Scrap iron

"General Xue, let me close the door."

Xue Dan gave him a warning look, and said sharply, "Come back after closing."

Tang Xiaopu was wearing cotton trousers, so it was difficult to step, so he could only walk back to the highest step step by step, closed the door under Xue Dan's supervision, and turned around to Xue Dan's side.

Xue Dan's face softened a little, and he turned around and strode towards the insulation shed.

Tang Xiaopu followed Xue Dan all the way to the outside of No. [-] insulation shed on Liming Island, and looked up.

The light gray semi-circular building crouched in the valley plain, almost merging with the frost on the ground.

Xue Dan pointed to the insulation shed and said to Tang Xiaopu: "You go in, I told Lord Shen in the No. [-] shed, it will take you to work, I have to go to other places."

Tang Xiaopu agreed, followed the direction Xue Dan pointed, walked to the low door of the insulation shed, raised his hand and knocked.

The door opened, and "Master Shen" was also wrapped in cotton clothes. Tang Xiaopu's impression of her was that she was all pink from head to toe.When Master Shen saw that it was Tang Xiaopu, he was overjoyed: "Finally someone came to help."

She grabbed Tang Xiaopu, led him into the insulation shed, and hastily closed the low door that let in the air-conditioning.

Due to the rapid drop in temperature, there was no time to repair the insulation shed, only a large number of gauze pieces divided the interior into small spaces.

Lord Shen said to Tang Xiaopu: "The main target of our work is iron men. Compared with humans, they are more sensitive to temperature changes. Now even in the heat preservation shed, most iron men can't move. You walk and watch, and you will see When you see an Iron Man who is not in the right condition, go to the east and get some warm bags for him."

Tang Xiaopu digested this passage in his mind, and said in disbelief: "We want to take care of Iron Man?"

Lord Shen glanced at him from the pincer between the scarf and hat: "Yes, it seems that General Xue didn't tell you."

Tang Xiaopu didn't say a word, his face was very smelly.

Master Shen said flatly: "If you can't accept it, leave. I don't know why General Xue sent you here, but I only accept people who are willing to work."

After she finished speaking, she really left Tang Xiaopu in the same place, and walked into the No. 36 compartment not far away by herself, and disappeared behind the fluttering gauze.

Tang Xiaopu clenched his back teeth.He stood on the spot for more than ten minutes, his body was a little cold, so he started to walk around in the insulation shed.

Most of the compartments facing the aisle are opened. When Tang Xiaopu passed the first compartment, a pair of human father and daughter were arguing;

When passing by the second compartment, an iron man curled himself up into a quilt ball. Because he didn’t need to breathe, he didn’t even expose his nostrils, but Tang Xiaopu saw a piece of iron on his side that was accidentally exposed. .

The boy in the third compartment opened the gauze next to him and was playing poker with the iron man in the fourth compartment;

The fifth, sixth, and seventh compartments are connected together, and there are many humanoid creatures in cotton clothes and trousers lying in them, sleeping next to each other.

Since none of them moved or exposed parts, Tang Xiaopu couldn't tell which of them was human and which was Iron Man.

The eighth compartment is an iron man, because it is walking back and forth, and when it sees Tang Xiaopu, it greets him enthusiastically.

Where did the iron man who lived on Dawn Island come from?As he walked through cubicle after cubicle, Tonshop wondered if they were the ones that had been stationed next to Dawn Island all along, and they didn't actually have human blood on their hands.

Tang Xiaopu suddenly saw an iron man shrunk in the quilt, and it looked very bad.

He walked over in a strange way and asked, "Do you need help?" The iron man opened his empty eyes and did not answer.

Tang Xiaopu frowned, recalling what Shen Ye said, he hesitated to go east, his pace became faster and faster, and finally he ran wildly.

His actions caught the attention of other people in the cubicle, and someone howled, "Warm bag!"

Those who heard it howled: "Warm bag!"

The partition of the "emergency department" on the east side opened with a click, and when Tonchopp ran to him, a gloved hand just protruded from it, only a small section of metallic color was exposed at the wrist.

That hand was holding three warm bags, and the owner of the hand shouted from behind the partition: "Come here!"

Tang Xiaopu quickly took it over: "Thank you."

The owner of the hand said: "No thanks, I should thank you." The partition closed again with a click.

Tang Xiaopu didn't know what was going on in his heart, he ran back carrying the water bag, and when he reached the aisle, he saw Master Shen directing people to carry the iron man out of the compartment he had just come out of.

Master Shen turned his head to look at the warm bag in his hand, sighed, and patted him on the shoulder: "I'm sorry, I made you catch up with the first iron man who couldn't hold on."

"It...is gone?" Tang Xiaopu said slowly.

"Well, it's gone." Master Shen said.The iron man was carried by four people, and walked from the aisle to the low door.

"Isn't the iron man dying only if his head is decapitated?" Tang Xiaopu felt like a fool carrying a warm bag.

Master Shen looked up at him, and Tang Xiaopu saw pity in her eyes.

People who saw this scene and Iron Man poked their heads out of the compartment one after another, either in shock or calmly watching the four-member funeral procession leave.

Lord Shen said in a low voice: "If you want to reduce the occurrence of this kind of scene, just turn around and continue working."

Xue Dan knocked on the door of No. [-] insulation shed at night.

Master Shen opened the door for him: "Why are you here again? Want to see that lost soul?"

Xue Dan shook his head: "If I don't go in, just ask him."

Lord Shen rolled his eyes at him: "He couldn't be better, don't open the door to burn off calories if you don't go in." After finishing speaking, Lord Shen closed the low door in front of Xue Dan.

Master Shen didn't yell at Tang Xiaopu to himself, it seems that Tang Xiaopu really blended into it.

Xue Dan confidently flew to his hut——

It was a good thing, he thought, that Tonshop didn't know that he was living in the cabin, too.

However, Xue Dan's hut has received special care from Lucas, and its insulation performance is much better than that of Tang Xiaopu's dilapidated house.Although it can't compare with the insulation shed, it can't freeze to death.

Xue Dan fell outside the gate.The surface of the hut's yard is covered with hoarfrost, and the steps are like three rice cakes, stuck to the hard ice.There is also a red bean inlaid on the top rice cake.

That red bean is Chen Siqian curled up.

"Mrs. Chen! Why did you come to Liming Island!" Xue Dan shouted.

Hongdou trembled twice, stretched her limbs, and stood on the steps: "I don't want to go in, I just want to tell you face to face, I'm leaving soon, and the rest can only be left to Lucas."

Xue Dan froze on the bottom step.

Chen Siqian tremblingly said: "My body can't stand such a low temperature, I must be the first batch of humans to leave."

"I want to go back to the old continent by myself." Chen Siqian said, "I still miss the Elo River, the white church/church and the sound of the choir."

"I have prepared a boat for myself in North Island, and the supplies on board are also fully equipped."

"I'll leave after I finish talking to you."

Xue Dan swallowed, his limbs went numb, and he murmured, "I'll take you to Beidao."

Chen Siqian smiled: "Okay."

In order to save Mrs. Chen's little time, Xue Dan stopped the boat from Liming Island on the south coast of Beidao.

He originally wanted to fly to the north bank with Chen Po on his back, but the moment he landed, he remembered that the North Island had been washed by corrosive liquid once, and the iron pillars on the island were probably too damaged to form a complete communication line.

So Chen Siqian took the initiative: "You can go back by the boat next to me, I will go north by myself."

Xue Dan looked at Chen Siqian's muddy eyes under the package, blinked his dry eyes, and cleared his throat: "Okay, Mrs. Chen... be careful all the way."

Chen Siqian smiled and said, "I will be careful."

Xue Dan then walked from the bridge to another boat. After the bridge was unloaded, the two boats drifted away from each other with the waves.

Chen Siqian waved to Xue Dan from a distance.

Looking at the thin body outlined by the cotton-padded clothes, Xue Dan suddenly seemed to have returned to the time when Granny Chen was young.

At that time, Chen Siqian was writing novels in front, and the migrants gathered behind her to read, wishing their eyes would grow on her animal skin notebook.

The crew behind asked Xue Dan: "General, shall we go?"

Xue Dan turned his head: "Let's go."

A few years later, Lucas led a boat of corpses to the north, and saw a boat stuck in the ice and a human-shaped ice sculpture on the bow not far from the north shore of North Island.

He bowed to the ice sculpture and continued to walk north.

91. Farewell

The coolness of Heart Island sand seeping through the soles of Lucas' cotton boots, slowly and unnoticeably numb his feet the soles of his feet.

The southerly wind mixed with the easterly wind created a wave of sea waves, biting a small piece of skin around his eyes, ignoring the thick cotton coat on his body, and shamelessly rushed from under Lucas' waist and waist to behind him .

At the end of the line of sight, a huge alloy ship rose up from the sea level.Then, one ship after another with high cabins seemed to break through the mirage of silence, silently appearing from the horizon following the giant ship.

They sailed for a long time, Lucas looked at them in a daze, as if in a blink of an eye, this huge fleet arrived in front of him.

Anchor and take a ladder.

Xue Dan jumped from the high side of the ship onto the beach in two steps.

It has been a month since Chen Siqian left. Xue Dan told him the day before yesterday that the exploration fleet led by Zhou Yishang returned to Liming Island, and seemed to have found a way to the "snow field over there".

Xue Dan is going to leave with one-third of the human race, desperately looking for the water route—or land route, or celestial route.

Xue Dan took Zhou Yishang away, but he couldn't say anything about Tang Xiaopu leaving, so he had to let Tang Xiaopu continue to work in the No. [-] insulation shed.

He linked the Bronze Plate with Lucas, and then gave the New World Islands to Lucas.

Xue Dan still walked towards Lucas with big strides and fast as when they first met. He stopped two meters away from Lucas, stared at Lucas for a long time, his eyes were a little red, and walked towards him. In front of him, he pulled Lucas' hat down: "I'm leaving."

Lukas looked at Xue Dan and always felt that the collar of his cotton coat was leaking, so he stretched out his hand to tighten it for him: "It's okay, I'll stay."

The two were relatively speechless.

Xue Dan's eyes were red, he turned his head, sniffed his nose, and said with a sullen smile: "Because of the low temperature, my nose has never stopped running, it's hard work."

Lucas suddenly thought of something: "Wait for me here for a while—I wasn't used to the temperature a while ago, and my nose was running all the time, so I made some softer tissues myself, and I'll get you a few bags."

Xue Dan stared at him blankly, and after a long time said with a tight voice: "Okay, you go and come back quickly."

Lucas hurriedly turned around and ran up the slope.

Panting, he returned to the research room in the low ground, took out the box under the bed, rummaged through boxes and chests to find a big sack, folded all the tissues in several boxes neatly in the sack, tied the mouth of the bag with a thick rope, and quickly He rushed out of the research room in a hurry, passed through the withered forest and the frozen river, and ran down the big hillside covered with hoarfrost.

There is no one on the beach, and the giant ship and its fleet have set sail and are still disappearing into the sky like a mirage.

The knife-like sea breeze blew up smoky white sand, smoothed the sharp dry grass leaves on the hillside, and pulled back the sack in Lucas's hand.

Then Xue Dan...it takes such a long time to walk on the waterway, and you can rest assured that everything is ready. Why didn't he leave without a tissue?

Lucas watched the fleet disintegrate into a black mass and slowly dissipate in the sky.

It seemed like a long time later, the sun was slowly sinking to the west, and it was going to set soon. The cold in the night did not allow any creatures to move outside.

So Lucas habitually lifted the sack and walked back, uphill, across the river, and back to the house.

He put the sack next to the table, untied the rope, put the paper towels back in the box one by one, and pushed the box back under the bed.

Night has come.

No one expected that both Lucas and Chen Siqian's predictions went wrong. The temperature did not stop after a month as shown by the data, but continued to drop precipitously from time to time.

——Later, Lucas took a little selfishness when dating history, and he set the beginning of the second dark decade as the day Xue Dan left.

Xue Dan would contact Lucas from time to time, but Lucas didn't know why and didn't want to contact Xue Dan.

He devoted himself to the research of thermal insulation measures, and went to Nandao Island, Central Island and Liming Island once a week to check the conditions of each insulation shed.

When Xue Dan contacted him, Lucas would always feel bored, so he never mentioned that his eyes had problems again, and his joints began to ache from time to time. Instead, he reported to Xue Dan how stable the situation in the New World Islands was. .

Later, from an unknown date, Xue Dan never contacted Lucas again, and Lucas could not contact Xue Dan.

One day, when Lucas went to inspect the heat preservation sheds on Dawn Island as usual, he found that each heat preservation shed was carrying Iron Man out one after another.

Lucas saw Tang Xiaopu standing in front of the No. [-] insulation shed from a distance. He was hunched over, with a lot of white hair on his temples, leaning against the outer wall of the insulation shed, facing an iron man lying at his feet. daze.

Lucas approached and saw the iron man's iconic pink suit: "Master Shen?"

There was a little shock in Tang Xiaopu's eyes, and he said hoarsely, "Yes."

You don't need to ask Tang Xiaopu, Lucas can see that, I'm afraid the iron men can't hold on any longer.

"Your empire has collapsed like this, are you willing?" Tang Xiaopu asked Lucas.

"There's nothing to be reconciled to." Lucas said, "My country//home has collapsed a long time ago."

After a while, someone finally came and carried Master Shen away.

Tang Xiaopu said: "I want to go to Bian Er Island."

Lucas had almost figured out how Li Jiu died, and it was not surprising that he asked Tang Xiaopu: "Go if you want."

Tang Xiaopu looked back at No. [-] thermal insulation shed: "Then I will go in first and tell you, and I will follow your boat to Bian [-] Island later." After speaking, he bent down and entered the short door.

Lucas didn't wait long outside, and Tang Xiaopu walked out with his back bent like before: "Let's go."

Lucas checked the operation status of each insulation shed as usual, and after confirming that there was no problem, he took Tang Xiaopu back to the ship.

They went all the way south, slept on the boat for one night, checked the insulation shed on the central island, and stayed on the central island for another night.

When walking from the hollow belt to Nanda Island, Lucas put Tang Xiaopu on Bianer Island.

Tang Xiaopu took Lucas's frozen fish and a bucket of fresh water, thanked Lucas, quickly got down the ladder, walked through the narrow rocky beach, and walked into the infinite city along a gap in the city wall. People's side two islands.

Lucas was inexplicably panicked, and he shouted at Tang Xiaopu's back: "You remember to contact me to pick you up!"

Tang Xiaopu didn't reply, his staggering figure was covered by the city wall, and he never appeared again.

Lucas had to continue sailing to Nanda Island.

The situation on the three big islands is basically the same, with Iron Man being wiped out by the falling temperature.

Lucas still returns to his heart-shaped island.

Repeated days always pass very quickly. When Lucas remembered Tang Xiaopu again, it was already a few weeks later.

He hurriedly drove the boat to Bian'er Island, and when Lucas found Tang Xiaopu on Bian'er Island, he was curled up next to Li Jiu's grave, his body covered with hoarfrost.

Lucas went to check on Tonshop's breath and heartbeat, and as expected, Tonshop had been frozen to death.

Lucas was very calm in his heart, he dug up Li Jiu's tomb with a trace of compassion, and buried Tang Xiaopu in it.

After restoring the tomb, he straightened up and looked around at the city wall that was at the same height as his high ground and the quiet sea outside the city wall.Lucas didn't have any desire/desire in his heart.

He decided to check around the heat preservation shed by the way, from Bian Er Island directly to Central Da Island, and then around to Liming Island.Nanda Island can take a rest on Heart-shaped Island for one night before going.

Xue Dan left for a whole year without any news, but the low temperature was enough to freeze to death the elderly and children in the insulation shed.

Finally, when Lucas went to check the No. [-] insulation shed again, someone asked him: "Has General Xue found a way out, but he can't come to pick us up again?"

Lucas remembered that he told these people about Xue Dan's sea trip when Xue Dan had just left for a month——

Half of it is that Xue Dan has not shown up for too long, and Lucas doesn't want to make up other lies;

Half of it was to give the iron men who were already struggling at that time a little hope of survival.

Lucas once saw an iron man who had just been rescued by a warm bag hold the hand of a boy in the next cubicle, and said earnestly, it doesn't matter if it is dead, the boy must persevere, persevere, and he will be able to wait for Xue Dan to come back.

Lucas said: "Impossible, Xue Dan will definitely come back, but I don't know how long it will take."

He was sure from the bottom of his heart that Xue Dan would definitely come back, so the words he said were very credible, and the people who eavesdropped here from various compartments retracted their ears with confidence.

Although this sentence can tentatively calm people's hearts, Lucas quickly understood that people would not be able to hold on for long—probably not until Xue Dan came back.

Lucas decided to take the few living humans who were still in good condition to go out to sea, sailing in the "southeast direction" that Xue Dan said.

He engraved a message for Xue Dan on the statue of the migrant outside the port of Liming Island, and he left with confidence.

The fleet sailed southeast close to the big central island. Lucas stood at the stern in the evening when he left the big central island. He saw the big central island lying on the gray water like black corpses. The land of hope reclaimed in the past year was abandoned by history in less than a year.

A crew member, Trierk, who was fairly familiar with Lucas, walked out of the cabin, looked at the central island, and said, "I was born on the central island."

"Aren't you in charge of No. [-] heat preservation shed on Dawn Island?" Lucas casually said, "And then went to Dawn Island to develop?"

"Of course." Trierke said, "At that time, Migrant was our childhood idol. We had the opportunity to go to Liming Island to meet General Xue, Uncle Li Jiu and Tang Xiaopu, Miss Chen and Akeel, but The lifelong wish of those of us who were born in the islands of the New World."

"So did you see it?" Lucas asked.

"I've seen them all." Trierke smiled under the scarf. "When I went back to the big central island, I used to brag with our boys, and they couldn't envy them."

Lucas finally smiled a little: "I still envy this kind of thing when I grow up."

"How can you not be envious." Triac patted Lucas on the shoulder and said, "I've seen this now, Mr. the big villain we identified in our hearts back then, I can blow it up with them again when I go back."

"What are you bragging about?" Lucas said, "The big villain has a handsome face?"

Triac smiled and pointed upwards: "The big villain is not that powerful, at least he can't go to heaven like us, and has to suffer down there."

After he finished speaking, he patted Lucas on the shoulder and turned back to the cabin.

92. Mushroom Island

"Sir! Island! Island! Finally see the island!"

—Who’s in Triok next to Lucas—

"Sir! Island! Island! Finally see the island!"

Triac, who was sleeping next to Lucas, heard the roar in his dream, lifted the quilt, grabbed a scarf and wrapped it around his neck, and rushed out of the cabin without cotton shoes.

In the aisle, he came across a well-dressed Lucas, who was straightening his crooked blue-gray scarf with his head down.

"What kind of scarf are you doing? It's been half a year, big villain, go and see what kind of island it is!"

Trierk hammered Lucas's back from behind, and Lucas looked back at him without moving, and said with a smile: "Okay."

"You're so calm." Trierk gave Lucas a thumbs up, half pushed Lucas up the steps, he couldn't wait to jump onto the deck, and squeezed into a group of "cotton coats" who were leaning on the railing and looking forward ", Stretching their necks and looking into the distance.

Lucas stood at the back of the crowd, squinting in the morning cold.

The boat sailed steadily toward the big island.Soon, there was a burst of exclamation from the crowd, and Triac shouted back at Lucas: "Two islands! One big and one small!"

Lucas nodded with a smile.

Someone followed Triek and turned around, saw Lucas standing behind the crowd, and squeezed to both sides to make room for Lucas.

Lucas walked to Triac smoothly, and finally saw the whole picture of the two islands.

The small island was closer to them, but perhaps people's attention was attracted by the big island at first, so they didn't see the small island for the first time.

As the boat moved forward, the shape of the big island gradually became clear. From a distance, it looked like a little boy lying on his back on the sea and wearing a cotton hat, while the small island beside the little boy island looked like a small island standing on the sea. On the mushroom, its "cap" grows abruptly from the "stipe" to the four sides, forming a strange landscape.

Lucas connected the bronze and let the boat stop on the shore of Mushroom Island first.

But just when everyone was approaching Mushroom Island with great anticipation, something suddenly hit under the bottom of the boat, and the hull groaned unbearably, and got stuck.

"Sir, the cryogenic layer here is higher than the surrounding ones, and the water depth is too shallow for boats to go in." Bronze Sheet responded helplessly.

Lucas replied: "Lay out the lifeboat first, and I will take some people to the island to have a look. You can drive the boat back for a while before anchoring."

There should be next.

Lucas loudly explained the reason why the ship stopped to the restless crowd on the deck, and then connected the bronze sheet, and ordered a few people in charge of the insulation shed to follow him to investigate the situation.

Lucas called Trierk to put down the lifeboat. Trierk understood what he was going to do, and took the lead to go down the emergency alloy ladder into the boat, and Lucas jumped into the lifeboat immediately after.Soon, the remaining four people also came from the cabin and boarded the kayak.

The six people paddled into the high frozen sea, and the boat behind them slowly turned around.

Triac stared at the boat immediately, his neck was about to break, he poked Lucas: "Why did you go back?"

Lucas replied in a moderate voice: "I'm afraid that the low-temperature frozen layer will expand outwards, so let them drive back for a certain distance first."

"Understood." Triok nodded.He asked this question not only for himself, but also worried that the other four people on the boat would feel uneasy.Lucas understood his intentions, and the volume was just enough for the other four to hear clearly.

After all, the heat preservation of the kayak is not as good as that of a big boat. The five infected people paddled half of the trip and were a little tired. Lucas simply let three of them go to rest, and the remaining two and these three people rowed in shifts.

Fortunately, this distance is not long. They took about seven or eight shifts and finally landed at Mushroom Island.

The mushroom island is full of hoarfrost, and the oversized mushroom umbrellas block most of the sunlight. The trunks and branches in the dark are like sharp swords pointing directly at the mushroom caps.

The six of them walked around the stipe for a long time without gaining anything. The faces of Triek and the other four were obviously a little bad, and Lucas stopped.

Five people stopped behind him.

Lucas looked up at the stipe that towered into the sky, and said to the five people: "You go to the leeward place to rest for a while, and I will go to the top of the fungus to have a look."

The others did not try to be brave, so they all complied.Trieck said to Lucas: "Be careful."

Lucas rolled his eyes: "Don't worry."

He watched the five people walk into the dark place of the dry forest, walked a short distance around the stipe, found a gentle slope, and placed an iron needle evenly every 100 meters from the coast to the bottom of the stipe, Prevent the stamina from falling from the bottom of the cap.

If it was Xue Dan, Zhou Yishang, or Tatyana, they might be able to push the needles on the ground directly to the height of the mushroom.Unfortunately, Lucas thought, he knew he couldn't.

After Lucas probably took protective measures, he began to climb.

The climbing process was more difficult than he had imagined, but luckily he didn’t fall down. Lucas gritted his teeth, grabbed the rock depression at the bottom of the mushroom cap, and moved to the edge of the mushroom cap bit by bit, panting slightly. , turned over to the mushroom cap in one go.

Contrary to Lucas' expectations, the top of the mushroom cap was covered with not-so-shallow soil, and densely packed dead forests grew crookedly from the feet to an invisible distance.

Using Little Boy Island as a reference, Lucas determined his approximate location, and stepped on the dry soil into the dead woods.

He walked slowly in order to make sure that he checked every inch of soil on the mushroom cap. Lucas mentally estimated the approximate area of ​​the mushroom cap and realized that he would not be able to explore it all today.

He sent bronze letters to Trierk and the captain respectively, telling them that he might have to stay on the mushroom cap for a while, and asked Trierk and the others to return to the big ship first.

After Lucas sent the bronze message, he continued to move forward.

"Okay first..."

Um?Why did the captain only say half of what he said?Lucas straightened up alertly: "What's wrong?"

After half a minute, the captain replied helplessly: "Sir, our ship is still frozen in the sea by the cryogenic layer."

"The low-temperature frozen layer has just suddenly expanded outwards, and it has covered all the sea surface within my line of sight."

So fast?Lucas took a little run-up, grabbed the branches and climbed up the tallest dead tree nearby, looking out to the sea.

Thousands of miles frozen.The sunlight passing through the clouds is reflected like a holy light.

He saw the ship trapped and immobile in the sparkling white light, like a stuffed ant in the center of the light.

Lucas exhaled slightly, and his vision was immediately blurred by the exaggerated white mist.Only then did he belatedly feel that the temperature had dropped a lot.

"You stabilize the emotions of the people on board first. If the situation is still optimistic, you can send a group of people to Little Boy Island to check the situation. Remember to return to the ship before it gets dark and cool down. The rest of the people should stay on the ship for the time being. move."

"receive."

Lucas jumped off the branch and continued to probe forward.

After more than 20 minutes, as he expected, Triek yelled and sent him a bronze message: "Mr. Villain, the sea is frozen to death. Now, we can only go back on foot!"

"Good luck," Lucas replied.

He continued to walk forward, carefully observing every scene he passed.He always felt that there was something wrong with the cap.

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"Sir, the mood of the people on board has basically stabilized."

"Got it, I'll send these people to Little Boy Island immediately."

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"Mr. Villain, we're on the boat, we're freezing to death."

"No, there is no one missing, but my feet are numb like a column, and I almost fell in front of the people in charge."

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"I am Li, the leader of the infected team that went to explore Little Boy Island. I am sorry to cooperate with you. Although I hate you to the bone, I will be responsible for this operation."

"Received, I will report the situation at any time."

"No, nothing unusual."

"Yes sir, still nothing unusual."

"Sorry sir, we only explored a small part of Little Boy Island."

"Yes, the part we investigated is indeed the part you speculated!"

"Thank you, we will return right now."

"Sir, all of us have returned to the ship safely, please pay attention to rest, good night."

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Lucas found a leeward spot, curled up in a ball, built a fire, and fell asleep with half-closed eyes.

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"Haha, today I am leading the team, yesterday that guy's attitude towards you has changed so much, it's incredible, his brother lives with his parents in Xiaotou Island - understand what I mean? You have enough charm, It is worthy of being the human who conquered/conquered Iron Man."

"I'm going back to the boat. Damn, the temperature has dropped again today. Thanks to your reminder, we left a little earlier."

"No, someone is in shock and is still in first aid."

"People are gone."

"I know, thank you for comforting me, I don't blame myself."

"Well, I know, you should also pay more attention, and don't mess around just because you are a so-called god."

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"Good morning sir, I am leading the team today."

"The villain is here again, are you surprised?"

"Good morning sir, we have set off."

"Mr. Morning, today is a team of 11. The captain said that you will let me and Triek hand over to you directly, so I will briefly report to you about the situation of today's team."

"Are you awake? As soon as the mother arrived, Lao Tzu's team cooled down. I brought six people with me today. Don't blame me. Li asked me to adjust and said that I don't need too many people to explore the terrain today."

……

"Good morning, sir."

"Good morning." Lucas replied.

He carefully swept away the soil, and saw a piece of flesh-colored skin hidden underneath.

"Today is a team of eight, and the team members are..."

Lucas hurriedly swept the soil around, and slowly, a complete arm was exposed to the air.This arm seems familiar?

"Hopefully I can get something out of it today."

"Thanks a lot."

Lucas took the arm and tugged it outward.

"It's not hard, sir, pay attention to rest."

"You too, your personal safety should be your top priority."

Finally, the person who was buried under the ground was pulled out from the ground. Her eyes were open, her face was a little swollen, her limbs were stiff, and her cotton-padded clothes and trousers were thrown into the soil beside her. Her skin was red and exposed, and the corner of her mouth was slightly The upward movement seemed to be due to the excessive cold, and some phantasms appeared before her death that made her feel very happy.

"Thank you sir."

This female corpse is Zhou Yishang.

93. Those left behind

What's going on here?

Lucas thought about Zhou Yishang's body.

—— Xue Dan and the others are willing to—

What's going on here?

Lucas thought about Zhou Yishang's body.

Xue Dan and the others must have encountered some accidents here, but for some reason, Zhou Yishang——

Perhaps it was due to her own wish, or perhaps it was due to an irresistible external force-being trapped here and freezing to death, or being transferred to the top of Mushroom Island after being frozen to death elsewhere.

Will Zhou Yishang stay in the New World Islands because of his nostalgia for Kajima?

Lucas checked Zhou Yishang's body and found nothing else, so he simply buried Zhou Yishang and set off again.

Relying on the small amount of dry food he carried and his "god" physique, he survived for more than a month. After carefully inspecting the mushroom island caps, he found nothing.

Lucas suspected that he hadn't found the variable that he should have found, maybe it was a matter of the date - what month did Xue Dan go?

It seems to be July.It's only May.Lucas intends to stay here and wait, but his dry food and physical strength do not allow him to continue to consume on the mushroom cap.

His line just looped, so Lucas was standing exactly where he had climbed up after the scouting was over.

Little Boy Island has also been walked by the exploration team two or three times, and like Lucas' side, there is no progress at all.

The icy air froze between the white sky and the sea, Lucas' physical energy and heat had reached the point where he could not make ends meet, and his fingertips and toes were already numb.

He tidied up his cotton coat and scarf, opened his arms, and fell straight from the edge of the mushroom cap to the ground as if he wanted to embrace the ground.

The wind was so cold that Lucas squinted his eyes.

The iron needles on the ground were still in their original places. Lucas stretched out his palm, found the right angle and pushed it down gently, falling under the mushroom cap.

He stepped on the frozen sea with his cotton boots and walked in the direction of Little Boy Island.

"Triok, Basen wants to stay." The team members rushed to the back half of Triok, who was walking in front, and whispered to Triok's left ear.

Triek's footsteps stopped suddenly, he took a deep breath, and turned around.

Ba Sen stood at the end of the line, his whole body was wrapped in cotton-padded clothes, trousers and boots, and it was impossible to tell what his current condition was.But Triac could see Basen's almost slackened eyes.

Obviously it's going to be freezing.

Trierke pushed aside the players on both sides, strode up to Basen, and carried Basen on his back without saying a word.

Triac's physical strength was a little overdrawn, and his knees bent unbearably.With a muffled snort, he hastily retreated half a step, steadied his horse, gritted his teeth and carried Basen on his back properly: "Go!