210. Chapter 210: Go downstairs
Coyote meat tastes similar to dog meat, or the two are actually the same animal. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoSo in the absence of condiments, this pot of dog broth doesn't taste as delicious as the legend says. It's just that after Ding Chen went to find Uncle Potato, although Qiqi was very worried, she still dutifully cleaned up the coyote that Ding Chen brought back, chopped it together with the snake meat and put it in the pot to cook. Four or five hours have passed now, and the wolf meat is so cooked that it almost melts in your mouth.
Uncle Potato was old and physically and mentally exhausted, so he didn't eat, just drank a little soup and went to sleep, and now the broth cooked in the pot was actually left by Kiki for Uncle Potato, ready for him to drink when he woke up - she roasted some meat for Ding Chen.
For most non-productive scavengers, dry food that can be kept longer is far more valuable than the meat they hunt. So after the hunt, they usually give priority to eating the prey. So many times after getting the prey, eating a big meal is not to treat yourself, but because if you don't hurry up and eat the meat, it will spoil and you won't have to eat.
Ding Chen didn't know that the broth in the iron pot was reserved for Uncle Potato at first, and when he started to drink the soup, Qiqi didn't remind him, just sat by the fire with his knees crossed, looking at Ding Chen thoughtfully. It was Ding Chen himself who saw the barbecue next to the fire, and then he came to his senses. Fortunately, the broth was really hot, and he didn't actually drink a few sips.
He put down the iron pot, reached for a piece of roast meat, cut a small piece with a knife and threw it into his mouth. There was no dentist in the last days, so when Ding Chen was not in a hurry to eat meat, he chewed very carefully, and usually cut the meat into small pieces as much as possible to save teeth. And in order to mix well with the digestive juices, it will be held in the mouth for a while.
So at this time, he asked Kiki vaguely, "Uncle still likes to eat boiled food?" ”
"Yes." Kiki nodded. She thought for a moment, opened her mouth again, showed a mouth full of snow-white teeth, pointed at her own teeth, and then gestured to Uncle Big Potato again.
Ding Chen comprehended, leaned over and whispered, "His teeth can't bite hard things?" ”
Qiqi was startled by Ding Chen's sudden approach, subconsciously retreated a little, and then nodded a little unnaturally.
Ding Chen realized that he was a little too close to Qiqi, so he quickly sat up straight, lowered his head and concentrated on the barbecue in his hand.
Kiki looked at him and didn't say anything more, just got up and added a few more branches to the fire. Now there are not enough dead branches, so Ding Chen cut a lot of fresh branches, this kind of branches must be dried before burning, otherwise there will be no fire and smoke in the fire, and the three of them will suffer in this closed environment now.
After adding the branches, Kiki began to be in a daze again as before.
Ding Chen glanced at her from a distance and felt that this was very uncommon. In the past, Kiki was the kind of girl who was very cheerful and lively, and this kind of small and fresh appearance was not her style. If it weren't for Uncle Tudou's "kindness", maybe Ding Chen would have taken the initiative to enlighten the girl, who made him an innocent and kind young man. But the problem is that now Uncle Potato is obviously looking for a pick-up man, and Ding Chen is a little afraid of the melon field and plums, so he thought about it for a long time, but he didn't dare to ask.
In the silence of the two people, Ding Chen finished dinner, got up and stretched his waist, and said to Qiqi, "I'll go downstairs to take a look first." ”
Kiki was stunned for a moment, looked at him in some surprise and asked, "Now?" Don't you wait for tomorrow? ”
"Actually, it's the same." Ding Chen patiently explained to her: "Even during the day, there is no natural light in the building. So it's actually the same for us during the day. ”
Kiki nodded thoughtfully, turned her head to look at Uncle Potato, and said to Ding Chen, "I'm going to stay here with him." ”
Ding Chen smiled, "Don't worry, I'll just go down and take a look, I won't take any risks." ”
Kiki looked up at him, lowered her head again, and whispered, "Then be careful." ”
Ding Chen didn't take the small flashlight that Qiqi had just gotten, but picked up his battery lamp, prepared another torch, lit the torch and walked slowly down the stairs.
Before he opened the roof cover, the inside of the corridor was obviously sealed, so Ding Chen was not worried about any dangerous creatures hiding here.
At least in his knowledge, there is no beast that can survive in an oxygen-free environment.
Therefore, the biggest danger he will face on this expedition should be the lack of oxygen or the encounter with toxic gases.
Generally speaking, before entering this environment, explorers will prepare one or two small animals such as mice or sparrows, and pay attention to their reactions during the in-depth process, so as to detect danger in time.
However, there are a lot of things that happened today, and Ding Chen is good at fighting cats, so he is relatively bad at catching mice, so he didn't have time to make these preparations, and at this time, he could only rely on his own feelings to judge the danger.
This is also the reason why Kiki reminds him to be careful, if he is unwittingly hit below, then it is likely that he will not be able to count on someone to come to the rescue for a long time.
The north and south sides of the building are occupied by offices, but when you look through the window, you will find that all the office doors are locked. Now that Ding Chen has entered the building, looking at both sides from the corridor, there is no trace of the door at all, so in fact, the doors seen from the window are fake, and the indoor office furnishings are also used to hide people's eyes.
When Ding Chen and Liu Chi walked into the ruins of the old city, they had observed the structure of this kind of building, so they knew that most of the buildings were designed with stairs on both sides, and occasionally there would be a staircase in the middle. But now the building has only one staircase on the side of the corridor.
This arrangement may seem strange, but it's easy to understand that since the designers wanted to ensure the strength of the building, they certainly didn't put the staircase on the side of the wall, because then there would be no way to close the stairwell.
But after walking into the stairwell, Ding Chen found that he still underestimated the designer's determination. Because in front of the exit of the stairwell on the second floor, there is actually a door that opens to the other.
Ding Chen walked over with a torch, pulled the doorknob of the door on one side and pulled it hard, feeling that it could be pulled away, so he inserted the torch into the doorknob on the other side, grabbed the doorknob in front of him with both hands and pulled it hard, and actually opened the door a gap.
As the door was opened, an air flow appeared beside Ding Chen, blowing from outside the door to the inside, and under the action of the air current, the flames on the torches on the other side of the door appeared to be shaky.
Ding Chen paused for a moment and waited until the airflow stabilized before continuing to exert force. This time the door opened much more smoothly than just now, obviously because the airflow just now balanced the pressure difference between the inside and outside, so Ding Chen didn't have to overcome the negative pressure to work.
Under the light of the fire, you can see that the door is ten centimeters thick, and although I don't know if it is an all-steel structure, at least the appearance is made of steel, and it feels very heavy when turning.
Ding Chen stood by the door and looked carefully, and was sure of at least one thing - it was a sealed door, which could be used to resist the attack of air-fuel bombs, and even to resist the impact of air waves and thermal radiation of nuclear bombs.
While determining the purpose of this door, Ding Chen also determined one thing by the way. That is, the time he had lost this afternoon was in vain, with this closed sealed door, the air in the second floor was not exchanged at all, so he still had to wait for the second floor to be filled with oxygen.
Ding Chen was reluctant to take the risk, so he sat down outside the door to rest for a while, and by the way, he observed the walls of the corridor, and found that these walls were even made of metal, and the interior of this building was almost a large iron box.
After waiting for a while, Ding Chen raised the torch again and walked into the door, the space here is not large, and it is very clean, there is no source of harmful gases, so although the time interval is not long, there is no obvious discomfort.
There was nothing special about the second floor, Ding Chen reached the first floor smoothly, and once again opened a sealed door, so the door of the new world opened in front of him.