章 44: Chapter 44: The Search for Nico

November 9, 2035, heavy rain, 48 days of power outage.

Today, they're going to Nico.

Negan's getting better. The edema hasn't gone down, but he's got a lot more energy.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

They also value materials more.

If they don't happen to have Chinese medicine at home that can cure Negan's disease, what else can they do? Let him drag it out alive?

In nearby North Town, where Kony lives, Ike several people passing by the subway station, lucky to see the subway platform inside all flooded scene. It's like a giant glass filled with water, and there's a body floating in it.

I remember when the power went out, Ike had seen the street cleaners still at work, loading bodies into garbage trucks and piling them up in a pit somewhere.

That scene is very shocking, after seeing deeply imprinted in the mind, has not forgotten. Ike even remembered that there was a triangular hole in the old man's sanitation suit, and although the hole had nothing to do with the fact that he was carrying the body in the garbage truck, which was noble and unrewarding, Ike remembered the hole in his clothes.

So much so that they forgot what the bodies looked like.

At this time, they went from street to street, came to new unfamiliar areas, and saw a lot of "scenery" that they had never seen before.

For example, a subway entrance was fortunately not filled with water, but it was filled with dead bodies.

People can hardly imagine that so many people could die in a little over a month.

In the days before the power outage, people had a fixed income, a fixed food, clothing, housing and transportation, they could order takeout when they were hungry, buy drinks when they were thirsty, and boil tap water again. Sick can go to the hospital to see a doctor, injured can also call the police uncle and 120.

What about now?

All these convenience things disappeared overnight, and now the city, even the most basic livelihood sewage system can not be guaranteed, what can it serve the people?

There is no money, no hospitals, no banks, no security, no Internet, no anything that existed before the power outage, such as breathing, the world after the power outage, is a world where even shit has to dig a hole, its degree of difficulty is unimaginable to ordinary people.

The Ike family is one of the very, very lucky ones.

Forget about the resources. Ike's doing the best he can. Even more fortunate, no one in the Ike family got sick, and no one in the family had to live in a hospital.

After the power outage, the fastest death should be this group of people.

Maybe the bodies in those pits, most of them died of illness. Only a few die of starvation, for dogs jump over walls when they are impatient, and a starving man, as long as he can move his hands and feet, will do whatever he can to feed himself.

Perhaps some of the rest were victims of plunder.

Whether he is on the side of the looters or the side of the looted.

Among the bodies, the women, especially the good-looking ones, are usually naked.

But no one looked into their fate, and what kind of story. Now it's a frozen corpse, mercilessly dumped in a corpse pit, waiting to rot.

This is the cruel face of the city where people's livelihood services, banks, hospitals, and emergency departments all collapsed.

Arrived in the north of Koni where there is a community, the block here even in the rainstorm, but also very beautiful.

At the gate of Section C, the huge black iron door was tightly closed, leaving only a small open door next to the security room, where two guards were guarding it.

Ike three people are stunned, how, is the rich community is so terrible, even the government can not manage the present, the community property department actually still exists?

The three put on masks and decided to send Tom first to find out.

Ike and Regus waited behind a stone sculpture thirty meters away.

After a while Tom came back, "I'll go, I'm shocked. I thought there were real properties protecting the property owners." First feeling a sentence, then said to the business, "there is a trading field, enter each person to hand in a small item, time is not limited."

Regus listened with a sigh of relief, and it was not to protect the owners of the community, otherwise he would doubt life. Because in that case, the life of the rich is really difficult to fathom ah, so that ordinary people can not reach the degree.

"What was the trading ground like?" When Ike heard it, it was the same idea as Jin.

Even the "transaction tax" worked perfectly.

But what is different from Jin's idea is that the other property controls the interpersonal resources of the whole community, what does Jin have?

"I don't know. Can we come in and have a look?"

"Good," said Hermione.

So Ike, Tom and other three people each handed in a small loaf of bread, into the Country Garden C area.

They came out looking for Nico. Of course they had resources with them. After all, even if Nico was willing to give them some tips for free, they wouldn't lick their faces and say thank you.

After entering the community is a large fountain sculpture, now no longer functioning. Then there was a red rubber runway, the community's otherwise beautiful greenery now shapeless, and the shallower parts of the runway filled with rain.

The rest of the place is still clean, as expected is the rich community, the drainage system is no small matter.

Inside the community to the left of a three-story building, the first floor is a huge convenience supermarket, it is the door security said "trading field", at this moment in the outside of the trading field there are three or two people circling where, biting the ear to say something.

And the supermarket inside is also brightly lit, heavy candlestick, from the glass door on the overlapping walking figure to see, gathered inside actually no less than 50 people.

It seems that this so-called trading place has been in operation for quite a while, but we do not know what form of transactions are carried out inside, and whether there is anything Ike they lack, which we must go in to see.

Ike and their vigilance, the three of them headed for the supermarket door.

Only to be stopped by a security guard.

"Another one?" Regus raised his voice.

The guard looked tall and fierce. To the three men's icy appearance, "Yes." "He said without expression.

Now Ike was not so generous to directly pay an additional "transaction tax", but decided to go to Nico to ask the situation before deciding.

After all, once they get in there, if anything happens inside, they're on someone else's turf, at their mercy.

In this way, they returned to the gate and walked to the rubber runway on the right. Yao Hao could not remember the specific building where Niko lived, only the third or fourth building, so Ike and they first went to the sixth floor of the third building.

But it was only after entering the building that I found that there were cesspool pits dug everywhere in the green belt, and the stench was awful.

On the outside walls of the building, even though it was washed by the rain, a closer look found that there were unknown colored stains hanging everywhere.

On the first floor of these buildings were houses with their own small gardens, and now the gardens of every family are filled with garbage and feces, some have been cleaned reasonably clean, and some have simply given up and sealed the doors and Windows.

So now the whole neighborhood reeks of shit and urine.

Ike, holding his nose, rushed into the fire escape in the community, thinking that he could breathe a sigh of relief here, but it was also full of garbage and odor.

"Damn it! Tom could not help himself, and angrily scolded, "Is this the level of the rich community?" Our place is much cleaner than here!"

Three people hurriedly climbed to the third floor, the pungent smell finally diluted some, "the property is still running, but the cleaner should not work." Ike analyzed.

He added: "The reason why the property is still in operation should only be to earn materials." So no one will clean up."

Tom put his head out of the window of the fire escape area and took a few deep breaths, "Such a building is too miserable, every day to pour shit and piss will collapse?"

"Yes, and there's no reservoir."

Like the old houses on the semi-suburban side, every house will have a water reservoir in the kitchen. The Ike and Regus houses, in their early years, had a large water tank to cope with power outages.

All of their drinking water during this period is from cisterns and water tanks, and the bottled water bottles in their hands have not been used.

So far, Ike's tank is more than half used, and Regus' tank is barely used.

Water resources are abundant.