Chapter 57 Where are my supplies?
The next day, at dawn, the group woke up.
At this time, their backpacks were basically empty, and today's trip had a desperate momentum.
When Lu Weiyi learned that they wanted to clean out a store to find food, he strongly disagreed.
Although their group was quite powerful, the noise they made while cleaning the store would attract zombies from the entire street. This would require a large number of people to protect those cleaning up the store, and it was obvious that they did not have enough people.
Things like clearing burial sites are initially done by larger teams or official al-Qaeda organizations that send out hundreds of people at a time to mark out an area and hunt down the zombies before proceeding. After the psychics awaken in the later stages, they are led by one or several earth-type psychics, who use their psychics to directly move the collapsed objects away. This makes the least noise and is easier and more convenient than cleaning with tools.
Now they...
"Can your superpowers attack now?" Lu Weiyi asked Li Zhuang.
Li Zhuang has been practicing since Lu Weiyi reminded him, and he has vaguely grasped the trick, but he still can't attack. He shook his head and said, "I can only move a little." Then he condensed the soil on the ground a few meters around him into a small soil ball, and controlled it to vibrate a few times.
The process of learning a new skill is indeed difficult, and it is already very good to be able to do this in one day.
"I think it's best to look somewhere else first. Once we start cleaning, we won't be able to handle the zombies that will be attracted." Lu Weiyi gestured to the group outside the window. A part of the downstairs had been cleaned up by them yesterday, and there were obviously more zombies now. "There are at least thirty downstairs. The sound of cleaning at the beginning can attract all the zombies in this street and the half of the street at the corner. There will be at least hundreds of them. This is just the beginning. Zombies will continue to pour in later. But our strength is limited and not enough to cope with them."
"It's not that... exaggerated," said Xiong Jie.
"It will only get more exaggerated," Lu Weiyi said, opening the map. In fact, it has been more than half a month since the end of the world. If you don’t go out, you will starve to death. Many people have begun to look for safe bases. The supermarkets around residential areas must have been searched. If you go there at this time, you will definitely return empty-handed.
As for the big supermarkets...
Li Zhuang pointed to several places nearby and said, "Let's go to other places first. If we take this road and go around here, we will pass three large supermarkets, a shopping mall, two cake shops, and a gas station. There are so many places, we can always find something. If there is really nothing, we can go back from here and clean up this place. What do you think?" he asked Xiong Jie.
Xiong Jie thought about it and nodded, "Okay."
Lu Weiyi rested for two days. There was no problem with his movements, but his fighting ability was still a little worse, and... He looked at the small green branch on his wrist. It was still dull and could not be controlled. It seemed that he had not recovered yet.
The grouping was still the same as yesterday, Lu Weiyi, Li Zhuang and Lin Yimu were in the same car.
Without a truck to lead the way, they could only try their best to avoid the zombies. If that didn't work, they would occasionally knock over a few of them, and they stumbled all the way.
Parked vehicles can be seen everywhere on the road at various angles, and on some of them there are people with only half of their bodies eaten - oh, they can no longer be called human beings now, as half of their bodies are still infected and have become zombies, but they cannot move, and can only stand there and laugh at every living person who passes by.
This is the real hell on earth.
"The supermarket is in front, but there seems to be a group of zombies gathered at the gate, so we can't attack it head-on," said Lin Yimu, who had been observing the situation.
"Let's go around and take a look," Li Zhuang said, glancing at the two cars behind him in the rearview mirror, "It would be nice to have a walkie-talkie."
"I know several small appliance wholesale markets in Qingyuan City. They must have these things. I can go and have a look when the time comes," said Lin Yimu.
"That's great," Li Zhuang said, and went around to the alley next to the supermarket. As a result, the road ahead was blocked and two cars behind him had caught up.
"Fuck, back off." Li Zhuang gestured towards the back, and Antonio, who was at the rear, immediately backed out the car.
"You can climb into the supermarket through this window," said Lu Weiyi, who had been silent all this time. He had already scanned the supermarket next door with his mental power, "but there are living people inside."
"Do you know how many?" Li Zhuang asked.
"More than a dozen"
"Change one," Li Zhuang said without any doubt, backed up the car, and immediately went to the next one.
"It's collapsed!" Lin Yimu could see from a distance that the place was so collapsed that he couldn't even see the outside. This supermarket is a large roadside supermarket with only one floor, equivalent to two floors high, a front door, and small stores of more than ten square meters on both sides of the entrance, without even a window. Unfortunately, there was an old residential area nearby and the earthquake tore the building apart, with part of it falling directly onto the supermarket nearby and burying part of it.
"Then no one must have been here. Should we look for the ventilation duct?" Li Zhuang said, looking outside. The outlet of the ventilation duct would not appear on the street in the open, it could only be at the back. If they wanted to check, they had to climb up the collapsed ground and then go around to look for it.
"Can children drive?"
Lu Weiyi nodded and said, "I'll go around."
"Okay." Li Zhuang knew that he understood what he meant, so he stopped the car and got out in one go. Lu Weiyi immediately moved from the back seat to the front and drove forward.
After the two men dealt with a few zombies and quickly walked to the supermarket entrance, they honked the horn, and many of the zombies heading towards them were immediately led away.
After driving for a while and turning the car to another street at the corner, Lu Weiyi suddenly sped up and left the group of people following him behind. Then he turned around again and went back to the supermarket entrance.
Li Zhuang and Lin Yimu climbed up along the collapsed ground with their good skills and found the ventilation duct from the back. After Antonio explored the way, several people had already gone in. The remaining few people killed the approaching zombies while waiting for Lu Weiyi.
Seeing him come safely, Lin Yimu breathed a sigh of relief. The two of them directly pulled Lu Weiyi up and let him go in first.
Antonio chose the nearest ventilation hole as the exit and climbed a section before going in.
There were several flashlights placed at a height of more than one person. Four or five of them were placed to illuminate the surroundings. A part near the entrance had collapsed, crushing a row of shelves.
A little further away, Xu Sa and Liu Rui, one holding a flashlight and a few bottles of drinks, and the other holding a few bottles of water, were walking towards this side. "We turned around and found that everything was blocked off. There were no zombies."
Xu Sa distributed the water to several people, and said, "Drink some water."
"Iced?" Dean touched the bottle, and at the same time, he put it close to Antonio's face in surprise.
"It seems that there is a generator still working, and there is still raw meat in the refrigerator over there, but it is only connected to the refrigerator, and the other places are useless," Xu Sa said, took a sip of water, and exclaimed refreshingly.
"Is there a generator?" Li Zhuang, who came in last, jumped down from the roof, took the water handed to him by Liu Rui, drank two sips, and asked.
"Yes, but I didn't find where it is," Xu Sa replied.
"Anywhere with a link will do. Let's try to connect to an induction cooker and eat something cooked."
As soon as Li Zhuang said this, several people's eyes lit up immediately. The last time they had cooked food was the day before yesterday morning when Gu Qingyue made it. Most of them didn't eat anything during the whole day and night, let alone cooked food.
"Then can we get the meat? I haven't eaten meat for a long time." Xu Sa had to swallow his saliva just thinking about it.
"Let's try it first," Li Zhuang said, looking around, "the stuff is quite useful. Divide into groups. Lin Yimu and I will find the circuit to make an induction cooker, and the rest of you can divide into areas and put all the edibles that you want to take away together."
Xiong Jie took Xi Shixian out with him and found a few backpacks. He gave one to each of the others and handed over some bread and biscuits. "Eat something first before you work."
Xu Sa made an OK gesture, took a wafer biscuit and handed it to Liu Rui, "Suppress your hunger first, maybe you can have a big meal later."
The few of them sat together and had a late breakfast. Then Li Zhuang and Lin Yimu went to sort out the circuits. Xiong Jie and Antonio originally wanted to sort out the two instant drink shelves that were pressed underneath, but no matter how they moved, new bricks and soil would fall down, so they didn't waste any more energy.
Less than half of the edible food was sorted out. After Li Zhuang had fixed the circuit, he called Gu Qingyue over to cook.
"I can also cook. Can I go over to help?" Xiong Jie and Xi Shi are the oldest among the group. Xi Shi's health is not very good due to his shortcomings when he was young. Most of the time he can't help at all, so he tries to reduce his presence as much as possible so as not to attract attention and cause trouble for Xiong Jie. He feels a little embarrassed to speak up at this time.
"Xishi's cooking is really delicious. More than ten years ago, whenever there were weddings or funerals in our village, we would ask him for help." Xiong Jie saw his discomfort and praised him.
As soon as these words came out, several pairs of eyes immediately looked over. Xi Shi was already uncomfortable, and now he suddenly felt awkward, "I just said it, I..."
"Come, come, the chef is here, the chef is here." Gu Qingyue pulled Xi Shi's hand and walked over there, "Finally, there's someone who can cook. You can't imagine that the only two people who can cook in this group are me and brother Damu. I'm just the one who can cook. Brother Damu revolves around his young master, but most of the menu for the young master's meal is not available. We two still have to think of ways to cook. It's so difficult."
When Xi heard that the man didn't mean to be nosy, he felt more at ease and said, "I can cook. I usually cook for myself at home."
"That's great," said Li Zhuang.
"Brother Li, you said a few days ago that you weren't picky," Gu Qingyue joked.
"The smell of Lin Yimu's chicken stewed with mushrooms and your chicken noodle soup is unmistakable, but..." Li Zhuang's face was filled with indescribable expression when he thought of the other dishes that came later.
Gu Qingyue's cooking skills were limited to simple noodles, and stir-frying was purely in the experimental stage. As for Lin Yimu... When he first served the chicken stewed with mushrooms, everyone thought he was a master, but who knew that he only knew this one dish, and the rest were soups. In his words, these were the most nutritious. The servants in the house didn't dare to deduct their young master's money for other dishes, but they were on the run. Who had the leisure to spend several hours stewing a pot of soup? Some of the stir-fried dishes were already very good.
"Haha, I really have no talent for cooking. I spent several months learning how to make those few soups," said Lin Yimu, moving away from the induction cooker and asking, "Can you make some tomato and beef brisket soup? My young master hasn't had a good appetite these past two days."
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