Doomsday Fast Travel: Kill That Black Butterfly

Chapter 17 The Pain of Breathing (17)

Author: Jie Wuming

Chapter 17 The Pain of Breathing (17)

The man in the horn mask led his men and horses to escort the engineering team to knock on the underground city door. The tires ran over the gravel and rubble, flying up countless dust, which fell back to the ground before it had time to rise into the air.

Lanlong huddled under the ruins day by day and looked around with his homemade periscope. He saw them leaving in large and small cars towards the underground city. Then he got out and took a look. After confirming that no one was left behind, he sent a signal to Cheng Die. Yu

Di and Yanlin put on protective clothing and went to the ground carrying hoes and shovels.

The gate of the small park was crooked and rotten on one side. They removed the railings of the wall and inserted these slightly rusted iron bars at the points marked on the diagram. According to the range circled by Cheng Die, they gradually defined a length and width of 100 meters.

There are ten grids. Each grid is divided into four small units one meter long and wide. In each small unit, a strong growing soda melon sprout will be planted.

It's easier said than done to clean up. There were too many debris and rotten trees on the ground. After deciding the location, Yu Di found that they couldn't even see the railing twenty meters away without the transmission flashlight.

Yan Lin looked very despairingly at this large area of ​​ruins.

"I asked, can we bring the car over first and knock down these rotten trees and drag them away?"

Lan Long said contemptuously: "The tree can be cut down slowly. If the car crashes, if something happens in the future, will you have to walk on your legs?"

Yan Lin stopped talking.

Yu Di dug the shovel into the ground, raised his foot and stepped on it - ah, this familiar feeling on his feet.

"The embankment of a thousand miles has collapsed. Oh no, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Stop talking and work."

After saying that, Yu Di buried his head and began to shovel away the rotten layer covering the ground.

Yan Lin imitated Yu Di's movements, clumsily and slowly opening up his own grid. As he worked, he actually found it interesting. This was a very novel experience. Through the mask of the protective suit, he

He saw many rotten roots and stems that still retained their original shape and branches and leaves that were lying limply on the side. A faint green color seemed to float in front of his eyes, which came from the depths of his memory and his understanding of the world before he was enlightened.

impression.

Yan Lin's always complicated thoughts suddenly quieted down. Apart from the rustle of the shovel hitting the ground, the only sound in his ears was his own breathing and heartbeat. He explored his memories in surprise, and the projection in the dim sunlight seemed to become the one he relied on when he was a child.

Mother.

Mother, Yan Lin thought, he had long forgotten what she looked like. The person who gave birth to him seemed to have been forgotten by him without even realizing it. Looking at the soil that he had turned over, he thought for a moment.

Guo Yanlin's mind - in the textbook, the land has also assumed the responsibility of nurturing life. Just like he does not remember his mother, humans have also abandoned the land at some point, wantonly using the power to create life, and squandering the world.

The ability to self-recover.

Sweat dripped on his chin and gradually gathered into a small puddle. Blue Dragon looked at the time and saw that they had been farming for more than four hours. It was time to take a rest at the shelter and replenish food and water before continuing in the afternoon. He walked over

He knocked on Yu Di's shoulder and motioned for her to go back with him, but Yu Di shook his head, indicating that he could continue.

Only then did Lan Long notice that Yu Di's complete grid was only slightly smaller than the combined area of ​​him and Yan Lin.

"Why are you so fast?"

Yu Di blew the hair that fell on her cheeks, and the sweat soaked her skin, making her pale skin from being under it for a long time become rosy and no longer bloodless.

She straightened up and looked at her hands: "I used to do farm work in school, and it felt good to hold it."

"Farm work? You mean planting research? Adie and her school are top-notch in this area, but I have never seen them do this thing. By the way, how did you come up with the idea of ​​embedding two daggers side by side into a wooden stick? Come back to me

Get one too, it looks better than a shovel."

Yu Di smiled and said: "It's just a tool used by people in the past. If you ask Cheng Die later, she will definitely know."

Lanlong watched Yu Di wield the homemade simple hoe vigorously, and he had a slightly different view of Yu Di. Originally, in his eyes, Yu Di was just like the students Cheng Die had taught, a junior and a child.

, is someone who needs to be taken care of. Even in the previous interactions, Yu Di was able to do everything he wanted to do.

, but he inexplicably felt that Yu Di always had an innocent and childish temperament. But today, seeing the way she worked, her familiar and smooth movements, Lan Long suddenly realized that Yu Di had never revealed too much.

Most of his past and experiences were told to Cheng Die in private.

So much so that he only figured out today why Cheng Die wanted to take Yu Di to do research together.

Yu Di didn't know what was going on in Lan Long's mind. He finished the work, inserted the sign, straightened up and stretched: "Ah - I'm exhausted. Are you going back?"

Before Lan Long could answer, Yan Lin ran over not far away, panting heavily: "Go back, go back, I'm exhausted. This is even more tiring than working out."

Despite Blue Dragon's "weak contempt", the three people returned to the shelter carrying the tools. For safety reasons, they did not tidy up the collapsed public toilet. Instead, they covered the entrance hole with a cement board and inserted a

A steel bar cannot be opened when it is fastened from the inside. To enter from the outside, you need to pass the iris lock.

Cheng Die carefully compared the growth of each seedling. She had selected more than fifty observation boxes and moved them one by one to the third floor for temporary storage. She felt that the remaining ones would need a few more days. Yu Di and the other three

After getting off the elevator, they quickly took off their protective clothing. They had never performed heavy physical labor on the surface for such a long time, and their bodies felt like water had been poured over them. Cheng Die brought a pile of bath towels and asked them to clean them up.

The water production capacity of the shelter is not very large. The water that can be used to wipe the body on weekdays is leftover from the drinking water. Yu Di’s original dream of taking a bath has never been truly realized, and the wet towel is about the same.

Now. Cheng Die has dry hair and is not very oily, while Yu Di has oily hair, so when they met, they changed their hair lengths. Now Cheng Die wears a ponytail, while Yu Di has her hair cut to just over an inch.

After the three of them had finished cleaning up, their minds were over the freshness. They all lay down on their respective beds, not wanting to move at all. Cheng Die looked at Lan Long distressedly and asked him softly if he felt any discomfort in his right limb. Yan Lin had eaten

The thing, with her eyes closed, had already begun to snore. Although Yu Di looked like she was sleeping, her thinking was very clear.

"System, you said that you arranged for me to be here, or was it fate?"

"I dropped out after two years of study. I don't have advanced knowledge in my head. The only skill I know is farming. But I just happened to enter the end of the world where I need to farm - it must be you, right?"

"If this world survives and my mission succeeds, can I choose the next world based on my existing skills? For example, I need to rely on cooking to save the world or something."

Thinking about it, she laughed to herself.

"This world is the first one I entered. Logically speaking, I should be protected by novices, right? That's why Cheng Die, who has been reborn 346 times, exists and is very friendly to me, right? Yes.

Is that so?"

"Isn't this the so-called novice aura? How many worlds can this aura last for? The reason why I can do it again is because this is the first time, right?"

"It's getting harder and harder. What should I do? It's so stressful."

"Why does this world ask you for help? Why did you let me come? Tell me."

"What on earth are you? My world, where I come from, is actually the same as this world? It is also a 'place to do tasks'. Then what is my existence?"

The system was annoyed to death by Yu Di's questions and directly blocked Yu Di's stream of consciousness. Yu Di felt as if there was an empty space in his mind and stared blankly at the ceiling until Cheng Die called her to get up and eat.

"I'll be able to prepare all the seedlings for transplanting almost the morning after tomorrow. You have to work hard tomorrow to clear out the land. It's best for us to keep planting at the same time, and we need to observe closely for a while after transplanting.

It takes time to relax." Cheng Die rubbed his sore eyes and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work."

"It's worth it." Yan Lin stretched his muscles and interjected, "It's worth it."

(End of chapter)