The octagonal hammer smashed on the weathered concrete remnant wall, and the pieces fell with a clatter, revealing the steel bars inside, Zhuo Cheng's face showed a little joy, today's dinner and tomorrow's breakfast have fallen.

A few more hammers were smashed, and the steel bars were completely exposed.

Zhuo Cheng shook his sore arm, pressed his upper arm with both hands, and in the center of the biceps, there was a hard lump the size of a finger and stomach - a new muscle tumor.

The clothes on his body were torn and innumerable, the original colorful waste cloth had already turned earth gray, the thin knife-sharpening axe-like face was covered with mud and sweat, and the dusty arm was wiped off, and it immediately became a big flower face.

In this ruin, it is a torment to live, but who wants to die if they can live?

The hammer was put back into the tool bag he was carrying, Zhuo Cheng pursed his chapped lips, grabbed the steel bars with both hands, and dragged them out of the concrete waste one by one.

I don't know how many years it has been abandoned, the concrete has weathered and cracked, so that some parts of the steel bars have been corroded, Zhuo Cheng used a hammer and a flat-head chisel to cut it into sections, tied it with the previous harvest and took the strips of cloth, and carried it and walked towards the temporary camp.

The sun had already turned to the west, and it was walking towards the sun, full of sunshine and earthy yellow.

The wind blew, the sky was full of dust, and the ruins fell in the dust, and the human civilization under it was long gone.

The ruins of the city are huge, and only a few three- or four-storey dilapidated buildings stand alone, unable to block the sun close to the horizon.

In the ruins, there are occasional scavengers like Zhuo Cheng, who are emaciated and have hollow eyes, much like zombies wandering in the apocalyptic world.

Life is still tenacious, like the poisonous bitter hemp grass drilled out of the gravel road under Zhuo Cheng's feet, actively or passively adapting to this world that has suffered great destruction.

The ruins on both sides of the road are piled up in hills, and useful resources have long been searched.

Zhuo Cheng was vigilant on both sides, and when he heard the sound of debris rattling, he immediately clenched the hammer in his hand, and on the ruins on the left, two poorly dressed scavengers rushed down.

One of them had his chest exposed, dirty as if it were hanging from two pieces of shriveled black charcoal.

A man and a woman blocked Zhuo Cheng's path, the woman was holding a rusty knife, and the man was holding a wooden stick, and his face covered with dust could not be seen.

"Leave everything behind!" The man said fiercely: "Or your life!" ”

Zhuo Cheng saw that it was an unfamiliar face, guessing that it might be scavengers from other camps, loosened the steel bags, let them smash on the gravel road, clenched the hammer in his right hand, and pulled out the flat-headed chisel from the backpack with his left hand, not giving an inch: "Either get out!" Die or die! ”

I came to this world in the 2020s and became a young waste picker for a while, and when I first came, I almost died several times because of my kindness, but fortunately I was a border guard in the northwest and survived.

On this ruin, it is not ruthless enough, it will make people eat not even the dregs, literally.

The woman was so hungry that she had no other thoughts, and when she saw Zhuo Cheng's backpack and bulging muscles, her eyes widened wider than her shriveled chest: "Kill him!" ”

As he spoke, a madman rushed over and stabbed Zhuo Cheng in the chest and abdomen.

The man picked up the stick and smashed it on Zhuocheng's head.

The scavengers who can live to the big are not lacking in ruthlessness.

These two people don't keep their hands, and Zhuo Cheng, who has adapted to the rules of survival in the ruins, also doesn't keep his hands.

He dodged to the left to dodge the woman's knife, kicked the woman at the man, blocked the man's falling stick, and took the opportunity to take a big stride and swing the octagonal hammer in his hand.

Zhuo Cheng used the strength to smash the concrete, and when his arm exerted force, he felt the tumor lump on the biceps brachii, and infinite force was transmitted.

In a moment of lightning, there is even the illusion of being able to knock down a house.

The man didn't expect Zhuo Cheng's hammer to fall so quickly, and before he even had the idea of dodging, the octagonal hammer fell on his chest, and the whole chest collapsed, and the person kept retreating, falling in front of the ruins on the right that was more than one person high, and blood was gushing in his mouth, and he couldn't live.

The woman was frightened, pointed the knife at Zhuo Cheng's side, and retreated to the man's side step by step.

Zhuo Wei wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue, but suddenly stopped.

On the ruins on the right, five or six blue-yellow vines quickly climbed down, entangled the man and woman and dragged them behind the ruins.

The man was unconscious, and only the woman was left screaming in terror.

As a barbed vine burrowed into the woman's mouth, the screams immediately turned into whimpering.

Zhuo Cheng didn't even think about it, picked up the steel bag on the ground, turned around and ran.

On the ruins, when encountering strange beings that you can't understand, it's right to stay away.

Running out of nearly 100 meters in one breath, there was a half-collapsed small building next to it, Zhuo Cheng put down the steel bag, climbed up with his hands and feet, and looked behind the ruins just now.

In a clearing surrounded by the ruins of the building, blue-yellow humanoids stood in it, vines flying at the ends of their arms, and the flesh and bones of men and women were separated, converging into a swamp of flesh and blood.

The humanoid had its feet sunk into the swamp of flesh, and the vines that grew from its elbows twisted into oval leaves, spread out and swayed in the wind.

There are two sections on the head, and a huge sarcoma grows on the top of the normal human head, and at this time the sarcoma blooms like a flower, and the thing that I don't know whether it is meat or bone turns into oval golden petals and blooms into a round flower disk.

The flower disc automatically turned to the place where the sun was shining in the west, and stopped moving like a real plant.

Zhuo Cheng is creepy, this is the sunflower man? Photosynthesis is underway?

The eyes unconsciously looked at the lump on the arm, although the skin was normal on the outside, but the heart was sad, and it really wanted to become like that......

The world is poisonous, and it is too difficult for people to live normally.

Zhuo Cheng came down, picked up the steel bag and hurried away, but the tumor lumps on his arms were like stones blocking his heart, heavier than the steel bars on his back, and he was breathing heavily.

Through this period of time, Zhuo Cheng has seen many people with tumors, and in the 2020s, once the tumor worsened, it was almost equated with death.

The same is true here.

He had heard people say that some people with tumors had incredible abilities.

Zhuo Cheng doesn't have so many thoughts for the time being, he just wants to live!

If you can eat three meals a day, have enough water pipes, and have a comfortable bed, it's like heaven.

Walk through mountains of rubbish and away from the abandoned city center, a square-like clearing is littered with scavengers and vagrant camps.

Far away, Zhuo Chengcheng saw the flag flying high above the camp, with a red background and three golden equilateral triangles in the middle.

This is the hallmark of the Singularity, which is said to be a large organization that controls a number of large settlements to the east.

Zhuo Cheng entered the camp, somewhat relaxed, normal human organizations generally have basic order, the singularity prohibits killing and fighting in the camp, violators will be expelled at the lightest, and directly executed at the worst.

The camp was in tatters, with only houses built on singularities and nothing else covered by rag tents, most of which were sticks erected and rags pulled up above their heads to block the sun.

It is ventilated on all sides, hot in summer and cold in winter.

The steel bag on Zhuo Cheng's back attracted a lot of peeping eyes.

Among them were women with children, all ragged and unkempt.

Compared to them, Zhuo Cheng is definitely a clean and handsome young guy, even if he can't remember how long he hasn't washed his face.

The Singularity Patrol Members, wearing riveted leather suits and holding mechanical crossbows, can only peep at them, and they dare not easily fight.

Singularity is willing to spend effort to maintain order in the camp, and even build public toilets in the corners of the camp, which naturally has its benefits.

Zhuo Cheng looked at the people of the singularity with envy, mainly clean.

Walk through the tent area to a wooden house, where the Singularity trades in resources.

Looking at the square word "singularity", Zhuo Cheng sighed again, "The whole world speaks Chinese", his nose smelled a faint smell of blood, and there was a dark red on the ground and walls.

"Boss Huo!" Zhuo Cheng put down the steel bag: "Change things." ”

A man wearing a singularity rivet leather jacket came out, stretched out a mechanical arm, and lifted the weight of the steel bar, and with his movements, a pale red mist floated up, faintly carrying the smell of blood.

"For what?" The man threw down the rebar, revealing the two cylindrical jars he was carrying, with a metal hose sticking out of the lower end of the jar and attaching to the hind elbow of the robotic arm.

Whenever the mechanical arm moves, there is always a red mist coming out between the gears and chains with dark red markings.

Zhuo Cheng faintly heard that this is the blood energy technology of the singularity, which seems to be related to the changes in the human body caused by the radiation energy all over the world, and no matter how specific it is, it is not something that he, a scavenger, can inquire.

He said tentatively: "Six dinner cans, four water tickets? ”

"There are only four dinner cans!" Boss Huo's tone was unquestionable, he was a middle-level person at the singularity in the camp.

Zhuo Cheng had bargained before, and the result of the bargaining was that there were fewer and fewer things, so he could only respond: "Okay." He asked, "Is there a cure for tumors?" ”

"You've been distorted out of your tumor by radiant energy?" Boss Huo looked at Zhuo Cheng: "What an unlucky and lucky boy." ”

Zhuo Cheng's heart moved, and he deliberately said: "It's very unlucky, how can you be lucky." ”

Boss Huo said casually: "Distort the tumor cells to absorb radiation energy, change the human body, and let the lucky ones have powerful abilities." Of course, this thing is a lesion and fatal! Power comes at a price. ”

The cost can be infinite! Zhuo Cheng muttered in his heart and asked, "How long has it deteriorated?" ”

Boss Huo said: "If you don't take medicine to suppress it, it will be a year or a few months!" ”

Zhuo Cheng looked at the position where there was a tumor lump on his arm, it was really difficult to live.

But no matter how hard it is, you have to live.

Boss Huo turned around and patted a piece of coarse paper pasted on the wall: "Can you understand?" ”

Zhuo Cheng can naturally understand, the paper is all Chinese, or simplified, but this does not match his identity as a helpless waste picker, and he quickly shook his head.

Boss Huo said simply: "Singularity's drugs to inhibit the deterioration of twisted tumors are divided into five categories, corresponding to the brain, bones, internal organs, blood, and muscle skin that are most common in twisted tumors, and the muscles and skin are the cheapest, but ......."

He glanced at the steel bars on the ground: "These can't be exchanged for the cheapest medicine." ”

Zhuo Cheng asked, "If you change it, what do you want to use?" ”

After so many years, most of the known ruins of the city have been plowed over and over again, but the scavengers can sometimes find some good goods, and Boss Huo said patiently: "The alloy that has not been corroded, the books that have been preserved completely, and the ...... Gold! ”

Hearing about gold, Zhuo Cheng was not surprised, when ancient gold had no industrial value, it was the same as the favorite of countless people.

Boss Huo looked at Zhuo Cheng again, and saw that he was not very old, and his body was considered strong among the scavengers, and the mechanical arm pointed under the wooden shed on the east side: "It's also a good idea to exchange your blood for medicine." ”

Zhuo Cheng looked at the wooden shed, there were many people sitting there, each with a belt tied to their arms, long metal needles pierced into the blood vessels, and the blood was collected through metal catheters into special containers.

It just so happened that someone left after drawing blood, and another person came over, and the person with the singularity tied up the belt, but just wiped the man's arm with water, not only did not disinfect, but also did not change the needle, and directly pierced it into the blood vessel.

Scavengers, call these people who exchange blood for things blood pigs.

Zhuo Cheng shook his head: "No need." ”

Boss Huo is not reluctant, and he is not forced to draw blood, because there are always people who can't help it: "Remind you, the radiation energy twists out the tumor on the body, and you must take medicine to suppress the deterioration, and you will definitely die if you have no medicine." ”

"Thank you." Zhuo Cheng said politely.

If you want to live, you need not only food, but also medicine!