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

These two days can be said to be the darkest time in Zhou Xiaojuan's life. She has been locked in the interrogation room for two days and one night. Except for the two fixed meal delivery times at 7:30 in the morning and 6:30 in the evening, the rest of the time is filled with endless interrogations.

When she first came in, her cheeks were plump and she was slightly plump, but after two days, her cheeks were noticeably sunken, and she looked haggard, and she even reacted jumpily to anything around her.

The people in charge of the interrogation from the Security Bureau were still holding the notebooks used to record confessions. One was tall, the other short, and they looked like an ox-headed and horse-faced monster. Zhou Xiaojuan suddenly shrank her shoulders when she heard the sound of the door opening.

"..." The tall team members felt helpless when they saw her reaction. They didn't know what she was trying to hide. She was probably worried about being mistaken for a murderer. However, the people from the research institute had already come over to conduct a comprehensive examination on her. Not only did she not have any supernatural energy, but her physical condition was even worse than that of ordinary people. How could such an ordinary person manipulate others into a pool of blood?

However, it’s not that the people in the Security Bureau don’t believe her, but there are orders from above to get useful clues from her. This is also the reason why they have not been able to let her go until now.

"I told you, if you want to find someone, you should go find the owner of the fruit and vegetable store. Why are you looking for me? She must be the murderer. Otherwise, how could Zhou Xinyuan die the next day after he came out of the fruit and vegetable store?"

Zhou Xiaojuan has been thinking about it over the past two days and always feels that there is something fishy about this matter. When she thinks about the text message Zhou Xinyuan sent her that night, she doesn't believe that there is such a coincidence in the world.

However, the people in the Security Bureau did not think so.

"Ms. Zhou, I've told you a hundred and eighty times that Zhou Xinyuan and his two companions smashed up the fruit and vegetable store in the early morning. The store owner was also a victim. His store was robbed twice without his knowledge. How can he be considered a suspect? Moreover, the first time, he didn't know that Zhou Xinyuan and his two companions had come back to smash up the store. Before that, they didn't even know each other. If you hadn't instigated Zhou Xinyuan to vent your anger, the store would have been fine. So your statement that Zhou Xinyuan was harmed by the store owner is not true at all, and there is no evidence."

The short team member shook his head and answered contemptuously. It was obvious that in his eyes Zhou Xiaojuan just wanted to throw all the dirty water on the store owner, and this reason was too far-fetched.

"No, that's not right. You can't think like that. The accident happened after the smashing and looting. She did all this. She must be a superpower. She must have some strange sorcery, or superpowers that have never been made public!" Zhou Xiaojuan leaned forward excitedly, her bloodshot eyes widened.

The short man couldn't stand Zhou Xiaojuan's attitude, so he sneered and said, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, because the shop owner was invited back by our people the next day for a checkup. After the test, it was found that the shop owner didn't have any supernatural energy in his body. He is just an ordinary person. By the way, an ordinary person like you."

"How is this possible? It's impossible. There must be something wrong with your equipment!" Zhou Xiaojuan slammed the table and yelled. She still feels cold when she thinks of the look in Gu Tongwan's eyes when he asked her to leave the store that day.

"Okay, I'm telling you, you'd better tell us where Zhou Xinyuan went as soon as possible." The tall man really didn't want to waste time continuing the interrogation. In order to keep an eye on her in the past two days, the bureau specially assigned ten people to five groups. Four of the groups were responsible for monitoring her every move in shifts of six hours a day. They were mainly worried that she would turn into blood inexplicably like the masked man before. The other two were their interrogators. They interrogated her three times a day, and each interrogation lasted at least one hour. This time may not seem like a lot, but it was very tiring, especially since Zhou Xiaojuan was a person who liked to throw a tantrum. She would just lie there motionless like a dead person. If she wasn't a woman, they would have used force long ago.

Yawning, the short man next to him said helplessly: "If you don't want to talk, you can only continue to waste time like this. When you want to talk and say it, we can let you go, so you'd better think it over carefully."

Zhou Xiaojuan glanced at her dry fingers. She had not had a good time here during this period. Although the interrogation room was airtight, the weather had become increasingly cold in the past two days. She was only wrapped in a thick blanket. At first, she had hoped that her family could get her out. After all, Zhou's father knew a lot of people at work and had some connections and relationships. But after two days, not to mention getting her out, even her family hadn't come to visit. It was most likely that they hadn't found her, or that the matter was more involved than she had imagined.

"If I confess, will I be sentenced? Will I be sent to prison?" Zhou Xiaojuan was so nervous that she could only bite her fingers and asked in a cautious tone.

The two team members exchanged glances and saw the joy in each other's eyes. It seemed that Zhou Xiaojuan was willing to confess?

The taller one suppressed the excitement in his eyes and said in a deep voice, "It depends on the situation. If it's just simple incitement, according to the base's criminal law, it's usually a detention of more than 20 days to three months, and then a corresponding fine. If it's related to a murder case, then it's more serious."

"I didn't kill anyone. It's not that I'm not myself. I have nothing to do with the murder. It was Zhou Xinyuan who turned into blood. He suddenly said it was painful, and then he kept shrinking and finally disappeared." Zhou Xiaojuan shook her head violently and became more and more excited as she spoke. It seemed that her memory stayed on the morning when the smoker died. That horrible scene occupied her entire senses, making her extremely frightened every time she thought of it.

The two team members heard the key point at this time, and one of them asked, "Wait, you mean Zhou Xinyuan is also dead?"

Zhou Xiaojuan nodded timidly. "He came to see me that morning and we had a fight. Then he wanted to attack me. I had no choice but to push him to the ground. I was acting in self-defense because he wanted to strangle me to death, so I scratched his face with a stone. But I swear I didn't use much force. He suddenly said it hurt. Then he started to curl up on the ground, and his whole body became thinner and thinner. It was as if all the blood in his body had been drained. He became shriveled, and finally, he turned into a pool of blood."

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, it would have been impossible to describe the situation in such detail. Moreover, the situation she described was exactly the same as when the masked man died, which is enough to prove that Zhou Xiaojuan was not lying.

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The temperature has dropped a lot in the past two days, and a thin layer of frost has formed on the road, especially on the west side close to the inner circle. There was originally a mountain there, and the mountain was leveled a lot when the base was originally selected, but it is still the coolest and most humid place. When it is extremely hot, the weather can be three or four degrees lower than the outer circle, but it will also be colder in winter.

In the past two years, the temperature balance was broken when winter came, so even during the Chinese New Year, the lowest temperature in winter was still 18 or 19 degrees Celsius. Basically, you could go out by wearing a long-sleeved singlet and a knitted vest. None of the cold-resistant products prepared by merchants early on could be used, resulting in many merchants having to sell their previous cold-resistant products at a discount price in order to purchase heat-resistant products when it was extremely hot.

The Zhang family took advantage at that time, especially Liu Jinhua, who bought a lot of second-hand bedding sets and cotton coats and trousers. She even argued with her daughter-in-law Yang Mei for this because the two disagreed. Yang Mei thought that Liu Jinhua would never use these things in the future and it would be a waste of money. Liu Jinhua thought she was preparing for a rainy day. Besides, she only spent less than a thousand points to buy two sets of bedding sets and get each person a set of cotton coats and trousers. Isn't this a good deal?

The temperature has dropped to minus one or two degrees Celsius in the past two days, which is considered a cold winter in Jiangcheng. Before the natural disaster, the coldest time in Jiangcheng during the New Year was only five or six degrees Celsius. Except for the extreme cold weather the year before last that turned Jiangcheng into a city of ice and snow, the temperature has not dropped in the past two years. Instead, the fear of extreme heat and acid rain has made everyone immersed in the shadow of no water and no electricity.

Yangmei and Liu Jinhua took out the four-piece set from under the bed and were about to make the bed at home. Touching the coral fleece mattress, Yangmei sighed, "Mom is still far-sighted. If she hadn't bought these, I don't know how much money and effort I would have to spend to get a quilt. This morning, I went to buy vegetables and bumped into Mrs. Chen from the building next door. She said that when she went to buy a quilt yesterday, a second-hand one cost this much. She was scared to death." Yangmei stretched out her finger and made a number one.

"One thousand? Quilts are so expensive now?" Liu Jinhua was also shocked. The price of quilts had increased before winter even started. The quilts that used to sell for two or three hundred points were now sold for more than four hundred points. She thought it was too expensive at the time, and she didn't buy it because she already had some at home. Now it's only been half a month, and the price of the quilt has really skyrocketed.

"That's right. Not only quilts, but also cotton coats, cotton pants and charcoal are all very expensive. Everyone is saying that the temperature will continue to drop in the next two days. This morning I asked Guoming to buy windshield stickers, but I don't know if he can buy them. I was thinking that the wind was strong at night these two days, and the windows were always leaking wind. I had to buy something to block it."

"Oh, if it really gets as extremely cold as it was two years ago, it will be miserable. No one dares to go out in that weather." Liu Jinhua recalled how life in Xiaoxi Village was extremely difficult during that extremely cold year, and that the elderly could not stand the wind the most in the cold winter.

"Mom, don't think too much. We have already made preparations in advance. We have bought several hundred kilograms of charcoal and an electric heater. I think we can get through it." Yang Mei immediately comforted her upon seeing this.

Liu Jinhua nodded in relief: "Yes, life now is much better than when we were in Xiaoxi Village. We were able to survive then, and we can definitely survive now."

On the 1378th day of the apocalypse, Jiangcheng Base experienced the second largest global drop in temperature in human history.

Some people say that this drop in temperature is God's last bit of mercy to mankind. After all, the temperature drop did not come suddenly, but was a transition period that lasted for half a month, allowing humans to prepare all the tools and things to keep warm, giving humans the conditions and preparations to survive.

But some people also say that God is blind. The extreme cold followed by acid rain lasted less than a month and a half, which was simply a genocide against mankind.

No matter how much people discuss it, the fact remains that the extreme cold has indeed come, and it has come at night.

Some people were woken up by the cold in the middle of the night, especially when their windows were covered with a layer of frost and the hot water in the thermos last night had become cold. Only then did they realize that the extreme cold had quietly swept across the entire blue planet.

Gu Tongwan was also woken up by the cold at night. She had turned on the air conditioner to warm air to around 30 degrees these days and thought it was enough. But last night, she felt colder and colder as she slept until midnight. It felt like every breath she took was filled with cold air containing ice chips.

The first thing Gu Tongwan did when he woke up was to take out the thermometer, which showed that the indoor temperature was minus 11 degrees Celsius. He looked up at the air conditioner, which was still running normally, but at least he could no longer feel any warmth in the room.

It’s not that the air conditioner’s heating is insufficient, but the temperature at this moment is really too low, resulting in this little heating being unable to warm up the extremely cold temperature.

The temperature indoors is so low, the temperature outside will probably be even colder.

Thinking of this, Gu Tongwan immediately took out the down jacket from the closet. This black down jacket was up to the calf. When he bought it at the department store, the price tag on it was five figures. The warmth retention ability was indeed good. After putting it on, he felt that the previous coldness had dissipated.

As soon as she opened the door, she found two dogs squatting on the ground. When they saw her, they excitedly circled around her. For them, extreme cold was nothing. Their thick fur allowed them to run and play freely in temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero. Compared to the two dogs' often irritable and restless tempers when it was extremely hot, they liked the extreme cold instead.

"I'm so envious of your fur." ​​Stroking the two puppies' heads, Gu Tongwan couldn't help but put his hand into their bumpy fur, feeling the warm skin underneath, and couldn't help but sigh with envy.

When I reached the stairs, I could clearly feel the temperature suddenly dropped by ten degrees. This was because the glass door of the balcony on the second floor had been closed, and charcoal was burning in the fireplace on the second floor. Although the amount of charcoal used was not large, it could make the temperature on the second floor nearly fifteen or sixteen degrees higher than outdoors.

But only the doors and windows on the first floor were closed, so as soon as I went downstairs, I felt the coldness going straight to the top of my head. Even though I was wrapped in a thick down jacket, I couldn't help but tighten my neck.