Chapter 1: Alive
When Zhou Huai'an climbed ashore from the water again, he only felt that the gloomy sky looked extraordinarily kind, and the fresh air full of complex odors was also extraordinarily good.
Slowly choked on the muddy water and foreign objects in his mouth and nose, and the feeling of suffocation under the water for a long time made his mind still a little groggy and weak; After some Nietzsche and Kantian inner philosophical torture of "who am I", "where" and "where am I going to play", he determined his own situation.
Isn't he still alive, not hiding among the black and green moderates on the way to evacuate the country, and suddenly venturing the car bomb of the N7 believers to hurt the pond fish, and even the people and cars flew out and smashed into the water.
It was only easy to break free from the ZTE pickup, which is known as an African artifact, as if everything had disappeared, whether it was the bridge built in the 70s of the last century, which was in disrepair and rust, or the crowd of people fleeing from the cars, or the roar of guns and cannons on the horizon of all the grasslands far away, all of them were gone.
He was lying on a moss-stained, deep, slippery rocky bank, and some familiar blades of grass grew sparsely from the cracks in the stone, and produced tiny purple and white buds, trembling in the breeze. The alley he climbed out of was so clear that he couldn't see anything other than mud and sand;
Then he found that it was not without other things, his African magic modified pickup truck was lying quietly at the bottom of the riverbed twisted and refracted by the water waves, and only a small edge trace at the top was exposed.
He couldn't help sighing, at least in his soaked bare hand state, he couldn't salvage the belongings on the car.
"It's..."
Then, he slowly shifted his attention to his environment with some dizziness, and then words such as "ancient" suddenly popped up in his mind.
Because from here, it is a very large and ancient city, and between the houses and the market, there are gray tiles and thatched roofs from the eaves and arches and the miscellaneous period, as well as a forest of wooden buildings similar to the bell towers and drum towers left in later generations.
On the other side of the city, the sea skyline looms in the distance, because the air is blown by the sea breeze that clearly smells of the harbor; Only on the other side of the land did there be a faint half-encirclement of the low walls, but there were already many pitted gaps as if they had been gnawed by dogs.
Columns of smoke rose faintly over the city, and the smell of burnt and pervasive black ash began to appear in the air, and the familiar smell that had been smelled many times on the African continent; All this drove him involuntarily in the direction where the water converged,
Suddenly, I saw a shocking and numbing scene of liver and gall cracking, which was along a wide water system that passed through the city, and the two sides of the bank were full of endless cries and shouts, as well as earth-shattering cheers.
Men, women, and children were constantly escorted to the edge of the unknown river by noisy crowds, and then beheaded on the embankment and thrown into the river, and then washed directly into the open sea where the mouth of the river was located.
Therefore, the surface of the river, which seemed to be quite wide, was already densely filled with all kinds of corpses, and occasionally there were some people who were not completely dead struggling and fluttering, and then slowly disappeared along the river with many corpses in the distant estuary of the sea.
At this moment,
He suddenly felt a certain sense of danger and great crisis, this was a city that was in the midst of a massacre, no matter which side it belonged to, these armed men or soldiers who seemed to be red-eyed might not easily let him go, a stranger who suddenly appeared.
With the sound of footsteps and faint noise nearby, an inexplicable voice urged him that he must escape from here by all means.
however
"Another one..."
In some kind of shrill cry full of malice, he only had time to turn around when he was hit his forehead head-on.
"Slaughter these slaves."
Then, a rather sluggish, mechanical voice rang in his head.
"The host's life is in danger"
"The emergency system is activated, and the backup energy is injected."
"Turning to the instinctive mode of animal nerves."
Soon after, when he woke up again, he was in a blood-smelling pile of corpses, and he was lying on the ground in some kind of five-body posture, and the bloody traces of the scattered corpses spread half the street before disappearing into the corner of the unknown street.
At least dozens of armed men were torn apart and dismembered on the spot with some brutal force, so that the rest of the men dropped their weapons, and the fear and horror of the moment before death were still frozen on their distorted faces.
And he didn't even have the kind of reflex vomiting and nausea that Ben En, but it was like some kind of sage time after being hollowed out of his body, judging and analyzing the current situation and what had happened in a calm mood that surprised him.
Before being knocked unconscious, it seemed that something on his body had been activated, and then he became like this.
As he racked his brains, faint lines and borders suddenly appeared in his field of vision, and a voice that sounded extremely obscure and dull sounded again.
"In the self-test... Severely under-sufficiency"
"Moved to passive standby after restarting."
Then the lines and borders that represented some kind of data interface disappeared completely, and no matter how much he called out with his consciousness or shook his head, he couldn't get out.
"What the hell is this?"
He couldn't help but shout in fear and madness in his heart.
"It's only a one-time effect for Mao"
"It happened to me again."
And then it turned into some kind of involuntary shame, and his appearance and appearance must be very weird. It's just that why other people's plug-ins are not portable grandfathers, or they are omnipotent and casually exchanged; I parasitized such a ghost thing that doesn't seem to be reliable at all.
I'm a materialist,
I am the successor of socialism,
I am a newcomer armed with the scientific concept of development,
When he was a volunteer in a war-torn area of Africa, he was a probationary party member who joined the party through the firing line.
After Zhou Huai'an continued to meditate on these and forced himself to calm down again, the imminent sense of crisis drove him again, and he had to endure the heavy blood and the slowly rising nausea, and began to look for something he could use among the corpses that had been killed.
At least in the modern society in which he lived, he already had a certain psychological tolerance for this kind of thing in the developed online hunting style, and when he later traveled with the medical team in the Middle East and Africa as a volunteer, he did not fail to witness the tragic and cruel scenes that occurred on the edge of human civilization.
Therefore, at this moment, Zhou Huai'an rationally feels that the most important thing is to let himself live in this strange era first. Even if it is to abandon some moral cleanliness and ethical discomfort for this purpose.
Although most of the clothing and belongings were scattered all over the ground as the corpses were torn and cut by the horrific external force; But among the abandoned and tattered blades, he picked up a straight-edged single knife that didn't look much rusty, with a narrow-looking blade and a beveled straight edge without a notch, which was somewhat deterrent and lethal; I also found a black lacquer sheath that was not suitable and put it on the belt of my waist as a weapon for temporary self-defense.
Then, he took the upper half of the broken flag, grinded off the stubble at the root and wrapped it around a cloth that was easy to hold, and held it in his hand as a crutch in a sense and a secondary weapon that could be thrown at any time. After all, some kind of killing is going on in this ancient city, and who knows what will happen next;
Next, he cut off a large piece of half-new sunshade cloth from the shed that had been knocked over and collapsed on the side, and wrapped it diagonally around his body with two butts so that he didn't look so abrupt. Although his body was still wet and uncomfortable, he didn't have the time to deal with it until he escaped from danger.
Then, he wrapped the cut strips of cloth around his calves and soles, put them into a pair of old boots that were obviously too large from the corpse, and replaced his own pair of canvas hiking shoes that had become wet and tattered, so that at least he had the basic conditions for a limited number of long journeys and accelerated running to escape, without damaging the movement of his legs and feet.
According to the basic common sense of wilderness survival training, judging from the position of the sun and the clothing of the locals, this should belong to the hot and humid southern coastal area; Therefore, he also needed shade and sun protection, and at least in the shed on the side, where the stoneware fragments were broken, he found a ready-made old hat to wear on his head.
Then, in a large vat that had been broken, the remnants of hazel tea that had not been contaminated by the splatters of blood were found, meaning that it was boiled drinking water, not raw water of suspicious origin and unknown residues and ingredients;
Although it has been splashed with a little dust and debris has fallen underneath, after tasting it a little, it is determined that it is similar to the taste of inferior tea bricks and wild thorns; This is a good thing for him, not only to quench his thirst and replenish water, but also to provide a short-term refreshing and cooling effect.
His plan to escape from this dangerous city in the midst of the killing had a little more assurance and confidence. Then he began to look for a suitable portable container, and finally found only a large hollowed-out and thinned bamboo tube and a half-cut gourd scoop.
With the tea that was gulped, Zhou Huai'an's body seemed to wake up with a sense of hunger.
He could only look for an existence as a geographical indication as soon as possible. to check your bearings in order to get out of these labyrinthine unfamiliar neighborhoods; On the one hand, you have to look for food that you can eat; The body aches and intense hunger after the inexplicable violent outburst almost came out in waves, and even the saliva and saliva could not be swallowed.
Well, at least someone else is playing wilderness survival, and you're playing in a city full of death and carnage, or a city full of killing.
The good news is that since it's a human settlement, it means a relative abundance of tools and sources of material to use, as well as more options for hiding places.
The bad news is that the massacre seems to be organized and orderly, which means that there is a high probability that the gateway to entry and exit will be closed, and it may be necessary to find a way to fight the battle royale from the sea.