In this wasteland, where there is nothing but cold winds, a group of people struggle to advance in the howling wind.

They have no purpose, no direction, only non-stop moving forward.

With a heavy gloom on his emaciated face, he turned his head sideways and asked, "How much water is left?" ”

The second stunned grinned his cracked mouth with a little difficulty, licked it and said hoarsely: "It's not much, I won't see the water source tomorrow, so I have to drink urine." ”

Zhang stayed up all night and frowned and did not speak.

It's been two days since I left that nightmarish pit.

Everyone had been hungry for three days, and no one had eaten along the way, except for the only drink they had.

Some people have died.

Perhaps it was the joy of escaping from a disaster, but the strings that had been tight in the past were finally loosened, and many people died not long after stepping on the ground that they had not seen for many years. There was no injury, no illness, and he walked as if he was dying, and then fell asleep and never woke up again.

The ecstasy of these ingots for the rest of their lives was quickly blown away by the cold wind in this seemingly boundless wasteland.

Only the ones that slowly grew back with hunger and thirst, the feeling that they were all too familiar with.

Fear.

After coming out of the pit, they had been walking along the southeast, and all of them had no idea which direction to take. Zhang stayed up all night and didn't have any concept of this, but he vaguely remembered that when he was a child, the elders said that in the vast territory of Beihai, the main towns of several big countries converged in the southeast of Beihai. So the long journey of the children who belonged to this group of children who survived the catastrophe began.

They didn't know how far they had gone, and when it got dark, they snuggled together as if they were in a pit, resisting the cold wind of the wasteland. When the sky was bright, he continued to march in silence.

In the afternoon of the third day, half of the dead had reached the time of escape, and Zhang stayed up all night to count, and there were still twenty-two people left.

It can't go on like this, looking at the endless wasteland in front of him, Zhang stayed up all night and gradually became irritable.

Could it be that the hard work is to change places and wait for death in despair?

He was unwilling, but he felt even more helpless.

At that moment, he heard an exclamation from behind him, and he turned his head, his eyes wide, and he looked at the scene in disbelief.

A young girl wiped her neck with a dagger, her pale face tinged with calm.

"Drink... Drink...... To give... You drink ......" The girl surnamed Sun went up and hugged her, and let her lie in her arms. "To... Drink......... Live... Live...... Next ......"

The thin girl had her eyes open until she died, tears in the corners of her eyes, and her fingers kept pointing at her neck.

Everyone looked at her in a daze, except for the low whimper of the girl surnamed Sun, for a while only the sound of the wind whistled wantonly in everyone's ears, as if it was a huge mockery of them. The sad thing is that they don't have the strength to cry anymore, and just walking has exhausted all their strength.

Zhang stayed up all night and lowered his head, his hands clenched, and he used a lot of effort to calm himself down.

When he looked up again, he saw that everyone was looking at him.

With questions and pleading in his eyes, Zhang stayed up all night knowing that everyone, including him, was close to the limit, and no one could live if this continued, and all of them would die in this wasteland. But even so, this group of ingots still looked up at him at this moment and waited for his decision.

And this kind of decision is really too cruel. The cruelest thing is that Zhang stayed up late knowing that this kind of decision was something he had to make.

He took a deep breath and nodded at everyone.

"Everyone...... Three mouthfuls per person, only allowed to drink, not eat...... Then, the younger ones come first. ”

The silent crowd lined up in an orderly manner, as if they were drawing water from a puddle in a tunnel.

Zhang stayed up all night to watch the next scene, so he turned around and looked into the distance.

Then his pupils contracted.

At the end of the distant line of sight, there is a narrow green strip. On top of a strip of green, there is a deeper expanse of emerald color.

Is that a mountain?

That's a mountain.

The young man pointed to the distance and shouted to the crowd, "Look...... Look! Look! ”

The ingots raised their heads in confusion and looked into the distance following the sound of Zhang staying up late, and then their eyes opened wider and wider, and their eyes became brighter and brighter.

A child lay in front of the girl's still warm neck, took a few serious sips, raised his head and showed a simple smile at the emerald green that separated the world at the end of the field of vision, and the corners of his young mouth were flowing scarlet.

For most of the day that followed, even if they were already hungry, the crowd walking towards the greenery was much faster, and they did not think that there was a girl in the wasteland behind them who did not see the green that lingered in everyone's hearts at this moment, but after everyone said goodbye seriously, they stayed forever in the never-ending howling of the wind.

Maybe there was finally a hot flow in their empty stomachs to provide some weak energy, or maybe the ingots who were more like a bunch of young demons than mortals had rekindled something called hope in their hearts. In the following time, even if they were still moving forward in silence, everyone felt that the atmosphere had changed at this time, and they had become a little angry, and the fear they knew had faded a little.

Zhang stayed up all night and quietly wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, there was no expression on his face, just watching the emerald color that was lying quietly between heaven and earth gradually widening and becoming clear.

As the night gradually rose, Zhang Jiuye, who was at the front of the crowd, stopped and stretched out his hand to the people behind him to signal that he would stop and rest tonight, and all the ingots were extremely skillful in leaning together in the group.

After a night of silence, they continued on their way after dawn, and for the rest of the day, as everyone watched the distant green gradually turn into the mountains and the long green forest that gradually became clear in their vision, they knew that this long nightmare was finally coming to an end.

There was water, wild fowl and animals, and if they were lucky, they could pick up some wild melons and wild fruits to fill their stomachs, which had not appeared in the verdant green of their vitality for several years, which meant that there was something that would allow them to continue to survive.

And at this moment, everyone, including Zhang who stayed up late, has almost reached the limit physiologically.

When the ingots who left the unforgettable wasteland behind them were only a few hundred steps away from this vast jungle, I don't know who let out a cheer first, and then everyone was infected, and finally someone laughed, and the laughter slowly spread through the crowd.

Zhang stayed up all night and didn't organize, he glanced at the second stunned man a few steps away, "Go, who is faster?" ”

Before the two stunned could respond, the young man took a brisk step and ran wildly towards the emerald green that was close at hand.

When everyone behind him saw it, they all let out excited cheers, and followed the running boy to the forest that was getting closer and closer.

When they really stepped into this dense jungle, everyone slowly calmed down, returned to their original formation, and followed the young man in the lead to quietly look for the most important thing at the moment.

Headwaters.

Everyone here is an expert when it comes to starvation. But when it comes to drinking water, there's no way to boil it. In the next hour, a group of people shuttled through this seemingly endless forest, and finally heard the sound of gurgling water, after crossing a small vine, Zhang stayed up all night to remove the weeds in front of him, and saw the rushing river, a great sense of happiness arose.

A cheerful pride rose in his chest, and he shouted to everyone: "There is a river, drink what should be drunk, drink when you are full, go down to the river to fish!" ”