"July 18th, cloudy

I hadn't seen anyone else for a week, or rather, no one else alive.

In the evening, I saw Xiaolan in the opposite shampoo room passing downstairs, half of her face was completely rotten, and even the breast room on her right chest had become a bloody hole. The only thing that could identify her was the revealing black camisole she wore when she was soliciting customers, but it was already in tatters. Maybe I'm the only one left around here

A tourist attraction that was bustling a week ago. I don't know if I'm lucky or unlucky, but at least, at least I'm alive, though surrounded by fear all the time.

I suddenly felt that opening this supermarket was the right decision in my life, at least in this apocalyptic world, I still have enough food to go out and forage for food, and I don't have to risk going out to find food, and I don't have to become their food, but how long can I last like this?"

The keyboard snapped and I snuffed out half of the cigarette from my fingertips, leaning back in my chair and staring at the ceiling in a daze.

My name is Yan Xiaoqin, and I was born in a small place with beautiful scenery. When I had just graduated from university, I heard that the neighborhood of my hometown was going to be developed into a tourist area, so I borrowed a sum of money from my parents, relatives and friends, and built a two-story façade on the pedestrian street near the development zone. Although the area of each floor is only a few tens of square meters, it is enough as a small supermarket in the tourist area, of course, it is really small. Most of the second floor naturally became a storeroom, and in my living area, apart from a bed and a computer desk, a dining table and a writing desk, all that was left of my living area was the bathroom.

After half a year of desertion, when the first phase of the development ended, it was natural to welcome many bored tourists.

Why are they boring?

Although it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the mountains are nothing more than some wild flowers and grasses without characteristics, and at this stage, only some infrastructure under the mountain has been developed, such as squares, parking lots, entertainment centers, etc., and eight out of ten aboriginal families under the mountain have played the sign of farmhouses, other than that, I really don't see anything different about this place where I have grown up for more than 20 years. Of course, this is just my boring complaint as a member of the Aboriginal people.

But it is undeniable that these tourists have indeed driven the local economy, such as my small supermarket called "Scenic Supermarket", which has faintly taken me to a well-off scene. Also, don't ask me why I gave the supermarket such a cheesy name, it's the most annoying thing to come up with a name.

I have always believed that people are inseparable, like chains, one link after another, for example, as more and more tourists here, other "industrial chains" that come with it also begin to be generated, such as thieves, fakes, black tour guides and **business

Two months ago, when I was rented out diagonally opposite me, I was nervous, for fear that someone was thinking about opening a supermarket to grab business, because in just a few months, there were already seven local villagers who had opened supermarkets according to my specifications in this small street of only 500 meters, and I could only express my helplessness about this. So for the next few days, I would wander around the door of my store, consciously or unconsciously, staring at it with a kind of contempt. Of course, the result was that the renovation workers in the store would rather walk a few dozen meters to buy cigarettes at Lao Wang's house in the east than just walk a few meters wide to patronize my business.

It hurts me a lot.

Especially one day, when four or five women with heavy makeup and foreign accents asked the renovation workers at the door, I realized that they were the owners of the store. And my anger value at that time was almost off the charts, and women from other places formed a team to rob me of my business, and there was no royal law. Just as I was about to perform a stunt, one of the good-looking women seemed to notice my presence and walked up to me with a smile on her face.

"Hello, you're the owner of this supermarket, right?" When I got to the front, the woman greeted me softly.

"Hmm"

As a young man who was born with ** silk attributes, since everyone greets me like this, I am embarrassed to use the skill of "killing you with my eyes" anymore, not to mention that when I walked in, I found that this woman looked more delicate than from a distance, and I lost the anger just now. But after all, it is suspected to be a business competitor, and I will not immediately burst into rain and clear because I am a beauty, but I squeezed out such a sound bluntly.

The woman noticed that my attitude was not very friendly, so she smiled shallowly, and then said, "My name is Xiaolan, those sisters are with me, we will open next week, I hope you understand if there is anything that causes you inconvenience, after all, we are also out of helplessness." ”

At that time, I was angry again, and when I heard this, it confirmed that they were here to steal business. It also brings inconvenience, and out of helplessness, I wipe it, don't think that if you are a woman, I dare not stare at you.

"Hmm"

I replied with a blank face, and then when I saw a customer coming to my door, I turned around and went back to my store.

When a few days later, when the woman named Xiaolan on the opposite side of the shop turned on with pink lights, the corners of my mouth twitched for a long time, and only two sentences were left after the galloping of the herd of grass and mud horses in my heart.

"Damn, it turned out to be a gun room"

"I don't know if it's expensive"

The women diagonally opposite the door began to open their businesses, and most of the people on the street didn't seem to like the newly opened red house, and I, as a young man who had been influenced by the film culture of the island country in the new century, actually didn't have any special opinions about them, so I gradually got acquainted with them. In fact, they have brought me a lot of benefits, first of all, they occasionally come to talk to me during the day when they are free from business, which can pass the empty and boring time, of course, I don't believe what they say, especially about how helpless they are to do this business by themselves. Secondly, due to the content of their business, they have also increased the sales of some consumables in my store, such as:

The days went on like this, and although there were a little waves, it wouldn't be boring. And every time I see the woman named Xiaolan sitting at the door, I will cry out in my heart that it is a pity that a good cabbage has made many pigs arch.

I really don't have much ambition, I just want to keep my own shop, pay off the arrears in a few years, save some money to marry a daughter-in-law in a nearby village, and then continue to guard this family business, save some money, give up the child, and then hand over the store to the child to continue to guard. Many people may feel disdainful of such thoughts, but when that day passes, this kind of life that everyone disdains has become everyone's luxury.

It was a very ordinary day.

I was so engrossed in reading the novel the night before that I realized I hadn't slept all night when the sun rose. Look at the time, it's almost time to open your doors. This season happens to be the peak tourist season, and the daily customers can be described as endless, so my business is booming. At this rate, I will be able to pay off my foreign debts after this peak season.

After washing, the moment I went downstairs and opened the roller shutter of the store, the rising sun almost blinded my dog's eyes.

"It seems that staying up late to read is really bad for health."

I muttered a sentence that I thought the unusually bright morning sun was due to my overuse of my eyes, then lit a cigarette and sat back at the cash register, just two square meters, staring blankly at the street outside the door, waiting for customers to come to the door.

I have to say that the tourism industry in this season is really hot, and I spent almost all of my morning in scanning the code to collect money, and I really didn't have the energy to be happy about generating income when I was listless. When it was close to noon, I felt that my eyelids really wanted to fit together, and after struggling for a long time, I finally made up my mind to close the door and rest for half a day.

"A boss who is not lazy is not a good ** silk, not to mention that money is inexhaustible, the body is important, the body is important."

I kept looking for reasons for myself, and I reluctantly watched the tourists coming and going outside the door, thinking of the financial loss I would lose if I closed for half a day. After the last two customers in the store checked out, I resolutely pulled down the roller shutter, afraid that I would regret it if I slowed down.

With a depressed heart, he swayed upstairs. Because of the relationship between staying up late until now, I was so tired that I really didn't have much appetite, so I took off my clothes and opened it casually and went into the bathroom as soon as I heard the coke, and when I came out of the shower slowly, it was already half an hour later. When I returned to my living area, which was only a few square meters, I was about to fall asleep, when I suddenly heard someone downstairs calling me, and I didn't care about being naked, I opened the curtains and opened the window to look down.

"Boss Yan closed the door so early, yo, isn't there anything good about being naked?"

As soon as I put my head out, I heard Xiaolan's "Miss" complain, and I was used to it.

"I'm really uncomfortable today, and I'm going to close down and rest." Due to my poor mental state, I didn't have much of the heart to talk to her, otherwise I would definitely tease her for a long time as usual, after all, as an older single young man, he was still very happy with this kind of thing.

Xiaolan "Miss" saw that I didn't have the energy to tease her at this time, so she said, "Where is it uncomfortable, do you want to buy some medicine for you?"

"I'm afraid it's going to rain heavily this day, and it is estimated that there are not many people on the street in the afternoon, so you can rest with your girl Wu in peace."

It was then that I noticed that the sky was covered with thick, reddish clouds at some point, and I could faintly hear the muffled thunder in the distance. I didn't care about it, after all, it is not uncommon to have a few rainstorms this season, and even red clouds can't rain strawberry-flavored rain!

I watched listlessly as "Miss" turned around and walked towards their shop, then closed the window, closed the curtains, and fell straight into the bed, falling into a deep sleep.

It was the last time I saw her alive and the last time I heard what she said to me. This night, I slept through the day. This awakening led me into a world that could not be extraordinary