To my frozen hometown

Chapter 4 Liu Yuan is not a very careful person

"Step." A gray leather outdoor boot stepped on the ground.

Liuyuan grabbed his hair and led Al to stand in front of a private clinic in a greenhouse.

The expression on her face was a little impatient, maybe it was because of the things to do later, or maybe it was because she hadn't washed her hair for a long time, and her hair was a little itchy in the morning.

Maybe I should have a cropped cut, or maybe a bald head.

Thinking so seriously, Yanagihara took Al into this greenhouse clinic.

It must be admitted that some supplies are required to cross an ice sheet.Yanagihara may not need some supplies, but Al must, such as oxygen and food.

Naturally, Liu Yuan didn't have anything to exchange for these materials, so after thinking about it, she finally thought of a way, which should be able to get some necessary resources.

Normally, she doesn't like to use this method, but who made her have another mouth now.

This private clinic is not big, it can even be said to be a little small, it is located in the corner of a somewhat deserted street.

Pushing open the door, you can see all kinds of instruments inside. If these instruments can be cleaned, maybe they can give people a sense of identity. Unfortunately, they are obviously rarely wiped.

The traces on the walls are mottled, rust and cracks are all over almost every plane visible to the naked eye.

Compared to a clinic, this is more like a black workshop, the kind that resells human organs.

Fortunately, Liu Yuan was looking for exactly this kind of place.

"Liu Yuan, what are we doing here?" Al looked around and grabbed Liu Yuan's clothes with some anxiety.

"Don't worry, I'm just here to exchange some things." Liu Yuan looked very calm, found a chair and sat down, and then called out to the inside of the clinic.

"Hey, anyone?"

"Yes!" A somewhat old voice agreed, while rambling on.

"If I were you I'd probably prefer to keep quiet lest old Pete forget the scissors in your stomach during the operation."

After the voice fell, a somewhat stooped figure opened a curtain, and walked out of it wiping his hands.

"I don't do surgery, and I don't see a doctor." Liu Yuan shrugged indifferently.

"Then what are you doing?"

The doctor, who called himself Old Pete, was wearing a yellow or white coat, and a pair of round half-rim glasses on the bridge of his nose. His old face and thin body made him look at least 60 years old. Although she is very young, the voice in her words is still bitter and mean, without any kindness of an old man.

Liuyuan didn't answer Old Pete's question immediately, but looked sideways at Al beside him, pouted his chin towards the door, and spoke.

"Go to the door and wait for a while."

Al glanced at Liu Yuan and old Pete worriedly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he obediently walked outside and closed the door of the clinic.

Seeing Al go out, Liu Yuan turned his head to look at Old Pete and said.

"I'm here to sell something."

"Oh?" Old Pete's eyes lit up, and he raised his skinny palm to support his glasses.

"What do you want to sell?"

Liu Yuan turned his face sideways, and said casually: "Blood, organs, what else can you sell here?"

"That's right." Old Pete seemed to feel that he had asked an unintelligent question, so he nodded and said.

"How much is that?"

"1000cc type O blood, and a kidney." Liuyuan replied raising his eyebrows.

"That's quite a lot..." Old Pete lowered his voice, with strange brilliance in his eyes, he glanced at the door and continued to ask.

"Is it yours, or the girl's?"

"Mine." Liu Yuan noticed Old Pete's gaze, and moved his body to block Old Pete's gaze.

"If you don't want to be exiled to the ice field by the guards, I advise you to stop thinking about that child."

Because of the large reduction in the number of human beings, in the ice field, any crime related to children is a felony. This may be the reason why Al was able to live here alone for so long as a child. At least the guards are still maintaining the last human Otherwise, she would have been robbed of everything and starved to death on the street.

Ai Er has no parents, and her elder sister is her last relative, which is what Liuyuan learned from her.

"Oh, of course, of course." Old Pete looked at Liu Yuan's cold eyes, smiled slightly, raised his hands and said.

"You are a guest, so of course everyone will listen to you. Then what do you want, as long as the price is right, Old Pete will try his best to prepare it for you."

"The kidneys are exchanged for two bottles of compressed oxygen and liquid fuel, and the blood is exchanged for food. If possible, I also hope that you can fill up my snowmobile with fuel, and add a suit of clothes to the girl outside the door by the way."

"Well, that's unreasonable." Old Pete shook his head: "Oxygen, fuel, oil, these things are not cheap."

"The price of human life is not cheap." Liu Yuan turned his body sideways, revealing the revolver in his arms.

"Ma'am." Old Pete looked at the pistol and narrowed his eyes.

"If you want to sell your own organs, I don't think you should negotiate the price with your primary doctor like this."

"Who said you are my attending doctor?" Liu Yuan said with drooping eyes, "I will get the kidney for you myself."

"Ha." Old Pete raised a finger and said as if he had heard some big joke.

"Okay, I will prepare those things for you. Come here again at this time tomorrow, and if you can really take out your own kidney, I will give you another can of oxygen."

"Dealed?" Liu Yuan was stunned for a moment, then blinked his eyes, looking in a good mood.

"It's a deal." Old Pete swore, obviously not believing that Liuyuan could do such a thing.

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So the next day, Liu Yuan brought his snowmobile.

Under Old Pete's unbelievable gaze, she dug out one of her own kidneys, then pretended to sew up the wound on her waist, and took away all the supplies.

For her who had already lost her sense of pain, she didn't even need anesthetics to do such a thing.Even when she walked to the door, her wound had healed, and even the dug out kidney had grown back.

Of course, these old Pete didn't know, he just stood there, staring blankly at the bloody kidney, and let Liu Yuan take everything away.

Well, that's a reasonable reaction for someone watching someone else dissect themselves for the first time.

Liu Yuan was in a good mood, and the flow of blood made her feel alive again.

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"Crack." Putting the last tank of oxygen on the side of the snowmobile, Liuyuan let Al sit on the back seat, while he straddled the front and grabbed the handle.

Here is the door to the greenhouse.

At noon, the door of the greenhouse under the barrier slowly opened, revealing the world outside the door.

It was a piece of snow-white, monotonous without the slightest variegation, with a cold and cool silence.

A gust of cold wind mixed with flying snow poured in from the door, swept across the street, and rolled the clothes of the people in front of the door.

It's not every day that someone goes outside the greenhouse, or that no one wants to be there if it's not necessary.

Today is the same, there are only a few teams of people leaving the greenhouse.

In front of the door, Liu Yuan sat on a snowmobile and covered her wind-curled hair with her hands, which gave her the urge to cut a haircut again.

There is still some snow between the tracks of the motorcycle, and the necessary supplies for travel are tied with ropes behind the seat.

Al sat behind Liuyuan, and she put on a new set of clothes. The heavy winter clothes made her more likely to survive in the ice field.

The girl wrapped her hands around Liu Yuan's waist, maybe out of curiosity, or maybe for some other reason, she poked her head out from behind Liu Yuan and looked out of the greenhouse door.

She had never been outside the greenhouse, it was a world completely unfamiliar to her, and people would always be somewhat afraid of unfamiliar things, not to mention the kind of place that was called hopeless.

The ice field outside the greenhouse stretches as far as the eye can see, and mutated beasts haunt it, and almost no one can survive there alone.So people usually go out with the convoy, even the hired people will travel in groups.

"Liuyuan." Al's voice came from behind Liuyuan, as if trembling: "Can we get to Greenhouse No. [-]?"

Liu Yuan turned his eyes sideways, took off a helmet from the car, turned around and put it on the girl's head.

As for herself, she simply put on a scarf. She was alone all year round, so there was only one helmet in the car.

"Able to."

Her tone was as casual and calm as ever, but her assurance somehow felt trustworthy.

"Yeah." Al wore a helmet, and hugged Liuyuan's waist tighter.

With the muffled sound of the engine, under the watchful eyes of the guards in front of the door, the snowmobile started to drive the two of them out of the door of the greenhouse.

A janitor wearing a mask looked at the motorcycle going away, was stunned, and asked his companion.

"Did we just see two people driving a motorcycle into the ice field?"

His companion pulled the valve in his hand and replied without looking back.

"If you are blind, please don't take me with you. How could two people leave the greenhouse? They can't even live for three days."

"But I seem to have seen it."

"Maybe you just saw a motorcycle."

"Hey, isn't that more terrifying?"

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Outside the greenhouse, the snowmobile drove eastward.

The temperature on the ice sheet is very low, and it gets dark quickly.

The night is much colder than the day, and at the coldest time, normal people's skin will be frozen to death once it is exposed.Of course, this is for normal people, but Liu Yuan's situation is different.

Just like it is impossible for a normal person to survive alone on the ice field, she can cross the entire ice field alone.

On the almost pitch-black snow field, a white light was traveling through the snow in the field, the biting cold wind blew past the corners of Liu Yuan's eyes, and the scarf around her neck was billowed by the wind.

Al was pressed against Liuyuan's back, and the rather large helmet wrapped her hair and cheeks, blocking the cold wind.

Although she couldn't see her expression, it could be seen from her shivering body that even so, the temperature on the ice field was still not something this girl could bear.

Yanagihara felt Al trembling behind him.

She lowered her eyes, glanced at the time on the dashboard, raised her eyes again to look at the road ahead, and pressed the brake with a half-beat.

"Here!" With the sound of the tracks breaking through the snow, the motorcycle stopped.

Al, who was behind the car, raised her head. She was so cold that she hardly had the strength to speak, but she still asked weakly.

"Reached?"

Unfortunately, there is still only an empty snow field in front of the headlights.

"Not yet, but I'm going to rest here tonight."

Liu Yuan got out of the car while talking.

She unloaded part of her luggage from the back seat of the car.

It was a tent, a backpack, and a stove that could be lifted with one hand.

Al sat in the car for a while before getting out of the car.

Seeing Liu Yuan setting up a tent on the snow, she seemed to want to help, but her hands and feet were already numb from the cold, and she couldn't do anything at all.

Liuyuan inserted a bracket into the snow and pressed it down. Turning his head, he saw Al standing there motionless.

Looking at the girl's appearance, she was silent for a while, then took off her coat, threw it to the other party and said.

"Put this on, too."

Her tone seemed a little helpless, but she didn't mean to blame.

Al caught the overcoat thrown by Liuyuan, and looked at Liuyuan who continued to build the tent, hesitant to speak.After Liu Yuan took off his overcoat, he was left with only a long-sleeved shirt, which undoubtedly looked extremely thin in such severe cold.

"Aren't you cold?" Finally, Al asked.

Liuyuan was about to set up the tent, but when she heard Al's words, her movements stopped for a moment.

"I don't feel it." She shrugged her shoulders as if mocking herself, and said nothing more.

Al didn't understand what Liuyuan meant, but Liuyuan had already set up the tent, put the portable stove aside, and inserted a liquid fuel into it.

The fire was lit, and the temperature around the tent seemed to have risen a bit.

Al put on his coat and sat by the fire, while Liu Yuan turned over his backpack again, and took out two pieces of jerky from it.

"Goo." Looking at the jerky, Al's stomach growled. She hadn't eaten all day.

Liuyuan heard the voice across his eyes, and his eyes collided with Al's, which made Al's face flush, and he retracted his helmet-wearing face into his coat.

"It will take a while to eat."

Liu Yuan withdrew her gaze and said, and then she pulled out the tattered short knife from her waist.

Cut the jerky into fine pieces with a knife, put it into a jar, and then put some clean snow into it.

After finishing these, she put the pot on the stove, presumably, she was going to make a pot of broth.

The night in the ice field is quiet and silent, only the sound of wind and snow that never stops ringing in my ears.

On one side of the snowmobile.

"Z...Z..."

The radio installed in the car seemed to have received some signal, and there was a burst of electric sound.

After the electrical noise, a barely audible female voice appeared on the radio.

"Recently, a large number of herds have appeared in the ice field. The person in charge of the greenhouse hereby reminds travelers to choose the travel date carefully and consider changing the travel plan. The following is the area where the herds appear: Lakeland Mountains..."

"Z, Z..."

The next content was replaced by electric sound again, this radio always does, good and bad.

Liu Yuan walked to the side of the motorcycle, raised a hand, and smashed it on the radio.

"boom."

No matter what kind of machine is broken, it can continue to be used as long as it is smashed. This is the experience she has only recently gained after living for many years.

"Ziz." The voice on the radio gradually recovered and continued to report the name of the region.

"The west side of the ice sheet, the outside of the No. [-] greenhouse in the south, and the outside of the No. [-] greenhouse in the west. Please also pay more attention to the outsiders to avoid the attack of wild beasts."

"The above is today's evening message, thank you for listening."

The outside of Greenhouse No. [-] in the west.

Both Liuyuan and Al had heard the name of this place. If the information was correct, there should be a large number of beasts haunting it, and the place they were going to happened to be there.

One of the reasons why humans cannot survive on the ice sheet is because of the extremely low temperature, and another reason is because of the herds of beasts that mutated after the disaster.

After the disaster, the surviving animals almost all mutated in order to adapt to the environment.

Most of the carnivorous animals have become more ferocious and bloodthirsty, and because the food on the ice sheet is scarce, even humans will be their prey targets.

In addition to being able to adapt to the cold, the mutated beast also has a larger size and a more ferocious predator ability.This is undoubtedly contrary to common sense, because the thinness of oxygen will only make the animals smaller in theory, but the mutation did happen.

Even a fully armed team can hardly resist the attack of a herd.

If an ordinary team heard that there was a herd of beasts at the destination, they would definitely decide to return first at this time.

But Liu Yuan just listened to the news with a blank face, and then sat back by the fire.

Al looked at Liuyuan worriedly and asked.

"Is it okay to have herds?"

She had never been out of the greenhouse, so she didn't have a clear understanding of the herd, but only vaguely felt the danger.

Liu Yuan shook his head quietly.

"It's okay, I'll take you to the greenhouse."

As she said that, she picked up the heated broth can, wrapped it in a rag, and handed it to Al.

"Eat."

"Yeah." Al took the broth, and the warm touch brought some blood back to her face.

She secretly glanced at Liuyuan, opened the helmet and took a sip of the melted snow water in the jar.

Suddenly, the girl thought of something, pursed her lips and gave a shallow smile.

When you get there, you can meet your sister.

In the cold snowy night, she thought this way, it seemed that this night was no longer so cold.

Al was lost in thought, while Yanagihara sat on the side and touched his waist.

She seemed to have really forgotten the scissors when she took the kidney in the morning.

How to take it out?

(End of this chapter)