abyss rose

Chapter 54

"There is someone." Chu Ci murmured, seeing that Chai Yuening did not respond, he said loudly again, "Chai Yuening, there are people over there!"

This sound was not loud, but it made Chai Yuening wake up like a dream.

It turned out that it was not an illusion, the light in the distance was the fog lights, fog lights that only belonged to human beings!

They saw humans deep in the fog zone.

It was rare for Chu Ci to shout anxiously into the distance, but the pouring rain completely drowned out her modest voice.

"I can't hear you." Chai Yuening grabbed her, lowered her head and found a flashlight from her bag, and smiled with pale lips, "I need this."

As she spoke, she turned the flashlight to red light mode and shone in the distance where the fog lights were on.

The red light penetrated the heavy rain and thick fog that night, and the human vehicles in the distance slowly turned and approached.

The rain was cold and the fog lights were blinding.

A black off-road vehicle stopped in front of them.

The car window was rolled down, and the eyes of the bald man on the driver's seat were full of surprise.

……

The off-road vehicle drove in the jungle with almost no roads.

Two soaked people, each half-wrapped in the thin blanket used for resting in the car, were shivering in the back seat.

To be precise, only Chai Yuening shivered.

A black vine that has been soaked in the experimental water tank all year round will not catch cold due to a heavy rain.

The bald man driving the car was in a good mood, and sang a folk song that they had never heard before with a broken voice. It was really ugly, but it made people feel inexplicably at ease.

The girl in the passenger seat, with a low ponytail, looked sixteen or seventeen years old.

As soon as Chai Yuening and Chu Ci got into the car, they received the white sugar pills that she stuffed over them, and they were repeatedly visited by her curious eyes afterwards.

The bald head finished singing, and there was a moment of silence in the car.

The little girl finally couldn't help turning around backwards, knelt on the seat, put her arms around the back of the chair, and introduced herself: "My name is An Li, the plow that plows the ground, he is my uncle Ander." ,what about you?"

"Chai Yuening." Chai Yuening said, and glanced at Chu Ci, "Her name is Chu Ci."

"Are you from outside?" An Li asked.

"En." Chai Yuening nodded.

"Where did you come from?" An Li asked again, "Can you still find the way back?"

"...Ah Choo!" Sniffing, Chai Yuening responded casually with a bit of vigilance, "We came out to take samples. We encountered danger on the way and lost our way while escaping. We couldn't go back."

"Then you guys are too unlucky." An Li said, smiling with his eyebrows bent, "But it's not too bad, at least you met us!"

She didn't seem to have the slightest intention to get to the bottom of it.

"I haven't seen a human outside in six or seven years." Ender said with a smile, "We all thought that the human outside was extinct."

"Have you ever met humans outside before?" Chai Yuening asked curiously.

"Isn't it? Six or seven years ago, we could meet each other, but now we don't." An Li said, pointing out the window with his chin raised, "These guys are getting bigger and bigger, people from outside can't get in."

Chai Yuening was stunned for a moment, then asked again: "Haven't you thought about going out to find the same kind?"

Ander smiled: "Think about it, but just think about it, the people who can get here either fell from the sky or were picked up by strange beasts. Most of them lost their way before they got here and couldn't find them at all." The way back. The world is so big, we can’t take a joke with our lives and take a trip that never returns, right? Besides, our car is electric, so we can’t drive very far.”

What he said was indeed not wrong. When the floating city supported the dungeon, it was also because they couldn't find a specific location, so they didn't dare to set off.

This world is too big. To it, a human base is just a drop in the ocean. Without an accurate location, it is almost impossible to find it.

Maybe that's why they didn't ask where they came from.

This is good news for Chai Yuening, this is a place that is almost isolated from the world, the people living here don't know where the floating city is, let alone tell the floating city of their existence.

She stared out the window for a while.

I couldn't help asking: "Have you always lived here?"

An Li: "Yes, we came out to investigate the degree of ecological evolution, and we are going back now."

Chai Yuening: "The degree of ecological evolution..."

An Li: "The evolution of these strange beasts is too fast recently, Mr. Huihui knows, and he must have a headache again."

Chai Yuening: "How many of you... are there?"

An Li: "A few hundred people."

Chai Yuening couldn't help being surprised: "Hundreds of people? With such a small number of people, how are you going to resist giant beasts and herds of beasts?"

An Li blinked and said with a smile: "You don't understand, we have our own way!"

"Want to learn? I can teach you when I have a chance!" the little girl said, and glanced at the gun in Chai Yuening's waist, "That thing is good for killing people, but it's not very effective in front of strange beasts."

At this point, she sat upright proudly: "Go a little further, and you will arrive at our base! The base welcomes every human being to join!"

In the depths of this stormy and foggy area, An Li's tone was very brisk, which surprised Chai Yuening.

Chai Yuening suddenly remembered something.

Regardless of the dungeon base or the floating city base, anyone who went to the ground and wanted to go back must undergo an infection test.

Any mercenary who has been to the ground should know that if he saves a survivor on the ground, he must hand over an infection test agent as soon as possible.

Ander and An Li did not.

Instead of letting them be monitored for infection, they didn't say a word about infection.

Are these people living in the depths of the smog area, like Chu Ci, immune to infection?

Chai Yuening wanted to ask, but didn't dare to ask.

She worried that Ander and An Li just forgot about the infection test, and if she reminded them a little, they would immediately take out the infection test reagents or instruments.

She has not been injured recently, and neither has Chu Ci, but she is not sure whether Chu Ci's current state is considered a person in the judgment criteria of human infection testing.

If not, then will the rules here be the same as the human bases outside, unwilling to leave half a way for "alien species" to survive.

The off-road vehicle was still moving forward, and under the illumination of the fog lights, Chai Yuening vaguely saw several connected old world-style human buildings through the heavy rain and thick fog.

The night lights of the buildings were dimly lit, and they stood in the wind, rain and fog, surrounded by layers of iron fences.

This place is very small, maybe not as big as the research institutes in the dungeon and floating city.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chai Yuening would never have believed that human beings who can survive in the fog zone would live in such a small place.

"We're here, we're here!" An Li turned around and said, "There are still vacant rooms in the base, but it's a bit messy. I'll clean up one for you!"

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome." An Li giggled, "You guys won't be able to go back anyway, and everyone will be your own people from now on."

When the off-road vehicle drove into this small human base in the foggy area, Chai Yuening couldn't help but raise her heart. The expected infection test did not come, and she and Chu Ci successfully entered this base that could be seen at a glance.

She took Chu Ci's hand and followed the two people in front of her all the way.

"Over there is the infirmary, over there is the planting area, the water well and the generator are over there, and the innermost part is Mr.'s laboratory. People live here..."

An Li has been introducing this place to them all the way.

People in the small base know each other, and the first thing they do when they meet is to say hello. After greeting, they see a stranger behind them, and they will ask a question by the way, but they don't have the slightest idea to get to the bottom of it.

It can be seen that this is not the first time that this base has taken in people from outside, and everyone will not be surprised by this, nor will they treat people from outside as rare species.

With the help of An Li and other people in the base, after wandering for a long time, they finally lived in a human house again.

The windows are tight, there is no wind in the room, and the overhead lamps are warm yellow.

There is a clean bed, a place to take a hot bath, a change of clothes, and sweet potato soup sent by an unknown elder sister.

With everything in front of her eyes, Chai Yuening couldn't help but feel as if she had passed away.

Isn't this really a dream?

She took a hot bath, changed into clean clothes, and stared blankly in front of the glass window with the hot soup in her hand.

It was not too late at night, and countless lights in the base were still on.

Thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, but this place was so peaceful that it seemed to be isolated from the world, which was unreal no matter how you looked at it.

"Would you like to pinch me?" Chai Yuening suddenly looked back at Chu Ci.

Chu Ci was sitting on the bed at the moment, wiping her wet long hair with a dry towel, she raised her head in a daze: "Why?"

Chai Yuening: "It feels like a dream."

Chu Ci: "It's not a dream."

Chai Yuening pursed her lips, and pinched her own arm. It hurt and turned red, so she could be sure that this was not a dream.

"We came from outside, and we don't need to be tested for infection." Chai Yuening said, walking to Chu Ci with the sweet potato soup in his hand, and asked suspiciously, "Are people here not afraid of infection, or are they not infected at all?"

Chu Ci blinked, and there was a trace of curiosity in his eyes.

Chai Yuening wanted to say something, but suddenly heard a deafening cry.

"Come here! Help!" His voice was very anxious.

She stood up and hurried back to the window.

Just at the entrance of this small base, a man with a hoarse voice was carrying another man covered in blood on his back—his intestines were grabbed out by strange beasts.

The current rate of infection and mutation of ground beasts, even if they are only injured by a small hole, has a high probability of being shot/killed by the base, at least in the floating city and dungeon.

People who are injured like this will basically be given up, but the people here will bring the injured back to the base. Chai Yuening is very surprised by this.

She saw many people rushing into the heavy rain from their homes, and carried the injured person to the direction of the infirmary.

She was stunned for a while, then said to Chu Ci, "I'll go and see."

After all, he turned and pushed open the door, and ran towards the infirmary.

The door of the infirmary was open, and there seemed to be no taboo between these people.

The female doctor with a calm face skillfully treated the incomparably horrific wound, and beside her was a display screen with very complicated data, very much like the one in the underground laboratory of the Floating Void City.

She murmured in a low voice: "The injury is serious, the infection is serious, and I am losing my sense of self...Give me the inhibitor."

They were actually saving people, saving a person who was seriously injured by a strange beast...

She almost forgot.

Human life is not worthless.