Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

65 hours after the extreme cold.

Luo Mei stood nervously in the store, looking through the front glass window at the pickup truck parked more than ten meters away. In the car, Gu Tongwan was trying to start the engine.

Although the condition of the vehicle has been checked last time, that was two days ago. In the past few days, the outdoor temperature has been around minus 47 or 48 degrees Celsius, which is infinitely close to the lowest temperature in a province in northern China.

Gu Tongwan had been in the car for nearly two hours. Although the air conditioner in the car was functioning normally, the extremely low temperature still made it impossible to feel any warmth.

If they continue to waste time here, it will only delay the next action, but if the car cannot be started successfully, it means that they will have to abandon all the supplies they carry on the road. After all, they still need to move lightly on the road.

We went back to the store three times in the next few hours, and even Luo Mei was nervous for a long time. We had originally planned to set off smoothly at 8:30 in the morning, but we didn't expect that it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon and the problem with the car still could not be completely solved.

Just when Gu Tongwan was about to give up the car, his hard work finally paid off and the car started successfully.

When Luo Mei heard the noise of the engine outside, she immediately stood up from the stool. She couldn't help but smile slightly, and her heart, which had been hanging in the air, could finally be put at ease temporarily.

"The car is ready to leave at any time. Let's move quickly and move all the things to the back of the car." Gu Tongwan pushed the door open, still covered with a layer of snow. But time waits for no one, and she took the lead in picking up a basket of potatoes and sweet potatoes in the corner.

Luo Mei was not that strong, but she was trying her best to move one of the boxes that had been sorted out earlier.

There were four boxes in total. The two men put them all in the back of the pickup truck, covered them with a layer of waterproof cloth, and then quickly returned to the car.

"The car's gasoline can still run for 200 kilometers, which is enough for us to use for a while." In fact, there was still half a barrel of gas in the car, so there was no need to worry about running out of gas.

“By the way, have you used the heat-blocking patches?” Gu Tongwan asked while fastening his seat belt.

"It has been used. It's all in there." Luo Mei nodded quickly like a chick pecking at rice. Although she originally wanted to keep the heat-blocking patch for Zhou Ruchu, what Gu Tongwan said before reminded her that first of all, she had to return home alive. This was the most important thing.

Before leaving, they had contacted their family. Luo Mei's father had returned home safely last night and brought back some charcoal, which could temporarily sustain them for two more days. However, he was worried about Luo Mei's decision to go home even though the snowstorm was dangerous. Especially since Luo's father had just returned from outside and knew better than anyone else how bad the situation outside was. He did not want his daughter to risk going home in such weather.

However, Luo Mei was determined, and no matter how much Zhou Ruchu and Luo's father opposed, they could not stop Luo Mei's determination to go home.

With the sound of the car starting, the pickup truck slowly drove away from the fruit and vegetable store. Their destination was very clear, which was the nearest health center.

"This clinic is close to the administrative center, so it should be larger than the average clinic, and the pharmacy should have sufficient inventory. Usually, there are people guarding it, but the extreme cold this time came too suddenly, catching almost everyone off guard, so the guards should be temporarily transferred to other places. I will park the car at the door in a while, and you stay in the car and observe the situation nearby. If there is any problem, call me directly. I will let you come in when I am sure there is no problem."

"It's better to set the phone to vibrate. I'm worried that the ringtone will be too loud and attract other people's attention." Luo Mei couldn't help but remind.

Gu Tongwan raised his eyebrows slightly, then nodded: "You think the same as I do, but you are quite smart. Don't worry, I have set up the vibration a long time ago." To be honest, the more he came into contact with Luo Mei, the more he found that this little girl only looked timid and fragile, but in fact she was meticulous and bold in many things. It's a pity that she is not a psychic, otherwise she would definitely become an excellent hunter.

After getting off the car, Gu Tongwan walked straight towards the gate of the health center. The health center in the base was not very large, with two three-story buildings, which generally included the emergency department and some important departments. The inpatient department had two separate floors, but seeing a doctor in the base was extremely expensive and luxurious. Only those whose illness could not be delayed and who had a certain financial ability could be hospitalized. Otherwise, even if they were dying of illness, they could only wait to die at home.

At present, except for special industries that can enjoy medical welfare policies, ordinary people in the base have no such thing as medical insurance. There are no preferential policies for seeing a doctor and getting medicine. If you want to get medicine, you can only spend money. Moreover, some special medicines cannot be obtained from the health center. You need a doctor's recommendation letter to go to a large hospital to get medicine. If there is no background or recommendation letter, the health center will only prescribe some medicines that can relieve the pain. As for diseases that require surgery, ordinary people cannot afford the high cost of surgery and medicines.

The clinic in front of him was the largest one nearby, and it could be said to be one of the largest clinics in the inner circle. Gu Tongwan had been here twice to get medicine. The outpatient fees here were shockingly high. An ordinary emergency registration cost twenty points, and a simple cold or illness like a headache or fever would cost nearly a hundred points for medicine. If there was a serious fracture or trauma, if hospitalization was arranged, a daily hospitalization fee of 80 points would be required. And this fee did not include the cost of medicine, it was just a simple consultation fee and bed fee.

It is precisely because of this that more and more people in the base cannot afford medical treatment. The poor can only endure and wait for their bodies to heal themselves. People with poor immunity have their symptoms become more and more serious due to delaying the best time to seek medical treatment.

Just as Gu Tongwan had imagined, the entire clinic was dead silent. It was pitch dark when he stepped inside; even the lights in the hall were not on, and he could not hear any sound except for the cold wind that was still howling outside.

When the extreme cold first occurred, this place must have been in chaos, otherwise the ground wouldn't be full of discarded newspapers and some used drug packaging boxes. And this place should have gone through the first material transfer, and you can see that the doors of several departments are still wide open, which means that the people here left in a hurry and didn't even have time to pack their personal belongings.

Gu Tongwan walked straight towards the stairs to the second floor. Because there was no lighting, the surroundings were shrouded in darkness, a bit like the abandoned hospital in the escape room game.

This health center is quite large compared to the outer circle. In addition to having two buildings in total, each building has three floors, and each building has a separate floor set aside as an independent inpatient department.

Each floor covers an area of ​​about 600 to 700 square meters. Unlike other small independent health centers of only 200 to 300 square meters, the scale of this one is actually comparable to that of a hospital.

At present, the largest hospital in the base is located in the eastern area of ​​the inner circle. This hospital is said to have the most advanced medical equipment, and most of the medical equipment was transferred from the First People's Hospital of Jiangcheng at that time. It also has the most comprehensive pharmacy and research center. The area alone is four or five times that of an ordinary hospital. When it was built, it invested nearly 100 million yuan and had a construction team of thousands of people. However, it is close to the commercial center and is located 500 meters away from the center of the guard team. Extending from the hospital are various research centers, such as the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Institute of Biology, and the Institute of Physics. The security level set up in the vicinity also adopts the first-level security, and the guard team members above the C level take turns on duty. The key areas are guarded by B-level superpowers.

This kind of place with strict hierarchy is still heavily guarded even in extreme cold. Gu Tongwan will not set his sights on going there, otherwise it would be like pulling out a tiger's beard and seeking death.

But the next best thing was that there were two clinics and a hospital in the direction of the route she chose to drive. One of the clinics was quite large, and the extreme cold came very suddenly. In addition, the snowstorm had been continuing for the past few days, and the clinic would not be able to hold out for too long before all personnel would be evacuated. She came back purely to try her luck.

Sure enough, we were lucky this time. The staff of this health center had been evacuated. When we first came in, we found that the parking spaces outside were empty, and there was not a single medical vehicle. This meant that these vehicles had been responsible for transferring some of the supplies, and most likely they were sent to the largest hospital in the east.

There were surveillance cameras both outside and inside the health center, but because the power was cut off soon after the evacuation, the surveillance cameras became useless. Gu Tongwan checked and found that several cameras were not operating normally.

Go up to the second floor, there is a pharmacy. I have been to the second floor once when I came to get medicine. I remember that in addition to the pharmacy, there are several orthopedic departments and two pediatric clinics on the second floor, and the remaining few are ENT clinics. There were many people coming to see the doctor before, especially in the ENT clinic. After the end of the world, those who can make up their minds to have children have a certain economic foundation, and most of them are only children, one child in a family, so the whole family will rush to pamper the child. Once there is any physical discomfort, they would rather eat less and take the child to the hospital for examination. Therefore, both the health center and the pediatric department of the hospital are usually overcrowded.

Gu Tongwan turned and went to the right, which was the direction of the pharmacy.

There are two locks on the door of the pharmacy, and the door is made of cast iron. The thickness of the door panel should be at least three centimeters, and there is a U-shaped lock on it. Ordinary people really have no way to pry it open.

But this did not pose a problem for Gu Tongwan. When she was wandering in Hai City, she had picked countless locks. She had come into contact with all kinds of locks and doors. Over the years, she had picked hundreds of locks, if not three thousand. These two locks were really not a problem for her.

It only took about ten minutes. During this time, I used a lighter to heat the frozen keyhole. After the ice and snow in the keyhole melted, I used a piece of wire to slightly stick to the keyhole and gently turn the lock a circle, and the lock was successfully opened.

But the second lock was not so easy to operate, and the only solution was brute force. I took out a pistol, installed a silencer, and fired one shot at the lock, which was immediately scrapped.

As soon as I opened the door of the pharmacy, I was greeted by a strong smell of medicine, mixed with some faint smell like cardboard boxes or newspapers. Looking back, I found that many disassembled medicine packaging boxes were piled up in one corner, and there were even a lot of discarded instruction manuals scattered on the ground.

It seemed that they had evacuated in a hurry. There were even quite a few medicines on the shelves that had not been moved away in time. However, they were all common antidiarrheal and cold medicines. As for antibiotics, they had all been moved away.

Gu Tongwan checked all the shelves and found that about 20% of the medicines had not been moved in time. As for the cough medicine used to treat Luo Mei's mother, she didn't know which one was suitable for the time being. After all, she herself was not a doctor. But Luo Mei often got medicine and should be more familiar with it. So she contacted Luo Mei and asked her to come over to meet up for the time being.

Luo Mei was very fast. She jogged all the way to the pharmacy on the second floor in less than five minutes. It was obvious that she was very familiar with this clinic and often came here to get medicine for her mother.

"We have to be quick. After all, we don't know when someone will come here. We just need to take what we need." Although Gu Tongwan said this, she had actually just put a batch of medicines that she thought were useful into the space, including some simple disinfectants, Band-Aids, and gauze, about two boxes in total.

"There are no antibiotics like levofloxacin and amoxicillin, nor erythromycin." Luo Mei picked up a flashlight and checked the shelves row by row, but she couldn't find the types of medicines that Zhou Ruchu often took.

"Don't worry, I'll help you look for it. Is there anything else you need besides these?" Gu Tongwan asked.

"Carbocisteine ​​oral liquid, honey-refined Fritillary Loquat Paste or cetirizine oral liquid, all of these will be fine." Luo Mei's tone was a little hurried, and she just jogged all the way up, so she seemed a little out of breath when she spoke.

"Okay, anti-inflammatory ones should be fine, and cough suppressant ones should be fine, right?" Gu Tongwan turned to the shelf on the other side and began to search carefully.

The entire pharmacy is more than 30 square meters. Because there are not too many medicines on the shelves, and with the two people working together to search, they quickly found some usable medicines.

At this moment, the expression on Luo Mei's face was somewhat more relaxed than before, because the medicine had been obtained. All she had to do next was to continue to collect the medicine that Zhou Ruchu could use, and the remaining pressure would be less.