Chapter 251 The Prelude to the Disaster
Because of the traffic jam, it was already afternoon when they returned to the villa.
The three of them only had some breakfast. Menaton went to the cave in the middle, so they had no appetite on the way back. Then they encountered a chaotic traffic jam.
There were too many tourists who rushed to the airport to take a flight to leave. The waiting hall of the small airport was squeezed and a row of glass doors were broken. Glass shards fell all over the floor. Many tourists were injured, and some were trampled and seriously injured. The scene was extremely chaotic.
Afterwards, several police cars and ambulances came. They finally separated the chaotic crowd and sent the injured to the hospital.
Youxi and the other two had all experienced various transitions from peacetime to the end of the world, and had seen a lot. This level of chaos had no effect on them. Anyway, they couldn't leave until the time gate arrived, and they had to stay on the island regardless of whether it was chaotic or not.
On their way back, they drove the jeep that Youxi bought in Wukong City, so that they could take advantage of the chaos on the island to get more fuel.
At this stage, no one on the island would check her license plate, so they went to several gas stations one after another.
Youxi first moved the sealed large oil barrels in the item compartment to the space door, and used the space door's ability to take out and store liquids without touching them, quietly touching the refueler, filling up all these sealed barrels, and then moving them one by one into the item compartment. After that, she will fill all the large storage boxes that she bought or bought while running around the island with gasoline.
Currently, the water storage boxes in her space door occupy 20 cubic meters, and the fuel storage boxes also occupy nearly 15 cubic meters. The reason why the fuel in the space door is not stored in barrels is that square boxes stacked together will not produce gaps, which saves space.
These fuel tanks will have about 15,000 liters of gasoline when filled, which is enough for use in any situation. Of course, it is still far from full, so Youxi will seize every opportunity to stock up as much as possible.
She is used to the mission time gate with free supplies, and she feels uncomfortable if she doesn't fill these boxes.
**
Their villa is on the southeast corner of the island, far from the airport and the pier where the chaos occurred, and far from the commercial street where tourists began to rush to buy things.
Because the nearby villas and water houses are too close to the sea, almost most of the tourists have moved away. Under such circumstances, only groups of tourists like Youxi and his three friends or very experienced and strong tourists dare to live by the sea.
After Lin Wu and Tang Yatong checked that the current tap water was fine, Youxi took some time to store water again before taking a shower, and finally filled the 20 cubic meter water tank with warm water. When
she finished her shower and came out, Tang Yatong and Lin Wu, who had already finished their showers, were cutting vegetables in the small island kitchen on the side of the villa's living room.
The three of them hadn't eaten for the whole day, and they only realized they were hungry after returning to the quiet seaside villa. So Tang Yatong decided to make a delicious meal for everyone while they still had the kitchen. Lin Wu was only good at making fried rice, so he stayed in the kitchen to help her.
He rinsed the okra and asparagus, then cut them into sections according to Tang Yatong's requirements, and then peeled the garlic heads. Under Tang Yatong's guidance, he prepared the seasoning sauce for okra and asparagus.
Tang Yatong was removing the shells and gills from the king crabs, and then cut the crabs into small pieces after removing the gills, and smashed them all with pliers so that they could be more flavorful when stir-fried.
When she saw Youxi coming out, she immediately asked if there was any bean paste, as Lin Wu didn't have any.
"Are you going to make spicy fried king crab? Yes, I've bought all the seasonings." She took out the bean paste and asked if anything else was needed.
"Break off a piece of the spicy hot pot base for me, it will make the crabs more fragrant when I add some when frying them."
Tang Yatong only had an item grid but no space door, so she had no place to store scattered things like this, which was really inconvenient. "Next time if the space door skill is unlocked, even if the other reward is a train ticket, I will choose the space door first!" She now has to carry a backpack with small things when she goes out, otherwise she will have to ask Youxi for paper towels even to go to the bathroom...
After Youxi took out the things she needed, she took out two glasses of iced lattes and an iced Americano, and smiled as she came to Tang Yatong's side, "I am your space door~"
she said, taking the crab pliers and crushing them one by one like crushing thin-skinned walnuts, and she had crushed them all in a blink of an eye.
"Okay, you take care of the other two, I'll go get the shrimps."
"Nine-section shrimps? How do you make them?"
"Now that we have a kitchen, of course we can cook whatever tastes good, fried shrimps with golden garlic! And pan-fried lamb chops, okra and asparagus with sauce!"
You Xi's tears fell from the corners of her mouth.
"By the way, after you finish the crabs, go and help Lin Wu peel garlic. All the dishes today need garlic, and he peels it too slowly."
Lin Wu: ...
So why didn't you buy already peeled garlic? Oh, right, it seems that peeled garlic is not fresh, and freshly peeled garlic is more fragrant...
Cooking seafood mainly takes a long time to prepare the dishes. The three of us worked together and finished all the preparations in a short time. Then we stepped back and watched Tang Yatong perform.
First, we had the fried shrimps in the typhoon shelter. Each nine-section shrimp was opened and the shrimp thread was removed. It was marinated with black pepper and salt for a while, and then fried in hot oil until crispy. Then, we picked it up and began to stir-fry the minced garlic and onion. After the aroma, we added the bread crumbs and slowly stir-fried them. Finally, we added the shrimps. When the bread crumbs were fried until golden, we added the appropriate amount of seasoning and it was ready to be served.
This dish is not difficult. The key lies in the heat of the stir-fry. The bread crumbs cannot be fried to a crisp, otherwise it will not taste good.
Next was the spicy fried king crab. The king crab meat is relatively thick, so in order to stir-fry it and make it tasty, we need to cut the crab into pieces and smash the tongs.
After the two dishes are done, the rest is simple. The lamb chops have been marinated in advance, so just fry them over medium heat. They can be served with cumin barbecue powder or garlic sauce. After boiling the asparagus and okra in water, pick up the drained stems and pour in the prepared garlic soy sauce, and it's done.
Tang Yatong called for dinner, and Youxi brought all the dishes to the tea table in the living room. Lin Wu brought out a lot of drinks, and Youxi took out wet wipes and disposable gloves. The three of them sat around the tea table, eating dinner while turning on the TV to watch local news.
The news was the same old story, calling on tourists not to block the chaos, saying that they were working hard to arrange for ships and planes to leave, so that everyone could stay calm and temporarily move to hotels on high floors far from the sea. Foreign tourists could stay for free if they showed their passports.
At the same time, we also asked everyone not to rush to buy, because the island has sufficient supplies and will never be out of stock.
It was another pale and powerless official statement, but the focus was on the afternoon airport chaos, and the main intention was to show the result of excessive panic and chaos.
Afterwards, Youxi took out the tablet she had bought earlier and logged into several network platforms. She soon discovered that all network platforms outside Paradise Island were stuck. Originally, they couldn't post, and now they couldn't even read posts or watch videos.
The only thing available is the local tourism network platform of Paradise Island. After opening it, they found that the posts here are basically unrelated to tourism. They are all posts asking for boat tickets and flight tickets. Some people also expressed their willingness to pay a lot of money to charter a local boat to leave.
It seems that there are local people who have replied to this post to ask about the price of chartering a boat, but these inquiries have not appeared again after the owner of another yacht that went out to sea said that he was attacked by blood men in broad daylight. Obviously, ordinary yachts and speedboats are not safe on the sea.
In addition, there are more warning posts, such as where the traces of the "blood man" creature appeared again, asking everyone not to approach, and which seaside hotel was attacked at night. At present, many tourists have moved away from there, and some local people working in the hotel seem to be clamoring to suspend work...
There are also some posts, without too much nonsense, just posting a video, and this kind of video is usually very scary, all of which are accidentally captured. The traces of the blood man creature are captured, and one even happened to capture the whole process of the blood man attacking and dragging away
a human. In the picture, the human who was attacked was held by his hands and feet. He struggled hard, but he couldn't make a cry for help, because the blood on the blood man's body was like a living thing, crawling to the mouth and nose of the human, and finally completely covering his entire head.
No matter how wide the man opened his mouth to breathe, the blood would cover it tightly, like a layer of mucous membrane, until the covered person stopped twitching due to lack of oxygen. After that, the "blood man" monster dragged him away from the spot.
This attack method reminded Youxi of what happened to the passenger who got off the wrong door at the arrival platform. The two attack methods were exactly the same.
At the end of the video, the poster wrote three words: Does it look like it?
Only people who have also passed by the platform know what these three words mean. It seems that the person who posted this video is also a passenger.
Not long after the video was posted, it was flooded with comments from other people. Youxi thought that such a straightforward attack scene would soon be banned by the platform, but until the three of them had dinner that day and cleaned up the dishes and the kitchen, the video was still there.
**
After a dozen days, they still lived in the villa, but they no longer separated the door to rest, but moved the mattress of the door to the living room.
Every night, they would close all the doors of the room, two people would sleep, and one person would be on guard in front of the French window near the terrace.
At this time, the three of them could sleep more peacefully in the same space door at night.
During the day, they would go out to continue to stock up gasoline. Youxi worked hard to fill the 15 cubic meter fuel tank in the space door, but after a few days, I don’t know if there was any problem with the cargo ship, and the island began to limit the purchase of gasoline one by one. First, the large gas stations on the main road, and then the small gas stations in the corners.
Seven or eight cubic meters of the 15 cubic meter box had already been filled, plus the ones in the ten item slots, You Xi felt that it was completely enough, and the three of them did not go any further to search for gas stations.
I don't know if it was good luck, the villa they lived in had never been attacked by the "blood man", but the police officer named Ron came again later.
He thought of the empty villas around him, and then smelled the hot pot aroma coming from their villa, and his expression was very complicated.
"Why didn't you leave?"
"Where did you go?" Youxi sneered, "Those tourists who go to the pier every day, or even stay temporarily at the airport and the pier, all left smoothly? Your Paradise Island is really a 'paradise'. Once you come here, you can never leave again."
Ron was speechless. For a moment, the shame in his heart made his cheeks hot. He was too embarrassed to speak out the real purpose of his visit. His investigation
was interrupted at the Tidal Island. Even though he knew something was wrong, his boss warned him that he could not mobilize more resources and that he could not continue the private investigation.
He knew that Youxi and others were also investigating this matter, so he wanted to come over and ask them if they had found anything he didn't know.
But now, he couldn't speak at all.
"Sorry, I'm really sorry." Ron said in a deep voice, turned around and left the villa.
Youxi thought that the three of them could survive like this until the day they left, but there were still five days left in the countdown. At midnight, a shocking explosion resounded through the sky.
The person on duty that night was Lin Wu. When the explosion sounded, Youxi and Tang Yatong, who were sleeping, felt the island shaking slightly.
The three of them quickly put the few personal belongings in the villa into the space door, and then climbed directly from the terrace to the roof of the villa, and then from the roof of the villa to the highest point of the hill, looking far away at the place where the explosion sounded.
In the dark night of midnight, they saw that the sky in the north was completely illuminated by the flames. The flames and black smoke rising into the sky could be seen even across an island.
"Looking at the direction, it seems to be the direction of Tidal Island!" Tang Yatong's face was solemn. Such a huge explosion came from that direction, and it felt like nothing good was going to happen.
Youxi had quickly taken out the drone and remote control and other things. She handed the drone camera display to Lin Wu, put on a goggles, drove the drone into the air, and headed north along the coastline.
This coastline is very long, and the drone's operating time gate certainly cannot fly directly to Tidal Island. Her original intention was to use the height to see the situation there more clearly.
After the drone reached a certain height, Youxi could see the situation there without flying too far north. The explosion was indeed at Tidal Island. Such a powerful explosion must not be
caused by ordinary weapons. But it is not clear whether it was the work of tourists or the Paradise Island officials who felt that the incident was out of control and wanted to completely cover up the crime.
The drone flew around and then came back. With such a big explosion, it is estimated that all the indigenous people at this station will spend the night in panic and helplessness.
Youxi put away the drone and asked Lin Wu and Tang Yatong: "Tomorrow the island will be in complete chaos. After dawn, we will only have 5 days and 4 hours left. What are your plans? Will you stay here or go directly to the deep pool and find a place to camp nearby for the rest of the time?"
Lin Wu thought for a moment and said: "There are not many days left. For safety reasons, we should go to the area near the deep pool. Although we might run into other passengers, it is closer to the hidden station and will not affect our boarding time. "
Tang Yatong said that she didn't care. Anyway, they stayed in the villa for a while, and they cooked food every day when they had nothing to do. Most of the fresh vegetables were made into food and packed into packing boxes and stored in the space gates - a small amount in Lin Wu's space gate, and most of them in Youxi's space gate.
Now they have sufficient supplies from fuel to food, from daily necessities to various medicines and equipment, so they can live anywhere.
So the three returned to the villa, Lin Wu continued to keep watch, and Youxi and Tang Yatong continued to rest and refresh themselves.
The next morning, the three of them took turns showering, put on waterproof and breathable sportswear over their T-shirts, and then put on their backpacks. They drove the electric car parked outside the villa, bypassed the villa area on the southern beach of the island, and took the route across the island to the north.
After the car left the coast, the nearby roads became visibly chaotic.
Many people gathered outside several supermarkets, clamoring and demanding that the stores open to buy supplies. Some people even started to smash the glass of the store doors. After the glass was broken, the crowd outside immediately swarmed in. Through the glass wall, they could be seen frantically taking food and water from the shelves.
When some people came out with their families carrying large and small bags of supplies, they found that the car they had driven in before was no longer there. Those with strong abilities would rob other people's cars, while those with weak abilities could only think that they were unlucky, and they would look around cautiously and walk away quickly.
Someone was injured, and ran into the drugstore with support, snatched the medicine and ran away. The clerk chased him out but was pushed away by others.
Someone was in a hurry to leave, and his car collided with other cars. In the end, neither of them could move, so both parties got out of the car and cursed.
Tang Yatong sat in the driver's seat, and You Xi, who was in the passenger seat, checked various news on the local website.
It turned out that the explosion last night was from the inside of the tidal island. The outer reefs of the tidal island were blown up, and hundreds of "blood man" creatures ran out from the inside of the island.
This explosion completely kicked off the disaster. Last night, many tourists and local residents were attacked by the "blood man". Some were injured, some died, and some were missing. Paradise Island was in complete chaos overnight.
No one paid attention to any official statement. Everyone wanted to get more drinking water, and then closed the doors of the house and reinforced the doors and windows to resist the attack of the "blood man" creature.
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