Chapter 29
Liu Xia remembered that the purple-clad youth, Song Xuan, was suspected to be from "Leviathan", and they met at the "Lao Tao Restaurant", and it seemed that she was very familiar with the special meals of this restaurant.
Could it be because of human experiments?
But this man named Song Xuan seemed to know her, and he helped her many times. He didn't seem to have any ill intentions and didn't look like a bad person.
However, cannibalism happens all the time in this wasteland, so there's no guarantee he's just pretending. He might have other motives in approaching me on purpose.
Liu Xia's mind was full of thoughts. There had never been anyone who would selflessly help her. Even Xiao He and Ruotong only became friends after they had gone through hardships together. For a moment, she couldn't understand the logic behind Song Xuan's behavior.
Ding Ruotong pondered, "Leviathan has always focused on mechanical prosthetics. I rarely hear of them conducting experiments involving the fusion of humans with mutant beasts."
"But we can't completely rule out this possibility." He Tianlin spoke vaguely, his mouth still bulging with a biscuit he had picked up from the first floor of the restaurant. He swallowed it with difficulty and stuck out his tongue in disgust. "Pah, pah, pah, this crap is really disgusting. Sister Xia, why don't we go to the Ninth District and have a look?"
Liu Xia swallowed the tasteless food in his mouth and collected his wandering thoughts. He nodded in agreement: "We will rest here tonight and set off again tomorrow morning."
Nighttime is when mutant creatures are more active, so traveling in the dark is not a wise choice.
He Tianlin watched Liu Xia swallowing mouthful after mouthful of food without changing her expression, and couldn't help but ask, "Sister Xia, do you think this is delicious?"
"It's not tasty." Liu Xia threw all the remaining cookies into his mouth and said lightly: "To survive."
There was no time to hesitate, she couldn't stand still.
Even if there is a 1:10 time difference between the two worlds, we cannot continue to waste time. The crisis in the real world has not been resolved. We must find the next "garbage" as soon as possible and recycle it.
Ji Tao, who is keen on human experiments, is the best choice, a blatant piece of trash.
early morning,
The morning mist, wrapped in a fishy and rotten smell, drifted past my nose. The scavenging beggar who didn't have time to leave last night had been torn to pieces. The remains were blown dirty by the wind and sand. His intestines were violently torn by something and hung on the neon light bracket, like a few dried Cantonese sausages.
The restaurant's door was violently torn in half, and even half of the stone wall at the entrance was damaged and collapsed, as if it had been destroyed by some huge object with brute force.
"Is that thing really slippery?" He Tianlin picked up half of the bloody scale with the barrel of the gun, and the mucus pulled out a spider-like thin thread.
The lobby on the first floor looked as if it had been swept through. The shelves and display cabinets that were originally simple but neatly arranged were now all scattered on the ground.
Liu Xia stood at the stairs and listened carefully for a moment. After carefully checking to make sure there was no living creature on the second floor, he waved to the two of them and said, "Come on."
The Flesh and Blood Restaurant on the second floor was now like a specimen exhibition hall. A dozen waiters corroded by acid maintained their last postures before death. They had all been carbonized into black sculptures. The worse-off ones were almost unrecognizable as human beings, mixed with the half-human, half-lizard mutant creatures, making it difficult to distinguish one from the other.
"I've made a fortune this time!" He Tianlin was so happy that he almost jumped up.
He found the defensive space where the waiters had been hiding. Boxes of bullets were stacked in wooden boxes. Obviously, in addition to the bullets used by the defense personnel, there were also bullets for the guns in the agency.
Liu Xia looked around the room and found that in addition to a large amount of ammunition, there was also a small amount of food and clean water stored here. He was very happy and felt that it was the right choice to come back and explore.
"careful!"
Liu Xia's short blade instantly split the black shadow that pounced on He Tianlin. It turned out to be a half-dead lizard man, and the new granulation tissue at the wound was twisting wildly.
He patted his chest with lingering fear. He was so focused on loading supplies that he didn't notice that there were still monsters alive.
The regeneration gene described in the experimental log allowed this lizard man, who should have been dead, to miraculously remain alive.
As the three of them exited the restaurant with their bulging backpacks on their backs, the morning light was penetrating the gray-yellow radiation clouds.
From the direction of the garbage dump, one can vaguely see someone moving towards the restaurant. They are probably scavengers who have been hiding nearby since early morning.
If it weren't for the fact that they had little combat power and were not afraid to explore because of Ji Tao's reputation, the supplies inside would probably have been emptied long ago.
Seeing that someone had entered the restaurant, checked the situation and took things out, the danger had naturally been greatly reduced. Even if Ji Tao settled the score later, it would not be blamed on them. The scavengers who had been waiting outside for a long time could no longer stay there and gathered together bravely to pick up the leftovers.
As the largest restaurant in the garbage dump of District 6, Lao Tao Restaurant is still bigger than a horse. It is obviously impossible for Liu Xia and the other two to empty it out.
The "Laotao Restaurant" that had been deserted for a while slowly became lively again.
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District 9,
Located closest to the contaminated area, although it is still part of the underground city, it has the fewest humans living here compared to other areas.
Rather than being voluntary humans, they are more like creatures that were driven here by the hive guards and have been corroded by radiation to the point of mutation.
These people's bodies have shown signs of mutation, such as growing scales or some part of their body becoming beastly.
The reason for this situation is still unknown. It may be caused by eating too much meat from mutant creatures, or it may be caused by excessive exposure to radiation. However, given the current lack of a dungeon research system, no one can clearly explain the specific reason.
Shen Wanren could only treat these people as the source of infection and simply and roughly expel them from the area where humans gathered.
When Liu Xia's tactical boots crushed the mutant scorpion's shell, the rotten flesh stuck to the soles of the boots emitted a fishy and pungent smell. The dusk at the garbage dump in District 9 seemed to have been soaked in blood, and even the wind was filled with the fishy smell of rusted metal.
"There are fresh tire tracks here." Ding Ruotong raised her hand to wipe away the radioactive dust on the protective shield. The tire prints of the modified off-road vehicle were particularly clear on the scorched earth.
All three of them had put on protective shields at this time. Fortunately, they had found a somewhat worn protective shield during their exploration of the "Lao Tao Restaurant". Liu Xia finally had a replacement for the protective shield that was damaged during the fight with the queen ant.
After following the tire tracks for three kilometers, they saw a shocking scene.
It was an arch bridge from the old world. The area below, which used to be a river, had completely dried up, with countless bones and a crashed off-road vehicle scattered around.
"He's dead." Ding Ruotong scanned the bridgehead with her binoculars, "but he's not dead yet."
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