The buildings near Jinmen Port were too close to the tsunami epicenter, so little of value could be found.
The biggest winner was a buffet restaurant on the top floor of the building.
Large quantities of frozen beef and mutton, hundreds of kilograms of cured bacon, dozens of cases of beer and soft drinks, dozens of bags of rice and flour, hundreds of barrels of cooking oil, and various condiments in varying quantities.
There weren't many vegetables, only cabbage, radishes, and potatoes that could be stored for a long time. As for fruit, there were only apples and citrus fruits.
We collected more than a dozen 50-kilogram gas cylinders.
After collecting supplies from several buildings, Zuo Ling rode her motorcycle towards Kyoto. The further she went, the more upset she became. The ice seemed endless, and she felt like a lonely ghost wandering the world alone.
No, it was a person and a rabbit wandering around.
The road signs were all destroyed, and the sky and ice merged into one. She was terrible with directions, so she was even more disoriented.
Relying on the offline map downloaded in advance, we stumbled and struggled forward.
They traveled and collected supplies along the way.
We collected several thousand cars, trucks, and vans.
Most of them were frozen in ice, and those that were easy to collect were collected by Zuo Ling. Those frozen inside the ice layer were not collected.
Cars that have been soaked in ice water are probably unusable. They are collected so that they can be dismantled and sold for parts later.
I tried using the ice ability a few times and found that it wasn't inexhaustible. Once it was depleted, it required a recovery period, so I dared not use it casually anymore.
Use an ice axe to pry what you can, use a crowbar to smash what you can't pry, and use a chainsaw if you can't smash through what you can't smash through.
Walking and stopping, when passing a dilapidated broken bridge, I found a person frozen somewhere under the bridge.
The man was frozen to the door, one hand gripping the doorknob, his face filled with horror, as if he had been frozen in place for a moment.
After determining the direction, a dilapidated iron billboard read "Supermarket X".
Looking across the street, there's another large billboard with the same sign: "[Supermarket Name]".
I remember now, there's a supermarket on each side, one is a large foreign chain supermarket, and the other is a domestic private chain supermarket.
Both supermarkets have two floors, one above ground and one below.
The two stores, located opposite each other, would launch significant promotional activities during holidays such as May Day, National Day, and Chinese New Year, leading to fierce competition. She and Zheng Ming used to frequently come here for large-scale shopping.
Perhaps because they were separated by the bridge, the two shops did not appear to be badly damaged from the outside.
Zuo Ling had an idea and decided to go to the supermarket where people were frozen.
The man was dressed like a warehouse manager, and the door he came out of was probably the warehouse entrance.
Using his special abilities, he cut a cube the width of a person out of the ice block in front of the door, and removed the person and the ice block together.
The door wasn't locked, and not much seawater had seeped in; it was mostly concentrated at the entrance.
Zuo Ling wasn't paying attention and slipped, almost falling. She steadied herself, put on her headlamp, and looked inside.
Outside was a small room, cluttered with empty cardboard boxes and crates.
Inside is a large warehouse of five or six thousand square meters, divided into several partitions.
Daily necessities, snack foods, dairy products, alcohol, beverages, mineral water, rice, flour, cooking oil, dried goods, home textiles and clothing, maternity and baby products, small appliances...
All the goods, including the shelves, were thrown into the space.
Further inside, there was a cold storage room, which was locked. We used the key we got from Tang Fei to open the door.
Meat products, fruits and vegetables, semi-cooked foods, dairy products, ice cream, and popsicles are all thrown into the space.
After clearing the warehouse, find the supermarket entrance and clean out all the goods inside the supermarket.
There are two more floors above the supermarket, one for women's clothing and one for men's clothing. On the men's clothing floor, there are two stores selling children's clothing.
Zuo Ling walked through each floor, leaving it empty, not even missing the cash register.
The supermarket across the street isn't as sturdy as this one; it got flooded, and the entire basement is frozen solid.
Fortunately, the warehouse was on the first floor, and the supplies received were no less than those from the previous supplier.
Outside the supermarket, there's a shop selling medicinal liquor, a shop selling tea, and a cake shop.
Zuo Ling liked large wine jars; if they weren't broken, she would take them all.
I received both vacuum-packed and sealed glass-bottled tea.
Most of the flour in the cake shop had become waterlogged, so Zuo Ling took some sugar, milk powder, butter, and eggs that were still in their original packaging.
Oven, tools, cake molds, and even a cake stand—nothing was left out.
There was a surprise upstairs: not only a pharmacy, but also an outdoor gear store. I didn't even have time to check it out before taking the entire store, including the display cases.
After finishing collecting everything, Zuo Ling didn't want to collect any more and wanted to get home as soon as possible.
Not far from the supermarket, the ground suddenly trembled, followed by a massive earthquake.
Caught off guard, Zuo Ling and her motorcycle tumbled forward. The ice was slippery, and she fell a long way, the waterfall letting out a loud scream.
Damn, earthquake!
Ignoring the motorcycle, Zuo Ling sprinted upwards, threw out the tiger claw rope, and with a leap, darted into the space.
The sky and earth changed color, dark clouds rolled in, and thunder roared from the ground.
A series of explosions rang out, the wind howled, and the clouds rolled so low they seemed almost within reach.
Zuo Ling watched helplessly as the two supermarkets she had just raided collapsed.
The ice surface cracked inch by inch like a spider web, and the motorcycle fell into a crack and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The surrounding buildings exposed on the ice, including the high bridge she had just used as leverage, collapsed one after another like dominoes.
Another loud bang followed, and seawater, two or three stories high, poured down from the sky, scooping up the toys it had hidden under the ice the night before, roaring forward with the force to split mountains and shatter rocks.
Wave after wave crashed down, making Zuo Ling's heart tremble.
The waterfall, its eyes brimming with tears of pain, stretched out its paws to tell Zuo Ling that it had been hurt.
He patted the little guy and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
Spray some medicine on its paws, sigh, and remember, there will be many more unexpected things to come; you'll have to learn to adapt.
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