"Continue searching, leave one group outside to monitor, Zhang Tao's group will also go in with us. Since human bodies have been found, there may still be survivors. Every room must be carefully inspected!"

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Unfortunately, whoever makes Hong Tao worry doesn't have to wait overnight for revenge. It can happen anytime, anywhere. Just like now, they were supposed to be able to stand guard outside easily, but in an instant, they had to search inside the hotel. Comparing the two tasks, the former was obviously safer.

After more than two hours of carpet search, no survivors were found, but there were still some discoveries. In a room in the basement of the hotel's annex administrative building, some abnormalities were found.

This room should be the storage room or operation room of the hotel staff canteen. In the corner, there was a stainless steel drum emitting a foul smell. Some meat strips were hanging above the operating table with hooks, the color was lighter, unlike ordinary preserved meat.

Pan Wenxiang, who was the first to discover it and was in charge of this building, didn't think there was anything unusual, especially when he saw that the drum was filled with feces. He almost vomited and quickly drew a cross on the door with chalk to indicate that the inspection was completed.

"Hu Doctor, come here!" However, his panicked and foul-mouthed behavior when leaving the room caught Hong Tao's attention. Hu Ran, who was searching in another room, was called in.

"With your experience, what kind of animal does this meat skin resemble?"

When Hu Ran first came in, he didn't pay attention to the preserved meat that Hong Tao was holding. Daily necessities were no longer the focus of the field team's work. Even if they wanted to eat meat, they could easily get various canned meats and vacuum-packed meats from any supermarket. Unless they had a special taste, they wouldn't be interested in this preserved meat.

"...I, I'm not sure... Oh..." But when he heard Hong Tao's question and carefully examined the preserved meat, his face immediately turned pale, and then he opened his mask and vomited towards the wall.

"Forget about it if you're not sure, don't mention it to anyone. Let's go, if you need to vomit, vomit outside. It's too disgusting here!"

Hong Tao didn't need to ask further to know what the meat strips in his hand were. Hu Ran was a surgeon, he might not recognize pig skin, cow skin, sheepskin, or even dog skin, but he must be very familiar with human skin, otherwise, he would just be a quack doctor.

If these meat strips were human flesh, then the source must be the corpse in the cold storage room that had already been stripped to the bone. Moreover, it made sense geographically. The cold storage room and the staff canteen were both in the basement, with only a short passage separating them.

But there was one question that always puzzled Hong Tao. This was a kitchen, after all, was there a shortage of food? It would be more troublesome to use human flesh as food, unless someone really liked it. It was too absurd!

However, Hong Tao quickly answered this doubt himself. There was a stainless steel workbench in the innermost part of the room, and on the table was a stainless steel dining cart.

This strange combination caught his attention, and when he looked up, he got the answer. There was a ventilation opening on top of it, and the cover of the ventilation opening had been opened, with two screws loose.

Looking back at the small room in the cold storage, it confirmed everything. There was no roof in this room, not even a ceiling. The cover of the ventilation opening was simply placed on the ground, and one could easily go up and down by stepping on the shelves.

"Why the hell didn't you bite him!" Now Hong Tao probably understood what had happened here. Speaking of which, he was the one who let this cannibal demon go.

When the disaster suddenly broke out, there should have been at least two survivors here, most likely the chefs or pastry chefs who were on the night shift. They were trapped in their respective small rooms, with zombies in the cold storage and the kitchen. No one dared to go out.

As time went by, the limited food and water in the rooms were exhausted. It was unknown who discovered that this ventilation pipe could connect the two rooms, and one person crawled over and killed the other person, then survived by eating human flesh.

When he brought people here, he used every means to lure the zombies outside every day. The zombies in the cold storage and the kitchen ran to the underground garage through the delivery door, and were all taken care of by his field team. Meanwhile, this person quietly escaped.

If this inference was correct, then this person could only have left here two days ago, because the underground garage was cleaned up two days ago. As for whether this person escaped or where he went, Hong Tao couldn't really tell.

The power supply had long been cut off, and the cameras in the hotel and on the street became decorations. In two days, if someone had a car and was lucky enough, they could have run hundreds of kilometers away.

Compared to the hotel with over five hundred rooms, the cleaning of the dormitory of the national dance troupe on the east side was much easier, but it was also more heartbreaking. Most of the people living here were dancers, mostly young women with enchanting figures. Even though they had turned into zombies with a bluish-black complexion, their former grace could still be seen.

Old men like Hong Tao, Sun Jianshe, and Hu Ran, who had been married, could still kill without hesitation, but single men like Zhang Tao and Pan Wenxiang became more and more hesitant to kill. It was estimated that their hearts were bleeding. If it weren't for other team members monitoring them, they would have gone on strike long ago.

"Don't think about useless things, there are beautiful women right beside you. It's foolish to look far away!" Hong Tao saw the abnormal behavior of certain people, but this time he didn't use harsh words or sarcasm. Instead, during a break, he quietly approached them and gave them a suggestion in a low voice."I'm not imagining things!" Pan Wenxiang had been fooled by Hong Tao once before, and he was not willing to be tricked again in a short time. He would rather believe it was nothing than admit there was something, and he denied it on the spot.

"Hehehe... They don't even look at us, let alone you..." Zhang Tao, who had joined the team earlier and was now the group leader, spoke more casually and didn't hide his inner thoughts.

"Don't talk nonsense. If Leader Chu hears this, you're in for trouble!" Hong Tao looked around sneakily, as if Chu Qiu was really nearby.

"Boss, don't tell me you've never thought about all the beautiful women around you!" This attitude did not reassure Pan Wenxiang. Instead, he sneered and showed a contemptuous expression. His eyes clearly accused: A full man does not know a hungry man's hunger, and after eating, he still pretends to be cool!

"Well, in your eyes, I'm just an old bastard who bullies men and dominates women... No, no, no, don't rush to explain. It's time for lunch. Let's eat and chat. Tell me what you think the rescue team will develop into and what the whole world will become. If you don't say, I'll never know your thoughts. Maybe I'll really dominate all the beauties. Don't regret it then!"

It's not that otakus have no advantages. They have a unique perspective on things and a unique way of thinking. Just in terms of chatting, they often have some unexpected ideas.

"..." The more Hong Tao talked, the more alert Pan Wenxiang became. His eyes rolled around and his mouth was tightly closed. It seemed that the matter of becoming a grand mage had hurt him a lot. This was a lesson learned from experience.

"I... I haven't thought about it carefully..." Zhang Tao did answer, but it was almost the same as not saying anything. Obviously, he didn't want to reveal too much of his inner thoughts.

After clearing the zombies in the dormitory building, everyone didn't stay for long and directly retreated to the middle of the road. Except for setting up surveillance posts in the east and west directions, all members of the field team gathered at the flower bed on the north side of the street for lunch and rest.

The conversation between Hong Tao, Pan Wenxiang, and Zhang Tao quickly attracted the attention of other team members. Some listened and laughed it off, while others took it seriously and came over to express their opinions.

"I hope everyone can live safely, without anyone bullying, enslaving, or exploiting anyone. Now there are no constraints, Uncle Hong, you can have the final say, can you do it?"

The first one who couldn't help but talk about her future aspirations was Shui Nanqin. She was the youngest among the adults, the most lively, and had the least contact with society. She didn't have so many concerns in her mind. After getting through that unbearable period of pain, she returned to her nature more and more, acting coquettishly, showing a small temper, laughing, scolding... and the unique fantasies of young people.