Chapter 44: The Test of Love
In the days after the nuclear winter, when the temperature gradually warmed up to above zero, it was another past that the survivors did not want to recall, and the earth became a fishy planet, full of rotting and stinking human and animal corpses, streets and alleys, and mountains and fields.
After the war, the scarcity of living materials gradually lowered the bottom line of people's morality and hard principles, and the situation deteriorated.
"We don't take the ownerless, the relics of the dead."
"We don't steal."
"We don't rob."
"We don't kill people and buy goods."
"We don't eat human flesh."
"We don't eat offal."
"We just want to live, anything else, whatever."
If we blame food shortages for all this, we are in stark contrast to the materialistic societies that humans built before the end of the world.
As of 2580 A.D., the earth's food storage is enough for all human beings to eat for two hundred years without continuing to produce food, and the total weight of poultry and livestock raised is more than ten times the total weight of human body, even if everyone eats meat equivalent to ten times their own body weight every year, considering the miserable and short growth cycle of these poor creatures raised by humans after being genetically modified, there is still a large amount of meat left to be processed, and they are usually slaughtered and put into cold storage. Their fate awaits them either because they have been stored for too long and lose the tenderness of their flesh, or they are found and eaten by Livers and peregrine falcons decades later.
Lifuss seemed to realize that his sitting position was indecent, and he stood up and sat down on the peregrine side, and raised his hand to signal that the family of three could sit across from him.
The woman was very disturbed, she had heard too many rumors about the Chosen Army, who were murderous and cannibalistic, cold-blooded and cruel, good at torment, abuse and humiliation, and were literally the embodiment of the devil.
Thinking about the methods of the Heavenly Election Army against civilians uploaded on the Internet, her legs couldn't help but tremble, and with a plop, she knelt on the hard ground, covered her face with her hands and cried and begged: "Please, let us go!" ”
Surprised, Lifus felt that things should not have turned out this way, and he thought for a moment and said, "What if I say that I can only spare one of the three of you?" ”
Peregrine Falcon watched with interest as he had some questions, but he knew he needed to remain silent at this point.
The real end of the situation was the couple, and they whispered for a while, and after hugging and crying, they made a decision, and as Lifus had expected, they decided to leave the chance to live to their children.
"But have you ever wondered, how can such a young child survive alone?" Lifus's words were comparable to a nuclear bomb, and the child's mother immediately collapsed, and she threw herself on the boy's body and hugged him tightly in her arms, tears raining down.
"So I decided to leave one more person to take care of this child, you or her." Lifus was indifferent to the family's plight and decided to escalate the conflict once more.
"Leave him alone! A child can't live without a dad. The woman said to Liphes that she had seen that the one who really made the decision among the two chosen ones was Liphes.
"No! Children can't live without their mothers! Besides, you have a higher education than me, and you can teach your children homework. The child's father said.
The couple began to list the reasons why the other person was more suitable to have children, so that they could become the one who could be sacrificed, oh my! Why should they be subjected to such a cruel choice!
"Enough! My patience is too limited to watch the two of you couple put on a show, and now you have to decide right away. Lifus made an impatient look.
The husband pushed his wife to the ground, then ran to Lifus, and said resolutely: "I am the head of the family, and I have decided, and whatever you plan to do with me, I hope it will be after my wife and children are gone." ”
The woman got up from the ground and cried out, "You said that a child cannot live without a mother, but what about me?" I can't live without you! How can I live without you! Instead of living alone and hopelessly, it is better to die with you now! Do you think they will really let me and the child go? It's a cat-and-mouse fool from start to finish, and they don't intend to let any of us go at all! ”
Believing that there was no need for the play to continue, Lifus stood up and took the old-fashioned spear on his back.
"Thank you! It made me believe that love and family affection are real in this world. Lifus motioned for the peregrine falcon to pack up his belongings and prepare to go. As a thank you, this table of dishes will be given to you, and if not, there is still in the cold storage below, which is enough for you to eat for a few years. ”
Lifus waited for the peregrine falcon to tidy up his belongings, walked over to the man who was still in a state of confusion, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You have a good wife, treat her well." Then he turned and walked away with the peregrine falcon without looking back.
"I don't understand, team leader." The peregrine falcon waited until they were far enough away from the couple before asking.
"Why are they so hostile to us?" Peregrine falcons remember encountering civilians on missions, if not very popular, at least not disgust and fear.
"Recently, some of the Allies' brutal killings of civilians in the safe zone have been exposed online, and we have been portrayed as Achilles' minions and the Allies' executioners, so these reactions are not surprising at all, and I even think he must have wanted to shoot for a moment when he was aiming at you, but I don't know why he held back." Lifus said.
"What else? For the sake of his wife and children. At that distance, he was not sure that he would kill me with one shot, so the result of his shooting must have cost the lives of his entire family, so of course he did not dare to shoot. "But I really don't understand what they think, it's clear that their lives are so hard and hard, and they have to give birth to their children to suffer." ”
"Of course you don't understand, children are hope!" Lifus said, "How can a child like you, who has never been in love, understand the true meaning of life? ”
"It's good, it's amazing to be in love! The most invincible of broken love! Okay, right? Peregrine said in a strange way, he was most annoyed by Lifus's old-fashioned preaching tone, but he was not even a day older than himself.
The two walked a long way along the streets through the wreckage of cars, and they were going to find a place to send signals to contact other Chosen Forces or Alliances, in fact, it didn't matter about the signals, because the monkey watch could be directly connected to communication satellites, and there were no geographical restrictions, but Lifus insisted on finding a place with good scenery and good feng shui, because that was also likely to be their burial place.