Ch 6 : Fever

Shi Xiao woke up with a start. He rubbed his eyes as he took a glance towards his dry bread topped with spicy anchovies bits.

He have good appetite and willing to try new things, moreover, it's cheaper and good to eat with rice when he got no more money to buy meat.

He look at his watch, 09.28 PM.

It's weird.

Why would he feel hungry so soon?

At 2 past afternoon, he ate a bread with an egg, at 5 past afternoon, he ate 2 bread with little bits of meat sauce. Then at 7, his stomach growled again, even more hungrier than before.

Since the hallway are still filled with corpses, he went back to his assistant's office and try to make do with all the bags and clothes inside for a decent sleep, but halfway to a nap he woke up due to hunger, so he gotten up and ate a cold boiled egg to appease his stomach while he cooked instant noodles.

He is hungry, and when he touched the warm water, he paused, then used another hand to touch his stomach.

It's too warm. Is he running a fever?

He made sure that he locked down the stairs and doors, but he still carefully holding the shelves as he slide one by one out.

Fortunately, yesterday the people from assistant office stocked up on some vitamin drinks and some Ibuprofen and Tylenol, he thanked them mentally, and cook up a serving of instant noodles. After eating without any appetite but growling stomach, he quickly downed a pill of Ibuprofen. He remembered that Tylenol is better for pregnant women, so he is saving them for later uses.

He then tucked himself to his makeshift bed with the deputy's precious soft chair which could turn into 145° angle and tried his best to sleep, no, he have to get some sleep. He still wanted to find someone later.

" Sir, we found a breaker!!! " An excited young voice calls up the surrounding people. 2 hours ago, they managed to kill 6 monsters who stay inside receptionist area. Unfortunately, two people didn't have a good skills and turned into monsters, they could only stab them in their heart to prevent any more victims.

The original 7 men scout turned into 15, but dwindled into 13 due to their negligence.

It's 9 in the evening, the sky is dark, they could only use their phone as a limited light source, but now they find the breaker, they decided to look first.

" After we look at it, can we eat? I only have several biscuits and my stomach still growling... "

" We have breads in our restroom.... "

" Haha, not only reception department, almost all staffs like to hide foods in their restroom huh? "

" You don't understand, cafeteria is far from first floor... "

As they relaxed, they start to talk with each other. While two other person were excluded to the side. They are in different levels of executive positions, causing the crowd to feel inferior and quite submissive to their orders, it's their CEO and his younger cousin after all!

Shi Xiao worked in 'FM Company' which is a company that specializes foreign goods, in other words, exports and imports.

Initially, they are a bunch of foreigners that moves to China to make a new fortune. No one knows the reason and their background in foreign lands, but many foreign goods are willingly offering a contract. Most of the people in core investors are all foreigners, and all of them bears one surname 'Hua' and it's said each of members will have a tattoo of different types of flowers depending on their status. The current matriarch bear red camelia flowers, also the highest and most respected leader in their history as she holding on her own despite huge amount of debt and financial crisis during 21XX, leaving legend and admiration in every younger generations.

" Ge, my signal is still not working... " A younger one anxiously spoke, despite his age, he being spoiled and pampered at home, so of course he'd worry about his family all the time. The young little cousin is also the same man as the (foolish) kind hearted man who paid 500 yuan for a cup of noddle with sausages and two eggs.

" Long Yi's satellite connection is also didn't managed to go through, I wonder if other city also got cut off power...? Why we must go through this in this kind of situation?! " Long Yi is an app made for only Hua family uses, it used decrypted military services satellite that are stronger than the civilian communication satellite.

" No. " The older men's deep voice lightly said, " I am afraid it's only us. "

" Huh? "

" Earlier, I saw from my office windows, " He patiently explained for his younger cousin, " Only this district's electricity are cut off. "

" Did you think of anything, Ge? " Shang Hao curiously asked.

" There's a lot of possibilities, but I have to see it for myself. "

" See what? " He cluelessly asked. Shang Hao is really puzzled, is he the one who is slow or all Hua lineage are all genius? Speaking shortly and full of riddles, geez, he is grateful he isn't a Hua family member, otherwise, he will probably spent his day thinking what all of them talking about. Thankfully his mother, Hua An Ting, retired from the heir's candidate position from young, so she retain her cheerful and youthful attitude, resulting of her beloved son who is pampered and innocent, unlikely to cause big trouble.

" Anyway, do you feel feverish? " The older one suddenly asked. Shang Hao immediately alerted, he stood up and shielded his brother from peering eyes, and start to talk in low voice.

" I don't feel sick, " He paused, then checked his body temperature, " It's okay, I think? What's wrong? Do you feel sick? " He immediately asked back in hushed voice. He immediately reminded that during the sudden attack in security office, his brother is slower than usual and unusually silent, I mean, he always like that, but Shang Hao just feels a bit different.

It was known that zombies that they encountered are all got sick before suddenly turned into man eating monster, it'd be a little problematic if the other people know his brother suddenly feel feverish.

Currently, they managed 11 people, but not all worked directly under his brother, so their loyalty are not known. If they decided to abandon both of them just because his brother is feverish, they couldn't possibly worked together again to seal up the company entrance and unite to defend themselves from danger.

" Don't tell anyone. " His brother sent him a casual, but meaningful glance. Although Shang Hao is only just graduated, his head is still there, and both of them working together is better than being held hostage by strangers.

" I know, don't worry. " Shang Hao nodded solemnly. " I will go bring some food and look for medicine for you. "

" En, be careful. " He is thankful that he insisted on his cousin to go to lunch with him, otherwise they might get separated and he have to move in lethargic condition, maybe he couldn't hide his fever at all. Human heart is terrible, he didn't dare to gamble on bunch of co-workers who usually never meet him before would stay obedient to his leadership even though he running on a fever.

Hua Yun Chen smiled at bunch of onlooker, definitely couldn't let them know.