Salted Fish Transmigrated Into An Apocalyptic Book - Chapter 35
Chapter 33
In the sun, his hair and eyebrows were wet, like a big dog that had just taken a shower.
Jiang Miaomiao looked at him in a daze, and after a while he recovered, punching him in the chest.
“Don’t make such a bad joke! Don’t you know the story of the wolf coming? Come again a few times, and I will ignore you when you are really in danger in the future.”
Lu Qiming nodded cheerfully.
“Well, I promise not to do this in the future.”
She was still full of anger, like a little pufferfish. Lu Qiming thought for a while, and suddenly pulled her down.
She screamed quickly.
“I can’t dive!”
“Don’t be afraid, I am here.”
Lu Qiming hugged her waist, and the two sank to the bottom.
Jiang Miaomiao closed her eyes tightly because he was too scared, and suddenly felt that the other party was touching her eyelids, as if he wanted her to open her eyes.
She settled, opened her mind, and was shocked by the scene in front of her.
After several days of precipitation, the water quality has become much clearer, allowing them to see the scene below.
The whole city is soaked in water, like an underwater kingdom. They floated in the sky tens of meters high and looked down, with every detail in sight.
Houses, vehicles, shops…small as a pile of models.
Some buildings that were too old were washed down, and vehicles parked upright were washed up and down, but the city remained basically the same.
How lonely is that there is no one in such a big city?
Jiang Miaomiao was shocked and frightened, and couldn’t help but grasp Lu Qiming’s hand tightly, and would not let it go anyway.
The holding of breath time reached its limit, and the two returned to the surface.
Lu Qiming suggested to swim for a while, but Jiang Miaomiao was worried about his injury and forced to go back immediately.
But… how to go back?
It’s unrealistic to go from the same route, three or four meters apart, they are not geckos.
The two had no choice but to sink a little further, and found a broken window on the lower floor, got in and swam to the stairwell in one breath, surfaced, stepped on the stairs to return to their small base.
Lu Qiming wore a normal T-shirt. It was wet and uncomfortable to stick to his body, so he changed into clean clothes when he went in.
Jiang Miaomiao wiped his body with a towel, standing by and watching him.
She originally wanted to see if his wound was damaged, but the other party took off the T-shirt and cast a sulky wink at her.
“Aren’t you handsome? Do you love me more?”
“…If narcissism can be eaten as a meal, you can feed all the survivors in the world.”
“Why do I raise them? I just want to raise you, little stupid pig.”
“vomit!!!”
“Old idiot?”
“Fuck you, climb for the Lord!”
Jiang Miaomiao gave up communicating with this strange flower, returned to the recliner, picked up the unfinished Assam and shook it, his expression very sad.
Only half a bottle of milk tea was left, and there was not much water and food left.
There is no shortage of water in the city, but I don’t know if there are germs in the water, and I don’t have a filter on hand. If I drink it, I will die.
Lu Qiming changed his clothes and looked up at the ceiling.
“Let’s move today.”
“Now?” Jiang Miaomiao sat up.
“Yes, when the weather is good today, move to the second
Go to the supermarket on the tenth floor. ”
There are food and drink, tools and clothes in it, which can meet most of their needs in life, and can save their lives. They must not be wasted.
Jiang Miaomiao also agreed with him very much, tidying up the things on hand, and continuing to climb the stairs with him with the dog.
Lu Qiming’s legs were almost healed, and his speed of movement accelerated a lot. It only took an hour or two for them to reach the target floor.
Jiang Miaomiao was about to open the door, Lu Qiming shook his head, took her small chainsaw, and walked ahead in the first place.
She was very worried and followed him closely.
The two waited in a serious battle, pushing the door and entering…they went back three feet by the smell of the sky, and quickly closed the door.
“Ahem… Ahem…”
Jiang Miaomiao was almost stunned, coughing wildly for a while before he was relieved.
“It’s like a gas chamber inside, inside!”
The supermarket on the roadside was okay. When the zombies broke out, some people took advantage of the chaos to grab food, making the area of ​​decay not so serious.
This supermarket is located on the 20th floor of the building. Most people didn’t pay attention to it when they fled, causing a lot of decay.
No one came in for half a year, the air was held in it, and it kept brewing repeatedly. Needless to say, the smell was stinking. There were still many toxic substances in the air. They just took two shallow mouthfuls, and the white light immediately appeared in their brains, thinking of their mother and childhood. A lot of things.
Lu Qiming also coughed hard, opened a bottle of mineral water and poured half of it, handed the remaining half to her, and said:
“Let’s open this door to let it breathe.”
“Then where are we going?”
Standing at the door will really be alive.
“Go and hide downstairs.”
The two picked up their luggage again and were about to go downstairs. The door had to be opened before going downstairs.
Given the horrible experience a few minutes ago, no one wanted to do this drudgery.
Jiang Miaomiao: “You have great strength, quick response, and strong body, so you should come.”
Lu Qiming: “You are careful and have a strong sense of crisis. You can feel the danger immediately when you come. You come.”
Jiang Miaomiao: “You have long legs and a handsome face. You are most suitable to be a hero.”
Lu Qiming: “You are beautiful and kind. You must be willing to dedicate yourself.”
The two boasted a flower to each other, but failed to persuade each other to do it.
Jiang Miaomiao turned his gaze to the dog squatting on the ground tickling.
“Fuck, you…”
Jiang Rourou yelled, turned and rushed downstairs, running without looking back, as if there was a ghost chasing behind him.
Jiang Miaomiao looked at its fleshy little butt, helplessly, raised his head and said to Lu Qiming:
“Come on to rock paper scissors.”
This is the fairest method, Lu Qiming agrees, and the result will be obtained in a few seconds-his scissors defeated Jiang Miaomiao’s cloth.
The latter shrugged his shoulders, his face distraught, and handed him what was in his hands.
“Woo, you go downstairs first, I’ll look for you later.”
Lu Qiming raised his eyebrows and asked, “You really don’t want to open the door?”
Jiang Miaomiao said: “Do you still have to ask? Forget it, I’m willing to accept the bet, you go.”
He stood still, looked at her for a while, and suddenly moved his face.
She is inexplicable.
”
What are you doing? Miss my slap? ”
“You kiss me and I will open the door for you.”
“… Take medicine if you are sick.”
“It seems that you don’t want to exchange it. Okay, I’ll go downstairs and wait for you.”
Lu Qiming shrugged, holding something to leave.
There was a “wait” behind him, and then someone jumped on his back, pinched his waist, and kissed his cheek with his arms around his neck.
Everything happened so quickly that he didn’t have time to turn his head back.
Jiang Miaomiao touched his head, jumped off him, snatched things and ran downstairs.
“thank you!”
The voice is still in my ears, and the person has ran downstairs.
Lu Qiming couldn’t laugh or cry, touched his face, took off his clothes and folded them into a palm-sized square, covered his mouth and nose, and turned to open the door.
The odor was gone all night before barely clearing it away.
The two lived on the nineteenth floor for one night, and the next morning they mustered up their courage and came to the twentieth floor again.
They were covering their noses and mouths, and when they walked to the door, Lu Qiming let go of his palms and took a shallow breath, closed his eyes and felt for a moment, then put his hands down and said to her:
“Sure.”
Jiang Miaomiao relaxed, unbuttoned the clothes on his face and Jiang Rourou’s face, and looked inside.
The supermarket occupies an entire floor, with an entrance outside.
The sun today is as good as yesterday, the light comes in from outside the window, illuminating everything inside clearly.
Countless tall shelves are filled with goods, and the closest to them is the food area.
Jiang Miaomiao saw a lot of boxed bread at a glance, and ran over excitedly. After a closer look, he found that the bread in the box had long been moldy and rotten, and shrank into a black mass.
There are so many breads, croissants, donuts, whole wheat bread, sandwiches… There are hundreds of different flavors, and they just rot.
She was bleeding with heartache, and Lu Qiming followed.
“Don’t separate, check the environment here, make sure there is no danger, and then consider what to take.”
“Ok.”
The supermarket has always been a crowded place. In case there are a few zombies hiding here and not going out, there will be enough for them to drink a pot.
They put down the things in their hands and wandered around the supermarket with only chainsaws and flashlights, not letting go of every corner.
The food in the fresh food area and the quick-frozen area has been completely rotten out and cannot be eaten.
The food in the seasoning area and snack area is well preserved, only part of it is out of date.
Most of the beverage area can be drunk normally, and boxes of mineral water are piled up into hills.
These things alone are enough for them to live for a year or a half, and there is also a mother and baby area, which contains a lot of milk powder and nutrients.
In the wine area, high-concentration liquor can be used for disinfection, and low-concentration alcoholic beverages can replace them when the drinking water is insufficient.
Furniture area, paper drawers, pots and pans, blankets and quilts can be used in daily life.
A care zone, countless shampoos, countless shower gels, countless skin care products, not to mention the long shelf life, there are many brands for them to choose.
Products in the home appliance area are temporarily unavailable because there is no electricity. It stands to reason that such large-scale shopping malls will always have generators, but the two have just arrived, and they don’t know where they are.
Jiang Miao Miaowu
Than expecting them to come in handy, because when she passed by, she glanced at the price of the signature products, and almost refreshed her worldview.
There are sixty-one single-door small refrigerators, 180,000 hundred-inch large TVs, and the Dyson hair dryer and vacuum cleaner that she has heard of for a long time but has been reluctant to chop her hands.
The two walked for a while, and found a magical place-the walk-in cold storage area.
The refrigeration function stopped as early as the power outage. They walked in expectantly, only to see a box of rotten eggs, darkened fruits and vegetables.
The smell here is much heavier than other places. They didn’t dare to stay for long, so they took a look at it and retreated.
Jiang Miaomiao shuttled between the huge shelves of five or six meters high, looking left and right, and suddenly saw something round and round on the ground, stiff all over, grabbing Lu Qiming’s hand.
The latter asked in a low voice:
“what happened?”
“It seems… there seems to be a human head!”
Head?
He squinted and walked over with the chainsaw.
Jiang Miaomiao followed him closely and turned on the flashlight.
The two came to the thing, took a closer look, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Where are the heads? It’s just a moldy and leaky basketball.
Lu Qiming put down the chainsaw and patted her shoulder.
“It’s safe here, let’s stay.”
Jiang Miaomiao wanted to do this a long time ago. During the month when they were trapped by the flood, they all ate biscuits, candy and lo-mei every day.
These are very good as snacks, but as a staple food for a month, the gods can’t stand it.
After Lu Qiming said those words, she ran back to the snack area, looking for something new to compensate her stomach.
Butter cake, nuts, waffles… There are a lot of things, but what she wants most now is a warm meal.
Oh, there is pasta!
Jiang Miaomiao’s eyes lit up and came over with a bag, but soon became depressed again.
What’s the use of having noodles? I can’t do it without fuel.
Lu Qiming glanced at her a few times and asked:
“you want to eat?”
She nodded, then shook her head again, putting the noodles back.
“Forget it, let’s eat cookies.”
It’s better to have something to eat than nothing. It’s the end of the world, and she is no longer qualified to be picky.
Lu Qiming held her hand and took the noodles over.
“You are very dirty. There is a lot of mineral water here. Take a shower and wash your hair by the way.”
“That’s a waste. Keep the mineral water for drinking. I just want to wash it in the diving water.”
“Are you sure? If the sewer is broken, everything in it will leak into the water.”
“…Don’t be nauseous, can I make it? You swam by yourself.”
“Go to the shower, listen to me, be good.”
Lu Qiming kept asking her to take a bath, which made Jiang Miaomiao very curious, “What do you want to do?”
He squeezed his eyes, “I’ll know when you finish washing it out.”
It was so mysterious, she wanted to see what was good.
Jiang Miaomiao took a box of water, found a washbasin and towel, and took a bottle of shower gel and shampoo, and went to the women’s bathroom to take a bath.
Lu Qiming also took action. He brought a shopping basket with various seasonings such as pasta, oil, black pepper sauce, and a full set of pots and pans.
Mentioned an open area, and then dismantled a small shelf, twisted it into the shape of a bucket with iron wire, the upper part is large and the lower part is small.
After doing this, he searched in the huge supermarket and moved all the cartons, packaging bags and other things that could be used as fuel.
Lu Qiming took out the lighter he was carrying with him, lit a fire, buckled the iron rack upside down, and put a pan on top of it, the size of which was just right.
When the pot heated up, he poured a bottle of mineral water down and began to cook the noodles.
Jiang Miaomiao took a bath with cold water, because the weather was very warm, so it was quite tolerable.
She wiped her hair half-dry with a new towel in the supermarket, stood in front of the sink and looked in the mirror. She had the urge to ran to get her own cosmetics and drew light makeup in the mirror. The more she looked at it, the more beautiful she became, and she felt beautiful in her heart. Straight bubbling.
She walked out of the toilet, smelled the scent of food, followed the smell and saw a small round dining table and two small chairs by the window.
Two plates of steaming noodles were placed on the table. The dark green embroidered napkins were placed under the plates, and two silver forks were placed beside them.
There is also an unopened bottle of red wine on the table, two goblets, and a bunch of dried aroma flowers.
Outside the window is a bright blue sky and white clouds, and inside the window are exquisite tables, chairs and tableware.
Ignoring the flood in the city and the rotten food around, the picture is as beautiful as in the movie.
Jiang Miaomiao walked over in surprise and took a close look at the noodles.
The pale yellow pasta is dotted with black pepper, peas, and a lot of beef. The aroma is emitted from here, which makes people move their index fingers.
“It’s done?”
Lu Qiming’s voice came. She turned her head and saw that he also took a bath and changed his clothes.
The black trousers blocked the hideous wound on his leg, and the white shirt set off his slenderness.
The shirt cuffs are rolled to the elbows, the hair is short and clean, the beard is shaved, and the whole person exudes a fresh breath.
Jiang Miaomiao nodded, pointed to the noodles and asked:
“Where did this come from?”
He looked at the sky outside the window, tilted his head and smiled slyly.
“Maybe it’s some handsome and kind god.”
Jiang Miaomiao ran over and took his hand.
“How did you do it? Tell me!”
It would be great if I could cook and eat every day in the future.
She even wants to wash the dishes all at once!
Lu Qiming was so entangled by her that he took her to the fire.
Before the fire went out, he found a stainless steel saucepan and put it on to boil water, ready to make a cup of tea when he was full.
Jiang Miaomiao studied around the shelf for a while, then looked back at him with admiration and gave a thumbs up.
“Okay, you, your brain works well.”
Their quality of life in the supermarket will be greatly improved in the future.
Lu Qiming smiled proudly.
“Are you particularly touched? Want to agree with your body?”
“Keeping warm and thinking about lust|desire, you didn’t eat this, you started to make waves?”
“Huh, what to pretend? Who was the one who had to pounce on my clothes last time and asked me to help her fulfill her dying wish?”
She looked at him with the purest expression and blinked.
“I don’t know, hey, don’t talk nonsense with you, I will eat noodles
go with. ”
At this moment, what is happier than eating a bite of warm noodles?
Jiang Miaomiao ran back to the dining table, pulled a chair and sat down, picked up a fork and started eating.
Lu Qiming walked over slowly.
“Look at what you are eating, so I am ashamed to say me, slow down and have a drink.”
Jiang Miaomiao’s mouth was stuffed with noodles, and he was moved to cry.
“It’s delicious! Where did you get the beef? Isn’t it all rotten?”
Lu Qiming conjured a corkscrew like a conjure, and opened the bottle slowly while answering her questions.
“That’s the meat in the can, it tastes like braised, not bad?”
Jiang Miaomiao’s head turned into a chicken pecking at rice, and he ate several bites in a blink of an eye.
The crimson wine poured into the beautiful cup, and he handed her one.
“Taste it.”
“No, thanks.”
“The price is thirty thousand a bottle.”
“Then I have to taste it.”
Jiang Miaomiao wiped the corner of her mouth to take it, and when she was about to taste it, she saw Lu Qiming laughing and stopped.
“What are you laughing at?”
“It’s nothing, drink it.” He tried to reduce his expression, but after a few seconds he couldn’t help but raised his mouth, “You are so cute.”
lovely? I’m afraid it’s a laugh that she has never seen the world in poverty.
Jiang Miaomiao doesn’t care, thirty-one bottles of wine, even if she is allergic to alcohol, she still has to taste what it tastes like.
Taking a brief sip, she followed the taste of the high-end people in the movie with closed eyes.
It was sour and astringent at first, and after a while, it tasted a rich fruity aroma and a slight sweetness.
When she swallowed the wine, she recalled the taste between her lips and teeth, and she seemed to taste some caramel, which was fleeting and no trace.
Generally speaking, it is not good, not in line with her taste, and not as happy as a three-dollar bottle of Coke.
She shook her head, put down the cup, and prepared to concentrate on enjoying her beef noodles.
Lu Qiming said, “I only drink so much? One sip is worth hundreds.”
“No way, I have no blessings to enjoy. Drink more if you like.”
He wasn’t interested in drinking either. After thinking about it, he went to the beverage area to get a bottle of coconut milk.
Pour the red wine, pour the milky coconut milk, the two happily drink.
Jiang Rourou came over, smelling it, Jiang Miaomiao found a small bowl and gave it some noodles.
The family of three had a full meal, sat comfortably by the window and soaked in the sun, touching their stomachs and didn’t want to do anything.
“How long do you think we will stay here?”
Jiang Miaomiao asked suddenly.
Lu Qiming speculated: “Looking at the momentum of the flood, it’s not clean after ten and a half days. Even if the flood subsides completely, other shops, supermarkets, and warehouses in the city have been submerged for so long, and the food inside is early. We won’t be able to eat anymore, we’d better stay here to be safe. So…maybe we have to stay until the food is finished before we leave.”
The supermarket is so big that some foods have a long shelf life. If nothing happens in the middle, they can live for two or three years.
Jiang Miaomiao is looking forward to a quiet and stable life too much. It has only been half a year since the end of the world broke out. She has changed her residence twice, each time she escaped from the dead.
She picked up the coconut milk and said:
“I wish us always safe and healthy, eat and drink!”
Lu Qiming also picked up the cup
Zi, after thinking for a while, raised his head, his dark eyes flashed with longing light.
“Then I wish Guangming back to the earth.”
Bring the city back to life and let the factory resume production. Let the school resume its excitement and the hospital resume its busyness.
Let him realize his wish and live a plain life with her.
They have a lot to do, but they decided to give themselves a day off and enjoy the short tranquility.
Two people and one dog sat by the window and watched the sunset. The gorgeous sunset covered the entire sky, and the sun went down a little bit and disappeared behind the mountains.
As night falls, it always feels dangerous at night.
Several doors in the supermarket were open. They didn’t dare to sleep like this and find a maternity room.
There are sofas, toilets, and sinks inside, which are suitable for temporary bedrooms.
They brought a thick blanket and a basket of snacks and drinks in, ready to spend the night here.
There was no light in the maternity room, and they were reluctant to waste the power of the flashlight, hugging each other in the dark.
As long as Jiang Miaomiao moved forward a little bit, the tip of his nose could touch Lu Qiming’s chest. The distance was so close that he couldn’t help but feel swayed.
The two hadn’t slept with each other before, but the situation is different.
In the past, they were helpless and cuddling with each other, but now they are considered to have a certain relationship. They are both adult men and women, and they are full and there is no danger. Is it time to happen?
Jiang Miaomiao used to take off his clothes directly under impulse, but now he is shy, not daring to pant too loudly.
Is Lu Qiming asleep? What was he thinking about?
She raised her head cautiously, trying to see him, when the other party suddenly touched the back of her head.
“Hey, don’t do it first, rest is important.”
“…Who wants to do it.”
“Ok.”
After that sound, he didn’t speak anymore and fell asleep holding her.
Jiang Miaomiao flushed hot, pushed his hand away, and pulled out a bottle of Coke from the basket. He calmed down after drinking half a bottle, then lay back and went to sleep.
A peaceful night passed, and the next day, they began to work.
Now that I am going to live in the supermarket, I have to clean up my living environment.
Throw away the rotten food, or you may get sick if you live next to them for a long time.
There is no place to dispose of **** in the building, so you can only choose to throw it into the water, just to take them away when the flood ebbs.
This is a daunting task. The rotten food is calculated in tons. The two have only two hands, and it is very laborious to do it.
Jiang Miao changed into clothes that are convenient for work, tied his hair, and prepared to start.
Lu Qiming pushed five small carts, piled up the food to be thrown in it, and Jiang Miaomiao pushed it to the window and threw it away.
The two cooperated with each other and spent three days in a row before throwing out the fresh food area. There were countless expired snacks and drinks waiting for them to deal with. It took time to separate the expired and unexpired from a pile of food.
It doesn’t work like this. They work all day and they are not cows.
The two held a small meeting in the evening to discuss future work arrangements.
Do two rests, work two days, and rest one day. Work hours are eight in the morning and six in the evening, and sleep at night.
Only by combining work and rest can sustainable development.
This round
After twenty days, the supermarket was finally cleaned up.
At the same time, the flood outside the window also receded a lot with naked eyes. It was originally the eighth or ninth floor, but now it has only reached the first floor.
It is estimated that in two days, they will no longer be trapped by the flood.
This is something to be celebrated. Everyone opened a bottle of Frappuccino during dinner.
Most beverages have a shelf life of twelve months. This is only nine months. There are very few unexpired products on hand, and you usually drink them in divided portions.
Jiang Miaomiao took a sip, feeling a drop of sweat slipping from the temple, took out a tissue and wiped it, and asked Lu Qiming:
“Do you think the weather is getting hotter?”
Sweat wet the collar of her shirt, and a thin layer of sweat covered her skin, making her white as a tender lotus root, who had not been out for many days.
Lu Qiming looked away, looked out the window and made a sound.
“It’s July.”
“What to do, the floor is so high, it will be more difficult in the future.”
She couldn’t stand the heat, and stuck her tongue out on the table.
The arms are thin and white, and the elbows are faintly red, like rouge.
Lu Qiming coughed twice, pulled the hem of his clothes down, and changed his sitting position.
“We will look for generators tomorrow.”
“If there is a generator or diesel, it can’t be used? Alas, I really miss the solar energy in my last home. I guess it was destroyed by water.”
Jiang Miaomiao curled his lips and looked at his yellowish profile face stained by the setting sun. Suddenly, he was in a daze, and his previous words echoed in his mind.
-Don’t do it, rest is important.
How long has it been rested? Has he not rested enough?
Jiang Miaomiao was the most annoyed and twisted, and it felt like a sticky chewing gum, not sticky and crunchy.
She pinched the palm of her hand, suddenly got up and threw herself on him, and opened his clothes to take off.
The fragrance of the shower gel on the woman’s body hit her face, and Lu Qiming was startled.
“what are you going to do?”
She raised her face, “Didn’t you say you want to sleep with me? Want to regret it?”
“Of course not, but I am a little tired today, can I do it another day?”
“……Ok.”
She was unspeakably disappointed, didn’t want to look at him anymore, turned and shouted:
“Furou, Rourou! Come to eat!”
Today I made canned luncheon meat fried rice with some olive vegetables. It tasted like a stew with plums and vegetables. It was very fragrant.
Jiang Rourou has been lingering in the toy area these days, playing with a rubber doll in full swing, reluctant to think about it, and never follow their buttocks again.
She shouted several times before the other party ran over.
After several months of feeding, it not only became fat, but also taller, reaching Jiang Miaomiao’s knees.
The lanugo hair faded and new hair appeared, which seemed to be a Samoyed string. But because the whole body has changed long hair, only a short lanugo on his face is left, which looks like a monkey at first glance.
It’s ugly, not at all comparable to when Lu Qiming was disgusted to death when he first came.
Jiang Miaomiao divided a bit of rice into his bowl. He sniffed, not too interested, turned his head to look, and suddenly threw himself on Lu Qiming’s leg.
Two hind legs stepped on the ground, the front legs embraced him, arched passionately and boldly.
Lu Qiming’s face turned black in an instant.
Jiang Miaomiao was also shocked, and explained embarrassingly: “Uh… it may be a bit precocious. Flesh, come down!”
Jiang Rourou turned a deaf ear to what she said, completely oblivious to her, desire|celestial| desire|death.
Lu Qiming picked up a dinner knife and grinded his posterior molars gloomily.
“I saw the time when we should castrate the puppies.”
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