Chapter 74: A Wild Boar as Big as a Cow
In the current situation, the people struggled to even have food and clothing. No one was in the mood to enjoy and play. They would even feel that the scenery in front of them was very annoying. In her previous life, Du Yue had also experienced extreme cold, so the color she hated the most during that period of time was the sky which was filled with white. Be it in her past life or in this life, Du Yue’s favorite color and the color she most yearned for was green.
That lush green symbolized vitality and rebirth. She did not know if she would ever have the chance to see it again.
“It’s all white out here. Without a map, we’ll probably get lost very soon,” Du Yue said to He Xing, who was driving. Since he wanted to come out and hunt, he would at least know which direction to go in, right? If they just drove around in a daze, they would be lucky if they did not lose their way.
With the temperature outside, they could not stop the car to get their bearings because once the engine was turned off, they would not be able to start it again. He Xing laughed heartily. “Of course, I do. The map is the most important thing.” He took out a map from his pocket and handed it to Du Yue. “This is the map of the area around the base. I asked the base for it before.”
Du Yue actually had a map of the base’s vicinity, but it was on her tablet and mobile phone. There was no paper version. At this temperature, all electronic devices could not be turned on and used. She took the map from He Xing and began to read it. All the routes were clearly drawn on the map. It was indeed a map given by the base. If it were someone else, it would be difficult to get such a detailed map.
Du Yue studied every detail on the map carefully. She realized that the base was surrounded by mountains and had an abundant water source. This kind of terrain, even with extremely hot weather, was still relatively beneficial to everyone’s survival. However, in this extremely cold weather, it was extremely chilly.
Du Yue raised her head and looked out, but she could not see any other color except for a vast expanse of white. If the snow continued to fall, would it cause natural disasters such as avalanches? Would the base be affected by that?
In her previous life, Du Yue had struggled to survive in a small base. She knew little about the first base. After all, all communication equipment was disabled after the apocalypse. However, it was useless for her to think too much now. She could only take things one step at a time.
Du Yue folded the map and returned it to He Xing. After she sat back down, she turned the sweet potato over. The temperature was still not high enough. The sweet potato had been baked for a long time, but it was still hard to touch. Only the skin had some traces of it being cooked. She had no choice. She could only keep cooking eat until it could be eaten.
The snow-shoveling truck was big and heavy, so it was slower than an ordinary car. The snow outside was thick, so they had been driving for more than an hour but had not gone far. Du Yue had seen from the map that the base was surrounded by mountains. However, when they drove in the direction of the mountains, they finally understood just how far away the mountains were.
Fortunately, they were driving a car and not riding a horse. As long as there was fuel, they could drive on.
Time pa.s.sed quickly, and it was time for lunch. Du Yue was already getting ready to take out the boiled rice from her bag. Before she could do anything, she heard He Xing’s surprised voice. “Du Yue! There seems to be something in front!”
Du Yue immediately looked up and saw a black thing moving in front of her. They were too far away to tell what kind of creature the black dot was, but the only thing they could be sure of was that the black dot was running toward them, and it was getting faster and faster.
Du Yue watched as the black dot got closer and closer. She said to He Xing in a deep voice, “Stop the car. It’ll be bad if we b.u.mp into it.”
They did not know the ma.s.s of the snow-shoveling truck, and they did not know what kind of creature the black dot was or how strong it was. If it broke the windshield and rushed in, the two of them would die on the spot.
He Xing stopped the truck but did not turn off the engine. While the two of them were talking, the black dot had already come close. Du Yue took a closer look and realized that it was a huge wild boar. She did not know what it had been eating, but from a distance, it looked more like a bull with long and sharp fangs. It looked very terrifying.
Du Yue had never seen a wild boar like this in her previous life. Du Yue did not have the time to think about where the wild boar had come from. Her first reaction was to pull out a gun from her pocket. He Xing also pulled out a silver gun.
His gun looked slightly bigger than the one he had given to Du Yue previously, but other than that, it did not seem any different.