"Such a mess." Augustavina loosened her gun belt and stared at the towering concrete forest on the other side of the skyline, occasionally reflecting the sunset with some unbroken viewing glass, like the human situation at this time, the sun is dusk and the sun is gone.

She picked up her rifle and closed one eye at the source of the reflection, the reason for the dead horse running away from the mountain was very simple, it was still fifty or sixty miles from Toronto, but she seemed to see the world-famous Kannada National Television Tower, the National Television Tower more than 500 meters high. Franz's troops had not ventured to the North Shore, and while she was wearing a ponytail, her eldest brother, who had led Claudie to Lake Ontario on the North Shore to gather hydrological information, brought back a lake-green glass pendant.

Augustavina still retains the small pendant made of a dagger, which can be said to be both natural and artificial.

Before she could continue to remember, Claudia's voice came from the abandoned country house: "Safety. ”

"Set the guard, we'll spend the night here tonight." As he spoke, the captain threw a magnetic sticker at the telephone pole that had not collapsed after 60 years. Several people accompanied the medical soldiers to sprinkle a circle of medicinal powder around the villa, and an important part of the drill code was not to act alone, and the disappearance of Lauya and Orphen strengthened their vigilance. Although the shores of the lake are full of holiday villas built for urban tourists, the devil is in the details, and people are often defeated not by ability but by arrogance.

The villa was filled with the smell of rotten dust accumulated over the years, Rao reported the safety, and the team members also launched a CQB formation and walked up to the second floor with 120,000 points of vigilance. "Connect." The captain commanded, and Augustavina nodded, kicked at the wall, and knocked down the brick wall separating the two secondary bedrooms.

"Three or three shifts, two hours of change, night vision detector don't spare electricity, within fifty meters around, any mutant creature larger than a palm approaching must report to me!" After last night's thrilling but particularly treacherous scene, the closer they got to the final crash site, the more thoughtful Claudia became.

Augustavina stood upright, and although she could automatically pop off the exoskeleton restraints through the master command, the girls were willing to reach each other for the hidden buttons on the back of each other's shoulders, like the buttons of underwear, and the rare few minutes of the day allowed for a little laughter and relaxation, even if it was as expensive as Augustavina, she also felt that there was no need to put on a proud stand in front of these cousins who were really related to her by blood or near her. She put her hands behind her head and lay on the sofa chair that had been covered with dust for a long time, and dust or not was secondary.

Claudia gathered around the motors, and for dozens of minutes while they were accumulating, they didn't get the exoskeleton to heat, so they sat next to each other, sharing the food they had chosen before leaving, Augustavina smiled slightly, scooped a spoonful of caviar and rubbed the rusks, now she could smoke a cigarette with confidence, and the blue glow of the Zhibao lighter was perfectly blocked by the staggered wooden planks that nailed the window. Apparently, the former owner of the small building had gone to great lengths to renovate his residence, as evidenced by the rusty trap in the living room downstairs that shattered at the touch of a button. As the second princess of the Franz family, most of the materials and documents in steeluniversity are open to her. 《2056

~2076, The Age of Masking, a recently compiled book, is a good record of the radio messages heard by the Cleveland Vault in the approximately two years following the date of the ruling. There are too many strong people in the old land that is sinking day by day, and they do not want to perish with them.

The saliva-soaked rusks gradually diffuse with a hint of starchy sweetness, which took over Augustavina's taste buds along with the sweet, rich and fishy bitterness of the lake demon roe, but she didn't want to do it, she bit down on the spoon and tried to imagine the special scene depicted in the book.

04/01/56, a day that every citizen of the Black Wall remembers in mind. Since that day, humanity has lost the surface of the earth for twenty years, and to this day, it is also fighting for the dominion of the planet that once belonged entirely to humans. Her uncle's and grandfather's uninterrupted diaries became the best historical material for the few scholars of later generations.

"04/01, the first anniversary of the day of the verdict, to commemorate this day, all citizens collectively observed three minutes of silence in the auditorium, to pay the most sincere tribute to our eight billion compatriots abroad."

"04/15, since the orbiting satellites were collectively shot down, we have not received news from the outside world for a long time, and the remaining surface base stations can only send pictures in one direction, but without exception they are unexpectedly barren."

"04/17, we found a group of survivors! They found the surface entrance to the Vault, and the guards could even look at each other through the monitors! I sympathize with the referendum on whether or not to let these refugees in, but I have to vote 'against'. ”

"04/18, three abstentions, fifty-eight votes in favor, we sit back and watch our compatriots on the surface die slowly and painfully, I'm uncomfortable, I have to have a drink."

"On 01/01, before I knew it, it was the ninth New Year's Day, and in the three concessionary holidays of the year, people also rejuvenated three times. I kind of don't want to go to tomorrow's class, because tomorrow's class is the origin of the universe, and I can't always point to the ceiling and say it's the starry sky. ”

"On 02/07, this is the third group of guards sent back underground with an excessive heart rate, and it seems that every child on duty with a radiation blast door can't stand even a little fantasy about the outside of the door, many claim that they can always feel countless dark shadows around them when they sleep, one of which is particularly solemn, and the mental health officer admonishes them: 'We have a mission for the survival of mankind, and there will always be some emotions brewing at the sacrifice of the outside world, and moderate alcohol consumption will alleviate negative emotions.' Indeed, the vastness of warehousing is staggering. ”

"On 03/11, one of the blast guards committed suicide, and according to eyewitness accounts, the deceased woke up from a lunch break and shouted without warning to open the door to meet his compatriots who had been martyred. But this was impossible, and without a three-quarter vote, the blast door could not be opened, so the man was killed by a headlong hit. The elder brother removed the guards at the gate, and now he was considering whether to stop the surface garrison for good. ”

"On 03/12, my brother decided to block the ascent gate so that no one could reach the blast gate area again, this decision is unlikely to cause any waves, even if people are not exhausted by the never-ending work, no one will be stupid enough to oppose the brother, after all, he is Augustus, and sometimes I miss my old surname, 'Franz'? I think if 'Habsburg' wasn't so famous, my brother would have liked it even more. ”

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Help get some ibuprofen. The medic woke Augustavina, who shifted around and pulled out a plate of painkillers. Thank you. The medic said that Victoria's thigh was swollen again, and it was very easy to become addicted to morphine if he played too much, but the most fatal part of the digging crab was the virus infection, which lurked in the bloodstream, and the first thing that could not be eaten was the wound, and a large area at the base of Victoria's thigh was visibly dented by the naked eye, and either the muscle was dissolved or surgically removed.

The medic fed Victoria a spoonful of hot rice mixed with mashed ibuprofen and gave her a sedative before she fell to sleep. Then he carried a first-aid kit to change the dressing of the others, and it was not only one person who was injured last night.

Augustavina looked at her watch, picked up her gun and walked up to the attic. "It's your shift, go get some rest." Three pieces of candy spread out in the palm of her hand, and Claudia's eyes showed a hint of cunning that only girls could understand. "Don't tell the captain, or she'll confiscate my last bit of nougat." The tuk tuk of her boots clattered on the old staircase, and Augustavina widened the gaps between the planks of the windows, stretched out the barrel of her gun, and looked out at the night.

"Where did you hide the sugar? Before leaving, the captain stripped us naked one by one to check for contraband. Ivy asked curiously, her job was more boring than Augustavina's, staring at the tablet to see if there was any movement outside the building. Augustavina pursed her lips and asked rhetorically, "The cosmonauts of the Gagarin era had a way to bring vodka into space, and I had a way to evade the Red Devils." ”

The Red Devils are the nickname of Captain Claudia, and sometimes it is a blind date with Claudia's troops, and it is often seen that the leaders of both sides are embarrassed to look at each other and refuse to talk "deeply", so the girls give Claudie a new nickname: "Glaucoma." ”

"Do you think there will be people waiting for us at the crash site?" Ivy asked.

It's a difficult question of chance to answer, and strictly speaking, this is Augustavina's first long-distance trek and first time on the North Shore, as is the case with Claudia, whose briefing only mentions the crash of a single-seater biplane carrying important meteorological information. Before losing contact with the pilot, the Academy of Sciences calculated a rough bearing through triangulation. But it is impossible to think that pilots armed only with basic self-defense weapons will survive on the unpopulated North Shore for more than a week.

Most strangely, Claudia was not granted permission to fly the transport plane, because according to Franz's internal transfer schedule, their unit was hunting down the slave revolt leader of the friendly states of Ford City in the Michigan wilderness. This is a common practice of confusion to ensure maximum confidentiality. Augustavina thought about her brother's usual response, and she said with some duplicity: "This is the captain's business, and what we have to do is to go there, no matter what is there." ”

She covered her mouth and yawned, and at 22:49, she ran at full power for the whole day, and she would be able to bypass the suburbs of old Toronto in advance and arrive at the crash site in advance tomorrow afternoon, and she blinked her beautiful blue eyes. "I'm a little sleepy, how about you?"

"yes, my bones are broken."

Augustavina slumped her head, and then a spirit perked up, staring at the dark shadows of the National Television Tower standing on the horizon, slowly, slowly, stretching over.

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