Survival [End Times]

Yu Heng stayed outside for more than half a year, and his activities spread from this province to the next province. He also met other temporary travelers and got some new information from them.

Among the people he met in this province, most of them came from the safety zone of one place: the Children's Palace of City X and a university town in City K.

These two are also the safety zones built by the 12th Army stationed in this province. From the map, the Children's Palace of City X is in this province, so most of the hunting team troops Yu Heng met were from the Children's Palace of City X, and the areas of activity in the later period were also closer to the Children's Palace of City X.

Once he was seriously injured and escaped from the mouth of the queen insect king. A layer of flesh was bitten off his body, and he went to the Children's Palace of City X for treatment.

There are too many insects outside! The high reproduction speed and the non-picky diet, these two important factors keep the number of insects outside at an astonishing number.

It is normal to encounter a large insect tide.

At this time, Yu Heng could only be thankful that this kind of bug was not a zombie, otherwise, the gene repair fluid would not be enough.

Yu Heng, who had escaped the insect tide again, was resting on a roof. His [General Rules for Physical Fitness] finally reached the seventh floor a few days ago, and now he can see things freely in the dark. Looking down from the roof of the seventeenth floor, you can see the shiny shells of the bugs like flowing galaxy water under the moonlight, surging and spreading to every corner.

"Too many bugs..." He sighed, got up and took out the tent from the storage ring, found a leeward direction to set it up, and lay down for a while exhausted before sitting up again to cook dinner.

While eating dinner, he was thinking about whether he could get his car out tomorrow. He had just come out of the Children's Palace in X City to replenish supplies a few days ago, and repaired the car again. It was really sad to lose it like this.

I can only hope that when I go to see it tomorrow, the car can still keep its body intact under the pressure of the insect tide.

After eating, Yu Heng went to sleep after practicing for another cycle.

The next day, he carefully looked at the traces on the road and returned to the place where the insect tide collapsed yesterday. He found that his car was crushed by nearly one-third.

The car door was deformed. After forcing it open and sitting in, he found that it could not start.

There were small insects crawling around again. Yu Heng cleaned up a round before he had a free hand to check the car. He really couldn't fix it.

There was no choice but to give up this car. After removing the useful things, he turned around and left.

It was difficult to find a usable car outside. He didn't have much hope. Later, he found a usable car in a garage. There was not much oil in it, but he saved a little for himself.

After getting in the car, the speed finally increased again.

After getting on the highway, he found that this section of the road was not easy to drive. There were either fallen tree trunks or potholes on the road. He had encountered this kind of road condition before. Nine out of ten times, the inside was hollowed out by insects to build nests.

So he could only take detours again and again. When we came to the road section with sparse vegetation, it was obvious that the number of insects had decreased a lot. This year seemed to be quite dry. Yu Heng found that the water layer of the rivers he passed by was particularly shallow. The further west he drove, the drier the air became.

However, the advantage was obvious: there were fewer insects. No matter how picky they were, they still preferred to go to places with abundant resources and sufficient water sources.

All this was very normal, just like what he had experienced for most of the past six months: killing insects on the edge of a knife to find books, until his wheels ran over caltrops and were forced to stop.

It was not strange to encounter robbery outside. Yu Heng dealt with the few people who besieged him as usual, and then found that something was wrong?

There were three people attacking him. When he looked from a distance, he didn't find anything wrong. When he got closer, he found that one of them looked very strange, with a layer of brown shell on his body. When he turned over the front face of the corpse, the huge mouth was exposed.

He thought it was a bug!

Seeing this, Yu Heng's first reaction was, could this be "assimilation"? But then he thought, if there is assimilation, such a phenomenon should have been seen in the past year of the insect plague.

Then the next thought came to his mind - is it another human experiment? Thinking of this, he carefully checked the body on the ground, and found no traces such as pinholes.

Yu Heng stood up with his hands on his waist, looking around at the mountains, and the map in his mind slowly unfolded.

From the road sign just passed, it can be identified that this place has entered the border area. After passing through the mountain cross-highway here, you can enter the border province. However, there is still an hour to drive, and I don’t know where these three people came from.

He always likes to think about things from the worst result. What if these three people are not just robbing?

Finally, he tied the male corpse that looks most like an insect to the roof of the car and continued to enter the border.

After entering, he did not go out of his way to find a book for the time being, but went directly to the safe area of ​​​​the border. The early days of the insect plague apocalypse when money was stretched thin had narrowly passed, and all kinds of communications were gradually being rebuilt. The most commonly used one was the radio. Yu Heng also prepared a radio when he went out, and listened to the news on various channels at all times.

As soon as he approached the border, a channel received a signal, which was similar to the signal he received when he was near the Children's Palace in City X. The general idea was that with the joint efforts of a certain force and the general public, a certain place had now built a certain number of safe zones, where the specific locations were, etc., so that the survivors scattered outside could find the nearest safe zone on their own to preserve the human flame.

After remembering the address, he drove to the safe zone and soon entered the isolation and inspection zone of the safe zone. Here, there were soldiers with live ammunition, and the number of insects decreased sharply.

During the inspection, Yu Heng handed over the body, and at the same time, he found from the eyes of the receiver that this did not seem to be a strange thing?

He asked: "Excuse me, is this kind of weirdo common?"

"According to the registration, you are from another place, right? No wonder I have never seen this kind of insect man. This is made by Fushou Mountain over there. There are bad guys doing bad experiments over there. You should be careful when you go out, don't get caught. It's best to go in groups. Be careful of people who stop you while driving. It is very likely that they are capturing experimental subjects."

This matter should not be a secret. The soldier carefully explained the cause and effect to Yu Heng, and finally told him: "Don't believe in those evil cults. We must believe in science and defeat insects instead of becoming insects."

"Thank you."

After registering, Yu Heng went into the safe zone to rest. After settling down, he suddenly remembered something. Fushou Mountain...isn't it located in Hengshui? I remember that in the early days of the insect disaster, when the Internet was still usable, he and Lin Rongbiao saw photos of religious activities in Hengshui on the Internet. A person wearing strange clothes stood on the stage, and a group of people knelt below.

The two were so close, I don’t know if there was any connection.

It was not until after the break that he got some news from the crowd while replenishing supplies and repairing cars in the safe zone.

Originally, a belief arose on Fushou Mountain in Hengshui after the insect disaster. There was a dragon goddess in it who was quite extraordinary. The insects would not attack her and even listen to her. At that time, a group of believers were won over. With the timely measures of the local government, Fushou Mountain became quiet.

However, after the insect nest broke out, Fushou Mountain prospered again. It was really strange that the insects on the mountain over there really did not attack humans. More and more survivors went up the mountain on their own. It was like a holy place over there.

At first, the official was busy building a safe zone, so they did not intervene. After all, as long as they could shelter the survivors and more people survived, it was enough.

Until half a year ago, Fushou Mountain claimed that the Dragon Goddess had obtained the power of the Dragon God, and could grab power from insects and transfer the power to humans, so that humans also had the strong physique and fierce combat ability of insects, and even could prevent humans from being attacked by insects outside Fushou Mountain.

This news caused a huge uproar. Originally, the population of the safe zone had been flowing to the Fushou Mountain area. The two areas lived in harmony on the surface, and were considered a main city plus a satellite city, all of which existed to protect humans. Now Fushou Mountain has broken the balance and created a group of monsters that are neither human nor insect. The authorities must not sit idly by.

"Does your family want to go, too? I've seen those dragon guards, they're too ugly, and I heard they eat people..."

"Oh, if you don't accept the baptism, you won't become like that. Anyway, it's safe on the mountain, so our family will just live on the mountain and not come down."

"Then what to eat and use? There's nothing on the mountain."

"Mom, I want to be a dragon guard too! Cool!"

"Shhh!!"

Listening to the conversation in her ear, Yu Heng realized that the influence of Fushou Mountain was so great. After walking around the market, she heard news about the Dragon Goddess and the dragon guards. And the public seemed to be quite receptive, and they were very yearning in their words. However, these words were said quietly. As soon as they saw the patrolman, everyone changed the topic to buying vegetables, bargaining and raising children. Don't mention how smart they were.

Yu Heng couldn't intervene in this matter, so she continued to go out after replenishing the supplies.

First, she went to the nearest libraries and bookstores. It was more than a month later when she was done. Because he consciously avoided the range of Fushou Mountain, he chose a route with his back to Hengshui. He didn't expect to meet the so-called dragon guards.

He spent the night in a high school library that day. As long as there was no queen insect king, Yu Heng could protect himself. Although there were many insects in this school, as long as the heavy door was closed, he could get temporary safety.

Always alone outside, safety is absolutely the top priority. The place where he slept is different from others. It is either the roof or the beam, or the partition or the chandelier base. Fortunately, he has cultivated a small success, otherwise he really can't stand this trip.

The benefits are also obvious. He has used this method to escape from humans and insects many times.

That night he still lay on a small partition on the ceiling of the third floor of the library, with the window in the lower left corner.

When the car stopped, he woke up with a start, and then he heard those people crawling in one by one from the window.

There were quite a few people coming in, and they were still talking after they jumped in: "Why are you in such a hurry? It's already midnight and there's no time to rest. I'm so tired."

"Working for the Dragon Goddess, you always complain about being tired. Aren't you ashamed?"

"Okay, okay, stop arguing, and rest quickly!"

"I'm hungry. Why can't I meet anyone here?"

"You ate a person yesterday, and you're hungry now? Are you a glutton?"

"Tsk, how many bites can a child eat?"

"The fat man that day was better..."

After the eleven people came in, they talked and joked for a while. One of the strongest men even took out a human hand and gnawed it. After chewing it, he went to sleep with satisfaction. It seems that they were not very cautious in their behavior. They slept soundly.

In the darkness, Yu Heng saw that the appearance of those people was covered with a layer of brown shell. Although they were asleep, their big red eyes could not close and were half-closed, which looked eerie.

He didn't know what these people were going to do, but he couldn't keep such a man-eating dragon guard to be a threat to himself in the future.

He turned over lightly and tied up all the people.

He didn't search much, but found a tin box. The box was smaller than a briefcase and had a combination lock.

He used some tricks to dig out the password from these people's mouths. After opening the box, he found that there were 20 potions inside. The liquid inside was black and had obvious sediment. It didn't look like a real potion at all.

"What is this?"

"It's the Dragon Transformation Liquid. After using it, you can be like us. Please let me go. You see, we are all family. I can introduce you to the Dragon Goddess. Is that okay?"

"Eat it directly?"

"Yes, yes, eat it directly. You look very strong. You will definitely be able to successfully transform into a dragon. Please let me go?"

Yu Heng frowned and studied the rough "Dragon Transformation Liquid" in his hand. He asked some questions, but these people didn't know most of the questions. They only knew that this was a good thing that the Dragon Goddess sent them to other territories.

"Where to send it?"

The shivering man in front of him said a place name. Yu Heng wrote it down and suddenly chuckled: "Tell me, how should I deal with you?"