With a long journey to City F, it was a priority to stock up enough food, water and gasoline.
However, all the shops on the street were locked, and as Yue Xingwen swept his eyes around he did not see any convenience stores or supermarkets nearby. He simply turned around and asked, “Professor Tang, do you know where the supermarket is?”
Professor Tang was a researcher at the Faculty of Biological Science and had lived in the city for some time, so he was naturally much more familiar with the surroundings than Yue Xingwen. Hearing this, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the fork at the road in front of him, and said, “Turn left in front, walk a street further, and there is a large lifestyle supermarket right next to the shopping mall.”
Yue Xingwen simply named the people to do the task. “Senior brother Xu, senior brother Zhuo Feng, senior brother Liu, and senior sister Manluo, the four of you stay in the car while the others follow me!”
Xu Yishen drove the bus around the corner in front of him, and sure enough, he saw a four-story shopping mall.
However, the next scene made everyone’s eyes widen.
They only saw a large number of human corpses placed on the wide square!
Densely packed human bodies were piled up randomly, like garbage. There were elderly people, young men and women, and many children with their eyes open, with bloody holes all over their foreheads from being shot.
The corpses were rotten and stink, surrounded by many flies.
The entire square was full of corpses, shocking to their eyes!
Ke Shaobin felt nausea and almost vomited. He hurriedly turned his head away, closing his eyes and took a deep breath.
Qin Miao said coldly, “They treat humans as garbage? After killing, they didn’t even bother to dispose of the corpses, they just threw it around at will?!”
Qin Lu bit her lips tightly, “There are so many children, it’s-it’s too miserable…”
Jiang Pingce said with a deep voice, “It seems, this city has been washed in blood by the mutants, and the residents have either been killed or fled, and there are not a few living people left.”
Yue Xingwen clenched his fist tightly, “These mutants, they treat human beings like insignificant trash, they want to completely take control of the entire world. When they encounter disobedient humans, do they just kill them directly?”
Professor Tang’s face went pale as he said in a shaky voice, “The situation is worse than what my superiors told me.”
Vegetable markets throwing rotten leaves should also be concentrated in the garbage, but these human corpses were thrown everywhere. The human body was not as good as rotten vegetable leaves.
The cold wind blew through, and the posters posted on the square fluttered in the wind, making a ‘rustling’ sound. There was a huge signboard of ‘Lifestyle Supermarket’ next to the square, which had been smashed and was half hanging there with a lot of piercing blood stains on it.
Xu Yishen stopped the bus with a kick on the brakes, and Yue Xingwen took his teammates to get off the bus quickly.
The air was filled with a strong smell of corpses that almost made people vomit. Everyone immediately covered their mouths and noses, quickly bypassing the pile of corpses in the square and jogging all the way to the supermarket.
The supermarket was locked from the inside, and Yue Xingwen looked at Zhang Xiaonian, “Xiao Nian, use your excavator.”
The little junior brother immediately started his excavator to cut the iron gate, and Yue Xingwen took the lead to rush into the supermarket——
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The inside of the supermarket was a mess, the food, tobacco and alcohol on the shelves had long been looted, the fish and shrimp in the fresh food section fell all over the floor in a chaos, emitting the stench of decay. The entire supermarket seemed to have just suffered a catastrophe!
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Ke Shaobin said with some disappointment, “All the food has been looted, and there’s nothing left…”
Zhang Xiaonian looked at the shelves where the wine was placed in a stunned manner, and complained in a low voice, “Even red wine and white wine have been looted of more than half. Do these people still want to drink alcohol at a critical moment?!”
Yue Xingwen said, “It may be that the supermarket was out of control at that time, and some people were greedy and fished out some wine.”
He walked quickly around the empty shelves in front of him. There were only a few scattered packets of the worst tasting salted crackers left in the snack section, and with that, there were 12 of them and not enough to share in one meal.
The beverage section was also emptied, leaving only two or three bottles of juice lying crookedly on the floor.
Nearby residents had already looted the supermarket, picking up the leftovers? Where were the leftovers for them to pick up?!
Jiang Pingce said, “Let’s see if there are any warehouses in the supermarket.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “Okay. Everyone, let’s split up and look for it, pay attention to safety.”
The shelves were emptied, but surely there were still a warehouse in the supermarket where goods were stored, so manybe the residents let the warehouse go in the midst of the chaos and they were able to scavenge some supplies?
With this hope, everyone went to the supermarket to look for it separately.
Soon, Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen found the warehouse in the corner of the supermarket.
But to the disappointment of the two, the residents had also ransacked the warehouse. The contents of the warehouse were almost emptied, leaving only a few torn boxes messily left in the corner.
Yue Xingwen walked over and lifted the box to look at it, and said helplessly, “Three cartons of milk, all expired.” Expired milk would cause diarrhea when drunk, and they naturally could not run for their lives with these things. He looked at Jiang Pingce and asked, “What about your side?”
Jiang Pingce replied, “These two boxes of mineral water are still within the shelf life and can be drunk.”
The two looked at each other and helplessly carried two large boxes of mineral water out.
Lan Yarong’s voice came from the right, “I found a few school bags from the box at the bottom of the shelf.”
The two took a few steps forwards, only to see senior sister Lan carrying a few cute cartoon school bags painted with Mickey Mouse, mainly pink and red. These big boys who were more than one meter eight would look particularly strange with cute children’s school bags on their backs.
But now it was not the time to struggle with the style of the school bag, as long as it could be used.
Yue Xingwen said, “Take it all.”
At this moment, Ke Shaobin’s voice came from the corner in front, “There’s a storage room here!”
Yue Xingwen put the mineral water into the shopping cart pushed by senior sister Lan and walked quickly in the direction of the voice.
Ke Shaobin was standing in the grains and cereals section of the supermarket, next to a small locked door.
The rice, noodles, oil and various beans that had been laid out outside had been looted, spilling flour all over the floor. Since the door was locked and covered by a curtain, the residents were too busy grabbing other things, but did not break down the door to grab the grains.
Jiang Pingce lifted his right hand, and a sharp triangular ruler shot out from the palm of his hand, instantly cutting off the iron lock.
Ke Shaobin hurriedly pushed open the door and found that there were a large number of red beans, mung beans, soybeans, peanuts, and red dates in the storage room… All grains were available!
Yue Xingwen said helplessly, “These mixed grains are not convenient to carry, but we can no longer find any other food, so why don’t we use the bag to pack some mixed grains back first? As long as it can be eaten, we won’t die of hunger.”
Ke Shaobin held up his glasses and frowned nervously, “But, except for the red dates and peanuts, which can be eaten directly? These can’t be eaten raw, right? Can’t we chew raw beans every day from now on ah?”
Xin Yan suddenly said, “I can boil these in a distillation flask.”
Everyone looked back at him suspiciously.
Xin Yan explained, “Don’t worry, my distillation flask is new every time I summon it. The size can be changed at will, after heating it with a spirit lamp, the inside of the flask will become 100 degrees hot, so it can be used as a boiler. As long as there’s water, these grains can be made into soy milk, mung bean porridge, red bean porridge, eight treasure porridge and so on…”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up and said, “That’s great!” He looked at Xin Yan excitedly and said “Your Chemistry Department’s experimental apparatus can actually be used as kitchenware ah?”
Xin Yan said lightly, “That’s why I changed a complete set of distillation equipment.”
Yue Xingwen smiled and gave a thumbs up, “Xin Yan, you really have foresight.”
In this way, they did not have to worry about running out of food when they took grains on the road. Compared with biscuits, instant noodles and other foods, it was so rare to have freshly cooked hot porridge when Xin Yan made a different kind of mixed porridge in a distillation flask every day!
Everyone excitedly grabbed their school bags and began frantically filling them with mixed grains.
Ke Shaobin commanded, “Everyone pack it separately ah, every kind of mixed grains in a school bag, and don’t forget the red dates and longan, it’s good for girls to eat it.”
Lan Yarong chuckled, “You are quite knowledgeable ah?”
Ke Shaobin’s ears turned red and said, “I-I’ll fill a packet of sugar.”
Zhang Xiaonian stood by the side, stunned as he watched his teammates quickly fill 7 school bags with mixed grains, and then, Yue Xingwen waved his hand and said, “Wrap it up!”
Everyone carried a children’s school bag, pushed two boxes of mineral water with a shopping cart, and quickly returned to the bus.
Lin Manluo saw them carrying children’s school bags neatly from a distance. The scene was quite funny but she could not laugh. When Yue Xingwen got on the bus, she immediately asked worriedly, “How is it? Did you find food?”
Zhuo Feng also took a step forward and said, “Two boxes of mineral water? Good, save your drinks, there’s enough for us to drink for a week.”
Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, “So many school bags are full ah? Are there biscuits and chocolates in the supermarket?”
Yue Xingwen came to senior brother Liu’s side, unzipped one of the school bags, pointed to a bag of red beans and said, “All the snacks in the supermarket were looted, and we only found some mixed grains.”
Liu Zhaoqing’s smile froze and said, “This red bean and mung bean, no matter how good our teeth are, they can’t be chewed raw, right?”
Lin Manluo was stunned, “Are the school bags full of grains?”
Yue Xingwen said with a smile, “Don’t worry, Xin Yan said, he can make porridge for everyone.”
The crowd who waited in the bus: “…”
The style of this escape team was not normal! Classmate Xin Yan from the Chemistry Department actually turned into a chef, and he would use a distillation flask to boil porridge for them every day in the future?
Liu Zhaoqing scratched his head and smiled, “It’s also quite good to change a kind of porridge every day.”
Lin Manluo quipped, “Are we getting into a health preservation rhythm in advance? Mixed grains porridge warms the stomach and is healthier than instant noodles!”
Ke Shaobin complained in a low voice, “I have read many doomsday novels, when the protagonist group escapes, they bring chocolate, biscuits, instant noodles. We’re definitely the first ones to bring red beans and mung beans.”
Everyone: “…”
What else could they do ah? Wasn’t this too late to find biscuits and chocolate?
Yue Xingwen coughed lightly and said, “Everyone sit down, hurry up and get on the highway.”
Xu Yishen in the driver’s seat turned around and said, “Professor Tang just drew a road map for us, two more streets ahead, from Jinling Avenue to the ring highway, there is a gas station there, just keep going in the direction of City F after we get on the highway.”
Jiang Pingce walked over and asked, “Senior brother, you continue to drive? Or do you want to change?”
Xu Yishen waved his hand and replied, “No, I’m not tired yet. After dark, I will drive at night. I’m more experienced than you guys at driving at night, you two sit next to me and learn the gears of the bus.”
Zhuo Feng said, “Okay, you drive the first half of the night, then I and Pingce will switch with you in the second half.”
Everyone sat down individually and Xu Yishen drove the bus across two streets and did see the gas station.
The gas station was still empty, Xu Yishen, Zhuo Feng, and Jiang Pingce got out of the car, found a few abandoned iron barrels. They carried a few barrels of gasoline up directly, and sealed the barrels well.
Yue Xingwen was finally relieved in his heart.
Two boxes of mineral water, seven bags of various mixed grains, and four barrels of gasoline were enough supplies to last them to City F.
The premise was that they had a smooth journey.
But since when journey’s always smooth?😉
Don’t worry, we will have all kinds of problems in this journey
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I agree, you’re definitely the first group to bring mixed grains in an apocalyptic world!!
Xiao Ke ah 🤣🤣🤣🤣 zip ur mouth 🤭🤭
haha, you can’t deny that their food choice isn’t very unappealing though! It’s healthy and filling! They’re definitely going to do much better than other groups 🙂