Four months have passed since the catastrophe in the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime, and the rescue mission is nearing its end.
After all this time, those who haven't been rescued must be dead by now.
The rescue team is now called a "corpse-moving team," or that would be a more accurate description.
According to Wang Lei, they have not found any survivors in the gradually thawing city for a month.
Under these circumstances, both sides in the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime North America, whether they are cleaning up or dealing with garbage, know that the best time has come.
They no longer need to worry about rescue efforts.
Just do whatever you want!!!
Amid an increasingly chaotic situation.
The rescue team has shifted its focus to searching for supplies, as Becker promised the Mutual Aid Society before his death: to deliver at least $80 billion worth of supplies to the Wandering Spacetime United Government after the rescue operation concludes.
However, given the current situation in North America, they are clearly unable to fulfill this promise. They don't even have the capacity to collect supplies, and the nationwide cleanup efforts have already tied up almost all of their energy.
Grant, the representative Mutual Aid Society association, could only offer to empower the rescue team, allowing them to search for supplies in the city on their own, which would then be used to offset debts at a discounted price.
At the same time, they were also tightening their belts and ramping up production, trying to use the limited good resources they had to pay off their debts.
It really won't work.
Although they did not join the Mutual Aid Society, they had learned about Mutual Aid Society internal situation through newly established diplomacy.
The ruthless individuals from No. 3 Spacetime who pushed Earth to its limits are people no one dares to mess with within the Mutual Aid Society!
Besides, their domestic rescue teams are all armed now!
If they dare to show even the slightest intention not to return it, they might ignite the Migration Faction that has been lurking within the Wandering Spacetime, and their land might just welcome billions of new owners tomorrow.
In short, given the current situation of external threats and internal turmoil, Grant and his team have no choice but to prioritize internal stability before addressing external threats!
suddenly!
Under the scorching sun, the desolate land was covered with bloodstains and bones, and the dry wind swept through, instantly filling the sky with dust and sand.
Flocks of vultures flew in the sky, whistling in the wind around them.
Its sharp eyes were fixed on the prey below.
It's a creature that has only recently entered their diet in the last few decades.
It's tall and big, with one head and four legs.
When these prey first arrived in this area, they could walk on two legs, but gradually they had to crawl on all fours.
If you wait a while longer, these prey will stop walking and lie on the ground groaning or sleeping.
Now is the time to let it fall and eat it; it's when the meat is at its most delicious.
Although vultures are scavengers, they don't mind fresh meat, and in fact, they prefer it to carrion. Their scavenging is only out of necessity.
In the sky, an adult vulture has already set its sights on its prey.
In a desert valley, a delicious prey lay motionless under the sun, its body glowing red.
Its instincts told it that this was what engorgement looked like.
Once it lands, it will use its sharp beak to make a cut on the surface, and blood will gush out from there!
Wow!
The vulture flapped its wings and landed, its eyes gleaming with predatory intent, and within just a dozen seconds it had landed safely beside its prey.
Puff puff puff!
Its sharp beak made a gash in the swollen skin, and as it instinctively expected, a large amount of blood gushed out.
In no time, a small red puddle formed on the ground.
These are all good things.
In increasingly water-scarce deserts, blood has become a vital channel for replenishing their fluids.
The vulture immediately lowered its head and focused intently on sucking the blood from the ground.
But unnoticed behind it, a human, emaciated to the point of resemblance to a skeleton, with only a few rotten teeth remaining in his mouth, suddenly emerged silently from a dark hole.
This indistinguishable male figure held a fist-sized rock in his hand, staring intently at the vulture that was focused on sucking blood, drool slowly dripping from his mouth.
The man quickly raised the stone in his hand, aimed at the vulture not far away, and then hurled the stone with all his might!
He exerted so much force that he stumbled and fell to the ground.
But he felt no pain at all; instead, he immediately looked up and stared at the stone he had thrown.
Bang!
The vulture was completely unprepared for the sneak attack from behind.
The stone hit it, directly...
Its wings were broken, and it could only hop around on its two legs.
The man who threw the stone was overjoyed. His eyes flashed with a fierce light, and a surge of power burst forth from his depleted body. He took three steps in two and charged towards the vulture.
But in the next instant, another person appeared in front of the vulture. This person, whose gender was also indistinguishable, grabbed the vulture into his arms, opened his blood-red mouth and bit its neck, sucking the blood flowing from its veins, while running away as fast as he could.
The person who was supposed to be enjoying the vulture's wings stood frozen in place.
But less than a second later, a fierce glint appeared in the man's eyes. He picked up a stone from the ground, opened his mouth wide, and chased after the attacker like a zombie...
Outside the valley.
A convoy of cars had stopped here at some point.
"Vultures eat people, and people then eat vultures..."
"What a perfect food chain of interdependence."
After randomly arriving at the edge of the desert via Spacetime Tunnel, Zhang Tianyuan and his group drove to this exile point where at least 100,000 starving people lived.
Seeing the view of the valley from the drone, the expedition team in the vehicle were not in a good mood.
The situation here is worse than I imagined.
Human skeletons were scattered everywhere on the ground, and some starving people even used them as practical sticks to hunt vultures or even their own kind.
The society in this exile site was in complete chaos, devoid of any order, and there was none of the gang-based enslavement of other starving people that is often depicted in movies and novels.
because...
"I'm afraid no starving person here will survive for more than two years," Wu Yisi concluded, looking at the numerous data captured by the drone.
Zhang Tianyuan agrees with this view.
In this godforsaken place, with no food, no water, and possibly even some plague, surviving for two years would be a miracle.
In this situation, no matter how powerful a slave leader you are, if you cannot return to human society, you will still die even if you lead all the starving people.
And he died within two years!
Here, all beings are equal, so equal that there are only hungry creatures, and nothing else exists.
Behind the crowd, Amelia stared at the image on the screen, biting her lip hard, her whole body trembling...