It didn't take Chen Xu long to choose a restaurant at the intersection. It was on the first floor so there was no need to climb stairs, and the freezer was large enough. Best of all, there was a diesel generator inside.

He is not unfamiliar with diesel generators. Before going to college, his parents opened a supermarket in the county. There was a period of time when the county changed the lines and power outages were frequent. The supermarket used diesel generators to generate electricity.

After the electricity was generated, he went to more than a dozen nearby restaurants and brought back all the meat until the freezer was full.

Although two people certainly cannot finish so much meat in half a year, it is better to be prepared.

"By the way, I wonder how Luo Xiyun is doing."

He was frying a steak and calculating the amount of food when he thought of Luo Xiyun who should have appeared a long time ago.

According to the nature of this dream, this virtual Luo Xiyun probably woke up at home just like in reality. He has not appeared yet, and no one knows where he has gone.

He didn't even know where her home was. The city was so big that looking for someone was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"The best way is to make some noise and lure her over here."

He smelled the aroma of the frying steak and couldn't help swallowing his saliva. He was busy for a whole morning and was already starving.

The first day was spent moving supplies.

At night, Chen Xu, who had just finished taking a shower, sat in the only office of the restaurant. He felt a little guilty. It was such a waste to use bottled mineral water to take a shower.

"There's nothing we can do. The water supply has been cut off."

He couldn't help but sigh. When there was only one person left in the world, it was much more difficult to survive than he had imagined.

There is no takeout, no running water, and you have to do everything yourself.

That's fine, but the most unbearable thing is that there is no Internet! He can't go online, log in to the forum, watch videos, watch Douyin, or read novels... This is terrible. He doesn't usually play games, and there is no Lianlian on his phone. He can only stare blankly at his phone.

There is a computer in the office, but it has a password.

"I have to go to the company tomorrow and move the computer back." He thought so, yawned, and gradually fell asleep to the sound of the diesel engine running.

The next morning, when Chen Xu woke up, he felt sore all over his body and was extremely uncomfortable.

"I'll go."

He took a breath and sat up. His muscles felt sore and numb. It was so sore. “It was really painful.”

He hasn't done physical work for a long time and has had little exercise. He moved so many things yesterday and was overworked, so the aftereffects came.

"Is this a fucking dream?" He doubted the authenticity of this incident for the nth time.

It is hard to imagine that everything in this world and the real numbness and pain in the body are simulated in a dream.

He took a deep breath and climbed out of bed.

"No matter what, let's stock up on some more supplies."

This suspicion gave him a deep sense of crisis. What if all this was not a dream but a real thing, and he was the only one left in the world? In order to survive better, he had to prepare in advance.

He endured the pain in his muscles, ate something, and went out with his tools.

In addition to food, there is another very important thing, that is medicine, which can save lives. Other supplies can be put aside, but a batch of medicines must be collected first.

From this moment on, he felt that he could not just treat all this as a game, but should seriously consider how to survive in such an apocalypse.

At seven in the morning, the sun had already risen.

Chen Xu woke up and looked at the poster of the female star whose name he could not remember pasted on the ceiling. Two seconds later, he came to his senses, sat up, picked up a pen, and wrote the number "31" on the wall.

The entire wall was covered with numbers, from 1 to 30, which meant he had been here for a full month.

He put down the pen, walked to the mirror, picked up the razor, and carefully shaved off the stubble.

Then I went into the bathroom, brushed my teeth and washed my face.

After washing up, he left the office.

There is a table next to the corridor with an electric rice cooker on it. When you open the lid, you will see steaming porridge inside.

This is the rice I put in last night. I set the time and it will be cooked automatically. I can eat it when I get up. It’s very convenient.

He finished half the pot of porridge with some fried crispy peanuts, and felt his stomach warm and comfortable.

After breakfast, he washed the pots and bowls and put the things away. He took out the small notebook he carried with him and opened it to take a look. It was filled with things to do.

He took a quick look, picked up a pen, and circled two of them.

Diesel stocks are running low.

Find vegetable seeds.

Then he closed the notebook, put it back in his pocket, picked up his things, and went out.

In order to extend the life of the diesel generator, he assembled a battery pack as a backup power source, and used the battery pack to provide power when he was away.

"It's a nice day."

He walked out of the restaurant and looked at the clear sky, and his mood seemed to brighten up as well.

There are two rows of cars parked on the road outside the door, including luxury sports cars like Ferrari and Porsche, vans like Wuling, and medium-sized trucks like Isuzu.

He walked into a nearby store and came out with a trailer full of oil drums. He had converted all the shops along this road into warehouses to store various supplies.

Chen Xu pushed the trailer to a blue Isuzu truck and loaded the oil drums onto it. After moving the drums back and forth several times and filling up most of the truck, he set off.

He started the car and drove to the road on the right.

In the past month, he has cleaned up the surrounding roads. This is not a small project. There are too many cars in this city. Some of the more crowded roads are completely blocked by cars. He spent a lot of effort to clear a road that can accommodate one car.

"There are gas stations everywhere, so you don't have to worry about that. It's just that vegetable seeds are a little hard to find. Let's go to that vegetable market first." He thought as he drove.

Modern urbanites cannot live without vegetables almost every day, but few have grown vegetables by themselves. When he was in elementary school, he helped his grandfather who lived in the countryside to harvest rice. But he had never seen what vegetable seeds looked like.

I can’t stand eating only meat and no vegetables every day.

During this month, he could only eat vegetables such as potatoes, tomatoes and bean sprouts, but he almost vomited from eating them.

He never thought that one day he would have such a craving for green leafy vegetables.

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Half an hour later, Chen Xu stopped the car a few hundred meters away from the vegetable market. The area here had not been cleaned up yet, and the road was full of cars, making it impossible to pass.

He picked up his tool bag, got out of the car and walked over.

From afar, he smelled a rotten smell coming from the market. He took out a gas mask and put it on before he dared to go in.

Ten minutes later, he ran out like a fugitive. The smell inside was too horrible, even with a gas mask on, it was hard to stand. Everywhere were traces of rotten vegetables and meat.

He returned to the car, feeling a little depressed. "Do we really have to go to the suburbs to look for it?"

In modern big cities, there are not many people growing vegetables. They are all transported from the suburbs. He also found several vegetable bases in the suburbs from the map.

However, the nearest vegetable base is more than 30 kilometers away from here. If we want to clear a road for it, the amount of work required is so huge that it makes one’s scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Finally, he took out his notebook and wrote down that he would go to the vegetable base to look for seeds. He would leave this for later.

Next, he went to the nearest gas station and filled up all the drums.

This iron oil barrel has a capacity of about 30 liters. When it is full, it weighs nearly 50 kilograms. He brought a total of 50 empty barrels, filled them all and moved them to the car. It took more than two hours and he was exhausted.

A month ago, he would never have been able to do such work. He would have broken his waist after moving a few buckets. This was only possible after doing a lot of physical work every day for a month.

After finishing his work, he moved a chair and a folding table from the car, found a shady place to sit down, took out a tablet computer from his backpack, placed it on the table with a holder, and then turned on a movie.

He leaned back in his chair, unscrewed the thermos, drank tea and watched a movie leisurely.

After hard physical labor, he would reward himself in this way.

Leisurely time always passes by so quickly that a movie can be finished in no time.

Chen Xu looked at the time. It was 11:40, and it was almost lunch time.

He dragged out the gas cylinder, gas stove, pots and pans and other tools from the car and started cooking on the roadside. Every time he went out to work, he would bring all these things with him and cook outside at noon to avoid running around and wasting time.

Wash rice, cook rice, wash vegetables, cut vegetables, put them in the pot...

After a while, the meal was ready. There were two dishes, one was fried beef with potato chips, and the other was fried bacon with garlic sprouts.

He sat in the middle of the street and finished his lunch.

After resting for half an hour, he dragged a folding bed from the car, placed it in a cool place, put on headphones, listened to soothing music, put on an eye mask, and took a nap.

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Chen Xu slept until he woke up naturally. When he woke up, it was already three o'clock. He stretched comfortably.

Since he started working, he rarely had such leisure time. In order to make money, he was like a wound-up spring, and even on weekends, he could only take a breath and could not really relax.

He packed up his things, moved them back to the car, started the car, and set off again.

He arrived at the river, parked the car, walked to the river with a few fishing rods, found a suitable place, put the bait on, and threw them into the water one by one.

Then, he fixed the five fishing rods at a distance, moved a stool and sat next to them, watching the fish float on the river, and waited quietly.

(End of this chapter)