"My teeth are really going to break!"
Lin Feiyan took a bite of the hard compressed biscuit, chewed it hard with her white teeth, and said dissatisfiedly.
Since the Sword Team was absorbed by Luo Yuan, she has not had a good day. She spends almost all her time searching for possible survivors at the original site of the reconstruction area. Although her unique evolutionary ability makes her not afraid of the cold at all, She had to eat and sleep in the open every day, which made her suffer enough.
This is not the most irritating thing. If a survivor can be found, at least her hard work will be meaningful. After all, human beings are experiencing great changes now, and even the most selfish people will be deeply affected in this environment. , but their entire sharp sword team has been searching for several months, not to mention survivors, not even a single body can be found.
"It's better to wait until I boil the water before eating!" Wu Qianru persuaded next to her. She put down the backpack behind her, opened the zipper, and took out an alcohol lamp, a portable small pot, and a wooden water tank. , even if she didn't open it, she knew that the water inside had already been frozen.
"Trouble, it's better to just eat it to save trouble!" Lin Feiyan muttered, and kept making a crisp sound like biting ice cubes in her mouth, which made her teeth feel itchy. In the cold weather here, the compressed biscuits are almost as hard as It was just like a stone. If she hadn't been an evolver, she might not be able to bite it.
Wu Qianru didn't try to persuade her anymore. Unlike Lin Feiyan, she was not afraid of the cold. Even if she had good teeth, her stomach would be unbearable from the cold.
She took out a piece of clean cotton cloth and a hammer from her backpack, spread the cotton cloth on the ice, picked up the hammer and gently tapped around the water storage tank. Soon the ice cubes fell off the water storage tank and fell on the cotton cloth. superior.
She skillfully wrapped the ice cubes in cotton cloth, then picked up the molten iron and smashed the ice cubes hard.
After a few minutes, she untied the cotton cloth and found that all the ice cubes inside had been broken. She picked a few pieces and threw them into the small pot. She put the remaining ice cubes back into the water tank, then lit the windproof alcohol lamp and started to burn it. water.
The flame licked the bottom of the pot quietly, and soon the water boiled. She took out two cups and poured a cup:
"for you!"
Lin Feiyan was not polite, took the cup and drank it all in one gulp. She groaned comfortably, as if the cup of water that had just been boiled was warm water. After a while, she asked Wu Qianru:
"How far is the city ahead?"
"There should be more than ten kilometers left." Wu Qianru poured herself a glass, then soaked the compressed biscuits in hot water and said casually.
"After we finish searching the city in front, we will return to rest for a while!" Lin Feiyan sighed and said. During this period, she has experienced a lot of hardships and has matured a lot compared to before: "Speaking of which, we have already I’ve been out for a week, and I’ve almost used up the supplies, so it’s time to go back.”
"Oh! I can finally rest for a few days." Wu Qianru said with a somewhat happy expression.
It is impossible to imagine the living environment in the wild without personal experience. She trudged in the ice and snow during the day and shivered in the sleeping bag at night. There was no clean water at all. Before going to bed, she had to use the purifier she carried with her to filter the ice and snow to meet her needs. Water demand for the next day.
What's worse is that in extremely cold weather, the purified water will freeze quickly, and the ice must be melted before washing your face and brushing your teeth every day.
This was when the weather was good, but since the war, the climate here has been extremely abnormal. Snowstorms are common, and sometimes even hail. They once experienced a huge hailstorm.
It was late at night last month. When they were sleeping, hailstones fell on their sleeping bags without warning. Hailstones the size of footballs fell from the sky like meteorites. Even though the two of them were evolutionaries, they fell on their sleeping bags without warning. The blows on my body were painful, and I was in a miserable state. In particular, there were flat ice fields nearby, and there was no way to hide. The two could only hold up the tent with both hands and endured the middle of the night. The hardship was like drinking water, knowing whether it is warm or cold.
…
Taking advantage of lunch time and resting for half an hour, the two set off again.
It didn't take long before we arrived at the original location of the city.
"This is probably the scope of Endeavor City." Lin Feiyan glanced at the longitude and latitude of the smart terminal, then looked around and said.
There are no traces of human cities here, except for the thick ice and snow on the ground, which is still ice and snow.
"There should be no one left alive!" Wu Qianru sighed. The situation she had seen recently was the same. She had given up hope for a long time, and now she just did her best to obey fate.
"No matter what, let's search everywhere first." Lin Feiyan said.
…
The ground is now covered with thick ice and snow. The two of them are not humanoid nuclear weapons like Luo Yuan. They are weak alone and can easily break through the ice. It is impossible to search in detail, but it is not impossible.
The easiest way to tell if there are survivors in a city is to look for possible vents.
After all, if there are survivors in a city, it cannot be sealed. Otherwise, lack of oxygen will kill everyone. In addition, three months have passed since the disaster occurred. Even if there are no vents in the underground city, There are still survivors who may have died of suffocation.
The two took out the terrain detector from their backpacks and started working. This kind of thing has a wide range of applications and is an indispensable instrument in the fields of civil engineering and infrastructure, structural damage detection, etc. Therefore, even Hope City has a lot of them in stock.
With this kind of equipment, they can save a lot of effort.
Time passed minute by minute, several hours passed, and the time gradually reached evening. Unfortunately, the two of them saw nothing except ice and snow.
Lin Feiyan, who had exhausted her patience, was about to notify Wu Qianru who was nearby to stop the work, when she suddenly heard Wu Qianru scream: "Captain, come here quickly, there... there is a corpse here."
Lin Feiyan was shocked after hearing this, and quickly walked over. The ice layer on the ground is now dozens of meters thick, and it is thickening at an average rate of about one meter every day. In addition, the ice and snow here are not transparent. , almost one-third of it was filled with dust, the color was dirty, and it was pitch black. Under normal circumstances, even if there is a corpse underneath, it cannot be seen with the naked eye.
The fact that the body was found means that the person died not long ago, maybe half a day, maybe a day, but at most it would not be more than two days.
Because over time, the body had been buried so long that it could no longer be seen.
The presence of corpses indicates that there is a high probability of a gathering of survivors nearby.
"Where?" Lin Feiyan trotted over and asked hurriedly.
"Look there!" Wu Qianru looked a little nervous and breathed quickly, pointing to an arm exposed on the ice five or six meters away.
Through the dirty ice and snow, one could vaguely see a young and naked body buried inside.
Lin Feiyan looked in the direction, and her face changed slightly. It was no wonder that Wu Qianru was so unlucky. The arm was really weird and bizarre. She found that the exposed arm of the corpse had no trace of being frozen at all. No, don't say it was frozen. , the skin color of this arm doesn’t look like that of a corpse at all.
The skin on its surface is ruddy and shiny, with a hint of pink. It is really unimaginable that he or she was buried in the ice, and it is very possible that he or she is still alive.
You know, the earth today is close to minus 70 degrees, and even the two-level polar night is just like this. If you don't wear clothes, except for special evolvers like her who can absorb the internal energy of matter, the rest of the sharp sword team will be here. It can't last long under such terrible temperatures.
And looking at the size of his (her) arms and body under the ice, he obviously looks like a child of five or six years old.
"Captain, what should I do?" Wu Qianru asked.
This thing is really weird. Even a super evolved person like Wu Qianru is a little confused.
"Go up and take a look first, maybe he's still alive!" To be honest, Lin Feiyan herself was a little scared, but she was the captain after all, and she was much calmer than Wu Qianru. No matter what, as the captain, it was really hard to escape without a fight in front of the team members. A shameful thing.
However, just as she calmly took a deep breath and was about to walk over, her eyes suddenly saw the arm exposed on the ice. She moved slightly and shook it gently with her little hands.
This discovery almost made her heart skip a beat. Before she could calm down, she saw the ice cracking and the ice cubes where the body was buried suddenly shattered. A small figure, He sat up from the ice, exposing his bare back, and countless broken ice fell to the ground.
Looking at her (his) natural movements, it seemed as if the ice on her body was not as hard as iron, but like a layer of crispy milk skin. She (he) turned her back to everyone, seemed a little sleepy, and yawned, He turned his back to everyone and stood in a daze for a while, then stood up.
Lin Feiyan and Wu Qianru glanced at each other, only to feel their hearts tremble. Although they didn't see what kind of abilities the other party had, the power they showed just now made them jealous.
You must know that the ice layer at about minus 70 degrees is almost as hard as steel. It would be impossible for either of the two to destroy it as easily as the other.
The two quietly retreated, but before they took a few steps, they seemed to hear a movement. The unknown child suddenly turned around.
This is a pretty little girl, naked, with fine ice chips melting slowly on her body, exuding a steaming mist, as if it were lingering in the clouds.
When she saw the two girls, she was surprised for a moment, and then she shouted in surprise:
"Ah, I finally see someone!"
Lin Feiyan and Wu Qianru looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, at least they were human beings and could communicate.
Wu Qianru asked carefully: "Little... girl, why are you lying here?"
"Hello, aunt, I'm sleeping!"
The younger daughter spoke clearly and politely, but the answers she gave made the two women look at each other.
"Where did you come from?" Wu Qianru thought for a while and asked again. Maybe she could get news about the survivors from her mouth.
"Xinjing No. 3 Genetic Laboratory, but everyone there is gone. My sisters, brothers, and brothers are all gone. Even the aunts who took care of us are gone. I'm looking for them!" The little girl looked innocent. said.
The more they listened, the more strange they felt. They did not say that she came from the laboratory, nor did they say that she was a brother or sister. However, Xinjing was a key area targeted by the Bolians, and one of the anti-matter bombs was released there. The entire Xinjing location is now It's already a big hole.