Survival Journey : I am a lucky star

Wen Nannan's escape plan was far from mature. Tall buildings loomed all around, but she dared not approach them for fear of encountering more danger.

Wen Nannan rowed from midnight to dawn, the relentless rain drenching her clothes and constantly filling her plastic basin.

"Exhausted," she muttered, sneezing as she gazed at her destination – Yunhai No. 5 Middle School.

Announced as a shelter by the game officials a few days ago, it was far from what Wen Nannan had imagined.

Yunhai No. 5 Middle School should have been bustling with activity, having taken in countless disaster victims. Instead, an eerie silence hung over the building.

Through the windows, Wen Nannan could see people lying listlessly on the classroom floors, their apathy suggesting they hadn't eaten in days.

Cautiously, Wen Nannan kept her distance.

"Thud—"

A heavy object splashed into the water behind her. Turning her head, she saw a lifeless body floating in the water.

The people in the classrooms barely reacted, offering only a fleeting glance devoid of emotion. However, their eyes lit up when they saw Wen Nannan's plastic basin.

"A boat!"

With that single word, people from several floors of classrooms turned their gaze towards Wen Nannan.

Then, chaos erupted.

"I want to leave this place!"

"I want to go home!"

"Take me with you!"

Ignoring the height, people jumped from the windows and swam towards Wen Nannan, their desperation more terrifying than the zombies from the first game.

Startled, Wen Nannan frantically paddled with her makeshift oar fashioned from a kitchen knife.

The crowd pursued her for several streets. Wen Nannan lost count of how many times she turned before finally shaking off her pursuers.

She hadn't expected the shelter to be even more terrifying than her community. But upon reflection, the shelter's descent into chaos was understandable.

With dwindling food supplies and a growing number of people seeking refuge, it wouldn't have lasted more than a few days. Both the disaster victims and the staff were starving.

With the government paralyzed and order collapsing, the shelter's transformation into a place of misery was inevitable.

Wen Nannan took a few deep breaths, sitting in the basin. As she relaxed, the wind chilled her to the bone, amplifying her hunger and thirst.

She took a few large gulps from a bottle of mineral water and continued paddling. Finding shelter was her top priority.

The rain was relentless. If she didn't find dry clothes soon, hypothermia would claim her life.

She steered clear of ordinary high-rise buildings, her eyes scanning the horizon for a safer haven.

Then, she saw it-a two-story building with a "police station" sign.

Wen Nannan's eyes lit up, and she paddled towards the building with renewed vigor.

She climbed in through a window, finding the first floor already submerged.

After a quick search, she discovered the police station was deserted.

Wen Nannan dragged her plastic basin inside and up to the second floor. The largest office contained a small sofa and a police uniform hanging beside it.

A photo on the desk depicted a happy family of three. Wen Nannan glanced at it, then covered it up, shedding her wet clothes and changing into a dry set.

In her haste, she had only brought one change of clothes. Seeing the large police uniform, Wen Nannan casually stored it in her space.

It was the sixteenth day in Yunhai City.

Wen Nannan checked the office clock, which was still ticking, and saw that it was already eleven o'clock in the morning.

Without the previous tension and cold, the hunger pangs in her stomach became impossible to ignore.

She took out a bag of milk and a loaf of bread, sitting on the sofa to eat. As she rummaged through the office drawers, she stumbled upon a lighter.

Wen Nannan: !!!

One minute later

A small fire was burning in the office. Wen Nannan had gathered a pile of books and papers from the office and placed a small lunch box over the small fire.

The lunch box was filled with water, which soon boiled. Wen Nannan hummed a tune as she put the instant noodles into the box, adding ham and braised eggs...

This was the first hot meal she had eaten since the power and gas had been cut off. At the moment, even fire was a luxury.

After eating and drinking her fill, Wen Nannan put the lighter in her pocket and searched for treasure in the only two floors that hadn't been flooded.

Since she was in a police station, she hoped to find a gun.

But this thing was not easy to find, and she didn't see any rooms that looked like an armory.

Finally, after searching through all the rooms on the two floors, she finally found a small pistol and a handful of bullets in a cabinet in the innermost room on the flooded first floor.

Wen Nannan chuckled, loaded the bullets, and put them in her space. She could now be considered to have upgraded from a kitchen knife to a gun.

In addition to the pistol, Wen Nannan also took a few wooden stools with her.

She cleared out a larger space in the originally empty office, lit a slightly larger fire than before, and set up racks around it to dry her soaked clothes.

The bright red flames contrasted sharply with the heavy rain outside the window.

Wen Nannan sat on the sofa with mixed feelings. It was definitely better to come out.