Chapter 1614: Drought, the exploration team goes out to open blind boxes
A long period without rain also has an impact on the natural environment.
Dongxian, a small county in the north of Oil City.
It is about 100 kilometers away from Oil City.
An exploration team scoured the county for usable supplies.
There has been no rainfall for three or four months, and the trees on both sides of the street have withered. The few remaining leaves curl up in the hot sun, like old skin.
The air is filled with the smell of dust and decay, and occasionally a gust of wind blows up sand and torn pieces of paper.
The lakes in the city have dried up, and the cracked soil is like withered lips, praying for the moisture of rain. The fountain in the square has long stopped, and the surface of the stone sculptures has been eroded by wind and sand, making it rough and blurry.
The glass curtain walls of the shops on the ground floor no longer reflect brilliance, but gray despair.
Nandou swallowed his dry throat, took out the kettle from his backpack, and poured it into his mouth, but there was not a drop of water in the kettle.
My throat was dry and smoking.
Looking at the murderous intention of rummaging through the vehicles on the roadside in front of him, Nandou said:
"Brother Sha, I can't hold on any longer. Hurry and find water. If you don't drink water, I will die of thirst!"
The food tortillas they brought were originally very dry, but now they are hard to swallow due to lack of water.
Killing Heart turned around. He had sharp eyes and scars at the corners of his eyes. He was strong and about 1.8 meters tall.
He picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Third brother, bring the car over."
Putting the walkie-talkie back in his pocket, he rummaged through the car next to him and threw out the dark and worn blankets and various plastic bottles inside.
Suddenly he saw the partition under the trunk.
I pulled hard and didn't pull away.
He pulled out the dagger from his thigh strap and wanted to use it to pry open the partition.
Generally speaking, spare tires, car repair tools, mini fire extinguishers and the like are placed under this partition.
They can use these things.
Squeaky--
The cover was deformed by the pressure, and he couldn't pry it open from any angle with a dagger.
"Nandou, come here and help." Killing Heart shouted to Nandou behind him.
Nan Douman walked over reluctantly, "Brother Sha, it's been six years. If there are things in this kind of car on the roadside, it would have been picked up long ago. Will it be our turn?"
"Hurry up!" Shaxin saw him whining, and his tone was a bit unpleasant.
After walking over, Nandou saw the collapsed partition and said, "If there was something inside, it would have been crushed long ago."
Killing Heart put away the dagger and pushed Nandou away.
"If you push me hard every day, what else will you do? Go away."
As he spoke, he walked to the front of the car, opened the roof cover, and looked at the erected hydraulic support rod.
He directly folded the support rod upward.
Kakaka——
The hydraulic support rod made a metallic friction sound, which was a bit sharp.
clang!
He pulled down the hydraulic support rod from above.
The top connection is the weakest, and it breaks when he folds it.
He walked to the back of the car carrying the hydraulic support rod and said to Nandou: "I will use a dagger to pry open a hole in the partition. You insert the support rod and push it up."
"good."
After saying that, Shaxin pulled out his dagger and pried open the gap between the cover and the car body.
Creaking, creaking——
The dagger rubs against the cover.
The gap slowly widened, "Hurry!" Killing Heart shouted towards Nandou.
Nandou quickly inserted the hydraulic rod into the gap.
And push up hard.
After the gap widened, Shaxin pulled out the dagger.
At this time, the gap between the cover plate and the car body can already be inserted into with your fingers.
Without hesitation, Killing Heart inserted his hands into the gap and used the power of his fingers to pull up.
Creaking, creaking——
The shriveled parts of the cover slowly recovered, "Here comes another person." Killing Heart shouted towards the back.
Immediately another person ran over and put his fingers into the gap together with Killing Heart.
"I'll count to three, two, one, and work hard together."
"Three, two, one, harder!"
The three of them worked hard together, and the trunk cover was slowly opened.
Boom!
The collapsed cover was lifted.
A red box was revealed inside, with a cross symbol inside.
In addition, there is a black box next to it.
Shaxin quickly took out the two boxes.
Open the red box, which contains dressing supplies, elastic hoods, snap-on tourniquets, elastic bandages, etc., sterile dressings such as gauze, bandages, iodophor, disposable gloves, as well as anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics, etc.
Grass!
This blind box is opened!
Simply!
With just two boxes of anti-inflammatories and painkillers, their trip was worth it!
In the apocalypse, medicines are extremely scarce.
Especially anti-inflammatories and painkillers!
Moreover, these two boxes of medicine have not been opened, and the price of these two boxes of medicine alone in the trading market exceeded 50 points!
What's more, there is a complete set of first aid tools inside.
This vehicle-mounted package of medical first-aid equipment and medicines can help self-rescue in the event of a traffic accident causing casualties.
In the apocalypse, injuries are commonplace, and sometimes death may occur due to fractures, excessive blood loss, or wound inflammation.
The contents of this first aid kit are a second life!
Moreover, because the items in this first aid kit are very complete, if the entire set is sold, it is estimated that it can be sold for 70 points.
"Idiot, brother Sha! Niupi, we are rich!"
Killing Heart glanced at him, "Didn't you just say you had nothing?"
Nan Dou said awkwardly: "Hehe, my luck is bad, but Brother Sha is lucky. He got an Easter egg when he opened the blind box. Let's see what's in the black box?"
Sha Xin glanced at it and said calmly: "No need to look, it must be a car repair tool."
"General repair tools are not so big." Ge Xiang, who just came over to open the cover, said.
"You guys open it and take a look."
Ge Xiang walked over excitedly and was about to open the black box, but was stopped by Nan Dou.
"Don't move, let Brother Sha do it. Brother Sha has good luck. Let Brother Sha open the box. There must be a surprise."
Ge Xiang felt that Nan Dou was right, nodded and looked at Sha Xin.
"Brother Sha, you should do it."
Sha Xin looked at the two of them like this and said speechlessly: "What's the difference."
He closed the car first aid kit and walked to the black box.
In the expectant eyes of Ge Xiang and Nan Dou, he opened the black box neatly.
The box was full of various tools.
Jack, fire wire, car starting power supply, wrench, tow rope, high-intensity flashlight, triangular warning sign, escape hammer, tape or insulating tape, etc.
Nan Dou picked up the high-intensity flashlight and turned it on.
It didn't light up, he was a little disappointed.
But when he saw the USB port of the flashlight, he was immediately excited.
"Brother Sha, this can be charged!"
They have a car, so they can charge it in the car.
In the trading market, flashlights with disposable batteries are not valuable, but if they can be recharged, they are valuable.
This kind of high-intensity flashlight can illuminate far away places, especially suitable for teams like them who go out to search for supplies.
Even, they can find an electronic repair shop in the trading market and have someone transform it into an ultraviolet flashlight.
This is much cheaper than buying an ultraviolet flashlight directly.
Sha Xin flipped through these repair tools, "Not bad, just in time our car doesn't have any repair tools, now we have everything."
"Brother Sha, awesome!" Ge Xiang praised with a thumbs up.
Rumble——
The sound of wheels rolling came from behind them.
A dilapidated pickup truck, the tires had fallen off, and it was spinning and swinging as the wheels rolled.
The wheels rolled over the dusty road, making a squeak of protest.
The paint on the old car peeled off, revealing the mottled metal color, as if the years had carved deep wrinkles on its surface.
The seats in the car were severely worn, the leather was broken, revealing the sponge and springs underneath, as if it could completely collapse at any time.
The hood of the car had been fixed to the front of the car, and was stopped by a thick rope to prevent it from flying up during the bumps, but this did not reduce the vibration in the car.
Every time the car turned, the front of the car seemed to be separated from the body, making a terrifying creaking sound.
They bought this car at the trade fair,
or to be more precise, they brought an engine they found and some parts, and asked the auto repair shop to assemble it for them.
The assembly cost was as high as 20 points.
There was no way, they didn't know how to assemble the vehicle, and it was easy for people with skills to earn points these days.
Creak!
Such a pickup truck that looked like it would be dismembered at any time due to vibration stopped next to Shaxin and his friends.
"Sha, are we going to leave here? Hey! Did you find something?" Lao San walked down from the driver's seat.
Lao San saw the red box and the opened car repair box, which contained wrenches, flashlights and other tools.
Nan Dou said proudly: "Sha and I found it together."
Ge Xiang glanced at him, his mouth pursed, and he thought to himself: You really know how to talk!
Shaxin stood up and said to Nan Dou:
"Lao Si, you put the things in the car, we will go find Lao Er and his friends, and then find a water source."
"Okay."
Nan Dou closed the black car repair box and carried the two boxes into the car.
He sat down in the back seat.
Shaxin also got in the car, and he sat in the co-pilot.
"Let's go find Lao Er and his friends." Shaxin said to Lao San.
The third brother closed the car door, then connected the car window with a rope and tied the other end to the seat at the back.
The car door was broken, and this was the only way to close it.
"Damn, the No. 5 store in the trading market is so deceptive. They took 20 points from us and only gave us one of these things." The third brother couldn't help but complain.
Sha Xin saw that the door switch on the driver's side was indeed inconvenient, so he said:
"Let's look for a matching door on the roadside later, and then we can change it ourselves."
"Yeah." The third brother started the engine and started the vehicle.
This shabby pickup truck was moving forward.
It even stalled from time to time, and the recoil was amazing.
They sat in the car as if they were sitting on a rocking car, comfortable.
"Second brother, where are you?" Sha Xin picked up the intercom to contact the second brother Cheng Yun.
Zizi.
A few seconds later, a reply came from the intercom.
"Brother, we are in the east of the city, at a textile factory. Did you get anything?"
"Yes, we found a box of first aid kits, which contained two boxes of anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers, and a box of car repair kits with all the tools. Not bad. How about yours?"
"I found a basket of socks, with about a hundred pairs of them, all of which can be worn. There was also a warehouse of clothes, but the warehouse was soaked in water, and the clothes inside were all moldy and scattered."
"Okay, it's better than nothing."
Killing Heart felt a little regretful. In fact, if you can find clothes, you can take them back to the trading market and sell them. Although the price is not high, you can still earn points as long as the quantity is large.
What's more, they also have pickup trucks that can transport a lot at once.
Unfortunately, due to heavy rains and floods in the past few years, many things have been soaked by water.
Things like textiles, electronic products, wood products, and food are basically useless once they are soaked in water for a few months.
They were all moldy and smelly, and even falling apart.
When I went out to look for supplies, the biggest regret was not that I couldn't find them, but that I found a bunch of scrapped things.
Ten minutes later, they drove to the Chengdong Textile Factory.
Watching the second child and the sixth child carrying a large plastic basket filled with packed socks.
The seventh child opened the fender at the back of the pickup truck, and the second child and the sixth child lifted the socks up.
Shaxin poked his head out of the car window, "Second child, seventh child, sixth child, hurry up and get in the car. Let's go find water."
The second child stepped on the tires, climbed onto the pickup truck, and sat on the bed of the pickup truck.
Lao Qi first pushed the body baffle back, then lowered the bolt to lock the baffle to prevent it from moving.
Then got in the car again.
After the second brother saw them all getting into the car, he patted the car.
"Let's drive."
Chu tu tu tu——
The scrapped pickup truck of Doomsday is back on the road again.
Killing Heart took out the map from the package and spread it out.
The map was wrinkled, full of creases and even blood marks.
Killing Heart picked up the map and brought it up to look at.
Where is the big river near Dong County?
After carefully looking at it twice, he finally placed his target point on a reservoir 17 kilometers away from here.
"Go northeast to Dongshan Reservoir."
He handed the map to Laosi Nandou,
"Fourth child, you used to be a top student, and you can understand map routes better. You tell Third child how to go."
Nandou took the map and said, "Brother, let's go to the Dongshan Reservoir area first. If we can find a dry river on the way, we can also get water."
"Nonsense. Let's go over there first."
It just so happens that the car needs to be filled with water. They don't have much coolant, so adding some water can help.
"Fourth brother, are you sure, which direction are these two roads heading next?" Cheng Yun asked Nandou behind him.
At this time, they had arrived at the outskirts of the city and faced two forks in the road.
Nandou looked at the map briefly, and then looked at the landmarks outside.
"This is the road on the right."
"OK."
The third child, Cheng Yun, stepped on the accelerator and accelerated toward the east.
Hum hum hum——
This dilapidated pickup truck was walking on a bumpy road. Perhaps due to insufficient combustion in the engine, the vehicle was stuck front and rear.
There are some mud and rocks on the road, which makes it bumpy.
Those who were sitting on the side of the car had to hold on tightly to the body to avoid being swayed.
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