Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that in the doomsday world model called [Underground Farm], he could actually see the blue sky when he looked up.
After she passed through the blindness again and walked past the rock wall, the first thing she saw was a sunny blue sky, stretching out in the distance, like a canvas, spread out on the ground.
The sky above the rows of dark wooden houses is comfortable and flat.
"Is this...is this also a trick?" She couldn't help but stop and asked in a low voice.
Yu Yuan, who suddenly had a beard, unexpectedly had the temperament of a tough guy in a Western movie - Lin Sanjiu originally thought that he would definitely look like a tattooed version of a skinny Santa Claus.
He looked around and replied: "Since this is the apocalyptic world, maybe it's not surprising that it has its own sky?"
Lin Sanjiu raised her nose and took a sniff.
"It's possible. Have you noticed that the stench is the same here, but it's much lighter," she said, while slowly walking towards the direction of the dark wood-colored house, "Is it because of the smell of the [underground farm]?"
Can the smell dissipate? There is sky, sunshine and wind here...but the smell trapped in the cave can only accumulate and become stronger."
Just because it said that, it didn't mean that it smelled better inside; Lin Sanjiu felt that she should really take off the newly installed eyebrows and stuff them into her nostrils.
[Underground Farm] is instead an outdoor place under the sky, which may not be the strangest thing. Lin Sanjiu was mentally prepared to see large groups of ordinary people imprisoned here; but after walking for a while
, except for the open simple sewers dug deep in the open space and filled with excrement and urine, they saw no one.
Could it be that Feng Shanwu got the wrong news?
Soon, they walked into rows of neat dark wooden houses. From a distance, the small houses looked similar to farmers' dwellings, but when they looked closer, they discovered something unusual - each small wooden house had
There is no door to the house.
Not only is there no door, but on the side facing the walkway, even the wall is only half a mud wall that reaches waist height. When any adult walks by, he can clearly see the inside of the wooden house with a glance of his probe.
Clearly, if you want, you can even reach out and pick up things on the floor in the room.
...It’s just that there’s nothing to be afraid of being stolen.
Lin Sanjiu's eyes crossed the earthen wall and swept around the room.
There was no bed, no tables and chairs, just two rows of long rags with various patterns and patterns spread on the dirt floor; the only thing they had in common was that they were all so old and dirty that even the threads could be clearly seen.
She stared at the rags one after another on the dirt floor and the large balls of straw on each rag, and slowly she came back to her senses - it turned out that these cloths were beds and the straw balls were pillows. She
I didn't see a quilt on any of the "beds", maybe it was being worn by someone.
"Look," Yu Yuan leaned his upper body into the earth wall and pointed to the ground below. "Maybe this is the reason why half a low wall was built?"
Lin Sanjiu followed his finger and found that in the shadow close to the low wall, there was a row of iron bowls and spoons. Looking at the number, it happened to correspond to the "beds" in the house.
The ground is speckled with dried sap and is filled with dirt left by food residues.
"What do you mean?" She didn't understand for a moment.
"When it's time to eat, those who share the meal only need to lift their spoons and slam them into the bowls raised behind the wall, and they're done. They don't even have to enter the door." Yu Yuan said, tapping the ground with his toes, and said:
"There is a basis for what I say. Look at the paths between the houses. There are countless deep and shallow wheel marks on them. They look like wheelbarrows."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment, and imagined the scene of sharing meals in her mind.
Next to the empty mud floor covered with sheets, there was another small cubicle; she didn't even have to go in to look, just smelled it from a distance, and she already knew where it was - the ditch dug in the earth had been covered with water.
Soaked in black, the smell of the entire [Underground Farm] should come from this large wooden house where human bodies, sweat glands, food, and excrement are gathered.
"Then...where are the people who live here? Where have they gone?"
Yu Yuan took the lead and continued walking deeper into the wooden house, saying, "Let's keep going forward."
Each cabin was exactly the same, as if the printer had not been set up properly, and it hummed out row after row of identical documents, leaving no one with time to press pause, so they had to line them up one by one to make the best use of them. Some cabins
They were covered with "sheets" and some wooden houses were empty, as if there were more houses than people.
The wooden houses stretch continuously, turning left and right, just like a horizontal and vertical maze; the [Underground Farm] is far larger than the [Medical System], and both of their combat abilities are reduced due to [Facial Hair]
After being beaten, and walking for a while, Lin Sanjiu finally caught a little bit of human voices floating in the ocean outside the wooden house in the distance.
"In front," she whispered, speeding up her pace with Yu Yuan.
It seemed that all the people in the wooden house had gathered in the square space in front of them. Before the two of them could get closer, Lin Sanjiu was greeted by a thick cloud of human body odor, which was hot, rich, and greasy.
Sour and fishy.
Large groups of people were crowded, shoulder to shoulder, and humming; some people lined up in short queues, waiting in front of several pavilions, but there were not many people who could maintain order, and the short queues could not stretch for a while.
It turned into disorganized clusters.
But one thing made Lin Sanjiu realize the problem very clearly: in the empty space crowded with people, there seemed to be an invisible dividing line that clearly separated men and women. On that invisible line
On both sides, men and women seemed to turn a blind eye to the opposite sex who was only a few feet away, and there was little eye contact.
"It seems we have to leave," Lin Sanjiu said, "Do you still have the communicator on you?"
"Here," Yu Yuan said calmly, "I'll go over first, and you can follow me."
In a gender-segregated place, naturally they shouldn't appear together. Lin Sanjiu watched him blend into the group of hunched backs and greasy hair, took a deep breath, and went to the crowd of women.
If Feng Zhangwu's daughter is among these women, searching for her is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Lin Sanjiu was not at a high place and could not see the overall situation clearly, but along the way she made a rough estimate that there were hundreds of women here; besides, she had not forgotten that this was just one of many cave passages - Feng
She didn't know where her daughter was at noon. She probably just randomly picked one to come in. What if Feng Huanyan was in another cave?
As soon as she walked into the crowd, she realized that she was too conspicuous.
One after another, either slender or oblate, they all turned towards her like iron stones attracted by magnetism; their eyes flashed past her, whispers followed her footsteps, and they also
Someone who was not afraid of trouble deliberately bumped her with his shoulder, and sniffed Lin Sanjiu vigorously as he passed by.
"New here?" Someone whispered to his companion, and Lin Sanjiu heard every word.
"Look at her clothes... they are so nice. She must have had an affair with an evolver."
"Why do you even save this kind of person?" Another person said, looking around: "Why is she alone? Where is her roommate and the security chief?"
What is a security guard?
Lin Sanjiu was confused, but she also understood that it was probably against the rules to walk around alone here. She hurriedly raised her hand, pretending to wave to the person in the distance, and called out: "I
Here it is, come here!”
After she left those two people behind, she accidentally caught the attention of another person - a middle-aged elder sister who caught her eye when she waved.
"Did you just call me?" The middle-aged elder sister looked confused. She looked her up and down, and suddenly seemed to understand something: "Oh, are you the newly assigned one? Taking the vacant seat?"
Lin Sanjiu hit the snake and put it on the stick, and said quickly: "It's me. I just came here and I don't understand anything yet. Please give me more advice."
"Your attitude is better than the last one." The eldest sister was very satisfied, nodded and said, "You came just in time, just in time for our physical examination."
Physical examination?
Through the crowds of people, Lin Sanjiu couldn't see what was going on in front of him. Hearing this, he was stunned and asked carefully: "This physical examination..."
She learned this trick from Qingjiu abroad; as expected, the eldest sister added the second half of the sentence herself: "It happens every day, you just get used to it, but you just came here, you will definitely fail the first few physical examinations."