Chapter 112 It's You
Not long after the old man set up his stall outside the God's Supermarket, the acid rain stopped and the sky cleared up, showing signs that acid rain would never come again.
Happy, indeed happy, but Song Yuqing looked at the endless ruins outside the window, feeling desolate and vaguely uneasy.
"If acid rain doesn't come, no one will bother to exchange time for your umbrella." Someone laughed at the old man who was setting up a stall outside the door and ran out of the house.
Everyone who had taken refuge in the God's Supermarket began to leave their homes, some heading back to base, others setting up temporary shelter nearby. Without exception, everyone looked at the old man with pity as they passed him. But the old man didn't care. He seemed confident that everyone would always need the umbrellas and raincoats he made.
On the day the acid rain stopped, the computers in God's Supermarket came back to life, and messages from various bases poured in. Most of these messages had been sent during the acid rain, but due to poor network connectivity, they hadn't been delivered successfully until that day. Some were buying supplies, sharing their fears of the past few days, while others were desperately calling for help.
Song Yuqing and Liu Xiaona only glanced at the distress messages, and tears welled up in their eyes. They held back their tears, trying not to be the first to cry.
Song Yuqing compiled the information, replied to the messages one by one, and also put acid rainproof umbrellas and raincoats on the shelves. She negotiated with the old man and decided not to charge any agency fees.
However, the online shopping website of God’s Supermarket is facing a very serious problem, which is a matter of life and death.
The whereabouts of those delivery pigeons are unknown. Without the pigeons, we can only rely on manpower to deliver supplies to various bases.
The first thing Song Yuqing thought of was to contact the people at Base Zero or Nanjiao, but he couldn't get in touch with them for a while.
Moreover, Song Yuqing did not find any information about Nanjiao, Xie Hao and others in the letters she received. She was a little worried that Nanjiao and others were also turned into pools of meat mud in the acid rain.
Song Yuqing was thinking when she suddenly heard a loud shout. It was Liu Xiaona calling her to come out and see everyone off.
As soon as the acid rain stopped, everyone couldn't wait to go back. They had to go back and see whether their respective bases were in good condition or not.
Song Yuqing asked Liu Xiaona, Gaha, and Xiao Roubao to help pack up several large bags of supplies and send one to each base. With no trace of the zombies to be found, and the old man refusing to reveal where he found them, Song Yuqing took matters into his own hands and sent some life-saving supplies to everyone.
She thought that if Master Fu were here, he would readily agree.
Xiaoyi said goodbye to her companions from Base No. 35 with red eyes. She wanted to stay in the God's Supermarket and wait for Ruan Fanfan to come find her.
In the end, Song Yuqing couldn't bear to tell Xiaoyi that, just like the scenes in the future movie, Ruan Fanfan was already dead.
"Remember to tell me the current situation of your base." Song Yuqing said goodbye to the psychics in various bases one by one, and at the end, he always added this sentence.
Aunt Peng squeezed from the back row to the front and huddled next to Song Yuqing: "Manager Song, thank you so much for your time. We hope to meet again."
Nothing is said for sure. Who can say for sure whether we are destined to be together or not? We all know clearly that after this separation, there may not be a chance to meet again.
"What will you do if acid rain falls on the road?" The old man blinked as he looked at the people crowding in front of his stall but had no intention of patronizing it.
"Auntie Peng still has plastic sheets!"
"Hiss, maybe we're going in different directions from Aunt Peng? Aunt Peng, where are you going?"
"Will you give us some of the cloth too?"
"It's just one minute of life, I'll buy ten of them out of my own pocket!"
"That's right..."
"How do you know how long you have left to live? You could be dead in the next minute."
"Bah! What nonsense are you talking about!!!"
The crowd became noisy again. Aunt Peng heard someone mention her. Although she didn't see who it was, she shouted back, "I'm not going back to the base. I'm going to the desert."
She wanted to distribute the supplies in the space to the psychics in the same base, and then head to another direction to find her daughter. After all, she saw her daughter appear in the desert in the future film.
Upon hearing this, Song Yuqing and Liu Xiaona looked at Aunt Peng worriedly, but Aunt Peng just responded with a calm smile.
Amidst the chaotic farewell, the old man walked through the crowd, holding a stack of ready-made umbrellas and raincoats, and hawking them.
"It's better to have something than nothing. It's better to have something than nothing."
Liu Xiaona couldn't help laughing when she saw the old man hawking his wares with a frown on his face.
He nudged Song Yuqing with his elbow: "What's wrong, old man? Hahahaha, it's quite funny. If you didn't know, you would think you were here to collect debts."
Song Yuqing glanced at Liu Xiaona disapprovingly: "He thinks acid rain will continue... I think so too."
This acid rain seems to be different from the previous hot and snowy days.
Many of the psychics who were preparing to return to their respective bases exchanged people with the elderly. The journey was long and full of unknowns, so the more precautions one took, the safer it would be.
Song Yuqing deliberately looked carefully at how the old man made deals with others.
As the old man activated his time powers, a translucent clock rose from the customer's back. On the clock, only the second hand ticked away. The old man extended his hand and remotely moved the second hand.
This process is very fast, even taking less than three seconds.
"Gaha..." Gaha rushed to the old man's side at some point and stared at his face closely.
"Ahem, Gaha, what are you doing?" The old man had just withdrawn his hand, and when he turned around, he saw Gaha's little face and shrank back.
"Gaha..." Gaha nodded to himself and slowly walked to Song Yuqing.
"What's wrong?" Song Yuqing took Gaha's arm.
Gaha sighed: "...Gaha..."
Song Yuqing and Liu Xiaona both felt strange, but Little Roubao looked like he understood, that's why, which made Song Yuqing feel itchy.
"Gah, did you find something?"
Gaha looked at the old man handing out umbrellas and nodded blankly.
"Do you also think he looks like Shen She?"
"Wow, how is it possible, Shen She is obviously still a child..." Liu Xiaona just opened her mouth and covered it herself. He also thought of it. When Lin Han attacked the 35th base, Shen She activated his supernatural power to go back in time and turned into an adult in the blink of an eye.
The four people in God's Supermarket fell into silence.
After seeing off the large group, only four shop assistants, an old man, and Xiaoyi were left in God's Supermarket.
After absorbing the energy of more than ten people with special abilities for a minute, the old man seemed to be in better spirits. His appearance did not change much, after all, he only gained a dozen more minutes of life.
Song Yuqing took a deep breath and walked over to the old man's stall. He was sitting cross-legged under a tallow tree, a layer of acid-proof cloth under his buttocks. He was concentrating on cutting cloth and didn't look up at Song Yuqing.
"So it's you, Shen She?"
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