The drifting city of the last days

The people of the two yachts crowded onto the deck one after another, stretching their necks excitedly to look around. This island is all their sustenance right now.

When the yacht drives close, you can see a rough cement embankment along the tidal rise and fall.The dam is about four meters high, and there are rows of small lookout holes at the waist, and there are skull patterns drawn in white lime on it, surrounding the entire island like an iron barrel.There also appeared to be many wooden ladders leading up to the hill.

"It used to be a pirate's den, right?" Shao Yunfan squinted his eyes, carefully looking at the patterns painted on the embankment in the dark sky, which was exactly the same as the flag on the pirate ship.Those who use skulls as signs are either very dangerous and deadly drugs, or pirates, right?The evil spirit squatting on his shoulder shook his tail with a serious expression, and followed Shao Yunfan to look at the embankment.

"It's possible." Luo Zhen nodded. Although the dike outside looks rough, it doesn't look like it was recently built.

"Maybe it's some country's secret base!" Wu Fei tightened the protective belt of his backpack, ready to go.Shao Yunfan rubbed his head, what he said made sense.

"It doesn't matter what it is, as long as I can take a bath comfortably." Lan Shan looked at his arm in disgust, even though Wu Fei used the ice cubes provided by Luo Zhen to boil a large basin of water for everyone to wash every night. But there is only one washbasin distributed to each person.He can only make do with scrubbing, which is so unpleasant.

"I can make a divination." Zhang Junjiu made a gesture to take out the tortoise shell from his bosom.

"Stop." Wu Fei grabbed Zhang Junjiu's wrist with an expression of "Please let us go!" This guy has a crow's mouth halo, and every time he speaks, it's either bad luck or bloody disaster, "You still make us pregnant!" Have some good dreams."

The island was facing them, and there was a pier on the left and right. Probably because of the shoal nearby, the wooden boardwalk of the pier extended 50 meters into the sea.There are huge wooden gates erected near the shore, each guarded by two people.The pier on the right is three times as wide as the left, but there is only one boat moored next to it, and there is no one on the plank road.The one on the left has already parked seven or eight ships at the berth. Apart from yachts, there are several obviously fishing boats, and there is even a small boat that can only be powered by oars. Depending on the location, it can accommodate three or four people at most.The one-meter-wide plank road is crowded with people waiting to enter the gate.

Hongmao hesitated for a moment, waved his hand, and signaled Haihou to follow him to the direction of the big pier on the right.After the yacht stopped, there were nearly 100 people on the two ships, especially on the pirate ship. Not only were many people carrying large bags of luggage, but also the materials collected by the red hair, it took a lot of effort to transport them down.

The Queen of the Sea was on the opposite side, Shao Yunfan and the others were each carrying a backpack, and there was one person on Xia An's side who didn't even bring a backpack.

A beautiful golden tiger-skinned short-haired cat flicked its tail, and while everyone was in a hurry, it jumped from the side of the pirate ship to the plank road with lightning speed, and its movements were light and neat.

"Brother, are we in a military parade?" Wu Fei, who had been waiting for a long time, frowned impatiently and looked at the other side. The luggage of those people was as endless as the waves.

The short-haired cat, who was two people away from Wu Fei, pricked up its ears, froze in place for a moment, and immediately blended into the crowd.

It took a long time just to get off the boat, and it was already half an hour later when a group of people followed Hongmao and walked towards the wooden gate.Before leaving, the mutant who released the poison waved his hand and threw out a row of green poison balloons, forming a circle around the Queen of the Sea like a chain of beads.

"Zhao Liang, you're crazy! Didn't you know that only the mutant group's boats can be docked here?" The man guarding the door seemed to know Hongmao, and joked.

That is to say, this is a special pier for mutants?Shao Yunfan looked at the narrow road opposite, the person in charge here seemed to really value the mutants.

"No, no, there are ten mutants here. We are just borrowing some light. As you can see, there is no way to go up there." Hongmao quickly stuffed half a pack of cigarettes into the man's pocket, and accompanied him smiley.

"Ten?" There are only 27 mutants in the entire safety island. Can he find ten in one trip?The man didn't believe it at all. He raised his eyebrows and glanced at the black crowd behind the red hair. According to the number of people, two or three would be good.

"Really, really, I'm just afraid of neglecting her. You see, she still has her own boat over there." The red hair pointed to the Haihou again.

"Come in, come in, it's not on my side to check anyway." The man waved his hand, took out a cigarette, sniffed it carefully, and handed it to the companion next to him.

After passing through an iron gate on the embankment, everyone finally stepped into the safety island.

It feels so good to be grounded.Shao Yunfan let out a long breath and looked around curiously.

The trees and plants within [-] meters near the embankment have been cleared, and the view is extremely wide.A road was paved with gravel on the ground, extending all the way to the bottom of the hill along the undulating terrain.At a height of more than three meters from the ground, several overpasses were erected with thick logs, which were like ladder frames he had seen before.The overpass extends in all directions, connecting the dam and the hillside, and the simple guardrail is densely wrapped with a protective net with barbed wire.It was getting dark, and he couldn't see anything far away.

Everyone walked along the gravel road to the foot of the hill, passed through a power grid more than two people high, climbed up the steps, and then stepped into the wide air-raid shelter.

The entire opening is in the shape of an arch, and it is all made of cement plastering. It is more than ten meters wide, and there are several openings symmetrically on both sides. The inside should be the so-called "room".The most surprising thing was that there were light bulbs on the walls on both sides of the air-raid shelter. Although they were old-fashioned tungsten bulbs, the lights were dim yellow, but the long-lost lights in the darkness warmed the hearts of everyone present.The heart that was suspended high because of the uncertain future slowly fell back to its original place.

When he saw the light at the entrance of the cave outside, Shao Yunfan thought it was a torch, but he didn't expect it to be a lamp.Sensing Shao Yunfan's emotions, Bi Xie, who was lazily sleeping on his shoulder, raised his head and looked around curiously.

Qi Liang and Xia An glanced at each other, the environment of the safety island was probably better than they expected, it even had a generator.Although there is electricity on the yacht, in order to save gasoline, Xia An never turns on the lights in the cabin.

"This is the outer area. There are numbers painted on the front of each entrance." Hongmao introduced as he walked, with a proud tone. The ground on both sides was indeed like a parking lot, with a number similar to a-001 painted with white paint. "A place with a curtain or a wooden door at the door is a place where people already live."

The people behind him were all looking left and right, busy looking at the surrounding environment.

After walking for about fifty meters, I came to a place like a hotel lobby, which was roughly round in shape, with an area of ​​about four to five hundred square meters.There is a table in each of the four corners of the hall, with 1,2,3,44, [-], [-], and [-] number plates hanging on it.Three avenues branched inward, leading to different directions, and the appearance looked no different from the passage they had walked through just now.

Hongmao turned around and clapped his hands, motioning for everyone to listen to him, "Mutants please follow me, ordinary people please follow him to the left." The collected materials walked towards the table with the No. 2 plate in a familiar way.

"Why are we separated?" A big man in the crowd uttered a voice. He was accompanied by women and children, probably a family.

"Mutants can live in the innermost safe area, and ordinary people live in the outer area of ​​the air-raid shelter. If you must live together, you can only live in the outer area."

"Then I live in an outer district." The big man said without hesitation.

"Okay." The red hair nodded, and said loudly to the crowd, "Come on, the mutant stands next to me, and the rest go to the left."

The rest of the people automatically separated and walked to the two sides. Shao Yunfan was about to take a step to the left when Wu Fei grabbed his wrist.

"We are mutants." Qi Liang grabbed Shao Yunfan's other hand solemnly, and together with Wu Fei dragged him to Hongmao's side.

"Huh?" Shao Yunfan looked at Qi Liang in disbelief.

"To ward off evil spirits." Qi Liang mouthed to Shao Yunfan.With evil spirits at his side, Shao Yunfan is a "mutant". As for himself, he can pretend to be a brain-enhanced person.You can get more information in the places where mutants obviously live, and besides, you can't drag everyone to live with him in the outer area, right?

Shao Yunfan suddenly realized that he nodded, yes, the abnormal phenomenon occasionally caused by evil spirits can be regarded as a reasonable explanation.

eighteen.

Red Mao counted three times in shock, his voice trembling, and reconfirmed, "Are you all mutants?" He thought five would be good.Sixteen people went on and off the Haihou, plus the two recruited by Hongmao when he was collecting supplies, a total of 18 people.

"Hurry up." Xia An looked at him impatiently, and helped Louise tighten the pink scarf around her neck.It's almost seven o'clock, and the temperature is gradually dropping.

"Follow me, everyone." Hongmao rubbed his hands, and led them towards table 3 brazenly. Now, Brother Wei, why don't you give him a big reward?

When everyone was registering at the desk, Hong Mao left. Before leaving, he told them that if they had anything to do, they could find him in room a-025 in the outer area.

The room for the mutants is two people, and the sixteen people who got off the Haihou were divided into eight rooms.Every night before 3 o'clock, you need to return to table [-] to pay the rent.However, mutants can stay for three days "free", and they can skip this process for the time being, so the registration will be completed soon.Qi Liang blinked his eyes, sure enough, the outer area that he passed just now had at least four people living in each room.However, the system here is obviously not sound enough. Mutants are more capable than ordinary people. Normally, they will hunt more food than ordinary people. If they pay "rent" in proportion, they will actually suffer.Since they want to focus on attracting mutants to join, it may not matter if there are few people. When there are more people, the system must be improved, otherwise the mutants will either leave or conflict.

"Brother Wei is not here now, and he may go to the room to find you when he comes back." The little man in charge of the registration stood up, and took them to one of the passages in fear, guiding them to the direction of the room, and indicating that he can deal with things. .

According to the numbers on the ground, everyone watched as they walked, and checked the situation on both sides by the way.Seeing so many strangers entering, there were also mutants standing at the door of their room and scrutinizing them.

"Brother Hua, give me some bath water, it should be warm." A curly-haired boy yawned and dragged a huge red bathtub towards one of the men standing at the door.One end of the bathtub dragged on the ground, making a loud friction sound.

The man stretched out his hand helplessly, and a jet of water the size of a fire hose sprang out of his palm.

Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows to look at the man in the blue down jacket, water ability?

"Too bad, we don't have a bathtub." Wu Fei looked at the boy enviously.

"You can ask Luo Zhen to make a bathtub out of ice." Lan Shan gave him a suggestion.

"Won't it melt?"

"Of course it will." Qi Liang looked at Wu Fei, "Otherwise you will be frozen into a popsicle."

Wu Fei: ……………

The so-called room is about [-] square meters, which is not too small for two people.It's just very empty, except for two wooden beds, there is only one dim electric light.Some parts of the wooden bed still have bark, which is obviously made in a hurry.

"It seems that this place is very relaxed, maybe we can stay for a few more days." Qi Liang looked at the roof, all the places were wiped off with cement, the red hair did not lie, it was indeed safe.Coupled with what I saw along the way, there are basically rules, and it is a very suitable place for temporary shelter.

"Then we'll wait until all the members are promoted to the second level." Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows.