Chapter 22: A New Place
Instant noodles, braised eggs, sausages, potato chips, and some wafer biscuits are almost all foods that Ye Yao must buy every time she goes to the supermarket. But she would always hesitate for a long time about what to drink.
As is the usual practice, she will most likely choose between juice and milk.
It just so happens that a new cheap milk has been launched recently, and it has a very good reputation and is very popular with the public. She stood in front of the mountain of milk crates and looked closely.
Don't look at the amount of milk in front of you now, it may only take a day for the milk to be removed. In the two minutes that Ye Yao had only been standing, many people had already walked past her with milk.
Nowadays, everything is really cost-effective, and this never-before-seen brand milk quickly occupies the market at the price of one yuan a bottle.
The key is that this milk is not boxed or in glass bottles, and many people joke that the glass bottles alone add up to more than the price it sells, and the milk is equivalent to being given away for free.
Ye Yao hesitated again and again, and finally couldn't help but carry a box. However, the words probiotics and sweet milk were written on the outer box in front of her eyes, which quickly made her give up this idea.
She let go of her hand.
Milk is still pure, and everything should be worth what you pay for. Thinking to herself, she turned around and took a 2-liter bottle of juice.
This is her memory of the day before the incident, and the last trip to the supermarket. Now that this kind of milk has appeared in front of me, there is still a feeling of disgust.
She pushed away the chair, stood up, walked towards Lin Xue beside her, and put the milk in front of her eyes.
It's been a week since the two teams of survivors met, and although there is little communication between them in most cases, out of the empathy of the survivors, people are always unexpectedly united and get along.
"This kind of milk used to be sold as a real fire, but I didn't expect you to have this here. But I don't like sweet milk, so I'll give it to you. Ye Yao said and pushed the milk on the table in front of Lin Xue again.
"It's strange, it's only this bottle, right? Anyway, I haven't seen this kind of milk in the past few days, no, I should say that I haven't even seen milk, and the ones they take from the small supermarket should be mineral water. This bottle of milk must have been an accident. Lin Xue held the milk bottle and looked back and forth.
"Indeed, this milk is selling very hot." Lin Xue twisted the lid vigorously and found that it couldn't be twisted. Seeing the situation, Ye Yao bent down and reached out to hold the base of the milk, and Lin Xue exerted her strength again to unscrew the milk cap.
"Thank you." Lin Xue nodded: "To be honest, I haven't drunk this milk before." Because I don't have the habit of drinking milk on weekdays, I usually drink milk tea. ”
"Gollum Gurg~"
Lin Xue drank one-third of the amount in the glass bottle as she spoke, and her upper lip was even more stained with a layer of milky white. She looked at Ye Yao and handed the glass bottle to her. The latter just smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth, and then waved his hand.
"It feels like it's almost time." Qin Kai, who was lying on the desk diagonally opposite, sat up.
"What is almost?" Su Yi, who was originally lying on the table, also raised his head.
"He's saying we should get out of here." Xiao Ke walked in from outside the office, and he didn't know where he got the backpack and threw it to Xiao Wang.
Xiao Wang walked over to a desk in the far corner, where all their food was piled up, but now there was only a small amount left. He quickly filled his backpack with the only food he had.
"Where is this going? Go to school? Lin Xue asked.
"What about school? The radio has been down for days, and I guess it's already cool. Ma Rui stood by the window and looked in the direction of the school. He could only get a rough sense of the direction.
I can't see the school here, and even though I'm in an eighteen-story building, I'm still obscured a lot of sight because there are tall buildings in front of me. However, the sun's rays reflected from the outside of the opposite building were particularly dazzling.
"And where are we going?" Sue watched with wide eyes.
"I'm talking about ladies, you guys didn't listen to it last night or what's going on." Xiao Wang, who was carrying food on the side, said disdainfully.
"I guess they're just like me, a little dazed when they're lying on the table." Feng Yibo said hehehe, and then whispered slowly: "Xiao Ke said to go to his house first." ”
This was an impromptu decision, and the original plan was to wait for the situation downstairs to stabilize and then go to the shelter set up by the school together, but the plan could not keep up with the change, and there were a few people who had been listening to the radio, but they had not heard an evacuation message from the school to the outside world a few days ago.
Xiao Ke, Ma Rui and the others agreed that the school had fallen, and if they rushed to the school at this time, they were afraid that they might fall into a desperate situation if they didn't talk about it. After all, a university is equivalent to a community of 10,000 people. If they all become zombies, it will be an unimaginable scene.
As for why we didn't wait a few more days to see if the situation would improve, the most fundamental reason was that there was not much food left.
Although there is a small supermarket on the fifteenth floor, it is a large convenience store at best, and Xiao Ke and the others have also been there again, and there is not much food left there, so it is obvious that there are other survivors in this building.
The temporary decision to go to Xiao Ke's house was also a helpless move, and it was something he repeatedly emphasized.
"As long as you get to my house, you'll be safe." Shook just repeated the phrase, and he didn't say why it was safe.
As Xiao Ke's colleague Xiao Wang, he also didn't know where Xiao Ke lived. If this hadn't happened, their communication would have been just about work. As a member of the company, Shook is relatively unfamiliar to most of his colleagues.
But from the performance in the early days of the disaster, Xiao Wang was still willing to follow Xiao Ke. Seeing that the food was running out, the rest of the people could not sit here and wait for their death, so they had to follow them hard.
Now that the plan has been decided, Shook has come up with a planned roadmap.
To say that it is a road map is actually a few random strokes on a blank piece of paper, most of which are omitted, and only a few iconic buildings remain. In the end, it has to be implemented on the map.
The place where Xiao Ke lives is not far, and it can be reached in about fifteen minutes by car without being congested. But even so, he usually commutes to work on the bus or rides a shared bicycle.
The reason is that the company's parking spaces are so small that people have no desire to drive, and they are forced to get up early every day, always worried that they will not be able to grab a parking space.
If he hadn't had to work overtime on the day of the incident, Shook wouldn't have thought of driving to the company. I'm lucky to be here now, at least there's a car parked downstairs.
It's just parked in an underground garage, and hopefully it won't be too bad. He thought to himself, and unconsciously took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and put it to his mouth.
This is the last pack of cigarettes, I thought that the cigarettes brought back by the small supermarket were enough for them to smoke for two months, but I didn't expect that they had run out of food in a week, and they were really depressed to the extreme, and only smoking could relieve it.
However, the thought of only this pack made Xiao Ke a little reluctant to smoke, so he took off the cigarette and stuffed it back into the cigarette case.
"Finally count your weapons on the hour, and let's go." Shook said, propped his hands on the table.
"There are a total of three fire axes, you, me and Feng Yibo each hold one." Xiao Wang deliberately turned his head to look at Qin Kai, and after confirming the weapon in his hand, he continued: "There is also a fruit knife, plus a Tang knife in Ma Rui's hand. ”
"Excuse me. Not one, but twelve. Qin Kai lifted his black shirt, and a circle of fruit knives hung around his waist.
"What's the use of that? You've got only two hands. Xiao Wang looked at it with a smile.
"Don't you know there's such a thing as throwing knives?" Qin Kai turned the fruit knife in his hand in a fancy way, and suddenly held it violently, as if he suddenly remembered something, and looked at the three girls. Immediately after, he pulled out three fruit knives from his waist and put them on the table: "You should also bring one with you." It's better than bringing nothing. ”
"Throwing knives? Is it so showy, brother? Xiao Wang looked at him suspiciously. But it seems that Qin Kai didn't want to make any statement.
"Well, just in case, you guys should make a note of the address. In the case of a map, one copy per person. I've also marked the routes. Schock made a final order.
"Damn, that's too professional." Xiao Wang took the map with an excited face and looked at it carefully, then suddenly tilted his head and said, "No, where did you get this map?" ”
"When you go to the little supermarket downstairs, don't you even look at what's on the shelves near the cash register?"
Xiao Wang was still reminiscing, and Xiao Ke immediately stretched out his hand and said, "Without further ado, we'll set off right now." ”
Stepping into the corridor of the building again, the strange and familiar feeling quickly spread throughout the body. The sense of comfort that had been cultivated in a peaceful life was left behind in an instant.
The tension of the nerves, the step by step, the adrenaline is soaring all the time.
The corpse in the hallway with the broken wine bottle didn't seem to be much different from before, but it had become more decomposed, worms were all over the body, and the stench was even greater.
Ma Rui walked at the front of the line, and when he saw this, his stomach churned violently, and he began to retch in his throat. The person behind him who didn't have time to step forward was stunned, he hurriedly waved his hand, covered his mouth and said, "It's better not to look, hurry up." ”
But no one paid attention to his reminder, but rushed one after another, and the result can be imagined. Only Xiao Ke watched the corpse walk by with a normal expression.