Survival [End Times]

At night, someone came quietly and whispered to Yu Heng: "Hello."

Yu Heng turned his head and saw a woman with a bandage on her face. The woman didn't know that Yu Heng could see her face in the dark, and whispered: "It's me. You saved me before and pulled me in from the ticket gate. Do you remember?"

"I remember."

The woman touched her face and chuckled: "My wound has scabbed, but I think it will definitely leave a scar."

Yu Heng didn't say anything, and listened to the woman saying: "I thought I would die outside, and my body would turn into a pool of mud in the poisonous fog. Disfigurement is nothing. People can do many things while they are alive."

She grabbed Yu Heng's hand, put down the plastic-wrapped strip, and said nonchalantly: "I came here specially to say thank you. Hold on, we will definitely be saved."

Yu Heng pinched it, it was chocolate. The woman left two chocolates and slowly moved back.

He smiled, put the chocolate inside his coat, tore open the package through the coat, without making any sound, broke off a piece and put it in his mouth.

On the third day of the food shortage, someone was caught eating his own food secretly, which triggered a scramble and even developed into a stampede, injuring eleven people.

Yu Heng moved to sit next to the woman and blocked her in the corner.

At first, the woman was a little scared, thinking that he had bad intentions and that the two chocolates brought her hidden dangers. Later, seeing him sitting like a pine tree, his thin body blocking her in front of him, without saying a word or making any extra movements, she felt ashamed and secretly stuffed something into him at night.

Yu Heng did not take it and stuffed it back.

On the fourth day of the food shortage, someone suggested going to the original lounge to find food.

"We ran away in a hurry before, and there is still a lot of food left there."

As for the train station, they felt that after so long, the food exposed to the poisonous fog must have spoiled, and they felt that it was not worth going out. Moreover, everyone was starving and had no strength. What if they went out now and couldn't run back?

Moreover, the conflict that broke out before made them feel cold and unwilling to let the employees go out to find food.

They were so hungry that they didn't even have the energy to argue. In the end, only six people decided to go out. When they came back, they were covered in wounds. The food they brought back included half a bag of rotten black rice, and some of the food in the bag was damaged.

Some people gathered around and wanted to take it, but were stared at by the six people fiercely, and they stuffed it into their mouths while staring at them, swallowing it in big mouthfuls.

Snap, snap--

The sound of swallowing saliva came one after another, but some people continued to move forward and stretched out their hands--"Ah!"

The person squatting on the ground, not even treating his wounds and eating, grabbed that hand and bit it down, biting it with the strength of gnawing meat and bones!

"Ah, let me go!"

The blood dripped down, the woman opened her mouth, licked it, and continued to grab rice and stuff it into her mouth.

The six of them ate everything they brought back, and as a result, they all had diarrhea afterwards, and the most serious one even went into shock.

The medical staff could do nothing. There was no rescue facility at the station. The woman struggled until the next day and died.

The other five people were also lying there unable to get up. This put an end to the thoughts of the other people who were tempted.

"What should I do? I don't want to starve to death..."

The heavy atmosphere of despair enveloped everyone's head. The woman who was protecting Yu Heng said, "My name is Zheng Zekui. What's your name?"

She was a cautious woman who knew how to protect herself outside.

Perhaps it was a very bold act to risk giving two chocolates to Yu Heng as a reward for saving her life. After that, she had no other contact with Yu Heng, and they didn't even exchange their names, which made it clear that they didn't owe each other anything.

But now she took the initiative to exchange names with Yu Heng.

Yu Heng looked back at her, and the woman wrapped in bandages showed only a pair of empty eyes.

"My name is Lu Heng."

"Do you think we can wait for hope?"

A few days ago, this woman encouraged him that he would definitely be saved, but now she seemed to have lost confidence.

"I don't know"

"I hope I can be saved. I'm still young and I want to live."

Yu Heng's eyes fell on the group of people at the station. Until now, it was still quiet there.

The human heart is really hard to predict. This time, the station took all the things he released.

It seems that the quarrel made the station feel unresolvable dissatisfaction with the passengers. Even if this dissatisfaction caused one death and five injuries, they did not regret it.

It was a kind of compressed biscuit-like product he found in the sub-exchange system. Eating it can make you feel full and restore blood.

Each piece costs 2 points of fire points. One piece is the size of a palm and can last at least three days.

He usually doesn't eat this kind of thing, but for these hungry people, as long as it is food, it's fine.

What he values ​​is the execution and coordination ability of the station. After all, he can't distribute food to everyone one by one.

This is too troublesome.

I didn't expect that the station could really be indifferent and watch from the sidelines more skillfully than him, an outsider.

Since this is the case, he has no choice. He can't expose himself to threats.

Fortunately, God did not force people into a desperate situation.

"The poisonous fog has dissipated! The poisonous fog has dissipated!"

The scream interrupted Yu Heng's thoughts. He turned around and saw that the people lying on the door blocked his view. He stood up and saw the scene of the poisonous fog outside receding like a tide through the gap above the door.

"You are right, we are really saved." Zheng Zekui also stood up, holding Yu Heng's hand with tears of joy, staring blankly outside: "Saved!"

"We are saved!"

"Open the door quickly, I want to go out! I want to leave this damn place!"

The most complicated mood belongs to the staff of the station. God knows how difficult it is for them to make such an exclusive decision when they see the mysterious food again.

They made a move that was completely contrary to their usual work principles for long-term survival, but they didn't expect that the poisonous fog would dissipate after two days.

Those entanglements and discomforts suddenly lost their meaning.

The person in charge looked at the biscuits hidden in the hidden place and squatted down with his head in his arms.

On this side, the passengers had already opened the door very excitedly, ran out and even opened their arms to breathe deeply.

"We're saved!"

They ran outside through the corroded glass windows and doors, and sure enough, there was no trace of poisonous fog outside.

Some people started to cry. Thirty-five days was like a nightmare.

This poisonous fog, which broke the record for the longest duration, caused countless losses - property such as houses and vehicles, injuries, lives, crime rates...

All of which were historically high. In some places, cannibalism cases occurred, and the circumstances were so bad that they were outrageous.

Of course, these are things that will be counted in the future. For the survivors of Mintian Railway Station, the most important thing at present is not these.

"Where is the nearest supermarket?"

"xx map can't be used. Mom's network has not been restored yet."

"I have downloaded maps on my phone, but it's out of power and can't be turned on."

"I know the way. It takes fifteen minutes to drive. It takes at least forty minutes to walk there."

Someone also asked: "Is this train still running? I want to go home!"

"Does the previous ticket still count? Can I get a refund?"

There are all kinds of questions, and it's a mess.

Yu Heng found a place to sit and wait and see. If the train was still running, he would definitely take it. During this time, he took out his mobile phone. There was no network and no signal. He didn't know how long it would take to recover this time.

Sitting there, he could see many people walking towards the city in groups. After thinking about it, he ran to ask the person in charge of Che Han how long the train would be able to run.

"It's hard to say. We need to check the condition of the train and also need to obtain the condition of the tracks ahead to see if it can still be passed... Report the loss, repair the station, replenish supplies... If you want to take the train, you should wait--"

Before the person in charge finished speaking, someone called him in an anxious tone. He quickly stood up, dragged his injured leg a few steps, and the whole person staggered.

"What happened? What's the situation in the carriage?"

The visitor's face was full of tears and his eyes were panicked: "All, all dead."

The person in charge staggered and sat on the ground: "What did you say?"

"All dead! Xiao Xu said there were no vital signs!" The visitor choked and cried loudly: "It seems that they starved to death. Xiao Mei, Xiao Zeng and others in the car are just skin and bones!"

"Impossible--" But what is impossible? The supplies in the kitchen on the car were not much, and even they relied on the mysterious food to survive.

Watching the person in charge being helped away, Yu Heng planned to go to the city first to check the situation and replenish supplies.

Someone called him from behind: "Lu Heng?"

Turning around, it was Zheng Zekui: "Are you going to the city?"

"Yes."

"Then let's go together? There's a companion."

The two walked to the city together and then separated.

The city was very chaotic, especially the canteens and supermarkets. He walked into a supermarket.

This supermarket is very solidly decorated, with layers of glass glued to each other. Yu Hengh also found that the walls were specially treated. It must have taken a lot of effort.

There were also a lot of people inside. Some people took things directly from the shelves and ate them. The salesperson kept shouting: "Please pay first and then eat. Please cooperate with the work!"

But it couldn't stop the hungry crowd.

"It's all your fault for saying that it's good to open the door now. There are a lot of people, but they don't pay!"

"What are you afraid of? There are surveillance cameras. At most, you can call the police. Don't worry."

Without listening to the quarrel at the front desk, Yu Heng squeezed into the crowd and started to buy. Soon he pulled two carts and spent more than 2,000 yuan after checking out. The price of goods has been raised a lot.

He went out with three rice bags - these were specially found by the clerk to help him pack.

Someone kept shouting behind him: "Hey, you haven't paid yet!" "We have surveillance cameras, everyone remember to pay!"

After finding a remote place outside to put the things in the storage ring, Yu Heng came to this supermarket again and made a lot of purchases again. He didn't stop until he had only 2,000 yuan left.

After returning to the train station, he was busy here.

Counting the number of deaths, notifying family members, reporting, checking losses, making reconciliation reports...

Yu Heng was waiting in the hall with other people who stayed at the station.

The group chatted and got to know each other. Zheng Zekui was there. When she went to bed at night, she found Yu Heng and said, "Can I sleep here with you? You are the only one I know here."

He nodded and moved his bedding a little closer.

Zheng Zekui also bought a new quilt in the afternoon, which was bright red with peony flowers. She said helplessly: "It's hard to find a quilt that can be used, and I can tolerate this pattern."

"It's pretty good." Yu Heng didn't have much aesthetic taste for this thing. In the past, his quilt at home was also this kind of bright red quilt with flowers.

I remember when I was in junior high school, my junior high school classmates came to his house to play, and laughed when they saw him. After that, they promoted him in school and laughed at him for being sissy.

He really didn't think it was ugly. This was a hand-made cotton quilt that his mother bought in the countryside. It was very warm.

Zheng Zekui laughed again, and asked while tidying it up: "Where are you going?"

"The capital."

She was surprised: "Me too, I'm going home, what about you?"

"To find my dad." Anyway, Lu Heng's biological father disappeared after the divorce, and he hasn't been seen for many years. It doesn't matter where he is.

"Then we can go together... If you can take care of me a little along the way, you know it's always unsafe for a woman to go out alone. After we arrive in the capital, I'll give you 20,000 yuan."

Yu Heng raised his head and said, "If someone wants to take advantage of you, I can stand by your side and provide some help, but I don't want money. I'll convert the 20,000 yuan into food."

Zheng Zekui was stunned, then nodded: "Okay, but I can't guarantee that 20,000 yuan can buy a lot of food. After this incident, prices will definitely go up."

"Okay."