He didn't sleep for half the night last night, and gave half of the steamed buns as a midnight snack to the little girl.
Lack of energy and torture from hunger, Li Ba was already exhausted.
He was carrying a bamboo basket full of bricks and stones, and every step he took was extremely heavy. , The trembling thighs seemed to no longer belong to him.
"Hold on, you must hold on.
Dinner will be served soon."
The construction site is only responsible for two meals, two rice bran buns for lunch, and one more when the work is done in the evening.
Missing the fragrant steamed buns in his heart, Li Ba kept telling himself that he must persevere.
With this big meal at noon, I believe that I can support my afternoon work.
Obviously, Li Ba overestimated himself.
Before the end of the world, he spent all day and night drinking and drinking, and lacked exercise.
His body had long been hollowed out and his quality was extremely poor.
In pre-apocalyptic terms, he belongs to a sub-healthy group and survived due to good luck.
However, after being tempered in these days of the apocalypse, his physical fitness is not getting better, but getting worse.
The scorching sun was shining high, hanging overhead, spitting out life-threatening scorching rays.
Li Ba's throat was so dry that it was almost smoking, bead-sized beads of sweat were dripping down like raindrops, and his fat face was already pale.
“It’s good to have some water to drink.”
He licked his chapped lips.
The apocalypse is coming, unknown viruses are spreading, and most rivers and lakes are polluted.
If you drink it directly, people with poor health will most likely contract the virus and turn into zombies.
Therefore, the survivors' drinking water sources are very tight, sometimes even more than food.
Most of the drinking water in the Xibu settlement comes from underground.
Xibu is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is located in a volcanic belt.
It is an extinct volcano with no possibility of eruption.
It has abundant underground hot springs.
After simple filtration, the hot spring water can be drank directly.
The survivors living here rely on hot springs for water supply.
However, hot spring water is not available arbitrarily and has a certain limit.
Almost all springs are controlled by the top officials of the West City.
Residents in the inner city have enough domestic water.
In the refugee camps outside the city, each person is only given one liter of water per day, which is barely enough to meet physiological needs.
As for bathing and washing, they can't even dream about it.
Originally, Li Ba would prepare a bottle of water to quench his thirst every day when he went to work.
Since he was busy for half the night last night and only gave the little girl food, he woke up feeling hungry in the morning and couldn't help but drink water to satisfy his hunger, which was better than nothing.
Now, he regretted it.
The unbearable feeling of hunger and thirst made him worse than death.
A pair of thighs are getting heavier and heavier, and the eyelids are getting heavier and heavier.
I feel dizzy, and the things in front of me are beginning to be blurry.
Finally, Li Ba couldn't hold on any longer and fell directly to the ground, motionless.
The situation at the construction site quickly reached Li Chao.
He was in the work shed.
He squinted and saw that the person lying on the ground was Li Ba.
He smiled sinisterly, turned to a big man with a scar on his face and pursed his lips: "Xue Lin, what the hell?"
If a fat pig wants to be lazy, you should teach him a lesson and be careful with your actions, otherwise it won't be fun if you kill him."
"receive" The big man named Xue Lin showed a cruel smile on his face, turned around, picked up the whip hanging on the wall, and strode over.
At this time, the little girl, who had been huddled in the corner without moving, quietly raised her head and looked towards Li Ba with her big eyes, showing an anxious look.
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Xue Lin was not an evolver, but because of his distant relative relationship with a high-ranking person in the settlement, he sneaked into the city defense force and worked as an errand.
He and Li Chao had similar personalities.
At this moment, he received Li Chao's instructions and quickly came to Li Ba and cursed fiercely: "Get up quickly, don't be lazy, or I will beat you to death."
Before he finished speaking, he raised his whip and whipped him. .
This guy remembered Li Chao's instructions and struck very measuredly, aiming at Li Ba's left wrist.
Even so, it was still very powerful.
With one whip, the skin on the back of Li Ba's hand and wrist was torn open, and blood flowed out.
The severe sting made Li Ba wake up.
What he saw in his eyes was that his left hand was bloody, and there were screams and curses in his ears.
He knew what happened without thinking about it.
Get up.
I have to get up quickly, otherwise I will be tortured again by Li Chao, a bastard like me.
Li Ba kept reminding himself, gathering all his strength, placing his hands on the ground, trying to stand up.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, his pupils shrank and a look of horror appeared on his face.
The blood dripping from the injured part of his left hand was sucked up by the bracelet given by the old man last night, leaving not a drop left. boom Just when Li Ba was shocked, there was a huge roar in his mind.
The next moment, he found that the surrounding scene had disappeared and he had arrived in a strange place.
"Where is this" After a brief period of shock and panic, Li Ba took a few deep breaths, suppressed the panic in his heart, and began to look around.
It's foggy here, and except for a boxy building that looks like a tower and a piece of land in front of the tower, nothing else can be seen.
And now he was standing on the land in front of the tower.
This piece of land is very strange, the soil is dark brown, and the area is only a dozen square meters, the size of a room.
"There is water"
In the center of the land, there is a small stone trough, half filled with liquid, crystal clear, like spring water.
When Li Ba saw it, he immediately ran over, lay down, and put his head directly into the stone trough to drink.
The unbearable hunger and thirst made him forget the mysterious place he was in and just wanted to have a full meal.
A strange thing happened.
When he was about to take a big gulp of cow drink, he found that he couldn't drink it.
He could only smell the spring water in the stone trough, which exuded a refreshing fragrance.
Even so, it cheered him up.
"Something strange" Even after trying several times, I couldn't get even a drop of water.
It felt like my body was as empty as air.
I could see the spring water in the stone trough, but I couldn't touch it, let alone drink it.
"Could it be" Li Ba suddenly stood up and touched his body with his right hand.
As a result, his palm passed through the inside of his body, as if touching the air, without grabbing anything.
"Is it possible that I am dead and have become a ghost?"
Li Ba wanted to cry but had no tears.
At this moment, he seemed to hear someone yelling in his ears again, and then he felt a burst of severe pain, and he couldn't help but scream.
"ah" When Li Ba screamed, the scene in front of him changed, and the hot breath, dirty fishy smell, etc., all appeared at this moment.
But he still had his hands on the ground, and there was a pair of military boots in front of him.
The owner was holding a whip and yelling curses.
"If you don't get up, you fat pig, your lunch food will be halved."
There was burning pain in my shoulder, and scarlet blood seeped out along the broken Armani suit.
Just now, Xue Lin saw this good-for-nothing pretending to be dead and refused to get up, so he gave him another severe whipping.
Get up all of a sudden.
At this moment, Li Ba was in unbearable pain, but his spirit had recovered a lot.
His face was dull for a moment, and then he seemed to wake up.
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He bowed his head to Xue Lin and said, "My foot slipped just now.
I didn't mean to be lazy.
I'm sorry, Mr.
Xue."
Xue Lin stared at him fiercely and said, "Don't do it next time, otherwise I will kill you and throw you out of the city to feed the zombies."
After warning, this guy left in a swagger.
Li Ba waited until the bitch walked away, then lowered his head and looked at his left bowl, and his heart was suddenly shocked.
The bracelet given by the old man who unfortunately passed away last night has disappeared.
On his wrist, there is a strange tattoo, like a bracelet, circled on it.
What's even more weird is that the palms and wrists that were beaten to pieces just now are actually smooth and smooth without any scars.
Li Ba was startled, looked around, stuffed his left hand into his shoulder without any trace, touched his hand for blood, and then took it out.
"Don't be stunned, get to work quickly, or they will cause trouble for you again."
Two survivors carried heavy loads and whispered a low-pitched reminder to Li Ba as they passed by.
"Generous, Xiaofang, thank you" Li Ba cast a grateful look.
The two survivors were brothers.
When the apocalypse came, they fled here from Wucheng together with Li Ba's escape team, and they had a good relationship with each other.
Like Li Ba, they have no special talents, let alone the ability to awaken.
They live in a refugee camp outside the city and make a living by doing hard labor.
Generous and Xiaofang nodded.
Xiao Fang also quietly threw a roll of gauze to Li Ba to bandage the wound.
Li Ba struck three times, five divided two, and wrapped his left hand like a rice dumpling.
At the end, he even wiped a handful of blood on it.
Afterwards, he continued working.
Strangely enough, after coming out of that mysterious place, his energy and energy recovered a lot.
Although he felt tired, he could barely hold on.
While working, Li Ba looked at his left hand from time to time.
In his mind, he recalled the scene he had just experienced, as if he was in a dream, and he couldn't believe it.
One thing he was sure of was that the bracelet given by the old man turned into a tattoo and disappeared.
“What the hell is going on?”
"Could it be that my consciousness just left the body?"
Li Ba was very thoughtful and considered the whole story while working.
Based on very rational thinking and logic, it can be deduced that the bracelet that the old man gave to him last night should be a treasure.
Just like the Xianxia TV series played on TV, this treasure mutated after absorbing his blood and turned into a tattoo.
Within the body, there is also a magical space.
These are all Li Ba's speculations.
To find out, the only way is to enter that mysterious space again.
Now he still has work to do, and it's hard to do it in public.
If one becomes conscious and faints, he will suffer physical pain again.
Let’s wait until lunch is served.
Suppressing the curiosity and impulse in his heart, Li Ba started to work.
Finally, after the whistle blew, all the coolies on the construction site put down their work and gathered towards the work shed from all directions with excitement on their faces.
Lunch, two pieces of rice cakes, and half an hour to rest.
For the survivors living outside the city, this is already the happiest moment every day.
Over there in the work shed, there were dozens of large bamboo baskets filled with steaming steamed rice cakes.
The smell wafting out made the coolies' eyes turn red with blood.
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If it weren't for the heavily armed police and soldiers guarding the surroundings, they would have swarmed up and snatched it away.
"Line up and come forward to receive it one by one.
If anyone gets half a piece more, I will shoot him directly."
Supervisor Li Chao stood on the table in the work shed and shouted arrogantly.
He seemed to enjoy the feeling of being aloof and giving food to the untouchables.
He was in a very good mood at the moment.
He accidentally saw Li Ba's head huddled in the crowd and was staring at the boy in the corner of the work shed with evil eyes.
Li Chao smiled coldly and gave the order directly The men took six or seven pieces of bran buns and threw them on the ground in the corner.
"You fat pig wants to deal with someone, but I won't let you get what you want."
Seeing Li Ba's stunned expression, he couldn't help laughing wildly.
Li Ba inadvertently looked into Ya'er's eyes, and both of them showed knowing smiles
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