Chapter 145: Walking Alone in the End of the World (an additional paragraph was added at the end)
This journey was very difficult for Youxi, and it was much more difficult than when they left S City, because most of the roads that could be driven on were almost destroyed by various plants. Even with the powerful obstacle-crossing ability of the all-terrain vehicle, they could only slow down and drive slowly.
Unlike the last time they left S City and saw many cars and people on the highway, now there are almost no people on the highway or the national highway.
It is difficult to distinguish where the road surface is on the national highway, and it is almost mixed with the fields on both sides. The highway
is full of cars that were forced to abandon due to road blockages. The roads that originally quickly connected cities were almost blocked, which also caused more and more people to be trapped in place and unable to move long distances.
After Youxi got out of the car for the Nth time and pushed away the car blocking the road in front of her, she decided to move the ATV off the highway and drive along the fields beside the highway.
She had an affinity for plants, so she was not afraid of any mutant plants in the fields. She drove faster than on the highway. At
this moment, she deeply felt how useful the superpowers she had exchanged for 800 star coins were.
When passing through N City, she slowed down and looked in the direction of the city, then stopped the car, stood on the top of the frame, and looked carefully in the direction of the city with her superior vision.
N City is also a big city. When they evacuated from S City before, they chose the suburbs between N City and H City as their evacuation destination. Part of the reason was that the situation in N City and H City was much better than that in S City.
She didn't know the current situation in H City. She just took a distant look at N City and vaguely found that many tall buildings were already covered with green plants.
She jumped out of the car, walked to a tree nearby, reached out and touched the trunk, wanting to find out the situation in N City carefully.
Probably because the distance was a bit far, and she was still in the adaptation period, and she was not very proficient in using her supernatural powers. When she vaguely sensed some of the situation in the city, she felt a sense of excessive internal consumption.
This feeling often occurred after she practiced the ice control supernatural power for a long time. The body would feel weak, thirsty, and dizzy.
Now she has gotten used to this feeling. Basically, she will stop using her supernatural powers as soon as she feels this kind of excessive internal consumption, and at the same time drink a lot of water.
Youxi drank half a bottle of water and stuffed it in the car storage rack. The situation in N City is not good. There are plants everywhere, and it is even less popular than S City at that time. It can be seen that the situation in S City will only get worse.
Yuli and Zhao Xuefei, mother and daughter, have not had the opportunity to come back since they went to the island for vacation. The situation there was better than here in the early stage, but then they lost contact and never got in touch again. Although You Feng didn't say it, he was also angry that Yuli, his sister, was so willful and self-willed.
But after all, they are You Feng's blood relatives. They treat their neighbors, the old couple living downstairs in the apartment, with all kinds of care. They even contacted each other twice after going to the B&B, not to mention that You Li is You Feng's sister. No matter how many
conflicts there were in the past, now the world has become like this, people around us are injured and die at any time, and many unhappy things have long been let go when they think of them. What fills my heart is more worry and sadness.
I worry about whether the mother and daughter can take care of themselves when they are away from home. I am sad that transportation is inconvenient and communication is not smooth now, and I don't know if I can see them in my lifetime.
As for Old Master You and You Hai's family, You Feng was less worried. After all, the five of them were together in their own city. In addition, Yang Huizhen and You Meiming were both good at making plans for themselves. As long as they didn't encounter a major disaster, their lives wouldn't be too bad.
So this time when You Xi returned to S City, she didn't have to bring them back, but mainly to check on them.
In the past few days, she had avoided You Feng and tried every way to use various channels to learn about the situation in S City online. She had also seen a lot of photos and videos of S City today, but when she arrived, she found that the current situation was far worse than the pictures and videos she had seen before.
She was still at the edge of the city, and the order that had been maintained by rescue workers had completely collapsed. The most direct manifestation was in the city's environment - garbage was everywhere between overturned cars and dense vegetation.
Late February should have been the coldest time in S City, but now the daytime temperature is over 30 degrees, and it rains from time to time. The high temperature, humidity, and uncollected garbage have become the best environment for breeding insects.
Youxi looked at the groups of flying insects in front of her, smelled the stench of rotting garbage in the air, and felt the discomfort and restlessness of the plants.
This restlessness made them grow harder and harder, trying to cover the garbage with layers of vegetation and decompose these smelly pollutants as soon as possible.
Youxi had a headache from the smoke. She took off her mask and took out a [Moisturizing Breathing Mask] that was half expired from the Xingwu warehouse. She didn't feel alive until the mask was on her face and automatically formed a protective film to filter out the polluted air.
The edge of the city was already in this state. She couldn't imagine what it would be like in the city. She didn't know how many people still lived in the city in this environment.
Fortunately, as she walked into the city, Youxi soon discovered that not all areas were like what she had seen before.
The environment in some areas was obviously much cleaner, and hunting traps were set up in many places. There were also simple cordons outside the residential buildings to prevent mutant animals from suddenly approaching.
Except for the two buildings surrounded by the cordon, most of the other buildings are vacant. It seems that there are many people living in these two buildings. People from the neighborhood should have gathered together.
A bad environment will breed evil people, but it will also make ordinary people work together and temporarily unite into a rope.
Just like their team, they worked together before because they had a common goal, and the life in the homestay was relatively peaceful. In addition, except for the ten people in the original team, everyone's family members were around. When Xu Yan formed a team, he could choose his teammates, but he could not choose his teammates' families. After a long time, it was inevitable that his heart would be scattered.
There were people keeping sentry nearby. As soon as Youxi approached the cordon, he immediately felt the eyes falling on him, at least three or more. She had no intention of disturbing them for the time being, so she slowly left the other person's residential area.
There were not many people in the city, and according to previous online reports, some people had moved to the large island in the suburban lake.
The shelter there had not yet been built and could not accommodate everyone, so the first group of people to be relocated (the general population) had a specific target, and they were all people with specific work skills and their families.
As for the minors and the elderly who had been taken care of, they had been arranged in the early stages to move to the town by the lake in the suburbs, which was close to the large island, and it would be convenient to move as the subsequent shelters were built little by little.
Youxi drove an all-terrain vehicle through the dense vegetation, and from time to time used the plant communication ability to determine the road conditions ahead and decide whether to take a detour.
More than an hour later, she had driven to the neighborhood where Old Man You originally lived. Almost as soon as she entered the area, she knew that it was impossible for anyone to still live nearby.
Dense plants grow in various forms through the doors and windows of the building, and the building has almost become a part of the plants. Various mutant animals use such buildings as their nests. According to their own preferences, some hide in the depths of the building, hiding during the day and coming out at night; some cling to the outer walls and hang huge predatory nets; some are alert to the appearance of outsiders and show their sharp teeth from the dark door...
On the ground covered with moss and fallen leaves nearby, in addition to rotting garbage, there are also various corpses, some of animals and some of humans...
Youxi quickly left the area.
She opened the map downloaded on her phone, replanned the route, and arrived at the town by the lake a few hours later. The vegetation nearby was not as dense as in the city, and it was obviously more crowded.
But where there are people, there are right and wrong. Before arriving in the town, she crippled two groups of gangs who targeted her ATV and wanted to do evil.
The other party was obviously organized and premeditated. It was obvious that this was not the first day they did these things. They set up roadblocks, ambushed on the roadside, carried various knives, and even some people carried air guns and stun guns, which were quite lethal weapons.
Unfortunately, with the strength of an ordinary person, even a knife could not cut into her skin, and the stun gun was ineffective against her.
As for the air gun, if it hit her skin, it would still cause some scratches and pain, so she took the remaining half bottle of water and condensed a square ice cube of about ten centimeters, controlling it to move around her body, accurately blocking every air gun bullet.
The behavior of these two groups of people made Youxi feel a little angry, not because of the roadblocking robbery itself, but because the other party rushed up with a knife and chopped people directly when they saw them, without any hesitation or fear.
You know, using a weapon to intimidate others and directly using a weapon to chop people are two completely different behaviors.
Social order had just collapsed. Ordinary people would have an instinctive fear and terror of the action of chopping people, but they seemed to have gotten used to it. There was no fear in their eyes, only the excitement of seeing prey.
They used humans as prey, which made her feel ashamed.
Youxi broke one arm and one leg of each of them. It was not an ordinary break. After subduing the opponent, she took out a heavy fire axe and used the axe to break the arms and legs.
She put 70% or 80% of the force, directly causing comminuted fractures. Even with medical conditions in peacetime, this is a disabling injury, let alone now.
These two evil groups were destroyed by her alone. Two days later, when the troops passed by and found them, the group of people who were tied together and gagged had woken up and fainted several times. For them, such pain was not as good as killing them directly...
These two gangs had long been on the blacklist of the neighborhood, but they were usually short of manpower and the other party was very cunning, so they could not be caught at all.
The troops did not expect that they were wiped out by one person. Who on earth was the other party?
But at that time, You Xi, who had been looking for people in vain, had already teleported back to the Star House in an empty building somewhere.
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She found out that when the first group of people evacuated, You Hai's family and Mr. You followed them to the town by the lake to stay temporarily. Later, the town became more and more populated and the order gradually became chaotic.
Later, many people whose hometowns were in other places wanted to form a team to leave. Some people found that it was not possible to move to the island in the short term. In addition, at that time, there were always various posts on the Internet about moving from the city to the suburbs. Most people found that the mutant plants and animals were not so rampant in places with fewer buildings, factories and dense vegetation. Therefore, many people followed these teams to leave.
Tell You Xi that these people were originally residents of the town. When the people in the city began to move, he and a team of other people were responsible for the statistics of the relocation list.
The person received a large bag of instant noodles and canned food from Youxi, so he naturally told her everything, and even carefully checked the records for her to see.
The five members of the You family lived in a hotel before the relocation. One day, the plants in that area began to grow like crazy again, and many houses and buildings were damaged, so they were among the first batch to be relocated.
But not long after they lived there, they followed a team of outsiders and left. At that time, the expressways and national roads were still accessible, unlike now, even if you want to go to other places, you have to think twice.
In the end, the other party knew that she had made a personal trip just to find someone, and showed a rather puzzled expression.
Although the network and signal are sometimes available now, they are not completely cut off. If you really want to contact each other, you can always get in touch as long as you spend more time. Why bother to make this trip in person?
Youxi smiled. Of course she knew this.
And she felt that You Feng should also know it in his heart. After all, after they arrived at the B&B, they contacted the professor and his wife twice. The other party's son asked a friend he knew in S City. That friend and other people were about to leave for other cities. Because the direction was the same as that of the city where his son was, he took them along the way.
On the other hand, his son was also trying to arrange the rest of the journey.
When You Feng contacted the professor and them for the last time, they were just about to set off.
He could even contact the professor, so if You Hai was willing, how could he not be able to contact him?
So You Xi made this trip mainly for You Feng. This is what a daughter can do for her father, so that he can give her an explanation.
Now, You Feng has completely given up.
It took You Xi a day to go there, but it only took a second to come back.
Before March 6, the three members of the You family insisted on going out for 3 to 4 hours every day, and stayed in the star house to get some food for the rest of the time. Every day was plain and fulfilling.
The mutant pigs came several times afterwards, very persistent, but each time they escaped under You Xi's tear gas.
Xu Yan, Zheng Feng, Lu Bin, Wang Meng and Wang Yin were so annoyed that they had to set traps almost every day and were worried every night. Every time the mutant pigs came, they had to tormented for a whole night.
At first, they didn't say anything when they saw You Xi throwing tear gas, but later, when they saw that she was unwilling to kill the mutant pigs, they couldn't help but complain a few words. As a result, when the mutant pigs came that time, You Xi didn't even throw tear gas, and didn't even show up the whole night.
The others complained, but they couldn't do anything to You Xi. They couldn't beat her or reason with her. In the end, they had to let Xu Yan go to apologize and ask her not to care.
But they didn't know that You Xi had already mentioned another function of the Star House to Fan Qi and You Feng.
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