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Chapter 14 Black Marsh Wilderness(1/2)

It was not until Jeep completely drove out of the silver-white gate that Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong adapted to the light outside, lowered their right arm, opened their eyes wide, and turned their eyes out the window.

After spending the initial, inexplicable fear, they saw a clear blue sky, white clouds with different shapes, birds with ever-changing formations, and mountain walls that shine in the sun.

"Sun...Sun!" Long Yuehong shouted loudly at the huge orange-yellow fireball at the sky.

He stared there tightly, and even though his eyes sting and tears were shedding, he couldn't bear to look away.

"Don't look directly at the sun in this state, hurt your eyes! If you really want to see, right?" Jiang Baimian drove while finding an item from the armrest box and handed it to Long Yuehong.

Long Yuehong, who was lying on the glass window, looked back and found that it was glasses with all black lenses.

"...sun glasses!" He recalled the knowledge he had learned and found the corresponding noun.

"If you don't wear it, I'll wear it." Shang Jianyao turned around and said.

Long Yuehong looked over and found that Shang Jianyao's eyes were red, as if tears would shed at any time.

"Haha, are you staring at the sun, too?" Long Yuehong laughed unbearably.

The next second, he saw Shang Jianyao snatch the sunglasses and put them on the bridge of his nose.

"Hey..." He didn't know whether to be angry or reflect on him.

"There is another pair here." When Long Yuehong was about to pounce on Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen, who was in the passenger seat, handed over the sunglasses.

These sunglasses are more delicate than Jiang Baimian's pair, like two stringed "hearts". The color of the lens is not pure black, with a little rose red.

"Don't break it, I spent a lot of things to get it." Bai Chen reminded.

"Thank you." Long Yuehong thanked sincerely and put on the pair of sunglasses.

With this "equipment", he can finally observe the sun carefully and compare the difference between it and the slide.

"This is the sun..." After a while, Long Yuehong sighed and took off her sunglasses and returned them to Bai Chen.

Shang Jianyao also withdrew his gaze and thoughtfully put Jiang Baimian's sunglasses back into the armrest box.

"What are you thinking?" Long Yuehong glanced at his friend.

Shang Jianyao replied with a serious expression:

"I was wondering, where can I get sunglasses?"

People in the underground building do not need this thing at all, only a few project teams will use it, so this thing has never appeared in either the "material supply market" or the small market on the 495th floor "activity center".

Jiang Baimian was driving and exhaled:

"I just knew you were not paying attention to it."

Bai Chen smiled and said:

"When you pass by the place where the wanderers live, you can go in and take a look. Maybe a piece of compressed biscuit can be replaced with a pair of good sunglasses."

"That's how mine is exchanged!" Jiang Baimian echoed, "Why would you exchange a lot of things for yours?"

"I changed it from a female ruin hunter. At that time, she thought it was very beautiful and wanted to use it by herself, but she didn't lack supplies." Bai Chen recalled the situation at that time.

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong didn't listen carefully, and they both lay on their respective car windows, staring at the scene outside.

Whether it is the huge trees on both sides or the brown squirrels that ran by chance, they can see with relish and exclaim.

"This is different from the dust-silver environment I imagined..." After a while, Long Yuehong sat upright and sighed.

"What do you imagine?" Jiang Baimian asked casually while letting the jeep jump on the bumpy road.

Long Yuehong tries hard to find adjectives:

“That’s, that’s…”

Shang Jianyao turned his head and gave him a description:

"Dark, cold, humid, depressing, the sky is covered with dust, the sun cannot shine through dark clouds, and it is covered with gray everywhere."

"Yes, yes! That's it!" Long Yuehong completely agreed.

Their textbooks do not describe the environment of the ash soil in detail, but only talk about state, pollution, disease, and famine, which naturally leads them to the impression of a harsh environment on the ash soil.

Those employees who have been to the surface can not say much due to confidentiality regulations. Even if they occasionally mention the sunny places and the environment is good, they will be subconsciously ignored by the audience.

Jiang Baimian pressed his elbow on the steering wheel, looked forward and laughed:

"Maybe it would have been like this when the old world just destroyed, but it soon got better, only some places were still in a similar state."

"And that also means danger, it means pollution, disease and distortion." Bai Chen added next to him.

"That's how..." Long Yuehong once again put her face on the car window and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the mountains and forests bathed in the sun.

The same is true for Shang Jianyao.

Jiang Baimian saw this scene through the rearview mirror, laughed secretly, and pressed a button.

With the sound of beeping, the glass windows on the four car doors suddenly closed down.

Long Yuehong was startled and straightened her body:

“It, it…

"Can you still put it away like this?"

"Let you breathe the air outside." Jiang Baimian pretended that he was not a prank just now.

Shang Jianyao's posture has not changed at all, as if he is enjoying the feeling of the glass window sliding across his face, which looks quite funny.

He then narrowed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"How is it?" Jiang Baimian asked with a smile.

Shang Jianyao looked outside seriously:

“There is a fresh smell of shit.”

"..." Jiang Baimian admitted that Shang Jianyao had a keen sense of smell, but he didn't want to pay attention to him.

Bai Chen, who watched Jiang Baimian open the car window, interrupted thoughtfully:

"Team leader, where was you born?"

"What's wrong with the 23rd year of the New Calendar?" Jiang Baimian replied casually.

"You are three years younger than me..." Bai Chen was a little shocked.

Long Yuehong was even more surprised:

"Team leader, are you only two years older than us?

"You're already d6!"

"This is the benefit of working in the security department. Danger is danger. The promotion is really fast. After all, your boss, such as me, died at some point." Jiang Baimian joked.

She paused and added casually:

“And, I have made some contributions before.

"Ah, I forgot to remind you that it is important to observe the color of the air. Sometimes you have to wear a gas mask in advance."

In the next half hour, Jeep stumbled through the mountains and forests. Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong were still looking at the scenery outside like children, concentrating on the scenery outside, and were very curious about everything.

Seeing that the soil in front of him gradually became darker, the trees around him began to sparse, and the road was no longer rugged, Long Yuehong suddenly frowned and said:

"I always feel that the environment outside is not right, as if something is missing..."

Shang Jianyao had already sat upright and said with a deep voice:

“No one.”

No one...yes! Long Yuehong slapped his thigh and said:

"Yes, no humans have appeared along the way except for a few outposts!"

And the people in the outpost are undoubtedly employees of the company.

"People nearby were either absorbed by the company, or wandered to places with food, or..." Jiang Baimian changed his voice, "When you pass through the outpost in front and truly enter the Black Swamp wilderness, you will have the chance to meet humans."

"But that may not be what you want..." Bai Chen did not look back and added softly.

"What did you say?" Jiang Baimian asked with his head turned around.

"Team leader, concentrate on driving!" Bai Chen calmed down and shouted with a smile.

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong fell silent, and from time to time they looked at the increasingly widening scene outside the window.

I don’t know how long it took, but Long Yuehong suddenly asked:

"Team leader, I haven't told my family that I'm going out for training and will not go home lately. What should I do?"

"There will be a person from above to notify you." Jiang Baimian looked at the road ahead and gently pulled the steering wheel.

Long Yuehong closed her mouth.

There was a long silence inside the jeep.

When we passed the edge post of "Pangu Biology", the terrain in front became flatter and flatter.

The soil here is gray-black and relatively soft, and various crisscrossing traces are clearly visible on it, some belonging to wheels, some from animals, and some from humans.
To be continued...
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