Chapter 117: The Lair (1)
"When you're here, do you sometimes find life boring?" Luo Cheng asked lightly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Bored?" Winnie Rebecca turned her head to look at him.
The young man nodded, he had just remembered that he had indeed seen this girl...... The latter is the only nurse on duty in the school hospital, and she is also in charge of the lawn and flower beds in front of the hospital, Luo Cheng actually passes by this girl every time he goes to the hospital, but he never pays attention to inconsequential people.
"No......" the girl frowned and looked up at the sky, "I have a good time in the academy, there is food and clothes here, it is very safe, and the academy has given me a job." ”
"No...... That was not what I meant. Luo Cheng weighed the words, this young sniper rarely chatted with people, so he always felt that his language skills were not up to standard, "I mean...... Do you feel hopeless? To yourself, to the whole Academy, or to all of humanity. ”
"Despair?" Winnie was stunned, then chuckled.
"What's so funny about that?"
"Ah no, I'm not laughing at you, Mr. Luo Cheng." The girl lay on the lawn with her arms crossed, "Before I came to the academy, I used to live in a 'cave'. ”
"Caves?" Luo Cheng was stunned, he knew what the word meant, but he didn't dare to associate the words from the girl's mouth with that meaning, because he couldn't imagine it.
Winnie nodded, "It's the cave you know, Mr. Luo Cheng." ”
The youth are stunned that the so-called 'caves' are a term for some illegal groups of armed survivors, and in the past few decades, the state and government have completely collapsed, the largest institutions of state violence, including the army and police, have been dissipated, and the government's control over the population has been greatly weakened.
After the disappearance of state repression, another group of violent organizations sprung up all over the world, led by terrorists, arms dealers, mercenaries and drug dealers, who controlled a large number of arms and personnel in peacetime, and after the collapse of the government, they distributed weapons to build armies, established safe zones to shelter survivors, and the earliest survivors organized underground activities in cities to hide from zombies and hunters, so they were called caves or cavemen.
But now, decades later, the word "cave" has become a taboo that combines the ugly and dark sides of human nature, symbolic and representative of "al-Qaeda" to terrorists.
There are no laws or rules in the caves, the criminals control the violence, they build walls and occupy the throne, the bandits become dictators, the social hierarchy in the caves is clear, those who have weapons are the superior people, the civilians are reduced to slavery, the wounded and the disabled are thrown away as waste, and those who dare to disobey are killed.
The civilization of human society regressed to the era of Vikings in Northern Europe more than a thousand years ago in the last days.
The cave only lasted for a short time, not because of the government's crackdown, but because of the attacks of zombies and hunters, and the mercenaries and drug dealers had little force to resist the hunters, and their guns were only pointed at ordinary people...... Once the cave is attacked by hunters, the warlords often flee in a hurry, and the ordinary people who remain naturally all die.
Luo Cheng didn't expect that there would still be an organization like a cave now...... In his mind, the cave was a historical word for a long time, and Winnie's phrase sounded like "I came out of Auschwitz." ”
"My whole family is in a cave controlled by a gang of Colombian drug traffickers, and their leader is a black man." Winnie Rebecca continued, "Our family was supposed to be escorted by a team of U.S. National Guards to the safe zone set up by the Chinese government, which was in Suzhou, but the hunters attacked our convoy on the way, and the soldiers were all killed, and the poison Xiao arrived to save us...... He and his army sheltered more than a thousand survivors, and my family joined them when I was fifteen years old. ”
"My dad was a doctor, he was an associate professor at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Medicine, and he was a very good doctor." "He later became the chief's personal doctor, and because of that we had a very good life, with plenty of food and fresh water." ”
Luo Cheng nodded silently.
"Then I turned sixteen." Winnie whispered, sitting on the grass with her knees crossed, her shoulders shaking uncontrollably, "All the young girls in the cave belong to the chief...... As long as you are at least 16 years old. ”
Luo Cheng's heart sank.
"In the middle of the night, they came to search for me with rifles, and they killed my father." The girl whispered, "Mom hid me in a sewer that no one knew about, and ran out to get the attention of those people...... I don't know what happened to my mother, but I escaped alone in the dark, ran along the road for a whole day, and finally fainted on the side of the road, and woke up in the academy...... I heard that Mr. Zhao Gao saved me. ”
"What happened to that cavern?"
"Ruined, the Colonel sent someone to look for them, but only found the ruins and corpses in one place." The girl replied, "It seems that someone set the fire that night, and the light of the fire attracted the zombies and hunters in the vicinity, and everyone died, and the leader committed suicide by swallowing a gun in his own room." ”
Luo Cheng was silent.
"Oh, what am I talking about?" Winnie got up and smiled at the young man, "Do you think I'm doing well now?" No one enslaved us, no one oppressed us, and no one forced me to do anything, and I could look up at the stars. ”
Compared to her previous life, the academy was indeed peaceful and joyful.
Luo Cheng realized at this time that not everyone has the height and attention to the survival of human civilization, because they have done their best to maintain their own survival, and those who are struggling with suffering and hunger have to rack their brains for tomorrow's dinner, and in their eyes, the Mona Lisa may not be more useful than a piece of bread.
Luo Cheng grew up in the security zone since he was a child, trained to be a sniper, he is the elite of the survivors, he has not experienced the suffering of ordinary people who are outcast, the so-called world turmoil, human nature, good and evil, in his eyes is just a textbook word, he was born to defend the right of all mankind to survive.
Just like people who have not experienced war, they will never understand the cruelty of war.
Luo Cheng patted his clothes and got up, he had never said so much to anyone, and today might be the day he talked the most...... I was probably a little bored in the reception in the auditorium, so I wanted to find someone to talk to.
"Huh...... Mr. Luo Cheng. ”
"Huh?"
"I ...... I have a question for you? Winnie lowered her head and peeked at the young man, a little apprehensive.
Luo Cheng nodded.
"Excuse me...... Can you really strangle an elephant with your bare hands? The girl asked.
What the? The young man was stunned.
"Ah, no, no, no...... "...... Winnie's face flushed, "they all said that the hummingbird group was so good that they could kill rhinos and elephants with their bare hands...... But I don't think you're very strong......"
Luo Cheng laughed, he knew what the people in the academy had become.
"I'm a normal person." The young man opened his arms, "I can't kill a rhinoceros or an elephant, my gun can, the hummingbird group is all ordinary people, we don't have superpowers, we are just good at using tools." ”
The girl has a small mouth open.
"You don't have to be afraid of the hummingbird group." Luo Cheng turned around and stepped onto the path, raised his right hand and waved, "This is not a cave, no one will oppress you, everyone will protect you." ”
"Also...... Including Mr. Luo Cheng? ”
Luo Cheng turned his head, and Winnie Rebecca stood on the lawn, her eyes lowered and biting her lip.
"Of course ......"
The young man was suddenly furious.
"Huh?" The girl was stunned, she probably didn't understand why the young man opposite suddenly changed his face, but before she could say her words, thick blood gushed up her throat and trachea, blocking all her words, Winnie's legs fell weakly, her pupils slowly dilated, and blood overflowed the corners of her mouth, sliding down her fair chin.
Scarlet blood spread across her chest, staining the pink nurse's uniform black, and a black spike burst through her ribcage.