Chapter 250: Deserter
Two days later, they finally arrived in another city, again in ruins.
Luck finally befell them, and they found a dilapidated map of the local city in the ruins of a suspected train station, most of which was damaged, but some key information was still there, such as the exact location, the name of the city, and the provincial road.
This important information was undoubtedly a timely rain, and they finally didn't have to run around like headless flies.
However, the city has been reduced to ruins and has become unrecognizable, and the group of people almost circled the city before they found the location of the provincial road, which has almost completely merged with the surrounding green, covered by a thick layer of vines, if there is no map, I am afraid that the group would have ignored the past.
The vine is very strange, it has no leaves, only rough, flat branches that intertwine with each other, forming a thick carpet. The vines on the ground where the monitor lizard and King Kong's heavy feet stepped on broke one after another, making a clattering sound, and countless small mutant beasts fled in confusion.
As the team walked out of the city, plants similar to cacti gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes, but compared with ordinary cacti, these plants are amazingly huge, they are almost more than one or two hundred meters high, higher than most trees, like standing out from the crowd, looking from a distance, like green skyscrapers.
"It's a super cactus, it's edible, it's one of the main vegetables in the redevelopment area, and we're not far from the desert." When Lian Commander Xia saw these plants, he said with some emotion.
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After less than two hours of travel, after passing through several intersections, the surrounding environment began to change significantly, the vegetation became sparse and low, and the soil was revealed for the first time, which was a fine yellowish-white sand.
It was already a desert or, before the end of the world, it was a desert, but now it is also covered with plants, only slightly sparse.
The windbreaks on both sides of the road seem to have been cut down a few times, and the new plants and distant plants are much shorter, and as we move forward, the road surface becomes more and more abandoned vehicles, and finally almost the entire road is blocked, like a long dragon, stretching into the endless distance.
There are almost no cars, most of them are converted buses and trucks, as well as some armored vehicles and tanks.
The ground was full of white bones, both mutant beasts and humans, literally paving the entire road. If you look closely, the pavement is a pale brown color, which is dried blood.
Some jewels, gold bars, and antique fragments, as if they were not money, were scattered on the pavement, mixed with the bones, and as for the paper money, it was already rotting.
As you can imagine, when they first migrated, humans bled almost all the way, and corpses paved the roads.
The scene in front of him made everyone's hearts heavy, and they couldn't help but think of the bad past.
However, the appearance of these shows that the reconstruction area is not far away!
At this time, Luo Yuan seemed to have a voice of someone talking, he followed the voice and looked at it, and was slightly stunned: "Hey, someone!" ”
"What, where?" Huang Jiahui asked with a surprised expression.
It's a wilderness, and along the way, there is not a single figure to be seen except themselves, and if they don't know that there is a reconstruction area, they would think that humanity is extinct.
Luo Yuan pointed in the direction, and the group hurriedly looked, in the jungle in the distance, a group of people were half-squatting on the ground and looking there vigilantly,
There were six people in this group, unkempt and tattered, but they didn't look embarrassed, with a rebellious look in their expressions, not like ordinary refugees, but when they looked at Luo Yuan and his party, especially the two huge mutant beasts, they were obviously a little wary.
"It's some wanderers!" Company Commander Xia said suddenly at this time.
"Wanderer?" Luo Yuan asked suspiciously.
"It's a bunch of deserters, criminals, and some unruly evolutionaries!" Xia Lian's words carried a hint of contempt and disdain: "Most of them are deserters, the pressure on the battlefield is too great, people die every day, many people are not adaptable, so they become deserters, and they can no longer go to the reconstruction area, so they have to wander around." ”
"If they are allowed to do this, won't the reconstruction area be encircled and suppressed?" As a former policeman, Huang Jiahui glanced at them with some disgust and asked.
"There are too many wanderers, estimated to be at least in the hundreds of thousands, and they are very scattered. Ironically, the soft eggs who are afraid of death on the battlefield have become extremely vicious after becoming wanderers, especially among them there are some powerful evolutionaries, which are very tricky, and we have encircled and suppressed them on a large scale several times, but the results are not great, and in the end it will not be done.
Moreover, their existence has also reduced the pressure on the defense line to a certain extent, so as long as there are no dangerous groups or evil elements, they can only be allowed to exist. ”
Luo Yuan nodded in his heart, the biggest enemy of mankind is still the mutant beast, and there really isn't much power to consume on the infighting.
"You stay here, I'll go over and ask for some information." Luo Yuan thought for a while and said.
"Be careful, they might have guns." Huang Jiahui said.
Now the firearm is not a big threat to him, unless he encounters a dense number of bullets, with his agility, he will not want to hit him, but Luo Yuan still nodded, and then he jumped off the monitor lizard, and crossed seven or eight meters in one step, although he walked step by step, but the speed was amazing.
When this group of people saw this scene, their faces changed drastically, and they subconsciously took a few steps back, two of them took out a rifle, and seemed to be about to shoot, but they were hurriedly stopped by the middle-aged man in the lead: "Don't act rashly, put the gun away, and see what he is going to do?" ”
After a few breaths, the figure suddenly appeared in front of them, and everyone breathed shortly, and suddenly a suppressed breath spread, and even the air seemed to begin to tremble.
Everyone's faces turned a little pale, and they only felt that it was a little difficult to breathe, and the middle-aged man in the lead forced himself to calm down: "This friend, what is the matter with our brothers?" ”
Luo Yuan was a little surprised, he didn't expect that this group of people would not have a good will, even Huo Dong and the others, in the face of their three-point momentum, they would not be better than them, this is still a familiar reason.
Seeing that he had already established his power, Luo Yuan didn't want to be domineering, so he restrained his breath and said: "There is nothing else, I want to know how far away the reconstruction area is here, it would be better if there was a map." ”
The middle-aged man in the lead suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that the strong man he met this time seemed to be a good talker, but when he reacted, he was a little surprised: "You are going to the reconstruction area?" Is it from outside? ”
"Why, haven't any survivors found here lately?" Luo Yuan's mind was smart, and he quickly understood the information from his expression.
"I don't know about any other places, but there haven't been survivors in this area for three months, and maybe not anywhere else." The middle-aged man in the lead hurriedly said.
"No one!" Luo Yuan felt a little embarrassed in his heart, and didn't speak for a long time.
The middle-aged man in the lead observed his words and said cautiously: "Are you going to smuggle in, or go directly to the garrison?" ”
"Stowaway?" Luo Yuan reacted: "Except for smuggling, can't you directly enter the reconstruction area?" ”
"No, where a huge defensive line has been built, there are soldiers everywhere, and if you want to enter the reconstruction area, you have to go through the defense line, unless you smuggle in, and I know exactly where a hole is located!" The middle-aged man in charge said: "You may not know that the harsh rules of the reconstruction zone include compulsory military service that is almost sent to death, and smuggling can be perfectly avoided because it is not in the system. ”
Luo Yuan glanced at him, and already understood his plan in his heart, this was to use the strength of his group to try to smuggle back to the reconstruction area, and this smuggled hole was probably not so easy to pass through, but this was destined to disappoint him.
"Let's go straight to the garrison, do you have a map?" Luo Yuan said.
The middle-aged man in the lead was stunned, and a trace of disappointment and admiration flashed in his heart, but he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "Where is there any map now, follow this road, walk for two or three hours, and you will soon be able to defend the area." ”
Luo Yuan soon left.
Watching this group of people ride on the behemoth and quickly move away, the middle-aged man in the lead breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, but also had a faint sense of remorse and envy, his face was uncertain, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.
Maybe it would have been better if he hadn't been a deserter in the first place.
"Commander, let's go back!"
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