Chapter 183.

What does a normal level 3 shelter look like?

Even if it wasn’t big, even if it had suffered heavy losses, it would at least look like a refuge.

And what did a shelter that had encountered a crisis look like?

Half of it collapsed and people were on edge.

They had traveled all the way from the capital and had seen many shelters in all kinds of situations.

But never had they seen one like F19.

Li Xin stared in disbelief, ”This is a refuge? How come it looks like a monument that has been decaying for many years.”

The shelter in front of him had not only completely collapsed.

The things underground were covered in ash, charred and old, the iron frames were rusty, and even the reinforced concrete was broken and tattered, so that only a small trace of the original could barely be seen.

Is this really a shelter?

In an instant, everyone questioned in their hearts.

Hao Jingye and Gu Chisheng flipped out a sign from the ground, on which it was greatly written – F19 Shelter.

“It’s still true.” Zhang Kun sucked in his breath and was shocked to go forward, the sign was equally tattered and rusted, there were even some holes on it from who knows where, speckled and the writing became blurred.

Sheng An frowned slightly.

As if she had realized something, she quickly jumped under the shelter and tried to lift a collapsed concrete slab.

Qi Lingmu followed and helped her uncover it together.

Underneath was a white bone.

The two frowned at the same time.

Hao Jingye and the others also came over and sucked in a breath of cold air.

Long Tianyu frowned, ”How did it decay to this state? Surprisingly, they have all become white bones ……”

Hao Jingye offered a guess: “Related to the miasma in the southwest?”

How else would it have decayed so quickly?

Not only did the shelter become like this, even the corpses became white bones and stayed underneath the shelter forever.

Sheng An and Qi Lingmu rummaged around again.

There were no living people in the entire F19, only traces of decay and a set of white bones remained.

Song Linwei flipped through the information, then looked up, “Sister Sheng, there should be around five thousand people in the F19 shelter, but there aren’t many white bones here, so they may have already migrated away.”

“Normal people can’t even live in this place, migrating is too normal.”

Lai Wan Yun rubbed her arms, the ground miasma is not as concentrated as the air above, but it is also very uncomfortable to stay, when that miasma sticks to the body, it tingles vaguely, very uncomfortable.

Liu Yue sighed: “I just don’t know how the rest of the southwest is.”

Sheng An looked at her hands, having rummaged through things, her hands were covered in dust, and even the surface of the concrete slab was thick with dust and decay.

She and Qi Lingmu looked at each other, both a little puzzled.

F19 found nothing, the group could only return to the caravan.

The way they came was difficult, but returning the same way was much easier, and in less than half an hour, they returned to the convoy.

Academician Zhou and the others were wearing protective suits and were busy beside the convoy.

Seeing them return, Dr. Yan busily asked, “How was it? Any findings?”

Sheng An explained the situation and asked, “What about you guys?”

Dr. Yan frowned and shook his head, “Didn’t find anything, the Waste Land Cultivation Research Institute feels that this land is very bad, dozens of times worse than the previous B11.”

Sheng An looked over.

The Cultivation Research Institute was doing an experiment, a plant system alien buried a plant from Jiang Yu’s space in the land, and was about to apply his alien energy, when the plant had withered and died, lifeless.

It was too fast!

Jiang Yu quickly stepped over, applying her psychic energy towards the land, while putting a seed on it, continuing to increase her psychic energy input as the other plant system psychics helped her.

With this kind of operation, on any piece of scorched earth before, it would be able to grow a section.

How much it could grow depended on the condition of the land.

And here ……

Jiang Yu put down her hand and looked grave, “The seeds are dead, there is no activity.”

It was horrible!

Having thought of the countless ways that Southwest looked like, I had never imagined this.

The miasma that could hurt people had encircled the entire Southwest, the decay was extremely fast, the ground was dozens of times worse than the outside, and it could simply be described as “hell”.

Everywhere was in a mess, and it didn’t even look like a scene that could be found now.

Sheng An took a deep breath, the miasma irritated her windpipe and caused pain.

She spoke again, her voice hoarse: “Get in the car, let’s go to the next shelter, we always need to find someone to inquire about the situation as soon as possible.”

With that, the group reboarded the bus and continued on their way.

However, they searched for a few more shelters, and it was still all the same, only shelters littered with dead bones and decay, not a single living person.

They even went to a secondary shelter.

The scene here was even more numbing.

There were corpses everywhere, the decaying dead bones were piled up on the ground, which seemed to have been organized and barely concentrated, and there were many more dead bones spread out everywhere in a horrifying scene.

In particular, there was a small withered bone with its head kept in an angled position, stretching out its hand, seeming to tell of its unwillingness before death.

There were also withered bones hugging together, similarly sunk on top of this scorched earth, some turned black, and some had even turned into ash, with no more traces.

Jiang Yu’s scalp went numb.

She scratched her head and crumbled, “What the hell is going on here? How did Southwest become like this?”

Li Xin moved next to Long Tianyu and got next to him for warmth.

His voice trembled slightly, “Shit! This is even more fucking scary than the fae nest, is there anyone alive in the Southwest?”

He hadn’t even been this scared before when he lurked into the fae nest.

At this moment, Li Xin only felt a chill on his back, and even his face turned pale.

The others didn’t feel good either.

Sheng An sank his face, “Keep moving forward.”

The convoy moved forward again.

Hao Jingye studied the map, after there was no signal and no landmarks, just figuring out the coordinates of where they were was a troublesome task.

It was good that he had a good brain and the entire communications department to assist him.

“We’re almost close to the core area of Southwest, a few days before the end of the day, the research institute locked this place and identified it as the core area of the future Southwest base, a sort of safe location and the middle of Southwest.” Hao Jingye looked towards Sheng An.

They had already walked to the very center of Southwest.

Wu Buye’s scalp tingled, “But we still haven’t found any living people, what’s going on in Southwest? I’m now wondering if we’re in the middle of an illusion.”

Sheng An: “I hope so too.”

But right now, everything was real, they weren’t in an illusion.

Wan Wan’s voice suddenly rang out, “Dr. Yan and the others have monitored that the miasma concentration has dropped a bit!”

Sheng An hurriedly looked out the window.

The others similarly probed and looked over.

It was indeed clearer outside, the visibility was better than before, and the crowd was instantly happy.

This miasma was affecting them greatly.

Even if the car was specially made, there would always be miasma entering, and stepping into the southwest region full of miasma, one should not expect to not be exposed to it at all.

The Exalted were better off, just uncomfortable and with high Exotic consumption, but many of the ordinary people had already fainted.

If it wasn’t for the medical team and various medicines brought along, I’m afraid that the caravan would have suffered a lot of casualties.

As of today, the preparation has been very adequate, the convoy inside still died a dozen people, there are special police, there are also not very good health of the researcher.

How can you not be happy when the concentration drops?

Hao Jingye sighed in relief, “The concentration of miasma in the southwestern core area has dropped, then I’m afraid that those unmanned shelters we encountered before may not have all been shipwrecked, but rather, they’ve entered the core area to take shelter.”

In that case then, it would not be considered bad news.

“It’s possible.” Sheng An nodded, “Accelerate.”

With a target, the entire team’s state immediately changed.

One must know that before, they had traveled all the way, everywhere was scorched black, there was nothing but miasma, all shelters were empty, and one could only see skeletons all over the ground.

This kind of feeling like walking in an uninhabited ghost area brought endless fear.

The convoy continued to move forward.

Closer and closer to the core area, but still did not meet anyone.

Sheng An’s face became increasingly unsightly.

If all the people in the southwest had fled here, then the core area should be full of people, how could they be so close and still not have encountered anyone?

Five hours later, they finally encountered people – living people.

“Sister Sheng, living people!” Li Xin shouted from the front.

Sheng An leapt down from the car and quickly walked over.