Chapter 001 [The Last Five Hours]
Guo Ge opened his eyes and felt that his mouth was dry and his throat was like a fire.
He barely got up, grabbed a glass of water from the bedside table, and drank it all in a greedy gulp, still feeling unquenched. I had to get up and put on my crumpled cotton pajamas and get out of bed.
Holding a glass and walking to the water dispenser in the living room, his eyes inadvertently glanced at several places of vomit on the floor, patted his head, and muttered, "I drank too much yesterday, I felt so uncomfortable......"
As he spoke, he bent down to go to the water dispenser to get water, but he was suddenly stunned on the spot, and his face changed several times. Then he walked quickly to the window and opened the curtains with a "swish".
The place where he lives is a four-story small building, located in the urban-rural junction of Linjiang City, just next to National Highway 107, 300 meters away from the window to the right is the Linjiang Third Bridge, the three bridges are also the western urban boundary of Linjiang City, and there is a gas station diagonally opposite the National Highway. At this time, the traffic on the national highway is dense and the river is endless, and under the noon sun, there are still bursts of flying dust on the road.
He jerked his head up at the wall calendar on the wall.
That's right! March 5, 2018, Chinese New Year's Day, Thursday, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Guo Ge was stunned for a while, that's right, he returned to his junior year of college, returned to his hometown during the winter vacation, attended the high school club last night, got drunk, and then ......
He looked down at his watch with a complicated face, and the time was twelve and fifteen p.m. If he remembers correctly, it was on the afternoon of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in 2018, a large-scale outbreak of biological gene fission on the earth, almost without warning, zombies appeared, and the global village completely entered the apocalyptic era today.
Is this to let him go through another terrible apocalyptic era? Is it a golden finger from God? Or is it another punishment for yourself?
After being stunned for nearly three minutes, he suddenly came to his senses.
Time, time, Heaven has left him five hours to prepare for this global catastrophe.
What are you doing here, you have too much to do.
He hurried into the bathroom, and in order to stay completely awake, he attached himself to the toilet, stuck his fingers in his throat, retched, a strong stomach pouch irritation, and spit the last small mouthful of bitter and sour juice from the bottom of his stomach into the toilet.
Picking up the cup and rinsing his mouth, he took the water from the water dispenser.
He remembered that the bucket of water had just been changed the day before yesterday, that is, it was safe to drink.
In his previous life, there has been a debate about whether the source of the global catastrophe was the problem of drinking water on March 5, but there has been no conclusive conclusion.
But he kept in mind a law of the end times, and in the last days, no matter how "cautious" he was, it was not too much.
After quickly brushing his teeth and washing his face with mineral water, Guo Ge picked up his mobile phone and dialed the number of Weihong convenience store on the first floor.
"Lao Wei, it's me, Guo Ge, how much pure water do you still have in your store, the barreled kind."
"Guo Ge, let me take a look...... About sixty or seventy barrels...... But Guo Ge, you are not an outsider, these dozens of barrels of pure water were produced the day before yesterday, not very fresh, or you wait for me to call and ask the pure water factory to send today's fresh water. ”
I just want "stale" water. I don't dare ask for today's water. Guo Ge said, "Don't bother, I want this batch of water the day before yesterday." In addition, I probably need to buy daily necessities in large quantities, you will calculate for me later, all the food, rice, flour, oil and drinks and snacks in your store, how much I want, you will move all of them to my room on the fourth floor later......"
Guo Ge...... You're kidding, it's not April Fool's Day......" Lao Wei laughed a few times on the phone.
Guo Ge opened the door and went downstairs, and said, "It's not a joke, I'll come back to settle the bill with you in a while." "I was holding my mobile phone down to the third floor, and I heard several men's roars coming from the security door on the east side of the third floor, accompanied by a woman's crying in the interval.
Guo Ge glanced at it and didn't stop at all.
The couple, who lived on the east side of the third floor, were arguing again, and Guo Ge heard them at least three or four times during the Spring Festival winter vacation.
As a landlord, Guo Ge is not very familiar with the tenants of his room, usually he does not come back much during his study in Wuhan, and the rent is also paid through WeChat transfer or red envelopes.
This private house is the inheritance left to him by Guo Ge's parents, with a usable area of more than 500 square meters, and a small courtyard of 150 square meters behind the building.
On the first floor, he rented a small convenience supermarket to a couple. The husband and wife are in their early thirties, and they have a five-year-old daughter to bring to their mother-in-law in the countryside, the male shopkeeper is called Wei Hong, who is not tall, about 1.65 meters, slightly fat, and honest in appearance, and is one of the hardest working men Guo Ge has ever seen. In addition to the usual purchase and delivery store, he also worked tirelessly to personally sell bottled pure water, beer rice and other non-staple foods.
Although his shop is not big, he is honest and honest with customers, no matter how high the floor, he does not charge extra fees, so this humble little convenience store business is getting better and better, and there are many repeat customers.
It's just Wei Hong's wife, Guo Ge doesn't treat him very well. His wife's name is Qiu Li, she is handsome, one meter six or eight tall, fine skin and tender meat, and her figure is wonderful, but she is very lazy, her temper is not small, she has nothing to do all day long, she sleeps until ten o'clock in the morning, and she is called "Meiyan Jue".
Not to mention, she still scolds Wei Hong all day long, and she doesn't have a good face.
The surrounding residents secretly nicknamed her, the queen of convenience stores.
The rooms on the east and west sides of the second floor are rented to five employees of the Yuanbao Hotel on the other side of the third bridge. Four of the waitresses and receptionists rented the east side room, and a lobby manager rented a separate two-bedroom suite on the west side.
The room on the east side of the third floor is inhabited by the couple who often "domestic violence", what is the name of the male owner Guo Ge doesn't remember much, he has only met three or four times. Burly physique, 1.83 meters tall, a face like a black tower, puffing out eyes is indeed a little scary, it is said that the long-distance truck driver in the logistics park not far from the opposite side, the reason for the frequent domestic violence is that the daughter-in-law has a bad stomach and cannot get pregnant.
And his daughter-in-law secretly complained and cried to the convenience store on the first floor, saying that the root cause of her inability to conceive was her husband's alcoholism, and she went to the provincial hospital several times for examination, and the doctor warned her husband that she must quit drinking, otherwise, it will be difficult for the population to conceive.
The occupant on the west side of the third floor is a little white face who is fighting a divorce lawsuit, 29-year-old Tong Xiaotian, this person is said to have a lot of property in the past, after marriage indulged in gambling, lost all the family property, not to mention, but also owed a butt of loan sharks, young and beautiful wife in a rage, went south to "work", but never returned, there are rumors that she was raised by a wealthy businessman in a prosperous metropolis.
Tong Xiaotian's talent is a long table, coupled with a clever tongue, will coax women, the daily work is to "sit on the card field", play cards in the card field, eat in the card field, and then coax all kinds of young women and sisters-in-law, asking people for money.
Every time the queen of the convenience store on the first floor touched him, she jokingly said, "Young Master Tong." ”
Young Master Tong was unwilling to be humiliated, and repeatedly paid tribute to her "Queen of Autumn".
Anyway, every time these two people look at each other, it is Mars hitting the earth.
Guo Ge came to the courtyard downstairs, got into the Isuzu pickup truck left by his father, started the car, drove out of the courtyard gate, turned right, and stopped in front of the "Weihong Convenience Store".
There is a large open space in front of Weihong convenience store, which is used for customers to park. To the left of the convenience store is a five-storey village bank, a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China.
To the right of the convenience store is a restaurant. Just after the Lantern Festival, many employees of the unit began to pick up "spring customers" at work, and business was booming, and a row of more than a dozen cars was parked.
Guo Ge turned off the engine and got out of the car and strode into the "Weihong convenience store".
The area of the convenience store is hundreds of square meters, there are five or six rows of shelves, and there is no one in front of the cash register, but you can see the sound of the electric mahjong table in the right corner of the convenience store, and the chatter of several women.
Guo Ge stood in front of the cash register, knocking on the table with the car key, "Old Wei? What about people? ”
"Coming, coming......" A short and fat man came out of the shelves, saw Guo Ge, smiled and nodded, "Guo Ge, you weren't joking just now, right?" ”
Guo Ge knew Wei Hong's cowardly virtue, and walked straight to Wei Hong, his eyes glanced at the prices on both sides, and he pointed in his hand, "Soy sauce, oil consumption, dried chili, Sichuan pepper, monosodium glutamate...... Salt, as well as this dried ginger, ginger slices, dried green onion slices, pepper, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, and this hot pot condiment, all packed for me. ”
"And this big rice cooker, I want one." Guo Ge turned to the container against the wall, and pointed to a row of various bags of rice and cooking oil, "Rice, cooking oil and flour noodles, including all instant noodles and canned fruits, canned fish, brand-name liquor and canned beer...... I want all the rice you have in stock. ”
Guo Ge knows that material security in the last days is the first element of survival. Soon, not only Linjiang City, but also people all over the country and the world will "sit and eat empty", and a pack of instant noodles that no one picks up when they are thrown into the ground can make ten people desperate in the last days.
Wei Hong was dumbfounded, stunned on the spot, even if he was simple-minded, he didn't feel like Guo Ge was joking.
Guo Ge took out a few bank cards, "I will give you a deposit of 30,000 yuan first, refund more and make up for less, you can make a list for me." In addition, you tally my goods while calling your supplier and asking them to fill all the goods for you within a few hours, especially daily necessities, the more the better. ”
"Huh! Guo Ge, don't I still believe you? It's just, why do you want so many things at once? You are still studying, and you will have a place to use money in the future, but you can't easily waste it now......" Wei Hong touched his head and smiled.
Guo Ge glanced at the mahjong table in the corner of the convenience store and sighed slightly, "Lao Wei, you are right to listen to me once." Hurry up and let the supplier prepare the goods for you, and it will be delivered within three hours. I won't tell you more. ”
"Oh......" Wei Hong habitually looked at him and smiled.
Guo Ge picked up a dozen lighters from the price of goods at the cash register, in the last days, especially when the cold winter comes, fire is often the key to human survival, especially cooked hot soup, it is hard to imagine that someone can not eat a mouthful of cooked hot food for a month and months.
"I want all the lighters on this shelf. Also, the toothpaste, cream, sunscreen, mosquito repellent medicine, and basic skincare products in your store have all been moved upstairs to me. Guo Ge said and took out a wad of renminbi from his pocket, about four or five thousand, still on the cash register, "This is a down payment, I am very serious." Guard? ”