Chapter 478 Shelter
The snow in the western tundra is still melting, but spring has arrived in the wilderness near Asgard. The snow faded and turned into snow water to penetrate into the strata, but it did not bring vitality to everything as in the old days, but made the living environment more harsh. If the snow containing radiation is only piled up on the ground, as long as it does not go deep into the snow layer, it will not reach the ground in terms of the radiation resistance of today's wild organisms.
It is another concept that can penetrate into the ground with snow.
That means that the amount of radiation in the formation will increase, and the water source after being flooded into groundwater by snow will be inedible in a short time. And for some cave creatures, it is a devastating disaster. Snow water with strong radiation enters their nests, even if they are unwilling to end their hibernation. For the sake of my own life, I had to break the lyre and come to the chilly ground.
Plants will suffer the most severe tests, but after more than half a century of evolution. Most wilderness plants have developed defense systems against this phenomenon, such as herbaceous plants and various flowers and trees. Before winter, they will try to take root deep enough to reach the groundwater source. At that time, the groundwater was still edible, so these mutant plants would constantly pump water and store them in the body as much as possible.
When winter is coming to an end, they will stop all activities. As a result, the skin of the plant will age quickly, and the fibers will tighten from a relatively loose mesh to a surface. So from the outside, all the parts on the surface of the earth are dead, while the underground roots become old and tough. Even violent gophers can't bite them, and when the snow melts and the strong radiation of snow seeps into the ground, it cannot enter the plant through loose fiber pores, thus destroying its important internal tissues.
The water stored in the body before will help plants survive this most difficult period. When summer comes, the radiation of ground water will precipitate or decrease. These mutatic plants will fall off the old and dead parts and sprout new buds.
Therefore, spring is fatal for plants, and only in summer can they usher in a new life.
This is the law of survival in the wilderness. Both plants and mutine beasts must follow this law to survive. Plants can store clean water in advance, and a small number of creatures in mutanani have the same function. Those who do not have water storage organs can only rely on the blood of other mutabulary beasts to survive, or break into human settlements to plunder purified water.
So from a certain point of view, spring is a lively season. However, unlike the lively atmosphere of the old era, the spring of the new era is the most murderous time of the year.
Human beings are the smarter existence in the earth's current life system. They can neither store purified water in the body in advance like mute plants, nor attack their companions like mute beasts. After all, they are the first creatures on the planet to know how to manufacture and use tools, even if they are a simple settlement, even if there is no advanced water purification equipment. But there are always containers for storing water. Humans living on the land will store as much drinkable clean water as possible before spring to survive the harsher spring than winter.
And this has also become the main reason why muta Beasts attack human settlements. Conflicts last all year round, but spring is the worst.
Everything is just for survival, whether it is humans or other creatures.
The same is true of Jin, but it is not the radioactive water that threatens him, but the pursuit of his former companions like a ghost.
Alyth!
It has been almost a month since he left Asgard and was attacked by Pederfani. During this month, King hid in the wilderness. At the beginning, Alice did not mean to kill him, and even helped him avoid several attacks by Pederfani. Soon after, Pederfini received a new task and left. Alice talked to Kim several times to help him take care of his injury.
But the two did not reach a consensus after all.
For Kim, the tie given to him by Ford Town is too heavy. He was born, grew up and lived in this town. The people in the town are more or less related to Kim, especially Peter the Elder. This man, who looks like both grandfather and father, runs through the trajectory of Kim's life. He is Kim's biggest tie. Kim can lose anyone, but he can't forgive the person who killed old Peter.
If that person was not Alice but someone else, Kim would have turned his face and started a long time ago.
But that person is Alice again.
For this woman who always likes to flirt with her from time to time, Jin has an unspeakable feeling. Closer than friends and a little more estranged than lovers. Alice is like an untouchable lover. No matter how close they are in real life, Kim knows that it is impossible for them to be together.
Because Alice is the man's forbidden, and Alice often puts the brotherhood of the prematurely died on King, not the relationship between men and women. Jin is very clear about this, so he knows that he likes this older woman, but he will not take the initiative to admit it, even once.
In the first half month of negotiations, Alice hoped that King could stay away from this chaotic land. Go to the coastline settlement to find a city to stay, and you can get a good job with Jin's ability. And it is the territory of the dark parliament, and Kim will not be easily assassinated and attacked by that adult.
King finally compromised, and he asked Alice to leave and leave the matter between him and the man. He can not take action against Alice. After all, Alice was just carrying out orders at that time. But Jin never wants to let go of that man, the one who gave him hope but brought him despair!
So the negotiations broke down without reconciliation. Alice began to get cold and gave Kim five days to escape. Five days later, she began to hunt down Jin. In fact, Kim had expected such a result. The contradiction between the two lies in Alice's feelings and loyalty to that man.
Once she is persuaded to leave without any laws, Alice will become ruthless to erase any possible threats for that person.
And Alice at this time is the real Frost Queen.
The five days left for Jin is not only the last bit of Alice's friendship to Jin, but also the time for Jin to make a choice. Undoubtedly, Kim has not changed his choice. So five days later, Alice and King fought a fierce battle in the wilderness far away from Asgard.
In the battle that lasted for nearly a day, Kim seized a hard-won opportunity to escape. And in that battle, Alice still did her best. But then, Alice became colder and colder, and her action became heavier and heavier. Jinda fled and got less and less time to breathe. Alice is like a ghost that may appear at any time, which makes Kim's already overwhelmed situation more difficult.
The shadow of death is everywhere, and if the next second will die, Kim will not be surprised.
It's just that old Peter's figure flashed through his mind from time to time, becoming the last motivation for Kim to persist.
It has been 13 hours since the last attack, and Alice's attack is getting more and more frequent. Even if Kim has exhausted his means, he can't get rid of the frost queen behind him. Once, King even led Alice into a medium-sized base. But half an hour later, the base will become history forever. And Jin got only 35 hours of rest time.
In this chase game, time becomes the key.
Alice bites Jin as if she can't eat or drink. Jin doesn't have time to rest, eat and heal. His physical energy has fallen again and again, and he is approaching the limit. Just like this moment, Jin felt very light, and a double shadow began to appear in his sight, and he felt dull. All this was due to physical decline. He smiled bitterly and didn't know if he could survive the next attack.
When he stumbled out of a low dry forest, King saw a ground base. It should have been rebuilt with the old military base, which still retains the ground command building, garage, and even an airstrip. The whole base is surrounded by barbed wire, and a sentry tower is set up every 100 meters. There are soldiers on duty in the sentry tower, which doesn't look simple.
At the entrance of the base is a steel gate equipped with pulleys, and there are two self-propelled artillery as defense forces. These two cannons alone are the most powerful firepower that Jin has seen since wandering in the wilderness in recent months, not to the 200 soldiers who are training in the sentry towers and bases.
But more importantly, there is a sign hanging at the entrance of the base with the words "Zero Technology Company" clearly written on it, and below is a warning that "Private heavy land, do not enter idle people".
Jin smiled bitterly and ran around, but returned to the vicinity of Asgard. He knew whose industry the zero point company belonged to, so he staggered to the gate of the base.
About 500 meters away from the gate, Kim suddenly stopped. A bullet swept the ground two meters in front of him, and then a soldier roared, "Stop, this is not a place where you can come." People, get out of here!"
The exile?
Jin wiped his face, and his fingertips were covered with blood. Looking at his body, wearing a cloak that he even forgot where to take from, it is indeed no different from the exiles in the wilderness. No wonder the soldiers call it that.
The soldiers of the zero-point company have been called benevolent. Even when they visit other bases, Kim doesn't even get a warning and will find a stream of bullets coming. But the soldier's pass could finally make Kim give in. He raised his voice and said, "Open the door, I want to see your supervisor. I know who your boss is! Zero, I... I'm his friend."
After a moment of silence, soldiers' laughter came from the sentry tower: "Okay, don't make trouble. If our superiors hadn't allowed us to kill people indiscriminately, we wouldn't have heard such a joke like you now. For God's sake, get out of here, or you will break your legs and throw them into the wilderness to feed the wolf!"
What should I do? Forced breakthrough? Jin Xun thought and swam back and forth between the two self-propelled artillery above the gate, looking for the shooting corner of the artillery and cutting into the safe zone in an instant. At this time, the roar of the off-road vehicle engine sounded behind Jin.
Jin turned around and saw an arrogant modified vehicle driving in the wilderness. The whole car was sprayed black, and flame patterns were sprayed out on the bottom of the car with paint in red and bright yellow. A baffle full of steel vertebrae was installed in front of the car, and even the four wheels were welded with prism-shaped spikes. While the wheels were spinning, the mud and stone on the ground were rolled up from time to time, which was shattered by the spinning spikes, and a spark burst out.
When he saw the car, the soldier standing on guard changed his face: "No, it's the supervisor's car. Hey, if you don't leave, I'll shoot!"
The soldier hurriedly picked up the gun and aimed at Kim's body.
should be a stern figure.
Jin thought, otherwise the soldiers would not have reacted so much.
The car opened in front of the door in an instant, and a tall woman jumped off the car. Zhang Yang's short hair was dyed red and blown by the wind, fluttering in the air like a flame. The woman looked at Jin, her face darkened, and then roared at the gate, "Are you all blind? Let a high-level man touch the door. Is the self-propelled cannon for you? Why don't you bombard this guy!"
The soldiers on the sentry tower were shocked, followed by the sound of people running. As the sound of the shells resonate, the two firing guns on the gate began to adjust the shooting angle. Jin smiled bitterly and raised his hand and said, "Don't be nervous, okay? If I were the enemy, I would have done it a long time ago. Will I still wait for you to raise your gun to shoot?
The woman made a "pause" gesture to the door and then looked up and down at Jin and said, "Then tell me your intention, stranger."
"Message. I have a big news to sell to you. I believe that Zero will be interested.
"Oh, what kind of reward do you need?"
"Protection, at least 48 hours." Jin said with difficulty that from the beginning of memory, he did not remember when he had shown weakness. But this time, he has been pushed to a dead end by Alice. If there is no third-party force willing to give him shelter, he will not have time to rest and heal.
The woman nodded and said, "No wonder I said you were injured. And there are still a few very obscure damages. It seems that you have been chased and killed by a powerful guy.
"Why, don't you dare to take this business?" Jin Xiao asked.
The woman said coldly, "Don't use such a childish means to provoke me. There is nothing to dare, only worth it or not."
She shouted to the soldiers at the gate again, "Open the door!"
After receiving her order, the soldiers opened the door. Looking at the extremely heavy steel gate slowly sliding away from both sides, Jin was relieved. Then the woman said, "I hope your news is worth doing, otherwise you will find that I can be more cruel and ruthless than the pursuer."
"Don't worry, I won't joke about my life." Jin said again, "So, may I ask for advice?"
The woman raised her eyebrows and said coldly, "My name is Eva. Let's get in the car."
After saying that, she jumped to the car first and waved to Jin. When Kim climbed into the arrogant car, his eyes were immediately attracted by a huge black sword slanted in the back seat. Those who like to use such a epee as a weapon are either a real strong man or a liar who swaggers through the market.
Jin believes that this woman is the former, because she has a breath that makes her feel uncomfortable.