Lin Xi doesn't need a companion.

He frowned, his eyes resting on the person's tag.

The woman's tag was stuffed into the clothes, but judging from the embossed shape of the clothes, it was vaguely in the shape of a bone eaten by a dog.

She didn't seem to want people to recognize her identity, and she looked more like a skinny tomboy from the appearance.

The tomboy persisted in grabbing it, and the little freckles on the tip of his nose seemed to be laughing together, as if Lin Xi didn't agree, she wouldn't let go.

In the end, Lin Xi didn't respond, nor refused.

The woman's eyes lit up, she randomly packed the quilt and stuffed it under the tree to hide it, and picked up her iron bucket.

The iron bucket was thicker than her waist, and almost occupied most of her body.

But she was not too bulky at all, she carried it with a smile, and followed Lin Xi every step of the way.

The two went out of the city gate together and came to the foot of the city wall.

At this time, the sand was already full of people.After the fight last night, the ground was covered with the remains of giant toads, and the mutants had already occupied their respective territories, and began to cut and separate the fat bodies of the alien species.

Petroleum resources are scarce in this era, and the fat on the body of alien species will become one of the fuels to replace petroleum. Humans extract energy from fat bodies for human fuel and power generation, and maintain the technological civilization left over from the Holocene.

In this city, fat is also the raw material for trading among the mutants. People dig up the limbs of the alien species killed by the giant turtle, and exchange them for water, food and shelter on the turtle's back through the earthen house.

As a result, the strongest mutants occupy the fattest corpses;

Mutants with a team also circled the territory and divided labor in an orderly manner to mine lipids;

The remaining old, weak, sick and disabled mutants had no way to compete with the other mutants, so they slowly scraped the almost invisible fat under the skin in the worst place.

The wasteland is thousands of miles away, and the mutants are busy making a living in the desert at the corner of the city wall.

Lin Xi and the woman also came to the stump of a giant toad.

This stump is the dregs that the head gnawed, and the inside is rotten and rotten, and it is the rest of the place picked by other mutants.

The young man with the windbreaker took a few glances, then took out a knife and went to divide the fat body.

The woman dared not go forward.

Seeing the green archaea on the dregs, she hesitated standing outside with her trousers clenched.

But without fat, she would have no food and water today.

"Let me help you!" The woman quickly pushed her iron bucket up.

"I don't want much, just give me half a catty when this place is over," she said.

Lin Xi looked back at the tomboy.

The tomboy smiled at him again.

Lin Xi lowered her eyes, raised the knife in her hand, took out a piece of white fat from the residual body, and threw it into her bucket casually.

The weight of the fat block is unbiased, just half a catty.

The tomboy's smile stiffened.

She knew what the mutant in front of her meant, which meant "I'll give you half a catty, so you can get out."

But at the same time, she also discovered that this mutant was very skilled in fat-digging.

Today's food is obtained, but what about tomorrow's food, the day after tomorrow?

The woman's footsteps took root, and she felt a little reluctant to leave.

She looked at Lin Xi's back and began to seriously think about her future.

At this moment, the crowd in front suddenly screamed in horror.

"Run, run! The rodents are coming!"

Rodents are also different species. They are the evolution of mammal mice. They are not tall, but they are also one foot tall.

In the desert, these rodents usually travel in groups, looking for the carrion of other alien species.

Likewise, they prey on humans when the tasty flesh is present.

The woman's complexion changed, she turned her head quickly, and before she could see the group of rats clearly, the screams of the mutants exploded in the crowd.

A huge rat crawled onto the giant toad's corpse, grabbing a human by its forelimbs, and the rodents kept pecking and biting, eating the upper body of the human in a short while.

Next to the giant toad, [-] to [-] swarms of mice crossed the border like locusts, looking for food around.

The mutants who spotted the rats first managed to escape one or two, while the slow-moving mutants were captured by the group of small aliens and served as a meal before meals.

Almost half of the mutants died at the scene, with blood, internal organs, and limbs dripping all over the floor, as if the giant toad reappeared last night and fell into a hell on earth again.

The woman backed away in a panic, but the rats had already found her and Lin Xi's direction.

"Ah, ah, ah—don't come here! Don't come here!" She picked up the iron bucket and swung it over, but was thrown to the ground by inertia.

The mice swished around.

"Don't eat me, don't eat me, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..." The woman began to hold her head in despair again.

On the verge of death, every nerve became sensitive. She felt the bloody breath of the rodent close at hand, felt the tentacles of animals scratching her face, and even heard the sound of sharp knives cutting through the flesh. sound.

Death follows like a shadow.

She waited in fear, but the pain never came.

Instead, there was the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

She was so frightened that she opened her eyes tremblingly.

A huge mouse head fell before her eyes.

Archaea surged in the cut surface of the rodent's neck, and a person stood in front of her.

This person was wearing a windbreaker and holding a small knife in his hand. He was the young man who came here with her.

He blocked the archaea for her that shot out like a blowout in an instant with blood.

The woman was hoarse, and she looked at the other person's back with wide eyes.

But there were more rodents swarming over.

The young man in the windbreaker didn't seem to be seen, he held the knife behind his back, and greeted the swarming rats.

Whichever rodent came near, he killed it.

After a while, more than a dozen mice were disemboweled by his knife.

The woman was dumbfounded.

The alien races also became frightened. They felt the horror of the human beings in front of them and began to gradually spread out.

All of a sudden, there are fewer people and fewer alien species.

The giant toad's body collection site suddenly seemed empty.

The woman swallowed belatedly, and quickly looked at the mutant who had saved her.

But the mutant didn't intend to continue chasing, he swung the knife in his hand, drained the blood off the knife, turned around and collected the fat again.

His technique was very accurate and fast, and after a while, the 30-jin iron bucket was already full of raw materials.

But he still didn't stop, and took the iron bucket from the mutant who died nearby.

After 10 minutes, he cut another bucket of fat and continued to look for the next target.

The woman sat on the ground and stared blankly. After a long while, she finally came to her senses, stood up and walked across the area that might be infected with archaea, and began to collect barrels of dead people.

She put them at Lin Xi's feet.

Lin Xi took a look.

The woman immediately grinned.

"Hey, hey, brother, let me help you." She repeated again, showing a row of white teeth in a friendly manner.

Lin Xi: "."

There are hypocritical ghosts in women's eyes.

Lin Xi frowned, did not answer, nor refused.

Three hours later, he disassembled half of the giant toad carcass, and extracted the fat of the rodent, making enough for twenty iron buckets.

An iron bucket is a month's food for a normal human being. Right now, these things are enough for a person to spend a full year in the city in abundance.

The woman looked envious for a while, and before leaving, she picked out a cart from some dead pile, and struggled to carry these iron drums full of fat lumps onto the cart.

This was originally a man's job, but this time, due to an accident, Lin Xi didn't make any further moves.

He pressed his stomach alone, propped up on the corpse of the alien species next to him, and bent over to retch.

What he vomited was still clear water, and when he couldn't vomit anymore, he vomited a mouthful of blood before getting up indiscriminately.

The tomboy couldn't help being stunned as he moved and watched.

She hesitated for a while, then took out a handkerchief from her pocket and handed it over.

"This one is clean." She thought for a while and said.

Lin Xi paused, but did not answer.

The woman grunted, and slowly put the handkerchief back.

"My name is Aye, Yaoyye." She introduced herself and asked again, "Brother, you are amazing! What should I call you?"

Lin Xi still didn't speak. With a pale face, he stood up again and grabbed the rope on the cart, and began to pull the goods.

Seeing this, Ah Ye hurried over to push the cart.

"Since you don't want to say it, I think you have white hair, so I'll call you Brother Bai, okay?"

Lin Xi didn't say "yes" or "bad".

"Brother Bai!" A Yi immediately called out again.

Lin Xi slightly tilted her head.

The two of them went back to the city one after the other, and came to the hall of the earthen house.

The dwarf boy was still received in the hall.

He counted the raw materials that Lin Xi brought this time, and paid Lin Xi five gold coins and seventy silver coins in total.

"As expected of you." He seemed to have expected this result.

"Can I change something?" Lin Xi ignored it.

"of course can."

The dwarf boy turned around and opened the huge cabinet behind him, presenting the exhibits one by one.

"What do you want?" Among the dazzling array of goods, the dwarf asked with his hand in his hand.

On the shelves, gold, silver and jewelry reflect colorful light, and there is a cold light in the cold, as well as human food and clothing, almost everything that one expects to find.

In contrast, Lin Xi's complexion looked gloomy.

"I want seeds." He had a pale face and chapped lips. "Crops sown in spring and autumn, seeds that are resistant to cold and drought."

"That's a bit expensive." The dwarf replied, "There are not many plants that can survive without being infected these days."

Lin Xi directly pushed forward five gold coins.

The dwarf immediately and readily took out the supplies.

Five packs of seeds, like hope for the future.

Lin Xi opened it, his face was very sick now, and his hands began to tremble, but he still checked carefully one by one.

Every grain seemed precious to him.

The dwarf decided to take care of another small customer first.

He came to A Yi.

Tomboy's things are much simpler, and she heroically bid 30 silver coins: "I want clean water, clean food, and clean beds."

This time her iron bucket was also full of fat lumps. After the "intimate conversation" with Brother Bai along the way, the other party did not take her bucket for himself.

She feels like a nouveau riche now, and she no longer wants to live in fear outside.

She happily browsed the shelves, and suddenly found a crystal test tube in the corner on the right.

"What is that?!" Her eyes lit up again immediately.

The test tube is shiny, and it contains a blue liquid, just like the rumored color of the free sea.

"It's the experimental reagent from the other side, number DL18-09." The dwarf reached out and put the reagent in front of the guest.

A Ye took the reagent and looked under the light, and saw the crystal clear blue from the glass container.

"It's beautiful!" she sighed heartily. "Can I buy it?"

However, someone interrupted her shopping.

"That's the test product of the second-generation mutants from the other side. None of the people who tested the DL18 reagent survived, and you can only buy it as an ornamental item, and you can't break it." The voice of the person who answered was cold. Lin Xi on the side.

A Yi was taken aback, only to see that her "brother Bai" had already tested his seeds, he covered his abdomen with one hand, and wrapped the seeds carefully with the other hand.

A Yi frowned, and immediately returned the things.

"Why would someone create mutants in this world!" She muttered in a low voice, a little resentful.

"Be content, mutants can make human beings survive for another 100 years, thanks to the gift of human xenomorphs." The dwarf boy said with his eyes hanging.

"Why 100 years?"

"The infection failure rate of women is 100%, and mutants cannot reproduce."

She has heard about the failure rate of women's infection, but she doesn't understand other things.

She doesn't intend to get entangled here.

She felt that once the silver coin was fully loaded, there would be a second time, and it was better for her to hug Brother Bai's thigh.

Brother Bai has a balance of 70 silver coins.

A Yi thought that she might still have a room.

She thought, smiling and looking at the white-haired young man with a windbreaker.

But what happened next made her startled again.

She saw Lin Xi with trembling hands, took out a syringe from his pocket, and gave himself an intravenous injection.

But this couldn't stop his decline. He tried his best to stand by the wall of the counter, but his body slowly slid along the wall.

His windbreaker also slipped off, revealing a pretty face, his forehead and neck were covered with fine cold sweat.

"Brother Bai, what's wrong with you?" A Ye was shocked, and quickly supported Lin Xi.

"Water, water..." Lin Xi panted heavily with her head down, and only said two words with difficulty.

Aye was confused for a while.

At this moment, the dwarf boy poked his head out and smiled.

"His nutrition has been drained, and he has to recover some storage, otherwise he will die soon."

"What?" A Yi was taken aback, "Then what should I do?"

The dwarf boy smiled: "It's nothing, just put him in the water and try."

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