doomed [last days]

The emperor paid off, just as Shi Yiran expected, at a fork in the road, Lin Shen saw a rough wooden sign.

Followed the sign and drove for 10 minutes, the off-road vehicle stopped in front of an iron gate, which was connected with a circle of stone walls, surrounding an open space and two concrete bungalows.

On the whitewashed stone wall, there are eight crooked characters written in red paint: protect my homeland, protect my forest.

However, this is somewhat different from the forest ranger station they imagined.

"After all, it's not an aviation ranger station..." Lin Shen held back the words for a long time.

Shi Yiran chuckled, "It's pretty good. Look, there's something growing on the right. It looks like...tomatoes?"

Lin Shen lay on the steering wheel, tilted his head, and through Shi Yiran's car window, he saw the flat land reclaimed on the right.

The flat ground made of soil is a little high, and many weeds have grown on it, but among the green leaves, there are still dots of red, aren't they just tomatoes?

This forest ranger station is built in the saddle between two peaks, with a wide view all around. I think there must be plenty of light, and the tomatoes grown should be very good.

Lin Shen took out his mobile phone and clicked on the compass inside. The red arrow was pointing towards the bungalow behind the iron gate.

"Sit north and face south." Lin Shen muttered for a while, and then looked at the peaks on both sides, one left and one right, one east and one west, the forest guard station is closer to the west peak, which is considered a leeward slope.

All in all, it's a really nice place to stay.

Shi Yiran was also sitting in the car watching, the iron door in front of her seemed to be closed, she thought about it, and said, "Let's see if there is anyone here first?"

Lin Shen nodded, but stopped Shi Yiran from wanting to unbuckle her seat belt, said "I'll get off first", opened the car door, and jumped out of the car.

Walking to the iron gate, Lin Shen glanced at the rusted chain lock on the gate, and walked back to the car.

"The door is locked," Lin Shen said to Shi Yiran, who was inside, lying on the side of the window of the co-pilot, "I don't think there is anyone inside."

The forest rangers who have been living here should have gone down the mountain one day and found the devastated world under the mountain, and never came back, or never came up.

Shi Yiran let out a "huh" and signaled Lin Shen to get out of the way.

After she got out of the car, she also walked to the iron door. The moment her slender hands were holding on to the iron door, she stopped moving. The rust on it seemed a bit glaring to Shi Yiran, who was obsessed with cleanliness.

Lin Shen noticed her movement and smiled, but reached out and grabbed the guardrail on the iron gate, shaking it.

The chain lock also swayed and knocked on the iron door with a dull sound.

"Excuse me, is there anyone?" Lin Shen called into the room.

no answer.

She and Shi Yiran looked at each other and asked, "Did I remove the lock?"

It's not that she hasn't done this kind of thing before, when she took her gun and blasted open the warehouse door of the hospital cafeteria, she didn't hesitate at all.But now, in front of Shi Yiran, she felt inexplicably hypocritical about doing such a thing of "robbing houses and homes".

This time, we not only want to "raid houses and rob houses", but also "occupy doves and magpies' nests".

Listening to Lin Shen's exploring tone, Shi Yiran smiled reassuringly, her voice was as detached as usual: "Let's tear it down, if the forest ranger really comes back, we'll apologize to him."

In the previous mall, they had already done the same thing as everyone else.Obtaining the items in the store without paying the same amount of money seems to be no different from robbery.

It's just that others are looking for money, but they are doing it to survive.

In such an apocalypse, all vanity, guilt, and sin are nothing compared to survival.

Lin Shen nodded, walked back to the off-road vehicle, and took out her gun.She made Shi Yiran stand a little farther away, and after two bullets were wasted, she removed the lock on the iron door, but also bent the guardrail next to it.

She scratched her head, deciding to pretend she didn't see it.

Shi Yiran entered the yard first, only then did Lin Shen drive the off-road vehicle along the narrow concrete road and parked it aside.

After entering, they saw that there was a small house in a corner near the iron gate.It is not appropriate to say that it is a house. Lin Shen took a look and found that it was a toilet.

The two concrete rooms facing the iron gate were also locked.

However, the two wooden doors were only hung with old-fashioned locks. Lin Shen took out an engineering shovel, and with a few shovels, he got the locks off.

In the small kitchen, moldy steamed buns were placed in the rattan dustpan on the stove, and the dishes on the small wooden shelf in the corner exuded a rotten smell.In the other room, the table on the bed was covered with dust, and there was still half a glass of water in the old-fashioned porcelain cup on the table, and the juice from the rotten fruit next to it made the wooden table look filthy.

"Looks like it's time to tidy up."

Lin Shen looked at Shi Yiran, saw that she was about to retreat from the room after seeing the table, and burst out laughing.

The eyebrows are curved, but the eyes seem to be filled with cool spring water.

Shi Yiran gave her a bad look, took a few steps forward, and pretended to be indifferent and said, "It's four o'clock, pack up and have dinner."

In the north in May, the sky is still bright at four o'clock in the afternoon. Although the bright white sun has begun to shift, it doesn't have much impact.

When they were outside, they saw the solar panels installed on the roof mountain. Lin Shen searched and found the controller on the kitchen wall. The small light on it was still flickering tenaciously.

In addition to electricity, there is also water. After Shi Yiran turned on the faucet in the yard, she saw the clear water flowing out after the rust-colored water. She stretched out her hand to catch it. The cool water was like a mountain spring. .

Lin Shen had already found a small basin and was ready to fetch water, Shi Yiran just stood up, walked to the side of the off-road vehicle, and took out a towel from the storage box in front of the passenger seat.

"Come on, use it as a rag."

Lin Shen nodded, and reached out to take the towel.She didn't intend to ask Shi Yiran to clean up with her. There are no rubber gloves here. After wiping the table, the rag needs to be washed. Lin Shen thinks that Shi Yiran will have a cleanliness attack.

Unexpectedly, Shi Yiran retracted her hand holding the towel, and said, "I'll get the knife and cut it off."

Then the two of them cleaned up together.

Lin Shen was stunned for a moment, and after Shi Yiran turned around, he reacted and immediately walked over, took the towel from Shi Yiran's hand, "I'll do it."

After she finished, she handed half of it to Shi Yiran, with some hesitation: "Do you want to clean it up with me?"

Shi Yiran glanced at her: "I still want to live with you."

No matter what Lin Shen's reaction was after speaking, he wet the towel and walked into the kitchen.

Lin Shen stood behind, looked at her flushed ears, and smiled.

It is said that working with men and women is not tiring, but Lin Shen feels that as long as he is with Shi Yiran, not only is he not tired, but his efficiency is also high.

The two of them worked inside and out for more than an hour, cleaning up the forest ranger station.Lin Shen found a bucket, put all the spoiled melons, fruits and food in it, and put it in the corner of the yard.

She thought, if she can deal with it later, maybe it can be used as fertilizer.

There is still a package of dried noodles in the kitchen, the outer packaging is still intact, and the expiration date has not expired, so dinner is also available.

"First heat and disinfect the pots and utensils we found today," Lin Shen thought about Shi Yiran's obsession with cleanliness, and arranged: "Then let's use those cooking noodles and those kitchen utensils left in the kitchen, and wait for a while , I’ll go down the mountain, find more dish soap, and deal with it later.”

Naturally, Shi Yiran had no objection. She was just standing aside, looking at Lin Shen holding the flint and steel removed from the engineering shovel, her eyes full of curiosity.

Lin Shen moved a stone and put it on the ground, and sat directly on it.She holds the flint and steel in her right hand and the tactical knife in her left, ready to start a fire.

And at her feet was a small pile of dry grass that she had pulled from the corner of the wall.

"This is a magnesium stick, right?" Shi Yiran asked as she watched the movement of her wrist flipping.

"Yes, those who are engaged in outdoor survival, or those who go camping will use this thing." After a few strokes, the sparks she drew out were attracted to the withered grass, "If the lighter in the kitchen didn't work, we wouldn't use this .Ah, Yiran, go get some water."

After she finished speaking, she filled the fire with some fine dry wood from the kitchen stove, and waited for the fire to burn more vigorously before she set up the hanging pot support.

Shi Yiran had already returned with half a pot of water. She hung the hanging pot on the hanging hook, and the tongue of fire below immediately licked the bottom of the pot frantically.

"You watch here, I'll go and see those tomatoes outside."

After a few instructions, Lin Shen threw two pieces of dry wood into the fire before standing up.She took two steps, and suddenly realized that the rock she was sitting on was bare, and immediately turned back, ready to find something to cushion it on.

But as soon as she turned around, she saw that Shi Yiran had already sat down, her face was glowing red with the light of the fire.

Perceived her movement from the corner of her eyes, Shi Yiran raised her head and bent her mouth: "What's the matter, aren't you going to see the tomatoes?"

"Yes, I'm going now..."

Seeing her dazed back, the expression on Shi Yiran's face softened even more.

It's just a cleanliness addiction. At this moment, how could Lin Shen be allowed to do everything by himself because of cleanliness.

After a while, Lin Shen came back with two medium-sized tomatoes. She squatted next to the faucet, washed the tomatoes, and said, "There are not a few good ones left, and many of them were bitten by bugs."

It took her a long time to find these two "perfect" tomatoes.

Shi Yiran looked at the tomatoes that Lin Shen handed over, she thought for a while, and said, "It's fine if you can eat it."

How can I ask for so much at this time.

After scalding the pot, Lin Shen reconnected the water and started to boil it.Shi Yiran cut the tomatoes into small pieces and put them directly into the pot after the water boiled.

Boil a handful of noodles and add some salt.

"What's this called, tomato noodle soup?"

Lin Shen moved another stone, put it next to Shi Yiran, sat on it, watched Shi Yiran stir the pot with chopsticks, and said with a smile.

"Yeah," Shi Yiran also joked, "Tomato noodle soup with no oil, no onion, ginger and garlic."