Chapter 193 Survival
The troops had undergone various trainings and were much more sober than ordinary people. For them, being trapped in a building and dying of hunger and thirst was a very frustrating way to die. Instead of waiting hopelessly, it was better to fight hard and make the last effort. Even
if... unfortunately, they died outside, at least their death was worthwhile.
The next day, more volunteers than expected joined the outgoing convoy. The captain in charge of this mission looked at the young faces in front of him, and his heart was touched but he couldn't bear it. In the end, he asked his deputy to bring the list and exclude the warriors who had elderly family members or young children who were taking refuge with the team.
In the building of the refuge area, the trapped people heard the sound of cars driving outside. Some people didn't know what was going on, and ran to the window, clinging to the glass to try to figure out what was going on outside.
But we couldn't see anything just by looking, so we could only start to make wild guesses.
"It's the sound of a car! It seems there's more than one! The troops are leaving!"
"The fog outside is so thick, can the car get out?"
"Although visibility is low, we can get out as long as we drive slowly. The strange creatures in the fog can't do anything to the car. As long as we don't get out of the car, we are safe. Even if we get out of the car
, don't the troops have protective clothing?" "Wait - that's not right! Are they going to leave by themselves and leave us here?"
"That's impossible... There are so many people, and they were distributing food and water before, how could it be..." These dissenting and more sober voices were quickly drowned out by the panicked speculations of others.
But no matter how panicked everyone was, there were still many people in a building. Even if everyone was arguing, there were people who provided different opinions, so they would not act rashly.
In a remote building, someone couldn't stand it anymore. His name was Zhang Jian. There were not many survivors in this building, and several of them were elderly people.
The last time the troops distributed water was five days ago. That time, they said that food was tight now, so they asked them to eat less. The troops would find a way, but they also hoped that everyone would cooperate.
The one who took those elderly people was a servant. The servant's master died during the "Red Lotus" disaster. Before he died, he entrusted his parents to his servant.
He treated this nanny-like servant very well. The servant cared about the other's friendship and found the master's parents in the chaotic city, and escaped with the parents and several elderly neighbors.
They were lucky and met a rescue team of this unit on the way, and then they arrived at this resort safely.
Now food is in short supply. Zhang Jian saw that a servant and several elderly people also got the same amount of instant rice, canned meat, dried fruits and other drinking water as himself, and his heart was extremely unbalanced. Several elderly people who were about to be buried, and a servant of a lower status, what was the basis?
Finally, on the night four days ago, he suddenly attacked the servant, broke his head, knocked him unconscious, and then tied him to an iron frame in the room with a rope.
Without the restraint of his followers, he quickly drove the other elderly people into a windowless room, threw a few packets of instant noodles and bottles of water in, and then locked the door.
He monopolized their water. During the past four days, he only occasionally fed his followers some water and some leftover instant noodles. He kept all the other food for himself, and did not deliberately save on it. He had three meals a day and was full every time.
But after four days, the food was still running out.
He heard the movement of the army's vehicles and thought that they were going to abandon these survivors and leave. He had no one to discuss with, so in a hurry, he wrapped his exposed skin with clothes, opened the door of the building, and rushed out, trying to catch up with the convoy.
Zhang Jian had been trapped indoors for more than ten days, and he was stunned as soon as he stepped into the gray mist.
He didn't notice it when he was hiding indoors, but after walking a few steps away from the building, he found that no matter in front or on the left or right, the other buildings that were not far away before, as well as the plants beside the path, were all gone, as if they had disappeared.
Even the door of the building he had just rushed out of was already shrouded in gray mist and he could not see it clearly. It was as if he was the only one left in the world.
There was a rustling sound coming from the side, and he had to distinguish it for a while before he realized that it was a tree, but there was no wind around, so how could the leaves make a rustling sound?
A few seconds later, with a slight snap, a small piece of blood-red soft material fell on his shoulder. Then, the soft material continued to fall from the tree like rain, and crawled all over his body.
He had wrapped himself tightly with clothes, but he still felt the pain. He began to slap it frantically, trying to get rid of the red soft material on his body, but soon his arms and palms were also covered with red soft material.
It was as if they had suction cups, and once they were attached, they could never be removed.
The stinging sensation came from every part of his body, but soon the pain disappeared.
He felt as if his weight had doubled, and his thoughts became sluggish. He struggled to find the building he came from in the gray mist, but he didn't know when he had deviated from the original direction.
Finally, he saw the outer wall of another building in the gray mist.
He rushed up impatiently, rushed to the closed window, and knocked hard. The curtain inside was shakily opened, and a face was revealed. When he saw the person knocking on the glass window, he screamed in fear and fell inside.
It was terrible!
The man outside was covered with bloody soft things all over his body, even his face and eyes were not spared, and he stared at himself with a pair of bloodshot eyes, just like a scene from a nightmare!
Inside the building, the man who fell pointed out the window and shouted wildly, attracting his companions. The others hurried forward to pull up the heavy curtains again, and then retreated to a safe distance of one meter.
They have discovered the characteristics of the red software that attract people. At first, they were often scared by the software that suddenly fell on the glass. Later, they figured out the pattern and kept holding the curtains and kept a distance of more than one meter.
Fortunately, although the red software stares at people and is scary, it can do nothing to the walls and glass of the building. As long as they don't run outside to commit suicide, they are safe.
Even though there was a shortage of water and food, the group discussed and planned their meals every day, so they were still able to hold on.
They had just heard the movement of the army's vehicles, and they were afraid. Some of them expressed the desire to give it a try and go out to check the situation.
But before they made a final decision, the glass windows of the building were knocked, and then they saw this horrible scene.
Now, those who wanted to give it a try gave up. It was too scary outside. If the army really wanted to abandon them, they would have to accept their fate.
Before the gray fog completely dissipated, they had better stay in the building, at most reduce their current rations and maintain the minimum rations every day. Anyway, they couldn't go out now, and they either lay down or sat every day, so the consumption was not large.
After the glass was knocked for a while, the movement outside disappeared. When the people in the house opened the curtains a little to check again, there was still thick gray fog outside, and the bloated "blood man" was no longer visible.
Fortunately, not long after, the troops announced the reason for the previous convoy's action in the form of radio - the external speakers in several different areas of the resort were the only things that could convey the message now.
But radio also requires electricity. "Red Lotus" destroyed the resort's power supply. The troops used to rely on fuel to drive the generator for short-term power supply.
Now all resources are tight, including fuel, so unless it is necessary, the generator cannot be used at will except for a few key areas - such as the scientific research group, the medical center, and the command center.
But today, the commander of the troop felt it necessary to issue this notice to encourage those trapped indoors, to let them know that they are still working hard and have not given up.
Everyone in the building who heard the broadcast outside put down their worries. They gathered together, parents hugged their children, friends leaned on each other, and lovers held hands. Everyone planned to save and redistribute the remaining food again.
They must hold on until the rescuers come back with new supplies.
**
Halfway up the mountain, a suspended villa.
Trapped indoors by the gray fog for many days, Hei Mu's sense of crisis had already been activated. After counting all the water, daily necessities, medicines, polar equipment and other supplies in the storage room, although he put his worries aside, he also made some arrangements for the three meals a day afterwards.
Youxi and her friends are from the upper class, so they should eat fresh food every meal, and they should have a reasonable combination of nutrition, including fish, meat, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits.
There is no reason for the four of them to eat so well. They can use instant food five days a week, and it is enough to supplement the nutrition of fresh food for the remaining two days.
However, this approach was rejected by Youxi during the first trial meal on the first day.
"I can afford to support you, eat as much as you want, as long as it is not wasted intentionally." Youxi looked back at her 888 cubic meters of Star House warehouse filled with various supplies. In fact, she thought that she could afford it even if it was wasted, but she was a little more restrained. After all, what Hei Mu and the others saw now was just the inventory in the villa storage room.
What worried Youxi was actually another problem.
This suspended villa was originally prepared for the end of the world, so the electricity is solar energy, and there are several generators. Even if the external power supply is cut off, it will not affect the villa.
Although the water source is external, it is not the same water supply line as the resort at the foot of the mountain. Instead, it is a water supply line of an underground pure water source that was obtained at a high price.
During the previous "Red Lotus" disaster, this special water source line was fortunately not destroyed, so when the fog trapped them, the villa still had water, but even Youxi could not guarantee that this situation would last long.
In addition, because of the more than ten days of fog, the solar power has long been stopped, and now the villa relies on several generators for electricity.
Fortunately, the fuel required for these generators is not the widely used fuel oil, but the same fuel crystals as those used for low-altitude flying vehicles.
The biggest advantage of this fuel crystal is its durability. The same fuel crystal can allow a low-altitude vehicle to fly for twelve hours, and can sustain the villa's electricity for a week when used in a generator. In addition, with Hei Mu's various plans and intentional conservation, a crystal can be used for more than ten days.
She has thirty-six boxes of such crystals, with one box containing one hundred crystals.
That day, when Hei Mu saw her moving a small box of a dozen fuel crystals from the cloakroom in her room, he looked at her with almost admiration.
The problem of electricity has been solved, and the key lies in water.
So since the siege by the gray fog, Hei Mu, under You Xi's order, took Yan Shang and the others to wash the fresh food in the refrigerator and freezer and the rice in the storage room and cook them into cooked food every day, and then packed them one by one in the environmentally friendly paper boxes that You Xi had bought a long time ago, and each portion was nutritionally matched for easy consumption.
As for where these things went, You Xi did not say, she only asked them to put the large number of prepared food boxes into her suite every day.
Therefore, although the situation outside was terrible, Hei Mu and the others had no time to be distracted. Half of the time was spent on washing, cutting, frying, boiling and boiling, and the other half was spent on physical and fighting training under the supervision of Jian Shou and You Xi.
Even Hei Mu was not immune, and a lot of physical training and basic fighting training were waiting for him every day.
On the day when Jian Shou's arm was completely healed, You Xi brought out two hot pot sets from the suite, one was a spicy beef and mutton set, and the other was a mushroom and seafood set.
Both sets came with matching fuel, pot soup base, chopped green onions, ginger, garlic, coriander, and other condiments. Each set was for four people, and there were six of them, so two sets were more than enough.
However, Hei Mu's thrifty radar was turned on again, indicating that one set was enough, and he would go cook some instant noodles, which would be enough.
"Don't save money today!" You Xi was a little speechless because of her own housekeeper's teasing, and she couldn't tell him that she bought forty sets of such hot pot sets. In the end, she said that because of the actual combat operations later, this meal was a celebration.
Not only did she not hold back, but she took out some frozen sea fish and hot pot meatballs from the freezer, indicating that they were ready to eat.
In addition, she also prepared a plate of various vegetables and a plate of various cut fruits for Xing Min.
With Hei Mu's eyesight, he knew at a glance that those vegetables were not the stock in the refrigerator. It had been so many days, and except for carrots, potatoes and cabbage, no matter how durable the vegetables were, they would not be so juicy,
and the same was true for fruits. But You Xi took them out anyway, as if she was sure that he would not ask a single word even if he knew.
Just like during this period, he had already discovered subtle clues from some of her eating habits and life details, but he also did not ask a single word, and continued to do his job well every day.
The You Xi before was more like a perfect mannequin. If he hadn't known clearly that she was a natural human being, he would have always felt that she was more... meticulous than them, the servants.
Now You Xi has her own taste preferences and some different living habits... These are all very subtle things, but it is these details that make her look more like a real person.
Hei Mu did not ask about these things, and he remained silent all the time, not revealing a word to the other three servants.
But he knew that in fact she had known that he had noticed it for a long time, but she did not react to it, as if the scope of her control was too broad, and she did not care about the slightest changes during the period, because she knew clearly that these changes would not have any impact on her.
The actual combat action that You Xi mentioned was a test to be conducted after many days of training.
She had sufficient protective equipment to deal with the blood-red software in the fog outside. As long as they didn't get lost, they could come back the same way they went out.
Therefore, in addition to Jian Shou and Xi Yuan, Xing Min will also go out on this trip - only he can distinguish the correct direction in the gray fog.
Xi Yuan is the one who has made the most progress among the four people. He absorbs all kinds of teachings and training like a sponge. She wants to take him out once to see his on-the-spot reaction ability and crisis response ability.
As for Jian Shou, he is the reserve prepared for Xing Min - in case he faints again, at least there is someone to help him.
The next day, the four people wearing full sets of protective equipment went out of the window, stood on the steps of the platform that Xing Min had temporarily cleared of the gray fog, and then used mountaineering equipment and ropes to secure themselves and descended from mid-air.
You Xi left a transparent cell phone for Hei Mu and Yan Shang. After testing, it was found that this thing could ignore the obstruction of gray fog and communicate within a range. Although it was only ten kilometers, it was enough.
After receiving the news that they had landed safely, Hei Mu retracted the rope hanging from the window. Yan Shang,
who was holding a long dagger and alert to the bloody software, immediately closed the window. Compared with Hei Mu's calmness, Yan Shang was worried and envious, but he was not like Xi Yuan, who trained desperately every day. He was not strong enough and would hold them back if he went out.
No matter how worried and envious he was, he had to stay.
Below the suspended villa, a soft and tough metal rope was fastened to the hooks on the waists of the four people, holding them together.
They took out their weapons and marched towards the gray fog in front of them .
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