6 The end of time I have come

But fortunately, after being electrocuted for a long time, the pattern in the palm of the right hand seemed to have finally accumulated enough energy, and between the rotation of the two fishes, an invisible force was generated, and when I opened my eyes again, I actually returned to the familiar underground garbage pool.

After quickly taking out a flashlight and shining around, he didn't see the figure of the mutant mantis, thinking that he had escaped from this space, which made Lu Ping breathe a sigh of relief and quickly find a way out.

After returning to the ground, picking up the two large sacks, Lu Ping secretly touched the gate of the manor, and after identifying the direction, he quickly walked towards Night City.

In fact, Night City is not far from this manor, only three or four thousand meters away, and you can reach it in half an hour if you walk quickly, but for the end of the world, this is a journey of death, and the slightest carelessness will cost you your life. Especially Lu Ping, who has experienced a death, has a deep understanding of the horror of the apocalypse, and he seems to be careful at every step, as long as there is any wind and grass, he will quickly dodge and hide himself with a sack.

On the side of a half-naked road, a huge rabbit of three meters ran wildly, constantly changing directions, and every jump was dozens of meters away, so fast that people couldn't catch its figure at all.

Suddenly, a huge black shadow covered the sky, and I saw a figure rushing down from the nine heavens, and in an instant, it pounced on the top of the giant rabbit's head, and a pair of eagle talons that could shatter the golden stone and snatched towards it with the aura of death.

"Bang", the rabbit is not simple, directly a rabbit kicked the sky, the hind legs kicked the fatal claw away, and then fled frantically again.

"Chirp." The blow missed, the eagle roared angrily to the sky, and between its wings, the invisible wind swept wildly, and the figure had already risen into the air, chasing the giant rabbit, and dived down again, grabbing the giant rabbit's head.

Seeing that it was about to be pierced by the eagle's claws, the mutant rabbit still wanted to repeat the old trick and use the rabbit kicking queen style, but unfortunately, this time it was kicked into the air, revealing a fatal flaw.

As a sky overlord-level existence, the Condor is too strong, and after a dive, he suddenly flapped his wings, which was to avoid the rabbit's pedals, and when the rabbit was not connected, a pair of claws instantly buckled the rabbit's head, and with a fan of wings, it soared up to 90,000 miles, turning into a black light and disappearing in the north.

After a long time, a brown grass pile suddenly shook, and after a closer look, it was two ** bags piled together, and a human head stretched out from under the sack, looking around, until it was sure that there was no danger, and then crawled out from under the sack, it was Lu Ping.

"This is the fourth time." Looking at the direction in which the condor was gone, Lu Ping wiped the cold sweat on his head, and his heart was still fluttering. Only halfway through, I encountered three mutant beasts, and this time was the fourth, if it wasn't for the quick dodge, maybe I would have been gnawed to the point that there was no scum left. Only now, did I realize how lucky I was to encounter a mutant beast only once when I came to the manor with the team and others recklessly.

After making sure that there was no danger nearby, Lu Ping continued to touch the night city with two ** bags, along the way, as long as there was any wind and grass, he would quickly dodge, and he was less timid than a rabbit, until he stepped into the vicinity of the bare mountain range, he was relieved, and finally arrived outside the city gate safely.

"Brother Gong, are you feeling better?" Shenglinghuo took the blood-stained cloth, looked at the grinning Linshi Palace, and asked with concern: "The wound is very painful, or I'll get you some analgesics." ”

"What kind of medicine do you get, that thing is more expensive than food, where can you get it?" Lin Shigong lay on the bed, listening to the tone of the spiritual fire, he was afraid that this guy would do something stupid for himself, so he had to endure the pain on his body, and said indifferently: "Don't worry, it's not a big deal, but you're hungry, do you still have anything to eat?" ”

"Yes, yes, I'll go get it." Shenglinghuo nodded hurriedly, and walked out of the dormitory with a blood-stained cloth, just going out, but he bumped into a guy with two ** bags, and when he looked up, he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Why aren't you dead yet?"

"you, how do you talk?" Lu Ping didn't say a word, and directly scolded this guy angrily, this bastard, curse himself to death when he meets, isn't this a clear scolding. If you don't know each other, you have to trouble this guy, but now is not the time to say this, the life and death of Linshi Palace are unknown, but I am not in the mood to quarrel with this guy. "By the way, what about Brother Gong?"

"Rest in there."

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive." As soon as he heard that Linshi Palace was still alive, Lu Ping was immediately overjoyed, and he followed the spiritual fire into the dormitory with the sack, looking at Linshi Palace lying on the bed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Although the other party looks weak, there is no need to worry if he is still alive, after all, the tempering of the end of the world has given these survivors a strong physique and tenacious vitality, as long as they don't die, they will recover quickly.

"Great, Brother Gong, I thought I would never see you again, it's good that you're okay." As soon as the sack was put down, Lu Ping walked to the bed side of Linshi Palace and sat down, greeting the other party's injury with concern.

On the other hand, he was very happy to see that Lu Ping could come back alive, and his laughter couldn't help but be a little big. "Haha, I didn't see anyone after looking for you for a long time, and I thought that your kid was eaten by a mutant beast, but I didn't expect you to be alive, it seems that I was worried in vain, oops."

"Brother Gong, what's wrong?"

"Brother Gong, didn't you tell you not to move, why don't you listen all the time, and you get a wound again." Seeing that blood oozed out of his back again, Shenglinghuo hurriedly walked to the side of the bed to observe the condition of his wound, Lu Ping saw that the wound was not even medicated, and the bleeding did not stop, so he quickly pulled the rope tied to the mouth of the sack and rummaged inside.

The first rags, to the sweet potatoes bigger than a fist, noodles, white rice grains, peanuts, eggs, frozen grass carp, these churning things directly made the two of them almost stare out of their eyes, or Lin Shigong reacted in time, slapped the spiritual fire, pointed to the door of the dormitory, and hurriedly asked the other party to close the truth, in case someone found out.

After surviving for half a year in the apocalypse, the Ascending Spirit Fire naturally knew this, and after rushing to the door to look out, he quickly closed the door and came back to look at the food all over the ground and drooled.

"The earth fruit, it turned out to be the earth fruit, where did you get it? And what kind of fish is this, so big, Nima, even bird eggs. "Holding a big bag of peanuts, the ascension fire is indeed shocked, this thing is an extremely expensive fruit before the apocalypse, for some unknown reason, it is really not easy to plant, the amount of fruit is not much, half a year after the apocalypse, except for the inventory in the fallen big city, the outside world can not find the shadow of the ground fruit at all. Now such a big bag, how not to be shocking, and these two frozen fish, anyway, it is impossible to imagine where Lu Ping got it. You must know that since the apocalyptic carrier and the unknown virus came, seventy percent of the humans on the planet have become disgusting and lost, and the animals with antibodies have mutated one after another, becoming dangerous and powerful monsters, and the poultry and animals that humans once raised are now impossible to find in the wild.

As for those ice cubes, it is even more incomprehensible, before the apocalypse, the flood of civilization technology can be said to be not low, the global intelligence has long been popularized, and there is no need for humans to control everything at all. Smart rice cookers, smart refrigerators, smart air conditioners, all home appliances are managed by the automatic intelligent system in the house, without the owner's bother. But since the end of the world, the global intelligent system has been destroyed in an instant, and those once high-tech products have now become a pile of rotten copper and scrap metal, and human beings can't even do the simplest communication, let alone those appliances such as refrigerators, which have long become a pile of garbage and cannot be used.

But Lu Ping didn't know where to get a box of ice cubes, how could it not be strange, but the most surprising thing was that this guy actually turned out a large bag of medicines, and as soon as the bag was opened, all of them fell on the side of the bed, and all kinds of strange medicinal smells instantly came into their noses, making the two completely stunned.

Medicine, this thing is more precious than food in the end of the world, a small bottle can save people's lives, it seems that in addition to those who can afford it, this is a more scarce material than food. "Ascending Spiritual Fire, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and give medicine to Brother Gong." When Lu Ping said this, the other party reacted, picked up all kinds of painkiller and anti-inflammatory medicines and rubbed them on Lin Shigong, using them very economically, and he was reluctant to waste a little bit.

Lu Ping was not idle, and rummaged through the entire building for a long time before finding a large basin similar to an iron pot, closing the door, and cooking fish soup and eggs directly in the house, intending to make up for Linshi Palace.

Fish soup, in the life of not having a little more meat in the last days, this is simply a luxury, I am afraid that only those powerful people are qualified to enjoy it, the two of them who are hungry for the rich fragrance swallow saliva desperately, and the spiritual fire is even more afraid of being discovered, and uses a large number of rags that Lu Ping took out of the sack to block the door crack in the dormitory, so as not to let the fragrance drift out.

Don't think that this is a big fuss, in the last days, for a mouthful of clean water, countless people can fight for this, a mouthful of food can even choose human lives at will, so that it becomes an existence that is not even as good as a slave, killing and abusing at will. Therefore, this pot of fish soup, if it is discovered, is enough to provoke murder and robbery, and for this kind of question related to life and death, several people have to be cautious.

After the soup was ready, Lu Ping filled a big bowl to Linshi Palace, as for the spiritual fire, he really couldn't resist the temptation, and he had already started eating, and the food was simply miserable, even more miserable than a starving ghost, but thinking about the difficulties of the end, it can be understood.

After drinking a bowl of fish soup, the two of them were reluctant to drink it anymore, after all, there were still more than twenty people in the team, and these two fish were not enough to be stewed, so they had to leave some for others to taste, although there were a lot of peanuts and rice, but the two of them were even more reluctant to eat it, Lin Shigong had to ask Lu Ping to exchange it for corpse crystals and store it, or buy weapons to enhance the strength of the team to survive in the apocalypse.

Thinking about it, the strength of the team is too weak, and they don't dare to go far away in this apocalypse, and it is difficult to find enough food and supplies, so changing weapons has become an imminent matter, Lu Ping didn't talk nonsense, he directly picked up a large bag of peanuts and rice noodles, and walked towards the trading market in the city with the spiritual fire.

Last time, Night City was just a hurry, and there was no extra time to get to know the city, but now after listening to the introduction of the Ascending Spirit Fire, I have a general impression.

As a base city that has sheltered 300,000 survivors, Nightfall City is located in a barren small mountain range, protected by a thick wall ten meters high, because the place is barren, the nearby deep forest coverage and urban and rural areas are not much, and the city has not encountered too powerful mutant beasts and losses in the past few months, and barely survived the apocalypse.

The outer city is mainly composed of disaster areas and slums, and the lowest class of people in the whole city live, while the inner city is the 100-meter-high mountain in the central area, and the inside of the mountain is completely hollowed out to create a mountain city.

The inner city is controlled by the city's military, and there is no need to say that there is no need to say that no one dares to make trouble here, except for the dead man's area in the outer city, and the slum is controlled by several major hunter teams, although there will be no big fights, but it is not much better.

On the streets, scolding, stealing, abducting, and fighting because of a disagreement, there are many people who fight because of a disagreement, and you can see the dirty ** Yi at will, and even directly evolved into a place similar to a brothel in an alley, those perverted guys in order to seek excitement, completely in the open air to do this kind of dirty thing, for a meal of women, let the men play and abuse, the snow-white delicate body is covered with blood wounds and dirty things, there is no dignity at all.

Encountering these, Lu Ping was far away, not wanting to cause trouble, let alone letting these dirty things affect his thoughts, the spiritual fire was not used to it, leading the way in front and walking towards the place of material trading.

In fact, the place where the goods are traded is just a relatively wide street, and the shops on both sides of the street are rented by the major forces, selling all kinds of weapons and food, and not far from these shops, there are a group of hawkers-like guys, who are on the spot and sell some messy things.

Following the ascension fire into a shop with a lot of traffic, Lu Ping carefully looked at everything inside, this shop is not small, almost about 100 square meters, many counters sell all kinds of food and weapons, even water, compared to the turbid and smelly water I drank last time, it is a lot cleaner, but it is a bit expensive.

In the store, a group of powerful guys are buying or selling various items, the domineering and bloody atmosphere makes people feel extremely uncomfortable, listening to the spiritual fire, this group of guys are all darlings in the apocalypse, because they are favored by the heavens, so they have obtained powerful abilities, or they have embarked on the road of evolution and become enviable evolutionaries, so the end of the world is no less than a godsend for them, so that many people who live before the end of the world are not as good as pigs and dogs, and now they have become high-ranking existences, controlling the life and death of others at will like ants, wantonly trampling on the insurmountable taboo before the end of the world.

Countless ordinary hunting teams like Xinghuo have never dared to offend the evolutionary easily, and they have to take a detour when they encounter a guy with a murderous reputation, even if they are bullied by others, most of them can endure it, and if they can't bear it, they have to endure it, after all, the other party is a powerful evolutionary, and it is not something that ordinary people can compete with, especially in this apocalypse of legal and moral collapse, no one will meddle in killing and looting, and no one will care about your life and death, and if you kill it, you will kill it.

Of course, Lu Ping also asked if people like himself could also become evolutionaries, but the answer he got was that he didn't know, which made people a little disappointed, and the superhero dream in his heart was shattered all over the ground.

After lining up at a window for a long time, Lu Ping saw the friend that Lin Shigong said, in his thirties, although he looks extremely strong and burly, it can be seen that he is an honest man, belonging to that kind of real person, and his temperament is similar to that of Linshi Palace, otherwise he would not have become a friend.

Shenglinghuo had been to Linshi Palace a few times, but he also knew this big man, and greeted him very cordially: "Hello Brother Ji Weijiu, I'm here to trouble you again." ”

"Hehe, it's a small fire, come to exchange for food, right? Why didn't you see Linshi Palace? ”

"Brother Gong is injured and is resting."

"Injured," Thinking about it, Ji Weijiu had a very good relationship with Lin Shigong, and when he heard that the other party was injured, he immediately became concerned and asked carefully: "How is it?" Is Lao Lin's injury serious? Do you want me to get him some analgesics? ”

"It's okay, don't worry, Brother Gong, except for being a little weak, there is nothing big about it, this time I came, mainly to trouble Brother Jiu." Ascension Spirit Fire secretly made a secret special gesture, Ji Weijiu instantly understood when he saw it, and after asking someone to take his place, he took the two of them into a small room.

Lu Ping didn't understand at first, but the Ascension Spirit Fire explained that the actual control of Night City was in the hands of the military, although the smart weapon became scrap metal and could not be used, but some antique semi-automatic firearms came in handy, becoming the main weapon in the apocalypse, and also became one of the biggest means for the military to control Night City.

With weapons, there will naturally be ambitions, in order to prevent the survivors in the city from rebelling, several military giants are prohibiting the sale of weapons and ammunition, in order to achieve the goal of controlling Night City. However, this is a piece of fragrant bait, and the profits are so large that people are willing to take risks, so naturally there is a phenomenon of smuggling arms in the military, and through the black market channels, some people secretly sell all kinds of weapons and ammunition to the major forces at high prices in order to make huge profits. Although the military knew about it afterwards, it was too widely involved, and there was no heavy weapons outflowing, so they turned a blind eye and treated it as if they didn't see it.

And the people who buy weapons don't dare to be too arrogant, so they have developed some special channels, and these small black houses are used to make these shady trading places.

However, Lu Ping is still a little worried, after all, this is someone else's territory, if you encounter black and black, then wouldn't the two of them even have a place to escape, after the spiritual fire learned about it, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Don't worry, Brother Jiu is not that kind of person, besides, this is the shop of the Night Ghost Adventure Guild, and its reputation is the best in the city, what you are worried about will definitely not happen, otherwise there will not be so many survivors outside who come here to exchange for supplies." ”

"The Night Ghost Adventurers' Guild is one of the five major forces you mentioned?"

"Yes, although Night City is controlled by military forces, they rarely care about the affairs of the outer city, and the five major forces occupy one side and divide the management of the outer city. This area belongs to the territory of the Night Ghost Adventurer's Guild, and its security and reputation are much better than those of the other major forces, and few people are making trouble here, anyway, I haven't heard of anything black eating black here, otherwise Brother Gong wouldn't have let us come here, so there's no need to be so nervous. ”

In the situation of Night City, Lu Ping also knew that of the 300,000 survivors in the city, 40 percent were struggling at the bottom, relying on heavy physical work such as building city walls or planting food in the city to make a living, and the other 45 percent were scattered hunters, forming various free-form hunting teams or adventurer squads, relying on going out to find food and hunting mutant beasts for a living, and the last 10% were the direct forces of the army or city rulers, and they were also the main force to resist the loss and mutant beasts.

And among the countless hunting teams large and small, the five major hunting teams are the most powerful, controlling the life and death of the outer city, no one dares to offend these domineering guys easily, and the Night Ghost Adventurer Guild is one of them.

Since the Ascending Spirit Fire said so, Lu Ping had nothing to say, and after greeting Ji Weijiu, he took out all kinds of food he brought and said what he wanted to exchange for.

A large bag of peanuts, dozens of catties of sweet potatoes, more than fifty catties of white rice, eggs, flour, half a bag of medicines, and more than a dozen bags of bulk salt directly made Ji Weijiu's eyes almost burst.

Sweet potatoes are okay to say, but this medicine and ground fruits, eggs, rice noodles, and salt, but they are all extremely precious materials in the end of the world, Ji Weijiu remembers the last time he tasted salt, it seems to be half a year ago, and now that he sees it again, he almost can't help but rush up and eat a few bites raw.

"Okay, Xiaohuo, it seems that you have developed this time, you wait, I will go and get you some of the best things, and I promise to satisfy you." Ji Weijiu was very excited, and ran out in a hurry, busy preparing weapons and corpse crystals, after all, he could get a lot of benefits and commissions from the acquisition of so many good things this time, and it was even possible to improve the management power, can you not be in a hurry?

The two sat in the house and waited slowly, but Lu Ping was leisurely, grabbed a handful of peanuts and peeled them and threw them into his mouth, passing the time.

"Big brother, this thing is expensive, why don't you eat it as a snack, it's too loser. And if you take this bite, there will be at least a dozen corpse crystals, won't you feel heartache when you eat it? ”

A peanut can be exchanged for several corpse crystals, Lu Ping really doesn't know about this, although he has always heard the two of Lin Shigong say that this fruit is very expensive, but there is no intuitive concept, but now that the other party says this, he knows the value of this thing.

You must know that five corpse crystals are enough to exchange for a fist-sized steamed bun, which is the size of one or even two meals per person, and most of the people in the city who rely on selling heavy physical work will receive a maximum of two steamed buns a day.

"Look at your little bit of talent, isn't it just a few peanuts, I have a lot of this thing, even if I eat it all, there is nothing to ache about."

said that although he said so, Lu Ping still threw back the peanuts in his hand, hoping to exchange them for a few more corpse crystals, after all, this thing is an important energy source for himself to return to the twenty-first century, and it is naturally best to have more reserves. Anyway, there is a lot of food in that world, if you are hungry, go back and eat enough, there is no need to eat these peanuts.

Seeing that Lu Ping stopped talking, Shenglinghuo breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't care too much about what the other party said, so he quickly tied up the bag with peanuts, lest this guy use his mouth again.

didn't let the two of them wait long, Ji Weijiu came back with a few people from the Adventurer's Guild, put a few large boxes on the ground, and let the two of them choose by themselves.

The box was filled with all kinds of firearms, pistols, rifles, sniper rifles, and even a few light machine guns, which made Lu Ping, who had touched the real gun for the first time, very excited, picked up a pistol and modeled it for a long time, but he didn't see anything famous. Fortunately, there was a spiritual fire on the side, explaining to Lu Ping the advantages and disadvantages of various guns and how to choose the right weapon.

After thinking about it for a long time, considering that he was a rookie, Lu Ping had to pick a revolver and an automatic rifle with high firepower, and Shenglinghuo chose a light machine gun for himself, and picked a few semi-automatic rifles and more than a dozen pistols for the team members, and then stopped, and finally after negotiating with Ji Weijiu, he got thousands of bullets and 1,500 corpse crystals, and then left here satisfied.

To be honest, Lu Ping was indeed a little surprised, he didn't expect that such a little food could be exchanged for thousands of corpse crystals after exchanging for a large number of weapons, but it was understandable to think that no one had discovered the special use of corpse crystals until now.

But that's fine, the huge amount of energy needed to travel through the two worlds can just be replaced by corpse crystals, and it's not a bad thing to reserve more, and it can also avoid the situation of being half-dead every time you are electrocuted.

Back to the dormitory......