Zhang Heng changed his clothes, got off work from the power plant, and returned to his residence.

After opening the door, I saw that the hostess was busy killing fish, preparing to make squirrel osmanthus fish, this dish was learned by her from Zhang Heng, of course, there is no osmanthus fish in Ukraine, so it can only be replaced by other fish caught in the Pripyat River.

The waitress asked Zhang Heng in Ukrainian while scraping the fish scales, "How is your work today?" ”

"Well, it's still the same." Zhang Heng put the paper bag in his hand on the table, "The pickled cucumber and jam you want, I bought them for you when I got off work." ”

"Great, I just need it." Miss Usher said happily.

Zhang Heng unexpectedly got another 2 points when he bought the pickled cucumber, so far, he has got 192 points in the parallel copy, and the upgraded skills have almost been upgraded, and the Chernobyl accident, although Zhang Heng was not in the central control room at the time, but combined with the previous conversation with the parties, he can basically restore the events of that night, but the strange thing is that the main quest still has no movement.

During this time, none of the system prompts that Zhang Heng received were related to the main quest to find key people, as if the system had completely forgotten about it.

"Are you resting tomorrow?" The waitress poked out of the kitchen again, "Can you drive me to my grandmother's house, they live in the country, some distance from here?" ”

"Okay." Zhang Hengdao.

He has almost investigated the matter of the reactor, and there is nothing else to do in the short term, Zhang Heng doesn't mind being the driver for Miss Usher, just go to the countryside to relax and regain his mood, and by the way, thank Miss Usher for her serious teaching during this time.

The next day, the two got up early in the morning, and after breakfast, Zhang Heng drove the second-hand Lada he bought and took the beautifully dressed usher lady to meet her grandparents.

In fact, the strip was inhabited long before the construction of the nuclear power plant and Pripyat.

More than 10,000 of them live in the central city of Chernobyl, while the remaining 40,000 or so live in scattered villages, where the population density was so low that not a single family could be seen for tens of kilometers.

The gray Lada was driving on a muddy dirt road, surrounded by dwarf pines, it was already winter, and it had just snowed about three days ago, and there was a lot of snow left on the pine trees, and the temperature had dropped below freezing, but the air outside the window was very fresh.

Unlike the town, everything here basically still retains its natural and primitive appearance, the woods are full of mud and moss, and from time to time you can see some small animals that come out to feed, Zhang Heng saw two wild deer along the way.

They don't need to hibernate, they have changed into slender and dense fur in the fall, and they have accumulated enough fat under the skin to help them resist the cold and lack of food.

When passing a stream, Zhang Heng got out of the car, washed his face with cold water, and when he raised his head, he saw a mare on the opposite side of the stream.

The hair on its whole body is snow-white, without a trace of impurities, its slender body, strong muscles, full of strength and elegant beauty, if it were not for the lack of sharp horns on its head, it would simply be a unicorn that came out of mythology.

This beautiful beast was standing quietly by the river at this moment, looking at Zhang Heng opposite.

As the latter was about to stand up, the white mare raised her hooves and turned and ran deeper into the woods.

"Did you see that?"

Zhang Heng walked back to the car and asked the usher lady in the passenger seat, who was at a loss, "What do you see?" ”

"The white horse? Just standing on the bank of the river. ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, maybe I woke up too early this morning, and I'm still a little sleepy," the hostess yawned, "I just seemed to have squinted for a while, and I didn't see anything, white horse?" I guess it's a nearby villager's house. ”

"No, it's supposed to be a wild horse." Zhang Hengdao.

"Mustangs? It can't be, I grew up here as a kid and never knew what wild horses were nearby. The waitress shook her head and said, "Could it be that you are mistaken?" ”

"Possibly."

Zhang Heng didn't tell the difference, got back into the driver's seat, started the car, and drove over the stream in front of him. Zhang Heng had already seen it when he washed his face, the water level here was very shallow, so he didn't have to worry about flooding the exhaust pipe.

And after crossing the river, Zhang Heng also deliberately glanced at the place where the white mare was standing just now, and found that there were no hoof prints there, and the previous scene was as if it had never happened, the white mare appeared like a ghost, and disappeared like a ghost.

At about half past ten in the morning, Zhang Heng and the usher lady arrived at the destination of the trip.

The latter's grandfather and grandmother, as well as his sister and brother-in-law, warmly welcomed the two, and prepared beetroot soup and pork sausage for them at noon, and after dinner, the brother-in-law of the hostess's lady proposed to go hunting in the forest.

"We can get some rabbits, wild deer or something, so we can have barbecue to eat in the evening." Miss Usher's brother-in-law said, "By the way, Ivan, do you know how to use a gun?" ”

"What are you thinking? As Snerana said, Ivan works at the nuclear power plant and is a literate person, but it doesn't matter, you can teach him then, maybe he will also like hunting. Sneerna's sister said enthusiastically.

"We've got to get Ivan a shotgun."

"I remember Grandpa had a double-barreled shotgun." Miss Usher said.

"It was the gun my father gave me, and I also carried this gun to World War II and fought the Germans, but about six years ago, my health was getting worse and worse, and when I was repairing the roof, I stepped on the air and fell down, and broke my leg, and then I put the gun away." The old man said, "But I take it out for maintenance every month, and you can take it with you when you go hunting, and it probably misses the days outside." ”

"Great, let's get out of here now." Snerana urged, returning to the countryside where she had lived before, and the hostess seemed very excited, and had already left behind the reserve of the city, eager to run out to the wilderness immediately.