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

After leaving the fruit and vegetable shop, Gu Tongwan hurried back to the shop. It was already 6:30 in the afternoon, and the sky in the underground city was gradually getting dark. In another half an hour, the artificial sun would be replaced by an artificial moon. However, based on the weather conditions on the ground today, it was highly likely that the moon would not appear, and it might be covered with dark clouds.

There are not many people coming to eat around seven o'clock, because most of the companies in the base have not yet started to implement the overtime system. This is related to the base's policy. The base now stipulates that the working hours are from 7 am to 6 pm, and no later than : pm.

This is probably related to several previous attacks by mutant creatures, and is also for safety reasons. However, if it is an industry such as a hotel that requires morning and evening shifts, you can apply for special industry working hours from the relevant departments of the base, and you can only work normally at night after the base reviews it.

There were about five or six tables of people dining in the restaurant. Because Meimei was not there, Xia Tian temporarily went to the front desk roof, and Xiaofeng was the only one busying around in the restaurant.

But Xia Tian is a girl with nimble hands and feet, and she can do her job well even when she is alone.

Gu Tongwan asked Xiaoyu to go downstairs and help her move the goods from the car to the kitchen. When Xiaoyu saw those large black vats, he swallowed silently in his heart.

"Boss lady, what is this big vat for?" Oh my goodness, each of these things must weigh over a hundred pounds. With his thin arms and legs, I'm afraid he can't move it. Is the boss lady overestimating herself?

"I plan to try to make some soy sauce in the backyard with Brother Yu in a few days. The weather has warmed up recently. I don't know if it will work. Maybe we need to put up a tarpaulin." The best temperature for brewing soy sauce is in summer. If it is winter, we have to find a way to maintain the temperature. He thought of many ways while on the road, but none of them are suitable yet.

"The temperature has been around 10 degrees at noon recently, but that's not suitable for brewing." Xiaoyu had seen soy sauce made in private workshops in his hometown, so he had a general understanding of the basic situation.

Gu Tongwan nodded, and then said, "Then let's not make soy sauce, let's make kimchi instead."

"Ah? Kimchi?" Xiao Yu scratched his head, a little confused about the proprietress's train of thought. She just did whatever she wanted.

Gu Tongwan nodded: "Well, I'll bring over 200 kilograms of cabbage in two days. Then I'll try making spicy cabbage. I haven't eaten it for a long time. When the weather is hot, spicy cabbage fried with pork belly tastes really good."

"Okay, then I'll move to the backyard first." Xiaoyu said as he began to roll up his sleeves. He pulled with great effort for a long time, and he was trembling as he walked with the big vat in his arms, but at least he didn't fall.

Gu Tongwan plans to brew the soy sauce in the space recently. At least the temperature in the space is constant, maintained at 25 or 26 degrees. The soy sauce will be ready in about a month at this temperature. When the weather gets hotter, prepare a few more large vats and put them in a row in the backyard. The brewed soy sauce can then be used not only in the store but also sold in fruit and vegetable stores.

Perhaps she heard her conversation with Xiaoyu, Liao Yunyun came out with a banana in her hand, eating it. Seeing the car full of things, she asked, "What did you bring back?"

"Some vegetables and fruits. Also, let Xiaoyu move a few jars. We will use them to make kimchi later."

Liao Yunyun nodded, and then asked about Meimei's condition, "Is her mother okay?"

"It's still unclear. People are trapped in the Diamond Hotel. I feel this is not a simple matter. I just delivered something to Sister Cai, and Sister Cai told me that the Diamond Hotel is now in quarantine, and entry to the seventh and eighth floors is strictly prohibited. When I sent Meimei there, I saw people from the health center also went up there."

"I also want to tell you this. Come and take a look at this post. Someone just posted it anonymously." Liao Yunyun swallowed the food in her mouth and walked over with the tablet.

This post on the forum shows that it was posted twenty minutes ago.

The poster attached several pictures, showing bite marks of varying degrees on the arms and thighs. Judging from the bite marks, they were not caused by any rodent creature.

The poster only had a few brief sentences.

[I want to leave the hotel and go home early. My wife and children are waiting for me at home. I don’t know what will happen tomorrow. I heard that a group of people from the health center have come. I have to put my phone in my pocket, otherwise they will find it.]

There is no follow-up to the post here. It doesn’t seem like the poster is unwilling to respond, but rather typed these words in a hurry, and there are even several typos in them.

This post is very popular. In less than half an hour, it has been read over 10,000 times and forwarded over 1,000 times. Even the number of comments continues to increase. It is only a matter of time before it becomes a popular post.

But what was even more strange was that when Liao Yunyun wanted to continue turning the pages, she found that the page displayed a string of numbers. After refreshing it several times, the result was the same.

When I exited and wanted to log back in, I could no longer find the original post. It was obvious that the post had been deleted.

As to whether the person who deleted the message is the one who posted it, it is unknown.

Liao Yunyun showed a deep worry on her face. She glanced around and made sure that no one was around before asking, "You saw the pictures just now. What do you think?"

"It should be similar to what you are thinking now." Gu Tongwan frowned, and his mind was indeed recalling the wound on the man's arm just now. Whether it was the shape of the wound or the tooth marks, it was obviously a human tooth.

"Hey, I don't know if my guess is right. Anyway, I feel like it is a human tooth. No, not like, it is a human tooth. But is it really possible for a person to bite another person?"

Liao Yunyun felt a chill spreading from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. The weather was quite warm today, but somehow she felt creepy after talking about this topic.

Gu Tongwan did not respond to the conversation immediately. He just frowned suddenly, took out his cell phone from his pocket and made a call. Unfortunately, he made several calls but the other party was always unable to answer.

In the case where you cannot answer the call, either the phone is turned off or the other party is in an area with weak signal. No matter which possibility it is, it is worrying as long as you cannot get in touch with them.

"What's wrong? Who are you calling?" Liao Yunyun rarely saw Gu Tongwan with such an expression, so she also became nervous.

"It's Meimei. When I sent her back, I felt that she was a little upset. I guessed that she might still be worried about her mother, so I wanted to call her, but the call can't be connected now." Gu Tongwan sighed, with a solemn look between his brows.

"Are you worried that she will go back to the Diamond Hotel? But even if she goes back, it's useless. Isn't it said that security personnel have been strengthened outside the entire hotel and the hotel is in a state of complete blockade, only allowing people to go out but not enter?" Liao Yunyun felt that Gu Tongwan was making a fuss out of nothing.

But Gu Tongwan remembered the anxious look on Meimei's face before she left, and the anxiety that made her want to rush into the hotel several times. Also, it was heard that Meimei's parents divorced when she was a child, and she grew up with her mother, so the mother and daughter had an unusually good relationship. Her parents got back together when Meimei was sixteen, so her relationship with her father was not actually that deep. If something really happened to Meimei's mother, it is not impossible that Meimei lost her mind and tried every means to sneak into the hotel.

Although it was only a little over two weeks from Meimei's training to her official start of work, through observation and understanding during this period, she could feel that Meimei was a kind and simple girl, and also a person who had a positive attitude towards work and life. Therefore, Gu Tongwan did not want to lose such an employee.

"Wanwan, why don't you call her again later? Maybe she was so tired when she got home that she fell asleep and didn't answer the call, or maybe her phone just ran out of battery. Let's think about the bright side first." Liao Yunyun comforted her from the side.

Gu Tongwan could only nod slightly: "Well, this is the only way for now, but Yunyun, do you have a way to find someone to inquire about the situation at the Diamond Hotel? If, I mean if Meimei is really in the hotel, we still have to find a way to bring her out."

"Well, let me think about it. Oh, right, now that you mention it, I remember that I have a friend who is the lobby manager of that hotel. He might know something. I'll give him a call and ask him."

Liao Yunyun picked up the phone and dialed a number. She talked for a while, and her face looked a little solemn after she hung up.

"She said that now, in addition to the sixth and seventh floors, even the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel have been sealed off, and the hotel staff are currently undergoing physical examinations, and they are mainly checking whether there are any wounds on the body."

Normally, it would be enough to seal off the sixth and seventh floors where the accident occurred, but now all floors above the fourth floor need to be sealed off, and not only the health center, but even people from the Medical Research Institute have entered the hotel, which is very suspicious.

"Did your friend mention the casualties?" Gu Tongwan asked immediately.

"No one has died yet, but many people have been bitten, at least a dozen. The strangest thing is that at first the people at the health center said it was just common rabies, but later people from the medical research institute came and said that there might be some latent virus in the saliva. Not only the people who were bitten, but also those who were scratched or exchanged T fluids could be infected. In order to prevent the situation from spreading, we suggested to the hotel to temporarily close it."

"Virus? Do you know the source of the virus?" Gu Tongwan continued to ask.

"My friend didn't say it, but it was said that one of the customers went to the small garden and started to have a fever when he came back. Later, his family felt that something was wrong and went to the hotel front desk. As soon as the front desk clerk arrived, he was jumped on and bitten by the person on the bed. He said that he really looked like a dog, with his teeth bared and his eyes were red. His skin became very dry and scary. In the end, it took four adult men to control him. But when the bitten clerk went to the rest area downstairs to bandage his wound, he bit another staff member again."

"Could there be something in the small garden, such as a mutant creature?" Gu Tongwan suddenly asked.

Liao Yunyun was shocked and said, "I'll call my friend right away and ask him to check if there is anything in the small garden." Unfortunately, no matter how many times Liao Yunyun tried to call, the call could no longer be connected.

"The call is not connected. I don't know if the phone is out of battery..." In fact, Liao Yunyun knew very well that it might not be that the other party did not want to answer the call, but that the other party might be in a situation where he could not answer the call, or there was no phone at all.

"Let's wait and see. If we still can't contact Meimei tomorrow morning, we'll have to find a way to go to the hotel." Gu Tongwan seemed to have made up his mind, and his fingers holding the phone suddenly tightened.

That night, Gu Tongwan was still thinking about the Diamond Hotel. She even looked for related posts on the Internet, but without exception, all the posts related to the Diamond Hotel were deleted overnight. Even the post at the beginning saying that she was trapped in the hotel became an invalid post. When she clicked on it, there was only a string of invalid garbled characters.

This shows that the base officials are trying to suppress the heat of this incident and cannot let the outside world know about it. There are several reasons. One of them may be that they are worried about causing public opinion and panic. The second possibility is that this matter involves certain secrets.

But no matter what the reason is, something must have happened at the Diamond Hotel now, and it is not just a simple accident!

Sure enough, at 8:30 in the evening, the kitchen had already finished preparing the dishes for tomorrow, so the workload in the morning would be slightly reduced. At this time, except for those who were not staying in the restaurant, everyone else stayed in the restaurant for a short meeting.

"Xia Tian, ​​I just asked you to call Mei Mei, how is it?"

Gu Tongwan sat in the middle seat, and the rest of the people sat around her on different stools.

Xia Tian still had a worried look on his face, so he sighed, shook his head and said, "I still can't get through. It keeps showing that her phone is unreachable."

"Maybe she fell asleep at home and her phone ran out of battery?" Xiaoyu said.

Xiaofeng quickly denied this possibility, "Impossible, I saw her just unplugged the phone when she got up this morning, so the battery should be full. She didn't play with her phone much the day before yesterday. After all, computers can connect to the Internet, so if she wants to read forums, she can just read them on the computer."

This is Gu Tongwan's rule. As long as it does not affect your main job, everyone can relax and slack off appropriately. However, if slacking off delays your work, you will be fined.

The reason for such flexible management is that Gu Tongwan also used to be a corporate slave, and he knows very well that it is impossible not to slack off in such an environment. Instead of always doing things secretly, it is better to change the management model. This way, employees can work in a relaxed atmosphere, which may not be a bad thing for the operation of the guesthouse.

In fact, her management model did have a certain effect. Although everyone would slack off when there were no customers, it never delayed their work. However, the monitoring room is a special department, so Xiaoyu has relatively less time to slack off. Fortunately, there is an automatic alarm system installed outside the wall, so even if Xiaoyu misses the video surveillance, the alarm mode will be activated if someone breaks in at night.