Chapter 5 (I) Endless Ruins
What has happened in these seven years other than what Quinn said and knew? That's a problem.
Tang Shuxing walked slowly down the mountain, there was an indescribable feeling, he felt that from the moment he was frozen in the White House, no, it should be said that before that, Reinhardt had set up another game, a seven-year-old game.
What will this bureau be? Could it be that something other than the natural mutant is needed to reforge the Eye of the Nyora? For seven years, why didn't he dig me out? Tang Shuxing went down the mountain with this question.
Coming to the bottom of the mountain, Quinn took Tang Shuxing to meet the remaining 5 commandos, these 5 people seemed to be very old, and they were very tired from running along the way. However, before Quinn could introduce Tang Shuxing, two people had already recognized him, only slightly surprised, and then went to rest - no matter what big people appeared in front of them, for them, it was no better than a hot meal and a warm bed, although there were neither of them now.
"What's next for you?" Tang Shuxing asked Quinn, "No matter what you do, I hope you will let go, take me to Africa, and take me to meet Ah Yue and them." ”
Quinn nodded, "I have plans to do the same, and I think they want to go back too." Quinn said, pointing with his thumb to the five people who were sleeping in the distance, and this time period was Quinn's sentry.
Tang Shuxing looked at the five people: "I thought I would be surrounded by them to ask this and that, and it feels good not to be noticed." ”
Quinn smiled: "Seven years will consume a lot of things." A lot of things have been worn out, and there are actually many people in the Resistance who don't see hope, do you know what is the most cruel? ”
"What?" Tang Shu asked Quinn.
"It's not just that there's no hope, it's that we don't know how many people have survived on this planet." Quinn shook his head, "In Africa, we are nominally hundreds of thousands of resistances, but as far as I know, there are less than 200,000 people, people all over the world, but there are diseases and zombies everywhere. Astaya, where we used to stay, is now a zombie paradise. There are even people who go there to catch zombies and come back to perform shows, and in seven years, everyone is no longer surprised. ”
"How many people is there in Shangdu?" Tang Shu asked, "It seems." The living conditions over there are very good. ”
"I don't know. I haven't been. It's just that I often see the video promotion sent by Shangdu, and the propaganda in Shangdu is simply heaven, but we all doubt it. After all, natural disasters are frequent, and the Asian region is not immune. Quinn touched the cigarette, sniffed it, and handed it to Tang Shuxing, "Now cigarettes are a luxury, only soldiers on the front line have such things, no matter how big other people are addicted to smoking, they can only quit, because there is no cigarette for you to smoke." ”
Tang Shuxing nodded, leaning against the rock: "What about the rest of the world?" Have you found any resistance groups that are not part of the Resistance? What about the Middle East? Who is in control of oil? Why not attack over there? ”
"Our weapons are not advanced enough, we are understaffed, we are not trained enough, and our only hope is on metal exoskeletons." Quinn drew the appearance of the thing on the ground with a wooden stick, "Our researchers are working on this kind of thing with all their might, a metal exoskeleton fighter jet, which can be operated by everyone, a solar battery, which can last an hour on a five-minute charge, carrying compressed non-cartridge ammunition, but the progress is very slow, although one or two prototypes have been born, but many problems have not been solved." ”
"For example?" Tang Shuxing asked with a yawn.
"For example, there is a shortage of raw materials, and although Africa is rich in products, it is also a problem to explore and exploit. In addition, our talents are scarce, many people can't even operate a computer, and the literacy process is generally low. In the past few years, Shang Du has taken everything that useful people can take away, and as you said, I saw them at the train station and let the captives choose for themselves. If there is talent that they can't get, they will destroy it and not let us get it. The most terrifying thing is that when many people know that Shang needs technical talents, they will deliberately hide their special talents, deliberately go to the front line to fight, wait to be captured, and then go to Shangdu. Quinn yawned, too, "Alright, it's time for me to get someone up for a shift, rest for a while and then set off, go pick up Ruben and the kid first, and then we'll head towards Barcelona and find a way out there." ”
Tang Shuxing nodded, waiting for Quinn to wake up the others, and he looked at the mountain, when he saw Xia Jiezhu before, if it wasn't for Quinn's appearance, he was afraid that he would really open the window and go in to meet Xia Jiezhu.
I don't know why, Tang Shuxing felt that the seven years he had frozen were very short, and after a few dreams, time passed in a flash, but the moment he saw Xia Jiezhu, he really had a feeling of seeing each other after a lifetime, and his heart told himself very clearly - I miss her.
Maybe it was because he slept for too long, Tang Shuxing didn't feel tired, he just sat there and waited for Quinn to finish resting, and then set off with everyone, before leaving, Quinn saw Tang Shuxing look at the mountain several times, so he said in a low voice: "Xia Jiezhu is there, I know, I saw it, but now is not the time, you know?" ”
"She's the enemy." Tang Shuxing replied simply, and took a step and left.
Quinn stood there stunned, and he also looked at the mountain, and he could understand the uneasiness and contradiction in Tang Shuxing's heart.
In the next few days, Quinn and five commandos, as well as Ruben and Barberrow, together with Tang Shuxing, headed towards Barcelona, in order not to get lost, they could only move along the railroad tracks at night, because the positioning equipment on their bodies, etc., either ran out of power or was malfunctioning, and they used a compass to identify the direction.
They can't even look at the starry sky to discern the direction, because the air is full of haze, which is not bad in the mountain area, and the pollution is not so strict, but once they leave the area, the place where the haze is strictest has reached the point where they can't see their fingers.
But in the same way, there are disadvantages and advantages, the smog provides them with a very effective cover, half a month later, the nine people on foot finally walked to Barcelona, but what they saw was a different scene - the whole city was burned to the ground, and as far as the eye could see, in the thick haze, there was not a single intact building, and there was no half of a person.
Quinn motioned for the five commandos to disperse, maintain a protective formation, and slowly walked forward, Reuben held a gun to protect Barberrow, who was holding a pistol and looked nervous, and Tang Shuxing walked in front with a sword.
"That's disinfection." Ruben said in the back.
Quinn nodded: "Yes, disinfection, after we infiltrated the interior of Spain, we saw that many places were like this, but the areas that are generally disinfected have basically experienced massacres, and they don't have the time to bury the corpses, so they simply leave the corpses in place and use planes to drop high-explosive incendiary bombs to burn them directly." ”
"You can't fight this kind of battle." Tang Shuxing looked at the sky, "Shangdu has obtained air supremacy, and it is basically over, even if the resistance army has more ground troops, it is still a live target." ”
"We have the Air Force, but there are not many of them, and the fighters are not advanced, and there are 35 large transport aircraft C-130B, most of which are from the former South African Air Force, and the rest are from all over the country after the outbreak of the war, and some of them are damaged and can barely fly after repair." Quinn replied to Tang Shuxing's question later, "Other planes are all miscellaneous, and the only ones that retain part of their strength are Egypt, Syria, South Africa, Algeria, and other former African military powers, and now our combat equipment comes from these countries, and other light weapons are all recovered from other countries, most of them are AK series rifles, or German-made weapons, because many of them have been used for many years, and the performance of the weapons is not good." ”
Tang Shuxing turned his head to look at Quinn and asked, "Has Shaman Power Company achieved nothing in Africa over the years?" ”
"Yes." Quinn nodded, "At least as far as I know, but the upper echelons of the Resistance said that those things were used during the final counteroffensive, and I heard that the Sharman Power Company has several arsenals that have been mothballed, and in addition, the upper echelons of the Resistance don't know why, and no one is allowed to touch anything that Sharman Power has developed in the past about the implanter program, and whoever touches it will die." ”
Ruben shook his head and sighed, "It's completely impossible to fight. ”
"yes, not at the same level." Tang Shuxing looked at the charred corpses everywhere, and knew that Shang Du had already withdrawn from the area, even if the resistance army was counterattacking now, what he got was a ruin with nothing, and along the way, many important places were blown up and burned, it seemed that Shang Du decided to retreat after swallowing the 30,000 troops of the resistance army, and maybe it would not be long before he had to completely abandon the concentration camp.
And the so-called compressed gas in that concentration camp is not just a trap, and now it is necessary to immediately rush back to the headquarters of the Resistance Army in Africa to stop them from doing stupid things, and at the same time, they must directly question Kim Yunhao and the artificial intelligence ground turtle, why they keep sending them to death even though they know that it is a trap.
When they arrived at the dock, they saw that all the ships had been destroyed, and none of them were intact, not even the ones that looked like ships.
"It's over." Quinn shook his head, and was about to instruct his men to take a look around, when Tang Shuxing raised his hand to stop him.
Tang Shuxing looked around and said: "There is no need to look for a boat, there must be no boat, Shangdu will definitely destroy everything that can be destroyed, let's try our luck at the airport now, look along the way, if not, there is only one choice." ”
"What?" Ruben looked at Tang Shuxing.
Tang Shuxing took a deep breath and said, "Bring the map." ”
One of Quinn's men brought the original map of Spain, and Tang Shuxing pointed to the location of the Strait of Gibraltar, drew a circle there, and said: "We can only go to Talifa, where even if it is in ruins, we have to find something to cross the Strait of Gibraltar and go to Morocco." (To be continued......)