Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

Sure enough, luck and misfortune are created by contrast, Raphael thought.

She stood at the back, looking at the cruel and disgusting battlefield, and somehow she suddenly sighed deeply.

In order to survive, you have to fight hard.

At this time, a more intense battle broke out in the southern part of the dark zone, and people stranded in the dark zone for various reasons began to fight each other.

"Don't worry, the other landing fields have started." Raphael turned on the radio and said, "From now on, I will implement radio shielding."

"How to do it?"

"you guess."

She turned around and shot the infected man who came out of the bushes in the park. The two bullets made two "clang" sounds in his body, like a hammer hitting metal.

Raphael looked at the warhead half-embedded in the body in amazement, and once again deeply realized the reason why the "Griffin" recovery team and the Rangers had failed - this old corpse that only knew how to spread ELID infection was really too tough!

In the evening, the enemy, unwilling to retreat, attacked again but was repelled.

As it began to darken, Raphael cracked the security lock of the supply box and successfully retrieved the items inside.

The vacuum-packed MRE individual rations can equip an infantry platoon with all kinds of ammunition, including 1, 5.56 NATO, 7.62 NATO, and even Russian-made 6.8 and Russian-made 5.45.

When she saw the list, she immediately realized the sinister intention behind it.

These things are not only for the second wave of agents stranded there, but also provide supplies for everyone except the agents. The planners of the airdrop hope that they will fight over the supplies.

Why? Raphael speculated that they wanted to collect data on human activity in the collapsed radiation zone.

Chapter 63 Fresh Food

Just as Raphael was counting the individual rations, clean drinking water, ammunition and the most important anti-radiation drugs they needed, in the temporary store on the other side, Cecilia suddenly found that Archie brought a small pot of boiled potatoes.

"Where did you get it?" Cecilia was surprised.

"Right around here," Alki said.

"So where is it?"

"It's nearby," Archie repeated, hesitatingly.

At this time, Cecilia also wanted to eat, but she held back. She remembered what Raphael said, don't try to eat any food in the radiation zone, except for food brought by yourself or taken from airdrops.

"You...?" Cecilia retracted her hand, but Tony had already started eating, with his cheeks filled with potatoes.

"Where on earth did you get it?" she asked in a horrified voice.

Archie's face showed an inner vacillation. On the one hand, he needed to answer the question, and on the other hand, he wanted to keep his newfound information secret from Cecilia.

"Don't you want to live?" Cecilia asked again.

Archie looked at her angry face and couldn't help but smile.

Alki Huberst's strengths are bravery, caring for people, and a happy nature. In short, he possesses the three main qualities of a warrior. Before being recruited to join SHD, he worked at Merrill Lynch in Los Angeles, dealing with various securities-based products.

He fell in love with this job as early as his first year of joining. He figured out things that others couldn't understand, and then manipulated them to benefit from them.

This had a special allure to her.

He was fascinated by the fact that he did things he knew were impossible. Archie was not like other people, which made his competitors hate him and his superiors admire him.

After being recruited by the SHD Division, he successfully passed basic combat training and joined Doug Sutton's "Noble" action team.

In addition to being brave in front of the enemy, he also showed unlimited courage when encountering any difficulties.

Before meeting Raphael, when their team didn't have enough supplies when they were out, Doug sent Alki to find food, and Alki always found something...

Without cigarettes to smoke, Alki could find some that were in good condition.

When there was nothing to drink, Alki could always quickly find some canned water, although the amount was so small that Doug couldn't help but suspect that he had an invisible and intangible secret storage, just like the special abilities of the protagonist in the comics.

Alki had only one flaw: although he never did anything illegal, he always liked to cover his successes with a smoke screen of mystery, and he was always very unhappy when Captain Doug or anyone else on the team asked him such questions.

"So where did you get it?" Cecilia asked again, holding a Geiger counter in her hand.

Alki felt that he could not escape and decided to confess.

"It's right under our feet," he replied, dodging his footsteps. "There's a well-hidden cellar under the side room of the park management office. I found a citizen who took good care of himself..."

"What kind of citizens?" Cecilia raised her eyebrows.

"The citizens of New York, the city that never sleeps, are hiding in the cellar of the side house. Her husband is a park ranger, and was killed by a stray bullet half a month ago.

She climbed down into the cellar with her two children and stayed there... She had everything there - potatoes, carrots, and other hand-preserved foods... so they wouldn't starve to death.

She had a lot of good stuff in the cellar. I said, 'Can you give me something to eat?' She quietly cooked a small pot and said, 'Come over when you need it.'"

Surprised that there was a woman and a child in the midst of this deadly ruin, Cecilia quickly stood up, put her hat back on, pulling the brim down low, and said to Archie:

"Take me there, where are they?"

"follow me."

Cecilia didn't care that Archie might have eaten contaminated food, and followed him through the dangerous area between the two buildings to the tool shed.

In the messy tool room, she indeed saw something that looked like a door, but was well disguised as a cabinet.

Before opening the door and entering, Cecilia reported to Doug and Raphael that they were about to enter the refugees' underground hideout.

The two of them walked down a homemade staircase with several steps. It was a large cellar, and it was obvious that it was expanded a long time ago.

In the corner a small oil lamp burned, placed on a barrel covered with a wooden board.

Next to the barrel squatted a woman who was not too old but looked tired, rocking her baby. Next to her sat two girls, one about twelve years old and the other eight years old, huddled together under the oil lamp.

They heard footsteps and looked at the person who was coming in with their big round eyes fixed with fear.

"Hello."

“Hello to you too,” the woman replied.

"Why are you staying here?" asked Cecilia.

"Where can we go?"

"..." Cecilia was speechless. She could only look down at the counter in her hand.

"We used all our stuff to cover the top and locked it from the inside," the woman said calmly, "so that almost no one could see it except you."

"You might suffocate like this," said Archie.

"If I get killed by the greenback virus, it's the same thing; what's worse is that I'm worried about those people..."

"It's late today," Cecilia said, "I'll think about how to send you out tomorrow."

"I don't want to leave."

"Why don't you leave?"

"I won't go," she repeated stubbornly, "where can I go?"

"Go outside the wall. There's a place where you can be well taken care of."

"I'm not going. Take them with you?" The woman pointed at the children.

"If I were alone, I would go, but I wouldn't go with them. I would live, but they would die, die outside," the woman said firmly.

"But what about here?"

"I don't know. I brought everything I could possibly need with me. Maybe it'll be enough for six months, maybe a year, maybe the greenback virus will be solved and we can get out. If we leave now - they'll die."

"There is no greenback smallpox here. It disappeared a month ago."

"Disappeared?" Hope appeared on the woman's tired face.

"No, it's just that the world within the walls disappeared."

"The ones outside the wall are still there, is that what you mean?"

Cecilia rubbed her temples. She had almost given up trying to persuade the woman. But here, next to the airdrop landing field, a woman with three children continued to live here, which was not reassuring.

Although the Geiger counter reading was low, it was still far from safe.

Chapter 64: Trapped in a City of Trouble

The woman's attitude was very clear, even if she wanted to leave, she had to take the child with her. And it was the child that made her choose to stay in the cellar. Leaving the cellar would require facing a series of difficulties such as food shortages, and she was very accustomed to the wild world outside.

Even though Alki and Cecilia told her that only New York was blocked, everything was normal in cities outside New York.

But the woman only asked one question, and they were silenced.

"Can you help us get out of New York?"

Obviously, their permission to leave depends on Raphael and the DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency behind her. How can they dare to guarantee that they can definitely get you out?

“Don’t we have the answer?” the woman said calmly, “We are not the only ones trapped here. If the outsiders stop, I will know that we will all be finished.”

Cecilia didn't know what to say to her and remained silent for a long time.

"If you need anything to eat, I'll make it. Eat it. My husband stored food and made canned food here every day for ten years before he died. It's not dirty... When you want to bite it, let him tell you."

Madam nodded to Alki and said, "I can also make some vegetable soup, but without meat. Otherwise, we will have to kill Mona."

汪汪汪——！

Suddenly, a series of barking of puppies rang out in the dim cellar, accompanied by the sound of grinning.

Alki looked in the direction of the sound and saw a black-headed puppy at the little girl's feet, its fur standing on end and looking like it was in a fighting state.

"Kill the dog so that there will be meat in the soup."

The woman felt from Cecilia's eyes that she understood her and would not insist on asking her to leave. As for the dishes and soup she said she would cook, it was not so that she would stay here and not touch her and her children, but was just out of the simplest empathy.

It was necessary to provide food for these few soldiers - she couldn't understand the specific difference - since they had found this place and were not vicious bastards, it was not excessive to prepare some food for them.

Cecilia walked to the entrance of the cellar and looked at the bodies lying in a mess at the main entrance of the park. She wondered, "Why did it become like this?"

She looked back at the unremarkable, messy tool room and the house riddled with grenades and shrapnel.

“This is us…”

She thought about it quietly and decided not to expose their existence.

Raphael came back with the necessary supplies. After learning about the existence of the woman and the children, she said to Cecilia: "This is their choice, and it is also a helpless move forced by reality. For the mother and daughter in the cellar, that is their best hiding place."

"Sir, I don't make promises lightly."

"That's why I didn't get angry at you," she looked around, and took advantage of Alki's alert on the second floor of the management office to ask in a cautious tone: "Did you eat the food provided by the lady?"

"No."

"No jokes, no lies, did you really not eat?"

"Yes, I didn't eat it." Cecilia nodded, and then she realized something was wrong and immediately asked, "Is the food contaminated?"

"I don't know, but... you know, rules are rules. If it were me, I would definitely say 'FuuuuucK', but the rules are not made by me. The person who picks you up in the end will definitely not want to have a potential source of pollution around him..."

"Damn it, why is this happening!"

When Cecilia heard Raphael's excuse, she could no longer bear it. She grabbed the collar of the girl who was half a head shorter than her with both hands and almost lifted the doll up.

"What about Miss April Kelleher before? Why can she leave?"

"She's a bestselling author, so..."

"So what?!"

"She was able to afford the treatment for the radiation collapse and the trace ELID infection, and I fulfilled her mother's will to ensure her safety.

In addition, the 42th Brigade of the 27nd Division of the National Guard, which I am familiar with, has been withdrawn. All bridges leaving Manhattan Island from Brooklyn are now under the control of the 82nd Brigade. "

Raphael smiled and said in a sweet voice, "Now, can you let me go?"

“You’re such a jerk, Lieutenant.”

"Thank you for the compliment."

Cecilia's eyes twitched, she really didn't know how to respond. The guy in front of her still kept smiling, she suddenly punched Raphael in the face.