Chapter 279 Aromatherapy Bottle
"Food stamps..." Sun Hang muttered.
Food stamps are "special tickets" for the quarantine area - unlike ordinary towns that adopt a market economy, most of the material supplies in the quarantine area come from supplies shipped in regularly from the outside world.
This means that the goods that people in the quarantine area can buy are limited.
Except for a few people who are related to the military and can obtain some unplanned goods through smuggling channels, for the vast majority of residents in the quarantine area, if they buy out the same goods, they are gone, unless they wait until the next time Supplies are delivered, otherwise no matter how much money you have, there will be nowhere to buy them.
In order to prevent hoarding, in addition to issuing common currency across the entire federation, "special coupons" will also be issued in the quarantine area based on a per capita quota. In addition to paying for goods, you also need to use coupons of designated product types. You need food stamps to buy rice and noodles, salt stamps to buy salt, and even bicycle tickets to buy a bicycle.
The purpose is to prevent someone from buying up all the necessary items in one go and then selling them at a higher price.
Of course, in order to prevent the special tickets from turning into another form of currency, all tickets in the quarantine area have a time limit - if they are not used this month, they will be invalid next month.
The invalidated ticket will be stamped with a square red seal with the word "voided" just like the one in Sun Hang's hand.
"From a certain day on, there will be no more supplies coming in from the outside, and the people in the town who are responsible for managing the distribution of supplies can no longer contact the troops outside. There is no food, and there is no food stamps. What's the use?" said the old woman. He said slowly, "But no one dares to leave Maoyun Town...even the most powerful people in the town dare not. No matter the privilege, Whether it is smuggling of goods, these are all trivial matters. As long as the relationship is established, the garrison will turn a blind eye... But if someone attempts to escape from the quarantine area, even if the person has bribed the officers and soldiers the day before, they will They will be shot without mercy... This is the bottom line, no one dares to violate it.”
"Time passed day by day." The old woman continued, "Finally the first person starved to death appeared in the town, and then the second... Someone rushed into the yard of the rich man's house with a hoe, only to find that even On weekdays, the wealthy families in the town who are superior to others spend their days counting grains of rice.”
"People gradually realized that something was wrong. Some people said that something might have happened to the outside world, and the garrison outside the town had been withdrawn... Instead of starving to death in the town, it is better to try your luck outside."
"This idea soon gained support from most people. A team of more than a dozen young adults left the town carrying a small amount of rations, but they never came back."
"Some said they were killed by the army, some said they betrayed Maoyun Town and escaped for their lives, and some said they may have encountered strange things outside and died unexpectedly."
"A second and third team were organized in the town. The number of people in the team is getting smaller and smaller, and the rations they can carry with them are getting smaller and smaller."
"No one who leaves town can come back."
"No one is willing to step out of the town anymore. Everyone is suspicious of each other. People die of hunger every month... In the beginning, the dead person's home would hang a white cloth at the door and listen to music at night. I heard the sobs of relatives... But later, even death became a common thing, and there were fewer and fewer new white cloths... Or the living people were so hungry that they couldn't even hang a white cloth at the door of their home. It can’t be done, or even the last living person in this family will starve to death.”
"It wasn't until the crazy butcher Zhao who lived in Qiaotou walked into his neighbor's house with a butcher's knife... that the people in the town realized one thing, they still had the last 'food' to eat."< br>
The old woman stopped here. She stood quietly, watching the carnival in the square silently.
The townspeople happily stuffed the "food" in their hands into their mouths, pushed their cheeks desperately, and chewed. The smelly blood flowed down the corners of their mouths, but they were completely unaware of it.
People eat people.
"It's boring, I have to leave." Sun Hang waved his hand, "Please help me show the way."
"Where are you going?" asked the old woman.
"Go back to where I should be." Sun Hang said, "Someone is waiting for me, and they are probably already waiting impatiently."
"This is the place you should come back to...For you, this land can be called your 'homeland'."
"Do you mean to say that I am a descendant of Yunnan and Dian refugees...or that I was born in the occupied area?"
"I don't know, but the person who sent you here said so." The old woman shook her head slowly.
"The one who sent me here? Who?"
"Don't ask, don't ask..."
"Is her name Anna?"
"..."
"Damn, I knew it." Sun Hang cursed and said, "Did that guy tell you what her purpose was?"
"..."
"Forget it, after all, you don't have the right to know." Sun Hang took a deep breath, "You'd better tell me how to leave."
"If you want to leave, you can leave at any time." The old woman said lightly, "What you see is what you think of... Maoyun Town has long since ceased to exist."
Sun Hang looked at the square in front of him, thought for a moment, and then closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, the square disappeared, the stage disappeared, and the townspeople waiting in line to receive "food" also disappeared.
As far as the eye can see, there are only desolate ruins.
Sun Hang turned his head and looked at the place where the "old woman" was standing. He could occasionally glimpse some white skeletons among the thick weeds.
"Are these the ruins of Maoyun Town..." Sun Hang looked around. At this moment, he unexpectedly discovered that all the abilities he had lost had returned.
Sun Hang felt itching between his eyebrows, as if something was sticking to it. He stretched out his hand to scratch it, and a withered yellow leaf suddenly fell down.
"What is this? 'A blinding leaf'?"
Sun Hang walked forward. The stage that was as tall as one person now only had a circle of debris surrounded by wooden piles. On these wooden piles, you could still vaguely see the marks of knives and axes, as well as pieces of hair. The black stain—I don’t know if it’s the remaining paint or the blood that seeped deep into the wood.
"Forget it, it's none of my business." Sun Hang stretched out his hand and wiped a handful on the wooden stake, "It's just eating people. There is no way to eat. At least you know how to spit out the bones after eating."
Sun Hang turned around and walked out of the town.
Yang Qi's off-road vehicle was still parked in its original position, but the muddy path had long since dried up and was covered with weeds up to the top of his feet. As soon as Sun Hang stepped on it, the dry grass blades immediately made a crisp sound. ring.
The rusty steel structure sentinel tower in the distance is still there, but the "Meat Ganoderma" wrapped around the sentinel tower has disappeared, leaving only a tattered doll sitting at the bottom of the tower with nails in its hands. Holding a baton.
The rubber covering on the outside of the baton has aged and cracked, exposing the rusty steel pipe inside.
Sun Hang walked straight to the SUV, but when he opened the door, his movements suddenly stopped. The next second, he closed the door again and walked around to the rear left side of the off-road vehicle.
There were a few inconspicuous fingerprints on the left rear window, and judging from the dust accumulated near the fingerprints, it was clear that these fingerprints had been imprinted recently.
Sun Hang reached out and printed a few more of his fingerprints on the car window, and compared them - these fingerprints did not belong to Sun Hang.
Yang Qi's car has a small problem, that is, the left rear window never closes tightly. If you hold the window with your hand and push it down, the window can be pushed down.
However, considering that Yang Qi rarely puts anything valuable in the car, in Tianfu City where there are cameras everywhere, no thief who is tired of living would dare to steal a car with the emblem of the Institute of Creatures printed on it. This innocuous little The problem has never been fixed.
Sun Hang opened the rear door, leaned his upper body in, and groped under the rear seat.
Soon, he touched an oblate, hard object.
He took out this thing - it was a glass aromatherapy bottle. The cap used to seal the bottle had disappeared. The seal at the mouth of the bottle had been pricked with toothpicks and the like by more than a dozen people. There are small holes, but the inside of the aromatherapy bottle is empty, and I don’t know what it originally contained.
"With Yang Qi's character... she shouldn't put aromatherapy in the car, right?" Sun Hang thought.
Not to mention aromatherapy and perfume, Yang Qi doesn't even wear much makeup. She walks in and out of the research institute with a plain face all day long - but that's thanks to her natural beauty. , at least not like some Internet celebrities, who can directly complete the transformation from human to ghost with a touch of beauty filter and makeup remover.
Sun Hang had never smelled any fragrance on Yang Qi. Even if there was any fragrance, it was at best the smell of laundry detergent or shampoo.
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As for Sun Hang himself, it is even less likely that he would buy such a thing.
"Who put this thing in the car?"
Sun Hang weighed the bottle in his hand, and a wonderful idea came to his mind: Since I can trace the memory of human beings, can I trace the memory of dead objects?
The moment this idea emerged, a blurry scene gradually emerged in his mind.
The picture was very blurry and the camera was very shaken, but Sun Hang could still recognize that the scene was in the underground garage of Tianfu City's Institute of Creatures, where he parked the off-road vehicle.
A sneaky figure broke into the scene. The man looked left and right for a while, walked quickly to the SUV, and pushed down the left rear window with his hand.
Immediately afterwards, he took out the aromatherapy bottle from his pocket, unscrewed the cap, quickly threw the bottle in through the car window, and then pushed the car window back into place.
"Who the hell is this person?" Sun Hang replayed these scenes repeatedly. Sun Hang didn't recognize the person who threw the aromatherapy bottle into the car... but for some reason, Sun Hang always felt that his facial features seemed familiar. .
"Can't we go back a little further?" Sun Hang complained.
As soon as he finished speaking, the scene suddenly shifted to a beautifully decorated study room, and a middle-aged man with thinning hair opened the door and walked in.
This person Sun Hang knew was Lu Hongming, the member of the Tianfu City Management Committee who had "talked" to him before.
Sun Hang remembered very clearly that after a series of subsequent events, Lu Hongming was removed from his position as a member of the Tianfu City Management Committee and took up an insignificant idle position - Yang Qi also specifically approached Sun Hang about this matter. She said, of course, her main purpose was not to tell Sun Hang that Lu Hongming had been demoted, but to warn Sun Hang to try not to threaten a federal government official in that way in the future.
After entering the study, Lu Hongming obviously hesitated for a few seconds, then quickly walked to the desk.
In the center of the desk, there was a package packed in a cardboard box. On the package was written in black marker: Mr. Lu Hongming received it.
"The package for me? Why is it on the desk?" Lu Hongming turned to look at the door. Judging from his expression, it seemed that he wanted to call his family, but he gave up the idea the next second and looked at the pen holder on the side. He took out a paper knife and cut open the tape that sealed the carton.
There are only two things in the carton.
There was also an aromatherapy bottle with more than half a transparent liquid inside, and a letter.
Lu Hongming unfolded the letter.
Although Sun Hang couldn't see the handwriting on the letter clearly from the blurry picture, as Lu Hongming read it, the content of the letter also appeared in Sun Hang's mind.
"Hello, Commissioner Lu Hongming.
I have a small favor that I need you to do.
Please put this bottle of aromatherapy into an off-road vehicle with the license plate number XXXXX in the Tianfu City underground parking lot before XX o'clock on X month.
The window on the left rear side of this car is faulty and cannot be locked. It can be opened and closed by pushing and pulling by hand.
After doing all this, you will gain everything you lost before. In addition, the hunter named Sun Hang will also completely disappear from your life.
Please do not refuse my request, do not trace the source of this letter, and do not take the contents of the aromatherapy bottle for testing, as this will cause very bad consequences for you.
Please believe me. ”
At the end of the letter, a very detailed bill was attached.
This bill is very strange. Each line only has a date and some items - for example, on X month, X day, XXX bottles of liquor; Contents, other than that, the origin, whereabouts and uses of these things are not stated.
But for some reason, after seeing the bill, Lu Hongming's expression suddenly became as mournful as a heir.
"This bill...could it be the corruption record of an old boy like you?" Sun Hang was stunned for a moment, and he immediately guessed the correct answer.
As for the person who wrote the letter, although there was no signature, Sun Hang had already guessed who it was from.
Anna Demoshena.
Although she didn't understand why Anna had to ask Lu Hongming to do this with her ability, but besides her, I'm afraid no one could lure Sun Hang to this place.
Coupled with the surprising glimpse of Xu Dasheng's home, this is almost a clear statement.
The person who wrote the letter and provided the aromatherapy was Anna, and the person who carried out this action was most likely Lu Hongming's son... As for Anna's purpose of doing this, was it just to let herself experience the customs and customs of Maoyun Town?
She seemed to be trying to convey some message to herself... Sun Hang recalled the conversation between himself and the old woman. There was one sentence that caused Sun Hang to think deeply.
"This is the place you should come back to...For you, this land can be called your 'homeland'."
(End of chapter)