The convoy traveled westward for almost 20 minutes, and both sides of the road gradually became desolate.
The survivors approached the suburbs again. Lao Xu looked at the time. After a whole day of tossing, it was almost 4 p.m.
Considering that it gets dark earlier in late autumn, Xu Renjie drove the car into a side road, and after crossing two streets, everyone finally chose a relatively secluded alley and drove in.
There were not many zombies in the alley, and there were some small shops on both sides, probably supplying business to several surrounding communities.
Tang Xiaoquan looked around, and then said to Xu Renjie in the driver's seat: "Old Xu, let's spend the night there tonight."
Xu Renjie glanced at the young man and nodded indifferently, then moved over at a low speed.
After parking the car and opening the door, Tang Xiaoquan chose a shop located in the center of the alley.
The main reason why we chose this place is that it is in the center, which makes it easier to observe the situation at both ends of the alley, so as not to be surrounded by zombies that suddenly appear in the alley.
On the other hand, this store is 2 high and has two floors. There is a thick rolling shutter door outside, and the key is on the half-pull door. Therefore, you only need to enter the store and pull the rolling shutter door to ensure that everyone is safe. Midnight safety.
"Hey! Celebrity Salon!" After getting off the car, Wang Qiang raised his eyes and glanced at the shop sign above his head, and couldn't help but thought to himself: "It's a beauty salon again!"
Thinking back to his last trip to the hair salon, if his brother Tang Xiaoquan hadn't come to the rescue, he would have been buried long ago.
"Okay! Qiangzi, stop talking nonsense. You and Dazhuang are guarding outside, and the others will follow me into the house to investigate."
After saying that, Xu Renjie was one step ahead and stepped into the beauty shop feeling angry.
The shop is very large, about 80 square meters. On the left and right sides of the room are two rows of matching professional hairdressing chairs and dressing tables. There are various small scissors and combs for hairdressing on them. Since no one has cleaned them for a long time, A thick layer of dust accumulated on the mirror and seats.
The interior right in front was partitioned off into a shampoo room, with four flat shampoo sofas lying flat on the ground, which was very luxurious.
Then there are some special equipment for perming, dyeing and styling hair, which are placed around in twos and threes.
It has to be said that the scale and furnishings here are much better than the barber shop that Tang Xiaoquan and the others visited for the first time in the city.
From this, everyone can't help but be surprised. Can such a high-end beauty salon in a suburban county make its money back?
But for this, the survivors later found the answer.
Lao Xu's eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, and immediately fell on a shriveled corpse. From its sunken cheekbones and wide-open eyes, it was not difficult to infer that he must have suffered great pain when he died.
"This guy should be the clerk of this store." Hu Xiaodong stepped forward and picked up the work number plate scattered next to the dead body. The word 009 was clearly engraved on the front in red pen: "It seems that this store has a lot of employees, we have to be careful. !”
Everyone nodded, then dispersed, carefully examining every corner of the store.
After the investigation on the first floor was completed, Lao Xu ordered: "Li Zhong, Xiao Zhang, you two carry the dead body out, Xiao Tang, Xiao Hu, let's continue upstairs to investigate!"
After more than four months of drying, the corpse on the ground had shriveled up to the point where only skin and bones were left. Not to mention his miserable state, countless holes could be seen on the exposed wrinkled skin alone. Fortunately, it was not a hot summer day, otherwise the maggots inside would have broken out of their eggs and scattered all over the ground.
Even so, it still makes people sick.
After bypassing the cashier, Lao Xu, Hu Xiaodong and Tang Xiaoquan opened a door inside.
Due to the previous curtain raid at the archery hall, Hu Xiaodong stopped Xu Renjie's actions when he was about to open the door.
After setting up the bow and stringing and getting ready, he signaled the latter to open the door.
Everything was normal behind the door, and there was no unusual sound.
So, Hu, Xu and Tang walked up in a strange move.
A damp, musty smell suddenly came from the second floor, which made the three of them uncomfortable.
Tang Xiaoquan, who was at the back of the hall, quickly opened the window at the end of the aisle. As the fresh air blew in, the suffering lungs of several people immediately felt much better.
This is the place where beauty treatments are performed in the beauty salon. A corridor that is more than 10 meters long is divided into 6 single rooms. Each single room has a bed. The walls next to the bed are all posted with care stickers. price list.
Of course, for the big boss Xu Renjie and others, they naturally don’t know what these nursing terms mean, but one thing is for sure, they don’t need to lay the floor tonight.
Three people carefully checked the entire second floor. After confirming that there was no abnormality, Lao Xu called on everyone to carry the necessary daily necessities into the house.
Then the rolling shutter was closed, and the entire first floor was plunged into darkness.
However, this is not surprising to the survivors who have already adapted to this situation in the apocalypse.
After entering the house, the survivors took a rest, while Lao Xu took out a survival pot specially designed for the wild to cook instant noodles for everyone.
Time passed by, and the night gradually darkened. The originally dark beauty and hairdressing room was still pitch black, with only the stove under the survival pot emitting a little light.
Hu Xiaodong took out the candles from the supply bag, lit two candles, and placed them in the center of the hall.
A small flame at the right time brought some light and warmth to the cold midnight.
Soon, a quiet fragrance of noodles wafted out, and the survivors who had been busy for a day all swallowed their saliva involuntarily.
The survivors had a delicious meal. During the meal, Lao Xu made arrangements for tonight's night watch.
After that, he took some bottles and cans placed in the shop and placed them irregularly behind the rolling shutter door. His purpose of doing this was to prevent "rats" with malicious intentions at midnight. "Slip in."
Although this possibility is slim, Xu Renjie has long been accustomed to develop a cautious style through his many years of military career.
After all, it was so hot under the black light that he couldn't arrange for a single man to guard the first floor.
At the same time, no one of the guards who were on alert upstairs would be distracted and dozed after the night fell.
And if an enemy attacks at this time, it will be a big trouble.
So these small traps set up downstairs are good unmanned monitoring equipment.
If a "foreign object" really breaks in in the middle of the night, then "he" will definitely be surprised by the small gift Xu Renjie prepared for him. (To be continued.)
