How to survive in the wasteland of human cubs

In the following days, because the first batch of people who went to work on the ground returned safely every day, those who had been waiting and watching began to move around, and more and more people signed up for the administrator.

Now there are hundreds of people going to the surface every day, not only planting, but also following the army to disinfect the ruins, or bury and dispose of the exposed corpses.

Because these jobs are rotated, Feng Chen started to work as a corpse transporter after finally mastering the skill of using a hoe.

Fortunately, it only takes three days to transport the corpse, and it will be the turn to disinfect it again.

Those corpses on the surface have been dried, like black tree roots, mutilated by animals.There are not so many body bags now, and they are all coordinated by two people, directly raising their hands and feet, throwing them on the truck next to them, and then pulling them to the edge of the city and burying them in the big pit dug with an excavator.

When Feng Chen carried the corpse for the first time, the shape of the corpse was already unrecognizable, all the limbs were bitten off, only a short-sleeved shirt and black trousers could be seen, and it should be an employee of a certain company.

He stood aside and couldn't do anything. His partner got impatient and told him to forget about going back, so he gritted his teeth and went to lift the corpse's feet.

But with the first time, it became less difficult later, he lifted various corpses and threw them into the truck again and again.There are not many complete corpses, basically either limbs or heads are lost, and some have been eaten by animals until only a skeleton remains.

But the real difficulty is not to move the mummy, but to move some corpses that have not yet become mummy and are in a high degree of corruption in a confined space.

Even though the air was filtered by the insulated suit, he could still smell the stinky stench of the dead body, and the feeling of handling it was unforgettable for him.

The fingers were first immersed in some kind of semi-fluid, with a slight stagnation, and then directly penetrated and pressed the bone.After the corpse was lifted up, large chunks of brown-black lumps fell down, exposing the yellow-black bones inside.

After throwing the corpse onto the truck, Feng Chen's fingers couldn't stop shaking. He squeezed a few fingers repeatedly, but the feeling of being trapped in semi-fluid couldn't be lingered.

The person who partnered with Feng Chen should also have a hard time, because contrary to the silent Feng Chen, he kept talking in his mouth, as if he could vent his emotions in this way: "This kind of skirt is beautiful, young girls love to wear it this year, I like it more Light yellow, this one is light green, but it's okay... This should be an old man, my dad loved to wear this kind of sweatshirt when he was alive, he said it was breathable and sweat-absorbing, and the price was cheap..."

Feng Chen didn't stop until he picked up a brick and saw a curled up corpse below, and suddenly stopped.

His partner also came over. He didn't notice Feng Chen's abnormality, and dragged the corpse out a little roughly: "I'm fine by myself, you go find someone else. This is a child, or a boy, this dark blue The black denim overalls are the favorite of the little boy, and the pattern on the T-shirt is the one that children like most now, what is it called Nunu..."

"Put him down." Feng Chen suddenly said hoarsely.

"what?"

"Put it down and let me do it." Feng Chen's tone was a bit uncomfortable.

The partner was taken aback for a moment, but he also put down the body, and walked to other places muttering: "I don't know why, the rebellious period of young people..."

Feng Chen bent down, took away the bricks that were pressing on the corpse, then carefully turned him over, and hugged him horizontally.

The child is about the same length as Yan Bubu, and should be only a few years old. His hair is slightly curly, and his face can no longer be seen clearly.Feng Chen held him in his arms, only feeling the weight on his hands made his heart feel heavy.

He found an adult coat in the ruins, wrapped the child's head, and then placed it in a corner of the truck that was not pressed by other corpses.

Returning to the underground resettlement site in the afternoon, Feng Chen leaned against the iron railing of the elevator. When the view was no longer a dark rock but a beehive building, he immediately turned his head and looked down to the right.

——There is a big rock there, and Yan Bubu would sit there every day, waiting for him with Binunu in his arms.

Today is no exception. There is still a small person on the rock, looking up at the elevator.

After work every day, the thermal insulation suits have to be taken off and returned to the military headquarters. After disinfection, they will be picked up again the next day.Others took off their thermal insulation clothing after getting off the elevator, but Feng Chen would take it off as soon as he entered the gate passage, and let others take it to the military headquarters.

Because Yan Bubu would pounce on him as soon as the elevator stopped, he was afraid that the thermal insulation suit would be too dirty.

Another elevator creaked and slid down. Yan Bubu stood up and stared at it for a moment.I have already arrived at two elevators just now, and there is no Feng Chen in them. I don't know if there is one in this one.

The elevator was still in the air, and he saw the familiar figure behind the iron fence, looking at him through the gap in the iron fence.

The whole chest swelled with joy in an instant, Yan Bubu stood up and waved his hands non-stop, hopping on tiptoe and calling out to his brother.

The people in the iron bars also waved to him.

The elevator stopped with a bang, and the iron bars opened. Yan Bubu rushed up immediately, and went inside against the flow of people going out.

"Qin Shen, your younger brother is here to pick you up again." The person next to him smiled, and then saw this taciturn and handsome young man showing a rare faint smile.

When Feng Chen walked out of the crowd, Yan Bubu threw himself into his arms, wrapping his arms around his waist.

But today Feng Chen didn't just touch Yan Bubu's head as usual, and then led him to the hive, but picked him up and buried his face on his shoulder.

Yan Bubu's neck was itchy from his hot breath, he twisted his body and laughed.

"Don't move." Feng Chen said sullenly.

Sure enough, Yan Bubu didn't move, and after a while, he whispered: "Brother, you are a little different today."

"Why is it different?"

Yan Bubu thought for a while: "It's a bit clingy."

Feng Chen said: "Then let me cling to you for a while."

"it is good."

Feng Chen hugged Yan Bubu like this, from the beating of his heart, warm body, and the faint smell of shampoo in his nose, he could tell that he was completely different from the kid who was put on the truck in the afternoon, and this made him Put it down, and led him to the hive.

Feng Chen asked: "What did you have for breakfast?"

Yan Bubu snapped his fingers: "I ate two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge."

Feng Chen: "What about lunch? What kind of food do you have?"

Yan Bubu continued to count: "There are tofu and bean sprouts. Hey, yes, there is a bean sprout that looks so funny, hahahahaha...hahahaha..."

Feng Chen: "..."

After Yan Bubu laughed, he said, "There are three black dots on the petals of the bean sprouts, which look like eyes and mouths. I didn't eat them. I'm waiting to show you. Take a look."

Feng Chen looked over and paused after seeing his movements: "...Well, it's kind of funny, but don't put food in your pockets from now on."

Yan Bubu: "Understood."

……

There were constant chatter and laughter, most of which were from Yan Bubu, and Feng Chen listened quietly and carefully.The searchlights from the underground settlement cast down, stretching the two shadows holding hands very long.

In the next few days, Feng Chen finished his work of transporting corpses and disinfecting, and it was time to go to work in the plantation.

He had just entered the gate of the plantation that day, and he habitually glanced at his watch, expecting to see 43°C, but found that the temperature displayed on it had not dropped, and was still 68°C, which was about the same as outside.

He pressed the watch button with some doubts, wanting to clear the data and restart it, because the temperature in the plantation has been cooled, although it is still very hot, it is impossible to have such a high temperature.

Someone had already begun to take off the warm clothes, and a soldier suddenly shouted: "Don't take off the warm clothes, something seems wrong here."

As soon as these words came out, everyone froze and began to look around in panic.

"Look, there is a hole in the top of the wall." Someone pointed to the upper right and exclaimed.

Feng Chen then raised his head, and saw that there was a missing piece at the joint between the roof and the wall, and the hot sunlight came in from there, shining on a suddenly extra stone on the ground.

And the hole had obviously been enlarged, and there were traces of animal claws tearing out the edge of the hole.

"What's going on? Why is there a big hole on the right side?"

"Oops, could it be that the army was cleaning up mutants nearby yesterday afternoon, and when the bomb exploded, the rocks smashed there?"

"It should be. At that time, work had just finished, and the gate was closing when the explosion occurred. I seemed to hear a bang in the park."

A few soldiers turned their heads and rushed into the park, but the others reacted and ignored the hole, and hurried to follow.

Potatoes and corn are planted in the ground. The potatoes are going to mature in the next few days, and the corn has grown small stumps, which are the rations for the entire underground resettlement site to survive, so there must be no problems.

When they reached the edge of the ground through the long passage, the soldiers running at the front suddenly stopped and looked ahead in a daze.The people behind didn't have time to stop, knocked him staggering and nearly fell, and when they saw the scene in front of them clearly, they were also stunned.

Standing at the back, Feng Chen saw that the corn field was already in a mess, as if it had encountered a tornado, the corn stalks were broken and fell over.

Looking at the potato field on the other side, the green leaves have been pulled up, and the ground is full of incomplete potatoes that have been bitten.

"Fuck, who did this? Who did it? Which bastard did it?" Someone hissed and roared.

A soldier looked at the messy footprints in the ground, and said with hatred, "Do you still need to ask? That hole, some animals came in from the hole last night."

"What should I do? If this batch of potatoes can't be picked up, the resettlement site will run out of food, what should I do..."

Seeing all the hopes come to naught, some people around squatted on the ground, covering their faces with their hands and weeping, and some were pointing at the sky and cursing angrily. Although the soldiers didn't say anything, their eyes were a little red.

Feng Chen separated from the crowd and walked to the cornfield, knelt down to look at those footprints.He remembered that when he was in the training camp, there were wild boars on the surrounding mountains, and the footprints left on the mud were just like this.

One wild boar can destroy a large cornfield in one night. Looking at the footprints on the ground, there was more than one wild boar here last night, and there were dozens of wild boars here.

It was obvious that this batch of corn could not be saved, so he walked to the potato field on the other side, picking up the potatoes that had been pulled to the ground.

There are piles of potatoes no bigger than eggs under each potato leaf, and many of them have been bitten off in half.But look at those teeth marks, it's not a wild boar, but a small rodent of the family Muridae.Judging by the scale, there may be thousands of them. They entered the plantation together with the wild boars, and left before dawn.

But he found that not all the potatoes were destroyed. A potato plant was densely packed, and at least half of them were still intact.

Feng Chen's actions caught the attention of a soldier, he wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, went to the field to pick up a potato plant, and opened the outer layer to look inside.

"Stop fucking howling, these potatoes can still be saved, you won't die of starvation." The soldier turned his head and shouted loudly.

The noisy people standing on the ground suddenly stopped talking, as if they were being strangled by a group, they all looked at him in a daze.

The soldier shook the potatoes on his hands: "At least half of the intact potatoes in each plant are left. Anyway, it's almost time to harvest. Pick off all the undamaged ones, and throw away the bitten ones." He said Pointing to the distance again, he said: "Although the corn is gone, half of the potatoes can still be saved. As long as people don't starve to death, they will continue planting tomorrow."

Everyone was flustered by the sudden situation just now, but now that they took a closer look, it turned out that all the potatoes had not been destroyed, and they immediately felt more at ease.

As the soldiers said, even if you don't have enough to eat, at least you won't starve to death.

The soldier shouted loudly: "Hurry up and pick potatoes. Remember, throw away the ones you have bitten on. Don't be reluctant. If someone eats them, they will get into trouble with some damn virus."

"I know, I understand."

Because these potatoes were all harvested during the day, the crawler trucks kept going back and forth between the resettlement site and the plantation. First, technicians were brought in to fill up the holes in the roof, and then four to five hundred people were brought in to collect potatoes together.

There was not enough thermal insulation clothing, and some of them who were in good physical condition did not wear them, but they were all flushed and drank water continuously, and their bodies were soaked in sweat.

When Feng Chen was picking potatoes, he heard two soldiers beside him talking quietly.

"Should it be mice? Or voles? But there are too many of them. There must be thousands of them. Are there usually so many mice in Haiyun City?"

"It should have multiplied in large numbers after the earthquake. It is probably a mutant, and they know how to run away before dawn."

"These damn mutants can't be killed."

……

The plantation was destroyed this time. Although some potatoes were rescued, the number was not much after all, and the grain stocks in the underground resettlement sites became increasingly tense.

The steamed buns in the cafeteria used to be as big as an adult's fist, but now they have shrunk by half, and there is a tendency to continue to shrink, and the price of a meal has risen from five credits to eight credits.

Those who had previously threatened to live on basic credit points all sought out managers to sign up. As more people wanted to work, there were not enough positions.The plantation is okay, people who go in don't need to wear heat-resistant clothing, it's just a little bit of suffering on the road, and more people can go.But people outside must wear heat-resistant clothing, and there is a limit to the number of people who can go out every day.

Fortunately, Feng Chen belonged to the first batch of people who went out to work. The army took care of this group of people and improved their basic credit points.Moreover, it takes other people two days to get a job opportunity, but they have jobs every day, so they don't have to worry too much about credit.

Feng Chen is working in the plantation today, and a new batch of corn has just sprouted in the plantation.When he returned to the underground settlement and stepped out of the elevator, Yan Bubu greeted him as usual, first hugged him for a while, and then went to the rock to bring a lunch box filled with cold boiled water.

Feng Chen drank water, looked at the smiling Yan Bubu in front of him, and found that the flesh he lost due to lack of food a while ago has not grown back.The two bulging lumps on the cheeks are gone, and the chin is still pointed, making the eyes look bigger.

Feng Chen pinched his chin and looked around, frowning.

"What did you eat today?" Feng Chen asked.

Yan Bubu is asked every day, and he said with his fingers: "I ate two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge in the morning, and a potato, half a corn, and half a bowl of rice for lunch."

"Are you full?" Feng Chen thought it sounded like enough.

Yan Bubu nodded: "I'm full."

Feng Chen took his hand: "Let's go, go to the dining hall to have dinner."

The dining hall was already full of people. As usual, everyone began to complain after finishing the meal. The steamed buns were too small, and the potatoes were not as big as others. There were fried bean sprouts last night, and there was not even a dish tonight.

Feng Chen took his and Yan Bubu's credit points and asked for two steamed buns and two potatoes each at the back of the queue.

He swiped the card first, and when Yan Bubu swiped the card, he glanced sideways at the balance on the display and found that there were still 750 points left in the card.

Feng Chen was stunned.

He ate breakfast and lunch with the army during this period, so he only kept two hundred credits for himself, as long as he could eat dinner.All other credits were transferred to Yanbubukali, which should be 750 points.

Yan Bubu said that he ate two meals today, and one meal was 8 points, so the balance should be reduced by 16 points.But how come the points on his card are not missing at all?

As soon as Yan Bubu walked out of the team with his lunch box, he was pulled aside by Feng Chen.

"Let me ask you, have you eaten today?" Feng Chen asked.

Yan Bubu stared at the steamed buns in the lunch box, swallowed and said, "I've eaten, I ate two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge for breakfast, and for lunch—"

"You're lying." Feng Chen interrupted him coldly.

"Ah... ah... I..." Yan Bubu muttered a few words in a low voice, seeing Feng Chen's face getting more and more ugly, he finally closed his mouth and stood dejectedly.

"Are you hungry today?" Feng Chen's expression and tone were very severe.

Yan Bubu quietly raised his head and glanced at him, then quickly lowered his head again.

"I transferred your credit points to you yesterday, and you left me hungry today. What do you mean? Picky eaters? Do you think potatoes are not tasty?"

Yan Bubu hurriedly shook his head: "No, potatoes are delicious, soft and fragrant, I like them very much."

Feng Chen saw that his expression did not seem to be fake, and when he mentioned that the potatoes were delicious, he swallowed obviously. After thinking for a while, he suppressed his anger and asked, "Are you afraid that you don't have enough credit?"

Yan Bubu didn't nod or shake his head this time, he just pinched his trouser legs with his fingers uneasily, but Feng Chen already understood.

He glanced at Yan Bubu's lunch box, reached out to take it, and turned to the dining window: "Auntie, add another one for me."

"No need to fight, I have enough to eat, I have enough." Yan Bubu heard that he wanted extra food, so he ran up and tiptoed to grab the lunch box.

Feng Chen didn't even look at him, and raised the lunch box high with one hand: "Auntie, I swiped the card." At the same time, the other hand grabbed Yan Bubu's wrist and placed it on the ID reader.

After a beep, through identification, Feng Chen swiped Yan Bubu's credit card and bought another meal.