The Gray Age Chapter 53 Zhou Ping
"Stinky boy, stay honest with me, your father and I'll get you something to eat. Dabin, help me watch General Dian, don't let it run blind. ”
I was a little worried about the general, so I asked the general a few words before leaving, and asked Dabin to help take care of it.
"Got it. Rest assured. ”
Dabin readily agreed.
It's been almost two or three hours since the solar storm ended. When the sun had completely set, the original feeling of scorching heat was completely gone, and it was replaced by a bone-chilling wind. The current temperature is estimated to have reached minus 20 degrees.
"Let's be careful, there may be danger in the supermarket, so be vigilant. The plan for a while is this, let's take a look around the supermarket and make sure there is no danger before we get something, understand? ”
Puffs of white air erupt from our mouths and noses. As I headed towards the supermarket, I lowered my voice and instructed the person next to me.
Meiqi, Lao Liu, and Ruohan all nodded in understanding. When Zhao Shengtian looked sideways at me, the corner of his eye swept to Ruohan, who was thinly dressed.
At this time, Ruohan only had a white scientific research coat on his body, and there was nothing else to keep out the cold. It was only a few minutes after getting out of the car, and she had already involuntarily clenched her arms, and she began to shiver from the cold.
"Here, put this on."
Zhao Shengtian suddenly walked to Ruohan's side, took off his dark green coat, and unexpectedly draped it on Ruohan's shoulders.
"No, Company Commander Zhao, I'm fine.. Huh? Company Commander Zhao..."
Ruohan wanted to refuse, he and Zhao Shengtian had known each other for a few days, and he was really embarrassed to accept such care. But before she finished speaking, Zhao Shengtian had already draped his clothes on Ruohan's body, and continued to walk towards the supermarket without looking back.
Ruohan was stunned for a few seconds before he gradually came back to his senses, lowered his head slightly, and pursed his lips slightly. She was originally extremely afraid of this operation, but now she is no longer so afraid, and she feels warm in her heart.
Maggie and I looked at each other, and the corners of our mouths went up, as if we knew what the other person was thinking. Again, without saying anything, he headed towards the supermarket again.
When he came to the door of the supermarket, Zhao Shengtian took out a small military flashlight from his arms and projected a beam of white light into it through the door glass of the supermarket. After he repeatedly confirmed, there should be no danger inside.
"Jingle bells... Bell .."
I stepped forward and gently pushed open the door of the supermarket, which showed no signs of breakage. The warning bell above the gate made a faint but crisp sound. I looked back at the people behind me, made eye contact, and nodded lightly at them.
We walked down the aisle of the supermarket step by step, for fear of making the slightest noise. Zhao Shengtian walked in front of me, dangling a flashlight to make sure he was safe. Throughout the supermarket, only our wheezing and the occasional footsteps could be heard.
"Bang Bell Bell Bell ....."
Suddenly, there was a sound of metal falling to the ground from inside the supermarket, which was sharp and piercing, as if a steel basin had fallen to the ground.
The group of five of us immediately stopped, and we were on guard, for fear that something creepy would emerge from the darkness that we could not see.
When the voice dissipated, Zhao Shengtian and I glanced at each other and nodded solemnly. He drew his dagger, I pulled out my axe, and the others involuntarily pulled out their weapons and slowly explored inside.
Due to the small amount of space, we had to move forward in a row.
The whole supermarket is not very big, about seventy or eighty square meters, and I came to the innermost part of the supermarket after walking a few steps. Zhao Shengtian used a flashlight to scan the ground back and forth to take a closer look, and sure enough, he saw a white steel basin upside down on the marble floor in front of him. Around the basin are some rice, noodles, oil, and other foods that need to be cooked before they can be eaten. There are also some wrappers like bread and ham on the ground.
The more I looked, the more strange I felt, and I always wondered how could there be leftover food wrappers in this supermarket? And the shape of the rice noodle bags is also a little weird, and it feels like there is something pressed under these bags.
I tapped Zhao Shengtian with my hand, Zhao Shengtian looked back at me, and I stretched out my finger and pointed to the rice bags and noodle bags scattered on the ground. Zhao Shengtian took a closer look with a flashlight and found a few strands of hair pressed between the two bags of flour on the surface. Then he looked back at me and nodded, indicating that there seemed to be someone inside, and I immediately turned around and asked Maggie and the others behind me to prepare for battle.
Zhao Shengtian slowly bent down and prepared to open the noodle bag, while I tightened the axe in my hand, a little nervous.
Seeing that I was ready, Zhao Shengtian reached out and suddenly opened the top noodle bag! The moment he lifted it, I seemed to see a guy with an iron basin in his two hands squatting in the grain pile! I don't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, I will chop it down with an axe!
"Bang dang!"
"Ahh Don't kill me, don't kill me! ”
My axe struck the iron basin strongly, and the axe sank directly into the iron basin by a third and was firmly embedded in it.
Under the iron basin is actually a big living person, who is firmly grasping the iron basin with both hands and constantly shouting for help. He curled up in a ball, holding the iron basin and struggling.
I didn't care so much before, and when I saw that it was a humanoid creature, I thought it was an infected person, and I almost killed him with an axe!
Even if this guy has a big life, he has an iron basin in his hand, otherwise he will definitely be opened by me.
We all breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed, but the guy on the ground kept screaming.
"Shut up if you want to live, we're not monsters!"
Zhao Shengtian squatted down, holding a dagger in his hand against the neck of the person in front of him and threatening him. The man slowly put down the iron basin in his hand, swallowed and spit, and nodded at Zhao Shengtian, which meant not to make a sound.
The person in front of him was not very old, about seventeen or eighteen years old, a thin boy. He looks very plain and doesn't look like a city person when he dresses up.
"Are you the only one here?"
I asked tentatively.
The boy nodded a little frightened.
"What's your name? How did you come here? ”
The boy heard me ask this question and obviously wanted to cry. Zhao Shengtian hurriedly stabbed him with his hand and asked him to control his emotions, and the boy was embarrassed to hold back his tears.
"My name is Zhou Ping, I am from Wangshuizi Village behind the service area, I don't know what happened, I went to the lake to fish in the morning, and when I returned to the village at noon, I saw those villagers bite people when they saw them, so I didn't dare to enter the village. I hid here for the past two days until I saw you. Big brother, are you here to save us, and are the people in our village still saved? I beg you, save them! ”
We felt lonely after hearing what happened to Zhou Ping, and sighed that he was really lucky to be able to live until now.
"Zhou Ping, we are not a rescue team, there is no way to save them, and they have all passed away, and they can only continue their activities for other reasons. I'll explain it to you later, and now I'm asking you, do you want to go with us? ”
I felt that the boy was good, but at the same time I didn't think his eyes were like those of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child, and to put it bluntly, his eyes didn't match his age. But what he said came from the heart, and I could feel it.
"Coming with you? Why are you going? ”
Zhou Ping looked up at us a little confused.
"Alive."
My answer was short, but it explained everything.
"How's it going?"
I'm a little anxious, after all, we're all hungry and don't want to waste time here.
Zhou Ping finally nodded at me and said that he would follow us. Everyone has no opinion on this, one more person is more strength, and in such a world, only by reporting to the group to keep warm can you live longer. Among these people, only Zhao Shengtian's face was cloudy, and he seemed to be engaged in a fierce ideological struggle in his heart, and it was estimated that it was difficult for him to trust other strangers anymore.
I shook my head with a wry smile at Zhao Shengtian and patted him on the shoulder. Zhao Shengtian didn't say anything more in the end, stood up and went to find the supplies we needed.
"Okay, okay, now let's start looking for food, I'm starving..."
I grumbled, got up and began to look for something to eat and drink.
Supermarket shelves are filled with a wide variety of foods. Biscuits, bread, sausages, instant noodles, whether you like them or not, these things can be life-saving in the end. We each carried large bags and small bags and began to loot the food in the supermarket, each with its own division of labor.
In addition to filling the backpack, Zhao Shengtian is also responsible for taking some rice, flour, grain and oil, Lao Liu is additionally responsible for taking some pots and pans, Ruohan and Zhou Ping are additionally responsible for taking drinking water, and Meiqi and I are responsible for loading some other daily necessities.
In just three or two minutes, we had already stuffed the packages to the brim, and we had almost half emptied the entire supermarket. Eventually, everyone gathered and walked out of the supermarket together.
There are a few sporadic infected people wandering aimlessly in the parking lot, we don't have any desire to kill them, and the most important rule of survival at this stage is to hide if you can, not to fight. Due to the experience of the last time in the service area, we didn't rush to open any doors this time, and the devil knows if a whole pigsty of infected people will come and besiege us like last time.
The six of us quietly bypassed the infected, and the others, including Ruohan, who was the most frightened about it, did not react much, except for Zhou Ping, who had just joined the team, with a very frightened expression and his legs swinging.
"Don't be afraid, as long as we don't make a sound, they won't attack us."
I explained to Zhou Ping, who was full of horror. Zhou Ping swallowed two mouthfuls of foam and followed us closely, not leaving an inch.
This is also what I have discovered based on my observations these days. These infected people are difficult to deal with, but if they don't make loud noises to alarm them, there is no danger. As for those infected who have evolved, maybe they are sensitive to smells in addition to sound, but they haven't tried it, and they don't know the specific situation, so it's better to be careful.
When I returned to the Humvee, I saw Da Bin and Xiao Wang refueling the vehicle. Xiao Wang stood on the roof of the car and looked around, as if he was on alert. On the other hand, Dabin was leaning on the side of the tanker with a hanging, and he didn't know what he was holding in his mouth, holding his hands in his arms, without any sense of vigilance at all.
"Kuroko, who is this kid?"
Dabin's eyes were sharp, and he found Zhou Ping following us at a glance.
"Ah, his name is Zhou Ping, and he will live with us in the future. Zhou Ping, this is Dabin. ”
"Hello Brother Bin."
Zhou Ping was very polite, put the drinking water in his hand on the ground, rubbed his right hand on his clothes, and then stretched out in front of Dabin.
"Hello hello, hurry up and get in the car, it's warm in the car."
Dabin was very useful by this sentence "Brother Bin", and immediately opened the car door to let Zhou Ping get in the car.
"Yo, when is Brother Cheng Bin? How did I not know? ”
I quipped, wincing.
"Get out, what do people Xiao Zhou love to call, it has something to do with you! ...”
At six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun completely set, and the temperature was even colder than before. The temperature is now estimated to be above minus 25 degrees, and if you really take a breath, your nose will stick together
The fuel tank is still a little bit left to fill up, so let's simply sort out these supplies. It may be that Dabin has been standing outdoors for a long time, and his body is so cold that he actually took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and lit it and smoked it.
"Dabin, are you in the wrong mind? Isn't it written, no smoking! ”
This frightened me, I quickly put the things in my hand on the car, rushed to Dabin, knocked the cigarette down on the ground and stepped on it, looking at Dabin with a stupid expression.
"Kuroko, it's all in this world, who cares?..
Dabin looked a little aggrieved.
"I said Dabin, are you frozen stupid? What does this have to do with the world, smoking at the gas station? What if you light it? We're all done! ”
When Dabin heard me say this, Ji Lingling shuddered. Maybe it's a reminder of the last time we detonated a gas station.
"Dabin! You come up for me! Smoking at a gas station? Death to you? Yes? ”
I just wanted to stop there, but that's the end of it, just pay attention next time. Unexpectedly, the window of the Humvee was lowered at some point, and a "tiger head" poked out of it! But it was Fei Fei who was staring at Da Bin with angry eyes.
I couldn't help but feel a burst of sympathy in my heart, I'm afraid that this Fei Fei will kill Dabin in a fit of anger one day???