In Mining Town, the cold wind came in through the gaps in the doors and windows, making a choking sound.
Beside the stove, Lin Tuo felt helpless looking at the girl who was biting her lip and not saying a word.
Torture to extract a confession
He's not a villain.
It was just a coincidence to come here, and I just wanted to find someone to understand the situation in this wasteland, so as not to execute a sentence, but the other party was unwilling to communicate, and it was difficult to start a conversation.
"It seems that you are not willing to cooperate." Sighing, Lin Tuo sounded a little disappointed, and raised the steel pipe in his hand.
on the floor.
Huaxi immediately became nervous, staring at him vigilantly, thinking: Here we come, here we come, so we still have to torture him, right
what to do
explain? Or stick to it
Chaotic thoughts surged in her heart, but in the next second, Lin Tuo's actions made her stunned.
I saw Lin Tuo turned the chair, stopped looking at her, and poked the ground with a steel pipe. The huge backpack was hard and rattled.
Lin Tuo's eyes suddenly became curious.
You know, when the little girl ran away just now, she didn't forget to take this thing with her, and it was because of this that she slowed down a bit, otherwise, she might have really let her run away.
"It's stabbed..." He stretched out his hand, pinched the slightly rusted metal zipper on the backpack, and opened it, and then, the contents inside were revealed.
Lin Tuo's eyes narrowed slightly, a little surprised.
There are brand new weapons and ammunition in this backpack!
To be precise, most of them are groups of bullets with the same model. When touched by hand, they are icy cold, and under the firelight, they emit a yellow luster.
Most of the backpack is stuffed, roughly estimated to be at least a few thousand pieces.
In addition, there are a small number of disassembled firearm parts, dozens of grenades, scopes and other items in the backpack.
They are all brand new, the barrels still have unflavored grease, and they seem to be new guns.
This little girl is actually carrying a big bag of ammunition!
Lin Tuo gave her a strange look, and said, "Those soldiers are chasing you for these things, right? You stole their arsenal?"
"I didn't! This was originally unowned! And I discovered it first!"
Hearing this, the fierce little girl seemed very angry and argued.
"Didn't it be stolen? I can't see it..." Lin Tuo threw back the bullet in his hand, pointed to the food under the bed that was planed out by Huaxi, and said, "Aren't you just here to steal food from others?"
Huaxi was speechless, choked and speechless.
After a long while, he said sullenly: "They exploited this, I am robbing the rich and helping the poor!"
As she said that, the colic caused by hunger in her stomach made her frowned and closed her mouth.
Lin Tuo didn't continue to ask, but just looked at the food curiously.
Most of them were pickled dried meat, and some weird-looking vegetables and plant roots that he had never seen before.
Presumably, they were all plants that survived the mutation in the wasteland.
In contrast, some foods that obviously have an "old-age" flavor are more eye-catching.
For example, honey packaged in glass bottles, and white wine that has long lost its label... and...
"can?"
Curiously, Lin Tuo picked up a well-sealed tin can, wiped the surface, and the trademark on it was still faintly recognizable.
After looking for the production date, and comparing it with the "destruction" time marked in the operation log, this can was obviously manufactured before the "destruction".
In other words, these are indeed foods that have been preserved from a long time ago.
It's just not clear how long it has been since the mad emperor caused the destruction in this era.
"Gulu~Gulu~"
Just when Lin Tuo's thoughts drifted away, the voice beside him pulled his attention back.
Turning his head to look at the little girl named Huaxi, a smile appeared in Lin Tuo's eyes, and said:
"It seems that you are really hungry."
"I'm not hungry!" Huaxi turned her head back with backbone, and then her stomach continued to growl unsatisfactorily.
As a result, the serious atmosphere in the room suddenly became weird.
"Want to eat? Answer my question, and I'll give you something to eat." Lin Tuo smiled even more intensely.
Seeing that Huaxi didn't answer, he didn't touch the can, after all, it might have been stored for a long time, who knows if it can still be eaten.
Turning to open the jar of honey, he took an iron basin from the table and melted it on the fire.
I took a sip on purpose and was amazed, and then used the iron braze beside the stove to pierce some dried meat and plant roots that looked like potatoes, and stuffed them into the hearth for roasting.
Soon, the not strong food aroma dissipated.
Frankly speaking, Lin Tuo has no appetite for these foods.
Especially on the premise that I just had a hot pot meal not long ago, but obviously, these foods are already considered precious and delicious in this wasteland.
This point can only be judged from the skinny refugees in the town square who obviously don't have enough to eat.
And under this kind of silent contest, after a while, Huaxi finally couldn't hold back, gritted his teeth and said, "I promise you!"
"What?"
"I said, just ask, give me something to eat!" the little girl gritted her teeth, reluctantly said.
Lin Tuo smiled.
"Well, as for me, I am a very fair person. If you answer me a question, I will let you have a bite. It's fair, isn't it?"
"Well, my first question is, what year is it now? Or, how many years has it been since the disaster that destroyed the world?"
Lin Tuo sat back in the chair and asked seriously.
On the floor, Huaxi's expression became more and more strange.
In her opinion, this question is really weird, but it is true that not everyone can answer this question.
For example, those alienated people and refugees who are at the bottom of the wasteland may not be able to answer.
"It's the 31st year of the catastrophe, at least, that's what everyone agrees to say, so it should be 31 years from the old era." Huaxi said.
"Are you not sure?" Lin Tuo asked back.
Huaxi endured the cramping pain in his stomach, feeling that he was about to starve to death, so he could only honestly say:
"I haven't experienced the old age, so how can I be sure?"
Well, yes, judging by her appearance, she is only about ten years old. If thirty years have really passed, she should belong to the aborigines of the wasteland era.
Well, or according to these people, it is called the age of catastrophe.
Lin Tuo nodded secretly. Thirty years... is not too surprising. He had already guessed from the dilapidated state of the buildings in the town.
"I answered, you should give me something to eat." Seeing him lost in thought, Huaxi couldn't help reminding.
Only then did Lin Tuo regain his senses, and handed over the iron braze in his hand.
Huaxi didn't care about being hot either, the activation of her body's repairing ability had digested the last bit of food in her stomach, and she really couldn't hold it anymore.
He opened his mouth, whimpered, and swallowed a whole half-baked mutated potato abruptly.
After chewing a few mouthfuls hastily, he tried to swallow it, but was so choked that he rolled his eyes.
"As for... How long have you not eaten..."
Lin Tuo's eyelids twitched, he hesitated, poured a glass of water and poured it down for her.
The water has been burned, but it still looks very cloudy and not very clean.
"Cough...cough cough..." Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Huaxi, Lin Tuo continued to ask:
"Second question, what is the human society like on this continent today? I mean, how many people, who ruled, how many industrial facilities are still operating? Or are there no more?…"
This question is much more complicated, Huaxi didn't understand it all at once.
Lin Tuo explained for a while, and then she gave out the information she knew intermittently.
After Lin Tuo's patchwork and restoration, he roughly figured out the situation.
To put it simply, the situation in the wasteland is indeed slightly better than he expected, but it is also limited.
According to Huaxi.
After the "catastrophe", the environment of the entire "world" deteriorated, everything withered, many people died, and the "cities" of the old era were almost completely shut down.
Many cities near the west collapsed, and those farther from the "seismic source" were slightly better, but the human industrial structure was also completely and irreversibly damaged.
A large number of human deaths, knowledge loss, strong energy interference caused power equipment to be scrapped, and the entire industrial base collapsed... The entire human civilization, in a very short period of time, went back hundreds of years.
In order to survive, people began to rush to store food, which led to riots and subsequent wars.
It is also by relying on those food reserves that human beings have survived the most difficult period of time.
But this is not without cost.
The scramble for food caused humans to completely miss the opportunity to rebuild industrial structures.
Later, the temperature of the whole world dropped, and the radiation cloud covered the entire continent, and the remaining human beings suffered another round of disasters.
The energy flow caused by the "annihilation bomb" killed many normal lives, but some lives survived tenaciously through evolution and mutation.
Animals in the wild took the lead in mutating, becoming more ferocious, terrifying, and bloodthirsty... Competing with humans for precious living materials.
Then, in the human population, mutations also occurred.
Most human beings began to suffer from various strange diseases, mental disorders, or skin ulcers... and the offspring born by these people were even more deformed, but at least they survived.
A small number of humans experienced the opposite change.
Their physical fitness began to increase, their endurance, agility, and strength all improved, and they rarely contracted diseases.
Although the appearance still maintains the appearance of a human being, in fact, it seems to be evolving in the direction of "superhuman".
And the descendants of these few people not only inherit this "excellent" mutation, but also have a probability of being born with some special and extraordinary abilities.
It is precisely because of the existence of these people that human beings finally managed to gain a firm foothold in this wasteland.
Some powerful people began to recruit people in the form of "companies" in the old days, occupying some well-preserved cities, and drove those refugees who had not "evolved" to collect the creations of the old days from the ruins.
Scrape as much as you can.
Then try to use those machines that have been preserved for decades to restore production.
However, this is ultimately too difficult.
The retrogression of civilization and the loss of knowledge have made it impossible for people to understand the "principle", and they can only rely on the creations left over from the old age to carry out some simple production activities.
And under such a pattern, the entire wasteland gradually built a pattern of three major forces standing on top of each other.
They are:
"Burning Fire Company", "Ash Mountain Group", and "Floating Doomsday".
And Huaxi is one of the latter.
Thanks to book friends: Wei Moumou, Lu Shangxie, SAWYER-SUN, Ning Seventh Prince Ning An, Love in My Heart 1314, Set him a small target, Robber Emperor, Black Cat, Book Friends 2018... 1488 .
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