198 The Tenth Store
◎All handsome men are playboys.◎
Mingtai Community, Xingmo Road, Gaosheng City.
Su Ling did not sleep well all night, struggling over whether to place an order for errands.
In the middle of the night, she impulsively sat up several times, ready to place an order on the errand business card. She
wrote it several times but found that she could not write anything. She thought she was cheated, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that it was unlikely.
No cheating for food, no cheating for supplies, just a few grams of gold, no idea what they wanted.
Su Ling stayed like this until dawn, and finally felt a little sleepy. After sleeping for less than two hours, she suddenly woke up.
She sat up, turned over the pillow, took out the business card that she tried to write several times last night, and prepared to place an order again.
This time, the ink spread smoothly on the card. Su Ling was refreshed and wrote down her name and address according to the instructions.
After placing the order, she got up, washed up, changed into a light and simple outfit, walked to the window, and looked downstairs through the gap, anxious and expectant.
Su Ling looked forward to the arrival of the errand runner, and secretly prayed that it would be a female errand runner.
Su Ling is 31 years old this year, living alone and unmarried. She has been working in Gaosheng City since graduating from college.
She has had several relationships, but problems always arise when she wants to take a step further.
As she gets older, Su Ling becomes more sober.
She no longer expects a stable emotional life and concentrates on her work.
If the zombie virus hadn't suddenly appeared, Su Ling would have been promoted in a few months.
She originally planned to move to a better neighborhood as soon as her salary was raised.
Su Ling had an obsession that she wanted to own a house of her own, so she saved money like crazy in the past few years.
Unfortunately, the plan didn't keep up with the changes. The money was saved, but before it could be spent, it became useless waste paper.
It took only more than two months for the zombie virus to break out and spread, and it gradually evolved into an uncontrollable world-class disaster.
People died in groups like moths and flies, leaving behind empty houses without owners.
Su Ling was trapped in a small rental house and dared not go out.
The engine sound came closer and closer, and Su Ling saw a small electric car parked outside the community.
The errand runner came.
The tall boy got out of the car and took off his helmet.
Looking from the window where Su Ling was, she could only see a young face with short light blonde hair that was a little curly.
Su Ling's heart sank to the bottom. He was not a female errand runner, but he looked like a fashionable man.
She has a phobia of fashionable men!!!
Si Jin was in charge of the area around Xingmo Road today. As soon as he arrived at the store, the system assigned him an order.
He didn't even have time to eat breakfast. He took bread and milk and put them in his bag and went out.
This community is shabby, and the gate is tied with an iron chain and a useless big padlock.
Si Jin did listen to a lot of the work common sense taught by his senior Harold.
When running errands, try not to destroy surrounding buildings and objects, and don't clean up zombies right at the beginning. The best working state is to honestly collect payments, pick up goods, and then run errands.
Si Jin stood in front of the gate for a few seconds and chose the same route as Lu Yao yesterday - climbing over the wall.
He walked up to the third floor of unit nine according to the route indicated on his work badge and successfully found Su Ling's residence.
The door was opened from the inside, and a girl with a reserved expression stood at the door.
Si Jin: "Hello, I'm Si Jin, the errand runner No. 5. Is this Ms. Su Ling?"
Su Ling blinked a few times. It had been a long time since she met such a polite staff member. For a moment, she had the illusion that the world had not become chaotic.
Besides, this errand boy is too good-looking, with blond hair and golden eyes, handsome and noble, tall and thin, with a nice voice and so polite.
Su Ling nodded slowly, and blurted out her thoughts: "I haven't heard that there are foreign errand boys."
Si Jin raised his eyebrows, automatically ignored this sentence, and took out the gold-eating Pi Xiu from his bag: "The rule of this shop is to pay first, then run errands."
Su Ling realized that she had lost her composure, lowered her head and blushed a little, and handed over a gold bar.
Over the years, Su Ling has saved a lot of money.
She is more pragmatic, and only buys pure gold jewelry, and buys a few gold bars every year to store.
After the outbreak of the zombie virus, she used to worry about the gold in her drawer every day. She couldn't buy food or drinks, so all the gold was wasted. Now, things have turned around.
The place Su Ling was going to was a large chain supermarket about one kilometer away from Mingtai Community.
There was no food left at home, so she wanted to find something to eat, dry food, snacks, anything, as long as it was edible. It was
Su Ling's first order, and the business card had been paid for. The errand fee was 50% off, and only 0.2 grams of gold was charged.
The errand task was to take her from Mingtai Community to the supermarket.
When Si Jin and Su Ling went downstairs, they met the thug they met yesterday in the community.
The three of them sat lazily on the edge of the flowerbed under the building in the community, and a young man had his hands wrapped in clothes hanging on his chest.
They saw Su Ling first and were about to get up, and then they saw Si Jin coming out of the corridor and sitting down again.
Si Jin glanced at them and took Su Ling to the main gate of the community.
He didn't open the lock when he went out, he climbed over the wall with Su Ling in one hand, and in the blink of an eye he had jumped from inside the wall to outside the wall.
Su Ling outside the wall was shocked, and the thugs inside the wall also stood up in surprise, secretly glad that they didn't make trouble just now.
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Guanyin Road, a remote errand shop.
Harold, Qiuyu, and Tina rode their electric cars and were also ready to go out to work.
The running errands these past two days had some effect. Except for Si Jin's order, the orders in the morning were all from regular customers who had placed orders two days ago.
Zhao Ye and his fellow sparrows packed twice as many flyers as yesterday and prepared to go to the new area to sweep the store.
Only Zhang Shu, Lu Yao, Lu Mingxiao and Ding Qing were left in the store. Ding Qing had breakfast and left.
When Lu Yao was about to leave, he saw Ding Qing looking at the empty house next to Tang Anqi's house.
This street was originally a commercial street, serving residents in the surrounding residential areas.
When the zombie virus broke out, the merchants living on the street were the first to suffer. People were bitten, and the goods in the stores were looted. Now only the dilapidated storefronts are left.
Lu Yao: "What's wrong with this house?"
Ding Qing turned around: "Nothing, I was thinking about living here."
Lu Yao: "You don't want to live in the store?"
Ding Qing nodded and shook her head: "The store is very safe, and it's safe to live in. But everyone has to go off work at night, and I think I should be the same as them." Lu
Yao was a little happy in her heart. She was worried that Ding Qing would not be able to come back.
This girl is so strong. She doesn't dwell on the past, doesn't go crazy, and doesn't degenerate. Even though she has been hurt, she still tries her best not to cause trouble to the people around her. Lu Yao
walked over and looked at the store carefully. He also walked around inside the store. There was a small attic upstairs and a toilet, but the water couldn't be pumped or drained, so it couldn't be used for the time being.
Lu Yao: "I think this place is nice. We can clean it up and make it a little home. It's also close to the store. First replace the two doors, clean it up, and buy some furniture. I'll help you reinforce it later, and the zombies will never be able to get in."
Tang Anqi's team next door was still screwing in the rolling shutter door. They were installing a manual rolling shutter door, and they had to install a sliding track on the wall inside the door.
Hearing Lu Yao and Ding Qing talking, Tang Anqi ran over to say hello.
Hearing that Ding Qing was going to live next door, Tang Anqi immediately smiled and stretched out her hand to Ding Qing: "Welcome, new neighbor."
Lu Yao: "How is your door installed?"
Tang Anqi: "The main door and the attic have been replaced, and the rolling door will be put up later. I will replace the door for Xiao Jiang's house in the afternoon, and it will be all done in the evening, so I can sleep well then."
After chatting with the energetic team of college students, Lu Yao was ready to go out.
Lu Yao has to complete the installation of all signal devices today, and the coverage of the network will be expanded to a radius of 50 kilometers.
Last night, the alien clerk of the nail salon and the refining sect of the Floating World Continent sent over the modified small electric cars.
Lu Yao is ready to try the performance of two modified electric cars.
Lu Mingxiao accompanied her to place the signal device, and they happened to be riding a different modified car.
When the small electric car started, the first result of the modification was revealed.
The engine sound of the two electric cars became extremely small, and it was almost inaudible unless you were close.
This modification can effectively avoid being detected when passing near a large zombie tide, especially when riding at night.
Lu Yao was very satisfied with this small modification.
In addition, the modifiers on both sides improved the performance of the car according to her requirements. There is a distinct feeling when riding it, like riding in the wind, and it is quiet and silent.
Tang Anqi's team saw the owner and the new handsome errand boy riding the small electric car flying past, and their eyes were full of envy.
Song Xu couldn't help smacking his lips: "It would be nice if we could have a means of transportation."
Zhou Mingyang blinked: "Is it an illusion? Why does it feel like that little electric car is much faster than before?"
Jiang Yifei: "And it's silent."
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Xingmo Road area, Lotus Square.
The electric car stopped at the door of the chain supermarket.
Su Ling got off the car and said to Si Jin, "Please wait a moment." She lowered her head and took out a new business card from her backpack, put it on her knees and began to fill in the content.
Si Jin was a little confused: "What are you doing?"
Su Ling handed him the business card for placing an order that she had just written: "Please take another order."
The new errand task was to accompany Su Ling into the supermarket and then escort her out safely.
Yesterday, Su Ling carefully inquired about the business scope of the errand shop. She doesn't like to cause trouble to others and is used to planning in advance.
Before leaving the house in the morning, she packed five spare business cards, a pen and two gold bars in her backpack, just to place another order at the supermarket, and asked the errand boy to accompany her to the supermarket.
If she successfully found the supplies, she would write another business card on the way back and ask the errand boy to take her back to her residence.
After working diligently for seven or eight years and saving so much money, in the end, she got nothing and didn't enjoy it.
Su Ling was entangled for countless days and nights, and finally wanted to let it go.
No longer entangled in external things, she just wanted to live.
However, her personality is more introverted. Outside of work, she is slow to warm up and is not good at making close friends.
The errand shop was her lucky star. She didn't have to force herself to meet new people or find people to team up with. She could get a reliable partner for a short time just by placing an order.
Si Jin didn't take the business card. The new order number had already come through the communicator.
Because he was with Su Ling at the time, he was judged to be the errand runner closest to Su Ling and was directly assigned the order by the system. It
was the first time that Si Jin encountered such a customer. He insured the small electric car and accompanied her in.
This was a large chain supermarket, comparable to the Xingfu chain supermarket that Lu Yao had visited last time. It had three floors in total, with fresh food areas, agricultural and trade areas, snacks areas, daily necessities areas, small household appliances areas, and bedding and home furnishing areas.
Su Ling's goal was clear, to find food and water first.
The door on the first floor of the supermarket was shattered into pieces, the shelves were all over the floor, there was basically nothing edible to be seen, and the floor was full of rotten packaging bags and spilled goods.
Such large shopping malls usually have zombies, and there are quite a few of them.
They dragged rotten meat that exuded a foul odor over the already moldy goods.
Su Ling took a few steps despite the discomfort, and before he reached the fresh food area, he smelled an unbearable stench.
The smell of protein and rotting plants mixed together, green-headed flies danced, and the fresh food and agricultural trade area seemed to have become an infinitely miniature picture of hell.
Si Jin had seen too many similar scenes in the past two days and was basically immune to them.
However, this was his first time walking into a large supermarket, and the feeling was a little different from what he saw in the comics.
Si Jin looked around curiously while paying attention to Su Ling's actions.
Su Ling squatted on the ground to calm down, and after a few seconds he stood up and turned around and said, "I want to go downstairs. There is a food area downstairs, and I should be able to find some food."
Si Jin nodded: "Let's go."
After taking a few steps, Si Jin paused slightly.
There were a few living people downstairs, and they were not in good condition. They were blocked in a dead corner by the zombies.
Yesterday, Zhao Ye made a mistake and ran to the hospital. The owner went to pick him up in person.
When he went home from work in the evening, Harold lectured the little bird demon for half an hour as a typical example of not listening to the advice of his predecessors.
Si Jin's self-esteem would never allow him to make such a mistake. He followed Su Ling without mentioning the situation downstairs.
The escalator had stopped running for a long time, and the two walked down the escalator.
The situation on the first floor was not good either. Most of the shelves were empty, and the ground was littered with trampled packaging bags. The contents had been dumped out and scattered on the ground, emitting a moldy smell, like a large garbage dump.
This kind of large supermarket was the most conspicuous and easily accessible supply point in the early stage of the zombie virus outbreak, and had already welcomed many hungry people.
Su Ling searched around the shelves with difficulty. After searching for a few rounds, she pulled out a small bag of rock sugar and a small bag of barley with a price tag from under the collapsed shelf.
She breathed a sigh of relief, put the supplies into her backpack, and simply lay on the ground to search. She also took out a small bag of salt and a handful of broken dry noodles from the gap in the shelf.
The noodles were very small, only 250 grams, and the inside was broken into pieces, but fortunately the outer packaging was intact and still edible.
Su Ling stood up and put the salt and noodles into her backpack, feeling that something was missing. She turned around and didn't see Si Jin. She was panicked, but didn't dare to speak.
When entering the shopping mall on the first floor, Si Jin had told her that there were a considerable number of zombies downstairs, and they were particularly sensitive to sounds and the smell of blood. Try not to make too much noise and don't get hurt.
Su Ling stood there, taking a deep breath and exhaling, her mind spinning wildly, thinking about her next move.
Where did Si Jin go?
Ran away secretly? Not likely.
Was he captured by the zombies? But he didn't make any sound, which didn't make sense.
Su Ling suddenly thought of a question: Can errand runners really deal with zombies?
She placed an order as soon as she received the flyer yesterday, and she placed an order this morning as well. To be honest, she has never seen a runner confront a zombie head-on.
Even if it is a runner, he will retreat when he encounters a zombie, right?
Su Ling was upset. She overlooked something very important.
The runner is also a flesh and blood body, and he will be afraid when facing a zombie.
While Su Ling was reflecting on herself, she inadvertently raised her head, her pupils suddenly shrank, and her whole body froze.
Two extremely rotten zombies appeared in front of her at some point, less than two meters away from her. The rusty red flesh was like rags hanging on a skeleton, and she could clearly see the white flesh worms as thick as thumbs wriggling in the rotten flesh.
They were slowly moving towards her bit by bit.
Su Ling's hands and feet were out of control, and she began to tremble spinelessly.
She knew she had to turn around and run away, but she slowly limp down, her legs like they were filled with cement, stiffly stuck in place, unable to move an inch.
The zombies were getting closer and closer, and Su Ling could already smell their stench, and the rotten dark red flesh was slowly beating as if it could breathe.
"Pah--"
a white flesh worm drilled out, fell to the ground, and squirmed madly in the direction of Su Ling.
Su Ling was frightened to death, and her hands and feet that were bound by fear were suddenly freed. She screamed and took small steps back. Her shoulder hit something suddenly. She leaned over and screamed, not daring to look back.
At this time, the movement of the zombie in front suddenly became faster, and the skeleton made a "crackling" sound and attacked Su Ling.
Si Jin grabbed Su Ling with one hand, turned sideways, broke off a piece of board from the shelf, and threw it horizontally.
The thin plastic board was comparable to an axe, but lighter and sharper than an axe. It flew far away with a howl, and finally embedded deeply in the wall.
With two muffled bangs, two rotten corpses fell to the ground one after another, and a head rolled to Si Jin's feet.
Its teeth were still trembling. Si Jin
raised his legs and kicked the rotten potato that was rolling over.
The rotten potato hit another rotten potato not far away, and the red and white mucus mixed together to become a pool of rotten eggs and tomatoes.
Su Ling raised his head and saw his own miserable self from the young man's calm golden eyes. He suddenly collapsed: "Where have you been?"
The guest's voice was filled with obvious crying that was suppressed.
Si Jin was shocked: "What's wrong with you?"
He was sure that the guest was not bitten.
There was a sharp sound of a shelf collapsing behind Su Ling, and she was so scared that she took two steps at a time and hid behind Si Jin.
Si Jin: "..."
Two children, one tall and one short, walked out from behind the shelf. The tall boy was about fourteen or fifteen years old, holding a little girl about six or seven years old.
The two were wearing tattered clothes, were so thin that they were almost unrecognizable, and their faces and bodies were full of dirt. They looked at Si Jin eagerly.
Su Ling poked her head out from behind Si Jin: "Who are they?"
Si Jin: "The two children trapped here were almost eaten just now."
Su Ling raised her head in surprise: "So you went to save them?"
Si Jin was silent for a second, and nodded hesitantly.
He didn't intend to intervene at first, but when he sensed that they were two children, he couldn't help but take a look.
After entering the basement, Si Jin had a grasp of the situation on this floor. He was completely sure that Su Ling would not be injured.
However, the guest was frightened so much that he almost cried.
Si Jin felt a little frustrated.
This was simply the biggest mistake at work. He couldn't imagine the consequences of Harold knowing about this.
Su Ling's tense mood finally relaxed. He supported Si Jin's limp hand and sat down directly on the ground: "You should have told me. I was so scared when I turned around and didn't see you. I thought you were taken away by zombies."
Si Jin stood there in a daze for a while before speaking: "Sorry, I scared you."
Su Ling wiped his face tiredly and stood up with the help of the shelf: "Forget it, you were also trying to save people. But next time if this happens again, it's better to tell your companions around you so that they don't worry."
Si Jin's expression froze slightly. He thought she was going to blame him for not protecting her, but was it because of worry?
Even if it was the first time meeting a stranger who might never see each other again, even if it was just an insignificant encounter, there would still be a small emotional connection.
Si Jin seemed to suddenly understand the work principles that Harold had emphasized many times before, that errand runners should give priority to being responsible to customers when taking orders.
In this world that is extremely unstable for human beings, every time a customer places an order, it is a delivery of trust.
He just left the customer aside to save the brother and sister. This mistake may be more serious than Zhao Ye's behavior yesterday.
Su Ling was surprised to see Si Jin remained silent for a long time: "What's wrong with you?"
Si Jin raised his hands to cover his eyes: "I'm reflecting."
Su Ling: "Ah?"
Si Jin: "You're right, as an errand runner, you shouldn't just abandon the customers during working hours and run to satisfy your self-righteous sense of justice and vanity. Even if there is a situation that requires you to leave temporarily, you should explain it to the customer and apologize."
Su Ling was embarrassed by Si Jin's overly sincere attitude, and she was also surprised.
The errand shop was unexpectedly serious, and the errand runners were strong and straightforward, even breaking her stereotype that "all handsome men are playboys."
[Author's words]
Useless urban legend: The errand shop stabilizes the value of gold with the power of a store.
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