The snow had stopped by then.
On the white ground, red blood flowed everywhere.
Everyone watched Li Yu, who was like a madman, chop off the tiger's head, not daring to utter a single word.
Li Yu was very angry, mainly at himself.
In his previous life, the sixth sense developed through difficult survival only kicked in when the tiger pounced just now, and he felt that his sense of crisis was not as strong as before.
And Li Hang and Da Pao got out of the car without even bringing their firearms. Were they slacking off?
Just because zombies were rarely seen after the blizzard, did that mean they could relax? They even got out of the car without their firearms.
Li Yu looked at everyone and said in a deep voice, "We must not relax our vigilance now!
These past few days, we've rarely seen zombies, but that doesn't mean the danger has decreased!
From now on, whenever you leave the base, you must carry your gun with you, because one moment of laxity can cost us our lives!
Understand?"
After Li Yu finished speaking, he didn't look at them anymore.
Li Hang and Da Pao felt a chill down their spines after hearing Li Yu's words, becoming alert.
They didn't know when it started, but they seemed to have really relaxed a lot.
If they had had firearms just now, it wouldn't have been so troublesome to deal with this tiger.
What if it wasn't just one tiger, but a group of tigers?
What would they have done then?
Thinking of this, everyone broke out in a cold sweat and began to deeply reflect on themselves. They all rushed back to the car to retrieve their pistols and submachine guns.
Li Yu stood in front of those few houses and said to everyone, "Drive the cars inside. Later, Yang Tianlong and Shang Xue'er will be in the unimog rv; don't turn off the engine. Lao Xie, you drive the truck. The rest of you, follow me inside to find things. Hurry!"
Everyone sensed that Li Yu's mood was not good at the moment, so they dared not speak and quickly got to work.
"Xiao Hang, lead the way," Li Yu said.
"Okay," Li Hang replied, then walked straight into the wholesale market.
This wholesale market was very large, with a high ceiling, almost seven or eight meters.
Perhaps when the apocalypse broke out, everyone hadn't yet reacted, and the shops inside hadn't closed.
The ground was messy, with all sorts of electronics and appliances scattered everywhere.
However, it was evident that this place had not been flooded, so many things were preserved.
Li Hang walked in front, leading everyone further inside.
The deeper they went, the darker it became.
So everyone turned on their flashlights, illuminating the path ahead.
Li Hang walked at the very front, followed closely by Li Yu and Da Pao, with Lao Lü bringing up the rear.
Everyone held submachine guns and flashlights, with the direction of the flashlight beam being the direction the submachine gun was aimed.
Suddenly, when they reached a store, Li Hang saw some storage batteries inside, so he turned his head and said, "Brother, there's a lot of stuff in here. These storage batteries could actually be taken back too."
Li Yu nodded. Along the way, he had encountered many electronic products, and many things inside could actually be used, just like the watches he had seen earlier.
"The top priority now is to find the inverters. After we find them, we'll try to take back as many useful things as we need and can use. The rest can wait until after this blizzard passes."
"Okay."
Everyone stopped talking. Li Hang was also quite familiar with this place. After several turns, they finally found the shop selling photovoltaic inverters.
It was just that this shop was closed, and some of the shops they had passed earlier were also closed, which was normal.
However, this shop being closed made Li Yu's heart sink. "Damn, it's not out of business, is it?"
Li Hang quickly said, "There are several shops here that sell inverters. There are three more ahead."
Li Yu nodded and walked directly towards the closed storefront.
The light shone inside, revealing neatly arranged items. Li Yu saw this and breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that no one had been here since the apocalypse broke out, so the items inside must be very well preserved.
Thinking of this, Li Yu directly used his submachine gun to shatter the glass.
Bang, bang, bang.
After a few gunshots, glass shards scattered everywhere.
Li Yu walked in, looked around, and took an inverter from a shelf on the wall, saying, "Is this model okay?"
Li Hang took it and said, "Yes. There are a lot of things in here that we can use. Since we're here, let's take them all back."
Li Yu nodded and then pulled out a cart he had just picked up on the way, loading all the inverters from this shop onto it.
Da Pao and Lao Lü came over to help.
In a short while, everyone had cleared out everything from the shop. Four carts were packed full of items.
Li Yu looked at some items still on the ground. This cart was quite large, and now that it was piled high with things, it was extremely difficult to push.
Li Yu walked out of the shop, recalling the path they had just taken. Although there were some things on the ground, the aisle was very wide, almost ten meters.
The width was enough!
Li Yu looked at the ceiling again, and his heart stirred slightly. He suddenly thought, 'Why am I being so rigid? What time is it now?'
He took out the walkie-talkie and said to Lao Xie and Shang Xue'er, "You two drive the cars directly in. Xiao Hang will meet you."
"Okay, there's a fence at the intersection..." Shang Xue'er hesitated before saying.
"Just smash through it. What are you thinking?" Li Yu said.
Driving such heavy vehicles in would definitely cause irreparable damage to the tiled floor inside, but this was the apocalypse, for goodness sake!
"Okay," Shang Xue'er replied.
"Xiao Hang, go meet them and have them drive the cars directly in," Li Yu said.
"Alright!"
Everyone cleared out the inverters from this side. The heavy truck was nearly 10 meters long and 4 meters high. After clearing out the inverters, the truck still only occupied less than a third of its area.
Besides the inverters, Li Yu asked Li Hang to think about other components related to photovoltaic solar energy, including solar panels, and loaded everything they might need.
After loading these items, less than a fifth of the truck's space remained.
There were also two barrels of diesel, which Li Yu directly had Lao Xie and Lao Lü carry into the unimog rv.
After moving everything, everyone drove the vehicles around the electronics wholesale market.
The originally smooth tiled floor cracked directly due to the passage of the heavy truck weighing over ten tons.
Everyone completely emptied the watch shop. Each person wore a watch. There were electronic watches and mechanical watches here, some of which looked quite valuable, but at this moment, they all became cheap for Li Yu and his group.
Finally, to save space, they removed the packaging from these items and simply stuffed them directly into cardboard boxes.
There were also some electronic products, which they also roughly and simply packed into plastic boxes.
After a round of scavenging, there were still some items they felt could be useful, such as soy milk makers and blenders, which are small everyday appliances. They only moved two large boxes and left the rest.
The Unimog was already very full, and they needed to leave some space for movement.
Li Yu got into the Unimog. This time, Lao Xie and Lao Lü would drive the truck back.
"Let's come back next time," Li Yu said.
Everyone reluctantly glanced at the place.
This place, perhaps because it was in the suburbs and sparsely populated, or perhaps because of its higher elevation, suffered very little damage. It seemed no one had been here since the apocalypse broke out.
Perhaps everyone thought that in the apocalypse, places like department stores would be more reliable.
Previously, when Lao Lü and others went out to collect supplies, they hadn't thought of coming to a place like this. What could you find in an electronics wholesale market? It was the apocalypse, after all.
Precisely because of this, Li Yu and his team even found some food inside!
Although most of it was expired, it still gave them a direction: sometimes useful things are not what we usually think.
"Alright, that's enough for today. Let's hurry back," Li Yu said, looking at his watch.
"Mm-hmm, okay, then let's head straight back," Da Pao said.
It was already 11:45 AM.
They had come over at 8 AM, when it was light, and it took them an hour to get here. They were delayed for a short while when they encountered the tiger outside.
It took them over two hours to move the items just now. They needed to depart as quickly as possible and return to the base early, to avoid any unforeseen complications.
"Um, Yu Ge, are we still going back the same way?" Da Pao asked.
Last night, they stayed at the hotel entrance in the City Center, then came here, traversing half the city.
Now that they were in the suburbs, they could completely avoid re-entering the City Center and return via the nearby highway.
Li Yu thought for a moment and said, "No, we won't go into the city. Let's go back directly via the highway."
He thought for a moment and said to Shang Xue'er, "You lead the way. You should be quite familiar with this road, right?"
Shang Xue'er nodded and said, "Mm-hmm, we can get on the Gan-Min Highway. It's faster that way."
Da Pao then drove in the direction Shang Xue'er indicated.
...
The snow had stopped, but the ground was still covered in thick snow.
Therefore, the speed of travel on the way back was still slow.
Just as they came out of the wholesale city, by some strange impulse, Li Yu looked towards the direction where they had killed the tiger from inside the car.
Just now, in order to save time, after chopping off the tigers' heads, they hadn't bothered with the bodies.
At that glance, Li Yu's pupils instantly dilated.
The tiger's body… was gone!
Li Yu quickly said to everyone, "After I got back in the car, did any of you deal with that tiger's body?"
Lao Xie's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "What?! We didn't touch it."
"No, I just got in the car to get my gun."
"Me too," Da Pao said.
"We all just got in the car, but weren't we supposed to hurry?"
"I was thinking earlier that this tiger was a normal tiger, and I've never eaten tiger meat in this life. I was just thinking it was a pity. Tsk tsk," Lao Xie said.
"The tiger's body is gone," Li Yu said, startling everyone.
Everyone quickly looked in that direction.
Hiss~
Hiss~
Hiss~
Everyone gasped, making the cold winter even colder.
The tiger's body was clearly just there, but now there was only a pool of fresh blood, and the tiger's body had vanished without a trace.
What exactly happened? Confusion flashed through everyone's minds, but more than that, there was terror.
In the icy and snowy landscape, they hadn't seen any living people besides themselves.
And they themselves hadn't moved the body.
So, who could it have been?
