"One, two, three, lift!"
Outside Limei Hotel, people wearing only light clothing and masks carried bodies transferred from the hotel rooms onto trucks.
The trucks were corpse transport vehicles specially dispatched by the authorities. On the first day after Rule End, large numbers of such vehicles had already begun moving along the city's main roads, hauling away bodies from various gathering points.
In the final stages of the rules, with temperatures dropping to dozens of degrees below zero, there had been no issue with temporarily storing bodies indoors. But now, under the blazing sun and rising temperatures, failing to remove them quickly could lead to an outbreak of disease.
"One, two, three, move!"
Several people carried another body onto a truck. During the process, a pair of glasses fell from the bag wrapped around it.
Xu Xiaotian bent down and picked them up. He remembered that they belonged to Teacher Feng. The man had developed a high fever and failed to pull through, dying during the rules.
Once all the bodies had been loaded onto the two trucks, everyone watched the vehicles drive away, their expressions somewhat blank.
The rules had ended, but the psychological shadows they left behind would not.
In order to think less about it, many people picked up tools and voluntarily went out into the streets to clear snow and tear down the ice walls without even waiting for an official call.
Others immediately packed their belongings, planning to leave once the snow melted and get away from this place that had scarred them so deeply.
Only the old residents who had moved into Limei Hotel from the very beginning had no plans to leave.
Even though the hotel was now completely unrecognizable compared to before—its collapsed sign and entrance, the swimming pool piled full of