Chapter 41: The Supermarket
86_86324" is here. Wu Linyu looked at the city scene in front of him and said to us.
Zhou Zhihong also leaned his head forward, looked outside, and said, "It looks pretty big." ”
When Uncle Wang heard our conversation, he opened his eyes and looked at it, but he didn't say a word.
"Drive in?" Duan can slow down and ask us.
"Of course I'm in, I don't want to eat compressed biscuits again at noon." Wu Linyu replied.
After driving for a while, the Changan car turned onto the city street. Along the straight line, the car broke into the empty city. I'm no stranger to this kind of street scene. However, when we passed by a turntable, we found a dozen dead people piled up on the lawn of the turntable, and we don't know if they died here or if they were moved over after their deaths.
The street signs and street entrances that kept appearing overhead were dazzling, and Duan Ke held the steering wheel and said, "Where should I go?" ”
Wu Linyu leaned his right hand on the car window, held his chin, and said, "Just stop here, there is a supermarket in front, let's go first to find something to eat." ”
Duan Ke answered, and stopped the car with a foot of the brake. I opened the door, knowing that I would be attacked by the rancid smell in a moment. But after getting off the bus, I found that the smell was not too strong, maybe there was a river on the edge of the city, and the river breeze took away some of the smell.
Wu Linyu got out of the car and moved his body. He stomped his foot a few times, and the soles of his military boots hit the concrete pavement, making a noise. Zhou Zhihong took out his empty travel bag and prepared to go into the supermarket to do a big job. Uncle Wang grabbed the gun and took the lead towards the supermarket. The supermarket is built on the second floor of a shopping mall, with a flyover that crosses the road in front of the mall and extends to the entrance of the supermarket.
The four of us walked up the stairs of the overpass, ready to go up to the overpass. There was an open-air stall that resembled a food stall next to the overpass, with beer bottles and some food scattered around, but there was not a single body to be seen. The few taxis parked on the side of the road were also empty.
After a dozen steps, we reached the overpass. The flyover was a mess, with various items dropped, presumably in the panic of people after shopping in the supermarket. Stepping on the packaging on the ground, we walked to the front of the supermarket. The supermarket did not have roller shutters, only two glass doors locked with chains.
"Give me your gun." Wu Linyu pointed to my gun and said.
I took the gun and handed it to him. Wu Linyu took the gun, held the barrel with his left hand, raised the butt with his right hand, and then hit the butt against the glass door, knocking out a crack in the glass door. He repeated the action of hitting the door with the butt of the rifle a few times, and the glass door was almost all that remained of the metal frame.
"Be careful when you go in." Wu Linyu kicked the remaining glass on the door with his military boots and said to us.
After entering the door, the supermarket was very dimly lit, and I could only tell that there was a counter selling tobacco and alcohol at the entrance. Uncle Wang told us to wait for a while, then went around to the counter, took the few packs of cigarettes left inside, and took a bottle of Wuliangye with him.
"It's all good stuff." Uncle Wang said with a smile.
Duan Ke found a shopping cart, I asked her why she was pushing the shopping cart with a bag on her back, Duan Ke said no, she just wanted to find the feeling of visiting the supermarket before. I turned on my flashlight and explored my way in the semi-darkness. Wu Linyu touched the bag on the armed belt and also found a flashlight, but his flashlight was brighter than mine and shot farther, and the military things really had to go up a grade.
After a few rounds, we found the entrance. The roller shutter at the entrance was pulled down, but not tightened. Uncle Wang stretched out his hand, and with a loud noise, he easily opened the roller shutter door. There was a foul smell wafting from the roller shutter door, which I had smelled in the supermarket where Uncle Wang worked before, the smell of rotten vegetables and fruits mixed with rotting meat and fishy smell. But the taste here is much lighter, which may be the reason why the fresh food is not on this floor.
Looking down and walking through the roller shutter door, under the aperture of the flashlight, you can see that this is the area where underwear and clothing are sold.
Not many people snapped up these things, so the shelves were still full. Zhou Zhihong directly took more than a dozen pairs of socks and put them in the shopping cart, then took back a few boxes of packaging, and said to me: "Brother Li, you come to take care of me and see what this is." ”
I held up the flashlight, focused the light on what was in his hand, saw a couple of muscular men on the package and said to him, "Panties." ”
"Oh, that one works." Zhou Zhihong said, and then threw a few boxes of underwear into the shopping cart.
Without human life, the place is clearly occupied by rats and insects. We hadn't taken a few steps in the supermarket when we saw several rats running away in a hurry, and we could hear their chirping in the invisible darkness, and we didn't know what they were communicating. It seems that the things in the supermarket are not packaged, and I really dare not use them.
Duan Ke tugged at the corner of my clothes and smacked his mouth at me. I asked her what was wrong, but she didn't answer, tugging at the corner of my coat and going the other way. I followed her over, and then I understood what he meant, it turned out that this is the area of women's products, and there are all kinds of sanitary napkins and underwear.
"Wait for me here, don't come with me." Duan Ke took the flashlight from my hand and ran towards the corner shelf by himself.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Zhihong's voice sounded, and then Wu Linyu's flashlight shot over.
I replied to the strong flashlight, "Go over first, I'll wait for her here for a while." ”
Then they walked forward, and the flashlight in Wu Linyu's hand stopped and went in the supermarket. My eyes adjusted to the dim light in the supermarket, and I saw a bed not far away that the merchant used to advertise. I walked over and sat down on the bed. It's so soft, it's so comfortable, that's what I thought when I sat on it.
If I could, I'd like to take this bed with me so I could sleep with Simmons every night. I leaned against the head of the bed, lit a cigarette, and smoked.
As I smoked, I had a strange thought: if we were desperate one day, we could go back to the supermarket, where we could eat, dress, and sleep, and although the smell was a little unpleasant, it was definitely a place where we could survive and live well.
But if you really live here, it's scary, the supermarket is so big, if I get out of nowhere, I can't find it.
Thinking about it, Duan Ke seemed to have finished what he wanted, and was shaking his flashlight everywhere looking for me. I reluctantly left the soft Simmons and walked in front of her. I don't know what she put in the shopping cart, Duan saw me, didn't speak, just pushed the cart towards Uncle Wang and them, I had to follow.
Zhou Zhihong leaned in front of the glass table of fried goods and picked up a bunch of melon seeds.
"Can you still eat it?" I asked him.
Zhou Zhihong knocked open the melon seeds, took out the melon seeds inside, and said to me while chewing: "It's okay, the tide is a little tidal, but the taste has not changed." ”
"Do you want it?" Zhou Zhihong said and handed it to me.
"No, maybe a rat crawled over." I shook my head busily.
However, my words did not affect his appetite at all, and Zhou Zhihong continued to knock on the melon seeds as if he hadn't heard the word "mouse".
Wu Linyu and Uncle Wang shuttled between the shelves, and could only see the moving flashlight, but could not see people. When Zhou Zhihong had enough melon seeds, the three of us walked towards Uncle Wang. After walking a few steps, you can smell the smell of grain and oil, and it seems that this is the area where various food products are sold.
Duan Ke exclaimed, and hurriedly talked on the ground. I looked to the ground, and under the light of Duan Ke's flashlight, I saw several cockroaches fanning out of front of us, and then crawled into the cracks of the shelves, never to be seen again. Of course, insects themselves are the masters of the earth, and it is only natural that humans are gone, leaving such a large pile of food unconsumed, and letting them be used to strengthen their bodies.
However, the reproductive ability of these insects is also too strong, I took Duan Ke's hand, and swept around a few times with a flashlight, and found that there were five or six of them almost every square meter, and there were their shadows on the floor tiles and shelves. If I hadn't seen too many dead people, I guess I would have been disgusted by these little bugs.
I turned my head to look at Zhou Zhihong, he didn't react, he was still kicking these cockroaches to play, probably not connecting these cockroaches with the melon seeds he just knocked.
"It's okay, they're afraid of you, too." I said to Duan Ke, and then continued walking.
I remembered that the thought that had flashed through Simmons just now was wrong. Even if you are desperate, you can't live in a supermarket, and if you fall asleep and the bed is crawling with cockroaches and mice, it is a terrible thing than death