The shelters in the cities around ARC City, as well as the surrounding areas, both large and small, had all marked their locations on Spark as long as they could access it.
Following the navigation on Spark, the three of them soon found the shelter, which was now empty.
Standing at the entrance and looking at the almost completely empty police station, the three of them fell silent.
"Sister Rita... you didn't go to the wrong place, did you..." Li Sushang looked up at Rita, who was holding the phone. At the same time, Durandal looked at Rita with the same questioning gaze.
The two undisguised gazes made the smile on Rita's face a little stiff.
After confirming for a while, Rita finally put away her phone. "Miss Sushang, we're not in the wrong place. The shelter we're looking for is right here."
"But there doesn't seem to be anyone here," Durandal said, craning her neck to take a good look inside the police station. She still didn't see anything.
Not to mention people, she didn't even see any zombies.
When she turned her head again, a white-gloved hand had already rested on the doorknob and pushed open the somewhat dusty glass door.
Li Sushang and Durandal were startled. Rita had put on her gloves at some point and had already entered the shelter first.
While Rita was still holding the door, the two ungloved people quickly followed her into the police station.
Behind the glass door was a pile of scattered and overturned office desks. They looked heavy, and you could still see the scratches left by the desk corners on the tiled floor.
The chaotic arrangement made it look as if the place had been looted or had gone through a major upheaval.
"Rita, could the people here have been..." Attacked?
Durandal didn't finish her sentence, but her meaning was clear.
In this environment, who would leave an established shelter unless they were forced to? Especially a place like a police station, which subconsciously gave people a sense of security?
If Deadwalkers or zombies had broken through the shelter...
"The situation may not be that bad." But Rita just took a couple of glances and dismissed Durandal's idea.
"These marks on the floor indicate that these desks were pushed to the door by the residents to block it. It wasn't easy to move them here, so it certainly wouldn't be easy to move them away.
"If you wanted to break through here quickly, it would be easier to smash the glass than to move these heavy desks," Rita said, pointing to the glass door she had just pushed open. "As long as you have a gun, it's easy to break a piece of glass like this.
"And this is a police station, so there are all sorts of tools to break through here.
"But the current situation is that these desks used to block the door have been moved away, and the cleared area is quite large. The things here have also been moved out... This doesn't look like an escape. The survivors here should have evacuated safely."
Durandal and Li Sushang immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Li Sushang didn't understand the process at all, but she understood the phrase "evacuated safely."
Durandal, on the other hand, took a while to digest it before following Rita's line of thought. She couldn't help but exclaim, "Rita, you're amazing..."
"You flatter me, Lady Durandal," Rita said humbly with a slight bow.
"Since there's no one here, where are we going to eat?" Li Sushang摸了摸 [mō le mō - touched/rubbed] her stomach again. It was noon now, mealtime, and she was really hungry.
And...
"It seems we can only drink some nutrient serum," Rita said, stating the worst option.
"Ohhh~~" The two of them dragged out their voices, making an unwilling sound. Then they took out a test tube they carried with them and poured a small capful according to the dosage.
They both stared at the vibrant green liquid in the cap, which exuded a strong bitter taste. They took a deep breath in unison, then closed their eyes and drank it down.
Quickly putting down the cap and tightening the remaining nutrient solution, the two looked at each other with blank expressions. In the end, it was Li Sushang who couldn't bear it anymore and her expression twisted.
Durandal's composure broke immediately as well. The two of them stuck out their tongues, tears welling up in their eyes as they looked at Rita.
Rita also tightened the cap, elegantly putting the remaining nutrient serum back in its storage place. Then she gave the two frowning people a smile that was no different from usual.
Li Sushang suddenly gasped. The remaining bitter taste in her mouth was stimulated, causing her immense pain.
Durandal was just left with admiration.
This is Rita, after all... she can drink nutrient serum without batting an eye. It seems I still need more training with Senior Theresa!
"Lady Durandal, let's look for a general map of the scenic area. With a map of the area, we can better determine our search route," Rita said with a smile. What the two didn't see was that Rita's hand under her white glove was clenched so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
She smiled and soon found a scenic area brochure among the scattered papers on the floor.
It not only had a brief introduction to Xieyang Mountain, but also information on various activities and locations on the mountain, recommended tour routes... and those four- and five-digit tour packages.
"Wow... it looks so expensive," Durandal couldn't help but exclaim. She didn't know how much contribution points she had, but her highest daily spending had never exceeded a three-digit number.
Like Rita, a meal only cost a dozen or so contribution points. She could eat a little, so a meal would cost her seventy or eighty at most...
The four- and five-digit numbers on this brochure really made her a little dizzy.
On the contrary, Li Sushang's reaction was even better than Durandal's. She was very meticulous about maintaining her sword on a daily basis! She had also heard quite a few of those advertisements in [Utopia].
As for Rita... well, she had enjoyed seven- or eight-digit solo tour packages. These really weren't worth her notice.
"This place seems quite big... let me see..." Durandal and Li Sushang huddled together again, looking through the folded brochure. "There's an ancient village on the mountain... and a library, a tea garden, some terraced fields, and a cave, rafting... a temple? A pagoda?"
"Sushang, have you been there?" Durandal looked up at Li Sushang.
Li Sushang shook her head. No one around her was interested in these things, and the Taixuan Martial Arts school didn't worship anyone... except for ancestors and predecessors, but that wasn't called worship, it was called admiration.
"Do you think rafting is fun?"
"I don't know, I've never tried it."
"Is the cave pretty?"
"Uh... I don't know if it's the same as the one in [Utopia]..."
Having quickly gathered the information she needed, Rita put away the brochure and walked up behind the two who were crouching and studying the projects on the mountain.
"Lady Durandal, Miss Sushang, we can head into the mountains now," Rita said with a smile, patting the two of them.