Time may be slow and malicious for those in the civilian area.

Those men and women who go to work in factories for a day can receive enough supplies for a day's survival, and only those families with children will be treated a little more preferentially and receive some milk powder every day.

It's not that the management of the base used to be harsh, in fact, the old man in the general's suit has done quite well.

The base is crammed with so many people that the food it produces every day is a drop in the bucket, and what keeps the base running is the food confiscated before the disaster and the supplies that the evolutionaries go out to bring back every day.

It is foreseeable that if this situation continues for a few more months, there will be a famine in the base that has not been seen in more than 100 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

It's just that few people can think of these now, and after more than a hundred years of information explosion, people have many ways to withdraw themselves from real life and distance themselves from the bleak life that is close at hand.

Virtual 3D panoramas were developed half a century ago, and as soon as the first game came out, countless players almost overwhelmed the servers.

Even the game's developers did not expect that people's thirst for virtual life would be so strong that some ordinary gamers could play without eating or drinking and wearing a game helmet for three days in a row.

Of course, helmets from half a century ago couldn't automatically detect the player's physical condition and inject nutrients, and neither can today's gaming helmets, which only offer this feature in the multi-million dollar luxury gaming cabins.

However, most of those who can afford this kind of gaming pod will not use this feature, and they will not be addicted to the game because they can enjoy life very well both inside and outside the game.

Today is the third day of January in the first year of the new era, July 2085 in the old calendar.

It was a hot day, and the weather was noticeably hotter, and the abandoned city of Iwayan was quite quiet, and it seemed that even the man-eating monsters didn't want to show their heads in the scorching sun.

On a street in the center of the city, a convoy of two jeeps and two heavy trucks appeared on the road.

On the roof of the previous truck, a man was lying lazily there, bathed in the sun, his whole body shining with golden light, like a god sleeping in the sun in Roman mythology.

The jeep has been modified these days, and since it was surrounded by the magic tide once a few days ago, a lot of steel plates have been embedded around the body, the glass has been replaced with bulletproof glass, and two layers of iron mesh have been attached to the outside of the glass, and the direct consequence of this is to turn the car into a stuffy grill.

"Stinky boy, how many popsicles have you eaten?" No. 1 was sitting in the driver's seat of the first jeep, driving intently.

After entering the central city, the road conditions have deteriorated significantly, a large number of abandoned vehicles are parked on the side of the road indiscriminately, and the vines crawling out of the green belt are everywhere.

Xiao Wu stopped his action of reaching for the portable freezer again, glanced at the giant man who was concentrating on driving, and hurriedly replied, "There are not a few, just two or three." ”

"Xiao Wu, let's go back to the training room to practice after the mission?" The giant man didn't expose him either.

Trickster, there are more than a dozen sticks under your feet.

The young man's face turned white when he heard this, as if he remembered some tragic experience, and hurriedly handed the popsicle that had just been opened in his hand to the giant man: "Big brother, I was wrong, I ate less than half of it, and the rest is all for you." ”

The giant man took the popsicle with one free hand, and after filling it in his mouth, he bit it away.

He glanced sideways at the flattering young man, and a touch of narrowness suddenly flashed in his square face: "Dad forgive you." ”

The boy was angry, and this thing grabbed his own lines again.

At this moment, a sweet female voice sounded in the team's combat headphones.

"Everyone, pay attention, the distress signal two days ago came from the river-view house by the river in front, and there should be three survivors. After arriving at the destination, No. 1 and Xiaowu got out of the car to rescue people, and the others stood on guard. ”

After nearly a month of search and rescue, the team has visited almost all the survivor-populated areas, and now it can only move a single target in the city without stopping. Even the four heavy trucks only drove two, one to pull the survivors and the other to pull the collected supplies.

The convoy stopped on the wide road in front of the villa, the jeep door opened, and the giant man and the boy got out of the car and walked towards the villa by the river.

They have experienced a lot of battles in the past month, and their cooperation is very tacit.

The giant man took his broadsword and walked forward first, while the young man followed not far behind to keep his guard.

Randomly splitting the dog demon that jumped out of the green shade on the side of the road, and wiping the black blood stains on the knife on the vines on the ground, the giant man continued to walk towards the gate of the villa.

The boy hurriedly followed after taking out the base flesh with a dagger behind him.

These were two black iron doors, which were now tightly closed.

The giant man stood in front of the door, and the family had not heard anything for two days, and the outside world could not contact them.

At this time, I was afraid that there would be less bad luck, so the giant man didn't mean to ask someone to open the door, so he stood up directly, raised his big knife and slashed towards the gap in the middle of the gate.

The war knife that has been transformed several times is mixed with some moon sharp gold, and it has long been able to sharpen iron like clay, not to mention that it is still the king of soldiers who has practiced the Near-Moon Sword Technique.

The broad but narrow blade of the broadsword pierced through the gap between the doors with precision, collided with the iron bolt behind the door, and paused for a moment before slashing through with a bang.

The giant man pushed open the door and walked straight to the villa.

As soon as I entered the gate of the villa, a rancid smell rushed to my face. The giant man hurriedly opened all the doors to let the smell dissipate a little faster.

Walking briskly in the direction where the rancid smell came from, the two soon came to a bedroom, where the giant man raised his knife and played a trick, and the smart door with a combination lock opened.

The two looked through the door, where two corpses lay on the bed in the bedroom, almost with bones left, and some palm-sized insects and ants licking the remaining flesh from the bones.

The two of them are also used to seeing all kinds of disgusting scenes these days, and seeing this scene in addition to the initial discomfort quickly adjusted.

After the giant man crushed some of the insects to death, the remaining ants quickly rolled out of bed and disappeared into the corner of the bedroom. Glancing at the sleeping pill bottles scattered all over the place, the giant man couldn't help but sigh and walked out of the bedroom door.

The boy found several suitcases in the room, packed the clothes in the bedroom closet into a suitcase, and followed.

These clean designer clothes are not cheap in the base, you know, many refugees flee to the base, and all the clothes are the ones they wear.

In the spacious living room, the giant man found a game cabin that was still running, with a delicate metal texture, so that he, a soldier who doesn't understand games, could see that this set of equipment was worth a lot of money.

He had also played some specially developed combat games before, and the graphics were realistic, but there was no real feeling, and he didn't feel like a bullet hit his body, so those military games quickly became cold.

Looking at the delicate metal cabin, the giant man couldn't help but put his hand on it.

Large hands covered the deck, and a predetermined program was triggered in an instant, and as "rescuers were detected, the hatch opened." Please note that the occupants of the cabin have activated the escape plan and are now in a vegetative state, please take care of it properly", and the cabin door opened.

Xiao Wu, who heard the movement, hurriedly ran over, and the moment he saw the game cabin, he was more excited than when he came to the store and saw a large number of gold and silver jewelry.

"Wow, this is the top-of-the-line deluxe version of the game pod that was just released this year, and it seems that Thor has only sold a thousand units."

He took a few steps forward to get a closer look at the local tyrant cabin, but saw the pale young man in the cabin.

Xiao Wu pushed aside the young man's body and looked under him, where there was no dripping water left in the glass tube containing the nutrients.

"What's the escape plan for the game pod?" The giant man asked in a deep voice.

Xiao Wu, who rarely had a chance to perform in front of the giant, was not happy, he looked at the unconscious boy in the cabin and recalled the configuration of the game cabin he had studied.

Then he said with some sadness: "The game pod escape plan is a special program activated by the user in the face of unavoidable danger from the outside world. Once the program is activated, the human brainwaves in the virtual world are encrypted and solidified, and the exit channel is completely closed. ”

Xiao Wu touched the young man's somewhat immature little face, and continued: "He should be in a vegetative state now, because his consciousness has completely entered the virtual world and can no longer come out. ”

The two were silent in the living room for a while, and then quickly gathered their mood and began to collect supplies.