To my frozen hometown

Chapter 2 People Always Forget Something Important

In the boundless snow and ice.

A huge ring-shaped building stands solemnly, it is so magnificent, but even so, it is still very small compared to this snow field.

A few drooling wild dogs ran across the snow, with their tails between their legs and their bellies shriveled, looking for food everywhere.It can be believed that as long as it is something that can be swallowed, they will rush to bite without hesitation.

They passed the towering wall, stood on a snowy slope, looked into the building for a while, and found that there was no way to get in, and then ran away resentfully.

Steel bars and concrete make up the outer walls of this building, and the gray-black towering walls are covered with frost.

Above the barrier is a hemispherical greenhouse cover made of transparent plates and supports, which covers the entire building, like an amazingly large barrier, covering the entire building below and reflecting the sky sunlight through the clouds.

From a distance, several teams of tiny figures in heavy clothes were standing on the seemingly limitless cover with cold masks and oxygen tanks, and were clearing the snow with tools.

Under the hood, there is a city. Through the transparent board, you can see the houses lined up in it, the intersecting streets, and the people passing by.

This is the greenhouse, a town belonging to humans in the post-disaster era, and it is also the last refuge of humans.

The streets are not considered bustling, and the pedestrians on the road are in a hurry. No one likes to stay outside the house for a long time. In this era, only in the house can people have a rare sense of security.

This is the No. [-] Greenhouse in the west. After the resources of the No. [-] Greenhouse in the West were exhausted, it accommodated a large number of refugees, which made the life of the people living here much more difficult.

When Liu Yuan arrived here, the guards didn't look at her well, they obviously regarded her as a refugee who didn't know where she came from.Fortunately, perhaps out of humanitarianism, the guards at least didn't drive her out. They just gave her a temporary pass and drove her into the city.

After leaving her snowmobile by the greenhouse gate, Liu Yuan was going to find something to eat first. Although she couldn't die, it was quite uncomfortable to be hungry.

But she searched all the pockets in her body, and even touched her barren chest, but she couldn't find anything that could be exchanged for food.

Yes, people in this era have returned to the most primitive trading mode of bartering. Because of the collapse of the government and the special relationship with the greenhouse, this trading mode has inadvertently become a way for people to exchange what they need. main means.

There was something on Liu Yuan's body, almost nothing.A brown overcoat, a long-sleeved shirt, a vest, a pair of unthreaded trousers, a pair of battered field boots, an old modified Colbert revolver, two cartridges, and a A short knife full of notches.

That's about all of her belongings, minus the stuff on the snowmobile.

Of course, Liu Yuan didn't have any luxuries on her body. In the left pocket of her trousers, there was a pack of unopened cigarettes.This is what she picked up from the ruins in the snowy field. You must know that in this era, cigarettes are only something that upper-class people can enjoy.

This thing is very valuable, but Liu Yuan doesn't plan to exchange it for food, she still thinks that she can keep it and enjoy it slowly.Compared with this kind of mental anesthesia, one or two meals are not so important.

But it is undeniable that eating is also an important matter, and an empty stomach will undoubtedly make Liuyuan even more desperate, which may make her unable to resist feeding a bullet into her brain on the way.

Well, since she found out that she would not die, Liu Yuan did have many strange hobbies, some of which could even be said to be a little abnormal, but she basically didn't have any self-consciousness.

In order to get some food, Liu Yuan dug out a rusty iron plate from the trash can in the alley of the greenhouse, and stabbed a line of writing on it with a short knife.

"Accept the business entrustment."

Then, she took the iron plate and sat on the side of the road.

Apparently she wanted to sell her labor to get some food, and in fact people doing similar jobs are not uncommon in various greenhouses.

They are usually called employees, responsible for helping people with some trivial matters, and live a life without a meal.Sometimes these people even help people to do errands outside the greenhouse, but the fees for such work are generally not cheap.

After all, for ordinary people, going outside the greenhouse would cost their lives.Except for the caravans, escorts, and exploration teams of the major greenhouses, few people would be willing to leave the greenhouse voluntarily.

However, compared to formal employees, Liu Yuan had a very serious disadvantage, that is, she did not have a reliable third-party guarantee.This makes it very likely that she will not receive any commissions even if she sits here for a day.But she doesn't want much, does she? It's just a full meal or two.

Cheap labor, there will always be people who like it.Based on past experience, Liu Yuan firmly believed in this point.

They waited until midnight, when the street lights around Liu Yuan began to flicker and gradually turned on, no one came up to ask Liu Yuan about the entrustment.

Liu Yuan was not in a hurry, she neither recommended herself to passers-by, nor yelled everywhere, just sat quietly, leaning against the street lamp, drooping her eyes, as if dozing off.

Her neck was tilted, her body was precarious, and she let the dim light shine on her body, and saw a few flies hovering around her.

It should be when her saliva was about to flow to her shoulders, a voice finally appeared, interrupting her dream of coming.

"that."

There was a very clean voice in front of her, why was it called clean, because this voice was the word that immediately came to mind.

"Um!?"

Liu Yuan woke up instantly, wiped her mouth, raised her head blankly,

She looked at the road in front of her, and there was a girl standing under the light of the street lamp. Her short white hair was very obvious in the yellow light, and her skin was also very fair. Unfortunately, it was not that kind of whitening, but A sickly pallor.

The weather was very cold, maybe she had a cold, her nose was a little red, and she was wearing a gray-black sweater with several holes in it, exposing the skin inside.

The girl's figure was very thin, her palms were half-tucked in her sleeves.Just like her voice, this is a girl who looks very clean, even if her clothes are shabby, it is enough to make people feel white.

The girl held an envelope in her hand. In the evening, there were few pedestrians on the street, and the street lights were scattered. There was a little light in her eyes, and she looked at Liu Yuan and asked.

"Can I entrust you with something?"

"Of course." As a rare business opening, Liu Yuan was naturally prepared to take it seriously. She subconsciously sat up straight, but accidentally bumped her head on the street lamp she was still holding.

"when!"

"Hmm." After a crisp sound, there was a helpless muffled groan.

Liu Yuan held his red forehead, looked at the girl in a self-conscious misfortune, and continued.

"Obviously I'm one of those sorts of things, Miss. If you have anything to say, just tell me."

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"So." Following the sound of fabric being rubbed, Liu Yuan sat cross-legged under the street lamp, looked at the girl in front of him, and raised one of his brows.

"You want me to take you to deliver a letter?"

"Yes." The girl seemed a little inarticulate, and nodded while holding the envelope.

"Going through an ice field?"

"Yes." The girl lowered her head again, not knowing whether it was shyness or timidity.

"What do you use as a reward?" Liu Yuan didn't ask any more reasons and reasons, but asked quite realistically.

After all, this girl doesn't look like a rich client.

The girl was silent for a while, and after a while, she stretched out her hand, showing a bag containing dried meat.

Her voice was very soft, and she asked timidly.

"Half a bag of jerky, is that okay?"

Liu Yuan's eyes fell on the girl's hand, and after a while, he blinked his eyes and said.

"Do you think it is okay?"

Although her fee is very low, half a bag of jerky is obviously too little for a trip to the ice field.

The girl pursed her lips, she knew it wasn't enough.

Even if it is the cheapest entrustment, if you want to get out of the greenhouse, you need at least one rare metal, or enough nutrients for one person for a month.

These are what the regular employees told her. The girl did not cherish metals, and she had never seen any nutritional supplements. I heard that it was made from precious fruits and plants, and the lower classes could not touch it at all. arrive.

That's why she found Liu Yuan.

The girl's eyes were slightly red, probably after hesitating for a long time, she gritted her teeth, took out a small box of things from her pocket, bent down, and handed it to Liu Yuan together with the envelope and jerky.

Her voice softened a little.

"That's all I have. Please take me to Greenhouse No. [-] in the west, please."

Liu Yuan looked down, and found that the extra thing was a watch box, inside which was a silver-white pocket watch.

Liu Yuan picked up the pocket watch, weighed it with his hands, and groped with his fingers.

Hmm, not silver, more like, stainless steel?

This is not considered a precious metal. If you go to the big ruins in the ice field, you can find a lot.

However, Liu Yuan casually opened the dial and looked at the time that was still moving on it.

is it time...

Since she woke up again, she couldn't remember how long she hadn't had the concept of time.

Not only her, people in this era rarely care about time.

Because almost everyone lives with the mentality that tomorrow may be the end, under such circumstances, naturally, few people care about what time it is.

Rather, people are afraid of time, afraid of knowing that time is passing, afraid of knowing that the end is coming.

They would rather forget these, so that they can live more numbly.

Liu Yuan stared at the pocket watch in her hand for a moment, then a photo in the pocket watch caught her attention, it was a little girl and an extremely young girl.

The girl lowered her head, she seemed to be ready to be rejected, and even thought about it, maybe she would be scolded and humiliated, just like the previous few times.

"Crack." At this moment, Liu Yuan closed his pocket watch.

"Greenhouse No. [-]?"

she asked.

The expression on the girl's face froze for a moment, and then, with an indescribable brilliance in her eyes, she raised her head in disbelief.

"Did you promise me?"

"En." Liu Yuan responded lightly. Under the streetlight, she looked rather embarrassed. Compared to a girl, she might be more like a person who can't take care of herself.

But she still agreed to the girl's request, and glanced at the other party, and then she inadvertently froze there.

Because she saw something in this girl's eyes, something she hadn't seen for a long time, something that shouldn't belong to this era.

She has almost forgotten what this kind of thing looks like.

But at this time, she saw it again.

It was as if an invisible hand was gently pinching her heart that had stopped beating long ago, causing her dead eyes to fluctuate a little.

This kind of thing seems to be called hope.

(End of this chapter)