Chapter 99 Save Me, There’s a Giant Spider

Chapter 99 Save Me, There's a Giant Spider

"Where is the meat? Where is the meat..."

"I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat..."

Meng Ci suddenly heard several voices outside.

Immediately, a few people rushed in, pushing Meng Ci aside and pouncing on the dead rats on the ground like hungry wolves.

Leaning against the wall, Meng Ci watched as these people fought over a piece of rat meat until they were bleeding, utterly bewildered.

"Meng Ci! Meng Ci!" Shen Que's anxious voice came from outside.

Hearing Shen Que's voice, Meng Ci hurriedly squeezed out of the room.

"Shen Que, I'm here."

Seeing Meng Ci, Shen Que quickly approached, checked him over to make sure he was fine, and then relaxed.

Shen Que had been searching for supplies in the supermarket when he heard a commotion outside. He feared something had happened to Meng Ci.

"What's going on in there?"

Shen Que saw several people fighting in the store Meng Ci had just come out of and asked curiously.

Meng Ci recounted what had happened.

"That rat must have mutated; its blood turned green. Will they be okay after eating it?"

Before coming to this world, Meng Ci couldn't even bear to look at fried silkworms or fried scorpions, let alone eat them.

Especially not now with these already mutated creatures.

Shen Que shook his head. "There won't be any problems yet."

These rats had survived through storms, acid rain, and now a blizzard, with their food sources long depleted over months. The ones that survived likely ate human flesh.

Then, these rats were exposed to acid rain again.

Due to their small size, they mutated faster.

Humans, because of their larger size, only began mutating two years after the acid rain.

However, these rats only showed physical changes and had no toxicity.

Meng Ci nodded.

Even if they weren't toxic, Meng Ci wouldn't eat them.

Seeing the people still fighting over the rat meat inside, Meng Ci didn't join in and left with Shen Que.

Even if the meat was toxic, they probably wouldn't listen to Meng Ci anyway.

On their way back, Shen Que and Meng Ci discussed other mutated animals.

"Besides rats, cockroaches and spiders are also mutating, growing much larger than usual."

"In a while, it will be cats and dogs."

"Then, crocodiles and tigers."

"And possibly white wolves too."

Meng Ci had read about these things in the novel.

So during the blizzard, Meng Ci mixed the remaining bag of cement and sand and poured it into the house's drainage system to prevent cockroaches from entering.

On their way back, Meng Ci and Shen Que encountered Lu Chen.

Lu Chen was accompanied by six soldiers carrying guns, each holding a stack of papers.

"Captain Lu, what are you doing?" Meng Ci asked, puzzled.

Lu Chen took a paper from one of the nearby soldiers and handed it to Meng Ci.

"The government has established a market in the city center's Riverside Park where people can trade goods."

"If you're interested, you can check it out."

Meng Ci looked at the flyer in his hand; the market would officially open in three days.

"Sure, we'll definitely go," Meng Ci agreed.

Lu Chen and his team needed to continue distributing flyers, so they soon bid farewell to the two.

Meng Ci remembered that trading goods started during the zombie period.

But with Shen Que's reminder, starting it now made sense to Meng Ci.

However, the items listed were quite unbelievable.

Ten pounds of live rats could be exchanged for one pound of rice, ten pounds of dead rats for half a pound of rice.

Eight pounds of live cockroaches could be exchanged for one pound of rice.

...

Meng Ci could understand eating rats, since Shen Que said they ate them in their previous life.

But could they really eat cockroaches and spiders?

Thinking about those things made Meng Ci feel disgusted.

Shen Que looked at the flyer and shook his head. "I'm not sure."

In his previous life, Shen Que only knew that rats were edible; he hadn't heard of anything else.

Moreover, rats were initially harmless, but as temperatures rose and viruses spread, they became the primary source of infection.

A single bite from a rat would cause a high fever, leading to an untreatable death.

Perhaps because Shen Que had informed the government about the apocalypse, it triggered a butterfly effect.

Maybe the government had researched spiders and cockroaches ahead of time, found them non-toxic, and collected them to make canned food.

When there was no other food left, these cans would be lifesavers.

However, all of this was speculation. To know the truth, they needed to visit the market.

Returning to Jinchang Jiayuan, the two headed upstairs.

The residents who had come back earlier had moved to the fifteenth and fourteenth floors, fearing that the blizzard might flood their homes.

As Meng Ci and Shen Que approached the fifteenth floor, they suddenly heard a woman's scream.

"Ah!"

"Bang!"

A woman's voice came out, followed by the sound of a door opening.

Tap tap tap!

The footsteps grew closer.

Meng Ci and Shen Que didn't intend to pay attention and continued walking upstairs.

Unexpectedly, the woman quickly hid behind Meng Ci, grabbing his clothes tightly with one hand.

Meng Ci, with a cold face, tried to pull his clothes free from her grip.

"Let go!"

The woman ignored him, her crying growing louder, and she began speaking in a broken manner.

"Wah wah wah, please, save me."

"There's a huge spider!"

...

Meng Ci roughly understood that a spider had entered the woman's home, frightening her.

Recalling what the flyer said about spider meat being exchangeable for food, Meng Ci spoke up. "Let go of me; I'll help you catch the spider."

Hearing this, the woman released Meng Ci.

"Thank you, thank you so much!"

"My apartment is 1505."

The woman followed Meng Ci and Shen Que, tightly covering her mouth, trying hard to control her fear.

Meng Ci took out his long knife and cautiously approached.

Although the woman's state didn't seem fake, what if it was just a trick and someone was lying in ambush?

Shen Que likely thought the same and stepped forward.

"Where... Where are the spiders?"

The woman hadn't closed the door when she came out, and the two spiders had followed her out.

Shen Que gripped his butcher knife tightly, not giving Meng Ci a chance to act, and swiftly killed both spiders.

The blood from the two spiders was still green.

The woman's eyes widened in surprise, pointing at the spiders, stammering, "It, it has green blood!"

Moreover, the size of these spiders was enormous, larger than the woman's fist.

Shen Que lifted the spiders by their legs, blood dripping onto the ground.

"Let's go."

Without explaining to the woman, the two left with the spiders.