Chapter 56: The Wasteland Age

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This bizarre one-way crossing left Liu Yanzhi in a misplaced base space-time, there was nothing he was familiar with here, it belonged to another plane entirely, and he couldn't even return to the end of the Song Dynasty to meet his comrades, and the thought of spending the rest of his life here made him extremely depressed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Suddenly, a small sound came from a distance, it should be located on the ground floor of the building a hundred meters under his feet, the sound of the footsteps of bipeds of about fifty kilograms stepping on the dust, it seems that he guessed correctly, there are still humans living here.

Liu Yanzhi jumped off the balcony and suspended outside the building to observe the scavenger who was picking up the stairs, saying that he was a scavenger for a reason, this person was wrapped in dirty clothes that could not be seen in the background, wearing a rubber gas mask on his head, holding a pointed steel bar in his hand, and from time to time stirring up the garbage under his feet, trying to turn over something valuable.

The scavengers found a computer, smashed the main chassis open with steel bars, removed a few memory sticks from it, put them into the bag behind them, continued to search, and inadvertently turned around, just in time to see Liu Yanzhi, who was floating outside in white clothes, and suddenly fell to the ground in fright, stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly fell to the ground, kowtowing frantically.

Liu Yan landed directly in front of the scavengers, told him not to kowtow, and stood up and spoke.

The scavenger stood up crampedly, the fog behind the lens of the gas mask was foggy, and he vaguely saw that the eyebrows and eyes were delicate, and it seemed to be a woman.

"What's your name?" Liu Yan asked her directly.

"White snow." A hoarse voice came from behind the gas mask, a woman with a smoking and drinking voice, speaking authentic Mandarin Chinese.

Liu Yanzhi frowned: "What kind of name is this, your surname is Bai?" ā€

"I don't have a surname, just White Snow, which is the name my third father gave me." The woman replied with some smugness, and then asked him, "Are you a god?" ā€

"I'm not a god, I'm just a person who can fly." Liu Yan said straight.

"Can I touch your clothes, then?" Without waiting for him to reply, the woman leaned in and took off her gloves, carefully touching his white silk robe with her dark fingers, and let out a sigh of amazement came out of her mouth.

Liu Yanzhi did not dislike the dirty hands full of sludge between his fingernails, because he saw the joy and curiosity of a child in the eyes of a woman, the human beings in the wasteland era were like mice in the ground struggling to survive, where had I seen such neat characters, such clean clothes, even if they didn't float in the air, they would be regarded as gods.

Suddenly the woman's face showed a frightened look, Liu Yanzhi looked back, black snowflakes fluttered down in the sky, no, this is not snowflakes, but black ashes similar to volcanic ash, the woman is obviously afraid of this kind of ashes, ran down the stairs all the way, Liu Yanzhi also followed, until he went down to the basement of the building before stopping.

The basement was quiet, the woman lit a bonfire, and finally took off her gas mask, revealing her true face, because she had not washed for a long time, her hair was knotted into locks, her face was black and red, because the air did not flow, and the strong body odor on her body wafted over, which was disgusting.

"Where is your home?" Liu Yan asked her, "Why did you come out and pick up garbage by yourself?" ā€

"This is my home." The woman set the bonfire, took out two dead rats from the bag, skillfully put them on the steel bar, roasted them on the bonfire, took out a dirty plastic bottle, and said solemnly: "I invite you to drink water." ā€

The plastic bottle has been used countless times, the crevices are full of dirt, and the bottle is only half of the turbid liquid, Liu Yanzhi refused the woman's kindness, took out his water bladder and threw it over.

The woman pulled the stopper from the skin and tasted it, her expression was like that of a mortal who had drunk the elixir and jade liquid, and she was almost slightly drunk: "It's delicious, this water is so delicious, have you given it to me?" After receiving an affirmative reply, she stopped drinking and hid her skin in a close place.

"Tell me about you." Liu Yan said straightly, "Tell what you know, the more detailed the better." ā€

The woman is very talkative, although her vocabulary is small, but from her description, Liu Yanzhi has a preliminary understanding of what kind of world this is.

About a hundred years ago, the elite of human beings partially abandoned the seriously deteriorated earth and chose to immigrate to aliens, and fierce conflicts between the 10 billion inferior people who remained on the earth quickly broke out between governments, races and religions, in essence, they were actually competing for living resources, and finally nuclear war broke out, 99.99% of human beings died in the nuclear bomb and the nuclear winter after that, only a very small number of people survived, they were far away from the ruins of nuclear warfare covered with radiation clouds all year round, took root in remote places, and tried their best to survive.

Human civilization is basically extinct, in order to reproduce offspring, they have adopted a group living system, resource sharing, including women, the family is dominated by men, women exist as private property, the men in the family share one or several women, the offspring born call the patriarch father, and other men are also fathers, and the names of newborns are more casual, just like the network names in Liu Yanzhi's memory, no surname rules, all kinds of strange names can be established, as long as they are happy, so there will be "white snow" This nondescript name, and the white snow survives alone in a city with severe nuclear radiation because his family was exterminated by the enemy.

"You should be called Bai Xue." Liu Yanzhi said to the woman.

"Bai Xue, that's good, then I'll be called Bai Xue in the future!" The woman was excited, "You are more knowledgeable than the third father, you are really a god." ā€

"Do you live by eating rats?" Liu Yanzhi is full of questions about this question, because he has never seen green, the radiation clouds that have not dispersed for decades have blocked the sunlight, plants cannot photosynthesize and wither and die, there are no crops, no fruits and vegetables, human beings cannot survive on meat alone, besides, people can eat mice, what rats eat, there must be a complete food chain in this world to maintain,

"Rats are eaten during the Chinese New Year, and they usually eat this." Bai Xue grabbed a handful of shriveled cockroaches from the bag, these cockroaches were very large, with flat bodies, and could fit a dozen in the palm of her right hand.

"And this." She spread out her left hand and held a yellowish piece of cake that looked like a carb.

"This thing doesn't need sunlight to grow, it's a gift from God." Bai Xue said, "The taste of the mushrooms grown in different waters is also different, I don't like the sewers, I prefer to eat the seawater, there is a taste of the sea." ā€

"This thing is called Shu?" Liu Yan directly looked at the cake carefully, this thing has very coarse particles, it is indeed a plant, try to taste it, a strong beany smell, it is difficult to swallow, but for the remnants of the last days, this is indeed a gift from God.

"Well, it's a name given by cultured people, which means bean." Bai Xue nodded seriously, "The power tribe has a large planting area over there, and our seeds are all exchanged for women and dried rats from them. ā€

"The Power Tribe? Will they generate electricity? Liu Yanzhi became excited, the availability of electricity means that the level of civilization is not so low, and there is the possibility of returning to the end of the Song Dynasty if there is electricity.

"Yes, they have a tribe that has the power of electricity, it is great and brutal, and my relatives were captured by the power tribe."

"Do you know what they use to generate electricity?" Liu Yan asked urgently.

"I know......" Bai Xue looked frightened, "they use people to generate electricity. ā€

"Employing people?" Liu Yanzhi thought of the scene in the Matrix Empire in his mind, could it be that there is such an advanced black technology in the end of this wasteland, using the human body as a battery, so you have to see it.

"You take me to the Power Tribe." Liu Yanzhi immediately decided, "I'll save your relatives for you." ā€

Bai Xue clapped her hands and began to undress.

"What are you doing?" Liu Yan covered his nose, and the smell of the woman who untied her clothes was even more pungent and smelly.

"Here you go, as a reward." The woman was puzzled.

"Thanks, I don't have that much taste."

The woman covered her clothes in a sneer: "I haven't taken a bath for a long time, and I can't find clean sand in the city." ā€

"You bathe in sand?"

"Or else?"

"Okay."

……

After the radiation dust outside stopped falling, Liu Yanzhi took Bai Xue on his journey, of course, he flew west with Bai Xue, and found the so-called power tribe in the suburbs, this place is so conspicuous that even through the thick haze you can see the towering chimneys and huge cooling towers.

Formerly a coal-fired power plant, it is now a magnificent postmodernist-style wasteland fortress, with towering chimneys and huge cooling towers at its core, and a combination of Chinese and Western bastions made of construction debris on the periphery.

Liu Yanzhi put Bai Xue in a safe place a kilometer away from the castle, and went alone, the air was full of pungent smell, like rotten eggs, the visibility was extremely low, and it was difficult to see the whole picture of the castle with Liu Yanzhi's eyesight, he looked for an opportunity to enter the city, knocked out a samurai standing guard, peeled off the samurai's armor and hung it up, this outfit was very familiar, and the synthetic material armor was printed with two mottled and blurred Chinese characters: police.

Liu Yan, disguised as a samurai, walked straight into the power generation workshop of the power plant, there was a huge space inside, and the benches were full of people with red strips, in front of them was a slowly rotating conveyor belt, everyone was grabbing the boiled beans on the conveyor belt with their hands and putting them in their mouths, and the way they chewed slowly reminded him of ruminants, and there was a thin transparent rubber pipe under their seats, and these dense rubber pipes converged into larger metal pipes through check valves, and the pipes crisscrossed through countless pressure gauges, The valve entered the unknown territory, and four big red letters were written on the high iron wall: No fireworks!

Even a fierce man like Liu Yanzhi who has experienced the Cambrian period can't help but be amazed, human imagination is so great, without fossil energy and firewood, artificial methane is used to generate electricity!

The so-called use of people to generate electricity is not to use living people as batteries, but to use the human intestinal flora to decompose leguminous food residues and produce a large amount of flammable gases including methane and hydrogen sulfide as fuel to drive power plant steam turbines.