115, Poisonous Mist Apocalypse 12 (Update 1)
Soon, the poisonous fog arrived as expected.
At that time, Yu Heng was sitting at the gate. Since he stopped going out, his daily activities were to walk around the underground city and the gate. As long as he didn't make noise, cause trouble, or block the way, the staff at the gate would not drive him away.
There were even talkative staff who would talk to him: "Isn't it boring? But it's best not to go out, it's not safe."
The poisonous fog came fiercely, and the toxin analysis automatic protection system was running, and the countdown sounded.
The people at the gate were urgently guided by the work: "Return to your bed immediately!! Return to your bed immediately, the partition door will be closed in order, and it will not be opened again unless the poisonous fog dissipates!"
Yu Heng was also pushed to the underground by the crowd, and those who were still registering or even queuing outside and had not yet registered also ran in like crazy.
"Hurry up!"
"Don't move the things, hurry up!"
"Nineteen, eighteen..."
Someone screamed in the distance: "Don't close the door, don't close the door!!!" "Wait, wait for me!"
"Ten, nine, eight..."
The staff took the last step to evacuate. The two-meter-high and three-meter-wide gate at the gate closed slowly but firmly when the countdown was five seconds. The thick poisonous fog rushed in from the only remaining gap.
"Three, two, one."
Click--
The gate was completely closed. The people who were lucky enough to be rescued had no time to check their wounds, nor did they have time to sympathize with their compatriots outside who missed the last chance. They continued to run down, crawling and running in either direction, desperately!
The partition doors were sliding out of the wall one by one! If you don't run, you will be trapped here. If the poisonous fog comes in, you can't run away!
"Run!"
"What should I do if the poisonous fog comes?"
"Wuwuwu mom, I'm so scared, wuwuwu..."
Yu Heng finally got back to his bed from the chaotic crowd with great difficulty. He could tell at a glance that something had been moved. He looked around, but where could he see anything? It was a mess everywhere.
He sat down, took out a pen and paper and wrote down the date again: 5.5 pm 2:34, and then drew a horizontal line.
The broadcast sounded in his ears, over and over again: "Please keep calm! Everyone return to your seats. Those who cause trouble, provoke, steal, and disrupt the order of the dungeon will be severely punished!"
"I repeat again, please keep calm! Everyone return to your seats. Those who cause trouble, provoke, steal, and disrupt the order of the dungeon will be severely punished!"
"The dungeon has a unique air partition purification technology, but it cannot support the oxygen consumed by a large amount of exercise! Everyone calm down and sit quietly. There are also calm poems in the manual for everyone to read silently..."
The crowd gradually dispersed, and the noise became smaller and smaller. Several people who lost control of their emotions or deliberately made trouble were taken away by the security team.
Yu Heng had nothing to do, so he sat down to practice, which made Zheng Zekui, who wanted to talk to him to calm down, have nowhere to start.
Next to him was a family, a family of three, a couple with three children. They pulled up low curtains on the left and right. The children were playing in front. Suddenly, the children came around from the front and crawled onto Yu Heng's field.
"How do you read the word brother?"
Yu Heng opened his eyes and took the manual: "Read it as Jing, the Jing of quiet."
"Thank you, brother."
The six or seven-year-old child thanked him seriously, twisted his butt and crawled back.
Yu Heng heard the babyish voice of the child next door reading and the low voice of her parents arguing, but ignored them and continued to practice.
At around four o'clock in the evening, the cafeteria in the underground city began to smell the aroma of rice and vegetables. The security team maintained order and let people line up to enter the cafeteria in turn.
There were so many people that Yu Heng would have to wait until tomorrow to get food from the canteen with his hard card. He had received his share of one liter of hot water at noon, so he did not squeeze into the crowd and took out his own biscuits to eat.
The Luyang Underground City Safe Zone was completely closed, and the refuge life officially began.
Life must be very monotonous. Every day, Yu Heng's ears were filled with buzzing voices, including men, women, young and old, high and low voices.
Various contradictions and frictions were happening all the time. This was an unavoidable problem with too many people and too concentrated.
Even if the radio was giving out chicken soup every day and the security team was shouting to maintain order every day, how could people's emotions be controlled?
There were so many people in the underground city, and the activity area was limited. Although the air was flowing, it was also dull. It was easy to reduce the food you brought with you, and the food provided by the canteen was only enough to fill your stomach... All kinds of things could not give people a sense of security.
When people are anxious, they are prone to get angry, and friction becomes inevitable.
Let’s not talk about the family of three next to Yu Heng. The young couple quarreled every day, three meals a day plus afternoon tea and midnight snacks, as if they would suffer a loss if they quarreled less.
Zheng Zekui secretly said to Yu Heng: "I really admire you. You can sleep like this." The dark circles on her face were particularly conspicuous, and it was obvious that she had not slept well for many days.
"I'm used to it."
Zheng Zekui understood that "his family is also so noisy", nodded sympathetically, and asked him: "Do you want to go get food together? It's time for dinner."
"Let's go."
This is the 17th day that Yu Heng has eaten here, but he still can't like it. At the beginning, there was only one meal and one dish, and the dishes were bland and salty and hard to eat. Now there are no vegetables. Usually it's fried rice and mixed porridge, with more diced mushrooms and dried vegetables, and sometimes there are diced meat and meat jerky.
The taste is as bland as ever.
There are so many children crying and not wanting to eat every day, so Yu Heng has become accustomed to eating with the sound of parents beating their children and children crying.
After dinner, I put the bowl in the iron bucket and filled a liter of hot water. I saw that the trash can next to it was only a shallow layer.
I remember that at the beginning, the trash can was full for every meal, several buckets, but after two days, something happened: those who wasted too much food had their quotas deducted.
"Since you can't eat it, I'll give you less, don't waste it."
After a few days of hunger, those people can eat everything. Now, the number of people throwing away leftovers has dropped sharply, but there are still some.
Life in the underground city was dull. As time went by, the air below became worse and worse. If you were a little emotional, you would feel dizzy and breathless.
Slowly, there were no more people quarreling. It was really uninspiring.
When he had nothing to do, Yu Heng would often hang around outside the security room to see if he could hear any information. Obviously, this was impossible. He could only tell from their faces whether the current situation was good or bad.
"How long will this life last!"
"I want to go out. I don't want to stay here..."
"I'm so annoyed, stop quarreling!"
"Has the poisonous fog gone?"
Negative comments permeated the entire underground city, which was something that the security team and the radio chicken soup could not control.
Which normal person could be locked up underground for a month?
It was claustrophobic, boring, dull, and there was no hope.
On the 32nd day after the poisonous fog came, a large-scale conflict occurred on the underground floor. It was just a quarrel. The two families started fighting, and the relatives and friends of the two families fought together. They were bumping into each other, and the people around them started fighting without distinguishing between you and me.
There was no reason for this matter. After all, those who joined the fight later had nothing to do with the original dispute.
It was just that the people were so upset that they needed an outlet to explode, and then they exploded with a bang.
It was morning at that time. Although it was morning, the underground city did not provide breakfast. They only provided two meals three days ago.
Therefore, the people who woke up were a little weak. The children cried and said they were hungry, and there were adults who scolded impatiently, "I'm hungry too! Stop crying!"
Yu Heng also surrounded his bed with a sheet. After getting up, he went to the bathroom to use the toilet, and started eating biscuits when he came back.
Then he heard a loud noise, which came from the underground floor.
Three teams of sixty people hurriedly ran out of the security room on the underground second floor. They should have received the news.
"Don't crowd here!"
The other security teams maintained the order on the underground second floor, preventing people from crowding up to watch the excitement, and even arrested a few people for this reason. Only then did the people on the underground second floor settle down.
Yu Heng heard the noise coming from the underground first floor, which had not stopped. It seemed to be very loud, and he didn't know what happened.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Did they use guns?
The underground second floor was agitated again after a roar, and was controlled by the security team again.
"Ah!"
Someone screamed. It turned out that several people had rolled down the stairs, and even two of them fell straight down, making a tooth-grinding bone-breaking sound.
"Ah, ah, ah!"
"Ugh--"
The bed that Yu Heng chose was the farthest from the stairs, so even if he stood up, he couldn't see clearly.
"What on earth did you say happened?" Zheng Zekui looked at the noise over there with palpitations.
"I don't know."
The doctor quickly rescued him and came out from the security room.
After observation, Yu Heng knew that the security room was actually connected to the management next door, otherwise the partition door was closed, and it would be impossible to go to the gate first and then to the management next door.
"It seems that there is no hope?"
"He died on the spot..."
The underground first floor was completely quiet until an hour later.
The security team and the doctor came and went in a hurry, with serious expressions, and the smell of blood spread from their bodies as they walked. The smell of blood drifted and mixed with the already dull air, making the air even more disgusting.
Before noon, the second floor below ground started broadcasting again, severely criticizing the dispute on the first floor below ground this time, and made a punishment: all the troublemakers were expelled from the underground city.
"Survival is not easy. If you can't work together and do something that damages the safety construction of the underground city, then the underground city will no longer protect him! Please take this as a warning!"
The underground city acted quickly and decisively, and expelled all the thirty people at noon that day.
The crying and cursing were endless, which made people feel confused.
The underground city even selected some people on the first floor and the second floor below ground to watch. According to the trembling narration of the people who came back, the others were greatly frightened.
In the next few days, the underground city was unusually quiet. If you are expelled, you will die!
On the 49th day after the arrival of the poisonous fog, after the second small-scale conflict, several suicides and other accidents, there was finally hope.
The poisonous fog dissipated.