A large amount of radioactive fallout produced by the nuclear war is diffused and stranded in the high air, like a gray shade net covering the earth, and the earthlings have not had a sunny day since the first year of the new calendar.

At six o'clock in the morning, the sky was just a little overcast, and the haze in the sky made the days shorter and the nights longer.

It took Lifus half an hour to repair a tractor, which had been used by the nearby forest farm to transport saplings and fertilizer, which had been requisitioned by Li Xinran's father, of course, at that time.

The tractor had accompanied Li Xinran through one of the few happy moments of her life, and she remembers her father driving it to scavenge through the ruins of a town down the hill, her dress from a half-collapsed underground supermarket, and the particle battery that her father risked his life to pull out of a fizzing distribution box on the top floor of a hotel.

There were a lot of new and interesting things in that ruin, but her father didn't dare to linger long, as if there was some evil curse there, and if she stayed for a long time, it would make her body deteriorate, and she later learned that it was radiation.

The tractor wasn't actually broken, it just hadn't been used for too long, the carburetor was blocked, and Lifus removed the carburetor and cleaned it with gasoline. These ancient internal combustion engines, which used fuel combustion to drive the movement of piston connecting rods, ruled for a time, and were later banned by various countries because they were not only inefficient, but also emitted greenhouse gases.

After installing the carburetor, Livers cleared the snow from the car and filled the tank with more than half a tank of diesel.

Probably because of the previous conversation, Li Xinran was a little sullen, she quietly watched Li Fusi busy before and after, it was hard to imagine that he was still a dying person more than ten hours ago.

The model of this tractor is DF8754-E, with a power of 640 kilowatts, that is to say, it is an 870 horsepower four-wheel drive tractor, the manufacturer is Dongfeng, a well-known land transportation manufacturer before the war, the production date is May 17, 2043 AD, when Fermi's particle battery has begun to industrialize, as a product of the old industrial era, this tractor is likely to be the last batch of old agricultural machinery to be produced.

Livers climbed into the cab and twisted the key as the exhaust pipe behind him emitted thick black smoke, accompanied by the loud noise and strong tremors of the old engine.

It is unbelievable that this is an old machine more than 500 years ago, and there is no trace of rust on the surface of the engine gearbox and other bare leakage of the body, which shows that the industrial level of the year has reached a fairly high level, but unfortunately it was replaced by more advanced technology.

The tools used to collect Guanyin fruit were thrown into the trailer behind, and Li Xinran changed into her loose military coat again, and stood slightly awkwardly next to the huge tires that were two ends taller than her, and Li Fusi reached out and dragged her up.

The cab space is very small, and the dashboard, rudder and joystick are filled with stainless steel panels in the front, making the already not spacious co-pilot position even more cramped.

"You can take off your coat and put it in the back, there's air conditioning in this car, and it won't be cold after a while." Lifus kindly reminded, and then hung up the gear. There is a narrow long seat behind the driver's seat and the passenger seat, which can be used for the tired driver to rest and sleep on a long journey, and it is very user-friendly.

The tractor began to move slowly, unexpectedly, without the expected bumps, the huge tires and the high-quality shock absorption system made it smooth on the rough mountain roads, and the only shaking of the body came from the engine and rear axle.

Li Xinran stubbornly did not take off her coat, the expression on her face was a little indifferent, she was sitting in a precarious position, not smiling, holding the handrail and looking out of the car window.

Lifus glanced at her, then turned his head and continued driving, "Why are you angry?" ”

"I'm not angry." The girl tilted her face to the side.

"But your mouth is so pouting that you can hang a kettle." Lifus said with a smile.

The girl snorted heavily with her nose, ignoring Lifus's ridicule.

Since getting to know the girl Li Xinran, Lifus has found that she is very independent in her mind and very logical in her speech, far from being comparable to those little children who imitate the speech of adults, perhaps because of the harsh living conditions that make her mature prematurely. Now seeing that she will also play a little temper and lose her temper, I can't help but sigh in my heart: "It's really still a child." ”

For tractors, agricultural machinery that gives up speed and pursues extreme torque, it is already its bottleneck to reach a speed of 60 kilometers per hour under good road conditions, but the two of them still quickly reached the Guanyin fruit collection site, after all, compared with machinery, human speed and strength are too insignificant.

Li Xinran's original method of collecting Guanyin fruit was: use a sharpened sickle head, tie it to a long wooden pole, and use this tool to knock down the branches on the top of the Han cedar, so that there is no need to climb the tree so dangerous and hard. However, it is still very tiring to hold the pole for a long time, and the efficiency is very low, there are always some branches that are very flexible and cannot be beaten no matter how you hit, and the branches with the most fruits under the crown are completely out of reach.

Lifus came up with a solution, simple, crude, but effective.

He used a tractor to run directly over the tree, and the counterweight iron in front of the tractor would most likely break the tree directly, and if it didn't, Lifus would park the car on the upside-down tree, press the trunk to the ground with the weight of the tractor, and wait for them to pick all the fruit on the tree before driving away to find the next tree bearing fruit.

In this way, the two of them had already collected the fruits of the semi-trailer before noon, which was almost the amount that Li Xinran had collected for more than a month before.

Then they drove to the lake, the same lake that Lifus had climbed out of yesterday, and were ready to get some buckets of water back. Although the lake water also has radiation, the purification process is much simpler than that of snow water.

"Are your injuries really completely healed?" Li Xinran suddenly asked thoughtlessly.

Li Fusi took out a crowbar from his toolbox and walked towards the ice, Li Xinran followed behind with two buckets.

"How is that possible?" Lifus walked to a point about six or seven centimeters of the ice and began to chisel the ice with a crowbar, "but now there is no problem with the work, and the wound is not very painful." ”

Soon, he carved a large round hole in the ice, and Lifus scooped out all the ice floe with a bucket.

"Will the world ever get better?" Li Xinran asked the second question at this time.

"Maybe." Lifus put the bucket into the hole in the ice, and then brought up a bucket full of water, and the lake was as clear as if it were nothing. "But we can't wait for that day."

"If Achilles really rules the Earth, will it kill all of us humans?" The girl turned on the Q&A mode again, just like yesterday when Livers first met her.

"It is quite possible, and it is not ruled out, that they will raise humans in the same way that humans raise livestock, and the only thing to be thankful for is this: Achilles does not eat human flesh." Lifus filled another bucket with water from the lake, then used the crowbar as a flat pole and walked back to the tractor with two buckets of water.

Li Xinran followed behind Li Fus, watched him load the bucket onto the trailer, and suddenly asked, "If everyone could live, would you choose to live with me?" ”

This is a bold question, and even Li Xinran, who has always prided herself on being bold, has some red ears, but she stubbornly looks directly into Lifus's eyes and does not avoid it.

"Aren't we living together now?" Lifus seems to want to avoid this question.

"Don't play dumb, you know what I mean." The girl's tone was a bit aggressive.

Lifus never imagined that one day he would be forced into such an embarrassing situation by a little girl, and now he is like a child who has done something wrong, being ruthlessly reprimanded by his parents.

"That...... Oh...... That's ......," Livers struggled for words, "Ranran, I hope you will allow me to call you that, you are lovely, I like you very much, I like you very much, I will never deny that." "He's thinking about how to express it so as not to hurt the girl's self-esteem, and at this point his advanced microprocessor's terrifying computing power is completely useless." But it's just the kind of liking that brother likes his sister, can you understand? ”

"Oh, I understand. Totally understood. Li Xinran was a little distracted, "In other words, I was rejected." Then she muttered: "This miserable and miserable last days, civilization is about to be destroyed, human beings are about to die, after today, I don't know if there will be tomorrow, even so, you refuse to want me, am I so unbearable?" She turned her back and covered her face with her hands, as if she were crying.

Lonely men and widows, unmarried and unmarried, no matter in any way, even if they rise to the height of human reproduction, the two of them can be together in the name of justice.

But Lifus knew that it was not like this, it was not so perfunctory, and he longed for love, even if it was the love in those vulgar soap operas, as sacred.

He didn't have time to imagine his love, when he was in the League before, he seemed to be busy running around every day to complete tasks, and he had very few opportunities to meet women of the same age, and he didn't have a chance to think about it.

"No, Ranran, you're fine, I'm sorry, it's my fault." Lifus felt like he was about to cry, he was really guilty, he shouldn't have let the girl's tortured body and mind hurt again, but he didn't seem to have a choice.

But at this time, the girl suddenly burst into tears and laughed, wiped away her tears with her dirty sleeves, turned around and said, "I lied to you, okay, you passed the test." ”

"Huh?" Lifus was confused.

"By the way, didn't you say you owe me my life last time? I have decided not to pay for your life, but as compensation, you have to promise me three things. ”

"This plot is too old-fashioned, isn't it? Have you read too many martial arts novels, kid? Lifus complained but breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, fortunately, the girl would be round, otherwise I really don't know how to face her in the future.

"You just say yes or no, and that's it." Li Xinran began to pretend to be angry again.

"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, but you must not let me save the world, I don't have the ability and the obligation."

"Virtue, just you, how can you save the world? You save yourself first, uncle, come, make a poisonous oath first, let me see your sincerity. ”

"It doesn't have to be so formal, right?"

"Okay, then I won't take your broken car, I'll walk back." It's this trick again.

"Okay, okay, I, Livers, hereby swear as a witness, to help Comrade Burning the Fire Girl in the War Suddenly Do Three Things, if ......"

"Wait, what bullshit, you've got to say my name, you know? Don't try to cheat. ”

"Okay, okay, listen to you, help Li Xinran do three things, if you can't do it, let Li Xinran never grow again."

"It's not me! Why did you get this poisonous oath to me? ”

"You said your name just now."

"It's not you, why are you messing around? You say you're a big man and you like to bully little girls, right? ”

"Don't mind, are you still a little girl in this city? This speed of changing faces, almost catching up with the former US government, is amazing, if you were born before the nuclear war, you would definitely be able to win an Oscar or something. ”

"Okay, you can damage me, continue to lose, I decided, the first thing, let's get married, right now, immediately, immediately."

“……”

"Oh, just kidding, look at you scared like that, why can't you help but be funny? As for the agent, don't spoil the agent. ”