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Next, the probe continued to explore several more levels. In these layers, people gradually began to become more numerous, and the most time, a wave of more than a dozen people appeared in the camera. All of them were in a hurry, scouring every room for food, just like the four men before them. Taking advantage of the gap when no one was around, the probe also went to these rooms to investigate, and all of these rooms were in a mess without exception, even more chaotic than the previous survey, almost none of the shelves could stand in place, almost all of them fell to the ground, and even if one or two were still standing, they were no longer in their original positions. And the plates were even more so, all of them were discarded on the floor in a haphazard manner, and the liquid in the plates was dumped at will, and in some rooms the floor was even completely liquid, accumulating into a pool.

But even so, these people refused to give up, repeatedly searching room after room, intending to find anything edible. One or two squads, like the first four-person squad, continued to search in the direction the probe had come.

After seeing so many search teams, Zhou Xin suddenly noticed that including the four people he had encountered first, these people were no different from those he had seen in the town before. But when they moved, Zhou Xin was able to find an obvious abnormality, the bodies of the people in this building were obviously weaker than the people on the ground, and in the process of searching, they had to stop and rest every two steps, and at the same time they would always subconsciously touch their stomachs, and in the process of walking, they could clearly see that sense of powerlessness.

"It looks like they're really starting to run out of food." Looking at the actions of those people on the screen, Zhou Xin said thoughtfully.

Next, the probe bypassed everyone and continued to move forward in the space building, and after searching three or four floors of almost identical rooms, the probe came to a different place.

At first glance in the hallway, the layout of the rooms on this floor is almost indistinguishable from the previous floors, but once you enter the room, you can see a completely different scene. In the room, the original rows of shelves disappeared completely, replaced by neat rows of tables and chairs, and in the innermost part of the room there was a row of counters, which looked similar to the food dispensers used on the spaceship.

Seeing the appearance in the room, Zhou Xin couldn't help blurting out, "Why does this room look similar to our restaurant?" ”

"Maybe it's the restaurant." Spred answered.

It seems that it is not yet time to eat, and the place is now empty. The probe scanned the room, and after finding no information, flew straight to the next room.

The basic style of the rooms on this level is no different from the first room, in this level, the probe rarely finds the existence of aliens, and the only few people are lying on the table, because they don't dare to get close, so the probe does not photograph what they are doing lying on the table.

In less than an hour, the probes had searched the level, and after finding that there was nothing of great value, they were ready to follow the main passage to the new level. However, just as they arrived at the passage, a cacophony began to be heard from the unexplored side of the passage.

Due to their previous experience, the moment they heard the sound, the probes found cover in the passage and hid. After a while, the distant noise got closer and closer, and then a figure began to appear in the detector's lens.

Over the next five minutes or so, more than a hundred people walked through the screen in an orderly manner. Zhou Xin saw that almost all of them looked weak, compared to the residents of the town before, these people's eyes were scattered, and they couldn't see what they were looking at at all. Corresponding to their sloppy gaze were their expressionless faces, faces that were utterly hopeless, and now they were just moving forward with mechanical steps, the noise they had heard before was the messy footsteps as they made their way through the passage.

Seeing such a large group of people walking in front of them, everyone, including Zhou Xin, was a little curious, and when the last person in the team passed in front of the camera, Zhou Xin ordered the probe to follow the back of the team, trying to figure out what they were going to do next.

I didn't see it when I hid in the bunker before, and when I came out, Zhou Xin found that the direction of the whole team was the layer where the probe had just come out. So, not long after leaving, several probes returned to the places they had previously investigated.

After entering this level, the whole team began to divide into several parts, and entered different rooms. Hiding in the doorway, the detector sneaked the camera into the room, and after everyone entered the room, as if they had been ordered, they found a place to sit down. After everyone sat down, the rooms were completely quiet, although only the back could be seen, but Zhou Xin noticed that everyone's head was fixed in the direction of the counter, as if they were waiting for something.

The silence lasted for a few minutes, and from the hallway there was another sound of messy footsteps, and when footsteps were heard, everyone in the room turned their heads and looked in the direction of the door. After a while, more than a dozen people walked in from the door of each room, and Zhou Xin found that almost everyone was a familiar figure, and they were all those who had explored in the room before, including the four people who had seen it first. What was different from before was that each of them now carried a large bag in their hands, and looking at their movements, it could be inferred that the contents of these bags were not very light.

Zhou Xin noticed that when a figure appeared at the door, the eyes of all the people sitting in the seats were focused on the bag in their hands, and as they entered step by step from the door, the eyes of those people also followed the bag until the bag disappeared behind the counter.

Everything that followed was in silence, and the people sitting in their seats began to walk to the front of the counter one by one, in order, and then took some things from the people behind the counter and returned to their original positions. After zooming in on the picture, it was clear that the things they received were the food bags they had seen before, but each bag was very deflated, and it seemed that there was barely much in it, except for this bag, they also received a few plants that they had seen in the agricultural area before, and after receiving these things, everyone couldn't wait to return to their seats, and then began to gobble it up.

"Is it time for dinner?" It wasn't until this time that everyone in the command cabin understood, Zhou Xin couldn't help but muttered to himself, and then his brows furrowed, "Why is it so little?" Has the lack of food in the space city reached this point? As he spoke, those who had just started to get the food had already eaten all the food they had received, and some even tore open the entire bag, licking the food scraps in the corners of the bag.

After only ten minutes, everyone in the room received their own food and ate it all, and through the occasional turn of his head, Zhou Xin saw that their faces showed a look of helplessness and disappointment.

After everyone had finished eating, a different voice sounded in each room, and although the specific content of each voice was different, the general meaning was still the same. It's all about how scarce food is now, and at the same time I don't know when I'll be able to return to the planet, hoping that everyone can persevere and overcome the difficulties in front of them. After saying these words, these voices read out more than a dozen different names almost at the same time, Zhou Xin was still a little unclear at first, and it was not until the last sentence that he understood that this was arranging the search personnel for the next day. The people who had been standing behind the cabinet also came out and took a seat in the room.

There was nothing more to say, and as soon as the sound stopped, the people in the room began to leave the room in an orderly manner, going back the way they came.

Looking at their departing backs, Zhou Xin couldn't help but say to himself: "Looking at the current situation, if there are no external supplies, these people may not be able to hold out for a few days." ”

"Strange." Also looking at the screen screen, Spred said thoughtfully, and then he opened his mouth to ask a question, "Atlas, did you really see that all the ships are concentrated in the center of the building?" After receiving an affirmative answer, he replied puzzledly, "Then why don't they scatter in each building in search of food, but choose to concentrate in these buildings, so that everyone will not be allocated less food?" ”

After thinking about it, Zhou Xin guessed: "They shouldn't be unaware of this truth, even so, they still choose to do this-that can only mean that except for these buildings, the other peripheral buildings should have run out of food for a long time." ”

"No, it won't." Spred's tone was a little surprised, "There are more than 100 buildings in the entire space city, and there is no food except for these few buildings?" ”

"It's just my guess." Zhou Xin said, "As you just asked, they are already so short of food, how can they choose to huddle in the same building. And it seems that it is on the verge of a dispute, and the only possibility is as I said. Then he thought about it, "But according to that statement, I'm starting to suspect more and more that this series of events related to Space City is a conspiracy. From the start, the flotilla behaved in a very strange way, and the events that followed looked more like someone had arranged them. Speaking of this, Zhou Xin sighed slightly, "It's a pity that I'm just suspicious now, and there are too few reliable clues that can be found." Then he didn't say anything more, but looked back at the screen.

At this time, the people in the hall were almost gone, and Zhou Xin saw that the four people he met first did not leave with everyone, but sat around the table. And, everybody had a sad look on their faces.

Seeing that there were only four of them left in the room, the probe leaned a little closer, and then heard their conversation.

"It's time to figure out a way, Captain, it's not okay to stay here all the time." That's when Fidel's voice rang out.

"Where else can you go if you don't stay here?" What followed was Prom's wry smile, and at this time Zhou Xin knew that he was the captain, "It's not that we haven't been to the periphery of Space City, and we can't find any food, and even here is a difficult place to stay." Or our luck, yesterday the ship just received a notice that the inner city has been temporarily closed due to overpopulation, and now no foreign spacecraft are allowed to dock in every place. ”

"How can they do this!" Tucker was surprised and said, "It's all the same people who have fallen into distress, don't they care if everyone else lives or dies?!" ”

Sighing deeply, Prom replied, "It's not that I don't care, but I can't take care of it." I don't know what's going on elsewhere, but here, as far as I know, there's not much food left, and if it weren't for the limited allotment, I'm afraid it would have been exhausted by now. Then he added, "If we choose to get out of here now, maybe we won't be able to hold out for even seven days." ”

"But how long can we stay here and last a few days." "There's less and less food to be distributed every day, and if we can't find a new source of food, we're just going to survive." ”

"By the way, can we go to the scorching stars and look for an opportunity?" Fidel suddenly came up with an idea.

"Impossible." Prom shook his head, "That small base simply can't accept so many people at once, even if it can, do you think there is a ban from the government, will they let us land?" Don't underestimate that base, although there are not many people inside, the weapons and equipment are several times more powerful than our small broken ship. After a pause, he added, "Do you think everyone else is stupid?" How could they not have thought of this, and then why none of them made such an action, is it not clear enough? ”

"Otherwise, let's take the spaceship away, relying on the remaining food on it, maybe we can hold on for a while longer, and then we can return to Songxing when the ban is lifted." A whimsical idea popped up for Tate.

Hearing this, Zhou Xin couldn't help but shake his head again and again, and at the same time, before Tate's words fell, Prom became angry directly......