To be honest, these things really make me lose my energy.

When Wei Lao and Lao Lan told Lao Lan that the rolling shutter door opened, I watched the darkness in the store gradually being covered by sunlight, until the rolling shutter door reached the top and got stuck. However, what I saw after that was not a counter full of food. and water, but empty counters and deserted store interiors that have been sold out.

The items sold in some stores had been sold out long before the blockade was established. They were like hamsters dedicated to hoarding goods and food. Even the nearby pharmacies were the same. Who made the logistics stop operating early? If things can't get in, the things inside are equivalent to consumables. The more they are used, the less they are. The less they are, the more precious they are, except for idiots.

But it's not like there's nothing here.

We stepped into this store, and we were also wary of dangers that might appear at any time in the corner. Although this seemed unnecessary, after all, there were no people here before. But who knows? It’s not all people I’m wary of. , I am even afraid of poisonous snakes hiding in the dark depths or even hungry mad dogs under the sewers.

"Check the corners!" I turned on the flashlight and asked Lao Lan and the others to spread out and check every corner and counter in the store.

But in fact, they did not check the corner, but walked to the shelves of the items they needed. Looking at their lazy and unconcerned attitude, I could only helplessly shake my shoulders.

I'm always afraid that some monster will suddenly appear from a dark corner. It's not so much that everyone doesn't care, but it's more that I'm too nervous.

"No one else..." Lao Lan replied, staring at the scattered goods on the counter.

"Of course there won't be anyone else," I laughed at myself, "those bastards had already snapped up everything here before we arrived, and only these are left..."

"It's better than nothing." Wei Lao complained as he took a few bottles of water and wine from the counter.

Looking at the few things on the shelves, I shook my head and said to myself: "But these are not enough..."

So I gave up the idea of ​​looking for the counter, and instead focused on the door of the store warehouse. So, I came to the door with a gun and kicked the old door open with some strength. However, there was nothing inside the warehouse. There is no power supply, so I have to turn on the flashlight and search for boxes one by one in this small and medium-sized place.

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I turned on the flashlight and focused the light on the cardboard boxes stacked in the corner of the warehouse. What I could see was not the long backlog or mountains of inventory, but a few pitiful boxes. .Some of them have been opened by the shopkeeper, and some have not had time to sort and move. The remaining empty boxes were thrown aside in a mess. It is difficult for me to imagine how many people came here to buy things and stock up. So much so that the inventory is almost gone.

For a store of this size, it should only receive goods from outside every few days or every other week. In the case of logistics blockade, it is lucky that the goods here are not robbed in one day. .

After walking around, I was surprised to find that there was still a lot of food and water left here. Whether it was biscuits, ham sausages, or canned and dry food, the store would have more or less stock. So I told them about them. I caught the guys who were busy looking through the cabinets and drawers outside. When they learned that there was food inside, they ran towards me as if their eyes were on fire, as if they were afraid that I would take away their share.

But I guess there is more than one copy per person.

I watched them actively squatting in front of the box, stuffing all the food in the box into their backpacks. But I stayed behind the door, holding a flashlight as the only light source in the room.

"We have to pay attention to our backpacks!" I changed the subject and reminded everyone. Finally, I clapped my hands so that everyone would focus on me. "Don't fill them all at once. We only take the necessary food and water."

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"What about the rest that can't be taken away?" Yana asked next to me, holding half of the food in her satchel.

"What's left?" I smiled, looked at the few but endless amounts of food and water in the box, and added:

"Then consider it tonight's dinner."

Then, we stuffed all the edible and drinkable goods in the store into our backpacks. The food in the backpack was so miscellaneous, and everyone began to feel uncomfortable with the weight. Every time we took a step, the food would bump against the backpack and make noise.

There was a crash. In this situation, no one among us was willing to run, and we all turned into wanderers walking lazily. Coupled with the fact that we were carrying guns and wearing bulletproof vests, it was hard for me in the winter.

I was almost sweating due to the heat, but let me tell you, the weight was really uncomfortable.

Even though we felt the long-lost feeling of fullness, we still couldn't finish all the food. There are still a lot of food in stock here scattered here and there, and I don't want them to stay here waiting to expire.

You can use the secondary bag to pack them all up and take them away.

At this time, I felt that I was the one person in the team who carried the heaviest equipment. I felt shaky with every step I took. It would be great if I could take off my backpack. Instead of walking with so many things on my back, I might as well think about it.

The solution is to find a storage resource point to store it.

You must know that if you want to occupy a house now, the real estate company will not charge you a penny, as long as you can pick the door lock.

We faced the setting sun and walked step by step on the artificial river. At this time, we were slowly moving away from the main intersection and gradually approaching the closed area of ​​​​the city center. Here, the streets are scattered and there are more high-rise buildings on both sides of the road. In the past, large hangings

The display screen is now damaged, and the streets are full of garbage and messy boxes left behind by previous panic purchases. Looking at the desolate atmosphere everywhere, the joy of getting the food slowly dropped like the sunset.

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The week before, there were crowds of people here, and the night view was brilliant. A week later, it has become like this. The streets are extremely desolate, and not even a single person can be seen. Here, all you can see with your eyes is the people.

Apart from the scraps of paper blown by the cold wind from the north, there were only dark clouds passing by in the sky that was illuminated red by the setting sun.

However, soon, the depressed mood spread among our group like a plague.

"It's so weird..." Lao Lan couldn't help but break the silence we had been walking for a long time.

"There's no one here..." Yana also started coaxing, "Why don't we go back."

"I don't want anyone," I pulled on my vest, lifted the shoulder strap of my backpack, and grinned at the team in front of me and complained, "especially people with guns."

Walking further down the pedestrian street, I smelled an unpleasant rotten smell. This smell made several of us who had just eaten want to vomit, so I took out the m3 filter mask I used in the washroom last time.

Put it on and cough into the mask a few times.

"The people here, God, they were shot..." Lao Lan stared at the brass bullet casings on the roadside and said sullenly.

"Are there those predators here too?"

"It was there before, but I can't say for sure now." Wei Lao covered his nose and pointed at the body next to the garbage pile.

"Put on a mask." I reminded everyone. At the same time, everyone seemed to have remembered something. They hurriedly took out the filter mask from the lanyard hole in the backpack and put it on, and then took a deep breath into the mask.

"Something's wrong..." Wei Lao became more and more vigilant at this moment. He took out his gun, leaned against the vehicle parked on the roadside, and branched towards the empty street and said: "There seems to be someone nearby..."

I raised my head and watched the sunset. The sky turned from red to dark blue, and finally the entire sky became dim. Only the sunk sky still had some light.

The sky is getting dark, and darkness is coming soon. No matter what, I don't want to risk turning on the flashlight in the pedestrian street. In this area where people used to be relatively concentrated, I am very worried that I will be ambushed by some people.

"There's something wrong. It's too quiet. There shouldn't be anyone here." I pointed to the car wreckage with some flames and sparks on the side of the road and said, "Something must have happened here before."

As we walked, we all stopped involuntarily. A bit of unpleasant smell passed through the bottle of the filter tank and entered our nostrils. Although I knew it was the smell of rotting meat, it was hard for me to

Imagine what concentration of odor we will smell now when we take off the mask.

So, I took the risk, leaned out of the street, and walked to the center of the road.

I tilted my head and looked in the general direction of the pedestrian street. I saw corpses strewn all over the road. It was dark and the smell came from here. Although I was holding a flashlight, I wouldn't kill me.

It will illuminate the corpses in front of me. Needless to say, risking your curiosity to see the consequences of these piles of rotting corpses, I guess it will not be too comfortable.

Those dark, human-shaped shadows lay like a carpet in the middle of the pedestrian street. The further you walked toward the pedestrian street, the stronger the smell of rotting corpses became.

"Did you find anything?" Wei Lao saw that I was motionless and tried to come over to take a look.

"Don't move, don't look!" I warned, but the tone reached Wei Lao's ears as a muffled sound.

"What's wrong?" When Yana saw us like this, her curiosity came up again, and she turned sideways.

"Don't, come here..." I warned again.

Lao Lan watched us all walking toward the middle of the road. He looked around in a daze and saw everything was dark. He shook his head and followed quickly.

"Please... can you just stay there? There should be a limit to how stupid you can be, right?" I pointed at Mr. Wei's nose and scolded him.

"So what did you see?" Wei Lao still asked.

I watched him curiously take out his flashlight, and when he was about to shine it on the pedestrian street, I snatched Wei Lao's flashlight with one hand, and hurriedly explained: "Don't look at those things...

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Just when everyone's curiosity was about to reach the designated point, I heard bursts of crackling sounds of electricity. At the same time, the street lights on both sides of the pedestrian street began to flicker slowly.

That's the underground emergency power supply at night...

"Oh, shit..." My eyes were empty, and I looked at the street lights and "bang bang bang" them all in a row, illuminating the entire pedestrian street, and I cursed involuntarily.

The light illuminated the pile of corpses, the rotting bodies of the dead, the bloody rotten intestines and stomachs. It also illuminated their large black pupils that looked like they were dead...

"vomit……"

"Hmm..."

Everyone can see the rotting corpses under the light. Before this, no one has seen a scene like this, and there is no such scene in their mind. It is like a garbage dump of liver, gallbladder and intestines in pork, with dense

White maggots crawled all over the rotting corpse. Everyone opened their masks and vomited while retreating. I squinted my eyes, covered my eyes with my palms, and then slowly retreated towards the edge of the road.

I calmed down and watched the three of them vomiting non-stop on the roadside. They stopped for a while, but because they took off their masks, they smelled the disgusting smell again and buried their heads again.

My head vomited all over the floor.

Finally, each of them came back to me with pale faces, as if they were seriously ill.

"Why... didn't you tell me earlier..."

Their feeble blame made me shake my head helplessly. This really echoed the saying: curiosity killed the cat. I watched pitifully as they continued to retching on the floor. I guess what they ate tonight will continue to eat today.

They should have vomited everything they ate, it was really miserable.

Looking at their funny looks, I smiled bitterly and took out the mineral water stuffed in the radio bag out of habit. I was about to unscrew it and drink it. The moment I took off the mask, I was confused.

I'm a fool...
Chapter completed!