Chapter 35 (I) The Lost Kingdom
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The three of them walked in the direction Stan had instructed, and all they saw along the way were destroyed buildings and vehicles: some of the high-rise buildings had been crumbling due to the burning and blowing up of the load-bearing walls and supporting columns on the lower floors, and the streets were littered with all kinds of cars that had been collided and burned, and although there were very few corpses to be seen, judging by the scars on their bodies, they were also drug addicts.
The bodies of these drug addicts lay on the ground in various positions, some of them embracing each other, and when they got closer, they found that both of them had stabbed each other in the vital parts with sharp weapons, and what they were trying to fight for had been taken by others after their deaths.
Non-drug users have all been turned into silent suicide bombs, and in a small square, all they can see are circles of white marks, and half-burned metal sculptures around them.
The city has been completely ruined, but the irony of all is that the Independence Hall, which represents the American spirit, and the statue of George at the door. The statue of Washington is intact, and it seems that God allowed the great man, who had gone to heaven, to witness the collapse of the country overnight through the eyes of the statue.
The original of the Declaration of Independence, torn apart by the Shangdu envoys, was scattered everywhere, floating in all directions with the high temperature of the yellow mist, wandering around the corners of the city.
In the alley, a drug addict holds a tin foil containing drugs, holds a match or two in his hand, and looks around for something to burn - because two matches are not enough to turn the drug on the foil into a gas for him to smoke.
Eventually, he found a few pieces of paper in the corner, two of which were still scraps of the Declaration of Independence, and he quickly wrapped them up and lit them, and burned them under the tin foil, greedily sucking the floating gases with a look of satisfaction.
"Hey. Get out of here! Tang Shuxing and the others went into the alley, and when they saw the drug addict, they immediately persuaded him to stay away from here and escape as far as possible, but who knew that the drug addict was lazily leaning against the wall and looking at the three of them with godless eyes.
"Do you want some? I've got some stock, but you'll need to trade bullets and guns for them. The drug addict sniffled and looked at the rifle in Tang Shuxing's hand, "A rifle and some bullets can be exchanged for a small pack, which can make you happy." It also protects you from surviving in this hellish place. Very cost-effective. β
"You'd better get out of here." Tang Shuxing glanced at the man. Walking forward quickly, who knew that the drug addict actually grabbed his trouser leg.
"People in hell can't go to heaven, but you can use these things to put yourself in heaven, you know? Come on! I'm kind of fair trade. If you meet someone else, I'm afraid you'll be greeted by bullets. The drug addict smiled and reached out to grab the gun in Tang Shuxing's hand, "This is a good thing, as long as you have this thing, not only can you continue to survive in hell, but if you are lucky, you can also find more inventory." β
"Get your hands on! Get out of here! Ji Kefeng pointed a gun at the man's head.
The drug addict immediately spread his hands, but still with a smile on his face. Because of drugs, he didn't have the slightest fear at all, but the instinct to survive made him let go, after all, he still wanted to live for a while longer, otherwise he wouldn't choose to use drugs to maintain his life.
Gu Huaiyi looked at the drug addict. Then I heard the drug addict whistling and humming a song, lying in a pile of garbage, as if lying on a soft bed.
"I am reminded of what Kissinger said during the U.S.-Vietnam War." Gu Huaiyi looked at the drug addict and turned back three times in one step, "He said that people in future generations may find it difficult to imagine the turmoil caused by the Vietnam War in the United States. After speaking, Gu Huaiyi let out a long sigh.
The German Jew, the former US National Security Adviser and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is probably in a corner of the United States that he was amazed that he had never foreseen the situation.
During the U.S.-Vietnam War, anarchism was rampant in the United States, rebellion controlled every young American, and a large number of hippies appeared, resulting in an uncontrollable drug problem in the United States. At that time, the younger generation in the United States generally did not think that drugs were harmful, and even believed that drugs were the spiritual food of social rebels, and drug abuse was a very common thing for ordinary people, just like when you get up in the morning to brush your teeth, wash your face and eat breakfast.
In addition to traditional drugs, new drugs also appeared in those years, and other psychedelic drugs began to appear on the market, forming a strange drug culture, and at that time, 76 million young Americans were not only facing the problem of drug abuse, but also confused and ignorant of society, unable to open their eyes and stand in a neutral perspective to see the world.
It was also the U.S.-Vietnam War that made drug dealers in the United States realize that the war not only stimulated the expansion of the U.S. drug consumption market, but also led to closer ties between the Golden Triangle's drugs and the U.S. and European markets.
During the war, most of the young American soldiers who participated in the war did not reach the voting age and the legal drinking age, which led to a series of problems, the most important of which was drug use. The domestic mafia and drug dealers began to bribe soldiers to use military aircraft to sell drugs back to China to make huge profits, and these things led to the exponential growth of the ability to produce, transport and sell drugs, and finally made the Golden Triangle, which was originally isolated and indisputable, become synonymous with drugs overnight, coupled with the combination of various factors, and the catalyst of the Vietnam War - the "Golden Triangle of Drugs" was finally born.
"I am invincible, I am invincible! Hahahaha! As the three of them were about to cross the alley, they heard the laughter of the drug addict, followed by the real cry, which turned into sobbing, and the sobbing finally turned into a crisp gunshotβthe drug addict shot himself in the head with the pistol he had snatched from the policeman.
"He's finally out of here......" Gu Huaiyi said as he looked at the dead drug addict, "maybe it's better this way." β
Tang Shuxing took a deep breath and was the first to cross the alley to the opposite street, while Ji Kefeng stood there looking at the body of the drug addict who shot himself. Although he had seen too many similar scenes, and he was a little numb, the gunshots of the drug addict before still made him break out in a cold sweat.
Am I scared? Ji Kefeng touched his chest and asked, and then turned his head to leave under Gu Huaiyi's urging.
The three of them were getting closer and closer to where Huang Yan was, and they could almost hear Huang Yan's heavy breathing in the distance, and in the slightly open street, they could still see the outline of Huang Yan's body through the dense fog - what a huge monster it was. It was about the size of a warship, five or six stories tall, and had a long tail dragging like a tadpole that had not turned into a frog at all.
"Oh my god, how did you get so big?" Tang Shuxing wiped the sweat from his neck, the closer they got to Huang Yan, the higher the temperature they felt, looking at the thermometer on their watch, it showed that it was 38 degrees Celsius, and this temperature was normal if a person exercised greatly. It won't be long before you faint and fall to the ground.
"We're getting closer. Can't run too fast. I'm out of breath. Ji Kefeng's face was very ugly.
Gu Huaiyi looked at Ji Kefeng, suspecting that his implant might be related to water, so he couldn't adapt to the high temperature.
The trio moved on, just as they were advancing. In a side building, the three Stan trio also quickly dealt with the two observation posts above, killing the six militants who had been staring at the giant monster at the observation posts.
As Keane chops off one of the fingers with a military axe, Stan and Tom take off the coats of the other two and examine their tattoos, one of which is a Ranger and the other is a Marine. These people had all served in the army, and it is possible that they had joined the mercenaries like that William or had been brainwashed in some other way, and lost their memories of that time. Turned into a puppet by hypnotic implantation.
"Keane, how long will it take you to find out who these people are?" Stan asked, turning his head.
Keane, who was crouching in the corner, was collecting fingerprints from his fingers, and at the same time took out his equipment and computer from his backpack, and said without raising his head: "I don't know, maybe the CIA and FBI have strengthened the firewall of their servers." In that case, it will take a certain amount of time, and we can't go any further, it's too hot, and even if people can stand it, the equipment and computers can't stand it, and they will burn out. β
Stan nodded, looked at Tom and said, "Tell Tang Shuxing that we can't cover them anymore, let them be careful, and we'll let them know as soon as we get the relevant information." β
"What's the evacuation plan?" Tom looks at Stan before pressing the intercom.
Stan shook his head, "There was never an evacuation plan for 1540, and the so-called evacuation plans were only temporary decisions of the commander, and they could change at any time. β
"Are we still 1540?" Keane laughed at himself, "We have come up with so many things, if the upper echelons really joined hands with Shangdu to create these incidents, they would definitely give an order to wipe us out, and I am afraid that our current situation is not as good as it was back then." β
"The last thing I want to face is the muzzle of my former comrades, but if there really is a day......" Stan stood up and looked at the silhouette of Huang Yan flickering in the thick fog in the distance, "I'm definitely not going to be soft, I believe in survivalism." β
"Survivalist ......" Keane stared at the computer screen and muttered to himself, using various means to try to remotely access the FBI server, after several unsuccessful attempts, he accidentally found a wanted notice posted on the FBI website, and among them were the three of them and the former CIA director Hawke's avatars, but they all concealed the identities of the three of them in the past, and only wrote that they were absolutely related to the terrorist organization that masterminded the Yellow Mist incident in Philadelphia, and the name of that terrorist organization was "Yaojin", not Shangdu as they knew.
Keane pointed the computer screen at Stan and Tom and smiled, "We're on the list, and in this way, the current government is either completely manipulated or blackmailed." β
"America is finished." Stan looks at the screen and shakes his head.