Chapter 15: Sustaining Survival
The Gu hunting competition he participated in more than ten years ago gave people the feeling that he was really killing, and it was forcing you to keep moving forward, constantly killing or being killed, and in this game more than ten years later, it seems that Reinhardt is paying attention to a structure of the game, just like a script he has set in advance, when to be nervous, when to be peaceful, when to reach a high climax, these are all under his control, and there is no audience in this game, and there is no restriction on the venue.
Yes, because of the dozen or so nuclear bombs, the whole world has become a competition ground for the Gu Hunting Ground.
"Master Ji, do you think we can find the whereabouts of that submarine?" Tang Shuxing looked around and asked.
Ji Kefeng wondered: "Didn't you say that our goal can't be set on the submarine?" ”
Tang Shuxing smiled bitterly: "It's just talking." ”
Gu Yan glanced at Ji Kefeng, and felt that Tang Shu's punishment was weird, and he always felt that he had always been a little absent-minded, and he didn't have a self-awareness of the development of things, and he was completely taking one step at a time.
Tang Shuxing continued to walk forward, saying as he walked: "I have a feeling that in this competition, we are not players, but spectators, just the kind of spectators who can be immersive. ”
What do you mean? Gu Yan and Ji Kefeng both had this thought in their minds, and they couldn't understand what Tang Shuxing was thinking.
For the next week, they walked without encountering any fighting, instead seeing quite a few refugees. But at this time, it is a bit inappropriate to describe this group of people as refugees, because the whole world has become like this, everyone is a refugee, and no one can be an exception.
But unlike the original world, those people watched them walk by, and did not reach out to beg. Asking for anything, instead watching them pass by with indifferent eyes, and some with a kind of schadenfreude. It's like watching a play.
"Hey, inquire. Have any soldiers passed by here these days? Gu Yan stepped forward and asked a middle-aged man with a broken leg.
The middle-aged man smiled: "Soldier? We are all soldiers here, do you need people to fight? If you have food and drink, we will follow you! ”
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, the people around him rushed up, surrounded them, felt out the weapon in his hand and raised it high, and said nonsense.
"I'll shoot! I have AKM! ”
"Me too! Me too! I have a sniper rifle here with a 6x scope! I can fight! ”
"I'm just blind in one eye. It does not interfere with aiming! ”
"Pick me! I still have some plastic explosives there. ”
……
The three of them were stunned, kept waving their hands, and finally squeezed out of the crowd, constantly explaining that they had misunderstood, and then walked towards the front, it should be said that they completely escaped from the crowd.
After running for a long distance, it was not until he could no longer see the group of remnants that Tang Shuxing stopped and gasped, it stands to reason that this level of running. He shouldn't have been made so out of breath, but at this time, Tang Shuxing felt very tired and confused.
They came along the way. I have hardly seen real young people, nor have I seen children, almost all of them are middle-aged people over 35 years old, and these people have an expression that it is better to die than to live, and they carry their own weapons, just like the workers who worked on the streets in the old world, but they wanted to do something different, they were for war.
Tang Shuxing sat under a low wall, looked into the distance and said, "I know why the creatures are extinct. Ongoing wars, no new life is born. How is it possible not to be extinct. ”
Gu Yan sat down and didn't speak. Ji Kefeng stood in front of Tang Shuxing and said, "Get up, keep walking, don't think too much, the more you think about it now, the slower our pace will be." ”
Tang Shuxing shook his head: "Where should we go?" We still don't know where we should go, what kind of competition, in fact, there is no competition at all, this world was originally a Gu hunting ground, but it was activated by Reinhardt's tricks. ”
"yes, you're right." A familiar voice came, and the three of them were startled, and they got up to look at the clown who didn't know when he appeared behind the low wall.
The clown leaned there, dressed in tattered clothes, still wearing the ridiculous mask that obscured the strange machinery that turned his face.
"The divisions are now disrupted, with heavy casualties, very badly, and in your region, there's still a battle going on, right here in a former big city a hundred kilometers away, where 35 teams are fighting, and the terrible thing about this kind of competition is that instead of you taking the city, you are asked to kill your enemies. On the surface, it may seem lighthearted, but in reality, it is extremely cruel. "I advise you not to go, stay here and wait for them to finish, and then go over and pick up the bargains, because you're not the ones who like to keep fighting, at least not yet." ”
The clown's words seemed to have magic, and after he finished speaking, Tang Shuxing and the others nodded involuntarily.
A long week of travel had already made them a little tired, because for for a week, they had only walked, eaten, and slept, just repeating these three things, rarely speaking, and everyone remained in a dead silence. Everything they saw along the way was already utterly despairing, and they even saw cannibalism with their own eyes, a few people who were still physically intact, with knives, forced a man with a broken leg into a corner and killed him like a wild beast, while another group of people who witnessed it in the distance were indifferent, but after the person was killed, some people had the courage to go over, for nothing else, just to share a piece of meat.
Gu Yan seems to be familiar with this situation, when he was training in Africa, he had seen too many such things, but he didn't expect the situation to get worse and worse, and today, it seems that it is not that there is no food on the land, but that people are the same as they are now, and they no longer have hope for anything.
Tang Shuxing had speculated before that if it became a world of corpses, then it would be the corpses who ate people, and the people ate them all, and the corpses ate each other, and then they were eaten by the demons...... But now it seems that there is no need to carry out such complicated steps at all, and if this continues, in just a few years, human beings will kill each other, and the so-called mass extinction should be like this.
The clown waited with them, silent, until the next morning, when he turned away, and soon drove out in a battered pickup van, let them in, and then walked towards the city where the fierce battle had ended. When I walked to the edge of the city, I saw several corpses with their legs blown off, and these poor creatures died here because they stepped on a pre-arranged mine and blew their legs because they could not be treated.
Continuing towards the city, there were corpses along the way, and there were quite a few of them, and it seemed that there were more than 35 teams.
"Not a single one alive." The clown said while driving, and he didn't know if he was talking to Tang Shuxing next to him.
Tang Shuxing sat on one side, his head resting on the window, staring blankly outside.
"Sometimes I really don't understand, what are you humans thinking, my father said, in fact, it is the machine that should be manipulated, because the most primitive machine, no, it should be said that even me, without manipulation, will not produce some kind of action, let alone think, but you humans are easy to be manipulated, just need to give a false hope, and you will do what you don't want to do like chicken blood." The clown speeds up, and the car's engine makes a strange noise, as if it's about to crack.
Then, the car ran over the corpses, the body was about to fly, the clown looked at Tang Shuxing, Tang Shuxing still had that expression, and Ji Kefeng and Gu Yan, who were sitting in the carriage, only grabbed the handrail next to them, and their faces were numb.
The car finally stopped, and the inertia brought by the brakes brought Tang Shuxing back to his senses, and then he saw a child in front of the front of the car, the child was sitting cross-legged in front of a corpse leaning against the wall, covered in blood, his eyes were blank, and around him lay five corpses with stabbed chests and abdomen, and a dagger was thrown only four meters away from him.
Tang Shuxing opened the door and got out of the car and walked towards the child, just as he was about to get closer, the child suddenly looked up at him, his eyes were full of murderous intent, which made Tang Shuxing tremble, stopped, and did not dare to step forward again.
The clown also got out of the car, leaned on the front of the car, glanced at Ji Kefeng and Gu Yan who came around from the back of the car, and then said: "Be careful, he is very dangerous, he is the only team member in this area who is still alive." ”
"What?" Tang Shuxing pointed at the child, "He's a member of the team?" ”
"That's right, don't look at him as only fifteen years old, he is still a child, but he is already very skilled in killing people." The clown said lightly, "There are only five people in his team, it is their family, dad and three mothers, plus him, a total of five people, the family team, his parents were all killed in the first attack, but he survived, he has been hiding, wandering in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to kill those who are alone." Originally, there was also a guy who had a similar idea to him, that is, the guy who killed the mortar position yesterday, and that guy was also killed by him, do you know why? Because at some point, the human conscience will suddenly kick in, and he feels that he should not do anything to the child, and he also feels that the child will not hurt himself. ”
Tang Shuxing looked at the clown coldly: "Are you saying that if people still have a conscience, they can't live?" ”
"You still don't understand, you don't understand anything." The clown shook his head, "Sometimes, I really feel that Gu Huaiyi is much greater than you in some aspects. ”
"Great?" Ji Kefeng stepped forward and said.
The clown nodded: "You heard it right, it's great, it's just that the way it is used may not be appropriate." ”
Tang Shuxing said coldly: "You can admit it now, you, Gu Huaiyi, and Reinhardt have cooperated, right?" ”
The clown smiled faintly: "It's a pity that my father re-implanted me with a program, and the program told me that I can't answer questions, and from today, robots have learned to lie!" (To be continued)