Liu Fangzhou stood in front of the base with the same last name as him{n1} and felt like he was going to enter Liu grandmother’s Grand View Garden.{n2}

Note1: Noah Ark’s in Chinese is Nuoya Fangzhou, it’s the same Fangzhou as Liu Fangzhou.
Note2: A large landscaped interior garden in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.

It had clean and tidy streets, normal business shops, brisk pedestrians, and the greenery on both sides of the road were not only trimmed, but was also full of unknown wildflowers.

Look, a duck was playing around in the shade with a group of baby ducks, and a few chickens not far away were looking for bugs, oh, two more sheeps emerged under the bushes——

Is this really the apocalypse???

Compared with him, Chen Nan was even more absent-minded: almost three months have passed since the outbreak of the virus. The whole country and the world are experiencing the cruel test. However, this small hot spring county was still the same even after a year.

No, something has changed: there were not as many green plants in the past as there are now, the streets in the past are not as clean and beautiful as they are now, and the faces of the residents in the past are not as full of leisure and comfort as they are now——as if there is nothing to worry about.

Shen Shian held the child and walked along the street first. As a well-known hot spring scenic spot, the buildings in the county were mostly two-storey small buildings in a unified style, with soft colors and obvious rural style. At dusk, the survivors here seemed to have just finished their day’s work, and many people were sitting on the wicker chairs in the terrace to cool off. There was a small table in front of them, and on the table was a pot of herbal tea with a few side dishes and a bottle of beer. Their eyesight met with Shen Shian’s and they raised the cup with a smile, “Welcome to Noah’s Ark!”

Tao Yuan walked to Shen Shian’s side and lowered his voice, “They didn’t check our backpacks or ask us to be isolated.”

“En.” Shen Shian replied softly. It was much easier to enter this base named “Noah’s Ark” than what they thought. They just asked them what they were here for and opened the gate to let the newcomers go to the hot spring hotel located in the center of the county. What this meant was not difficult to guess. “Among the survivors responsible for defending the city, someone can detect whether someone is carrying the zombie virus.”

There were a total of more than 1,000 ability users in the county, and it was not surprising that any abilities have evolved.

Not only did the entry into the city went smoothly, but after coming in, they also felt the hospitality of the residents in the county: almost all pedestrians who they came across would greet them with a smile, and they were even more enthusiastic about Shen Xun, who was in Shen Shian’s arms. More than one person had come to touch his face. After being stopped by Shen Shian in time, she didn’t mind it, and handed all kinds of snacks to Shen Xun’s hands. “Children are the hope of a new era, welcome to Noah’s Ark!”

Liu Fangzhou was awkward to hear this sentence at first, he felt as if there were people calling his name from all directions. It wasn’t very enjoyable. But after hearing it more often, he got used to it. He speeded up a few steps and walked to the other side of Shen Shian. “Brother Shen, there are so many ability users, almost everyone we saw was one.”

“No ordinary survivors?”

“There are not many on this street.” There were colorful light balls everywhere in his induction, and Liu Fangzhou couldn’t help but sigh. “If Zhou Jianghai had come to such a place, he would be ecstatic.” Imagine a scene where all the abilities of more than a thousand ability users were copied into his hands secretly. He added another sentence at once, “Fortunately, he had died early.”

Shen Shian calmly gazed across the smiling faces on both sides of the road, and whispered. “What is the ability level of these people?”

“According to the brightness and size of the light group, there were strong and weak ones, the strongest is not as strong as you, and the weakest is not as weak as brother Nan.”

Chen Nan: “…” That hurts.

“Huh.” Liu Fangzhou suddenly leaned against Shen Shian, his voice lowered. “Brother Shen, if there are two light clusters on the same person, what does it mean? The situation is different from that of brother Nan and his brother. The two light groups refer to living things.”

Shen Shian thought for a while, “Are they a man or woman?”

“Woman…ah,” Liu Fangzhou reacted, “That is to say, she is pregnant?” It turns out that his ability can be used as a b-mode ultrasound.

Pregnant? Chen Nan asked, “How many months?”

Liu Fangzhou turned to look at him with a sullen face: “…” You are making things awkward, brother.

Shen Shian quickly glanced at the woman suspected of being pregnant according to Liu Fangzhou’s guidance: it was summer, so she was wearing fewer clothes, and he could clearly see that her lower abdomen was still flat. “Not more than four months.”

Chen Nan calculated it in his mind: It has been almost three months since the virus outbreak. If she were pregnant before the apocalypse, he can only say that she had bad luck. After the virus outbreak, women, children, and the elderly will die easier because of their physical fitness. Pregnant women are even more at risk. Not to mention the nutritional problems of the fetus and the pregnant women’s ability to move during pregnancy, childbirth itself is extremely dangerous. Nowadays, hospitals have completely collapsed. So if she got pregnant after the apocalypse, doesn’t that mean the woman wanted to die? Even if the child is born successfully, is this a world suitable for babies to grow?

Shen Shian frowned, as if thinking of something, and asked Liu Fangzhou. “What color is the light that represents the fetus?”

“White, all white.” Symbolizing the color of ordinary survivors.

Shen Shian stopped talking. Liu Fangzhou didn’t understand what he meant by asking this, but he was surrounded by pedestrians and it was difficult to ask carefully. As they walked around, he continued to expand his sensing range. He didn’t sense anything special, then he remembered an important thing. He quickly took out a bottle of perfume from his backpack and sprayed himself thoroughly from head to toe. After that he started spraying on the others, “Hurry up, the sun has already set, and it will be too late if you don’t spray it now.”

Since encountering the mutant mosquitoes, this was the first thing to do every day after the sun went down. Although they were not sure how much effect it could give, it was better than nothing. According to Liu Fangzhou’s words: “I am not sure if the perfume will prevent mosquitoes from biting, but I think that compared to us, the mosquitoes would prefer those that are not sprayed with perfume.”

Shen Xun sneezed several times, but it was rare that he did not get angry. He put his nose against Shen Shian’s neck and inhaled. He said muffledly, “I won’t let mosquitoes bite An An.”

Shen Shian rubbed his hair, “I won’t let mosquitoes bite you.”

After spraying the perfume, everyone had reached the corner of the street. Chen Nan had been here once, and he was a little more familiar with this place than others, so he led the way. “I remember turning this corner to the largest hot spring hotel in the city, the hotel style was very distinctive, and the name is Golden Phoenix… Why did you stop?”

Chen Nan was puzzled and turned his head along the line of sight of everyone: less than two hundred meters away from them, a hotel like no other in memory stood in the dusk.

The hotel was a western-style dome palace style, with a total of five floors. Compared with the famous five-star hotel, there was definitely a significant gap, but it was really magnificent in such a small county.

On the highest dome stood a golden phoenix, spreading its wings to fly, and the feathers, tail, and wings were covered with tiny colored lamps.

At this time, the phoenix, like the whole hotel, was shining brightly in the darkening twilight.

“Holy sh*t,” Liu Fangzhou walked into the hotel lobby first, and looked at the marble floor that could reflect him and the bright and dazzling crystal chandeliers above his head in amazement, “There is still electricity here and the air conditioner is turned on! How did they do it?”

There was more than one entrance to the county, and newcomers who walked into the hotel at this time were not only Shen Shian and his party. There were three people in front of them, obviously also coming together, all male, one tall and one short and one fat, carrying shoulder bags like them. As soon as they walked in the door, the waiter greeted the three of them, “Welcome to Noah’s Ark! Do you have any needs?”

Another waiter was stopped when he was going to Shen Shian and his party. “Leave these guests to me.”

The waiter immediately stopped at the same place, and bowed respectfully. “Understood, manager.”

The person was slender, dressed in a neat black suit with an off-white bow tie in the middle of the neckline, and his hair was meticulously combed. His gaze paused for a moment on Shen Shian’s face, before turning to the longsword behind him, and then he reached out his hand to Liu Fangzhou who was standing in the front, “Welcome to Noah’s Ark.”

Liu Fangzhou did not dare to hold it: Zhou Jianghai was not dead in vain.

The other party didn’t mind, he took his hand away with a calm expression, and introduced himself with a smile. “My name is Yang Xueqiu, I am the lobby manager of the Golden Phoenix Hotel and the first officer of Noah’s Ark.”

Liu Fangzhou: whose mine?

As if seeing everyone’s doubts, Yang Xueqiu explained, “In order to facilitate management, the division of personnel in Noah’s Ark follows a ship’s setting.”

Shen Shian, “That means you have a captain?”

“Yes.” Yang Xueqiu nodded.

Several people opened their ears and waited for the following, only to find that the first officer had no intention to continue, and then turned the topic back. “I don’t know if these few gentlemen have any needs I can help?”

Shen Shian didn’t plan to extract any internal information from the other party, “We plan to rest here for one night. Can we have a room?”

“Of course you can. If you become a resident of Noah’s Ark, the hotel will be free. Do you have any intentions to be one?”

Shen Shian shook his head, “We are just passing by, we will leave early tomorrow morning.”

“It turned out to be like this.” Yang Xueqiu made a “please” gesture, led the five people to the front desk, and took out a booklet from the counter. “Golden Phoenix Hotel provides customers with multiple levels of choices and strives to satisfy all. According to the needs of customers, the rooms are divided into five levels. Different levels have different prices and different services. These gentlemen can see which one is needed.”

Shen Shian took the booklet, and Chen Nan and others gathered around. There were only five sheets in the booklet, representing different room classes: five-people rooms without water and electricity, three-people rooms with water and electricity, standard rooms with water and electricity, big bed rooms with water and electricity, and luxury suites with water and electricity. Each paper was marked with a number at the back, ranging from one to twenty.

The tall, short, and chubby trio was not far from the side, holding a booklet in their hands. It was the same booklet as Shen Shian and others.

Shen Shian asked, “Do these numbers represent the room cost?”

“Yes,” Yang Xueqiu said, “but it should be noted that this hotel charges according to the number of people, not according to the room. These figures refer to the single person fee, which means that even if you only have one room, what you need to pay is still fees for four people——children are free.”

Shen Shian asked again, “How do we pay?”

Yang Xueqiu replied, “This hotel accepts crystal nuclei and materials as payment. In order to facilitate the calculation, the materials need to be converted into crystal nuclei before payment.” After that, he took out a booklet, which was much thicker than the first one. “This is the exchange ratio of various acceptable materials and crystal nuclei in Noah’s Ark. These several gentlemen can take a closer look.”

Shen Shian opened the second booklet, which listed hundreds of materials in descending order of convertible crystal nuclei. Most of the top ones were medicines, gasoline, weapons, etc, all of which were of high value, and no less than 20. The value of seeds or plants of various vegetables and fruits was also high, well, it was still in the apocalypse. Other things needed for survival varied in value from bits and pieces. To Shen Shian’s surprise, the value of food in this booklet could only be ranked at the bottom. Five packets of crackers could be exchanged for a crystal nuclei. Bread, instant noodles, and the like were slightly higher, and meat products were even higher. But the unit price did not exceed five crystal nuclei. Instead, the expensive one was cigarettes. Each pack could be exchanged for ten to fifteen crystal nuclei depending on the brand and state

From this booklet, there was a lot of information available.

First, there was no shortage of food in “Noah’s Ark”. Secondly, there were many plant abilities in Noah’s Ark.

What Shen Shian cared most about was that there were many types of drugs listed here, but none of them were used to prevent mosquito bites or reduce swelling and itching. There were also no anti-mosquito products such as perfume.