Chapter 1 He Came

According to the coordinates provided by the other party, Lu Chi came to a collapsed ruin. On the site of the ruin, Lu Chi saw a sign with a bomb shelter symbol.

Obviously, this was a military bomb shelter, and the group of survivors was hiding in the bomb shelter below.

Some people might ask, why would Lu Chi not focus on dealing with the group of EU evolvers at this time, but instead run to the shelter to find those survivors? The reason is very simple: he wanted to bring a kind of "hope" to the survivors below.

"Hope," this seemingly ethereal thing is sometimes very important. It should be regarded as a kind of spiritual power. In some desperate situations, its effect on people is more effective than any drug.

To kill all the members of this EU squad would take at least two days. During these two days, the survivors below, who had already reached their limit, were likely to give up and choose to end their lives because they saw no hope.

It's like someone who falls into a deep pit and can't climb out on their own. If you tell them that someone will come to save them in seven days, they will definitely be able to persevere for seven days.

But if there is no possibility of getting out of the pit, that person might be finished in five days.

This kind of spiritual power can stimulate some of the body's potential, allowing people to live more resiliently.

Although Lu Chi had communicated with the survivors via signal before, signal communication was far less direct and trustworthy than actually letting the survivors see him come. At least, as long as Lu Chi showed up in front of them, they would know that they had not been deceived or tricked, but that someone really wanted to save them.

For people in desperate situations, Lu Chi's actions were really important.

Telling the survivors to hold on for two more days through an instrument is definitely not as effective as personally showing up and telling them the same thing.

Lu Chi walked carefully through the ruins. Soon, he found a passage leading underground. He walked all the way in and saw a heavy steel gate at the end. Outside the gate were some mutated beasts and human corpses. Here, the signal fluctuation instrument in Lu Chi's hand reached its peak. Obviously, the survivors were behind this gate.

He walked forward, raised his hand, and began to knock on the door.

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Ten minutes ago, in the underground bomb shelter, more than a hundred emaciated, ragged survivors were gathered around the only signal transmission instrument, their eyes dull and their states manic.

Considering safety factors, there were only two narrow ventilation holes in the entire bomb shelter. The domestic waste generated by more than a hundred people eating, drinking, and defecating inside gave the entire bomb shelter the smell of a rural outhouse. If ordinary people who have lived in a normal environment for a long time were to come in and take a deep breath, they might faint.

This was no longer a simple stench. The ammonia and hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases produced by these wastes could cause poisoning symptoms, ranging from fever to suffocation and death.

But compared to the shortage of food and water, this olfactory stimulation was nothing.

They had been trapped in the underground bomb shelter for more than fifteen days. The bomb shelter, which was originally only able to accommodate seventy people, was now crammed with more than a hundred people. The stored living resources had been almost completely consumed a week ago. In this week, each person's daily ration was only a small piece of instant noodles and 50 milliliters of turbid raw water.

But even this pitiful supply would be completely exhausted in one day.

Disease, thirst, hunger, and despair, these were like demons缠绕 (chanrao - entangling) these survivors. In the dark bomb shelter, many of these survivors had become mentally disturbed.

"Damn it! Damn it!" A blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman was acting like a madwoman. She stood in front of the signal instrument, her eyes red, and glared, saying, "Why did the person who was going to rescue us suddenly interrupt contact with us? Why doesn't he reply to our messages anymore?"

"He must be playing with us!"

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The blonde woman suddenly rushed up and began to punch and kick the instrument.

Several people next to her quickly grabbed her, desperately holding her to the ground, and said angrily, "What are you doing? If you break the signal instrument, we will completely lose our channel of communication with the outside world... Do you want to die here?"

"You're a lunatic!"

Several people were fighting with the blonde woman, and the sound of children crying rang out next to them. The bomb shelter was in chaos.

"You dirty lower class people!" The blonde woman hysterically cursed in EU language, "How dare you treat me like this? I am an EU citizen, I..."

Slap!

Slap!

Someone slapped the blonde woman hard twice, silencing her.

The blonde woman seemed to be stunned by the beating and stopped yelling.

"Why doesn't the information from the outside world reply... What exactly happened?" The Yan Huang person frowned. The ecstasy that had just surged up was now extremely lost due to Lu Chi's loss of contact.

"Food and water can only last for one more day at most. If the rescue can't arrive, I'm afraid we will all die."

Great despair enveloped everyone.

Everyone stared at the signal instrument, hoping it would sound again, but it was like a stone, without any movement.

The blonde woman staggered to her feet, her cheeks swollen, spat out a mouthful of blood痰 (tan - phlegm) with broken teeth, and stared fiercely at the people who had beaten her before.

Everyone deliberately stayed away from her, as if they thought she was a madwoman.

At this moment, a four or five-year-old girl staggered over, timidly handing a cold piece of raw iron wrapped in a towel to the blonde woman.

In the corner next to her, a woman who looked extremely haggard smiled at her and said in broken EU language: "I am a doctor, applying something cold to the swollen area can relieve pain... Eliminate swelling."

The blonde woman stared at the little girl and the woman for a long time, then suddenly stood up and walked coldly towards the signal instrument.

Several people thought she was going to go crazy again and quickly blocked her.

"I have a suggestion." The blonde woman covered her face and said, "It has now been determined that there will be rescue from the outside world, but we cannot determine when the rescue will arrive... It may be in three days, it may be in five days! But our supplies can no longer last until that time, so I suggest that we should abandon some people to save others, otherwise everyone may die here!"

"What do you mean?" Someone next to her asked.

"What I mean is, concentrate the food and distribute it to some strong people who can survive longer, and eliminate those who are sick, injured, and elderly..." When the blonde woman said this, her gaze turned to the little girl next to her and her mother, who looked a little confused, and she showed a fierce smile, saying word by word: "And the young!"

"This way, the remaining things can allow some people to live a little longer."

The blonde woman's words stunned everyone.

Soon, the Yan Huang person immediately waved his hand and said, "This is absolutely not allowed, this..."

"This is the best way so far. If you can't bear to do it, I can take the lead!" The blonde woman suddenly erupted, grabbed the dagger from someone next to her, and strode towards the little girl.

Her eyes were fierce, like a beast.