The earth was slaughtered.

Time quietly ushered in early autumn.

Autumn is the harvest season. In the old days, harvest meant many things. It can be wealth, it can be aiqing, or it can be heavy wheat on the ears of wheat. However, for the new era, there is an additional one in addition to the meaning of the above gains.

Death.

Yes, death. In turbulent times, life is as cheap as mustard, and only those who are above all living beings and are firmly in the middle and upper part of the pyramid have some guarantee of life. It's just that this guarantee is far from being so heavy.

If we do not accumulate enough supplies for the winter in the autumn, then life will wither away in batches. Without the protection of the underground base, without adequate heating, and without food to sustain the baseline of survival, it is difficult for ordinary people to survive a winter.

More than half a century has passed since the new era, and in the first decade, the number of deaths has exploded. Then it gradually slowed down, and by the last decade, the death line had remained at a low level. But even so, this level is based on the Dark Ages, and in the old times, it was still a shocking number.

Even if the ability of human reproduction continues to increase, the resources will also decrease proportionately. This means that if the newborn does not have supplies to support it, it will eventually become a small skeleton in the wilderness.

The wilderness smells of death, and this is the backyard of the Grim Reaper. Every 10 years, a large settlement on the ground becomes small, while a small and medium-sized settlement goes extinct. There are many reasons for extinction, such as being attacked by mutant beasts or being captured as slaves by powerful organizations. But one of the biggest reasons is to be eliminated.

The sharp decline in resources has made the planet no longer have such a large carrying capacity, so it uses its own way to refresh the number of life in order to maintain a relatively balanced ecology.

An off-road vehicle appears in the wilderness.

In front of it, there is a wilderness ruin. The size of the city appears to be medium, with a population of perhaps a million in the old days. But now, it's just a silhouette on the horizon. From that silhouette, there is a smell of loneliness, death and danger.

The buggy is also lonely because it has no companions. Alone on the intermittent wilderness road, the driver of the car seems to be a novice, and the vehicle cannot keep moving in a straight line, and if the trajectory of its progress is represented by lines, the curve will be found to be like a snake winding. It's a pity that the curves are not beautiful in any way, but rather thrilling.

It's just that no matter how shockingly the driver drives, at least a teenager in the back seat of the car always has his eyes closed. Looking at the way he was lying casually in his seat, yes, it was certain that he was sleeping.

Sometimes a sharp turn in the car would throw him out of the seat, and the sleeping teenager would unconsciously reach out and pull on the seat to bring his body back to its original position. There were some bumps and bumps on the way. There was even a time when he hit his head directly into the car, and the teenager just rolled over and continued to sleep.

Compared with the calmness of the teenager, the girl driving the car seemed a little cramped. She was sweating profusely, but the word stubbornness was written on her little face. The hand holding the steering wheel was so hard that it seemed to be struggling with the off-road force. This made a round creature in the passenger seat look very frightened, even if the chubby body was fastened with a seat belt, but the little thing had no peace of mind in his eyes.

In this way, the off-road vehicle twisted into the ruins of the city, and even knocked off a sign at the entrance to the city. The sign reads "City of Juan", which is the name of the city. Here's a word of warning: Beware of the living corpses of those dogs.

The car was parked in front of a dilapidated building, which looked like it was about six or seven stories long. Most of the building facing the street has been cut by something, exposing the structure of the building, and a stone wall has been erected near the street. Obviously, cars can't drive directly over and have to take a detour to pass through. But seeing that the sun had already set, the driver of the car decided to rest here for the night.

She wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead, then pulled her silver hair up high, tied it into a ponytail with a rubber rope, and then jumped out of the car with a shockingly long sword in her hand. The girl looked at the boy who was still snoring in the back seat angrily, and then lifted it with one hand and threw it to the ground. This throw used clever force, and the boy hit the ground, bounced up, and was pressed down by the obscure force, and after doing so three times, the boy jumped up in pain. Holding one cheek that was kissing passionately on the ground, the boy complained, "Can't you wake me up in the normal way?"

The girl asked rhetorically, "Can I wake you up in a normal way?"

The boy was speechless.

The silver-haired girl tapped the young man's head with her scabbard and said, "Go, get some food and come back, we have eaten all our dry food." ”

The boy covered his face and looked at the city as the night fell. He sniffled and said, "I only smell the stench of living corpses, you can't eat that kind of thing, right?"

"There's always something else, go ahead and don't waste time. "The girl didn't have a good airway.

Then he grabbed the strange creature in the passenger seat with one hand, and walked into the abandoned building with such a swagger. The boy shook his head, the city smelled of living corpses, and there were many of them in this ruined building. But he knew that the contents of the building would soon be gone.

He left, and he had to find something to eat.

After the boy left, the roar of a living corpse sounded in the abandoned building. The whistling appears and disappears quickly. Moments later, a fire appeared in a window on the third floor. The girl found this relatively clean room, and picked up some furniture that was no longer usable. She popped a few wisps of finger wind, chopped them up, and lit a fire.

The fire is used both to warm up and to bake things. Of course, it may also attract something else. For example, living corpses, but at least in this building, there is no need to be afraid of the fire attracting living corpses. Because those things have become real corpses.

Soon, the teenager returned. He brought back two corpse wolves, the youngest of whom was the size of a teenager. The wolf's head hung loosely, his cervical vertebrae had been violently broken, and the blood dripping from the wolf's kiss pulled a red thread on the ground and extended into the room.

Moni looked at the blood line on the ground and said angrily, "This thing will cause unnecessary trouble." ”

Giroud gave her a frank look: "Are you afraid of trouble?"

"That's right. Moni nodded, no longer bothering about Girutan's little mistakes. With a flick of her hand, a dagger appeared in her hand. Then the familiar skinning, deboning, and fleshing are done. Moni's technique is so skillful that she quickly turns two corpse wolves into pieces of wolf meat with a dissection technique comparable to that of a surgeon. Then he set up a simple grill on the fire, and with a jump of the dagger, pieces of wolf meat flew onto the grill.

In a short time, the smell of meat was already wafting in this small room.

It was an ordinary night for Moni and Girutan. They rest here for the night, replenish their food, and then continue their journey tomorrow. However, fate was wondrous, and when the two of them got rid of the little half-wolf meat, another off-road vehicle drove in the same direction. The driver of the car had fluttering blue hair, like a burning blue flame in the night.

So this night became extraordinary again.

PS: A small chapter, as a small surprise. It's almost the New Year, and the work has come to an end for the time being, and there will be more time in the near future. So small surprises like this should appear more often. I don't have any recommendations now.,Do you leave a word in the book review area after reading the book?,Don't make me too lonely~~.