Chen Wu has always had a feeling recently that he seems to be being stared at by something.
He didn't know if it was a hallucination caused by hunger, a hallucination caused by poisoning caused by accidentally taking poisonous weeds, or just hysteria caused by the fear of war.
That weird feeling lingers.
But what is there to draw attention to?
Chen Wu is a lame man. He can't run fast and his body is not strong. Even among ordinary people, he is weak. If it were those monsters, he could be killed.
The only advantage is that he is not too old. He is nineteen years old. Even if he is exhausted one day, he can recover quickly the next day.
Unlike those older refugees, their bodies no longer support their high-intensity scavenging outside, so they all try to reduce consumption as much as possible and are very conservative.
Everyone was exhausted from the constant migration to escape the war.
The new camp was built on an uninhabited rock wall, where there was sufficient height and visibility, as well as mountain cover. A short walk outside is a small forest growing on the mountainside. You can pick up a lot of branches and leaves for firewood, and you can also find some edible roots, nuts, mushrooms and beetles. If you are lucky enough to meet a field mouse, you can also replenish your oil and water.
The most important thing is that not far behind the rock wall there is a small pool of underground water seeping out, with drinkable water in it.
There is water, heating fuel, and a certain amount of food. The situation here is far better than Chen Wu expected.
"Brother, this place is great. We can stay here for a long time. You are so amazing! You can survey the terrain from a distance!"
Tahara next to him looked excited.
Tian Yuan is half a head taller than Chen Wu, but in fact he is only thirteen years old. A velvety beard has grown out of the corners of his mouth, but his eyes are still as bright as a teenager's.
Here, no one calls Chen Wu Lame Chen anymore.
Everyone calls him brother.
Because it was Chen Wu who led them all the way to accurately find the habitat behind the cold mountains.
"Be careful." Chen Wu walked slowly from the pool back to the camp with a cane.
"Yes, big brother." Tian Yuan followed behind.
The accommodation in the camp is dug into the ground.
Resting in the open air is afraid of attracting those horrible insects, and it consumes a lot of fuel. The camp is now short of blankets and clothes, and the nights in the mountains are very cold.
Burrows keep you warm. The weathered stones here are not difficult to dig. As long as you find a suitable area, you can make a simple cave house with little effort. Then surround the entrance of the cave with stones to block the wind.
A fire was made to boil water, and the extinguished fire also provided heat for the cave.
There are a total of 21 people in the new camp, all half-grown children, 14 boys and 7 girls. They are all people Chen Wu found along the way who are willing to go with him.
When the evil god and the angel were fighting, the old camp was attacked by a swarm of insects, and everyone ran for their lives.
"Those are curse insects [frog flies]. They can recognize the breath of life, but as long as there is no fire of faith in the body, they are not their first choice for attack. We don't have to worry, because we believe in our ancestors, so we are not believers of gods."
"However, frogflies have a bad temper. They like warm areas and hunt high-speed moving individuals. The more they run and move, the more they will attack them. If they remain motionless, they will think it is a sign of surrender, and it will be fine."
Chen Wu and A Duogen met in the wild.
Unlike those refugees who are running for their lives everywhere, Adogan has a well-prepared calmness.
He is a thin man of the same age, but he has a strange habit - his eyes are wandering, as if he cannot focus for a long time, and he keeps looking here and there.
Adogan taught Chen Wu a lot of practical techniques for surviving in the apocalypse.
For example, drinking water must be boiled, and you must wrap your body with clothes to avoid exposing your skin to avoid scratches, bleeding and poisonous infections. When you go out, tie your calves with cloth.
Apart from anything else, leggings are very useful.
It can prevent leeches and other insects from getting into the trouser legs, and can also prevent the legs from being scratched by thorns and weeds, and can also reduce redness, swelling and pain caused by long-term walking.
Chen Wu was impressed but also surprised: "How do you know so much?"
Adogan describes each survival technique and the risks it uses to avoid, as if he has experienced the end of the world many times.
This gave Chen Wu a surprising thought.
"Are you from the future? So you have experienced the end of the world and then found a way to come back to save us?"
Adogan was silent.
"I got it right?"
Chen Wu was excited: "You must have a way to solve the natural disaster, right?"
He is a person whose mind is prone to random thoughts, perhaps this is also the habit of young people.
Chen Wu has a quick mind and quick legs. Before the outbreak of the war of aggression, he was a messenger, delivering letters to people everywhere. He liked to run and let his brain and himself run free.
"Help us! People from the future!"
"Stop... First of all, I am not from the future." Adogan raised his palm and made a stop gesture: "I am just a doomsday enthusiast who has done some research on world destruction and doomsday, and I have been thinking about it all year round. This kind of thing."
Chen Wu was a little disappointed.
They formed a partnership and worked together for nearly a month. In less than thirty days, Chen Wu learned a lot.
However, Adogan's strange disease became more and more serious, and his eyes kept scanning everything around him, like a chicken or a snake. This seems like a nervous reaction, as if there is always danger around you.
Regarding the [Frogfly], Chen Wu told everyone, but was scorned.
No one believed it, and no one was willing to risk their lives.
Chen Wu didn't dare either.
Until the battle between the evil god and the angel broke out, and the insect swarm swooped down overwhelmingly.
Chen Wu saw that Adogan ran the fastest.
As he ran, he said, "Don't move, remember. Find the place I told you to meet, and we'll meet there."
Adogan ran like a gust of wind and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Dry!
Let me not run, but let me run and fly.
Chen Wu also wanted to run, but he couldn't. The injury to his leg bones made it difficult for him to move. He could not run even a few steps without losing his balance and falling down.
no way.
He could only bite the bullet and dig into the mud, ready to resign himself to his fate.
The buzzing of the wings of giant insects can be heard in my ears. They knock down the fleeing refugees one by one, kill them with a fatal blow with their long needles, and then kill the next one.
Refugees in the camp cannot run more than a few steps before falling to the ground.
Chen Wu's lips were trembling. He gritted his teeth and tightened his body, controlling his instinct to escape and trying to turn himself into a harmless stone.
A [frogfly] came to him and stopped.
Chen Wu was lying in the mud, and could only see the opponent's thick limbs covered with spikes, and the hot stench emanating from his body. Frogfly was lying in the mud next to him and didn't know what he was doing.
After a while, he smelled a stronger rotten stench, and then realized that the frogfly was defecating.
Then the monster left.
Chen Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
What Adogan said is true. Frogflies do not attack lives that remain quiet. And they seem to think that the quagmire is a toilet, and they don't even come here very often.
These bugs are the angel's guards and subordinates. After the battle with the evil god, the bug swarm also receded.
Only then did Chen Wu carefully move his stiff and numb limbs. He stood up from the quagmire, looked around, and found that there were no living people in the camp, and the crows began to peck at the corpses on the ground.
There was no time to feel down and depressed over all this, so he quickly began to collect the necessary supplies from the corpse, including clothes, shoes, water, and some nuts.
Chen Wu carried his luggage and leaned on crutches, and headed north as A Duogen said before.
He met some other refugees sporadically along the way, and the only ones willing to go with him were the younger half-year-old children. They also have a kind of dissatisfaction unique to young people. In addition, at this age, he eats a lot and often goes hungry, so there is simply not enough food to eat in the camp.
Older people do not believe that there is a place for survival behind the mountains, or in other words, they are not willing to believe in a cripple who cannot save himself.
Beyond the three desolate hills, just as Adogan said, there is a habitat suitable for survival.
Now all that's left is Adogan himself.
Chen Wu waited for two months, but still didn't wait for him.
Is Adogan dead?
Chen Wu didn't believe it.
Adogan, who has been studying doomsday destruction for many years, should be able to live longer than a cripple like himself.
He continued to wait.
…
The cave was dry and warm due to the remaining fire.
Chen Wu collects the ashes from the bonfire.
This is a material with a wide range of uses, Adogan emphasized, saying that it is easy to prepare, but the demand will be huge.
Plant ash can be used to clean hair, body and clothes to avoid bugs. It can treat some redness and swelling and stop bleeding. It is also a fertilizer for growing food and can promote seed germination. It is also an essential raw material for growing food in the camp.
It can be said that the more plant ash, the better.
"Brother. Oh no, something big happened!"
Tahara came running in panic.
"The sky, the sky, turned into five suns!"
"The suns are fighting!"
Chen Wu got out of the hole and found that all the people working in the camp had their heads raised.
There were originally two suns in the sky, one was a normal golden sun that glowed and heated, and the other was an orange-red sun - it appeared during the war and seemed to symbolize the coming of the doomsday disaster.
Now there are three more suns.
The three suns are blue, like balls of light formed by lightning, and they surround the orange-red natural disaster sun.
Then Chen Wu suddenly discovered that the three lightning suns locked the disaster sun. They squeezed it in the middle, causing the orange sun to shake, as if they were pushing and beating it.
The natural disaster sun was outnumbered and beaten, surrounded by lightning.
Chen Wu was stunned by this strange scene.
Suddenly, a voice came from my ears.
"satellite……"
That voice is so familiar!
Adogan!
Chen Wu turned his head to look, but couldn't see the other party.
But the voice still reached my ears.
"Here they come, they come."
"Three satellites... Lord Yao Shen is angry... Yinghuo Planet is finished, hehe."
Adogan's voice was still in his ears.
Chen Wu was confused.
What's going on?
