The King of Alien Creatures [End Times]

Chapter 19 To Survive

2081 8 Month 16 Day.

There are still four months before Shen Ke.

It has been more than two years since the last complex catastrophic weather.

Most of the basic functions of the base camp were barely restored.

However, the originally reinforced city wall was completely damaged by the invasion of the large number of Cretan creatures, and now only half of it has been repaired. Although it is not open anymore, it is far less solid than before.

Often after a night of heavy storms, the wall shakes obviously, and slag will fall off when you wipe it lightly with your hand. You dare not touch it, and you are in danger.

At this time, they would go to temporarily build a layer to temporarily reinforce it.

However, one layer is built today and another layer is built tomorrow. Although there are many layers, the fundamental problem cannot be solved.

It's like counting the nines in the cold winter, the north wind is bitter, wearing a hundred short sleeves on the body, the quantity is enough, but the two arms are still exposed, which is useless.

Although they are solving the problem bit by bit, there is still no way to remedy it immediately.

All kinds of resources are in short supply.

As for the facilities damaged by the weather, they have simply been pushed to rebuild, and now they are only beginning to take shape and cannot be put into use yet.

Roughly estimated, it will take at least a year for such a large project to be fully completed with only [-] or so people now.

At present, only the air-raid shelter in the base camp is still intact, and the degree of damage is not high. It took more than three months to completely repair it.

They usually spend their daily lives and rest underground.

And those edible creatures that were finally exchanged from Sanctuary City have long been eaten up by Cretan creatures, and there are no bones left. Now they only have a few injured old hens that can be used to lay eggs. Bought it from Sanctuary City Black/Market at a high price a while ago.

After all, life was even harder than it was at the beginning.

Especially whenever she thought of how to drive away and kill those Cretan creatures that kept pouring in at that time, and rebuild the small home little by little, Shen Ke felt a headache.

It was too hard.

It's just too hard.

Just like the infrastructure novels he read when he was in school, he built a house today and a city tomorrow. If he didn’t have a golden finger, let alone building a house, he even had to learn how to farm for a few days before he mastered the skills.

Why doesn't he have such thick and long golden fingers!

But fortunately, everything has passed, and he persevered with everyone, and now he can be alone.

It's just that a few people were really overwhelmed and fled to the city of shelter.

This is another reason for their shortage of manpower.

In the past two years, when Shen Ke went shopping in Sanctuary City, she also met them. Although the words were not very popular, at least she would not be as exhausted as they were. When I wake up, I can't see tomorrow.

To say that I am not envious is a lie.

Even so, Shen Ke had secretly promised Yuan Shen that she would take care of Shen Haiying for him, so she could not change her mind.

And Shen Haiying didn't know if she had tried too many medicines, and her health has not been very good recently.

Shen Ke also wanted to spend more time with her.

Since Shen Haiying won't go, then he won't either.

Besides, it's a hurdle, and it's not certain whether he can get through it. The environment and people here are already familiar, so why go to Sanctuary City to rebuild the social network, not to mention the experience that was almost tarnished, he also felt that There is an extra defense.

At this moment, Shen Ke is being ordered to resell some antidote made by Shen Haiying in the black market of Asylum City. The antidote she developed is very popular in the black market. Every time she sells it, she can get a lot of profit and become one of the main sources of income for the base camp. .

Then use the profit from selling the medicine to exchange for some normal food, and if possible, some seeds and soil.

To live, it is not enough to rely on those Cretan creatures as a food source.

After these two years of groping and learning, Shen Ke has roughly mastered the habits of those common Cretan creatures, and can try to avoid them as much as possible. In addition, some strange herbs may be picked up on the road to bring to Shen Haiying. and he set out on the road with an almighty dagger.

After all, after that disaster, their means of transportation were reduced to only one off-road vehicle. It would be better to leave it for those who need it more. For example, Meng Fanyi and the others needed to go hunting outside, and then the Rakrit creature would come back.

After fleeing from the corpse river two years ago, Shen Ke never wanted to soak in the smelly ditch again.

So for convenience, he also made a raft and hid it in the woods at ordinary times.

But today, Shen Ke went to the old place to take out the raft and paddle to the other side, but he couldn't find it.

"It's strange, I put it here five days ago." Shen Ke walked around the place where he thought the raft was hidden several times but couldn't find it.

"Could it be that you remembered wrongly?" Bu Gu didn't follow last time, so naturally he didn't know where he put it.

And it's been five days, who knows what happened.

"Impossible." Shen Ke said firmly, "It is impossible to remember wrongly, it is placed between these two trees."

He pointed to one of the trees with golden flowers: "Look, among all the trees, it is the only one that blooms. It is impossible to remember wrongly."

Bu Gu looked in the direction of his finger, and there really was a cute little golden flower growing from the tree trunk: "Then..."

The two fell into a difficult situation at once, seeing that the river of corpses was in front of them, but they had no tools to cross the river.

Shen Ke frowned, with a reluctance on his face, he really didn't want to swim in the water, even though it had been two years since the last experience, his memory was still fresh, it had already become a part of him, deeply engraved in his mind.

"Think about it again." Shen Ke looked around, thinking about making another raft, but the original raft was made of wood they bought with money, and it was a little different from the surrounding trees. It had been specially treated to prevent corrosion. Mildew-proof, and very tough.

If these trees are used directly, there is no guarantee that they can cross the river intact.

The disappearance of the raft directly disrupted Shen Ke's plan. As time passed, the nervous feeling became more and more serious.

He purposely chose a time when there were less Cretan creatures to come out, but there was already some delay, and Shen Ke couldn't help but feel nervous.

A slight deviation can lead to catastrophe.

While listening to the sounds around him, he looked for all the materials that could be used as rafts to cross the river.

At last he found a little wreck of the raft under the root of a tree where a golden flower had grown.

"This is?" Bu Gu squatted beside him, looking at the neatly cut raft in front of him, he couldn't help asking, "Could someone have been here?"

Shen Ke thought that no one would come, but the section of the bamboo raft was clearly cut off by a tool. He shook his head and said uncertainly, "I'm not sure."

"But from this point of view, we can only find another way to cross the river." Shen Ke glanced at the corpse river that was already visible, and really didn't want to swim across it, but he couldn't find anything else.

10 minute later.

Shen Ke and Bu Gu crossed the corpse river one after the other.

With his dagger in his mouth and the medicine that will be sold on his head, Shen Ke passed through the river of corpses as quickly as possible, but at the same time, he did not forget to reduce the distance so as not to step on something scary.

Fortunately, the crossing of the river went smoothly this time. Except for the stink on his body, he didn't touch anything creepy. The dagger in his mouth and the medicine on his head were all intact.

But Bu Gu was not so calm. He sniffed the smell on his body and grinned in disgust: "Why is it so smelly! I'm about to become a shit."

"No way, just bear with it. We'll see if we can buy rafts or something after we sell things. If there are any leftovers, buy a set of clothes and change them." Shen Ke said, twisting the clothes on the hem Water, a puddle of stinky water flowed on the ground, continuing to stink.

Bu Gu also followed his example and wrung out the water on his body. Wearing his smelly and damp clothes, he walked into the city of sanctuary which was rebuilt after the disaster.

Halfway there, there was still some way to the black/market where they were going to trade, Bu Gu slapped his head and suddenly shouted: "Yeah."

"What?" Shen Ke was looking around, wanting to see if he could meet the dark man who rescued him two years ago, startled by his sudden cry, clutching his chest and turning back to glare at him for a second, "Don't Surprised, okay?"

"I remembered what that golden flower is!" Bu Gu stretched out his index finger and lit it in the air, "I've seen it in "Crete Flora Collection". The raft may have been eaten by it."

"What kind of flower?" Shen Ke wasn't interested in plants, and naturally he didn't read the "Crete Flora Collection" he mentioned, so he didn't know that the golden flower was actually a kind of flower parasitic on trees.

"Wood-eating flowers are parasitic on tree trunks and only eat other wood." Bu Gu said.

Shen Ke stopped, frowned slightly as if thinking: "Is there such a thing?"

"Yes." Bu Gu nodded, "I just said that I have seen it somewhere, and don't you think that flower is very abrupt?"

Shen Ke smoothed the word Chuan on his forehead, and continued to walk forward: "When you said that, I remembered that when Brother Yi and I made the raft, it was still very big. Later, every time we used it, I thought it was a little smaller than before, but I didn't think much about it, I didn't expect this time..."

It was eaten!

Bu Gu sighed: "If you don't go to the old one, why don't you come to the new one? We'll see if there are any shops in the city for sale. We can buy the kayak you mentioned, and we can take it with us when the time comes."

"Okay, then let's hurry up." Shen Ke quickened his pace, he had already lost some time on the road, and he had to go to see the kayaks, so the time left for them was a bit rushed.

They went straight to the black/market in area C. It was said to be a black/market, but it was actually more like a vegetable market. It was an underground building covering a large area, and it was mainly a gathering place for homeless people.

The lights inside were even dimmer than those in their air-raid shelters, the air was filled with smog and indescribable mixed smells, comparable to the river of corpses outside, and all kinds of people could appear here.

Although Bu Gu followed him a few times, he still couldn't help covering his nose, frowned and muttered in a low voice, while avoiding the people who passed by: "Why is the smell so strong?"

Shen Ke had a clear purpose and didn't stay too long, but she also put her finger in front of her nose: "Just bear with it."

Those who drink here, play cards, fight and challenge, SQ transactions, gray area transactions, can only think of things that cannot be tolerated without it. Of course, more of them are reselling items like them, such as information, food, medicine, animal skins, etc. teeth, collections...

But there are still a few people like Shen Ke who sell antidote drugs.

So after going back and forth, Shen Ke became acquainted with people in the underworld.

The person in charge here is an old man. Everyone calls him Old Wu, and his name is Wu Ming.

It is said that he is ruthless and merciless to those who disturb the order of the underworld/market.

Of course, these are just rumors. Shen Ke has never seen it before. Every time she comes here, Shen Ke can see Wu Ming with gray hair and long goatee, smiling, with a kind face. Be sure to have a pouch pot.

It's just that every time I see that pipe pot, there has never been smoke coming out of it.

At this moment, Shen Ke led Bu Gu all the way in, and saw Mr. Wu resting his eyes on the wooden chair in the corner with his eyes closed, and standing beside him were several strong men with hideous faces and horrific wounds.

Shen Ke ignored that every time he came next to him, the wound on his face was different, never once was a normal strong man, touched the still wet pocket of his clothes, made sure that the things inside were intact, and strode over.

Before he could speak when he came to him, he heard Wu Ming say, "Son, here we come."