Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 150 What's in the Fish's Belly
What the big fish vomited out was black and covered with mucus, and looked like a package.

The river was calm. Lu Xian and Yao Wei looked carefully and saw that there were no more ripples on the river surface. They were sure in their hearts.

After the fish rider died, the fish seemed to have no intention of attacking again. After spitting out the thing on the shore, it dived away.

"So...it spits this out specifically for us?"

Lu Xian asked with some hesitation.

Yao Wei nodded and said, "It should be."

Lu Xian asked again: "Then tell me, what's inside?"

Yao Wei said, "I don't know."

What kind of package is in the big fish's mouth?
Could it be related to the merman?
Lu Xi'an made some judgments in his heart, drove forward, got closer to the "package", rolled down the window, took the dog out of the window, and said, "Dog, take a look, is there anything wrong with this thing? Is it dangerous to us?"

The mechanical dog lowered its head, shone it on the thing, and then flashed twice.

The meaning is very clear. There is nothing wrong with the thing spit out by the big fish. It is not dangerous to them.

Lu Xian then got out of the car, picked up a corner of the thing, and walked to the river bank.

This thing is covered with mucus. How can I take a closer look at it if I don’t rinse it clean?

Lu Xian took a look first, and after confirming that there was nothing in the water, he bent down and submerged the object in the water to rinse it.

Yao Wei also opened the car door and stood up in the passenger seat, pointing her gun at the shore, ready to shoot immediately if anything went wrong in the river.

Fortunately, Lu Xian bent down to rinse the thing clean, including the two fingers that were holding a corner of the thing, and stood up. During this time, there was no movement in the river.

Lu Xian looked at the thing again at this time. The mucus on it had been cleaned off, and some of the black dirt had also been washed away, revealing its true appearance -

Layer upon layer, it seemed like transparent tape was wrapped irregularly in circles. Because it had been there for a long time and had accumulated too much dirt, the transparent tape had turned black.

Especially the edges and corners of the layers of tape, they are really black.

This seems to be done to make it waterproof?
Or to prevent it from being eroded by other things?

What is this thing protected by tape?
The tape was too thick and too black for Lu Xian to see, so he took the thing and returned to the car.

Yao Wei also got back into the car, closed the door, and looked at what was in Lu Xian's hand with some curiosity.

Lu Xian handed the thing to Yao Wei and said, "I'll drive and leave this place first.

"Take this thing apart and see what's inside.
"This is tape, layer upon layer. It's been stuck on for too long. It's probably not easy to tear off. You can cut it with a knife."

As he spoke, he shifted gears and stepped on the accelerator, driving forward. When he reached the intersection, he planned to turn south.

Now that the fish rider is dead, the brown bear that suddenly blocked the road has also been killed, and the big fish has retreated and is no longer hostile, there should be no danger on the East Ring Road. There is no need to take a long detour to the West Ring Road.

But before that, Lu Xian stopped the car on the road, got out, crossed a wasteland on the east side of the road, and picked up his padlock to lock his body.

He split the padlock he had obtained from the gas station in Xifang Village, Niutou County into two parts.

The U-shaped ring was used to hit the merman, but it fell into the water and could not be found.

The yellow lock body was shot at the brown bear, but the brown bear dodged it flexibly.

The lock flew far away and embedded itself into the outermost wall of Liangcheng County.

The wall was quite strong. It had been standing for decades without anyone living or managing it. When the padlock flew to this point, its force finally weakened, so it was only embedded in the wall without penetrating or knocking it down.

But even so, when Lu Xian walked through the wasteland and came to the base of the wall, he still saw that the lock was embedded so deeply into the wall that spider-web-like cracks appeared in the wall.

He removed the lock and returned to the car, only to find Yao Wei had already used a knife to cut through the layers of tape covering the outer packaging, revealing a rolled-up transparent plastic bag inside.

The plastic bag was said to be transparent, but it was actually old and yellowed. Inside it was rolled up something that seemed to be a cylinder, wrapped in a piece of paper.

Yao Wei waited until Lu Xian got in the car before she opened the yellowed transparent plastic bag and took out the contents.

When the paper wrapped around it was pulled open, the object's true form was revealed—

It was a syringe made of unknown material.

The syringe was transparent, the piston had been pushed all the way down, and there was no liquid inside. The needle was covered with a needle cap to prevent the thin needle from piercing anything.

"It seems that it is indeed the thing of the fish rider..."

Lu Xian confirmed his previous guess, "This should be the treasure of the fish rider.

"It was wrapped so carefully, wrapped with layers of tape, and hidden in the belly of that big fish. I really don't know how they did it...

"I don't know if the big fish is comfortable or not with this thing stuffed in its stomach.

"You think the fish might have had enough of being manipulated by the fish rider, so we killed the fish rider and gave it freedom.

"And then it thanked us for coming and gave us this thing?"

Alas……

Why does it sound so outrageous, as if it has switched to martial arts?

But unfortunately, there is nothing in here. There is no panacea or martial arts secrets, so it cannot be considered an adventure.

"do not know."

Yao Wei replied. She wasn't interested in the question, she just wanted to ask, "What is this for?"

"A syringe is used to inject medicine into people."

Lu Xian explained to Yao Wei, "Look at this needle. It's hollow in the middle. There should have been liquid in the tube. After the needle is inserted into the human body, the core rod can be used to push the medicine inside the human body to take effect." Now there are no other clues. I can only guess that this is the syringe for the reagent of the type C strain. Otherwise, how could the fish rider control the big fish and the brown bear?

"But right now... this thing can only be used as a hidden weapon for us."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded and handed the syringe to Lu Xian, asking him to keep it.

Her skills in hidden weapons were far inferior to Lu Xian's, and she felt that this thing would be more effective in Lu Xian's hands.

Lu Xian took the hidden weapon and prepared to put it away. He glanced at it casually, but his eyes suddenly froze.

"There are words on this paper."

His eyes were fixed on the piece of paper in Yao Wei's hand.

The paper was wrinkled because it had previously wrapped the syringe and was a little curled, especially the part that wrapped the top of the syringe barrel, which had been punctured.

There wasn't much text on it, and Lu Xian hadn't noticed it before because the paper was curled.

Seeing it at this time, he said, "Let me see it."

So Yao Wei handed the paper to Lu Xian, who unfolded it and took a look. There were handwritten words on it, and the format was like a letter.

child:

This medicine can make you a new receptor. Your father and I exchanged our military merits for it. Use it as soon as you get it.

Don't be afraid of the pain, just prick your arm once.

The situation is getting worse and worse, and we don’t know what will happen in the future. Only by taking medicine can we survive.

We can't go back. This battle is a sure death. We have no way to retreat. Please take good care of yourself.

To—

Liang Xiaobin

2107/4/17
……

Lu Xian read the letter to Yao Wei and fell silent for a moment.

He turned his head and glanced at the river, his expression somewhat complicated.

"Is that weird guy riding a fish the Liang Xiaobin mentioned in the paper?"

Yao Wei asked.

"Who knows?"

Lu Xian sighed softly, shifted gears, stepped on the accelerator, and drove forward.

When he drove the car over just now, he had already turned the direction, and the front of the car was now facing south. After it started moving, it was driving on the East Outer Ring Road.

The cool river outside the road was flowing gently. A breeze blew, rippling the surface of the water, but there was no other movement.

Both Lu Xian and Yao Wei could tell that it was just the fluctuations in the breeze and had nothing to do with the big fish.

The big fish disappeared long ago and had no intention of attacking Lu Xian and Yao Wei again. It might have already returned to the reservoir.

After all, for such a big fish, although the Liang River is wide, it cannot allow the big fish to move freely. It is estimated that the fish can swim comfortably and freely in the reservoir.

But it’s better to be careful. When driving south, Lu Xian would still pay more attention to the river to avoid being unable to react in time when danger arises.

He didn't have time to think about whether the man riding the fish was Liang Xiaobin mentioned in the letter.

This kind of thing is indeed curious, but it is not that important to him.

As he drove, he kept an eye on the river, but in his mind he was thinking about another thing mentioned in the letter -

In the dark room next to the gas station in Mengxin City, the computer appeared in 2097, and the modification date of the audio and video files in another gas station computer was 2100.

It should have been the early stage of the cold disaster, and people at the gas station still had the leisure to listen to some songs.

The last log entry made by the observer of Niutou Mountain in Niutou County was in 2112, which is twelve years away from 2100.

The world was turned upside down, there was almost no one left in Niutou County, and the observers also encountered major changes, making it difficult to continue the observation work.

Lu Xian originally thought that this disaster might be a natural disaster, but when he arrived in Niutou County, he felt that it was related to something built by someone unknown.

But now looking at this letter, it actually mentioned a war.

In 2107.

Five years passed before the Niutou Mountain observer desperately typed out his last observation log.

There is no way to survive and there is no way to retreat.

The simple eight words in the letter make people feel the turbulent and intense situation at that time.

What kind of war was that, and what impact did it have on the subsequent disaster?
What is the connection between that war and the thing mentioned by the Niutou Mountain observer?
Questions popped up in my mind one after another, but there were no clues and no answers.

Lu Xian glanced at the river again. Although he thought it was insignificant, he couldn't help but think at this moment -

In that case, is that fish rider a war orphan?

(End of this chapter)