Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou, who didn't know that someone was looking for them, were pushing a shopping cart to buy things in the supermarket.

The supermarket is divided into four major areas: food, condiments, poultry, fish and shrimp, and daily necessities. In the past, snacks and drinks were impossible to find. At most, you could see biscuits, convenience foods, milk and mineral water in the food area.

They put a 5-pound bag of rice, a 3-pound bag of flour, a 400ml bottle of peanut oil, a 500ml bottle of vinegar, a bag of salt and MSG into the shopping cart.

Chi Yue: "Walking around the vegetable section again?"

Although there is no shortage of any supplies, they have not been out for two months, so they should do their best to save face anyway.

Vegetables take up the most space.

Three cabbages can fit into a plastic bag, which shows that they have purchased a lot of supplies.

"Okay." Wen Qizhou pushed the shopping cart, carefully avoiding the passing residents, and followed Chi Yue to the vegetable area.

The only vegetables left in the vegetable section are radishes, arugula, cabbage lettuce, cucumbers, eggplants and squash.

Chi Yue picked cabbage.

There were only seven or eight cabbages left. As soon as she picked up a cabbage that looked juicy, a hand suddenly appeared next to her.

That hand snatched away her cabbage, put it into the plastic bag with a snap, and continued picking as if nothing had happened.

"Uncle." Chi Yue roughly judged the gender and age of the other person through his movements, body shape, and eyes under the goggles, and said coldly: "This is not how you buy groceries."

"I want you to take care of it?"

"You're robbing me of my food, and you're still so arrogant? Didn't the nine-year compulsory education teach you manners?"

"Who stole your food?" The old man stared at her through his goggles, his triangular eyes slightly mean: "Is your name written on the table? It's none of your business if I take my food!"

He interprets "unreasonable".

Or, because there was no surveillance and there were military guards, he brazenly showed his mentality of "you can't do anything to me."

Chi Yue sneered: "The uneducated thing really has a hateful face."

"More than just the appearance, is it disgusting?" Wen Qizhou glanced at the middle-aged woman and said in an indifferent tone of disgust: "Some things are smelly even to the skin and flesh, and they will affect the air wherever they go."

They didn't say a single curse word, but it sounded extremely harsh when it fell into the old man's ears.

His chest heaved with anger.

Before he could teach them a lesson, his legs softened inexplicably, and he fell to the ground, suddenly twitching.

"Ah... help!!"

A scream that sounded like strangulation echoed in the vegetable area, attracting the attention of residents standing elsewhere.

Seeing that something was wrong with the old man, Wen Qizhou immediately pushed the shopping cart and took Chi Yue's hand to leave the vegetable area.

People who were still shopping for vegetables were all aware of the crisis and did not bother to shop any longer. They all went to the checkout counter to pay.

As they walked out, two soldiers holding long pole clamps and glass jars hurried to the old man's side.

"Is he parasitized by bugs?" Someone looked back and saw the soldier taking off his protective clothing, looking for traces of mutant bugs, and shivering as he distanced himself from them.

"Probably, he was twitching."

"very scary……"

"I'm used to it." The man standing behind Wen Qizhou said, "The courtyard where I live is often parasitized, and at least two or three people die every day."

"The same goes for Building B."

"How many people have died now?" People who had not paid attention to the bulletin board looked at them inquiringly.

"As of yesterday it was 327."

"Hey...more than 300 families."

They sighed, listening to the screams coming from the vegetable area from time to time, and had no intention of chatting with others.

*
Heat surged through the streets.The high temperature approaching [-] degrees makes people walking on the street unbearably hot, and their steps speed up.

Carrying shopping bags, Wen Qizhou walked to the off-road vehicle parked behind the supermarket and drove Chi Yue back to the second district.

On the way to Building C after getting off the car, he accidentally caught an eye on an insect crawling on Chi Yue's instep.

"Yueyue, don't move!"

Chi Yue stopped.

She followed Wen Qizhou's gaze and looked down, her apricot eyes reflecting the dung beetle crawling up her instep.

The hairs all over his body suddenly stood up.

The next second, Wen Qizhou raised his right foot, brushed the instep of Chi Yue with his toe, and quickly kicked the mutant dung beetle away.

The dung beetle, who was kicked away, turned over on the spot.

Chi Yue, who was about to give it a hard kick and send it to the west, didn't have time to take action when he suddenly saw it flapping its wings and flying towards them menacingly.

Chi Yue: "!!"

She was stunned for two seconds, grabbed Wen Qizhou's arm tightly, and rushed to the door of the unit building.

A drama of "you chase me and escape" was staged.

The dung beetles, who looked like brown sugar, stared in their direction and chased them forward, making a "plop, plop, plop" sound similar to that of carrying something.

"Comrade!" Chi Yue saw the soldier holding a long pole clamp with sharp eyes and shouted: "A dung beetle is flying over."

The soldier looked behind them.

Sure enough, I saw a black dung beetle.

He waved the long pole clamp and walked forward. The comrades beside him took out the electric mosquito swatter from his waist and followed closely behind.

"Crack—"

The dung beetle chasing them ran straight into an electric mosquito swatter and was shocked to the point of sizzling.

The moment it fell to the ground, the soldiers clamped its body and quickly put it into the glass jar they carried with them.

Seeing it struggling in the glass jar, the fear that filled Chi Yue's heart when she was chased by it disappeared.

She thanked the soldiers.

Then he walked to the elevator, panting slightly and took the elevator upstairs with Wen Qizhou: "I don't want to go out anymore."

The flying mutant bug was more likely to cast a shadow on people. Just watching it stick out its long mouthparts and fly after them made her feel uncomfortable all over.

Wen Qizhou: "Are you still afraid?"

"I'm afraid, but I'm not afraid." She took out the door key and opened the single room they rented: "I just feel uncomfortable."

"Then let's take a shower later?"

"Okay." After closing the security door, they entered the space together carrying the purchased supplies.

She and Wen Qizhou sprayed each other with disinfectant and insecticide twice, waited for a moment before taking off their protective clothing, goggles and masks, and walked to the lower reaches of the stream.

The gurgling stream is cool.

They soaked in the stream, and the heat from the outside world quietly receded, and the pores all over their bodies felt comfortable.

"Are you sleepy?" Seeing Chi Yue's eyelids shrugging and looking tired, Wen Qizhou put his arms around her waist and stood up.

Chi Yue: "A bit." She hugged Wen Qizhou's neck, yawned and said, "Please sleep with me for a while."

"Well, dry yourself off before going to sleep."

He wiped the water marks on the skin, wrapped Chi Yue in a bath towel, and left the stream with her in his arms.


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