ACT83: Orbital

On the outskirts of the city, picking gardens.

In the gloomy bungalow, where the doors and windows are hidden, the signal lights of the shortwave radio station are flashing, and the communications field is frowning, and the ashtrays are full of cigarette butts, carefully adjusting the signal strength, trying to receive the message from the other side.

Caroline sat on the plank bed on one side, her combat uniform half peeled off, her left shoulder and back exposed, and behind her an unkempt young man was busy with his work, his right hand prick needle quickly and accurately, leaving tiny holes in the white skin, and his left hand clutching a ball of cotton yarn stained with blood; Gao Yang and Lao Wu sat in front of the square table opposite, holding unlit cigarettes between their fingers, their faces solemn.

"A little higher." The communication field staff frowned, took off the headphones and said to Gao Yang behind him.

"Uh-oh." Gao Yang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran out of the door, leaning his neck and shouting at the beggars and disciples who stacked Arhats on the roof: "Go higher!" ”

There are two square tables stacked on the roof, there are benches stacked on the table, and the two people below are steadying the edge of the table, one standing on the stool, riding on the shoulder, holding a wooden pole seven or eight meters long, and an antenna wrapped with tape at the top, and is poking high into the sky.

"It's not high, why don't we go to the city and find a building?" The young man riding at the top was sweating profusely, and his arms were sore after lifting for more than ten minutes.

"What nonsense, who can enter the city suffer here?" Gao Yang scolded angrily, turned his head and went into the bungalow, and asked, "Is it okay?" ”

"Shh The communications field staff made a silent gesture, listened with bated breath for a moment, hurriedly picked up the pencil at hand and wrote a string of foreign codes on the paper, frowned and looked at it for a long time, and added a few more numbers.

Gao Yang and Lao Wu looked at each other, their eyes were full of inexplicability, they had seen this kind of scene before, but it was in a spy war movie...... Yang Niu and her subordinate weapons are very advanced, but the communication equipment looks very old, Lao Wu thought that Yang Niu could come up with the kind of high-end technology that is full of screen lines and can appear with a few finger clicks, but I didn't think that there was only a black box, and there was no science fiction atmosphere, and the signal was so poor.

After the communication field staff finished writing, he checked it a few times, hesitated to hand the page to Caroline, the girl took it and looked at it, a layer of frost hung on her cold face, frowned and pondered for a while, turned her head and asked the kid behind her: "How long will it take?" ”

"Half an hour." The young man was a little stunned by this woman, his hand shook, and the needle prick was a little off.

"Go tell my people, get ready, and leave in half an hour." Caroline didn't care about the tattoo artist's small mistakes, and turned her face to Gao Yang and commanded.

Gao Yang hesitated for a moment and said tentatively: "Then ...... of us?" ”

"Do what you have to do." The girl said lightly.

"But... But the roundabout hasn't been breached yet. Gao Yang collapsed his face and said in frustration: "You also saw it that day, there are so many of them, if you leave, we are not opponents at all." ”

"Then don't provoke them." Caroline said lightly, seeing that Gao Yang was going to continue, he interrupted: "There are more important things to deal with, let's put it down here for the time being, if you don't take the initiative to attack, the other party shouldn't come to trouble you, I will leave you some weapons, according to what I said, build this garden first." The next time I come back, hopefully it won't be like this again. ”

"What if they come and get in trouble?"

"What's the case, even if it comes? Was the gun I left you to scare people? Caroline frowned and said displeasedly: "I hope you can show the execution you deserve, if you can't, I will consider a substitution." ”

"Okay, okay... I can. Gao Yang kept scolding in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it, so he had to retreat and say, "Can you leave a few people behind?" No matter how good your weapons are, we won't use them. ”

"Leave you an instructor and don't bargain with me anymore." Caroline tilted her head and thought about it, assessed the overall ability of the Gaoyang tribe, and added: "Next, if your range of activities expands outside the city, I will leave you a road map, which will mark the location of the nearby camp, and if necessary, you can take people to transfer there." ”

Gao Yang was overjoyed and asked, "When is it considered 'necessary'?" ”

"The instructor will remind you." Caroline replied angrily, picked up the mirror and looked at her left shoulder, a lifelike hideous snake head stood upright, the fanged snake letter was like a living thing, swallowing a deadly breath, the snake body went around the shoulder, extending to the back waist, and the indigo peacock with a gorgeous feather crown was entwined, and the pheasant head was lowered, and surrendered under the gaze of the hideous snake head.

Half an hour later, the field ghosts were fully equipped, the radio station was moved back to the off-road vehicle, sorted out some guns and bullets and left them for Gao Yang, and sent a bearded man with a strong body smell to assist Gao Yang in running a new survivor camp as an instructor.

Gao Yang and the others watched the convoy go away, waved their hands in a fake way, locked the gate and returned to the bungalow. The bear-like strong man was skillfully disassembling the gun, and when he saw Gao Yang coming, he said in non-standard Chinese: "Go and erect a few targets, and teach you how to use guns tomorrow." ”

"Okay...... Excuse me, what do you call it? Gao Yang is almost 1.8 meters tall, and he can only tilt his neck in front of a strong man.

"You can call me King Kong." The strong man grinned, and his thick beard trembled.

Gao Yang saw that this guy was quite good at talking, so he leaned over and set it up: "This is a Chinese name?" Or is it the meaning of translation? ”

The strong man of King Kong glanced at him suspiciously, and said angrily: "It's my field codename." ”

"And what is your real name?"

"Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky."

"Instructor King Kong, please advise me more in the future......"

……

The three heavy-duty off-road vehicles drove away from the dense forest on the outskirts of the city, turned from the country road to the highway, sat in the co-pilot of the lead car, reached out to turn off the noisy and harsh metal music, rubbed their eyebrows, and sighed faintly.

The white man driving the car glanced at her and asked, "Trouble?" ”

"Hmm." The blonde chick answered.

"Where to go?" The driver slowed down slowly, and there was a fork in the road in front of him, and Caroline didn't tell him where he was going.

Yang Niu held the communication field staff and looked at the page for her, took out the map from her waist bag and compared it, frowned and said, "Longhai line." ”

"Huh?"

"Get off the highway, start from the train station and follow the railway." The girl put away the map and pulled out a box of delicate ladies cigarettes.

"What's the mission?" The white man did not hesitate, and made a gesture to retreat, and the tail car turned into a head car and turned back.

"The signal base station was destroyed...... "The girl didn't seem to figure out the specific situation, hesitated, and wondered: "And there is a train passing by." ”

The white man was stunned for a moment, and wondered, "Are you sure?" ”

Caroline spread her hands and said helplessly: "So we need to confirm." ”

"What else is there to lose besides the base station?"

"Warehouses have been ransacked."

"Understood." The white man's face became solemn, he took out the intercom and explained a few words to the car in front, buckled up his seat belt and sped up.

……

100 kilometers away from the ancient city, Zhengxi passenger dedicated line.

The sun is shining in the evening, the forest and grass are swaying, on the side of the earthy and gravel roadbed, the ballast gravel builds a low stove, a pair of white and ruddy hands wipe the matches, ignite the dead leaves and branches surrounded by the rubble, hold the wind, wait for the flames to ignite, take out some fine charcoal from the backpack at hand and cover the fire.

The girl who lit the fire was very patient, squatted beside the fire and waited quietly for the charcoal to burn the smoke, her bright eyes flashed with a touch of joy, she took a liter of plastic bucket and poured some muddy sewage on the land next to her, stirred the mud and sand with her hands for a while, and took out a few potatoes with green sprouts from her bag, scooped up the mud and wrapped it evenly, and carefully put it into the improvised pit stove where the fire was getting stronger.

The girl wiped the black ash from her face, turned her head to look at the figure by the railroad tracks, pursed her lips and smiled, and got up and walked over.

The girl next to the railway was sitting cross-legged, holding a drawing board in her hand, and there was a disemboweled walking corpse lying beside her, her chest cavity was cut open by a sharp weapon, and her organs and intestines were scattered outside, and the smell of blood was strong. The young girl's long hair was fluttering, her complexion was fair and delicate, her body looked a little thin, and her beautiful eyes were staring intently at the woods on the other side of the railway, and the remnant sun that was gradually sinking into the western mountains. Holding a paintbrush in his right hand, he bit the shaft of the pen between his pink lips and thought about it, dipped the brush into some viscous plasma in the abdominal cavity of the walking corpse, diluted it in the palette, and then wrote hard, drawing on the page.

The soot-covered girl walked up behind her and looked at her, smiled, dipped her fingers in some plasma, and put her hand in the center of the canvas. The painting girl was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and hurriedly sketched around the dots with a brush, and after a while, a pair of blood-soaked remnant sun railways jumped on the paper, and the single tone was not boring, but revealed a heavy mottled feeling through different shades of color.

"That's it." The painting girl grinned, bit off the cap of the signature pen, and wrote the word "Huihui" in the lower right corner.

The girl behind her patted her and said, "Why are you writing me, I only clicked." ”

"It wouldn't be complete without this." The painting girl said with a smile, thought about it, and added the word "Yu'an" to the end.

"That's pretty much it." Megumi wiped the blood from her hands, helped her remove the canvas and put it aside, picked up two stones and pressed them, and dried them violently.

"What's for dinner?" The girl named Yu'an handed the sketchpad to Megumi and flushed her hand with the bucket, sniffing and leaning over to the improvised stove.

"Baked potatoes." Hui Hui stretched her waist, flicked the blackened potatoes at the bottom of the pit with a wooden stick, and asked, "Hurry at night or sleep in the open?" ”

"Let's sleep in the open, the protective nets here are all intact, and there should be no walking corpses." Yu An's eyes were fixed on the food in the fire, and the artist's look that had just focused on splashing ink disappeared, and he was possessed by a starving ghost in the blink of an eye.

Hui Hui frowned and looked at the fading railway, and nodded hesitantly: "No?" So where did you get your paint? ”

"It doesn't count." Yu An rubbed his white palms and said hurriedly: "I can smell the fragrance!" ”

"What's the hurry, and no one is robbing you." Huihui couldn't help but laugh when she saw her monkey anxious appearance, straightened her hair, and said, "That's still the old rule, I keep the first half of the night." ”

"Okay." Yu An'an was hungry and cooed by the aroma of the fire, got up and moved his waist, looked at the tall buildings looming outside the protective net, and asked, "Why don't we go into the city tomorrow?" ”

"No, no." Hui Hui decisively shook her head and refused, pouting: "You run fast with long legs, I can't catch up." ”

"I'll take you along for a run." Yu An smiled and bent down to hug Hui Hui, revealing a touch of snow white around her waist, and her slender legs were wrapped in dark jeans, and she was really not low.

"No, it's too dangerous in the city." Hui Hui begged with a bitter face: "Isn't our supplies still enough for a while?" ”

"But I don't want to eat potatoes." Yu An pursed his lips, made a look of tears, and muttered, "We've been gone for a few months, let's stop and rest." ”

Hui Hui couldn't resist her, frowned and thought about it, so she had to respond: "Do you have an idea?" Where are you going? ”

"Find a place where you can live for a long time, sleep in a tent every day, I can't stand it." Seeing that she agreed, Yu An sat down satisfied, took out two blackened potatoes with a wooden stick and knocked them lightly, peeled off a layer of mud shells on the outside, and gently broke them to reveal the fragrant golden potatoes.

"Then we ......" Megumi stopped talking in the middle of her speech, as if she was a little hesitant, and turned her head to look at the railroad tracks beside her.

"What's wrong?" Yu An saw that her expression was wrong, hurriedly turned around and looked at the sides, pulled out the Yingisha knife inlaid with gold and jade on her waist with her backhand, and became vigilant, frowned for a while, her expression suddenly became a little strange, and muttered: "Did you hear that?" ”

"Hmm... You see. Hui Hui nodded in a daze, got up and stood with her, pointing to the painting pressed on the railroad track to dry, only to see that the stone pressed on the drawing paper was trembling weakly and rapidly, as if the mountain flood in the distance was gradually falling, the stone buzzed and jumped for a while, and fell to the sleeper.

'Woo~~Ku Wipe Ku Rub Ku Rub~~~'

The two girls, one high and one low, took a few steps back in a daze, listening to the strange and familiar roar in their ears, raising their eyes to look into the distance, the last afterglow of the sunset disappeared, and at the end of the winding tracks, a steel dragon broke through the darkness, carrying a cold wind howling.

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