My neighborhood has time-traveled.

Chapter 9 Gasoline and Batteries

"Brother, let's go, let's go catch some more!"

When Li Wen learned that Li Hao had caught the mouse in the basement, he immediately perked up.

"it is good."

As the two went downstairs, Li Wen said as they walked, "Brother, I suddenly thought of something great about time travel."

"What good news?"

"You don't need to pay your mortgage for decades."

"..."

The two went to the basement, but instead of encountering rats, they met two other people.

Zhao Meng and his blond-haired henchman were next to the fuel tank of a car, using a pipe to draw fuel from it and let it flow into a bucket.

"Brother, they're working with gasoline," Li Wen gestured with his eyes.

"Hmm, don't worry about it."

"Should we go get some too?" Li Wen suggested.

He always felt that gasoline was a rare fuel and that he might need it in the future.

Li Hao shook his head, "We only have two buckets at home, which we usually use to hold water."

Gasoline is useful, but there aren't any extra buckets to hold it for the time being.

Moreover, he felt that catching rats was more practical than dealing with gasoline.

In less than half an hour, he felt that the axe in his hand had become lighter again.

He had a vague suspicion in his mind.

However, this guess needs to be confirmed through several experiments.

Zhao Meng and his underling, who were handling gasoline, also spotted Li Hao and his companion.

The two stopped what they were doing and shone their flashlights over.

The younger brother moved his neck and said, "Big brother, it's that kid and his brother."

Zhao Meng looked at Li Hao without saying a word.

Li Hao and Li Wen turned a corner and disappeared from the two men's sight.

The two walked towards the garbage dump and other secluded corners.

Search carefully.

"Brother, a mouse!"

Li Wen spotted a mouse and immediately chased after it.

Li Hao started slower than Li Wen, but he overtook him in just a few steps.

The mouse scurried along the corner of the wall.

They were about to crawl into a hole.

Li Hao threw the axe in his hand with force. The axe slashed quickly and hit the rat with a loud thud.

"squeak!"

The rat screamed, struggled, and hopped on the ground.

Upon closer inspection, Li Hao saw that it had no horns on its head and was just an ordinary rat.

At this point, the rat's lower body was smashed, and it was dragged along by its two legs.

A trail of blood was left on the ground.

Li Hao picked up the axe from the ground and smashed it on the rat's head.

"puff."

The rat's brain was smashed, and it remained completely still.

Li Wen ran over, looked at the rat on the ground, and said, "Brother, you threw that axe so accurately! You managed to hit it."

"This mouse is much smaller."

Li Hao said, "This is just an ordinary rat, not a rat from this world."

"Then... shall we still eat?" Li Wen hesitated.

Li Hao shook his head.

"I can't bring myself to do it either," Li Wen laughed.

He felt nauseous when he saw the rat that had been smashed to pieces.

"Let's go take a look over there."

Li Hao and Li Wen left the place together, carrying axes.

Only a smashed rat carcass remained on the spot.

The body was mangled, like a smashed watermelon, with crimson blood slowly spreading.

A huge black rat suddenly darted out of the shadows.

This rat also had a small black horn on its forehead, and its whole body was a size larger than the one Li Hao had encountered.

It is about the size of a house cat.

The large rat scurried onto the dead rat and began to gnaw on it.

The sound of bones crunching during eating came from the basement.

Li Hao and Li Wen continued walking around in the basement.

"Brother, where is this place? Let's go inside and take a look."

Li Wen stopped in front of a heavy gate.

"it is good."

The two went inside, where it was somewhat dark, and turned on their flashlights.

A huge generator came into view.

Several machines nearby were covered with switches of all sizes.

Li Wen held up a flashlight and kept examining it. "Brother, this looks like a backup generator. I wonder if it can still generate electricity."

Li Hao shone his flashlight around and observed carefully. "The generator needs diesel fuel, and there might be some short circuits in the external wiring."

"Even if it can be repaired, without diesel fuel, it won't last long."

"There's a diesel truck in the basement!" Li Wen exclaimed excitedly.

This does not mean that the generator is usable.

Li Hao shook his head. "There's only so much diesel. It's not realistic to expect it to power an entire neighborhood, unless we can find diesel in this world or refine it ourselves."

Li Wen sighed, "Who knows when that will be?"

Both of them knew that getting the community back to generate electricity was unrealistic.

The most important thing now is to solve the problem of food and clothing.

After leaving the generator room, the two continued to wander around the basement.

They tried to explore the entire basement.

After turning a corner, a sound came from ahead.

"Brother, someone's here."

"Hmm, let's go take a look."

When the two arrived at the source of the sound, they found it was also a heavy door, which was already open.

The two men, holding flashlights, went inside.

Inside were two huge, silver-white water tanks, and a person was standing next to the tanks.

Shine the flashlight.

"Hey, Li Hao, it's you." The other person shone their flashlight over.

Li Hao recognized the other person as Wang Hao, the captain of the Dawn Rescue Team.

"Yes, I'll bring my younger brother down to take a look."

As he spoke, he looked to the side and saw some pressurized water pipes next to the water tank.

"This is your younger brother. Hello, I'm Wang Hao, the captain of the Dawn Rescue Team." Wang Hao extended his hand to Li Wen.

"Hello." Li Wen politely shook hands with the other person.

"This is the water tank for our entire community. Even though the power is out, there is still water inside."

Wang Hao led the two to the switch and pointed to it.

"Turning this switch will drain the water. This is how we drain the water when cleaning the tank."

"Wow, there are two such big water tanks here. There must be a lot of water. Even if we don't go out, it should last us for a while."

Li Wen touched the silver-white sheet metal, then turned on the switch. A small stream of water immediately gushed out, wetting the ground. Startled, he quickly turned the switch back on.

Wang Hao said, "There's no need to worry about the water issue, it's just a bit troublesome. Right now, the whole community is without power, and residents who want to fetch water have to climb dozens of floors, which is very inconvenient."

"It won't be long before many people move down here."

Li Hao nodded.

Climbing up and down is very inconvenient. If he lives on the 32nd floor, he would also like to move down to a lower floor.

Fortunately, it's only on the 9th floor, so it's manageable.

The group chatted inside for a while.

Wang Hao extended another invitation, "I really hope you can join our Dawn."

"Yes, we'll consider it." Li Hao nodded.

As he reached the door, he suddenly said to Wang Hao, "By the way, Zhao Meng and the others are working on the gasoline for the cars in the basement."

Wang Hao looked surprised. "Thank you for reminding me."

Li Hao led Li Wen away from the water room.

The two continued searching for mice in the basement.

Apart from Li Hao killing another local rat, no other rats from this world were found.

It got dark.

The basement was pitch black.

Li Hao said to Li Wen, "Wait for me here, I'm going back."

"it is good."

When Li Hao came down, he had several tools in his hands.

A long iron rod, a wrench, and a screwdriver.

"Brother, what are you doing?" Li Wen took the iron rod from Li Hao's hand, looking puzzled.

Li Hao smirked, "It's inconvenient for us to get gasoline, but with so many cars here, we can take some batteries back with us."

He had already planned to join Dawn, and then he could use these batteries to exchange for points.

We need to accumulate resources while others are still suffering from the flu and haven't realized what's happening.

"Battery!" Li Wen's eyes lit up.

Yes.

The battery is also very important.

It is also easier to store than gasoline.

The two arrived at the hood of a car.

"Snap!" They used a stick to forcefully pry it open.

"Brother, it's open." Li Wen supported the hood with his hand.

"Okay, please take the picture for me."

Li Wen supported himself on the hood with one hand and held a flashlight in the other to illuminate Li Hao's path.

The light shone on the engine.

Li Hao used a wrench to unscrew the bracket on the battery.

There are only two screws in total.

Positive and negative electrodes.

After unscrewing the bracket, use a screwdriver to pry off the clips on top.

"Ouch." My wrist accidentally bumped into a piece of metal next to me.

"Brother, are you alright?"

"It's nothing, just a red mark." Li Hao glanced at it; the skin was slightly broken.

Pull the battery handle and lift it out completely.

"Haha, one battery in hand."

Li Wen smiled and slowly lowered the hood.

Repeating this process, the two of them soon each had two batteries in their hands.

"Let's go back first, and come down later."

"it is good."

I left the basement and went back to the ninth floor.

After placing the battery on the balcony, I went down to the basement.

They didn't stop until they had placed more than a dozen batteries on the balcony.

"Brother, won't these batteries explode if we leave them on the balcony?" Li Wen looked at the dozen or so batteries on the balcony with some worry on his face.

The image of a battery catching fire and exploding flashed through his mind.

They were afraid that the batteries would explode while the two of them were sleeping.

Li Hao glanced at the battery on the balcony, pondered for a few seconds, and said, "Grab your tools and come with me."

Without saying a word, he took Li Wen to the next room.

The building next door is a bare shell; I don't know if it's been sold or not, it's been vacant all this time.

"Brother, what are you planning to do?" Li Wen looked at the front door and had already guessed Li Hao's plan.

Li Hao pressed the door and then tried the doorknob. "Hmm, pry the door open, and the neighbors next door will be ours too. We can put the battery inside."

"Alright!"

Li Wen had already gripped the iron rod.

Li Hao used an axe to jam the doorknob, pried it off with force a few times, and then pushed it open and went inside.

"So easy, bro, look, it's rusted inside." Li Wen picked up the doorknob, glanced at it, and then threw it away.

He had originally planned to pry it open with an iron bar.

The two went inside, where it was pitch black.

Turn on the flashlight to illuminate the interior: a bare, unfinished three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, completely empty, with cement all around and on the ground.

Li Wen entered the bedroom. "It's very spacious inside."

Li Hao stepped out onto the balcony and glanced to both sides, only to find that both sides were blocked by walls.

The two moved all the car batteries to the unfinished house next door.

After finishing his work, he closed the door and went back to his own house.

Li Hao heated up the remaining rat meat, and the two enjoyed another delicious meal.

"Bang bang bang".

The door suddenly rang.

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basement.

Wang Hao was holding a water pipe next to a car, and gasoline was flowing out of the pipe and into a bucket.

"What are you doing here with gasoline?" Zhao Meng and his henchmen shone their flashlights on Wang Hao.

"Did someone tell you that?"

His eyes narrowed slightly as he recalled the scene Li Hao had witnessed.

It is suspected that Li Hao told Wang Hao.

"If you know that, how could I not?" Wang Hao shone his flashlight on the two of them, holding the water pipe with his hand.