Chapter 97 Cafe Escape Out
of habit, in order to protect the Xingwu warehouse, Youxi would carry a large bag wherever she went. In the chaos, even if she took out equipment slightly larger than the bag, no one would notice it. It was better than conjuring something out of thin air.
This cafe is a building along the road, with two floors, and booths on the upper and lower floors. After the first acid rain, because the building was relatively solid, the damage was minimal, and it was soon reopened after repairs for a day or two.
After that, the situation in Fancheng has been good. The only rain value was only 2.8. Gradually, the originally panicked people were slightly relieved.
Youxi has a world view and knows that acid rain is not something that happens overnight, but people in this world don't know. Some people think that this situation will continue to happen, while others are more optimistic and think that the worst is over.
But no matter which idea, the comfort of many days in a row has made people let down their guard a little, so at this time, there are customers in the cafe, but not many.
A couple who came in to pack coffee and cakes, a middle-aged career man who looked exhausted and had a lot of things to do, and a father and daughter. The girl is in her twenties and has a delicate appearance. The father has gray hair and a haggard face, looking very depressed.
When Youxi came in, the father and daughter were already there. She accidentally overheard a few stories. It was probably a story about a man who abandoned his wife and daughter when he was young, and wanted to come back in middle age, but his daughter refused to forgive his scumbag father .
The young couple was having some conflicts because the man had sent messages to other girls. The
middle-aged office man was begging the person on the phone to give him a few more days, saying that he didn't want to deal with natural disasters...
Everyone was paying attention to their own business, but when the heavy rain fell and hit the glass, everyone's eyes turned to the window, and everyone's face was terrified.
For ordinary people, the word "rain" has become a synonym for terrible.
"It's okay, it's okay. We just got off. We can run faster to the subway station next door and hide there for a while..." Before the man finished his words to comfort his girlfriend, the pedestrians on the road outside the cafe had already wailed and knelt down in the heavy rain.
The piercing, sharp and out-of-tune screams made the people in the cafe shudder. They looked at their burning and smoking bodies and shivered in fear.
"Is this... the negative acid rain... How, how could it suddenly..." The middle-aged office man didn't even notice that his phone had fallen.
But no one answered him. Outside the cafe, one of the people who was drenched by the black acid rain climbed up and rushed towards the cafe's door. The few people who were originally gathered in front of the glass immediately retreated subconsciously.
However, the man could not hold on for long, and fell to the ground while slamming the glass door.
The automatic door opened a gap, and the man's hand was stuck in the gap. The door could not be closed and kept opening and closing. A hole was opened in the originally safe and closed space. The acid rain outside splashed in, and at the same time, there was a strong pungent smell.
Almost at the same time, several people who were close to the door in the cafe started coughing.
They retreated in panic, just wanting to stay away from the door, but the rain splashing in from outside had already begun to corrode the ground at the door, and the acidic gas spread in the air little by little, like a death warrant.
No one dared to step forward, for fear of being corroded by the acid rain if they were accidentally touched by it.
When Youxi came out of the bathroom after changing into protective gear, she saw the situation at the door through her goggles. She was wearing a [Moisturizing Breathing Mask] and was not afraid of acidic gases, but she had not yet planned her route out of the café, and did not want to become a target of criticism.
She looked at the situation at the door, quickly returned to the bathroom, pulled down a piece of iron bar from the ironwork carvings on the door, and bent one end into a hook shape.
Then, Youxi came to the vicinity of the door, first kicked the nearby sofa seat to the side of the door, then stepped on the sofa, saw the right moment, and when the automatic door was opened to the maximum, she hooked the man's arm and dragged him inside.
The man entered the café, and the automatic door did not sense the object and closed automatically.
Youxi threw away the iron bar that had begun to corrode, jumped onto a nearby table, and locked the automatic glass door.
She jumped down to the ground and checked the unrecognizable person on the ground. The other person was already dead.
The crisis was resolved, and everyone in the cafe breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, they looked at Youxi curiously, not only because of her agile skills and reactions, but also because her equipment looked so safe.
In fact, the young couple's backpack also contained two sets of spare protective clothing, but they did not look as safe and thick as hers.
Youxi stood up and scanned the people in the store. In addition to the five customers, there were three employees. She walked directly to the young couple and asked, "You just said there's a subway station nearby. Where is it?"
The man was stunned for a moment, then told her that the subway station was at the intersection of two shops from the cafe. It was not far away, only 50 or 60 meters away. But now, let alone 50 or 60 meters, even if it was only one meter, they would be seriously injured if exposed to the acid rain.
"Is there any other shortcut?" You Xi asked again.
"Let me think about it."
While the man was trying to recall, You Xi went to the clerk and asked where the protective clothing and masks in the store were.
After the acid rain, any shop that reopened would have several sets of protective clothing in the store, especially such a high-end cafe, not only for the clerks, but also for the customers.
When the clerk went to the warehouse to get the protective clothing, the couple man slapped his head and finally reacted.
He told Youxi that there was a glass skywalk on the second floor of the restaurant next to this cafe, facing the side road. After crossing the glass skywalk, you can walk to the elevator on the opposite side, which goes directly to the subway station. The
middle-aged office man couldn't help but feel disappointed when he heard it: "Don't you still have to go out of the cafe, separated by two stores, at least 20 or 30 meters! If you want to go, you go, I won't bother, it's safe to stay in the cafe, as long as the rain stops in a while."
At this time, the clerk had already taken out the spare protective clothing in the warehouse. Seeing this, the middle-aged office man hurriedly reached out and grabbed one.
The girl complained: "You are not going out and you are stealing the protective clothing. You are shameless..."
Time was running out, so Youxi ignored all these things. She pointed to the wall on the right side of the cafe and asked the man if the glass skywalk was in this direction.
He nodded and saw her pick up the big bag again. He was surprised: "You are not really going to go out now, are you? It would be great if you can hide in the cafe with us!"
Youxi fixed the backpack on her chest and then pointed to the top of the wall next to the cafe's door: "This is black acid rain. This building will not last long."
Everyone looked in the direction she pointed and found that water stains had begun to seep out of the wall edge, or in other words, those water stains did not seep in, but leaked in after the outer wall was corroded.
Not only the corners near the gate, but also other corners near the outer edge of the building are leaking water...
The black acid rain had been falling for less than five minutes when the wall began to decay. They then realized that the cafe was not safe at all.
Everyone was terrified and immediately began to scramble to get protective clothing and put it on.
However, there were not many protective clothing. Except for the young couple, everyone else found out that there was still one person who did not get a protective clothing after they finished putting it on. It was the father of the father and daughter.
The atmosphere was a little subtle. Everyone wearing protective clothing stood a little further away silently. However, they were also filled with fear when they looked at the heavy rain outside and the corroded green plants, cars and street lights in the rain. Can this protective clothing really protect against the acid rain outside?
When despair was overwhelming, there was a banging sound from the side.
Youxi took the fire axe from the fire cabinet and hit the wall of the cafe with the back of the axe. After a few hits, she aimed at the right angle and kicked hard at the wall that had already cracked.
With a bang, a big hole was kicked out of the wall.
The space of the store next door was revealed behind the hole.
Everyone: ...
This, this is also possible? !
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There is no one in the store next to the cafe. It is a clothing store and it is not open today.
After everyone went in, while Youxi continued to smash the wall leading to the next store, several employees immediately searched the warehouse to find another set of protective clothing.
But the store had probably been closed since the acid rain. They searched the entire store but could not find a full set of protective clothing. They only found a half-length pair of protective pants and a pair of protective shoes.
Something is better than nothing, so the father put them on immediately. His daughter looked at him silently without saying a word.
He looked up and smiled at his daughter, saying that it was okay. They would walk through the store and would not be exposed to the rain. They would definitely be able to get to the subway station before all the buildings here were corroded.
Youxi quickly broke through the wall. In fact, she could have been even faster. With her strength, she could have just kicked the wall once, but that was too strong and she didn't want to attract too much attention.
The restaurant was open and there were people inside. The group's actions startled them. The few people inside thought the house had collapsed due to corrosion, and they gathered together screaming.
Youxi heard a familiar voice in the crowd, and when she looked over, she saw two familiar people: Bai Yu and... Feng Xu?
She thought about her current outfit and decided to pretend that she didn't know them.
The people in the restaurant were also nervously wearing protective gear. The café clerk wanted to find another set of protective clothing, but the other party didn't have any extra. In fact, Feng Xu and Bai Yu also brought their own protective clothing.
The restaurant's walls were in a worse condition than the coffee shop's. They had been corroded to form cracks and small holes. You Xi frowned, shouted "Hurry up!", and rushed upstairs first.
On the second floor of the restaurant, facing east, there was a long horizontal glass terrace. A glass skybridge connected the terrace here and the direct elevator opposite.
Unfortunately, however, in the middle of the glass skybridge, a large hole was smashed in the glass wall on one side by something that fell from somewhere. At this moment, acid rain leaked in from the damaged glass wall, and the originally smooth and safe skybridge became a dangerous bridge.
At the same time, the system issued a new random task.
[Random task has been refreshed (special hidden task): Ensure that Feng Xu arrives at the subway station safely. (80 star coins will be awarded for completion, no penalty for failure, refusal will not be counted as three refusals, do you want to accept it?]
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