Act I: Broken Hearts Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Lost Town

For a long time, the people in the shelter node didn't know if there were any human survivors in the current wilderness, but if they could see this scene, they could be sure that there were indeed survivors in the wilderness, and some of the survivors were still living well.

It is not easy to survive in the wilderness where the beasts and beasts are rampant, in addition to having a perfect defense system, but also to have a safe and hidden place, generally living in the wilderness, generally living underground, after all, compared to the ground, the danger encountered underground will be relatively less, at most it is only to face some abnormal insects or small earth beasts, in the numerical advantage, these are not a problem.

It's a dilapidated town, the buildings in the town have basically been bulldozed, and as far as the eye can see, it is a dilapidated and desolate scene, and beyond that, there is a sky of yellow sand and unknown dust, which is easily adsorbed to other objects, and the palm of the hand wipes it, leaving behind a greasy black stain.

Ressa's jumping point this time is this dilapidated town, but after entering here, Resa feels that something is wrong, the scope of the town is not large, the house is only a few hundred meters, not so much a town, to more like an ancient existence - a village, which can be seen from the broken fence around, and it is here that Resa feels wrong.

Back in 2090, after the federal government was formed, the village no longer existed, and if it was a pre-2090 site, the surrounding things seemed too complete and new, and the village was too quiet.

The black dust in the air ......, Resa gently twisted her fingers, but a small greasy black stain appeared between her fingers, Ressa's face was solemn, this was not ordinary dust, but the ashes formed by the burning of a large number of organisms.

Ressa's brows furrowed, he actually found footprints in this dusty and yellow sandy place, and it seemed that they were still human footprints, this discovery really surprised Ressa, could it be that there are still people in the wilderness now, or, are they explorers like themselves?

Ressa was vigilant, no matter what the situation was, it wasn't necessarily a good thing for herself.

Ressa clicked a few times on his personal terminal, and his form slowly disappeared from the ruins of the village, and what he didn't notice was a pair of dark eyes staring at the place where he had disappeared in a stone crack under a collapsed wall.

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More than 100 meters deep underground at the foot of Ressa, a large underground city is brightly lit, but there are very few pedestrians on the streets. And looking at the current time, it is time to go to bed at night.

The streets here still retain some of the original pre-apocalyptic streets on Earth, probably because it is already night, but the shops on both sides of the street are closed.

"Whew... ......"A thin teenager kept running in front, and behind him, two middle-aged people were constantly chasing.

The boy still had half a loaf of bread in his mouth and swallowed quickly. In his hand, he was still carrying a small satchel, which was already tattered and had a few patches on it. It seems that the people in this underground city are not living very well.

The boy ran very fast, and it could be seen that he was very familiar with this place, but after all, children are children, and their endurance is much worse than that of adults, and it didn't take long for him to be out of breath. The speed unconsciously slowed down, and behind him, two middle-aged people were getting closer and closer to him.

The boy was obviously a little panicked, and when he turned a street corner, he didn't notice the stones on the ground, and when he stumbled under his feet, the whole person threw himself forward, and the satchel in his hand also fell out.

Taking advantage of this gap, two middle-aged men chased after him, and surrounded him one after the other in the frightened eyes of the young man.

"Stinky boy is quite capable of running, why don't you keep running?" A middle-aged man in a blue leotard at the head kicked the boy twice as he spoke. The boy was silent, just holding the satchel he had picked up tightly in his arms. ”

"Hand over what you stole from!" Seeing this, another middle-aged man in a gray linen shirt reached out to grab the shoulder bag in the young man's arms, but the young man didn't give it, but the gray middle-aged man kicked him over, snatched the shoulder bag from his arms, and opened it easily: "Yo he, there are a lot of good things, it seems that we can have good things to eat tonight." ”

In the satchel, lying quietly were two wrinkled apples, half of the dried ham meat, two breads and a few broken eggs, egg yolks and egg whites mixed together, but the gray-clothed middle-aged man did not dislike it at all, and scooped up the sticky egg liquid with his hands and sent it into his mouth.

The middle-aged man in blue who kicked the boy twice before snatched the satchel from the middle-aged man who was still fishing for egg liquid, rummaged for a while: "It's a pity, it would be better if there was some water." As he spoke, he threw the satchel in his hand to the middle-aged man in gray who was still licking the eggs on his hands.

The middle-aged man in gray licked the egg liquid on his hands, glanced at the young man lying on the ground with his stomach covered, and said disdainfully: "What are you daydreaming about?" You think this kid is Superman? Can you steal water from such a tight place? ”

The middle-aged man in blue scratched his head and said with some embarrassment: "That's what I said, hehe." ”

The middle-aged man in gray: "Okay, beat him, we should withdraw, after all, the employer wants us to teach this kid a good lesson." ”

The middle-aged man in blue showed a malicious smile, clenched his fists, and crackled his knuckles: "That's nature." In the frightened eyes of the young man, the two approached. Immediately after, a faint and childish scream came from the depths of the street.

Ten minutes later, two tall middle-aged men walked out of the alley, carrying a tattered satchel, and walked away.

In the alley, the boy was lying on the ground, he was thin and he was not the opponent of the two middle-aged people at all, after feeling that the beating stopped, the boy raised his head and looked around, just now he had been lying on the ground with his head in his hands, the two middle-aged people kicked a few feet on his body, the boy struggled to get up, he patted the dust on his body, and staggered towards some dilapidated houses in the distance.

On the other side, the two middle-aged people walked while bragging, chatting about wine and women, what they said about having good things to eat, not referring to these things in this satchel, but the money after these things were sold, enough for them to buy a lot of dried worms and other food, of course, the most important thing is water, if you are lucky, it is enough for them to exchange for 500 ml of water, these water except for their own drinking, the rest is that you can find two good girls for a while.

The vigilance of the two middle-aged people was not strong, so they didn't notice at all, when they turned a street corner, the bag of the satchel broke silently, and the satchel fell to the ground, but it was caught by a slender palm without making a sound. The two middle-aged people didn't know that all their YY capital had been stolen.

After the two middle-aged men turned the corner, in a dark shadow in the corner of the wall, a slender figure appeared, and it should be a woman, she carried a satchel and ran towards the other side of the street.

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After Resa left the ruins of the village, she did not find anything of value, and as far as the eye could see, it was an endless yellow color, unprotected by vegetation, and the sand was swept into the sky by the strong wind, forming a sandstorm.

Ressa frowned, this environment is easy to be attacked by some earth beasts hiding underground, the vision condition is not good, it is still very dangerous to encounter earth beasts, for a while, Resa is in a dilemma.

What Ressa didn't find was that it was not only sand that was scattered with the wind, but also the kind of black dust that had adhered to the body before, and if Ressa dug about 5 meters underground, he would find that within a radius of hundreds of meters, the ground was full of charred corpses, and these black dust were the ashes produced after the corpses were burned.

"Crackling .................." Just when Ressa hesitated, the wind and sand became a little bigger, and the scattered sand and gravel hit the energy shield, either shattering or being bounced off, but the energy consumption of the energy shield was an astonishing amount, in just a dozen seconds, the energy shield dropped by 1%, so converted, in this storm, Ressa's energy shield could only last for twenty or thirty minutes at most.

Ressa felt the strength of the wind and sand getting stronger, so he had no choice but to retreat, and after a while, he retreated back into the ruins of the village, but to Ressa's surprise, although these ruins looked very old, under the fierce wind, they did not move at all. This couldn't help but surprise Ressa.

Found an 'L'-shaped broken wall, Ressa shrunk into the corner, the wind was howling outside, but the corner of the wall was not moving, Resa nodded with satisfaction: "It's decided that this is the place." ”

Resa untied her cloak, clicked on it a few times, the material of the cloak hardened, and Resa held the cloak in front of her. and the broken wall behind him formed a 'mouth' shaped block, listening to the crackling sound of sand and stone outside, Resa closed her eyes, calmed down and began to recover her ability.

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At the end of a dilapidated street in the dungeon, a thin boy took out an old key, gently unlocked the door, and closed the door gently, looking at him, as if he was afraid of waking someone.

The room was dark, the boy hesitated, but finally took out a match and lit a small piece of white paste on the table, the faint light illuminated the room, but people could see the layout of the room at a glance.

The room is not big, only about seven or eight square meters, this room is basically close to sealing, only the inside has this small window of less than 20 centimeters, and then there is the door, the right hand side of the door is a dilapidated wall table that is missing half of the side, the white paste is placed on the table, and the faint firelight is beating.

The young man gently closed the door, looked at the thin figure sleeping on the bed, a doting smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, groped for Cong and took out a palm-sized small bottle in his arms, inside, there was half a bottle of water swaying in the firelight, carefully put the water bottle on the table, he took out half a bread from his arms, and put it on the small pink plate that had been missing a corner on the wall table.

After doing all this, the young man seemed to be out of strength, leaning against the wall, with a happy smile on his face, today, his sister doesn't have to starve anymore, but he doesn't know that in the same position outside the house, another figure is also leaning against the wall, quiet as if it doesn't exist.