Chapter 220: Isolated Island
By noon the next day, there were a total of 184 survivors in the building, including the earliest group of Shen Qiu and Zhuo Yun.
Zhuo Yun's team was very reliable. You Xi was only responsible for mapping out the vine connection route according to the location of the survivors photographed by the drone, stimulating the vine rope ladders in the rooms, and then following the newly stimulated rope ladders to reach the next building to continue stimulating.
During this period, the people who stayed in each building to receive the survivors, the people who were responsible for explaining and reminding the survivors to climb the rope ladders harmoniously, and the people who arranged for the new survivors to move in... were all completed by Zhuo Yun, Shen Qiu and others.
Starting this morning, Lu Yichen's team has been added to the assistants.
Lu Yichen is a person with quick reaction ability. He found out the day before that Zhuo Yun and his team were close to the woman in black. Later, he followed her to climb the vine rope ladder to help rescue people and arrange the living floor.
His first reaction was not to be glad that the other party did not ask him for help for his own safety, but to feel that Zhuo Yun and his team would not do these things for free.
He observed and found that the matter was not difficult. In addition, after paying attention that night, he found something extra in Zhuo Yun's team, so he found Zhuo Yun and wanted to ask the big boss through her, saying that he also wanted to help. Can he join in?
After listening to Zhuo Yun's description of Lu Yichen and his team, You Xi nodded in agreement. It is a good thing that someone who has a brain and knows how to measure and know the ways of the world is willing to help.
She also roughly guessed what attracted Lu Yichen and the others.
She thought Zhuo Yun would ask her for some food or drinking water yesterday, but she didn't expect that she asked if there was any weapon that was slightly better than the iron rod and steel bar kitchen knife. Rusty ones would be fine as long as they didn't have any holes.
It was because You Xi's equipment was too tempting, a Tang sword and a bayonet. I heard from several new survivors that when they went to the shopping center to look for supplies that day, someone was entangled by plant roots, and it was this woman who swung the Tang sword to cut the roots and saved him.
Because they were very impressed with her, when they saw that she was the first person to walk through the vine rope ladder, they all chose to trust each other.
Zhuo Yun became more greedy in their narration, greedy for weapons.
She originally wanted to ask for water and food, but later she couldn't help but hold a meeting with the team members, and finally decided to ask for weapons.
Their requirements were not high, and they didn't dare to think about the level of Tang Dao and military bayonet. They didn't insist on quantity either, 2 to 3 slightly decent weapons would be enough, at least to improve the strength of their team.
However, when Zhuo Yun finally returned to the team room with weapons wrapped in soft cloth, she felt a little dizzy.
"Sanzi, do you have any more cigarettes?" She sat down on the sofa, but held the package tightly in her arms without letting go.
"Senior sister, there are..." The junior student called Sanzi found a wrinkled cigarette from his backpack and lit it for her.
Zhuo Yun took a deep breath and coughed.
She passed the cigarette to the person next to her. The other people in the team were also nervous and expectant. At that moment, no matter whether they smoked or not, they all finished their cigarettes one after another. Even Shen Qiu took a puff of the cigarette to cheer him up. Naturally, he coughed violently like Zhuo Yun.
Zhuo Yun calmed down his excitement and opened the package in his hand. There were six brand new weapons in it: a long dagger, a multifunctional steel shovel, a stick knife, a short Tang sword, a metal sling stick, and a light axe.
Others: ... ! !
The imagined rusty second-hand machete was replaced by a professional self-defense weapon.
Zhuo Yun picked up the short Tang sword and pulled it lightly. The blade made a slight whooshing sound. It was the low metal sound of a high-level weapon. Damn tempting!
"I'm really rich this time!" She smiled at the Tang sword like a girl in love, lowered her head and gently kissed the cold and hard blade.
After a moment, Zhuo Yun restrained her expression and raised her head again, with dazzling stars in her eyes: "Everyone remember, the masked sister is now my boss. Whatever she tells me to do, I will do my best! Let's work together - escape from this damn city!"
"Yes!"
**
One room was full of joy, vitality and hope.
But in the other room, it was gloomy.
Yan Ya and his friends have been eating biscuits for more than two days. If they could eat as much biscuits as they want, it would be fine. But they are afraid that they will have to save even biscuits. What is more terrible is that they will not have the chance to save even biscuits, because the food has been completely exhausted since noon today.
Mu Kelian quietly left with her food backpack the night Yan Ya followed them to eat biscuits.
At first, Yan Ya thought that she was just hiding somewhere like she did in the morning and at noon, and she would turn on the stove alone and come back as if nothing had happened.
But until late at night, they did not see Mu Kelian come back.
No one else wanted to look for her. When Yan Ya wanted to look for her the next day, the vine rope ladder was discovered. Everyone was talking about the mysterious woman who could control the vines to form a rope ladder. Later, because of the new survivors, they had a very chaotic, exciting and lively day.
After the food was completely exhausted at noon today, three people in his small team announced that they had joined other teams. They packed their clothes and belongings and left immediately.
Yan Ya wanted to stop, but he had no reason to stop.
He couldn't solve the food problem, and Zhuo Yun and Lu Yichen clearly said that they would not take the initiative to take care of it.
Those people had advised him to ask for help before, but Yan Ya couldn't lose face and just asked him to think about what to exchange.
What else could be exchanged?
Now, apart from water and food, everything else is secondary, not to mention that even their last protective suit was damaged in the shopping mall, and several people were injured. Although they were just external injuries, if they were not treated with medicine or disinfected, minor injuries could turn into major injuries.
Various things accumulated together, and finally someone couldn't stand it anymore.
Since Yan Ya was so stubborn and didn't want to ask for help, then they went to ask for food, water, and medicine by themselves, and they would join whichever team was willing to give them. Now there were many survivors in the building, and more people meant more opportunities.
After the three left, Yan Ya stood up and said that he would go and find Mu Kelian, and this time, whether she was willing or not, he would let her divide the supplies equally.
However, when he went out and came back, he found that there were a few fewer people in the room.
In the room, there were only a few underclassmen who usually had no idea what to do, sitting there staring at each other.
**
In the afternoon, the last group of survivors who sent out a distress signal the night before also came to the interior of the building through the vine rope ladder.
After arranging the accommodation for everyone, Zhuo Yun took a few people to the top floor to place a distress signal. The kitchen wall on the top floor was relatively solid, the roof was still there, and the space was large enough. They prepared wood and red paint to spell out SOS, and then wrote the number of survivors in the building.
This idea was thought of by You Xi. She had seen several fighter planes flying over the abandoned city before. Even if there was a one in ten thousand chance that the troops could see the distress sign on the roof, it might be a ray of hope.
At the tenth floor window, You Xi removed the last vine rope ladder, jumped back into the room from the window in full view of everyone, and went directly to the top floor.
From the window behind her, there was the sound of a building being destroyed and collapsed by the overgrown plants.
This was just the beginning. Soon, the building they were in would become the only isolated island left in the city.
All the survivors who could be relocated in the city had been relocated. It was possible that there were still people alive in some buildings. They might not have heard the drone message, or they might have been too cautious and unwilling to light a fire for help...
In short, she could only do this part of the relocation plan.
She couldn't force others to ask for help. Even if she did, she didn't think she was a superior savior.
Next, she had to find a way to send these survivors out of the city.
If they couldn't evacuate on the ground, they could only rely on air.
She had thought about using vines to create a way out of the city, but there were not many tall buildings in this city, and the building they were in was located in the center of the city, far from the suburbs. Besides
, even if they reached the suburbs, what would happen? She had already used a telescope to see that the city, the suburbs, and even further away were all overgrown with plants. All
the living creatures on the ground became nutrients for the plants. The direction of the official refuge area that Zhuo Yun had mentioned to her before was also completely covered by plants. It was easy to imagine what the situation was there...
So, the only way out at the moment was that she had to go out, go to a farther place, find a refuge area that could still be operated, and then leave her location so that the other party could come to rescue her.
The situation outside is like this now. Whether it is the country or the entire planet, every place is in great crisis.
And there must be many people waiting for rescue in cities, towns and even in damaged shelters. Even if she finds a large shelter and explains the situation, it will probably take a long time to wait for rescue.
In the meantime, the searching and waiting time will take at least several days.
And the plants in this building require her to use her plant abilities to soothe and communicate with them every day in order to maintain the current peace. She can't get away to seek rescue for the time being.
She couldn't help but think of the huge spaceship she saw when the Star House was upgraded. That huge ship could probably accommodate all the humans on the entire planet.
She sighed: What a contradiction... If there were large flying tools now, these two hundred people could be sent directly out of the city.
[In that case, you will also be targeted.]
You Xi knew this of course, and she just sighed. However, this sigh reminded her of something she wanted to ask before: The spaceship I saw in the illusion, is it real?
[Yes.]
You Xi: If I am not mistaken, you said before that the Star House is not in this planet or this world, but just overlapped in space. So... the Star House is part of the hull? What I am bound to is actually the spaceship, and the upgrade of the Star House is actually the unlocking and upgrading of the spaceship's usage area?
[You are very smart. Although due to the difference in the expression of your world and mine, it is not exactly what you said, but the meaning is similar.]
You Xi: So it is actually your spaceship that protects our family? Is that where you are?
[Yeah. 】
Youxi: Since this is where you are, then what about you? Why don’t I see anyone - no, any life?
【Because there is no life up there. 】
Xing Min’s voice paused for a long time before it reappeared.
【Youxi, my world has also encountered the end of the world. I am the last survivor of our race. 】
**
Until after dinner that day, Youxi was still stuck in Xing Min’s last words.
Fan Qi knew that she was busy these two days, so she didn’t bother her much. After dinner, she stuffed a cup of matcha latte into her hand and left, leaving the terrace space to her.
Youxi leaned back in the recliner, looking at the night sky outside the glass, her thoughts drifting away.
She could hardly imagine the feeling of an entire race being destroyed and being the only one left in the vast universe.
If it were her, if the world she loved—the familiar planet and all the people on it—no longer existed, she couldn't imagine how she would survive...
"Xing Min..." She spoke slowly.
[I'm here.]
You Xi didn't say anything else. She didn't know what words to say to comfort him. Or maybe Xing Min didn't need such empty comfort. She just wanted him to know that he was not alone now.
Although they were in different spaces, and maybe she would never understand everything in his world, because of the Star House, at least they could hear each other's voices.
[...Yeah, I can hear it.]
You Xi smiled, reached out and clicked on the stretch screen next to her, selected a gentle song, then leaned back in the recliner and closed her eyes.
She fell asleep to the melodious music, and in her drowsiness, she heard a familiar voice coming from outside the Star House.
You Xi opened her eyes.
"Xingxingwu, please, I need help..."
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