Chapter 218 Searching for Food

After finishing speaking, Chen Xu glanced at the urban area to the west, "Let's go to the urban area to the west first!"

"Actually, there are many such ruined cities in the world. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union exploded in 1986, and the city of Pripyat in Ukraine turned into a ghost town overnight. Katri in 2005 It swept across the Gulf of Mexico, and the city of New Orleans was directly flooded and reduced to a vast ocean."

"The closest thing to us is the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in my country. A large number of counties were destroyed and turned into ruins. Among all the incidents, the one that caused the most deaths was the crushing incident caused by the collapse of houses."

"This reminds us that to survive in ruined cities, we must be careful of those buildings. Although some of them 'look solid', you never know whether they will collapse in the next moment. So, unless necessary, try not to walk along those thousands of buildings. Poor walls because they could fall down at any moment with concrete boulders."

While walking, Chen Xu pointed at the walls of the buildings that had been blasted into bean curd by shells.

Afterwards, he took out the windbreaker from the backpack and put it on, holding a steel crowbar in both hands, and walked carefully on the street.

Although there are militants everywhere in Syria, the Hadaya area is a ruin after all, and the number of living people is very small, let alone them. The armed helicopters of the government army were so loud before, and only two were attracted.

After walking two blocks, Chen Xu saw a two-story ruined house with a white plaque on the ground that was broken in half. The windows and the door on the first floor were all broken. Shelves scattered all over the place.

"This should be a supermarket. Although it should have been 'robbed' countless times, we should still try our luck and maybe find some useful items."

So, when Chen Xu walked into the supermarket, most of the shelves on the ground were empty, and occasionally some colorfully packaged food appeared.

He picked up a package of biscuit food with colorful packages, tore open the package, smelled it, shook his head and said: "It's already stinky, look at this biscuit, there has been a thick layer of green fluff on it, which is typical Aspergillus flavus is highly toxic and carcinogenic, and can cause enteritis and severe diarrhea!"

Throwing away the biscuits, he looked around, "The shelf life of general food is mostly 9 months to a year, but the civil war in Syria has been going on for five years. During this period, no matter what kind of food, it will go bad, but there are still some A few items won't."

"That is candy, canned food, air-dried bacon, fast food, etc., because bacteria like to live in a moist and nutrient-rich environment, and these items,

All are high-concentration salt, high-concentration sugar, vacuum, and air-dried environments, which can effectively inhibit the growth of bacteria. "

"So, even if the shelf life has passed, the taste will deteriorate at most, but it is still edible!"

So, Chen Xu searched through the garbage piles on the shelves, focusing on looking for these few foods.

"666, get another life skill!"

"What Master Xu said is true or not, it's been five years, are you sure there is still something to eat?"

"It's true. I heard that there are many military cans with a shelf life of decades, and the shelf life of ordinary cans should be very long!"

"I'm a chemistry major. High sugar and high salt really don't make it easy for bacteria to grow!"

While the audience was talking, Chen Xu finally found a few purple candies from the rubbish. They were the most common loose crystal candies. They should have accidentally spilled them on the ground when they searched for them.

He directly opened one and smelled it, "There is no strange smell, it should be edible. Such a small candy will provide me with at least 30 calories of energy, while the same amount of pork only has 14 calories."

After eating two in a row, he put all the remaining four in his pocket, "There is nothing valuable here anymore, let's go up and have a look!"

This supermarket is a two-story building. The first floor is a supermarket, so the second floor is likely to be a residence.

Chen Xu walked up the stairs.

The second floor was also a mess, everything that should be taken was taken away, leaving only an empty wooden bed, a scratched sofa, and dusty old clothes scattered all over the floor.

At this moment, not far away, among the debris pile, a transparent mineral water bottle attracted him.

Chen Xu immediately walked over and picked up the bottle, "This bottle is very useful. It can store water, distill it, and also be used as a trap. During the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, a teacher relied on this small mineral water bottle to drink water." Urinated, ate students’ homework, persisted for 108 hours, and was finally rescued.”

In addition to the mineral water bottle, he tore a few pieces of foam from the sofa, and a piece of clothing, and put them all in his backpack.

After leaving the supermarket, it was almost noon.

Fortunately, it is winter in Syria. The direct sunlight will not make people feel hot, but it will be very warm.

The west district of Hadaya is obviously more prosperous than the east district.

From time to time, you can see a scrapped car on the street, some were crushed by concrete boulders, and some were exploded and burned so that only a pair of iron frames remained.

After walking for another 20 minutes, Chen Xu finally saw a large khaki van in front of him, with an orange stripe on it, and a long series of Arabic letters written on it. The most important thing is that beside the letters, there are A white circle, inside the circle is a red crescent moon!

"See, that's the Red Crescent, the symbol of the Red Cross in the Arab region, and this is a Syrian ambulance! There is probably a hospital ahead, let's go and have a look!"

With a little excitement, Chen Xu ran forward.

Sure enough, just opposite the ambulance, there was a white seven-story building, which was the district hospital in Hadaya.

The gate had been blown down, and he walked in directly from the main entrance, and the inside was still well preserved.

Chen Xu searched around, and went to the pharmacy of the hospital first, because there are the most medicines and medical supplies there.

But when he arrived at the pharmacy, the glass of the sales desk had been shattered to the ground, the inside was a mess, and all the medicines had been looted.

Helpless, he directly gave up on the first floor and followed the stairs to the second floor, which was full of empty wards and empty windows.

Because there was no electricity, the corridor seemed a bit dark, and the breeze came in from the broken window, making a "whooping" sound, as if someone was crying, which looked particularly scary.

"Wo Cao, Master Xu has come to the set of a horror movie, right?"

"Looking at Master Xu holding a crowbar in the hospital, it seems like he's playing CS!"

"Nonsense, this is obviously H1Z1!"