As soon as it was dawn, the two got up and set out on the eastbound road. They walked slowly, and after about a month, they finally came to the beach.

"Is that the old dragon head?" Seeing some fragments of the city wall that had collapsed in the sea, Brother Zhen asked.

"It should be......" Zheng Xiaojie was not sure. According to memory, this is the old dragon head of the once famous monument, but judging from the pictures in the system data, it is so unrecognizable that it is no longer recognizable: "If it is, then we can reach the Northeast Plain by walking north along the sea...... But I guess even when I get there, I'm afraid I won't be able to recognize it! ”

"There must be desertification there?"

"I think so!" Zheng Xiaojie said: "Once the desert crosses the Mongolian Plateau and enters the Northeast Plain, there is nothing to stop it!" ”

Desertification is an old problem. The sudden disappearance of the ancient kingdom of Loulan is likely to be a masterpiece of the desert. The forces of nature, human beings can never resist. Man's victory over heaven is just an arrogant slogan, which just shows the self-righteous ignorance of human beings.

"Leave it alone!" Brother Zhen said categorically: "I've arrived here, I can't retreat no matter what!" Let's take a day off today, get ready, and leave tomorrow! ”

The so-called preparation is to prepare a little food. They quickly found some shellfish and found that food seemed to be easy to find as long as they were close to the sea, so they didn't plan to stop. If the ocean does not die, the earth should still be saved.

"Aren't we humans a little stupid?" Eating the grilled shellfish, Brother Zhen thought it was strange. He didn't understand why humans didn't build the central city and underground city near the sea, but built it in the interior and lived on artificial meat. He didn't know that the so-called progress of human society was to take pride in relying on science and technology as the goal and abandoning primitive ways of life.

Besides, after the two world wars, the ocean was very polluted, and many fish and marine creatures mutated, and no one dared to eat them.

"This stuff is delicious!" Zheng Xiaojie said. Brother Zhen's question, she couldn't answer: "It is said that the fish in the sea are all contaminated by nuclear weapons, will there be a problem with these things we eat now?" ”

"It's all alive, so there shouldn't be a problem, right?"

If there is a problem, there is no problem, but when they are hungry, they always have to eat, so they are trembling, but they eat a lot. In the evening, Zheng Xiaojie had diarrhea.

"Looks like those things are really inedible!" Zheng Xiaojie was so stretched that she was about to collapse.

"It seems to be...... But that's not right! Brother Zhen was puzzled: "I ate more than you, why didn't I pull?" ”

This time, they had to stop again. They didn't dare to eat seashells anymore, but fortunately there were some hares or something here, so Brother Zhen had to play the role of hunter again. However, he was convinced, and sometimes he couldn't help but get some seashells to eat. It's strange that he didn't eat anything.

Zheng Xiaojie no longer dared to touch anything in the sea. She felt that since she had always said that things in the sea were polluted and mutated, it was naturally better not to touch them. In addition, she pulled her stomach hard, it was really a diarrhea, and she was afraid of seashells for ten years!

"I don't think you can eat it either," she watched Brother Zhen eat with relish, greedy and scared, "What if you eat badly?" ”

But Brother Zhen's stomach is so cheap, no matter how he eats, he has nothing to do.

"It's really more human than human, and it's infuriating!" The same thing, Brother Zhen was fine after eating it, but she had diarrhea when she ate it, and Zheng Xiaojie could only laugh at herself.

"In other words, the so-called pollution is not necessarily lethal to anyone," Brother Zhen said proudly: "For me, as long as it is alive and not rotten and spoiled, I can eat it!" ”

In fact, on the way north, Brother Zhen is indeed as he said, as long as it is a living thing, he can eat it, and he can't help but be jealous at all, it is too easy for him to fill his stomach.

But Zheng Xiaojie can't, maybe it's because of her age, after all, she is in her thirties and forty, and her physique is beginning to decline. In addition, she was seriously ill, did not receive good treatment and recuperation, and her body did not fully recover, so it was a bit troublesome to find food for her.

But no matter what, under Brother Zhen's careful care, there was nothing wrong with her. They traveled all the way, along the coastline to the north, over the former granary of the world, now the Northeast Desert, and across the Heilongjiang River.

"Don't go further north, right?" There were only clothes woven with nettles and a hare skin cloak on her body, and there was nothing else to keep out the cold, Zheng Xiaojie was so cold that she couldn't help it.

"Okay!" Brother Zhen also began to feel cold. Although he was physically strong, he didn't feel too unbearable, but he couldn't ignore Zheng Xiaojie, and they stopped advancing.

They began to set up makeshift camps again. This time, Brother Zhen built the camp very strongly, because he knew that they would probably spend the winter here.

Brother Zhen is indeed getting more and more capable, he doesn't want Zheng Xiaojie to help, and after a few days of hard work alone, the temporary housing was built. This time, Brother Zhen chose a place where he could take shelter from the wind by leaning against the rock wall. On the other three sides, the walls of branches and mud were man-high and thick. The top was also covered with thick branches, and the branches were covered with grass and covered with mud, and a decent dwelling was built.

The floor of the simple house was also paved with tree branches and covered with a thick layer of hay. In one corner, Brother Zhen also built a fire pit out of stones, which can be used to roast food and use it to bake a fire when it is cold.

"It's so comfortable to look at!" After getting it, Zheng Xiaojie was very happy to see it: "You are getting more and more capable!" ”

"You might as well say that I'm getting better and better suited to be a wild man!"

"A pair of savages!" Zheng Xiaojie smiled: "How long are you going to live?" ”

"I don't know, let's live first!"

After settling the accommodation, they began to investigate the surroundings. They chose a good location, where they lived, a relatively sparse birch forest, but above the rock face was a dense forest, where there seemed to be a lot of wildlife.

From here, walk about two kilometers southeast to the sea. Brother Zhen deliberately chose this place because he wanted to be closer to the sea because he wanted to be closer to the sea because he considered that the sea was also a food source.

"It's strange, we don't see any living creatures there, and there are so many wild animals here?" Brother Zhen said: "There are a lot of wild animals, I look like they are born in temperate regions, why did they come here?" ”

"It's not surprising," Zheng Xiaojie said, "The areas of human activity, especially the developed areas, are almost all in lukewarm places, and when there is a war, the targets of the attack are those areas." Who would drop a nuclear bomb on the inaccessible Arctic Ocean and Antarctica! As for the temperate animals you mentioned here, animals are more adaptable than humans, and they run wherever they can survive, and they slowly adapt. ”

After the inspection, they began to prepare winter supplies. Zheng Xiaojie's laser gun energy has been almost used, although she still has a backup energy source, but Brother Zhen feels that it is too luxurious to use it for hunting again. So he made a bow out of branches, and found some hard branches, and sharpened them into arrows with a military dagger.

"Does this work?" Zheng Xiaojie expressed skepticism.

"Give it a try!" Brother Zhen said.

"Where did you learn that?"

"When in the dungeon, it looks like it from the system's network."

Zheng Xiaojie was surprised, when she was in the dungeon, she never paid attention to these on the Internet. She found that Brother Zhen seemed to be prepared for the day when he ran away to live in the wilderness with his bare hands.

After preparing the primitive hunting tools, Brother Zhen went out the next day. On this day, he gained nothing, but he was not discouraged. After a few days, he began to reap the rewards, and one day, he brought back a wild deer.

"How can you shoot down such a big prey with your broken bow and arrow?"

"It wasn't shot with a bow and arrow," Brother Zhen said with a smile, "I set up several traps in the forest a few days ago, and they were caught by traps!" ”

Zheng Xiaojie had to admire him: "It seems that I really underestimate you!" ”

"Don't worry that we won't survive now, right?"

"Yes, don't worry," Zheng Xiaojie admitted calmly: "But what if you can't eat such a big deer?" ”

"It's better to throw it out directly," Brother Zhen was confident: "The weather is so cold, it will freeze after a while!" ”

"I'm dizzy! You seem to have already calculated it! ”

When the weather is cold, it is a natural refrigerator, and there is no need to worry about the food rotting and spoiling. Outside the simple dwelling, Brother Zhen had already cleared a place, first poured water on it and froze it, and then threw the cut venison on it, and it was frozen hard in a while. Everything else is treated the same.

"That's it!" When Brother Zhen finished his work, he covered some branches on the frozen meat: "Take whatever you want!" ”

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the scale of the thermometer on Zheng Xiaojie's clothes is close to minus 20 degrees Celsius. The fire pit in the simple dwelling has not been extinguished all day long. Seeing that the stored food was enough, Brother Zhen hurriedly prepared the materials for heating. He collected a lot of dry branches, split a dead tree into pieces, piled them up outside the improvised house, and then went out again.

Soon, snowflakes began to fall in the sky. The snowflakes are getting bigger and denser. A heavy snowfall from north to south fell one after another, staining the earth. In the makeshift shelter, the fire pit roasts game, and the smell fills the room with mouth-watering......

"We're hibernating, and it seems like we're going to be pretty comfortable!" By the fire pond, Zheng Xiaojie snuggled in Brother Zhen's arms and said, "Just live like this for a lifetime, it seems to be very good......"

Brother Zhen didn't speak, just hugged her tighter.

There are many men who think that their wives and children are happy, let alone women? What Zheng Xiaojie thinks may be the normal thoughts of ordinary women. As long as there are no delusions, you can eat and clothe yourself, you don't starve and freeze, and you have a man who can love you, wouldn't it be very happy!

But in the last days, such simple happiness is also unattainable.

"I want it......" Zheng Xiaojie said softly with shyness in her eyes......