Chapter 39: Despair
On the night of the third day, they were surrounded by bugs, and the number of bugs reached its peak in the night, the sheer number of which crushed all the defenses and efforts of the survivors, and under the moonlight, the erected lines crumbled, and death was imminent.
Many people can't forget that night, not only because they survived, but also because, they watched Shun appear, and an impossible crack appeared in the insect tide.
The originally dense black frenzy was torn apart at the moment Shun appeared, like lightning tearing through the night, Shun's existence was extremely conspicuous, conspicuous so that everyone could only look at him, they could only think about him, they could only be stunned.
They knew Shun, Shun and Zhou Heng enrolled in school together, but because Zhou Heng's too conspicuous dress and behavior covered up his edge, they never thought that one of their classmates would have incredible power like the inhuman principal.
Everyone present, including the man with glasses who had always thought he was very smart, suddenly realized that he didn't understand anything, and he didn't even know that there was such a monster around him.
No insect dares to approach within ten meters of Shun, Shun's territory is an absolute forbidden area, and the danger inside is far more dangerous than the forbidden area of Gu Xiu.
The same kind of lifeforms that had fought against Gu Xiu slowly walked out, and there were more than ten of them, the tallest of which was already close to four meters tall, and they looked at Shun, their blood-red eyes full of indifference.
Shunya stared coldly, and then, the huge life retreated, and the leader-like guy beckoned, and the insect tide receded, as if it had never come.
Shun came to their side and asked coldly, "Now, have you seen that guy?" It's the guy who beat a few of you. He pointed to the Ling family brothers and sisters.
The crowd shook their heads.
Shun showed a lost expression: "I'll take you to a survival point first, you stay there, if you meet that guy and tell him, I'm going to base 4, tell him to wait there for me, don't run around for me, I've been looking for more than two days, it's fun to hide and seek, right." ”
By the way, everyone went to the survival point, which was sorted out smoothly, with a lot of food and water inside, and the concealment and safety were also excellent.
After that, Shun left, and after more than two days of not being able to find Zhou Heng, he had already made Shun not think about tea and dinner, and couldn't sleep at night, and if he waited any longer, Shun suspected that he could have a heart attack in a hurry.
The people lived at the survival site, during which they also went out to save people a few times, and the number of people increased by a few compared to the beginning.
With plenty of food and water, and even safety, most people were safe until the man appeared.
He killed a giant bug that was hovering around here.
Most of the survivors here knew him, and several of them had been beaten by him.
His name is Zhou Heng, and he is the person he has been looking for.
It has been ten days since Zhou Heng came out alone, and Shun still hasn't found him, and he hasn't met Shun.
Zhou Heng's arrival was like a catalyst, and the survivors in the base were almost boiling.
The most excited middle-aged woman even lay on Zhou Heng's body and kept crying, which made Zhou Heng inexplicable.
The man with glasses waved his hand to drag the middle-aged woman down, and explained helplessly: "His husband went to seduce bugs alone yesterday so that our base would not be discovered, and then died, and her husband's bones can still be seen from the highest point of the base." She almost had a nervous breakdown, and you just avenged her. ”
"Oh."
Zhou Heng glanced at everyone, and his pupils slowly revealed disappointment.
"By the way, he has something to say to you, let's find a quiet place to talk together, between us, there should be a lot of things to talk about."
The man in glasses made a gesture of please.
The place where we talked was a storage room, which was very clean, but the stench of rancid sweat condensed, combined with the stale smell, formed a strange harmony.
"Do you smoke?"
Holding a cigarette in his hand, he handed it over, and Ling Yun's face was decadent. His clothes were crumpled, and he looked like a 30-year-old jobless vagrant, covered with the fruits of failure.
"You don't look energetic?" Zhou Heng vaguely remembered that this guy was full of vitality, and his whole body should be full of young people's momentum, when he pulled a group of people to fight with Zhou Heng, he was the only one who was beaten down by Zhou Heng five times and could stand up, his young and vigorous eyes that did not admit defeat Zhou Heng remembered, remembered very clearly.
"Spirit, what more spirit can I have." Ling Yun's bloodshot eyes looked at Zhou Heng.
Then he roared: "Dead, they are all dead, why, why am I the one who survived?" I'm ......"
"Boss Ling." The man with glasses interrupted Ling Yun's roar: "You still have something, can you go out and drink some water first?" ”
Ling Yun pinched the cigarette in his hand, his eyes were even more decadent, and he walked out of the storage room with vague steps, and his lonely back made Zhou Heng a little embarrassed.
"I hope you don't mind, in fact, we are all under a lot of pressure."
"Aren't you alright?"
"Actually, I'm more stressed than anyone else, I've been taking marijuana since the day before yesterday, and I have a girlfriend here, and I basically do it more than three times a day."
The man with glasses took off his glasses, and his pupils were bloodshot.
"I don't see hope, now or in the future, but I'm going to persevere, no why, just because I'm alive."
"Life will always find its own way."
"The world's extinct creatures don't think that way."
"Do you think these little things can exterminate humanity?"
"Can't you? Can you? So what, all I know is that many of my brothers died, my parents and relatives didn't know if they were alive or dead, and I was stuck in a small place for five days without a shower just to save a few mouthfuls of water, and I felt like I might as well die. ”
Zhou Heng was silent, compared to the whole world, it was really more real than what could be seen in front of him, maybe the peaceful and peaceful environment had already been restored in other places, and the glasses man was still an apocalyptic scene here, and he couldn't see any hope for the future.
The man with glasses took out an extremely old radio from a corner, and gently stroked the rough appearance of the radio with his fingertips, as if caressing his lover's skin, Zhou Heng saw a flash of hope in the eyes of the man with glasses in an instant.
"Man, we are really too weak, we are not strong enough compared to wild beasts, even our minions have been abandoned in the process of evolution, in the environment of thousands of years of comfortable life, all kinds of wild and survival instincts have been degraded almost nothing, and many people see those insects and they can't even mention the will to resist. On the contrary, those insects have sharp mouthparts, hard outer armor, strong strength and perfect instincts and intuition, physical strength, special organs, will to survive, hunting instincts, none of them are far superior to humans. Why are we fighting those bugs? ”
The man in glasses pointed to his head.
"Brain, tens of millions of years of survival of the fittest natural iron law makes human beings stand out at the top of the food chain is not unreasonable, compared to the body, stronger than humans abound, but when it comes to the brain, human beings are well-deserved first, on the road of evolution, human beings first gave up the evolution of the body and began to develop the brain, from cold weapons to hot, weapons of the times have made human beings occupy an absolute position in the entire ecological cycle, absolutely unshakable. Bugs are terrible, but they will still be injured, and if they will be injured, they will die, human beings have stood at the top of the food chain for thousands of years, and the accumulated heritage is unimaginable, and when they react and coordinate everything, they should have the ability to destroy those insects, not by flesh and blood to fight, but with our creations to slaughter those creatures who dare to challenge the throne of mankind, we should win. ”
"I found this radio, it's my hope, I don't have a weapon, I can't defeat those bugs, all I can rely on is the army. I could hear the government's reassurance of the survivors, and I began to learn about the army's nationwide rescue activities. I've been waiting, waiting here to hear the footsteps of the soldiers, the sound of gunfire......"
"I waited for ten days, listened to the radio for ten days, and I only listened to it for a while every day, but after today, the battery was probably gone."
The glasses man's eyes slowly flickered with despair, the radio carried all his hopes, and the bearer of hope would soon become a piece of rotten iron.
"Every day on the radio, people say earnestly that they will send a large number of troops to rescue us, so I am waiting, no matter how many people die, I am waiting, but what will happen after waiting? Will anyone come? This disaster is world-class, our whole country has been covered with bugs, the country is so big, there are only so many troops, counties, cities and provinces, how long will it take for millions of troops to be saved, and by the time we have a remote area here, I am afraid that most of the survivors have already starved to death. Even if we're lucky enough to have someone to save us in a limited time, does that make sense? Nothing is gone, my world has changed, and no one knows what will happen in the future. ”
Nothing, friends, brothers, family, the sudden catastrophe made a group of minors meet head-on, the surrounding world is no longer familiar, and the future will never be the same as before, the man with glasses thinks more than others, and worries more, so he has been thinking, has been despairing, but he has not despaired completely, he still wants to live, he still doesn't want to die, even if he lives like a walking corpse.
"Are you scared?" Zhou Heng smiled, who is not afraid of death? But what is far more terrible than death is the unknown, in the unknown environment, get by, simple-minded people are fine, but far-sighted people are more likely to fall into despair than ordinary people, and they are more likely to die early, think more, don't know more, and fear more nature, and the man with glasses is also caught in such a cycle.