Escape the Library

【Gene mutation-05】

Next up is the long trek to City F, and it is imperative to stock up on enough food, water and gasoline.

However, all the shops on the street were locked. Yue Xingwen glanced around and did not see any convenience stores and supermarkets nearby. He simply turned around and asked, "Professor Tang, do you know where there is a supermarket?"

Professor Tang is a researcher at the Academy of Biological Sciences. Having lived in this city for a while, he is naturally much more familiar with the surrounding environment than Yuexingwen. Hearing this, he pointed his finger at the fork in front of him and said, "Turn left in front of you and walk a block forward. There is a large supermarket next to the shopping plaza."

Yue Xingwen simply called his name and said, "Senior Brother Xu, Senior Brother Zhuo Feng, Senior Brother Liu, Sister Manluo, the four of you stay in the car, and the others follow me!"

Xu Yishen drove the bus around the front corner and saw a four-storey shopping plaza.

However, the next scene made everyone's eyes widen.

I saw a large number of human corpses on the wide square!

The densely packed human corpses are just like throwing garbage, piled up there at will. There were old people, young men and women, and many children with open eyes, with blood holes all over their foreheads from gunshots.

The corpses were rotting, smelly, and surrounded by flies.

The corpses in the entire square are shocking!

Ke Shaobin was so disgusted that he almost vomited, he hurriedly turned his head, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Qin Miao said with a cold face: "They treat human beings as garbage? After killing them, they don't even bother to dispose of the corpses, so do they just throw them away?!"

Qin Lu bit her lip tightly: "A lot of children, too, too miserable..."

Jiang Pingce said solemnly: "It seems that this city has been bloodbathed by mutants for a round, and the residents are either killed or fled, and there are not many living people left."

Yue Xingwen clenched his fists tightly: "These are mutants. They treat human beings as insignificant rubbish. They want to completely control the right to speak in the whole world. If they encounter disobedient humans, just kill them?"

Professor Tang's face was pale, and he said in a trembling voice, "The situation is worse than what my superiors told me."

Even rotten leaves in the vegetable market should be thrown into the trash can, and even rotten leaves are not as good as throwing human corpses everywhere.

The cold wind blew past, and the posters posted on the square fluttered in the wind, making a "wow" sound. There is a huge signboard of "Life Supermarket" next to the square. The signboard was smashed and half hung there, with a lot of dazzling blood stains on it.

Xu Yishen braked to stop the bus, and Yue Xingwen led his teammates to get off the bus quickly.

There was a strong smell of corpses in the air, which almost made people spit out. Everyone immediately covered their mouths and noses, quickly bypassed the pile of corpses in the square, and trotted all the way to the supermarket.

The supermarket was locked from the inside, and Yue Xingwen looked at Zhang Xiaonian: "Xiao Nian, dig."

The younger brother immediately started the excavator to dig up the iron gate, and Yue Xingwen took the lead and rushed into the supermarket—

The inside of the supermarket is in a mess. The food, tobacco and alcohol on the shelves have long been looted. The fish and shrimp in the fresh food area fell all over the floor in the chaos, exuding a rotten smell. The whole supermarket seems to have just suffered a catastrophe!

Yue Xingwen's eyes swept across the supermarket quickly, and said, "It seems that the residents of this city have already robbed the supermarket once, let's look to see if there are any left."

The mutants cleaned the city, some humans were killed, and some humans fled in panic. When chaos occurs, it is the instinctive reaction of humans to grab food first. All the shelves in the supermarket have almost no neat place. The shelves for milk and mineral water have been swept away, and the snack areas such as cookies and chocolate are all empty at first glance.

Ke Shaobin said disappointedly: "All the food has been robbed, and there is nothing left..."

Zhang Xiaonian stared blankly at the wine shelf, and whispered, "Even the red and white wines have been taken away by more than half. Are these people still robbing wine at a critical moment?!"

Yue Xingwen said: "It may be that the supermarket was out of control at that time, and some people were greedy for petty profits, so they grabbed some wine and went out."

He walked quickly around the empty shelves ahead. There were only a few packets of salted biscuits with the worst taste left in the snack area. There were only 12 of them, and they were not enough for a meal.

The beverage area was also evacuated, and only two or three bottles of juice were left on the ground.

Residents nearby have already robbed the supermarket, and are they picking up leaks? How can there be so many leaks for them to pick up? !

Jiang Pingce said: "Look to see if there is any warehouse in the supermarket."

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Okay, everyone is looking for them separately, pay attention to safety."

The items on the shelves were looted, but there must be warehouses for storing goods in the supermarket. Maybe the residents put the warehouses in the chaos, and they can still find some supplies?

With this little hope, everyone went to the supermarket to look for it.

Soon, Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen found a warehouse in the corner of the supermarket.

But to the disappointment of the two, the residents had already looted the warehouse, and the contents of the warehouse were almost emptied, leaving only a few torn boxes littered in the corners.

Yue Xingwen walked over and lifted the box to take a look, and said helplessly: "The three boxes of milk are all expired." Drinking expired milk will cause diarrhea, so naturally they can't take these things to escape. He looked at Jiang Pingce: "Where are you?"

Jiang Pingce said: "These two boxes of mineral water are still within the shelf life and can be drunk."

The two looked at each other and reluctantly went out with two large boxes of mineral water.

Lan Yarong's voice came from the right: "I found a few schoolbags from the box at the bottom of the shelf."

The two took a few steps forward, and saw that Senior Sister Lan was carrying a few cute schoolbags with cartoon Mickey Mouse painted on them, mainly pink and red. These big boys over 1.8 meters will look very strange with cute children's schoolbags on their backs.

But now is not the time to struggle with the style of the schoolbag, as long as it can be used.

Yue Xingwen said: "Take them all."

At this moment, Ke Shaobin's voice came from the corner in front: "There is a storage room here!"

Yue Xingwen put the mineral water into the shopping cart pushed by Senior Sister Lan, and walked quickly towards the direction of the voice.

Ke Shaobin was standing in the grains section of the supermarket, next to a small locked door.

The rice, flour, oil, and various beans that had been placed outside had been looted, and the flour was scattered all over the floor. Since the door was locked and covered by a curtain, the residents were busy grabbing other things, but they didn't force the door to grab the grains.

Jiang Pingce raised his right hand, and a sharp triangular ruler shot out from his palm, instantly severing the iron lock.

Ke Shaobin hurriedly opened the door and found that there were a lot of red beans, mung beans, soybeans, peanuts, red dates... all kinds of whole grains in the storage room!

Yue Xingwen said helplessly: "These grains are inconvenient to carry, but there is no other food in the supermarket. How about packing some grains in a book to go back? As long as you can eat them, you'll be fine."

Ke Shaobin helped his glasses and frowned tangled: "However, except for red dates and peanuts, which can be eaten directly, you can't eat them raw, right? You can't chew raw beans every day in the future?"

Xin Yan suddenly said, "I can steam these with a still."

Everyone looked back at him suspiciously.

Xin Yan explained: "Don't worry, my distillation bottle is new every time I take it out, and the size can be changed at will. After heating it with an alcohol lamp, the inside of the bottle will become a high temperature of 100 degrees, which can be used as a steamer. As long as there is water, these miscellaneous grains can be made into soy milk, mung bean porridge, red bean porridge, longan eight-treasure porridge, etc..."

Ke Shaobin's eyes lit up: "That's great!" He looked at Xin Yan excitedly, and said, "The experimental instruments of your chemistry department can actually be used as kitchen utensils?"

Xin Yan said lightly: "That's why I changed a whole set of distillation equipment."

Yue Xingwen smiled and gave a thumbs up: "Xin Yan, you really have foresight."

In this way, you don't have to worry about missing food when you take the whole grains on the road. Compared with biscuits, instant noodles and other foods, Xin Yan uses a retort to make miscellaneous grain porridge every day, and can eat freshly cooked hot porridge, which is too rare!

Everyone excitedly picked up their schoolbags and began to frantically load miscellaneous grains into the schoolbags.

Ke Shaobin instructed: "Everyone should pack it separately. All kinds of grains are packed in a schoolbag. Don't forget the red dates and longan. It's better for girls to eat red dates and longans."

Lan Yarong chuckled lightly: "You still understand?"

Ke Shaobin's ears turned red, and he said, "I, I will pack a pack of rock candy."

Zhang Xiaonian stood beside him, dumbfounded watching his teammates quickly fill up 7 schoolbags of miscellaneous grains, and then Yue Xingwen waved his hand: "Come on!"

Everyone carried a children's schoolbag, pushed two boxes of mineral water in a shopping cart, and hurried back to the bus.

Lin Manluo saw them carrying children's schoolbags neatly from a distance. The picture was a bit funny, but she couldn't laugh. After Yue Xingwen got in the car, she immediately asked worriedly, "How is it, have you found anything to eat?"

Zhuo Feng also took a step forward and said, "Two boxes of mineral water? Yes, save some to drink, enough for us to drink for a week."

Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, "So many schoolbags are full? Are there biscuits and chocolates in the supermarket?"

Yue Xingwen walked up to Senior Brother Liu, opened the zipper of one of the schoolbags, pointed to the red beans in the schoolbag and said, "The snacks in the supermarket have all been robbed, and we only found some whole grains."

Liu Zhaoqing's smile froze: "These red beans and mung beans, no matter how good the mouth is, can't be chewed raw?"

Lin Manluo was stunned: "Is the schoolbag full of miscellaneous grains?"

Yue Xingwen said with a smile: "Don't worry, Xin Yan said, he can cook porridge for everyone."

Everyone in the car: "…"

The style of this escape team is not normal! Xin Yan, a classmate from the School of Chemistry, turned into a chef. Will he cook porridge for them every day in a retort?

Liu Zhaoqing scratched his head and smiled, "It's good to change a different kind of porridge every day."

Lin Manluo joked: "We have entered the health rhythm ahead of time? Multigrain porridge warms the stomach and is healthier than instant noodles!"

Ke Shaobin whispered, "I've read a lot of doomsday novels. When the protagonists escape, they bring chocolate, biscuits, and instant noodles the most. The ones with red beans and mung beans are definitely the first."

Everyone: "…"

What else can I do? Isn't it late and can't find cookies and chocolate?

Yue Xingwen coughed lightly and said, "Everyone sit down, hurry up and get on the highway."

Xu Yishen in the driver's seat turned his head and said, "Professor Tang has just drawn us a route map. There are two more blocks ahead, from Jinling Avenue to the Huancheng Expressway, where there happens to be a gas station. After getting on the expressway, go straight to F City. Just go in the direction."

Jiang Pingce walked over and asked, "Senior brother, do you continue to drive? Do you want to change someone?"

Xu Yishen waved his hand: "No, I'm not tired now. After dark, I'll drive at night. I have more experience driving at night than you. You two can sit next to me and learn the bus stall."

Zhuo Feng said: "Okay, in the middle of the night before you start, I will change you with Pingce in the middle of the night."

Everyone sat down, Xu Yishen drove the bus down two streets, and he saw a gas station.

The gas station was still empty. Xu Yishen, Zhuo Feng, and Jiang Pingce got out of the car, found a few discarded iron barrels, brought up a few barrels of gasoline, and sealed the iron barrels.

Yue Xingwen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Two boxes of mineral water, seven schoolbags of miscellaneous grains, and four barrels of gasoline were enough for them to stick to F city.

The premise is a smooth journey.