Cliffside Shelter

Lu Xi'an judged that this Shelter shouldn't be far.

In the recording, Fang Shuxin said he dug this Shelter for himself back then, never expecting it to be useful in the end.

Therefore, Fang Shuxin wouldn't have run too far.

Moreover, looking at the trend of the mountain path after entering the mountains, if it were too far, the cliffs outside the road would definitely get higher and higher, making it dangerous and difficult to dig.

Just as he expected, the drone didn't fly far outside the road before hovering in mid-air, and the two dog eyes of the Mechanical Dog in the car lit up.

Lu Xi'an braked and stopped, getting out of the car with Yao Wei to look at the edge of the road.

There were railings built on the edge of the cliff, and wild grass pushed onto the road, growing messily and entangling the railings.

The two of them cut away the grass on the railings and pushed aside some of the wild growth. Holding onto the railings, they could look down. The cliff wall here wasn't too high, but it wasn't low either; it was a full two stories high.

There was a cave entrance in the middle of the cliff wall. Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei vaguely saw small ceramic tiles pasted on the edge of the cave entrance.

A bamboo curtain hung in a diamond shape on one side of the cave entrance. The bamboo on the curtain was sparse, as if much of it had been removed.

Lu Xi'an could tell that it was a curtain that had once hung at the cave entrance as a door. The rope used for hanging it had weathered and broken due to disrepair, leading to its current state.

"I really didn't expect this Shelter to be dug out of the cliff face. No wonder Fang Shuxin said 'dug' in the recording."

Lu Xi'an said, looking at the cave entrance.

The bottom edge of the cave entrance was more than two meters from the ground. On this cliff face, it was not easy to go up or down.

If this Shelter was dug before the apocalypse, then it seemed Fang Shuxin really had a hobby of building Shelters.

Digging a pit here was not easy.

"Mm."

Yao Wei nodded in agreement.

However, her understanding differed slightly from Lu Xi'an's. She thought of the Old Humans.

She had never seen what Natural Humans looked like originally, only knowing that there were no New Humans in the old world.

Looking at those Old Humans who always aged so quickly and had so many survival problems, how difficult must it have been to undertake such a large project!

Yao Wei couldn't help but admire them.

"You wait here, I'll go down and take a look."

Lu Xi'an said.

Yao Wei still responded with a "Mm," not objecting.

She understood that in the current situation, someone needed to stay by the car to keep watch, partly to provide cover for Lu Xi'an and partly to guard their car.

There were no obstructions ahead or behind on this road, unlike before when they could hide in the corner behind the gas station building. They could only stop on the road now.

If both of them went down, and the car was spotted by passersby and targeted, it would be terrible.

She held her Pistol in her hand and watched from the side of the car.

Meanwhile, Lu Xi'an had already climbed down the cliff.

There should have originally been a rope ladder hanging from the top of the cliff. Lu Xi'an found a dead knot at the bottom of a railing, which had become very brittle and was deformed by the pressure of the wild grass.

However, only a dead knot remained here. Lu Xi'an guessed that Fang Shuxin had cut the rope ladder tied here when he left, to prevent anyone from entering using his rope ladder.

It didn't matter to Lu Xi'an that there was no rope ladder.

He found an axe, gripped it in his hand, leaped over the railing, and forcefully chopped the axe into the cliff face, lodging it there.

Unfortunately, the soil of the cliff face wasn't soft enough. Otherwise, he could have slid down using the axe like Kratos.

He swung the axe, pulled it out, moved down a section, chopped again, swung, chopped, swung, chopped, and quickly reached the cave entrance. With another swing and pull of the axe, he used his waist strength to jump inside.

Fortunately, his waist strength was sufficient; this series of actions tested waist strength the most.

New Humans are great!

Lu Xi'an thought to himself, his feet landing inside the cave.

This was a cave dug along the cliff face. The ceiling and three walls were supported and fixed with round logs, while the floor was covered with small rectangular ceramic tiles.

On one side wall inside the cave, a small fireplace had even been hollowed out.

Lu Xi'an peeked outside. The fireplace chimney went out through the cliff face behind that wall. It looked like it had been chiseled out and the pipes buried.

The interior furnishings were very simple: a small table and a beanbag chair.

The sofa had grown mold and was unusable. On the small table, there was also a kettle and a military green enamel cup, which had long since lost its paint and was in disrepair.

If this were called a Shelter, it could only have been to shelter from wild beasts.

Or, rather than a Shelter, calling it a mountain campsite would be more appropriate.

Lu Xi'an thought that if it were in his previous life, he would have been happy to rest in such a place while traveling outdoors, sitting on the beanbag chair in the cliff cave, listening to the sounds of the wilderness.

But in the apocalypse, it was not suitable for living.

No wonder Fang Shuxin only came here to receive radio signals back then, instead of living there for shelter.

However, Lu Xi'an was still a bit puzzled. Compared to the gas station, this place was more remote. Shouldn't the signal be worse?

Why couldn't Fang Shuxin get a signal in his own home, but could here?

He couldn't think of a clear reason, so he just chalked it up to the differences between two worlds.

Lu Xi'an stopped thinking about things that were useless to him now and began to search.

The cave wasn't large, and its contents were in plain sight. Lu Xi'an saw a sofa and a table, a kettle and an enamel mug, but he couldn't find the radio Fang Shuxin had mentioned.

I should have brought Doggy down with me.

He thought to himself.

But this cave was on the cliff face, and it really wasn't easy to bring Doggy over the cliffs. If he wasn't careful and Doggy fell and got hurt, the loss would outweigh the gain.

I'll just search carefully myself...

Lu Xi'an looked around again carefully. He moved the sofa and the table, even lifting the beanbag chair and shaking it, but found nothing.

Looking around, his gaze suddenly swept over the fireplace that Fang Shuxin had carved out of a log in the wall. His heart stirred, and he reached inside, tapping on the various surfaces of the fireplace.

"Knock, knock, knock--"

Finally, a distinctly hollow sound echoed from the top of the fireplace.

He fumbled around for a bit and seemed to feel a gap. He stuck his finger in and pulled down.

A rectangular, somewhat soft object slid into his hand.

He pulled his hand back and saw it was something wrapped in cloth.

He removed the layers of cloth, revealing a black, cold rectangle with a row of metal buttons on top. In the front of the rectangle was a speaker covered by a mesh.

It was indeed a radio!

He pressed the buttons on top of the radio, but it didn't respond. He checked it carefully again and saw a cover on the back. He twisted it open, and it was empty inside.

No battery.

What a coincidence!

Lu Xi'an remembered the battery model from the drone and couldn't help but smile.

Lady Luck was smiling on him again!

Now, he had a battery.