Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Si Qi from the mutant dog...
Si Qi got up from the mutant dog, her face pale, a few drops of blood oozing from her cracked lips. She staggered and continued to walk towards the shade. She knew that in her current state, even the lowest level of plant could take her life.
What's more... she felt the cold air around her getting thicker and thicker. The extreme cold was about to begin again. The extreme cold and heat in the end of the world usually last for about a month. Before that, people would save enough food to ensure that they would not go out as much as possible during this period.
Her steps became heavier and heavier as she struggled forward. There was no trace of mutant plants around her, only a few sparse grass piles and some nests left by unknown animals.
She gritted her teeth. If she continued like this, she would definitely be exhausted to death on the road. Without a detector, since she couldn't find any mutant plants, she might as well find an abandoned animal nest to live in.
Most of the animals in the apocalypse have mutated and developed intelligence, and the nests they built are mostly interconnected. Perhaps they have sensed the approach of the zombie tide, and the animals around them have disappeared.
There are many wild caves in the wild. She found a dry one with an entrance slightly downward. Warm air is lighter than cold air and rises more easily. The entrance is small and the inside is large, making it suitable for living.
There was a half-eaten animal skeleton in the cave, and some hay was spread out in a warm ball, probably to keep out the cold. There was also some dry firewood picked up by the original animals in the cave.
Si Qi didn't have the energy to deal with the pile of hay that still smelled of blood and the strange smell on her body. She blocked the door with dry firewood and fell asleep leaning against the wall.
The mutant dog's crystal core in his pocket glowed white.
When I woke up, it was already night. The moonlight shone into the cave through the dry firewood, leaving a bleak white.
Si Qi's throat felt like it was being scraped by a blade. She opened the water bag and drank a few sips of water. She then divided the remaining dry bread into three portions and ate a small piece of it.
The air was colder than during the day. According to past experience, the extreme cold would completely arrive in less than three days. If she couldn't find enough food and dry firewood within three days, then death would be waiting for her.
Having just been reborn, she didn't want to live that much, but she also didn't want to die in such a painful way.
She stood up, and some debris fell out of her pocket. The huge mutant dog crystal core that was originally placed in her pocket disappeared without a trace.
She was silent.
Never mind, it’s not easy.
No, where's her crystal core? She's so big, where's the crystal core she was going to take to the nearby base to trade for rations? Did she eat it while sleepwalking because she was so hungry? How did she not choke to death?
She took a few deep breaths, trying hard not to suffocate and kill herself. She calmed down and tried to feel some difference from herself, or maybe she absorbed it herself.
In the end, nothing happened. I was heartbroken.
When she went out, the cold wind froze Si Qi's warm heart into ice chips. She was only wearing a thin coat. The closer it was to the extreme cold, the easier it was to find food in the wild. She planned to renovate the cave first.
She picked up a few stones and skillfully piled them into a fireplace. Then she threw out the dirt, bloody hay, and the half-eaten animal carcass in the cave, and picked up some hay to cover the cave.
Following the messy animal footprints on the ground, she came to a small stream, scooped up a handful of water to wash her face, wiped her body briefly, and used a water bag to fetch water back.
For the next two days, she was out looking for hay and firewood. She found a sharp stone and used it to grind away the other half of the animal carcass, leaving some edible meat.
Finally, the cave was filled with ice. On the third day, some small ice flowers fell from the sky. She took a stone and prepared to go out of the cave today and stay at home tomorrow.
Normally at this time, wild animals would have prepared their food stores, but now due to the sudden tide of corpses, the animals are forced to migrate, and most of their food stores should have remained in place without being moved away.
She hammered along the way, picked up a dead rabbit and a lot of fruits, and carried them home one trip at a time. She also picked up a lot of wild mushrooms under the tree.
Nearing noon, the sun seemed to be surrounded by a layer of ice, and no warmth fell. Snow was falling on one side and the sun was gray on the other, just like the daytime before the world collapsed.
She found a bush of thorn berries. The berries were small and grew on thorns, but they were sweet, abundant, and easy to find. When she approached the thorn bush, the black grass suddenly moved.
Her blood rushed to her brain and her muscles tensed... At this time, the mutant animals should have almost all left, unless they were wandering zombies. She clenched the steel rod in her hand. If it was just one, she should be able to chop it and pick up a crystal core to exchange for food after the extreme cold passed.
If it's a group of..., with her current physical condition and speed, she is far inferior to the zombies, so she will be the zombies' food.
Nothing emerged from the bushes for a long time. Just when she thought she was having an illusion due to over-tension, she heard a faint woman's voice from inside, "Save me..."
Skeeten remained where he was.
It was a very familiar voice, the voice of Si Ruxu, which used to surround and fill every corner of her life, but after they broke up, it only occasionally appeared in her dreams.
She always felt that if she saw Si Ruxu again, she should just laugh it off calmly. They divorced peacefully and didn't even say a harsh word when they separated.
Until the end of the world came, all their relatives and friends died one after another, and their former intimacy was completely buried in the blood-soaked ground.
She forced herself to steady her beating heart, gently pushed aside the thorn bushes, and saw a woman curled up inside. She didn't have any minor injuries on her body except that her clothes were scratched by the thorns. Following the direction of the blood, she saw a hole-like wound on her abdomen, and there was a faint green energy around it, slowly healing her.
Si Qi picked a bunch of wild fruits and put them in his pocket, and put some into Si Ruxu's pocket. He returned to the cave until it was full. He blocked the cave tightly with dry firewood and hay. In the simple fireplace built with a few irregular stones, a cluster of weak fire emitted warm light.
Si Qi glanced at the wound on Si Ruxu's abdomen. Although with the help of supernatural powers, recovery is only a matter of time, but the person is not awake yet and is still with her. She can't let her starve to death.
She carefully separated the clothes on Si Ruxu's abdomen from her wound to prevent the new flesh from sticking to the clothes, then crushed the thorn fruit, pinched the woman's white chin, and fed it little by little along her slightly pale lips. Her lips had a beautiful shape, and the thickness was just right. The color was not that strong red, but rather a soft pink tone.
The unconscious Si Ruxu lost her usual sense of distance and became more gentle and peaceful.
Si Qi withdrew his gaze from Si Ruxu, which had lingered on her for too long. She shouldn't have done that. The longer he stared at the unconscious Si Ruxu, the less he wanted her to wake up. He didn't want to see her once gentle and affectionate eyes now filled with polite distance, like a transparent, high wall between them. From a distance, there seemed no difference, but up close, he realized they had long lost the conditions for close communication.
The strong wind outside kept hitting the haystack at the door. Fortunately, the cave that Si Qi chose was concave, and the hay and firewood were mixed with mud and piled firmly. Compared with the outside, the cave was relatively warm.
She ate some wild fruits and planned to dig the cave deeper. She planned to make a separate compartment to put a few processed rabbits and the other half of the processed animals in.
The energy gained from eating plants is far greater than that from eating animals, so when she caught rabbits, she sent them to be reincarnated. She hoped they would be reborn into a good family with superpowers.
However, Si Qi's best weapon was the iron rod. He used the iron rod to dig and dig, and it took him nearly two days to finally open a compartment. In the extremely cold conditions, the food was not easy to spoil and was stored quite well.
During this period, Si Ruxu had not woken up, but her complexion had become noticeably rosier. Si Qi looked at the wound on Si Ruxu's abdomen which had healed a lot, thought for a moment, and then moved closer with the sharp stone in his hand.
She took a deep breath and tried to cheer herself up. It was just treating a wound, separating the clothes to make room for the wound, taking care of the patient. Why was she so nervous? Stand up straight. She was Si Ruxu's savior.
Si Qi let out a long breath and carefully scraped open the clothes on Si Ruxu's abdomen with a stone, revealing the hideous wound and some newly grown pink tender flesh. Perhaps because she had been treated with supernatural powers, there was not much blood smell on her body, but instead a faint scent of crabapple.
After carefully treating the wound and washing it with water, she wiped the sweat from her forehead and collapsed on the floor beside her.
She was still very nervous, even facing the unconscious Si Ruxu, which was very embarrassing.
She continued to crush the thorn fruits and fed them to Si Ruxu. She ate some food herself and closed her eyes. Because of the space she had to dig to divide the food, she hadn't had a full night's sleep for a long time. She always dreamed in the middle of her sleep that Si Ruxu woke up and saw herself sleeping with the dead rabbit, which was disgusting.
That night, she dreamed of Si Ruxu's eyes when he said she didn't love him anymore. His amber pupils were calm and gentle, as if he was talking about a trivial matter, but he was also invisibly sentencing her to death.
She remembered her legs slumping against the ground like lead, the tenth anniversary gift still undelivered, and she didn't even have the courage to ask, "Why?" She knew Si Ruxu too well, and finally admitted that the fluctuating distance between them was a sign of Si Ruxu's departure.
She tried desperately to escape from the nightmare, tears still gleaming in her eyes, the fragmented light flickering in the weak flame. She turned her head and met a pair of amber eyes.
Her eyebrows and eyes were as white as frost, light and slender, and her eyes were as light as the winter mist, but she had a pair of passionate peach blossom eyes, which contained a bit of tenderness in the distance, and a bit of alienation in the tenderness.
Si Qi's back instantly tensed and pressed against the wall behind her, her muscles going into the defensive state she remembered, but the person who caused all this just tilted his head and looked at her in confusion.
"Long time no see...Si Qi."
It was the same gentle and soothing voice as it was many years ago. The temperature in Si Qi's eyes gradually cooled down, leaving only the defensiveness in his bones.
She hid her complicated, unwilling and nervous emotions, and looked at her boss's eyes with the same cold gaze.
"Now let's talk."
There was still just the right amount of doubt in the woman's eyes. She remained silent, as if waiting for her next words.
"The base was hit by a zombie tidal wave. Given how important Miss Si was to the base, she definitely wouldn't have been left on the side of the road. Even if she fell behind, she should have retreated towards the main force, or westward towards the base. Why did she choose to hide here on the shady side of the sun, especially when extreme cold was about to arrive?"
In the chaotic dark light, Si Qi's jaw was tense, like a beast with its fur standing on end, holding up his armor to protect himself.
Si Ruxu's eyes were moist, as if she felt aggrieved by Si Qi's words. Her voice softened unconsciously, "You are suspecting that I came here on purpose, but Si Qi, I have no motive for doing so."
Si Qi paused, his armor shattered in an instant. Yes, Si Ruxu had no motive. If Si Ruxu had followed her here, she hadn't told anyone before leaving, so no one knew. Moreover, she and Si Ruxu had no contact before this.
Even if the other party intended to plot against her, they would not come to her. She could not even guarantee her own life or death. She was just an ordinary person without special powers. She could be abandoned at will when the tide of zombies came. She was the first layer of flesh wall outside the base.
Si Qi didn't say anything, walked into the compartment, cut some meat, skewered it with a wooden stick, and roasted it on the fireplace. He mashed the sour wild fruits and poured the juice on it. In less than a quarter of an hour, the oil in the meat was roasted out, emitting a strong aroma.
Before Si Ruxu woke up, she didn't light a fire. She usually made do with wild fruits. The taste of meat aroused the instinct of her body that had been hungry for years. She threw a bunch of meat to Si Ruxu and started eating the other one herself.
Because Si Ruxu was present, she ate her food in a rather elegant manner. She didn't swallow the food whole, but at least chewed it a few times.
After finishing her meal, she looked at the woman who was eating slowly. High-level psychics usually eat fruits and vegetables produced by wood-type psychics, as well as mutated beasts hunted. They are delicious and firm in texture, many times better than the ordinary meat that has been stored for almost a week.
But Si Ruxu didn't say anything. After eating, she wiped her mouth and thanked her with squinted eyes.
Before Si Ruxu woke up, Si Qi slept in the same cave with her, but now that she woke up, Si Qi decided to dig a separate cave for himself to live in.
She took out her iron rod and started digging to the side again. When she turned around, she saw Si Ruxu covered with a large goose down quilt that looked very warm and came from nowhere. Her amorous peach blossom eyes looked at her without blinking.
Seeing her looking over, he considerately moved to the side, lifted the quilt, motioned for her to come over, leaving room for one person.
Si Qi was disdainful and walked over.
So warm.
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