Chapter 103 Searching for the Gas Tank Factory
After collecting the gas tanks, Gu Luan and Jiang Xian went to check the house separately.
Gu Luan found the kitchen on the first floor.
The kitchen door was closed. Gu Luan kicked it open and walked in.
The room was in a mess, with more than a dozen seasoning bottles scattered on the floor.
There were a few rotten potatoes in the basket in the corner.
There was a thick layer of dried mud on the kitchen counter.
I opened the cabinet door below and saw half a jar of fermented black bean paste in the first one. Unfortunately, the paste got soaked with water and went bad.
In the second cabinet door, there are two bottles of detergent. They are still usable, so I put them away.
In the third cabinet door, there are two large barrels of cooking oil.
One of the barrels has never been opened, and the other barrel has been used but has not been flooded and can still be used.
There is also a glass jar next to the cooking oil.
The glass jar contained pickles, which had gone bad and were inedible.
After searching the lower cabinet door, Gu Luan opened the upper kitchen cabinet door.
The cupboard may have been filled with dried goods such as noodles, which were all mushy.
Gu Luan rummaged through the contents with a pair of chopsticks, and luckily, she found a few unopened cans of chili sauce and a few packets of instant noodles.
As for the rice and flour, they were found in a large plastic bucket next to the kitchen counter, and they had already become moldy and rotten.
There were also some porcelain bowls covered in mud, and Gu Luan put them all into the space.
The stainless steel spoon and shovel were also put into the space, but the rusty iron pot was not kept.
As soon as she walked out of the kitchen, Jiang Xian called her upstairs.
Gu Luan walked up the stairs carefully to the second floor.
The second floor was also a mess, with no clean place at all.
Fortunately, the weather was too hot and the silt dried up, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with.
The room is covered with wooden floors.
Due to thermal expansion and contraction, the wooden floors all warped up.
The bed and wardrobe were swollen and unrecognizable because they were soaked in water.
"I found some gold and silver jewelry and a carton of cigarettes, but everything else was unusable."
Jiang Xian handed Gu Luan a bag containing what he was looking for.
Gu Luan took it and opened it.
The gold and silver jewelry were all covered in mud, and the cigarettes had some water in them, but they were still smokeable.
Neither she nor Jiang Xian smokes, so they can exchange it for the supplies they need.
"Drink some ice water."
Seeing the sweat on Jiang Xian’s forehead, Gu Luan took out a bottle of mineral water and threw it to him.
After the well water was transformed, she and Jiang Xian were much better at controlling cold and heat than others.
Even so, it is still unbearable in this environment and weather.
After taking a few gulps of ice water, my body instantly felt much cooler.
After putting all the wooden bed and wardrobe in the room into the space, Gu Luan took out the RV.
Air conditioners, fans and ice cubes are all arranged.
The temperature dropped and Gu Luan breathed a sigh of relief.
After being outside for only a short while, I felt like I had just come out of a sauna. I was covered in sweat and almost fainted.
Just after resting for half an hour, I heard noise not far away.
Gu Luan and Jiang Xian looked at each other and quickly put the RV into the space.
Three men and two women ran in from outside, all of them were young people in their early twenties.
Everyone was sweating profusely, their clothes were covered with sweat stains, and a sour smell emanated from them.
The three men were very thin, like bamboo poles, with sunken cheeks and bulging eyeballs, which looked a bit scary.
The two women are not thin, on the contrary they look a little fat.
No, it’s more like edema than fat.
One of the women turned pale and fainted on the ground.
Her companions beside her quickly supported her and found that her whole body was hot, and called her name anxiously.
"Xiao Rong's body is so hot, hurry up and give her some water to drink."
After the woman finished speaking, two of the young men became unhappy.
The last man took out a half-empty bottle of mineral water from his backpack.
"Chen Hao, what are you going to do?"
A man raised his hand to stop Chen Hao from giving him water.
Chen Hao frowned and said nothing, he squatted down and prepared to feed Xiaorong who had a high fever.
Before she even unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle, Xiaorong began to twitch.
The girl holding her was so scared that she burst into tears and shouted, "Xiao Rong, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me."
"She must have had a heat stroke. She's hopeless. We can't waste water on her."
The shortest of the three men said.
There was no sympathy in his eyes, only indifference.
"Shen Jin is right, she can't survive, and we don't have enough water left to drink, so why waste it on a dead person."
The other man echoed Shen Jin's words.
They had long been dissatisfied with Chen Hao's plan to bring two women out.
What else can women do besides being a hindrance?
Not only should we give them food, but we should also provide them with water.
You know, these things are not enough for them on their own.
The girl stared at the two men who were chattering in anger.
Xiaorong in her arms gradually became motionless, and the girl broke down and cried.
Chen Hao looked at his two companions with disappointment and clenched his mineral water bottle.
He knew about the water shortage and their complaints.
But he didn't expect them to be so indifferent.
Xiaorong once shared food with them. Did they forget?
In the past, they were cheerful and enthusiastic, and would take the initiative to help people when they saw them in need.
Why has it turned out like this now?
"Chen Hao, don't think we are heartless. We just want to survive."
Shen Jin didn't think he had done anything wrong.
It is better to leave water to someone who is doomed to die than to save them.
"Chen Hao, wake up, this is the end of the world."
Lin Songhua hopes Chen Hao will stand on their side.
"We don't have much water left. Bringing this woman along would be a burden. We..."
"That's enough."
Chen Hao couldn't hold it in any longer, his red eyes showed pain and disappointment.
Lin Songhua and Shen Jin had never seen Chen Hao like this before. The corners of their mouths twitched, but they said nothing more.
"I can't abandon Wenna. If you don't want to be with us, let's separate here."
Chen Hao exuded fatigue and his voice was choked with sobs.
Lin Songhua and Shen Jin exchanged glances and finally nodded.
"Okay, let's separate! In addition to the food, the bottle of water must belong to us."
Lin Songhua spoke coldly, showing no mercy at all.
Chen Hao looked at them in disbelief. Lin Songhua and Shen Jin had cold eyes.
"Okay, I'll give it to you."
Chen Hao threw the water to the two of them and took off his backpack.
Divide the food into four portions and give them two of them.
The two of them quickly grabbed it, without even looking at Chen Hao, and sat aside.
It was still too hot outside, so the two of them didn't dare to leave and could only stay with Chen Hao and the other two for the time being.
Xu Wenna looked up at Chen Hao who was walking towards her, "Ahao, you shouldn't be with me, you should leave with them."
Chen Hao smiled and said, "Silly boy, how could I abandon you?"
The tears in Xu Wenna's eyes couldn't stop falling.
Chen Hao didn't mind that her face was dirty. He raised his hand to wipe it for her, but the more he wiped, the dirtier her face became.
"We are out of water. The more you cry, the more you will want to drink water."
Chen Hao tried to smile and asked Xu Wenna to move aside.
He prepared to pick up the dead Xiaorong and find a place to bury her.
After all, they were friends, and he couldn't bear to see her corpse lying in the wilderness.
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