When Lifus woke up, he found himself drifted by a glacier into a large lake, and hours should have passed because the sky had begun to darken.

The biting glacial water eroded his skin, and after such a long time of immersion in such a cold water, a normal person would have frozen, but Lifus found that except for the feeling of cold, the blood in his body was still circulating normally.

Moreover, the wounds on his body were still gradually healing under the washing of the water, and most of the wounds had scabbed. But it is almost impossible for terrestrial animals to recover from their injuries in the water.

Lifus now had no time to think about the strange changes in his body, and the wounds all over his body were constantly painful, and he had to get back to shore as soon as possible. So he endured the pain of tearing his muscles and swam towards the lake.

There was a snow-covered ice sheet on the waters of the lake, and Lifus tried to climb it, but the ice near the center of the lake was so thin that he would collapse a large area of ice as soon as he climbed up.

By the time he finally climbed the thick ice and climbed ashore, he couldn't see anything around. He lay on his stomach on the cold pebbles and frozen mud, exhausted. The parts of his clothes that didn't come into contact with his skin were frozen hard, and ice crystals formed on his eyelashes.

Lifuss desperately widened his eyes to keep himself from falling asleep, but sleepiness came over him, and he couldn't hold on a little too much.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the grass in front of them, as if some beast was walking inside, but after the nuclear war, the race of beasts that were not extinct was really rare.

Birds were the first to disappear from the earth, and these beautiful and fragile creatures never appeared in the sky again after the nuclear winter. Insects were one of the species that suffered less racial losses after a nuclear war, while marine fish had almost no population extinction. Terrestrial vertebrate mammals burrow because most of them have fur to keep them warm, and a small number survive, and the greater their weight, the lower the chance of survival, but it is not excluded that fierce predators such as bears or wolverines may survive, although the probability is extremely slim.

Since the day he was a soldier, Lifus had imagined countless times that he would die one day, hoping that on the battlefield or on a mission, so that at least when his body was found, it would be said that the man had died for something, but if it was eaten by wild beasts, it would be too embarrassing, there would be no honor to speak of, and there would be no corpse left.

But now he had no strength to escape, much less to fight, and was dying and drowsy. He is now like a fish caught in the winter, to be slaughtered.

The rustling of the grass grew closer, close enough to make out the squeak of stepping on the snow, as if a hungry hunter had finally spotted his prey, and then the sound suddenly disappeared, replaced by a slender black shadow.

Lifus's tense nerves finally loosened, and he closed his eyes somewhat reassuringly.

Before he went to sleep, he saw a light, the light of a flashlight.

……

When Livers opened his somewhat puffy eyelids again, he found himself lying under a soft quilt, with only his underwear still there, and the bleeding wounds were bandaged, and it was clear that he had been rescued by someone else.

This is a somewhat low room, about 60 square meters, it should be an artificially dug cave, without windows, surrounded by bare rock mass, the surface still retains traces of cutting, supported by some rusty thick steel skeleton.

The futon under him seemed to have not been washed in a long time, and it smelled faintly rancid. In the middle of the room is a dimly lit chandelier, and underneath the chandelier is a large long table that takes up almost half of the room.

A little girl, about fourteen or fifteen years old, sat sideways in a chair next to the table, clicking on an old-fashioned laptop. She wore her ponytail and looked very focused, stopping to think for a while.

Lifus tried to roll over, but his hands and feet were tied with wire, making the move difficult.

The little girl seemed to notice something strange here, she stopped what she was doing, and walked towards Lifus, who did not forget to hold a sharp dagger on the table in her hand before coming, and Lifus also noticed that she had an old standard pistol pinned to her waist.

Reluctantly, Lifus squeezed a smile out of his stiff face and said, "Hello, thank you for saving me." ”

The little girl did not let her guard down at all, pointed a dagger at Lifus and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Probably due to a long-term lack of nutrition, the little girl is very yellow and thin, and her body is skinny, and her two eyes are particularly large, and some faint freckles are scattered around the nose, but they are still very delicate.

She is very wary of strangers, but it is understandable that in today's society without legal and moral constraints, even if you don't want to hurt others, doing everything you can to protect yourself from harm is the basic rule of survival for all survivors.

"Is there anyone else here?" Lifus asked rhetorically, believing that the girl would not hurt him, and that a man who had gone to great lengths to save him from the cold lake and bandage his wounds would not have killed him as soon as they met.

"Answer my question." The little girl said solemnly, and handed the dagger forward some distance.

She was wearing a very wide faded military coat with many patches, and her thin body seemed to be unable to support the weight of the coat, and the hem was dragged to the ground.

Lifus felt that he should answer the girl's question head-on, not only because she was his savior, but also because he should show enough respect for her. "My name is Lifus, and I am the leader of the seventh team of the Heavenly Election Army organized by the Jisheng Salvation Alliance, codenamed Yaksha." When he said this, Lifus wanted to stand up and give another military salute, but unfortunately the only part he could move freely now was his mouth.

After hearing his words, the girl's brow furrowed deeply and fell into deep thought.

"Hey!" Lifuss suddenly made a voice that startled the girl, "Do you want to consider letting go of my hands and feet first, it's very uncomfortable to tie it up like this." ”

The girl looked at him deeply, hesitantly, and finally, as if she had made some major decision, she stomped her foot hard, snorted heavily, turned back to the computer, and clicked to type.

After that, no matter what Lifus said again, the girl ignored him, and didn't even look at him.

As an elite among the agents, Lifus doesn't like to be too passive in everything, and although it seems that the girl has no ill will towards him at the moment, he still decides to take the initiative.

He knocked open the mechanism of the monkey watch with his teeth, and the three-millimeter-diameter wire melted in an instant under the impact of the high-energy laser beam, and the small noise of the wire burning from the bed was almost inaudible, and the girl didn't even look back.

Untied from his hands and feet, Lifus got out of bed and tiptoed behind the girl, highly trained agents like them who could control every muscle in their body with precision, but it was a bit overkill to use these murderous skills against a civilian girl.

The girl saw Lifus in the reflection of the computer monitor, and she reacted very quickly to touch the pistol at her waist, only to find that it was empty.

Livers' right hand held the pistol against the girl's temple, and his left arm was around the girl's neck.

At this point, Lifus's anti-guest-oriented plan was a perfect success, but he did not have the slightest sense of accomplishment in his heart, but felt a little guilty, feeling that the scene just now was like a realistic version of the farmer and the snake.

Livers pulled her hands out of the sleeves of her coat and wrapped them around her chest, tying them in a dead knot.

The girl was very aggrieved, and tears kept rolling in her eyes, but she was very stubborn, she just couldn't cry, and kept glaring at Lifus with vicious and angry eyes. If her gaze could turn into energy, Lifus believed, she might not hesitate to kill him.

The girl's emaciated body was wrapped in a military coat and looked like an exposed dumpling.

Lifus picked her up and laid her on the table, and then looked around to see what was going on, the sleeve was so strong that there was no need for the girl to bite it open.

He retrieved his clothes and shoes from a wire next to the stove, and put them back on his body one by one, and he had been in the low-radiation zone since taking off the radiation suit, so the agent suit didn't have much radiation contamination.

After checking that several items in the hidden pocket of his clothes were still there, Lifus was sure that the girl had not searched his clothes.

Judging by the number of daily necessities, she did live alone. There was also a small water purifier in the room, an electronic heater, but it seemed to be broken, and it was not plugged in, and the temperature of the room was maintained by a stove made of a mixture of stone and earth, and a long flue was piled up behind the stove, extending from the left side of the room to the right side of the room, passing under the bed where Lifus was just lying, and finally turning a corner and inserting it into the middle of the iron sheet above the doorway, where it should be a ventilation hole, which was changed into a flue.

There were still coals burning in the stove, and there was a large iron pot on it, covered with a small aluminum alloy lid, which could only cover a small half of the iron pot, and a little steam came out around the lid.

Lifus opened the lid of the pot, and there were about two or three liters of water in it, which kept boiling, but the altitude here was too high, and the water was estimated to be about eighty degrees when boiling. Four or five centimeters above the water, there is a "Ya" shaped branch, and above the branch is a stainless steel pot with some gray-white gelatinous substance inside.

Livers quickly recognized this kind of thing, because he had eaten it when he was in trouble before, and it was the state of the Guanyin fruit after the core of the fruit was mashed and mixed with water. Guanyin fruit is a nut that is grown from a subarctic deciduous tree called Cunningham. It is one of several plants that Chinese botanists have spent generations of painstaking efforts to cross from pine and fir trees at high altitudes and latitudes at all extremes of the world, and can settle in Aksai Chin in the context of global warming, and it has turned the wasteland of Aksai Chin into an oasis along with several other small trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. However, since the nuclear war, they have never been green, and they seem to be "hibernating" indefinitely.

Lifus picked up a small piece with chopsticks and tasted it, it was a little sweet, it should have been added with sugar, because the core taste of Guanyin fruit is like almonds, bitter and astringent, making it difficult to swallow, but it is rich in protein and various trace elements, and its nutritional value is very high. Lifus looked at this pot of steamed fruit puree, and it was estimated that it weighed a catty, which must have been counted as his share, otherwise with the girl's thinness and withering, she would not be able to eat so many things.

He wrapped his hands in a rag and took the small basin out of the iron pot, trying to divide the pectin inside into two parts, but the pectin was too sticky to be separated with chopsticks, and he suddenly remembered that there was a dagger on the table.

The girl sat tied to the table, quiet all the time, and did not want to break free or run away, her eyes followed Lifus until Lifus lifted the lid of the pot and took the food that was supposed to belong to hers, and then came and picked up the dagger on the table.

She suddenly had a great fear, and the tears that had been suppressed for a long time could no longer be controlled, and they rolled down.

Then Liphes heard her cry in a trembling voice, "Please, don't eat me." ”