Looking at the body that was getting colder on the ground, Wang Tian's blood seemed to be getting colder. His only relative, his father who had been with him for twelve years, died like this.
After a long time, Wang Tian wiped away his tears and secretly swore in his heart: "This is the last time I shed tears, father, I will survive." He looked up at the sky with acid rain outside, and Wang Tian untied his father's waist. The short knife on the top, said to be a knife, is actually a short paratrooper shovel, but the handle is missing, half of the shovel surface is broken off, and the remaining side is polished. This was when Wang Tian was eight years old and his father risked being arrested. Risk, stolen from the capture team's camp.
The earth now has only six hours of sunshine every day, and the remaining eighteen hours are all in the dark night, and the dark night is full of killings, with murderous intentions at every step.
For humans on earth today, the dark night represents death. The acid rain that falls from the sky from time to time, for humans who have lived in this environment for more than a thousand years, although it is not as painful as being poured with sulfuric acid at the beginning. , but you can¡¯t be exposed to the rain for a long time. The sky here is gray-white and the ground is dark brown. In the western part of the original China, these are the only two colors that can be seen. Green may not be the same for existing people on earth. Only the core people in the cities in the major control areas can enjoy it.
Originally 1,302 meters above sea level, 25 kilometers long from east to west, and 13.7 kilometers wide from north to south, Lishan Mountain, a branch of the Qinling Mountains, now looks more like a plain, with only a few ups and downs left. of hills.
The place where Wang Tian was located was a military base that had been abandoned a few days before the disaster. It was located in the Lishan Mountains of Shaanxi Province in the former China. The base that was originally built deep in the mountains now only has an underground part intact, and there are still some The lower level has been covered up. For more than a thousand years, the bottom level has not been opened due to the lack of large machinery. The Wang and Li clans relied on this abandoned base to survive after the disaster.
Human settlements around the world are now distributed in the Central Plains of China in Asia, northwest New Mexico in North America, the foothills of the Ural Mountains in Eurasia, and ancient Egypt in Africa.
Most of them were secret military bases in various places that could survive such disasters. Due to various reasons such as nuclear radiation after the disaster, people's physiques are also slowly changing, and some mutant races and naturally evolved humans have emerged. , these people are the most powerful existences on the earth, and they are also at the highest core position in these human-controlled areas.
After burying his father, Wang Tian sat on the ground blankly. The greatest value of this base now is that it is safe enough. In addition, it only has a clean water conversion machine and a small amount of energy blocks. Weapons, equipment and reserve materials have already been prepared for the disaster. It was moved away a few days ago, and the rest of the things were also taken away by the tribe when they moved ten years ago.
Ten years ago, for unknown reasons, many large mutated creatures appeared in the mountains. In order to survive, the tribesmen died one after another when they went hunting. Young and middle-aged tribesmen died every day. The Wang and Li clans who had lived here for more than a thousand years had to leave the mountains to find a way to survive.
Fortunately, contact with the outside world has not been completely cut off in the past few hundred years. There are still Wang family members in the Central Plains region. Due to the dangerous journey, they have not had too much contact. This trip was almost a narrow escape. The old and the weak were left behind at the base, and some food was left behind. Wang Tian's father was reluctant to leave. Wang Tian and his wife, who had been sick after childbirth, also stayed, but they still couldn't save it. His wife died when Wang Tian was three years old. In the following years, the old and weak clan members died one by one, leaving only Wang Tian and his father to depend on each other.
Although he has been malnourished for many years, the twelve-year-old Wang Tian is still about 1.6 meters tall. He has completely inherited the high-quality genes of his parents. He has yellow skin, dark eyes, regular facial features, a slightly straight nose bridge, and a thin face with a certain look. Elegant, but as soon as he gritted his teeth, the softness on his face disappeared immediately. Every muscle bulged sharply, and his slightly childish face revealed layers of murderous aura.
His black hair was casually draped over his shoulders, and his face was a little sallow. Only his eyes, which had just been red from crying, revealed a glimmer of light between opening and closing. He had been witnessing death and killing since he was born. Although his father's death was a big blow to Wang Tian A blow, but the three words "live" kept shouting in his heart! ! !
It had been two days since there was any food in his stomach. After rubbing his stomach that was about to rebel, Wang Tian stood up slowly. His movements were very slow. The long and difficult environment had long taught him how to distribute his physical strength. He took a sip. Don't drink too much water. An empty stomach will turn all the water into stomach acid, which will only make you feel more uncomfortable.
It will be dark in two hours, and you must go out, otherwise it will be impossible to hunt food tomorrow with your current physical strength. The acid rain has stopped, and this is the best time for hunters.
Wang Tian, ??who had been with his father since he was a child, was hunting alone for the first time. He clenched the short knife in his hand and took a look.At the Dangdang base, "Open the door!" Wang Tian shouted (the technology before the disaster had already enabled the base to achieve intelligent control). When the door opened with a gap as big as a human gap, Wang Tian quickly walked out.
Tall mutated poplar trees are everywhere. Before the disaster, poplar trees were widely distributed in the original China, from Xinjiang to the eastern coast, from Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia to the Yangtze River Basin in the north. Whether building a protective forest or a timber forest, poplar is the main afforestation tree species, and it is the most widely distributed and adaptable tree species in the world.
The mutated poplar trees have become taller. Each tree is more than a hundred meters high, and there are basically no branches below twenty meters. The broad black leaves cover the poplar forest airtight, and little bits of light fall on the ground through the leaves.
Wang Tian has buried himself in the soil for almost an hour, breathing slowly and leisurely. Here, every creature is a hunter and the hunted. The consequence of any carelessness is to lose life and become the opponent's food. And Wang Tian is now Only at the lowest end of the food chain, his father's death forced him to face all this.
"Pa", a soft sound, it is a mutated black-lined rat.
The adult black-lined rat is generally about 1.5 meters long, weighs 50 to 90 kilograms, and has a fat body. The fur is extremely hard and cannot be hurt by blunt objects. The muzzle is blunt, the ears are round, and the cheeks have cheek pouches. The fur on the back is tan, with a black stripe in the center of the back. The rostral side, ventral surface and lower parts of the limbs are all gray-white, and the color of the fur on the back is clearly separated. It has short limbs and a short tail that is less than a quarter of its body length. It likes to live alone.
The activity range of the black-lined rat is relatively small, mostly within a few hundred meters. The four claws are sharp, and one claw can dig out several holes in the mutated tree. Only the gray-white area on the belly can be penetrated. Although it is at the low end of the biological chain here, it is already a terrifying existence for Wang Tian, ??too. One of the very few creatures he could deal with right now.
Eight steps, five steps, two steps, getting closer and closer. Wang Tian raised his toes sharply. At the moment when the black-lined rat looked back, he held short knives in both hands to break through the soil layer nearly a foot thick and slashed hard. Enter the lower abdomen of the black-lined rat. At the same time, the upper body was raised sharply, and the exposed face was facing the ugly face of the black-lined rat, and the long rat whiskers almost poked Wang Tian's face.
Hearing a scream of "squeak", the sharp claws of the forelimbs of the black-lined rat clawed towards him. Wang Tian hurriedly turned his face to the side, but still couldn't avoid it. The sharp claws directly clawed his cheek away. The remaining momentum remains unabated. Then he cut open the tattered clothes on his shoulders and pulled out a long opening.
Wang Tian couldn't care about the pain at this time, and stood up suddenly. The sharp blade inserted into the rat's body used the upward force of the body to cut open the abdomen of the black-lined rat. Blood sprayed out with the internal organs. His strength also disappeared with the spray of blood, and he was completely overwhelmed by Wang Tian. The rat face faced Wang Tian's face strangely, and a vomiting stench came out of his half-open mouth.
Ignoring the liquid flowing out of his mouth due to nausea and bandaging his wounds, he quickly pushed away the body of the black-lined rat, took out an iron kettle that had been prepared long ago from his waist, cut two strips of cloth with a knife and put them out of his nose. , and then carefully sprinkled the powdery stuff in the kettle around the body of the black-lined rat. This was not the time to relax. There were countless mutant creatures around that were watching eagerly. The wound on his face was bandaged, and the bright red flesh of the gash on his face that was opened by the mutant rat's sharp claws turned outwards, looking more like lips that had turned dry and white due to blood loss.
The powder poured out is made by drying and grinding the glands of a mutated skunk, which is about the size of a house cat. The body length is between fifty and sixty centimeters, and the weight is about twenty kilograms. Males are larger than females. The head, ears, and eyes are all small; the limbs are short.
Skunks use smelly gland secretions as a defense weapon. The meat is also very smelly and inedible, so no mutated creatures are willing to hunt it. Other creatures that smell this smell from a distance will not come close. If you don't use this powder to cover yourself and the black-lined rat, there will be no trace of it. The smell of blood means that he must be making wedding clothes for other mutated animals, and his own life is also on the line.
He took out his hand from the abdomen of the black-lined rat to its head, "Hey, you're lucky." After taking out his blood-stained arm, a crystal the size of a large fingernail stained with rat blood stayed on Wang Tian's head. With the palm of his hand, he carefully placed it in the bag on his waist, then took out the internal organs of the black-lined rat and threw them into the hole he dug just now to bury them, and sprinkled a little skunk powder on the corners of his clothes.
Carrying the black-lined rat on its back, it moved toward the residence carefully and quickly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .