Li Guangcai and Zhao Xuebin hooked the rotting corpse with two iron hooks and dragged it from the smelly water to the stone platforms on both sides of the sewer.
From the ground, the sewers are just vertical shafts going downwards, and the space inside should be narrow and cramped.
In fact, this is also true. In some residential areas, the space inside the sewers and manholes can only be crawled in.
However, these sewers crisscross the underground network and most of them converge into the city's main sewers.
As the city's main sewer, it not only allows people to walk upright underneath it, but is even wide enough for a car to pass through.
After Li Guangcai and Zhao Xuebin received the jobs assigned by their superiors, they quickly entered the sewer from the manhole and followed the familiar route.
Anyone who can get a job in the last days will work hard and no one will be lazy.
Because there are not just a few dozen people staring at this position behind you, but probably as many as hundreds of people. If you don't want to do it, there will always be a more suitable person to replace you.
Li Guangcai and Zhao Xuebin are similar in age, one is 39 years old and the other is 37 years old. In the apocalypse, one is a decoration worker and the other is a truck driver. However, these are of no use after the apocalypse.
Both of them are lucky to get this dirty and tiring job.
The two searched for a blockage point underground for more than 40 minutes before they found the bend where the sewer tributaries merged into the main road, where the body was stuck.
The body cannot just be left in the sewer. They have to carry it out in a body bag and take it to a centralized cremation point for cremation.
As the first safety zone in the Kyoto Safety Zone, these systems must be as complete as possible to minimize risks.
Use a hook to hook the body and put it into a simple body bag. In the congested sewer over there, a large amount of sewage and filth poured in. The sewer can be filled up and overflowed onto the platforms on both sides.
However, Li Guangcai and Zhao Xuebin have long been accustomed to this. They are afraid of dirt and smell, but they cannot do this job.
"Hey! Lao Li! Take a rest for a while. You will definitely have to go somewhere else when you go out now. I have something good!"
The person who spoke was Zhao Xuebin. He smiled mysteriously and took out a dry cigarette rolled in a square pattern from his arms. This was a half-pack of cigarettes he picked up in the sewer a few days ago.
After Zhao Xuebin picked them up, he crushed all the cigarettes and dried them in the sun. Although the smell always smelled like sewerage, you could still taste some tobacco flavor.
Cigarettes are now an absolute luxury. They are controlled in wealthy areas and in the hands of rich and powerful people. Ordinary survivors, even if they are lucky enough to get one and a half cigarettes, have to find a way to exchange them for food. No one is stupid enough to go hungry and enjoy it for themselves.
Looking at the homemade dry cigarette rolls that Zhao Xuebin took out, Li Guangcai's eyes widened in shock:
"I'll go! Old Zhao, how did you get this thing! You can do it!
However, wouldn’t it be better to sell it? It would be enough for you and your two wives to eat for several days! "
Zhao Xuebin ignored it, lit it, took a sip, and handed it to Li Guangcai, who was watching eagerly.
Li Guangcai smiled and couldn't wait to take it and took a sip. His happy and intoxicated expression became a little strange...
"Um...Is it because we are in the sewer? Why do we feel a stinky smell..."
Zhao Xuebin took the homemade dry cigarette from Li Guangcai's hand calmly, took a puff and then said:
"I caught it here! Otherwise, why do you think I didn't sell it!
Let’s not talk about whether I will be beaten to death after selling this thing. Even if I can sell it to people who are willing to buy it, I can’t give it a good price! "
Li Guangcai nodded and extended his hand to Zhao Xuebin.
As if something suddenly occurred to him, Zhao Xuebin retracted his hand, looked at Li Guangcai with a smile and asked:
"Huh? I said, Lao Li, you can't see it!
You are still a sullen old man, but you actually found a girl who is twenty-two or thirteen years old.
Tsk tsk tsk... tell me, what does it feel like! "
Li Guangcai looked embarrassed and replied with a straight face:
"Old Zhao, we are all quite old, you don't have to be so arrogant!
Besides, things are not what you think!
Xiaoyue's boyfriend left with a fifty-year-old rich woman from the rich area, leaving Xiaoyue alone in our slum area. When I found her that day, he was already starving to death and almost went there. Do that kind of business.
We both happened to work overtime that day, so I gave her a few extra steamed buns, so I gave them all to her. When I met her later, she said that in order to repay me, she would live with me. I thought she was a very pitiful girl, and I don’t have any now. The family agreed to her! "
Zhao Xuebin curled his lips. He still knew what kind of character Lao Li was. After all, the two had been working together for some time.
At this moment, Li Guangcai suddenly raised his hand, turned his face sideways, raised his ears and listened.
"Shh! Listen! What a noise!"
Zhao Xuebin quickly put away his smile, stubbed out the cigarette in his hand and stuffed it into his pocket.
If they are caught being lazy and lose their jobs, their days will be over.
After the two people waited in silence for a moment, except for a few soft clicks, they heard no other sounds.
The two looked at each other, smiled knowingly, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go, if this is opened, it will be too unfair for both of us!"
As Li Guangcai spoke, he reached out and grabbed one end of the body bag, and walked toward the nearest manhole with Zhao Xuebin.
Because they have been working for a while, and sewer cleaners like them all have their own designated work areas, memorizing the sewer lines in their area is a knowledge point that they must remember clearly even if they memorize it by rote.
As the two of them moved forward, in addition to their footsteps and breathing, the irregular clicking sounds could still be heard in the sewer.
It was like a naughty child tapping the sewer wall with a metal stick.
There was a crossroads about twenty meters ahead, and the sound came from one of the other three directions. After ruling out the possibility that it was from the opposite direction, there were only two left and right directions.
After watching the two of them move forward a few more steps, Li Guang, who was walking in front, stopped. Because he stopped and raised his hand almost at the same time, Zhao Xuebin, who was walking behind, could not stand firmly. It almost fell to the side of the sewer.
Before Zhao Xuebin could speak and ask, Li Guangcai turned his head and raised his hand to his lips to make a silent gesture, then turned off Zhao Xuebin's headlight and his own headlight.
The surroundings were plunged into pitch black, and under such circumstances, it was impossible to walk or identify directions, let alone work.
The sound of irregular metal rubbing against the sewer wall became clearer and clearer. At the same time, Li Guangcai also heard the strange footsteps of different shades, like a cripple walking in the dark holding on to the sewer wall.
Li Guangcai and Zhao Xuebin had both encountered hungry survivors who came to the sewers to try their luck before, and they were not surprised at all, but they had never encountered a guy who ran down there without any light source.
I couldn't see my fingers, let alone looking for something to eat. It was also a question of whether I could find myself.
Li Guangcai is not a native of Kyoto. He moved here with the previous safe zone. Before going to the local safe zone on his own, he also developed good survival skills and an intuition for danger in order to survive and reach the safe zone alive. .
The intersection in darkness ahead gave Li Guangcai a very bad feeling, making his heart beat inexplicably faster.
The footsteps of different sizes were getting closer and closer, until you heard the low gurgling sound...
Li Guangcai's hair exploded, which reminded him of some previous experiences.
There was no need to verify his guess. Li Guangcai grabbed Zhao Xuebin behind him with his backhand and whispered two words in a hoarse and trembling voice:
"Get into the water!"
Without giving Zhao Xuebin time to react, Li Guangcai decisively dropped the body bag and jumped into the sewer nearby. He lay down regardless of the filth inside, took a deep breath and dived inside.
Zhao Xuebin didn't know why Lao Li did this, but he knew that Lao Li would definitely not suddenly lose his temper, so his survival instinct made him follow Lao Li and sneak into the smelly sewer...
