After that day, there was less and less to be gained by going out to search.

The imperial capital is a long-term plan, and the food supply has also been greatly reduced, and when Lu Feng and the others do another task to receive rations, they will only be the size of an egg.

The official version is that it is a long stream, and there is not much explanation. But the people have experienced a food crisis in their original bases, and when they see this, why don't they understand?

For a while, the atmosphere at the base became more and more tense.

If it weren't for the news from above that the institute had been given green plants and was stepping up research, the hopeless people really didn't know what would happen.

In this case, Lu Feng and the others simply stopped going out to take on the task - they had twenty catties of rations and water, and once they were far away, it was difficult to guarantee that no one would take risks and risk the harsh laws and regulations of the base to attack them.

At this time, Lu Feng led everyone to wander around the base, rummaging through the ruins, hoping to find a little fresh soil or seeds.

And when everyone kept searching, Zhou Shuangshuang suddenly popped up with a question.

"Captain, why haven't I seen a child for so long?"

Ye Ying smiled beside her: "How precious are children in the last days! However, everyone is precarious and cannot raise them well, so each base stipulates that after the child is full moon, it is best to send it to the collective nursery. Parents can stay there every day and it's the safest place of all the bases. ”

"That's ......"

Zhou Shuangshuang thought thoughtfully: "Why did I say that it's been so long, and I haven't even seen a child...... However, is there a guarantee of food? ”

"It should be—"

Ye Ying replied with a smile, but only halfway through the words, her face suddenly changed, and she turned her head to look at Lu Feng.

"Captain, it seems like I haven't seen a pregnant woman in Hui City for a long time......"

"Could it be that there is no imperial capital either?"

She looked around at the crowd, expecting to wait for someone to explain. However, for a long time, even Fang Xuan only cared about pulling the gravel in the ruins and didn't say a word.

Ye Ying's heart couldn't help but sink.

Chen Shaoze walked over and looked at her with an indescribable look.

"Sometimes I really envy you......"

He muttered, quickly changing the subject: "Did you just notice? There are no little children, the last year, no pregnant women, not a single baby is born. All the children in the nursery were born or conceived before the end of the world. ”

There was silence.

Half a salary, Ye Ying pulled the corners of her mouth, and said with a dry smile: "That's nothing, everyone can't eat enough in the last days, and it's normal for no children to be born......"

However, for what seemed reasonable, her hand holding the shovel was shaking.

"That's why I said the future is very slim."

Chen Shaoze suddenly laughed softly.

"In this year, everyone lost their fertility."

"Now, once again, we are facing a food crisis...... The end of the world may not have really begun. ”

Hunger is everywhere, children are eaten, humanity is lost, and epidemics are rampant......

All of this is in the future.

Zhou Shuangshuang's heart was heavy, as if something was falling, which made her chest suffocate for a while, and she was extremely uncomfortable.

Kaiyuan Tongbao has slowly become warm this morning, although it has not reached the point of getting hot, and the interval between recovery has also become longer, but she is inexplicably relieved in her heart, and even knows for no reason that there will be more and more things she can bring.

But......

The topic started by her now makes her feel like a fish in her throat, and it is extremely painful.

The land of the last days cannot be planted, and the only green plants that exist in the research institute are the small spider plants that she brought. Plants can't grow in the soil, so is it possible that she has to buy a steady stream of food and smuggle here?

Let's not talk about where the big purchase money comes from? It's a large-scale purchase of food, what excuse should she use to explain it?

You must know that the imperial capital alone has accommodated more than 50 million people, and there are still some people from the base who have not migrated here...... 50 million people, three meals a day, even if one person only eats one bite, it is not something she can bear.

But if you don't think about it, these people will gradually be forced to a dead end by the pressure of life and go crazy...... Here, too, will usher in the final apocalypse!

When Zhou Shuangshuang was a child, he listened to his grandparents tell about the famine in those years, the grass roots and bark, the easy to eat, and the annihilation of human nature...... It's all about the power of a desperate person.

At that time, people could not be called human beings at all.

Even if Ye Ying and the others deliberately blocked it and helped her isolate these negative emotions, she could still guess a truth or two from the decreasing wanderers outside.

Zhou Shuangshuang squatted down, looked at the yellow sand under her feet, and couldn't help but grab a handful with her hand, feeling the tiny particles falling from between her fingers.

She couldn't help but sigh -

"We have relied on the fertile earth all our lives, but why are you unwilling to raise your own children now......

At this time, the copper coin on her neck was a little hotter again.

Zhou Shuangshuang didn't notice.

The yellow sand didn't know how thick it was, she stretched out her palm, inserted it into the yellow sand, and groped down inch by inch...... Until the forearm is halfway in, the touch under the fingers is still the same.

At this moment, she suddenly felt a burning in her chest.

The copper coin between his neck began to burn violently, and Zhou Shuangshuang snorted and lowered his head in pain.

The feeling became more and more unbearable, and she gritted her teeth with difficulty to suppress the painful cry that was about to blurt out!

The sand beneath the palms of his hands began to get hot.

Windy ...... No, something strange was surging from the depths of the sand, approaching her fingers. Then through her arm, a wisp, a wisp, the copper coin on her chest also made its temperature higher and higher, higher and higher!

Until this time, Ye Ying looked at Zhou Shuangshuang, who was kneeling on the ground, with his head down, and his fingers reaching into the yellow sand, and said with a smile:

"Frost, don't dig it out! The people of the research institute have long dug three feet into the ground, but unfortunately, below three feet, it is still yellow sand. ”

She stomped her foot: "This earth seems to have become a ball of sand." ”

Zhou Shuangshuang couldn't answer her anymore.

Cold sweat oozed from her forehead, her brows were tightly locked, her teeth were clenched, she couldn't make a sound, and her expression was even more painful.

There were more and more unknown forces, gradually swimming from all directions, but the most powerful one of them was pointing to the northeast.

Subconsciously, even if her arm was buried deep in the yellow sand, she moved her fingers with difficulty and made another inch to the northeast.

- The copper coin on his chest stopped burning for a moment.

Zhou Shuangshuang's eyebrows had just loosened a point, but the next moment, she felt a handful of flames directly scorching her chest, making her eyes roll and pass out directly!

Ye Ying was startled, hurriedly threw down the shovel in her hand, hugged her, and quickly pulled out her arm that was still buried deep in the yellow sand.

"Frost, Frost, what's wrong? Captain—"