Chapter 13: The Scavengers

Today's earth's sky is no longer blue, and the dark yellow canopy has turned the earth's sky into chaos. Whether it's day or night, the sky is chaotic, and there is no trace of clarity in sight.

Bi Yuwei's father once told her that the sky of the earth is sky blue, the sea is deep blue, and if you look at the distant skyline from a tall building, you will find that the sea and sky are the same color, and the whole world is covered with blue.

It's a pity that later, Bi Yuwei's father was blind and deaf. Many of those who survived before the end of the world were infected by the terrible miasma, and their bodies became cancerous, and they eventually died in severe pain.

The disaster came too suddenly, too violently. Countless people died, countries collapsed, and armies perished. But before the entire human order completely collapsed, various countries organized a large number of elite people to take a spaceship that could cross the sea of stars and go to the legendary Garden of Eden.

And his father was once qualified to take those ships of the stars to a new home for mankind far away.

It's a pity that the speed of human collapse is too fast, and the plague of insects and beasts swept the world in just a few months.

The coalition government collapsed, the world was in chaos, and the army was completely broken up after less than a week of resistance. The whole world is completely plunged into anarchy.

Bi Yuwei's father only had time to take his wife, who had just been six months pregnant, to SH West to escape the disaster.

But the results were terrible. The vast majority of the older generation did not escape this crisis of annihilation, and basically died.

Although Bi Yuwei's father is a very capable person, relying on his own ability and a trace of luck to escape the disaster of insects and beasts, and even relying on his extraordinary mechanical engineering technical ability, so that their family also has a safe refuge in this last world, but all this is in vain.

Her wife left first because she was weak and sick, and because she had breathed too much miasma. And because he worked under long-term exposure to miasma, his body became cancerous, his physical condition became worse and worse, and finally his organs failed and died. Only an eight-year-old girl was left to survive alone.

How difficult it is for an eight-year-old girl to survive in this apocalyptic world. What's worse is that Bi Yuwei was infected by miasma when she was a child, which caused her throat to be damaged and she couldn't speak.

But miraculously, Bi Yuwei survived tenaciously relying on the shelter left by her father.

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The dense purple smoke covered the ground at a height of about tens of meters, and below this height, a large number of insects and beasts were shuttling everywhere. The favorite of these insects and beasts is the area covered by these purple miasma. But for other creatures, especially humans, these purple smoke are the most terrifying invisible killers.

Some humans living at the lowest level are often forced to put on rudimentary protective suits and carry simple air filters, and go to this terrifying surface world through ropes, looking for some equipment and parts from the old times that can still be used.

They are collectively known as waste pickers.

And among these people, there are a large number of young people and even children. In order to make a living, these people had to trade their lives for some meager food rations.

And Bi Yuwei is one of them.

"Xiaowei, go down below to pick up waste again!" An aunt who had just returned from the misty world looked at the girl in front of her with some unbearable emotion and said.

"Hmm!"

But it wasn't Bi Yuwei's voice that responded to her, but a blank cardboard! A big "hmm" is written on it!

If it was an ordinary person who saw Bi Yuwei suddenly stretching out a white cardboard from behind her to answer, it would definitely be extremely weird.

But the middle-aged woman didn't mind. Because she knew that Bi Yuwei didn't mean not to speak! It's because Bi Yuwei's throat is already dumb!

It's just that every time she talks to this little girl, she can instantly stretch out a card from behind her to answer, and sometimes this middle-aged woman is also very curious, why did this girl hide such a big cardboard behind her, and she didn't see her writing, so she could quickly answer other people's words.

It's amazing to think about!

But no matter how optimistic the little girl looks, she is still a fourteen-year-old child. At this time, the child should be in the arms of his parents, enjoying maternal love. But now, in these last days, children without parents are like weeds on the side of the road, and they will die at any time.

"Alas, poor boy! He was only fourteen years old, his throat was hoarse, and he was helpless. I don't know how sad his parents would have been if they knew that their children had become what they are now! ”

Seeing that Bi Yuwei was preparing a rope and wanted to descend from the roof of the building to the fog area to pick up waste alone, the middle-aged woman said with a little sadness.

It's a pity that sadness is sadness, and she can't provide much help to the other party. It's a terrible world that is desperate. Humans have largely lost the ability to make all kinds of electronic or mechanical devices, so most of them need to be searched out of the sea of mist. And for most scavengers, only by finding enough or rare enough parts can they get some rations and clean drinking water from the rulers of the Western Side!

It is said that the ruler of the West Side occupies one of the tallest buildings in the West Side, and has the ability to cultivate a large number of edible plants in the high-rise buildings without soil with the help of old-time techniques. More importantly, the lord of the Western Side has a groundwater extraction device capable of pumping water from very deep underground that has not yet been contaminated. Thanks to the clean water supply, these poor human beings were able to survive.

But for humanity, which has long lost the ability to rebuild civilization, human life has become the least valuable thing. Humanity has also gone from being a ruler from above to the bottom of the biological chain.

And now the rulers of the world are those huge insects and beasts, and humans are nothing more than objects of prey.

For that pitiful bit of food and water, everyone had to desperately find something valuable from the misty forest, and then sell it to the lords of the West Side in exchange for some meager food.

Today, however, there is something special.

A rare meteor shower appeared in the sky!

A large number of fire meteors suddenly patronized the entire sky, and a continuous stream of meteors poured into the sky.

No one knew what was happening, only a very limited number of people looked at the sky in amazement. Especially when a golden rainbow appeared in the sky, someone exclaimed, "Spaceship! ”

It's a pity that before these people could come to their senses, an astonishing white beam of light hit this human technological civilization crystal.

Then another white beam burst through the air, dealing a fatal blow to the struggling ship.

Then, there is no then.

The suspected downed ship slammed into the ground along an oblique trajectory and disappeared from everyone's view.

Seeing this scene, someone couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time glanced at a certain location in the west with fear.

But what everyone didn't notice was that a silver-gray escape pod shot out of the spaceship and plunged headlong into the purple sea of mist.

At the site of the crash of the silver-gray escape pod, a red light flickered incessantly. At the same time, the surface of the distorted cylindrical object flashed with electric sparks, and a trace of purple gas began to seep into the inside of the escape pod.

Just as the purple gas began to infiltrate the escape pod, a warning message suddenly jumped out of the only glass window of the escape pod.

"Warning, toxic gas detected, air filter started working at full speed. It is expected to last 48 hours. ”

"Started to contact the nearest coalition government signal station, contact failed. Unable to contact the coalition government, the system automatically determines that the escape pod is in the no-signal zone, starts activating the distress signal, and shuts down all other systems at the same time to save energy. ”

With the system's decision, the entire escape pod fell back into standby, leaving only the sound of the air filtration system operating and flashing red lights.

But the desperate thing is that the coalition government of this world has long since ended. So let alone a satellite signal, even the simplest radio wave signal, it is estimated that no one will ever find it.

If Lin Chen has not been rescued within these forty-eight hours. Once the energy of the escape pod is exhausted and the purple miasma invades, it is estimated that Lin Chen will sleep in this escape pod forever.