Chapter 763 "Midnight Ring"

With all kinds of guesses and doubts, Qi Lin walked out of Luxin Park without any risk.

Sorry, this is the author's mistake. There is something wrong with the use of rhetoric here. The word "near miss" should not be used, because let alone "near miss", there is not even a "shock".

Walking through a park that has been transformed into a black forest is even safer than walking through an old forest park. At least in the old days, you still had to worry about the venomous snakes that might be lurking in the grass on the roadside.

"Just came out like this?" Looking back at the park behind him, Qi Lin was full of unreality.

But what he didn't know was that just two months ago, due to the attack of flesh puppets, a soldier of the recovery force got separated from most of them and strayed into Green Heart Park, and then never came out again. .

The utilization rate of nutrients by alienated trees can be said to be improved to the extreme. Even hard bones will be crushed and ground into powder by the powerful root system, and then become fertilizer for the soil.

No one knew what happened to that soldier, neither did the people who recovered the troops, nor did Qi Lin.

Passing through Green Heart Park, we were only a few blocks away from LS City People's Hospital. Qi Lin could even vaguely see the roof of the hospital's inpatient department building through the gaps between tall buildings.

It's just that it's impossible to see the scene on the roof from this angle.

Qi Lin did not go straight to the hospital, but chose a nearby office building. This office building was twenty-two stories high. As long as Qi Lin ran to the middle floor, he could see everything on the roof of the hospital from the window. .

Similarly, if you want to use it as a sniper point, it is also a pretty good choice.

The glass door of the office building was shattered all over the floor, and the hall was filled with dirty footprints and randomly discarded garbage. Qi Lin even saw some completely dry feces in the corner - this was human feces. It seems... This office building should have been used as a temporary shelter by a group of refugees.

As for whether those refugees died in the city or fled here again, this is not what he needs to care about.

Only half of the front desk in the hall was left, and the remaining half was missing. However, when Qi Lin saw the piles of embers on the ground and the large black traces of smoke on the ceiling, he understood that half of the front desk was probably They were used as firewood by those refugees and chopped up...

The elevator in the office building must have been out of service. Qi Lin found the stairs as a fire exit and began to climb up the stairs.

Thanks to the old Huaxia "Fire Protection Law", the fire exits are not allowed to be locked, which also saves Qi Lin the trouble of prying the door.

There are many faded signs hanging in the corridor on the second floor. The companies on these signs are basically small start-up companies, and most of them are real estate agency companies.

The location of this office building is not good, and the rent is not expensive. In the old days, start-up companies that lacked funds often only needed to spend 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a year to build a small room of about ten square meters. .

Many start-up companies of this kind appear every year. Of course, many of them go bankrupt. The signs posted on the corridors of such office buildings change a lot almost every year.

Qi Lin glanced at these signs, but found nothing that interested him, and judging from the degree of dust accumulation in the corridor, it seemed that after the group of refugees left the office building, nothing came in again.

The second floor, the third floor... until the twelfth floor, they are basically the same, but in the corridors of several floors, Qi Lin found some human corpses.

Among them are well-preserved mummies and rotten skeletons, but these corpses all have one thing in common-they are surrounded by empty cans and food packaging bags.

These people were starved to death.

Six months before the nuclear explosion, material control had already been implemented in the city. Supermarkets and shopping malls were taken over by the army. Money could no longer directly buy food, vegetables, fruits, and meat. Citizens had to rely on "materials" to obtain these daily necessities. "coupons" to the designated place to receive, material coupons are issued according to the number of people, must be held by the person to purchase materials, and private transactions are prohibited... Although this system has some slight differences in various places, it generally follows one rule-on-demand distribute.

Under such circumstances, it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to hoard enough food without any relationship or path, and one month before the nuclear explosion, even the material coupons had been discarded, and a large amount of materials were transferred to Among the underground shelters, most of the lucky ones who got the shelter beds have already entered the underground bunkers, and those who did not get the shelter beds also began to flee to the northwest—after all, the key target of the nuclear strike must be It is those densely populated big cities, no one will waste nuclear bombs on the desolate and uninhabited Gobi Desert, unless there are military bases or missile silos built there.

Illegal activities such as robbery and theft are no longer being controlled at this time. The police station is empty, and the army will not bother with such things. The order on the ground has become more chaotic than the underground. At this time, they are still in the city Among them, most of them are old, weak, sick, women, and children. If these people choose to flee, they may die on the way to escape before the nuclear bomb falls. Instead of doing this, it is better to lock themselves in the house Here, pray that a nuclear bomb does not fall on your head.

Not every city will be hit by a nuclear bomb, and it will take time for a dirty bomb to exert sufficient lethality. A large part of the people who died during that time were starved to death.

The warehouses in the city have been emptied by the consortium, and the remaining scraps of food have been looted and looted by some fierce refugees. The shortage of food is undoubtedly the biggest problem that the remaining people in the city need to face.

When people are extremely hungry, they can do anything. In a bathroom on the ninth floor, Qi Lin saw the skeleton of a child that had obviously been eaten...

Qi Lin continued to walk up until he reached the thirteenth floor. At this height, as long as he chose the right angle, he should be able to see the scene on the hospital rooftop clearly.

Just then, in a room on the left side of the corridor, a phone suddenly rang.

The ringing of the phone made Qi Lin stand on his head - there was no electricity in this building, and there was no communication base station in the wasteland... How did the phone ring? !

"Crap...could it be the midnight bell?" Qi Lin subconsciously glanced at the time. It was only half past eight, and there were still three and a half hours until midnight.

Glancing at the sign outside the room, although the writing on it had become a bit blurred, Qi Lin could still distinguish it.

"Cinda Real Estate Agency Co., Ltd."

"Damn it... is this the rhythm of someone renting a house in the ruins of this city?"