The survivors were divided into two parts, one of which occupied the goods of the deceased, and began to spend the last days of their lives drunkenly - they drank profusely, squandered their little food, constantly had sex with women and even female corpses, and smashed everything they could see around them......

The other part, unwilling to die like this, tried to search for new supplies, or tried to return to the surface.

But at that time, only a few months had passed since the nuclear explosion, and the surface was still filled with a large amount of high-concentration radiation pollution, and an ordinary person without any protective measures returned to the surface, and all that awaited him was death, and it was a death full of pain.

Qi Lin had witnessed the death of patients with severe radiation: almost all skin and hair had fallen off, muscles had dissolved, bones had become extremely fragile and shattered at the slightest touch, and organs had failed severely, but the patient's consciousness was clear, but he could not even let out a howl - his vocal cords had long since been dissolved.

The humanoid monsters that Qi Lin and Cheng Yanqiu encountered before were probably some of these people, who only suffered a small amount of radiation before retreating, relying on cockroaches, rats, mosses and the like to feed on them, barely surviving in the underground world.

But...... The source of the stench that permeated the subway still didn't appear.

The environment inside the subway was very dry, and the corpses had turned into dried corpses, showing no signs of decomposing at all, and it was clear that the stench was not emitted by them.

"'South Third Ring Station', the next stop is 'Century Commercial Building', we are almost there." Cheng Yanqiu pointed to a light box stop sign next to the track and said.

"What the hell...... So where does this stench come from? Qi Lin was a little puzzled, now he had replaced the steel pipe in his left hand, and in his right hand was carrying a watermelon knife nearly two feet long, which he had just picked up from a corpse, although the knife was rusty on the surface, but the blade was quite sharp.

Next to the corpse, too, there were a large number of pink banknotes, many of which were stained with dry black dirt - the kind of thing that was sought after by everyone in the old days, and at that time, the only function was probably only to wipe the butt.

The corpses, there are only a large number of corpses in sight, and it was better at Yumin Xincun Station before, with only one or two scattered skeletons, but after passing the South Third Ring Road, the corpses of the victims suddenly increased.

These corpses were piled up together, and Qi Lin couldn't help but think of the "Great Tunnel Tragedy" in Chongqing that he had seen in old photos, when it was during the Dongying War of Aggression against China, after the capture of Wuhan, the Dongying people used the advantage of the air force to wantonly bomb Chongqing, the seat of the Chinese government, and a large number of people poured into the air-raid shelters, due to factors such as lack of oxygen, high temperature and panic, coupled with pushing and stampede, hundreds of people did not die under the bombing of enemy planes, but died in their own air-raid shelters.

Qi Lin and Cheng Yanqiu had just approached the pile of corpses, and a commotion came out, and many frightened beetles came out of the nostrils, ears, mouths, etc. of the corpses, and quickly crawled into the dark corners, the most exaggerated thing was that a large hole was bitten open in the abdomen of a dried corpse, and almost all of it was eaten empty, and a litter of newborn juvenile bloodthirsty rats formed a circle and lay neatly in the abdomen of the corpse.

The flesh of the dried corpses is very dry and hard, lacking moisture, making it difficult to bite, but these insects have evolved sharp mouthparts for this purpose, and the teeth of adult bloodthirsty rats are like small daggers with sharp handles.

"Did I misjudge?" Seeing these bugs and bloodthirsty rats, Qi Lin became more and more suspicious, if the smell was the breath of some powerful mutated creature, then these weak guys should not dare to stay in this area, even if there was almost endless "food" here.

"Perhaps." Cheng Yanqiu said, but the two still did not let their guard down, bypassed the piled corpses, and walked to the top of the subway tracks.

There seems to have been a lot of fighting here, perhaps for territory and supplies, or because of some other conflict, but there was hardly a single intact advertising lightbox in this area, and the corpses lying on the ground were scattered with knives, clubs, bricks and stones, and other weapons, and one body was even hoisted by a wire to a crossbar at the top of the tunnel.

Qi Lin was a little lucky, he was lucky enough to grab the precious shelter spot, otherwise, even if he survived this fight, he would inevitably end up like that half-human, half-ghost-like thing.

"There are still 500 meters, and there are two large escalators on the side of the Century Commercial Building Station, and you can enter the underground shopping mall by going up the escalators." Cheng Yanqiu said loudly.

Qi Lin nodded and continued to open the way ahead.

Along the way, except for bugs and bloodthirsty rats, they haven't even encountered that kind of human monsters, but this kind of quietness is a little creepy.

"People are cheap, and they always think that it's best not to meet monsters, but now it's too quiet, but I hope that a few more guys who are weak will come out and liven up the atmosphere." Qi Lin supported the breathing mask with the back of his hand, adjusted it to a more comfortable angle, and whispered.

"Maybe there really aren't any other monsters left? The last time I passed through here with a team of 'Order', we didn't even encounter that kind of human monster. Cheng Yanqiu said.

"How many of you were there that time?"

"Forty or fifty, heavily armed and carrying heavy weapons."

"That's not the end, these monsters used to be people, and they weren't stupid, there are so many of you, they must have seen how far away they must have hidden, and only those who are alone like us will be treated as prey by them."

……

However, it seems that it is really the same as what Cheng Yanqiu said, except for those humanoid monsters that were killed, there is really nothing else here. The two walked to the Century Commercial Building Station without hindrance and stood in front of the escalator that had long since ceased to function.

"Fortunately, it's an escalator, but if it's that kind of elevator elevator, it's troublesome."

Qi Lin pulled away the two dried corpses blocking the entrance of the escalator and stepped on the steps to go up step by step.

……

The entrance to the underground mall was large and pompous, but at the moment it seemed to be a depression – months before the outbreak of the war, the large trading houses had closed their doors and the city's residents had been rationed.

Walk through the entrance and you'll find a series of jewel counters, all of which have been smashed and the jewels on display gone—certainly in the early days of the war, when an expired can of sardines was worth far more than diamonds that were too hard to bite.

"To go this way, we need to go through the clothing area." At this time, Cheng Yanqiu walked to the front and began to be responsible for leading the way and taking the lead.