Chapter 25: Anecdotes from Bencheng
Dongguo, two months later, there is an abandoned town in the western suburbs of Bincheng, a bunch of ragged people are scrambling for the things picked up from the garbage heap, a young man is full of sluggish face mixed in the crowd, looking at this group of people blankly, his name is Wang Bangbang.
He couldn't figure out why it had suddenly become like this. Thinking that he was still a happy little dick half a year ago, watching his island country films, eating instant noodles, and having a decent job as a "courier brother" in the Eastern Special Economic Zone.
He lives in Qinggang and is an "electric mule", and an electric mule, as the name suggests, is a person who delivers goods by electric car. He heard about the damn tsunami that flooded the entire Qinggang and flooded his home, he didn't know if he was lucky or unlucky, a delivery in Bincheng allowed him to escape the catastrophe, unfortunately the home was gone, and he didn't even have time to bring out a pair of underwear.
Wang Bangbang was undoubtedly lucky in this disaster, at least compared to the millions of corpses soaking under the water in Qinggang. He just escaped the tsunami with the current, and then mixed into Bincheng with the current.
Wang Bangbang has been in Bincheng for a few days, with no background, no relatives, no connections and resources. He was assigned to a makeshift settlement in Ben Thanh, where he had only one tent and lived with a group of people who lived by digging through garbage every day, where there was no life, only dirt, hunger, and robbery. Almost all crimes can be seen here, and people hurt each other just to live a little better than others.
Wang Bangbang remembers very clearly that a group of high-spirited security officers came to the temporary resettlement area that day, and searched the tents next to each other to catch some fugitives who had killed people in the inner city. Wang Bangbang's tent cumin was also turned upside down. But the fugitives didn't catch them, and the men with their eyes on the top of their heads injured several of the garbage pickers. Now the pot exploded, and the temporary resettlement area already had a lot of complaints against the upper-class people in the city who ate and drank spicy food and made a fortune, and the two sides directly started a fire. Wang Bangbang hid in the corner with his head in his hands, he saw with his own eyes that the electric batons in the hands of those security officers who were above the top were snatched away, and countless fists, kicks and stones beckoned to them, and after a while, more than a dozen security officers, including a sheriff, were beaten to death. Finally, the security agents with guns came and fired their guns to scare the 'thugs' away.
From that day on, Wang Bangbang saw a ring wall rising from the ground on the boundary between the resettlement area and the urban area, with the Bincheng urban area as the center. A ring wall tens of meters tall completely divides the city into the inner ring city and the outer ring of the slums. In the past, Ben Cheng also distributed bean cakes and bread to the resettlement area from time to time. After the high wall around the city was built, there were only three gates. The people of the inner ring drained all the manpower. It is completely divided into two worlds from the outer ring. The people of the outer ring were not willing to be abandoned, they organized hundreds of people to storm the gate, at first the security guards of the inner ring only fired warning shots, but the result was not only useless, but aroused the madness of those people, so the inner ring began to set up guns and shoot at the unarmed poor people in the outer ring. After dozens of deaths, the blood-stained gates finally terrified the thugs in the outer ring. They threw down the bodies and never dared to approach the city gates again.
Wang Bangbang watched from afar, frightened. In fear and despair, Wang Bangbang was completely lost. Every day, I was numb and waited with those people at the garbage inlet, rummaging through the garbage thrown out of the inner city. Until one day, a group of heavily armed sheriffs came to the inner city and blocked the intersection of the outer ring. They claim to be going to Qinggang to find a batch of important supplies, and they need a guide who is familiar with Qinggang, and if accepted, they can get food and clean water, and they are eligible to stay in the inner city.
Wang Bangbang almost crawled in front of the sheriff, and he couldn't remember how many times he had been stepped on by those who struggled to come forward and ask for a chance. But when he reported that he was a Qinggang "electric mule" before, he was immediately pinched by the collar and lifted up by the sheriff. "That's you!" This is one of the most pleasant words Wang Bangbang has heard in his life.
As a veteran "electric mule", he also has his advantages, at least in Bincheng and Qinggang, there are almost no horns that he doesn't know. Therefore, Wang Bangbang was given the opportunity to wear clean clothes and take a bath in the quarantine office of the city wall. When he ate clean bread and drank pure water, Wang Bangbang almost didn't cry. For more than a month, he was only working with garbage and mud outside. The rat nests in the outer ring have been exhausted, and those who can't eat can only take the risk of digging grass roots and wild vegetables in the wild to eat, and Wang Bangbang has also dug them. However, it was later said that the roots of those wild vegetables and grass were poisonous, and some people who ran far away did eat enough wild vegetables. But then they all went mad and "died of madness, and when they were dying, they bit people to death." "Rumors say that, of course, there are also people who say that outside the dark zone, there are some demons who will eat people and lure those who are evil in their hearts to join them. All kinds of rumors make people even more frightened of the world outside the dark zone of Ben Thanh.
Wang Bangbang ate his first full meal in two months, he chewed the delicious rice, and he was about to cry with happiness. It turns out that happiness is sometimes as simple as that.
After he had eaten and drunk enough, a group of people followed. He found that it was not the original sheriff's man, but a new group of personnel. These people were all dressed in clothes with a shiny black metallic luster, a rifle on their backs, and a dozen or so people wearing black sunglasses. The hair is combed in the slightest. They let Wang Bangbang get into an off-road vehicle in the middle, and a total of five off-road vehicles set off. Wang Bangbang was in the car, looking at the outer ring area that was gradually walking out of the city and getting more and more dilapidated, and those people looked at the convoy with blank or jealous eyes. Gradually, people became scarcer and scarcer, until there were still some people digging vegetable roots and eating soil outside Bencheng, and these people were still trying to go further in search of food.
Looking at a few people in the car with cold faces and loaded guns, Wang Bangbang's throat was dry. He swallowed hard.
"Long... Sir... Where are we going to Qinggang?? "Nobody paid any attention to him.
"That... That... What are we going to look for?? The co-driver's black sunglasses turned to look at him. Turning his head, he picked up a map that marked a location. "Bring us to this place, and you're done." Then he didn't say a word more.
Wang Bangbang turned out to be on the map, saw a mark marked somewhere by the sea, and he tried to search for everything about this place in his memory. No more squeaks, all the way to such a dull past. Just when Wang Bangbang felt a little sleepy from the shaking car. Crunch~~~~ The car stopped.
After Wang Bangbang got out of the car, he saw that the car was parked directly outside Qinggang City. The black sunglasses got out of the car and lifted the trunk of the car, skillfully sorting out their equipment. The more Wang Bangbang looked, the more frightened he became, those 'black sunglasses' were equipped with one firearm after another, if Wang Bangbang knew a little bit about firearms, he would definitely be able to see that these were the military equipment in active service in the Eastern Kingdom, ceramic body armor, defenders, Dongxing (changed), including various tactical equipment, Wang Bangbang looked at the daggers they took out and inserted in their boots with silver and black mixed patterns, which looked hideous and savage, and he was terrified to see him. It was hard for him to imagine whether he was looking for something or fighting with so many weapons. The black sunglasses sorted out their gear and saw each other for a moment. The leader of them turned his head, held the weapon in both hands, and grinned at Wang Bangbang: "It's up to you next, take us to the Qingban Pier." ”
Wang Bangbang swallowed his saliva and looked at the devastated Qinggang City in front of him. The tsunami had long since receded, and the streets of the high-rise buildings and shops he knew were covered with a thick layer of mud, and as the water evaporated, the buildings were covered with salt frost. There was also the huge cruise ship, which collapsed weakly in the gap between the two high-rise buildings, revealing a huge propeller that was also dilapidated like a ruin. There are still familiar shadows there. Wang Bangbang could only try to identify it, thinking of that oozing smile, he had no doubt that if he would say that he couldn't find it, the black muzzle in that person's hand would shoot him in the head without hesitation.
Gradually, Wang Bangbang still found a way to find his way, and found familiar landmarks from those ruins. Their actions attracted the attention of many gold diggers. Those gold diggers looked at the 'black sunglasses' with full-body equipment. It's like seeing a moving treasure trove. Some of the daring gold diggers are already approaching the temptation. Black Sunglasses shot without hesitation, although it didn't hit, but it also frightened most of the people, except for two less gold diggers who hung far behind, and didn't seem to be completely dead. Without the harassment of gold diggers, Wang Bangbang's progress has accelerated a lot. For half a day, they walked through the rubble, and Wang Bangbang pointed to the beach in front of him and said, "This is it." ”
The reason why it is called Qingbian Wharf is because it resembles a specialty of Qinggang, the deep-sea blue grouper. Blue Spot Pier is not well-known because of its limited size, and it is a long, narrow harbor like a grouper. And it doesn't fit too many ships. Later, a wealthy man from Qinggang bought the Qingbian Wharf. As your own private port. Even fewer people went to the Blue Spot Pier. Wang Bangbang brought the people to the Blue Spot Wharf. Holding his hands, he said, "Big brother, no. . . Uncle. Qingban Pier turned out to be Jingge's private pier, are you Jingge's people?? ”
"Do you know what is the secret to living longer in this world??" The black sunglasses next to him turned to him and said something, holding a device in his hand.
"What is it??" Wang Bangbang asked flatteringly.
"Don't ask what you shouldn't know. Sometimes the more you know, the shorter your life. A few black sunglasses next to him laughed. Wang Bangbang looked at the people who were laughing around him, and he also laughed awkwardly.
"No, I want to say that Brother Jing in Qinggang is not easy to mess with, I heard that he turned out to be a smuggler, and he has a group of little brothers with guns... Wang Bangbang hurriedly explained.
The black sunglasses next to him collected the instrument, took out a set of wetsuits and cables, patted Wang Bangbang's shoulder, and pinched the side of his neck when he withdrew his hand. smiled: "You just stay here, and when we take our things and return to Bencheng, you will be from the inner city." Others, don't look, don't ask. Remember? ”
"Alas~~ I know...
The black sunglasses mercenary next to him handed the detector to the black sunglasses next to him and reported to him: "Boss, find the target." The mercenary leader next to him took off his glasses and looked closely at the markings on the detector.
"Diver Frog Ready!" The mercenary's head was fixed on a certain part of the harbor's waters. The black sunglasses next to him quickly took off the body armor, combat clothes and equipment, and quickly installed a set of submersible equipment on his body. He walked to the water's edge, gave a thumbs up to everyone, and then jumped straight into the water with his mask in his hand.
After a while, Wang Bangbang felt a vibration on the water. The water rippled finely. It's as if something behemoth is waking up underwater. The mercenary held the detector in his head, staring intently at the probe's readings. I only heard the drip of the detector getting faster and faster. Wang Bangbang looked fixedly, only to see that suddenly a large bag of sea water bulged, and the sea water was sharply discharged in all directions. I saw a huge black hull floating on the surface of the sea. Wang Bangbang looked at the ship in shock, the boat was like a short sword, the whole body was black like a black sword, and half of the boat was floating on the water, and there was no gap in sight. The length is at least thirty meters. Waters rush out of the deck and into the sea. A red flame coat of arms is inscribed on the hull. This is the cutting-edge weapon of the eastern country: "Haishuo"
The lead mercenary beckoned to several of his men. Everyone climbed up to the deck with their tools, only to see the diving frog crawling out of the cabin, carrying a silver suitcase in his hand, and shouting to the mercenary's head, "Boss, the things are here." ”
At this time, the waves and ripples on the silent sea suddenly calmed down for some reason. Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the mercenary's head suddenly frowned, and at the same time, Wang Bangbang looked into the sea, and for some reason, he felt a cool air rush down from the top of his head to the tail vertebrae. made his whole body shudder uncontrollably.
Under the calm sea, there was a loud bang and a splash of water rushed to the sky. The mercenaries on the deck flickered, and a dark shadow swept through the crowd.
"Lie down!" The mercenary head shouted. The crowd reacted very quickly. But two people froze in place. Wang Bangbang was stunned by the deafening sound. When he came back to his senses, he saw two people still standing on the deck, one from the shoulder to the armpit, the other from the armpit to the waist, and the upper body slowly slipped down, and was cut off along with the rifle in his hand.
At this time, another black shadow pulled down from the top of his head towards the mercenary captain, and the mercenary captain didn't have time to get up, so he rolled on the spot, only to hear a loud "bang" on the black side of the ship, and it was dented by the pumping. The mercenary captain didn't have time to adjust his posture by virtue of his senses, and fired a frantic shot in the direction of the black shadow. However, nothing hit.
At this moment, it seemed that something in the sea struck the side line of the ship, and the whole sea shuttle tilted violently to the side. The people on the deck were stunned, and three or five people rolled off the boat like dumplings. Fell into the sea. Their cries for help had just sounded, and they were out of breath. Wang Bangbang saw quite clearly from the shore, and in that dark sea water, several blood flowers rose, and the sea water was instantly dyed red. At this time, Wang Bangbang remembered "Run!" ”
But as soon as he turned around, boom! A section of his body smashed in front of him. He barely recognized it as the mercenary in charge of his car, clutching a box in his hand. The bloody scene made Wang Bangbang's legs tremble with fright and he knelt down.
At this moment, a huge object rushed out of the sea, and countless tentacles wrapped the seashuttle, and the mercenary head was desperately strafing these tentacles with the rifle in his hand. Pulled down to the surface of the water along with the other mercenaries who were still alive on the Seashuttle. When he was dragged into the sea, he shouted to Wang Bangbang, who was on the shore: "You! No matter what, bring the box back to Ben Thanh and your wish will come true! Remember, don't ... Open it.. ”