To my frozen hometown

Chapter 11 Escape is shameful but useful

The sun wasn't great the next day, or rather, the sun in the greenhouse was never great.

Not counting the snow cover outside the greenhouse, after all, there are barriers to cover, and there will always be some places in the city that will not receive sunlight.

For this reason, under the isolation cover of the greenhouse, there are usually several high-power lamp tubes. During the day, the streets of the greenhouse are illuminated with sunlight, and this is the case every morning.

Although this makes it impossible to tell whether the light in the city is sunlight or light, it does bring rare light to the city.

Liu Yuan woke up under such harsh light.

The window of her room seemed to be facing a lighting tube, and her bed was facing the window, which made her eyes hurt by the strong light as soon as she woke up.

Fortunately, her resilience is far beyond ordinary people.

After rubbing his eye sockets in distress, Liu Yuan sat up from the bed while holding his forehead.

However, she didn't get out of bed to wash up immediately like a normal person. Instead, she groped around her waist with her hand and pulled out the short knife that was full of gaps.

She looked as if she hadn't woken up yet, so the next moment, she stabbed the short knife into the back of her left hand.

Well, literally, the blade was pierced directly, causing a penetrating wound about five centimeters in length.

Blood dripped onto the bed along the edge of the knife, but this situation did not last long, because Liuyuan had already pulled out the dagger.

Then the wound on the back of her hand began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The flesh and blood squirmed, clinging to and intertwining with each other, covering the bones that had just been exposed again.

In about one breath, the wound, which would take at least several months for an ordinary person to heal, had already disappeared on the back of Liu Yuan's hand.

Even the newly grown skin has turned into a wheat color, no different from the skin on other parts.

All the traces seemed to have been covered up, only the undried blood on the bed sheet and the blade could still prove that the wound had existed.

The feeling of growing flesh and blood made Liuyuan a little more sober, she looked down at the few drops of blood on the bed sheet, and thought to herself.

This should not cause the boss to misunderstand anything.

Then, she stood up, put away the dagger, stretched, and staggered into the bathroom.

Now, she's going to start washing up like a normal person.

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Liu Yuan always felt that he was an abandoned person, a person abandoned by the times.

She should have died in that disaster, just like everyone who died in the pre-disaster era.But she survived, in a way that no longer seemed human.

She wandered alone on the ice field, walked for an indefinitely long time, visited many places, and saw almost every corner of the post-disaster world.

But in the end, all she could see was the endless snowfall and the long-standing despair of this era.

Human beings still exist in this world, but they are only lingering on their last days.

This world has been torn apart, and most people are just living day by day, waiting to perish.

Just living has exhausted all the strength, civilization is no longer progressing, and every bit of resource on the ice is so precious, if you use some, you will spend less.

The world she knew was gone, the people she knew, everything she knew, and everything related to those memories were gone.

So in the endless white snow, Liu Yuan stopped in her tracks, and she thought of the way of death to escape.

So, she made that decision.

Go back to your hometown and sink to the bottom of the sea.

There, she thought she might find her redemption.

She thought that maybe she could fall into a real long sleep.

To have a warm dream about the past.

So from that day on, Liu Yuan began to walk east, towards her hometown, towards the sea in her memory.

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After washing up, Liu Yuan tidied up his things.

Today she is going to go to the street to buy some supplies, such as bullets, bullets, and gadgets like bullets.

After all, before returning to her hometown, she didn't want to be eaten by those beasts on the ice field.

As for what to replace it with, well, there is still some oxygen left when I brought Al, which should be enough to replace a box of bullets or so.

Stuffing a piece of jerky into his mouth, Liu Yuan walked to the window and looked out the window.

The streets are filled with white mist caused by condensed steam. It is still early, and many shops on the roadside have not yet opened.

In the deserted city, pedestrians in twos and threes came and went silently.

If it weren't for such a cage-like building, this might be a peaceful and peaceful morning.

Liu Yuan continued to stand by the window for a while, until he finished eating the jerky in his mouth, then he lowered his head and took out Al's pocket watch to check the time.

Eight ten in the morning.

You know, time after a disaster doesn't look like it's advancing, it's more like it's counting down.

In the words of an acquaintance of Liuyuan, it is that this world has no hope, and it is counting down to perish.

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Walking out of the room, the shoes creaked on the floor.

Liu Yuan came to the handrail of the corridor and looked down.

At this time, there were several other guests sitting in the lobby of the hotel.

One of them was sitting on the old sofa and reading the newspaper, the other was leaning against the window and smoking half a cigarette, and the other was ordering a bottle of wine. It seemed that they wanted to get drunk early in the morning.

There was no communication between the few people, they were just doing their own things.

Liu Yuan also walked down the stairs silently and asked the hotel owner if her coat had been washed.

The boss asked her to wait for a while, then turned around and went to get her clothes.

The person sitting on the sofa took a look at Liu Yuan, and saw that Liu Yuan seemed to be planning to sit down, so he moved to the side, making room for Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan sat on the sofa, and she wasn't going to wake up Al for the time being.The time on the ice field should have made the girl tired enough, it is better to let her rest for a while now.

Anyway, waiting for clothes, Liuyuan picked up a roll of newspaper by the sofa with a mentality of killing time, and simply flipped through it.

"I heard that the herd has started wandering outside the greenhouse again."

The man sitting by the side saw Liu Yuan pick up the newspaper, so he said aloud, as if he wanted to chat for a while.

"Recently, even the exploration team and the mining team have canceled their short-term action plans, and they don't know how long the resources in the greenhouse can last."

The man has two mustaches, and it can be seen that he is often groomed, his hair is carefully combed, he maintains a neat appearance, and his tone is quite easy-going.

He was not well-dressed, but he maintained a proper demeanor, looking like a down-and-out gentleman who has lost his fortune and is still trying to look decent.

Now outside the No. [-] Greenhouse, there are indeed many herds of beasts roaming around, and the wolf pack that Liu Yuan and Al encountered when they came here was probably one of them.

Looking at the most conspicuous page in the newspaper, the content on it was a reminder about the herd.

Liu Yuan asked the man, "Are there always herds here?"

"Every year." The man shook the newspaper in his hand, leaned on the sofa, raised his eyebrows and said, "But this year it came very early, and there were so many of them, maybe there will be another beast tide."

Beast tide, these two words represent a disaster to the residents after the disaster.

Crazy beasts will make it difficult for the greenhouse to mine resources on the ice sheet, which will lead to a shortage of resources inside the greenhouse and eventually lead to chaos.

There is no doubt that such a result is something no one wants to see.

Order is probably the last hold of human beings to civilization.If even this bottom line is broken, then the day of genocide should not be far away.

"Didn't the greenhouse come up with any solutions?" Liu Yuan asked casually after browsing through the contents of the report.I have to admit that this time the herd's infestation does look serious.

"The greenhouse guards said they will solve the problem as soon as possible." The man shook his head and continued while holding his forehead.

"But who knows, there will be such a situation every year, maybe in one year, this greenhouse will not be able to support it."

This is undoubtedly the worst prediction. The collapse of the greenhouse will cause countless people to be displaced, and countless people will be buried in the snow.Liu Yuan has seen such a situation before, she understands the weakness of manpower in front of nature, and also understands the cruelty of living in a desperate situation.

On this planet, the greenhouse is already the last environment that human beings can rely on for survival. If it is even ruined, then human beings really have nowhere to go.

Liu Yuan didn't say anything else, she just looked down at the newspaper.

Suddenly, she seemed to have guessed something about the commission that Watson wanted to give her.

The man also seemed to have lost interest in chatting. He sat on the sofa, sighed with a wry smile, and said sadly.

"Perhaps this place is no longer suitable for us to live in."

Where is he talking about, is it this greenhouse, this ice field, or this planet?

There seems to be some difference between the three, but there seems to be no difference.

There was no sound in the hall.

The man standing by the window smoking took a deep puff of the cigarette in his hand, and threw the unburned cigarette butt out of the window.

The guest who was drinking at the bar drank another glass of rubbish wine, looked at the glass in his hand with drunken eyes, and looked confused.

Whether the ice sheet is still suitable for human habitation, and what will happen in the future, no one wants to think about this issue, and no one wants to discuss it.

Because the answer is obvious.

The ending of mankind seems to have been predictable long ago, but no one wants to face it.

(End of this chapter)