Chapter 70: The Madman and the Madman
A round sunset sticks to the ridge line of the desert, and the earth is lined with a dull and dark layer, revealing a layer of crimson; The desert waves, which held the setting sun, froze, like a sleeping sea. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It's January, it's winter, and it's supposed to be the cold season. But this sudden desert brings a different style to this time period.
Sometimes the sand flies, and the sky is dark. Sometimes the towering trees dance, mirages. Here, it's a world of sand. Under the scorching sun, the Gobi Desert is like roasting on a stove, and the scorching heat wave sweeps every inch of land, making people breathless.
In this vast sea of sand, several figures struggled to move forward on it, a series of solid and clear footprints were left behind them, they didn't seem to feel the heat that could penetrate the soles of their feet, fearless, no, it should be said that they were walking with facial expressions.
Come closer, get closer, "Shhh "If someone is here at this time, they will definitely gasp, where are these figures, they are strangely shaped corpses!
Zombies are not an unfamiliar word to the current world. They are bloodthirsty and murderous, just like the evil ghosts and demons who fled to the world after the seal of the Nine Hells was lifted, wantonly doing evil in the world and killing sentient beings.
They are hierarchical, the weakest zombies only have pure killing instincts, slow movements, IQ is zero, there is a brute force that is different from ordinary people, although it was terrifying in the past, but after so long of adaptation, human beings have formed a strange circle of self-elimination, and the surviving people have entered the level of all soldiers, in the face of such ordinary zombies, a few women or children can be easily subdued.
However, after the virus hit, the changes produced were not only these tireless living dead, but also more terrifying existence, evolution!
Through evolution, the living dead have become a new kind of life. They have thousands of variants. They may be incredibly fast, or powerful, or they may blow people up or their limbs will change, but one thing that has not changed is their more rampant murder and virus transmission.
The road of evolution, one step at a time. The zombies born by the virus will not die easily. On the contrary, they will gradually improve themselves day by day, and as they evolve, their varieties will only increase, become stronger and stronger, and become more and more terrifying and terrifying!
These three zombies have mutated appearances, one with a belly as large as a drum, one with a short arm, and one crawling like a lizard, all of which are the most famous breeds of evolved zombies, namely the Blaster, the Hunter, and the Licker.
Zombies are intellectual, they are transformed from the dead, they have no strength but no human emotion, which is like a beast. Not like ordinary zombies like group attack, after evolution, they are full of anger, and they are even more eyeing the nuclear crystals in the heads of other zombies, without exception, they will have their own territory, if not, put the two corpses to see each other, it can only be a dead ending. It's surprising that these three evolved zombies with clear strength and anger not only did not fight, but walked side by side, which is really puzzling, can one mountain and two tigers tolerate three tigers?
A three-meter-tall behemoth emerged, and on its shoulder sat a thin figure dressed in black and wearing a mask. The giant thing stepped forward, and the three zombies stopped moving forward like slaves when they saw their masters, and they bowed their heads in unison, and the difference in rank was clear.
The figure jumped down, crossed the three corpses barefoot, and slowly looked at everything in front of him with white and waxy eyes, and after a while, he slowly spoke: "Cangmu Stream, the realm of a hundred flowers is occupied by yellow sand, and even nature can't stop the speed of doomsday corrosion?" ”
"The changes brought about by the end are not only dead bodies and strange beasts, but even the environment is turned upside down, Longchang? Where is there still a half-point of the past. ”
The sigh came from afar, and when he looked up, he was not far away, and a giant beast was carrying a young man striding towards the corpses. Looking at it, the young man has a majestic figure, a bronze complexion, and clear and deep facial features, like a purgatory sculpture, a masculine and dark evil temperament, although there is a gap between the real demon, but no one can look at it at random passers-by A and B on the side of the road. If it is shelved in peacetime, it will surely make thousands of girls crazy and fascinated. But at this moment, it is inevitable that it seems a little cold from ordinary people. Sitting down was a fierce giant lion covered in gold, which really gave people a strange idea of the prince of the demon world coming to the world.
"Longchang has been known as Yuzhang, Hongcheng, and Hero City since ancient times. It is a legendary metropolis with a population of 10 million before the apocalypse. ”
The masked man looked straight ahead, and said a few words like a few treasures, but the tone was quite intriguing, and he began to be excited and then lonely When he narrated the population of Longchang, his voice was suppressed to a very low level, and the irony composed of tens of millions of people and the yellow sand in front of him was clear without superfluous descriptions.
The young man beckoned the male lion to lower his body and then went down to the ground, looked at the masked man who stood like dry wood, and said softly: "Ten million people? Now it's 500,000 that's a lot. ”
The masked man didn't know why he covered his face, but his white and cloudy eyes were different from ordinary people, but they still gave people a creepy and cold feeling, he calmly turned back to the young man and said: "Nine deaths and one life are good, and not one in ten is the true portrayal of this time." In addition to the army of dead corpses that were eaten and buried, there are at least five million zombies, of course, not counting a series of awakened corpses, and the road through here may be more difficult than the previous combined, do we really want to continue? ”
The young man laughed it off.
The masked man was unwilling to take a step forward, and his hoarse voice opened his mouth like the voice of the Nine Demons with the power to penetrate people's hearts: "Do you want to continue even if you die?" ”
The young man patted the sitting lion, his voice lazy but full of determination: "Compared with strength, if you survive like an ant, what is the point?" ”
The masked man shook his head and his eyes were full of incomprehension: "Now you are more like a dead person than me, and you want to be a lone wanderer if you give up the opportunity to help you for nine days, you are simply begging for death!" ”
The young man put away his smile, paused slightly, glanced at the masked man standing opposite, and continued: "Murderers are always killed, this is not a game, begging for death?" No, I'm just not afraid of death, who can protect myself in the face of this dark era? For me, it's either to die or to become stronger, and the reason why the phoenix can gain eternal life is not because of every time it is in the fire? ”
The masked man trembled, a touch of anger appeared in his white eyes, he wanted to pierce the other party's skull with both hands, and then destroy his brain full of madness and extremes, but, along the way, after witnessing the other party's method of killing the natal realm like drinking water, he instinctively felt some fear in his heart.
Admittedly, he is a genius.
But the extremes of things must be reversed, and when the day went to the extreme, he still had another title,
Lunatic.
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Longjiang City, referred to as Xun.
The eight rivers of the world's "eyebrow land" enjoy the name of "the mouth of the three rivers and the thoroughfare of the seven provinces", and the ancient rivers sing the rhythm of history.
But such a magnificent and beautiful city in peacetime has now become a dark city full of poisonous corpses and strange beasts.
However, this place belongs to the Western Alliance, and the army is extremely fierce, even if it is a zombie-infested disaster area, it is far from the miserable scene of death in the city.
But what about being alive? The apocalypse is everywhere, the three major industries of arable land, fishing, and industry are all cut off, human beings have no productive capacity, large areas of arable land are destroyed, and the excessive lack of food cannot cover the people of the entire city, so we can only select the distribution that contributes to the city.
Good steel is used on the blade, and those who have no effect on the alliance are not to mention that they are full, at most they are hanging for a breath, and there is only one steamed bun per person per day.
In this environment, three different classes were formed, namely the army, the war group, and the refugee slum.
The armed forces are divided into two kinds: one is to recruit soldiers who are physically strong, and they must undergo real iron-blooded training, and the amount of training is several times or dozens of times the intensity of military training in peacetime. And you have to fill in the life and death certificate when you sign up, because the mortality rate of this kind of high-intensity training is simply too high. Some died from intense training, some died from the mouth of zombies, and even died in the knockout tournament against each other, but with high pay and high reward, once this kind of warrior is trained, he must be an ace division that can fight against ten.
But even with this demand, there are still tens of thousands of people who apply, because once they are admitted. It is equivalent to having an iron rice bowl, not only can you eat every day, but you can also get additional rewards by hunting monsters, and even accumulate military merits to achieve promotion, so that your family can live a comfortable life.
The other is even more remarkable, they are the lucky ones who are attached to fate, they stand out from the crowd, gain a thousand strange abilities, and become, half-orcs, elementals, farsighters, beast tamers, magic sword warriors and many other powerful awakened people, they are the main force in the army, and the food is also the most abundant.
Warbands are a group of new factions that yearn for freedom or take the form of kings. Some of them simply don't want to be bound by the alliance but have some power, so they rely on their own ability and courage to manage their own forces to seize food and live a free life. Others are relatively evil and extreme, conceding that they are awakened, disobeying the assignments of the Alliance, forming sects, absorbing people, and satisfying their various ugly desires.
Some of these sects are extremely terrifying, sucking into gangs under the guise of protecting the population, and then making them into meat for human consumption or selling. This sect is officially referred to as an underground workshop or a flesh cult, the source of evil, etc.
Although the alliance has been severely forbidden and cracked down many times, it is simply nonsense to pull it out in such a chaotic era, and the leaders can simply flee to a new place and change the name of the new sect, and the people who are tormented by hunger will surely desperately join the church. However, it is not known how much of these ordinary people have access to food, and how much of it has been made into meat for human consumption.
The third type is the refugee slum, which must be the lowest group of people in the city. They don't have the strength or the craft, they live in the weakest areas of the monsters, they don't have enough food and clothing. Faced with endless diseases and disasters every day, or starved to death, or beaten to death, or devoured by monsters, they have no dignity, and some are just new terms imprinted in the eyes of the strong, dregs, garbage, and poor worms.
And in this environment, it has to be said that there are prostitutes composed of some women. Most of them are poor people who are beautiful but powerless, and they are not paid much, and even a piece or two of moldy bread and cheese after a hard night's work.
Human nature is inherently fragile, and in this cold and dark new world of fear, everyone is silent, because you don't know whether the woman lying in an alley or a bed is doing these most despicable and saddest jobs for the sake of a child who is waiting to be fed, a crippled parent, or a seriously ill husband.
They no longer insult their bodies and souls for extravagant cosmetics or affluent lives. It's for the greatest or the cheapest...... Life.
The strong rely on strength and wisdom in exchange for food, while some weak survive at the feet of the strong by selling their bodies and souls. As for those who have no appearance, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, they can only be reduced to flesh and blood fodder to nourish this new world full of blood and darkness under the huge millstone of the apocalypse!
In fact, they themselves are also very confused, is it really more valuable to survive in such a terrible era than self-liberation?
There are joys and sorrows, declines and auspiciousness, no matter how you quibble and disagree, God is indeed not a fair leader, he will always divide everything in the world into two poles, some miserable to the extreme, and some to enjoy the extreme.
The quiet elegant building is located in an elegant courtyard, where it is elegant and luxurious, even the mutated plants are carefully decorated, and the air is filled with a sweet smell.
It is located in a remote area of the courtyard. There was a beautiful young man with red lips and white teeth, leaning back on a rocking chair and looking ahead.
In front of him were many kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables that were rare to see outside, all kinds of fish and shrimp in the pond and sea, and many hunted mutant beasts, which had been processed and cooked. Braised in oil, barbecue, stir-fried and steamed, full of color and flavor.
It's hard to think of the teenager in a post-apocalyptic world. Because outside the refugee slums, people are starving to death every day. I don't know how many people can only eat sawdust grass roots to satisfy their hunger, and they are so hungry that they have yellow muscles and no energy. But he lived such a luxurious life, and it was all the more awe-inspiring to watch him pick up a bun that could be wrapped outside for three maidens for a night, and feed it to the short-tailed dog wagging his tail at his feet.
Bobtails, half-stars, have no outstanding abilities, in addition to their cute appearance, even a dire rat can devour them alive, so to speak, in this era of power, this is definitely the waste of waste materials.
This is the living Zhumen wine and meat, and there are frozen bones on the stinky road.
It is the collapse of society, the existential crisis of mankind, and the explosion of power that will lead to such a deformed class difference in this world.
"Woo ......"
The pure white bobtail dog watched and chewed the food in its mouth and screamed happily, and it had no idea how sad it was for so many people behind this wall to pay for such a little fresh food.
The boy smiled happily at the sight of it, revealing a simple expression, and then glanced straight ahead and continued to watch his show that was going on at a critical moment.
As the boy looked, there was a clearing the size of a basketball court in front of him, surrounded by a fence the size of a baby's arm. Looking deeper, I saw a burly, hideous-looking giant standing in the center of the field.
It was a bald giant man nearly three meters away, with red eyes, saliva from the corners of his mouth, and a beast-like roar coming from his throat, striding forward like a madman.
It's a tank! From its physical appearance, it can be seen that this tank has not evolved once, but many times, and has reached the point of a corpse eater, but it is surprising why this evolved corpse eater is being kept here in captivity?
A fence was opened on the wall of this time and space, just like the scene of gladiators entering the Colosseum in ancient Rome, and six ragged men came out of it one after another, they were of different ages, ranging from their teens to their forties, but they all looked the same, they were all skinny, as if they hadn't eaten food for a long time.
The men were released, and instead of being frightened by the nearby corpse eater, they turned their heads to the boy outside the bar, and ran towards it like crazy, waving their arms like hell crawling out of a terrible ghost, their facial features completely distorted, their arms through the fence, making tearing motions in mid-air.
Seeing this, the bobtail barked sharply, threw down the food from his mouth and jumped on the boy, obviously frightened by what he saw.
The boy raised his hand and threw it away, but he didn't look at the pet dog he had just loved, but looked at the people standing by the fence with interest, as if they were waiting for something.
A fist the size of a bowl appeared in front of the young man's eyes, his pupils were shrinking, his arms trembled slightly, as if he was overexcited, and the corners of his mouth were grinning inexplicably. The corpse eater's eyes were red, if the six people in front of him were like hell ghosts, then it was the lowest level of hell, the white fist without a little blood was thrown horizontally, smashing heavily into the crowd, the blood mist exploded, the two iron arms were staggered and pumped towards the crowd over and over again, and there was a terrible scream at the beginning, and in a moment, the screams stopped abruptly, only the dull sound of the iron fist smashing on the ground, mixed with the crisp sound of bones bursting.
The young man looked at the people who were ravaged into pieces of flesh by the corpse eater with disgust, and he was a little interested: "Garbage must have the understanding of being garbage, and dare to assassinate me just like this, it is extremely ignorant." ”
Where would the bobtail dog understand the meaning of the boy, it whimpered, didn't care about the secret pity, and flicked its tail to the boy's side and rubbed it lightly.
The young man looked at the pet dog at his feet and smiled very happily, hugged it in his arms again, stroked his hair and said: "It's not as good as a dog alive, revenge?" Thinking too much. ”
Sucher.
This seems to be a well-behaved and elegant son, but he is actually a complete dark person. Throwing the living into a cage to watch the tragedy of dismemberment is just one of the deformed tastes of this number one gentleman in Longjiang City, he is naturally fond of killing and humiliating, treating ordinary people like dogs, and it is not difficult to understand why those people ran to him and roared and roared when they saw him and the corpse eater gathered together, regardless of their lives, their loved ones were brutally killed by this person, and there was no thought of life, and the power of hatred has long been greater than the fear of death.
Killing the boy or dying were the only two options they had left.
And the young man's unconscionable practice has not been slaughtered, precisely because the person in charge of this ancient city of Longjiang is his father: Su Zhenting.
Su Zhenting, this is a legendary name for the entire Longjiang City, gradually climbing only as a soldier, with the military status of a major general today, the first person in charge of Longjiang, holding half of the Longjiang army;
"Young master, the general asked you to go to the study." Just as Su Che was still watching with interest how the corpse eater, a man spoke.
"Uncle Li, what do you think of this corpse eater?" Su Che didn't even turn his head when he heard this, and asked with a chuckle.
What Su Che called Uncle Li was a bald man in his thirties, with an ordinary appearance, but his eyes were quite eye-catching, as sharp as a falcon and a vulture. Flashing with a ferocious light at any time, it seems that the prey will let its guard down for a moment, and will shoot to kill it! And it's such a pair of special eyes like the finishing touch, which makes people feel weird that they have to be guarded against.
Li Gang, although he is only thirty-five years old, he is called a horse for half his life, and his ability is a body of steel, and he is Su Zhenting's right-hand man.
Li Gang seemed to be accustomed to the scene in front of him, and he didn't raise his eyelids and said lightly: "Of course, the mutant corpse fed by a few awakened people and spawned by a hundred ordinary people is not bad, and it has the strength of the intermediate level of nuclear transformation in a month, but it is just ......"
Li Gang's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping really made Su Che interested, turned his head, and said lightly: "Just what?" ”
Li Gang said in a deep voice: "To put it bluntly, there is an embroidered pillow, although the appearance is good, it is all empty, no matter how human beings, corpses, and beasts want to be strong, they must be sharpened, although this mutant corpse is promoted to the middle level of nuclear transformation, most of the people killed are still some ordinary people, and they have not encountered any danger at all, if compared with the corpse eaters who are promoted purely by killing outside, the odds of winning are quite low." ”
Su Che picked up a grape on the table and threw it into his mouth, with a curious look in his eyes: "I'm going to throw you into it, Uncle Li?" ”
Hearing that Su Che threatened to throw himself into the corpse cage, Li Gang did not have any displeasure on his face, but raised a trace of gloom, and said Sen Ran: "One move." ”
Su Che stood up from the rocking chair and smiled, he couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad on his indifferent face, but when he passed by Li Gang, he spit out four words lightly.
"Kill, feed the dogs."
Su Che walked out, and when he came to a small courtyard full of vegetables, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a straw hat who was bending down to weed, and behind him were three figures of different sizes, ages, and qi.
Su Che just glanced at the three of them, then looked at the weeding man and whispered, "Dad." ”
He was about forty-five or sixteen years old, with slightly bald sideburns, thick and neat eyebrows, and sparkling eyes. When he looks at people, he pays great attention; When smiling, a mouthful of neat and slightly white teeth is revealed; His fingers were thick, black mud was between his fingernails, and he wore an old green cotton jacket and a blue cloth apron around his waist.
It's hard to believe that such a man like an old farmer in the field is actually the helmsman of the entire Longjiang City, Su Zhenting.
Seeing his son coming, Su Zhenting also raised his head, but continued to concentrate on removing weeds with scissors. It wasn't until a quarter of an hour later, after finally removing the weeds that were blocking the growth of his vegetables, that he got up and said to Su Che, "Have you thought about it?" ”
Su Che's face was expressionless, and he said loudly: "I think about it." ”
Su Zhenting laughed dryly, and there was some helplessness in the corners of his eyes: "Lao Tzu's foundation is not big, but it is enough for you to enjoy a lifetime of glory and wealth, if you want to kill people, you can kill, if you want to raise zombies and insects in captivity, why do you need such a big battle to be a lone wanderer, the cradle of the strong?" Oh, you only see the heroes who survived and achieved prestige in your eyes, how can you imagine that it is an existence that stands out among hundreds or thousands of people? ”
Su Che shook his head: "I know what I'm doing, now I have you, I can escort me, but what if you're dead?" Don't talk about others, even Uncle Li must want to put me to death, after all, his adopted son who has been cultivated for eight years was thrown into the cage by my own hands......"
Su Zhenting was furious: "He dares!" ”
But for a moment, he remembered the shy boy and the broken corpse, and finally shook his head, a little embarrassed: "If there is a day, I will kill him early, and those who want to kill you." ”
A pair of psychologically deformed father and son.
There is only one reason why Su Che wants to be a lone wanderer, not to become stronger, but to have no strength for fear of being killed.
Su Zhenting looked at the lone man in front of him, who was a step higher than himself in terms of talent and cruelty, his eyes were full of doting, he stretched out his hand and touched the other party's head.
"Let these three pieces of waste follow you, and I will be relieved on the way."
None of the three dared to refute Su Zhenting's almost insulting introduction, but his head was lowered, almost touching the ground, and he was even more humble.
Su Zhenting squinted his eyes and said: "This trip arranged for the three of you to follow Che'er out, it's done, return to Longjiang City, if you want power, I will give you power, if you want a woman, I will give you a woman." But if something happens to my son, I advise you to commit suicide as soon as possible, otherwise I don't need to say what the consequences will be, right? ”
The trembling trio responded in unison.
Su Che, who was watching the excitement from the sidelines, did not feel a trace of joy and arrogance because he knelt on the ground and was a strong man with the lowest military rank of sergeant, he just stood there quietly, his heart like water.
For him, nothing seemed to touch his cold heart, yes, except for a little, blood and killing.
At this point, Su Che can no longer be described as cold-blooded and butcher, but a person who completely regards everything as a mustard.
Lunatic.
ps: Seven thousand words, because the story is relatively complete, it will not be divided.
The prologue has begun, and this chapter has written some more foreshadowing, and the following is back to the main line.
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