In the early morning of the next day, Su Mi put on her black backpack, which had not changed for thousands of years, and went out.
Today is the day when she will go out to search for supplies with the supply search team. Qin Hao has been waiting for Su Mi at the door of 1502 for a long time. Seeing Su Mi come out, she nodded slightly in greeting, then walked ahead to the 13th floor.
They had two purposes for going out this time.
The first is to search for supplies, and the second is to find people from Building 17 to get back the rubber boats and supplies that were forced to be handed over.
Of course, the former is the main one. However, they only have one rubber boat left, so there are only five people allowed to go out to search for supplies this time.
In addition to Su Mi and Qin Hao, there were three others.
One is Ma Dexiang, the other is the younger brother who has been following Ma Dexiang, and there is another Su Mi has never seen. He is a man who has been living on the 16th floor and is a resident of Building 29.
The five of them got to know each other and then went downstairs to prepare for departure.
Ma Dexiang always had a fawning look on his face from the moment he met Su Mi, leaving Su Mi speechless: Was he stupid after being intimidated?
The water level had risen to the sixth floor since last night. The windows in the corridor on the sixth floor had already been removed along with their frames. The rubber boat was parked outside, and the five of them stepped out of the windows one by one.
The rain was heavy and the wind was strong. This kind of weather is actually not suitable for going out at all. But there was no way. Except for the three households on the 15th floor, almost everyone in the building had no food.
If you want to find food, you can only rely on this rubber boat.
Su Mi also has one, and everyone in the building knows it. But she didn't take it out, and no one dared to ask.
As the person in charge this time, Ma Dexiang had already planned where to search for supplies.
The five of them drove all the way to the intersection of Dongsheng East Road and unexpectedly encountered a motorboat that could accommodate twenty people.
The height of the motorboat was no higher than their heads, and the twenty people on top looked down at them.
"Brothers, are you also here to search for supplies?"
Su Mi did not answer, lowering her head to lower her sense of presence. But his hand was already on the gun at his waist, always ready.
Ma Dexiang raised his head against the rain and looked at the man who spoke, "Yeah, brother, what's the matter?"
"Where are you going to search for supplies? Pingjing Supermarket? Or that foreign-funded shopping mall? If we are on the way, we can go and catch up. There are many people, so we can have someone to look after us."
The words of the man on the motorboat made Su Mi feel a heavy weight in her heart.
Ma Dexiang and the others were originally going to Pingjing Supermarket. Although it was not big, it was remote. If they tried their luck, they might actually be able to find something.
But when asked by the people on the motorboat, Ma Dexiang hesitated.
There are many people on the other side. If you can really join this group of people, you can definitely eat the supplies from that large foreign-funded shopping mall. But when he raised his head and was about to say something, Su Mi kicked him.
Ma Dexiang saw Su Mi shaking her head at him in disapproval, and immediately understood, and the words on her lips changed into something else.
"Brother, we won't go to that big shopping mall. There are few of us, so we can just try our luck nearby."
This group of people was obviously heading for the mall.
Su Mi lowered her eyes and said nothing. After listening to Ma Dexiang's negotiation with the people on the motorboat, and after several people watched the motorboat leave, Su Mi breathed a sigh of relief.
She would never go to that foreign-owned shopping mall again in her life. Even if it's just one step closer.
But Ma Dexiang and others didn't know what Su Mi was thinking.
"Sister Su, please kick gently, my calf is about to break." Ma Dexiang covered his calf and looked at Su Mi complainingly. Of course, he did not dare to really complain.
"Brother Ma, why don't we go to that foreign-funded shopping mall with them? There must be a lot of things there. I don't know how many people have died in this world now, and few people will rob us." Brother Ma Dexiang asked.
Ma Dexiang also looked at Su Mi with the same confusion.
Su Mi sighed, "We have supplies, but we also need lives to bring them back. That group of people is not simple. We don't need to have too much contact with them. It's too risky."
Qin Hao nodded: "It's important to be on guard against others, not to mention there are many of them. Let's look elsewhere." There are too many people, and many things are unpredictable. His wife was there when there were many people and chaos... He still regrets that he was not so vigilant about the people around him.
"Well, I know there is a small wholesale market. Although there are few types, the quantity should be quite large. After all, it is a bit far from the city center. We can try our luck there."
Wang Xi, who had been silent for a long time, spoke up, "I used to go there for business. That wholesale market has Master Lin's instant noodles dealership and some convenience food department stores. Those things are not easy to break. Even if they are soaked in water, as long as the packaging is not If it’s bad, you can eat it.”
Ma Dexiang's eyes also shone, "Why didn't you tell me about such a place earlier?"
"Originally, I wanted to talk about it after we go to Pingjing Supermarket. It's close there. But just now, I thought we would go to the mall with them."
"Let's go, what supermarket should we go to? Go directly to the wholesale market. If we're lucky, we can make a fortune this time. People in the building won't have to worry about food in a short time."
Naturally, Su Mi would not have any objection to this.
It's just that she was surprised that Ma Dexiang's personality, his gangster temperament, and his dirty thoughts would actually seek welfare for the unrelated old, weak, sick and disabled people in the building.
The five people drove a rubber boat directly to Yixin Small Wholesale Market.
Such a small wholesale market has a low terrain and the highest building is only five or six floors. When they arrived, they saw that the place was almost completely submerged in water.
Only a few taller buildings still have a full view of the rooftops on the top floors.
Ma Dexiang drove the rubber boat over, bypassed the collapsed telephone poles and tree trunks, and drove into the market.
The scene in front of them made the three people except Su Mi and Qin Hao stand up from the rubber boat and cheer.
The outside of Yixin Small Wholesale Market was originally an area surrounded by shelves composed of barbed wire.
The market is now flooded, and the surrounding barbed wire has been pulled up from the ground by the wind and floating on the water.
It's just that the barbed wire fences are not disconnected from each other, but are connected to form an irregular circle that changes from time to time due to the current, with a large number of boxes floating on the water inside.
Some of the boxes have advertisements for instant noodles printed on them, while others also have pictures of other food packaging printed on them.
Although there are some flowers due to being soaked in water for a long time, you can still roughly distinguish the brand.
Even Qin Hao stood up and looked at the boxes floating in the barbed wire in front of him.
Too much! Really many, many! And although the box was wet, it floated, indicating that the contents inside were still intact.
It was only Su Mi. Although everyone was happy to find food, these things had been soaked for so long, and no one thought of coming here to search for supplies?
Facts have proved that there must be one person in a team who is calm.
When Ma Dexiang was about to drive the rubber boat into the only gap in the barbed wire fence, Su Mi stopped him.
"Wait, don't go in yet."
Qin Hao also calmed down after Su Mi's reminder.
When he saw so many supplies at first glance, he was instantly bewildered. However, it is really strange that so many supplies are still food, enclosed in such a huge closed loop of barbed wire, and not drifting away with the water flow and strong wind.
But this place is already on a very low ground, and the surrounding houses are impossible to live in.
It has an unobstructed view for more than ten miles.
Su Mi frowned for a long time. It was impossible to set a trap in this place. Did she think too much?
Until Ma Dexiang drove the rubber boat and filled all the empty seats on the rubber boat, and they drove the rubber boat away again, nothing happened.
