Embers Ad Infinitum

　　 Until the Jeep completely drove out of the silver-white gate, Shang Jian Yao and Long Yuehong adjusted to the light outside, lowered their right arm, opened their eyes, and cast their gazes out of the window.

After the initial, inexplicable fear, they saw a clear blue sky, saw white clouds of different shapes, saw the changing formations of birds, and saw the light golden light gleaming in the sun Mountain wall.

　　 "The sun... the sun!" Long Yuehong shouted at the huge orange fireball high in the sky.

　　 He stared there, even though his eyes were tingling and tears were falling, he couldn't bear to look away.

　　 "Don't look directly at the sun in this state, hurt your eyes! If you really want to see, here." Jiang Baimian drove, while looking for an item in the armrest box, and then handed it to Long Yuehong.

　　Long Yuehong, who was lying on the glass window, looked back and found that it was glasses with all black lenses.

　　 "...sunglasses!" He recalled what he had learned and found the corresponding term.

　　 "If you don't wear it, I will wear it." At this moment, Shang Jian Yao turned around and said.

　　 Long Yuehong looked over and found that Shang Jianyao's eyes were red, as if tears would shed at any time.

　　 "Haha, are you staring at the sun too?" Long Yuehong smiled intolerably.

　　 The next second, he saw Shang Jianyao **** the sunglasses and put them on the bridge of his nose.

　　 "Hey..." He didn't know whether to be angry or to reflect.

　　 "There is another pair here." When Long Yuehong was about to pounce on Shang Jian Yao, Bai Chen, who was in the passenger position, handed out a pair of sunglasses.

　　 These sunglasses are more delicate than Jiang Baimian's pair, like two "hearts" strung together. The color of the lenses is not pure black, but a little rose red.

　　 "Don't break it, I spent a lot of things in exchange for it." Bai Chen exclaimed.

　　 "Thank you." Long Yuehong sincerely thanked him, and put on those sunglasses.

　　With this "equipment", he can finally observe the sun carefully, and compare it with the slideshow.

　　 "This is the sun..." After some time passed, Long Yuehong sighed, took off his sunglasses, and returned it to Bai Chen.

　　 Shang Jian Yao also retracted his gaze, and put Jiang Baimian's sunglasses back into the armrest box thoughtfully.

　　 "What are you thinking?" Long Yuehong glanced at her friend.

　　 Shang Jianyao replied with a serious expression:

　　 "I was thinking, where can I get sunglasses?"

　　 The people in the underground building don't need this thing at all, only a few project teams will use it. Therefore, neither the "material supply market" or the small bazaar of the "Activity Center" on the 495th floor have seen this thing.

　　Driving Jiang Baimian exhaled:

　　 "I knew your focus was wrong."

　　 Bai Chen smiled and said:

　　 "When you pass by the place where the wanderers live in the wilderness, you can go in and take a look. Maybe a compressed cookie can change to a pair of good sunglasses."

　　 "That's how you got mine!" Jiang Baimian echoed, "Why do you trade so many things for yours?"

　　 "I bought it from a female relic hunter. At the time, she thought it was very beautiful, and she wanted to use it by herself, and she didn't lack supplies." Bai Chen recalled the situation.

　　 Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong didn't listen carefully, and both lay on their respective car windows, staring at the outside scene.

　　 Whether it's the huge trees on both sides, or the brown squirrels that run by accidentally, they can make them look with gusto and admire them.

　　 "This is not the same as the dusty environment I imagined..." After an unknown period of time, Long Yuehong sat upright and said with emotion.

　　 "What do you imagine?" Jiang Baimian asked casually while making the jeep jump on the bumpy road.

　　 Long Yuehong worked hard to find an adjective:

　　 "Yes, that's..."

　　 Shang Jian Yao turned his head and helped him describe:

　　 "Dark, cold, damp, depressed, the sky is full of dust, the sun can't shine through the dark clouds, and everything is gray."

　　 "Yes, yes! That's it!" Long Yuehong completely agreed.

　　 Their textbooks did not describe the environment of the dust in detail, but only talked about the state, pollution, disease, and famine, which made them naturally form the impression of the bad environment on the dust.

　　 And those employees who have been to the surface, due to the confidentiality regulations, can not talk much. Even if some places are sunny and the environment is good, they will be subconsciously ignored by the audience.

　　 Jiang Baimian pressed the steering wheel with his elbows, looked forward, and laughed:

　　 "Maybe it would have been the case when the old world was destroyed, but it soon got better, and only parts of it were still in a similar state."

　　 "And that also means danger, pollution, disease and distortion." Bai Chen added next to him.

　　 "That's it..." Long Yuehong put his face on the car window again, admiring the beautiful scenery of the mountain forest bathed in sunlight.

　　 Shang Jian Yao is the same.

　　 Jiang Baimian saw this scene through the rearview mirror, laughed secretly, and pressed a certain button.

In the sound of 　　 beeping, the glass windows on the four car doors suddenly retracted downward.

　　 Long Yuehong was shocked and straightened her body:

　　 "It, it...

　　 "Can you put it away like this?"

　　 "Let you breathe the outside air." Jiang Baimian pretended that he was not playing a prank just now.

　　 Shang Jian Yao's posture has not changed at all, he seems to be enjoying the feeling of the glass window sliding across his face, which looks quite funny.

　　 He then narrowed his eyes and took a deep breath.

　　 "How is it?" Jiang Baimian asked with a smile.

　　 Shang Jian Yao looked outside seriously:

　　 "There is a fresh smell of shit."

　　 "..." Jiang Baimian admitted that Shang Jian Yao had a keen sense of smell, but he didn't want to talk to him.

　　 Bai Chen, who watched Jiang Baimian opening the car window, interjected thoughtfully:

　　 "Leader, when were you born?"

　　 "23 years in the new calendar, what's wrong?" Jiang Baimian replied casually.

　　 "You are three years younger than me..." Bai Chen was a little shocked.

　　Long Yuehong is even more surprised:

　　 "Leader, are you only two years older than us?"

　　 "You are already D6!"

　　 "This is the advantage of working in the Ministry of Security. The danger is the danger. The promotion is really fast. After all, your boss, such as me, doesn't know when he will die." Jiang Baimian joked.

　　 She paused and added casually:

　　 "Moreover, I have made some contributions before.

　　 "Ah, I forgot to remind you that observing the color of the air is very important. Sometimes you must wear a gas mask in advance."

　　 In the next half an hour, Jeep stumbled through the mountains and forests, Shang Jian Yao and Long Yuehong were still like children, watching the scenery outside intently, curious about everything.

　　 Seeing that the soil in front of me gradually became black, the surrounding trees began to sparse, and the road was no longer rugged, Long Yuehong suddenly frowned and said:

　　 "I always feel that the outside environment is not right, it seems like something is missing..."

　　Shang Jian Yao had sat upright, and said in a deep but not low voice:

"nobody."

　　No one...Yes! Long Yuehong patted his thigh and said:

　　 "Yes, except for a few people in the outposts along the way, no humans have appeared!"

　　 And the people in the post are undoubtedly employees of the company.

"People nearby are either absorbed by the company, or wandering to a place where there is food, or..." Jiang Baimian said, "When you pass the outpost in front and enter the black marsh wilderness, you will have the opportunity to meet humans. Up."

　　 "But that may not be what you want..." Bai Chen didn't look back, and added a low sentence.

　　 "What did you say?" Jiang Baimian asked, turning his head.

　　 "Team leader, concentrate on driving!" Bai Chen restrained his emotions and shouted with a smile.

　　Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong fell silent, taking a look at the wider scene outside the window.

　　 I don’t know how long it took, Long Yuehong suddenly asked:

　　 "Team leader, I haven't told my family to go out for training, and I won't go home recently. What can I do?"

　　 "Someone will be notified." Jiang Baimian looked at the road ahead and gently pulled the steering wheel.

　　 Long Yuehong closed her mouth.

　　 Inside the jeep, there was another long silence.

　　 After passing the edge post of "Pangu Creatures", the terrain in front of them became even flatter.

　　 The soil here is gray-black and relatively soft. There are clearly criss-cross marks on it. Some belong to wheels, some come from animals, and some are derived from humans.

　　The trees around the road are more sparse, and people can see the black swamp in the distance at a glance.

The trunks of these trees are black and the leaves are dark green. Some of them are very tall, measuring 20 to 30 meters, and some are very low, just as tall as one person. They have a distorted posture and are strange and strange, just like dead monsters. , Looks gloomy under the sun.

"At the edge of the swamp, you don't need to be too careful. After you get deep, you must slow down and always pay attention to whether the road ahead has been swallowed by the swamp. If you really drive in, then decisively abandon the car and retreat." Bai Chen took the opportunity to lecture, "Group leader, there is a clean water source over there."

　　 Jiang Baimian nodded:

　　 "Okay, take a rest over there and add some water.

　　"Then, taking advantage of the open terrain, it is not dangerous. See Yao and Long Yuehong for business.

　　 "I hope you can learn it today."

　　 She hit the steering wheel and let the Jeep drive towards a sparse woodland in the wilderness.

　　 An underground river drilled out of the surface here, UU reading www. uukanshu.com flowed several hundred meters and went back underground.

　　 Jiang Baimian took the solar charging board mounted on the top of the jeep and a hot water bottle with a large capacity, walked to the river, and said to Shang Jian Yao and Long Yue:

　　"This kind of flowing groundwater is generally not a problem, but there are still two points to observe.

　　" One is whether there are obvious distortions in nearby plants, and the other is whether the creatures in the water look strange compared to their counterparts.

　　 "Then, if possible, boil all of them and put them in the water bag. If not, put the ‘biological cleaning sheet’."

　　 Observed for a while, Jiang Baimian squatted down to the river and filled a pot full of water.

　　 Then, she put the kettle on the charged solar charging board and plugged in the plug.

　　 In the process, she took out a milky white plastic bottle, poured a white pill the size of a pinky fingernail from it, and threw it into the water.

　　 This is a "biological cleansing tablet" that is a specialty of "Pangu Biology".

　　 Long Yuehong watched enthusiastically, as if she wanted to try it herself.

For him who needs to go to the "material supply market" to get hot water every day, this kind of thing is quite new-his family has a relatively large population, the energy ration for children is limited, and the hot water bottle is not a cheap thing, so he can only Take the thermos bottle and go to the hot water room supplying the market to open the water.

　　 After Jiang Baimian finished his work, he stood up, glanced at Long Yuehong, and said with a smile:

　　"What you should do at this time is to take out the ‘ice moss’ to prevent creatures from attacking us or snatching supplies.

　　 "Needless to say, Bai Chen is very sophisticated, you see, Shang Jian Yao is also on guard."

　　 drew out the "Ice Moss" pistol, looking at the river "source", Shang Jianyao suddenly spoke:

　　 "Team leader, someone flashes over there!"