Chapter 677 During the Journey
The earth is killing.
Time quietly ushered in early autumn.
Autumn is the harvest season. In the old days, there were many meanings of harvest. It can be wealth, love, or heavy wheat on the ears of wheat. However, for the new era, in addition to the meaning of the above gains, an additional one should be added.
Death.
Yes, death. In turbulent times, life is as cheap as grass. Only those who are above all sentient beings and stay at the top of the pyramid can have some protection for their lives. It's just that this guarantee is far from so heavy.
The early autumn has arrived. Will winter be far away? If you don't accumulate enough winter supplies in autumn, your life will wither in batches. Without the protection of underground bases, there is not enough heating and food on the survival baseline, it is difficult for ordinary people to survive a winter.
The new era has passed for more than half a century, and in the first decade, the number of deaths has been explosive. Then it gradually slowed down, and by the past decade, the death line has remained at a low level. But even so, this horizontal line is based on the dark ages, and in the old times, it is still a shocking number.
Even if human reproductive ability continues to improve, resources can be proportionally reduced. This means that if the newborn does not have supplies as a guarantee, it will eventually become a small skeleton in the wilderness.
The wilderness is full of the smell of death, and this is the back garden of death. Every ten years, a large settlement on the ground will become small, and small and medium-sized will become directly extinct. There are many reasons for extinction, either attacked by mutant beasts or taken back as slaves by powerful organizations. But the biggest reason is being eliminated.
The sharp decline of resources has made the planet no longer have such a large capacity, so it refreshes the number of life in its own way to maintain a relatively balanced ecology.
An off-road vehicle appeared in the wilderness.
In front of it is a wilderness ruin. The size of the city seems to be medium, and there may have been millions of people in the old days. But now, it is just a silhouette on the horizon. From that silhouette, there is a smell of loneliness, death and danger.
The SUV is also lonely because it has no companions. Driving alone on the intermittent wilderness road, the driver of the car seems to be a novice, and the vehicle cannot keep moving in a straight line. If its trajectory is represented by lines, you will find that the curve is winding like a snake. Unfortunately, the curve is not beautiful, but thrilling.
However, no matter how shocking the driver drives, at least a teenager in the back seat of the car always keeps his eyes closed. Looking at his posture casually lying on the seat, yes, you can be sure that he is sleeping.
Sometimes a sharp bend of the car will throw him into the seat. At this time, the sleeping teenager will unconsciously reach out and pull on the seat and bring his body back to its original position. There were some bumps on the way. Even once he hit his big head directly on the car, and the teenager just turned over and continued to sleep.
Compared with the calmness of the teenager, the girl driving seems a little cramped. She was sweating profusely, but the word stubborn was written on her little face. The hand holding the steering wheel is so hard that it seems to be competing with the off-road force. This makes a round creature in the co-pilot's seat look very scared. Even if there is a seat belt fixed on his chubby body, there is no peace of mind in the eyes of the little thing.
In this way, the off-road vehicle twisted into the ruins of the city and even knocked off a sign at the entrance of the city. The sign says "Juan City", which is the name of the city. Below is a warning: Beware of those dog-fashioned living corpses.
The car parked in front of a broken building, which looks like about six or seven floors. Most of the buildings facing the street have been cut by something, exposing the structure of the building and building a stone wall near the street. Obviously, the car can't drive directly, and you have to take a detour to pass by. But seeing that the sun had set, the driver of the car decided to rest here for the night.
She first wiped a handful of sweat on her forehead, then pulled up her silver-colored hair, tied it into a ponytail with a rubber rope, and then jumped out of the car with an amazing sword. The girl looked angrily at the teenager who was still snoring in the back seat, and then lifted it up and threw it to the ground. This throw used clever force. The teenager landed, bounced up, and was pressed down by the dark force. After three times, the teenager jumped up in pain. Covering the cheek that kissed the ground passionately, the teenager complained, "Can't you wake me up in a normal way?"
The girl asked, "Can I wake you up in a normal way?"
The teenager is speechless.
The silver-haired girl knocked on the teenager's head with her scabbard and said, "Go, get some food back, and we have eaten all the dry food."
The teenager covered his face and looked at the city with a low nightfall. He twitched his nose and said, "I only smell the smell of living corpses. Can't you eat that kind of thing?"
"There will always be other things. Go quickly and don't waste time." The girl is not angry.
Then he grabbed the strange creature in the co-pilot's seat with one hand and swaggered into the abandoned building. The teenager shook his head. The city was full of the smell of living corpses, and there were many such things hovering in this abandoned building. But he knew that the things in the building would soon be gone.
He left and had to find something to eat.
After the teenager left, there was a roar of living corpses in the abandoned building. The roar appeared quickly and disappeared quickly. A moment later, a fire appeared in a window on the third floor. The girl found this relatively clean room and picked up some furniture that was no longer available. She popped a few wis of fingers, chopped these things up, and then lit a fire.
Fire can be used to keep warm or bake things. Of course, it may also attract other things. For example, living corpses, but at least in this building, you don't have to be afraid of the firelight to attract the corpses. Because those things have become real corpses.
Soon, the teenager came back. He pulled back two corpse wolves, the smallest of which was also the size of a teenager. The wolf's head hung loosely, and his cervical spine had been violently broken. The blood dripping from the wolf's kiss pulled out a red line on the ground and extended to the room.
Money looked at the bloodline on the ground and said angrily, "This thing will cause unnecessary trouble."
Girru confessed to her: "Are you afraid of trouble?"
"You are right." Moni nodded and no longer cares about Gilutan's small mistakes. As soon as she flicked her hand, a dagger appeared in her hand. Then the familiar peeling, bone removal and meat. Moni's technique is extremely proficient, and she quickly turned the two corpse wolf into pieces of wolf meat with an anatomical technique comparable to that of a surgeon. Then a simple grill was set up on the fire, the dagger jumped, and pieces of wolf meat flew to the grill.
Not long time, this small room has smelled of meat.
This is an ordinary night for Moni and Giroudan. They will rest here for one night, supplement food, and then continue to leave tomorrow. However, fate is wonderful. When the two got rid of the little half of the wolf meat, another SUV drove from the same direction. The driver of the car fluttered with flamboyant blue hair, like a burning blue flame at night.
So this night became extraordinary again.
PS: A small chapter, let's take it as a small surprise. It's almost the Spring Festival, and the work will come to an end for the time being, and there will be more time recently. So there should be more frequent occurrences of small surprises like this. There is no recommendation now. Do you leave a comment in the book review area after reading? Don't make me too lonely~~