Chapter 10 Yesterday’s News

The windmill was blowing.

The sunlight value above it jumped about once a minute, decreasing by 1 point each time.

"So, there were 100 minutes in total... that is, more than an hour."

After seeing the fog dissipate, Xiao Jian turned around and ran to the door of the old house. He wanted to see if the door of the old house could be opened.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard the windmill blew, the fog on this side of the old house did not move at all.

"Tsk..."

Xiao Jian gently poked the fast-spinning windmill with an iron rod, so that the wind it created blew in the direction of the old house...

However, the mist that permeated the old house remained motionless, but the fog in the direction of the office building with only 3 floors left gradually thickened.

It seems that it should not be a problem of wind direction.

Xiao Jian let go of the windmill, and the lucky clover finally straightened its body again, blowing "whoosh whoosh" in the direction of the office building.

Originally, Xiao Jian was thinking about getting some pots and pans from the old house, or at least two quilts!

It felt terrible to sleep directly on the muddy ground.

"What a pity..."

Xiao Jian smacked his lips, picked up a relatively handy iron rod, and looked at the office building in the distance with some hesitation.

Although the fog wall behind the office building could be seen directly through the broken glass curtain wall, and what was inside was simply visible, Xiao Jian was still a little worried.

However...

Xiao Jian turned around and looked at his small courtyard.

There was not much fuel left, but there was still a lot of scrap iron. The only food was rice, and the water was even less and less.

And even these few remaining supplies almost all came from resource cards.

Now that all the resource cards have been exhausted, being trapped in this small courtyard with no way to replenish supplies, there is no other opportunity, but now the opportunity is in front of you, why not seize it?

Apart from anything else, if you can find a bag of salt, you can save a resource card.

After all, salt is a condiment that you don't need much, but you can't live without it. But if you use a resource card to exchange it, the salt you exchanged may not be eaten for decades.

There is another more serious problem.

The materials exchanged by resource cards are all large quantities of a single type, which can easily lead to Xiao Jian's single recipe.

Although resource cards are not scarce, they are very useful.

If you can find a bag of salt, some food, or even some fuel, wouldn't it be equivalent to saving several resource cards?

Apart from anything else, there must be a lot of waste paper in this office building.

If you get more waste paper, you don't have to spend time and effort to split bamboo strips when making a fire.

If possible, Xiao Jian even wants to bring back the glass... At the moment when resources are scarce, it can be said that everything you can find in the office building is very valuable.

Unfortunately, he only has 100 minutes.

Xiao Jian picked up a convenient iron rod, took a deep breath at the location of the original wooden door in the backyard, and then stepped over...

Unlike before, he walked out smoothly without any obstruction.

The invisible repulsive force before had disappeared without a trace.

It seems that the invisible repulsive force really exists on the fog wall.

There is a gravel path outside the wooden door in the backyard. Because no one has passed by for a long time, the weeds on both sides of the path have stretched their branches and leaves wantonly, so that the grass leaves almost submerge the road surface.

A few steps forward, both the gravel road surface and the weeds came to an abrupt end, and suddenly turned into a very new paved road surface.

It was still a two-way eight-lane road.

Xiao Jian stood on the dividing line and lowered his head. The completely different materials and colors on the left and right gave people an illusion as if the map was wrong.

If this video is recorded and posted online, there will definitely be comments such as 5-cent special effects or a bug in Earth Online.

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Xiao Jian didn't waste any more time here. He just took a look to make sure there was no danger, and then stepped onto the asphalt road.

The 3-story office building was placed on the sidewalk not far ahead.

Yes, the word "placed" is very appropriate.

Because it was not "placed straight", part of the wall protruded from the curbstone, which was about several meters long.

This formed a gap with the road surface at the same height as the curbstone.

Xiao Jian observed through this gap and found that the cut below was smooth and neat, so neat that he couldn't cut such a neat edge even if he cut butter with a knife.

This office building seemed not to be a solid concrete building, but a piece of cut yam placed casually on the sidewalk.

Xiao Jian walked around this "yam" for a while, and only got in after making sure there was no danger.

"Click..."

"Click..."

Under his feet, the fragments of the glass curtain wall were spread all over the ground, and there would be a sharp rustling sound when he stepped on it.

Occasionally, small pieces of glass would be stepped on and broken into smaller pieces. The sound of the broken pieces would be reflected back and forth in the empty building, making the echo very strange.

There were overturned tables and chairs everywhere, and scattered documents everywhere...

The decorative materials on the wall were torn in large areas, and none of the plaster ceilings were hung where they should be, leaving only the deformed light steel keel still hanging on the ceiling.

This "large yam slice" seemed to have experienced some kind of huge shock.

Maybe an earthquake?

Maybe a giant took it and shook it?

Who knows.

Xiao Jian quickly checked the "first floor" and found the fire escape to the "second floor".

By the way, the number in the stairwell is 23, which means that the original "first floor" should be the 23rd floor of an office building.

After reaching the "second floor", which is actually the 24th floor, Xiao Jian found that it was still in a mess.

However, unlike the downstairs where most of the office areas were located, this floor was divided into many small rooms.

The decoration styles of these small rooms vary greatly, but the same thing is that these small rooms are only half decorated...

... the half that the camera can capture.

Is this an Internet celebrity company?

Xiao Jian frowned and retreated, and climbed up to the "third floor".

This floor has no roof, and all the columns and the upper fractures of the curtain wall are extremely smooth, which is the same as what Xiao Jian observed on the "first floor".

Compared with the two floors below, the third floor has fewer resources, and almost all movable things are gone. Only a utility room with a locked door may have something.

After quickly browsing the three floors, Xiao Jian calculated the supplies in these floors.

The first floor mainly has tables, chairs, benches and various papers. Although there are several computers, the chassis are already deflated, and the parts inside are broken and make a rustling sound when shaken...

Electronic waste + n.

So in addition to fuel, the first floor only has a few combination sofas that look good.

If there is enough time and energy, you must move them back first, after all, sleeping on the sofa is much more comfortable than sleeping on the floor.

As for the second floor, there are quite a few complete computers, especially some game anchors' computers with very good configurations.

Although most of them have become electronic waste in the vibration, you can always save one that can be used.

But compared to fuel, the priority of computer accessories is obviously lower.

After all, there is no electricity, and it is not wishful thinking to want to play computer.

The most valuable thing on this floor is actually the clothes.

Although most of them are women's clothes with scarce materials, they are all fabrics after all! Even if they are cut into pieces and stuffed into bags, they can be used as quilts.

The second is those cameras.

If the power problem is solved in the future, it can be used to install surveillance or something.

Xiao Jian's biggest gain at present is actually three fire axes.

This thing is sturdy and durable when used as a tool, and it is very lethal when used as a weapon. It is definitely the easiest and most useful cold weapon in modern society.

However, Xiao Jian was not in a hurry to transport these resources back first. Instead, he took a fire axe and split open the locked utility room on the third floor.

This utility room is not big. The storage rack inside fell to the ground, and all kinds of sundries were scattered all over the floor.

There are many new and old mops, brooms, dustpans, plastic buckets, etc. scattered on the outside.

Further inside, there are messy paper documents. Xiao Jian flipped through them and found a lot of various ledgers, annual inspection reports and other fuels.

Going further inside, Xiao Jian found a toolbox with a hand drill and various drill bits, various types of screwdrivers, pliers, adjustable wrenches, wire cutters, electrical tape, etc., and even a pack of saw blades!

Seeing these tools, Xiao Jian's eyes lit up.

There were still some rags in the utility room, such as old network cables, half a bundle of wires, some transformers of unknown electrical appliances, etc.

Xiao Jian quickly counted all the resources, among which the fire axe, tool box, plastic bucket and the assembled storage rack in the utility room were more valuable.

The second was the sofa on the first floor.

Then the clothes on the second floor.

Then there were the ubiquitous waste paper and various wooden desks, etc.

Finally, there were the high-configuration computers and those cameras.

After planning the order, Xiao Jian immediately took action.

First, dismantle the storage rack, then use the old network cable to bundle it up, and move the fire axe and all the valuable things on the third floor back at one time.

Then there was the modular sofa.

This thing looks big but it is not heavy. Xiao Jian only rested for a while when he moved the largest three-seater one halfway.

Clothes are the simplest, so he still uses the old network cable to bundle a big bag and move all the fabrics back in one trip.

The final fuel collection work was the most time-consuming. After all, many wooden desks needed to be split before they could be transported away, which increased the workload invisibly.

Time passed by minute by minute.

When the fog began to show signs of spreading forward, Xiao Jian finally gave up some fuel and moved back the two computers, two monitors and all the cameras he had selected.

The fog wall slowly advanced, gradually engulfing the office building, and the two-way eight-lane highway gradually disappeared in the thick fog.

The shape of the "little windmill" blowing gradually faded, and finally turned into fog and disappeared in the air.

The fog wall stopped at the original position of the wooden door of the small courtyard... Only the spoils of war in the yard proved that everything just now was not Xiao Jian's illusion.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Xiao Jian found a line of bright red clear handwriting in the fuel pile.

"Emergency evacuation notice..."

Xiao Jian pulled out the paper and saw its date - it was the day before yesterday?

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