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

Day 78 of the End of the World

The water level should have completely stabilized and has not risen in three weeks. The worries on the 15th floor can be put at ease for the time being.

Gu Tongwan stood on the balcony and looked down. The water level seemed to be only a few meters away from the sixteenth floor. The rushing flood occasionally rolled up some domestic garbage. Occasionally, one could see people's clothes or plastic bags, or billboards and large furniture washed into the community from outside.

For the users on the fifteenth floor who did not install security doors, the flood was less than one meter away from them. Many people simply squatted on the balcony, holding clotheslines in their hands to intercept some things outside. Some people managed to fish out a washbasin, and some even managed to fish out a small stool. These days, people think that anything they can find is a treasure.

Because the 15th floor knew very well that if the water level continued to rise one day, he would be the first to suffer, so he would definitely salvage something useful if he could. Secondly, it was too boring, as he just ate and slept every day. The time seemed to be getting long, so he had to find something to pass the time.

Xu Ran, who was on the fifteenth floor downstairs, was fishing on the balcony with a fishing rod in his hand. The people at room 1502 next to him laughed and said that he was crazy about fishing. Fishing in a flood must mean he has a serious brain disease.

Xu Ran ignored him and continued sitting on the balcony with the fishing rod beside him. He was also repairing a hand-cranked flashlight at home that was a little broken after not being used for a long time.

Xu Ran's wife was chasing after the child and feeding him rice porridge. The situation at home was still good. Some time ago, Xu Ran used a kayak to team up with a family on the 17th floor to search for supplies. They found a lot of good things, including a lot of compressed biscuits and two ten-jin bags of rice. In addition, together with the goods his wife had bought at the temporary vegetable market before, the family was not starving for the time being.

The man next door was also bored, holding a toothpick in his mouth, as if he was picking his teeth after eating meat. In fact, he had chopped green onion rice soup without any oil or water for lunch.

Just as he was laughing and excited, he saw the fishing rod on Xu Ran's side move. Then Xu Ran quickly reeled in the line and leaned back. A red-tailed koi was pulled up along the fishing line.

"Fuck!"

The man stared blankly at the red-tailed koi, which was huge and weighed at least three pounds.

The toothpick in his mouth fell off, and he swallowed his saliva. Then he rushed back to the room and said to his old father who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa in the living room, "Dad, don't you have a fishing rod under your bed? Hurry up and take it out!"

The old father was sitting with his legs crossed, holding a chess piece in his hand. He was so bored that he could only confront himself. When he heard his son's words, he thought he was crazy, so he said bluntly, "That's the ancestral fishing rod passed down by your grandfather, my father. He once caught a 30-centimeter-long, half-pound knife fish in the Yangtze River. He was even hailed as the 'fishing king' of his generation. That was a rare opportunity. It was all the good luck brought by this fishing rod."

"Then you must give it to me." The man said with a smile.

The old father glared at him and said, "I told you it was handed down from my ancestors." But before he could finish his words, the man urged, "There are fish in the water. We can catch them and eat them."

The old father immediately stood up, rushed into the room, and after a while handed over a black fishing rod.

"Fishing hard for me. If you can't catch anything, I'll beat you to death!"

man:"……"

The people in Building A discovered the existence of live fish in the flood, and people in other buildings also discovered it. Although the news was blocked, there were many people who just stared at the flood every day, and it was not difficult to spot koi occasionally swimming on the water.

Everyone then remembered that there was a small garden behind Building A and there originally was a small pond nearby. Before the natural disaster, many women with their babies would go down to feed the koi. I don’t know if the water in the pond was too good or if there were too many people feeding the koi, but the dozens of koi that were originally released into the pond multiplied dozens of times within a year or two. Every time the fish were fed, the densely packed koi of various colors that emerged from the water would open their mouths wide, like round suction cups, vying to eat the food thrown from above.

After the flood, these koi not only did not die, but they were able to adapt well to the water quality of the flood. They were able to live a very comfortable life by eating various leaves and kitchen waste on the water surface.

Gu Tongwan stood on the balcony and watched the koi being caught one by one on the 15th floor below, but his brows were tightly furrowed.

The size of this koi is too big. The one caught by 1502 weighs more than ten pounds, and occasionally there are even larger ones swimming across the water.

Although most people know that koi are ornamental fish and are not suitable for consumption, who cares how they taste now? Even flood water is being scooped up and filtered for drinking, and koi will only make for more delicious meat.

Those living in the corridor could no longer hold back. Those living in the corridor on the 15th floor picked up existing tools, such as clotheslines and wooden sticks covered with plastic bags, to make simple fishing nets. Some brave people who were good at swimming tied a rope around their bodies and jumped into the flood to catch fish.

All in all, the corridor suddenly became a mess. The flood fishing was bustling, but people above the 15th floor were not so lucky, because there was a certain distance from the water surface. If they wanted to squeeze into the 15th floor and look at the densely packed heads, they could only count.

However, these koi did not appear in groups. They only appeared for less than an hour. Perhaps they felt that the food they were feeding was either garbage or some useless pieces of paper, so they simply left in groups, wagging their tails.

He was so happy after catching the fish that he thought he could have meat as a snack tonight. He hadn't eaten for several days and his mouth was almost dry.

Those who didn't catch any fish cursed at each other and could only watch the people next door burning firewood to cook during dinner time. From time to time, the smell of grilled or stewed fish could be smelled.

Xu Ran was fine. He stopped after catching three or four. Firstly, he was worried about problems after eating them. Secondly, his family was not forced to this point and did not have to eat fish. Furthermore, he knew that the fish must have eaten garbage during the flood and must be carrying a lot of bacteria. What if the couple got sick and no one took care of the children? So he asked his wife to pick a smaller one to stew, but the couple stopped eating after a few bites. The fish had a strong fishy smell and the meat was not very good. Moreover, when they thought about it being an ornamental carp, they immediately lost their appetite.

1502 caught more than a dozen fish in a row and was immersed in excitement. He killed the fish weighing more than ten pounds that night. He grilled half of it and even made sashimi with the other half because the fish was so fresh.

The next morning, except for the woman who did not eat the sashimi, the father and son 1502 suffered from unbearable abdominal pain. The painkillers did not work and they were paralyzed in bed for a week before their condition improved.

***

The fifth day of the apocalypse.

There were several swollen but incomplete corpses floating in the flood in Zijing Community. The corpses flowed along the water from Building F to Building A. People in the corridor on the 15th floor stretched their necks to see. Those who were watching at first, after seeing the tragic state of the corpses, covered their noses and backed away.

It was because the corpse lying on its back floating on the water had incomplete facial features, bite marks on its face, and either a hand or a foot was broken, so no part of its body was intact.