Embers Ad Infinitum

After watching Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen return to the car and drive the jeep to a more secluded place not far away, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong each checked the "Bing Moss" pistol and "United 202" on their armed belts. pistol, and the "Berserker" assault rifle slung on his body.

After confirming every detail, they squatted down alternately and re-tied the laces of their military boots, making sure there were no mistakes.

After completing the corresponding tasks, they held assault rifles and walked toward the square along the dilapidated cement road neither quickly nor slowly.

Although it is autumn and the weather has turned cooler, there are still many mosquitoes in the overgrown areas, buzzing around Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong.

Long Yuehong held it in for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask:

"Do we have to take turns to drive away mosquitoes?"

He believes that someone must be responsible for vigilance at all times.

"How about I help you?" Shang Jianyao asked, looking at the black mosquitoes that flew towards Long Yue's red face.

Long Yuehong asked warily:

"Are you trying to slap me?"

"Are you thinking too badly of me?" Shang Jianyao laughed hoarsely.

He then took out a small plastic bottle as high as his index finger from his pocket, unscrewed the cap, and sprayed himself a few times:

“Have you forgotten that our company is called ‘Pangu Biology’?

"This repellent works, hey, it's pretty good."

Long Yue asked with red eyes a little straight:

"You, when did you get it? Wasn't it in the car?"

——There are almost no mosquitoes inside the "Pangu Creature". In the past few days after arriving on the surface, Long Yuehong has not felt bothered by mosquitoes, so she has forgotten that there is such a thing as mosquito repellent.

"I put it on me when I was on duty before." Shang Jianyao answered calmly.

"Hey, why didn't I encounter mosquitoes when I was on night watch?" Long Yuehong was deeply puzzled.

Shang Jianyao glanced at him:

"Use your brain and think about it carefully and you will know the answer."

Jian Long Yuehong still didn't understand, so Shang Jianyao announced the answer:

“For the past two days, the team leader and I have been on duty first, and she will spray mosquito repellent around.

"Actually, she also sprayed the bonfire when she first made it, didn't you see?"

"..." Long Yuehong didn't expect the answer to be so simple.

In order not to be laughed at by Shang Jianyao, he immediately pointed to the right and said:

"Let's go take a look at those buildings first. The team leader said they are hospitals and radio stations."

He was referring to the three buildings surrounding the open square on the right side of the concrete road, one of which had collapsed.

"Okay." Shang Jianyao was about to put away the bottle of mosquito repellent.

"Me, what about me?" Long Yuehong's mouth was half-opened, shocked, stunned and confused.

Shang Jianyao laughed silently twice:

"You didn't say you wanted to squirt? How would I know if you didn't say..."

"Stop, stop! Don't learn the lines from the radio show." Long Yuehong immediately interrupted Shang Jianyao.

Shang Jianyao stopped teasing him and quickly unscrewed the cap of the bottle and sprayed it on him. After all, this was in the wild, in the ruins of a steel plant. The joke was appropriate and it could not distract his attention and lower his alertness to the surroundings. Heart.

After initially getting rid of the mosquito problem, the two turned towards the place that Jiang Baimian called a hospital and a radio station. The first thing they saw were two lonely pillars.

"Here, the gate has been moved away?" Long Yuehong suddenly had a toothache.

Shang Jianyao said "hmm":

“This is called human subjectivity.

"If it weren't for the broken cement and bricks that couldn't be replaced with anything, these two pillars might not still be able to stand here."

"Tsk, tsk." Long Yuehong sighed twice and walked between the pillars.

Only then did they discover that there was a row of bungalows leaning against the wall in front of the building closer to the roadside. They only needed to turn right to reach it.

If you go straight, you will go up the slope and reach a small square with a pond, a garden and parking space.

Through this square, it seems that you can directly enter the second floor of the building next to the roadside.

Long Yuehong signaled and took the lead to walk towards the corridor between the row of bungalows and the buildings.

There is a narrow drainage ditch here, which is covered with moss and weeds.

Long Yuehong looked around and found that there were doors on the ground floor of the building. The spaces inside were large and small. The two near the slope were connected together, and the windows to the outside were completely open. There were no There was no obstruction at all, and the row of bungalows was neatly divided into approximately equal small rooms. Within the area that the two of them could see, there were tables with fully opened drawers and high stools that had been overturned on the ground.

Long Yuehong combined the terms "hospital" and "radio station" to try to determine what area this place belonged to, but she couldn't come up with an answer.

"Where is this place?" He asked not looking forward to it, not thinking that Shang Jianyao could answer.

Shang Jianyao retracted his gaze, lowered his right elbow, and slightly raised the muzzle of the "Berserker" assault rifle:

"Outpatient department."

His voice was low and firm.

"Ah?" Long Yuehong was surprised and confused.

He originally wanted to ask you how you identified it, but suddenly he remembered something:

Inside "Pangu Biology", there is a small infirmary on each floor of the "living area", which is responsible for common diseases such as headaches, brain fever, etc. for the residents of this building. This kind of medical office is divided into two rooms, the inside and outside. One side is the pharmacy and the doctor's office on the outside, and the infusion room and the injection room are on the inside.

In addition to these, there are three large hospitals inside "Pangu Biology". They are on specific and different floors and mainly treat employees who cannot be treated by the infirmary.

Long Yuehong has been in good health since he was a child, and his parents and elders have not had any serious illnesses. Therefore, he has only been to the infirmary on this floor and the university floor, never to the hospital, and lacks an intuitive impression of the outpatient area.

Shang Jianyao's mother died of illness and she lived in a hospital for a long time. At that time, Shang Jianyao had to go back and forth between school, hospital and home every day.

After roughly thinking about the reason, Long Yuehong closed her mouth.

Shang Jianyao pointed to the bungalow with his chin instead of his right hand:

"There should be more than one outpatient room, injection room, and infusion room here."

He headed towards the building area again:

"The two outermost rooms should be pharmacies. There should be iron bars on the windows, and there should be gaps for medication, but now they have been taken away. The other ones may be computer rooms, financial rooms, laboratories, etc., which cannot be affim."

"Yeah." Long Yuehong didn't refute.

The two men carried assault rifles and searched room after room, but found nothing useful. Even the remaining wooden tables and chairs were broken and incomplete, and they had obviously been used to light a bonfire.

Arriving at the last room in the row of bungalows, Long Yuehong just kicked open the half-open wooden door and saw a white skull, staring at two dark holes for a second.

He was startled and suddenly raised the "Berserker" assault rifle a little, preparing to shoot.

Shang Jianyao looked around and said in a low voice:

"Dead for a long time."

Long Yuehong relaxed a little and carefully observed the situation inside:

A wooden table fell to the ground, with a few pages of yellowed and worn-out paper scattered messily. The white bones were leaning against the table. There was no flesh and blood left, no piece of cloth to cover it, and many bones were missing.

"The previous ruin hunters didn't even spare the underwear of the corpse... There have been many wild beasts here..." Long Yuehong had also undergone strict training and could judge many things from some traces.

As soon as he finished speaking, a small black shadow jumped out from the corner, ran to the side of the wall, and got into an inconspicuous hole.

"...Mouse." Long Yuehong almost gave the other party a hit.

Shang Jianyao nodded thoughtfully:

"Can I eat it?"

"...Theoretically, it's possible, but there are too many bacteria and viruses, and it's easy for people to contract serious diseases." Long Yuehong tried his best to explain, lest his friends have sudden thoughts, "If the team leader is here, he will definitely He would say: There is no other way, don’t eat this kind of thing.”

Shang Jianyao breathed out, seeming a little regretful.

"Look around." He took a few steps forward and squatted next to the yellowed and torn pages.

Unfortunately, there is nothing on it.

But Shang Jianyao also noticed something: the outlines and sizes of the complete parts of these pages were basically the same, and they should have been torn from the same book.

"If there was important information on it, they would have been picked up long ago." Long Yuehong expressed her thoughts.

Shang Jianyao was noncommittal:

"Put it away first and let the team leader study it later."

After speaking, he took out a bag and a pair of plastic tweezers, picked up the pages and put them into the bag.

The two searched the side of the building again, but still found nothing.

Returning to the slope, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong walked up to the small square area and saw that the building opposite had collapsed, and the four-story building on the far right was covered with green plants.

Above the door on the first floor of this building, there are three large red characters. They have become mottled and faded, looming in the green:

"Inpatient unit".

"It is indeed a hospital." Long Yuehong turned her head and glanced at the building next to the slope. "This is also a hospital. Then, this collapsed building seems to be a radio station."

The topmost masonry of the collapsed building has been removed, which shows the professionalism and patience of the ruin hunters.

"Go in and take a look." Shang Jianyao walked to the inpatient department first.

There are a lot of glass fragments and animal feces inside, but the overall preservation is relatively good, except that there are no beds in each ward.

"No, the hospital bed should be very heavy..." Long Yuehong was quite surprised.

"It can be pushed." Shang Jianyao simply said, "Maybe he brought cutting tools."

"There really is nothing left... Is this the relic hunter?" Long Yuehong sighed, and followed Shang Jianyao up the stairs to the second, third and fourth floors.

Walking in this inpatient ward always made him feel gloomy and cold, and the smell he breathed was indescribably weird. It didn't quite resemble the feeling of being close to decay for a long time with only a little residual smell left.

"Is it almost done? It's nothing." Long Yuehong couldn't help but urge Shang Jianyao.

"Yeah." Shang Jianyao glanced at the bathroom near the stairs, took out a pen and paper, and started drawing a map of the hospital area against the wall.

"Can't you go out and do it?" Long Yuehong walked back and forth for a few steps.

"It's coming, it's coming." Shang saw that Yao Yun's pen was flying.

Finally, he drew a strange symbol that looked like someone was squatting in the inpatient department.

"What does this mean?" Long Yuehong asked curiously.

Shang Jianyao didn't answer him. He drew the same symbol next to it, drew a horizontal line, and marked:

"There is a toilet."

"..." Long Yuehong didn't want to talk to Shang Jianyao anymore.

After getting this part of the map, the two of them left the inpatient department and headed down the slope.

After entering the main road, before they had time to find the next target, they saw two figures coming out of the depths of the steel factory, each riding a bicycle and carrying a rifle.

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