I didn't sleep for half a night last night, and half of the steamed bun that served as a supper was also given to the little girl, with lack of energy and hunger, Li Ba was already exhausted, carrying a bamboo basket full of bricks and stones, every step was extremely heavy, and the trembling thighs seemed to no longer belong to him.

"Persistence, perseverance...... Dinner will be served soon. ”

The construction site is only responsible for two meals, two pieces of chaff for lunch, and one more at the end of the night. Thinking about the fragrant chaff bun in his heart, Li Ba kept telling himself that he must persevere. With this big lunch at noon, I believe that the work in the afternoon can also be supported.

Obviously, Li Ba overestimated himself. Before the end of the world, he spent days and nights, drank and lacked exercise, his body had long been hollowed out, and his quality was extremely poor. In the words of the pre-apocalyptic times, he belongs to the sub-healthy group and survived with good luck, but his physical fitness has been honed by the last days, and it is not good, but it is getting worse and worse.

The scorching sun was shining high, hanging overhead, swallowing the scorching sunshine that killed people. Li Ba's throat was dry and almost smoking, beads of sweat the size of beans were pouring down like raindrops, and his fat face was already pale.

"It's good to have saliva to drink!"

He licked his chapped lips. The end is coming, the unknown virus is spreading, most of the rivers and lakes are polluted, and if you drink it directly, people with slightly worse physique will be infected with the virus and become zombies. As a result, survivors have a strained source of water, sometimes more than food.

Most of the drinking water in the Xibu settlement comes from underground. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, Xibu is located in a volcanic zone, but it is an extinct volcano with no possibility of eruption, and has an abundance of underground hot springs. After a simple filtration process, the hot spring water can be drunk directly. The survivors who live here rely on the hot springs for their water supply.

However, hot spring water is not arbitrary, and there is a limit to how much of it can be obtained. Almost all the springs are controlled by the official high-level officials in Xibu, and the residents of the inner city have enough water for their daily life, and the refugee camps outside the city only distribute one liter of water per person per day, barely enough to meet their physiological needs.

Originally, Li Ba would prepare a bottle of water to quench his thirst every day when he went to work. Because he was busy for half the night last night, only food was given to the little girl, and he woke up in the morning with unbearable hunger, and couldn't help but drink water to satisfy his hunger, which was better than nothing.

Now, he regrets it, and the unbearable feeling makes him worse than dead.

A pair of thighs became heavier and heavier, the eyelids became heavier and heavier, dizzy, and the things in front of him began to blur. In the end, Li Ba couldn't support it, and the person fell directly to the ground, not moving.

The situation on the construction site quickly spread to Li Chao. Others were in the shed, squinting their eyes, and seeing that the person who fell to the ground was Li Ba, he smiled ruthlessly, turned his head to a big man with a scar on his face beside him, and pouted: "Xue Lin, this dead fat pig wants to be lazy, you go and teach him a lesson, start a little measured, it's not fun to die!" ”

"Roger!"

The big man named Xue Lin had a cruel smile on his face, turned around and picked up the leather whip hanging on the wall, and strode over. At this time, the little girl who had been shrinking in the corner of the wall and not moving, quietly raised her head, looked at Li Ba with a pair of big eyes, and showed an anxious look.

Xue Lin is not an evolutionary, relying on his distant kinship with a certain high-level in the settlement, he infiltrated the garrison as an errand boy. He and Li Chao had the same smell, and at this moment, he got Li Chao's instructions, walked quickly in front of Li Ba, and scolded viciously: "Hurry up, don't want to be lazy, otherwise Lao Tzu will beat you to death!" Before he could finish speaking, he raised his whip and whipped it.

This guy remembered Li Chao's instructions, and his hand was very measured, aiming at Li Ba's left wrist and withdrawing. Even so, it is also full of strength, and a whip will make the skin on the back of Li Ba's hand and wrist open, and the blood will flow.

The sharp stinging pain made Li Ba wake up, what he saw in his eyes, his left hand was bloody, and there was scolding in his ears, what happened, he didn't have to think about it to know.

Get up! I need to get up quickly! Otherwise, he will be caught by Li Chao with an excuse, and he will be tortured again. Li Ba kept reminding himself in his heart, gathering all his strength, supporting the ground with both hands, and wanting to stand up.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, his eyes shrank, and a shocked expression appeared on his face. The blood that flowed from the injured part of his left hand was all sucked up by the bracelet given by the old man last night, and there was not half a drop left.

Boom –

Just when Li Ba was shocked, a loud bang sounded in his head, and the next moment, he found that the surrounding scene had disappeared, and he had come to a strange place.

"Where is this?"

After a short period of shock and panic, Li Ba took a few deep breaths, suppressed the panic in his heart, and began to look around. It was foggy, and nothing could be seen except for a boxy building that resembled a tower, and a piece of land in front of the tower. And he was standing on the ground in front of the tower at the moment. This land is strange, the soil is dark brown, and the area is only a dozen square meters, the size of a house.

"There's water!"

In the center of the field, there is a small stone trough containing half a trough of liquid, which is crystal clear, like spring water. When Li Ba saw it, he immediately ran over, leaned down, and stuck his head directly into the stone trough to drink.

Before, he was unbearable, so he forgot the mysterious place he was in, and just wanted to have a full drink. Strange things happened, when he was about to take a big gulp of cow drink, but found that he could not drink anything, but could only smell the spring water in the stone trough, which exuded a refreshing fragrance.

Even so, it also lifted his spirits.

"Strange things!"

I tried several times, but I couldn't get half a drop of water. That feeling is like the body is like air, empty, you can see the spring water in the stone trough, but you can't touch it, let alone drink it.

"Is it ......?"

Li Ba stood up abruptly and touched his body with his right hand, but as a result, the palm of his hand slashed through the inside of his body, as if touching air, and did not grasp anything.

"Could it be that Lao Tzu is already dead and has become a ghost......"

Li Ba wanted to cry without tears. At this moment, he seemed to hear someone scolding again, and then, a sharp pain came, and he couldn't help but scream.

"Ahh

When Li Ba screamed, the things in front of him changed, the fiery breath, the dirty fishy smell, etc., all appeared at this moment. And he, still in a posture of holding his hands on the ground, has a pair of military boots in front of him, and his owner is holding a leather whip, scolding.

"If you don't get up yet, the food at noon will be halved!"

A scorching pain in his shoulder, scarlet blood oozing down the shattered Armani suit. Just now, Xue Lin saw that the waste pretended to be dead and refused to get up, so he gave another whip.

Get up all at once. At this moment, Li Ba, although the pain in his body is unbearable, his spirit has recovered a lot. His face was dull for a moment, and he immediately seemed to come to his senses, bowed his head to Xue Lin and said, "The little one slipped his feet just now, he didn't mean to be lazy, Xue Ye forgive me, ......forgive me, forgive me."

Xue Lin stared at him viciously, "Don't have a next time, otherwise Lao Tzu will kill you directly and throw you out of the city to feed the zombies!" After a warning, the guy swaggered away.

Li Ba waited until the dog's legs walked away, lowered his head and looked at his left bowl, and his heart was suddenly shocked. The bracelet given by the old man who had unfortunately passed away last night had disappeared, and on his wrist there was a strange tattoo, like a bracelet, that was circled on it.

What's even more strange is that the palm and wrist that was pulled open just now turned out to be smooth and smooth, without the slightest scar. Li Ba was startled, looked around, stuffed his left hand into his shoulder without a trace, touched the blood on his hand, and took it out.

"Don't be stunned, get to work, or they'll get you in trouble again!"

Two survivors carried heavy burdens, and when they walked past Li Ba, they lowered their voices and quietly reminded them.

"Dafang, Xiaofang, thank you!"

Li Ba cast a grateful gaze. These two survivors are brothers, the end came, and with Li Ba's fleeing team, they fled here from Wucheng together, and they had a good relationship with each other. Like Li Ba, they have no special talents, let alone the ability to awaken, and live in refugee camps outside the city, living by doing coolies.

Generous and small-minded nodded. Xiao Fang also quietly threw a roll of gauze and motioned for Li Ba to bandage the wound. Li Ba divided his left hand like a zongzi in three times, and wiped a handful of blood on it at the end of the day. After that, he continued to work. Strange to say, after coming out of that mysterious place, his whole body recovered a lot, and although he felt tired, he could barely support himself.

While working, Li Ba looked at his left hand from time to time, and in his mind, recalling the scene he had just experienced, as if he was in a dream, he couldn't believe it. One thing he was sure of was that the bracelet given by the old man had become a tattoo and was gone.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Do you mean...... Was my consciousness out of my body just now? ”

Li Ba was thoughtful, and while working, he was deliberating about the whole thing. According to the logic of non-rational thinking, the bracelet that the old man gave him last night should be a treasure, just like the Xianxia TV series broadcast on TV, this treasure sucked his blood and then changed to recognize the owner, turned into a tattoo and hid it in the body, and also contained a magical space.

These are all Li Ba's speculations, and if you want to figure it out, you can only enter that mysterious space again. Now he still has work to do, and he can't act in full view. In case you become conscious, you will faint and suffer from flesh and skin. I'll wait until lunch.

Suppressing the urge of curiosity in his heart, Li Ba began to work. Finally, after a whistle, all the coolies on the site put down their work and gathered towards the shed from all directions with excitement on their faces.

Lunch, two pieces of chaff buns, and half an hour of rest. For the survivors living outside the city, it is already the happiest moment of the day.

On the side of the shed, dozens of large bamboo baskets were placed, which were filled with steaming chaff buns, and the fragrance wafting out made the coolies' eyes red with blood. If it weren't for the heavily armed armed police officers and soldiers guarding the area, they would have rushed up and grabbed it.

"Line up, come forward one by one to receive it, if anyone takes half a piece more, Lao Tzu will shoot him directly!"

Overseer Li Chao stood on the table in the shed and shouted arrogantly. He seemed to enjoy this feeling of being high up and giving food to the untouchables, and he was in a very good mood at the moment, and he had no intention of seeing Li Ba's head shrunk in the crowd, staring at the kid in the corner of the shed with vicious eyes, Li Chao smiled coldly, and directly ordered his subordinates to take six or seven pieces of chaff and throw them on the ground in the corner.

"You dead fat pig wants to deal with the person, Lao Tzu just won't let you get your wish!"

When he saw Li Ba's stunned expression, he couldn't help but laugh wildly.

And Li Ba inadvertently made eye contact with Ji'er, and they all showed knowing smiles.