coobybook Chapter 148 Doomsday
Chapter 148 Doomsday
Jianghuai City-Urban Area
Wang Shun carefully hid on the roof of the building. He had been hiding here for a while. Ever since the government broadcast the news of the doomsday, he started making preparations early.
He was working alone in Jianghuai City. He finally found a job, but he didn't expect that the doomsday would happen. He was in a very bad mood. Fortunately, he was the kind of person who would listen to advice and have enough food. When he heard the government broadcast saying not to run around and to stockpile supplies as much as possible, he started preparing early.
He was not like the others, who either did not believe in the coming of the end of the world or wanted to escape from the city.
He was alone in Jianghuai City with nowhere to go, and he was not very brave. He did not plan to run away, so he planned to hide in his rental house.
The house Wang Shun rented was said to be in the city, but in fact it was on the edge of the city. Most of the houses here were old self-built. The house he lived in was a structure similar to a courtyard house. The front house was a two-story building facing the street. The first floor was open to a small supermarket opened by the landlord, and the second floor was the house where the landlord and his family lived.
There is a rectangular courtyard behind the small building, with public kitchens and bathrooms on the east and west sides. As for the back is Wang Shun's house. His house is similar to the front one, with two floors and two rooms in total. Wang Shun lives on the first floor, and the second floor is the warehouse of the small supermarket in front. The landlord rented it to Wang Shun at a low price in the beginning because he wanted him to look after the warehouse. He always goes in and out through the back door of the courtyard.
However, ever since the government announced the doomsday incident, the landlord couple knew Wang Shun's character and had no intention of chasing him away. They were also stockpiling supplies, but unfortunately everyone in the neighborhood knew that theirs was a small supermarket and they all came to buy things. After all, it wasn't the real doomsday yet, and the old couple couldn't avoid the favors of their neighbors, so they still sold a lot of supplies.
Wang Shun was timid and thought a lot, so he secretly reminded the old couple not to sell it anymore. At that time, the Internet was still connected, and Wang Shun had seen many cases of knife-wielding robberies on the Internet. Many people also left messages saying not to trust anyone.
Wang Shun was using the greatest evil of mankind to guess people's hearts. He didn't dare go out now. The landlord couple felt that his advice made sense. There were too many riots outside and they began to get scared. After listening to Wang Shun, they put most of the useful household supplies in the warehouse. There were a bunch of unnecessary goods in the supermarket outside, and if someone came to buy them, they would say that they were sold out.
In this way, the old couple finally left some things behind, but Wang Shun was also smart. While others were scrambling for vegetables and food, he went to the bottled gas company to find the boss and paid three times more to buy ten fully-filled gas cylinders. People outside were in a panic and chaos, so the boss sold them to him as soon as he saw there was money to be made.
When he and the old couple were using a van to haul the goods, they found that the road was full of people and traffic was so congested that it was difficult to move. Many people were carrying large and small bags and didn't know where to go. There were even many people holding various things as weapons. Some people were even seen rushing into various stores with hammers, smashing and looting things.
These people only care about themselves and don't care about legal issues at all. Moreover, the police are already overwhelmed with work and cannot handle so many cases at all.
Some pedestrians outside had expressions of fear on their faces. They tried to avoid the crowd if possible, or just joined in. Some looked indifferent, as if they didn't care about what was happening around them.
Wang Shun knew at a glance that the situation was more serious than he had imagined. Their van was blocked by people who kept looking back and forth, as if they wanted to violently smash the windows. Wang Shun immediately opened the window to let outsiders see that they had no supplies. When everyone saw that they only had a large number of gas tanks, these people let them go.
After finally rushing back home, Wang Shun and the old couple immediately reinforced the doors and windows. Fortunately, the small courtyard behind them was built high, so there was no need to worry about someone climbing in. Moreover, the back door that Wang Shun had been walking through was an extremely narrow alley, about half a meter wide. After Wang Shun came back, he discussed with the old couple to use cement bricks to directly block off the alley. If he wanted to go in and out, he would use a ladder to climb up to the window on the second floor facing the street and go out from there.
Now no one asked about these cement bricks and tiles, so Wang Shun easily dragged back a truckload of them. The three of them got to work right away, and it took them only one day to completely block the alley behind the door. Looking at the solid wall, Wang Shun finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, Wang Shun took out the hundreds of thousands of yuan he had saved with great difficulty and divided 70,000 to 80,000 yuan among the old couple. As the owners of the grocery store, they naturally knew where to buy things, and the old couple still had some connections after all these years.
Wang Shun told them that no matter how expensive it was, they should buy everything as long as it was edible and usable. The old couple were also smart people and immediately started making contacts. Finally, they heard that there was some surplus grain in the rural area of the neighboring city, so they planned to collect it. That night, the old couple drove over in a small van.
But what Wang Shun didn't expect was that black fog would cover the entire world the next day, and the signals from the outside world were gradually cut off. Anyway, he never dared to go out after that, and the old couple never came back.
When the black fog first started to spread, Wang Shun also started to experience adverse symptoms, but he didn’t know if the medicine he had bought in advance was useful, but he managed to get through it anyway.
After that, he could hear some inhuman roars coming from outside, followed by a bunch of people crying. Wang Shun was so scared that he hid in the quilt and didn't dare to go out.
Fortunately, he had sealed the back door before. As for the front storefront facing the street, it had been smashed open long ago, and almost all the things inside were stolen. However, because of the advance camouflage, the attic leading to the yard had long been blocked by a pile of useless and heavy furniture. It was simply a camouflage that Wang Shun and the old couple had desperately moved up to block it. If someone who didn't know there was a way out saw a room full of shabby furniture, they would just think it was a dead end. Even if you knew there was a way out, it would be blocked by so much furniture and you really couldn't move out.