Chapter 12: Ruins
Relying on two cans of braised pork, Summer finally got information about how to get out of town. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the era of the global Cold War, in order to guard against the so-called nuclear attack from US imperialism, China made great efforts to arrange large and small air-raid shelters in cities.
Unfortunately, the anticipation of World War III did not come, and with the beginning of the era of peace, these bomb shelters, which had been excavated with huge amounts of resources, were abandoned and forgotten.
Today, the military has built a 12-meter-high wall around the city, but these abandoned bomb shelters can still lead to the outside of the city.
Before dawn the next day, Summer left home and left the city from an abandoned air-raid shelter under the leadership of the scavenger named Lao Xue, who had collected two cans of summer food.
It's been two months, and when I first walked out of the city in the summer, I saw a barren ruin, surrounded by ruins, and the city was now like this, which made people sigh.
It was snowing, and there were small snowflakes like salt grains floating in the sky, and there was no longer haze in the cold air, but there was a faint smell of blood.
"Nowhere outside the city is safe, no one can be trusted, it's all up to you." Lao Xue instructed Xia Xia a few words.
Xia Xia smiled slightly, stuffed a box of Su cigarettes into Lao Xue's hand, and then strode forward with the bag on his back.
Lao Xue was stunned for a moment, saw the cigarette in his hand, sighed softly, unbuttoned his coat, hid the cigarette in a hidden inner bag, and then bent his waist and quickly disappeared into this ruin, like all waste pickers.
The summer was not busy digging anything, and the food and supplies in the ruins around this area had already been excavated beforehand, and most of the scavengers accelerated to rush farther away, burying more valuable presence in those areas where the scavengers had not yet been.
The long journey is a severe test of physical fitness and sense of direction, and many elderly and frail scavengers still look near the exit of this hollow, such as Lao Xue, whose physical strength is not enough to allow him to go further.
Summer took out a GPS from his backpack, although the ground has been destroyed by the Zerg, but the navigation satellite in the sky is still there.
These satellites are powered by solar or nuclear energy and will work for at least a few decades.
In the summer, he remembered that there was a newly developed commercial area in the east of the city, about seven or eight kilometers away from him, and there were many supermarkets and shopping malls, and he planned to try his luck there.
It didn't take long to find a main road in the summer, most of the buildings on both sides of the road had collapsed, and many dilapidated cars were crooked on the road, but because of the wide road, it was easier than walking through the rubble.
Suddenly~
Summer squatted down alertly, and outside a ruin fifty meters to his right, there was a fresh bloodstain, indicating that someone had just been attacked by insects here, and then the corpse was dragged into the ruins by insects.
Click~
Click~
Summer's sense of hearing was sharper than ever, and he heard the sound of bugs munching on corpses, a terrifying sound that anyone who hears it once will never forget.
Summer doesn't intend to avenge an unknown scavenger, he continues to walk along the middle of the road, trying not to get too close to any of the ruins, because there is a possibility that bugs may be hiding under the support of any ruin.
Gradually, the walls have disappeared into light snow, and several houses have appeared in front of them in the summer, which are the few surviving structures of the military's bombing operation.
Beneath a six-story residential building, you can see the sign of Qingquan Supermarket in summer, which is a typical small community supermarket and if you are lucky, you may have something to eat inside.
Soon, Summer discovers that the target has been preempted, and three nervous-looking scavengers are about to pry open the supermarket's security door, one of whom has a pistol.
"It's on! Pry open! The scavenger with a crowbar shouted in a whispered voice of excitement.
Click~
The roller shutter door was lifted, and at this moment, a huge black shadow suddenly rushed out of the supermarket! It's a mutant cockroach!
Puff~
The scavenger who was prieing the door was bitten in two by the mutant cockroach's big mouth, and the other short scavenger next to him shouted, picked up an axe and slashed at the mutant cockroach.
Bang~
The axe failed to cut into the cockroach's thick carapace, but the short scavenger was suddenly turned back by the cockroach, his teeth tore open his belly, and blood and intestines flowed out immediately.
The mutant cockroach lunged forward, knocking the short scavenger to the ground, tearing open his ribcage and spurting blood like crazy.
Bang~
Bang~
In the end, the tall scavenger was frightened, and fired two shots at the mutant cockroach with a pistol.
If it was a mutant spider, the power of the pistol might still work, but unfortunately it was a mutant cockroach known for its strong defense, and the tall scavenger's reckless actions not only failed to suppress the cockroach, but instead provoked his anger!
Whew~
The cockroach withstood the shot of the pistol, opened its fangs, and rushed forward.
Puff~
Puff~
In the blink of an eye, the three scavengers had been killed, and the mutant cockroach was ready to drag the corpse into the darkness to eat, while no other bugs jumped out to fight for it.
All indications are that it is a solitary bug and has no companions.
It's less than a hundred meters away, and it's now!
Summer suddenly flashed out from behind the wall, and picked up a concrete block that was about a pound heavy in his right hand.
Swish~
Gray concrete shot through the air, hitting the mutant cockroach in the back.
It's a pity that Summer's right arm is not darkened, and its strength is only equivalent to that of two adults, although it is also a strong arm strength, but for a mutant cockroach with a thick carapace, this kind of attack can only make him feel pain, and he can't kill him!
Whew~
Enraged, the mutant cockroach turned and rushed over, revealing its mouthparts like a giant scythe and letting out a bug-like roar.
Summer gritted her teeth, and this time, with a darkened left arm!
The left arm of the summer is equivalent to the strength of at least eight strong adults!
The arm was rounded, and a concrete block weighing more than two catties and wearing half a steel bar in the middle burst out from Summer's hand!
Bang~
This blow is not as soft as just now, but full of force!
The head wasn't too accurate as ever, and the concrete skimmed the mutant cockroach's head and hit him in the back of the body.
Click~
Under the high-speed impact, the concrete block directly peeled off half of the mutant cockroach's body, as if the monster tore his body apart with its claws, causing the mutant cockroach to die on the spot, and the green viscera flow was splashed up more than ten meters high, a bit like the effect of slapping a frog with a brick.
Summer patted the dust on his hands, pouted, and said, "It seems that the strength of the right arm is still a little worse." ”
Half a pack of crumpled White General cigarettes, a lighter, two watermelon knives, a rusty axe, a few fruit hard candies, a pack of biscuits, a bottle of mineral water of unknown origin that had been opened, there was not much useful on these scavengers.
The only thing that can be counted as good is the 54-style pistol, which has only one magazine and three bullets left.
In the first two months of fighting, countless warriors died in the ruins outside the city, and it was normal for these scavengers to be able to pick up a gun or two.
It's just that this kind of thing must be used with care, unless a silencer is installed, the gun will emit a loud pop.
Today is a lucky summer, there are not too many bugs nearby, otherwise, with the reckless scavenger shooting just now, it may be another big crisis.
In the summer, I put these things in my backpack and looked around the back of a residential building to understand why mutant cockroaches rushed out of the small supermarket.
It turned out that the front of the residential building looked nothing unusual, but the back was half blown up by explosives, and only a few load-bearing concrete pillars were still struggling to support it.
If the three scavengers had been careful not to pry the door of the supermarket as soon as they saw it, but to go around the back to take a look, the tragedy could have been avoided.
Anyway, now that the people are dead and the insects are dead, I ran into this residential building that might collapse at any time and searched for it, and the supermarket was robbed, but in the summer, I found half a box of inferior ham from a small restaurant selling fried noodles next door.
These hams are the ingredients for fried noodles, and there are no expensive ingredients in the cheap fried noodles, such as green vegetables, eggs, and this kind of low-quality ham with a very low price and a higher starch than protein content, and more chicken essence and monosodium glutamate or something, it is enough to fool the appetite of diners.
After all, these hams are also acceptable meat in summer, and there are also low-quality beer and liquor in the fried noodle shop, which he has also cleaned up.
After checking it in the summer, the military backpack with a capacity of forty-five liters was actually full, which shows that in the early days of the last days, as long as there are no insects to cause trouble, it is still easy to find food from the ruins.
Scold~
In summer, a fish jumped, grabbed a broken staircase, and climbed to the second floor of a residential building.
From this floor onwards, there are some people's houses, and in the summer, they pry open the doors one by one with steel bars, go in and look for them, and find some dried noodles, mung beans and red beans hidden in the kitchen, unopened soy sauce, and half a bottle of sesame oil.
The people on the top floor of the west house have the most reserves, it seems that they left the city before the end of the world, everything in the house is still the same as before the end of the world, and the insects have not invaded.
In the summer, I found some salted duck eggs, pickles, a few bags of unopened red sausages, half a carton of pure milk that had just expired for a few days, and it was still drinkable, the eggs in the refrigerator were broken, but there were still some dried tofu, and a vacuum-packed Quanjude roast duck.
In the summer, he sat on the family's sofa, unwrapped the roast duck, tore off a greasy duck leg and chewed it in his mouth, and took a sip of beer when he was thirsty.