Chapter 4 Sunset
You took Sunday downstairs. Diagonally diagonally at the intersection is Hetian Shopping Mall. A huge billboard stands in front of it. The content is because of the latest generation of Apple phones endorsed by the popular female star Qiao Qianzi in a TV series. Their promotion direction is "everyone can take pictures" because this generation of Apple X7 already has the same shooting ability as traditional DV machines. You think you should change to an Apple phone. Not to mention the performance, it is the most expensive on the market, and now you can "buy" without money.
The first and second floors of Hetian Shopping Mall are Walmart supermarkets. This is the flagship store of Gangzhou City. From daily necessities to outdoor equipment, all supplies are available. But Walmart is not open for business 24 hours a day. When humans disappeared, they obviously did not open the door to welcome customers. It took you a lot of effort to break into Walmart. You walked around Hetian Shopping Mall, went to the tower on the other side and walked into McDonald's, which was open for business 24 hours a day, and then went through the safety corridor to the fire door of Walmart.
What happens next will become a psychological shadow of your life.
The fire door was locked. Helplessly, you used the same trick again. You took out the fire axe from the fire box and smashed it at the iron chain on the door for a long time. On Sunday, barking at the back of the door. In addition, the air in the safety passage was stuffy and a faint smell made you feel a little annoyed. You stopped drinking on Sunday, and spent a lot of effort to finally smash the door lock.
——At the moment Walmart’s door opened to you, a violent stench that you had never felt before rushed towards you. The whole supermarket police roared, in the flashing red and blue dazzling light.
——You saw a group of black rats screaming and hiding in the darkness.
On Sunday, you barked again. You turned your head and couldn't help but vomited all your stomach acid.
You escaped from Walmart, escaped from Hetian Shopping Mall, ran all the way to the sun, fell straight to the ground and gasped, your arms were covered with goose bumps, your spine was chilling, you just want to burn this place with a fire, and you swear you will never set foot on this place again in your life.
You finally feel regretful.
It is the peak of summer in the late July. It is southerly latitude, the sun is scorching the air, and the cities along the river are relatively humid and have enough moisture, all of which become a petri dish that accelerates the decomposition of bacteria. The first thing that rots will be fruits that cannot be preserved at low temperatures. The smell of rot will attract fruit flies, which eat rotten fruits and lay eggs on them, and can proliferate to an astonishing number in just twenty-four hours. After that, the second of this rotten feast
The guest is a rodent, hiding in all corners of the city. Rats are not as picky as fruit flies. They are full of gratitude and readily accept everything given by God. They will climb onto the shelves, tear open the food packaging bags with their sharp claws, and turn into gluttons to sweep everything in the supermarket. Then, the raw meat displayed in the low-temperature grid will rot at a slow speed, which will attract groups of flies and rotten meat, and dense maggots will soon grow...
And soon, the entire rotten city of Hong Kongzhou will bring you greater bad news.
If you can realize all this early, if you can choose the address on the first day of human beings disappearing and transfer all the fresh food here to a place that can be preserved for a long time, you can have no worries about food and clothing for a long time.
You missed the golden opportunity to survive in a world without humanity.
You calm down after twenty minutes.
In any case, you have to go back to Wal-Mart. Even if the food is taken first by mice and flies, other daily necessities they are not interested in are what you need.
You got an N95 mask at a nearby 7-11 convenience store and put a plastic raincoat on yourself, intending to use it as protective clothing. You prayed that the mice would not like the irritating smell and poured all the alcohol in the convenience store on the raincoat. You don’t know if the mice will attack you, so you put a lighter in your pocket. When you are desperate, you can ignite the raincoat on your body. You have only seen this kind of thing in the TV series "Grave Robbers" and don’t know if it will burn yourself.
After you were ready, you returned to Walmart's fire corridor again. You picked up the fire axe thrown on the ground, took out a bottle of wind oil from your pocket and applied it to your nose, trying to numb your sense of smell. You turned on the flash of your phone, and the moment you stepped into Walmart, instinct yelled before thinking, shooting the flash around.
Fortunately, at least at this moment, mice are still afraid of humans. They all escape when they hear the sound. The only harm they cause to you is the rotten tomatoes that roll on the ground that make you fall in a hurry.
The phone flew out, and your vision suddenly became darker. You shouted Sunday's name in panic. Sunday was humane and returned to you with your phone in your mouth, which made you feel at ease.
You fumbled for a long time before you found the Walmart lighting switch and turned on the lights in the supermarket.
Thanks to the light, your fear finally subsides under the light.
After overcoming the difficulties, the harvest was extremely refreshing. You opened the main door of Walmart from it and pushed dozens of shopping carts in. Considering that the rotten fruits here will continue to rot, I wonder if any harmful substances will be released in the future, you decided to emptie the entire Walmart in one day.
You took nail clippers, shampoo, hand cream, and even a facial mask, and put them in the refrigerator with bottled drinks that mice can’t touch. Beer is an unexpected surprise. Although you don’t lack wine, you decided to treat yourself to a barbecue and beer on the rooftop tonight. You took away all the seasonings that were not cracked. Unfortunately, there are many push-pull cabinet refrigerators in the fresh food area, and the mice cannot open them and are still cooling continuously. So you got about seven carts of frozen food: quick-frozen dumplings, pig breads, semi-finished barbecue, sealed frozen whole chicken, lamb legs, steak, ostrich chops... everything. And rice, you moved all the rice from Walmart outside the door, a total of twelve cars, enough for you to eat for several years.
You saw many corpses of rats on the ground, with signs of being gnawed. You felt a little disgusted and didn't understand why mice had already had endless food to enjoy, but they were still killing each other. You thought about it again, and it seemed like this was the case with humans - but no matter what, humans were always much more cute than mice. You began to miss humans again.
In order to relieve the loneliness of longing, you swept all the condoms on the container into the shopping cart.
You went up to the second floor and got all kinds of digital products, chargers, Bluetooth headphones, Dyson hair dryers, laptops, and you even saw the ps50 I missed, which made you overjoyed. Originally, you were afraid that you could only spend the rest of your life by writing a diary like Robinson, but now you have countless console games.
When you passed by the tobacco and alcohol counter, you suddenly wondered if you were a smoker. You unplugged Bao Huazi and lit one. When the cigarette was sucked into your lungs, you almost fainted. You hurriedly threw away the cigarette, spitting, thinking that you didn't smoke. In fact, you just forgot that the first cigarette you smoke when you haven't been exposed to nicotine for a long time will be drunk.
You gained a lot and pushed forty shopping carts out. You planned to sort these supplies and store them in the guest room on the lower floor of the Presidential Suite. You started plundering from 1:00 pm and only ate some cans in the middle. You were busy until 7:00 pm before you moved everything into the Junjue Hotel.
When you returned to the presidential suite, you were exhausted, but satisfied. You took a recently popular Qianfeng smart sweeping robot from downstairs. When you pressed the switch, it chattered and sang an ugly song and swept the floor. On Sunday, you were curious about it and thought that a new friend came and chased it.
You were exhausted. So you canceled the plan to barbecue on the rooftop. You cooked a pot of boiling water and soaked a pack of Sanjiao turkey noodles. While the noodles were still soaking, you opened the newly replaced Apple x7 phone, downloaded the live broadcast software, and planned to watch something for dinner. The chairs used by the live broadcast agency have disappeared by 70%. Most computers that have not been turned off for a long time will enter a dormant state. You can understand this, but you suddenly feel a little lonely.
You found a very interesting live broadcast room: ipanda, this is a 24-hour live broadcast of the giant panda base in Sichuan Province. Now the sub-channel can still be photographed with giant pandas locked in the room. This panda called Kuku is looking around anxiously. A piece of milky white dry ice used to cool down has gradually melted half of it, and the surrounding bamboo has been gnawed. Without human care, this panda paradise, which originally had no worries about food and clothing, has become a prison. Sooner or later, Kuku will starve to death due to food exhaustion. You watch Panda Live, eat turkey noodles with relish, and suddenly feel that your situation is the same as Kuku.
A strange idea came to your mind: it's good to raise a giant panda, it's quite cool to bring national treasures around you. It seems that there is a safari park in this ten kilometers, and there are also pandas there...
But for some reason, you suddenly became a little angry: What a bullshit national treasure? Isn’t pandas become rare animals because of their small number? At this moment, you are the most rare animal in the world. There are still 180 pandas at this moment, you are his fucking national treasure!
"Let's go away." You said to Kuku on your phone, and angrily whispered a turkey noodles. You began to miss humans again. You turned off the live broadcast, turned on Douyin, and slid in the same city column for a long time. Douyin was mostly meaningless short videos, recording fragments of life of humans in the same city. You saw someone recording high-altitude play projects on the Gangzhou Tower, someone sharing "planting tips that even mothers don't know", someone photographed a wetland park seven kilometers away. At this time, the Bauhinia flowers were blooming in full bloom, and there were also beautiful and not beautiful, men and women, making inexplicable expressions towards the camera, snot and tears couldn't help but crawl all over your face. You put down the turkey noodles and said it was too spicy. Stand up and look down at the entire Gangzhou through the floor-to-ceiling window.
The embers of the setting sun are about to take away the last ray of light, and the city of Gangzhou will no longer be brightly lit at night. In the setting sun, the Hetian Commercial Building under your feet, and Qiao Qianzi in the huge poster is still holding the same Apple X7 as you and smiling at you. She is obviously gentle and intellectual, but when she smiles, she always inadvertently reveals two pointed tiger teeth.
Chapter completed!