Teaching, hanging, new supplies.

After a full day's rest, Chi Xiaochi packed up his things at dawn and planned to leave for the neighboring city.

Ding's mother was not too worried and wanted to ask Ding's father to drive with him.

First, motorcycles are not safe, and second, cars have enough space, a small motorcycle, even to carry a barrel of oil is difficult.

Chi Xiaochi comforted Ding's mother, "Sister Ding, I know how to drive this motorcycle very well. Besides, if something happens in the service area, what will you and Old Ding do if I take the car away?"

It's not practical to take the second oldest with you to pan for supplies.

According to Ding Qiuyun's memories, there was no looting in the service area in the early days of the Calamity, and Jing Zihua even made two deals and traded seventy liters of oil for a mechanical crossbow for hunting.

It was only about half a month after the global cooling that a small group of old humans specializing in looting came to this place.

Not only did they not have the concept of equal exchange, but they also made obscene remarks to Jing Zihua, intending to drag her away as a trophy, forcing her to fire her crossbow, killing one and wounding another on the spot.

The rest of the people do not have long-distance attack weapons, and look at this woman fierce, guessing that she is afraid of someone behind the back of the support, do not dare to make trouble, only to escape first.

Therefore, for the time being, staying in the service area is the safest option.

But Chi Xiaochi isn't 100% sure.

He went to the neighborhood and picked up a large number of freeze-dried branches, de-frosted them nimbly, packed them neatly in the corner of the common room for safekeeping, made a promise to his parents that he would be back in three days on time, and called Yan Lanlan in for a few simple instructions on how to deal with the beasts, the new humans, and the old ones who had defected to the city.

Yan Lanlan, after all, is still young, deeply aware of the responsibility, full of nervousness, scratching earlobes: "Ah? Leave it all to me."

Chi Xiaochi said, "Two big ones, two little ones, please suffer more with Jing Jie."

Yan Lanlan : "Oops, I don't mean Uncle Ding and Auntie Ding. I mean that guy."

She nudged in the direction of the convenience store.

Chi Xiaochi slipped something into her hand and smiled.

He said, "If he doesn't look for trouble, we'll be fine; if he looks for trouble, then the convenience store will be ours, and we won't lose out either way."

Looking at the smile in front of him, and weighing the weight of the objects in his hands, Yan Lanlan was instantly reassured: "Don't worry, I'll take good care of them for you."

Yan Lanlan is not very old, but he is definitely righteous.

Since she had promised to "take good care of it", she would not fall short, even if she had to take her own life to fulfill her promise, she gritted her teeth and went through with it.

With that out of the way, Chi Xiaochi began filling the vehicle with diesel fuel, fully intending to go on a long trip.

Looking at Ding Qiuyun's busy figure through the window, Xiao Han, who was grimacing from the cold, finally burst out in joy.

But in just two days, he'd had enough of being confined to this little convenience store.

No electronic equipment to pass the time aside, eating, drinking, pooping in this dozens of square meters of enclosed space to solve it, Xiao Han is really afraid of that group of people to rob his small convenience store, but also afraid of the ice in the snow and slept, simply fight the spirit of the whole time, do not sleep, around the shelves running for warmth, boiled a two red eyes.

Can not really hold out when he wanted to drink a cup of coffee to refresh, looking around and can not find hot water, can only put the boxed coffee to the full of ice and water mixture of mineral water bottles poured, shaking half a day and can not shake, and so gulp into the mouth, and drank a mouthful of paste, nausea can not do.

Good thing he's about to get over it.

As soon as what was in the way left, he could have a good talk with the group as well.

He rubbed his already frozen hands together, rustled over the chocolate wrappers that had been thrown all over the floor, and walked around behind the counter, squeezing the spring-loaded knife in his hand, especially since it wasn't enough, and putting an inch-long fruit knife in his pocket.

In preparation, he even came up with an excuse.

Surname Ding this go, at least ten days and a half months can not come back, this gang of women, old and young no food, and in their service area rested for two whole days, do not pay a little price how can it be?

This is a free parking area, but now that the world has changed, it's time for everyone to change the rules.

If this bunch of old and sick people don't follow the rules, then he himself will teach them what ......

The little □□□ thought of the beautiful, suddenly heard from the direction of the door came clanking and banging.

He looked up and was horrified to find the tall Ding Qiuyun standing just outside the doorway of his mercantile, his head bowed as he tossed something on the outside door pull.

His first reaction was "robbery" and he panicked and opened the blade, but because of his lack of skill, he cut his own hand.

Ding Qiuyun outside noticed that he was huffing in pain as he cupped his bloodied right tiger's mouth, and unexpectedly raised an eyebrow, holding one hand on the glass outer door, and said with a gentle tone of voice, "This sir, I know that you are now cherishing the supplies you have available to you, and you can rest assured that we will look for the supplies on our own, and won't come to rob you."

Xiao Han looks out the door, his eyes straightening.

The outside door pull had a huge U-shaped lock on it, fully twice the size of the bike lock he had locked inside.

Ding Qiuyun tapped on the glass door, "To show our sincerity, you have a lock on the inside and we have a lock on the outside, how fair is that, right?"

...... Fairness my ass!

But Xiao Han didn't dare to kick back in front of Ding Qiuyun, who was a head taller than him, and didn't even dare to say no, but only watched Ding Qiuyun get on his motorcycle and leave abruptly.

Xiao Han's forehead was so bruised that he wanted to kick the door down.

Yet without the door, wouldn't any cat or dog be able to come in and move things?

After this day or so, Xiao Han also slowly realized that if the power and AI never came back on, the little convenience store would be his kingdom.

But the gasoline out there, and the pools of oil underground, are a much greater treasure, and if utilized properly, the benefits are likely to be more than worthwhile.

Jing Zihua has always been shrewd, and to expect her to voluntarily give up such a large piece of cake is obviously a fool's errand.

Xiao Han paced around the odor-filled convenience store twice in annoyance, and made up his mind that he would break the back window in the middle of the night, climb out and talk to Jing Jie, so that she would blow these strangers out as soon as possible, and at the worst, he would enter into an offensive-defensive alliance with her to share the resources of this convenience store.

He thought, the more people there are, the more trouble there will be, wait until this group of uninvited guests are blown out, and then he will be with Jing Jie again, maybe he can get what he wants, and get along with her.

It's not easy for a divorced, spirited woman with a drag to find another home.

I've never been married before, and Jing Jie is taking advantage of the fact that she's with Jing Jie.

But he won't mind Jing Jie. Isn't the purpose of living a life to understand each other?

This flurry of borderline thoughtlessness again sustained Xiao Han through the twilight hours.

The smell of hot rice came through the air.

Rice is good rice, take ultraviolet sterilization, even in the summer can be stored for a long time, cooked rice pearl-like, sticky and soft.

Each person evened out a spoonful of shiitake sauce from the can and smeared it over the tip of the rice.

Shiitake mushrooms have a soft and firm texture, which is like chewing meat, and a savory flavor, making them perfect for serving with rice.

Smelling the uninterrupted smell, Xiao Han's mouth watered like a fountain, but he could only gnaw on the instant noodles, his mouth full of the flavor of seasoning packets and preservatives, and he could only gulp down the noodles with his eyes wide open, choking so hard that his eyes would turn white.

He fought back his annoyance and waited until the smell of the meal dissipated and the shuffling stopped before taking a shirt, wrapping it in layers around his fists, mashing the glass of the back window in a few strokes, pulling out the glass ballast remaining around the edges, and crawling out on his hands and knees.

He thought the crowd was asleep.

So when he tiptoed through the door of the room with his knife in his hand, intending to scare the people right out of the room while they were just sleeping and not thinking clearly, he saw Jing Zihua crouching by the fire-pot in the center of the room, adding wood to it.

Not just Jing Zihua, but everyone who was awake was saluting this midnight visitor.

Xiao Han : "......" This is fucking embarrassing.

Jing Zihua frowned at the knife in his hand, "What do you want?"

Xiao Han is not a smart person, now the hot blood rushed his brain to the roar, so he did not do anything, gritted his teeth and said: "All of you people to the old man get out!"

Both He Wanwan and Jing Yiming's eyes widened.

Mother Ding hugged Jing Yiming's little head and stroked it gently so that he wouldn't be afraid.

Yan Lanlan shifted He Wanwan behind her and pushed her hands into her sleeping bag, gripping the weapon Ding Qiuyun had handed her.

Ding's father frowned, "Young man, speak politely. Whose old man are you?"

Xiao Han saw the fire pit they used to keep warm, their warm sleeping bags, and even the hot water snorting in the pot, and his eyes reddened with jealousy as he opened his mouth and choked back, "I'm your fucking old man!"

Jing Zihua also knew that the person in front of him was a living self-propelled idiot, and asked directly in return, "What qualifications do you have to kick them out? I'm the one who left them to live here."

Xiao Han gestured with the tip of his knife, "Jing Jie, don't you see? They have so many good things on them!"

Jing Zihua: "It's theirs! Not yours--"

"Where's the 'their' stuff? If I see it, it's fucking mine! I've got a knife in my hand!"

Seeing that he was about to lose control of his emotions, Yan Lanlan pulled out the gun that Ding Qiuyun had given her before he left, and aimed the black hole of the gun directly at Xiao Han's face: "Get out! Get out!"

Xiao Han : "......" The scene became more awkward for a while.

But for a young man with a low IQ and a chronic case of spermatozoa, Yan Lanlan's move was like throwing a firecracker into a cesspool.

After a short period of disorientation, his blood flowed backward and he became more and more excited: "Shoot me! Come on, hit me, hit me here!"

He pointed to the center of his head, "Did you hit it right? What? Hit, you must aim to hit, don't hit on other people, one hit a bloody hole!"

Yan Lanlan's face changed.

The laser gun was actually the best thing to use, but the thought of the possibility of accidentally injuring someone made her go a trifle wary in the first place.

Realizing that Yan Lanlan was retreating, Xiao Han became pleased: "Fight? Little bitch, aren't you quite fierce with your mouth? You'd better beat ...... it!"

He was kicked to the ground from behind and knocked out half of his front teeth straight away.

Behind him stood Chi Xiaochi, who was haunted by a frosty cold.

Chi Xiaochi followed by two doll-faced, droopy-eyed youths, who did not know what was going on, but still came up one at a time to hold people down.

The larger one had a skillful posture and a standard grappling technique, "Team Ding, it's under control."

Entering the warm room, Chi Xiaochi closed the door and, without saying a word, seized the two knives Xiao Han had with him.

After being taken down and losing his weapon, the heat in his head faded and Xiao Han calmed down.

Hating to slap himself, Xiao Han tries to make excuses, "I, I've had too much to drink. Leave me alone!"

Chi Xiaochi waved his hand at the pair of young brothers, "Drag him out and leave my parents alone to sleep."

Chi Xiaochi turned around and said, "When I go out, the children cover their ears, so be conscious."

He Wanwan did as he was told.

Jing Yiming, still wanting to watch the fun, milked, "I'm not a kid anymore."

Jing Yiming then had her own mother's ears covered.

After dragging Xiao Han out like a broken pocket, Chi Xiaochi, without saying a word, kicked the man on the ground in the waist, "Drunk?"

Followed by another kick to the stomach, "Drunk?"

After a dozen or so times of asking in this form, Xiao Han finally couldn't take it anymore and cried bitterly, "I didn't, I didn't drink too much, I'm obsessed, I'm sorry Ding, I'm sorry, I'm wrong, I'm wrong--"

"You don't think you're wrong for coming to rob me." Chi Xiaochi said, "You think you're wrong because you didn't step on the right spot, and you ran into me."

Xiao Han was sweating profusely and could only shake his head vigorously, crying and denying.

Chi Xiaochi stopped being polite to him and reached into his pockets and rummaged through them to find the key to the bike lock.

If we find the key, Xiao Han will be useless.

Chi Xiaochi gave him an ultimatum: "Whichever dog hole you got out of, get back in as you found it, and you've got five minutes to take the necessities you need from the convenience store and get the hell out of here."

Xiao Han: "The convenience store is mine ......"

"Where's your stuff." Chi Xiaochi returned with the original, "What I see is mine."

He lifted his wrist and looked at his watch, "You have four minutes and fifty seconds."

Xiao Han is still trying to hang on for dear life: "How can five minutes be enough ......"

Chi Xiaochi: "Three minutes."

Xiao Han: "Wasn't it just--"

Chi Xiaochi: "Two minutes and fifty seconds."

Xiao Han rushed back, not daring to say another word.

In the end, he gave Xiao Han five minutes to gather her things.

He hugged three boxes of instant noodles, two boxes of water and a box of ham sausages into the car and drove the car, fleeing all the way straight south to Guang County.

Chi Xiaochi did not warn him that he was traveling to a city where a serious snake infestation would occur half a day later.

Such people, as long as they live, will become lapdogs if they work with the new humans, thugs if they work with the old ones, pits if they work with the good ones, and harms if they work with the evil ones.

Why don't we let him have a good time with the animals and show him what it means to be ferocious.

Chi Xiaochi unlocked both locks, took stock of the supplies left in the convenience store, and joined the baby-faced brothers in moving the supplies into a nearby spare room.

It's a three-day trip, but Chi Xiaochi had it all planned out from the start.

A day's round trip is enough.

Xiao Han is a typical commoner, ruthless, cowardly and greedy. Someone like him, who has no previous criminal record and has evil on his mind, always feels safer committing crimes at night, so he won't go after Yan Lanlan and the others during the daytime and will most likely start picking fights on the very first night, bombarding the parents to leave with Yan Lanlan and hijacking their supplies.

The Sun brothers are in the next city, driving two hours of motorcycle will be able to make a round trip, leaving in the morning, the latest eight o'clock in the evening before you can also catch back.

Sun's older brother, Sun Yan, a former member of Ding Qiuyun's team, like Ding Qiuyun, retired early due to injury and works for a shipping company, while his younger brother, Sun Bin, is a systems engineering student who did his PhD at the age of 24.

The brothers are very affectionate.

When he was in the army, Ding Qiuyun already knew from Sun Yan's mouth that his brother's date of birth was the same as his, September 12, Virgo, loved spicy food, could read, loved small animals, was a genius, but was not proud at all, very easy-going, had a particularly good temper, and sometimes acted a little strange.

Sun Bin happens to be staying at Sun Yan's dormitory at the time of the disaster, and the two brothers had arranged to play an all-night racing game.

When he fled, Sun Yan took an empty truck that he used to drive.

This truck became the long-term transportation for Ding Qiuyun's team.

At first, Sun Yan, the automobile soldier, was in charge of the car. As for Sun Bin, who was born to deal with all kinds of advanced AIs, it was rare for him to figure out which foot was used to step on the gas pedal and the brake.

Before Sun Yan died, he pulled Ding Qiuyun and said to him, "Team Ding, take care of Xiao Bin.

He also said that the Pikachu charm hanging on the reverse mirror should not be thrown away, although everyone said it was ugly, but that was Bin's first birthday gift to him when he was five years old.

Finally, he called Sun Bin's name three times before he breathed his last.

After his death, Sun Bin quickly learned to drive.

And before Sun Bin died, he never left that driver's seat again, even sleeping in his brother's coat.

Luckily, both brothers were still there, still standing well before him.

After taking care of Han and counting the supplies he had left behind, Chi Xiaochi put the hand-cranked generator he had purchased earlier, a dozen or so canned goods, bedding, and two sealed buckets of water into the new storage area as supplies he had recovered from the trip.

When he came out, he found Yan Lanlan actually waiting for him outside.

The young girl's frozen white face held a bit of shame, "Ding, I'm sorry."

Chi Xiaochi looked at her.

She handed the gun back to Chi Xiaochi and whispered, "I ...... promised to protect Jing Jie and the others. But I didn't dare to do it ......"

Chi Xiaochi calmly pushed the gun back to Yan Lanlan.

He said, "Yes, there was something wrong with what you did this time, next time pay attention to two things, first, don't take out your gun in a confined space as a last resort when you are unfamiliar with it, and second, as a last resort, no matter what the situation is, have the gumption to shoot. It's not just protecting other people, it's protecting yourself."

In fact, after giving the gun to Yan Lanlan, Chi Xiaochi could have gone out without fear.

Yan Lanlan is young and impulsive, with a passionate heart, she always thinks that death is too far away for her, and feels that she is the center of the world, and that it is not her turn to die, so she has no fear of taking risks.

Yan Lanlan didn't know what death meant, but Ding Qiuyun did, and so did Chi Xiaochi.

So she needs to learn and Chi Xiaochi needs to be taught.