A hunting adventure [unlimited]

Canyon is a great place.

It has pleasant scenery, tranquility and serenity. In the past, it was a paradise for travelers to forget the fatigue of travel and worldly troubles; but now, it is the last place of refuge that has not been hit by disasters.

Even God can't find a second place on earth that is more livable than a canyon.

No one wants to protect it.

The residents of the canyon don't think about the future. They go to the church to pray together on weekends, hoping that the gods will show signs and save the world from fire and water.Specific to the actual fantasy, it is about expecting that one day the monsters will encounter a terrible natural/natural/disaster/disaster, such as volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes, and all of them will be extinct directly, just like dinosaurs.

Or their natural enemies are bred in the sky and the earth, so that this group of alien species from afar can also experience the law of survival of the weak and the strong on the earth, and taste the taste of being slaughtered and crushed by higher-level species.

Some people have passed the stage of fear and curse. They try to accept the existence of alien species, admit that human beings are no longer the rulers of the earth, and strive to find an effective way of survival to coexist with new species.

The leader of the canyon is the latter.

The collective needs a good leader, which is the consensus of the residents.

This leader is also the head of the field team and the commander-in-chief of the guard. He is often accompanied by a chattering neurotic scientist with a very recognizable image.

Du Yu didn't know her full name, but everyone called her Greta anyway.

Greta's real age is unknown, she looks about forty years old, she is physically strong, her short hair is neatly trimmed, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes are like ripples on the surface of a lake when she smiles; but she rarely smiles, and once she smiles, it's probably nothing good thing.

Before today's meeting, Greta was seen laughing three times in a row while talking to her fellow scientist, breaking the previous record for smiling, so they secretly speculated that someone was in trouble.

Regular meetings of the field team take place in a basement.

The seats where people come together are densely packed.

Du Yu sat in a corner and dozed off. He didn't like meetings, and hearing people repeating the same thing irritated him.

Du Wen always wanted to find out why he didn't have a lover or someone to relieve his loneliness.

In fact, the reason could not be simpler.

First, he does not feel lonely; second, he has a bad temper. In other words, he lacks the ability to give and give back emotionally. It is difficult for ordinary people to bear his sometimes strong and sometimes weak emotions.

He is also not good at considering other people's feelings and opinions. To put it plainly, he is a bastard with an extreme ego.

Greta's eyesight is excellent, it is impossible for her not to notice the young team members in the last row with their eyes closed and rested.But she knew him, she had watched him grow up, she knew his personality, and she was extra lenient in not asking him to stay awake and listen carefully to the meetings.

——Anyway, it doesn’t matter whether you listen or not.

The field team is only responsible for execution, and ordinary team members are not qualified to express their opinions on decision-making. Knowing that obedience is their most important character.

However, there are always those who are unwilling to remain silent.

Du Yu slept for 40 minutes and was woken up by the sound of fierce arguments.

A team member in the front row was arguing with Greta about a problem, her face was red.

Du Yu asked the people next to him: What are you arguing about?

The person sitting next to him was obviously the kind of top student who took notes in class and borrowed them for others to copy after class. He relayed to him the content of the first 40 minutes of the meeting in a clear and concise language.

Many years ago, Greta led the survivors across the mountains, migrating all the way, and finally found the valley as a settlement; some of the existing residents followed her from the beginning, and some were refugees who joined halfway.

They left many marks and codes at the signal stations along the way. If anyone saw them, they could get in touch with them through those methods.In fact, it was in this way that the outstanding residents who originally built the canyon were gathered.

But since they came to the canyon, the signal device has not received any information from the outside world.

Most people think that there are no other human beings in the world; at least there are none who can actively contact them.

Today's meeting was talking about the fact that after many years, the annunciator in the canyon command room received another message from the outside world.

It was a text message with a coordinate and a muffled audio.

The audio repeated the coordinates and directions three times. The person who recorded it was a little girl with a weak voice. She didn't even have time to finish saying "Save us" before the recording was cut off.

In Greta's dictionary, there is no such word as "do not save", so she decided to send someone to rescue the little girl who appeared out of nowhere.

She asked the twelve team leaders of the field team to draw a member from their own team to form a new rescue team, and go to the coordinates in the text message to find out; if someone rescues someone, they will retreat safely.

The difficulty in carrying out this order was that: from the map, the coordinates were on the edge of the desert, and the signal station that sent the message was located deep in the desert.

It can be seen that the little girl is not alone. Someone must have protected her and traveled hundreds of kilometers in the desert to accompany her to the signal station to send a text message.

How many people are waiting to be rescued?Where did they live before?Why send a child to call for help?

This text message came in a strange way, could it be a well-designed trap?

Everyone has all kinds of guesses and assumptions in their minds.They couldn't help but suspect the possibility of a trap. After all, in the ten years after the disaster, a considerable proportion of the human beings who were gradually extinct died from internal fighting.

Du Yu heard it.

The core of the debate between the front row team members and Greta was: Is it worth it?

Since ancient times, the desert has been a desolate extreme that humans do not want to set foot on. To go from the canyon to the desert thousands of kilometers away, you have to climb over snow-capped mountains and grasslands, pass through rivers and urban ruins.

Even if they can arrive safely, finding the person for help and bringing them back is an extremely difficult task. How can it be done with only one team?

"You are asking us to die." The team member accused.

Most people would never dare to talk to Greta like that.Du Yu looked at the man's back for a long time, and recognized him as one of Greta's adopted sons, he seemed to be the youngest one.

Greta shrugged, that was her signature action, she said indifferently: "Oh, if you don't have confidence in yourself, you can sit down, I don't force you to participate in this mission, I believe there are people braver than you exist."

"It's not a question of bravery or not at all! It's about whether the rescue target has the value of letting us die! This is not only my personal question, but also the lives of the twelve team members you selected."

"I'm very sad." Greta looked at the young people she cultivated, and said, "Since when did my adopted child have such a sad idea. ——You think the people in the recording are not worthy Did you save her? Because she was a child, or for some other reason than I can imagine?"

"It's too far away, she's too far away from us..." He said helplessly, "I mean, we will lose a lot, and even no one will survive, don't you care? I'm your adopted child, you don't care My life, but other people, they have family and friends, they—”

Greta decisively shifted her gaze, her eyes fell on the faces of the people below, and she calmly emphasized: "Everyone, let me reiterate, this is not a compulsory action, if you are selected but do not want to participate, you can contact me in private Explain the reasons and difficulties, and I will handle it as appropriate."

Her young and energetic adoptive son refused to let go, and said angrily: "Even if you rescue them, so what? Who can guarantee that they are not disabled, sick and weak without the ability to take care of themselves? Our food, water and electricity are limited, we—"

"Enough." Greta's lips were drawn into a straight line, and she said sharply, "I'm sorry that you have become so selfish and shallow, but listen to me, you were still in your mother's belly 18 years ago When she was here, she was just a sick and weak pregnant woman who lost the ability to take care of herself. If I felt sorry for the little food and water left, you would have died a long time ago! Now, what right do you have to stand here and talk nonsense with me?"

……

Bored by the farce, Du Yu shook his head, his eyes glanced at the clock on the wall, it was almost an hour.

The person sitting next to him commented: "This child is too young, only, I don't understand, never refute your chief in person, even if she is your mother."

Du Yu said, "It's indeed an age where you don't want to die."

"I'm 28 years old, and I still don't want to die." The person sitting next to him smiled helplessly, "But if I'm really chosen, I can only bite the bullet."

"Why?" Du Yu asked, "Didn't she say that if you don't want to go, you can apply to her alone."

The other party didn't know whether to sneer or sneer, snorted softly in his nose, and said: "The so-called application is to talk about compensation; you should go or you go, it won't change." Then he added, "But... I voluntarily of."

Du Yu still asked, "Why?"

The other party asked nonsense: "My daughter is seven years old this year. She has fair skin and speaks softly. I love her very much."

***

After the long meeting was over, Du Yu went straight home, and before entering the door, he smelled a burnt and bitter smell from the kitchen.

He rushed into the kitchen to meet his mess and mess.

Du Wen had a sudden whim to cook today, which caused the scene in front of him.

"You go outside, I'll clean up." He didn't want to say a word to his sister.

"I'm kind too, I want to cook you a meal..."

"No need." He wouldn't be moved by such a thing.

I could have lunch in an hour, but it took two hours to clean up the kitchen and tableware.

Du Wen apologized for causing him trouble, and chatted less than usual.

After dinner, he went to wash the dishes. Du Wen was sitting at the dining table. She leaned against the back of the chair and talked to him, "Ah Yu, my sister is so worried."

In the afternoon, the sun was shining brightly, illuminating several living rooms brightly and brightly through the windows.With his back to her, Du Yu stood in the sunlight, the golden light softening his upright back.

She said slowly and lazily: "If one day you are gone, what will I do?"

Du Yu put the washed dishes on the shelf to drip water. He washed his hands carefully, dried them and boiled them. He turned around and said, "You will live well."

It's not that he hasn't thought about it, what will happen to Du Wen if he is gone; the answer is that she will live well, she is such a person, nothing can defeat her.

Du Wen was stung by the hot sun, she covered her face and murmured: "I don't understand why God gave you a sister like me."

Du Yu never took what she said seriously, but this sentence made his heart tremble strongly, not because of the sentence itself, but because he seemed to have heard the same words somewhere before.

It was also Du Wen who said it, but not the Du Wen in front of him.

Where exactly, he couldn't remember.

Maybe it was in the dream, he often had some terribly real dreams, and when he woke up, he was so tired as if he had lived a whole life again.

"I have something to tell you." He walked to the table, pulled out a chair and sat down.

Du Wen put down her hand, her eyes were flushed, she blinked, and asked curiously, "What?"