Chapter Seventy-Two: The Black Knight and the Scales
If there is one last man left after the apocalypse, he must be a safari mercenary. [No pop-ups. The creed of a mercenary is to live.
But what is alive is the creed of living. This is not something that can be achieved by childish slogans. In the peaceful years before the First Sino-Japanese War, tearing fried chicken and watching TV series was also called alive; But after the war, if it were not for the unshakable belief that he must survive as the only unshakable conviction, he would never have survived now.
In the collapsed world after the war, living must be a matter of faith. Imagine the pre-war era when anyone could share food with good friends; But during the stalemate stage of Solomon's tug-of-war during the war, only himself and his comrades were trapped, starving each other to death, who could cut off the thigh meat of his comrades and eat them to survive. Before the war, anyone would invite friends to take a boat to enjoy the scenery; At the end of the Great War of the Great Landing in Western Ostria, countless seafarers fell overboard after the transport ship was sunk, and they desperately grabbed the planks, at that time, who could knock the other survivors next to the planks into the water and float to the shore with the planks themselves to be rescued.
Self-sacrifice is great, but this war is too long, and great people have died and died.
If you want to survive, you need to have the urgency to survive, and this kind of inviolability. If you want to survive, it's not about technology and strength, it's about who wants to survive more. This is the world after the First Sino-Japanese War. Everyone who is alive is a person who wants to live. There is not the slightest hint of goodness or hypocrisy, no pretense, no callousness.
The reason why we always commemorate selflessness and self-sacrifice before the war is because we can foresee the darkness of the end of the Dharma era before the war. The endless and hopeless black, maybe this is the world that the whoopers want.
"Maybe we deserve it, but that's not what I want." Bill looked at the pitch-black summit of the storm, and he knew that the scales would tip and everyone would slide to the dark end.
At this moment, the fighters of the Baker Island escort and the Prince Company rushed head-on according to the instructions of the combat path, and dissolved horizontally in front of him to avoid accidental attacks and air collisions. The second step of the plan failed completely, and the Whoopers did not appear, but everyone was dyed red with the Whoopers. If you continue to fight, it will only cause the mishit to expand further. The only way now is to cancel the mission.
Unwillingness, frustration and unprecedented frustration filled the entire ranks. The evil consequence of this sense of failure is self-doubt, "Can I do it, can I survive?" "Questions like this occupy people's hearts. They are no longer thinking about the reasons for the failure of the battle, but are concerned about how to escape alive.
"Bill, you just said that the next color is black, what do you mean?" Bob asked in the crypto channel, he thought the head wolf was carrying out some mysterious plan, and he was afraid that he would be exposed if he asked with a big grin.
"The third seal of Revelation, the Black Horseman, brings famine. It's already begun. Bill the Wolf replied that although he had seen through the Hundred Days, he was able to escape from fear and keep his mind sane. But it can't be one step ahead, and it can't turn the tide of the war everywhere.
"Started? I only saw the black wind. The red tide in front of Bob had completely faded, and the afterglow of the setting sun was gradually dissipating, and the storm around him had turned into a pitch-black silk thread, and the surroundings seemed to be wrapped in countless shiny long black hairs. What about the whooping ghosts? What will it change this time. ”
"It doesn't have to change, it doesn't have to change anything. We run out of fuel, and this is famine. ”
All the mercenaries noticed what Bill was talking about. The fuel gauge was approaching the minimum value of the return home, and if it continued to be consumed, the fuel in their tanks would not be able to support the plane to fly back to Baker Island. The next question is to choose a way to die: to be crushed by a puppet, or to be sunburned alive after falling into the sea.
No matter how you fight, it's a dead end.
The Maverick's voice was the most confident of all, he enjoyed the feeling that he was the only one in his possession of the truth, and no one denied that he might indeed have the truth, because he didn't say he was wrong. "Do you doubt? Do you dare to say that the oaths you have taken are lies and your beliefs are false? If you don't believe what I'm saying, you can now blast out of the storm circle with full force and see what the consequences are. I believe that he is sinless, that he has completed his redemption with his sinless body, that the other world exists, that this is a fact. We have suffered in this world for far too long, and it is time to make a choice. ”
In the old days, whenever the calf did not get the understanding of his parents and did not have friends to help him, he would seek peace in books. Maverick is not an aggressive person and will not test bullying others to vent; There was a different, unusual firmness in him, and this firmness made him feel that only in this way could he feel good inside. The books that Maverick reads and the beliefs he believes in take him out of the loneliest time in his heart. He decided that after he was liberated, he should share and let everyone follow the right path like himself. He doesn't force anyone, he's also the most special person.
At the moment, no one can care about others. Extreme fear and death threats have long deprived people of their ability to think normally. Bill, the head wolf's tactic, while right, was unsuccessful. The Safari Mercenary must find other ways to keep himself alive.
"I believe it, and I believe it!"
The first person to answer was Rocky.
He wasn't crazy, he was even sober. Rocky bears the responsibility of the soldier's death in battle, and kills his companions who support him with his own hands, so it can be said that he is a person who was completely ruined by the Hundred Day Ghost. "I believe in the striking, I'm on the side of the striking. He will lead us and open the way back. ”
Yes, it was the Hundred Days Ghost who destroyed himself, and Rocky should hate the Hundred Days Ghost; But it is believed that there is no problem with being beaten. He is cornered, he has no future, he has completely depraved and has no way out, so he can only die in misery. or be torn apart by puppets and split into corpses in the air; Either they float helplessly on the surface of the sea, their skin is blown apart and peeled off by the sun, and their bare muscles are corroded by the sea, rotting and dying on the surface of the sea little by little. He didn't want that, even God doesn't advocate suicide, suicide is a sin, a serious moral error forbid by God. What he needed was the truth that would be saved.
"I believe in the striking!" Rocky began to climb up and move closer to the Centennial, "We should all gather around him!" ”
No one answered.
But the situation is changing, and the balance of the whole war is entering a new equilibrium. Bob could see with the naked eye that there were a lot of mercenary fighters silently climbing. Whoever wants to die a tragic death, can die now. But the survival of the safari mercenaries ** is better than anyone else, and it must not be violated, in this post-apocalyptic era, only in this way can they survive, they have no choice.
Lodge accelerated his climb and gradually approached the height of the calf. While increasing the thrust, he recalled the past: it was a mistake to block the progress of history, the leader of the soldiers died, and many of his comrades-in-arms also died, but they did not die from the Hundred Day Ghosts, and the Hundred Days Ghosts did not kill them. They died blocking the course of history, and they paid for their wrong choices. For mercenaries, everyone has the right to choose, and they themselves have determined the only truth. "I'm willing to follow around the attack!"
The man of his faith is a sinless hero, struck, and still standing on his feet where the right truth is. As long as they think about it, the Safari Mercenary can happily accept this choice.
In the air, the mercenaries began to turn against the Centouliers.
"What did I say?" Bob was still relaxed, even smug, "I can guess things right." You see, they're going to start a new Hundred Days Cult. Bill, if you get your hands on it sooner...... Huh, Bill? ”
Strangely, Bob didn't hear Bill, the head wolf.
He glanced in the rearview mirror, then grabbed the bezel of the cockpit canopy and leaned back and forth, but he couldn't see Bill's F-36 fighter. It's a stealth plane, but it's not stealthy in front of the eyes. Bob touched the back of his head, inexplicably. Could it be that Bill has been shot down by the Centeniers? Bob wasn't a fool either, he saw that Bill's encrypted communication returned the response data and still kept the communication, and the kid must still be in the air, alive and well.
But where is Bill, why don't you answer yourself.
"Bill! Bill, answer me! Bob roared twice, but suddenly covered his mouth again. Can't shout anymore, Bill must be carrying out a new secret plan. That's right! Bob was very pleased with his excellent judgment. Definitely so, the head wolf always thinks that he is the most handsome, and he does all the good ideas himself, and he also shoulders all the responsibilities. Now it must be some kind of subtle, full of wisdom, and some kind of powerful tactics summed up from the ancient books on the art of war in the Central Continent.
Bob was not happy twice, and suddenly turned into a rage: "Bill! Get out of here! "Damn, why didn't Bill tell himself about the tactics. He forgot in a blink that he had thought Bill was trying to keep it a secret; All he thought was that Bill had thrown him aside Bob. Bill wants to fight alone with the Hundred Days, which is really arrogant to the extreme! Bob said that he wanted to beat Bill up, and that was true.
Bob was right.
Bill, the head wolf, never gives up, and even more so unyieldingly.
He won't be on the side of the Central Continent, or the side of the Centoulian, although it is obviously more in line with the development of the times and the evolution of the species. He is not even on the side of the former United States or the Pan-American Entente, which has completely changed and is no longer what it used to be. Bill the head wolf is only on the side he wants.
The idea of the safari mercenaries is completely reasonable, and it is not reasonable that they choose to commit suicide. The Central Continent is also reasonable, this is the truth of politics. The whooping ghost is also reasonable, it wants to replace this old world and create a whole new era, irreversible.
Black clouds, black sky.
"But this is not the world I want!"
The head wolf hides himself among the rebellious safari mercenaries and heads high into the sky. He must be one step ahead of the AI and use this opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the Centennial.
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