Chapter 59: The Cannibal Club
In the heart of Lianyungang City, there is an iconic building that symbolizes equality, fraternity, tolerance, fashion and science.
Two metal spheres of equal mass and volume, under the strong force of the magnetic field designed at the top of the building, move around the magnetic field for many years, the orbits of the two spheres are elliptical, but the distance is always the same, just like two celestial bodies near the star, and like two connecting stars pulled by their respective gravitational pulls.
Once the tallest building in the city, and once the most high-tech building in the entire North, it now lies on the ground, the lower middle of the building and its pedestal blown to rubble and dust, leaving only a crown to fall to the ground, surrounded by dense weeds and twisted metal that bears witness to the cruelty of the disaster.
The remains of unburned trees stand tall on both sides of the street, new life grows next to the charred trunks, and the yellowing leaves swirl and flutter in the cold wind of late autumn, and the grass is all there is to see.
The plants do not seem to be affected by the radiation, they still survive tenaciously on the land, and after hundreds of millions or even billions of years of evolution and genetics, this small setback is nothing to them.
Some rats are busy in the ruins of the city, struggling to find food to store for the winter.
Shen Ruoshui and her sister carefully climbed over a hill made mostly of concrete blocks and broken glass, which had been formed by the collapse of the skyscraper next to them and barricaded the street.
The two of them took a short break, replenished some water, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, tightened their backpacks, and then continued on their way.
The place where they meet the mysterious man who calls himself the Ominous is in an amusement park in the city, where the sisters have received gifts from each other many times.
The windmill-like Ferris wheel was blown off half and fell diagonally in the middle of the park, the tracks of the roller coaster twisted into twists, and the surface of the steel, which had lost its paint and plating, was mottled with red rust.
There are insects wailing in the grass, the cold weather is the end for them, these tenacious and incredible magical creatures, explosions, nuclear winter, and nuclear radiation are not trivial to them, but their poor and humble lives will still end with this autumn.
The two sisters deliberately arrived a little early, and when they asked for help, they couldn't let others wait for them, and they couldn't see clearly until the sky was bright, and twenty minutes had passed the agreed time, and the mood of the two began to become anxious.
Shen Ruoshui called the other party a few times, but they didn't answer, and they had no other way but to continue to wait.
Temperatures are below 10 degrees Celsius in the early morning and drop dramatically over the next few days.
Shen Ruyue was jumping on the ground and running in place to maintain the temperature of her body, while Shen Ruoshui sat on a strange rock, rubbing her hands and breathing into her palms, and some faint white mist erupted from her mouth and dissipated into the air.
"It's coming!" Shen Ruyue saw a few people coming over from a distance, and quickly motioned for Shen Ruoshui to stand up.
The two men greeted them, confirming their identities from the clothes they were wearing.
"Old Han!" Shen Ruoshui waved his hand at the leader in front of him, but soon realized that something was wrong.
There were blood stains on the bodies of the people who came, and there was a man behind them.
They hurried over, "What's wrong?" Shen Ruoshui asked.
These people were tired and sweaty, panting, and should have made the whole journey.
Seeing the two sisters running over, they put down the person they were carrying and sat down on the ground to rest.
"What's going on?" Shen Ruyue also asked, she smelled the thick bloody breath, and she was very scared in her heart.
No one answered their questions, no one even spoke up.
The man lay in the grass, motionless, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
His clothes were soaked in blood, and he had a bullet wound in his neck that broke his carotid artery and also grazed his throat.
Blood was still slowly pouring out from the wound, and there should have been very little blood left in his body, otherwise blood would have spurted out at a location like the carotid artery.
A man pressed his finger against his wound, trying in vain to stop the blood from flowing out, but blood trickled out between the man's fingers, occasionally with a sticky bubble or two.
"Kill him." The man known as Lao Han said with a blank face, he pulled the scarf that covered his face to his neck, exposed his nose and mouth, took a deep breath, took out a dagger and threw it over.
"No need." The man withdrew the hand that was pressed against the wound, "He doesn't feel the pain anymore." β
The mood of everyone was very heavy, and the atmosphere of the scene became very depressing for a while.
"Leave him alone, the people from the club will follow the trail of blood, and we must get out of here as soon as possible to escape the hunt." Lao Han said.
Hearing him mention the club, the Shen family sisters turned pale with fright, they knew what it meant, and the whole world was shrouded in the horror of this club.
There is nothing to fear from clubs, and before the big war, there were countless clubs around the world, covering sports, games, arts, socializing, entertainment and many other activities.
And the reason why the club mentioned by Lao Han makes people all over the world famous is because it is a cannibalistic club.
Cannibalism clubs have their origins in an underground prison where some of the most heinous criminals are held, and because there is no death penalty, they can only serve their sentences indefinitely in prison.
Although the increase in human life expectancy could have caused them to suffer more crimes in their sentences of hundreds of years, although the original intention of the prison was to make the rest of their destined life even darker, although most of them have lost hope in life, in order to prevent them from escaping, explosion-proof and impermeable coatings were built.
However, it was precisely these that allowed them to escape the nuclear explosion and nuclear winter during and after the war, and were reborn.
They killed prison guards and guards, killed refugees and ordinary people, they ate human flesh, drank human blood, robbed, forced. Treachery, all evil.
Later, their members grew more and more, and they had their strongholds in all regions of the world, and they were more organized and powerful than the eschatological army.
They openly exchanged and sold hostages on the Internet, and even divided human beings into three or six or nine according to the taste of meat: children were first, then young women, then adult men, and finally old people.
The crimes they have committed are too numerous to mention, but in these last days, there is no one to punish them, let alone organize a confrontation against them.
However, in the original Chinese cities, I had never heard of members of cannibal clubs haunting before, but I didn't expect their claws to reach out.
"Take it!" Lao Han threw the dead man's * to Shen Ruoshui.
"I use this." Shen Ruoshui took out the pistol from his pocket and returned the * to Lao Han, "I won't use that." β
"Let's go!" Lao Han saw that Shen Ruyue also took out his weapon, and didn't say anything more, he was going to retreat with them.
"Bang!"
The loud noise of the primordial thermal weapon made several people crawl on the ground instinctively, and Shen Ruyue trembled and turned her head sideways, seeing some people coming from all around.
There was a foul smell that drifted into the nostrils with the wind, "We are surrounded." She thought desperately.
"What's wrong? Old Han Chief? Is it that your old cold legs have flare-ups and you can't stand up? A middle-aged man wearing sunglasses bowed his head and said to Lao Han, he was wearing an exaggerated metal earring on his left ear, which made people worry that his earlobe would not be pulled off in the next second, and the denim suit with random colors had a strong post-punk style, he was holding a short gun in his left hand, and a half-used double bass on his right shoulder.
βRockοΌ How are you? After seeing the person clearly, Lao Han's tense nerves relaxed, and he stood up and asked, "It doesn't seem that this is the territory of your Nancheng Gang, right?" β
"We're tracking down people at the subway station, and they're killing our guys." Rock saw the blood on their bodies and the dead man, "Looks like you're in trouble, too." "This goofy-looking man was a bassist in a rock band before the nuclear war, and now he is a small leader in a post-apocalyptic group in the city called the Southside Gang, he likes to be called "Rock", and later simply replaced his name, he wants the world to know: humanity is not dead, rock is not dead.
The people on Lao Han's side had already stood up again at this time, and the two sisters of the Shen family were very scared when they saw many people surrounding them with weapons.
"Targeted by a pack of mad dogs." Old Han smiled at Rock, like an old friend who had known him for many years, and then spread his hands helplessly and said, "I don't have enough manpower today, so I can only admit it, how about it?" Is there any interest in doing this vote? β
After speaking, Lao Han stretched out two fingers at Rock.
Rock replied with three fingers in understanding.
"Do you think my battery is blowing in the wind? How much can three batteries be exchanged? "Even at this time, Lao Han is still bargaining.
"You still have the face to talk to me about the battery? The battery I changed with you last time, I went back and saw that it was all second-hand, and I didn't even have half of the power, you old liar! Rock scolded at Han.
"Fart! Whose batteries are not second-hand? Do you have what it takes to find me a brand new battery? Besides, what's wrong with the second-hand ones? It won't be a problem to use another ten or eight years, right? "Old Han actually got into a fight with Rock, as if he had forgotten that they were still being hunted down by the Cannibal Club.
"Enough! We'll talk about that later! Rock doesn't seem to be good at arguing, "Now, show me all your faces!" I'm going to see if the murderer is here! β
In fact, they followed the two women here, and the moment they saw Lao Han, he knew that he was wrong, but for the sake of insurance, he still had to confirm it, so he could go back and hand it over.
Lao Han motioned for everyone to take off the cover on their faces, don't be afraid.
After the Shen sisters took off their veils, Rock seemed to have discovered a new world, he took off his sunglasses, and circled around the two sisters twice in surprise, shaking his head and smacking his lips: "Tsk, there is such a peugeot girl in our city?" Why didn't you find out before? β
"Old Hantou! I changed my mind! Rock spoke to Han, but his eyes never took off the two sisters' bodies, "I don't want batteries!" Give us these two little girls and we'll help you get out of trouble! β
The two girls were stared at by Rock's uncomfortable eyes, hearing him say this, they were afraid that Lao Han would agree to Rock, after all, Lao Han and them are not related, they don't think that the value of the two can be compared with three batteries, no matter how beautiful the face is, in this last world where the whole world lives with their faces covered and their heads buried, it is not as affordable as the particle battery. Until material life is satisfied, all beauty and elegance are unrealistic.
"Sorry, we're still sticking to batteries in exchange, I can give you three batteries." Old Han suddenly became generous and betrayed them in front of the sisters, and Lao Han felt that he couldn't do such a shameless thing.
The two sisters breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, being used as a bargaining chip like an object, which made their hearts very uncomfortable.
"Then I can only say sorry, we don't want batteries, just them." Rock said playfully, then commanded his men to retreat from all sides, ready to leave.
The green tendons on Lao Han's head were throbbing, and he was doing a difficult ideological struggle in his heart, and the moral bottom line of being a man made him unable to do such a thing to two girls who trusted him, but.
The gunfire just now will definitely attract the people of the cannibal club, they have no time to escape, they have no ability to fight, and the end is to be killed and then eaten.
In that case, the two girls will also be killed, eaten, and humiliated before they die, so it would be better to give them to Rock so that they don't have to die, and they don't have to die, eh...... Even if you die, at least you won't be eaten...... The reputation of the Nancheng Gang seems to be pretty good, I haven't heard of them eating people......
Moreover, after the cannibal club and the Nancheng gang fight, there may be a chance to rescue them...... Lao Han lied to himself like this in his heart.
Once a decision is made in his heart that goes against his conscience, he needs to make up a lot of reasons that he has to do to whitewash the decision, and after this decision is made too much, these shameless reasons and excuses will eventually become his beliefs.
"Old Han!" The person next to him urged.
The frowning brows slowly stretched, Lao Han wiped the sweat from his face, and after figuring it out, the decision was not so difficult.
βRockοΌ Wait a minute! Old Han stopped Rock, who had already started walking into the distance, "I agree!" β
With a smile on his face, Rock walked back triumphantly.
The Shen family sisters stood there like stupid, they couldn't believe their ears, if they were captured by the Apocalyptic Army, their fate could be imagined, and it could not be described as miserable.
The two glanced at each other, ascertaining the firmness in each other's eyes.
"Come on! These two beautiful girls! You're now part of our Southside Gang! Rock showed a self-conscious smile, and like a gentleman, he stretched out a hand to Shen Ruoshui.
In Shen Ruoshui's opinion at this time, Rock's smile was obscene enough, and the outstretched hand was also very sinful.
"Get out of here!" The sisters raised their pistols at the same time.
One is facing Rock and the other is facing Han.
"Get the fuck out of here!" Shen Ruoshui roared.
"Sister, you're right." Shen Ruyue trembled slightly with a pistol in both hands, her voice was choked, and tears filled her eyes, "Everyone wants to bully us." β
"There is no good person in this world."