Chapter 18: What I Saw and Heard in the Shelter (3)
After searching for a while, the three captains finally found a direct elevator to the second floor, or an escalator. It's just that this time the escalator is not so exaggerated, and in just a few tens of seconds, everyone came to the second floor of the basement.
From the second basement floor, most of them are private houses, no, it is not correct to say that it is a private house, this is when taking refuge before the end of the world, it is actually a room allocated by the government, according to a family to configure, if there is a large number of large families, or bachelors, there are rooms such as collective apartments, in short, it is as much as possible under the premise, try to meet people's living needs.
It's not that there are no shops here, but most of them have been converted into public toilets, kiosks or barber shops...... The barber shop can still be seen, which really surprised the three captains.
Just as the captain and the others were wandering around and looking for a place to stay, a middle-aged woman suddenly mysteriously ran up to the captain from a small store.
"Oops...... Three, three, three big brothers, do you want to stay? ”
The middle-aged woman asked with a serious face, and the three captains were not afraid of her bad idea, with their skills, in this refuge, unless there was a head-on conflict with the Great Wall of Steel, no one wanted to hurt them.
The other is that this is the site of the Great Wall of Steel. This is the world after the apocalypse, but not before the apocalypse, the troubled times need to use the truth of re-canonization, and the Great Wall of Steel is also well known. Those who dare to make trouble here are usually killed and thrown out, and whoever dares to resist is thrown out together. If it weren't for such draconian measures, it would not have been possible to maintain the current order, after all, the Great Wall of Steel is a violent organization, not a public welfare organization that gives love for free.
The captain thought for a moment and asked, "Is the room cheap?" ”
The middle-aged woman suddenly said: "Don't worry, big brother, I don't have one or two people renting a house here, and there are many people who rent my house for a long time." Guaranteed cheap and easy to stay. ”
"What about your rent? We're staying for a few days. The captain said.
The middle-aged woman said: "Don't worry, you three adults and a child, I won't count the money for that child, and our general goods here are mineral water." An adult needs five bottles of mineral water a day, and if you rent it for a long time, you can receive 100 bottles of mineral water a month. ”
Xiao Jiang frowned and said, "You can't always refer to the mineral water that hasn't been opened before the end of the world, right?" We don't have that kind of rarity. ”
When the middle-aged woman heard this, she immediately patted her mouth, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, big brother." Slip of the tongue, it's a slip of the tongue, the mineral water I'm talking about is an ordinary 500 ml mineral water bottle, as long as it contains pure water filtered once. How dare I accept five bottles of unopened mineral water before the end of the day? That's too tricky, you say yes, big brother. ”
Xiao Jiang didn't speak, but set his eyes on the captain, judging from the charging standard of this middle-aged woman, this really can't be considered expensive. Whether it is an oasis or a shelter, it is usually food or water as a universal cargo, which bears the value of money. However, the value of food often fluctuates greatly depending on the type, so purified water that can be drunk has become the preferred equivalent of most human settlements in southern Middle-earth.
The captain asked, "Don't we have that much water with us, can we use food as collateral?" ”
"Okay!" The middle-aged woman nodded without hesitation and said, "No matter what kind of food you have, I will accept it." Keep it at a fair price, and you can rest assured. ”
The captain also nodded and said, "Okay, you can take us there." Is there a large room? It was best to stay all of us. ”
The middle-aged woman suddenly said: "Then what a coincidence that you came, some time ago my tenants here have left, there are a lot of rooms, there are large rooms, there are also large rooms, collective bunks, enough to sleep six people, I will give it to you." ”
Listening to the middle-aged woman's generous words, the three captains were noncommittal, but they still followed her, and they were not afraid of this middle-aged woman's bad intentions at all. Anyway, they still have to find a place to stay, and if the room provided by this middle-aged woman is still passable, even if they suffer a loss, it is not unacceptable.
The three captains followed behind the middle-aged woman, and walked a long way, if they hadn't seen other people in the commissary besides her before, they really wondered if the middle-aged woman had lost her business.
After walking in front of a three-story building, the middle-aged woman took out the key and opened the door, leading the three of them straight up to the third floor.
In the end, the middle-aged woman led the three of them to a "big room" of about 20 square meters, where there was nothing but three bunk apartment beds, a table and two chairs, oh, there was a small toilet inside.
Such a room is crammed into six people, and I don't know how crowded it will be, and some poor conditions of university dormitories are like this. This was the pre-apocalyptic situation, though. After the apocalypse, in all kinds of precarious days, ordinary people can sleep in this kind of room once, and they don't know how much it will cost.
The middle-aged aunt said, "If you want to stay for a few days, please say in advance and rent it to me." This room will be yours in the next few days, and I'll come back to clean it up when the time comes. During this period, please take care of your own property safety, now the world is different, everyone takes care of themselves is to do good deeds. If something happens, there's nothing you can do about me. Oh, by the way, there is no water or plug in this room, only this lamp, if you need water and electricity, you can go outside and buy it. Okay, how long are you going to stay? ”
After speaking, the aunt stared at the captain with blazing eyes.
The captain nodded at Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang took out three energy bars from his backpack behind his back, and said, "This is a military energy bar, one can be used for a day's food for an adult man, and outside, one can be exchanged for a bucket of pure water." We're only staying for two days, that's enough, right? ”
The aunt's eyes suddenly lit up and snatched the energy bar from Xiao Jiang's hand, and then said with a smile: "No problem, enough is enough, absolutely enough." I'll come back in five days to clean up, so stay there." ”
After saying that, the aunt put away the energy bar, hummed a little song and turned around and left.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Jiang could only shake his head helplessly, and then closed the door.
To be honest, Xiao Jiang can't say the value of the three energy bars in this kind of room, this room is small and stuffy, if it weren't for the unified central air conditioning temperature, living in this room that doesn't even have an electric fan, even the three captains will be so hot that they will suffer from heat stroke. Even if it's underground.
Now, however, at least there is a temporary place to stay.