Chapter 116: Mercenaries
When Gu San returned to his place of residence, the neon lights around the city were already lit up. The post-war surface city began to be rebuilt, with buildings being built higher and higher, and flying cars moving back and forth between them. The view of the high-rise buildings is even wider, some even exceed the height of the city walls, and when you look out, there is still a desert outside the city. Of course, there are still greens to be seen further afield.
Nowadays, the number of zombies is gradually decreasing, no matter what kind of virus, there will still be a day when it will die, not to mention that it has been decades since the zombie wave broke out.
There are still a lot of zombies in the big cities in the past, but there were too many people in the city in the past, and the speed of infection after the zombie wave broke out. Later, the survivors withdrew from the city, and later the Rebellion prevailed, and some of the reformers regrouped into the city and took back their own city-state.
Gu San has seen in some of the materials that Gu San has left now, after receiving the help of Sky City, some of them have become mercenaries on the ground of Sky City for immediate benefits, and some people have more long-term plans, especially the survivors on the side of the coastline, they try their best to transform themselves, and then follow the reformers to regain their former homes step by step.
Today's young people may no longer know how difficult and desperate it was when human beings were taken away from their homes and deprived of the right to live, although the city in the sky has now disappeared after being defeated as an enemy, some people still hate it, and some people still spurn its behavior as always, but it has to be said that the prosthetic body has given human beings more possibilities for survival and development.
Without prosthetics, perhaps these cities would not have been able to develop at all, and without prosthetic technology, humans would not have been able to one day treat zombies as beasts in the forest and exterminate them.
Nor is it possible to sit down and discuss in a safe place whether prosthetic modification is reasonable or unreasonable for human beings.
How can there be "reasonableness" in the face of survival? As long as everyone can survive at that juncture, it is so difficult to protect others to survive as much as possible, and whether they are still complete human beings or whether they still have a perfect physical body is not so important at all.
Besides, only some young people who can't find the meaning of their existence at all will frequently think about their own essence and be trapped in what kind of life they should choose.
Gu San didn't have the opportunity to experience this when she was young, how could she have time to think about this at that time, and whether she could find supplies every day was a problem. Returning to the surface world with a mechanical body, Gu San felt that his greatest blessing was that he could finally drive to all corners of this world without any scruples.
It's so cool, it's even cooler than being in one of those films. After she and Lin Si returned to the ground, in order to re-find the clues of Sky City and find Murong Yuhua, she used her feet to almost every corner of this land in three years. Most of the robots were recovered after the war, but the remnants of the castle in the sky were sought for their own use, representing a higher level of technology, and the secrets contained in them could open a gold mine for all those who got it. They are looking for these things because of the automatic retrieval function in the core chips of these mechanical police and automated fighter jets, which is directly linked to the Suzaku in the Sky City. As long as they can find a machine that is not destroyed and can be restarted, Juri and Lin Si will be able to use it to relocate to Sky City.
However, this was very demanding for the machine to shut down at that time, and Suzaku completely shut down and locked all the automated weapons that could be controlled at the moment when Sky Castle was defeated and destroyed the positioning system between him and Sky Castle. Of course, she also anticipated what was going to happen and wouldn't give the ground any chance to reposition them.
But if before she executed this order, the mechanical police had been turned off, and someone physically smashed its chip, cutting off the part of the circuit controlled by Suzaku, but retaining the positioning system, then it is still possible to reactivate and locate it after extracting it.
But this probability is really too small. Gu San only needs such a chip, a chip that is smaller and thinner than a fingernail. Lin Si was in charge of searching and sourcing from the black market, while Gu San relied on himself to go around the battlefield to search. This search is familiar to them.
Murong Yuhua, who once wanted to find the best in the world to help Gu San store everything, did the same.
Gu San basically drove his own vehicle every time he went out, which was a very expensive method of getting around at first, much more expensive than traveling by public transportation between the forts. But Gu San knew that every time he went to some remote places, if he didn't drive, it would be more troublesome.
Oil was very expensive at first between the major forts, and at that time the war had just subsided, and the amount of oil stored within the city-states was limited, and then some large capitalists began to open up routes, re-exploit and transport, and gradually stabilize the price after a year or two.
It's not that Gu San can't measure every inch of land with her legs, and her body almost doesn't feel tired, but in order to be able to walk farther and save time, she can only earn as much money as possible and store oil.
Pick up some murder orders, and sometimes you can escort some transport teams along the way when you set a destination. If these caravans are transported long distances, they are often willing to pay a high price to hire some more experienced old reformers to serve as bodyguards along the way. Gu San is the best among these people, although the fee is expensive, but the service is extremely good, and at the same time he is silent and never says a word.
She pushed open the door of her residence, almost half of the old mansion underground, where Murong Yuhua used to be her residence. The interior has been renovated for a long time, and the people of the Sky City came to sweep it a few years ago, when the thermal weapons almost destroyed the residence. Even now, bullet marks can still be seen on the stone walls.
When Gu San pushed the door open, the ceiling light in the room lit up, and Zhu Li's voice came from the room: "You're back, Miss Gu." ”
The oval-shaped robot emerged from the room, and Juri was the only one of these androids who had given up his human appearance. Gu San found out on the ground that Murong Yuhua had really brought Xiao Sui'er and An Lian out of the virtual world. Juri's body shimmered with electronic light, his arms and torso were milky white, and the whole looked like a boiled egg with a wheel. His voice hadn't changed as always.
After Zhu Li stepped forward, he stretched out his arm to take Gu San's cloak, and Gu San handed him the business card that Lin Si handed her: "Help me see if there is a transport team going to this location, and help me submit the application information." ”
Zhu Li quickly scanned the notes on it, and then replied, "This place has been completely abandoned, and only a small number of Wasteland Reclamation Merchants will go, and their employment fees are very low. Oh, wait, I've just found you a caravan of high-priced security guards destined for a short distance from this abandoned fortress. You can drop them off at their destination and then drive there. ”
"Send them a message."
Gu San walked forward along the corridor, pushed open the door of the living room, and there was a burst of music inside, restless, and when he heard it, it was the rock that An Lian put out. Mixed with the loud music was Spike, which was echoed by the screams she shouted excitedly from time to time, and the sounds of the welding machines.
Gu San glanced inside, on the huge workbench was the abandoned flying motorcycle she brought back this time, loaded with two quantum energy cannons, which should have been destroyed by Suzaku immediately after the defeat, but maybe there was some accident at that time, the program did not go on as usual, the internal software has been completely destroyed, but the appearance of the entire car has been relatively intact and preserved, although it is difficult to reuse the weapon part, but there is still the possibility of repair.
This car was found by Gu San in the lake of the abandoned city in the south, and there were many zombies in that water area that had been silent for many years. Although he didn't receive any substantial damage, Gu San really didn't want to recall the situation at that time.
Xiao Sui'er was the first to notice Gu San coming in, she withdrew her mechanical arm from the inside of the front of the motorcycle little by little, jumped out of the chair and ran towards her: "You came back from Uncle Lin Si!" ”
Gu San squatted down and opened his hand to take her into his arms, An Lian straightened up and put down the welding torch in her hand, and there were still traces left by a few lines of engine oil on her face. Gu San walked over to her with Xiao Sui'er in his arms, and looked down at the motorcycle they were repairing: "How about it, is it possible to repair it?" ”
"You really want to open it, don't you?" An Lian patted her chest with a smile, "Miss Ben will repair the car for you personally, so it is impossible to repair it." It's just a matter of time, give me a few more days, and I'll guarantee you'll be riding it on your next mission. ”
Xiao Sui'er looked at her and muttered, "But just now you told me that we seem to have dissolved the control center...... I don't know what to do. ”
"Ahem!" An Lian interrupted her and smiled confidently at Gu Sanshi, "Don't worry, there's no problem, everything is under my control." ”
Gu San already knew the abilities of the two of them very well, and he didn't say much when he saw this, but pointed to the weapons loaded on both sides of the motorcycle and reminded them: "Although I don't know how long your maintenance work has begun, judging from the state of these two attack devices, it seems that they were already aiming and preparing to launch before they were turned off." If you accidentally start it, there's a good chance you'll blow it up. ”
An Lian almost jumped up when she heard this, and hurriedly dismantled the two small forts: "Why didn't you say it before!" Me and Spike are just working in such a dangerous way? ”
"I thought you already had experience in repairing and disassembling so much equipment in Sky City, at least you wouldn't make such a low-level mistake." Although Gu San said so, she still helped her crush to dismantle the two weapons between actions, and she also added a sentence between cooperative work, "By the way, I should set off again tomorrow." ”
“…… Gone again? Got a new lead? ”
"Well, Lin Si gave it."
"When will you be back?"
"Let's go back and forth for about a month. It depends. It may be sooner or later. ”
Gu San held up the two guns, but it was not surprising that he found the part that could be disassembled and unloaded, and he reached out and skillfully broke it, and sure enough, he saw the trigger.
She handed the gun to Xiao Sui'er, asked her to check it carefully before and after, gave An Lian a simple hug, and took out a cigarette from her pocket: "I'll look at the car when I come back." ”
An Lian looked a little lost, but she didn't say anything more, she took off her gloves and the apron on her body, and sighed: "Okay, let's go, we haven't had a drink since you came back." Don't sleep at night! ”