Chapter 9: Lu Xiaoqiao
The gunfire on the outskirts of the city continued all night, and Summer also spent the whole night thinking by the window. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
There is no doubt that strength alone is useless, and technology is required.
So in the summer, on the basis of eating more and exercising, I added another task to myself, practicing throwing hidden weapons.
Mattresses are a resource that can be exploited, and it costs a lot of money to buy them in the summer, with double springs and palm cushions.
He found a few quilts, tied the bed, mattress, and quilt into a lump, and drew a few crooked circles on them, which became his temporary target.
It doesn't matter if you're close, I'm going to practice the rhythm of shooting and the knack of wrist power first.
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The water, electricity, and gas cut off on the second night of the end of the world were not immediately restored during the day, and the anxious people were only notified in the afternoon that the supply could not be restored in the short term because the insect infestation had destroyed the gas storage facilities in the suburbs.
As for electricity and water, it will be available in the morning and afternoon every day, for a limited time.
After the third night of trepidation, the intermittent telecommunications network was finally shut down.
The only information dissemination channel that is still working is radio broadcasting, which has long been forgotten.
Those who had radios at home brought out dusty antiques one after another, and the family gathered in front of the radio to listen attentively, just as in the days when there was no television or Internet.
In the summer, he also thought about the information problem after the end of the world, so he bought a very expensive Desheng brand radio from the wholesale market while shopping for food and general goods.
In addition to being able to collect long-wave and medium-wave radios, this high-end radio can also learn about the information released by many foreign radio stations from shortwave channels.
It was under this gloomy fog that humanity spent a thrilling first week, seven nights of bitter battles, and heavy losses for both humans and insects.
Summer stays in front of the window every night, and if a spider monster is spotted rushing in, Summer uses the short steel bars in reserve to attack them from a distance.
After a few sleepless nights, the technique of the summer darker has made great progress, but unfortunately the hundreds of short steel bars he has stockpiled have also been depleted.
So in the summer I had to leave home and go to the city to find some new weapons.
I took out an old canvas bag and put instant noodles, cabbage, apples and some snacks in it in the summer, but now that I have become a carnivore in the summer, it is useless to keep the instant noodles and snacks.
As for the existence of banknotes, gold and the like, they have been completely reduced to scrap, and they feel too hard to wipe their butts.
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Walking out of the community gate, the streets outside seem to be more lively than on normal weekends, with many stalls on the side of the road, and people who want to exchange some food or other daily necessities have started business on the streets.
After the first two days of serious riots and looting, the military took over the security of the entire city, and soldiers with loaded guns and serious expressions could always be seen on both sides of the streets, so the order in the city during the day was tense, but relatively safe.
In the summer, I looked at two hardware and building materials shops that opened their doors, and found that the price of steel bars and steel pipes became very expensive.
In the face of the terrible spider monster, who doesn't want to nail their doors and windows stronger, and to reinforce the doors and windows, there must be materials, so steel pipes, which are usually not worth a few dollars, have become a slugg-after commodity.
The hardware store is only half a street, and the remaining half of the street is mostly clothing stores and selling audio, electrical appliances, and other miscellaneous things.
In the summer, he was about to return, but he had no choice but to exchange some steel bars and steel pipes at a high price, when suddenly, he saw a store specializing in elderly products not far from him, and two stainless steel balls were placed in the glass window, which was commonly known as health balls.
Some elderly people like to exercise their fingers and wrists with this thing, and in the summer, when grandma is still alive, there is a pair, which is quite heavy.
When he was a kid in the summer, he played with this thing, and he broke the goldfish bowl at home and was beaten up by his father, so he knows the weight and power of this thing.
Compared with those thriving hardware stores, this one is too miserable, all of them are cloth shoes that the elderly love to wear, dog skin pants, fat underwear, etc., in the last days, these things may not even be exchanged for a grain of rice.
"Huh? It's you! ”
The girl, who was sorting out the inventory, looked up and saw Summer, and she said in surprise.
Summer also saw the girl clearly, and his own confirmation knew her, a student at the University of Technology, who seemed to be called Lu Xiaoqiao, and sent her a few takeaways in the summer.
In a science and engineering school like a university of technology, the number of beauties is outrageous, Lu Xiaoqiao is one of the few beauties in the school, and her figure is quite good, the place where it should be thin is thin, the place where it should be drummed is drum, and the skin is white enough, so it is easy to be remembered in summer.
Speaking of which, Lu Xiaoqiao had a hard time, the day before yesterday, the family was cut off from food, his parents and brothers were not in good health, and he couldn't walk when he was hungry, so Xiao Qiao was still young, so he ran to the store and opened the door, hoping to change some food and survive this hard life.
It's a pity that there will be business in a store like this that sells elderly products, seeing that it was already noon, Lu Xiaoqiao was worried about his parents, so he began to rummage through the old-fashioned belts stored in the store.
When I was in elementary school, I read the story of the Red Army crossing the grassland, and I was really hungry, so the Red Army gnawed on the boiled belt, and now Lu Xiaoqiao's family has been forced to this point.
"I want to see this pair of steel balls." Summer is straight to the point.
"Okay." Lu Xiaoqiao handed the two steel balls to Xia Xia and looked at him curiously.
"Solid, good." Summer nodded and said, "Anything else?" ”
"Yes, but it's all in the storeroom, it's heavy." Lu Xiaoqiao was so hungry that she couldn't walk, and said with some embarrassment.
"Take me there." Summer said lightly.
The time is not big, and two boxes were moved out of the warehouse in the summer, which are two boxes of solid stainless steel balls, a box of sixty pairs, that is, one hundred and twenty pieces, plus some scattered goods, can make up about two hundred and seventy pieces, enough for two days in summer.
Pointing to two dusty boxes, Summer said, "I'll trade with you for food." ”
"This, this..." Lu Xiaoqiao couldn't turn around a little, she had never done such a thing as exchanging things for food, and she didn't know how to speak.
When Summer saw this, she took two bags of instant noodles, two rotten cabbages, and two dried apples from her backpack and put them on the counter.
Lu Xiaoqiao's eyes widened and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
She couldn't believe that these worthless solid steel balls could be exchanged for enough rations for a family of four, and even more rarely, vegetables and fruits, which were inconvenient to store, and there was no stock in the city for a long time.
"Not enough?" Summer asked with a frown.
"Enough! Enough! Enough is enough! Lu Xiaoqiao came back to her senses, and said excitedly and gratefully: "Where do you live, I'll help you send it to your home." ”
Summer shook her head and said, "No, I can do it myself." ”
After that, he squatted down, the solid steel ball was quite heavy to hold, but in fact, the box was not big, with the current strength of the summer, it was easy.
Gollum~
At this time, Lu Xiaoqiao's stomach screamed uncontrollably, and Summer was stunned, took out a piece of chocolate from her backpack, and stuffed it into her hand.
Lu Xiaoqiao was shocked, and could almost smell the enticing aroma of chocolate through the plastic packaging.
Hunger has already destroyed the sanity of all normal people, and she knows very well what kind of price those beautiful female classmates like her can pay for a piece of chocolate now, this is really a precious gift...
Turning the corner, Summer sighed softly and said to herself, "If you want to blame this damn end times, now my compassion is only the weight of a piece of chocolate." ”