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The expected landing time was [-]:[-]. Before that, Deng Mochi woke up just before [-]:[-].

At that time, Lu Ting was looking through the binoculars, and the fourth district was just below. This is a rather vast land, about twenty times the area of ​​the special zone, hidden under the billowing radiation dust.There are still about 10 kilometers away from the previously marked landing site, and the spacecraft is already reducing its speed.

"Are you awake?" Lu Ting turned around and greeted, with the illusion that this person had just slept in his bed all night.

He looked at Deng Mochi's bridge of nose, from the front to the side.The man faced the sun and stood beside him.

So he rubbed to the side again, and got closer, "I forgot to say it just now, good morning—" A kind of blatant nonsense.

"Morning." Deng Mochi replied in cooperation with him, and said: "After you go down, you may encounter some species, phenomena, and human behaviors, which are not so easy to understand. If you can't stand it, go home."

"You underestimate me too much," Lu Ting was wearing work gloves, lowered his head and smiled, "I have read a lot of materials here in advance, it is not because I am blind, and I really want to tell you about it when I have time. How we are trained in the police academy."

"Okay." Dun Mochi said.

"Look," he said again.

Lu Ting followed his gaze, and there was a haze of yellow outside the cabin. The spacecraft was penetrating through a layer of haze about 50 meters thick.Soon the situation on the ground appeared in front of him, and Lu Ting saw the rushing river.It is already a river basin close to the mouth of the sea. It is indeed a little red as in the legend, but the tone is still gray and black like wastewater, so it looks even more filthy.

He also saw mountains, those huge folds that the earth's crust arched hundreds of millions of years ago, where vegetation had disappeared and the surface was bare.Now the ocher-red soil has covered most of it, and the gaps in the mountain are covered with industrial waste. The wreckage varies in size, but from this height, they all look like the corpses of black ants.Occasionally, a human house appeared alone on a relatively flat location, as if it was about to be submerged by a huge wave of steel.

"Is that your safe house?" Lu Ting pointed to the flashing red dot on the glass front window, corresponding to the ground, and getting closer was a one-story house with a gray and white roof.

"Yes." Deng Mochi looked a little surprised, maybe he didn't expect Lu Ting to know this place to such an extent that most people would set up a safe house as a stronghold for supplies and storage.He added: "Park there for a while, 30 meters around can guarantee safety, and someone will steal your spaceship if you park elsewhere."

Lu Ting nodded in agreement, and stood in front of the console to adjust the landing angle: "Actually, it is impossible to steal. My security system cannot be cracked by ordinary people, unless," he turned his face and smiled at Deng Mochi, "Unless you come to steal."

"There are people out there."

"Don't be humble."

"If they can't steal it, they will destroy it," Dun Mochi put the knife on his back, and put on the mask obediently, "For example, smashing the engine, or directly burning it."

With a negligible touch to the ground, "Aldebaran-b" landed impartially in front of the safe house door, and it only took a few steps to enter the house.I have to say that Lu Ting's driving skills are indeed excellent, "Then I have to arrest them," he said, and began to wear a mask, but he looked a little nervous, "How can we guarantee safety within 30 meters?"

"Make an infrared network, bury a few laps of detonators in parallel, and avoid blind spots in the shape of the optical path to prevent approaching," Deng Mochi patiently explained, "The explosives are replenished regularly, which is enough for general situations."

Does that mean that people are often bombed, Lu Ting thought, but setting up heat-sensitive blasting devices in the fourth district did not violate any legal provisions. At the same time, out of selfishness, Lu Ting attributed this to a kind of reasonable self-defense.He asked again, "Only one exit?"

"There is only one exit. Dynamic." Deng Mochi jumped off the hatch.

Lu Ting followed closely and locked the spacecraft. The wristband showed that the average outdoor gamma-ray exposure had reached 380 mSv/year, which was close to the federal exposure limit.This is just reaching an area [-] kilometers away from the nuclear explosion crater.

The two of them were not in a hurry to get out of the explosive circle, but stepped on the floating dirt all over the floor and entered the dusty safe house.The house looked like an inconspicuous concrete pier from the outside, but it was only when Lu Ting stepped in that he realized that there was something wrong with it.Of course, it is not how comfortable the environment is, how beautiful the decoration is, and a whole big house without partitions, it is more like a factory building, with machine tools, balancing machines, girder calibrator... all kinds of equipment are old and complete, and the dim sunlight is coming from under the ceiling. The flat windows leaked out, and the smell of engine oil and rust mixed together, making the gloom even darker.

The night vision goggles still didn't work well, but fortunately Deng Mochi turned on the overhead light, and Lu Ting's eyes felt a little better.He was curious about everything, and tentatively approached the devices to look at them one by one, with his hands behind his back to prevent his brain from touching them, and he went to look at the things piled up on the other side of the room.They looked like broken copper and iron, but they were neatly arranged. They should have been picked up and not sold.

Deng Mochi acquiesced in his visit, and took out his gloves from the drawer. The anti-radiation material liner was rough, and he quickly put it on as if the wound would not hurt, "Don't touch anything with your skin," He added, "Including furniture."

"But you just touched the doorknob and the drawer."

"You should know that the genetic sequences of the second-generation artificial humans have been adapted for the three kinds of rays, that is, my parents, who drank nuclear-contaminated water, exposed their wounds to alpha rays, and gave birth to fetuses after receiving irradiation. The experiments were done on their generation, and most of the subjects passed the test, so the adaptation effect is ideal." Deng Mochi threw a pair of lead insoles to Lu Ting, which are for external use and can be fixed on the bottom of the boots. To some extent, isolate part of the soil's radiation, "this gene has been passed on to me."

Lu Ting was startled when he heard that, no matter how you look at it, those experiments should never happen to humans, even if they were dubbed "artificial".But the fact is that they did happen, and probably with the support of... his own father.

However, Lu Ting also understands that now is not the time to think wildly, and Deng Mochi said those words lightly, just to explain.So he lowered his head and carefully stepped on the lead pad to adjust the fitting angle.The second meeting came to my mind. When this person refused his mask, he claimed that "radiation dust has little effect on him". Now it seems that this is the reason.But don't you wear it well now?Since masks can be given away, then of course more advanced gloves can also be given away in the future. If someone doesn't know how to cherish health, then he has to supervise this person who is not afraid of death and cares about his body.

Lu Ting's heart suddenly lightened up again, "No matter what, you are a body of flesh and blood," he said, "Even if you have genetics, your parents definitely don't want to see you running around exposed to the killing rays."

"Maybe." Deng Mochi said.

Counting the few words just now, this was also the first time he mentioned his parents, so he obviously didn't want to talk more.Are they all artificial?doing what?Are you still alive?In fact, Lu Ting has always suspected that the one he fell in love with was a single-parent elder brother who raised his family alone.

"Leave now?" On the surface, he was cautious and decent, but in his heart he was ready to support his family and become his parents' sister-in-law.

"Let's go." Deng Mochi went out first.

After adding the lead pads, it was a little more difficult to lift the steps than expected, which felt strange, but Lu Ting's legs were not short of strength.He followed Dun Mochi closely, and was about to unload the miscellaneous equipment he brought from the cargo hold for you to choose, but he was led to the open space behind the safe house without saying a word.

Parked there was a battered... what might be called a car.There is no driver's seat, and the most conspicuous main body is a cuboid body with a length and width of about two meters and a depth of about 1.5 meters.Equally striking are the four long spring arms, attached to the car's chassis at one end and folding pliers at the other, each with three mechanical fingers.

"It's enough to use it." Deng Mochi said, squeezed the phone and pressed it twice, the car started with a "beep" sound, and followed behind the owner like a puppy.

Lu Ting also hurried to catch up, and chased even tighter, he didn't want to be compared by a car.He also just found out that Deng Mochi was still using an antique gadget like a mobile phone. After holding his breath, he got out of the infrared network and stayed away from the sign that said "Do not approach". Lu Ting couldn't hold back his curiosity anymore. , making a fuss and wanting to check the phone, Deng Mochi actually handed it to him, just reminding, pay attention to the road and don't place orders.

That morning, the progress was fairly smooth. The two of them walked more than half a circle around a garbage mountain, and the large force from the barge penetrated into the land [-] kilometers away from the river bank.

Lu Ting learned that every week, teams of crane helicopters and heavy trucks come to the fourth district to dump garbage. Of course, casting materials are the most sought-after, such as pig iron and various non-ferrous alloys. buildings, as well as scrapped vehicles and aircraft, if you are lucky, you can also pick out a small amount of precious metals from certain parts.The mysterious long knife finally came in handy. It was not an ancient object, but a personally modified plasma knife. The blade supplied air, the handle was a power source, and the blade was used to release a stable arc that could cut solid steel pipes.

This is too geek, in line with temperament.Lu Ting looked at him with admiration.

At the same time, from this point of view, Deng Mochi didn't take the knife for self-defense.Lu Ting observed that he seemed to have his own set of recycling standards, and after looking at those wastes, he could pick them back into the truck body, which is really a small number.However, once he came across something he wanted, no matter whether it was pressed under steel bars or rusted in scrap iron, he would definitely get it out. Holding the knife, he could cut and pry it smoothly. mud.And what Lu Ting can do seems to be to help him hold up the things to be cut, or straighten the things that cannot be lifted on the ground, so that the mechanical puppy can pick it up and stuff it back into his belly.

Apart from metals, textiles were next in popularity. A large amount of clothing was scattered among the stinking domestic waste. Deng Mochi explained that most of them came from the towns where the plague broke out and the hospitals in the special area.On the way, Lu Ting met a group of young women, more than ten people, all of them were sallow and thin, wearing the first-generation masks that had been eliminated long ago. There is a mottled short cloth on the top, which looks like a child's clothes when you look closely.

Wouldn't it be ready to take home and wash it for the child to wear...

What other things are their physical strength and skills enough to pick up?If you find it, how can you keep it?Lu Ting had heard about the endless robberies in the police academy, but the coaches never said that arresting those people was also their duty as the preparatory SAR police.

How this conforms to the rules here, no, not just the fourth district, but the entire depleted planet.In the face of survival, the premise of choice is superiority, and groups without superiority can only touch the leftovers filtered out by others.

"Can I go over and give them some money?" Lu Ting thought about his words, and he was also surprised that he would say such a thing, knowing that it was a proposal to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

But Deng Mochi said: "Think about it yourself. If you go, I will wait for you at the same place."

Lu Ting looked at him, his vivid face was covered by a black mask, and his eyes were just two empty eyepieces, but Lu Ting felt that they were looking at each other for a second.He suddenly calmed down.Then he watched the group of women walk away without stepping forward, remembering this matter in his heart.

At noon, both of them were sweating profusely. Although the temperature was only fifteen degrees above zero, the radiation protection suits were indeed impermeable.Deng Mochi took Lu Ting into a public safe house to eat his own lunch. This kind of small house is similar to Deng Mochi's private stronghold. It is very common in the fourth district. There is one every few kilometers, providing self-service rental Serve.

Due to the horror of indirect pollution, few people dare to drink water and eat outdoors, and they often choose to resupply in these concrete huts with lead bricks added.Deng Mochi ate very simple, just a protein bar and two chewable vitamin tablets, and he was done in a few bites.Lu Ting took some trouble. He put two police dry rations on the table, poured hot water from the isolation bottle and brewed it all morning. The aroma soon overflowed from the mouth of the thick aluminum foil bag. This dry ration is For the bacon porridge flavor, Lu Ting also added compressed oatmeal cubes into it, which has a strong sense of satiety and a good taste. It uses real rice, real meat and real vegetables instead of synthetic flavors.

He inserted the straw and handed Dun Mochi a bag.

Dun Mochi didn't refuse, and quickly finished his drink.Lu Ting thought it was hot, and before he sipped half of it, he had already folded the bag and threw it into the trash.

"And this." Lu Ting took out two more peaches from his bag.

The fluffy yellow skin is slightly reddish, like the cheeks of a girl, exuding a sweet fragrance.Deng Mochi took one, held it in his hand and looked at it intently for a while, and completely lost the look of always being unable to wake up.Lu Ting was really worried that he would do something like bring it home for his younger siblings to eat. After all, he didn't bring much. Fortunately, the worry didn't happen. When Lu Ting drank the last mouthful of porridge, the peach had been wiped out.

Sufficient moisture and separated core.Deng Mochi took out a handkerchief from the inner pocket of his denim jacket, and silently wiped the clean peach pit.

Rice porridge and fruit were his first time eating.

"I always think that the seeds of many plants are very beautiful, and they can be worn as pendants." Lu Ting also gnawed on his own peaches. Normally, he would have to peel them, but this time he didn't. He thought of the spoiled habit. Secretly hid it, "This one is for you, this one is for me, I'm going to take it home to see if it can be planted."

"Planting trees?" Deng Mochi raised his eyebrows.

"I've planted a lot of things, and the cherries at home are almost ripe! It takes several years for the peach tree to grow up." Lu Ting raised the corner of his mouth, and another dimple appeared. He looked a little shy, "Recently, I have planted Hua’er, I’ll show you around when I’m free, botanists are almost extinct, I’m an amateur.”

"Well, it's amazing." Deng Mochi affirmed seriously.

Lu Ting lowered his head and continued to gnaw on the peach, his eyelashes also drooped, only daring to stare at his knees, and from the corner of his eye, he saw that the peach pit had been wrapped in a handkerchief and put it back in his inner pocket.

In the afternoon, the smog was blown away a little, and a hole of light was vacated in the sky, and the surface of the earth was clear and silent.The two walked at the end of the mountain one after the other, followed by a creaking bucket truck. A large amount of scrap iron lay in the shining sunlight like a shredded old city, heating up quietly.

Perhaps the accumulation of too many things can lead to grandeur, including garbage, and the instinctive reaction of human beings in front of macroscopic scenes is to introspect their insignificance, and Lu Ting is no exception.He can only get rid of the sense of aimless submersion by working more with his hands. Except for the gun, he only carries a small laser dagger with him, and he has learned to use it to cut straight lines on the iron plate.

Sometimes they chatted, and it was Lu Ting who was asking questions, and Deng Mo was late to answer. They didn't look at each other, but carefully observed their surroundings.The content of the conversation involved bomb craters, various media outlets, the equivalent of the nuclear explosion that year, and the fighter plane lost in that battle. Lu Ting has been interested in it since he was a child, "LastShadow", this is the legendary name, The car of the leader of the rebel army was about to attack the shore with a large number of troops.It is rumored to be equipped with some experimental technologies that cannot be recovered under present-day conditions.

But it is only a legend. The last signal appeared in the fourth district. The government has only found a small number of suspicious parts over the years, but has not found the main body. In fact, it should not expect anything to be found in the survived a nuclear explosion.Deng Mochi said that the initial wave of going to the fourth district arose because the surviving artificial people wanted to find the spaceship and collect it for the heroes. However, over the years, people have gradually been attracted by garbage, and no one believes in its existence. That's all.

He never skimps on language when it comes to introducing the environment and explaining the principles, but that's all.Lu Ting thought, if this person is doing these jobs alone, he must be quite comfortable, but that kind of scene... always feels very lonely.

With the superimposition of the distance and the accumulation of recyclables, Lu Ting sweated more and more.

One time he pulled out a copper pipe and stuffed it into the folding pliers. He was a little dazed and didn't know what was wrong with him. He took off his gloves and poured out a light layer of sweat, and said something stupid like that: " I want to find a puppy, the kind that is alive, and I will bring it when I find it," he said sullenly, "Working with us is like going hunting in the mountains and forests before, and it is much more fun than a mechanical puppy. "

"Mechanical dog?"

"That's it. Although it's big, it always follows you like a puppy." Lu Ting pointed to the rather innocent long arm of the truck.

Deng Mochi glanced back, probably smiled, and said very softly under the mask, "Do you need to take a break?"

Suddenly, Lu Ting said, "No need, let's go, let's go."

So the two continued walking for a while.

Dazzling happened twice again, and the lead pad under my feet seemed to take a heavy step.Lu Ting resisted not thinking about it, but still couldn't help realizing that this was not fatigue, but a more troublesome situation.

No way?Obviously only half a month has passed?

Lu Ting subconsciously touched the outermost pocket of the backpack, and a whole box of suppression capsules was pressed under his hand with the corners separated by the canvas.