"To put it lightly...... I didn't care about what to say at the moment, I just raised my head, sighed and asked, "But what can we do now?" ”

"Look above your head, Comrade Commander. Comrade Gorky once said that great truths are often hidden in ordinary life. ”

I looked around. Unfortunately, nothing was found except for the exhaust fan of a subway air conditioner. And in this exhaust fan, I really can't find the so-called "truth" of CABAL, which is nothing more than a dusty waste product.

Wait a minute...... What it says is...... Exhaust fan?

Air conditioning, air conditioning, low temperature, ice cubes......

That's right! Now all I need is ice!

In this city of nuclear explosion ruins, which is almost free of radiation, everything left over from before the war is either rusted and rotted or weathered and destroyed. It's almost impossible to find a bag that can seal the smell of blood on a person's body - except for ice!

"It's winter, and it's not hard to get ice and snow......," I said, with my eyes flickering slightly, as I walked out of the subway car, looking at the sky leaking out of the hole above my head, silent.

At this moment, a cold wind blew in through the broken window. Through the lead-gray clouds, I could vaguely see the overcast sky outside, and it was expected that there would be a heavy snowfall soon.

Why...... Will this remind you of snow? Looking at the dense clouds outside that were almost dark, and then at the still purple sky, I dismissed the idea of waiting for a heavy snowfall.

It's just been hit by a psychic shock wave. Even if it snows, it will fall with black snow.

Black Snow ...... In all areas that have been destroyed by nuclear bombs, it will be encountered during the snow season. Not to mention the strong radiation in the black snow, the nuclear dust will cause the black snow to be like loose sand that cannot be kneaded.

"I had to make my own ice. If it were to snow now, it would be possible to take advantage of the low temperature of the black snow and freeze the water into ice. But looking at the weather, even if it snows, it is estimated that it will be tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. We don't have that much time. ”

Thinking about it, I stopped paying attention to the CABAL on my laptop, but instead looked at the collapsed wall outside the subway, sweeping around.

When I confirmed that there was no point in looking any further, I looked at Ian in my chair, took a deep breath, and said, "You're really unlucky." ”

"There may be some difficulties for the time being, but it is not yet time for despair," CABAL's voice resounded, "Comrade Ian's life and death depend on you. Comrade Luo Xixuan. ”

Luo Xixuan, who had been staying next to Ian in a daze, suddenly pushed me away and squatted by the computer, staring at the screen with silver-gray eyes and asking, "What do you mean by this?" Do I still have a chance? ”

"OF COURSE," CABAL REPLIED AS A DETAILED MAP OF THE CITY'S STREETS APPEARED ON THE SCREEN, "ONLY SALTPETER CAN MAKE ICE, AND ONLY ICE CAN SAVE COMRADE IAN." ”

"Saltpeter, you say?" Luo Xixuan asked suspiciously, "Isn't saltpeter made of gunpowder?" ”

"The reason why saltpeter has become one of the main raw materials for making gunpowder is because of its strong endothermy." "IT'S ALSO THE BEST MATERIAL FOR MAKING ICE QUICKLY. ”

"And where do I go to find saltpeter?" Hearing this reply, Luo Xixuan clenched his fists.

"Saltpeter grows in a shady place......"

Luo Xixuan had no intention of listening anymore. She quickly emerged from the window in one step and spread her wings.

LOOKING AT THE FADING BLACK DOTS IN THE DISTANT SKY, I SIGHED AND SAID TO CABAL, "CALL UP THE SATELLITE MAP OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD." ”

"Roger. The system is being prepared, please wait for ......" The virtual image of CABAL disappeared and was replaced by an hourglass-shaped icon.

Three seconds later, a clear image appeared. I breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the floor with my eyes closed.

I'm tracking Luo Xixuan's location. As a psychic shielder, it's very difficult to find, and only satellite maps can help me.

Coming to the outside of the collapsed subway, Luo Xixuan soared up, observing the surrounding buildings as he flew.

After a long three-minute flight and hovering, Luo Xixuan saw a collapsed building next to the collapsed subway. The building was covered with large vines and covered with thick moss.

"There it is!" Luo Xixuan landed outside the building. Pushing aside a vine, I saw a cluster of snow-white granular stones attached to the building like frost in the corner of the wall where the building touched the ground.

Luo Xixuan's eyes lit up, and he quickly broke it off and threw it into his backpack. Then she collected all the way along the corner of the wall, taking all the white particles of stone that had stuck to the building.

Soon Luo Xixuan collected a backpack full of saltpeter, and even held a handful in his hand. After taking all the saltpeter under the collapsed and overturned building, the saltpeter in the corner of the wall has dyed the entire overturned wall white because of the lack of light for many years, and now it has returned to gray.

Just as Luo Xixuan had just flown into the air, I suddenly noticed that the rumbling sound in the distance was even stronger than the energy of those life signals.

It didn't take long for several beastmen over three meters tall, with a large size, a head and limbs with claws like wolves, and bat wings between their ribs, to sweep through the street, and they were hurrying into the distance!

What's worse is that the direction they are heading at this moment is the direction of the subway where we are hiding!

"Don't be impulsive," perhaps sensing the killing intent in Luo Xixuan's eyes and the gun she was touching, Luo Xixuan's headphones sounded with CABAL's prompt sound, "According to the system's analysis, these berserkers are just passing by. Don't startle the snakes, they are not something you can easily beat. ”

HEARING CABAL'S PERSUASION, LUO XIXUAN NOTICED THE SALTPETER IN HIS HAND, AND THE MURDEROUS AURA IN HIS EYES SUDDENLY WEAKENED A LITTLE, AND HE RESTRAINED HIS IMPULSE.

Fortunately, these groups of patrolling berserkers did not notice Luo Xixuan passing on the ground, and the two quickly staggered and turned away from each other.

Seven or eight minutes later, Luo Xixuan finally arrived at a place with a relatively abundant water source. It is a square where the pavement has completely collapsed, and at the bottom of the square is a large pothole, which has accumulated rainwater for many years, and it seems to have become a large pool.

Standing on the edge of the pool, Luo Xixuan stared into the pool. After the pupils contracted slightly, the pool became much more transparent. Even the basement behind the underground drainage channel is clearly visible.

I also discovered this underground waterway. It's just that I learned about it through the life signals in the waterway, and Luo Xixuan saw it with the naked eye.

Then I woke up. It's not that I've been woken up, it's that I've noticed that Luo Xixuan is back.

LOOKING AT THE DARK SHADOWS FROM FAR AND NEAR, CABAL'S VIRTUAL IMAGE SUDDENLY LET OUT A MECHANICAL CHUCKLE.

"What are you laughing at?" I asked, puzzled.

Before he could answer, a figure had fallen to the ground like a meteorite and landed on the waiting platform.

……

Luo Xixuan and I looked down the passage.

"According to the assessment, there is no danger in this passage." CABAL FINALLY SPOKE.

Luo Xixuan immediately stopped hesitating. With one hand hooking her arm (it didn't make sense, the muscles in my arm weren't as strong as Rossi's), and with the other hand, he grabbed Ian's body and swooped down at a rapid pace, crashing headfirst into the pool of water in the square.

With a splash of high water, Luo Xixuan pulled the two of us forward and sprinted at full speed.

Luo Xixuan's body posture in the water is basically straight. The speed is so fast that even ordinary fish may not be able to catch up with her.

The small heat sources scattered all over the pool seemed to sense the movement of food at the moment, and quickly swam in our direction. But they were all relatively slow, and even if Luo Xixuan was carrying two people on his back, he couldn't catch up with us.

It's just that these small heat sources behind the water that we stirred up soon gathered in groups and chased after us. Seems to be sucking the blood that has been diluted from Ian's wounds along the way.

Wrong...... There is also Luo Xixuan's wound.

Luo Xixuan quickly swam to the underground drainage channel where the pool was connected. It's finally a little more spacious enough to skip swimming.

"Can you go by yourself?" Luo Xixuan glanced at me, "There's land here." ”

I didn't say anything, just nodded.

Bypassing the corners of a few passages, you can see a manhole cover overhead. CABAL TOLD US THAT AS LONG AS WE FLOATED UP FROM THE POOL ABOVE THE MANHOLE COVER, WE WERE GOING TO BE THE DESTINATION.

With a bang, Luo Xixuan jumped out of the water with Ian in his arms and landed on the shore at the water's edge. After a while, one of my hands climbed on the shore and was dragged to the shore by Luo Xixuan.

The scene here is the same as what I saw earlier from the translucent vision of Luo Xixuan, the basement of a collapsed building. Overhead, it was surrounded by messy reinforced concrete stones, and the messy stacking of stones caused the place to not be completely filled, but to raise a vacant land with a height of less than two meters and an area of about ten square meters.

Among the scattered rocks next to it, a car that was about to be submerged could be faintly seen, and it was full of dust.

Through the translucent view of Loxixuan, I realized that the place where the drainage channel was connected was the basement at the bottom of the collapsed building.

From the outside, only the foundation of the building remains. Next to the foundation is a hill of ruined rocks, the most ideal hiding place we can find at the moment.

Luo Xixuan began to examine Ian's wounds all over his body. Soaking in irradiant water, the gauze outside the wound was completely stained red.

Luo Xixuan poured out the saltpeter in his bag, took out new gauze, peeled off some of Ian's military uniform, took off the gauze on his body and wrung it out, wiped the water near the wound, and replaced it with new gauze.

I picked up the backpack that Luo Xixuan had thrown down. According to the method taught by CABAL, two pieces of saltpeter are ground into a fine powder. Then I lifted the backpack, slowly poured the ground saltpeter into the backpack, and lowered it into the drain to scoop the water.

As saltpeter enters the water, the heat-absorbing properties of saltpeter are brought into play, and the water in the backpack gradually turns white, freezing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it doesn't take long for it to completely freeze into a piece of ice.

I patted the backpack and poured out the ice inside, revealing a piece of ice in the shape of a backpack.

After more than an hour, Luo Xixuan and I made hundreds of pieces of ice, piled them high around the cavern of the collapsed stones, and then carried them around the cave and built them. Along the edge of the stone, an oval rampart was built.

After doing this, I was so tired that I sat on the ground, although I was very tired, but I didn't feel a trace of heat and sweat, but my whole body was cold, and my hands were frozen because of making ice bricks, and I lost consciousness and was a little stiff.

I turned my head to look at Ian, who was still unconscious, pale and bloodless, frowning slightly.

But that's not the point. The focus is ......

Luo Xixuan, who had been supporting himself and was half-squatting beside Ian, was now ...... Fell.

The worst thing is...... It seems that something is coming here from under the water at this moment.