Chapter 45: Food Crisis
Chen Fei understood Billy's careful thinking as soon as he heard it, he unceremoniously dragged Billy to the side of the road more than ten meters away, and said angrily: "Billy, you are my old buddy, you compete fairly, I can't control it and don't want to care, but you can't use this kind of subordinate means to deal with James." ”
"Now is the time to employ people, we need everyone's strength, if I find out that there is a next time, don't blame me for not remembering the old feelings."
Chen Fei solemnly moved his rifle behind him and issued a stern warning to Billy.
Billy spread his hands, looked at the direction Chen Fei left with an ugly face, and spat fiercely on the ground, "Is Rob Naifer amazing?" ”
"One day I'll let you find out that I, Billy, are your most indispensable helper, not that stinky little kid."
After dealing with this small dispute, Chen Fei saw Sam running towards him from the car with a walkie-talkie in his mouth, and Anna's voice came from inside.
"Rob, when Liz and I cleaned up the food, we found that we didn't have much storage, and we could eat for a month at most."
"You know, now there are a few more people, and the daily expenses are huge."
Chen Fei crossed his waist and looked at the sky in the distance, and temporarily had the idea of entering the city.
He called Billy and James together and discussed, "Anna said there wasn't much food, so let's go into town and get some food while it's still early." ”
Billy's face changed, and he shouted worriedly: "Rob, you have to think clearly, when the sun sets, the city is the territory of the dark hunters, and it is easy for us to get in, but difficult to get out." ”
"I know what to do, hurry up and get out before the sun goes down."
The two cars then drove one after the other toward New York City, with Billy and James sitting in the pickup truck in the back.
Billy took the initiative to throw a cigarette at James in an attempt to improve the tension between the two, "James, Liz is a beautiful girl, you are not married, and God cannot stop the other suitors from falling in love with her, you should understand. ”
"But we've been together for a long time."
"Hey! Boy, you have to understand that a man and a woman sleep together, and that doesn't mean anything, it just means that your orientation is normal. ”
"Also, I have to apologize to you for what happened just now, I found this in the trunk, I really didn't notice that you were in danger." After Billy finished speaking, he took out two Playboy magazines from his arms and handed them over, James took them and flipped the cover, and was immediately attracted by the scenery of white flowers on them.
Billy smiled proudly, "How about it, this is a good thing, out of print, I really didn't mean not to save you, let you pick it first this time, it will be my reparation." ”
James picked a few of his favorites in the magazine, returned the rest, and the two looked at each other, revealing a lewd smile that all men understand, and the previous estrangement was swept away.
The New York city area is very large, and in a few years, his predecessor Rob Naifer has only searched less than a tenth of the territory, and in a cautious consideration, Chen Fei drove the car to the familiar East Street.
This is his old turf.
Chen Fei led them straight to the grocery stores in Chinatown, where the big malls and supermarkets were almost all moved.
After parking the car, Sam was the first to emerge from the car, he was familiar with the place, and when he returned to his hometown, he shook his head and looked excited.
"Hey! Sam, don't run around, you're on guard outside. ”
Chen Fei led the two of them to take turns searching the grocery store, "These dishes and chopsticks, move them back to the car, and these iron pots, there is a lot of space behind the pickup truck, and they can all fit it." ”
Several people understood that it was a rare opportunity to come to the city, and they all carried things desperately without saying a word, with a more or less trace of excitement on their faces.
Chen Fei found a few more bags of flour, as long as this thing is not damp and stored long enough, it is the easiest staple food to find now, and without his advice, Billy and James rushed to carry it to the car.
The men searched four or five stores one after another, and the interior space was filled, and Billy took James to dig out some cigarettes and cans of beer from a small roadside supermarket.
Chen Fei looked at the sky, it was just noon, and there was still a long time before the sun set.
They had to find a place to prepare lunch.
"Guys, come with me and give you a taste of Chinese food."
Chen Fei took some bottled spices from the store and took the two of them and Sam back to the vicinity of the house where they had lived before.
Chen Fei parked his car in the underground garage, and Sam in the passenger seat suddenly became abnormal.
It hunched over and kept roaring, and after seeing Chen Fei get out of the car, it hurriedly ran over and grabbed Chen Fei's trouser leg and pulled it back.
Chen Fei looked at the stairs, his face immediately became vigilant, and he stood still and did not move.
Billy and James closed the car door, smiled and followed from behind, patted Chen Fei on the shoulder and quipped, "Hey! Big dog, isn't this your former home? Why don't you ask us to go up and have a drink? ”
"Shut up!" Chen Fei whispered a reprimand to the two of them, and listened with his ears sideways.
He heard a burst of music.
This is unusual.
By the time he and Anna Ethan had moved out, the house had been empty.
Where does the music come from in broad daylight?
Billy and James were not stupid, they immediately smelled an unusual aura from Chen Fei's abnormal reaction, and they took out their pistols and raised them in front of their chests, one by one, as if they were facing a great enemy.
Billy leaned into Chen Fei's ear and whispered, "Aren't dark hunters afraid of sunlight?" Will it come out in broad daylight? ”
After Chen Fei left the city, he couldn't determine the current situation of the dark hunters in the city.
The only thing he can confirm is that these dark hunters are evolving, the evolution of a species, changing little by little with the environment.
They become more intelligent and more team-oriented.
Because of the lack of food, they will actively change the time of predation, and even move out of familiar areas to avoid danger when it appears.
This is incomparable to the zombies outside the city.
They are more like a new species with a simple mind.
Chen Fei planned to go up and have a look.
He turned and pointed at Billy and James, motioning for them to stay in the car, and then quietly climbed the stairs up the stairs with Sam alone.
The sound of music came from the bedroom, and the listening direction was the location of the master bedroom, which was Chen Fei's previous room, and there were several old players in it, and there were many cassettes that Chen Fei had searched.
After the outbreak of the virus, many devices that relied on electrical energy were paralyzed, but these old machines survived, of course, without electricity.
In Chen Fei's basement, there is a diesel generator.
He nervously held the gun and approached the master bedroom little by little.
The door was open.
Chen Fei pressed against the wall, trying to relax himself without making any noise.
He stuck his head out and slowly approached the door frame, and in front of the desk in the bedroom, stood a thin back in clothes, bareheaded, listening intently to the sound of music playing inside.