Rebirth at the end of the world: I report to the country!

Chapter 172 172· "Be careful with fire and light in the dark forest."

January 3, 2025, 3:20 in the morning - more than two days have passed since the sun disappeared on the Blue Star.

Magic hand.

The father and son of the Qin family were walking carefully along the coastline of the sea, trying not to make any noise. The searchlight on their foreheads was adjusted to the lowest brightness to illuminate the front for them, but in fact the visibility was only a few meters.

At a further distance, the naked eye can only see a black silhouette and cannot distinguish details at all.

"Boom! Boom!"

The sound of breaking through the air was fleeting, water splashed in all directions, and a ripple appeared on the sea surface in response to it.

"It's hit! OK!" Qin Duomian shouted excitedly after pulling out the steel fork.

After all, for him, even though he has been "catching the sea" for nearly a month, the number of times he has caught fish is still very few, which is something to be thankful for.

"That's right, Duomian, put it in the bag. Don't let it escape. We have lunch." Qin's father, who was walking in front, encouraged him with relief.

"But don't shout so loud next time, you will scare away the fish around you."

They did prepare 'lunch' at three in the morning, after all they had only been awake for a few hours.

The reason why day and night are reversed is that there is no impact during the polar night disaster. The second reason is that the current schedule of these fish in the sea seems to be based on the previous biological clock. There is no confusion, and some fish are still running. They only came out at midnight.

Therefore, in order to improve the chances of fishing, the Qin family and his son decided to adjust their schedule.

In fact, they had fishing rods, and even a fishing net that would have been banned before the Era of Natural Disasters. However, in the 'sea areas' and 'rivers' created by these tsunamis, it was difficult to fully deploy the fishing nets.

Moreover, it took time to prepare for the difficulty of the operation for two people. After several attempts, the Qin family and his son chose the most primitive but most crude and effective method of spearing fish.

In fact, the most efficient fishing method now should be the positive pole in the left hand, the negative pole in the right hand, and the Thunder King style fishing method. Unfortunately, although there is no restrictive law, the existing conditions still do not allow it.

"What an unexpected surprise." After using a harpoon to knock something floating in the distance over for a closer look, Qin's father raised his eyebrows and said.

When Qin Duomian heard this, he looked over and found that it was a "strange stone".

However, the two of them were not too excited. This was actually not the first "strange stone" they discovered, but the second one.

When they found the first one, the two of them felt like they had found a treasure, and even thought that they would embark on a path out of the sea of ​​suffering from now on.

Considering the difference in ability between himself and his son, Qin's father drank the "strange stone" directly.

Qin Duomian didn't complain about this. After all, he knew that he had always been a burden. If he could evolve, it would be more appropriate for his father to evolve first.

Get rich first and then get rich, get active first and then get active.

However, the results after taking the "exotic stone" really disappointed the two of them.

It seems to have gotten stronger, but nothing has changed.

Life was still hard.

"Duomian, please put this "exotic stone" away first. If you want to eat it, you can eat it. If you don't want to eat it, we will keep it and see if we can exchange it for something from the park's hand. . Qin's father said after throwing the "strange stone" to Qin Duomian.

"...Forget it, let's exchange supplies." Qin Duomian finally shook his head and said after looking at the "strange stone" for a while.

Although I am very curious, it is more important to stay alive.

"Okay, let's just catch this much tonight. It should be enough." Looking at the four harvests in the bag, he put away the steel fork and Qin's father said to Qin Duomian.

The two of them were already proficient and did not need any more instructions from their father. Qin Duomian immediately started looking for burning materials nearby and prepared to make a fire for cooking.

Qin's father then started to process the fish, which was to simply scrape off the scales and hollow out all the internal organs, regardless of whether some parts were edible. The technique was mainly rough. After all, neither of them had touched their fingers before. These techniques are still practiced these days.

"Let's make a fish soup with grilled fish." Qin's father thought for a while and said, while taking out the distilled water and sea salt extracted from seawater from the backpack behind him.

In fact, drinking or eating these two things directly will put a burden on the human body. After all, the method of extracting sea salt is to bask in the sun during earthquakes. This so-called distilled water is extracted by the evaporation of a pot, a jar, and a transparent film. Yes, it is too simple and crude, and there are a lot of impurities in it.

But after all, it’s the Era of Natural Disasters, so it’s good to have it. Who cares about this anymore.

"I don't know when it will rain again. We don't have much fresh water reserves." After lighting the scattered fuel materials with matches and placing the pot with two fish on top, Father Qin looked up at the pitch black sky. The sky of light said.

"Mr. "Hope" didn't say much about the polar night disaster. He didn't seem to say whether it will rain. I hope it will. If it does, it will be a heavy rain, and our water source problem will be much better. "

"Yes." Qin Duomian nodded lightly, not listening to his father's words very attentively.

Because my father has gradually developed the habit of talking to himself, many times he does not expect Qin Duomian to answer his words, and Qin Duomian is used to this.

"Wh--" A sound that broke through the air rang out from Qin's father's ears, making his hair stand on end. He turned to look at the crossbow arrow at his feet. Qin's father stood up suddenly, picked up Qin Duomian and started running towards the surrounding bunkers: "Hide first!"

"Wha—" As if he was annoyed that the previous shot had missed, the sound of breaking through the air came from the darkness in the distance again.

It's a pity that the hit rate is still poor and he didn't hit two people.

The night forms a protective color.

Hiding behind the wall, Qin's father was gasping for air in fear, because he was really close to death just now!

"Who is it! We are forbidden from attacking each other in the park!" Qin's father, who was hiding behind the wall, shouted loudly.

However, the other party did not seem to intend to respond to him. Father Qin could only hear Qin Duomian's nervous breathing and the slight explosion of firewood as it burned.

"Wha—" Another crossbow arrow was inserted into the wall where the two of them were hiding.

"You don't intend to talk to us at all. You just want to kill us. Qin Duomian, let's go directly. We don't want those things." After thinking for a while, Father Qin looked at the still burning bonfire and said through gritted teeth.

Fortunately, under their own instructions, the two of them basically would not put down their backpacks, so even if these things were abandoned, the loss would not be unacceptable, it would only be a few fish in one pot.

The main reason is that the enemy is hiding, he has too little information, and he has no long-range attack methods, so he can only be beaten.

Now it seems that he is still judging his position based on his own voice.

"Damn it..." Qin Duomian nodded reluctantly and immediately followed his father's footsteps and began to leave this place of right and wrong, but inevitably said bitterly: "You must report this matter to the park."

After running for a while, Father Qin shook his head at him: "They may not necessarily be people who originally belonged to our neighborhood." "Now that the earthquake is over, the risk of everyone going out has been greatly reduced. Maybe they are from outside." People can’t tell.

After all, I was still thinking about whether we should go to the coast of Fashou.

Because now there are fewer and fewer things that can be found in the ruins of our neighborhood, and the coastal areas where the disaster was relatively severe before may be regarded as blue oceans in the polar night disaster, and there should be more things left in them than here. "

"Did you come from other places? That is indeed troublesome." Qin Duomian frowned and said.

"Wouldn't it be more troublesome if the people who attacked us were people from this neighborhood? This means that there are people who maintain peace when there is light, but reveal their minions in the dark." Qin's father said.

"...It seems so."

Qin Duomian shuddered a little. The peace in the second half of the earthquake almost made him forget the horror and evil of human nature.

Now I remember it.

"Let's go, Duomian, go to the park, and turn off the searchlight above your head." Qin's father said suddenly, and changed the direction of travel.

"Are we going to inform them about the outsiders?"

"No, we're going to join them."

"My previous judgment must have been wrong. The extreme night disaster may not be the most peaceful, but the most dangerous time." Father Qin's face was serious.

"In the Disaster of the Polar Night, where there is light and fire, it means there are people. And this is the most suitable hunting time for those jackals, because they are always in the dark and can make sneak attacks, whether they are outsiders or outsiders. The original people in this neighborhood were all the same.

Just like the dark forest, once our position is revealed, we will be attacked.

But if we want to live without light and heat, it is extremely difficult.

At this time, we can protect ourselves only if the light and heat we emit when we expose our position are so powerful that hunters dare not take action.

So no matter how the park treats us, we must join them now and become a 'strong' one. "

"This...how did things turn into the most troublesome situation in the end?" Qin Duomian's mouth twitched slightly and he said helplessly.

"There's nothing we can do. This is the end of the world. Let's go quickly and hand over the supplies we have and the "strange stone" we just collected to the park. With our relationship over the past month, they should let us in. "

"it is good."

Because they no longer dared to turn on any light source and would be alert if they heard any sound along the way, the two people moved forward very slowly in the darkness.

The journey that usually takes ten minutes took a full hour this time.

However, when they were about to arrive at the park, the faces of the Qin family's father and son did not look very good.

Because they heard... gunfire, and the screams behind the gunfire.

"Dad, what if the light and heat in our eyes are strong enough, but in the eyes of others, we are still small and thin prey that can be hunted?" Qin Duomian asked nervously after swallowing a sip of saliva.

Father Qin didn't answer, he just stepped more cautiously, and the direction he headed was no longer the entrance to the park, but the building in the distance that had not completely collapsed.

Like a blind man touching an elephant, along the broken stairs, the Qin family father and son reached the highest floor of the building and looked at the park not far away.

Things developed as they imagined, in a bad direction.

——Sure enough, a battle was going on, hot firepower and cold weapons intertwined, and the collapsed fire ignited the surrounding buildings. The biggest light in this dark neighborhood seemed to have been swallowed up by the darkness at this time.

Qin's father's face was ashen because he saw Buck, the leader of the park, lying on the ground and becoming an unnoticed corpse.

Obviously, this battle between the hunter and the hunted presents the hunter with a one-sided advantage and has come to an end.

The man with the gun who looked like the leader of the invaders was leisurely stepping on a corpse and looking around like a trophy.

At a certain moment, the two people's eyes seemed to meet.

Qin's father suddenly shrank his head - although he knew that in the dark, it was unlikely that the other party would find him hiding in the surrounding upstairs, fear still filled his heart.

"Let's go! Let's go quickly! We can't stay in this neighborhood anymore!" Qin's father staggered downstairs and almost fell on the stairs, but he couldn't care less.

"Yeah!" Qin Duomian ran behind him.

The two of them were pretty lucky and didn't encounter any crisis on the way to escape.

It wasn't until he was at least four to five hundred meters away from the park that Father Qin stopped, found a nearby building ruin, hid in it, leaned his back against the wall, and took a deep breath.

"Dad, what should we do now?" Qin Duomian asked while taking this opportunity to rest.

"In "Robinson Crusoe", Robinson was afraid of cannibals on the island, so he spent a long time being cautious and did not dare to light a fire. We...I'm afraid we will be like this too." Father Qin sighed deeply. Take a breath.

"Unless we find a camp that's really strong enough to join."

"We definitely can't stay in this neighborhood. These people will take the initiative to plunder the park. They have proven that they are not good people. If we contact them, we will only die."

"According to my previous idea, let's go towards the coast of Fashou."

"The earthquake was the most severe there, and there are definitely the fewest people there now. Since it is not suitable for us to join any organization now, then this kind of situation is the most suitable for us."

"...Okay." Qin Duomian nodded. He knew that what his father said was right.

"Wait for ten minutes. After ensuring safety, we will go to several of our 'warehouses' to pick up things, and then set off directly. At least now the night can always protect us."

In addition to the backpacks they carry with them, the Qin family also has several warehouses where some supplies are stored, including dry food, canned food, etc.

The reason why they have to fish every day to have these supplies is that after all, dry food and canned food are 'non-renewable' resources, which are much more precious than fish. They plan to save them for emergencies.

"it is good."

"Alas." Father Qin sighed.

The surroundings were dark, the world was dark, and his future life was also dark.

(End of this chapter)