DipNovel Chapter 3 Gathering Supplies
Chapter 3 Gathering Supplies
As for the girl with the AJ, her name is Su Wanyue. Don't be fooled by her gentle and refined name; she has quite a temper and is actually a violent girl.
Captain Xu stood on the roof of the pickup truck, took down the large megaphone from the roof, and began to shout.
{Let me say it one last time: you only have half an hour. The convoy will leave in half an hour, and that's it. Also, from what I sense, there are two strange things in this village! You'd better watch yourselves! As for whether or not to enter the village to collect supplies, that's up to you!}
No one doubted the truthfulness of Xu Wenchu's words. He had never joked about this. If he said half an hour, he meant half an hour. When the time was up, he would leave with the convoy without hesitation.
Without a guide, even a sequence transcendent wouldn't dare say they could survive without sensing the strange presence.
"Two weirdos? Maybe we shouldn't go in?"
"Isn't that obvious? Every time we go into the village to collect supplies, something strange always happens."
"That's what they say, but every time two strange things happen, at least 30% of the people who go in to collect materials die!"
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At this moment, in one of the cars in the convoy.
Two twin sisters in their early twenties, one wearing loose casual pants and a T-shirt, and the other wearing simple jeans and a white shirt.
It was the apocalypse, and the two women weren't wearing makeup; their faces even bore traces of dust and sweat. Yet, even so, they were breathtakingly beautiful.
"Sis! There are two weirdos in this village this time. Maybe we shouldn't go and collect supplies this time!" The girl in casual pants said with some worry, and even had some lingering fear on her face.
"No! The food in our vehicle, no matter how thrifty we are, will only last the two of us for three days at most. And who knows when we'll be able to gather supplies again."
"If the next supply gathering takes more than three days, we'll run out of food. Besides, can you be sure there will only be one monster next time we gather supplies?" The woman in jeans frowned, though she was also feeling a bit scared, she still insisted.
The two sisters still remember that the last time they went to collect supplies, there were two monsters. If it weren't for an old man who ran slower than them, they would have been the two of them eaten by the monsters!
Hearing her sister say this, and considering the supplies in the car, the woman in casual pants, though somewhat frightened, knew her sister was right and nodded in agreement.
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When the burly young man and the curvaceous young woman started heading towards the village, the ordinary people in the caravan followed them.
Their repeated experiences taught them that following behind those with sequence ability when searching for supplies in villages increased their chances of survival.
Zhao Hai, who remained where he was, had a solemn expression. Hearing Xu Wenchu say that there were two strange things in the village, he could already foresee how dangerous this supply collection would be, but he had reasons to do it.
He was running out of food in his backpack and needed to resupply. Even though he had activated the sign-in system early this morning, he only got one sign-in point today, and he would only be able to get one sign-in point every day thereafter.
Two checkpoints are needed to exchange for one pound of rice. In other words, if Zhao Hai doesn't collect supplies, once his remaining food runs out, he will only have half a pound of rice for food each day.
Eating only half a pound of rice a day might be manageable for a short time, but problems will definitely arise in the long run.
First comes physical exhaustion and lethargy, followed by a decline in immunity, and then malnutrition, anemia, organ dysfunction, and even death.
Moreover, this is the apocalypse, and the daily energy expenditure is considerable. Eating only half a pound of rice a day is simply not enough.
If Zhao Hai had sufficient supplies at this time, and knowing that there were two strange creatures in the village, he definitely wouldn't have gone to the village to collect supplies this time. After all, the danger level of one strange creature and two strange creatures is not on the same level.
This village is a typical small mountain village in the south. There are probably only fifty or sixty households in the whole village. If you exclude those who go out to work, the number of people in the village all year round is probably no more than two hundred.
Upon entering the village, the two superhumans headed straight for the village center, where a convenience store was most likely to be located, which would mean a wider variety of food.
While rice and flour from farmers' homes would be a better option, many survivors don't collect them, simply because they lack cooking tools.
Not many people in the convoy owned cars; some owned three-wheeled motorcycles, two-wheeled motorcycles, and bicycles.
People with three-wheeled motorcycles will carry cooking tools on their vehicles if they find them, while those who migrate by two-wheeled vehicle or on foot will not carry them even if they find cooking tools.
After all, they would love to have more space on them to store their supplies, so why would they carry heavy and space-consuming cooking tools?
Moving with heavy pots and pans without a vehicle is practically tantamount to suicide.
Zhao Hairuo doesn't own a car, and he won't bring the cooking utensils he collected a month ago, since they really take up a lot of space.
Upon entering the village, they scattered, some like Zhao Hai, lone wolves, while others formed small groups.
Zhao Hai walked in the middle of the road, showing no intention of going deeper into the village. Instead, he searched the houses on the edge of the village.
After all, if you go deep into the village and encounter something strange, you'll have to run a long way to get out, and the farther you go, the lower your chances of survival.
There were quite a few people who shared the same thoughts as Zhao Hai. They also only lingered on the edge of the village, and if they encountered anything strange, they could run back to the convoy immediately.
After all, superhumans are not saviors; don't expect them to save you in times of danger.
If the group of people lingering on the edge of the village are lucky, they will probably only be able to take out some rice and flour from the houses.
Although they couldn't get anything else, they were content.
After all, this method is safer. They can simply find one or two households, grab some rice, and run out of the village. Then, with this rice or flour, they can exchange it for some convenient food with the three superhumans in the convoy.
While most ordinary people do not have cooking tools, this does not mean that extraordinary individuals do not have cooking tools.
If these people are unlucky and there is no food in the few houses on the outermost edge of the village, then they will have to go deeper into the village and look for food in other houses.