The Human Cub’s Guide to Wasteland Survival

Chapter 8

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The two walked forward, then turned right and entered the central city area.

The central city used to be full of tall buildings, and at night it was brightly lit and prosperous. But now, all you see is desolation.

The deserted streets were full of ruins, with broken glass walls reflecting the dazzling midday sun. There was an office building broken in half on the street. The lower half was fine, but the 20th floor and above were gone, probably collapsed on all sides.

The two entered the office building. The huge reception hall was empty, with documents and papers scattered everywhere and a few pots of green plants lying on the tiled floor.

"Go upstairs and take a look."

The two went upstairs again, entered the nearest room, found the water dispenser, each took a paper cup, and drank to their heart's content.

After drinking the water, Feng Chen searched everywhere upstairs and downstairs. His luck was good. In a closed tea room, he found five bottles of bottled water, three bags of instant noodles, a whole loaf of sliced bread, a box of chocolates and beef jerky.

Yan Bubu followed behind him without saying a word, occasionally poking the gap where his tooth had fallen out with his tongue. But when he saw the chocolate and beef jerky, his eyes sparkled.

The two of them sat on the sofa and ate. Feng Chen ate bread while cleaning his marching backpack. Yan Bubu was concentrating on the beef jerky packaging bag, tearing it with his hands and biting it with his teeth, working so hard that his head was shaking.

Feng Chen took the bag of beef jerky from him, carefully avoiding the end that was bitten and covered with saliva, tore it open from the other end, and handed it back to him.

Yan Bubu took out one but didn't eat it himself. Instead, he stretched it to Feng Chen's mouth and said, "Master, eat it."

Feng Chen lowered his eyes and looked at his fingers. Seeing that the thin white fingers were not too dirty, with only a little dust, he bit the beef jerky into his mouth.

He chewed some beef jerky, cleared out the useless items from his backpack, put instant noodles and bottled water back in, and finally took out the password box, holding it in his hand and examining it carefully.

This is a silver-gray metal box, about the size of a cigarette, but square in shape, with a very smooth surface, and one side is a digital password key. He only knows that it contains important secrets, but he doesn't know what they are, nor does he know the password to open the box.

Yan Bubu grumbled to the side: "Can I roll the beef jerky in bread and eat it?"

"Can."

"What about putting a piece of chocolate in the middle?"

"Um."

Yan Bubu rolled beef jerky and chocolate in the middle of the bread and held it in front of Feng Chen: "Master, look at my magic fruit sandwich, do you want one?"

"don't want."

Feng Chen couldn't imagine what bread with beef jerky and chocolate in it would taste like, so he decisively refused.

Suddenly, there was the roar of a tracked vehicle outside, and the sound of a voice coming from a loudspeaker. The sound gradually became clearer as it approached from far away.

"… All survivors went to Haiyun Tower, and after identity registration, they entered the underground resettlement site…"

Feng Chen walked to the window and saw two armored tanks leading the way, followed by several tracked vehicles with soldiers on board. Some people walked out of the dilapidated buildings on both sides of the street, and after the information on their wrists was scanned and read, they followed the vehicles.

Feng Chen turned around and saw that Yan Bubu hadn't eaten and was just looking at him anxiously, so he said, "We can't go."