Chapter 20

The longest winter since the end of the world finally ended on a sunny day. Jiang Fei listened to the morning news every morning.

"Winter is finally over. The temperature will gradually rise in the coming days, which is very suitable for going out for fun. I wonder if you have any recommendations for places to travel, Rod?" The female host asked the male host next to her with a smile. They are all hosts affiliated with Sky City. The underground city does not have its own radio program because the power to control broadcasting is in the hands of Sky City.

Therefore, the residents who originally lived downstairs could only listen to the various programs launched by Sky City and get a glimpse of the luxurious life in Sky City from the words of the host. This is as immoral as discussing food with people who don't have enough food, and it also attracts hatred.

Jiang Fei wet the face towel with water and simply wiped her face. She heard that the underground city used to have its own radio station, but later because someone spread inappropriate remarks on it, the radio station was demolished. It was probably remarks against the Sky City. Just think about it and you will know.

The male host, who was called "Rhodes" by the female host, also smiled and replied, "Of course it's Crescent Island. It's on the 23rd floor of Sky City. I went there on vacation last time and it left me with unforgettable memories."

"Crescent Island, listeners who love traveling cannot miss this attraction. I guarantee you will not be disappointed if you go there—"

With a click, Jiang Fei turned off the radio. No matter how much she listened, it was impossible for her to enter Sky City with her current identity. She changed into sneakers and went to the training ground as usual. Unexpectedly, she met an unexpected person when she walked out of the office building, Xinyue's mother Luna. She was obviously waiting for Jiang Fei. When she saw Jiang Fei, her body moved unnaturally. She was afraid to meet Jiang Fei's eyes directly.

Jiang Fei was about to be late. In order to urge her to train on time, Jason stipulated that she had to run an extra lap for every minute she was late. She looked at the time and it was still in time for her to run to the training ground. She was about to pass by Luna.

"Miss Jiang, can you wait a moment? I have something to tell you." She mustered up the courage to grab Jiang Fei's sleeve. Jiang Fei saw the scar under her collar, which was a mark of violence left by her husband in the past. She straightened her collar, and her face looked much better than before. Sure enough, after Gru taught her husband a lesson, he restrained himself.

"Two minutes, I can only give you two minutes at most." Jiang Fei calculated the maximum time he could squeeze out.

Luna pursed her lips. "I... I hope you can stop letting Xinyue go to the training ground. She's a girl and it's easy for her to get hurt. Her father also thinks it's not good. I hope you can persuade her. She cuts her hair like a boy, but we can tolerate all that. The only thing is..."

Jiang Fei pulled her hand back. Luna's words had so many flaws that she didn't know where to begin. "What is it? Is it shameful to train to become stronger? Do you really think so, or did your husband tell you so, and you said that out of fear?"

“…But she is a girl after all.”

"You can't struggle and drag your daughter down with you just because you've already fallen into the water." Jiang Fei took a deep breath. "Not long ago, Xinyue came to the training ground with scars on her face. She said it was from her rebellion against her father. Is your husband doing this out of concern for his daughter, or out of fear that he might be beaten down by her someday? I think you know it clearly in your heart, right?"

"As for what you think a girl should look like." Jiang Fei glanced at the time. She had something else to say at length, but in the end she simply said, "No one can define what 'should look like'."

After saying these words, Jiang Fei took off running. It was really too late. She rushed to the training ground with all her strength. Hill, who was guarding the entrance of the training ground, pretended to be serious and looked at the stopwatch. "You almost broke the sprint record."

Jiang Fei gasped for breath, supporting herself on her knees with her hands, "Shut up!"

Hill shrugged, put his index finger and thumb together and pulled them from the left corner of his mouth to the right corner, signaling himself to shut up.

"If you're one minute late, you'll get one extra lap, so you'll run eight laps today," Jason said. "Xinyue got here half an hour earlier than you."

Jason admired Xinyue's perseverance and said this with praise in his tone, "Don't fall behind her."

Jiang Fei calmed her breath and started running in circles.

After staying in the new base for nearly a month, Xinyue's skinny cheeks finally grew some flesh, and her hair was no longer as dry as grass. When she saw Jiang Fei, she smiled with her eyebrows curved, "Sister, you're here?"

Jiang Fei still didn't tell Xinyue about her conversation with her mother. Xinyue took the initiative to talk to Jiang Fei about her training results. "Captain Anna said I have a talent for shooting. Last time I practiced, I hit a nine-ring once and two eight-rings. Next time I should be able to hit a ten-ring."

Her eyes sparkled when she talked about these things. "Then when I grow up, I can go out with you to collect supplies!"

"Then I will wait for that day to come." Jiang Fei found that she didn't actually hate children that much, especially when facing hardworking and serious children.

The amount of training Jason arranged for Jiang Fei was gradual. For example, the warm-up exercise started with running five laps, which was gradually increased to seven laps. Now, occasionally running eight laps was not as tiring as she had imagined. Instead, she felt as if all the muscles in her body were relaxed. She seemed to really understand what Gru had said about using exercise to relax.

After the warm-up exercise, stretch the muscles again. Today's training content includes fighting skills and shooting. In short, it takes into account both long-range and close combat.

"Ahem—Jiang Fei, you can be a little gentler." Gru, whose neck was clamped by Jiang Fei's scissor legs, patted her calf. "I feel... I... can't breathe anymore."

Hearing this, Jiang Fei quickly let go of him. She landed lightly on the ground and asked, "Gru, are you okay?"

"It's okay, but I seemed to see my great-grandmother in heaven just now." Gru rubbed his neck, his whole face flushed red.

Jason, who was recording nearby, reminded Jiang Fei, "Remember, in actual combat, you must not be soft-hearted even if the enemy begs you for mercy. Being merciful to the enemy is cruel to yourself. They are likely to take advantage of your sympathy."

Gru also agreed. He coughed a few times, and his voice became hoarse. "Jason is right. We must kill our enemies ruthlessly!"

Jiang Fei said, "Why don't you go to the medical center, Gru?"

"We need to go to the medical station for such a small matter? Wouldn't that be embarrassing for me, Gru? I won't go." Gru was very stubborn. "Besides, I've been injured more seriously than this before, and I managed to get through it, didn't I?"

Anna came to pick Jiang Fei up for shooting practice. She just happened to hear Gru's last words and said mercilessly, "Then you cried your eyes out and your nose ran down, and you even gave us instructions for your funeral?"

"Captain—hey, at least give me some face!"

"Okay, just stop talking."

Anna waved to Jiang Fei and said, "I was delayed by something just now. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

"No, what happened?" Jiang Fei asked.

"Well... the person in charge of D-1 base is dead." Anna's profile was serious. "Do you know what this means?"

Jiang Fei said, "This means that the D-1 base is in chaos right now. I could tell from my first contact with them last time. The team members don't even get along well with each other, so the whole base won't be much better."

The overall atmosphere of the base can often be seen from small details.

"Generally speaking, when the person in charge dies suddenly, there are only two possible outcomes for a base: either the base is completely abandoned, or it is swallowed up by other bases." They walked across the training ground.

Jiang Fei was puzzled, "Can't we just elect another person in charge?"

"The chances of success are very low. Every faction in the base wants to elect someone who benefits them as the leader. How the new leader will handle the chaotic situation is also a problem." Anna half-lowered her eyes. "The ones who would suffer the most in such a situation are the elderly, children, women and children."

This news was indeed heavy, but Jiang Fei thought more about the fact that this might allow him to light up the second base, merge the two bases together and expand the scale of the base. The population and supplies of the base could be doubled. Jiang Fei thought of a lot.

However, the embarrassing thing is that there is a D-2 base between the D-1 base and the D-3 base, and the C-level base is also eyeing this base that has lost its leader. There will undoubtedly be many obstacles for her to realize her idea.

Jiang Fei asked again: "What does Coyne think?"

"Coin asked me to ask you what you think." In fact, everyone around Coin could vaguely sense that Coin was intentionally or unintentionally leaving some decisions to Jiang Fei. It was not difficult to guess her thoughts. She was old and not in very good health. If she encountered an accident one day, at least she had trained another qualified person in charge for the base.

"Nona's research has yielded initial results." Jiang Fei was referring to the potatoes and sweet potatoes that had recently been served on the table. These ordinary staples had been transformed into delicious dishes under Chef Hill's hands. Although the greenhouse's output wasn't large yet, with gradual progress, it would eventually be able to supply the entire base. "I think we should first go and see what's going on at D-1 Base."

As they were talking, they had already arrived at the shooting range. Jiang Fei put on her goggles and earmuffs very skillfully. She saw Anna's lips move through the goggles, but she couldn't hear clearly because of the earmuffs. So she took off one earmuff and asked, "What did you say just now?"

Anna lowered her head to reload the magazine. "I originally thought there would never be another person like Coin in the apocalypse, but now I realize I was wrong."

Anna had experienced the sudden death of the base leader and the base falling into chaos. She was only six years old at that time, and because she was a useless girl, she was almost thrown out of the base to die in order to save supplies. She didn't shed tears at that time, not because she didn't feel anything, but because she was too weak to shed tears.

It was at this time that Coyne appeared and improved the base bit by bit.

"Jiang Fei, you are a natural leader." Anna said to her before Jiang Fei put on her earmuffs again, "I see the shadow of Coin in you."

They are all so firm, so strong, and so gentle.

Jiang Fei wanted to say something, but Anna had already put on earmuffs for her. She could only see Anna's lips moving, and she said, don't rush to deny it.

Under Anna's guidance, Jiang Fei's shooting ability has also increased dramatically, but her dynamic shooting is still not accurate enough. Anna comforted her, saying that dynamic shooting is very difficult, and it is amazing that she can reach this level after only a few months of training.

The recoil of the pistol made Jiang Fei's palms ache. After she put down the gun, she kept rubbing her hands silently. Anna noticed her little movement and took out a small piece of plaster from her pocket and applied it to her palms and wrists. "You'll get used to it after practicing."

Jiang Fei's training for the day was over. She still had to talk to Coin about the D-1 base. After leaving the training ground, she went straight to the office building, opened the door with her light brain, and knocked in front of Coin's office door.

It was Assistant Coyne who opened the door. When she saw Jiang Fei, she said, "She's waiting for you."

Jiang Fei nodded to the assistant and walked into the office. "Did you know I would come to see you?"

"Well, my intuition told me, and it turned out that my intuition was very accurate." There were more white hairs on Coyne's temples, but she was in good spirits. "Do you want to go to the D-1 base to take a look? It's not convenient for me to go." Her eyes fell on her legs.

"I want to go take a look and then decide if I can take over the D-1 base."

"It's annexation, right? You want to expand the scale of our base. If you think so, other bases will think so too. You will have to deal with not only a chaotic base, but also the people in charge of other bases."

This world is a place where the strong prey on the weak. Jiang Fei said, "But I am confident that letting us take over is the best option. We will consider the vulnerable groups and pay attention to fairness and justice."

Coin smiled faintly. "I'm curious how a world like this could produce someone like you."

So is there a possibility that she is not from this world? Jiang Fei thought silently.

"We'll use violence when necessary." Coin tapped his laptop. "I'm temporarily transferring some of the base's management authority to you. You'll be the representative of this base. Jason and the others will go with you this time. Their exploration team has met the other members before, so you'll take a few new faces with you to avoid alerting the enemy."

"Jason and the others have agreed?"

"No, it's your job to convince them." Coyne took a sip of tea, picked up the cup and asked Jiang Fei, "Would you like a cup too?"

"No, then I'll go find them first."

Jiang Fei wasn't sure whether Jason and the others would agree. Although they had been together for a few months, she always felt that she wasn't very close to them, because they themselves had a strong sense of boundaries, and when they first joined the base, they made it clear that it was a temporary stay. Now she had to trouble them again.

I feel there is a high probability of being rejected.

Jiang Fei came to the door of Jason's single room. The door was not closed and there was a gap. Jiang Fei coughed and said, "Can I come in? I have something to tell you."

"Oh... come in."

As she entered the room, she smelled the lingering scent of shower gel and shampoo in the air. Then she caught a glimpse of Jason drying his hair. His hair was naturally curly, just like his sister Nona's, and it was even more messy after washing, like a sloppy puppy. The layout of his room had not changed much from when he first moved in, and there were no signs of life left.

He asked, "What's the matter?"

"I hope you guys can come with me to D-1 base." Jiang Fei knew Jason didn't like beating around the bush, so she got straight to the point. "The person in charge of D-1 base is dead, and the base is in chaos right now."

"You want to stir up trouble?" Jason said, wiping his hair half-dry. "Or do you think they're pitiful?"

"It's both. Anyway, let's go see what's going on there first. Then we can make a decision: either turn a blind eye or take over the base." She was prepared for Jason to reject her, but he didn't even blink. "I'll go with you, but Hill doesn't have to come. He can hear what I'm feeling anyway. What's that face of yours? You look like you've seen a ghost."

"I thought you would refuse, because you don't seem like the type to get yourself into trouble."

On the bedside table in Jason's room is a photo of him and his younger brother and sister. It is something he carries with him and is also the most lifelike object in the entire room. He glanced at the photo on the bedside table and said, "It is indeed troublesome, but I don't want to watch other people suffer." Especially vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children, women and children.

Ultimately, Jason felt comfortable living at D-3 because most people there were compassionate, and he was inherently compassionate and gentle.

At first, he did want to stay here temporarily, perhaps because everyone he met was very friendly, or perhaps because he had not experienced a stable life for too long. All in all, he thought this place was pretty good.

He asked, “When are we leaving?”

"The sooner the better." She couldn't wait too long.

Hearing this, he changed his clothes in front of Jiang Fei without any hesitation. Jiang Fei turned her head away and stood up. "Then I'll go wait for you outside."

Click——

He fastened his belt and left his upper body naked, revealing his beautiful muscle lines. Jiang Fei caught a glimpse of the tattoo on his waist, but couldn't see the pattern clearly. It was a small black cluster. He quickly put on a short-sleeved shirt and a leather jacket.

"Let's go." He took a few steps to catch up with Jiang Fei who was outside the door.

They didn't make much noise this time when they went out. The temporary agency that Coin had given to Jiang Fei allowed her to open the base gate directly. They didn't drive a transport truck this time. One reason was that a transport truck was too conspicuous, and the other was that Jiang Fei and the others brought back several motorcycles when they went out last time, and now they were put to use.

Jiang Fei put on the helmet of her protective suit and sat astride the motorcycle. She had only driven a donkey in modern times, but the principles were similar.

Jason's motorcycle driving skills became more skillful. He did not drive too fast, but kept pace with Jiang Fei, and looked at Jiang Fei from time to time to prevent her from getting into any accidents.

It was already afternoon when the two set out, and it was already evening when they arrived at the D-3 base after driving their motorcycles. Jiang Fei changed her look this time and used a fake identity, and Jason did the same.

Jiang Fei blinked her eyes. The colored contact lenses she was wearing were not very comfortable. She could see a small light on the D-1 base in the distance.

As night fell and the sky gradually darkened, the light became more and more obvious. There were still a few people standing at the gate of the base. Just as Jiang Fei had expected, some people heard the news of the death of the base leader and came here like hyenas, smelling the scent, hoping to gain some benefits from this muddy water.

But we also have to thank these guys, because the guards at the base gate were not so strict, Jiang Fei and Jason were able to sneak in so smoothly.

The interior of D-1 base was similar to D-3 base, except that most of the doors and windows of the buildings were smashed. Jiang Fei walked along with a frown on her face. She released the human-faced hawk moth to collect information. As the moth flew out, she heard a woman's pleading voice in her ears, "Please! Please don't throw my daughter out! She will die!!"

"It's a waste of food to keep the child. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll throw you out too!" A short man grabbed the little girl's collar with one hand and kicked the woman hard in the stomach.

The little girl screamed, "Mommy-Mommy!!"

"You have no conscience! It was the person in charge who took you in and made you a test taker. Now that he's gone, you and those guys are having sex in the base. When Captain Carl comes back, you won't have a good ending!" The woman grabbed the man's arm tightly, her nails leaving bloody marks on his skin.

Only then did Jiang Fei recognize who this man was. Wasn't this the traitor Eugene whom she had met in the tower?

Eugene grinned, "Ha—you mean Carl? Carl and his bunch of jerk teammates are not coming back! I wonder who will protect you losers!"

The released hawk moth also sent back information. It turned out that the day before the base leader died, the base's exploration team left to search for medical equipment at the ruins, so they still didn't know that the base had changed.

Jiang Fei reasonably suspected that Eugene had a hand in sending Carl and his teammates away early. Seeing Eugene's smug look, Jiang Fei became angry and wanted to step forward to stop him, but Jason stopped her, "Don't be too impulsive."

One of the released hawkmoths flew dazedly into the pitch-black medical station, muttering as it flew, "This place is so dark, and the disinfectant smells so bad."

The other hawk moths all laughed at it, "Oh, you've come to the wrong place!" "How can you collect information for your master like this?" "It's a shame to have a split body like you!"

It flapped its wings, feeling very aggrieved. "Just wait! I will definitely collect very important information!"

It squeezed through the gap in the window with great effort and flew into an operating room. It looked around and found it was empty, but there was a heartbeat coming from the iron cabinet. It approached curiously, and suddenly there was a loud bang on the inside of the cabinet, which scared the moth and made it tremble.

"I'm so scared! There's a person here! And he's alive!" It was both frightened and excited. This might be very important information! It stopped at the gap in the iron cabinet and looked inside. It saw a man who was tied up, blindfolded and gagged.

It transmitted information to Jiang Fei with great surprise, and Jiang Fei also "saw" the man locked in the iron cabinet through it.

Eugene swung his arm, about to punch the woman in the face, but his hand was caught mid-air. Jiang Fei squeezed his wrist until it cracked. She stared at Eugene with a fierce look in her eyes, frightening him so much that he trembled. He was furious and said, "Who are you? How dare you, an outsider, interfere with me teaching the people in the base a lesson?"

"Yeah, we're going to intervene, so you'd better be smart." Jason stepped forward. He was nearly 1.9 meters tall, and his proximity brought an extreme sense of oppression. Eugene's hand loosened, and the little girl fell to the ground. She stumbled into her mother's arms and cried, "Wow, Mom..."

"Even if the person in charge is gone, you still don't have the final say in this base." Jason grabbed the back of his neck just like Eugene had grabbed the little girl's collar, and lifted him up like a chicken. The distance between them was very close. Jason narrowed his eyes, exuding a dangerous aura. "Who's backing you up?"

Jiang Fei whispered in Jason's ear, "I'll leave this place to you. I'm going to go take a look at the other side."

In the sight of the human-faced hawk moth, the man locked in the iron cabinet was not in good condition. She had to rush over to check on him as soon as possible. The moth recognized from the man's white coat that he was a doctor of this base. He was treated like this because he opposed the atrocities of Eugene and others. Fortunately, he was a doctor after all, a scarce talent in the end times, so although he was disobedient, they did not kill him directly.

Jiang Fei rushed to the dark medical center without stopping. The door of the medical center was crooked, and it was obvious that a fight had taken place here. She carefully pushed the door open a crack, paying attention to the glass shards on the ground, and bypassed the broken glass windows. The man was locked in the innermost operating room.

As soon as she opened the door, the hawk moth flew over to her happily and kept talking, "Oh, he was struggling just now, but now he's not moving. Master, go and have a look."

"You did a great job." Jiang Fei was generous with her praise. Hearing Jiang Fei praising herself like that, the human-faced hawk moth suddenly became excited and started showing off in the internal channel with other split bodies.

[Look, the master praised me! ! You've never been praised like that, have you?]

[Look how proud you are.] [You look so ugly when you show off.] [Showing off, huh? Be careful.]

The outside of the iron cabinet was tied with a chain as thick as a thumb, determined not to let him out. Jiang Fei tried to chop it open with a dagger, but it was not realistic. She walked around the operating room and found a cutting knife used for craniotomy on the shelf. She moved a chair to take out the cutting knife, plugged it in, and studied how to use it.

She said to the man trapped in the closet, "Wait a moment, I'll get you out right away."

Sizzle, sizzle——

The cutting knife made a sharp sound when it hit the chain, and sparks of electricity flew out. Jiang Fei squinted her eyes and cut the chain into two pieces. She quickly opened the iron cabinet. The air in the cabinet was not circulating. The man looked listless due to lack of oxygen. She grabbed the man's collar and dragged him out of the cabinet.

First, the cloth wrapped around his eyes was removed. The man blinked slowly. His eyes were very delicate fox eyes, with the tails slightly upturned. Because it was all dark just now, it took him some time to recover his vision. Then Jiang Fei tore off the tape on his mouth.

His reaction was a little slow, and Jiang Fei couldn't help but pat his cheek with her hand, "Hey, are you scared silly?"

"You're the one who's been scared silly." The man's voice was a little hoarse. "How did you find this place? Wait, you're not from this base? Huh? Did those traitors call in helpers to carve up the base so quickly?"

Jiang Fei patted his other cheek again, "Can you please understand the situation before you talk? If I were their helper, would I let you out?"

"Let him out and torture him better." He twisted his shoulders. His hands were still tied behind his back, which was an awkward position.

"Can you please stop thinking of people so darkly?" Jiang Fei was furious when he thought that he had saved him out of kindness but was treated as a bad person. His kindness was taken for granted.

The man then raised his eyes and observed Jiang Fei carefully, "That's right... You don't look like a bad person, but more like a brainless good person."

Jiang Fei lowered her head to look for the tape she had just thrown aside. It would be better to seal his mouth, right?

"But you're not here to rescue anyone, are you?" the man laughed sarcastically. "They had it all planned long ago. First, they'd take Carl away, then kill the person in charge and finally take over the entire base. You're really too late."

Finally getting back to the point, Jiang Fei asked, "So you plan to become their pawn? Help them do evil? I don't think you're that kind of person."

"Miss, we've only been together for less than ten minutes, and you're already so sure of what kind of person I am?"

"Of course, if you had been more adaptable, you wouldn't be locked up in this broken cabinet." Jiang Fei thought he was a guy who said one thing and meant another.

"So what? Carl and the others might, no, definitely, die out there... unless a miracle happens."

After Jiang Fei got the news that Carl and the others were heading to the ruins, he sent Black Cat to the ruins to find out what was going on. The good news was that Carl and the others were still alive, but the bad news was that the supporting pillars of the place where they were trapped were in danger and could collapse at any time.

"It can be seen that your Captain Carl is a very qualified captain. He should not have died in such an unclear manner. What's more, they may not be dead yet. As long as we can bring them back, the situation can be changed." In fact, Jiang Fei could have dealt with all the bad guys in this base and then become the person in charge naturally, but she thought of Carl who was willing to risk being attacked in the high tower and put down his weapon just to bring medicine to treat the person in charge.

Such a loyal person shouldn't have ended up like this.

So Jiang Fei said, "Do you want to go with me?" She took him with her because several of Carl's team members were seriously injured, and as a doctor, he could always help.

As she spoke, she used a dagger to cut the thick hemp rope on his wrist. He stood up and tinkled and filled the medicine box with things quickly. The medicines he brought were all hemostatic and analgesic.

He snapped the lid of the medicine box shut and held it across his body. "Lance, my name is."

"Jiang Fei." Jiang Fei took his outstretched hand, "Then let's bring them back."

"However, all the transportation in the base has been controlled by them. We can't just walk there, right?" Lanser frowned as he looked at the situation outside the hospital. Jiang Fei sent a message to Jason, asking him to deal with it first and she would be there soon.

Jason looked helpless when he received the news. He murmured, "What do you mean by deal with it first?" He stepped on Eugene who was beaten unconscious, looked up and looked around. Forget it, he had experienced many critical situations anyway, this was child's play.

Jiang Fei and Lanser took advantage of the chaos to run to the gate of the base. Her motorcycle was parked nearby. Seeing Jiang Fei's motorcycle, Lanser curled his lips and said, "Don't tell me this is your means of transportation."

"Why, do you look down on two wheels?" Jiang Fei got on the motorcycle, put on her helmet, and waved at him. The latter walked to her side reluctantly and held out his hand to her, "Where's the helmet?"

Oh, yes, she hadn't thought of that. Lanser narrowed his eyes, "Didn't you even think that I would have to wear a helmet?"

"Uh... no."

"If I get into an accident without a helmet, I'll be the first to die. Even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go if you die like this." Lanser's tone was calm. Jiang Fei grabbed a helmet from someone's motorcycle and handed it to Lanser. The latter sniffed it and looked disgusted. "Has this guy never washed his hair in his entire life? This smell can kill a nest of rats."

"Great, it can also be used as a biological weapon." Jiang Fei patted the back seat of the motorcycle, "Hurry up and get on, time waits for no one!"

Lanser had no choice but to put on his helmet, his expression ready to die. The back seat sank, and Jiang Fei's voice mixed in with the roar of the motorcycle, "Hold on tight! We're leaving now!"

Lance, who didn't react in time, almost fell backwards due to inertia. Fortunately, he was quick-eyed and quick-handed and grabbed the back seat of the motorcycle to avoid falling. A thin layer of sweat seeped out of his forehead. Maybe he wouldn't even be able to reach the ruins alive and would die on the way.

Jiang Fei actually enjoyed the feeling of racing, especially when she was in modern times, she would encounter traffic jams every day during rush hour on her way to and from get off work. Now it feels so good to have a smooth ride!

She had Black Cat survey the surroundings ahead of time to ensure there were no other contaminants present, so she had no other concerns. She raced all the way to the entrance of the ruins and stopped the motorcycle. "We're here. Pretty quick, huh?"

Lanser's face was pale, and he looked like he was about to vomit. Jiang Fei's smile froze at the corner of his mouth. "Are you okay?"

He retorted in a bad mood, "Do I look okay?" He stood there for a moment, then straightened up after his expression softened. "They took my computer. Can you contact them?"

"Do you think I have their contact information?" Jiang Fei retorted, but Black Cat had already planned the shortest route for her, so she had to pretend to be distressed and said, "There's nothing I can do but go and look for them first."

They were standing at the edge of the ruins, or to be more precise, the dozens of floors of the building, which had nearly a hundred floors. Only a corner of it was exposed, like the tip of an iceberg. Many people had explored this ruins, but every time a wind blew, the old entrance would be buried in the yellow sand, and anyone who wanted to go in would have to find a new entrance.

The entrance in front of them was the one that Carl and his team opened yesterday. A hole was opened in the floor-to-ceiling glass window on the upper floor, and the floor inside was not horizontal, but at a very tricky tilt angle. Jiang Fei used a light brain to illuminate the layout inside. After entering, he had to find a foothold, otherwise it would be easy to slide down due to the tilt of the floor, and it would be no joke if he hit something in the middle.

Jiang Fei took out a hemp rope from her backpack. Lanser saw it and asked, "Isn't that the hemp rope that tied me up?"

"Yes, recycling waste." Jiang Fei even brought a piece of chain with her. She felt that it could be used. She said to Lanser, "Give me a hand."

Lanser also helped tie the iron railings at the entrance with a rope. Jiang Fei wrapped the other end of the rope around her hand a few times to make sure it wouldn't loosen. Then she bent down and walked through the entrance, landing on the floor with her left foot first. Damn, how could this floor be so slippery?

Jiang Fei slipped, but fortunately her hand held the rope tightly. She gritted her teeth and adjusted her posture. Her other hand took out a dagger and stabbed it into the floor fiercely. She looked around. This floor should be the entertainment area of ​​the sanatorium. There were several sofas in the room, as well as a pool table and a ping-pong table.

Fortunately, there was a black cat leading the way, otherwise it would be hell to find someone in such a complicated building. She said to Lanser, "You can come in."

Lanser grabbed Jiang Fei's arm. Thanks to Gru's strength training, it was not too difficult for her to hold an adult man now. They took some effort to reach the stairs. The elevator was unusable, so they had to take the emergency passage.

"What kind of medical center is this? Building such a tall building." Jiang Fei muttered as he walked up the stairs.

"That was the most famous medical company before the apocalypse, practically monopolizing the entire medical field." As a doctor, Lanser was well-versed in this area of ​​history. "Even after the apocalypse, the founder of the medical company and his children naturally moved to Sky City, abandoning all the patients who trusted their company."

So besides these few living people in this building, there are countless dead people, but so much time has passed that even the corpses have turned into bones.

Jiang Fei couldn't help but sigh in her heart that whether it was modern times or the end of the world, rich people could live well anywhere.

Click.

She stepped on something very brittle and it broke into pieces as soon as she stepped on it. She already had the answer in her mind, but she still lowered her head and saw the white bones that were stepped on and broken into two halves in the light emitted by her computer. She looked down along those bones and saw that the bottom of the stairwell was filled with densely packed human bones.

Jiang Fei forgot to breathe for a moment. She suddenly thought, why would the powerful Karl and his team be injured? This kind of terrain is nothing to them.

Now, the answer has surfaced.

Bang.

Someone closed the stairwell door.

Then, the entire building broadcast sounded, "Welcome, welcome... zala... to... Wood Medical Center. I wish you a healthy life here."