Chapter 107 We Meet Again
In the pouring rain, God's Supermarket looked like an isolated island floating on the Dead Sea.
After failing to receive any external signals, Song Yuqing had an illusion that all the bases had been destroyed in this acid rain.
Song Yuqing didn't dare tell anyone about his worries, for fear that his worries would turn into unstoppable rumors that would suppress everyone who took refuge in the God's Supermarket.
"We can't let this rain fall any more..." Liu Xiaona squeezed by the window, looking at the heavy rain outside anxiously.
Fortunately, the rain stopped at daybreak.
The sound of rain disappeared, but people remained silent.
Acid rain accumulated on the ground, and no one dared to walk out of God's Supermarket easily. Everyone regarded God's Supermarket as Noah's Ark.
Song Yuqing allowed the refugees to rest freely in the God's Supermarket and distributed food and water to everyone for free.
All she can do is take it one step at a time.
"Will it rain again?" people were whispering. Although it was already dawn, large dark clouds still occupied the sky.
In the distant ruins, there seemed to be a figure walking towards the God's Supermarket.
Liu Xiaona was the first to see the figure, climbing through the ruins holding an army green umbrella.
"Look! There's someone there!"
Song Yuqing was standing at the cashier counter at this time. He heard Liu Xiaona's call and looked out the window. The lone figure looked very familiar.
That’s… the old man from Base Zero.
"No, why is he outside?"
"The heavy rain just stopped, why did that person run outside?"
“He seems to be an old man!”
"Isn't he afraid of getting acid rain on him?"
Amidst the discussions, the old man walked to the door of God’s Supermarket and closed his umbrella with a smile.
"Please make way, I want to go in too."
"Wow, where are you from?"
"Base Zero."
"Were you not hit by the acid rain on the way?"
"I have an umbrella, a specially made one." The old man placed the umbrella at the entrance of God's Supermarket, leaning against the Chinese tallow tree.
"Why are you here?" Liu Xiaona squeezed to the door and pulled the old man into the supermarket.
"Hi, nice to see you again. After you left last time, I drove here with you. However, my car broke down on the road, so I had to walk..." The old man looked at the disheveled and crowded crowd in the supermarket and sighed secretly.
"We meet again!"
Song Yuqing also squeezed next to the old man and looked at him up and down in surprise.
The old man didn't have any wounds caused by acid rain on his body, only the corners of his pants were slightly corroded by acid rain.
"This umbrella and these shoes are specially made." The old man saw what Song Yuqing was thinking.
"How did you know to come out wearing this? To be on the safe side?"
The old man nodded.
"What material is this?"
The old man smiled mysteriously: "Secret."
Song Yuqing looked at the old man's face full of wrinkles and age spots, and finally noticed something strange. After not seeing him for a few days, the old man looked a little older.
Maybe it was because surviving the apocalypse was too hard, Song Yuqing didn't think much about it at the moment.
"Old man, did you see anyone else on the road?"
The old man was a little unhappy and curled his lips: "You keep calling me old man..."
"Brother?" Song Yuqing immediately changed his words.
The old man choked and said, "That's not necessary. It's awkward."
"Grandpa? Why did you come all the way to the God's Supermarket?" Liu Xiaona opened her eyes in confusion. "Aren't you going to stay in the Base Zero laboratory to do experiments?"
"Well, I left my cells to them. Let them study them slowly. I want to live my life now." The old man said, looking at Song Yuqing and smiling, "I want to set up a stall next to the God's Supermarket."
He wanted to set up a small stall outside God's Supermarket.
Song Yuqing: "You want to set up a stall?"
She couldn't understand what the old man in front of her was thinking.
"No?! You want to steal our business?" Liu Xiaona almost broke her voice.
"No, no, no." The old man blinked mysteriously. "I want to buy some acid-resistant cloth from God's Supermarket to make and sell umbrellas. Oh! I can also make raincoats."
Song Yuqing raised her eyebrows. She still hadn't figured out the old man's train of thought.
Xiaoyi picked up the plastic roll on the ground and asked loudly, "This plastic?"
The old man took one look at the plastic and said, "What is this?"
Song Yuqing scratched his head. It turned out that the old man knew nothing.
"This is plastic that's resistant to acid rain."
The old man shook his head: "This is not what I want."
"Is this old man confused?!" The onlookers couldn't help but doubt whether the old man was in a clear mind.
Liu Xiaona and Gaha also looked at the old man worriedly. The old man seemed to be hesitant to speak, with an embarrassed expression.
Song Yuqing was shocked. She looked carefully at the old man's shoes and then at the umbrella he placed next to the tallow tree. They looked like they were made of the same fabric.
The old man leaned close to Song Yuqing's ear and whispered quietly, "I want to find the goods you bought. It's fabric, the kind used for protective backpacks."
Song Yuqing:!!!
Is that true?! Is that kind of backpack fabric also resistant to acid rain?!
The old man winked at Song Yuqing.
"Would you like to find a place where no one is around and discuss business with me?"
Song Yuqing was stunned for a moment, then nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
Song Yuqing dragged the shop assistants and the old man into the room to discuss important matters. She was not worried about the chaos caused by no one tending the shop. As she expected, after Song Yuqing and the others entered the room, everyone still squeezed in obediently and formed their own chat groups.
In Song Yuqing's room, the old man was sitting on the sofa, and the four employees of Shenzhi Supermarket were sitting cross-legged on the ground, looking up and waiting for the old man to speak.
The old man's expression turned serious, and he was no longer as lovely and amiable as before.
"Why are you looking at us like that? It's creepy..." Liu Xiaona moved her butt uncomfortably.
"Gaha?" Gaha scratched his head. What are we going to do?
The old man breathed a sigh of relief and slowly said, "You may not believe what I'm about to say, but it's true."
Song Yuqing felt inexplicably flustered. She asked calmly, "Why? What do you want to say?"
"On my way here, I met a man and a woman, a couple, with a beautiful parrot. I had an umbrella, but they didn't."
Liu Xiaona, Gaha, and Xiao Roubao all looked at Song Yuqing. Besides Ruan Fanfan, who else was there with the parrot? A man and a woman: Ruan Fanfan and her boyfriend, Zhang Lei.
"And then? Do you know them?"
Song Yuqing hoped that it was not Ruan Fanfan. After all, in the future video that Xiaoyi saw, Ruan Fanfan was killed by Zhang Lei.
"I've seen them." The old man didn't say where he had seen them.
He had seen the couple near Chen Town. He was resting in his car when they flew over the roof of his car, riding on a large parrot. They were heading in the same direction.
Then, acid rain suddenly began to fall. The parrot was burned and fell straight to the ground. The couple fell heavily to the ground. The raindrops immediately corroded their bodies and the wounds continued to expand.
The elderly man wanted to get out of his car to help, but the acid rain had also corroded his own roof. Panicking, he grabbed an umbrella to support himself. He had made the umbrella from fabric used in a protective backpack, a spare moment, and it saved his life in a crucial moment.
He got out of the car and wanted to let the couple get into the umbrella together, but he found that there was no good flesh on the couple's bodies. The man used up his last bit of strength and used his wood-based ability to kill the woman, and then committed suicide.
Their bodies, in the acid rain, turned into a pool of rotten meat mud, neither fast nor slow.
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