The inauguration celebration of the defensive wall of the Paradise Island Fortress reveals a kind of simplicity everywhere, whether it is the stage built painstakingly, or the sound cobbled together, the uneven costumes and props, even with a cutting-edge director like Kang Xingjian who became internationally famous before the disaster, and Gao Yang, a real star, the program and performance effect of the whole celebration are still full of the sense of déjà vu of the rural drama club.

But this is already the ultimate they can do, after all, most of the people fled to the fortress with nothing left, and the supplies collected by the fortress while protecting the survivors are also the first priority for survival. As for acting, no one really focused on that.

If it weren't for the fact that before the disaster, people would have thought that the show was actually good. At least Gao Yang's singing, dancing, and hosting are still very skilled, and in other programs, at least it can be seen that the choreographer and actors have made great efforts. The audience doesn't have too many demands, and it is already as unreal as a dream to be able to watch an entertainment performance under such circumstances.

The first climax of the performance is, of course, brought by Gao Yang, followed by a surviving university teacher who uses a cello to evoke memories of art, and then, on to the dance of the mulberry.

This is a solo dance, Mulberry is wearing a pure white costume dress, and her waterfall-like black hair is lightly tied with a red silk, when she slowly appears in front of the audience from the inside of the stage through a simple lifting device on the stage, although the effect is just like that, it still gives people the impression that she has come out of an ancient painting.

Mulberry folded her hands in front of her forehead and greeted the audience with an elegant ancient salute, and then she slowly moved her hands away, raised her head, and silently thought in her heart that she must appear, she must appear, she didn't dare to move too much, but the afterglow of her eyes directly found the direction in which the figure appeared before, and then, she smiled brightly, and the whole person stretched out, just a starting gesture, it instantly brought people a shock that I don't know what day it is.

When the song ended, the applause under the stage was like thunder, and Mulberry's face was also flushed with a red tide.

From the initial reluctance and feeling meaningless, to now, she suddenly has some gratitude for this performance.

What if this world is destroyed, even if civilization is annihilated? She blooms in the despair of this apocalypse, as beautiful as a dazzling firework in the night sky.

When her figure froze, her eyes stayed on the position she had been looking for without any scruples, and for a while it seemed that everyone else had become a phantom, and those applause had been frozen in a thousand years later, leaving only the vacant position, and the residual warmth left by that position, watching her beautiful bloom.

Mulberry smiled all over his face, and the tears in his eyes couldn't help but burst out of his eyes.

The audience erupted in thunderous applause again, and everyone was infected by her emotions immersed in the dance.

The audience is mainly composed of two parts, one is the officers of the fortress defense forces who are not on duty for combat readiness, especially the leading officers of each unit, and the other part is the backbone personnel and business supervisors in various non-combat positions in the fortress, it can be said that most of the backbone of the military and civilian sides of the fortress are here. The civilian side is a little more numerous, accounting for about three-quarters, and the total number of people on both sides is nearly 1,000.

Of course, the most important thing is the military and political leaders of the fortress sitting in the front row of the audience.

Just when Mulberry's dance came to a perfect end, and she quickly collected her emotions and was about to follow the prescribed movements from the lifting device on the stage and back to the backstage, she walked to the lifting device, only to find that the device did not respond.

At the same time, at the edge of the auditorium, there was a sudden noise.

Mulberry turned around on the stage and saw a group of people running in quickly from both sides of the auditorium, approaching the center of the front row. Behind the stage, many people suddenly jumped out, and two men rushed straight to her side, grabbed her arm in an instant, and a knife was on her neck.

The audience was a little confused, and some of them even thought that this was a stage play after the dance.

But Mulberry knew no, and she heard the man beside her say viciously: "Don't move!" Otherwise, cut your face first! ”

Mulberry didn't move, the knife was very sharp, it wasn't necessarily her face that cut the flowers, it was also very close to the artery.

Soon, there was a louder noise in the audience, until a gunshot rang out, and then there was a sudden silence. It was an officer who realized that something was wrong and tried to snatch the gun from the person who ran over, and in the process of snatching, the gun went off, and it was a person next to him who shot the officer in the head.

According to the previous security requirements of the venue, the officers handed over their guns when they entered the venue. Now, they were completely bare-handed, and in the face of the sudden appearance of this group of people, all of whom were armed, the officers did not dare to act rashly at gunpoint.

Mulberry looked under the stage under the coercion of the two people, and saw that the people who poured into the venue were civilians in overalls, but the fortress was originally a soldier for all, and they did not usually undertake combat missions, but they were also distributed weapons and ammunition, and they were also trained, because in case of emergency, everyone needed to directly pick up arms and fight the mutants.

Sang Quinoa saw very clearly, these people were very similar to the people she met with Li Hao and senior Ma Jie Zheng Qinglan during the meal, they were all thin in appearance, with deep eye sockets, as if they had experienced long-term hunger, but the difference with those they encountered was that at that time, they were able to fight 4 to 30, and the other party not only looked like they had experienced long-term hunger, but also really had no combat effectiveness, and these people in front of them just seemed to be thin, but in fact, their combat effectiveness was not bad at all.

At that time, the blue overalls of those people were embroidered with red edges on the cuffs, and the blue overalls of these people in front of them were embroidered with a red palm logo directly on the chest.

The situation soon became clear.

Sang Quinoa saw Gao Yang pushed out from the back of the stage with her arms cut backwards, and then came out with a middle-aged woman with deep eye sockets, high cheekbones, and so thin that only skin hung on the skeleton. Mulberry can be sure that he has seen this woman in the past two days, but who she is, when and where she appears every time, is another thing that is easy to make people vaguely remember.

The woman was dressed in a white robe and held a wooden staff in her right hand, the top of which was attached to a fist-sized skeleton. On the chest of her white robe is also embroidered with a red palm that is the same as that of those in blue overalls in the audience. This outfit is very funny, saying that she looks like a witch in a fairy tale, her cane is full of oriental mysteries, she is like a witch dancing in the countryside, and the string of headdresses she wears on her forehead is very postmodern metallic.

And with her, there are also some staff members including Kang Xingjian, the director of this celebration, and Ye Xiang, Gao Yang's previous assistant.

At this time, Gao Yang was looking at his former assistant with the most incredible gaze, and Ye Xiang, who was regarded by him as a relative and did not let go of his hand at the most urgent moment of life and death. His lips moved, wanting to ask Ye Xiang something, but Ye Xiang didn't look at him at all.

"Tell me about yourself." The woman in the robe, who looked like a witch and witch in a composite of East and West, took the microphone with her left hand, and her eyes swept over the audience under the stage, especially the military and political chiefs in the front row, and showed a smile looking down on everyone, and said: "You can call me Bishop, of course, I am not an archbishop, I am just one of the nine bishops under the archbishopric seat, I have no name, no one needs a name." But in order for you to remember me, you may call me the Bishop of the East. From now on, this fortress is taken over by me. ”

"Hehe......" sneered, such laughter was unexpectedly full of mockery, it was Brigadier General Liu Zhiyuan, the commander of the fortress who was sitting in the middle of the front row, the brigadier general held his hands and said with a mocking face: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to laugh at you, but I'm a bit of a drama." After all, people of my age can easily hear that they are the leaders of the East, similar to you, but in general, they mean neither yin nor yang. ”

The Bishop of the East, with no expression on his withered face, said: "You must understand one thing, that this so-called catastrophe of your own nature is caused entirely by you fools who have committed many crimes. And you people can still sit here now, not because you are worthy of salvation, but when the creator God overthrew this world and rebuilt it, his name was randomly selected, and in addition to your gratitude, the rest is to take refuge in the light of the Lord God and assist the Lord God to complete the cleansing of this world. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, as long as you follow my will and be a slave to the Lord God. ”

Liu Zhiyuan looked at him with a joke that did not match his age and military uniform, and said mockingly: "What the hell are you, I personally don't care." I just want to know now, how did you get to this point? I mean, how many people have done your guilt? What is the highest level? Don't come with me, everyone understands people, and in this game in front of me, I admit that I lost. I never thought that something so strange would happen inside the fortress, after all, it has been less than two months since the disaster broke out,"

He pointed to his brain, made a clean gesture, and said, "I don't think it's realistic to do this in such a short time. Of course, perhaps I underestimated the rate at which people are mentally mutated in despair. Give me an explanation, and then kill me, for you, this is a necessary means to control the situation. ”

The face of the Eastern Bishop was still expressionless, but as her gaze lingered slightly on the person next to Liu Zhiyuan, Liu Zhiyuan nodded in understanding, turned his head to look at Di Yonghang, the chief executive sitting next to him, and in the other party's undodging gaze, he sighed and said, "I want to know, what benefits can you get?" My position? It doesn't mean anything to you, does it? Take me out, you're not good at military. ”

Di Yonghang said calmly: "This is God's will. ”