Dangerous Survival in the Apocalypse Chapter 26 part2

Translator: Onion
Editor: Katie is a wandering fujoshi

“Mr. Shen,” Zhang Ze shouted as he stood by the railing. He was surrounded by a circle of people. There were also survivors who previously participated in the clean-up operation like him, “Would you like to come over and join us?”

The city library was a hexagonal prism structure in which a cylinder inside was hollowed out. The volume of the cylinder was not small. The bottom area is about half of the area of ​​the hexagonal structure. It was surrounded with military-grade bulletproof glass of the same material as the floor-to-ceiling window. There were a variety of flowers and plants. No matter from which part of the library you look down, you could see a beautiful garden full of flourishing and colorful flowers. There was also a special personnel to maintain them, making them beautiful in all seasons and thus was the most famous landscape in the library.

Where Zhang Ze and others were standing now, passing through a door on the left side will lead to the second floor reading room. The right side was the cylindrical glass wall with ivy climbing along it. The green color was very fresh.

Shen Shian paused and walked over with the child. Without asking him, Zhang Ze took the initiative to explain, "We are discussing how to allocate the materials collected from the library."

Apart from the zombies surrounding the library at this time, the library was indeed a good temporary place for shelter. It not only prevent zombies from coming in, but also had a spare power system, plenty of water, and a water heater on each floor to heat up the water. It was much better than many other places.

The materials in Zhang Ze's hand were food that had lots of calories. There were two vending machines on the first and second floors of the library, one selling snacks and one selling drinks. A total of four vending machines, plus the items collected from the lockers and the staff rooms on each floor. The food was not too small, but for the fifty-four survivors, it was certainly not enough.

At present, everyone had different opinions on how to distribute these materials. Survivors who stayed on the first floor hoped that the food would be divided equally, but they were not willing to participate in the cleanup operation on the second floor. They felt it was too risky to play with the zombies, but still wanted to get the benefit.

Shen Shian stood outside the crowd and silently listened for a while. Zhang Ze looked gentle, patiently and meticulously listening to everyone's opinions. They hadn't decided the result. Suddenly there was a sound of glass shattering on the first floor. It was followed by several roars, “What do you want? You are very shameless! When the zombies came, you ran away. Now you're more active than anyone when it comes to eating. As long as I'm here today, you can't take a bag of spicy sticks!"

Spicy sticks: 

Shen Shian and everyone went down and saw that the vending machine for selling snacks' glass was broken, and it was scattered all over the place. Several people were crowding there.

One of them saw Zhang Ze and immediately said, "Brother Zhang, these three people want to steal things from the vending machine."

Shen Shian recognized one of the three people who wanted to steal the snacks. The oval shaped man surnamed Fang, who first entered and wanted to close the door in advance. He also refused to let the wounded live.

The other two were a middle-aged couple, about forty years old, who seemed to be surnamed Huang. All three of them refused to participate in the clean-up operation and chose to stay on the first floor.

Mrs. Huang heard this and was immediately dissatisfied. A pair of well-maintained hands with a half-inch long nail was raised to the man's face like she was trying to scratch him, “Stealing, your mother, steal?! Is this vending machine your home? It's not right? I am hungry and want to get two packs. Why cry? Is this your mom's funeral?"

The one who stopped her was one of the participants in the cleanup activities. He was not burly, but he was obviously stronger than Mrs. Huang. If this happened before the outbreak of the virus, he may be a little reluctant because a good man does not fight with a woman or he did not want to get into trouble, but now it was necessary to survive until tomorrow. Who would spoil her? They were surrounded by zombies and fire burned inside his heart. He immediately pushed her arm backwards. Mrs. Huang's feet slipped and she fell to the ground. The glasses made her bleed and she screamed.

Mr. Huang was shocked and angry, his fingers trembled and he shouted, “What the fuck are you doing? Just because there were zombies outside it doesn't mean that there's no law. Wait for the rescue team to save us, I will definitely make you suffer the consequences. Your whole family will lose fortune because of you!"

This time, another temperamental participant hit him, and Mr. Huang fell to the ground and laid next to Mrs. Huang. The two started to shout together. “Killing, killing, this group of gangsters are killing people!"

“You shout again, believe it or not, I will really kill you."

“Why are you so fierce? Auntie was anxious but she isn't wrong either. The vending machine was not for only one person in the library, why stop people from taking things?"

“If we didn't clean up the zombies earlier, you wouldn't have a chance. You didn't contribute yet you get the benefits. Are you my mother? Why would I want to give you my life?"

"Why do fellow citizens of H city arguing about this unpleasant to hear thing? When this disaster passes, there would be higher chances of meeting each other. When you're in trouble, they might help you. Having a good relationship is important."

The quarrels became louder and louder. Shen Shian put the child's head on his chest and blocked his ears with his hands. Shen Xun looked at the play while licking the duck's legs. He soon fell asleep after filling up his stomach.

Seeing that both sides were getting more and more dissatisfied, Zhang Ze's eyes were smeared with helplessness. He sighed before saying, "Don't quarrel." 

He had offered a few useful solutions before. His words still played a role among the survivors. When the quarrel stopped, Zhang Ze slowed down, “The biggest problem for everyone is how to allocate the materials. Now that we know where the problem is, then we can solve the problem. First, all the materials will be collected and moved to the second floor reading room.”

After about twenty minutes, all the survivors were divided into two teams and gathered in the center of the reading room on the second floor. The afterglow of the sunset was projected through the floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating the various drinks and food piled up between the two groups.

“There are two solutions to this problem.” Zhang Ze said, “First, all materials are equally divided according to the number of heads.”

The people who chose to stay in the first floor immediately agreed, and the people who participate in clearing the second floor showed a face of dissatisfaction.

Zhang Ze gave a meaningful glance to the participants to tell them not to get irritable easily. Looking at the people who chose to stay behind, "To divide equally is not bad. However since we decided to divide all of them, we can't just divide what we found in the library. The food that everyone brought in will also be divided. After sorting them out, all of them will be shared equally."

This time, the one who chose to stay behind disagreed. The reason why they refused to take the risk to go to the second floor to clean the zombies was perhaps because of their lack of courage and other reasons. But not only that, it was also because half of the people carried their bags or luggage. With the food inside, they could survive for a period of time. Seeing that the rescue team is coming, why should they take risks?

The same thing for the people who participated. They simply didn't take anything with them when they escaped and so, they could only go to the second floor and fight again.

Of course, except for Shen Shian, his backpack looked bulging, and he was willing to feed the child with a large duck leg. In the eyes of everyone, he had been identified as a rich person who never worried about food and drink.

Zhang Ze's first plan was eventually rejected by the people who chose to stay on the first floor. He then proposed a second plan, “Since everyone is not willing to share equally, then the second method is to distribute according to work. Everything that you bring in can be kept, but the materials obtained inside the library will be shared according to your labor."

After finishing his sentence, he stood on the side of the participants. As he looked at the people who refused to participate. His face changed emotion for the first time. This time there was a faint chill, "Please understand clearly, there are only these two options, there's no third option."

Soon, the second option was chosen.

Zhang Ze's face regained its gentle look and even brought some smiles, "So let's start distributing supplies. Yes, Mr. Shen was the one who worked the most in the process of collecting materials, so he gets the most things, and everyone will have no opinions."

 Shen Shian stared the smiling eyes, and he took back his sight after watching for a while.

In the end, all the materials were successfully distributed. Shen Shian was the one who killed most of the zombies. Together with Shen Xun, he shared a bag of sandwich biscuits, a bag of potato chips, a bag of strange beans, a snicker, a piece of Dove chocolate, a bottle of orange juice, a bottle of fruit milk and a can of canned cola.

Chapter end