It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

Boss Cheng dug a few times in the snow and found that underneath the snow was a concrete floor made by hand. This made Boss Cheng wonder if this was some unbuilt nest city? But wouldn't a place with a nest city be dirty, messy, and crowded?

Well, he had only fought zombies in the lowest and lowest sewers, and had never been to the upper levels.

"Never mind about it for now!" Boss Cheng gave an order, and regardless of whether there was anyone here or not, the seafood should be grilled first.

"Just cover the beer with snow, it will get cold soon. I'll go back and find some oxygen masks. Regardless of whether the adults need them or not, at least we can't let the two kids' brains be deprived of oxygen just because of a barbecue at a high altitude."

A few minutes later, the two little guys wearing active feeding masks were staring at the big crab on the grill. They had never eaten crab meat roasted with vermicelli and garlic sauce, let alone crab meat roasted with vermicelli and garlic sauce in a basin-sized crab shell as a baking tray.

Unfortunately, because the charcoal burned in a relatively oxygen-deficient environment, the weak fire was unable to bring out the aroma of the minced garlic and crab meat.

But Boss Cheng still has a way!

Boss Cheng directly turned on the valve of a portable oxygen cylinder and pointed the outlet of the cylinder at the charcoal stove. The valve of the cylinder was only opened a little, but the oxygen that was ejected instantly set the charcoal ablaze. The smell of crab meat mixed with the garlic immediately filled the air.

"Boss, I'm furious!"

"Received. The gas output has been reduced by 40%."

Suddenly, a strong wind blew over the grill, bringing the delicious taste of grilled crab meat to a far, far distance. Coincidentally, the aroma just passed over the head of the last greedy worm in this world. The blonde girl smelled the deliciousness and instinctively opened her eyes and woke up her only friend.

After being out of food for 6 hours, the two men abandoned all their luggage and set out on their journey again, heading in the direction of the wind.

go ahead!

Although it is surprisingly far away, we can always reach the destination ahead.

Just like sipping warm coffee, the rewards you have been waiting for are about to appear.

"だから1?2?3で笑い出せ, today is tomorrow, yesterday is yesterday, 変わらない..."

……

"Hey! Did you hear any noise?"

On the snow in front of the restaurant, the crowd, who had only eaten three crabs, had to switch to some lighter, slower-moving shellfish and conch to fill their satisfied yet empty taste buds. During this halftime-like waiting period, the boss, who was drinking hot peanut milk, heard a song coming from afar through the whistling wind.

Everyone suddenly fell silent when they heard that, and then Denise, who was a senior ninja, used the sound collecting technique and nodded with certainty.

"The singing was by two people, but I couldn't understand it."

Unfortunately, the wind had been blowing snow for a long time, and the snowflakes were flying all over the sky, blocking everyone's sight. Even though Boss Cheng's eyes had been modified, and even though Denise knew how to use a telescope, their vision was only about 1 kilometer.

"You guys eat first, I'll go out and take a look."

"be careful."

Boss Cheng rode his beloved three-wheeled motorcycle, turned on the fog lights and headlights, and rode into the snow. As the electric three-wheeled motorcycle continued to move forward, the singing voice mixed in the wind became more and more obvious. Only when two figures gradually appeared in the flying snow did Boss Cheng honk the horn of the electric three-wheeled motorcycle.

The sudden sound of the whistle startled the two girls, but when they came to their senses, they were extremely excited.

The honking of Mr. Cheng's horn continued to sound, and this sound just became a "beacon" to guide the girls in the direction of progress. The two girls quickened their pace and finally met Mr. Cheng who slowly stopped his car less than 2 minutes later.

"Xiao Qian! Xiao Qian! We are finally not the happiest people in the world!"

"No, Xiaoyou, we still are!"

Boss Cheng looked at the two girls who were shivering in the cold wind but getting more and more excited, and asked them in confusion: "Where is this place? Why is it built so high? Where is your construction team? Why are only the two of you out in such a cold day?"

Unfortunately, after talking to each other for a long time, the two sides could not understand each other's language at all.

Boss Cheng had no choice but to point to the back of the electric tricycle and motion for them to get in. Only when they were within the control area of ​​the hotel could Boss Cheng understand what the two girls said through the real-time translation function of the system.

The two girls didn't care whether Boss Cheng was a good person or a bad person or where he was taking them, and they jumped on the tricycle resolutely.

于是几分钟后，两位少女便看到了旅行许久以来，遇见到的第4、5、6、7、8个活着的人！

really!

Let’s leave the rest to later.

But the journey isn’t over until it reaches the end.

0046 Eat well and feel good

The Bible Old Testament records that in order to reach heaven, humans once united to build a tower that could lead directly to heaven. In order to prevent humans from going to heaven, God not only created 13 obscure and difficult words, but also used gravity to bind humans to the surface of the earth. Unless a wise man can crack the secret of gravity...

Wait, that seems to be the wrong channel. This world doesn't need Made In Heaven.

Anyway, the parable of the Tower of Babel tells us that communication and exchange between people are very important. And language is the key to it, otherwise Hanaya Kosaburo would not have roared at Ma Dasaner with a ferocious face, "Happy New Year, brother and sister-in-law, you are my grandfather and I am your son."

As for the importance of language, from Boss Cheng's perspective, the three people who returned to the base were finally able to communicate normally with the help of the system. And...

"Wow! What is this?" the blonde girl asked as she stuffed it into her mouth.

"This is grilled crab." Denise answered her.

"Delicious!"

"If it tastes good, just eat more."

"Wow! What is this?" The blonde girl ate all the crab meat and stuffed another kind of seafood into her mouth.

"This is a Roslett oyster, this is a fingerless lobster, and this is an algae crab."

“They are all delicious!”

"It's okay, eat whatever you want."

"Wow! What is this?"

"Hey! That fish is raw, you can't eat it!"

A woman with super powers snatched a whole raw fish from another girl with super powers before it was put on the grill. The other rational girl ate grilled crab meat while telling Boss Cheng all the truths about this world that they knew.

"Extinct?" Boss Cheng asked incredulously, "Qianhu, right? Are you sure that the human civilization here has destroyed itself before the full-scale invasion of alien bastards? Do your rulers believe in some bullshit nihilism, thinking that everything in the world will eventually be destroyed, so it doesn't matter if it is destroyed sooner or later?"

Qianhu shook his head, saying that he had never seen the rulers and didn't know what they were thinking. But what was certain was that the humans at the bottom had all died in the war five years ago.

"Year 5?"

"Yeah." Qianhu nodded.

Boss Cheng thought for a long time and asked again: "Because... the resources are exhausted?"

"Food." Qianhu told Boss Cheng: "A few years before the war, everyone started to go hungry frequently."

“You can’t grow food?”

But Qianhu asked Boss Cheng: "Does planting mean putting seeds into a culture tank and waiting for them to germinate and grow?"

"Cultivation tanks! Don't you have any arable land?"

"Land?" Qianhu asked in confusion, "Why do we need land?"

"Wait here." After saying that, Boss Cheng ran back to the school.

Not long after, Mr. Cheng's Black Hawk helicopter flew out of the school gate at a height that was almost close to the ground. But just as the plane left the school, the whole plane suddenly fell to the ground. Fortunately, the landing gear was only about 30 centimeters from the ground, so the helicopter was not damaged.

However, the air pressure altimeter in the cabin showed that the aircraft was at an altitude of 4900 meters!

"Heh! No wonder he fell right after flying out."

Fortunately, the Black Hawk's practical ceiling is about 5700 meters above sea level, so it can still fly at an altitude of nearly 5000 meters.

"I want to fly down and see the world. Is there anyone who wants to go with me?"

Denise pointed to the grill, indicating that she was grilling fish. When Ise and Fuso heard that the helicopter was going to fly down from an altitude of 5000 meters, they were so scared that they dared not board the plane. Although the two little guys clamored to go with Boss Cheng, they were both pressed down by Fuso's ruthless big hand.

When Qianhu heard the word "fly", she couldn't help but think of Ishii when she first met her. The scene of the plane she was flying disintegrating in the air was still vivid in her mind. If Qianhu said that she dared to ride other flying machines, she probably wouldn't even be able to fool herself.

but!

This strange black "plane" in front of her gave Qianhu an inexplicable courage. She wanted to board the "plane" and follow Boss Cheng to see the world below again. Even if what she saw were scenes she had witnessed and experienced personally, she still wanted to see it again.

"Xiao You! I want to go down and take a look. Do you want to go?"

"Oh."

Yuli picked up the food tray and walked towards Qianhu without hesitation, and boarded the helicopter with Boss Cheng.

"Keep in radio contact," Denise requested. "If you can't find the hotel when you come back, remember to notify us by radio so we can drop flares to show you the way."

"Got it, we'll be back soon."

After taking off, Boss Cheng discovered that the hotel was located not far from the top edge of the "Nest City". So Boss Cheng turned the nose of the plane and let the Black Hawk fly towards the edge of the platform.

A few minutes later, when the Black Hawk passed the edge of the platform and Boss Cheng was able to see the full view of the "Nest City", he couldn't help but swore. But Boss Cheng was not to blame at all, because the "Nest City" in front of him was really too big.

The 6-layer nest city is isolated on an offshore continental island, facing the distant land across the sea. Its terrifying scale of construction is no longer something that can be described as "blocking out the sky and the sun". Looking at the bottom two layers alone, I'm afraid the area of ​​each layer is not much smaller than Tongliao.

Fortunately, before leaving, Boss Cheng deliberately poured all the aviation fuel left by the National Guard into the Black Hawk's fuel tank. Otherwise, it would be hard to say whether the Black Hawk could fly back.

"How long did it take you to climb from the bottom to the top? More than 5 years?"

Unfortunately, Boss Cheng forgot that once the helicopter left the hotel area, the two girls in the cabin would not be able to communicate with him.

But soon, Boss Cheng noticed the lifeless streets in the city and the endless but uninhabited residential buildings. The vast city fell into a deathly silence, and the dead city was collapsing piece by piece, bit by bit.

Boss Cheng's left hand began to tremble uncontrollably again. He tried his best to keep his left hand away from the helicopter's joystick and tried his best to suppress the annoying mania in his heart.

Suddenly, Boss Cheng felt someone tapping his shoulder. Boss Cheng turned around and saw Yuli handing a piece of roasted crab leg to his mouth. Although Yuli said a lot of words, Boss Cheng didn't understand a word. But he understood that Yuli was telling him:

"Eat something. Once you have a full stomach, you will naturally feel better."

"Ok!"

Boss Cheng opened his mouth, took the crab leg meat that Yuli handed over, and then chewed it up along with the hard chitinous shell on the outside of the crab meat and swallowed it into his stomach.

0047 Everyone’s Final Journey

Boss Cheng clearly remembered that when he was not Boss Cheng, not a Spartan in the competitive world, but Cheng-A303 of Alpha Company...

The asteroid named K7-49 only has dry sand, weathered rocks, a bustling Covenant shipyard, and endless Covenant scum that can never be killed.

At this moment, the world under Boss Cheng's feet was basically no different from the desolate asteroid K7-49, except for the lack of the bustling Covenant shipyard and the endless Covenant wretch that could not be killed.

It was hard to imagine that this once blue planet had become so desolate that there was not even a blade of grass left. Desertified land and endless ruins could be seen everywhere. Even though the radiation index on the Geiger counter that Boss Cheng carried with him was already within a safe range, this world...

Completely useless.

Perhaps only after millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years, will this planet regain its vitality. By then, perhaps intelligent creatures will appear. Whether they are natives or aliens, will they find traces of civilization left by an ancient intelligent race on this planet?

Of course, the land nearby may not represent the entire world.

Perhaps somewhere in the world, there are still some large communities of survivors who are overcoming or have already overcome the problem of food and clothing and are trying to continue the flame of civilization.

"But considering the remaining range of the helicopter, we'd better return home. As for whether there are other survivors in this world, if we don't activate the wave battleship, I'm afraid we can only wishful thinking."

Unfortunately, it was another confusing conversation, Qianhu and Yuli didn't understand at all. And because Boss Cheng was smiling the whole time, they thought he was encouraging them to live well.

After returning...

Although everyone was discussing the topic of "there are no living people in the huge city below", no one was very interested. The reason was that the orphans of the Uzumaki clan had experienced the pain of losing their country and exterminating their clan. Although Ise had not experienced this, his country was suffering from war and his hometown had been reduced to rubble.

Except for the two carefree little ones, all the adults felt the same way about the word "destruction".

But Denise, who loves to smile, still made a point that could immediately change the atmosphere!

"Treasure hunting?" everyone asked in unison.

"Yes, treasure hunting!" Denise smiled and looked at Qianhu and Yuli, "I guess with two guides leading the way, we can completely treat the treasure hunting trip as an after-dinner walk."

Boss Cheng turned his gaze towards Qianhu and Yuli, and asked them thoughtfully: "How many banks have you seen along the way? Are the safes in the banks easy to dismantle?"

Almost instantly, Ise, Fuso, and Denise all fixed their scrutiny on Boss Cheng. It can only be said that these people have not experienced the Raccoon City crisis with Boss Cheng, otherwise they would definitely understand Boss Cheng's thinking inertia on things like "scavenging at the bank".

Also called a "habitual offender".

Don’t think that Boss Cheng is joking, he really has been thinking about what treasures he can “pick up” from the bank in “Chao City”.

It's a pity that Boss Cheng completely misunderstood what Denise wanted to say. Speaking of artistic attainments (fat), Denise is far superior to Boss Cheng.

The treasure that Denise mentioned is the precious spiritual wealth left over by mankind after tens of millions of years of accumulation, including but not limited to artworks, literary works, books, scientific research results and various jewelry that embody mankind's pursuit of "beauty".

But can this be blamed on Boss Cheng?

Boss Cheng became a war orphan at the age of 7. Before he was 8, he entered the Alpha Reserve Company of the Spartan-3 and began to receive military training that was more rigorous than that of adult soldiers.