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    The battle is without any suspense.

    The thick tires crushed the dry ground into layers of blood, mud and flesh.  The giant rat that rushed in the air was hit by the powerful bullet and rolled over on the spot.  The weapons invented by man once again demonstrate the vast difference between biological forces and machinery.  If time continues to pass for millions or tens of millions of years, this mammal, whose number far exceeded that of humans in the old era, is likely to evolve claws and teeth that are as hard as steel.  The biological functions of the body will also evolve with more powerful regenerative functions as tissues change.  But this is just speculation, the future is too far away, and people's current goal is to kill these damn, dirty creatures cleanly and thoroughly, leaving no one left.

    The AK rifle held in the major's hand accurately fired the bullet that penetrated the body of the last giant rat.  The scattering warhead, which was spinning wildly with burning energy, completely shattered the entire head of the giant rat that jumped over.  It screamed crazily, and clawed at the air with its four short, thick and sharp claws. It lost its jumping accuracy and was immediately hit by the onrushing off-road vehicle. It popped up like an arrow and fell down.  It rolled over five meters on the ground.  The fatally wounded giant rat's body twitched violently, and after a moment, it would never move again.

    The night sky was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder smoke and blood.  The soldier controlling the machine gun on the roof quickly put on a new ammunition belt, swung the gun seat, and pointed the hot muzzle at the three strangers standing among the rat corpses.

    There was silence at the scene.

    The hot and dazzling lights scattered from the left and right sides, completely covering the twitching flesh and blood and living people.

    The moment their eyes collided, Lin Xiang could already feel the strong hostility and coldness emanating from the three survivors.  The mace clubs and throwing guns in their hands were slowly turning in the direction facing the front of the car as their bodies and arms swung slightly.

    "If you don't want to die here, you'd better get in the car right away¡ª¡ª"

    Lin Xiang pushed open the car door and jumped out. He spread out his weaponless hands expressionlessly and said coldly: "The smell of blood here is too strong. In a few minutes, all the mutated beasts in the entire wilderness will come from all directions."  Of course, if you want to die, I won¡¯t object¡ª¡ª¡±

    The three men and women quickly exchanged glances, and some of the coldness and hostility faded away from the center of their narrowed pupils.  They stepped out of the rat corpse, with some hesitation and vigilance, and ran towards the off-road vehicle behind Lin Xiang.

    "etc¡ª¡ª"

    Suddenly, the middle-aged man walking at the end, holding a powder gun in his hand, said solemnly: "We must bring Wilk and Johnny, as well as these rare prey."

    As he spoke, he pointed at the giant rat corpses everywhere, and at the same time he quickly put the gun on his shoulder, and used his strength to lift the arm of a half-dead man lying at his feet.

    "James, they are dead¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª"

    The man and woman who had already run to the car turned around together, holding a nail-headed stick in their hands. The tall young man, about 20 years old, shook his head helplessly and said, "We don't have much time. This man is right."  , the mutated beasts will soon be able to smell the bloody smell here. Put them down, Wilk and Johnny are already dead."

    "I know, but they're food. Especially Johnny, he just turned twelve yesterday. This tender meat will fetch a lot of money. And there's no way anyone can stop me from these damn rats. We're risking our lives  Isn¡¯t that what you¡¯re going out hunting for? You must take them with you. Instead of just standing there talking and wasting time, why not come over and help me¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡±

    The middle-aged man named James is very stubborn. Although he only wears an old suit that is full of oil stains and has no sleeves, the muscles exposed from his shoulders are very strong.

    The situation is dangerous, but men and women have no better options.  They quickly looked at each other, suppressed the fear and anger in their hearts, each picked up a dead rat from their feet, and threw it into the upper floor of the carriage where ammunition boxes occupied the last space.

    "Thank you for saving us, we will pay you enough."

    The woman has beautiful blond hair and fair skin. She is obviously not Asian.  There was a layer of soot on her face, and she was malnourished for a long time, making her body look very thin.  She struggled to lift a mutated rat corpse that was longer than herself, and threw it heavily into the carriage. Her chest heaved violently, and she breathed heavily. She forced a friendly smile to Lin Xiang and said, "Thank you, my name is Fierna.  you"

    "Hurry up, Philna, we don't have much time¡ª¡ª"

    The young man next to her interrupted her rudely.  At the same time, he raised his blood-stained face and looked warily at Lin Xiang, whose expression did not waver at all.  There was a faint hint of fear, nervousness and hatred in the slightly twitching eyes.

    The major strode over from the side and was about to speak to stop the movement of the three people.Then Lin Xiang gently raised his left hand, shook it, and said calmly: "Let them move as much as they can. Don't turn off the car and evacuate in five minutes."

    As he spoke, he took out a pack of "marlboro" from his pocket, took out one and lit it.

    Lin Xiang can understand the middle-aged man's stubbornness even at this dangerous moment - the refugees in the wilderness have no fixed source of food, and they never let go of anything edible.  Even if there are undigested residues and particles remaining in the feces, they will still wash them and eat them again.

    He used consciousness energy to detect that these three hunters were ordinary people without mutant abilities.  In a moderate environment where the radiation index exceeds 150, their normal physiological level can only be maintained for about forty minutes.  Beyond this time limit, the heart's blood supply and endocrine system begin to become disordered, the brain's consciousness becomes blurred, and the damaged central nervous system gradually loses its most basic sensory abilities.  After staying for more than two hundred minutes, the body lost the ability to move and fell into a coma.  The next step is to face death directly.

    Even for those who were able to leave within the forty-minute time limit, their body organs were still severely damaged by radiation.  This change usually occurs after three to six days.  It usually manifests as nausea, anorexia, and soreness and numbness in the limbs. Those with strong reactions may even experience widespread cell death throughout the body, leading to dehydration and other symptoms.  If treatment is supplemented with anti-radiation drugs at this time, although death will not occur on the spot, the damaged internal organs will be difficult to recover. The lifespan that was originally able to survive for about fifty years may only last for half a year, and the longest may not exceed twelve months.  moon.

    In addition to the above factors, mutated organisms operating in moderate radiation areas are stronger, more ferocious and bloodthirsty.  All in all, it would be impossible for ordinary people to enter moderate radiation areas to hunt at night unless they were forced into desperation.

    Lin Xiang was not angry at the middle-aged man's attitude of not expressing gratitude at all.  In the old days, he personally experienced the days of struggling at the bottom of society, and witnessed the embarrassment of many men who emptied their pockets and couldn't even come up with two taels of pork money.

    The environment is different, but in order to survive, human beings will always burst out with crazy ideas that they usually dare not even think about when they are most desperate.

    What they need is just a few pieces of meat to satisfy their hunger.

    This thing may be worthless in the eyes of the Soaring Dragon soldiers who have abundant output, and Lin Xiang does not think that the woman named Fierna can provide a "reward" that satisfies him.  These dirty pieces of meat that look like garbage, no, to be precise, they should be contaminated corpses. Eating them in the stomach can easily bring about various incurable diseases.  But they may be the biggest support for these people to survive in the next few months.

    There were rat carcasses piled everywhere on the top of the carriage, and dirty and smelly pus, blood, and internal organs slowly flowed down along the grooves on the surface of the carriage.  The off-road vehicle with a beautiful metallic sheen was painted a dark red, and there was even yellow-black rat droppings that emitted a stench.

    Finally, he took a puff of the remaining third of the cigarette butt, curled his fingers, and flicked out a shining arc in the dark night.  Lin Xiang opened the door and got into the cab. He was about to step on the clutch when he unexpectedly caught sight of a middle-aged man who was holding the last rat carcass and throwing it on the roof of the car. He quickly ran to the cigarette butt he had thrown away.  , picked it up, pressed it carefully on a stone, and put it into a close-fitting breast pocket with an expression of excitement and ecstasy.

    In the distance, noisy footsteps could be heard in the dark wilderness, as well as crazy howls filled with hunger.

    Shaking his head, Lin Xiang glanced at Fierna who was sitting in the car in the rear mirror, and said casually: "Where is the entrance to the underground residence?"

    "You, how do you know we live underground?"

    The woman subconsciously smoothed down the messy hair that covered half of her face, revealing a young face of about eighteen or nineteen years old, and asked in surprise.

    Lin Xiang shifted his gaze calmly and found that the young man sitting next to Fierna was staring at him.  Apparently, he had discovered that this piece of mirror hung from the roof of the car had a reflective effect.

    Calculated from the time when the radiation detector changed, the convoy has entered the moderate radiation zone for about 20 kilometers.  It is impossible for any ordinary person to run this long distance in forty minutes.  The soldiers who were observing along the way did not notice anything unusual.  It should be admitted that these hunters are indeed fearless of death.  But the reason why they hunt mutant rats is to relieve hunger.

    In other words, they don¡¯t want to die at all.  Strict environmental restrictions, coupled with various conditions required for survival, naturally make it possible to judge that these hunters who suddenly appeared are obviously not from the mild radiation zone dozens of kilometers away.  The only possibility is to live underground.

    Lin Xiang saved them and was able toUnderstand the instinctive hostility and vigilance caused by sudden encounters with strangers.  The act of helping hunters transport prey has made James and Fierna change their attitudes and become friendly.  Only the Asian young man still stared at him with hatred and hostility.

    It is indeed very strange, but now is not the time to think about this problem - the roars of beasts in the distance are getting louder and louder, they are already impatient to snatch the flesh and blood residue on the ground as soon as possible.

    "Go north along the bushes, there is a tunnel entrance¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª"

    Looking at the blurry and chaotic black shadow reflected by the car lights, Fierna's face, which had just regained a trace of blood, instantly became as pale as death.  She stood up suddenly, grabbed the armrest behind the seat, stretched out her right arm and pointed directly in front of the car, screaming at the top of her lungs: "Hurry up¡ª¡ª"

    ¡°Crunch¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡±

    When the accelerator was pressed hard to the bottom, the tires driven by the mechanical force also began to rotate at high speed. Loose sand and gravel were lifted high from the ground. The off-road vehicle rushed out like a wild horse, carrying the friction between the tires and the ground.  A large swath of Mars, running rapidly towards the north.

    The light illuminated a huge black shadow lying on the wilderness.

    It was an old-era double-decker bus with mottled paint, missing tires, and overturned sideways.

    "You can see the tunnel when you go around it. There are people coming down below, and they will wait for us for another sixteen minutes¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª"

    The violent body jolt caught Filna off guard and her body was hit hard against the back of the driver's seat, and then bounced back and fell into the back seat of the car.  The huge physical energy that penetrated her body made her muscles feel sore and painful, but she still tried her best to control her desire to cry. She grabbed the handle on the edge of the car window and roared as loud as possible over the roar of the off-road vehicle's engine.  .

    Lin Xiang stepped on the brakes hard, causing the car body to drift in an instant stall state while maintaining the same direction.  The moment the headlights flashed across the wreckage of the bus, a cement base that had lost its arched cover also appeared in the center of sight.  Over time, cracks have appeared in the cement layer on the ground. The rising shrubs and grass make it difficult for people to see the true face of this small square in the dark.  In the middle of the ruined base, a long and narrow passage slopingly connected to the ground.  Although it is a stepped walking trail, the vertical step recesses have been filled with a large amount of soil and collapsed masonry and smoothed into a slope that can be entered by vehicles.

    The off-road vehicle rushed into the tunnel, and the dazzling lights shone directly at the bottom of the slope, illuminating a few panicked unfamiliar faces and two heavy metal doors that were slowly closing from the left and right.

    Lin Xiang didn't seem to see these fellow hunters who were responsible for responding at all, and the accelerator pedal under his feet did not loosen at all.  The two off-road vehicles roared and rushed through the gap between the crowds. It was not until they rushed behind the gate that was about to close that the vehicle body twisted into a deep concave arc on the ground under the action of the brakes and came to a steady stop.

    ¡°Bang¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡±

    The car door was suddenly pushed open, and the livid-faced Fierna staggered out of the car, holding her hands tightly on the ground, her eyes widened, her tightly biting mouth suddenly opened wide, and vomiting came from her stomach that was churning like sulfuric acid.  Balls of smelly and disgusting yellow water came out.

    James, who had just stepped off another car, was in no better condition than her.  The burly middle-aged man's legs weakened and he collapsed on the ground, panting desperately. He was unable to speak for a long time.

    It is difficult for ordinary people to withstand such strong vibrations and impacts. Unlike evolved soldiers, their fragile bodies will instinctively respond to external energy.  The most direct manifestations are vomiting and dizziness.

    The young man finally walked out of the carriage. Although his face was pale, he did not show the exhausted tiredness of Philna and James.  He still stared at Lin Xiang with vigilance and hostility, silently glaring at him.

    The two tracks extending along both sides of the wide concrete platform indicate that this is a subway station left over from the old era.

    The dusty wall lamp on the top of the platform has been broken, and the only source of light is a flaming gasoline barrel next to the passage.

    ¡°Welcome to Sukaka Barachia¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡±

    This is James¡¯ introduction.  Although this experienced middle-aged hunter did not know the actual identities of Lin Xiang and others, he could see with a sophisticated eye that these strange outsiders who had never met before were not hostile at all.  They are well-equipped, and those two off-road vehicles are definitely not something ordinary people can own. As for uniforms with uniform styles and materials, only powerful family organizations can equip their subordinates with these.

    To use an old saying from the old days - "A rich man who is used to eating abalone and lobster will never be interested in a beggar's broken bowl."

    The rules of survival in the wasteland world are simple and transparent.  As long as there are no conflicts of interest, we can coexist.Although, no one thinks that this kind of vague relationship, which may change between enemy and friend at any time, can develop and evolve into the word "friend".

    James does not want Lin Xiang and others to come to Sukaka Barachia.  But after all, these strangers saved their lives and brought back huge quantities of fresh meat.  Verbal gratitude must be expressed to some extent, as for the world built by Fierna Chengpiao astronomy and subway tunnels.  Radiation cannot penetrate the soil and spread into the tunnel.  It is said that a cultivator with African blood discovered this place.  He creatively invented this place name with the remaining pronunciation and civilization consciousness in his brain.

    The heavy metal gate has been closed. The two pieces of steel, which require a gear winch to open, have a hardness unimaginable to those beasts in the wilderness that rely on teeth and claws to capture prey.

    Eleven giant rats, plus two human corpses.  That¡¯s all for this hunt.

    The four responders waiting at the entrance of the tunnel have already prepared dozens of cleaned and turned over car hoods as containers.  A giant rat with a body length of more than two meters was hung high on a concrete pillar on the subway platform. A bald man with an upper body naked and a half-foot-long sharp knife in his hand skillfully cut open the thick rat.  The hard rat skin was peeled off, and the stomach was opened to clean out the internal organs. The food residue and feces were squeezed out from the stomach pouch and intestines. The large pieces of rat meat, bones, and organs that were unloaded were neatly sorted and stacked in the huge box.  in the container.  v!  ~!
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