Seeing that the debris was cleared and abandoned cars shifted away from the road in front of the supermarket, Shi Xuan said, "Captain, it looks like someone got here before us."
Long Yu didn't respond immediately. He inspected the traces on the ground carefully. When he noticed faint footprints overlapping with tire tracks, his expression darkened.
He stood up and said, "The mutant rats became more active today. Let's collect the supplies and leave as quickly as possible."
Apart from Quan Yuanwei and Sima Yun, the others noticed footprints left by mutated rats. Realizing the mutant rats might hide inside the supermarket, they took out their weapons.
Some ruins blocked the supermarket entrance, leaving only a narrow path wide enough for people to walk through. Since it was too narrow for the trucks and the SUV to pass, they decided that Sima Yun would stay outside to guard the vehicles while the others went inside to gather supplies.
Walking into the supermarket, Long Yu surveyed the messy scene. Most of the shelves had fallen, and items were scattered across the floor. He signaled to the others, who nodded in response.
They separated and carefully checked the supermarket. Ten minutes later, they gathered again at the entrance.
Long Yu said, "There's nothing useful left here. Could it be that those people ahead of us already looted everything?"
Huang Qian pointed toward the back and said, "Captain, there is a warehouse in the back area. Should we check it out?"
Long Yu thought for a moment, then nodded. "Let's go."
The five of them made their way to the warehouse. Seeing that the lock on the door had been broken, they didn't have much hope of finding any supplies.
However, contrary to their low expectations, the warehouse still contained a lot of supplies. The shelves were half-filled with boxes, and some boxes were stacked in the corner of the warehouse.
Long Yu walked up to the nearest shelf, opened one of the boxes, and found it filled with self- heating meals.
Seeing this, everyone's face brightened. Self-heating meals are the best rations to have on the road.
Long Yu closed the box and said, "Let's move them out."
"Yes, Captain."
They began loading the transport trolley with boxes of supplies. In addition to self-heating meals, they found boxes of mineral water, vacuum-packed rice, beans, cereals, and even snacks like chocolate and candy.
Long Yu told them to take everything, including the snacks.
In the future, when food is scarce, chocolate and candy will be considered emergency rations. By then, production lines had long since stopped, and a piece of chocolate was so valuable that only powerful and wealthy people could afford to exchange it at the base.
Meanwhile, Yao Ran, Huang Zhihui, Deng Qiqi, and the Sima and Quan families had finished loading everything into the three trucks and the bus. freewёbnoνel.com
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Natural Disaster: I Started By Hoarding Tens Of Billions Of Supplies