Chapter 30 Night Camp

The bonfire is burning, illuminating the boundless night. The wind at night was soft and cold, gently blowing through the flames, making them twist their bodies like dancers, and flying out a little sparks, shining the most dazzling light, and then quickly extinguishing.

The green car has left Silvertree City and stopped outside an abandoned farm about 50 kilometers away from the town. Zero will spend the night here and continue to travel the next morning.

The car stopped next to the farm, and Ji'an and several people cleared a vacant lot. Because it could not afford solid fuel, the original bonfire was lit. The grassland on the farm has long died, but there are still a few dwarf trees barely surviving. The cruel living environment in the new era makes the genes of plants change with the changes of the environment. Like these dwarf trees, they are less than two meters high, but their crowns are amazingly large. From a distance, it looks like a huge umbrella.

If you dig the soil, you will see the roots deep about ten meters underground. That can avoid the roots of the old era being directly killed by the fierce sunlight because they are located in shallow soil. Tree roots deep underground can not only avoid the sun, but also absorb a few water from the earth to struggle to survive.

Gian and others dug up the soil under the dwarf trees and intercepted some such roots. The deeper the tree root is buried, it is not only water, but also full of starch. After peeling, boil it in an iron pot and make it edible like potatoes in the old days. It's just that the taste of this tree root is more bitter and has a certain amount of radiation. But regardless of zero and other people, they don't care about such a small thing.

Zero silently observed Ji'an's movements. Although it was a good thing to find food, they were never greedy. The truncated roots are only about one-third of the original number. From spring to autumn, the dwarf trees have enough time to grow new roots without dying. It's really ironic. In the old days, when resources were rich, people only knew how to invade nature. On the contrary, now that resources are scarce, they know the truth of recuperation.

There is a cauldron on the bonfire. When the roots are boiled into mud, everyone is assigned a bowl of portions.

Zero and Leah sat in the corner of the crowd, and Teddy took two bowls of tree mud in front of them. The young driver's eyes fell on his zero waist, and Teddy swung his mouth and said, "Hey, brother. Can you lend me that gun?"

took the tree mud, pulled out the pistol with zero backhand and handed it to Teddy's hand.

Feel the heaviness of the big metal in his hand, Teddy was secretly shocked. The large-caliber muzzle, which is different from the ordinary left wheel, silently tells the power of the pistol. Teddy knew that its back seat must also be very huge. He looked at Zero and couldn't believe that such a weak person could use such a murder weapon.

However, Teddy was relieved when he mentioned Ji'an's posture with one hand.

"Are you a power man?" Teddy returned the pistol to Zero.

Zero did not answer. With his character, it is tacit that he does not object. Unfortunately, Teddy didn't know Zero for a long time, and he only felt that the man's temperament was strange. But it doesn't matter if it's weird. After personally finding food and medicine in the convenience store from midnight, Teddy and Gian can feel zero's goodwill. It shows that this strange traveler intends to integrate into their team. No matter what Zero's starting point is, being able to join a warrior like him is only harmless to the journey to Remte.

"Eat more, plants like low umbrella trees are rare. Tomorrow we will bring more roots for later use, but it will be enough for us to have another meal. In the future, I'm afraid I will have to eat some dry food. Water is also a problem, and I hope to find supplies along the way. But I think God will bless us, won't he?" Teddy blinked and said, and then left.

Zero put his bowl of tree mud in front of Leah.

Even at night, Leah never put down her hat on her head. She whispered in her hat, "I can't eat so much."

"Eat it." He said in a petty command tone, and then said in a gentler tone, "Eat more, it's good for your illness."

"What about you?"

Zero took out a piece of chocolate from his coat pocket, which was found in the convenience store. He left one by himself, and the rest was handed over to Gian to deal with. Zero gently opened the outer packaging of the chocolate. This dark chocolate, which should have exuded fragrance, is now covered with a layer of gray bacteria. Use your fingers to sweep away the gray fungus, then put it in your mouth and chew it slowly.

Food that has seriously expired naturally tastes bad. There is no sweetness that chocolate should have, and it is also bitter. Zero was like biting a piece of wood, but he still bit it with his teeth and finally swallowed it. In fact, all the food given to Ji'an has passed the retention period, but no one will take it seriously. For people in the old era, no one would care about the taste of food except those great nobles and rich gentry.

Although food has expired and deteriorated, people's expensive stomach bags are not enough to digest them and convert them into energy to supply the body. As for substances that deteriorate and even produce toxicity, they will be suppressed even if they cannot be excreted. Until one day, when people's physique can no longer contain more toxic substances, they will explode collectively.

For Zero, there is no concern about this. The food disappears after entering his stomach bag, and the extracted energy will provide him with longer activities through careful distribution. As for harmful substances, they will be excreted with sweat during exercise, so there is no accumulation of toxins.

Just looking at Ling's own expired food, he doesn't want to move the delicious, but at least fresh tree mud. Leah's heart trembled slightly. She didn't say anything more. She picked up the tree mud and ate it. She ate so carefully tonight that when Teddy came to get the rice bowl, she found that there was no residue in it.

In the middle of the night, the temperature dropped and people returned to the carriage to sleep. Leah is no exception. She bought a blanket from Teddy for two yuan, and now it is wrapped around Leah.

Zero did not sleep and sat in front of the bonfire where the flames were almost extinguished. He was vigil, and Gian was vigiled with him, and another white man named Pahn.

"Would you like a cigarette?"

After the three sat silently for half an hour, the black man took out a cigarette and handed it to Zero.

Zero quietly took it, lit it directly on the flame, and then took a deep breath. The smell of inferior tobacco penetrated into the zero lungs, and after a cycle, it was sprayed out of his nose. The mouth was full of bitter taste, but the corners of Zero's mouth pulled out a slight smile.

"Although it's not a good thing, I think it's God's blessing to draw one every day."

Gian and Bourne also smoked. The black man closed his eyes and swallowed the fog, and his appearance was quite enjoyable.

"I agree with this." Zero replied, he never said much. Short but accurate.

The black man opened his eyes and looked at Zero and said, "That girl, is she sick?"

The flame of the bonfire suddenly lowered, and the breath on Zero's body suddenly collapsed like a steel cable. He looked at Gian, and his eyes became cold and ruthless again.

"Hey hey, don't be nervous, I'll just ask." Ji'an waved his hand repeatedly and said, "These days, except for the delicate nobles, no one in the wilderness has any disease."

The black man's words gradually relaxed Zero's equally compact body. Ji'an breathed a sigh of relief and said, "So, do you want to go to Remte to see a doctor?"

"It's okay." Zero replied concisely, but in an instant, the newly relaxed muscles collapsed tightly. On the skin, a slight sense of acupuncture came from the skin.

Feeling the change in the atmosphere, Ji'an's face changed. He just wanted to explain, but his mouth was covered by Zero.

"Don't make a sound and wake everyone up. Something is approaching." Zero's ear was gently**, and an inaudible sound penetrated into his ear from afar with the wind.

Zero stood up, flew up, kicked up the nearby sandstone and sprinkled it on the bonfire, and extinguished the flames.

Just after doing all this, in the moonlight, several swaying figures appeared at the other end of the road.