Chapter 30: Running Out of Oxygen
Stratum space public post road
Yuan happily sat in the lever car, his arms moving up and down mechanically. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The wheels of the cart slid through the narrow channels above ground at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, slightly faster than a normal underground traveler could make.
Yuan Xinran has been walking in the public post road for 2 days.
Everything was normal for the past two days, and Noah did not violate the city-state covenant for the time being, sending pursuers to arrest people in the neutral zone.
The only thing that made Yuan Xinran feel a little strange was that there were many fewer people in the public post road than before, and it would take one to two hours to meet other pedestrians.
There were no Noahs, no Mayans, no people from Ideal City, only passers-by from Olympus, and because of the different paths, they soon parted ways and disappeared.
The Ideal City is about to hold a celebration, and the citizens who stay in the outer city during this period will rush back early, and it is understandable that no one can see it.
The Mayans were attacked, and it was normal that no one was outside.
But even the most business-minded Noah can't see it, which is a little strange.
In addition to this, there is one more thing that makes her care.
Because the public post road is not protected by the power of miracles, it is often attacked by underground zergs.
Now, in addition to not seeing people, even the frequency of underground zerg appearances has been greatly reduced.
Yuan Xinran walked in the public post road for 2 days, and actually encountered a bug once, compared with the normal frequency of experiencing an average of one Zerg attack every 3 hours in the past, this frequency is really low and abnormal.
Saving time to dodge bugs, that's why Yuan Xinran used a slower speed than before, and walked out of the previous 5-day trip in just 2 days.
Yuan Xinran now rides the only means of transportation in the public post road, the pole car.
There is not much space in the pole car, and the two rows of seats facing each other can only seat 4 people in the carriage.
The middle of the carriage relies on the manual operation of the pressure bar in the middle of the carriage, and the internal pulley kinetic energy is generated by pressing up and down to drive the carriage to drive, and the speed depends on the size and durability of manpower.
Such a rudimentary means of transportation, which was the common product of mankind's initial construction of the city-state connecting highways, now exists only in public post roads.
In order to save the construction cost of public post roads, and it is said that in order to protect the growth environment of fluorescein plants in the underground natural passages, several major city-states agreed that they would not pave the road surface in the public post road, but instead dig and build two carved roads.
The narrow recess is just enough to fit into the special wheels of the pole truck.
More than 200 years later, the two carved roads became eight, and the pole car continued to be the only official means of transportation in the public post road, making a huge contribution to the civil connection of the underground city-state.
The city's post roads continue to expand and develop, and the public post roads with no resource value still maintain their original appearance. The government doesn't care, they have their own underground vehicles, but they are extremely expensive to use and will not appear in non-war times.
As a member of civilian logistics, Yuan Xinran has become a commonplace since he left the military department, and it has become a common thing to use a pole truck to shuttle in the underground space.
Since the last break, Yuan Xinran changed his hands back and forth and pressed the lever for more than two hours, until his arm was sore and painful, and then decided to rest for a while.
When the pole truck reached an oblique road, Yuan happily changed the line and slid the car into the farthest parking platform.
The parking platform is a public space dedicated to the storage and parking of pole trucks, generally leaving a fenced space for 10 to 15 vehicles, of which five parking spaces will be placed with spare pole trucks.
Yuan happily parked the car on this platform, six of the ten parking positions were broken, and a pole truck was placed in the reserve area with a faulty sign hanging on it.
Located in a deep neutral zone, no city-state would be willing to pay for regular maintenance. These devices were collectively updated by several major city-states during meetings decades ago in order to look good.
She really believed that in order to protect the pristine environment for the study of astral history, several city-state governments did not do too much construction in public post roads.
Yuan Xinran rubbed his arm, remembering that when he was still studying in the military academy, he read the record of the history of the post road, and felt very moved at that time.
Now she only feels that she was too naïve at that time, and she believed what was said in the book.
With such a simple traffic environment, there will never be the possibility of improvement, and the external propaganda is just an excuse because no matter how difficult the construction environment is.
The miraculous power of each city-state forming an independent system of each other is tantamount to another temptation for the people of the other city-states, and it is not without people who defect from their own cities to settle in other city-states, and the government of each independent city-state is trying to prevent it, and the simplest and most brutal way is to make it very difficult for individuals to communicate between the city-states.
Public post roads can serve as the most effective barrier for people-to-people exchanges by maintaining the operation of minimum needs, and the reason why the governments of the city-states do not want to waste money on the vast public areas is secondary.
Of course, there is one of the most important reasons that will never be recorded in books, and only by experiencing the public post road can you appreciate the primitive practicality of transportation.
Yuan Xinran had already experienced it seven hours ago.
Now she feels like she's going to do it again.
An alarm sounded above the public post road, a signal from the biodetector that an imminent Zerg attack was coming. Warning: Underground pedestrians within the range of the sound source should quickly enter the cone box and hide.
The cone box, the second major feature in the public post road.
The boxes are set against the stone wall of the post road, and orange cones appear at intervals, providing pedestrians with space to hide from the Zerg, and are the only high-tech product in the public post road.
Automatic bio-sensing door, as long as people go in immediately blocked, start the intelligent security system, as long as the alarm of the outside world is not lifted, no matter how people toss in the cone box, they can't open the door.
It is said that someone was trapped and died inside, but it was only a very small number of unlucky people who were very unlucky, and they did not have enough supplies on their bodies, and they encountered several major Zerg who would not exit the field in order to fight for territory without a victory, and the war zone just affected that section of the public post road.
There happened to be a cone box next to the platform where the pole truck was parked, and Yuan Xinran immediately got out of the car and walked out of the fence and jumped into the box space.
The three-dimensional triangular box, in order to make it easier for people to hide in time, remains open, and a one-meter-sized door is exposed in the middle of each side.
As soon as Yuan Xinran jumped in, the box sensed that there were no other pedestrians around, activated the security system, and the door was immediately sealed and locked.
Hopefully, this wave of worms won't stay long. Yuan Xinran didn't want to waste time waiting.
Because of the shape, the floor area of the box is narrowed from the bottom to the top, and the space that can really stand upright is only about four square meters.
As soon as Yuan Xinran came in, he felt like he had stepped on a mound of dirt.
She looked around, and it was a mess.
Probably there was a problem with the cleaning system, and there was a pile of dirt that was more than a dozen centimeters in it, and there was a mess of weirdly colored dirt sticking to the surrounding walls, with a puddle of different shades in the east and west.
Yuan Xinran stood in the middle of the interior space, trying not to pay attention to what was glued to the surrounding walls. Fortunately, the biological remnants should have decomposed long ago, and the air was tolerable except for the earthy smell.
The alarm outside the box is getting more and more urgent, indicating that the bugs are getting closer and closer.
If it was in the previous waiting time, Yuan Xinran would have already taken the opportunity to rest on the ground. However, the luck of the past few days has been amazingly fluctuating, and this will be at a low point, she can only stand, not even leaning on it.
The sound of the sirens outside is particularly inhibitive during impatience. Yuan Xinran felt as if she had heavy hearing.
It wasn't until a few seconds later that Yuan Xinran reacted.
Another alarm came from inside the box, from her.
This siren sound means......
No-would-be-right--
Yuan Xinran felt that his luck had fallen into the ditch.
This is the hypoxia alarm of the space capsule. It means that the oxygen inside is about to be exhausted, and if the oxygen package is not replenished, the fresh goods inside will die of lack of oxygen within ten minutes.
She had been distracted by other things before, and had completely forgotten about oxygen supplies. She hurriedly rummaged through the supply packets, but couldn't find any of the oxygen packets.
Ah, yes. She remembered why all the oxygen packs she had prepared were gone. It was used as an explosive accelerant during her tactical evacuation at the station, and it was piled up around the bomb and used.
Forgot to leave two for the big wanted fresh.
Yuan Xinran pressed his forehead, listening to the alarm of the space capsule on his body getting louder and louder, more and more urgent, intertwining with the alarm outside and singing a duet.
She turned off the alarm on her body in annoyance.
Originally, she planned to take Zhong Shang back to Ideal City in a space capsule, but now that there is not enough oxygen, if she doesn't let people out, she will suffocate this Noah's No. 1 wanted criminal inside.
Suffocating Zhong Shang is not Yuan Xinran's original intention, and he will definitely let it go.
The problem is that she stunned the other party before and forcibly stuffed the person into the space capsule, but now there is no explanation, and as soon as the person is released, she asks him to roll the old ashes, which feels a bit bad for this behavior.
No, it's not just that it's bad, it's hard to get rid of the fire in her heart if someone else treats her like this, and if she doesn't beat the other party.
Yuan happily dragged the time and did not immediately lift the space capsule.
She wanted to try her luck and see if she could wait until the alarm outside stopped, and the oxygen in the space capsule on her body could still support in front of the red line.
It's a nightmare to be with a man in such a dirty, cramped space, and possibly get into a fight.
Yuan Xinran was waiting.
Six minutes, four minutes, three minutes, two minutes......
The sirens outside haven't stopped.
Well, it turns out that she has been out of luck lately.
Dirty is dirty, beaten and beaten, it's not like she hasn't encountered anything worse than this.
Yuan Xinran turned his heart sideways, and before the last minute, he released a large piece of fresh wanted criminals in the aerobic chamber in the space capsule, Zhong Shang.