Chapter 1612 Drought, the exploration team goes out to open blind boxes
A long period without rain also has an impact on the natural environment.
Dong County, a small county in the north of Oil City.
It is about 100 kilometers away from Oil City.
An exploration team searched for usable supplies in this county.
There has been no rainfall for three or four months, and the trees on both sides of the street have withered. The few remaining leaves curl up in the hot sun, like old skin.
The air is filled with the smell of dust and decay, and occasionally a gust of wind blows up sand and broken pieces of paper.
The lakes in the city have dried up, and the cracked soil is like withered lips, praying for moisture from the rain. The fountains in the square have long stopped, and the surface of the stone sculptures has been eroded by wind and sand, becoming rough and blurry.
The glass curtain walls of the shops on the ground floor no longer reflect brilliance, but gray despair.
Nandou swallowed his dry throat, took out the kettle from his backpack, and poured it into his mouth, but there was not a drop of water in the kettle.
The throat is dry and smoking.
Looking at the murderous intention of rummaging through the vehicles on the roadside in front of him, Nandou said:
"Brother Sha, I can't hold on any longer. Hurry and find water. If you don't drink water, I will die of thirst!"
The tortillas they brought were originally very dry, but now they are hard to swallow due to lack of water.
Killing Heart turned around. He had sharp eyes, scars at the corners of his eyes, and a strong body, about 1.8 meters tall.
He picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Third brother, bring the car over."
Putting the walkie-talkie back in his pocket, he rummaged through the car next to him and threw out the dark, worn blanket and various plastic bottles inside.
Suddenly he saw the partition under the trunk.
I pulled it up hard but it didn't pull away.
He pulled out the dagger from his thigh strap and wanted to use it to pry open the partition.
Generally speaking, spare tires, car repair tools, mini fire extinguishers and the like are placed under this kind of partition.
They can use these things.
Squeaky--
The cover was deformed by the pressure, and he couldn't pry it open from any angle with a dagger.
"Nandou, come here and help." Killing Heart shouted to Nandou behind him.
Nan Douman walked over reluctantly, "Brother Sha, it's been six years. If there are things in this kind of car on the roadside, it would have been picked up by someone. Will it be our turn?"
"Hurry up!" Shaxin saw him whining, and his tone was a bit unpleasant.
After walking over, Nandou saw the collapsed partition and said, "If there was something inside, it would have been crushed long ago."
Killing Heart put away the dagger and pushed Nandou away.
"If you push me hard every day, what else will you do? Go away."
With that said, he walked to the front of the car, opened the roof cover, and looked at the erected hydraulic support rod.
He directly folded the support rod upward.
Kakaka——
The hydraulic support rod makes a metallic friction sound, which is a bit sharp.
clang!
He pulled down the hydraulic support rod from above.
The top connection is the weakest, and it breaks as soon as it is folded.
He walked to the back of the car carrying the hydraulic support rod and said to Nandou: "I will use a dagger to pry a hole in the partition. You insert the support rod and push it up."
"good."
After saying that, Shaxin pulled out his dagger and pried open the gap between the cover and the car body.
Creaking, creaking——
The dagger rubs against the cover.
The gap slowly widened, "Hurry!" Shaxin shouted towards Nandou.
Nandou quickly inserted the hydraulic rod into the gap.
And push up hard.
After the gap became larger, Shaxin pulled out the dagger.
At this time, the gap between the cover plate and the car body can already be inserted into with your fingers.
Without hesitation, Shaxin inserted his hands into the gap and used the power of his fingers to pull up.
Creaking, creaking——
The shriveled part of the cover slowly recovered, "Here comes another person." Killing Heart shouted towards the back.
Immediately, another person ran over and put his fingers into the gap together with Shaxin.
"I'll count to three, two, one, and work hard together."
"Three, two, one, harder!"
The three of them worked hard together, and the trunk cover was slowly opened.
Boom!
The collapsed cover was lifted.
A red box was revealed inside, with a cross symbol inside.
In addition, there is a black box next to it.
Shaxin quickly took out the two boxes.
Open the red box, which contains dressing supplies, elastic hoods, snap-on tourniquets, elastic bandages, etc., sterile dressings such as gauze, bandages, iodophor, disposable gloves, as well as anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics, etc.
Grass!
This blind box is opened!
Simply!
With just two boxes of anti-inflammatories and painkillers, their trip was worth it!
In the apocalypse, medicines are extremely scarce.
Especially anti-inflammatories and painkillers!
Moreover, these two boxes of medicine have not been opened, and the price of these two boxes of medicine alone in the trading market exceeded 50 points!
What's more, there is a complete set of first aid tools inside.
This vehicle-mounted package of medical first-aid equipment and medicines can help self-rescue in the event of a traffic accident causing casualties.
In the apocalypse, injuries are commonplace, and sometimes death may occur due to fractures, excessive blood loss, or wound inflammation.
The contents of this first aid kit are a second life!
Moreover, because the items in this first aid kit are very complete, if the entire set is sold, it is estimated that it can be sold for 70 points.
"Idiot, brother Sha! Niupi, we are rich!"
Xuxin glanced at him, "Didn't you just say you had nothing?"
Nandou said awkwardly: "Hey, I have bad luck, but Brother Sha has good luck. I opened the blind box and found an Easter egg. Let's take a look at what's inside that black box?"
Xuxin glanced at it and said calmly: "No need to look, it must be a vehicle repair tool."
"General repair tools are not this big," said Ge Xiang, who had just come over to lift the cover together.
"Open it and take a look."
Ge Xiang walked over excitedly and was about to open the black box, but was stopped by Nandou.
"Don't move. Let Brother Sha come. Brother Sha is very lucky. Let Brother Sha open the box. There will definitely be a surprise."
Ge Xiang felt that Nandou was right, so he nodded and looked at Sha Xin together.
"Brother Sha, it's you who do it."
Shaxin looked at the two of them like this and said speechlessly: "What's the difference..."
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Under the expectant looks of Ge Xiang and Nandou, he opened the black box neatly.
I saw that the box was filled with various tools.
Jack, live wire, car starting power supply, wrench, tow rope, bright flashlight, triangle warning sign, etc., escape hammer, tape or insulating tape, etc.
Nandou picked up the bright flashlight and turned on the switch.
It didn't light up, and he was a little disappointed.
But when he saw the USB port of the flashlight, he suddenly became excited.
"Brother Sha, this can be charged!"
They have a car, so they can charge it in the car.
In the trading market, the value of disposable battery flashlights is not high, but if the flashlight can be recharged, the value will be high.
This kind of strong light flashlight can illuminate very far away places, and is especially suitable for teams like them who go out to search for supplies.
They can even find an electronic repair shop in a trading market and have someone modify it into a UV flashlight.
This is much cheaper than buying a UV flashlight directly.
Shaxin flipped through the repair tools and said, "It's okay. It just so happens that we don't have any repair tools for our car, so now we have everything."
"Brother Sha, you are so awesome!" Ge Xiang praised with a thumbs up.
Roll--
There was the sound of wheels rolling behind them.
A dilapidated pickup truck, with the tire skin peeling off, was spinning and swaying as the wheels rolled.
The wheels rolled across the dusty road, squeaking in protest.
The exterior paint of this dilapidated car peeled off, revealing the mottled metal color, as if time had carved deep wrinkles on its surface.
The seats in the car were badly worn, and the leather was torn to pieces, exposing the sponges and springs underneath, as if they might completely disintegrate at any time.
The hood of the car has been fixed to the front of the car and blocked with a thick rope to prevent it from flying up during bumps, but this did not reduce the vibration inside the car.
Whenever the car turns, the front of the car seems to be separated from the body, making a terrifying creaking sound.
They bought this car at a trade fair.
To be precise, they took an engine they found and some parts and asked the auto repair shop to assemble it for them.
Assembly costs up to 20 points.
There's no way, they don't know how to assemble a vehicle. It's easy for skilled people to earn points these days.
Crunch!
Such a pickup truck, which looked like it could be dismembered due to vibration at any time, parked next to Shaxin and the others.
"Brother Sha, are we leaving here? Hey! Did you find something?" The third child got out of the driver's seat.
The third child saw the red box and the opened vehicle maintenance box, with wrenches, flashlights and other tools inside.
Nandou said with some pride: "Brother Sha and I discovered it together."
Ge Xiang glanced at him, his mouth tightened, and he thought to himself: He really knows how to talk!
Killing Heart stood up and said to Nandou:
"Fourth child, you put your things in the car, and we'll go find the second child and the others, and then find the water source."
"Okay."
Nandou closed the black car repair box and put the two boxes into the car.
He plopped down in the back seat.
Shaxin also got into the car, sitting in the passenger seat.
"Let's go find Lao Er and the others." Sha Xin said to Lao San.
The third child closed the car door, then connected a rope to the window, and tied the other end to the seat behind.
The car door is broken and this is the only way to close it.
"Damn, the No. 5 store in the trading market is so deceptive. They charged us twenty points and gave us this thing." The third child couldn't help complaining.
Shaxin saw that the door switch on the driving side was really inconvenient, so he said:
"We'll look around on the side of the road later to find a car door that matches. Then we'll replace it ourselves."
"Yeah." The third child ignited the ignition and started the vehicle.
The battered pickup truck lurched forward.
It even stutters from time to time and the recoil is amazing.
They feel as comfortable sitting in the car as they do on a rocking car.
"Second brother, where are you?" Shaxin picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted the second child, Cheng Yun.
Zizzi.
A few seconds later, a reply came over the intercom.
"Brother, we are in the east of the city, near a textile factory. Do you have any harvest there?"
"Yes, I found a box of car first aid kit, which contains two boxes of anti-inflammatories and painkillers, and a box of car repair kit with complete tools. It's not bad. Where are you?"
"I found a basket of socks, with about a hundred pairs of them, all of which can be worn. There was also a warehouse of clothes, but the warehouse was soaked in water, and the clothes inside were all moldy and scattered."
"Okay, it's better than nothing."
Killing Heart is a little regretful. In fact, if you can find clothes, you can take them back to the trading market and sell them. Although the price is not high, you can still earn points as long as the quantity is large.
What's more, they also have pickup trucks, which can transport a lot at one time.
Unfortunately, due to heavy rains and floods in the past few years, many things have been soaked by water.
Things such as textiles, electronic products, wood products, and food are basically useless once they are soaked in water for a few months.
They were all moldy and smelly, and even falling apart.
When I went out to look for supplies, the biggest regret was not that I couldn't find them, but that I found a bunch of scrapped things.
Ten minutes later, they drove to the Chengdong Textile Factory.
Watching the second and sixth children carry a large plastic basket with packed socks inside.
The seventh child opened the fender at the back of the pickup truck, and the second child and the sixth child lifted the socks up.
Shaxin poked his head out of the car window, "Second child, seventh child, sixth child, hurry up and get in the car. Let's go find water."
The second child stepped on the tires, climbed onto the pickup truck, and sat on the bed of the pickup truck.
Lao Qi first pushed the body baffle back, then lowered the bolt to lock the baffle to prevent it from moving.
Then got in the car again.
After the second brother saw them all getting into the car, he patted the car body.
"Let's drive."
Chu tu tu tu——
The scrapped pickup truck of Doomsday is back on the road again.
Killing Heart took out the map from the package and spread it out.
The map is wrinkled, full of creases and even blood marks.
Killing Heart picked up the map and brought it up to look at.
Where is the big river near Dong County?
After carefully looking at it twice, he finally placed the target point on a reservoir 17 kilometers away from here.
"Go northeast to Dongshan Reservoir."
He handed the map to Laosi Nandou,
"Fourth child, you used to be a top student, and you can understand map routes better. You tell Third child how to go."
Nandou took the map and said, "Brother, let's go to the Dongshan Reservoir area first. If we can find a dry river on the way, we can also get water."
"Nonsense. Let's go over there first."
It just so happens that the car needs to be filled with water. They don't have much coolant, so adding some water can help.
"Fourth brother, are you sure, which direction are these two roads heading next?" Cheng Yun asked Nandou behind him.
At this time, they had arrived at the outskirts of the city and faced two forks in the road.
Nandou looked at the map briefly, and then looked at the landmarks outside.
"This is the road on the right."
"OK."
The third child, Cheng Yun, stepped on the accelerator and accelerated toward the east.
Hum hum hum——
This dilapidated pickup truck was walking on a bumpy road. Perhaps due to insufficient combustion in the engine, the vehicle was stuck front and rear.
There are some mud and rocks on the road, making it bumpy.
Those who were sitting on the side of the car had to hold on tightly to the body to avoid being swayed.