Half a day later, the convoy returned to the sphere of influence of the Tiehua Regiment, and Wu Ming also arrived at the so-called buffer zone.

Due to the inherent advantages of driving at night, the vehicle's concealed color, anti-radar coating, and the existence of multiple detection methods such as infrared radiation detection, the driving of the convoy does not need to worry about being discovered by surveillance satellites than during the day, plus Wu Ming promised to help Jekyll and loaded all the materials into the containment space, which greatly improved the speed of the convoy, making them return to the sphere of influence of the Tiehua Regiment a few hours earlier than the original time.

At dawn, the convoy had entered a long underground tunnel, and after a long time of turning and turning in the labyrinthine underpass, the rock walls on both sides of the window were artificially excavated, and the scene outside the window suddenly opened up and the vehicle drove into a vast underground cavern.

The underground cavern was only about ten meters high, but it was a little unbelievably large, several times larger than a large stadium, and the roof of the oval rock wall like an upside-down bowl grew bryophytes that released light sources, and their faint light source brought some light to the dark and dim cavern, so that the whole cave would not fall into complete darkness, and they were driving on a wide and winding road that stretched along the steep rock wall, with obvious traces of artificial construction.

Whenever he slowed down and turned along the rock wall, Wu Ming could vaguely see through the direct headlights of the car, and at the end of the twisting stretch of the road, which was the place where the lights were flashing at the bottom of the underground hollow.

Is this the buffer ground below?

Wu Ming looked out through the window of the armored car, and with the light source on the zenith of the rock wall and the headlights shining out when the lights turned along the rock wall, he could vaguely see that the winding road stretched to the bottom of the underground cavern, where large areas of dilapidated tents and simple shacks were set up, these buildings were made in a hurry, and there was almost one next to each other between the shacks and the tents, and there was not much space left for walking. Such a building is densely packed with almost a vast underground space, and judging from the suffocating building density, Wu Ming can deeply feel the overcrowding here.

As far as the eye can see, even from a condescending vantage point, what Wu Ming sees at the end of his vision is a dense crowd of simple shacks and dilapidated tents.

Wow! How did you carve out such a large space? It's almost 100 meters underground, right? Elizabeth, who holds the Crimson Queen, is completely focused on the volume and depth of the underground cavity.

After reaching a deal, Wu Ming and his party changed to an armored car, and now they are riding with Jekyll, who nodded and replied when he heard their question: This was originally the first line of defense used to defend against and confuse the enemy, but there are too many survivors in exile recently, and the settlement simply can't accommodate so many people, and there is no other frontier for them to live in, in order to take them in, I can only vacate the location of the outer area for them.

The supplies you looted are there to save the people here? Zhao Xida stared at the dense buildings below, and raised her own questions with her voice that was always inorganic and had no emotional fluctuations.

During the small talk along the way, Wu Ming also learned a lot about this world from the sideways, among which Wu Ming and the others also learned about the recent collapse of several resistance forces, and the reason why the Tiehua Regiment came out to loot supplies.

Yes, but there are too many people who need to be rescued, even if we try our best, we can't save many people, Jekyll sighed lightly, his words were full of helplessness and sighs, which made Wu Ming feel a little puzzled, but he didn't explain it just shook his head and said: When you see it with your own eyes, you will know why I said that.

Wu Ming saw him say this, and didn't ask any more questions, as the vehicle drove along the winding downhill mountain road, it didn't take long for the vehicle to drive out of the wide but winding and steep section, enter the flat area at the bottom of the underground cavity, and slowly stopped, because the residents of the buffer area had already noticed the flashing headlights on the mountain road, and squatted on this entrance and exit early, waiting for the arrival of relief materials.

That's great! They're back!

I should have brought back a lot of supplies after going out for so long this time, right?

We don't

Deserted! Tiehua did not abandon us!

Thankfully, they're finally back! My son should be saved, saved

As soon as the car stopped, a large circle of people who had been squatting and waiting came up, but they didn't seem to dare to get too close to the armored car, and kept a distance from the car, using a voice that felt weird, with an electronic texture, like an electronic mix, excitedly communicating and cheering.

Let's go, it's time for us to get off. Seeing that the car had stopped, Jekyll sighed lightly and opened the door of the armored car, but before getting out of the car, he paused again, looked at Wu Ming and the others and said: You should still be mentally prepared, they are not in a good state

Jekyll's gaze stayed on Zhao Xida for a moment, as if he was worried that the picture he would see would be too impactful and would scare this child In the previous small talk, Wu Ming made up a mess according to each person's personality traits in order to reasonably explain the identities of several of them, and now in Jekyll's eyes, the doll girl is an autistic child who has been traumatized and cannot express her feelings normally.

After saying that, Jekyll got out of the car, followed by the other members of the Tiehua Regiment, and began to sort out the order of the scene, his confident voice echoed in the darkness outside for a long time: It's okay! We brought back a lot of supplies this time! Everyone's got a share! And the next batch of supplies will be delivered soon, so don't rush, don't mess up, if you have a family, if you have natural people, children and women in your family, you will be given priority to the front of the queue to receive food and water, followed by the family of the adjustment person, and the materials needed by the mechanized transformers will be lined up in another queue!

And Wu Ming was also twisted by the latter's expressionless arm meat, and at the same time followed him out of the car with a tense face, and waved his hand according to Jekyll's instructions to release a group of ingredients, water and other materials that had already been boxed.

Although he had already guessed in his heart and knew that he would definitely see the picture of the impact of the three views, the scene he saw now still made him gasp.

Many people were in the dark, but the enhanced eyesight and the light around them were enough for Wu Ming to see the faces of these people clearly.

Those weren't so much people as a bunch of bizarre metal structures.

They transformed their bodies, abandoning their original flesh and blood bodies and replacing them with cold, hard bodies made of steel and wires and circuits, and some of them had a relatively low degree of transformation, and in order to cope with the heavier work, they only installed mechanical arms on their limbs.

Some people have been transformed more thoroughly, completely abandoning the flesh and skin, and replacing the body with a set of sturdy metal skeletons, but due to the shortage of resources, the whole body is neither covered with artificial muscle fibers, nor is it equipped with metal armor, let alone wrapped in bionic skin, only cold metal skeletons and *** wires and pipes outside, making them look like a mechanical skeleton.

Some simply changed to the point that they couldn't even see their human shapes, there were mechanical spiders in the queue that looked like giant spiders scratching eight slender mechanical feet, and Wu Ming even saw a pickup truck with no one driving in the queue There is no doubt that it should also be the form after the transformation.

Of course, there are only a few humanoids like this that still maintain a certain outline, or transform themselves into alien metal structures, and there are more round and round ones that look like oil drums, and there are iron cans with various colors of indicator lights flashing on them, these iron cans control the wheels installed at the bottom, moving and adjusting their positions neatly in several long lines, and the flashing red indicator lights seem to converge into their eyes looking forward to the supplies.

And in this long line, you can only see a few people who have not been transformed, or normal people who can't see any traces of transformation.

Elizabeth only glanced in the direction of the pile of iron cans, and immediately burst into cold hair, reached out to cover the Scarlet Queen's camera, and was so frightened that she stammered a little when she spoke: Big brother, those people, something is wrong.

She hesitated for a long time, and finally called the tin can human.

For in the girl's senses, the breath of life in those iron cans was already very faint, and the cold, lifeless steel inorganic matter wrapped the faint and constantly swaying mass

The fire of life, the degree of weakness of those vitality is not so much that there are living people standing there, but rather piles of graves that have just been buried in the graves of the dead, so she hesitates for a long time in the second half of her sentence.

This is and Wu Ming, who saw these iron cans, was stunned for a moment, and a trace of shocking conjecture flashed in his heart, and a chill couldn't help but rise from his back.

For the price of survival. Jekyll, who passed by with a packaged ingredient and water, whispered, food is always limited, in order to survive, some people have transformed their bodies into machines, and their cells have also been modified to absorb electricity to maintain their activity, so that they no longer rely on consuming carbohydrates, proteins and other biomass to maintain biological metabolism needs, as long as they are equipped with solar panels, they can live with only a few kilowatt-hours of electricity a day

Speaking of this, he sighed, and his tone was full of pain: some people, in order to make their children's lives better, consume less food resources, sell their flesh and blood bodies and organs, and leave only the brains that have been modified by cells to soak in jars with some nutrient solutions, and also rely on electricity to sustain life.

In this way, although he can no longer eat and sleep, he can save a lot of food for the child's growth and development, and can also be used to buy food for the child as the machine works overtime

The next family comes up to pick up supplies!

After speaking, he handed the materials in his hand to a can that came forward, even if he was in a heavy mood, he still showed an uplifting smile on his face: This is your family's supplies, which contain the meat we hunted, the rice and noodles we scavenged on the farm, and even some vegetables, you take these back and boil the vegetables and rice into a paste, and then put some meat foam into it to stew for the child to eat, he has been hungry for several days, and eating solid food directly will kill him, this amount is enough for him to eat for several days, and we will go to find the supplies soon

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