Chapter 195: Saving the Fleeing Humans
That night, Sandy had been drinking with Zhang Le again after a long period of cold war, and Shen Wei also joined in.
"Jaime, do you remember what you did when you first met me?" Sandy's eyes were confused, he poured a big sip of wine, looked at the starry sky and the half-moon and said.
"I've talked a lot, and I've drunk a lot!" Zhang Le said with a smile.
"No, it's not just that, I used to tell you that 'the reason humans like to drink is because they can forget their troubles', and now, I still say the same thing, I don't like to be inhibited, I like to travel around, I like you human friends and bug friends, even lizardmen I don't hate. Do you know what I hate? Sandy glanced at Zhang Le and asked with a twinkle in her eyes.
"I really don't know about this!" Zhang Le has always known that Sandy likes to travel, maybe he used to hate deserts and seawater, but what exactly he hated now, Zhang Le never thought about it, and didn't even think about it deeply.
"Responsibility, what I hate the most is responsibility, I think the biggest trouble of human beings is from themselves, inexplicable sense of responsibility is the source of the biggest trouble, human troubles are too much, so you need to drink, but drinking can never solve human troubles. I don't know why a person should worry about the fate of another person he doesn't know, what is the benefit of this, which not only binds himself, but also cuts off the motivation of others to struggle. I used to think only about escaping from the little lake that bound me, and thanks to your help, I got out of there. These days, I've actually been thinking a lot, who am I? Where am I from? What am I going to do? It's a pity that there is no answer to everything. But one thing I can confirm is that I want to live well, I want to be strong, and that's what I'm going to do. In this team, I am very happy because it is a friendly and strong team, and I am willing to contribute to this team, but I don't want to give anything but this team, and no one can force me to give, and I don't need to feel guilty about it! Sandy said a lot in one breath, and said all the words that had been held in her heart these days.
Zhang Le listened to Sandy's "selfish" logic, and really believed in Jill's words, after being parasitized by the cosmic protozoa, he would become more and more evil and selfish. At least, isn't helping the weak of your kind a matter of course to do in intelligent biology?
Today, taking advantage of this rare "truth or dare" opportunity, he decided to ask something that he had always wanted to ask but didn't have the right time to ask. At least Sandy also recognizes this team, which proves that Sandy is still an object that can be saved, and the contradiction between the two is still a contradiction among the people.
"Don't worry, Brother Sandy, the team needs you, everyone needs you, I need you, as long as I'm here, no one can force you to do what you don't want to do. However, there is one question I have always wanted to ask you, and that is...... What kind of creature are you before you awaken to your self-awareness? ”
"I ...... I really can't remember! Sandy shook her head and said with a pained expression, but in an instant, it was back to normal.
Zhang Le looked at the little head hidden in the green hair, and hesitated. Shen Wei naturally understood what Zhang Le meant, and neither of them asked Jill in detail about the characteristics of cosmic protozoa, the way of parasitism, and how to remove them, and rashly leading to this topic at this time would definitely do more harm than good.
"Brother Sandy, I toast you! Come, I'll do it first! Shen Wei finished his drink with a grunt, drawing Sandy's attention.
Sandy finished another glass of wine, but narrowed his eyes and said, "I can actually remember a lot of things, but I can never put together a complete memory, sometimes I can swim around in the water, sometimes I can only be blown around in the water, no, I am a willow tree that grows in the water, ah...... My brain is so messed up! Sandy covered her head.
"Schizophrenia? Multiple personalities? Shen Wei and Zhang Le were also a little confused. The two quickly stopped asking questions and chatted casually with Sandy.
The drought situation is worse than expected. More than half of Hunan, the drought has not eased, and Dongting Lake has basically turned into a shallow marshland. Under the pressure of survival, the battle between mutated creatures has also become extremely fierce. At the same time, the living environment of human beings is becoming more and more difficult.
There are many mutated creatures along the Yangtze River, and in the past, only clusters of more than 10,000 people had the ability to establish a base along the river. Now, many small gathering areas of several hundred people have also begun to move to the riverside. The places where they had been had been fortified and left safe havens, the number of human casualties grew.
Food on the ground was getting scarce, and preparing food for bald eagles and flamingos every day became a problem. Avoiding the Yueyang City gathering area, Sky City had to come to the sky over the Yangtze River again and head towards Wuhan.
There are many humans by the river, but no one is louding their horns at the city in the sky, and survival has become the most important task.
Zhang Le and Shen Wei could see the tragic situation of human beings from a high altitude, so they naturally couldn't ignore it.
New settlements have been built on the hard ground along both sides of the Yangtze River, but the defenses are mostly rudimentary, with makeshift mixed walls of stone and earth, and more fences made of bamboo and wood.
More of the riverside land is covered in swamps and waist-deep dense aquatic weeds, full of mutated creatures that have come from all over the place. Water is the source of life, not just human needs.
Mutant creatures in the wild are still fearful of humans, but mutant rats, cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes and sewer myriapods that have escaped from towns have become the main threat to humans.
When Zhang Le and Jill landed at a human gathering point with two lizards, there were only a dozen people left in the entire gathering area. There is also a team on the other side of the Yangtze River, consisting of Shen Wei, Gianna and Fei'er with four lizards. They are responsible for sweeping the mutated creatures on the other side.
Sure enough, if it is not my race, its heart will be different, and only three humans who are willing to come down to save human beings are Zhang Le, Shen Wei and Gianna. Jill followed Zhang Le down to watch the excitement. Because Fei'er is now a Chinese, she was fooled by Zhang Le, so she happily came down to help.
However, the only ones who are really willing to fight face-to-face with mutant creatures are Zhang Le and Shen Wei. According to the division standard of Rock Town, most of these mutant creatures are at level 2, a small number of level 3 and 4 group leader level creatures, and the level 5 race king level is not yet available.
Sharp weapons are easy to blunt, Zhang Le and Shen Wei coincidentally chose hammer weapons, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is a huge iron lump welded on an iron rod.