There are no buildings in sight around, no people.

Green is a very rare thing, especially during this season. Along the way, Liao Qiu saw the thick dust piled up on the ground, and saw the sand blown by the wind in mid-air, and felt more and more that he was able to find those wild flowers in the place where Zhang Mei was buried, which was simply extremely good luck.

There are not many plants that bloom in winter, but they are not completely absent. This requires a special environment and temperature, as well as luck.

The mutated cells did not react as strongly as they did on the space station. Walking on the ground where the loess was flying, Liao Qiu found that his thinking space had expanded a lot. He could feel the station's presence, like someone knew they had a coin in their pocket. You can't see with your eyes, but if you put your hand in your pocket, you can touch a round, hard substance.

A black line appeared on the horizon, which soon became an undulating silhouette of the building. The direction and location are not wrong, the computer of the "Red Dragon" space station stores information about the northwest base. The walking speed is slow, but as long as you keep walking, there will always be a time to arrive.

A woman in desert camouflage staggered over from a distance.

There was a terrifying red glow in her eyes, and two sharp fangs protruded from the upper gums, preventing her lower lip from closing. The wind here is strong, and the smell of humans cannot be disguised at all. She tilted her head, and her torn and tattered clothes fell off the surface of her body in strips, revealing large patches of white skin.

Living corpses are more evolved than they used to be. The infection of humans by the virus seems to be not just a pure destruction, but a reconstructive act after destroying the entire physiological structure.

She didn't have the clumsiness of the walking corpse in the early days of infection, and she acted like a primate. Of course, this kind of behavior cannot be summed up simply as "agile", it should be smooth with clumsiness, and a little bit like the slow-motion slowness of a movie.

"Bang ————"

The bullets flying from a distance hit the target accurately, and the woman's heavy body staggered backwards and fell on her back. Her eyes widened, and the strange red light was rapidly disappearing from the depths of her pupils, with a hideous and fierce expression frozen on her face, and there was a bullet hole in the middle of her eyebrows, and the edges were slightly emitting heat, which had been firmly blocked by flesh and brain.

Liao Qiu kicked away the brass bullet casings that rolled down at his feet, quickly ran to the living corpse that he had shot, pulled out the fighting knife, pried open the skull, picked out the red patches with the tip of the knife, and swallowed it with his mouth with an extremely fanatical desire for food.

The sound of gunfire is a signal.

There must be some kind of induction between the living corpses. This is their exclusive contact information. From the scattered buildings nearby, swaying figures appeared again.

They run fast, equivalent to an adult sprinting sprint. It's just that the speed advantage is not as obvious as that of track and field athletes, but it has skyrocketed much more than the walking corpses who were initially infected by the virus.

Three, five, dozen......

Like humans, they don't like dry and windy sandy environments. This causes them to become dehydrated in a short period of time, leading to the rapid depletion of vital components. Liao Qiu held an assault rifle and shot the mutated creatures on the move, gradually penetrating deeper into the complex. He discovered that this was actually the outer warning area of the Northwest Base. Along the way, there was broken glass, messy garbage paper, empty cartridge casings and rifle parts everywhere. Outside the tower hung air-dried corpses, but there was no flesh on the surface, and the bones were held in place by blackened dried flesh, twisted into an eerie shape.

The process of climbing over the fence was much simpler than Liao Qiu had imagined. There was no one to defend here, as if it had been abandoned. Liao Qiu picked up a broken wooden window frame from the ground and tentatively threw it towards the power grid at the top of the wall. I didn't see the intense scene of sparks flying and electric currents bursting in my imagination. This indicates that the outer security facilities of the base are completely useless. Maybe all the people inside are dead, and only a bunch of mutated monsters are left looking for food among the corpses.

There was a "whirring" wind behind him, accompanied by noisy and dense footsteps.

A large crowd of living corpses came running from a distance. Red eyes, fangs stretched open and mouth that can't be closed. These monsters swarm like marathon runners, competing to see who can be the first to attack humans and get food. They are so anxious, so crazy. One of the guys running at the front was pushed by his companion and lost his balance, his body fell crookedly, and the hungry accomplice controlled by the virus didn't care, and directly stepped on it, setting off a wave of ups and downs in the middle of the dense crowd of corpses.

It's just too much.

Liao Qiu realized that he shouldn't have used a gun. The auditory organs of these monsters are very keen. They know better what sound means than walking corpses that rely entirely on instinct. It's like hearing broken glass and knowing that something has been broken, they know that the sound of gunfire means the presence of a living person.

Climbing up the fence as fast as he could, he was holding the empty space of the wire grid with his fingers, and when he wanted to jump over these entangled obstacles, Liao Qiu heard the roar of a heavy machine gun tearing through the air.

A dense rain of bullets poured down from the tower due to the west, knocking the dense crowd of corpses on their backs. It was a metal hurricane that no force could stop, and the living corpses that were once human were torn to shreds and turned into meaningless flesh and blood.

……

When Liao Qiu was brought into the base by a soldier, Tian Guangyao was standing on the central platform of the mechanical repair workshop, condescendingly observing the surroundings.

"I've seen you. You are from Xiao Liu's side. ”

Tian Guangyao quickly found information about Liao Qiu in his memory: "...... Your surname is Liao...... Liao Qiu! Yes, that's the name. I saw you last time I delivered supplies to Liu Tianming. ”

Liao Qiu was very excited. The reason why the vicinity of the northwest base was chosen as the landing point was because Tian Guangyao, an acquaintance, could be found here.

Tall, heavy walls held back the corpses, and heavy machine guns fired from the guard towers brought them back to their deaths. The number of these living corpses is actually not very large. Three hundred, or four hundred. In terms of size, it can only be considered a small group at best. Liao Qiu was a little flustered at the time, and the help from the guard tower also prevented him from fighting with all his strength.

The Northwest is already sparsely populated, and the number of living corpses infected by the virus and mutated is naturally far less than in other places.

"It's been a long time since I've seen these dirty and ugly guys. Dr. Si will definitely love them. Hey, hey, hey...... It's his toy, and the immunity pill he's promised to make, so it's almost time to get it. ”

Looking at the direction of the wall where the gunshots gradually fell silent, Tian Guangyao smiled and patted Liao Qiu's shoulder hard: "How is it, are you hungry?" ”

Liao Qiu nodded. Although he carried a few dry rations in his backpack, he was busy doing other things after the escape pod landed, and he never had time to eat. When Tian Guangyao said this, Liao Qiu felt that his stomach suddenly "growled".

"Come with me."

Tian Guangyao couldn't help but say, and took Liao Qiu to turn around and walk towards the passage next to the machine repair workshop, and said as he walked: "You kid is lucky, we have just settled down here." Today's lunch was hearty and you'll love it. ”

……

The food warehouse at the Northwest base is large. A large number of chilled and frozen meats, dehydrated dried vegetables, as well as various life-sustaining medicines and health products are stored here all year round. In addition to supplying the vegetable needs of nearly 10,000 people in the heyday of the base, there is also a considerable part of the surplus, which is provided to several cities more than 200 kilometers away.

Giant insects have thrown the base into chaos. Fortunately, they had little interest in the base kitchen, and they did not find as many as a dozen tons of frozen meat stored in cold storage. It was a large livestock that had been brought in from the south and the north, and had already been slaughtered. They are cut in half and hung from sharp meat hooks. Poultry account for a slightly lower proportion of frozen meat. They are decapitated, eviscerated and frozen in storage bins in the corresponding quantities. When you need to take it, just take it out and thaw it.

Many people died in battle, and the base was in ruins. People don't have the heart to cook, so they can only use the simplest way to cut the whole chicken that has not yet been completely thawed into large pieces. They carry large chunks of beef out of the freezer, put them on the countertop, cut them into fist-sized chunks with small chainsaws, and throw them into large cauldrons along with the chicken to boil.

Stew is as simple as that. Sprinkle a handful of peppercorns, star anise, grass fruit, and throw in a pile of washed ginger, add salt, control the heat, and you can leave nothing to worry about. When the time comes, the pot will naturally have a mouth-watering aroma.

There are dried chili peppers in the base warehouse, grab some and fry them in an iron pot, wait until they are crispy and slightly black, put the chili peppers in the palm of your hand and rub them into pieces, and even the garlic paste prepared by your colleagues first, poured on the hot broth, which is the best dipping sauce.

There were a lot of people in the restaurant, roughly calculated, about two hundred. This is also the removal of the personnel on duty who are on guard. However, in terms of the huge scale of the base, and the record of nearly 10,000 people, there are really not many left.

Sibo stayed in the lab and didn't come out. His meals are delivered by hand. Tian Guangyao beckoned Liao Qiu to sit next to him, and served him a large bowl of stew full of sea and sea in an enamel bowl.

While eating and communicating, Tian Guangyao knew the process of Liao Qiu taking the carrier rocket into space, turning around, and taking the escape pod to the northwest base. After the amazement and emotion, Liao Qiu also knew that the northwest base was attacked by giant insects, and the personnel and equipment suffered heavy losses.

"On the way from Kunming, we also encountered that kind of big bug."

Liao Qiu chewed on the stewed beef and said thoughtfully, "They are big and can fly." On the way, we rescued a few workers who had escaped from the Panzhihua mine. According to them, bugs are supposed to crawl out of the ground. ”