Chapter 99: Wasteland and Chaos
The past two days have not been easy. No one expected that several entrances and exits of the subway station would collapse and become blocked.
Everyone thought that they would be trapped for a few hours at most, and that they could go home as long as the acid rain stopped.
One or two hours later, when the staff came to the stairs close to the ground through the escalator, they found that the entrance and exit above had been blocked by broken cement blocks.
The acid rain had corroded the roof of the entrance and exit, and the roof collapsed and fell down, not only in this place, but also in several entrances and exits.
Such a thing could not be kept secret for too long, so the staff quickly issued a station-wide broadcast and said that they had sent out a distress signal, asking everyone to wait patiently. After the rain stopped, rescue should arrive soon.
Those who were not injured could wait, but those who were burned by acid rain were in agony, and every minute and every second was torture.
The staff organized several strong and uninjured young people to sort out the duty room and the police station, and moved some of the more seriously injured people from the platform and the lobby to the inside. There were simple beds and beds made of sofas and chairs, which at least allowed these injured people to lie down more comfortably.
The father in the cafe and the mother in the restaurant were among them.
Although the woman was wearing protective clothing at the time, she was dragged by the workplace man and was exposed in the gap in the wall. In addition, the acid rain stains on the ground corroded her protective clothing with a large amount of strong acid.
There were large burns on her body and face, especially on her ankles, where the entire circle of flesh was corroded and the pain was excruciating.
My father's upper body and arms were burned from saving people. He was impulsive in saving people before, and now the pain made him regret it.
He was not a hero, and he was selfish in his bones, otherwise he would not have abandoned his wife and daughter when he was young. But at that moment before, when he heard the girl's cry for help and saw the woman crying on the ground, he subconsciously thought of his wife who was crying while holding their daughter.
He knew that he had only saved a stranger, and no amount of guilt could make up for the harm he had done to his wife and daughter.
His daughter, who was sitting next to him, knew this better than he did: "Don't worry, I will take care of you before you leave the subway station, but don't think too much. This is not out of forgiveness. Even if it's a friend I know, if he gets injured while saving someone, I will take care of him.
After you leave here, I hope you won't come to me again. My mother has been dead for many years. I don't hate you anymore, but I can't forgive you. Let's live our own lives in the future - if there is still a life."
...
Not far away, the couple man was looking for his girlfriend in the crowd, while his girlfriend was watching him silently, then turned around and left without saying a word.
She couldn't forget the scene when she fell on the overpass, but her boyfriend was standing there holding other women.
If a man always pays attention to other women and never puts her first, then don't be a man like him!
...
In the huge subway station, there are all kinds of life.
On the first night, when the rescue did not come, the restless crowd had two conflicts, both because they wanted to fight for the food and water in the vending machine. After that, the staff opened the supply warehouse and distributed food and water to the employees.
The supplies were limited, and each person got a little, but it was better than nothing.
Some people comforted the people around them, and also comforted themselves: "There must be a lot of people outside who need to be rescued, let's wait patiently..."
Some people were depressed and kept crying.
Someone finished the allocated water but still felt thirsty, so he planned to go to the bathroom to get some tap water. However, he turned on the tap and the water fell on the bottle in his hand, making a hissing sound and emitting white smoke.
The man yelled "acid water", threw away the bottle and ran out, covering his injured hand.
Youxi happened to be nearby. Upon hearing this, he immediately ran into the bathroom, put on gloves and turned off the switch that was still running water, then took out a measuring instrument
to measure the pH value. This instrument was bought in this world and can measure negative pH values.
Fortunately, the pH value was 1.8, which was not negative. If even the tap water turned into concentrated sulfuric acid, the subway station would be dangerous.
After one night, rescue still did not come.
Feng Xu gathered the employees of the cafe and restaurant, and found a few staff members to discuss countermeasures. Should they leave this subway station and go to other subway stations to find an exit, or find a solution on the spot.
In the end, they decided to try the latter first.
The staff broadcast again, calling for mechanical maintenance and modification personnel. Everyone spent most of the day and worked together to convert several cleaning machines in the subway station into excavators. With this method, they finally dug through the blocked subway entrance and exit on the morning of the third day.
Those with protective clothing first climbed out carefully in full armor to check the situation. Youxi was among them.
The rain outside had stopped a long time ago, but the surroundings were very quiet. The houses and buildings around were basically damaged and half collapsed, and the ground was sticky, which was the appearance of the road surface after being corroded.
This black acid rain destroyed nearly half of the city. Everything around her was unrecognizable, except for some intact buildings on the mountain not far away.
Youxi knew that was where the villa area was located.
In the previous situation, only the houses transformed by nano-ceramic alloy could survive the acid rain.
In an instant, famine, wasteland, doomsday...all kinds of negative words emerged in her mind.
She couldn't help but feel inconsistent. Is such a disaster really just a medium to low difficulty?
Youxi: System, are you sure this is a medium to low difficulty apocalyptic world?
The system didn't make a sound. You Xi sighed and decided to walk back to the villa to check the situation.
Not long after she left, Feng Xu also climbed out of the subway station. Bai Yu followed him closely, fearing that he would leave her alone again.
But obviously, everyone who has just returned to the ground will be shocked by the bleakness and black and gray tones around them.
"Why is it like this outside?" Bai Yu turned his head to look in the direction of the villa. When he found that there was still an intact house standing faintly on the hillside, he hurriedly reminded Feng Xu, "Should we go back and take a look first? In fact, I am very worried about You Xi. It has been two days, and I don't know if she is okay..."
Feng Xu was also worried about You Xi, but thinking that her house had been renovated, he felt that he should be fine.
In the past two days, Bai Yu has been mentioning You Xi in front of him, saying that she really wants to reconcile with her. After all, the world is like this, what conflicts between people can't be resolved? Feng
Xu didn't say anything, but in fact, he had long lost the anger towards You Xi.
Whenever he thought of the miserable plight of pedestrians when the acid rain suddenly fell that day, and the wailing of the injured people in the subway station, he felt that everything between him and Youxi in the past was a trivial matter. He
also felt that Bai Yu and Youxi could reconcile. Just like she said, after all, the world is like this, what conflicts can't be resolved?
"Let's go! Let's go back and take a look!" He was also worried about his parents, as they had not been in contact before.
**
The mountain road leading to the villa area was also corroded by acid rain, and the plants on both sides became black rotten residue.
Youxi was afraid that there was still acidic gas in the air, so she never took off the [Moisturizing Breathing Mask]. Occasionally, some people could be seen on the mountain road, all wearing protective clothing and carrying backpacks, and they seemed to be heading in the direction of the villa.
She thought of something and began to speed up.
If half of the buildings in Fancheng are corroded and damaged, will the survivors stay in the dangerous buildings, or will they find a safe place to take refuge?
In this situation, where is a safe place? Air-
raid shelter?
Subway station?
And - Youxi looked up, the villa area transformed by nano-ceramic alloy!
The gate of the villa area has been corroded beyond recognition. The security room is protected by the owners and the roof and walls are re-paved with excess nano-ceramic alloy materials.
At this moment, some strangers have moved into the security room with corroded doors and windows.
Youxi frowned and accelerated her pace again.
Along the way, she found that there were new faces in many villas. They were all people who came to take refuge, and she had never seen any of them.
Where are the security guards?
Where are the original owners?
They wouldn't all give up their positions in a Lei Feng-like spirit, would they? In this case, who would be willing to give up the only house that could protect them?
She had a bad guess.
With her appearance, the eyes of the strangers in the villa were focused on her one by one. Their eyes were alert and vigilant, as if to them, she was the stranger who had intruded into someone else's territory.
Youxi reached out from her backpack (Xingwu Warehouse) and took out a metal baton. She swung it vigorously, releasing three sections, and at the same time quickened her pace again, running towards her villa.
The observation deck was soon reached, and the handrail on the observation deck was also corroded, with only half of it left.
On the dark grey land, her villa stood intact. Five or six people were trapped in the electric grid in the yard, like mice that invaded the house but were trapped by mice. They wanted to get in but couldn't, and they wanted to escape but couldn't. In
the driveway, seven or eight people were pushing a machine, trying to get into the yard to dig a hole.
They had coveted this villa for a day and a night, but their companions were trapped by the electric grid after entering the yard. This house was not only strictly blocked by nano-ceramic plates, but also had such a powerful alarm device installed on the perimeter.
They knew that this thing that would automatically release the electric grid was ridiculously expensive. A house like this with all these equipments looks like a treasure to them. How many supplies can a family with all these equipments have in their house?
For this reason, they spent a lot of effort to find this small excavator (plant machine) from the security room, and transported it all the way up by manpower. Just when they were about to dig, they didn’t expect that the owner of the house would come back!
The other party saw the baton in Youxi’s hand, but they were not afraid at all. There were seven or eight of them here, and they couldn’t handle one?
Now that the owner of the house came back, it saved them a lot of trouble. Now they didn’t even have to dig. As long as they subdued the other party, they could let the other party directly turn off the power grid!
Several people exchanged gestures and spread out to surround Youxi.
The leading guy held up a portable cutting machine, stood in the middle, turned on the switch in her direction, and the gears of the cutting machine turned, making a teeth-grinding sound.
You Xi raised her eyebrows, but before she could move, an angry voice came from the side: "What do you want to do!"
Feng Xu ran out of breath, and a few dozen meters behind him, Bai Yu reluctantly stepped towards here.
"Hey, help?" The leading guy probably signaled to the others because the newcomer was tall and strong, and the people who had surrounded You Xi suddenly surrounded Feng Xu.
Feng Xu saw several people trapped in the electric grid in the yard: "You want to break into her villa! Where is she? Youxi! Youxi--"
"Stop making so much noise, hurry up!" the leader signaled impatiently.
Feng Xu had practiced some self-defense skills, and he could hold out for a few times at the beginning, but with so many people on the other side, he soon fell behind, and was finally subdued by several people, half-pinned and tied up. Bai Yu behind him did not escape either, and was tied up together.
But it happened to be like this, Feng Xu looked at the masked woman opposite, and suddenly realized something.
"You, how did you come to Youxi's villa? Who... are you?"
Youxi:...
She shook her head, looked at the group of people who surrounded her again, put the baton back into her backpack, and then--took out a handful of guns.
"Wow! This toy snatch is pretty realistic--" Before the man finished speaking, the portable cutter in his hand was hit by a snatch.
The power supply area of the cutter was hit, and it lost power and stopped suddenly.
"Do you still think it's a toy snatch?" You Xi reloaded the gun and aimed it at him, "Hurry up and get out of here, or you'll never leave again."
"Fuck!" The man was also a tough guy. Not only did he not leave, but he grabbed Feng Xu and blocked him in front of him, "This guy is your friend, right! Try to snatch him. If you dare to snatch him, I'll cut a hole in him first!"
He pointed at Feng Xu's neck with the cutting gear.
Before Youxi could react, Feng Xu had already started to struggle: "You threaten a woman? What kind of man are you! If you have the guts, let me go and we can fight one on one!..."
Youxi: ...
The man couldn't stand Feng Xu's noise anymore, and wanted to use him to threaten Youxi, so he naturally wouldn't kill him, so he hit him on the back of the head with the handle of the cutting machine.
Feng Xu's body softened and he fell down.
The man put the cutting gear on Feng Xu's neck again: "Throw it away."
"Do whatever you want, I don't know him well."
Bai Yu glanced at Youxi and said timidly: "I don't know him well either, I'm a poor man and don't live in this villa area..."
"Shut up!"
The situation was at a standstill for a moment, and no one noticed that Feng Xu, who had been unconscious, suddenly opened his eyes.
The same pair of eyes, when opened again, were sharp and fierce. He maintained the action of lying on the ground, and sorted out the current situation in a few seconds.
Finally, he set his sights on You Xi who was not far away.
There was a trace of surprise on the face inside the protective mask, and soon, that trace of surprise turned into surprise.
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