Chapter 10: Entering the Deserted City (Part II)
At this time, it was almost dusk, and the rain outside had not stopped. Several damaged and scrapped trucks were parked on the side of the road, and everyone stood on the side of the road, observing this convenience store, which is a large convenience store with floor-to-ceiling glass on both sides and a transparent view, and people from the outside can easily see the furnishings inside, and the signboard at the door reads the name of the store in Chinese and English - LOOP convenience store. Lin Hao stared at the sign and looked back at the passengers in the car.
"It's raining now, it looks safe, let's go first to avoid the rain and rest, and when the rain is lighter, it's safer for us to go."
At Lin Hao's suggestion, tourists responded one after another and entered the convenience store in an orderly manner. The convenience store was as empty as the street, and the shelves were full of goods and dust. It looks like it was from twenty or thirty years ago, from China, South Korea and Malaysia, and there is a strong nostalgic atmosphere, with many tourists curiously flipping through the goods, and some taking out their mobile phones and clicking on selfies for a while.
Ella rummaged through the shelves, but couldn't find a snack she was happy with, so she sullenly picked up a bag of shrimp crackers and tore it open, but the smell of spoilage inside made her throw it back casually.
Xu Feng looked at the surrounding environment, walked to the cash register, opened the cash register, and there were many currencies of various countries in it. He tore off the shopping slip that came out of the machine, dated April 13, 1979.
Lin Hao leaned over and took a look, with a look of doubt. "It seems that this is indeed a ruined city, and no one has been here for a long time."
"Not necessarily, people before us must have been here before."
Xu Feng was thoughtful. "You mean, the people who disappeared in the city before?"
"Hmm." Xu Feng nodded, and a sense of uneasiness rose in Lin Hao's heart, and he swallowed hard, trying his best not to let himself be cranky.
"They've been here before, you mean, and then they've disappeared?" Lin Hao carefully looked at the internal structure of the entire convenience store.
"You told me on the way that Hu Na closed the restaurant and led someone to point a gun at you, and then a woman's voice appeared on the loudspeaker, and finally the restaurant as a whole seemed to leave the deck of a ship, rolled into the sea, and when you woke up, you all collapsed in the desert?"
"Not exactly."
Jiang Fei walked over with three bottles of water in his hand, and handed them to Xu Feng and Lin Hao in turn, "Don't worry, I have checked it, this kind of water can be drunk even after it expires," then he unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip, and then continued the topic just now, "Not all of us have fallen here, to put it simply, the people here are only part of the tour group, and the remaining part of the people don't know where they are at the moment, but I told Mr. Ying before that if there was any accident on the island, we got separated, and finally gathered at the mouth of the coast northwest of Bee Python Island." ”
"Mr. Ying, is that your good friend?" Lin Hao interrupted for no reason, and was given a roll of Jiang Fei's eyes, Lin Hao looked at Xu Feng with a wicked smile, saw that he just lowered his head to drink water, and then looked at Jiang Fei, Jiang Fei even deliberately did not look at Xu Feng, Lin Hao felt that the two of them were funny, and this was the case.
"And then?"
"So we should get to the place you agreed upon as quickly as possible?" Xu Feng thought for a long time and finally interjected.
"Yes," Jiang Fei nodded.
"With our current experience, it's too unbelievable, at the end of the wasteland is a ruined city, and behind the ruined city, I don't think it will be the ocean." Xu Feng groaned, as if he suddenly thought of something, "You said that a woman's voice appeared on the loudspeaker, have you heard that voice on the boat?" Could it be
Someone you've met?
"Not the people around us." Lin Hao thought for a moment and replied affirmatively, he blink an eye to see Xu Feng's expression abnormal, a little surprised, "Did you think of something?" ”
Xu Feng shook his head, and he watched Liu Yi and a few colleagues pushing an old-fashioned shopping cart, running around excitedly, which was full of all kinds of bottles and cans.
"There's a cold storage in the back, and the cans are still within their expiration date."
"Look at this, 90-year-old Moutai, there are at least 3,000 bottles outside!
Deng Rongfa walked out of the back shelf, holding two boxes of Moutai in his hands. Everyone looked at the bottles and cans in their hands, like treasures, and they couldn't put it down.
Xu Feng turned his head and looked at the weather outside the window, it was still raining outside, and the premonition in his heart was very bad.
"I feel like I've fallen into someone's trap, and no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to get out." Xu Feng looked at Lin Hao and Jiang Fei, "When the rain stops, let's set off quickly." ”
"Hmph, whose trap could it be,
The first thing that came to my mind was the tour guide, Hu Na. Lin Hao clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "She was lucky not to fall into the desert, otherwise I would tear her apart."
Xu Feng smiled, and just wanted to ask something more, when the rich woman with the gold bracelet, Ai Li, suddenly ran over in a panic, looking for something in the crowd with anxious eyes.
"Who saw my daughter?!"
Everyone was stunned, and everyone turned their heads to look, only to find that the girl who had just picked up food from the container was gone. Xu Feng immediately got up, and with his years of criminal investigation experience, he found that something seemed to be wrong, and he grabbed the arm of the rich woman Ellie.
"When was the last time you saw your daughter?"
Ellie thought anxiously.
"It was in the row of toy containers just now, I walked forward, and she stayed in the back row of containers, and when I turned around and came back, I found that he was gone!"
While pointing to the row of containers that Ella had lost in the distance, Ellie grabbed Xu Feng's sleeve and burst into tears.
"What to do, the child is gone, I can't find him!"
"Don't worry, the convenience store is so big, the child can't lose it." Xu Feng stabilized Ellie, and hurriedly turned around and glanced at the tourists in the hall.
"Let's split up and help find the kid."
Xu Feng glanced at Lin Hao, Lin Hao nodded lightly, and immediately followed Xu Feng to the row of containers, while Ai Li, Jiang Fei and others walked through the nearby shelves, looking for the whereabouts of the child.
"Ella, Ella!" While looking for it, Ai Li anxiously called her daughter's name, Jiang Fei followed Ai Li closely, for fear that Ai Li would be emotional and have an accident, so she was walking forward and ran into Xu Feng head-on.
"How's it going, there's a clue?" Xu Feng asked Jiang Fei, Jiang Fei shook his head, and took Ai Li to look elsewhere. Xu Feng picked up the bag of torn shrimp crackers, looked up and observed, only to see a passage leading to the bathroom in front of him.
At this time, Lin Hao and two male tourists came out of the passage. "I found it all in the back, but I didn't."
"I've looked for him several times, and he's not here!" Ellie looked anxiously at Xu Feng and Lin Hao. Xu Feng thought about it and made a quick judgment.
"Don't worry, let's go in pairs and take a look on the street." There are umbrellas here, everyone takes them. Jiang Fei went back to find an umbrella, and Deng Rongfa on the side looked at the weather outside and frowned.
"I'll take someone to stay here and look for it, in case the child runs back later."
Several people acted separately, Xu Feng and Lin Hao, a few male tourists, went to the street to look for Ella. As night fell, the rain was much lighter than before. As far as the eye can see, the city streets are lined with small buildings of two or three floors, both Western and Chinese. Xu Feng and Lin Hao held umbrellas and searched along the street.
"Ella
"Ella"
Two people shouted the child's name along the street, and in addition to their echoes, there was a faint sound of crisp bells in the empty street. Xu Feng looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a shop in front of him, the door was open, as if it was still open, he and Lin Hao walked over quickly.
This is a flower shop, the shop has all kinds of bales of flowers that have long been dried, the wind chimes hanging on the door are ringing, and the small blackboard at the door has the date and weather written on it.11 November 28, 1979, Saturday, sunny. Xu Feng and Lin Hao looked at each other, and they both felt that this empty city was a little weird. At this moment, there were several screams in the distance, and the sound was so terrible that it made people's scalps tingle!
'Ahh Help me! Ahh