Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

As soon as Ma Bo entered the rain, he even raised his head to welcome the rain, but he didn't expect that what was waiting for him was not refreshing rain, but a burning pain.

"Ah! My face!"

Ma Bo covered his face and jumped in the rain in pain. Not only his face, but all the exposed skin felt a piercing pain, as if a cigarette butt was burning his body. The stinging pain seemed to penetrate the skin and into the bones.

He kept twisting his body because of the pain, as if trying to get rid of the rain on his body, so his limbs were constantly recovering in the air.

The two people hiding on the awning originally thought that Ma Bo was performing a shamanic act. At first, they were laughing while holding their stomachs as if they were watching a joke. However, after they heard Ma Bo screaming, they realized that something was wrong.

"Hey, what happened to Ma Bo? Is he possessed by evil spirits? Why does he look so painful?"

"No, what's wrong with his body? Why are there so many blisters? He...ah, his face!"

Ma Bo fell to the ground in pain. The rain still hit his skin mercilessly, and white smoke from burning continued to rise. Qin Qi even felt a smell of burnt meat in the air.

"Hey, should we go over to Ramapo?" One of them had lost all color in his face, but he still tremblingly asked his other companion for his opinion.

The other one shook his head desperately: "Are you crazy? Can we go through? What if we become like Ma Bo?"

As a result, the two men still stood in the same place without any movement, allowing Ma Bo to be corroded by the rain like a dead dog.

"Help... Help me..." Ma Bo stretched out his hand and shouted hoarsely. His bloody face full of bubbles had been exposed to the rain when he fell down just now. Half of his skin had been corroded, and even one of his eyeballs was hanging outside. Qin Qi turned his face away in fear, not daring to continue looking.

The two people on the awning were also terrified, but what was even more despairing was that the roof of the waterproof material had already shown signs of being pierced, and rain was constantly seeping in from inside.

"Is this acid rain?" One of them finally realized what it was, and he stumbled over his words before completing them.

The other man's face turned pale instantly, and he kept backing away to avoid the parts that had been burned.

But they both knew very well that the awning would be corroded sooner or later, and if they did not find a way to escape to another place, their fate would sooner or later become like Ma Bo's.

Qin Qi, who had regained his senses, shouted to the two people over there: "Run over here, just a dozen meters away, pass me!"

The rain was not particularly heavy at this time, at most it was just a light rain. The awning was only three or four shops away from Qin Qi. If he rushed over at an accelerated speed, it would take less than ten seconds. Even if he might be burned by the acid rain, at least he could save his life.

Although the remaining two people are both the lowest-level F-type psychics, one is only a wind-type psychic who can only produce a gentle breeze similar to the lowest-speed electric fan, and the other is a perception psychic. Although as a special-type psychic, a perception psychic has a very strong sixth sense or predictive function, but it must reach at least B-level psychic powers to exert its advantages. Therefore, perception psychics below B-level are the least welcome in the psychic circle, and they cannot use their abilities to perform special tasks or in various industries.

The two men looked at each other but still had no courage to take a step forward. They were terrified at the short distance of more than ten meters. They were afraid that raindrops would fall on them, or they would stumble while running and end up like Ma Bo, who could only convulse on the ground.

Qin Qi was really anxious, shouting so hard that his throat was about to burst into flames. He was horrified to find that the awning opposite would be completely corroded in a few minutes, and it would be more dangerous than running over now.

"What do you think? Do you want to... give it a try?" One of them was a little undecided. He watched the rain getting heavier and heavier. He could even clearly feel the pain of some raindrops splashing on his ankles.

The other person pressed his body against the door panel behind him as much as possible, his face completely drained of color. "If you want to go, go by yourself. I, I can't..."

The man with the perception ability saw that his companion with the wind ability was shaking all over, but the rain was getting more and more under the awning. He glanced at Qin Qi and saw that although the space was limited, at least the area under his feet was dry. So he gritted his teeth and muttered, "I don't want to die here. I'm going to fight!" After growling, he rushed out.

Before he rushed out, he tried his best to protect his head with his hands, mainly to prevent water from getting into his eyes. When Qin Qi saw him rushing forward with his head down, he took a step forward. After the man rushed over regardless of anything, he suddenly pulled the man to his side.

The whole process took less than ten seconds. The man only felt a burning sensation in his palms, neck and ankles. Fortunately, the rain contact time was relatively short, so only red marks of burns were left on his skin.

Qin Qi and he had a feeling of surviving a disaster. They both half-collapsed on the ground at the same time, staring blankly at the rain on the road, which gradually gathered into a stream and dispersed everywhere, and finally sank into the rain grate beside them.

After the heavy rain three years ago, special attention was paid to flood control and waterlogging prevention in the urban area during the initial construction of the base. There are many rain grates and rain wells in each block, so even when it rains, it can be guaranteed that waterlogging will not occur for a period of time.

The two people who had recovered a little at this time suddenly heard a scream from the opposite side, accompanied by a huge "boom", and saw that the awning on the opposite side that had been corroded and broken was completely shattered and hit the man with wind-type ability directly.

Some rainwater had already gathered on the awning, and two bamboo poles as thick as an adult's wrist were used to support the awning.

Originally, wooden objects were easily corroded by strong acids, so the two bamboo poles could not hold for too long. The moment the tattered awning fell down, all the rain on the tarpaulin poured onto the man. The man wailed in pain, as if he had been splashed with diluted sulfuric acid. Although he was not immediately disfigured, his skin had begun to show signs of burns, and the exposed skin was covered with large patches of bright red blisters, which looked horrifying.

At this time, fifteen minutes had passed since the acid rain began to fall. The rain continued to be light rain, and the whole air was filled with the pungent smell of sulfur dioxide.

The man who kept screaming might have fainted from the pain. His fingers were tightly clinging to the iron door behind him, and his whole body was in a twisted posture.

Qin Qi and another partner tried desperately to awaken his consciousness.

"Don't you dare faint, run over here quickly, grit your teeth and hit me hard, if you fall there you'll be dead for sure!"

But unfortunately, the man could no longer hear other people's voices. His consciousness seemed to be torn into countless pieces. He could no longer open his eyes due to the burning sensation. The large blisters on his face were scratched by him and continuously oozing disgusting pus.

The rain was still falling from above, soon soaking his body. Rain water had already flowed into his mouth, and his throat felt like it was on fire, and he could no longer make any sound.

Qin Qi couldn't bear to see his companion, who had been playing cards with him just a dozen minutes ago, die right before his eyes, so he could only turn his head away.

The man beside him had trembling hands and discovered with horror that Ma Bo, who was in front of him and who he didn't know whether he was dead or alive, had turned into a bloody mess.

It happened that a billboard fell down on the street. As soon as the plastic billboard landed in a puddle, it immediately began to emit white mist due to corrosion by the rain.

"Qin Qi, the rain seems to be a little heavier than before."

In fact, both of them discovered that the smell of sulfur dioxide in the air was gradually becoming stronger. Even they felt a burning sensation when they breathed, and their heads were dizzy.

Qin Qi covered his mouth and said in a muffled voice: "Stop talking, we have to wait until the rain stops!"

My companion had a sad face, his eyes full of fear of the unknown: "End? Can it really end?" The sky was still gloomy, and there was no sign of it clearing up because of the rain, as if the rain had just begun.

Qin Qi just closed his eyes and said nothing, still muttering one word "wait..."

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Liao Yunyun felt as if it was raining while she was sleeping. She was in a half-asleep and half-awake state at this moment, and she was thinking that the rain would better stop before she got up and went out, otherwise she didn't want to go out to work in the rain.

When I was about to continue sleeping, I suddenly heard a series of ghost howling sounds outside the window.

Liao Yunyun was startled by the sudden sound. She turned over and sat up from the bed, frowning and looking at the half-open window.

At this time, there was the rustling sound of rain outside, as well as occasional wailing and screaming. The people making the sounds seemed to have seen some horrifying scene, and the screams went straight through the entire floor.

Liao Yunyun walked to the balcony in slippers. The sound came from the opposite floor. The distance between the two buildings was about thirty meters, but she could clearly see a woman holding a child and crying heartbreakingly on the balcony on the fourth floor opposite. She could even see the child lying in the woman's arms, motionless, and it was unknown whether he was still breathing.

The woman's voice was very loud. Although there was the sound of rain blocking the sound, one could still clearly hear her shouting, "Save my child, save my child."

It turned out that the woman's child was playing on the balcony when it was raining. Because there were children at home, the family had installed anti-theft nets a long time ago. Thinking that the weather had cooled down in the past two days, it was impossible for a five or six-year-old child to climb up, so they didn't pay much attention to it.

Unexpectedly, the danger happened in this way. The children found the rain fun and probably because it had been hot for too long, so the seven or eight-year-old children stretched out their hands to play with the water. Unexpectedly, the extra awning of the upstairs residents suddenly could not withstand the accumulated rain. In an instant, all the rain hit the child's entire arm.

Children's skin is more delicate than that of adults. Although the acidity of the acid rain was only about that of diluted concentrated sulfuric acid, it still burned the child's skin instantly. In addition, the contact area spread from the palm to the entire arm. The child let out a shrill cry and then fainted from the pain.

By the time the woman heard the child's voice, it was already too late. All she saw was the child lying on the balcony and two little arms covered with blisters.

Not only this family, there were also several elderly people downstairs who did not sleep and chatted downstairs in the afternoon. Because of their inconvenient legs and feet, they could not run fast, and as a result, they suffered varying degrees of burns on their faces, necks, and even backs.

Similar situations were happening in different communities. Liao Yunyun didn't know it was caused by the rain until she found that a piece of clothing she had hung outside on the balcony was covered with holes of varying sizes caused by the rain and the wind.

Liao Yunyun experienced the acid rain a few years ago. She stayed in the rescue center with other people. The acid rain lasted for about half a month. She saw with her own eyes that injured people were sent in every day, and people were sent out because they died due to infection of the wounds caused by the acid rain.

That acid rain destroyed almost one-third of the buildings in Jiangcheng. All the corroded floors looked as if they had been gnawed, the walls were black with marks of burns, and the smell of sulfur dioxide in the air lasted for several months before it completely dissipated.

Liao Yunyun took a step back, glanced at the clothes still hanging on the balcony, gritted her teeth, quickly used the clothes hanger to collect all the clothes that had "escaped the disaster", and then quickly closed the door.

But you can't completely relax as soon as you enter the house, because the balcony door is made of formwork material. When this community was built, in addition to the relatively stable foundation, the doors and windows and other materials were the cheapest. Once the strong acid rain invades, it will definitely corrode in a short time.

In case the acid rain spread into the house, she looked for something inside that could temporarily block it. Then she remembered that there were several plastic basins that were unused in the living room. She hung a total of three plastic basins on the balcony with nails.

When she was in the orphanage, she had seen an aunt use a plastic bottle to hold diluted hydrochloric acid cleaning agent, so she knew that the plastic would not be corroded for the time being. Although it was still impossible to determine whether the acid rain would intensify, it could at least be blocked for a while.

After finishing the work, Liao Yunyun opened her mobile phone and found that a message had been sent in the department group chat asking them not to go out for the time being and the notice to return to work had been cancelled.

This acid rain obviously caught everyone by surprise. It came less than a week after the extreme heat ended, and it was so fierce that even the Meteorological Bureau did not have time to make a weather forecast.