We didn't see the blasted ruins described earlier, and all the buildings should have been basically preserved in their original state, and they were in tatters.

But there was no one around, not a single person, and it was not until you entered the city walls that you could see some traces of people. After checking our passes, two military vehicles drove us back and forth towards the city. There is no doubt that there is a curfew system similar to that of a provincial town, and there is no one on the road, but there are many buildings that are brightly lit, and there is a tenacious hint of life in this dark apocalypse.

A lieutenant sat in our car as we entered the city and gave us a briefing on the city along the way. That's when I learned that the brightly lit buildings were research institutes and food factories, which mainly produced man-made food, and there were only two varieties, "synthetic proteins that taste like and algae powder that chokes people." "The lieutenant told me.

"Is there a shortage of food in the city?" I asked.

"Barely enough to eat." "There are quotas for everyone, researchers and military personnel are slightly better, there is a greater proportion of natural foods, and those workers eat slightly worse." The main reason is that the production of synthetic food has not yet risen. ”

"What about the people outside the city?"

"They? I've heard that they don't need much food, but they are required to be supplied, and it's all whole food. The lieutenant was a little angry, "Those people are going to die sooner or later, and the people in the city are tired and tired to eat these shit-like things, and they can sleep and eat natural food every day when they are full, I really don't know what the above thinks." ”

I thought this guy had a big opinion, and I wanted to know what he thought, so I tentatively said: "The people outside the city are also very important, I came from outside, and without them, Gejia would have called him a long time ago, right?" ”

"They? I don't know why Gega is afraid of them, but I think if it's because they're sick, they can function alive and dead, and they don't need to waste food at all! "The lieutenant spoke with pleasure, as if he had entered a state of self-absorption, and it seemed to me that he was like a Hitler in speech.

"How many people are dead, how many people are working day and night, isn't it just for us to live, those idle walking corpses are still occupying our quota!"

I turned my head to look at him, and I was so frustrated that I wanted to shoot him in the head.

"If I hadn't been on duty, I would have led my brothers out of the city and eliminated these bastards!" He said so.

"Why don't you go and destroy Gega? That's what you have out there. Gege suddenly interjected.

I noticed that the lieutenant suddenly stopped, his face flushed, and there was fear written in his eyes.

Gege smiled disdainfully and didn't speak again. The lieutenant shrunk into his seat with some pity, completely devoid of the pride of the master he had just had.

I suddenly felt a little pity for him, maybe he was once a warrior, a good soldier, but now he was just a wretched creature living in the last days, clinging to the great pursuits of others, and relying on that little scrap to maintain his self-esteem. I don't want to say his name, there is actually nothing to be ashamed of, really, there is nothing to be ashamed of when a person is defeated by the times.

I did not see the lieutenant again, and a few days later I heard that he had secretly made grain and had been banished into the wilderness where the Gega was rampant.

Half an hour later, we went through layers of inspections and met Xiang Ci. In Chang Cheng's mouth before, I already knew that she was a woman, but I didn't imagine that she would be such an ordinary-looking woman with a good figure. I can't help but think of a genius female engineer in a certain novel, and a female engineering professor many years ago.

"You're Si'an?" Xiang Ci seemed to have just come out of the laboratory, and asked casually by hanging the white coat on the hanger.

"It's me! You're Mayor Xiang, aren't you? I struggled to shift my attention to her very wide eyebrows and extended my right hand.

"I'm Xiang Ci, what are you doing here?" Xiang Ci stretched out his hand and hurriedly shook it, and hurriedly hugged his arm to his chest and asked.

What are we here for? I'm stuck, and in the face of this woman who may be Chang Cheng's biggest supporter, do I ask you not to reduce your support outside the city?

Xiang Ci leaned against the wall, looked at me with some amusement, and suddenly said, "It's hard to speak?" ”

I felt a lot of pressure and could only nod yes.

"Ah Cheng told me, I know your intentions, but you can't be like this. He said you are a very smart young man, why did you become like this? ”

Ah Cheng? It's a really ambiguous title. I complained in my heart, but I thought that Xiao Kan's somewhat unobtrusive evaluation of me when I saw a beautiful woman may have to add a supplementary clause, that is, when I see a woman with a good figure, I will become SB.

"I wasn't like that, but ...... see you"

"I see!" Xiang Ci interrupted me unceremoniously, "Young man, just look me in the eye when you talk to me." ”

I looked up into her eyes, but I always felt that there was something missing between her broad eyebrows, and it felt even more awkward, like the feeling of a person with Erlang Shenxing obsessive-compulsive disorder seeing an earthling, always wanting to add something to that blank space.

"Chang Cheng wants me to tell the people here about the situation over there, they can't reduce the food quota, on the contrary, they need to increase it!"

"Hehe, Si'an, you are such a courageous person! All fugitives and hunters shy away from such things, right? They all know how to be nosy to survive, and why are you wading into this troubled water? ”

Muddy waters, this is the second time I've heard the word and I don't really like it. "I don't have the courage, I'm just an ordinary person. Even after seeing what so many courageous people did, I didn't have much courage and could only find a way to do something for those people. ”

Xiang Ci slapped his face, stretched out a slender index finger and pointed at me, "This is courage, you are very good!" ”

I feel a little cramped, and this mayor Xiang has a very bad style, which makes me feel very uncomfortable.

"I have good news and bad news, I guess you must want to hear the bad first!" Xiang Ci walked to the floor-to-ceiling window very lightly and hotly and pressed the switch of the curtain.

This office is located on the commanding heights of almost the entire city, and the curtains slowly unfold behind Xiang Ci, revealing the dark night with lights.

"The bad news is, you're going to have to convince everyone down there!" Xiang Ci said.

"The good news?" I asked.

"The good news is that you don't have to convince me anymore." Xiang Ci pointed to his nose, "And I'm the mayor." ”