Chapter 8 - Supermarket
Speaking of fever, Bai Qi turned his head and looked at Tang Ruo. She seemed to have awakened the space ability without a fever, and this space was different from the space of other people in the late apocalypse. Because Tang Ruo’s space was not only much larger, but time was almost still in it. The space ability awakened by people in the late apocalypse was only four to five square meters at first, and time was not still in it—only one-fifth slower.
Tang Ruo was puzzled: “You have a fever?”
Bai Qi pried open the rolling door of Shimao: “Yes, you have to be mentally prepared.”
Tang Ruo said “Oh”, stopped asking questions, and focused on following Bai Qi.
She looked like such a good kid that Bai Qi couldn’t help but look back at her.
When Bai Qi pulled up the rolling door, the loud noise caused a zombie in a security uniform to run out and roar at them through the glass door.
The two looked at each other, nodded to each other, and Bai Qi opened the glass door.
Tang Ruo used all her strength and hit the zombie on the head with a stick, causing the zombie’s body to bend down.
Bai Qi immediately stabbed the zombie in the head with another stick.
Turning to look at Tang Ruo, he saw that she was holding the lamppost tightly. Although her expression was nervous and the corners of her lips were trembling slightly, her hands did not shake at all.
Bai Qi: “Are you not afraid anymore?”
Tang Ruo’s voice trembled: “Afraid.” After a pause, Bai Qi listened to her again, “But what’s the use of being afraid? Like you said, you still have to face it.”
So Bai Qi looked at her with a much different eye.
After dealing with this zombie, no other zombies were seen. The mall’s security measures were very good before the end of the world, and only one security guard was guarding the door.
The first basement floor is a supermarket.
The first floor is filled with jewelry and cosmetics.
The second floor is for women’s clothing, underwear, and bags.
The third floor is for men’s clothing and luggage.
The fourth floor is home textile bedding supplies.
Fifth floor…
Time waits for no one, so the two immediately ran to the supermarket on the basement floor and began to rob crazily.
The supermarkets here are divided into two categories, one is the supermarket selling domestically produced daily necessities, and the other is the supermarket selling snacks and drinks imported from foreign countries.
Tang Ruo had a huge space and didn’t care what was put inside. She just put whatever she saw inside.
Bai Qi was not idle either. While observing the surrounding environment, he pushed a cart and kept putting biscuits and instant noodles into it.
Biscuits and instant noodles are very common substances after the end of the world and can be used directly as currency to exchange things with others.
Suddenly, Tang Ruo, who was waving her claws to pick up something, stopped and started running straight to the paper product sales area.
Because she suddenly thought that she was a woman, and if she was a woman, she would have her period every month. If she didn’t prepare for that thing, how could she survive the doomsday.
Fortunately, there are quite a few of these things in the foreign import area. Tang Ruo waved her hand and put the entire shelf into the space. No matter whether it was for day or night use, cotton or mesh, she would put it there first. She was afraid that many people would not be able to afford it in the future.
When Bai Qi came with three carts of biscuits, Tang Ruo had almost stored all the foreign imports in the space. Looking at the empty mall, Bai Qi suddenly felt a little emotional.
The space ability is really a bug at the primary level.
“After installing these, feel how much space is left.”
Tang Ruo did everything as he said, closed her eyes, and felt it.
When he saw her long eyelashes trembling, Bai Qi felt a little itchy in his heart again.
He felt that the reason why Tang Ruo was different from his previous life, at first sight, was mainly because of her eyes, which were as pure and clean as a child’s and yet revealed a hint of strength.
After a while, Tang Ruo opened her eyes and said, “I’m not very clear, but it seems that it’s not even one-fifth.”
With so many things fitting in but less than one-fifth of the space, Tang Ruo’s space should be quite large.
Since there is still some space left, the two of them will naturally not be polite.
When Bai Qi was observing just now, he had already seen the door of the supermarket’s internal warehouse. The two came to the supermarket’s warehouse, looked around, and found that nothing was missing, so they started to rob again.
When Tang Ruo reached the beverage storage area, her eyes suddenly lit up: “This, I want to take all of this.”
Bai Qi turned around and saw that it was a kind of domestic yogurt: “Do you like this?”
“Yes, yes, I didn’t expect it to be available here.” She thought this brand only existed in her own world. When she was lying in bed, she naturally couldn’t eat yogurt, so based on the principle that not being able to eat it is the best, Tang Ruo’s obsession with this yogurt became deeper and deeper.
Now that she can see it again in another world and is healthy, she will definitely not let it go.
It’s just supplies anyway, Bai Qi doesn’t care as long as it’s edible.
Tang Ruo naturally bought all this yogurt.
The two of them put all the canned food, instant noodles, biscuits, and drinks in the warehouse into the space and also took away many pots and pans, noodles, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar… all kinds of frozen meat in the ice storage… laundry detergent, shower gel…
However, the supermarket was so big and there were so many things in it that after putting everything they might need in it, they found that two-thirds of the space was already filled.
Tang Ruo calculated: “Even if we only eat food from space and stay at home without leaving, it should be enough for four to five years.”
Bai Qi glanced at her and pointed out a fact: “Are you going to stay at home every day, eating biscuits, drinks, and instant noodles, and then waiting to die after eating them all?”
In the later stages of the apocalypse, it was a luxury to eat the biscuits and instant noodles that existed before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, the base naturally cultivated many edible crops, but in order to isolate them from radiation, the food produced in these greenhouses was really hard to swallow.
And the most important thing is that zombies will evolve. If humans do not make enough progress, then the end of their idleness will be death.
Tang Ruo didn’t know about the evolution of zombies. All she could think of was a future where every meal would be junk food: herself with a face full of acne.
Oh, it’s so cruel; she can’t bear to think about it!
So she resolutely said: “Let’s go find some fruits and vegetables!”
Perhaps the virus broke out too suddenly, resulting in the failure of fresh vegetables and fruits to be delivered in the morning.
The two looked around and only found a small amount of fruits and vegetables in the food area.
“Let’s go outside and take a look later. Time is short, so let’s collect the others first.” Bai Qi handed the last watermelon to Tang Ruo and suggested that they go upstairs. “If someone comes and sees this empty place, they might guess that we have something special. It’s better to leave first and use the travel bag as a cover when the next person comes.”
Tang Ruo also knew that an innocent man was guilty of possessing a treasure, so when she heard Bai Qi say that, she naturally would not refuse and obediently followed Bai Qi upstairs.