ALL NOVEL Chapter 11 - Homecoming
The cars on the roadside of the gas station lined up in an orderly manner to refuel under the heavy weapons of the armed police. There was still a limit on the purchase of gas, so not every car could fill up.
When it was Bai Qi’s turn, the staff came over and asked for Bai Qi’s ID number to register. Bai Qi rolled down the window. While handing over his ID, he whispered to the gas station employee next to him: “Will there be a limit on gas purchases in the future? Is it a limit per day or per car?”
The government acted quickly and took control of the gas station immediately. Gasoline was the most important thing in the early days of the apocalypse because one must have enough gasoline to travel to the base in the imperial capital.
The staff member had probably answered this question hundreds of times before. He took Bai Qi’s ID card and registered it expressionlessly: “I don’t know for now. There will probably be purchase restrictions in the next two days.”
After filling up ten liters of gasoline, they refused to fill up any more, so Bai Qi drove out of the gas station.
Tang Ruo took the binoculars she got from the mall and sat in the passenger seat, looking outside.
The city center has been cleared, and there are basically no zombies on the road. Most of the shops have started operating or organizing, and people are already cleaning up the bloodstains on the road.
“The government is so fast. They have the situation under control so quickly.” Tang Ruo sighed, put down the telescope, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. “If this continues, the end of the world will be over.”
Bai Qi concentrated on driving, still keeping a calm expression on his face: “Now is not the real beginning. It will not be the real beginning until three days later. By then, even if the government wants to intervene, it will be powerless.”
Now, most people are still virus carriers. Three days later, the virus will really break out. Those who survive will awaken their special powers, and those who cannot will become zombies. By then, there will be more than ten times more zombies than now.
At that time, the government was too busy to take care of the people. If we just waited for rescue, we would probably have to stay at home and wait for more than two months for the army to come. Now the water supply in supermarkets is the biggest problem.
After hearing what Bai Qi said, Tang Ruo’s heart sank, and she no longer wanted to look outside. She could already vaguely guess where Bai Qi came from. If it had always been a peaceful era, even if Bai Qi had been exercising, he would not have been able to develop such agile skills and vigilance. Not to mention his understanding of the end of the world.
Because his attitude was so firm, even such a casual statement could not help but give people a sense of conviction and then make people feel hopeless about the future.
Since she could travel through time and space to come here, why couldn’t he go back through time and space and come back here?
Since the two of them are the same, Tang Ruo would not expose the matter to their faces. Sometimes, there are some things that you vaguely guess are one thing, but the feeling you get when you really explore and confirm them is different.
Bai Qi’s house before the end of the world was in the center of the city, Now the center of the city has been cleared out by the armed police.
They saw a long queue outside a supermarket, and armed police with guns guarding both sides of the supermarket. They also realized that large supermarkets are probably limiting purchases to prevent residents from looting.
And those small shops…
Bai Qi also turned around and looked around, and found that the small shops had been closed. Perhaps the supplies had also been moved.
Tang Ruo also discovered this: “Fortunately, we acted quickly; otherwise, we would have been stopped outside the door and forced to queue up to buy a few things.” Thinking back to the two police cars that came towards them when they went out before, Tang Ruo sincerely felt that they were the ones who benefited from the large shopping mall.
Afterward, Bai Qi bought a detailed map of the country after passing a bookstore that was already open and drove directly home. He had no memory of how everyone spent the week before the apocalypse. At that time, he was on a yacht, and when he returned from the yacht, the dock was already full of zombies. He fought his way to a safe place, and it was not until three months later that he arrived at the base in H City.
Bai Qi’s house in H City is a two-story townhouse located in a high-end area, but it was bought according to the requirements of a single apartment, so the area is not large.
When driving into the gate of the community, the security guard found that the license plate was not from the community and stopped the car.
The security guard was followed by a boy of about 16 or 17, and they looked at Bai Qi’s car with vigilance. Bai Qi then lowered the window and greeted, “We’re from Building 2, Area C.”
Bai Qi had not been here for three years, but the security guard had seen Bai Qi before. Moreover, the engagement party of Bai Qi and Tang Ruo was used by the companies of the two families to promote the event and was even reported in the newspapers. Naturally, he knew Bai Qi and Tang Ruo.
“It turned out to be Mr. Bai and Miss Tang. They changed cars, and I didn’t pay attention. It’s also not safe outside. Some monsters appeared in the community this morning. So we checked more carefully here.” The security guard smiled at Bai Qi, looking very honest.
Bai Qi nodded and saw that the boy behind the security guard had a tense face but looked worried about his father. After not seeing him for three years, he still had some impressions of this young man.
Before the end of the world, a young man once found a large sum of cash in the community. It was unknown and owned by no one, but he did not keep it for himself. Instead, he went door to door looking for the owners of the community and asked who had lost the money.
He thought he had forgotten everything after three years away, but it turns out that returning to his hometown can remind him of the past.
Bai Qi sighed for a moment, so he reminded the two of them: “Well, it seems that the virus is rampant; you should reduce going out. People are queuing outside to buy food; you can also buy some to store…”
The security guard smiled and patted his son’s arm. “This kid has just been there. The rice that used to cost three yuan a pound now costs fifty yuan a pound. If it continues like this, where can we afford it? We should wait a little longer. Anyway, the things can still last for two days at home.”
People from other places come here to work just to save some money to take them home and are unwilling to spend it on material things that have increased in price so much.
When Bai Qi heard him say this, he nodded and said nothing more.
Tang Ruo, who was standing by, opened her backpack, took out two bottles of water, and handed them out, “Keep them in the sun to cool down.” She wanted to give more but was afraid of exposing herself. Water is more expensive than rice now, and most people are not willing to give out two bottles of water.
The security guard wanted to push it away, but when he thought of the financial resources of the Bai and Tang families, he stopped refusing and happily took it: “Thank you, Miss Tang.”
Even if you queue up to buy water in the supermarket, a 550-ml bottle costs 80 yuan. Two bottles of water together cost him a day’s salary, which is nothing to Tang Ruo, but he naturally saves as much as possible.
Seeing Tang Ruo like this, Bai Qi did not stop her kindness.