In the dimly lit room, an old-fashioned monitor emitted a dim glow, hitting a face with gritted teeth, a boy of about sixteen or seventeen years old.

I only heard a series of crisp tapping sounds, the flying ten fingers were like a group of flexible swimming fish, and the colors on the screen changed even more, suddenly, the owner of this face shook his fist violently, gritted his teeth, and let out a "gram" sound, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

The boy opened his mouth and smiled, after strenuous exercise, there was a feeling of soreness in his hands, the backs of his palms and hands were full of sweat, the green tendons were bursting, the blood vessels lying under the surface of the skin had not recovered from the excitement, and he was erect strongly, he took out a piece of cloth from his pocket and carefully wiped the dark keyboard.

Strictly speaking, this is not a keyboard: a three-centimeter-thick black engineering plastic case, old and spotless, with various connectors on both sides, and a piece of cloth smeared across the lower left corner of the "keyboard", a faint logo looming - "thinkpad".

Legend has it that the boutique notebook of the last century can still come in handy to this day, and I have to say that it is a living miracle! At present, this book was broken into two pieces by external force, and this "keyboard" is the part that breaks off the display screen.

Turning off the notebook, the young man looked back and smiled: "Xiaoguo, are you hungry?" ”

In the darkness, a small gray shadow moved, and only two bits of black light and a row of bright white crescents could be seen.

"Hey, hey! Brother just won a really good guy and made a lot of money! Walk! Let's go buy some meat! Have a good meal for the evening," his voice was excited with an indescribable pride, and the little one next to him expressed the same cheerfulness with his bouncing steps.

The two of them were ready to go out, put on an old linen shirt, smeared some anti-radiation essential oil on the exposed parts of their bodies, and wrapped a layer of old gauze......

These are the necessary steps to go out, and after the apocalyptic catastrophe, it seems that it has become fashionable to wrap strips of cloth, but the purpose of each person is different: some are used to bandage wounds, some are used to cover wounds that are inconvenient to expose, and some are used to cover up their appearance and reduce trouble.

Finally, put on a large thick mask and wrap a cloak until only one pair of eyes are visible from the whole body.

This is the eastern ruins outside the city of Luozon, referred to as the East District, a small lump in the vast wilderness.

Speaking of wilderness, it is different from a closed urban system, it is a slum, a zone of disorder and anarchy, and a society where power is above all else.

In the second half of the 22nd century, environmental pollution has reached the point of no return, the ozone hole, excessive carbon emissions, global warming, these problems have overwhelmed the ecosystem, however, they can not be regarded as the main cause of the environmental problems are terminally ill, the real main cause is the sudden outbreak of global nuclear war, nuclear war finally destroyed the original beautiful and harmonious world, almost set human civilization back hundreds of years.

After nearly 100 years of nuclear winter, the earth has slowly recovered, but the new world has changed, the climate has become very extreme, the four seasons are disordered, wind and rain are impermanent, the temperature difference is extremely large, nuclear radiation is everywhere, the shadow of mutation has shrouded all the earth's creatures, the originally beautiful and peaceful plants have become irritable and aggressive, the docile and lovely animals have become wild and bloodthirsty, and human beings have evolved a variety of forms that normal people cannot imagine.

In order to protect themselves, people with money and status created cities in the ruins, those with ability and status occupied the best positions in the city, while those with no ability were excluded to the edge of the city, decades of evolution, and finally, a certain second-generation with a developed mind proposed the concept of a closed city system and invented the "light dome system" to isolate the city from the wilderness.

Since then, human evolution has taken two different paths, distinguishing between two distinct races: city citizens and wilderness people.

The wilderness, as an open and worry-free excrement outside the urban system, silently embraces these industrial waste gases, wastewaters, and wastes. Perhaps it is the opposite of things, or perhaps the neutralization reaction between toxins, the wilderness that absorbs a large number of "toxins" does not quickly dry up and become a barren land of filth and dirt, as described by urban experts, but instead presents a bewitching vitality: beetles the size of pigs, bison eating meat, wolves walking upright, vines that can simulate various sounds, trees that can walk, etc., in just a few decades, the surrounding environment has undergone earth-shaking changes.

At night, the wilderness is covered in a veil of gray-purple mist, mysterious and eerie. The mist is poisonous, so radiation oil, special masks and wraps are essential items for entering and exiting at night, and as wilderness people, they have a certain degree of adaptation to this poison.

In any case, as long as the city continues to excrete, the environment of the wilderness will deteriorate further, and only those who are well prepared can obtain the right to live.

The boy stood quietly on the ruins of a broken wall, the city in the distance was like a glowing giant blister, and the high-altitude cruising airboat circled in the blister, pulling out a long stream, brilliant and suffocating, it looked so close, and it felt so far away......

As a member of the wilderness, Cen Mu is no different: the same embarrassment, the same weakness, and the same precariousness. If you insist on distinguishing a result, then Cen Mu does have some special features, and the first special feature can be described in one word: exquisite.

Cen Mu looks very exquisite!

The delicate facial features, one slender and one proud, are all like the artist's wonderful strokes, with straight and flowing black hair, but it is covered by gauze all the year round, and only a little black hair can be exposed between the gaps in the gauze; The skin is fair and smooth, and there is no scar on the whole body; The muscles are well-proportioned, not strong, nor thin, and these traits combine to make even city dwellers go crazy with jealousy.

Such refinement is very rare in the wilderness, and when anything is scarce, it will inevitably lead to a kind of end - sought-after. He can't remember how much trouble this delicacy has brought to Cen Mu, because of this trouble, Cen Mu will develop a habit, when he goes out, he will always carefully wrap some bloodstained gauze on the exposed parts of his body, pretending to be a wilderness patient.

Another special thing is that Cen Mu has a younger sister named Xiaoguo, who is about four or five years old, and one day a long time ago, no one knows where Cen Mu brought her back, and he has had a sister since that day.

Time passed quickly, and Cen Mu's neighbors changed batch after batch, until now, the people around him gradually thought that Xiaoguo was the aboriginal of the area.

From the day Xiaoguo came, Cen Mu's originally well-fed life became very embarrassing, minors in the wilderness meant a huge burden, the radiation of waste materials, the poisonous gas in the sky, and the wanton spread of industrial sewage, all of which were pathogenic and mutate, coupled with the complex and unstable social environment, the price of raising a child was more than raising three adults, even if it was a blood relationship, it would be given up, and in the era of extreme famine, children may even be used as rations for the whole family, What could be more important than your own life?! This is the logic of the wilderness people.

Forced to make a living, Cen Mu learned a lot of things:

Knowing how to repair the non-intelligent parts of electrical appliances, this skill earned him an apprenticeship in an antique electrical appliance shop in the East District, an apprenticeship in the wilderness meant cheap and no salary, but Cen Mu could pick something of interest from the electrical appliance store every month, of course, provided that the owner approved it. This old-fashioned thinkpad was picked up from the store, and the owner saw that it couldn't be lit, so he threw him to Cen Mu as a scrap, and now, this notebook has become the guy that Cen Mu relies on to eat.

Will steal the photoelectric signal, this skill is exchanged for a rotten chicken leg from a dying old man, through a self-made rudimentary signal transceiver, directly connected to the main line between the city, so that the people in the eastern area can enjoy free and high-quality network services, this skill for him to win a transcendent identity in the eastern area, at least, under the jurisdiction of the current management of the eastern area, Cen Mu will not passively cause "trouble".

Knowing some programming principles and skills, just scratching the surface, allows him to obtain some information and convenience that ordinary people can't get.

knows some fighting skills, especially the technique of playing with knives, the knife in Cen Mu's hand doesn't know how many times he has saved himself and Xiaoguo, however, cold weapons are cold weapons after all, no matter how fast the knife flies, it can't fight the speed of bullets, in the wilderness, guns are the biggest life-saving capital.

Cook a good hand, knife and rat meat, arthropod whip, abalone shell worms, etc., no matter how unpalatable the ingredients are in Cen Mu's hands, they can become less repulsive, this can be regarded as some small spices in life!

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To name a few, basically, Cen Mu's skills will bring him some substantial benefits.

Despite this, Cen Mu and Xiaoguo's life is still in dire straits, after all, what is most lacking in the wilderness is living materials, in addition, all non-essential resources and services can be discarded, so these mixed skills cannot create much wealth for Cen Mu, unless he has absolute force, which is what Cen Mu lacks.

You can imagine how you have survived all these years. Fortunately, Xiaoguo gradually grew up, when Cen Mu was away, she could still pick up some wild vegetables and wild fruits by herself, scouring garbage, and barely filling her stomach.

Speaking of today's business, it is the biggest profit in the past six months.

Cen Mu is playing an old-fashioned online game, saying that it is old-fashioned, because its concept is very backward - a game that uses keyboard, mouse and screen as input and output media, in this era, this kind of online game does not know which pimple corner it has been forgotten to, if it were not for the existence of such a group of "virtual sensory phobia syndrome", Cen Mu's life may be even more embarrassing.

However, the situation is not optimistic, the technology of virtual senses is becoming more and more mature from generation to generation, the discomfort of connection is getting lower and lower, the feeling of realism is getting higher and higher, the game world is becoming more and more realistic, more and more exciting, looking at the news broadcast on the Internet: under the treatment of psychotherapists, so-and-so successfully overcame the fear barrier of virtual senses and joined the world of so-and-so; A certain large-scale role-playing game is officially in public beta, and the virtual sensory degree is as high as 70%, and Cen Mu's mood is getting heavier and heavier, which means that the day of "food shortage" is not far away!

It's not that Cen Mu can't play virtual sensory games! It's not that Cen Mu doesn't like this kind of game! It's not that Cen Mu suffers from this phobia! But Cen Mu can't afford to buy game equipment at all, the cheapest and simplest version of a sensory connector Shenchuan company product "Blue Shield-N4000" requires 2999 federal shields, and the total amount of wealth that Cen Mu has is less than 700 pesos (the wilderness currency circulating around Arszon City has an exchange ratio of 1000:1 with the federal shield), and the deluxe version, the price of the sensory connector with health function is 99999 federal shields, and the limited edition even reaches more than 5 million federal shields, no matter which number, for Cen Mu, it is all astronomical.

Cen Mu just made a bet in the game, a big gamble! The bet is a virtual property worth 100,000 pesos, almost squeezing out all the resources of Cen Mu in this game, the opponent is a master, of course, this is not the point, the point is that Cen Mu won in the end, and on the Tianfang virtual item trading platform, all the game currency was exchanged for 203 federal shields, and now, he is ready to take Xiaoguo to "withdraw money".