Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

,

(The content of the previous chapter has been slightly modified)

Before leaving, Gu Tongwan cleaned up the house a little, mainly moving the home appliances and main furniture into the space. He even took away the brand new four-piece set in the bedroom, leaving only the bare wooden bed.

He also collected all the wood in the yard, fearing that someone might target his house, and of course he couldn't let the wood he had worked so hard to chop be stolen.

After finishing the cleanup, he locked the doors of the house and the yard, pulled down the brim of his hat, and walked forward on the thick snow.

Because this trip was said to be lasting three days and two nights, and the 80-kilometer distance in the snow would be entirely dependent on the village's only tractor and three pickup trucks.

Not many people signed up this time. After all, it would take a whole day to drive the 80 kilometers. There was no shelter on the back seat of a pickup truck, and the cold wind was simply unbearable.

So when they gathered at the entrance of the village, there were only about seventeen or eighteen people, including a few familiar faces, including Zhang Guoming, Qiao Laoer and Liu Xuechang, and the rest were some villagers who they had seen before when chopping firewood in the back mountain.

In order to take care of Gu Tongwan, everyone let Gu Tongwan sit in the passenger seat of the truck, and Zhang Guoming was driving.

Gu Tongwan was still wearing the extremely warm mink coat. Just in case, she also wore a stab-proof suit underneath. On her waist was still her most handy triangular military bayonet, but in her pocket was a small revolver.

"Brother Guoming, is there enough gas in the car?" Gu Tongwan didn't know that there were cars in the village. After all, he had never seen anyone driving out.

Zhang Guoming drove carefully. This secondary road could only accommodate two cars. There was a cliff on one side and no anti-skid chains under the tires. If he was not careful, the whole car would be destroyed and people would die. For this reason, the speed had been maintained at around 30 miles per hour for the past two hours since the start of the journey.

"It's definitely enough for a round trip. There are other cars in the village. I pumped out the remaining oil in the car before I came here. It should be enough for three cars to go more than 200 kilometers. But the antifreeze is used up. It will probably be difficult to start the car when we get back."

As soon as he finished speaking, the first car in front stopped, and the cars behind were forced to stop as well.

It turned out that the snow in front was too deep and needed to be cleared manually.

So everyone in the car picked up their tools and went forward, shoveling the snow just like they had done the previous times. It took about twenty minutes to finish the job.

This is also the reason why Zhang Youfan has been reluctant to lead the convoy to the county town. Previously, a round of mudslides was triggered by heavy rain, and he led the team to the county town during that time. The situation was even more serious at that time, and in the end everyone had to abandon the car and walk.

The people in the inspection team said that their construction team had already handled the secondary highway once, and if Xiaoxi Village wanted to go to the county town in the near future, they could go and take a look.

In fact, Zhang Youfan knew that several large grain wholesale markets in the county would probably have been emptied before the end of the world, but he still held out a glimmer of hope and wanted to try his luck, even if it would be helpful to find some gasoline or diesel.

After setting off again, it took more than five hours to finally reach the county town. At this time, the county town was completely covered in snow. Because the terrain here is not as high as Xiaoxi Village, some of the snow has covered the height of half a floor.

The car stopped in front of the former supply and marketing cooperative. The entire county seemed deserted. According to the investigation team, most of the people in the county had been taken to the rescue center, and now the entire county was basically an empty town.

In fact, the population of the county town is only about 100,000 people, so it is easy to relocate in a short period of time. In addition, the flooding here was not serious during the rainstorm. People probably gradually left during the extremely hot and severe power outage period.

"Well, we will divide into groups freely and gather in three hours. If you can't come back after the gathering time, you can wait for another half an hour at most. If you don't come back by then, don't blame the main group for leaving first."

Zhang Youfan was also warning everyone, worrying that some people would be blinded by greed and only think about looting supplies and forget about discipline.

Everyone was divided into five groups, but Gu Tongwan did not form a team with anyone. He declined Zhang Guoming and Qiao Laoer. He stroked his concave head with one hand and smiled faintly, "I should be fine."

Everyone showed a look of understanding, and some looked at the two dogs with envy.

The ferocity of the two dogs in Dr. Gu's family had been witnessed when they were in the back mountain, so no one said anything at the moment, and some even joked that the two dogs should take it easy.

Maybe it's because it's so rare for me to go out, I've been staying in Xiaoxi Village for more than two months, and I almost forgot what the outside world is like now.

Aoao and Tutu were running wildly in front, and their bodies were soon covered with frost and snow. However, the two dogs were indeed cold-resistant. They had run more than 80 kilometers following the car without even breathing heavily. Now they were even full of energy and were playing around wildly, ignoring Gu Tongwan's shouting for a while.

The town that was bustling before the end of the world was now desolate and cold. Although all the shops were open, most of the things inside had been cleared out, leaving only the tables, chairs and benches that had not been removed.

After calculating that there were only three hours left, she went to a different place than others. Like Qiao Laoer and Zhang Guoming, one went to the grain and oil station and the other went to the warehouse of the agricultural wholesale market.

Gu Tongwan went to the Land and Resources Bureau where he had applied for the land certificate last time. When he applied for the certificate last time, he saw that it was almost National Day and many staff members were moving things to be distributed for National Day up and down. During the conversation, he heard them mention that they had also purchased a batch of New Year's goods.

So Gu Tongwan guessed that the Land and Resources Bureau should have a small warehouse specifically for storing supplies, but he didn't know whether these things had been moved.

It took about fifteen minutes to reach the destination. The iron gate outside the Land and Resources Bureau was ajar, and I just pushed it gently and went in.

Aoao and Tutu did not show any defensive posture after entering, which meant that there should be no threat inside, so she walked to the second floor while holding the three-edged military bayonet in one hand.

After going up the stairs and turning left, you will reach the original certificate processing hall. The certificate processing hall in the county town is about 200 square meters. The light inside is not very sufficient, but two glass windows broken by the cold wind let in some light, so you can see the things inside clearly without any illumination.

Because of the extreme cold, there was a thin layer of frost on many things in the house.

After walking around the hall, there didn't seem to be anything she wanted. She had already put some tables and chairs in the space, and it wasn't her place as a wholesale furniture store, so there was no need to ask for too much.

Normally, the staff handles their business through the glass window. Gu Tongwan found the sliding door from the left, walked in, and found some unopened snacks and biscuits in the drawer.

Not finding anything useful in the hall, I simply went to the offices at the end of the corridor. Outsiders are usually not allowed to enter there, so they should be the leaders' offices or something like that.

There was nothing in the leader's office except official documents. However, when we found the last office, we discovered that it was locked. Generally, locked rooms should be quite important.