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With their help, Jiang Baimian quickly adjusted the length of the metal skeleton and put on the equipment.

"Okay." After the system self-inspection was completed, she said quickly.

"Stop." Qiao Chudang immediately looked back from his watch.

Bai Chen stepped on the brakes without hesitation.

The jeep stopped abruptly amidst the whistling sound, Shang Jianyao and the others all had the urge to rush forward, fortunately they were protected by seat belts, and the distortion mosquitoes densely covering the windshield and the windows on both sides The group was thrown out a lot.

As for Jiang Baimian, who didn't have a seat belt to wear, because he was wearing a military exoskeleton device, this level of inertia was easily offset.

As soon as the car stopped, Bai Chen immediately pushed the seat belt, adjusted the gear, and picked up the handbrake.

Then, she climbed from the armrest box to the rear row.

Jiang Baimian stretched out his arms covering the black metal skeleton, picked her up, and put her directly on Long Yuehong's side.

Then, following the "road" that Bai Chen came over, she quickly climbed to the driver's seat.

Clap clap!The swarm of distorted mosquitoes with dark red heads slammed into the glass window one after another again, covering it densely.

With an energy backpack behind him, Jiang Baimian couldn't lean back, so he could only lean forward and restart the jeep.

While operating the steering wheel with one hand, she fastened her seat belt.

Qiao Chu lowered his head again, discerning the changes of the compass on the watch, and constantly reporting the time and direction to go.

With the auxiliary chip, Jiang Baimian operated precisely, and in the harsh environment full of black mosquitoes in front of his eyes, the Jeep made it dangerously dangerous to walk through the swamp and among the vines.

In a state of high concentration, the passage of time seemed to become blurred. After an unknown period of time, when Shang Jianyao and others began to feel flustered and short of breath, giant mosquitoes flew up one after another on the front and rear windshields and the windows on both sides.

Soon, all these distorted creatures broke away from the jeep, and flew towards the rear "reluctantly".

Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen saw the pure, boundless black mud in front of them. There was no plant growing on their surface, but bubbles popped out from time to time.

"24:[-]." Qiao Chu raised his head, no longer paying attention to the changes of the compass on the watch.

After Jiang Baimian turned the steering wheel, everyone in the car saw a road going down.

It went obliquely into the swamp, and ended in a great, dark hole.

"Drive in." Qiao Chu gave the order.

Jiang Baimian, who was wearing an exoskeleton device, let Jeep drive on that road without hesitation.

The black soil on the road surface was soft and rotten, and the wheels got stuck a lot, but there seemed to be something harder to support the deeper part of the mud, which stabilized the heavy jeep.

The vehicle quickly drove into the hole. At the same time, Jiang Baimian turned on the ventilation system and the double headlights of the car.

Shang Jianyao and the others suddenly took a deep breath, and looked at the surrounding scene through the glass window:

The inside of the cave was dark, only the sound of water dripping on the ground could be heard intermittently, and the place illuminated by the headlights, the rock wall and road surface were quite flat and covered with a certain amount of silt.

"It doesn't seem to be formed naturally." Jiang Baimian commented while driving.

"The tunnel under the old world." Qiao Chu responded simply.

Jiang Baimian nodded lightly, thought for a few seconds and said:

"It's kind of weird that there are no bryophytes...

"Its previous environment was not suitable for living things?"

Qiao Chu ignored her, and just said flatly:

"Go straight ahead."

There was no sound in the tunnel at all, but vehicles would occasionally hit cracks or bumps in the ground, so there was intermittent bang bang sound here, and it spread all the way to the depths of the tunnel without returning.

In this deep and weird silence, none of Shang Jianyao and the others spoke, as if they were going to the end of the world.

Several minutes passed, and the front gradually became brighter, and an arched exit was soon formed.

Jiang Baimian, who had goggles in his helmet, was not affected by the change in light and dark, allowing the vehicle to rush out of the tunnel.

The sun outside was already slanting to the west, and the brilliance of the setting sun shone on the earth, as if it had been coated with a layer of gold.

And not far away, buildings standing tens to hundreds of meters high stand row after row, without any movement, and there is no end in sight.

Bathed in reddish sunlight, they are like dead forests of steel and concrete.

Chapter 63 Cities

Before that, the tallest buildings that Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong had seen were a few "chimneys" in the ruins of the steel factory, and they obviously couldn't compare with the tall buildings they saw today.

This is not to say that the "chimneys" must be much shorter, but from the perspective of visual effects:

Regardless of length or width, these high-rise buildings are obviously better than the "chimneys" of steel factories. Therefore, when they are combined in all aspects, they can be regarded as the four words "behemoth".

What shocked Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong the most was that there were more than one or two such behemoths, and there were so many that it was difficult to count them clearly.

They are neatly arranged according to certain rules, extending to the left, right, and front, with no end in sight.

At this moment, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong seemed to have turned into mice. When they came to the human country for the first time, they could only observe with an attitude of looking up.

Under the setting sun, on the outer walls of the skyscrapers, thousands of glasses are shining, or they are casted like gold, or they are being burned by "fire".

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong narrowed their eyes slightly to resist the slightly harsh reflected light.

The speed of the jeep slowed down rapidly, and Jiang Baimian didn't know whether he was also shocked, or he was instinctively guarding against accidents.

As the vehicle moved forward, the sun was also setting, and the golden or orange light on the surfaces of the tall buildings gradually receded.

It didn't take long before the dazzling buildings fell into darkness and grayness one after another, just like old photos with faded colors.

The tone of the whole city darkened again.

Long Yuehong opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she was completely unable to express her feelings in words.

In fact, it is not that he has never been exposed to buildings that are more magnificent and miraculous than the current scene. The underground building where the "Pangaea" is located is more than 2000 meters high. If it were replaced on the surface, it would have collapsed because the materials could not support it.

But Long Yuehong usually lives in an underground building, and it is impossible to have the opportunity to see the whole from the outside, so naturally she cannot feel the majesty of that building.

Therefore, the row upon row of high-rise buildings in front of him left an indelible impression on him.

"Is this the old world?" Shang Jianyao's voice was inexplicably soft, as if he was asking himself a question.

"Yes. Haven't you seen the corresponding pictures in textbooks?" Jiang Baimian, who was sitting in the driver's seat, replied.

The "comprehensive early warning system" of the military exoskeleton device allowed her, who had a certain hearing impairment and needed the help of the cochlea, to clearly hear what Shang Jianyao was saying.

"The photos and the real scene give people a completely different feeling..." Long Yuehong glanced at Qiao Chu's side face, and muttered in a low voice.

Until this time, as the emotional state calmed down and the vehicle approached, he and Shang Jianyao saw more details.

Some of those high-rise buildings are black, some dark blue, some dark yellow, and some bright colors are interlaced, each of which has a certain difference.

However, the glass curtain walls and ordinary exterior walls on their surfaces are either dirty, looking foggy, stained, mottled, or even damaged.

Some green plants grow out of their gaps, tenaciously expanding their territory; all kinds of birds circle back to their nests somewhere on the floor in the last afterglow of the setting sun.

On both sides of the road, most of the dense leaves of the trees have withered and yellowed, and when the wind blows, they fall like rain.

On the ground, fallen leaves piled up, and some even showed signs of decay.

Some street signboards fell to the ground, some hung diagonally at the door, and some were missing several words.

At a glance, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong saw the remnants of words such as "foot bath", "hairstyle", "supermarket", "small stir-fry", "barbecue", "hot pot", "second sister", "pet", "convenience", etc., but the corresponding shops Either dilapidated, or dusty, empty.

A car parked randomly on the road, seriously hindering the traffic, their shells and glass surfaces are full of stains that have been washed away by the rain and then re-solidified...

Everything is so quiet, only the wind is still blowing gently.

The city is long dead.

"Something's wrong..." Jiang Baimian looked straight ahead, using the "comprehensive early warning system" of the exoskeleton device to collect various details around him.

Before Bai Chen had time to ask, Qiao Chu glanced at the distance and the setting sun shining through the skyscrapers, and said in a low voice:

"It's almost night.

"Try not to talk until you're in a safe house where there's no problem.

"If you have to speak, be sure to control the volume."

He then pressed his voice and pointed to the left side:

"Turn into that door."

It was a gate for two cars to drive side by side. There was a sentry post in the middle, which divided it evenly, and it seemed that one side entered and the other side exited.

The metal fence that can block vehicles has been lying on the ground for an unknown number of years, and the surface is rusty.

Long Yuehong looked at the gate subconsciously, and saw that its shape was closer to the archway in the textbook, the archway made of brown-yellow stones.

In the middle part of the archway, most of the golden characters have withered away, and only two of them can be barely distinguished:

"...Yang... Garden"

Jeep quickly passed through the archway and drove into the gate.

This is an area surrounded by seven or eight high-rise buildings. There are lawns overgrown with weeds, dirty pools with a lot of garbage floating in them, pavilions designed to keep out the rain, and trees that seem to bear fruit.

"Turn right, the first building." Qiao Chu seemed very familiar with this place.

Following his instructions, Jiang Baimian passed through the narrow road between two abandoned cars and stopped outside the first building with brown outer walls.

"Take some food and enter the first unit." Qiao Chu got out of the car first.

Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen followed and left the jeep without hesitation, each carrying a pile of food out of the trunk.

Long Yuehong took a step too late and failed to grab this task, so she had to follow Qiao Chu and Jiang Baimian into the entrance on the far right.

There are brown floor tiles here, and weeds occupy the gaps, and it seems that they have not been taken care of for a long time.

After Long Yuehong passed through the hall, she took a step forward and went straight to the three silver and black elevators.

He instinctively pressed the up button, then turned to ask Qiao Chu to advance.

However, the button didn't respond at all, and no light came on.

Long Yuehong was stunned for a moment before she woke up:

"No electricity..."

Jiang Baimian looked at the rather old-looking elevator and the buttons with no rust, and said again:

"That's not quite right..."

This time, without her needing to explain too much, Shang Jianyao and the others also saw the problem:

The state of the elevators, buttons, floor tiles, and the spread of weeds do not seem to have been maintained for decades. It is closer to saying that they have only been abandoned for less than a year.

"Could it be that there were wilderness wanderers living here before?" Bai Chen raised a possibility.

In the next second, she herself denied this judgment:

"No, the Revenant Wanderers don't maintain useless things.

"Also, isn't it said that this is a newly discovered city ruin?"

"It's not just that." Seeing that Qiao Chu didn't stop him, Jiang Baimian added, "The accumulation of fallen leaves on the street and the damage of each house seem to indicate one thing: who has just 'maintained' it not long ago? The city."

She paused and said her guess:

"Maybe, there are certain people who are 'maintaining' the city on a regular basis?"

"Intelligent robot? Human, after passing away, the intelligent robot is still sticking to its duties?" Long Yuehong asked immediately.

Jiang Baimian shook his head:

"Not too possible.

"As far as I know, before the destruction of the old world, the real intelligent robot technology was greatly developed. Similar products are relatively luxurious things, and it is unlikely to be used for such things, unless it is a place like 'Mechanical Paradise'.

"Well, it's not necessarily special here."

Qiao Chu listened to their discussion for a while, turned around and walked into the stairs without saying a word.

He climbed up to the sixth floor before he stopped, turned into the corridor on the right, and entered the deepest room.

The crimson door to this room was ajar and unlocked.The doorknob's skin is peeling off, and the rust is obvious.

After passing through the gate, Qiao Chu, who was carrying a silver rifle and pinning the "United 202" on his back, looked back at Shang Jianyao and others coming in one by one.

He has a habitual smile on his face, but his eyes are very indifferent: