Desperate Night.

Chapter 35 035 Trouble (Thanks to the World's Invincible Male Leader)

The sun was blazing, and it felt like needles pricking my skin. The temperature had already risen to at least 30 degrees.

After Yu Hong was fully armed, he was sweating all over after walking for a while, but he did not dare to take off his equipment.

In this kind of environment, he had to guard against not only evil shadows but also people.

So even if it’s hot, you have to endure it.

After walking for more than ten minutes, he soon arrived at the post office gathering place.

He waited in front of the stone house for a while, and while waiting for others to come, he was also looking around carefully.

The gray-white stone house stands quietly among the dark green woods.

The exterior of the house is covered with mottled unknown marks, and there are many wear and collision scars on the edges and corners.

The roof is also covered with emerald green and gray-brown vines.

The breeze blew, causing the branches and leaves of these plants to sway slightly.

Yu Hong looked down and suddenly frowned.

There seemed to be some footprints on the ground outside the stone house.
"Yu Hong, why are you here so early today?" Jenny's voice came from behind.

"Well, the price surge is about to begin and trouble is coming again. We have to make preparations in advance. Now the problem is how to solve the food problem." Yu Hong turned around and looked at the other party.

Jenny changed into a tight camouflage uniform, looking tired and with bloodshot eyes. It was obvious that she had not rested well.

As I approached her, I smelled an unpleasant sour odor from her body. It seemed that she didn't even have time to wipe her body.

“I tried to grow mushrooms, but what I grew was inedible. They were all weird, poisonous weird fungi,” she sighed.

"What we usually eat should be the ox-leg mushroom, right?" Yu Hong has been looking through Lao Yu's record book these days. Although it does not contain detailed breeding and cultivation processes, it does contain various difficulties and troubles encountered during cultivation. This is equivalent to Lao Yu's wrong answer book, which is very valuable for reference.

Ox-leg mushroom is a kind of dull mushroom similar to chicken-leg mushroom. It is non-toxic. The mature mushroom itself is very large. A large amount can be harvested in one cultivation, making it very suitable as a supplementary food.

The most important thing is that this kind of mushroom does not require light and is very suitable for cultivation in a closed and humid environment like theirs.

"Is it because we didn't take precautions against spores of other mushrooms during the cultivation process? After all, it's impossible for fungi to appear out of thin air." Yu Hong pondered.

"I've also been paying attention, but there's no way to completely eliminate it." Jenny shook her head. "I heard that Old Yu used to have his own cultivation box, which was specifically used to cultivate cow leg mushrooms. If we can get that, it should be easy to succeed."

"Where is the incubator?"

"The post office basement."

The two were speechless for a moment.

No one dared to go into the post office basement again. Once they were stained with the black handprint, even the town’s joint forces would not be able to withstand the evil shadow woman who was much stronger than the ghost shadow, and would have to retreat and migrate, not to mention ordinary people like them.

"I also tried to cultivate it. I remember that Lao Yu secretly dug soil in some corners of the woods several times before. I suspect that specific soil is required to cultivate mushrooms, otherwise it will not succeed." Doctor Xu's voice came from the side of the two people with fatigue.

She changed into a long black T-shirt and jeans, her lips were chapped and her face was pale.

“And I must remind you that when trying to cultivate mushrooms, you must be careful about the disease called mushroom lung.”

"Mushroom lung?" Yu Hong seemed to have thought of something, and his face changed slightly. He remembered that he had read some information on the Internet before, which also mentioned this disease.

"Yes, during the mushroom cultivation process, once the mushrooms are about to mature, they will silently disperse mushroom spores. Once these fungal spores are inhaled into the lungs, they are likely to cause mushroom lung disease. The specific symptoms are coughing, white sputum, chest tightness and pain, asthma, and sometimes fever, palpitations, nausea, etc." Doctor Xu paused, "Of course, this disease requires long-term inhalation of mushroom spores to cause it. As long as you are careful, pay attention to ventilation and wear a mask, there will be no problem."

"No wonder Old Yu is always coughing. Maybe he has some problems." Jenny thought thoughtfully.

"It's possible, but it's useless to say these things now. Well, the peak period is coming soon, and the key now is how to prepare food?" Doctor Xu changed the subject.

The three of them looked at each other and fell silent.

For a moment, the breeze blew and the scorching sun shone on the three of them, but they could not feel any warmth.

Without food, they wouldn't survive more than a week.

Yu Hong is fine, as protein bars are very durable and one bar can last him a whole day. Plus, he had exchanged some food with Lao Yu before, so his current food reserves can last him two weeks.

But the same cannot be said for Jenny and Dr. Xu. Judging from their appearance, they will probably run out of food in a few days.

"Since we can't figure out a breeding method, we can only find other food to fill our stomachs." Jenny said in a deep voice. It was obvious that she had thought about it for a long time before coming. "As for what other food, I don't need to say more, right?"

"You mean to search other people's homes?" Doctor Xu was the first to react. "Is it possible? They must have taken everything away, right?"

"There must be more under the post office. Also, I know the caves of several people who died during the peak period. There must be some inside as well, but the door is difficult to open." Jenny replied.

"Are you going?" Dr. Xu looked at Yu Hong. Ever since she visited Yu Hong's safe house, she had a faint admiration for him. She knew that he was not just a boaster, but a real talent.

It’s a pity that Yiyi left too early, otherwise she might have lived a good life with Yu Hong.

"Let's go and take a look." Yu Hong nodded. If he could get some valuable sundries from other people, it would be worth it even if he didn't get any food.

Especially the red value detector, he was a little jealous of it, if he could get one and strengthen it, it might be very useful. At least the environmental warning would be no problem.

"Okay, I'll lead the way and you guys follow." Jenny nodded, as if she expected the two to agree.

"By the way, where's Eve? Isn't she coming out?" Doctor Xu suddenly asked. "She said she wasn't feeling well and was hiding in her bedroom. I don't know what she was doing. But she didn't move much and consumed less energy, so I left her alone." Jenny replied.

"Come to think of it, wasn't Eve in the town before? Why did she come back suddenly? Why didn't she migrate with the rest of the town?" Dr. Xu asked curiously.

"I don't know about this." Jenny showed a trace of unnaturalness on her face. "It seems that she offended someone in the town. I don't know the details. But you also know that Eve is very beautiful and always attracts a lot of people who like her."

"Yes, sometimes being too beautiful is not a good thing in this era." Doctor Xu agreed and sighed.

Yu Hong walked at the back, wiping off the sweat while listening to the two people talking in front. When he heard about offending someone, his face also showed a thoughtful look.

In the quiet woods, the three of them took their tools, left the stone house of the post office, and walked along a waterway washed out by rain. After a while, they came to a small raised hill.

There is a rough iron gate at the bottom of the hill.

The door was black and painted, with yellow rust showing through the edges where the paint had peeled off.

Jenny stopped in front of the iron gate, picked up a thick branch and knocked on the door.

Clang clang clang.

The iron door made a dull sound.

"This is where Elsie lives. He lives here with his father. One day, they went to a distant place to dig for pyroxene raw stones, and they never came back."

"Elsie, a very shy young man. He and his father are both good people. They helped me chop wood." Doctor Xu also thought of this man, with a melancholy look in his eyes. "In this world, good people never live long."

"It has nothing to do with whether you are a good person or not. Whether you live long or not just depends on how careful you are," Yu Hong added.

"That's right." Doctor Xu nodded.

The three of them stopped talking and asked Yu Hong to step forward, pick up the chisel he had brought with him, and smash it on the door.

Dangdang!
The iron door was so rusty that the keyhole was broken off after a few hits.

Yu Hong opened the door and immediately saw a cloud of dust visible to the naked eye pouring out.

A mixture of moldy and foul smells rushed into the nostrils of the three people.

"What stinks so much!?" Jenny quickly hid aside, covering her nose with a distorted face.

"It's a corpse." Doctor Xu covered his nose and squinted into the hole.

In the narrow cave, a gray-yellow corpse that had rotted into skin and bones was lying quietly on the ground, surrounded by tiny insects.

The corpse was wearing worn-out long-sleeved shirt and long pants, which were gray in color. His arms were wrapped in gauze and he wore black-framed glasses on his head.

He tilted his face to the side, with only two eye sockets left from being eaten away, and he was staring out the door, as if he was still longing to leave before his death.

"It's Elsie. I was the one who bandaged him with this gauze. I didn't expect he would come back." Doctor Xu recognized the identity of the corpse and a trace of sadness suddenly appeared in his eyes.

"It's a shame, he's a good guy"

"Don't feel sorry, there is not much time." Yu Hong took a step from the side, stepped over the corpse, held his breath and entered the cave.

After rummaging around, he quickly found two bags of dried meat, a bag of dried mushrooms and a bag of half-eaten dried wild vegetables.

"The food is still there. He didn't die of starvation."

He walked to the fire in the corner, picked up the aluminum kettle that was tilted on the fire, shook it, and found that there was still half a kettle of water in it.

"The water is still there, so he is not dying of thirst."

"It's a ghost."

Doctor Xu bent down and picked up a bag of pyroxene powder from the ground. From the powder, you can still vaguely see the debris with traces of red runes.

Yu Hong shook his head, took out the food, checked that it was fine, and shared it with the two of them.

The three of them then went to the next house.

Holes were constantly being smashed open, and as time went on, the three of them visited the abandoned safe houses of other survivors.

Some of them were empty, with nothing in them, while others found some food.

After visiting five safe houses in succession, the three people were given two bags of dried meat and more than one bag of dried mushrooms and dried wild vegetables, which solved their urgent needs.

After searching the last household, Jenny looked at the sky.

"We still have enough time. We can go to the nearby pyroxene mine and smash some pyroxene for backup. Do you want to go?" She looked at the other two.

"How far is it from here?" Yu Hong asked.

"It's about two kilometers from here, but the road in the mountains is much more difficult to walk on than on flat ground, so if we want to go, we must do it as soon as possible." Jenny replied.

"Let's go tomorrow. We're too tight on time. If something goes wrong along the way, we'll be stuck in the wild overnight. That would be dangerous." Yu Hong frowned.

(End of this chapter)