Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 252 - 157 Storming the Castle_2

Chapter 252: Chapter 157 Storming the Castle_2

Shana turned her head to the side, indicating that she was still angry.

As Nightmare set off, Lin Wu picked up the blueprint and pen and said, "I’ve hidden a food pack here, I wonder if anyone will take it?"

Shana immediately leaned in, "Where, where?" Upon looking at the map and realizing she’d been tricked, she lightly punched Lin Wu.

Lin Wu explained, "I’ve already cheated. I saw another food pack, but I didn’t tell Nightmare where it was."

Shana said, "I’m not angry."

Lin Wu, "I know. You’re just adding a bit of fun to the mundane scavenging work."

Shana, "Motivation tactics."

Talk aside, after Nightmare successfully brought back the food pack, Shana was still a bit sullen. If it wasn’t for that damn man sabotaging her, she should have been the first. Nightmare shared the location of the next food pack with Shana, and she also brought back a food pack.

After deliberation, the three decided to store the food packs in the trunk of one of the cars in the parking lot. Through multiple efforts, they managed to secure a total of nine food packs.

Each person took a food pack and retraced their steps back to the county marker. According to the original sequence, the three returned to the supermarket base, suffering from frostbite. To save on medicine, each person took turns in the sickbed, and by the time the frostbite was healed, it was already evening.

Shana asked, "If the zombies are as sparse as today on non-blizzard days, we could obtain unlimited resources through the sewers."

Lin Wu, "Impossible, haven’t you seen the tide of corpses before?"

"Anyone can answer." Stone’s voice came through the radio.

Lin Wu’s brow furrowed, intentionally being slow to respond, and the straightforward Shana picked up the receiver, "I’m here."

Stone asked, "I hear you have a library there?"

Shana answered, "Yes."

Stone, "Could you read a book for everyone?"

Shana looked at Lin Wu, who had disappeared. Turning around, she saw him already in the bedroom, snuggling into bed.

Stone, "Shana? Can you do it?" The Shadow members were so bored they resorted to counting leg hairs, and in the end, Little Knife won, annoying Little Knife enough to start rolling around in the dormitory waiting for someone to coax her.

With no choice, Shana said, "Okay, I’ll read a bit."

As Shana began reading a novel, Lin Wu set about preparing meat soup. Soon, accompanied by the boiling soup, the rich aroma of beef broth wafted through the base. Shana tried to look pitifully at Lin Wu, who pretended not to see and served a portion for Nightmare and one for himself, sitting in front of Shana and began eating and drinking.

Seeing Shana staring at him, Lin Wu explained, "It’s delicious."

"Hmph!"

Nightmare thought that Lin Wu and Shana would get cozy, like feeling sorry for Shana or secretly feeding Shana a spoonful for comfort, or perhaps even serving her a bowl. If Lin Wu had been polite, he would have asked for her opinion.

What Nightmare didn’t expect was that after Lin Wu and she had eaten their fill, he directly poured away the remaining beef broth, not even leaving the dregs for Shana.

Unable to help herself, Nightmare asked, and Lin Wu, taken aback by her question for a good while, countered, "Either don’t bet, or accept the loss if you do, isn’t that very normal?" Lin Wu didn’t understand; his actions were in line with the spirit of the contract and he was honest and trustworthy. So why did Nightmare think his behavior absurd?

Shana spoke up in Lin Wu’s defense, "He takes contracts and bets very seriously." Either don’t make a bet, or follow through if you do; Lin Wu’s behavior perfectly matched his character. Either don’t get married, but if you do, he’d definitely live up to his responsibilities as a husband.

"Oh." The world is so vast, there’s no end to its wonders. Nightmare didn’t dwell on it.

Three food packs providing twelve food units, plus the previous fifteen food units, totaled twenty-seven food units, enough to sustain the three of them for another seven days. If things went smoothly, they’d be making two more trips tomorrow, the food quantity would be 27 plus 24, equaling fifty-one food units, providing enough for seventeen days of sustenance. Added to the four days they had already endured, they could last for twenty-one days.

Now, food was no longer an issue for them. The problem was how to pass the next ten-plus days. With ample food supplies, they hoped the blizzard would last a bit longer, which would allow them to accumulate more points than many others. At the same time, the capabilities and competitiveness of players who were eliminated due to hunger would decrease significantly.

After all, Homeland was not only a game about earning points but also a game about competing for rankings through points.

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On the tenth day of the blizzard, at eight o’clock, the fourth round of voting commenced, with only twenty-seven thousand players remaining. The maximum number of days one could vote for was twenty-three, and they were all odd numbers. Seemingly to accommodate the players, more than 30% of the votes was enough this time.

The voting results showed that both three and seven had surpassed 30%, necessitating another round of voting. This outcome was particularly disadvantageous for the Shadow base; they had enough food to last only fourteen days. If the final result was seven, it meant they had to endure for an additional seven days, totaling seventeen days needed. On the seventeenth day, at eight o’clock in the morning when the blizzard ended, it would spell their time of death. Hence, Lin Wu and the others voted for three days.

Unfortunately, seven days won with more than 50% of the vote.

The main base had eight food units remaining. Due to the farm adding five food units daily, and the base consuming seven units, everyone at the main base would begin to starve from the fifth day at eight in the morning, become extremely hungry on the sixth day, and die on the seventh day.

The supermarket base had thirty-three food units left, sustaining them for eleven days. After discussion, Shana contacted Maya and had the surplus twelve food units from the sub-base delivered by food delivery.