncle." The voice from the broadcast earlier rang out above Lu Yuan's head. It was his first time climbing a rope ladder, and he was struggling a bit. He was squatting to the side, panting heavily.
"You..." Lu Yuan really couldn't associate the owner of such a voice with a good person. He raised his head and was about to retort that his whole family was the cutie when he was stunned by the person in front of him.
Lu Yuan doesn't usually have many leisure activities, but he occasionally browses trending topics and watches popular dramas and variety shows. He never expected that the owner of this annoying voice in front of him was Lan Yichen, the newly crowned TV King with the "old cadre" persona who has become popular in recent years.
Lu Yuan remembered that his female classmates had discussed him before. He debuted in an idol group, and because he wasn't the most handsome member, he always maintained the image of a mature older brother.
In the first few years, everyone thought he would be the first member of the group to fade into obscurity, since his appearance was indeed not outstanding in the group at the time. But unexpectedly, even though the group had completely flopped, he did not.
Lan Yichen's image is getting better and better. After starring in several serious dramas, his image of being resolute, upright, with eight-pack abs and a sunny and cheerful personality earned him the Best Actor award in the Chinese entertainment industry at the beginning of this year after starring in a special forces TV series last year.
"Little cutie, is there anything you want to say?" Lan Yichen glanced at Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan is 20 years old this year, the youngest of the four, but he knows that he is a few months older than Lan Yichen. He is such a cute little devil.
After the four of them recovered, they realized that there were five passenger boats moored in a row. The lights on the boats were not on. Gu Nanfeng guessed that it was because the lights would arouse the zombie fish in the river.
"Please cooperate with the inspection." Unlike Lan Yichen's uncharacteristically crazy tone, the person next to him was also a well-known domestic actor. If Lan Yichen's current image was that of a sunny young man, this person's image was more of an elite. Lu Yuan couldn't remember his name for a moment, but he remembered that this person had played many famous roles, and seemed to have played an emperor a few times. He was much more famous than Lan Yichen in the acting field.
“Okay.” Du Wenqing led the way, and the four of them were led into a cabin on the first floor of the passenger ship. All the windows in the cabin were covered with black cloth. After they entered, someone turned on the headlights. They cooperated with the ship’s crew to check them and make sure they had no wounds.
"Thank you all for your cooperation." It was the same well-known actor who shook hands with Du Wenqing and introduced himself, "My name is Jiang Yun, I'm an actor. You might find me familiar. We're a variety show team, here in Y Town to film a variety show, but I didn't expect..."
After confirming that the four people were safe, Jiang Yun briefly explained their situation. There were more than 30 survivors on their boat, more than 20 of whom were from the same variety show team.
Before the outbreak, they came to Y town to film a popular outdoor variety show that had become very popular in recent years. There were also three female celebrities and one male celebrity with them, but unfortunately, none of the four of them survived.
The other fewer than ten people were survivors in Y town who got along with them.
"We get along quite well?" Lu Yuan caught this key phrase.
"Are there other survivors in Y Town?" Gu Nanfeng asked.
“There are quite a few survivors in our Y Town.” Perhaps because he had seen up close that among Lu Yuan’s group of four, there was an uncle like Du Wenqing who was over forty years old, and a brother like Qin Yuan who had a bit of a bandit-like air, Lan Yichen was less inclined to take the initiative in his words.
"Is this your personality liberation?" Lan Yichen probably thought Lu Yuan was easier to bully, so he sat next to him. Lu Yuan glanced at him. Although he was wearing a sailor uniform that he had just found on the ship and his hair hadn't been properly trimmed for more than three months, making him look a bit unkempt, he still maintained his persona of a calm and old-fashioned cadre, which really didn't match his unconventional way of speaking at all.
"What?" Lan Yichen didn't hear Lu Yuan's mutterings clearly and turned to look at him.
“We’ll be staying on the river tonight. Apart from that zombie fish, there’s no other danger for the time being. All thirty-odd of us will be sleeping on the three boats in the middle. You should go and rest with us first.” Jiang Yun could tell that Lu Yuan and the other three were exhausted. He didn’t know what they had gone through. Their five boats were not in any danger on the river. Compared to the survivors in the town, their night was the easiest for them to get through.
"Yes, thank you for your help." Du Wenqing might have suffered a mild concussion from the strong impact just now, and he really couldn't concentrate. Gu Nanfeng saw his condition and agreed to Jiang Yun's suggestion to take them to rest first.
“We’re all crammed into the cabins to rest, but you can stay with us on the middle ship.” Lan Yichen led the way to the middle ship, where most of their film crew were staying. The second floor was for women, and the first floor was for men.
“Of course you can stay on the other two boats. The boat we just came from is currently unoccupied.” He then pointed to the boat they had just passed. “It’s not very cold tonight, so we won’t bring you blankets.”
Lu Yuan glanced back at the ships behind him. The three ships in the middle of the five ships were their resting place. The reason they were told to board from the far left was because the living ship on that side was not yet occupied.
"Let's stay on this deserted boat tonight, so you can all feel more at ease." Although Lan Yichen said they could stay on the middle boat, Gu Nanfeng could still tell that several members of the film crew didn't look too good. They weren't injured, but there was always the possibility of something happening to them…
Jiang Yun nodded, and Lu Yuan and Gu Nanfeng helped Du Wenqing follow Qin Yuan back to the ship in front. Jiang Yun suddenly remembered something and called out to them, "We have a doctor here, do you need one?"
"You even have a doctor?" Lu Yuan's eyes widened in disbelief. Was there a doctor who happened to be here on vacation?
"Yes, when the production team comes out to film this kind of outdoor variety show, they always need to have a doctor with them," Lan Yichen, who was behind Jiang Yun, answered again.
"Okay, thank you." Gu Nanfeng couldn't determine how serious Du Wenqing's concussion was. He was quite lucid for a period of time just now, but now he was dizzy and unsteady on his feet. If Jiang Yun and the others had a doctor, it would be better to have him come and check him out to put his mind at ease.
The four of them went to the first-floor cabin. The cabins of this kind of cruise ship were densely packed with seats, with about thirty-four people sitting on each floor. The aisle in the middle was extremely narrow. They didn't go any further in. They tidied up the two rows on the left and right sides near the cabin door and planned to rest there.
Not long after, Jiang Yun arrived alone with the doctor from their survivor group.
"Li Wen, Dr. Li." Jiang Yun's introductions are usually very simple, without saying a word of unnecessary words.
"I didn't have a chance to introduce myself just now. My name is Qin Yuan, and this is Du Wenqing. We are from the G Province Military Region. After the outbreak of the virus, we were assigned to the material supply team of the G City Security Base in G Province." After Qin Yuan finished speaking, he pointed to Gu Nanfeng and Lu Yuan, "This Gu Nanfeng is a doctoral researcher in new materials at G University, and this Lu Yuan is his junior. Our mission is to escort these two to the South China Base. We encountered a bit of an accident on the way."
This explanation was what Gu Nanfeng had come up with before Jiang Yun arrived. Du Wenqing and Qin Yuan's military status would make it easier for Jiang Yun and the other survivors to accept the four of them. However, they needed a reasonable explanation for why soldiers would be here. After much thought, they could only use Gu Nanfeng's identity as a researcher as their argument. Although they might not be aware of the establishment of the four major bases by the country, these things were true.
"I didn't expect you two to be..." Jiang Yun was indeed somewhat surprised. Although he felt that the two men had an unusual air about them when they first met, Qin Yuan's roguish demeanor dispelled his guess. Indeed, just as Gu Nanfeng had thought, the inherent bond between the Chinese people and the military had greatly reduced Jiang Yun's wariness towards them.
Jiang Yun and the other team's doctor, Li Wen, quickly finished examining Du Wenqing. Since a brain CT scan was not possible, she could only rely on her experience to determine the situation through questioning. It was indeed a mild concussion. She told Du Wenqing to rest well today and that she would come back to check on him tomorrow.
After learning that two of them were soldiers, the doctor's previous fear of them lessened considerably. The two men left without disturbing the four of them any further.
"They said they were soldiers, and you believed them?" Lan Yichen opened his mouth wide in disbelief. The twenty-odd people in the production crew were already used to his eccentricities. When he first came to record the show, everyone thought he had the personality of a veteran cadre. Who knew that after the virus outbreak and his manager turned into a zombie, he would let himself go.
"Are you stupid? Our country's military ID cards are specially implanted in the human body, okay?" With the progress of the times, China began implanting personal information chips in the body a long time ago. For ordinary people, some information chips are still on smart devices, while others have been implanted in the human body. Through special equipment scanning, your entire family's assets can be found out.
Unlike ordinary people, the personal information chip of a military member can display the soldier's name, number, and unit affiliation simply by raising the temperature of that area of skin. This is to ensure that the information can be confirmed immediately should a member be killed in action.
Qin Yuan just showed Jiang Yun his military information. Although many countries in the world have similar technologies, the one in China is currently impossible to fake.
"I've never been in the military, how would I know?" Lan Yichen stuck out his tongue, returned to his row of chairs in the cabin, tidied his "bed," and fell asleep...