The night of 3197 is rarely bright, even the moon is dim, as if separated by a layer of dirty windows.
Li Xin swayed her feet slightly, walking through the dilapidated buildings against the wall, her feet as light as a cat. The long night was silent, like an invisible wind blowing.
Li Xin went back to "home" first. Also the last trip.
Turning over and entering the hospital, the girl standing silently in front of the window on the first floor looked like a ghost. She gently stretched out her hand, and something invisible poured out of her palm.
The tightly blocked windows were opened, and the stones, plastic films and other objects that were the blockages floated up in the air without making any sound.
As soon as Li Xin stepped into the house, she felt something was wrong, and with a flick of her fingers, the dagger tied to her wrist slipped silently into her palm.
The windows on the first floor were blocked and the breath was dull. If the fire is too high, the residual smoke and smoke in the house will dissipate slowly.
And now, the smell in this room indicated that someone was here before dark at the latest. And there is a great possibility that the person is still, and has even been living here all this time.
This is not surprising. This courtyard belongs to a rare and relatively complete house in 1397. It is normal for someone to find and occupy it after he has been away for so long.
Li Xin lowered the hand holding the dagger to her side, in a posture where her arms were taut and ready to burst into harm's way. She bowed slightly, breathed very lightly, and probed the room silently.
Ten minutes later, Li Xin stood under the window on the first floor again.
All possible shelters have been checked, and no one is in the building.
But the beds showed signs of being used, and there was water and food in the house.
Someone does live here, but for some reason no one is there now.
After confirming that no one was in the house, Li Xin lit a small candle, removed the round table, and pulled out the necklace dangling from her clothes to open the entrance to the small basement below.
Out of caution, she crouched at the entrance of the black hole and waited for a while, making sure that there was not even the faintest sound of breathing inside, before Li Xin jumped in holding the candle.
Fixing the candle on the candlestick at the entrance of the cellar, Li Xin began to pack up.
She put down the dirty gray backpack on her back and stuffed it in the same way.
In the water-scarce District 3197, washing clothes and backpacks is an almost impossible luxury. Even the usual washing and bathing is only the persistence and condition of Ms. Du here.
In the cellar, there was almost nothing left of food, and the stench was stifling, and the water in the tank was bottomless and cloudy. Fortunately, Li Xin had already collected some "rent" from the "tenant" on the second floor before.
A small box containing some banknotes and a few gold bars. Li Xin poured it all into the small compartment of the bag.
A shovel.
Two old sheepskin books with ripped gutter, two or three pens that were out of ink. These are the things that Ms. Du used to teach Li Xin to read. One of the two books is her doodles and exercises, and the other is the letters and articles that Ms. Du has written over the years.
Li Xin picked up the two notebooks, opened the top one, and took out a page with a page in the middle.
Inside the paper was a photo of Ms. Du and herself, which was wrapped up. Li Xin opened it, and her eyes fell on the photo that was kept flat and clean.
When she was just picked up, Ms. Du asked the bodyguard to take a photo, saying that it was to be sent to family members outside. Just couldn't get it out.
The dim candlelight reflected on this palm-sized card. A beautiful woman in her thirties sat on a chair. Although there was a slight smile on her face, the haggardness and melancholy between her brows and eyes could not be wiped away. A little girl with black hair and black eyes stood beside her, with a face that was so thin that there was no expression on her face.
Li Xin watched for a while, then wrapped the paper, put it away, and put it into her backpack along with two notebooks.
There was another set of clothes that were barely so dirty, and a few relics of Ms. Du: a ring, a box of paper flowers folded at random, and a wood-carved dog.
The backpack originally contained a lighter, two candles, a game sensor, two long sticks, food and water, plus these, it was completely stuffed.
Li Xin, who was carrying a bag, jumped out of the window, turned around, and stretched out her hand: "呲."
The faint blue flames licked the worn curtains and burned into a big ball in the blink of an eye.
Li Xin lit two or three fires, stood quietly outside the yard, watched the fire spread, watched the whole small building gradually engulfed by the flames, turned and left. The figure quickly disappeared into the night.
At night, there are only two lights in 3197, one is the power grid in the distance, and the other is the platform that receives supplies every month. The two headlights hanging above the platform are always on.
Li Xin took off her backpack and buried it in the rubble beside her feet. The slender figure slowly sneaked towards the place illuminated by the headlights.
There is a two-story building next to the platform. It is different from all other buildings in 1397, it is complete, clean, and even has a few pots of green plants on the balcony.
Inside were supply distributors, of course—self-styled. This supply distributor was the first batch of "outsiders" in 1397. He assigned himself the title of "distributor", enjoying the best resources and the greatest rights here, not only because he had How smart and how vicious and cunning, of course, there are these factors, but most importantly, he has a gun in his hand.
The only "hot weapon" in 3197 that I don't know how to bring in.
Li Xin took this trip just to take this "hot weapon" away.
Hiding in the shadow of the building, Li Xin quickly touched the bottom of the two-story building, and then moved.
The windows on the first floor are open.
Li Xin approached the window slowly and gently. She had excellent eyesight and could see the footprints on the window edge in the dim light.
As soon as I got to the window, a subtle scent originating from the room was caught by the sense of smell. Li Xin immediately turned and left without hesitation.
It was bloody smell.
Someone got in first.
While walking through the streets and alleys quickly, Li Xin thought about it and came to the conclusion that it was most likely Lu Zhigui.
Counting the time, it was almost this time, and his "true love" came to 3197.
Xie Chengyue, the second daughter of a certain business tycoon Xie Tinghua, Lu Zhigui's childhood sweetheart and first love, the two broke up because of their youthful loyalty, but in fact their relationship was over.
Li Xin saw from the "book" that Xie Chengyue heard that Lu Zhigui had an accident, and without hesitation, mixed into the transporter and came to 3197. The two met again after many years in the stands.
At that time, Xie Chengyue was almost discovered, and Lu Zhigui, who came to collect supplies, helped her. Seeing her, Lu Zhigui was naturally shocked, guilty, and surprised, and the two instantly rekindled their love.
In the last life, Li Xin waited at home. When Lu Zhigui, who went to collect supplies, brought home a big living person, although he was a little surprised, he was only a little surprised, and he regained his calm in an instant.
Afterwards, the three of them lived in the small building. The supply for the two of them was not enough. Later, Lu Zhigui brought Li Xinye into the stands. The "supply dispatcher" was killed.
So the three occupied the small building of the original "supplier", and Lu Zhizhi became the new "supplier".
Until leaving 3197.
After stepping on the dot once, this time Li Xin reached the grid very skillfully.
The blue power grid that looked up so high that it seemed to reach the sky was quietly surrounding it.
Li Xin approached, stood below for a while, stretched out her hand, and slowly touched it with her fingertips.
The white fingertips came into contact with the blue barking current, but the former miraculously unscathed, stretched and clenched, as if the surrounding was not a ten thousand-volt power grid that could kill people in an instant, but just harmless, gentle water. .
This unscientific scene continued until Li Xin gently retracted her hand. In fact, if you get closer and zoom in, you can see that this finger is not in direct contact with the power grid, but is separated by a layer, a very thin layer of "qi".
Li Xin took a slow breath, took a few steps back, and jumped straight onto the power grid. The whole person climbed up as fast as an ape.
This is the power of the spirit.
The higher you climb, the smaller area 3197 becomes behind you. It took Li Xin ten minutes to climb to the top of the power grid in one breath, and looked back.
There is only a slight tingling sensation on the body, but it can very pull people into long-term memories.
In the last life, she died here.
That was a long time ago, or a long time later. It was already late in the game, and they finally had the ability to leave.
The three of them, Lu Zhigui first climbed over to investigate the situation, and then let Li Xin and Xie Chengyue go away when there was no problem.
Compared to Li Xin at the time, Xie Chengyue was a bit weaker, but it stands to reason that there is no problem in passing. But just like walking on a single-plank bridge, what you need to maintain a state of "isolation" is stability. Maybe she is too nervous, and something happened to her.
The two crawled left and right, Li Xin could be faster than her, but in order to prevent Xie Chengyue from getting nervous and causing problems, she deliberately slowed down a bit.
When Xie Chengyue suddenly burst into tears, shouting "It's over! I can't control it!", Lu Zhigui, who was in a hurry below, subconsciously called out "Li Xin!"
So Li Xin stopped and wrapped two people with the strength of one person.
Originally, it might be possible to pass sooner. But Xie Chengyue was too frightened because of the sudden shock, and her legs and feet were weak, and she could not maintain the previous climbing speed at all.
Time passed by, and she and Lu Zhigui had despair on their faces.
Lu Zhigui shouted from below: "Chengyue! Climb! Hurry up! Please, Chengyue, don't stop... Li Xin!"
So Li Xin climbed back, dragged the person over, and climbed up with one arm on her body.
When she reached the top, she no longer had the strength to climb over, and the two of them just rolled down.
Amidst Xie Chengyue's screams, Li Xin remembered that she finally stretched out her hand, caught the iron net halfway, stopped her fall, and then threw the person down. And she herself turned into a scorched powder at about the moment she lost consciousness.
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The soles of her feet landed gently on the ground, and Li Xin stepped back and looked up.
This was Lu Zhigui's perspective at the time, she thought to herself.
Outside the power grid is a barren hill, seemingly uninhabited. But Li Xin knew that there was the most stringent monitoring and firepower enough to blast a hundred of her into shreds.
In the entire power grid, the only blind-spot route that is less than two meters away from the monitoring range and can be climbed over was found by Lu Zhigui in the previous generation.
Li Xin has a good memory.
The only and final blind spot for monitoring was under her feet, within two meters from the power grid.
Li Xin bowed, took out the shovel in her bag and started digging.
Twenty minutes later, a pit was dug for shelter. Standing in the pit, Li Xin thought, and the soil that had been turned over was covered back. The shallow soil layer just hangs in the air, covering up the traces below.
Li Xin, who was in the dark pit, started digging quietly like a mole. She had to dig all the way to a place where there were trees a hundred meters away.
The soil that she had dug was automatically piled back, and the places she had walked were filled back. In order to reduce the workload, in fact, the top of Li Xin's head is only covered with less than ten centimeters, which seems to be no different from other surfaces, but in fact it is all a layer of "suspended" soil.
She emerged from a bush in the middle of the night on the third day. Now surrounded by weeds and deep woods, as long as the canopy does not emerge, walking is no longer so easy to be found.
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Li Xin: In? Get up and dig a hole.