Tokyo underground city

Chapter 225 Village

Lin Huai'en felt like he was slowly falling.

But the icy cold air and thick sleepiness sealed his body, causing him to stumble under the chair in a daze.

But the expected hard ground did not come. Instead, it hit something fluffy.

"ha……"

Feeling the coolness on his cheeks, he worked hard for a long time before finally breaking free from the seal of the quilt.

Somewhat surprisingly, he did not sleep on the chair, but maintained a sitting position, curling his legs and leaning on the bed.

He and Tanya occupied half of the small single bed. They took out a wolfskin quilt from somewhere and spread it on the two of them.

The white-haired girl leaned against the head of the bed, her head curled up in the quilt, and she fell asleep "snoring".

Lin Huai'en could even feel the warmth coming from the girl's feet under the quilt - even though they were wearing socks.

The fire in the wooden shed has been extinguished, and there are only some scarlet sparks left in the fire pit. A bit of cold wind pours in from the gaps in the wooden house. Although it is not enough to keep warm, it also avoids the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.

"They should have moved me to the bed after I fell asleep..."

Lin Huaien glanced at Tanya and realized what happened after he fell asleep - the wooden bed was not large, but it was enough for two people to sleep on it.

Lin Huai'en carefully uncovered the quilt, put on his leather boots, and walked out.

Daylight has not yet arrived in Siberia. At their current latitude, the shortest daylight hours are only 6 hours.

Seeing him coming out, Coco shook off the snow on her body and walked over to him wagging her tail.

Lin Huai'en squatted down and felt the body temperature of the curse. Surprisingly, it was not bad.

"Is it a den for dogs... It seems that Tanya really raised dogs."

Lin Huai'en looked at the triangular shed next to the wooden shed and thought to himself.

The triangular shed is adjacent to the main house, with half of the openings below the ground. Coupled with the bonfire in the main house, even an ordinary Siberian Husky can spend a good night here.

In just one night, the snow on the wooden house was piled up to more than 20 centimeters thick. Lin Huai'en shook his head, picked up the ax, and went to chop some firewood.

By the time he came back with the firewood, Tanya had also woken up.

"Thank you." Taking the firewood handed over by Lin Huai'en, the hunter girl nodded and started to light a fire to cook.

Seeing the girl chop up a whole piece of frozen meat and throw it into the pot, Lin Huai'en hesitated to speak.

"We only brought 30 kilograms of bacon, it's better to save some."

Tanya looked up at Lin Huaien, lowered her head, and continued to use the knife to process the meat.

It was obvious that he didn't understand what Lin Huai'en was talking about.

To be honest, Lin Huaien really wanted to use psychic skills to tell Tanya his thoughts, but he realized that Tanya and he would have to spend three months in such an empty place. If they could communicate, , one will quickly become speechless.

"To be honest, because you can't understand what I'm saying, I can talk to myself instead."

Lin Huai'en looked at the snow outside the window.

Tanya looked up at Lin Huaien and noticed that his eyes were not directed towards her, so she ignored him.

"I have watched some wilderness survival programs. The survivors in them would talk to themselves in front of coconuts after staying alone on an isolated island for too long. I wonder if I have entered the same state."

"Used to it."

Tanya's answer made Lin Huaien stunned for a moment, but he soon realized that the hunter girl still didn't understand what he was talking about: "I used to often talk to myself to 'Liu Bai'."

"'Liu Bai'." She raised her head and said slowly, little by little, "моя_собака."

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"Brother Seba." Lin Huaien pointed at Coco outside the house and said.

And Tanya nodded: "Cобака."

Lin Huaien was a little surprised. He didn't expect that when Tanya wanted to teach him Russian, the psychic skills would actually fail.

This is probably because, for Tanya, what she wants to convey to Lin Huaien is not the meaning of "dog", but the Russian word "Cобака".

Lin Huai'en didn't know what the use was of learning Russian words after he had psychic skills, but he regarded it as a pastime when he was bored, and he also carefully memorized the words Tanya told him.

"Village? Go back?"

Soon, he pointed to several thatched houses drawn on the activated map and asked Tanya.

The hunter girl shook her head: "Prepare food first, there may be an ambush."

Having said this, she hesitated for a moment and used a magic pen to draw a stick figure holding a gun on the activated map: "враг."

Lin Huaien nodded, understanding what the girl meant.

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Now that the target of the operation was determined, Tanya began to lead Lin Huaien to inspect the situation near the wooden house.

After putting down his backpack, Lin Huaien's mobility also recovered a lot. Although he still forgot the wooden boards on his feet from time to time and tripped over branches and other things, but at least it no longer hindered Tanya's speed.

"The sleigh was stolen and this was where the sleigh was supposed to be, but now there are just empty oil drums."

Following Tanya, she walked to the shore more than ten meters away from the hunter's cabin. The girl pointed to the wooden shed in the distance that was almost covered with heavy snow and said to Lin Huaien.

Through her gaze, Lin Huaien could indeed see several tin oil drums.

"At this temperature, diesel should be used."

Lin Huai'en walked under the wooden shed and took a look. It was indeed empty.

While Lin Huaien was inspecting the oil drum, Tanya found a birch tree as thick as a wrist and raised the axe.

One blow, two blows, and soon the birch tree was cut down to the ground.

"Making sleds?"

Lin Huaien thought naturally as he recalled the words Tanya gave him:

"Sene?"

"Trap, plywood trap." Tanya shook her head: "It's used to catch squirrels and martens."

Obviously, Tanya didn't expect Lin Huai'en to understand. It wasn't until she finished making the trap that she showed Lin Huai'en what she called the splint trap.

A split wooden board is placed between two tree trunks that have been chopped into a "U" shape. The upper wooden board is pressed with a heavy object, and then a small wooden chip is used to prop up the two wooden boards. Next to the wooden chip Tie on the bait.

When a squirrel or marten lies on the trap and wants to eat the bait, the board will fall down and crush the squirrel to death.

Raw yet effective.

Don't worry, it will be covered by wind and snow or become ineffective due to freezing.

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Over the next three days, Tanya cut down trees to make traps and used tree trunks to make sleds.

"Let Coco hold it and we can set off."

Tanya tried on the headgear made of fishing line and wolf skin, and said a little unconfidently.

After all, she had never tried dog sledding herself.

However, with Lin Huaien's clumsy mobility, he had to rely on this "primitive" tool.

"How many kilometers is it from us to your village?"

After getting along with each other for a few days, Lin Huai'en could see that she was eager but also cautious about returning home.

She wanted to go back, but she was also responsible for Lin Huai'en's safety.

"120 kilometers." Tanya said a number that shocked Lin Huaien.

"Is it that far?"

However, Tanya just shook her head: "We can get there in one day."

"How much stuff do you need to bring back?"

Lin Huaien pointed to the backpack.

"You don't need to bring a backpack, but you need to bring weapons." Tanya looked at Lin Huai'en and pointed to the long sword on his waist: "Wear light."

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Lin Huai'en only prepared some necessary things. The big backpack was already full of food, so he placed it on a high shelf outside the wooden house to avoid being eaten by animals.

She only carried Terraris's arsenal and Elsadova's two small backpacks, while Tanya's luggage was even lighter - apart from the two pieces of bread in her backpack, she only carried a shotgun and bullets.

"100 rounds of ammunition are enough."

Tanya noticed Lin Huaien's gaze, nodded, and then sat in the driver's seat of the two-person sleigh, while Lin Huaien held her waist and sat in the back.

Following Tanya's low call, Coco pulled the simple two-person sled and began to fly.

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10 hours, 120 kilometers.

This is the record of Lin Huaien's actions and the time of Coco's run.

When Coco pulled the sled for more than 6 hours, Lin Huaien felt a little numb. He felt that Tanya should let Coco take a rest.

But the hunter girl was calmer than Lin Huaien imagined. She didn't even pay attention to Lin Huaien. She just took out a piece of bread from her bag and put it on her shoulder.

Taking a bite of the piece of bread handed over by Tanya, Lin Huaien opened the properties panel. Although he was a little surprised, he saw Coco's status bar, which showed that he was doing well.

Even his physical strength has not dropped much and has been steadily maintained at around 80%.

"This... although we know that dogs are close relatives of wolves, and wolves have strong long-distance running abilities, this is too exaggerated..."

Lin Huaien dared to guarantee that Tanya did not use Cocoa like this because it was an undead creature, but that to her, the so-called "hound" was just that.

Thinking about the so-called "Legend of Erha destroying a house", Lin Huai'en finally understood why many people do not recommend raising Erha in the city.

Not good for people or dogs.

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Lin Huaien and the others started at 10 a.m. and did not stop until 8 p.m., running through the entire day in Siberia.

Running from night to night.

When he finally crossed the hillock at the end of the ice field and arrived at the bank of the Yenisei River, Lin Huaien felt that Tanya's breathing was stagnant.

"There's no fire."

There was suppressed grief in the girl's voice.

Lin Huaien nodded, but noticed other things: "But there are no traces of burning."

"Um."

The sleigh passed through the village and stopped beside a high-roofed wooden house beside the road.

Cursed Bones panted like an ordinary hound, but did not exhale any white breath.

"This is my home, even though I live alone."

Tanya didn't care whether Lin Huaien understood it or not, so she introduced it to him.

Even without psychic skills, Lin Huaien could realize what she was talking about based on her behavior, expression, and the timing of her words.

Using the key to unlock the door, Lin Huaien followed Tanya and walked in.

"Pa", Lin Huaien took out the flashlight from Elsadova's backpack and illuminated the items in the room.

Unlike Tanya, he has no night vision.

What surprised him was that there were many things in the house, most of which had a sense of the times. There was even a satellite TV, but most of them were covered with thin cloths, with a layer of dust on them.

However, it was precisely because of the falling dust that Lin Huai'en noticed one thing——

"Wait, Tanya..."

Lin Huai'en looked at the floor and whispered: "There are footprints!"

"What?" The girl who didn't understand the language turned her head.

The next second, from the bookcase behind her, a tall shadow lifted up the thin cloth on his body and pounced on her back!

"Kamikaze Speedy!"

Lin Huai'en subconsciously took out the martyr's sword, and a sword part rushed forward and stabbed the shadow's throat.

But something horrifying happened to him.

As he moved three times as fast, Shadow tilted his neck suddenly and actually dodged his thrust!

"Pavlov! Damn it, there's another one!"

Lin Huai'en saw blood spurting out from Shadow's neck. Although not much, the muscle was stabbed by Lin Huai'en.

And as the shadow of Gundam hid to one side in embarrassment, Russian language was also heard from outside the door behind Lin Huaien——

"Hands up, you are surrounded!"

The clattering sound made Lin Huaien clearly realize that it was the sound of bullets being loaded.

"Wait! I'm an explorer from the Upper City Association!"

Lin Huai'en held up the martyr's sword. After a moment's hesitation, someone pressed the back of his head and threw him into the dust.

Tanya was treated slightly better. Another soldier rushed out from the shadows and pressed Tanya's shoulders, forcing her to kneel on the ground.

The Mosin-Nagant rifle that had just been half-raised in his hand was also controlled by him, with the muzzle pointed in the air.

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"Damn...if I hadn't reacted quickly, you would have had to cover me with the flag."

The strong man who was almost stabbed to death by Lin Huai'en complained loudly and covered his neck with a gauze scarf. The high concentration of magic environment allowed the treatment medicine to take effect normally, except that he could not be resurrected after death. The environment in the polluted area of ​​Siberia, and the stuck There is no difference in the 15th floor of Dechang.

So others knew that the strong man was just exaggerating, and smiled and patted his head with their hats:

"Okay, you earned it if you didn't die, or are you too injured to drink vodka?"

"Shit! It's just that the injury is too severe, so I have to drink vodka!"

Lin Huaien listened to the noise in the distance, and together with Tanya, looked at the tall man in front of him.

The place they were in now was a camp on the outskirts of the village. It was different from Lin Huaien's imagination of being deserted. Beside the rekindled bonfire, the soldiers were singing and laughing, and it looked very lively.

"Tanya Pavlichenko?"

The tall man wearing a felt hat and a gray military coat looked at the file in his hand with cold eyes.

He didn't even look at Lin Huaien. It was obvious that his attention was on Tanya.

"Hello, may I ask what mistake we made to get arrested by you."

Lin Huai'en bit the bullet and asked the man in Chinese.

Tanya can ask anything he can ask, but the fact that he understands Russian may allow him to hear a lot more information.

"Are you an explorer from the Upper City Association?"

What surprised Lin Huai'en was that the tall man could actually speak Chinese, and he was fluent in it.

He looked at Lin Huai'en with a calm expression:

"Thank you for your hard work, help us escort the traitors over."