Chi Xiaoyu gave Qi Feng a cold look before putting away her gun.
Shen Zhou drove the car to a hardware store about 2 kilometers away from the prison. After everyone got out of the car, he drove it to a wasteland behind the hardware store and hid it there before going into the hardware store with the others.
This is a completely rural area, and the surrounding area is sparsely populated. In addition, the zombies in the vicinity are attracted by the sounds and light from the prison, so you can hardly see any zombies or living people on the road.
After entering the hardware store, the group discovered that it had also been looted.
Everything edible in the store had been looted, the shelves had been overturned, and various hardware and building materials were scattered all over the place.
The shop owner was shot in the head.
Judging from the state of his body, he did not turn into a zombie when he was shot in the head; he was clearly killed by people who came in to loot supplies.
Besides the masked man, there shouldn't be anyone else in this area who possesses firearms and can rob others' supplies with impunity.
Seeing this, everyone was furious. Those masked men were truly despicable. If they hadn't dug the irrigation ditch outside the community, they might be dead and have no place to bury their bodies, just like the hardware store owner.
The hardware store owner had been dead for some time, and the place reeked of a foul odor.
The stench almost made several people vomit.
But this is the only hardware store around here, so they have no choice but to hide here.
Fortunately, the hardware store had a back door. Shen Zhou opened the back door to ventilate the area, and then he and Li Jianguo dragged the body to the wasteland behind the store. Thinking that the store owner was also a pitiful person, Shen Zhou went back into the store to find a shovel and dug a simple grave for the deceased behind the building, so that he could be laid to rest.
After the body was dragged away, a pile of unhatched maggots remained on the ground. Fang Yuyang found a broom and swept the ground clean.
Considering the possibility of corpse poisoning after such a long period of time, Qiao An'an wanted to find something to disinfect the place. Before the apocalypse, they had experienced a three-year-long plague, and normal households would keep some disinfectant supplies on hand. After searching for a while, she found half a bottle of 84 disinfectant in the bathroom near the back door of the hardware store. She took the disinfectant and carefully sprayed it on the original location of the corpse.
Qi Feng and Chi Ming found some very sharp nails at a hardware store and scattered them all over the road. To be on the safe side, they scattered them not only at the intersections but also at the corners.
By the time Shen Zhou and Li Jianguo had finished burying the hardware store owner, the air in the house had been mostly replaced.
Behind the hardware store was a small room with a bed. Shen Zhou told the two ladies, Qiao An'an and Chi Xiaoyu, to rest on the small bed in the back, while he and several other men took turns keeping watch by the window.
The night was very quiet.
There was no sound at all.
The next day, when the sun was high in the sky, the group did not see the masked man's car pass by. Instead, their stomachs began to rumble with hunger.
They had already eaten the self-heating hot pot in the car.
Now all that's left are snacks and instant noodles.
Several people each opened a packet of instant noodles and ate it.
Because the hardware store had no electricity or drinking water, they couldn't boil water and could only eat dry instant noodles with drinks.
Eating instant noodle cakes dry has almost no flavor.
When Qiao An'an was a child, she used to eat instant noodles as a snack. She would tear open the instant noodle bag, take out the dry powder packet inside, sprinkle the dry powder into the instant noodles, then tighten the instant noodle bag, squeeze the noodle cake inside with her hands, crush the noodle cake completely, and mix it with the powder packet to get a delicious bag of crispy noodles.
Chi Xiaoyu didn't quite understand why Qiao An'an would smash the perfectly good flatbread: "How are we supposed to eat it if it's broken?"
Qiao An'an remembered that Chi Xiaoyu was born in the 2000s. When she was born, the standard of living was already very good. In addition, her family was very well-off. She certainly wouldn't eat instant noodles as a snack like she did when she was a child. Naturally, she wouldn't understand how delicious instant noodles are after adding seasoning and crushing them.
To teach Chi Xiaoyu a lesson.
Qiao An'an opened the bag and said to Chi Xiaoyu, "It tastes better when it's broken up. Try it if you don't believe me."
Chi Xiaoyu took the instant noodle bag that Qiao An'an had knocked over, took out the spoon she hadn't used when eating self-heating hot pot before, took a bite, and her eyes lit up: "Delicious."
Everyone was eating dry instant noodles.
Suddenly, the vibration of a car driving by came from the road outside the hardware store.
A truck drove up.
And it was the same kind of truck that the masked man had driven away from their neighborhood before.
However, this vehicle is now fully armed, with iron bars installed on the windows and iron chains wrapped around the tires, making it difficult for ordinary weapons to breach.
However, the addition of chains increases the friction between the car and the road, making it feel cumbersome to drive and resulting in a very slow speed.
Seeing the car like this, Chi Ming couldn't help but worry: "Can the nails we scattered really puncture the tires?"
Shen Zhou wasn't sure either, but he still held onto a sliver of hope: "That chain is for bulletproof protection. To make it easier for the tires to move, there are holes in the chain. We scattered so many nails, there will always be one or two that get stuck. As soon as the tire goes flat, they'll have to get out and change it, and then we'll launch our attack."
Everyone agreed with Chen Zhou's point, so they put away their food, gripped their weapons, held their breath, and looked outside, ready to attack the people outside at any moment.
The car rumbled over the nails on the road, and even after it reached the corner, there was still no sign of a punctured tire.
The crowd panicked upon seeing this.
If the nails don't work, they can't stop the truck, and if they can't stop the truck, they can't kill the masked man and take his place.
Just as everyone was hesitating whether to rush out and confront the masked man head-on.
Suddenly, an SUV appeared on the road.
The SUV had also been modified, with several very sharp steel spikes erected at the front, the very tips of which were sharpened to an extremely fine point. Now, the SUV was hurtling towards the truck at a very high speed.
Trucks are inherently slower than SUVs, and with bulletproof chains on their tires, they're even slower.
There was simply no way to escape the impact of the off-road vehicle.
Under normal circumstances, a truck can knock an SUV off its side.
However, there were nearly two meters of sharp steel bars standing upright in front of the SUV. Before the truck could even knock the SUV away, these steel bars would pierce into the truck's cab.
People are afraid of death.
These bad guys wearing ghost masks are no exception.
At the last moment, the driver slammed on the brakes, opened the door, and escaped. The other passengers in the car also fled in their own cars, as no one could be sure whether the collision would cause an explosion.
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