After taking care of the two zombies, it was time for the pleasant corpse-looting phase.
Both elderly zombies were quite ordinary, each contributing 5 drops of HP to Wang Tao. Wang Tao's total HP reached 165.
Next were the items they dropped.
[Obtained: Alcohol x1]
[Alcohol: Crafting material]
[Obtained: Alcohol x1]
[Alcohol: Crafting material]
"They both dropped the same thing?"
With a thought from Wang Tao, a glass bottle appeared in his hand. Aside from the "1L" marking, there were two lines of small text reading "Purity 99.9%, Edible".
Upon seeing the word 'edible', Wang Tao was at first stunned, but then quickly realized what it meant. It means the alcohol was of an edible grade, not suggesting one should drink it directly. If someone were to drink this straight, it could probably be deadly...
As far as crafting materials go, based on what he had seen so far, this alcohol was likely to be more useful than some of the other materials. By diluting this alcohol with water in a 3:1 ratio, he could make 75% medical alcohol. Diluting it further, it could even be used for drinking, or as a fuel, so its uses were many!
He stored both bottles of alcohol in the Space Backpack, then proceeded to search the bodies of the two zombies as usual.
The elderly lady zombie had two gold bracelets, two silver bracelets, three gold rings, and a gold necklace.
The old man zombie had a gold watch, a Large gold ring, and several Large gold teeth—noticed by Wang Tao only because its jaw was broken.
"These two oldies were pretty wealthy!"
Wang Tao was somewhat astonished.
As the saying goes, antiques flourish in prosperous times, and gold in times of chaos. In this apocalyptic world, Wang Tao wasn't sure what the Survivor Bases used for trade, but gold must have some value.
Since these items were compact and not a nuisance, Wang Tao stored them all, including the Large gold teeth.
After searching the zombie corpses, it was time to loot the house.
Thanks to the two old people becoming infected and mutating at the same time, the house was neat everywhere else except for the signs of battle left by Wang Tao, leaving the food intact.
But frustratingly, their kitchen was filled with lots of rotting vegetables and fruits.
Wang Tao had a rough understanding of the situation; older generations were more frugal, especially regarding their own food and clothing, always looking to save when possible. This had nothing to do with their wealth, but was rather a long-standing habit.
Before the apocalypse struck, the two elderly people had stocked up on some not-so-fresh vegetables and fruits at low prices. Under normal circumstances, as long as the food that was about to spoil was eaten in advance, one wouldn't end up with spoiled food. But unfortunately, the apocalypse arrived. Without anyone to eat it, the food quickly went bad...
Don't even mention the vegetables and fruits piled in the kitchen, even those in the refrigerator had spoiled. The only edible thing left was a pack of garlic.
"This is distressing..."
Wang Tao felt it was a pity to discard the spoiled food, but there was no helping it. Otherwise, if he ended up with food poisoning or something, that would spell disaster.
Almost all the vegetables and fruits were a complete loss, and it seemed like the two elderly didn't eat meat, as there was none in the house.
However, luckily, there was an 8-pound bag of flour, 2 pounds of eggs, and 2 pounds of dried noodles in the cupboard, which was somewhat consoling.
"Eh? What's this..."
Leaving the kitchen, Wang Tao suddenly noticed a pile of green plants beneath the balcony in the living room.
"Chives?"
Wang Tao quickly hurried over.
A distorted figure suddenly appeared outside the window and started banging against the security bars.
Bang, bang, bang!
"Shit!"
Wang Tao was startled.
Only then did he remember that this was the first floor, and there were zombies outside.
Giving the zombie outside a fierce middle finger, Wang Tao quickly pulled the curtains shut.
Although they couldn't get in, it was still better to be safe.
Ignoring the zombie outside, Wang Tao crouched in front of these plants, a look of joy in his eyes.
"This is really chives, and they've already grown!"
These chives were grown in individual square pots, a total of twelve pots, which at a glance looked like they were planted in the ground.
These were good stuff!
Wang Tao was inwardly overjoyed.
He had heard that chives could live for ten years? If he could preserve these chives well, wouldn't he be able to eat chives often in the future? Although the taste might not be good after a long time, in the post-apocalyptic world, having vegetables was great already, who cared about taste!
Furthermore, there was another point. All the rotten vegetables and fruits didn't need to be thrown away, they could be used directly as fertilizer to nourish the chives!
Wang Tao hated waste the most, and although he had felt a bit of regret before, now that he could make use of the rotting food, he felt much better.
"Since there are chives, let's see if there are any seeds or something..."
Wang Tao immediately began rummaging around.
Indeed, after spending some time, Wang Tao found 10 packets of chive seeds, 5 packets of coriander seeds, and 5 packets of white radish seeds!
Although Wang Tao wasn't fond of coriander, at this time, there was no privilege of being picky with food. It was good to have anything at all.
"I'll look into it later; if there's a chance, I might plant these seeds..."
He put all the seeds in his pocket, and as for the chives, he didn't rush to move them. Because while searching for the seeds, he discovered another great thing!
He went into the second bedroom and saw two boxes of liquor in glass bottles. Wang Tao finally understood why the two zombies had both dropped alcohol; they liked to drink!
Wang Tao wasn't very fond of drinking, but this liquor was definitely a good thing, which could be used for trade in the future. And these liquor bottles were useful too.
He had already experimented before, and these zombies were somewhat afraid of fire.
Thus, these liquor bottles could be used to make Molotov cocktails!
The manufacturing method of Molotov cocktails is actually very simple, but the main issue is that flammable materials are not easy to come by nowadays. The forty-degree liquor was definitely not suitable; he needed alcohol or gasoline or other flammable materials.
Wang Tao had just acquired two bottles of alcohol, but they were the kind that could be stored in the Space Backpack. He would definitely not be willing to use them unless absolutely necessary.
The most suitable might be gasoline, since there were cars outside, and the fuel tanks would definitely have gasoline. When he went out to find diesel, he could try to get some gasoline!
There were six bottles in each of these two boxes of liquor, twelve in total. If he had enough gasoline, he could make twelve Molotov cocktails!
And Wang Tao suddenly remembered the condiment bottles he had scoured before, which included glass bottles. At that time, he hadn't thought of using Molotov cocktails, so he forgot, but the stuff was still there.
"I need to collect them all, to see how many bottles there are in total... This could be a massive weapon!"