Survival [End Times]

No matter how difficult it is, life still has to go on, and Yu Heng doesn't dwell too much on it. Anyway, no matter what decision he makes now, he will encounter both opportunities and crises. After the rain subsided, the three of them began to rush to the original base. Heavy rains caused the water level of the river to rise. Entering the river at this time was not a good option, so they took a long way to find a bridge across the river, and returned to the base after wading through mountains and rivers.

I don't know if it was because of the heavy rain, but there were no outsiders. I was so anxious all the way that I wished I had eyes all over my body to be on the lookout for anything unusual. I never thought that not even a single tracking aircraft was encountered.

"God bless you!" Lan Cheng clasped his hands and muttered, and Zheng Dong said carelessly: "It must have been raining and they went on strike."

Lan Cheng: "..." I'm so angry! Don't break my dream!

Anyway, they finally made it back to base, scrapping five vehicles along the way. Yu Heng first asked the puppet substitute to go down to see the situation. Only after he was sure that he could live there, he asked Zheng Dong and the others to go down together.

The underground base was filled with the stench of rotting corpses, mixed with the stench of aquatic organisms. The smell was very unpleasant. The walls were washed away by the flood, leaving black and green marks, and water was still flowing on the steps. There is chaos everywhere, and you can see more corpses as you go down, and the putrid smell comes from these corpses.

Thinking of the explosions coming from the direction of the base during those days when he was hiding in the cave on the river bank, Yu Heng sighed and asked Zheng Dong to help bring up the bodies floating in the water.

After checking the entire base, he determined that the base was completely destroyed and there were no survivors. The core areas that were previously inaccessible, such as the ammunition depot and the central control station, are almost completely empty. These places have the most corpses, all of which were poisoned. They should be the soldiers who stayed behind after the base was flooded. During the flood, they still devoted themselves to their duties to maintain the operation of the underground base, and then supported their sick bodies and started a life-and-death struggle with outsiders.

Until he ran out of ammunition and food, he died.

He also moved all the corpses out and burned them all while the heavy mist on rainy days made it difficult to attract attention. The body was wet and heavy, and it took a lot of gasoline to set it alight. They stayed outside and waited until all the smoke cleared before going down. After collecting the ashes of the corpse, Yu Heng and Zheng Dong Lancheng settled in the base again. After two days of research, he also mastered the central control station. Although many underground equipment systems were damaged by poisonous water, a small number of them could still be used. use. There is also a material warehouse. Most of the material warehouse was flooded. The medicine area inside was a mess. After being organized, daily necessities were also available.

In the continuous heavy rain, more than a dozen survivors arrived. It seems that when there is nowhere to go, this base that once gave everyone a sense of security is still the first choice for refuge. It's just that these people have been poisoned for too long without receiving timely treatment, and they are already terminally ill.

"Is it really hopeless? I don't believe it, I don't believe it, oh oh oh..."

Yu Heng could only shake his head. His internal organs were rotten to the core and he was spitting out blood. There was nothing he could do.

"I have lived enough in the past few years." One of the young women was very optimistic. "Actually, when the chaos first started, I was diagnosed with late-stage gastric cancer. I worked overtime, and finally got sick. At that time, I thought, I might as well just die and leave the money for my parents to spend later. Then I became smaller. "But there is no cure, and I am still alive!" "

After hearing this, Yu Heng was curious: "Isn't it a misdiagnosis?"

The young woman smiled: "It's impossible. I went to a famous hospital in Beijing and had it checked again."

"show me."

Yu Heng took the young woman's pulse and found that all her internal organs had problems, and it was impossible to tell whether there was cancer in her stomach. Normally, if there had been no misdiagnosis, this woman would have died long ago.

Zheng Dong enlivened the atmosphere and said: "Actually, I also had a back injury before, but it seems that it has not recurred in the past few years. Hahaha, maybe this is a benefit of being smaller."

A circle of people were chatting together, and the topic of physical health unknowingly came up. I don’t know if I don’t talk about it. It seems that everyone is in good health, and all the problems before the end of the world have disappeared after the end of the world. Yu Heng had always thought that it was because of the genetic medicine he took and the genetic medicine secretly given to Zheng Dong. They were both young and strong, so it seemed that it was not just the case.

A post-apocalyptic gastric cancer patient who had no response without treatment... Not to mention the distance, he had also stayed at this base for a while, not to mention his mental health, and the people he met were all in good physical condition. Yu Heng had a guess: Could it be that while the outsiders turned them into mini-human beings, they also transformed their bodies to be healthier?

"Nonsense! Would they be so kind?"

There is no place to study it now, and there is no use in guessing. They stayed in the abandoned base until the rain stopped and the sun rose again. During this period, Yu Heng had been studying the communication equipment of the central control station and obtained a batch of confidential communication signals from the database. After hesitating for a moment, he was the first to contact the Nanheng Military Region. He was unable to contact him the first time and did not receive a reply signal until the eleventh time.

"How is it?" Zheng Dong asked hurriedly.

Yu Heng wrote down the secret text. Zheng Dong said he couldn't understand it and asked Yu Heng to speak directly.

"The Nanheng Military District has also been attacked, and the survivors have dispersed in and out."

"What about the captain?"

"Let me ask."

It took another hour before there was a reply. "Captain Jiang has already left the Nanheng Military Region with his people, and they will leave soon."

Zheng Dong was extremely worried: "Alas, I hope the captain and the others are safe."

After that, he contacted several military bases and got similar news. Some of them had not yet exposed their addresses, but they were also working on separating the crowds, so there was no time to talk more.

Yu Heng also felt a sense of urgency. The base can be temporarily settled, but it cannot be lived in for a long time. After all, this place has been exposed for a long time, and there is no guarantee that outsiders will come back to plunder again one day. So it is time to leave.

He checked the things in the material warehouse and took away a small part, less food, and most of them were building materials and survival equipment. Some of the other survivors did not want to leave, so Yu Heng told them how to operate the central control station and told them the passwords of each warehouse. There were more than 20 people who planned to leave, which he thought was still a bit too many.

When there are too many people, the trajectory of the activity is easy to be discovered. Pulling out the carrots and taking them out of the pit, it is really a bunch of death. Yu Heng didn't know the abilities of those people, whether they were hardworking or lazy, whether they were trustworthy, etc., and he didn't have time to test them one by one, so he simply went his separate ways.

When the rainstorm stopped, the three of them took the isolation cabin directly into the river. As the river water flowed, the leaf-shaped isolation cabin quickly moved away from the base and went downstream. After entering the city, Yu Heng asked the puppet substitute to explore the way and find a community to live in.

There is no need to say much about the struggle with mutant plants in this process. A group of puppet substitutes started digging at the same time, and soon dug a deep tunnel under the bed of a suite on the first floor of a building. The protective cover covered the entire room, and all mutant plants and animals that came by smell could not enter.

For safety, the three of them dug almost without sleep, and then they had to clean the room on the ground, set up a water barrier to prevent water from entering the first floor during the rainstorm, and dig a hidden passage for easy entry and exit. They were busy for a long time before they could rest. The stuff in the base's material warehouse is very useful. It can be used to build a waterproof base, and it can also be used to build a waterproof and odor-proof, sturdy small underground secret room.

Unless you are really unlucky, the mutant giant earthworm or other mutant animals that like to dig soil just pass by their secret room, that's fate.

When groping in the dark to get used to the new residence, the light came again.

"I think it seems that it will be brighter this time?"

"Yes. The days with sunshine should also be longer."

Sure enough, the days with sunshine this time are longer than the last time. According to this pattern, one day the darkness will completely leave.

Taking advantage of the temporary departure of the outsiders, Yu Heng took Zheng Dong and Lan Cheng to explore the area again, and diligently dug two more escape passages, both leading to places that outsiders could not go to-the sewer.

"Huh, it's finally connected." Zheng Dong kicked down the last ?g of soil, and there was a sound of water rushing under his feet, and a dull and fermented stench came to his nose.

"Okay, seal the mouth and go." Yu Heng took out the materials to make a door, and then carefully painted the exit with waterproof paint, and finally left three isolation cabins, and the escape passage was ready.

The two were returning along the same route, and suddenly Yu Heng seemed to hear something. After listening carefully for a few seconds, even Zheng Dong heard it: "It seems like a cat is calling? Could it be a mutant cat?!"

"No, open the door, it's the sound from the sewer, it sounds like a baby crying."

Zheng Dong's eyes widened: "No way!" His men moved quickly and took down the door with great force.

Standing at the door and looking down, the sound was indeed in the water. Yu Heng took a flashlight to see that there was a plastic bag stuck in the cracks of the rocks in the turbid and smelly water, and the sound came from the plastic bag.

"It's indeed the cry of a child. I'll go down and fish it out. You help me pull the rope."

"Okay!"

Zheng Dong quickly nailed the nails under his feet, then tied the rope on it and tied it around his waist. Yu Heng jumped down with the rope tied to him, swam quickly to the plastic bag, and fumbled carefully. There was something inside, and it felt very much like an isolation cabin.

After pulling it out with force, it was indeed an isolation cabin, and the cry of the baby was inside.

"Pull!" He tied the isolation cabin to the rope and let Zheng Dong pull it, then he climbed up. Suddenly, there was a splash of water behind him, and something jumped out of the water. He instinctively took out the protective cover and opened it.

"Squeak!!!"

The screams of the mutant rats were accompanied by a burnt smell, and then there was the sound of falling into the water. Yu Heng didn't look back, but just climbed faster.

"Let's go!"

The door was installed again, and after the paint was reinforced, Yu Heng looked back. Zheng Dong had already opened the isolation cabin. Inside was a baby who looked like he had just been born. The umbilical cord had not been cut, and the mother had died. The entire isolation cabin was full of blood.

The baby kept crying and was out of breath. Yu Heng held him and pressed him twice carefully, then tilted his head slightly. The baby spit out red saliva, which should be the blood water choked in the cabin.

"How pitiful." Zheng Dong looked reluctant. Under Yu Heng's command, he lit a fire to burn the dagger, disinfected it and cut the umbilical cord. The body of the child's mother was taken out by Zheng Dong for incineration. Yu Heng held the child back to the residence and fed him a small amount of nutrition.

"It's dark."

When Zheng Dong came back, he brought such bad news. Yu Heng paused for a moment and continued to bathe the baby. This is a girl, who is very thin. It can be seen that she has been malnourished since her mother's womb and has some heart problems.

"The girl is really lucky. She can meet us under such circumstances. If we left two seconds earlier, she would have to feed the mice." Zheng Dong sat cross-legged and teased the crying child, "Can I call you a little mouse? Little mouse?"

Lan Cheng was sewing clothes, making small clothes and diapers. Hearing this, she laughed and scolded: "She is a little girl, how can you call her a little mouse? It's not nice. She will be angry with you when she grows up."

A baby girl and three wandering men formed a strange family of four. They huddled together for warmth in the darkness. With the child to occupy their time, life was not difficult. They safely passed through this darkness and successfully welcomed a new sunrise. On that day, the three reached an agreement and finally decided on the baby girl's name, Yu Chenxi, the surname of Yu Heng who discovered her.