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

Gu Tongwan and Xiaoli were not in a hurry to go out. After discussing for a while, they removed the two pieces of iron sheets that were blocking the front of the warehouse.

When you remove the iron sheet, you can see many dead black-shelled cockroaches underneath, all lying on their stomachs with their four little legs curled up together.

"Give me the key, I'll open it." Gu Tongwan stretched out his hand to Xiaoli, motioning her to hand the key to him.

"Okay, then you have to be careful. I'm worried that there are still a lot of cockroaches in there." Xiaoli handed over the key, still somewhat worriedly reminding him, and then picked up the insecticide that Gu Tongwan had taken down earlier. Lan Qin next to her also had a bottle in her hand. Several people were worried that once the door was opened, a large number of hacker cockroaches would pour out.

Fortunately, the situation they worried about did not happen. After opening it, there was a strong musty smell inside.

Gu Tongwan and the other two were wearing masks, but they could still smell the damp and moldy smell in the warehouse due to long-term disuse, and even a bit of a foul odor.

Xiaoli walked behind the door, found the power switch, and pulled it up before turning the light back on.

There are two incandescent lamps inside. Even after all the lights are turned on, the light inside is still not sufficient. You can see several large tables and chairs that are not in use for the time being piled up in the warehouse, and there are a dozen cardboard boxes piled next to them.

The entire warehouse is about 40 square meters, half of which is filled with sundries, and there are also many things that are not used in the kitchen, such as pots, pans, and bowls. They are all placed in cardboard boxes.

Gu Tongwan walked forward a few steps and saw that except for dozens of black-shelled cockroach corpses near the door, there were no other cockroach corpses in the warehouse.

However, there was an obvious sour smell in the warehouse, which should be the excrement of black-shelled cockroaches.

"Xiao Li, give me a hand, let's move the shelf in front."

"Hey, okay."

Two people moved away an iron rack weighing at least forty or fifty kilograms in front of them. On it were many cheering props and empty glass bottles that had been used during the 24-hour business.

Lan Qin took a step back to give them room to move.

When the entire iron rack was finally moved away, a pungent stench almost made the three of them vomit on the spot.

It turned out that a very tiny hole appeared under the iron rack at some point, and several corpses of black-shelled cockroaches could be vaguely seen inside.

"I remember that this place used to be a drainage ditch. We were worried about flooding after a heavy rain, so when the base was built, a drainage ditch was dug for each one-story house to drain water out when water accumulated on the first floor. But since it didn't rain heavily, my aunt had someone block it with something. I didn't expect it to be dug out again."

Xiaoli squatted down and carefully observed the hole. She found many claw marks on it, so she frowned and said, "Could it be caused by rats? I remember that rats were rampant some time ago. When I went downstairs at night, I could hear noises near the warehouse. I guess it was done by rats."

Lan Qin covered her nose and found a lot of cockroach excrement around. She guessed that the stench of the warehouse came from here.

"It looks like we need to do a little cleaning today, and we also need to block the drain with cement again. We have to wait until the beast tide is over before we can clear it again. Otherwise, cockroaches and rats will come in from here in the next few days." Gu Tongwan raised his head and said to Xiaoli.

Lan Qin immediately turned around and brought in a broom and garbage shovel, and started working without being told. No wonder the boss lady liked the little girl so much, not only because Lan Qin was willing to work hard, but also because she was smart and had good judgment.

Gu Tongwan and Xiaoli took the insecticide and sprayed every corner. Then he turned to Xiaoli and said, "The warehouse is really too messy. Ask Aunt Man if there is anything here that is not needed and can be sold second-hand or given to someone in need. If it continues to be piled up in there for a long time, it will be useless."

Xiaoli also frowned, her eyes falling on a dusty shoe rack, which was covered with rust and many places where the paint had peeled off. It looked even worse than broken. You should know that this shoe rack was originally purchased from the supply and marketing cooperative for more than 100 points, but later Aunt Man's room had more and more things, and this shoe rack was too big, and it would only take up space in the house. No one wanted to take it back and use it, so it had to be thrown in the warehouse to collect dust.

After cleaning the warehouse, the three of them had time to return to their rooms.

Gu Tongwan was not worried about his room, after all, Aoao and Tutu were there, so he took the two dogs to the third floor to check the situation.

Lan Qin's room was cleared out from a storage room on the third floor. It was only about 15 or 16 square meters and had only a squat toilet but no shower. When she took a shower, she would run to Xiaoli's room to use the shower.

However, she kept this small room in good order. There was a 1.2-meter single bed in it, covered with light blue sheets, and the curtains were also light blue. They were the extra wages given to her by her boss's wife after she worked overtime last month. She gritted her teeth and went to the second-hand fabric market to buy them and made them herself.

Apart from a bed, there was only a desk, a chair, and a small wardrobe one meter high. There was nothing else.

She propped up the window with a piece of wood, and when she removed it, she found that the glass was not damaged, so she turned around and went to Xiaoli's room.

Compared with Lan Qin's, Xiaoli's room is simply a doghouse. The area of ​​the house is the same size as the room she rents on the second floor. She even has a 2012-meter bed for herself, and a -meter wardrobe next to it. There is also an old desktop computer on the desk. Gu Tongwan walked over and found that the label behind the display screen said that it was a machine. It is said that when she bought it, she relied on her uncle's connections to get it.

Xiaoli didn't know if her window had been attacked by mutant crows before, which caused several cracks on a piece of glass near the window sill. In addition, she found several large cockroaches in the room, which scared her so much that she sprayed insecticide with her hand.

"Okay, stop spraying. The room is full of that smell. Open the door to ventilate it. Don't open the windows for now. There's a strange smell outside the block, too." Gu Tongwan could only smile bitterly.

When she returned to her room, the two dogs who were dozing in the corner immediately came over to greet her. Tutu, who was originally not interested, even licked the back of her hand.

The room was clean and the windows were not broken.

She was sweating all over downstairs just now, so she quickly took a shower and changed her clothes. She came out and opened her phone to check the messages. She found that not only Liao Yunyun, but also the Zhang family and Jiang Tian had sent messages to ask her how she was doing.

Because they all live in the inner circle, which has more government departments and some dignitaries who have settled there, the inner circle has higher security and emergency capabilities than the outer circle. Therefore, they are worried about Gu Tongwan who lives in the outer circle.

Gu Tongwan could only reply to the various worried text messages one by one.

When I came down from upstairs, I saw the proprietress and Uncle Zhang coming back from outside, each holding a fire tongs and a broom in their hands.

"This time we didn't get a locust plague, but instead black cockroaches and a large group of mutant crows. The base doesn't know what's going on. The first locust plague didn't have any warning notices, and the second time there was no mention of mutant crows. What will happen next time? We can only be on tenterhooks?"

Uncle Zhang could only sigh at the side. Seeing Gu Tongwan and Xiaoli who had just come downstairs, he continued, "The environment outside is not good now. You can stay in your room if you can. If you want, you can join a volunteer association organized by the government and volunteer to clean the streets every day. You can get ten points a day, from 8 am to 5 pm, with an hour break in between. The money is not much, but it's mainly for yourself and your family. After all, we can't live on the streets if there are cockroaches."

After asking in detail, I learned that the sanitation industry at the base is short of staff. Usually, only one or two people are needed to sweep a street in a neighborhood. In addition, health knowledge education is generally strengthened in the base, and the penalty is strengthened. If you are photographed or reported for evidence, you will be fined 50 points for littering. If the record is checked and it is found to be littering for the second time, the fine will be doubled. If it is more than three times, the person will be escorted to the underground city for at least one week of voluntary labor.

Now, after the crows arrived, most of the blocks, mainly in the outer circle, were basically in a mess, with the corpses of black-shelled cockroaches everywhere. If one or two sanitation workers were used as before, it would take at least several days to completely clean up a block.

Xiaoli and Lanqin were both very interested in hearing the news. After all, the guesthouse was unable to operate normally now, and this volunteer job was a good way to kill time and earn some money. It was just hard physical labor, but thinking that it was also for the environment of the neighborhood, the two discussed it and decided to go out immediately to another registration point in the neighborhood to sign up.

Gu Tongwan also received information from Liao Yunyun. It turned out that the unit where Liao Yunyun worked would be conducting a three-day building-wide disinfection, and even the streets outside would be undergoing comprehensive pest control. Therefore, all units and companies would suspend work for three days. Liao Yunyun saw the activities of sanitation volunteers in a chat group, and thought that staying at home was not a solution. She couldn't go out for three days, which would be very suffocating, so she might as well go out and get a part-time job.

Seeing her best friend so enthusiastic, Gu Tongwan thought of the yard in her own villa area, and thought that the disinfection work at that time would be to directly inject the disinfection gas into the rainwater grate and the quicksand wellhead, let the gas flow into the sewer, and force the black-shelled cockroaches to finally drill out of the quicksand wellhead. However, these gases that are only effective against insects and ants will penetrate into the cockroaches' bodies within two hours, and even the cockroaches that escape will eventually die of poisoning.

Jiangcheng is a southern city. When Gu Tongwan lived in an old residential area, there had been several pest control operations there. She still remembered that once when she returned to the old unit building of the paper mill, she encountered the four pests company carrying out pest control work for two days. At that time, the entire block and the walls outside the residential areas were densely covered with all kinds of winged cockroaches. Passersby would accidentally kick them and the cockroaches would burst. She was so scared that she didn't dare to go out for the next two weekends.

Gu Tongwan planned to sign up and give it a try. It just so happened that he could tidy up the yard at the same time. But when he thought about the melon seedlings he had planted before the insect plague, he began to feel depressed.

There are mutant cockroaches and mutant crows these days. Don't let them eat your melon seedlings.

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to go outside the block with Xiaoli and Lanqin to take a look.

As a result, they were stopped by the proprietress before they could leave.

"Hey, are you guys planning to go out like this?" The proprietress was wiping her hands and looking at several people up and down with a frown, especially Xiaoli, who was even wearing a pink dress and sandals.

Seeing that Xiaoli was still puzzled, the proprietress sighed again and said, "The floor outside is full of mutant cockroach corpses, and it stinks. Aren't you afraid of dirtying your clothes?"

Gu Tongwan glanced at himself. His clothes were old, but his shoes were a pair of sneakers he had just changed into, so he walked upstairs.

Xiaoli and Lanqin looked at each other and hurried upstairs. When they came down, they were all wearing the most dirt-resistant old clothes.

In particular, Gu Tongwan specially ran to the space to find the gray sportswear he usually wore for farming. There were obviously some stains on it that could not be washed off, and his shoes were changed into a pair of rubber water shoes.

Worried that they would miss the registration time, the boss's wife asked Uncle Zhang to drive them there.

It was still early when we arrived at the registration point. The government staff had just put out the registration tables. The area of ​​about a hundred meters had been cleaned, and there were many dead cockroaches scattered around other places. Although they were not densely packed, there were more than a dozen cockroaches every two or three meters, which was creepy to look at.

Because the registration location is near the junction of the outer circle and the inner circle, it is convenient for people from both places to register, but not many people from the inner circle register. After all, rich people don’t care about this little salary, and they also dislike this kind of physical labor.

However, when registering, I still saw a lot of familiar faces, including everyone in the Zhang family except Yang Mei.

When he saw Gu Tongwan, he came over to talk to her enthusiastically. It turned out that because of the insect plague, the Zhang father and son were temporarily unable to go out to work, but when they heard about the volunteer activities by chance, they hurried over.

Liao Yunyun was also seen in the middle. She was already at the front of the line. After filling out the form and registering with her ID badge, Liao Yunyun came out. When she saw Gu Tongwan, she immediately gestured to indicate that she would wait in front.

When Gu Tongwan was halfway through the line, many more people who had heard the news came to sign up, and the line was already fifty or sixty meters away.

It is said that only one thousand volunteers will be recruited this time, which means that registration will be stopped once the number of people is sufficient.

The entire registration process was completed in less than three hours, and some people who arrived late even had looks of regret on their faces.

At six o'clock the next morning, more than 400 staff members and dozens of disinfection vehicles appeared in different blocks to carry out the largest disinfection operation at the base to eliminate the four pests.