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Chapter 56 Wasteland Era

This bizarre one-way trip left Liu Yanzhi in the misaligned reference time and space. There was nothing he was familiar with here, and it belonged to another plane. He couldn't even return to Song Mo to meet his comrades. He was extremely depressed when he thought about spending the rest of his life here.

Suddenly, a tiny sound came from a distance. It should be the bottom floor of the building, located a hundred meters below your feet. The sound of about fifty kilograms of bipedal animals stepping on the dust. It seems that I guessed it right, and humans still survive here.

Liu Yanzhi jumped down from the balcony and floated outside the building to observe the scavenger who was climbing up the stairs. There was a reason why he was a scavenger. The man was wrapped in dirty clothes that were invisible with no visible background. He wore a rubber gas mask on his head and pointed steel bars in his hand. He occasionally stirred up the garbage under his feet and tried to find something valuable.

The scavenger found a computer, smashed the mainframe with steel bars, took out several memory sticks from it, put them into the bag behind him, and continued to search. He turned around inadvertently and happened to see Liu Yanzhi floating outside in white clothes. He fell to the ground in fear, stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly fell to the ground and kowtowed wildly.

Liu Yan landed in front of the scavenger and told him not to kowtow and stand up and speak.

The scavenger stood up in a daze. The back of the lenses of the gas mask were foggy. He vaguely saw the beautiful eyebrows and eyes, as if he was a woman.

"What's your name?" Liu Yanzhi asked her.

"White snow." A hoarse voice came from behind the gas mask. She was a woman with cigarettes, alcohol and voices, speaking authentic Mandarin.

Liu Yan frowned: "What's this name? Your surname is Bai?"

"I don't have a surname, but my name is Bai Dixue. It was the name given to me by my third father." The woman replied with some smugness, and then asked him back, "Are you a god?"

"I am not a god, I am just a flying person." Liu Yan said straight.

"Then can I touch your clothes?" The woman came up and took off her gloves without waiting for him to answer, and carefully touched his white silk robe with her dark fingers, making a whispering sound from her mouth.

Liu Yanzhi did not dislike the dirty hands that were covered with mud in the cracks of these fingernails, because he saw the joy and curiosity of children from the eyes of women. Humans in the wasteland era lived as hard as mice underground. Never saw such neat characters and such clean clothes, even if they didn't float in the air, they would be regarded as gods.

Suddenly the woman's face showed horror. Liu Yanzhi looked back and saw black snowflakes falling from the sky. No, this was not snowflakes, but black ash similar to volcanic ash. The woman was obviously afraid of such as ash and ran down the stairs. Liu Yanzhi followed and went down to the basement of the building before stopping.

The basement was very quiet. The woman lit a bonfire and finally took off her gas mask to reveal her true face. Because she had not cleaned for a long time, her hair was tied into strands, her face was black and red. Because the air did not flow, the strong body odor floated over her body, which was disgusting.

"Where is your home?" Liu Yanzhi asked her, "Why did you come out to pick up trash by yourself?"

"This is my home." The woman pulled the bonfire and took out two dead mice from the bag. She skillfully wore them on the steel bars, put them on the bonfire and roasted them. She took out a dirty plastic bottle and said solemnly: "I'll treat you to water."

The plastic bottle has been used countless times, and the gap is full of dirt, and the bottle is only half turbid liquid. Liu Yanzhi declined the woman's kindness and took out his own water bag and threw it over.

The woman pulled open the plug of the skin and tasted it. Her expression was like a mortal who had drunk nectar and jade liquid. She was almost drunk: "It's delicious, this water is so delicious, have you given it to me?" After receiving the affirmative reply, she stopped drinking it, but hid the skin in her close place.

"Tell me about your affairs." Liu Yan said straight, "You can say whatever you know, the more detailed the better."

Women are very talkative. Although they have fewer vocabulary, from her description, Liu Yanzhi has a preliminary understanding of what kind of world this is.

About a hundred years ago, the elites of human beings gave up the earth where the environment was severely deteriorated and chose to immigrate to aliens. The fierce conflict between governments, interracial and religious people quickly broke out between the 10 billion inferior populations left on the earth. In essence, they were actually fighting for living resources. In the end, nuclear war broke out. 99.99% of human beings died in nuclear bombs and the subsequent nuclear winter. Only a very small number of people survived. They stayed away from the nuclear war ruins that were densely populated by radiation clouds all year round, took root in remote places, and tried their best to survive.

Human civilization is basically extinct. In order to reproduce offspring, they adopted a group system and shared resources, including women. The family is mainly men. Women exist as private property. Men in the family share one or several women. The descendants of the birth name are called fathers, and other men are also fathers. The newborns are more casually named. Just like the Internet names in Liu Yanzhi's memory, they do not talk about any surname rules. All kinds of strange names can be established. As long as they are happy, it is better to have an inappropriate name like "white snow". The white snow survives alone in cities with severe nuclear radiation because the family is extinct by the enemy.

"You should be called Bai Xue." Liu Yanzhi said to the woman.

"Baixue, it's so good. Then I'll call Baixue in the future!" The woman was very excited, "You are more knowledgeable than the third father, you are really a god."

"Do you just live by eating rats?" Liu Yanzhi was full of questions about this question, because he had never seen the green, and the radiation clouds that had lasted for decades blocked the sunlight, and plants could not wither and die. Without crops, no fruits and vegetables, humans could not survive by relying on meat alone. Besides, people can eat mice, so what mice eat, there must be a complete food chain in this world to maintain.

"The rats eat during the Chinese New Year, and they usually eat this." Bai Xue grabbed a handful of shriveled cockroaches from the bag. These cockroaches are very large and have a flat body. They can hold more than a dozen in their right hand.

"And this." She spread her left hand and held a pale yellow cake that looked like carbs.

"This thing can grow without sunlight. It is a food given to us by God." Bai Xue said. "The taste of beans grown in different waters is different. I don't like what grows in the sewer, but I prefer what grows in the sea, which has a kind of sea smell."

"This thing is called Shu?" Liu Yan went straight through the cake and observed it carefully. The particles of this thing were very coarse and were indeed a plant. Trying to taste it, it was a strong smell of beans, which was difficult to swallow. However, for the end-of-life residents, this was indeed a gift from God.

"Well, it's the name given by a cultured person, which means beans." Bai Xue nodded seriously. "The planting area in the Electric Power Tribe is very large, and our bean seeds are all exchanged for women and rats from them."

"Electric power tribe? Will they generate electricity?" Liu Yanzhi became excited. With electricity, it means that the level of civilization is not that low, and with electricity, it is possible to return to the end of the Song Dynasty.

"Yes, their tribes that have the power of electricity are great and cruel. My relatives were captured by the power tribe."

"Do you know what power they use to generate?" Liu Yanzhi asked anxiously.

"I know..." Bai Xue looked horrified, "They use people to generate electricity."

"Using people?" Liu Yanzhi's mind saw the scene in the Matrix. Could it be that there is such advanced black technology in this wasteland that uses human bodies to make batteries? Then we must see it.

"Take me to the Electric Power Tribe." Liu Yanzhi made a quick decision, "I will rescue my relatives for you."

Bai Xue applauded and began to take off her clothes.

"What are you doing?" Liu Yanzhi covered his nose, and the woman who untied her clothes felt even more pungent and smelly.

"Give it to you as a reward." The woman was puzzled.

"Thank you, I don't taste that heavy."

The woman covered her clothes embarrassedly: "I haven't taken a shower for a long time, and I can't find clean sand in the city."

"You guys bathe with sand?"

"What about that?"

"All right."

...

After the radiant dust outside stopped falling, Liu Yanzhi took Bai Xue on a journey, of course he could not use it. He flew to the west with Bai Xue on his back and found the so-called electric power tribe in the suburbs. This place was so conspicuous that even through the thick haze, you could see towering chimneys and huge cooling towers.

The predecessor here should be a thermal power plant, and now it is a magnificent wasteland fortress full of postmodernism. The core of the fortress is towering chimneys and huge cooling towers. The outer edge is a prism of Chinese and Western prisms made of construction waste. In the large fields outside the city, the five-inch-high gray bean seedlings are particularly eye-catching in the darkness. This is also the only plant that Liu Yanzhi saw along the way.

Liu Yanzhi placed Bai Xue in a safe area one kilometer away from the castle and went alone. The air was filled with a pungent smell, like a rotten egg, with extremely low visibility. With Liu Yanzhi's eyes, it was difficult to see the whole picture of the castle clearly. He looked for an opportunity to enter the city, knocked out a warrior standing guard, peeled off the warrior's armor and hung it up. This outfit looked familiar, and the synthetic armor was printed with two mottled and blurry Chinese characters: Police.

Liu Yanzhi, disguised as a warrior, walked into the power plant's power plant's power plant's power plant. The space inside was huge, and benches were filled with naked people. In front of them were slowly rotating transmission belts. Everyone was grabbing boiled beans on the transmission belt with their hands and putting them into their mouths. The way he chewed slowly reminded him of ruminants. There was a thin transparent rubber tube under their seats. These dense rubber tubes gathered into larger metal pipes through the check valve. The pipes were crisscrossed. Through countless pressure gauges, the valve entered an unknown field. Four large red words were written on the high iron wall: Smoking fireworks are strictly prohibited!

Even the fierce people who have experienced the Cambrian era like Liu Yanzhi can't help but be amazed. Human imagination is so great. Without fossil energy and firewood, they actually use artificial methane to generate electricity!

The so-called human-use power generation does not mean treating living people as batteries, but using human intestinal bacteria to decompose bean food residues and produces a large amount of combustible gases including methane and hydrogen sulfide as fuel to drive the power plant steam turbine.
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