Chapter 470: Corpse (1/2)

Chapter 470: Corpse

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”My teeth are going to break into pieces!” Lin Feiyan said unsatisfyingly while she bit the hardtack and chewed on it with her white teeth.

She has not had a good time since the Firearms Bureau began working with Luo Yuan. Most of her time was spent in the Reconstruction Area in search of survivors. Although she had a unique evolved ability which kept her warm, she still suffered from the bad food and accommodation.

That was not the worst part of it. If she could find even one survivor, at least her hard work would have paid off meaningfully. However, the entire Firearms Bureau had not found anything for months, not even a single corpse.

”Let me boil some water first.” Wu Qianru said. She was sitting next to her and tried to persuade her while she put down her backpack and unzipped it to take out the burner, a small portable pot, and a wooden water storage tank. She knew that the water inside the tank had been frozen even though she had not opened it.

”So troublesome! It’s easier to just eat it like this.” Lin Feiyan whispered as the sound of ice being crushed was coming out from her mouth. This would certainly have irritated the people that were listening to it. Furthermore, if she was not an evolved human, she might not have been able to chew through hardtack at all.

Wu Qianru had stopped persuading her. Unlike Lin Feiyan, she was afraid of the cold and even if she had good teeth, her stomach would not be able to withstand the coldness of the ice.

She took out a clean piece of cloth and a hammer from her backpack. She put the cotton cloth on the surface of the frozen ground and gently hit the edge of the tank. Soon enough, the ice came out off the tank and fell onto the cloth. She then used the cloth to wrap the ice before hitting it with her hammer.

A few minutes later, she opened the cloth and saw that the ice inside had broken into pieces. She picked out a few pieces, threw it into the pot and stored the rest back into the tank before she lit up the burner and began to heat up the ice.

The flame quietly licked the bottom of the pot and in a short amount of time, the water was boiling. She took out two cups but only poured the water into one of the cups and said, ”Here you go!”

Lin Feiyan bluntly took the cup and finished it in one mouthful as though the cup of boiled water had actually been warm water. She released a sigh of relief and after a while, she asked Wu Qianru, ”How far more to go?”

”About 10 kilometers.” Wu Qianru said casually while pouring herself a cup of hot water which she would then soak the hardtack in.

”We will return to rest for a while after searching the city in front of us!” Lin Feiyan sighed and said. This time, she had experienced a lot of challenges and had become more mature as compared to the past. She continued, ”In fact, we have been out here for a week and our supplies are almost used up. It’s time to head back.”

”Oh great! We can finally rest for a couple of days.” Wu Qianru said happily.

She could not have imagined how it would have been like living in the wilderness if she had not personally experienced it herself. She trekked in the snow during the day and shivered inside her sleeping bag during the night. Besides that, there was no source of clean water and every time before sleeping, she needed to use the purifier she was carrying with her to filter the snow to meet the water demands for the next day. The worse thing was that the purified water would freeze quickly in the cold weather and every morning she needed to melt the ice before brushing her teeth. And, that was what happened on the days with good weather. Snowstorms were common and sometimes there would even be hailstorms.

It was during one midnight of last month while they were asleep when they experienced their first hailstorm. Plenty of football sized hail fell from the sky without any warning and hit their sleeping bags. Although they were evolved humans, they felt like a drowning mouse in that situation. Furthermore, they had been camping on a flat ice ground and there was not even a single hiding place for them. They could only use their hands to support the tent and endure the experience throughout the rest of the night.

They rested for half an hour during lunchtime before they departed for the city again. Soon, they had arrived at their destination.

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”This is probably the compound of Endeavour City.” Lin Feiyan said after she took a glance at the latitude-longitude grid and observed the surrounding area.

There was no sign of any human activities. It was just snow falling down from the sky.

”There should be no one alive here!” Wu Qianru sighed and said. She did not hold any hope as the recent situation was worsening and now everything could only be left to God.

”Anyway, try checking the surroundings first,” Lin Feiyan replied.

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The ground had been covered with thick snow and they were lacking in strength to conduct a meticulous search. Luo Yuan, a human nuclear weapon, could have easily broken through the frozen ground, but despite him being not around, there was still a way to do it.

The easiest way to determine whether there were any survivors was to look for any possible vents since the vents would not be sealed if there were still survivors alive in the city. It was impossible to survive for three months with sealed vents.

They took out the topographic device from their backpack and began to work. This device had a wide range of applications which was very important to civil engineering and many other fields. It was an indispensable instrument; hence, Hope City kept a few of it.

Time had passed and they could not find anything even until nightfall.