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

The third hour after the extreme cold came.

At this time, the sky and the snow seemed to merge into one. Looking from afar, one could only see the sky was all white. In just over ten minutes, the entire base seemed to have turned into an ice city.

The thick snow on the road was getting higher and higher, and everything was covered with a layer of frost. On the road one could still see the corpses of some mutated red-eyed mice that had come out to look for food in the winter but had not had time to burrow into the ground due to the sudden drop in temperature and the condensation of frost. These mice lay on their backs on the snow with their limbs huddled up, and a layer of frost color covered their black fur.

Red-eyed mice like heat and are afraid of cold. In winter, they like to live in cold and damp sewers. In previous years, the lowest temperature in winter was no more than three or four degrees. Coupled with the extreme heat and beast tide in the second half of last year, the red-eyed mice in the base reproduced rapidly. The food in the subway can no longer satisfy the hungry bodies of the red-eyed mice. During this period of time, the weather was cold, and various restaurants stopped operating. Residents' domestic garbage was thrown away every three to five days. This resulted in the sewers losing their main source of food, so they were forced to drill out of the ground and start looking for new places to find food.

These red-eyed rats have been lurking in the sewers for a long time, so they are very strong. Although they are not as big as the cat-sized rats in the big forest in the north, they are two or three times the size of ordinary rats. Because they are very hungry, they will attack without hesitation once they see anything that can be used as food.

But these mutated red-eyed mice had no idea that an unprecedented severe cold wave would hit the entire China in just over ten minutes.

On the road, one can not only see the frozen bodies of some mutant animals such as red-eyed rats, stray cats, black-shelled cockroaches, but also some passers-by who were frozen to death on the street because they did not have time to return to the house.

The situation in the outer circle is even more tragic, especially in the shanty towns where there are already starving people everywhere. Countless people who cannot afford to live in residential houses can only temporarily build the simplest temporary residences in the shanty towns. Most of these temporary residences are made of the cheapest materials, with a few large pieces of colored steel tiles as the roof and walls. Slightly better ones can use a mixture of cement and yellow mud to make walls. But looking around, this shanty town of about 50,000 square meters in the most remote part of the outer circle of the base is also called the "slum" within the base.

It was 5:30 in the evening, and five hours had passed since the sudden drop in temperature. The shantytown had now turned into a vast sea of ​​snow, with thick layers of ice forming outside all the color steel tiles and plastic greenhouses.

It can be seen that the shantytown is empty. A Self-Defense Force is walking on the small road outside the shantytown. These people are wearing cold-proof clothes made of special materials that can only be issued to members of the Self-Defense Force.

The dark blue cold-proof clothing is made of mutant animal fur and can withstand conditions of at least minus seventy degrees Celsius.

Not only the Self-Defense Forces, but the Guards also have special cold-proof uniforms, and they are more expensive. A set of cold-proof clothing that is highly warm and easy to move in costs at least tens of thousands of points. This is also to enable the Guards to better exert their capabilities when performing their tasks.

This Self-Defense Force is not from the Guard Bureau near the outer circle, but a small team that was transferred from the Self-Defense Force headquarters to the outer circle to perform special tasks. It consists of seven people in total, each of whom is a B-level mutant and belongs to the elite troops in the Self-Defense Force system. They also received an emergency notice to carry out this mission.

They had originally guessed that the situation in the outer circle was not optimistic, but they did not expect that the actual situation on the scene would be more tragic than they had imagined.

The shantytown currently has a population of more than 20,000 people and more than 3,000 households. Half of them live in temporary residences made of plastic sheds, colored steel tiles and earth walls, while the other half are low-rise houses built with lime and cement.

However, these low-rise houses are different from privately built houses in other places. The low-rise houses here are simply built with cement bricks, and the infrastructure is not considered at all. They only provide a place to shelter from wind and rain. But if it rains heavily, the house will not only leak, but there is even the risk of being washed away.

Seven Self-Defense Force members were walking on the narrow path in the middle. They could feel the wind blowing from the front making their faces feel like being slapped several times.

"Why do I feel like this place is so weird? Aren't there nearly 20,000 people living here? It should be very noisy with so many people. It's dinner time at this hour, but there's no one here. This is really abnormal." A member walking in the middle frowned and couldn't help but ask.

"This afternoon, the Hunter Association and the Guard received the news and sent out a rescue team to evacuate the personnel here. Most of the people have been transferred to the quarantine center."

Currently, the square cabins in the base can accommodate 30,000 people, and more than half of them have been occupied. However, it is not realistic to completely accommodate the entire shantytown population. It can only accommodate another 10,000 people at most, so at least nearly 10,000 people will have to stay in the shantytown. But now, walking on the path, the shanty houses on both sides are empty, and some doors are even open. All you can see from inside are piles of sundries and some personal belongings, but there is no human figure in the dim indoor light.

"According to the news from the quarantine center, eight thousand people have been accommodated so far, but there are still more than ten thousand people who should still be here. However, something doesn't feel right right now. Everyone should be careful." The team leader frowned and looked at the environment without any trace of life, and suddenly felt an inexplicable fear.

"Got it, Captain, don't worry. We are here to investigate the situation. We can't possibly charge into battle." Another team member joked, trying to ease the heavy and tense atmosphere at the moment.

"Even if we have to charge into battle, it won't be possible with only seven of us. We are at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and we are not a suicide squad. Our principle is to retreat after completing the mission and never fight to the end." Another member joked with a smile.

At this time, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and every strong gust of wind hit my body like a knife. Even through the winter clothes, I could feel the whistling wind trying desperately to get under the fabric.

"Okay, stop chatting. Everyone, stay alert and be alert. If you find anything, report it immediately."