C10 Wintertime hoarding
We pushed all the shopping carts into the corridor in front of the door and left the door ajar. These doors need to be opened, so even if there were two or three undeads outside the door, they wouldn't understand how to open the door.
After loading another whole car full of rice noodles, we finally got ready to go to the second floor to look for the clothes we wanted to take out this time. It was already October, and the weather had obviously cooled down after the previous few rains.
The entire second floor was occupied by a clothing area. The shopping mall was a circular area, with empty space in the middle. There were also shops on all four sides.
There weren't many undeads on the first floor, so when we reached the second floor, we naturally faced silence.
Only the open doors of the various shops could be seen. The messy clothes of the women's clothing shops indicated that something absurd had happened here before.
We didn't intend to split up, didn't have time to clean up, just went in door to door with a bunch of people, and in a shop that specialises in down coats, we loaded up a full two carts, shirts, sweaters, coats, shoes that fit perfectly, and we all chose warm or easy walking shoes.
In the past when we were shopping with our best friends, even if we didn't buy anything, we could shop in the same place for a long time.
The things were taken very quickly. We ran back and forth a few times before we finally moved everything to the door. There were already a dozen or so living corpses at the front of the door.
The reason why Chen Ming and the others had parked the car across the road was to prevent situations like this from happening, they did not even have the chance to run to the side of the car and shake off the Undead.
But that's to prevent more undeads from coming. We should be able to deal with the dozen or so undeads in front of us.
A few minutes ago, we opened a fire closet, there was a big axe inside, Xiao Yu and Sun Miao also found two batons from the security station. Although it wasn't as powerful as the knife, it was still enough to deal with a zombie's head.
The improvement of our weapons allowed us to gain a lot of confidence. When Chen Ming pushed open the door, a few of us rushed forward like brave warriors.
The axe was heavy, and it took a lot for me to use it, but dealing with undeads felt good. After Xiao Yu knocked them over, I could split their heads in half with a single strike of the axe.
The few undeads were quickly tidied up, Chen Ming and Xu Yiwen ran over to the car and drove it. During this time, I extended my head out to take a look, but there were still a few undead far in the distance who saw us, and were approaching us.
But then again, I really thought there would be a lot of undeads in the city, I didn't expect that I didn't see the scene this time.
What did the number of undeads decrease? How many people are alive?
But why was it that not a single living person could be seen on the streets all day long?
As we were lifting the items onto the car, looking at a small residential building on the other side of the road, I suddenly realized that the people from before were all living in peace and stability, and the endless war in the Middle East had always been far away from us. It had been a long time since everyone had experienced violence and bloodshed, so when the world in front of them turned upside down, they had no way of dealing with it quickly.
These are just my guesses. Perhaps those people who were shivering in my head have all died two months ago.
Xiao Yu and I took the risk to get off the car and close the hospital's entrance. By the time we parked the car in front of the building, the other undeads had already arrived as well, Chen Ming and Sun Miao left to deal with the undeads, while the rest of us started to move things up the stairs.
It took us more than an hour to get all that stuff back and forth to Mom and Dad's room.
Mom and Dad's room could be considered our usual place to eat and gather. The other rooms were originally all sickrooms, but they weren't big.
This time, he did not give Tian Tian snacks. He was sensible and did not lose his temper. The big bag of snacks that he ate sparingly every day was still half full.
After distributing our respective cotton clothing, facing the pile of ingredients in the corner of the room, I clapped my hands in satisfaction as I thought, This amount of food should be sufficient for us to eat until the winter.
He thought that he could finally stay at home for a good period of time. Unexpectedly, he still had to leave the next day.
because we missed one thing last time, and that was... There were only a few alcohol lamps in the hospital, so we could barely make two sips of hot water. It would be impossible to make a hot meal out of alcohol when the weather got cold, and there were so many of us.
The next day, Sun Miao and I went to the front of the door to bring back the gas canister and gas stove from a dumpling shop. However, there wasn't much gas in the canister anymore.
My parents were the only ones who went to the gas filling area. Under my father's enthusiastic registration, they finally decided to let Chen Ming and him go out together.
The few of us would make a room at home and use it as the kitchen.
Now that there's gas, it's not safe to put it in my parents' room.
While I was tidying up the house, Kiki suddenly pulled me aside and shoved me a piece of paper.
"What is it?" I was puzzled when I took it.
"Take a look at this first. This is the painting I stole from Tian Tian."
I brought him two boxes of crayons and some drawing paper.
Even though I hadn't studied psychology, the painting in front of me still made my heart clench.
Because of the age difference between us and my brother, our entire family has always pampered him. Every little matter he did was taken care of perfectly by the four of us adults, and ever since the world in front of us went out of control, my brother was gone, my mom took care of my grandma all day, and my dad and I didn't have time to care about him anymore … Looking at the obviously frenzied and chaotic scene in front of her and the deformed yet fang-like thing on it, Qi Qi who was beside her opened her mouth, "... Shouldn't you find a chance to talk to Tian Tian? "
After looking at the painting a few more times, I kept the painting and asked, "Where's Tian Tian?"
"Playing in Chen Ming's room."
...
I had wanted to show them to my parents at once, to give them time to spend the day with them, but when I passed their house and saw my graying mother resting by my grandmother's window, I stopped.
Life three great pain, the old bereavement son, the young bereavement father, middle-aged bereavement husband.
His parents had already experienced two.
They weren't young anymore, and they were probably very tired inside. Who knew how many times they had secretly cried for their son in the dead of night. Now that they mentioned Tian Tian's situation, other than a heavy blow on their already weak spirits, nothing else would help.
At lunch time, Chen Ming and my dad returned with several jars of full gas.
However, it seems that their journey wasn't as smooth as yesterday. Even Chen Ming and the other two were covered in blood and brains, they were in an extremely sorry state.
Hurry up and get them changed. I go to the kitchen and use the last of the gas to boil some hot water for them. Then I give them a quick bath in the cold water of the bathroom.
While my father was taking a bath, my mother came over to start cooking lunch.
Her eyes were red and swollen, and I didn't know when she cried again. I stood at the side for a while before I said, "Mom …"
After reacting for a good two seconds, my mom finally realized what was going on and turned to look at me. "What's wrong?"
He stared at her for a moment, his lips dry and cracked, his eyes red and swollen, his face pale.
After slightly sighing, I went forward and hugged her. "It's nothing. I just suddenly wanted to hug you for a bit."
Two seconds later, my mother chuckled and patted my back. "What's wrong with your silly daughter?"
Caught off guard, my nose turned sour. I put my face on my mother's warm shoulder. I shook my head. "Can't I just let your daughter hug me?"
"Haha, I can …" I can hug you whenever I want. "
Over the next few days, I paid extra attention to Tian Tian, but he was either daydreaming or sleeping and eating.
Kiki was a lot more patient than I was, and even then she insisted on talking to him every day behind Tian Tian's butt. In the past few days, she had been the most intimate with him, and even at night, she would be happy to crawl into Kiki's bed.
Time passed day by day, and we had to train hard every day. When we got to know each other, we would become like a family, and our days were not that boring. The whole floor was filled with our laughter, and occasionally we would attract a few undeads in the yard.