Survival [End Times]

Yu Heng woke up after sleeping for two hours and started wandering outside.

There are really a lot of people here, and no one has any panic on their faces, unlike the people in Lijingyuan, who mostly have frightened expressions.

He stood on the overpass, next to a giant tree that towered into the sky. He couldn't even see the crown of the tree.

The wonder of nature is always indescribable. No one knows how such a terrifyingly tall tree was born, but it actually exists. Even if only the dark brown branches are bare, it is enough. Spectacular.

After settling in, they were required to undergo a physical examination.

"I hope everyone can understand this issue, because now there are many people who mutate after being attacked by animals, etc., and often inadvertently injure others, which increases the medical burden. Therefore, everyone who stays now needs to undergo a health check-up."

The next day, the person in charge of the community came to the door and took the group to the hospital for examination.

Yu Heng's family and Cui Nan passed the preliminary blood test, so they could leave directly. Zhong Hua and the others needed further testing, and their families stayed there waiting for them.

Therefore, Yu Heng and the others left the hospital first.

"Are we settling here?" Cui Nan asked, "I always feel that there is no sense of security."

He was asking for Yu Heng's opinion. After walking on the road for so long, it was obvious that Yu Heng was the one who made the decision.

Since moving here, Yu Heng has not relaxed. Hearing this, he said: "I don't know, but I don't feel at ease either."

He looked to the north, feeling a little hesitant in his heart. He didn't know whether to give up the stable life here and continue walking north with his parents.

North, how far north is it?

Those animals are still going north, but what about them?

But he made a decision quickly. He turned to look at his parents and then at Cui Nan: "I think it's better to keep moving forward."

His parents' nods were unexpected, and he was moved but also extremely stressed. However, Cui Nan's unhesitating agreement made him a little surprised.

"Brother Cui?"

Cui Nan said: "I believe in your love for your uncle and aunt."

This sentence made Yu Heng smile bitterly: "I also hope that I will not make mistakes." This is not a task! He is not afraid of dying in the mission, nor is he afraid of pain, but in the real world, he is worried that his parents' lives will be hurt if he makes a wrong decision!

Mother Yu touched his head and said, "Don't be afraid. Mom and your dad will be with you." She mistakenly thought that her son was timid.

No matter what adventures his son has, no matter how mature he becomes, he is still his son after all, and will always be her child in the eyes of his mother. There will also be times when you are timid and need support and comfort.

Yu Heng enjoyed his mother's comfort and made various decisions in his mind.

He needs to find out the latest news from this safe zone first, and then get the potion here to repel the beast.

After questioning, he learned that these repellents were sprayed regularly by the military region, but some were also distributed to the masses.

"You want it? It's easy to get. Every five days, a bottle will be distributed to the residents here. One bottle per person is free!"

It just happened that yesterday, Yu Heng discussed exchanging some items with this person for a few bottles.

"Is there any fruit?"

"Want some canned fruit?"

They left the next day.

On the third day after they left, there was indeed a new wave of cold wind. This time the temperature dropped directly below freezing, and a thin layer of ice formed on the ground and tree trunks.

Yu Heng and the others were well prepared and were not injured.

And somewhere in the safe zone, the atmosphere is also heavy.

"...After a large amount of data collection, the abnormal energy in Xinke became more and more powerful, and those animals gathered around there and never left."

Because various satellites have lost their function and current observation tools have been improved, it is only now that the specific situation in Xinke, which is two thousand kilometers away, has been truly detected.

"Is it really impossible to detect what that energy is?"

"There is no way, the power is too huge, and the equipment will be swallowed up as soon as it gets close."

Someone exclaimed: "It would be great if we could talk to animals!"

In this way, we can understand why those animals gather in that place regardless of their size and race!

What will happen in that place? What will happen?

"Have the people who were sent returned?"

"This batch of people haven't come back yet. Maybe the cold wave blocked the way."

During the discussion, one person suggested: "I think animals seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. We all know that after the animals started to leave for Xinke, the first cold wave arrived, and the subsequent cold wave arrived. It's so amazing that in just forty-three days, the weather has gone from scorching summer to severe winter. Those animals must be avoiding these cold waves."

"What you said makes sense. This time's monitoring confirmed that the cold wind wave suddenly disappeared in front of Xin Ke's energy body and did not cause any damage to Xin Ke."

Xinke is not big. It is actually a small town at the junction of the country and its northern neighbor. It used to be a tourist town, and every winter there are many people going to see the snow scenery for vacation.

That mysterious force is at the height of Xinke Town, across the country and even other countries. Xinke Town is among them, so for the sake of convenience, the power in the country is called Xinke Energy Body.

Since they started to explore what attracted those animals in the north, they found that Xin Ke was surrounded by a ball of energy, but this ball of energy was very fierce. No matter what kind of detection equipment, it would fail at 500 meters.

There was no way, they could only monitor remotely and witness the energy growing stronger and stronger. In the end, they had to send troops to conduct field exploration again, but because there were really all kinds of animals squatting inside and outside the three layers - especially large beasts that had never been seen before! The attack power of those beasts was very strong, and the army could not get through to explore the situation inside.

Regardless of whether they knew what those animals were doing there, "They are not waiting to die, right?"

"Wait a little longer."

"Make a decision as soon as possible! If other places are not safe except Xin Ke, we have to leave!"

"You are too hasty, there are more than 200,000 people in this safe zone!"

The high-level decision affects the lives of tens of thousands of people, so it is extremely cautious. Migration? What after migration? Squat with those dangerous animals? Impossible!

That is not a decision that can be made easily!

While discussing nervously here, Yu Heng and his team walked very fast. Because the ground was frozen, they cut branches to make skateboards. After several painful attempts, everyone was finally able to slide on the bumpy and slippery ground with the simple wooden boards.

Before they got close to the town of Xinke, Cui Nan and Yu's father felt a strong attraction.

They hid in a hidden place and observed the animals that were running into the hazy land in the distance every moment.

"It seems that is their destination."

"Are we going there too?"

The four of them carefully passed through the corners, always alert to the surroundings. The road here is very difficult to walk, with potholes and pits. From time to time, there is a deep pit after walking a few steps. It should be caused by the frequent movement of animals. So they put away the skateboards and stepped in step by step.

However, no matter how careful they were, they could not go any further after approaching the dozens of meters.

Yu's mother covered her mouth and said carefully: "There are so many!"

Isn't it a lot? Looking around, there were densely packed beasts, some as tall as seven or eight stories, which made people tremble with fear.

When those giant beasts moved randomly, the ground rumbled and shook, and other small animals ran in panic, causing another wave of chaos.

"Don't get any closer."

"It seems to be here."

Yu Heng breathed a sigh of relief and pointed in another direction: "Let's go over there, it's safer."

Finally arrived at the place, but he didn't know what to do next?

It would be great if he could meet that bird, but he didn't know where it was now. It's not that he didn't buy human-animal simultaneous interpretation along the way, but he had tested many animals - those animals were small animals that he had selected, otherwise he couldn't control them at all.

However, the thoughts in those animals were very noisy, and they didn't communicate as logically as the bird.

So even if he saw so many animals nesting here now, he couldn't find them and ask, "Hey, buddies, what are you doing?"

There was another worry: there were only three days left in the thirty-day holiday.

At this rate, there should be no progress in these three days.

"It doesn't matter." Yu Heng said to himself: "Take the task as a recharge, I've been too tired recently."

Think carefully, who has such good luck as me? Being exhausted by the challenges of reality, there is still a chance to go to other places for rest. There is no such good thing again.

Thinking so, the mentality calmed down again.

However, in these three days, a big thing really happened, which was enough to overturn everyone's cognition.

On the second day after Yu Heng and his friends arrived in Xin Ke Town, the fourth cold wind wave came again without any preparation.

For the first time, Yu Heng was able to see such a huge and destructive force in front of Xin Ke Town. It only took a few minutes from being majestic to disappearing in an instant.

"Oh my God, it's gone, it's gone in an instant!"

Yu's mother felt that what she saw these days had refreshed her cognition. With such a huge force, she was still worried that the hiding place could not withstand it. As a result, those winds came fiercely, but there was no ripple at all, and they disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"What is this thing? Why is it so scary?" He swallowed the terrible wind wave effortlessly.

It was as if there were two invisible walls, the one on this side was still, and the wall from the south was eaten up.

Cui Nan said: "Maybe that's why these animals came here at the same time! As long as you step into this place, you don't have to be afraid of any cold wind wave!" He said again: "Do you have to wait here until spring comes?"

Yu Heng: "If that's the case, all the animals will pile up here, and there won't be enough food." Avoiding the life threat brought by the cold wind wave, the food crisis is also like a shadow.

Although this place is not affected by the cold wind wave, the vegetation on the ground has also been destroyed. After staying here for a day, all kinds of fights have not stopped.

Big fish eat small fish, the food chain has always been like this.

They were discussing that the animals closest to the inner layer among the layers were in turmoil.

In fact, humans have not been able to explore the landscape here.

I saw that the area north of the latitude of Xinge Town was all wrapped in thick white fog. This fog was very extraordinary, and the thin fog that escaped from the periphery easily swallowed up the fierce cold wind.

Deep in the depths, the mist is thicker, and the thick white color is not as harmless as milk. There is a sonorous sound of collision between the flow and rotation.

Absorbing the cold wind wave this time seemed to have accumulated enough energy in the mist, and its interior kept rolling, making a tooth-breaking friction sound.

After half an hour, the fog finally dispersed, revealing the true face behind.

The endless sea, the blue waves are like the smoothest silk, with cool water vapor flowing between the waves.

Bottomless and vast.

The next second, all the animals howled, as if they had seen their favorite food, and jumped down regardless.

The amazing thing is that the sea actually supports those animals and prevents them from sinking. Animals, big or small, seem to be walking on the sea and disappear in the distance.

At the same time, changes were happening elsewhere. The frozen ground ice melted instantly and dried completely within seconds. The moisture in the air was taken away by something unknown. When you breathed into your lungs, you felt dry and hot gas, which made people feel that their internal organs were exposed in the barren desert.

"What's going on?"

"Ah ah, why is the water stored in my house missing?"

"It's so hot and dry!"

Yu Heng also felt the sudden sudden change in the air.

His parents and Cui Nan were paying attention to the commotion of animals in the distance, so he proposed to go outside to see the situation.

The further he left this area and went outside, the drier his skin became. His nose and mouth were extremely dry and uncomfortable, and his throat was also itchy.

He took out a bottle of water to moisten his throat, but as soon as he opened the bottle cap, he felt a warm breath hit his face. When he lowered his head, he saw that one-third of the mineral water he had not drunk was gone out of thin air!

Yu Heng raised his head and looked around, then lowered his head and picked up the soil on the ground. It was sandy and without moisture.

Frowning, he took the tool and dug a little deeper, but it was still the same.

“Is the dry season really here?”

"Yu Heng! Come and see!"

Hearing Cui Nan calling him, Yu Heng ran back quickly.

"Why do you look so bad and your mouth is cracked? Drink some water."

Yu Heng nodded and drank only a thin layer of mineral water in his hand. "What happened? Did you find anything?"

"Yes! If you come here and see, there are a lot less animals. From this angle, you can see the innermost part——"

Yu Heng looked carefully and couldn't help but take a breath: "Is this the sea?"

The geography book clearly states that this place is land!

Besides, those animals jumped down like sacrifices, but then slowly surfaced and ran on the water as if they were on the ground, which was even more surprising.

"There's something wrong with the sea." Father Yu said, "Do you think we should go there with you?"

The sudden appearance of the ocean in the movie is a passage to another place!

"But we are human beings." Mother Yu's thoughts have always been relatively conservative and stable. "It just so happens that this big sea has appeared. We won't be short of water. We don't need to go there. It's so dangerous."

Cui Nan saw that Yu Heng was absent-minded and asked him: "Did you find anything outside?" He grasped the key points very accurately.

Yu Heng nodded: "That's right." He told everyone his findings.

"The outside is no longer suitable for survival." He squeezed the empty bottle in his hand.

Yu's father, Yu's mother and Cui Nan ran out to take a look. When they came back, their mouths were chapped and their voices were hoarse.

"It's so terrible. How can anyone live like this?"

In just a short time, the group of animals that were originally crowded here was reduced by more than half, and there was a steady stream of diving sounds from there.

Compared with the dry environment outside, the sound of water here is very exciting.

"It's okay, it's okay, there is such a big sea here!" Mother Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

"I just don't know how long this sea can last." Yu Heng said: "If it lasts for a long time, you won't be afraid of any drought outside! But look -"

He pointed at the animals: "One by one, they couldn't wait to jump down, as if they couldn't survive even by guarding this sea."

Cui Nan said: "Yu Heng is right to worry. If this sea disappears, we will die if we stay here."

Death from lack of water.

After discussion, it was concluded that they should follow suit. There will definitely be a shore over there.

Father Yu asked softly: "Then let's leave like this. What will happen to the others?"

He still remembers that there were so many people in that safe zone? Without people, it was extremely dry, could those people survive?

It's normal for Yu's father to think like this. Yu Heng has also thought about this issue, but he values ​​his parents' lives more.

So he said: "Mom and Dad, I can't gamble with your lives." He could use his own pace to go back quickly to inform the safe zone of the news, but he couldn't guarantee that the sea would still be there when he came back!

If this sea is gone, what will they do next? If he lets his parents go first and cannot find them when he comes back, where will he find his parents? What if a parent is injured or even killed without their knowledge? So what should he do? When he thought of all these years of hard work and patience, only to lose his parents in the end, he didn't dare to think about it anymore - what mission, what apocalypse? He doesn't want to go at all!

Seeing her son's expression distorted, Yu's mother was startled and hugged him quickly: "What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Yu Heng slowly shook his head, suppressed the violence in his heart at that moment, and said slowly: "Let's leave now."

"Have a good walk, are you really not feeling any discomfort?"

"Yeah."

Cui Nan took two steps back in shock, but saw that the Yu family couple seemed to be unaware of the bloodthirstiness and murderousness at that moment, and they surrounded the terrible neighbor and asked about his well-being.

At that moment, he felt that the neighbor was no longer a human being, but more like a beast that had killed thousands of people!

Cui Nan thought with lingering fear: How could a human being have such a terrible momentum? Could it be that the animal that bit him was a big guy? In addition to giving him a space bag, there was also such a terrible tyrannical gene lurking?

Fortunately, with the concern of his parents, Yu Heng returned to normal, which made Cui Nan relieved.

They began to approach the sea. After a short delay, there were almost no animals on the shore. They found a direction to go into the water, and sure enough, they felt a buoyancy after entering the water.

Yu's father said: "This water should have a high salt content."

Among the four people, only Yu's mother could not swim. Yu Heng and Yu's father surrounded her in the middle and led her while swimming.

They swam very fast, but after only half an hour, their skin became wrinkled and white.

What confuses Yu Heng is that these animals are very harmonious after entering the water. No matter big or small, they all swim by themselves with their heads covered. Even if they meet four humans like him, they pretend not to see them.

It seems that there is a rule in the water that prohibits fighting.

This makes Yu Heng have an idea.

He asks Cui Nan to hold his mother's other hand, and he swims farther to test it.

Yu's mother watched him go away worriedly, "Old Yu, why don't you go with him? I'm scared."

"Don't worry, he's an adult."

Ten minutes later, Yu Heng came back and sat on an animal that looked like a small mountain.

The animal had a ferocious face and wet hair, especially the wet facial hair, which revealed obvious facial features, making its eyes look sharper and sawtoothed like a blade, and exuding the aura of "wanting to fight".

"Come on, Dad, lift Mom up first."

This unknown big guy was very big, and it was more than enough to sit four people.

"Let's go."

It was unknown whether it understood or not. It shook its muscles in anger and swam forward with a howl.

It was very big, with strong limbs and moved very quickly. It caught up with the large group in front.

Yu's father asked: "How did you do that?"

"It didn't dare to fight with me. It seemed to be afraid of seeing blood. I threatened it."

Yu Heng got this free transportation by sitting on its back and threatening it with a knife.

On this side, Yu Heng and the other four were finally able to take a breath. On the other side, the safety zone had already discovered the abnormality here and sent mutants to check it out quickly.

After four hours of round trip, the mutant sent back reported the news and fainted with convulsions.

"Hurry up and let the doctor see them! Be sure to save their lives!"

After that, an emergency meeting was held immediately. Facing the current difficulties, it was difficult for the top management to make a decision.

"We are human! Even if it is an animal paradise, can we survive if we go there?"

"If we don't go, we will die!"

Most people had hoarse voices in this discussion.

One of them raised his hand and trembled slightly: "Look at me, then look at yourselves... If this continues, we will all become human!"

I thought it was just a cold wave, nothing!

With so many technologies, is there no way to plant? So many deep wells have been dug in the safe zone, so there is no fear of water shortage.

It's just a little harder to live and a lower standard of living. It's okay to survive.

But the living environment is too bad now. All the water exposed to the air evaporates and all the plants are dried up.

Water!

There must be a devil hiding in the air everywhere, taking away all their water! Not only their supplies, but also the human moisture on their bodies.

"Staying here is waiting for death. The safety zone is in chaos. The unknown sea is our only chance of survival."

The former commander of the military region made a decision: "Everyone migrate to Xinjie Town and cross the sea! I'll give you half an hour. All personnel will gather at the entrance of the safety zone in half an hour and set off on time!"

"Then we have so many supplies here-" Whether it is scientific research equipment or production equipment, can we just throw them away?

"Block it up. If we can come back again... we can only hold on if we travel light."

The safety zone started to move and headed towards Xinjie Town.

Fortunately, when they arrived on the third night, the ocean was still there, and the blue light could be seen from afar.

"Mom, look, it's glowing there!"

The crowd was in an uproar.

"Rest in place for five minutes! Get in the water immediately in five minutes!"

The instructions from above were passed down to the team layer by layer, and someone said dissatisfiedly: "It's too rushed, it's not a plowing ox!"

"Hey, bear it, go there earlier and feel relieved earlier!"

Zhong Hua couldn't help getting into the water and sighed comfortably.

The five families now actually have some regrets. Xu Yuman looked at the sea in the distance and whispered, "I wonder if Yu Heng and the others have reached the shore."

Who knew that this would happen?

If they had known earlier, they would not have coveted the comfort of one or two days, nor would they have had a fluke mentality, and would have followed them north.

The journey has become more tiring these days, and the team never stops. Before leaving, the safety zone has distributed all the supplies in the warehouse to the people, except for water. If you are tired and thirsty on the road, you can only solve it yourself, and if you fall behind, no one will wait for you.

I don’t know how many people have fallen behind and have not caught up yet.

If they hadn't come all the way from their hometown and their bodies were not used to such a high-intensity rhythm, the five families would not have been able to arrive here smoothly.

Zhang Zhen also sighed: "Yes, who would have thought... But since we are here, it is a blessing. It would not be bad if Yu Heng and others arrived first. We are fellow villagers and have been through hardships together. When we go to them, they will definitely not refuse."

"Can you be sure that the sea has an end?"

"Hey, if there is no end, why do those animals jump down like dumplings one by one?"

Li Cen rarely speaks, and at this time he whispered: "You have to go even if you don't want to, as long as you can survive."

However, it took five minutes to sit down and talk a few words.

Seeing the soldiers of the military district jumping down in teams, and no accidents happened, people dared to rush to follow.

On the tenth day after the sea appeared, another wave of cold wind tide came. This time, the cold wind tide was not blocked when it came to Xinke, and it drove straight in, raising several waves on the water surface.

After the cold wind tide, the water level dropped sharply.

This seemed to be a signal. The sea level dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the color became darker.

Yu Heng and his friends had been at sea for two days.

As the holiday deadline approached, Yu Heng calmed down. When rt9009 notified him half an hour in advance to get ready and start transmitting half an hour later, he responded.

After that, he kept leaning on his parents, holding one in each hand and resting his head on Yu's mother's shoulder.

Yu's mother thought he was acting like a spoiled child, so she smiled and held his hand tightly, comforting him: "Don't be afraid, take a nap if you are tired, your dad is here."

"Well, mom, I'll take a nap."

"Go to sleep."

Yu Heng felt his mother adjust her sitting position, put his head on her thighs, and cover his face with a towel to prevent the salty sea water from spraying on his face.

He closed his eyes.

"Hello dear host, the thirty-day vacation is about to end. I hope the host can absorb energy from it and meet the next task with full spirit. The transmission will start after a twenty-second countdown, please be ready."

"The countdown begins... twenty, nineteen, eighteen... three, two, one."

Yu Heng felt dizzy. It was not that he fell into the sea, but that his soul was teleported to a familiar place.

He opened his eyes, was stunned for a while, and quickly adjusted his mood. He realized that rt9009 had not urged him since he came here.

"You don't urge me to do the task?"

"I am a serious system. I will not do anything that violates the labor law. Of course, I will focus on the host's physical and mental health and will not force the host to do the task. It is normal for the host to have mood swings just after returning home. Of course, I must give priority to the host's emotional needs. It is allowed to be in a daze for a while."

After hearing this serious remark, Yu Heng couldn't help laughing: "Yes, you are a serious system."

"Since the host has adjusted, go and get a task by yourself."

So many years of loneliness have been endured, and the restlessness hidden deep in the heart has really dissipated.

Being able to go home, he feels that he is full of energy now.

There is nothing that can't wait. He now has plenty of patience to slowly provide bricks and tiles for the real self and his family to build a more solid survival barrier.

He stood up and picked up the debris in the river. The debris turned into light as usual and drilled into his forehead. After a cool feeling, he saw the task prompt this time.