In 4845 AD, mankind launched the Seventh World War, which devastated the world, shattered civilizations, and reduced the world's population to less than two million. Greed eventually brought humanity to the brink of extinction.

Technological regression, cultural disconnection, and the surviving human beings are also surviving, not only to endure the deterioration of the environment, but also to resist the attack of monsters. These monsters, either mutated by nuclear contamination of organisms, or actively developed as weapons before the war, perfectly illustrate what it means to be self-inflicted.

After the war, the concept of the term "state" became increasingly vague and was replaced by separate towns. The few large city-states were hostile to each other over historical issues, and most small and medium-sized towns remained neutral.

Lethe City, the only town in the vast sea of sand.

After separating from Xiaocang, Qiuguo originally planned to find a cheap hotel to rest.

Passing by the bounty office, Qiuguo discovers a new mission announcement.

It's an escort mission: the employer asks the bounty hunter to send him somewhere in the desert for a bounty of five thousand dollars!

"Five thousand!" Qiu Guo swallowed dryly. In general, escort tasks are relatively simple, and there are rarely more than a thousand dollars in remuneration. You must know that for such a dangerous task as hunting the Sky Devouring Python, the bounty is only 2,000 yuan.

It stands to reason that hunters rush to take on such low-risk and high-return tasks. However, there is a special clause in the escort mission that keeps most hunters out. Escort missions are different from others, and once the mission begins, the employer will no longer have the option to choose other hunters. If the employer picks the child halfway, then the employer's loss can be great. For this purpose, in order to take on the escort mission, it is necessary to pay a deposit for the same remuneration of the mission.

For an escort task of 5,000 yuan, you have to pay a deposit of 5,000 yuan!

5,000 yuan, an ordinary person earns ten years without eating or drinking, maybe he can make up enough. If there is this money, who will be a bounty hunter who licks blood with a knife?

Coincidentally, Qiuguo happened to have this money in his hand. He originally planned to remit the money to Yaomeng, but when he saw the announcement of this mission, Qiu Guo hesitated.

Why don't you give it a try? Give it a go, turn your bike into a motorcycle!

Just do it, he paid the deposit and took over the task. Isn't it just sending someone to the desert, what's the big deal?

According to the address given by the bounty office, Qiu Guo came to the only hotel in Lethe City. A night's stay here would cost at least five dollars, and Qiu Guo would definitely not stay, preferring the free cart shop at the Bounty Office to him.

Finding the room, Qiu Guo knocked on the door, but there was no response at all. Qiuguo knocked hard again, but the door was unlocked, but he pushed it open.

At this time, it was just after noon, and the sun was full, but the room was pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers.

"It's so dark in the house, raise ghosts!" Qiuguo didn't find the light switch, and walked straight to the balcony. A curtain was opened, and the room suddenly lit up. The sun shines on her body and it is really comfortable, and Qiu Guo stretches her waist and yawns.

"Is the weather good?"

"It's okay, it's just that there ......is a bit of wind and sand," Qiu Guo replied subconsciously, but as soon as he was halfway through the words, he suddenly turned around, but saw a woman sitting on the bed! He could almost hear the sound of his own heart, and it was so dark in the room that he didn't even notice it when he passed by her.

Qiu Guo thought about it, don't think of himself as a thief anymore, he quickly changed his words: "I knocked on the door!" ”

The man replied lightly, "I heard it." ”

"You shouldn't hear it." Qiu Guo thought so in his heart, but said, "It's the reward you posted." ”

"Yes." The woman was always facing forward, and she didn't even look at her when she spoke.

Qiuguo also had the opportunity to look at each other carefully. She doesn't look very old, estimated to be eighteen or nineteen years old, with short silver-white hair, I don't know if it was deliberately dyed or born. She was wearing a black long-sleeved princess dress on her upper body and a pair of black boots that didn't reach her knees, no wonder she didn't notice her when she entered the house. Qiu Guo gently shifted to the side so that he could see her in full view. The woman seemed to sense the other party's intentions, and she turned her face directly to face Qiuguo.

Seeing her face for the first time, Qiu Guo only felt her heartbeat intensify and her breathing shortened. If I had to use words to describe her face, it would be "Peugeot"! However, it was a pity that Qiuguo couldn't see her eyes, and a black ribbon passed through her silver hair, just enough to blindfold her eyes. Can't she see? No wonder she doesn't open the curtains or turn on the lights.

Qiu Guo pondered and said, "Where do you want me to escort you?" ”

"I can't tell you yet." The woman's voice was flat, barely tinged with color.

Qiu Guo scratched his head a little speechlessly, "I don't know where to go?" How do I complete the task? ”

The woman said, "Tomorrow I will show you the way, you just have to show me the way." ”

Qiu Guo was about to agree, but heard the woman say again: "Don't worry, I will do my best to ensure your safety." ”

"Hah!" Qiu Guo seemed to have heard a big joke, "The employer in turn wants to protect the employer?" Don't tease me, okay! ”

The woman did not continue to speak, but turned her head to sit in a dignified manner.

Qiuguo asked again: "Then when will you leave tomorrow?" ”

"You go and prepare supplies first." The woman took out a card and said, "Buy whatever you need, and it's best to prepare a few more copies of important supplies." ”

"Okay." Qiu Guo took the card and asked again, "Won't you give me a purchase list?" ”

"As long as you find it useful, so casually."

"Sure enough, it's a local tyrant! I just don't know how much money is in the card. Qiu Guo said in his heart.

After leaving the hotel, Qiuguo went straight to the bank, and he couldn't wait to check the amount.

"One hundred thousand!" Looking at the string of numbers in front of him, Qiu Guo unconsciously opened his mouth. This is definitely a huge amount of money, 100,000 can buy the tallest building in Lethe City. "What is the identity of this woman, it's too generous!" Qiu Guo couldn't help but smack his tongue. Since the employer has spoken, there is no need to deliberately save, and the whole afternoon is spent purchasing. Regardless of whether it is practical or not, as long as it is related to survival in the wild, buy and buy. There were so many things to purchase, Qiu Guo simply didn't do anything and bought a brand new off-road vehicle.

The supplies were ready, and it was already evening. Qiu Guo slept overnight at the "big car shop" of the bounty office, and went to the hotel early the next morning to pick up his employer. To Qiuguo's surprise, she spent less than 40,000 yuan on her, and she bought a car without her consent, but the woman just asked lightly, "Is the money enough?" ”

We don't understand the world of local tyrants.

When the woman left the hotel, Qiuguo found that her eyes were still covered with black ribbons. It seems that Qiuguo really guessed correctly, she is a blind person. Qiu Guo noticed that she was carrying something in her hand and wanted to take it and put it in the trunk, but was refused. It's a long package that resembles a fishing rod, is she going to fish in the desert? I'm a driver, so why do I care so much.

Qiu Guo asked curiously, "I don't know your name yet?" ”

"Leaves." The woman replied indifferently.

"Hey, what a coincidence!" Qiu Guo deliberately livened up the atmosphere and said, "My name is Qiu Guo, you can call me Guozi." ”

The woman felt that he was talking nonsense, so she did not respond. Qiu Guo pouted in annoyance, he opened the back door and helped Ye Zi in and sat down, and returned to the driver's seat by himself, "Boss, where are we going?" ”

Ye took out a map, and the huge desert terrain was divided into nearly a hundred areas by the table.

"Is this latitude and longitude?" Qiu Guo took the map and began to research, and each area was numbered with letters and numbers.

"Go to the M11 area."

The off-road vehicle was speeding through the desert, and Qiu Guo teased as he drove, but most of it was talking to himself.

"Can't you see with your eyes?"

"Where are you from?"

"Do you have a weapon in your bag?"

……

Qiu Guo looked in the rearview mirror, Miss Ye always sat dignifiedly, that kind of temperament, that kind of elegance is definitely not imitated by ordinary people.

The sea of sand is boundless. Qiuguo looked at the Gobi Desert and couldn't help but feel sad. Flipping through the history books, this was once one of the most prosperous regions of the planet, and of course one of the first targets of war.

"Boom—" The ground shook suddenly, and Qiu Guo stopped the car and poked his head out into the distance.

"What's that behemoth?" Ye Zi asked coldly.

Qiuguo looked at her, then picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance. He stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the leaf, making sure that the other party really couldn't see anything. "That's the Ship of the Desert, also known as Ghost City."

Qiu Guo continued to drive, regardless of whether Ye Zi wanted to hear it or not, he said: "The Desert Ship represents the highest level of human pre-war technology. ”

"It's a moving city, and it's a huge robot."

"In order to get it intact, the enemy used biological and chemical weapons on the Desert Ship. Although all the people inside are dead, it still runs in the form of AI. ”

"For various reasons, the enemy still failed to get it. It wasn't until the end of the war that many forces paid attention to the Ship of the Desert, but unfortunately the only remaining technology was less than one-fifth of the pre-war level. They sent many men to conquer the Desert Ship, but all of them were undefeated by its formidable firepower. ”

"If Recovery City is the city with the best medical conditions today, then Ship of the Desert is the most powerful city in the world. It's just a pity that the latter doesn't belong to humanity anymore. ”

"But don't be afraid, no matter how powerful the Desert Ship is, it is still a machine after all, its trajectory always continues with the last command, and it is always on the defensive, and it will not actively attack humans."

Qiu Guo said so much, his mouth was dry, and he picked up a bottle of water and drank it directly.

"You know a lot." Ye Zi said indifferently, and he didn't know whether it was perfunctory or recognition.

"Come out and mix, you must know a little more." It was not easy to hear Ye Zi say a word, Qiu Guo was entitled to be praised by the other party, and was about to take the opportunity to say a few more words, when he suddenly heard Ye Zi remind: "Something is chasing us." ”

Qiu Guo hurriedly looked in the rearview mirror, but there was nothing behind the car. After a false alarm, Qiu Guo smiled self-deprecatingly, he actually believed what a blind man said. "Don't scare me, okay."

Ye didn't respond, and Akigo continued to drive. After driving for another distance, there was a sudden "da-da-da" sound outside the window, and the sound became more and more dense.

"What's that?" Qiu Guo looked out as he spoke, but he was greeted by a dazzling light, and it was too late to hide. "Whoa-" The left side mirror of the SUV was shattered.

In the cockpit, Qiu Guo's face was pale, and just at the last moment, the leaves in the back row pulled him back. Qiu Guo said with palpitations: "Thank you." "But looking at the shattered rearview mirror, my heart hurts again, this is a new car worth more than 20,000 yuan, and it has only been driven for less than a day!" Damn, what the hell is it! ”

"I told you there was something chasing us." Although the leaf voice was cold, it did not mean to blame.

Qiu Guo looked through the right rearview mirror, and this time he finally saw the attacker in the rear. It is about a hundred meters away from the off-road vehicle, and is like a spider, with six legs, half a human height, a silver-white body, and extremely fast movement.

"Unlucky, it's a hunt!" Qiuguo once again opens the encyclopedia mode.

"Hunting, as the name suggests, is a weapon developed by the military to pursue the enemy."

"After the war, they lost control and were buried in the sand."

"It must have been the movement of the Desert Ship that woke them up, and we happened to be passing by and he was the target."

Ye Zi quipped: "Then aren't we dead?" ”

It was the first time Qiu Guo had heard Ye smile, although the occasion was not very suitable. He laughed out loud and patted the steering wheel and said, "It's good I had the foresight, haha." In the desert, no matter how fast it is, it can't compete with a car. ”

The Hunt was designed by the military specifically for urban terrain, and its six legs were deliberately sharpened in order to improve agility. However, it is precisely because of this that it is suitable for running on hardened roads, but not for trekking in the desert.

After running less than a kilometer, the hunt has fallen four or five times, and Qiu Guo laughed when he saw it in the rearview mirror. When the hunt saw that it was difficult to move an inch, it began to fire lasers on the spot. This time, Qiuguo was prepared, slammed the steering wheel, and the laser was easily dodged by him. For the sake of safety, Qiu Guo stepped on the accelerator hard, and the off-road vehicle splashed a patch of yellow sand, leaving the hunt far behind.

"Hahaha, happy!" Qiu Guo happily slapped the steering wheel. However, I heard Ye Zi say coldly: "The wind is blowing." ”

After experiencing the first two times, Qiu Guo didn't dare to underestimate what Ye Zi said. Can the wind in the mouth of the leaf be called the wind? It's got to be a sandstorm somewhat! Sure enough, the sandstorm came like a wild beast devouring everything!

Luckily, they came across a tall building that had not yet been completely swallowed up by the sand. Qiu Guo found a dilapidated window and rushed in.

For some reason, as soon as the sandstorm came, Ye Zi was extremely nervous, and her hand always held the package, as if she was facing a great enemy. After entering the old building, the noise was slightly less, and she eased it a little.

"Tut-tut-t-" Qiu Guo looked at the sign in front of him that said on the 27th floor, and smacked his lips: "This building is really high, there are at least ten floors up to it." ”

Ye Zi fumbled out of the car and asked, "How far is it from the destination?" ”

"The sandstorm has stopped, let's have half a day's journey." Qiu Guo looked at the weather outside the building and said, "The sandstorm is estimated to not stop for a while and a half." ”

"What time is it?" Ye Zi asked again.

"A little after six o'clock in the afternoon, I think we'll spend the night here."

The other party acquiesced, Qiu Guo found two working chairs in the old building, carefully wiped them and then helped the leaves to sit down, and he found a pile of rotten wood on the floor and lit a fire next to it.

"You're very good at taking care of people." Ye Zi suddenly spoke, "You don't look like a hunter, but like a nanny." ”

"Babysitter?" Qiu Guo laughed, "But I'm just a hunter." ”

Instead of continuing to talk, Ye Zi fell silent again. Qiu Guo was also speechless, this employer's words are like a thousand words, and it is really not easy to chat with her.

Qiu Guo didn't want to sit like this, so he took the initiative to find a topic and said, "Boss, where are you from?" ”

Ye Zi said three words indifferently: "New Federation." ”

"What? New Federation! Qiu Guo changed his tone in surprise, "You are from the new federation, one of the three major forces?" ”

If the leaf does not respond, it means that it is a default.

"Really!" Qiu Guo was shocked and reconfirmed.

"Any questions?" Ye Zi asked rhetorically.

"Nope! No! Qiuguo hurriedly denied it, no wonder the other party was wealthy, so it was reasonable.

Qiu Guo was curious again: "Are you going on a mission?" Why it's up to you. ”

Ye Zi said coldly: "My companion is dead. ”

Qiu Guo's heart was cold, dead? Who would dare to kill the people of the new Federation! Could it be the other two forces? Ye Zi took the initiative to say: "You guessed it, it's the Northern Empire and the Southern Alliance. They ambushed me, but they couldn't kill me, so they killed my companions. ”

Qiu Guo was speechless, these three major forces have been hostile to each other since their inception. What prompted the SAARC and the North to unite against the new federation? Isn't it that he was hired by Ye Zi to be the enemy of the two major forces of the Southern Alliance and the Northern Forces? Sure enough, there is no such thing as pie in the sky!

"Are you scared?" Ye Zi said with an unprecedented smile.

"I'm afraid it's useful? If I regret it now, break the contract, will your new federation let me go? "Qiuguo said in his heart, I can't afford to provoke any of the three major forces. He changed the subject and said, "Boss, what's going on with your eyes?" ”

"Haven't you ever seen a blind man?" Ye replied calmly.

"Oh." Qiuguo gave up completely, and he couldn't talk about it that day. He suddenly remembered the off-road vehicle that had been attacked, and hurriedly ran over to check. The mirror next to the driver's seat has been completely shattered, and he has only been driving this new car for two days!

"Ahhh......h

Ye Zi immediately held the knife and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Hearing the other party's voice, Qiu Guo suddenly woke up to the fact that this car belonged to someone else after all. He regained his mood and said, "It's okay. But as soon as his words fell, there was a loud "bang", and Qiuguo retreated suddenly.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Qiu Guo's eyes widened, and he almost scolded the street.