"I really hope that next time we can afford to rent a bigger car." Yuan Sui hammered his stiff back hard, kicked the car door open, and fell into the sand with a rolling belt.

"It's not enough to have money, we have to have that luck." Tong Siyuan replied with a sigh.

The huddled back row finally loosened slightly. Lan Zhi wiped a handful of sweat from her face, and the second moved her body out. Gu Lan held her forehead and fell on the seat, panting like a cow very unvividly.

"Let's come down." Yuan Sui's back was completely drenched with sweat, and at this time he was holding a bottle of mineral water that had been warmed to cool his forehead, "Believe me, it's cooler outside than in the car." ”

"Can't you get out?" The only man in the back row, Tong Bi'an, still maintains the posture of holding his head in his hands as a gentleman, "Tsk, then I'll open the door on my side." ”

"Pull ...... Pull me along. Gu Lan couldn't care about anything else, and stretched out her hand to Tong Bi'an breathlessly, "It's too hot, I feel as if I've melted away, and my pants have been glued to the chair." ”

After a moment of freshness, the retro vehicle soon revealed two huge flaws of its own. One is that the interior space is too small, it is said to be the most popular "family economy" in the past, and it can only fit two adults in the back row, but now it is forced to stuff four people in. The second is that the factory has been out of the factory for too long, and there are few people who know how to repair this kind of machinery, which is already an old antique that is barely breathing, and the refrigeration effect of the air conditioner is too poor, running on the dry and hot desert for a while, and it is like a steamer.

"I really don't have any other car here, so if you don't borrow this, just walk." But now that it's officially summer, be careful not to be baked into a cake by the sun here. The boss, who was very drunk at his daughter's wedding, replied, "It's rare now, and if you don't like it, I'll lend it to someone else tomorrow." ”

As a result, the six of them had to experience the feeling of being stuffed in a tin tank and taking a sauna all day.

"I felt like I was smelling of barbecue." Yuan Sui rubbed his face, "Is there still salt and cumin?" For the first time, I smelled myself hungry......"

"It's terrible to eat yourself, if you don't dislike my sister who is sweating now, maybe we can exchange arms and gnaw." Gu Lan leaned on the car door and barely stood up straight, "However, you can still maintain your appetite in this environment, I think I'm a little sick to my stomach......"

"Then your physical fitness is really not good." Yuan Sui barely eased up, turned around unconsciously, and happened to see Lao Qi rolling up his shirt and fanning the wind.

"What do you see at the little girl's house!" Qi Jing turned his head and immediately covered his exposed belly.

This person is a bit similar to Lan Zhi, they usually look indifferent, and they are quite mature and steady, but in fact, many aspects of life are unexpectedly a little childish. I don't know if all of them who have lived in a closed environment since childhood.

Yuan Sui blinked innocently, turned his head and said to Tong Siyuan: "It's past five o'clock in the afternoon, it seems that this antique is still running quite fast, we don't have to waste another night camping." ”

"Yes, that's good. Let's eat a bite to eat and recuperate, and I'll drive the car to a slightly more secluded place in a moment. Tong Siyuan fanned himself with his hands.

"You've been driving for most of the day, so I'd better go." Lan Zhi immediately returned to the state of loyal follower.

"It's not a toy. I also had at least a semi-autonomous transport license when I was younger. Tong Siyuan's smile was very light most of the time, "You can rest first, it's not easy to squeeze all the way." ”

"I'm sorry for you." Yuan Sui had just drunk a whole bottle of water in one go, and was wiping his mouth casually with his sleeve at this time, "Then how many of us have the rest of us to draw lots according to the original plan?" Three go to the front door and three go to the back door? ”

"Yes, we have to trouble Miss Yuan to adjust our equipment again." Tong Siyuan took out a headset from his pocket, "After all, I bought it from an informal purchase channel, and the quality will be better than the ones you used before, I hope you can get used to it." ”

"You're welcome, this kind of thing, as long as it can be used normally." Yuan Sui began to stretch in place.

Half an hour later, facing the last wave of heat before sunset, Yuan Sui and the Tong brothers were in a group, ready to walk to the back door a little farther away, while the other three waited for the opportunity to break in through the main entrance after a short rest.

"Look at the opening point, according to most of the writings, the back door is always more dangerous than the front door." Noticing Tong Bi'an's sad appearance, Yuan Sui smiled and comforted, "If you were so relieved that you couldn't afford to take care of your sister, you should have told me earlier, and I would quietly help you do a little trick to ensure that the two of you can go together." ”

“…… Forget it. Tong Bi'an grimaced, "She doesn't really want to see me anyway." Such an arrangement would be a little more comfortable for her. ”

Tong Siyuan on the side never seemed to have the slightest idea of children's affection, and he and Lan Zhi Lao Qi emphasized some nonsense about both completing the task and trying to protect themselves, and then turned to look at his younger brother who was struggling with a face.

"It's really eaten......" he squinted and muttered, "but yes, it's all fate." ”

An hour and a half later, the three of them finally came to a dry wood.

"According to the coordinates on the map, it should be around here." Yuan Sui dragged away a few of the brown branches that stood in the way with a rope, "I guess most of them will choose to embed the door in the ground, so please do it together." ”

"There's no sign of human activity in the area." Tong Siyuan took the lead in rolling up his sleeves and half-squatting to clean up the ground.

"Maybe they don't usually like to go through the back door, or maybe there is some troublesome mechanism laid in the back door, and they don't want to pass by themselves. Both of these situations are good things, the former will make our invasion easier, and the latter will indicate that the main entrance side will be relatively safe. Yuan Sui found a fairly firm wooden stick on the spot, and unhurriedly dug a small hole in the gravel face, "But I have to confirm first, whether there is really such an underground space under our feet." ”

"You want to try to dig out the ceiling?" Tong Siyuan immediately understood, "It is estimated that it will not be easy, they should bury important things as deep as possible." ”

"But if it's near the entrance, it shouldn't be that deep, unless the passage of Jinru is a vertical descent. I don't like to waste my efforts in vain, I just want to dig up the stones piled up on the surface first, and then put the thread into the sand. Yuan Sui turned his head to look at the surrounding trees, "This location is really good, if it were me, I would also choose my hometown here." ”

"Indeed." Tong Siyuan nodded.

Tong Bi'an was stunned for a while, but decided to try to interject: "Why did you choose here?" There wasn't much else around for the trees, except for some shriveled trees. There is no shop in front of the village and no store in the back. ”

"Ugh." Yuan Sui deliberately sighed heavily, "It seems that your scientific and cultural knowledge is not at home." ”

"What...... What do you mean? ”

"You can see the trees around you, too." Yuan Sui freed up a finger and pointed at his head, "Think about it, why did such a big forest grow here?" To put it more easily, what is the first important resource in this arid region? ”

"It's water!" Tong Bi'an replied with a raised voice.

"That's right." Yuan Sui nodded with a smile, revealing an expression of "the child can be taught", "Didn't Sister Gu say it before?" Although the area looks arid, there may be an abundant underground water system. Probably in the early years, this groundwater was buried at a shallow depth enough to support the trees. After that, maybe it's because of something underground, or simply because of the drought, the river dries up or diverts that the ground becomes what you see. ”

"It seems that the usual teaching content of your military school is really extensive." Tong Bi'an sighed sincerely.

"Perhaps, we also have a course dedicated to hunting in the wild, although it has remained at the theoretical level because there is no practice on the ship." Yuan Sui pressed his hands hard and compacted the sand in the small pit a little, "So you better eat all the food you have quietly saved in one go, they will not bring you any benefits except for increasing your load." If you really don't have enough to eat, even if you can't catch rabbits or the like, there are a lot of cold-blooded animals in the sand, so be careful not to eat bad stomachs. ”

"I didn't expect you to really have an idea." Tong Bi'an grinned and praised casually, "Looking at the little heel you looked like when you were by your boss's side last time, I thought you were a vase." ”

"No, compared to the boss, I'm really just a vase." Yuan Sui patted the sand on his hands, and as a result, he sneezed a string of sneezes, "To put it mildly, I also experienced the feeling of standing out from the crowd for the first time after I came here." ”

The last rays of light hanging on the horizon faded. Before the sky completely darkened, Yuan Sui and Tong Siyuan shouted at the same time.

"There it is!" Yuan Sui's wrists were wrapped with scattered cords, "I'm looking for the door along the arc of this top...... How is Mr. Tong there? ”

"Only near this tree, there is only fine sand on the ground, and there are very few rocks or other obstacles that are larger than the head." Tong Siyuan leaned against the trunk of the tree and panted slowly, "It should have been cleaned up by man." Bi'an, can you clear all the sand from this piece of land at a fixed point? ”

"It's not easy, otherwise I wouldn't have had to dig by hand a long time ago." The bridge of Tong Bi'an's nose was black, probably rubbed it with a soil-stained hand, "The trees are dense, there are many obstacles, the friction is great, and the wind is not easy to blow." Let's wait for the first year to find a place. ”

"Yes, I guess we're going to be on our side. I contacted Lao Qi, they have been waiting for news at the main gate for a long time. Tong Siyuan glanced up at the sky, "I hope everything goes well for both of us." ”

Under the same sky, Liu Xia smiled and high-fived the girl who came to change shifts, followed a few depressions carved out of the outer wall, and left the highest roof in the town.

She has just finished her guard assignment for the day. As the best eyesight in the town, she's probably spent a third of her last year on it.

The acquaintances who were hurriedly walking on the gravel road waved at her one after another, and Liu Xia also reciprocated with the most cordial smile as much as possible. Teenagers and girls gather in groups of three or five to help carry ripe pumpkins into the warehouse, as an after-dinner eating exercise. Anyway, if you stay here forever, there doesn't seem to be anything else to do other than complete the tasks assigned every day, plus sleep and three meals a day.

Thinking of this, Liu Xia's face gradually stiffened. The older she gets, the more unsure she is whether such a day is good or bad.

However, now at least there is no need to worry that he will become a tool for some people to "take back the world", like the older old Qi and Lan Zhi, who have been trained into excellent weapons since childhood.

When she left the "scientific research place" hidden under the city, she was only eight or nine years old. The "hellish days" in the mouths of her brothers and sisters were just an imaginary level for her. Liu Xia's only remaining impression of those white coats is mostly just some daily interactions that are not salty or light. She remembered that there was a young doctor with a rather gentle personality who would occasionally sit alone in the deserted cafeteria in the middle of the night, and quietly let go of their little children who got up in the middle of the night to steal snacks.

Not to mention the youngest group of children in the town, some of whom were still lying in the nursery box back then, were still wrapped in quilts and brought out.

After such a leisurely day lasts, what will they think of the "outside" described by their brothers and sisters?

Hunger brought her back to her senses. Liu Xia comforted her stomach in her heart, and nodded at the young man standing guard outside the door of the hut.

"Are all the people inside okay today?" She just asked routinely.

The boy's eyes were a little red, maybe he hadn't rested well these days. He pulled the corners of his mouth awkwardly, his eyes did not look at Liu Xia, and said softly: "Don't worry, everything is fine today." ”

"It's almost time to get off work in the cafeteria, have you had dinner?"

"Not yet. In case my brother says he'll come to take over my shift later, I'll see if I can use some more useful words by the way. ”

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, I'll go urge him immediately." Liu Xia patted him on the shoulder encouragingly and turned to leave.

In the dark night sky, dark clouds drifting in the distance gradually engulfed the dim moon. The boy moved his stiff facial muscles for a while, and then looked around with his neck in a weak heart, and finally let out a sigh of determination, shaking his wrist and pulling out the key in his pocket.