Mu Lan walked around the city under Andrew's leadership, he was very familiar with the urban environment, walking on narrow paths, and the two walked for an hour, getting farther and farther away from the core area of the city full of high-rise buildings.

Andrew pointed to the sewer fence under his feet and said, "Sister Lan, we're going to take the secret passage!" ”

"Sewers?" Mu Lan was puzzled.

"Yes!" Andrew nodded, then lifted the sewer fence and made a gesture of please.

"You go first!" Mu Lan was a little resistant and let Andrew go down first, but she didn't expect to drill sewers to go to the scavengers' territory.

Andrew jumped down first, Mu Lan leaned over to smell it, and found that there was no unpleasant smell in it.

It may be because there are no people living in the city and there is no domestic sewage in the sewers.

Mu Lan hesitated for a moment, and then jumped down.

At first glance, you can see that the sewers are very wide, and the width of the large urban sewer system here is like that of Europe in the past, which can accommodate three or four people walking side by side.

Mu Lan asked the doubts in her heart: "You live here?" ”

"It's still far away! It's safer to walk from here, the Erics can't see it! Andrew said.

Mu Lan saw that it was too dark in the sewer, so she took out a flashlight from her personal space.

Andrew stared at the flashlight, his eyes were full of curiosity, and Mu Lan handed it to him.

"Don't you have flashlights?" Mu Lan asked.

"An electric light that you can take with you!" Andrew looked around with a flashlight, and he had a feeling of falling in love with it, and he exclaimed: "Actually, there are also such things in the camp, but there are very few of them, and they are all distributed by the patriarchs. ”

It seemed that the resources of the scavengers were quite scarce, and Mu Lan saw that he liked flashlights very much, so he asked him to lead the way in front of him.

The sewer system here is very complicated, Andrew took Mu Lan around in it, most of the passages are very wide, but some are very narrow, and they need to walk with their waists up, so they have only walked for more than 2 hours, and the two of them are tired and out of breath, Mu Lan only feels that his chest is tight and breathless, and he is still having a faint pain in his chest and abdomen due to the impact of the previous explosion.

Mu Lan tried to memorize the labyrinthine passage route, but still gave up, without Andrew to lead the way, even if she had the detection spell, she was not sure that she could find the right direction in this sewer, the only thing that was certain was that the route of the two was far from the core of the city.

"It's almost there!" Andrew said.

Mu Lan wiped her sweat, and she noticed that there were already some traces of human life in the passage here, some large boxes of unknown purpose were stacked on the ground, and some mining lamps hung on the wall.

"Sister Lan, this way!" Andrew grabbed a ladder and beckoned Mu Lan to climb up.

Opening the fence, Mu Lan climbed out of the sewer, and when she looked around, she found that it was an abandoned factory, surrounded by a circle of low factories, and many people in shabby clothes gathered around the fire and didn't know what they were doing.

"Finally home! I thought I wouldn't be able to come back! Andrew sighed.

"Andrew! Where did you go? A couple of children came running over and mingled with Andrew.

"Ahem! Don't make a fuss, there's still something important! , Andrew made a straight face like a little adult, and then looked at Mu Lan.

A few children realized that it was actually a stranger, and an older boy was curious when he saw Mu Lan: "Stranger? Andrew, what's wrong with you bringing a stranger over? ”

"It's a guest! And Sister Lan is a good person! Andrew told his friends about the food that Mu Lan gave him, and began to show off his experience: "You would never have imagined that I saw Eric with my own eyes, and they fought with those mysterious people in the city, which is very cool!" I'm not a coward now! ......”

Mu Lan observed this scavenger camp, it was already night, most of them didn't show up, but it was estimated that there were less than a hundred people overall, there were many bonfires in the factory compound, and I didn't know what was cooking in the pot, and a fragrance wafted over.

As she wandered around the camp, she saw a group of people around a stove with jars and jars of pottery, young men with old-fashioned double-barreled shotguns and miner's lamps patrolling the heights, and several women skinning animals with knives in front of the fire.

Although it is backward here, but there is a breath of fireworks, Mu Lan can't help but sigh that human beings are a very resilient species, even if civilization is destroyed, they can still survive from the cracks, hold each other, and yearn for the reconstruction of order.

"You're so busy at night here?" Mu Lan asked Andrew.

"Yes." Andrew nodded: "The night is much more dangerous than the day, and there are strange beasts attacking us outside, so we can only divide into two groups, one group to rest during the day and the other to rest at night." However, the Pioneer Festival is here, and the patriarch will probably ask us to reduce our activities. ”

Andrew found a room in the factory for Mu Lan to settle down temporarily, and after a while he came over with hot water and food, "Let's go all night, let's eat something first!" It may not taste as good as your food, but it's all hot! ”

Mu Lan took a sip of hot water, and immediately felt that her body was warm, and then pointed to the black cake-like thing in front of her and asked, "What is this?" ”

"It's Khamba!" Andrew said, breaking a piece for himself and chewing it, "We usually eat these, and they are made of rye!" ”

"Oh!" Mu Lan picked up this kamp, it was hot, it should be baked, and just about to try to eat it, she heard a commotion outside, and the little boy who had greeted Andrew before ran in.

"Andrew! The patriarch wants to see you! ”

Seven or eight people walked in with a white-haired old man, the old man looked at Andrew with a reproachful look, Andrew immediately lowered his head, and then he moved his gaze to Mu Lan.

"Stranger, where are you from?" The old man's voice was very old, but his eyes were blazing, revealing a kind of shrewdness and sophistication, this should be the patriarch that Andrew said.

"You're the patriarch! I'm from far away and fled here to escape Eric's pursuit. Mu Lan said.

"It's been a long time since there have been strange homeless...... the old man looked at Mu Lan's face, was silent for a moment, and then said, "You don't look like a homeless person at all." ”

"Don't pretend! This man looks like Eric is pretending! Hurry up and catch her! A swarthy-faced scavenger pointed at Mu Lan, a little emotional.

"Patriarch! Sister Lan is not..."Andrew was about to argue, but was pulled away by several adults.

Seeing that these scavengers took out their weapons and came forward, Mu Lan did not panic, she slowly spoke: "How could Eric be stupid enough to sneak into your territory alone, not to mention that I am a weak woman and have no weapons on my body, so I am not a threat to you!" ”

Saying that, Mu Lan spread out her hands, signaling that she had no weapons, and she continued: "The Pioneer Festival has begun, I am a poor person who was hunted down by Eric like you, my friend has died in the city, and now I just want to seek your refuge. ”

"Patriarch, don't be deceived by her!" Another scavenger said, "If you look at her looks, and then look at her clothes, it's clear that she's Eric. ”

The patriarch was silent and silent, he looked at Mu Lan, wanting to see how she explained.

Mu Lan looked at the group of scavengers in front of her, probably because of long-term unbalanced nutrition, all of them had yellow muscles and thin faces and bitter gourd faces, compared to the Eric who was killed by her before, they were simply two species.

Mu Lan just wanted to explain something more, when suddenly there was a gunshot outside, and then the abandoned factory instantly became noisy.