#53 - Chapter 53 Someone from the Gas Station
After marveling at the rapid development of the base, Qin Jin took a deep breath.
He held it in his lungs for a long time before exhaling again.
A stream of mist, like an arrow, shot out from his mouth, dissipating a little over a meter in front of him.
He closed the window and turned to go to the newly built shower room on the same floor to rinse off.
Every day after exercising, he felt sticky and uncomfortable with sweat all over his body, and he needed to take a shower to feel refreshed.
Speaking of which, it was a strange thing.
He had recently noticed that his clothes were often missing. The dirty clothes he left in the gym or shower room after exercising would disappear inexplicably.
At first, he thought someone was helping him tidy up and take them to wash, but later he realized that he hadn't seen the missing clothes for a long time, and he felt something was wrong.
He even asked if his mother had taken them to wash.
He received a negative answer.
Considering it was just a few pieces of clothing, he couldn't be bothered to investigate further.
Moreover, recently, because his body size had increased, he felt that his old clothes were a bit small.
He was just about to replace them with a batch of larger and looser clothes to liberate his increasingly oppressed, brothers.
Just as he walked out of the gym door and passed the corridor to take a shower,
His nose suddenly caught a faint fragrance.
Hmm?
It seemed to be perfume?
It also seemed to be mixed with some strange aura.
A bit odd.
He wasn't sure if he had smelled it wrong. Recently, his sense of smell and hearing had been enhanced, and he often smelled and heard all kinds of strange smells and sounds within the base.
He hadn't fully adapted to these new changes, so he was a little unsure if it was an illusion.
Oh well.
Too lazy to care so much.
After taking a shower in a while, there were still many things to deal with.
He was a very busy man these days.
Acid rain was probably coming in a little over a week.
There were still some preparations that hadn't been completed, so he had to hurry up and arrange them.
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Dragon Gate County.
A gas station on a certain highway.
There was not a single person outside at this time.
The main building, which housed the toll booth and convenience store, was tightly closed, and all the windows were also shut.
Inside, a man was leaning against the window.
Occasionally looking out at the road, as if waiting for something.
It was Li Xu, who had left home to join "Qin Jin"!
It had been a full week since he left home.
He had arrived at this gas station four or five days ago.
He originally thought that he would meet "Qin Jin" soon after arriving here.
He didn't expect to wait.
He had been waiting for so long.
According to what "Qin Jin" had said before, he would pass by here five or ten days after the announcement.
Today should be the last day of the tenth day as he had said back then.
He didn't know if "Qin Jin" had already come on the fifth day.
Perhaps he hadn't arrived here yet that day, so he missed it.
It wasn't his fault for missing the fifth day.
Originally, according to his calculations, he should have been able to reach his destination on the same day he set off from home in the morning.
After all, it was only two or three hundred kilometers.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.
Traveling alone, he encountered several blockages on the road. It was okay in some remote sections where there were fewer vehicles.
But in some urban sections, it happened to be rush hour when the accident occurred, and many roads were severely blocked, forcing him to detour and find new routes.
This took too much time before he left the urban area of Yangcheng.
He barely entered Guangyuan City near dusk, it could be said that the journey was not smooth.
It could only be said that he didn't know if his luck was bad.
Before the internet connection was cut off, he didn't see any news about the establishment of an official gathering place in Wan City.
Otherwise, based on where he lived,
Going to Wan City would have been a better choice.
Why go all the way to Guangyuan City to seek refuge in a "three no's" place?
It was useless to say more now.
Fortunately, he got on the highway smoothly the day after he left.
Then he groped his way all the way here, finally finding the gas station that "Qin Jin" mentioned.
At that time, the building's doors were wide open, and not a single person could be seen.
Only some places outside had bloodstains on the ground. He guessed that the staff here might have mutated.
After biting and eating the non-mutated people, he didn't know where the zombies had gone.
He happily clapped his hands to celebrate this.
After carefully confirming that there were no zombies in the gas station's convenience store,
He closed all the doors and windows tightly, parked the car behind the building, and treated it as a temporary residence.
Anyway, there were still a lot of snacks and drinks in the convenience store, enough for him to eat and drink for a long time.
Then he had been waiting here all the time.
During these four or five days of waiting,
He wasn't completely without encountering survivors.
In his anticipation, he saw several vehicles appear from the highway, and then drive away without stopping in his disappointed eyes.
Presumably, they were survivors passing by, not knowing where they were going.
He had also thought about chasing after them to ask about their destination, to see if he could have more choices.
Joining or using it as a reference would be good too.
But in the end, he held back.
In this world now, he didn't know if the other party was human or ghost.
Mainly, he was only one person. If the other party had more people and wanted to rob his things, it would be difficult for him to resist.
He didn't think that people now were still as kind as before.
After the order disappeared, humans could do countless things beyond imagination.
Then he waited like this until now.
Today was the agreed day, he would wait one more day and see.
If it really didn't work, he would find a better place.
Or find a way to encounter some survivors with only one or two people to see if he could team up to survive.
He thought to himself.
Just as he was thinking wildly in his heart,
He suddenly noticed a little movement outside the window in the corner of his eye.
Taking a closer look,
It turned out to be two cars entering the ramp from the distant highway and driving towards the gas station!
Someone's coming!
Li Xu's heart trembled.
He quickly squatted down and continued to stare at the two cars opposite him.
He wasn't sure if the other party was "Qin Jin", so it was better to be cautious first.
The two cars didn't hesitate and drove straight to the two fuel pump positions at the gas station, then stopped.
Under Li Xu's observation,
Five or six men slowly got out of the two cars!
After these people got out of the car, it could be seen that they were all wearing ordinary clothes, but they were each holding weapons such as machetes and iron rods.
At this time, they were carefully observing the surroundings, seemingly guarding against possible zombies.
Li Xu's eyes narrowed.
He saw that the weapons of the group of people vaguely had bloodstains on them!
They had either killed people or killed zombies!
This showed that this group of people was not easy to mess with.
He continued to hide in the house, hesitating whether to go out and ask.
But he was worried that the other party was not the person he was thinking of, and he was struggling in his heart.
The newly arrived group of people didn't care what he was thinking, and after getting out of the car and confirming that there were no zombies around, they all relaxed. A few people didn't know what they said and started to move freely.
Two of them started to fiddle with the refueling equipment, seemingly wanting to refuel the car.
But the equipment was already out of power, and after fiddling with it for a while, they couldn't seem to get any oil.
They cursed loudly, their faces full of戾气, and kicked the machine, spitting a mouthful of old phlegm on it, looking very deflated.
The other few people.
Actually stood on the green lawn next to the fuel pump, directly unbuttoned their pants, took out their little birds, and shamelessly started watering the sky in broad daylight!
There was also one person who squatted directly on the lawn, ignoring his companions, and started making fertilizer as if no one else was around!
He even laughed and joked with the people next to him without any shame.
He talked while pulling, seemingly judging whose bird was more handsome.
Damn it!!
Li Xu shouted in his heart that his worldview had collapsed.
After seeing this group of people, he had a feeling of discomfort in his heart.
But he couldn't say it, he just felt that he couldn't associate with these people!
Even if there really was "Qin Jin" inside!
He decided not to go!
At worst, he would find another place in the future!
At this time, he only prayed that this group of people would quickly solve their affairs and leave here so they wouldn't discover him!
Unfortunately.
The two people found that the gas station couldn't get any oil, and without professional equipment, it was really difficult to pump oil out of here.
They had to turn around and go to their car to get a tube and a large bottle, and walk towards the remaining cars in the parking lot.
It seemed that they were going to pump oil from other cars.
Li Xu was glad that he had parked his car behind this house.
The other few people who had finished urinating walked towards the car while cursing.
Li Xu vaguely heard that the other party seemed to have gotten urine on their hands and pants.
There was no water to wash.
They rubbed it on each other's clothes while joking.
One of the ruffian-like young men, seemed to have finished playing around, and turned his gaze to the small supermarket in the gas station.
It was exactly where Li Xu was staying!
(End of this chapter)
