Chapter 73 Arrival
"Someone has already eaten it, so it should be edible, don't worry."
Although Xiaozhao Village has electricity and water, not many people actually cook at night. Most people just eat the food and water they brought with them and then go to sleep.
Although everyone gathered together before going to bed to discuss the night watch rules, in the end they had to give up because of disagreements and lack of trust in each other.
In the end, they could only find people they knew well to form small teams, sleep at different times or stay alert while sleeping.
Wang Zhiping and Geng Ge decided to sleep in different periods, one in the first half of the night and the other in the second half.
Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened during the night, as they were worried about, and they were safe and sound until dawn.
After daybreak, they washed their faces with the remaining water from yesterday, ate something, and then prepared to leave.
Just as they were about to say goodbye and leave, they saw Zhao Wenzhen, whom they were looking for, standing at the door with his men waiting for them.
Zhao Wen didn't expect anyone to stay this time, so he just said, "You can discuss it with your family when you go back. You can come anytime you want. But it's only for the next few days. After the busy summer farming season, even if you want to harvest, the wheat in the fields will be gone!"
When everyone heard this, those who had some ideas in mind felt a sense of urgency.
Those who came here earlier were all looking for people they knew to inquire about the current situation in City B.
Among those who came before, some wanted to leave City B to look for their relatives, and some wanted to move to a safer place because they felt that their homes in City B were unsafe. The latter were the ones who were looking for people to inquire about the situation.
After work yesterday, I heard from my fellow villager who went to the airport to pick someone up that the zombies at home in City B had been cleared out, so I came to ask about it this morning before going to work.
If someone really has taken over their home, they don't need to and don't plan to find another safe area. After working in Xiaozhao Village for a few days and getting food, they will go back home. It is better to be at home than outside.
But the people from City B obviously couldn't give them a definite explanation. After all, the rescue team was only helping to clean up the zombies, and no specific notice to establish a safe zone had been issued.
The inquirer felt a little disappointed, but not too much. He simply urged those he knew to take care of themselves and stay safe, and to send a message if he had the chance. He also secretly resolved to find time to return and visit from time to time.
After a few simple goodbyes, the group returned to the village entrance and walked along the path in the fields towards the airport.
Although they didn't go far this time, from the introduction of the people in Xiaozhao Village and what they saw with their own eyes, they felt that life here was indeed relatively better than in the city. At least the villagers had enough food.
Although a few people have not discussed it with their families yet, they have decided to come this afternoon or tomorrow.
A group of people chatted about their experiences on this trip and arrived at the airport unknowingly.
The Jiang family had already eaten breakfast and were waiting for them to come back.
At nine o'clock, the train took off again, carrying a group of people to City B.
An hour later, the train arrived at City B Railway Station.
Many people in the residential buildings near the train station noticed that the train had returned.
Those who had family members on the train were filled with joy, while those who failed to get on the train yesterday watched the train slowly descend and hurried out to catch this afternoon's train.
And just as they were about to set off, the people who had gotten off the bus also got off.
After the streets were cleaned the day before yesterday, and after yesterday, there were sporadic new zombies wandering around the streets from other places.
But perhaps yesterday's cleanup gave people courage, or perhaps the scattered zombies did not look so scary, these zombies were eventually cleaned up by the citizens who saw them after going downstairs.
So even on the third day, there was no danger on the streets. Wang Zhiping and others lived very close to the train station, and they successfully returned home shortly after getting off the train.
Li Xiufeng had been listening to the movement in the stairwell at the door. When she heard footsteps, she hurried out of the house to open the door.
After Wang Zhiping came in, the two of them locked the door before entering the house.
Wang Zhiping took out the instant noodles and water he had bought on his way back from his backpack. The other family members saw him and gathered around.
"Did you go and raid the mini-mart?"
"What brand is this? Why haven't I seen it before?"
"There are foreign characters? Could it be imported or exported? And why is the production address a garbled mess of Chinese characters, numbers, and letters?"
"There's no production date? There's only a ten-day expiration date. Is this edible?"
The family looked at the instant noodles which looked like "three-no" products with confusion on their faces.
He bought something in a hurry before getting off the bus. When he got it, Wang Zhiping didn't look at it carefully and put it directly into his bag. Now when he was asked this question, he was stunned.
At the same time, Jiang Qian also took out the part that she had asked the system to bring back but could not fit into the vending machine shelf, and prepared to eat it at noon.
Faced with this interstellar product, she asked the system the same questions as the Wang family.
Because many people from smaller nations didn't survive the apocalypse, by the time the interstellar era arrived, the only two international languages left were Mandarin and the most widely spoken foreign languages.
Interstellar vending machines have excellent freshness preservation features, so the items placed in them stay fresh for a long time without spoiling. The items remain fresh from production to transportation, so generally, the purchase date is the same as the production date, and the expiration date is within ten days of purchase. Therefore, it is best to consume the items taken out of the vending machine within ten days.
Jiang Qian didn't expect that the ordinary-looking vending machine was so advanced, but a new question suddenly came to her mind.
"What if someone wants to stockpile a large amount? They'll expire in ten days. How can they preserve them?"
[There are refrigerators available in the mall that have the same fresh-keeping function as vending machines. However, they don't hold much and are relatively expensive, so interstellar families generally don't buy a lot to stock up on.]
[Furthermore, Interstellar's development goals have always been technological. While there has been investment in planting and producing materials, it has not been given much attention. Therefore, there is not much surplus of materials such as food and drinking water.]
When Jiang Qian heard this, her heart skipped a beat. "Can I still purchase these supplies in large quantities?"
Since the vending machine was installed yesterday, even though the train only had a handful of passengers, its profits have already reached a quarter of the ticket sales. This is despite the sudden launch, which was unknown to most people and lacked any spare crystal cores. If word gets out, there will likely be plenty of people nearby who are short on supplies willing to buy.
According to her immature judgment, the vending machines on the train will become the bulk of the train's revenue, even exceeding the profits from carrying passengers.
But if there were so many customers but not enough goods in the end and the transactions could not be completed, the profits would be greatly reduced. She couldn't help but worry.
To this, the system replied.
Long-term sustainable purchasing is possible, but purchasing large quantities of goods in a short period of time, such as to meet the daily needs of a city with nearly 10 million residents, is probably impossible.
Hearing the number was in the tens of millions, Jiang Qian breathed a sigh of relief and was completely relieved.
She just wanted to meet her family's living needs while doing some small business in the car, and there was no way she could make tens of millions.
But after the system said this, Jiang Qian also realized that the help from the star was not omnipotent. If they wanted to overcome the difficulties, it was more important to rely on themselves.
After understanding the situation clearly, she conveyed what the system said to her family, and the family began to enjoy this lunch from the stars.
It’s true, although according to the system, the interstellar world has not paid much attention to the production of daily necessities, perhaps because of the improvement of scientific and technological levels, even the simplest fast food tastes better than what is produced now.
Seeing that everyone in the family liked it, Jiang Qian decided to eat up all the extra food with a short shelf life in the next two days while they were still interested in it.
In the residential building not far away, Wang Zhiping had no one to answer his questions. Facing the questions from his family, he could only vaguely say, "They sell it on the bus. I saw everyone bought it, so I bought two boxes to try it out."
"Someone has already eaten it, so it should be edible, don't worry."
When the Wang family heard that it was sold in the car, although they were a little hesitant, they accepted it.
Li Xiufeng picked up the kettle from the dining table and said, "Do you want to soak these noodles? I'll boil a kettle of hot water first."
At the same time, news that there was a vending machine on the bus also spread online.
Some people who were planning to take the bus in the afternoon but had not yet set off took some more crystal cores before leaving, intending to buy some to try once they got on the bus.
While everyone was paying attention to the news online, a helicopter landed on the roof of the Southeast Rescue Command Center building in City B.
Ten minutes later, a meeting began in the largest conference room, and the four young men in black jackets were standing at the front of the room to report.
However, the people who had already gotten off the bus and those who were getting on the bus were completely unaware of the movements of the rescue center in City B.
…
Shortly after the train landed at City B Railway Station, Zhang Chongguang and his group arrived near Xiaozhao Village.
A group of 25 people and two children set out from Qixia Village yesterday afternoon. They found a safe road along the way, stopped and walked, and finally arrived at the outskirts of the airport.
Along the way, they killed many zombies and saw many remote villages completely overrun by zombies, with not a single living person left. They also rescued the remaining residents from villages besieged by zombies and witnessed the plight of the survivors. But this was the first time they had seen so many living people in a village, and they were all struggling to fight the zombies.
Zhang Chongguang put down the telescope in front of him and asked a dozen people to go forward and clear out the zombies on the other side of the road. Only then did the two groups successfully meet.
The people in the village were wondering why there were fewer zombies rushing towards them. Later they found that there was someone shooting with a gun on the roof behind the zombies, so the zombies attracted by the smell of blood fell one by one.
They ran over the zombies' corpses, and soon they saw two army green cars driving up the slope ahead.
The color looked inconspicuous, but the villagers' hearts calmed down the moment they saw it, and they cheered like kindergarten children seeing their parents coming to pick them up.
【Author’s words】
Thanks to everyone for your support, here's today's update!
The next chapter will be updated before 10 pm tomorrow.
I haven't been feeling very creative lately. My period is coming next week, so I'm probably going to be weak for another two or three days, so I haven't applied for a list. Next week, I'll be updating every other day. Specifically, I'll be updating on the 25th, 27th, 29th, and 31st.
I was in a bad mood this week and didn't eat much. I checked the scale today and saw that the weight I had been stuck in for a long time had dropped off. I lost 5 or 6 pounds in 4 days. It turns out that losing weight still depends on starvation. [covering face]
Hopefully I'll feel better next week.
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