Chapter 23 The first night of the last days(1/2)
[Only released by Jinjiang Literature City]
You Xi closed the balcony window and returned to the living room. You's mother had already recovered and was sitting beside You's father and calling the police with him. However, the busy tone was busy.
"Try it later. It's almost dark. Turn on the lights too conspicuously. Turn off the windows and pull up the curtains first."
Even though their house is on the fifth floor and is far away from the monsters on the ground, as the sky darkens, the too bright lights still make people feel insecure.
So, at the suggestion of Youfu, the two of them closed all the windows that were originally open at home, then pulled up the curtains, and turned off all the lights that were not used in other rooms, leaving only a small floor lamp in the living room.
Your mother suddenly remembered her own grocery store, which had a lot of water supplies. Now, she probably can't get it back.
"Forget it, it's good that people are safe. Fortunately, my daughter came back in time. If she was still in school now... let's take a look, come and cook! I'll accompany you."
You's father and mother entered the kitchen and did not dare to turn on the range hood or the headlights. She only turned on a small light on the range hood and turned on the torch to continue to stir-fry half of the dishes that had been fried before.
You Xi glanced at the closed kitchen door and quietly walked into the storage room.
Because of the grocery store, You’s father and mother would store things that could not be kept at home after getting in.
The goods they bought were just over half a month ago. There were a lot of things piled up in the storage room of ten square meters, including rice, flour, oil, and various beverages and snacks, as well as a lot of daily necessities, so you don’t have to worry about eating and drinking for the moment.
She took out all the daily necessities collected from the grocery store and piled them up with other items in the storage room. Then she collected half of the food such as drinks, instant noodles, snacks, snacks and other foods that were not available for the time being and entered the Xingwu warehouse.
Then I took a box of apples and three buckets of 19l of water, and put the apples together with other foods. The three buckets of water were placed in the area where the buckets were specially placed by the wall on the other side, and then several empty buckets were collected.
Then she walked to the refrigerator next to the dining table, then opened the refrigerator door to cover it, first took out vegetables, eggs, milk and filled the fresh food area, then opened the refrigerator, and put two bags of quick-frozen dumplings, a few bags of pork bones, a few boxes of pork belly, a few boxes of oxtail bones, and a few boxes of lamb chops.
The refrigerator is not big and can't put it down no matter how many there are. But it's okay. With her, the snail girl, as long as the refrigerator has no power outage for a day, the things in the refrigerator will never be eaten up.
You’s father and mother are usually very cheap, and they are basically not good at buying expensive meat such as oxtail bone lamb chops. At the beginning, they may not be able to find it because of their terror, but they will definitely find it by cooking twice more.
But You Xi didn't think about hiding it from them.
In the world, although You're gentle and humble, you're very fond of her only daughter. They can endure hardships and suffer losses by themselves, but they are reluctant to let her suffer a little.
If she has something to do here, no matter how busy they are, they will put down everything at hand.
When they suspected the food at home and came to her to ask, she would tell them in a suitable way.
After filling the refrigerator, You Xi entered his room and while charging his phone, he downloaded a map app that can be used offline.
Afterwards, she started from S City and downloaded all the maps of cities, counties, expressways and national highways across the country.
This offline map app can use mobile phone navigation without the Internet. In addition to the ordinary electronic map function, it can also switch to a three-dimensional map. All streets, supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, shopping malls, car dealers, gas stations, landmark buildings, etc. can be found.
This is of great help to future travel and continuous stockpiling of items.
In order to avoid problems such as breaking the phone and losing the map, she planned to take over the tablet in Youfu's room later, and download the same app and map as a backup.
There is a tablet in the You family, which is very small. It was used by You's mother to watch a show at night. After using it for several years, it is still maintained like the new one.
You Xi put down her phone and asked it to download it slowly by herself. Then she left the room and entered the bathroom. She took out the 500l extra-large bucket of water she had previously stored and began to put warm water inside.
This part is daily water. Store it first, and you may lose water at home one day. Furthermore, if all the pure water is used up, you can also drink it after boiling.
After the last world ended, she replenished five such water storage buckets. Now there are ten in total, all of which are filled with water and can be used for a long time.
When she was waiting for the water release, she sat there to sort out the Star House Warehouse. After coming to this world of the apocalypse, there were currently thirty-seven barrels of 19l mineral water, nine boxes of fruit, several large bags of various medicines, as well as all the water supplies on the shelves and in the warehouses in the back of the grocery store and some of the water supplies that were just collected in the storage room.
Compared to the original things in her Star House Warehouse, the amount of these piles of things is not large, but they are very complicated. They are too messy when collected, so she is too lazy to classify them, so she simply let them all hover on the top floor of the Star House Warehouse, which looks quite interesting.
After Youxi filled two large buckets of hot water, You's father ordered supper outside.
I was probably planning to entertain Tan Qian, and the evening dishes were very rich: fried eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried peppers with meat, steamed sea bass, mapo tofu, fried oil and wheat vegetables, ribs and potato soup, and a large pot of bacon, green vegetables and mushroom rice.
You's mother had no appetite and You's father was not very hungry, so she spent the whole night picking up food for You Xi, looking at her with a heartache, saying that she had lost weight, and that she must be too hard to study, so she asked her to eat more.
Youxi:...
Whether it is the mother in the native world or the mother in the other world, it is the same in some aspects.
After dinner, You's father washed the dishes, Youxi cleaned up the table, put the unfinished dishes into the refrigerator, took out two more apples, washed them, cut them, and brought them to the living room to watch the news with You's mother on the sofa.
Two local TV stations have stopped broadcasting, half of the remaining TV stations are automatically broadcasting a notice of shutdown and school at home, while the other half are broadcasting recorded news.
Compared with the peace of TV stations, major online platforms have long been blasted by various real-time postings.
Some people are anxious to ask for help on a live broadcast, some upload the chaotic street scenes they have taken, some people cannot contact their relatives and want to report their safety through the Internet, and some people post to inquire about the situation in other nearby cities...
So far, infection mutations in S City where Youxi is located, H City and Y City next door have broken out on a small scale everywhere. Many people have received news and rushed into the nearest supermarket to buy, some people have snatched food and left, while others have been blocked by the sudden mutated infected person in the supermarket.
Many people packed up their things overnight and fled, and the high-speed rail station and long-distance bus station were crowded. The large number of people brought many dangerous factors. Sudden mutated infected people appeared in the crowd from time to time, causing chaotic stampede incidents.
After that, the highway was blocked and traffic was paralyzed in the city. Many students in schools were trapped and unable to leave. All hotels and hotels were blocked by people who could not go home...
From dinner, the sounds of ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks outside have never stopped. You Xi’s home is not high and has limited vision, but even if you can’t see the situation outside clearly, you can still imagine the chaotic scenes outside from all kinds of chaotic sounds.
The lights in the security room at the community gate were on, and there should be a security guard inside. When the vehicle rear-ends on the road outside, the gate was closed as soon as possible.
There is also a small door next to the power gate, which is an electric car and pedestrian passage, and residents in the community can enter with their faces.
Perhaps because the power gate gave others a sense of security, people who were chased by zombies at night were repeatedly patted by the door and asked to enter.
The small door was opened several times at first, but later for some reason it did not open again. When someone slapped the door again, it attracted the zombies wandering in the community. Those people were scared away, but the zombies stayed near the power gate.
Perhaps because of the zombies hovering inside the power gate, the mutated zombies that were bitten and infected on the road outside did not gather near the community, but were attracted by the sound of police cars and ambulances around them from time to time, and chased after them.
Almost no one slept well that night.
You Xi knew that not only new infected people continued to appear outside, but also in the community.
In the accident yesterday evening, several bitten people fled home. The infection and mutation were transmitted again. She could hear roars, desolate cry of pain, and desperate cry.
Fortunately, the whole night in their unit building was quite calm, and no one should have been infected and mutated.
When You Xi woke up in the morning, her mother had already prepared breakfast, millet porridge, egg cakes, fried bacon, and steamed a lot of buns.
The buns are made freshly, with two fillings: meat filling and mushrooms and vegetables.
While asking her to eat, Yu's mother continued to go to the kitchen to work hard: "Your father was afraid that water and gas would be cut off, so we planned to make all the flour in the pantry into cooked food, wrap it and freeze it in the refrigerator, and just want to eat and heat it up."
You Xi nodded repeatedly while gnawing on the bun, without revealing You's father's words.
He is afraid of water and gas shutdown, so isn't he afraid of power outages?
Even if flour and rice are cooked, if the power is cut off and the refrigerator loses its freezing effect, the food in this weather will soon break.
She looked at You Father's expression and knew that he said this to find something for You Mother. If you have work in your hands, you will not always think about it.
However, You's father reminded her that water and gas shutdown would consume the storage of water and solid fuel in her Star House warehouse, but she was not afraid of power outages.
Because she has a large fresh-keeping space, the end of the world has just arrived in the past few days. While there is still water and electricity, she would encourage her mother to make all the raw food into cooked food, and at the same time, she had to "increase" the consumption of cooked food.
So, while You's father and mother went to the kitchen, she quietly moved five food racks from the pile of steamed buns into the Xingwu warehouse.
After that, I continued to chew the buns and went to the refrigerator, and moved two bags of buns that You's mother had already made in the freezer to the food rack.
She sat down at the dining table again, drinking porridge when the door suddenly sounded. The knock on the door alarmed You's father and mother in the kitchen. You Xi turned down the chopsticks and signaled them not to speak first, and then walked to the door to look at the cat's eyes.
There were two young men standing outside the door, wearing security uniforms, one tall and one short, and they were the ones who uniformed zombies in front of the small park yesterday.
"Hello, is anyone?"
"What's up?"
"Hello, that's right. We are the security guards in the community. When we ran away yesterday, we accidentally entered the corridor with other residents. It was very messy outside last night, and it was dark, so we stayed in the building and didn't go out.
But the situation outside did not improve today. A colleague of ours closed the power gate in time yesterday, but we lost contact with him this morning. That kind of... monsters are still wandering around the community. If this continues, everyone will be trapped in the building.
We want to find a few people to solve the monsters in the community together, and then call everyone to discuss what to do next."
This community is very small, with two entrances and exits in total. There is an iron fence gate that is closed all year round at the east wall. The door is tall and strong, connected to the next wall, three or four meters high. There is no need to worry about being invaded by monsters outside for the time being.
The other is the south-facing entrance and exit, which consists of two parts: a power gate and a small iron gate. Although it is firm, it is only about two meters in height. Moreover, the gap between the power gate is very large and there are many places to settle. Any adult can climb in. Maybe one day the monster can break in if it is smart after learning to stack a Arhat.
The situation outside is chaotic now, and I don’t know when the rescue will come. Instead of sitting there, I might as well find a way for myself.
They not only wanted to deal with the monsters in the community, but also wanted to strengthen the southern gate. So they wanted to find a few strong people to help. Unfortunately, everyone was scared by the sudden change. They knocked on the door from the third floor to the fifth floor, but no one was willing to join.
There are two families on the fifth floor, and there is no one at home on the left. In addition, when the one on the right is heard, the young female voice is answering the door, they no longer have any hope, they just want to simply explain the matter and go downstairs.
However, at this time, the closed door opened. A beautiful girl of seventeen or eight years old stood in the door, wearing a neat black sportswear, her hair tied up and her hands were holding a metal stick: "I'll go with you."
You's father closed the door of his daughter's room and made the illusion that she was sleeping inside, so he didn't let You's mother, who was busy in the kitchen know.
He reached into his pocket and held the electric shock stick that You Xi gave him ten minutes ago, trying to suppress his worry and nervousness.
"Dad, remember, don't open anyone knocking on the door." She taught him how to use the electric shock stick and told him to use it immediately if someone forcibly breaks in and breaks in, and don't hesitate.
Of course, the chance of this happening is very small, after all, the doors of all their residences are opened outwards.
In other words, if you want to break the door inward, if there is a door frame blocking it, it will not be broken for a while. If you break the door outward, it is even more impossible because you have nowhere to focus.
Not only that, she also pulled him to the storage room and transformed a box of small watermelon out of thin air.
She told him that she had a space that was invisible and intangible, but she could put things in anytime, anywhere and pick them up.
This incident has happened for a long time. She had been hesitating and not telling them before, mainly because she was afraid that this unusualness would cause trouble.
For example, it is reported after being discovered and reported, and becomes a research tool; for example, it is targeted by people with ulterior motives and becomes a tool for smuggling crimes.
No matter what the ending is, it is terrible. In order to protect herself, she kept it silently and began to learn various self-defense techniques and Sanda martial arts since then.
Unexpectedly, a zombie crisis suddenly broke out in the school, and it was through the martial arts she had learned before that she could escape from the school safely and return home.
To be continued...