Chapter 22: Zero-dollar Shopping in the End of the World (1)
At this time, there was a noise outside. A few people looked outside and found that it was the rescue team. The disaster was progressing faster and faster, and they really had to leave this place.
A man in an orange vest on the small yacht shouted with a loud speaker: "Rescue has arrived, we will take you to the shelter now. Please give priority to the elderly, women and children!"
When the villagers and survivors from other villages saw the rescue team coming, their hearts were filled with joy and tears of joy filled their eyes.
When they were out of ammunition and food, rescue finally arrived.
Then a group of people reacted and rushed to climb onto the yacht.
"Everyone, please don't rush. Try to take the necessary items with you. Leave all the unimportant items behind and don't take up extra space."
As if he had expected this, the camouflage-clad man in the lead shouted, "Didn't you hear me? Elderly people, women, and children are given priority. Get on the yacht in an orderly manner. There are several yachts coming over from behind. No one should be in a hurry."
The crowd calmed down for a while, then became crowded again, everyone wanted to save their lives.
"Why should I give way to others? I want to go first!" A bald man sat on the yacht and refused to give up his seat. "My life is also my life."
Another man even pulled his pregnant wife down and said, "Wife, I want to live. Please, give me your seat!"
The woman looked at the shameless man in disbelief, "I'm pregnant."
"So what if she's pregnant? We don't even know if it's mine!" The man immediately changed his expression in an emergency.
He pulled the woman down with all his strength and sat on it without caring about anything. No matter what the people around him said, it was useless.
The woman looked at her husband in disbelief, who had been gentle and considerate to her before. They were each other's first love and she was sure the child was each other's. But now he was saying such disgusting words just to drive her off the boat.
"Young man, your wife is pregnant. For the sake of your next generation, you should let her go first!"
The man glared and said, "What's it to you! You old bastard, I won't give way if you are the one to do it!" He just sat there and refused to move, and the others were helpless.
There was also a filial son who actually let his old father get down and climbed up himself, saying, "Dad, since there is a boat coming behind, please let your son go first. You are old and one leg is buried in the ground. You should always leave some hope for the young people."
As a result, most of the people who squeezed onto the ship were strong men, while the elderly, the weak and the sick were squeezed off.
In times of crisis, human nature can be seen.
Some people saw that the boat was full and insisted on squeezing on board. The soldiers who were maintaining order saw that no one was following orders, so they took out their guns and fired a shot into the air, "Follow orders! If you don't follow orders again, you'll be shot!"
In an instant, everyone was shocked. Several yachts behind also docked, and the soldiers directed the villagers to board the boats one by one.
After the first yacht sailed out, a huge tail suddenly appeared on the water.
Ding Manman and Qin Muxue had been observing the situation from behind, and did not move forward to join the crowd. "Xiaoxue, what do you see there?"
The huge tail swept towards the moving yacht, and its speed was so fast that it could catch up with the fast-moving yacht. Its bloody mouth opened and bit off the engine of the yacht. The gasoline floated on the water, and the people on the boat screamed in horror.
"Help! Save me!" However, it was all in vain. The floating snake head swallowed the man in one gulp, and a pool of red blood suddenly appeared on the water surface.
Qin Muxue shouted: "That's a giant python!"
There was actually a mutated giant python lurking in the water, and it seemed to have evolved intelligence. It only targeted young and strong men. The soldier driving the yacht reacted quickly and went ashore again, dragging up the only child on the yacht. The rest of the people were all killed by the snake.
The soldiers on the shore wanted to shoot, but the giant python was very smart. It could identify the direction of the bullet by the sound and dodge extremely quickly.
Everyone was trembling with fear. They had only seen this scene on TV, but now it was happening right before their eyes, and it was shocking.
The pregnant woman with a big belly was just feeling resentful and felt that she had married the wrong person, but now she was glad that she did not get on the yacht, otherwise she and her child would have died.
Her legs went weak and she fell to the ground and burst into tears.
Everyone was silent, and this time, no one dared to get on the yacht.
Rescue arrived, but a new crisis arose.
At this time, the weather seemed to be against them, and it started to rain heavily again. Seeing the water level rising higher and higher, everyone was anxious and had to watch out for the giant python in the water coming ashore to attack humans at any time.
Qin Muxue returned to the house leisurely and began to pack up things, collecting all the useful pots, pans, clothes and the like and throwing them into the space.
Seeing this, Ding Manman had no choice but to start cleaning up. She felt very sad thinking that the ancestral house would soon be washed away by the flood.
"It would be great if I could take the house with me."
"It may not be impossible to take the house away." There is still a lot of space in Qin Muxue's space. If possible, she can put the house into the space and take it away, but she has not tried it yet.
There were the sounds of gunfire on the shore. The soldiers tried to kill the giant python, but unfortunately the python seemed to understand the humans' intentions and hid under the water and refused to come out.
After Qin Muxue had finished tidying up, she asked Ding Manman, "What flavor of instant noodles do you want to eat?"
"Braised beef, please!"
Qin Muxue calmly prepared a bowl of braised beef noodles and a bowl of beef noodles with pickled cabbage. After preparing them, she pushed them in front of Ding Manman and said, "Eat!"
Ding Manman did feel a little hungry, and the weather was getting colder and colder, making her shiver. A bowl of hot instant noodles was still very tempting at this time.
She took the instant noodles and started eating. "Xiaoxue, do you have any good ideas?"
Qin Muxue drank up all the soup from the instant noodles and said with a smile, "There is a way."
She stretched lazily, picked up her bow and arrow, and walked to the highest point. "It's dangerous ahead. You take care of Baozhu here. Zhenzhu, come with me."
Zhenzhu followed Qin Muxue with brisk cat steps.
It is dark now. Except for a few lights where the yacht is docked, the rest of the place is pitch black.
Qin Muxue knocked on the door of Qu Yanbai's house first. He was smoking. When he saw Qin Muxue coming, he put out his cigarette and said, "Why are you here so late?"
The two of them took Pearl to the hillside and began to prepare to kill the giant python.
It was pitch black all around. Qin Muxue held a bow and arrow, put on night vision goggles, and observed the movements on the water.
“The equipment is quite complete.”
He also had a night vision goggles, but they were obviously not as advanced as Qin Muxue's. Qin Muxue threw a night vision goggles out of her backpack and said, "Use it. You don't have to return it!"
"Then I won't be polite." After Qu Yanbai put on the night vision goggles, he found that the view was indeed clearer than the ones he bought.
"There's something moving on your left, near the trees."
"Got it." Qin Muxue took out a bow and arrow, took out some raw pork from his pocket and threw it into the water.
The python smelled the blood, but its intelligence had evolved. Although the smell of food was attractive, it was alert and did not dare to go over easily.
The water surface was calm and the giant python lay there motionless.
“It’s not moving.”
Qu Yanbai walked forward and quietly came to the spot on the shore closest to the python. "We should be able to shoot him from this spot!"
There is only one chance, and neither of them dares to slack off. For the sake of their family and friends, they must get rid of this most threatening creature.
Although Qin Muxue could not see the giant python's true location, she could feel its restlessness.
It wanted to go ashore and kill people, but the people who fell into the water just now could not satisfy its appetite at all.
The giant python moved quietly, but it could not escape the pair of cat eyes next to Qin Muxue. Pearl was an agile country cat and was very curious about all moving objects. She could see any slight movement around her.
"Pearl, do you feel anything?" Qin Muxue asked softly.
Pearl did not answer, but her eyeballs gradually became round. The moment the giant python came ashore, she instantly turned into a huge form. During this period, her mental strength was very abundant, and she actually became several times larger than the tiger.
In her eyes, the giant python was just a toy. She pounced on it and bit its neck, and the python's blood spurted out immediately.
The two no longer hesitated. Qin Muxue nimbly shot arrows in the direction of the giant python, while Qu Yanbai took a machete and chopped at the python's body. Vines emerged from the surrounding bushes and tied up the giant python tightly. Facing the attack of two people and a cat, it swept its huge tail, but was bitten off by Zhenzhu.
Finally, the blood slowly drained away and the python stopped moving. Pearl teased the python's body like bending its prey, and when she saw that it had no reaction, she lost interest.
Qu Yanbai cut off the snake's head, cut it open, and took out a transparent crystal core from it. "The crystal core is quite large. Most of it is due to you and your cat. This should belong to you!"
He threw the bloody crystal core to Qin Muxue, who almost threw it away in disgust.
Qin Muxue still held back the feeling of nausea, washed the crystal core in the water, and threw it into the space.
All evolved organisms have crystal nuclei, which represent the level of evolution.
The primary one is a transparent crystal core, the intermediate one is a pink crystal core, and the advanced one is a red crystal core. The higher the level of the crystal core, the stronger the mental power it contains. Although this one is transparent, it is relatively large in size, so it should contain a lot of mental power.
This time, even she did not expect Pearl to be so powerful.
There was quite a lot of noise on their side, so the group of soldiers soon came over following the sound. Qin Muxue asked Zhenzhu to throw the giant python's body into the flood, and the two men rode on her and returned home.
Ding Manman looked at the two men, both of whom were covered in blood, and felt a little worried.
"Don't be afraid, it's all the blood of the giant python, we're fine!" Qin Muxue explained.
But this time it seemed that they had to give Pearl a bath again. Thinking of the last experience of bathing Pearl, they both shook their heads at the same time. It was too painful to look back!
Grandma Qu ran over in a hurry, "Xiao Qin, you know some medical skills, go and take a look, Xiao Qian seems to be about to give birth! She is at my house now!"
Qin Muxue glanced at Qu Yanbai, who sighed, "I owe you this time, go check on her and see if she's okay!"
The medical treatments Qin Muxue saw were all about viral diseases. This was her first time seeing anything about childbirth, but she vaguely remembered some of the content. Now she had no choice but to go and see the doctor.
When Qin Muxue arrived, Qian Xinran's water had already broken. She gritted her teeth but did not shed a single tear.
Her heartless husband had just died in the mouth of a python this afternoon, and now the baby was about to be born.
Qin Muxue asked Grandma Qu to boil some hot water first. She had some basic medical equipment. She put on gloves, observed her lower body, and found that the baby's head was already visible.
Time is urgent. If the yacht goes to the shelter again, it will definitely be too late. Now we can only deliver the baby on the spot.
This was the first time Ding Manman had seen such a bloody scene. She was stunned for a moment. Qin Muxue reminded her: "Manman, sit next to her, hold her hand, let her breathe in and out, and relax."
Ding Manman directed Qian Xinran to breathe according to Qin Muxue's instructions.
Qin Muxue was observing the child's condition. Perhaps because the food was not very good during this period, her belly did not look very big. The child was small, so the mother would suffer less.
Qian Xinran screamed loudly. The frequency of contractions became higher and higher, and the baby came out little by little.
"I told you to use force, so you use force." Qin Muxue shouted.
"Okay, now push harder!"
Qian Xinran followed the instructions and started to push, and half of the baby's head came out.
"Keep pushing!"
The whole head came out, only the shoulders were still stuck there.
Qin Muxue exerted some strength, and Qian Xinran was in so much pain that she could hardly shout out, "I'm sorry, I don't have the strength anymore."
"If you can't hold on, how will the child survive without a father and a mother?" Qin Muxue's tone was flat, but this sentence gave Qian Xinran tremendous strength.
This is the baby she has been carrying for ten months. He is about to be born, and she must hold on.
The pain in her lower body finally made her cry, "Just cry if you want to!"
The moment she cried, the child's shoulder finally came out. Qin Muxue caught the bloody child and said, "It's a boy."
Qian Xinran fainted from the tremendous pain.
Qin Muxue looked at the tiny baby in her arms, just a tiny piece of life, with its eyes closed, not crying.
She gently tapped the soles of his feet, and the child cried out "Wow". Just at this moment, Grandma Qu brought warm water.
"Grandma Qu, please wash the child and wrap him in clean clothes." Now she also had to treat Qian Xinran's wound.
At that moment just now, she had a magical feeling in her heart as she witnessed the birth of a new life.
During this disaster, she actually delivered a newborn baby with her own hands.
But before she could sigh, after taking a deep breath, she began to look at Qian Xinran's lower body, which seemed to be torn apart.
The placenta had not been expelled yet, but Qian Xinran had already fallen into a coma. She could only squeeze her stomach hard, and a large amount of blood and water was discharged from her lower body, and the placenta was also expelled intact.
She breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she had received a safety education video before, which mentioned the birth process and some operations of the midwife. This time, the delivery could only be considered as good luck.
She knows some tailoring skills. Her original major was fashion design, so she knows a little about handicraft.
Qin Muxue gritted her teeth and sewed her lower body with medical thread. When the last stitch was completed, beads of sweat appeared on her head.
Qin Muxue breathed a sigh of relief, but Ding Manman was also worried about her.
"Xiaoxue, I didn't expect you to have such a skill."
"It's just a blind cat catching a dead mouse. There's really no other way to deal with this medical situation. I just wanted to give it a try. There's no doctor nearby, so this is the only way."
Grandma Qu was holding a child, but instead of her own grandson's child, she was holding her neighbor's child. The baby had a pair of clear black eyes, which were very cute. Both of them were moved, but his mother was still in a coma.
Grandma Qu said: "These are the clothes, milk powder, and diapers that Xiao Qian prepared for the child. I am too old to use these things."
Ding Manman volunteered to put on diapers and small clothes for the baby. His body was still red, and his hands and feet were very tiny. She was very careful for fear of hurting the child.
Qian Xinran woke up and saw the child next to her who was safe and sound. She felt relieved that she had escaped death. "Thank you, you saved me and my child."
By the time everything was done, it was almost dawn.
Qin Muxue looked at the time on her watch. In fact, she had other things to deal with. This night was destined to be sleepless. "Qu Yanbai, the matter has been resolved. Now you and I need to go somewhere. By the way, you lead the way."
Qu Yanbai used to be a mercenary, so he has a very good sense of direction and knows the terrain near Taoyuan Village very well.
When he saw the huge luxury yacht in front of him, he couldn't help but be shocked. Qin Muxue explained, "No, I took the wrong one." Then she took the yacht back. In front of him was a much smaller rescue yacht that could only seat three or four people.
"Save some gas, this is enough for the two of us."
Qu Yanbai couldn't help but sigh: "I really envy your special ability, it's really useful."
"Don't be envious. Your ability is more aggressive."
She threw two sets of clothes to Qu Yanbai, "A bulletproof vest and a slash-proof suit, double insurance, it can save your life if you encounter danger."
It was quite cold at night, so Qin Muxue put on a down jacket and stuck hot packs all over her body, which made her feel a lot more comfortable.
The two drove the yacht along the uninhabited shore towards the city, and took the opportunity to go to the city for some free shopping.
The city was seven or eight kilometers away from Taoyuan Village, but in the dark, it took the two men two full hours to arrive.
Qu Yanbai pointed to the front and said, "There seems to be a large supermarket there, but I don't know if it's still there."
When we arrived at the supermarket, we found that the first and second floors were flooded, leaving only the third floor undamaged.
The two men jumped down, holding flashlights, put away the yacht, and began searching the supermarket.
The third floor is the electrical appliances, clothing and daily necessities area. Qin Muxue has given up on the electrical appliances that were soaked in water. She threw some intact appliances, such as extra-large-screen TVs, high-end refrigerators, microwave ovens, rice cookers, and washing machines, into the space. Qu Yanbai was walking in front and didn't notice Qin Muxue's little actions at all.
His target was the clothing area, where there were many clothes hanging, all kinds of underwear, socks, thermal underwear, down jackets, "Xiao Qin, take some of all sizes."
Qin Muxue was too lazy to look at them and just threw them all in. Actually, there were already quite a few clothes in her space, but Qu Yanbai and Grandma Qu also needed to wear clothes.
When she walked to the children's area and saw so many strange toys, she couldn't help but throw a few in, and even took a crib.
Seeing that the down quilts in the supermarket had not been wetted by water, Qu Yanbai's eyes lit up and he asked Qin Muxue to pack them all quickly.
Qu Yanbai looked down from the third floor and could see bottles and cans in the wine area floating on the water. "What a pity! Usually we have to buy hundreds or thousands of bottles of wine, but now they have to soak in the flood."
He walked up the stairs and fished out a few bottles. The bottles were sealed tightly, so the wine was still drinkable. "Do you mind if I take some back?"
Qin Muxue just took the drinks and threw them into the space.
Qu Yanbai also found that the cigarette counter was not flooded. For people who are addicted to smoking, these are good things.
Just when I was about to continue searching, I noticed a light not far away and the sound of several people talking. It seemed that there were other people in this place searching for supplies.
The two quickly hid behind the shelves and found that there were only a few young students. After the footsteps faded away, the two poked their heads out again and said, "We have collected almost everything. Let's go to the parking lot on the ground floor first!"
The parking lot was full of all kinds of cars, but there was flood water below and these cars had no way to leave. Qin Muxue took a quick look and picked out a few large SUVs. This was to prevent the vehicles from breaking down, so that they could be used as backups. Besides, if the car broke down, she could just get some parts from these cars.
The two hurried to the next location, which was a high-end shopping mall with eight floors.
The first and second floors had been flooded, so the two went straight to the third floor, which was also full of clothes. However, they were all super expensive luxury goods, with beautiful dresses, but Qu Yanbai felt that they were not practical.
Qin Muxue shook her head and said, "You don't understand." She threw all the clothes into the space.
Girls, even if you have the conditions in the end times, you still have to dress yourself up well. Besides, these are all free, it would be a waste not to take them.
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