"Okay." Jiang Zhi put the bean sprouts on the stove. In order to save some money and have an extra meal, she finally decided to cut the bean sprouts in half and cook the other half next time.
Anyway, I'm not worried about it spoiling in this weather.
In the end, the bean sprout and meat soup was still prepared. Jiang Zhi started another stove to cook rice. After draining the rice, she added some brown sugar to the rice water and put it into a thermos. It could be used to warm the stomach when it cooled down.
Half a box of bean sprouts wasn't much, and everyone savored it with extra care.
These tiny bean sprouts were never an insignificant thing in the vegetable kingdom before the apocalypse, but unexpectedly they have become a luxury item after the apocalypse.
Wang Wan almost cried while eating it; it was simply divine.
Since the onset of this cold winter, we haven't seen any fresh vegetables. The ones grown at the base are all supplied to those with power and influence. How could they possibly have a chance to work so hard?
After a hot and hearty meal, Wanfu brought back a mutated chicken and tore it apart to eat in a corner.
"Huh, Wanfu has actually grown up?" If Wanfu hadn't caught the chicken himself to eat, Wang Wan would have been surprised to find that Wanfu seemed even stronger than before, almost twice the size of his former self.
"Wanfu is a mutant cat."
"I understand, mutant beasts get stronger by eating other mutant animals! Then Wanfu will get stronger and stronger in the future."
Jiang Zhi nodded, and then began to plan the afternoon's tasks.
In the afternoon, Wanfu stayed at the base and patrolled the surrounding area to prevent the house from being raided.
Jiang Zhi, Yan Zhi, and Wang Wan went to retrieve the documents.
The task received from Zhang Zhaohe must be completed, so that Yan Zhi and Wang Wan can have a legitimate reason to return to the base and report back.
Jiang Zhi wasn't in a hurry about those two bitches. She had followed them almost immediately after they set off, and their mission would take much longer than hers.
Before the apocalypse, the Central Financial Building was a prime piece of real estate, housing large corporations and top elites. Now, it's covered in ice and snow, transformed into a towering ice sculpture in the heart of the city.
The building has seventy floors above ground and three floors below ground that are visible in the open.
The so-called most dangerous place is the safest place. It is estimated that apart from the participants, no one knew that there was a fourth floor below this building.
However, the entrance to this fourth floor is not inside the building.
Instead, the entrance is in Central Park outside the building, where there is an underground passage.
Upon entering the park, the three found that the entrance was covered by heavy snow, which they estimated to be three or four meters thick and difficult to break through.
"Jiang Zhi, what should we do?"
"Boss?"
Who knows if the snow is metal-based, while Jiang Zhi is ice-based and Wang Wan is mental-based? None of the three can melt the snow, and the snow can't be pushed inwards, otherwise it will block the entrance even more.
“Simple.” Jiang Zhi took out a small shovel, dug a hole in the snowdrift, and then stuffed a few detonators inside.
When he met Jiang Zhi for the second time, he already knew that Jiang Zhi had firearms, so he wasn't surprised.
Using explosives to blast open such thick ice and snow is indeed much easier than digging it out by hand.
"You two find a safe place to hide first," Jiang Zhi said to Yan Zhi and Wang Wan. The two understood and ran about twenty meters away, hiding behind a flower bed.
Jiang Zhi lit the fuse with a lighter and ran away as fast as she could. She had just run past fifteen miles when an explosion was heard behind her.
After the tremor, a large hole appeared in the snow at the entrance. Jiang Zhi immediately smashed the hole with a golden brick, and the snow blocking the entrance fell down with a whoosh. Some of it collapsed into the entrance, while some fell out.
They waited outside for more than half an hour until the room was well-ventilated before going inside.
The gold brick was buried in the snow, and Jiang Zhi quietly retrieved it after Yan Zhi and Wang Wan entered the cave.
This is an underground passage; before the apocalypse, you could use this passage to reach another street in front of the financial building.
These are all things mentioned in the materials Zhang Zhaohe gave her.
The passage to the fourth floor is located below this point.
"Holy crap, there are dead bodies here, lots of dead bodies." Wang Wan held a torch, partly to test the oxygen level inside, and partly for illumination.
I never imagined there would be so many dead bodies piled up at the bottom of this passage.
Some of these people's facial features were no longer recognizable; their bodies were decomposed and frozen beneath the ice. They were likely people who drowned during the great flood when water failed to drain from the passage, and the extreme cold subsequently froze their rotting corpses.
Another group was found above the bottom ice layer, with limbs and facial features still intact, likely having died in the cave after the extreme cold.
"How pitiful. Of the millions in Jiangcheng, it's uncertain whether even half a million are still alive," Yan Zhi sighed.
“Sometimes I dream that my parents are living well in Wancheng, but now I’m not so sure.” Wang Wan’s nose tingled with emotion.
He really misses his parents, so much.
These are all living, breathing human lives. No one can remain cold-hearted and indifferent in the face of such a disaster. We are all human beings, not stones.
Seeing someone else's corpse, you might find yourself joining them in the journey to the underworld the next second.
Jiang Zhi felt only sorrow, sorrow for the world, sorrow for humanity.
"Let's go, being alive is the greatest fortune."
Jiang Zhi looked down at the path beside her feet. In fact, there was no path. They were standing on a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, struggling to survive.
There was a hidden door in the wall. But when you cut open the lock, you found that part of the door was stuck under the ice.
It was time for the detonator to be used again. Detonators are relatively weak explosives, powerful enough to break through solid ice without causing damage to the tunnel tower, which is why Jiang Zhi used it.
If it were a hand grenade or other type of explosive, this passage probably wouldn't be able to withstand it.
The detonator blasted a large hole in the door, and only after the air had circulated could Jiang Zhi and the other two step inside.
There's another door inside, which should have been an electronic door, but now that the power's out, the door is completely sealed and can't be opened.
"Good heavens, how many doors are there? Could this be some secret base for conducting bacterial experiments?" Wang Wan kicked the door hard. He didn't expect that the force was mutual. He didn't know if the door would hurt, but Wang Wan felt like his toes were about to break.
"Ouch~" Wang Wan was in so much pain that he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Take it easy, you can't even be serious when doing tasks." Yan Zhi didn't know what to say anymore, this kid is always like this.
Jiang Zhi said to Wang Wan, "See if there are any living creatures inside."
"Okay." Wang Wan immediately sensed the situation: "There are two doors, an elevator, and a staircase inside. It should lead to the fourth basement level. There are no living creatures there."
"good."
Jiang Zhi took out a detonator and stuck it by the door.
After the explosion, surprisingly, the door only had a crack, not a large hole as before.
Waterloo.
However, more powerful explosives could not be used.
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