Epoch of Twilight

"It's really about to bite the teeth!"

Lin Feiyan took a bite of the hard compressed biscuit, chewing hard with her white teeth, and said dissatisfied.

Ever since the Sword Team was recruited by Luo Yuan, she hasn't had a good day. She spends almost all her time searching for possible survivors in the original site of the reconstruction area. Although her unique evolution ability makes her not afraid of severe cold, Living in the wind, eating and sleeping in the open every day has also made her suffer enough.

This is not the most irritating thing. It’s fine if she can find a survivor. At least her hard work is meaningful. After all, human beings are undergoing great changes. Even selfish people will be deeply infected in this environment. However, their entire Sword Squad searched for several months, not to mention survivors, not even a single corpse was found.

"It's better to wait for me to boil the water before eating!" Wu Qianru persuaded, and she put down the backpack behind her, unzipped it, and took out an alcohol lamp, a small portable pot, and a wooden water storage tank. , even if she didn't open it, she knew that the water inside had already been frozen tightly.

"Trouble, it's better to eat directly to save trouble!" Lin Feiyan muttered, making a crisp sound like ice cubes being crushed, which made the teeth itchy. In the cold weather here, compressed biscuits are almost as hard as Stones are no different, if she is not an evolutionary, I am afraid she will not be able to bite at all.

Wu Qianru didn't persuade her anymore, unlike Lin Feiyan, she was not afraid of the cold, even if she had good teeth, her stomach would be unbearably 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 tapped lightly around the water storage tank, and soon the ice cubes fell off from 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 vigorously.

A few minutes later, she untied the cotton cloth, and all the ice cubes inside had been broken. She picked a few and threw them into the small pot. She put the remaining ice cubes back into the water storage tank. Then she lit the windproof alcohol lamp and started burning. water.

The flame quietly licked the bottom of the pot, and soon the water boiled. She took out two cups and poured one:

"for you!"

Lin Feiyan was not polite either, she took the cup and drank it dry in one gulp. She moaned comfortably, as if the cup of freshly boiled water was lukewarm water. After a while, she asked Wu Qianru aloud:

"How far is the city ahead?"

"It should be more than ten kilometers away." Wu Qianru poured herself a cup, then soaked the compressed biscuits in hot water, and said casually.

"After searching the city in front, we will go back and rest for a while!" Lin Feiyan sighed and said, she has gone through a lot of training during this period, and she has matured a lot compared to before: "Speaking of which, we have already It’s been a week since I’ve been out, and the supplies are almost used up, so I should go back.”

"Hey! I can finally rest for a few days." Wu Qianru said with a happy face.

The living environment in the wild is unimaginable without personal experience. She trudges through the ice and snow during the day, shivering in the sleeping bag at night, and there is no clean water at all. Before going to bed, she must filter the ice and snow with a purifier to satisfy Water needs for the next day.

To make matters worse, 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 is still when the weather is good, but since the war, the climate here has been extremely abnormal. Blizzards are common, and sometimes even hail. They have experienced a particularly large hailstone once.

It was late at night last month, when they were sleeping soundly, the hailstones fell like their sleeping bags without warning, and hailstones the size of footballs fell from the sky like meteorites. It hurts from being hit on the body, and I am in a mess. In particular, there were flat ice fields nearby, and there was no way to hide. The two could only support the tent with their hands, and endured it in the middle of the night.

...

Taking advantage of the lunch time, after resting for half an hour, the two set off again.

It didn't take long to arrive at the original site of the city.

"This is probably within the scope of Fenjin City." Lin Feiyan glanced at the latitude and longitude of the smart terminal, then looked around and said.

There is no trace of a human city here, except for the thick ice and snow on the ground, which is still ice and snow.

"It should be that no one is alive!" Wu Qianru sighed, the situation she has seen recently is like this, she has long since given up hope, and now she is just doing her best to obey the destiny.

"No matter what, let's search around first." Lin Feiyan said.

...

Now the ground is 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 layer. 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, the lack of oxygen will kill everyone. In addition, three months have passed since the disaster. An underground city without vents, even if There are also survivors, who may have also 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 civil infrastructure, structural damage testing and other fields, so even Hope City has a lot of 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, but unfortunately the two of them saw nothing but ice and snow.

Lin Feiyan, who had exhausted her patience, was about to call Wu Qianru who was nearby to call it a day, when she suddenly heard Wu Qianru scream: "Captain, come quickly, here... there is a dead body."

Lin Feiyan was shocked when she heard this, and quickly walked over. The ice layer on the ground is now tens of meters thick, and it is increasing at an average rate of about one meter every day. In addition, the ice and snow here are not transparent. Yes, almost one-third of it is dust, dirty in color, and pitch black. Under normal circumstances, even if there is a corpse below, it cannot be seen with the naked eye.

The fact that the body can be found means that this person died not long ago, maybe half a day, maybe a day, but at most it will not exceed two days.

Because of the time, the body has long been buried and cannot be seen.

The existence of the corpses indicates that there is a very likely gathering place of survivors nearby.

"Where?" Lin Feiyan hurriedly ran over and asked.

"Look there!" Wu Qianru said with a tense face and shortness of breath, pointing to a part of her arm exposed to the ice five or six meters away.

Through the dirty ice and snow, one can vaguely see a young and naked corpse buried inside.

Lin Feiyan looked in the direction, and her complexion changed slightly. No wonder Wu Qianru was so distressed. It was because the arm was too weird and bizarre. She found that the exposed arm of the corpse had no trace of being frozen at all, no, let alone being frozen. , the color of this arm does not look like that of a corpse at all.

Its surface is ruddy and shiny, with a hint of pinkness. It is really unimaginable that he (she) was buried in the ice, and it is even very possible that he (she) is still alive.

You know, the earth is now close to minus 70 degrees, and even the two-level polar night is no more than that. If you don’t wear clothes, except for special evolved people like her who can absorb matter and internal energy, the rest of the sword team will be here. Under such a terrible temperature, they can't last long.

And judging by the size of his (her) arms and body under the ice, it is obvious that he (she) looks like a five or six-year-old child.

"Captain, what should we do?" Wu Qianru asked.

This matter is really too weird. Even a super evolutionary like Wu Qianru is a little confused.

"Go up and have a look first, maybe he's still alive!" To be honest, Lin Feiyan herself was a little nervous, but she was the captain after all, much calmer than Wu Qianru. No matter what, as the captain, it was really a matter of fleeing without fighting in front of the team members. embarrassing thing.

However, just as she calmly took a deep breath and was about to walk over, her eyes suddenly saw the arm exposed to the ice, she moved it slightly, and gently shook it with her small hand.

This discovery almost made her heart skip a beat. Before she could calm down, she saw the ice layer creaking, and the ice that buried the corpse suddenly shattered. A small figure, Sitting up from the ice, his bare back was exposed, and countless pieces of ice fell to the ground.

Looking at her (his) natural movements, it seems that the weight on her body is not some hard ice, but like a layer of crispy milk skin. She (his) turned her back to everyone, seemed a little sleepy, and yawned. Turning his back to everyone, he was stunned for a while, then stood up.

Lin Feiyan and Wu Qianru glanced at each other, only feeling hairy in their hearts. Although they didn't see what kind of ability the other party possessed, the strength they showed just now made them fearful.

You must know that the ice layer at around minus 70 degrees is almost as hard as steel, and it is impossible for either of the two to destroy it as easily as the other.

The two backed away quietly, but before they had taken a few steps, they seemed to hear movement. The unknown child suddenly turned around.

This is a little girl with a pink and jade-like appearance. She is completely naked, and the fine ice chips are slowly melting on her body, exuding a steaming mist, like a cloud.

Seeing the two girls, she was surprised for a moment, and soon she exclaimed with surprise on her face:

"Ah, I finally see people!"

Lin Feiyan and Wu Qianru looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, at least the other party is human and can communicate.

Wu Qianru asked cautiously: "Little... girl, why are you lying here?"

"Hi auntie, I'm sleeping!"

The youngest daughter spoke clearly and politely, but the answer in her mouth made the two girls look at each other in blank disbelief.

"Where did you come from?" Wu Qianru asked after thinking about it, maybe she could get news of the survivors from her mouth.

"Xinjing No. 3 Genetic Laboratory, but everyone there is gone. My sister, brother, and brother 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 the two listened, the more strange they felt. They didn’t say that she came from the laboratory, nor did they say her brothers and sisters, but Xinjing was the area where the Boxing people focused on attacking. One of the antimatter bombs was released there. The entire Xinjing location is now It's already a big hole.