It seemed to be nightfall, and the entire basketball court-sized space fell into silence.
Occasionally there were one or two voices, but they were very soft.
Lin Shan sat in front of the only bonfire, staring at the dancing flames in a daze.
Lanlan didn't sleep either, she was waiting for her father, who was said to have gone out to look for food.
"Lanlan, go back to sleep. Uncle Jin will be fine. It was like this before. Once, he even left for several days before coming back."
Sister Bing walked out of the tent at this time and said.
"I'm just a little worried..." Lan Lan pursed her lips and said.
"Uncle Jin is not alone, and he will definitely be fine. He probably went a little further this time.
Be obedient and go to bed. We still have things to be busy with tomorrow morning."
Sister Bing touched Lanlan's head and said coaxingly.
Lanlan also knew that there was no use worrying here, so she followed Sister Bing's advice and went back to her tent to rest.
Sister Bing sat where Lan Lan was sitting before, filled some dry firewood into the bonfire, and said: "It is now the year 251 of the last century. If we count from the beginning of human civilization, then it is now the 1950s.
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But people have become accustomed to regarding the day when the end of the world comes as the starting point for the survival of human civilization."
"Twenty-fourth century..." Lin Shan's expression changed slightly, and he asked again: "This is the earth?"
Sister Bing looked at Lin Shan, shook her head and sighed: "It seems you have not only lost your memory..." "Do you think I'm a psycho?"
Lin Shan smiled bitterly.
Sister Bing shrugged, but that's what she thought.
Lin Shan didn't explain any more. Some things were better left unexplained, but the more they were explained, the more unclear they became.
"This is the earth in the 24th century, and Lin Xiaobai lives in the 23rd century. There is a gap of more than a hundred years between him and me. It seems that I can only rely on myself this time."
Lin Shan thought this way.
Sister Bing's words came to my ears again: "We, a family of more than a hundred, have been living in this basketball court for five years. We have never moved since the third beast wave storm.
But now there is less and less food around, and this firewood. Apart from making fires for cooking, this pile of bonfires burns the rest of the time to provide everyone with a little light."
"I see that most of the people staying here are old, weak, women and children. Have all the men gone to look for food?"
Linshan Interface Road.
"Yes.
We organize several expedition teams every day to look for food in different directions."
Sister Bing said to the bonfire.
"When you look for food, you dig holes in the ground and go to different buildings to find the supplies left by humans?"
Lin Shan asked.
Sister Bing nodded and said: "After the blizzard, the whole world was covered under the snow. Human beings lost their land, water sources and factories, and everything they needed to survive. We can only rely on this way to maintain our lives."
"But if this continues, one day, resources will be exhausted. Haven't you thought of other ways?"
Lin Shan said.
"Other ways?"
Sister Bing was a little surprised.
Lin Shandao: "You just mentioned the beast tide storm. If I understand correctly, there should be many monsters here, right?"
"You don't mean to hunt those monsters, do you?"
Sister Bing shook her head and smiled bitterly.
"how?
Can't it be killed?
Even if the monster is very powerful, you can definitely hunt it down if you think of a way."
Lin Shan frowned and asked.
“It’s not that you can’t kill them, it’s that you can’t eat them.
We have hunted a few of them before, but the monster's meat is highly poisonous and only its fur is of some use to keep out the cold. But the price was too high, more than a dozen people died, and the gain outweighed the loss. Since then, we have never hunted again.
"
Sister Bing said.
"Do you still have the monsters?"
Lin Shan asked.
Sister Bing nodded, then looked at Lin Shan curiously and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"I want to see what kind of monster it is."
Lin Shan said.
Sister Bing was silent for a moment, then threw the wooden stick in her hand into the bonfire, stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll take you there, I can't sleep anyway."
Immediately afterwards, the two left the basketball court and turned into a smaller room next to it. There were some debris piled in it, and there were also three corpses of some kind of animals.
"Is this that kind of monster?"
Lin Shan asked, pointing to the black furry animal carcass on the ground.
Sister Bing nodded and said, "Yes, the other few we caught had their skins peeled off and the meat was thrown away if they were inedible."
"Is this the only kind of monster around here?"
Lin Shan squatted down and observed the monster and asked.
Although this corpse has been stored for some time, the temperature on the entire earth is very low now, and it is buried underground by ice and snow, so it has not rotted at all and is quite well preserved.
"Yes, there is only one kind. We call them long-haired beasts. As you can see, the hair of this kind of monster is very long."
Sister Bing said.
"It's quite vivid."
Lin Shan nodded and asked, "Do you have a knife?
Or a dagger will do."
"what you up to?"
Sister Bing asked suspiciously.
Lin Shan did not explain, but just stretched out his hand to Sister Bing. Sister Bing thought for a while and handed the dagger she carried with her to Lin Shan: "Be careful, my dagger is very sharp."
"Tsk..." With the sound of leather being cut, the long-haired beast's fur was separated by the forest.
He did not cut off the entire skin, but took a piece of meat from each part, and then used the same method to take a few pieces from the other two long-haired beasts.
"These meats are highly poisonous, what do you want to do?"
Sister Bing asked with a frown.
Lin Shan put the well-preserved and fresh animal meat in front of his nose, smelled it, and then said: "I once saw an animal whose meat is also highly poisonous, but after being left for a few days, this highly toxic
It disappears when the animal dies.
Of course, I'm not sure that the same is true for long-haired animals, but what if it is?
Didn’t you find a good food source?”
"Are you telling the truth?"
After hearing this, Sister Bing's bright eyes suddenly became excited.
"Don't have high hopes, we are just giving it a try.
I saw before that there were some rats raised here, right? Can you lend them to me?"
Linshan Road.
In today's environment, rats have become humans' pets and food, just like pigs were raised in the past.
You can keep them as pets for fun. If food is in short supply, kill them to kill two birds with one stone.
Of course, due to the deterioration of the environment, there are not many rats anymore. Even if they exist, they have been mostly caught by the surviving humans.
"Follow me."
Sister Bing knew that Lin Shan wanted to use mice to test the meat to see if it was poisonous.
It's nothing more than a waste of a few mice. This loss is still acceptable. If the meat of this long-haired beast can be eaten, it will be a huge discovery.