"...The White House has abandoned Washington. The Federal Government has moved its command headquarters onto an aircraft carrier..."
The hotel restaurant was silent, save for the intermittent sounds of the news coming from the television.
For now, tap water, electricity, and natural gas were still available. Cell phone signals were gone, but cable television and radio were temporarily still functioning.
Hearing the news, everyone felt a weight settle in their hearts. Even the food in their mouths suddenly seemed tasteless.
Several students began to sob quietly, as though they had lost all hope for the future.
Even enduring a single day like this made it feel as if the sky were falling. Yet judging from the news, this might be what life would be like from now on!
"Now that everyone has a general idea of the situation, I'm planning to organize a trip into the city tomorrow to look for relatives and gather supplies. Who wants to volunteer?"
Amid the stifling atmosphere, Xu Yue's words broke the heavy silence.
Yet upon hearing his call for volunteers, terror appeared in the eyes of most of the students.
This was the outskirts, yet a few corpses still wandered around outside from time to time. The situation in the city could easily be imagined!
Japan was a country with a particularly high population density, especially around Tokyo. The jurisdiction of Chukashiro City before them was not especially large, yet it had a population of over a million.
Now that the entire city had fallen, even if only half had turned into monsters, that was still hundreds of thousands of them. Just thinking about it made their scalps tingle.
Going into the city at a time like this? Wasn't that just seeking death...
Just as nearly everyone had become a coward, hiding away