Survival [End Times]

They adapted well here. This place is not like the school where people gather. There are many zombies trapped in their own homes. Even if they run out, there are not many of them. No wonder Lao Cao and his friends did not return to the auditorium after they came out. As long as there is a place to stay outside, it is indeed more convenient and safer than in school.

With this express transfer point as the center, they slowly moved around and accumulated a lot of things. They had candles and flashlights, and they also changed everyone into new clothes in a clothing store. The clothing store was on the top floor of a small shopping mall. The mall was almost moved, but the scattered biscuits and candies they picked up and the mineral water under the shelves were enough for the five of them.

During this period, they encountered several waves of people. One of them wanted to rob them because they were young. Xu Tian, ​​a tall man, stood out and showed a bloody kitchen knife: "Although we are young, if you want to rob, we will fight to the death."

There are not many things, so there is no need to fight to the death. The group retreated.

Afterwards, everyone was scared and sweated. This kind of thing can only happen once, what should we do if we meet someone who is determined to fight to the death next time?

"In the future, we should avoid strangers and not meet them head-on." Yu Heng suggested. Xu Tian nodded and agreed. "Old Third is smart. In the future, you will be responsible for watching outside the door. If someone comes, we will retreat."

However, they don't have to think about these things at all today, because the heavy rain that lasted for 4 days has come, and the temperature has dropped sharply. In addition, the express transfer point is on the first floor. The water will enter the house the day after the rainstorm, making it even more damp and cold. The clothes they wore were not enough to keep warm, so they had to pack up all their belongings and drive to find a new place.

Yu Heng suggested: "Do you remember the small shopping mall before? The clothing store is on the top fifth floor. It is high enough and there are warm clothes to use."

Xu Tian: "Yes, you and I think the same thing." So they drove there. The wipers were broken, and it was difficult to drive all the way, and I couldn't even see the road clearly. Occasionally, I ran into a few zombies, and the car body was shaking violently.

Fortunately, the heavy rain seemed to cover up the sound and smell of human activities, and there was no zombie following along the way.

"Drive slowly." The second brother also said. The rain on the road rose at a speed visible to the naked eye. It should be that the entire drainage system was paralyzed, and the accumulated water could not be drained out. When they arrived at the destination and stuck the car on the steps at the entrance of the mall, the accumulated water had submerged half of the tire.

"Second brother, third brother, go in and see if there are any zombies first, be careful!" Xu Tian called out: "Chen Heng and I will keep an eye on the door, and the fourth brother quickly move the things in the car out!"

Yu Heng was on guard outside the door, and a zombie leaning against the corner of the wall stood up and rushed towards him. He dealt with the zombie very quickly, and the blade was washed by the rain, leaving dark old marks and broken gaps.

Looking up, someone was looking down from upstairs through the curtains, and quickly tightened the curtains.

"Let's go upstairs." Xu Tian called him.

The car drove into the lobby on the first floor.

"It depends on God's will. If the first floor is flooded, this car will be useless. After this rain, I don't know if I can find a usable car to drive." Xu Tian muttered a few words, and then thought that this was a troublesome matter in the future, so he didn't think about it now, which would affect his mood.

So a group of people blocked the door after checking that the clothing store on the fifth floor was safe. The door was a drop-down type and had been damaged. The second and third brothers squatted there to tinker with it, and Yu Heng went to change clothes.

This is an ordinary small shopping mall. The first floor is a small vegetable market, the second and third floors are supermarkets, and the fourth floor is ordinary home appliances. Except for the fourth floor, all other floors have been looted. Even this time when I came back, there were fewer clothes on the fifth floor, and they were more messy.

The fifth floor is a large clothing store. The clothes are affordable, not good-looking but practical. It's almost summer, and there are many spring clothes now. There are still many winter clothes hanging here. The five boys took off their wet clothes and changed into new ones from inside to outside. Xu Tian relied on his strong body and went outside to take a shower. He was so excited that he shivered and said with a smile: "Hey, I finally took a shower."

Yu Heng didn't dare to do that. He had been eating raw and cold food recently, and his spleen and stomach had been very weak. If he took a cold shower, he would definitely have to lie down. He used a knife to cut off the wooden chairs and cash register in the store. Others came to help, and finally cleaned up a pile of messy wood. With a little more careful use of gasoline, the wood was easily ignited. The smell was unpleasant, but no one cared.

After making a simple bracket, Yu Heng put the stainless steel pot that had been put away before on it, and poured three bottles of mineral water into it luxuriously. After boiling, everyone soaked a bowl of isatis root.

In such wet and cold weather, it was a perfect enjoyment.

"It's so comfortable..."

"Cook some more porridge. I haven't had porridge for a long time."

So he turned out the rice. There wasn't much rice, and it was put in a large plastic bag, about four pounds. Because there was no condition to cook, they didn't store much of these things. But people are made of iron and food is made of steel. We can't just keep eating random snacks, potato chips and biscuits to fill our stomachs.

Yu Heng stared at the fire and thought for a while before saying, "When the rain stops, we can find those... uninhabited houses, which should have gas stoves. We don't need to eat hot food every day, but we should cook rice at least every three to five days." Even dry rice is tempting.

Several people agreed. "We have to save some rice in the future." "Red beans, mung beans, and peanuts are also fine. We can cook eight-treasure porridge." "Then we have to save some white sugar." "It's good to have something to eat, but you still want something sweet? White sugar must be hard to find." Xu Tian and the others were joking around, and it was obvious that they had a very good relationship.

Yu Heng looked at them and laughed, thinking: Anything that can be eaten is hard to find.

The rain lasted for four days. Yu Heng was glad that they moved their residence in time, because when they got up on the third day, the first floor was half flooded, and only a little bit of the roof of their car could be seen. What was even more terrifying was that with the surge of water, zombies were actually swept in. After the zombies came ashore, they followed the smell of people and went up the stairs.

So they asked the second brother to guard the stairs on the second floor to prevent the zombies from going upstairs, and the others worked overtime to dismantle the things in the mall, and put them on the stairs as obstacles after a little processing. Unless a large group of zombies came together, this obstacle could be resisted. If there really were, this obstacle would be enough to give them time to escape.

For the next two days, they arranged the shift order, and those who were not on duty slept all day and night.

Yu Heng lay in the pile of clothes, sleeping soundly, without a dream, replenishing the physical strength consumed by hard work for more than half a month through sleep. On the fifth morning, the long-lost sun appeared, and the rain was only a few drops. By the evening, the water level had receded, and it was only ankle-deep when stepped on.

It was a good thing that the rain stopped, but it was even harder for them to find food. The rain soaked many things and ruined them. Even if they found biscuits that were well packaged, the packaging of the biscuits still had the unique stench of zombies.

"Is this one still edible?" Yu Heng hesitated, "It's been soaked in water for a few days, and it smells like a corpse."

"The packaging is not damaged, so it should be okay, right?" Xu Tian took it and smelled it, frowning and said, "It really stinks, don't eat it yet, put it away first. Lao Si, put it separately, don't mix it with our previous things."

Lao Si smiled: "How is it possible? Just because it stinks, I can tell it apart even if it's mixed up."

"It's hard to find things on the first floor, let's go upstairs directly next time."

After the heavy rain subsided, there was really a rotten smell everywhere. The zombies we encountered were so disgusting that they vomited. They were soaked in water and their faces were swollen, like expired, smelly and rotten meat soaked in Vaseline.

They began to search through the empty rooms. After knocking on the door, no one answered, so they pried the lock and went in. They used gas to cook.

The other four people had never cooked before. Yu Heng had four years of experience cooking noodles in the university dormitory, so he cooked. There was not much rice left. Yu Heng found two bags of soybeans and mung beans in the kitchen of this family. Looking at the soy milk machine on the table, it should be used to squeeze soy milk. He mixed them with rice and cooked a pot of mixed grain rice. Each person could get a bowl, and eating it was a satisfying feeling.

"Can you make another soup?" When Lao Si saw the seaweed that Yu Heng found in the kitchen, he suddenly missed the free seaweed egg drop soup provided by the public meal in the school cafeteria. He didn't drink it at all before, but now he misses it.

Xu Tian knocked on Lao Si: "It's okay as long as you are not hungry. The remaining soup will be for the next meal." Lao Si laughed: "I'm kidding~"

"Tonight, cook seaweed and chopped green onion soup with biscuits." Yu Heng found a palm-sized flower pot on the kitchen window. There were green onions planted in it. They were old and not enough to chop into soup and seasoning, which was still very tempting.

This was obviously the residence of a woman living alone. There was a layer of dust on the furniture, and it was obvious that no one had lived there for a long time. There were a lot of daily necessities and a lot of materials in the refrigerator, but they had gone bad because of the power outage. Yu Heng found scissors and a comb in the bathroom and cut her hair short in front of the mirror, focusing on her bangs, which covered her eyes. She also cut her sideburns, but couldn't cut the back of her head, so she called Xu Tian for help.

Xu Tian started clumsily and carefully: "I have no experience, don't blame me if I cut it badly."

"It's okay, just cut it short."

In the end, only a short stubble of hair remained. If you don't look at his face, he looked like a bad boy who had just been released from prison.

Xu Tian laughed: "This is good." He called his roommates: "Come here, everyone cut your hair, look at Chen Heng's, isn't it stylish? If we all cut it like this, we will look fierce, and no one will dare to mess with us."

Stupid.

The other three were enthusiastic and cooperated very well. Soon, four new idiots were born. The fourth touched his head: "It will be convenient to clean up in the future, and the weather is just getting hot."