{"id":677,"date":"2025-10-08T01:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sakuratranslation.com\/apocalypse-a-journey-of-ntrs-with-my-sister-05\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:09:25","slug":"apocalypse-a-journey-of-ntrs-with-my-sister-05","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/de\/chapter\/apocalypse-a-journey-of-ntrs-with-my-sister-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse, A Journey of NTRS with My Sister 05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br>Chapter 5: Surprises and Gifts<br><br><br>Upon arriving at the destination, I found the main gate tightly shut as expected, making entry quite difficult.<br><br>There were floor-to-ceiling windows on either side of the main entrance, but tapping them revealed they were made of reinforced tempered glass\u2014impossible to break with the tools I had on hand.<br><br>As I was considering whether to climb to the second floor to look for an open window, Rin effortlessly pushed open a small door next to the main gate.<br><br>The door was actually unlocked\u2014what a shock.<br><br>This is a security door for staff access, usually locked with an electronic lock that requires card swiping to enter.<br><br>Normally, the door should automatically lock during a power outage, but fortunately, this one remained unlocked. Though I don&#8217;t know why, it saved me a lot of trouble.<br><br>After entering with Rin, we found the lobby surprisingly clean.<br><br>To say the least, the absence of bloodstains or corpses lying on the ground, combined with the spacious and tidy hall, is already a plus.<br><br>The reception area showed no signs of being looted either. I figured it might be because no one thought they&#8217;d find anything valuable in a swimming facility, or perhaps survivors were all rushing to supermarkets instead.<br><br>Judging by how neatly everything was arranged, it&#8217;s possible this place wasn&#8217;t even open for business when the outbreak began.<br><br>Otherwise, entertainment venues like this are usually among the first disaster zones&#8230; Maybe this place would be safer than I imagined.<br><br>&#8220;Brother, look over here.&#8221; Ling called out to me from a distance, standing in front of a glass window. Behind the glass was a small, isolated personal space, likely a guard room.<br><br>The glass window could be slid open, but it had steel bars installed on the inside, making it difficult to climb through.<br><br>On the other side, there was a metal door. Upon inspection, I found it was locked from the inside. Unfortunately, it was an electronic lock that had automatically engaged when the power went out and hadn&#8217;t been unlocked with a matching key since.<br><br>Peering through the glass window&#8230; I saw the corpse of a man lying on the floor, already showing signs of decomposition.<br><br>&#8221; Infected.&#8221; Any human infected with the virus will turn into an Infected after death, and only those Infected who die a second time will undergo biodegradation, decaying into skeletons.<br><br>Therefore, intact corpses or bodies with a certain degree of decay are almost certainly Infected, without exception.<br><br>&#8220;It probably got trapped here after the power outage.&#8221; Perhaps this electronic lock wasn&#8217;t designed with much humanity in mind\u2014no one came to rescue it, and it didn&#8217;t have a key itself&#8230; Or maybe it hid inside voluntarily and accidentally locked itself in?<br><br>Yet through the window, no signs of struggle were visible&#8230; On the contrary, it was oddly too clean, which is somewhat strange.<br><br>But who knows, infected always have strange reasons to appear in various places.<br><br>&#8220;Ah, ah&#8230; ah&#8230;&#8221; As a result, while we were observing, infected woke up from its slumber, but it didn&#8217;t show much reaction upon seeing me and Rin.<br><br>I took two steps back, letting Ling stand in front. Sure enough, the infected&#8217;s reaction became much weaker.<br><br>It seems the infected only reacts to the nearest living creature. If I hide behind Ling and divert its attention, I can minimize its hostility toward me.<br><br>Just as expected, it had already lost interest in me and turned its gaze toward Ling, pressing both hands against the glass window, staring intently.<br><br>Who knows if it&#8217;s developed&#8230; certain interests?<br><br>Along the way, we encountered many infected. To be safe, I didn&#8217;t let Rin appear in front of large groups of infected, only experimenting with isolated infected.<br><br>Of course, not all infected showed interest in Rin, but most would fix their gaze on her body, which seemed related to her clothing.<br><br>If Ling puts on a coat and wears long , the likelihood of her being ignored would be greater.<br><br>The more her body and the more revealing her clothing, the more it would attract the infected.<br><br>Even before the apocalypse, Ling&#8217;s outfit would have been very eye-catching, and it&#8217;s likely that the infected inherited this habit.<\/p>","protected":false},"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"novel":[],"class_list":["post-677","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"novel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novel?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}