Chapter 6: The Bleak North
The further north you go, the more depressed and chaotic the scenery becomes, and the ugliest side of human nature is revealed.
It has reached the grassland, and it can be seen that there was a brief period of prosperity here, with large meadows being reclaimed for farmland and towns rising on the grassland. It is like the prototype of a small city, and if it develops like this for a few more years, the prosperity can already be imagined.
However, since the death of the chief, everything has gone into disarray, and several of his capable men have now established themselves as kings, and they are fighting with each other. The war swept through the northern steppes, countless houses were razed to ruins, countless farmlands were burned to wasteland, and people were displaced and lived a life that was inferior to pigs and dogs.
Vincent was standing outside a relatively large village at this time, and the people in the village did not have a trace of anger on their faces, and their eyes were as dull as walking corpses. Hunger and cold forced them to abandon their self-esteem, their humanity, and all that characterizes them as human beings, and to live numbly in this world. Since the village was located on the grassland, unlike the plains, they could not find anything to eat after the destruction of the land, except for the only wild vegetables that could be dug up in the grassland. However, there were too many people digging wild vegetables, and soon the only food that could fill the stomach was also exhausted, and there was nothing to eat within a radius of dozens of miles.
Wave after wave of "officers and soldiers" were collected as military rations, and in order to survive, they had to sell their sons and daughters to sell themselves. There is a fence about 50 meters long outside the village, and at this time the wall is full of people waiting to sell themselves, including old people, children, girls, and young men. In front of each person there is a piece of paper that explains what they will do and how much they can sell, and of course, most of the requirements are just to be full.
In order to make themselves look a little more popular, many girls wear clothes that cover up the three points, and some indicate that they are still virgins, but they are not, and write a lot of words about how they will serve men, that is, they are desperate for a man to take them away. As the saying goes, full of warmth and lust, now everyone even has a problem to survive, who has that extra food to feed a weak and useless weak woman? Therefore, their value is often not as good as that of some young and powerful guys.
According to what He Yutian had just learned, if they couldn't sell their children again, then when it was dark, they could only exchange their children with other parents who also sold their children, and then bring them back to share and eat the children in exchange. At this moment, suddenly an old man could no longer hold on and fell down, and a man walked cautiously, probed his snort, and then exclaimed in surprise: "He is dead." ”
His shout was like the bell of the canteen, and immediately dozens of people surrounded him, carrying the old man's body behind the wall, and before long, everyone came out, but everyone's hands were bloody, holding large and small pieces of meat. There are even some people who can't stand the hunger for a long time, and they can't wait to start stuffing raw pieces of meat into their mouths, and the raw pieces of meat can't be chewed at all, and he gags while eating, but he still stuffs all the pieces of meat, and his mouth is full of blood.
Bing Xue's smart red sleeves immediately guessed what kind of meat they were holding in their hands, and suddenly let out a scream of "ah" and plunged into Vincent's arms.
Vincent forcibly held back the disgust in his throat, all the people were like him, their faces were not too good-looking, especially Dashan, maybe he thought of something, his face was pale.
At this time, Mu Juan walked to Vincent's side, covered her mouth lightly, and whispered: "Boss, this is too miserable, when did you send a large army to recover here, the people here can't last a few days." ”
Vincent looked at the scene in front of him with an ugly face, and said in a deep voice: "We haven't figured out the specific situation in the north yet, and it is difficult to rush to send troops, let's wait a few days to see, let's touch the bottom of this place first." ”
Mu Juan nodded helplessly, although she really wanted to save the people here, but she cherished the soldiers of her country more, and did not want to cause the death of a large number of soldiers because of unplanned actions.
Such a miserable scene, everyone could no longer stand it, and they got in the car and left the village. Although the hungry villagers wanted some help, their natural fear of the soldiers kept them from approaching Vincent and the others, especially when they saw the heavy machine gun of Nasenhan on the roof of the off-road vehicle, which made them know that this was a group of soldiers who were more elite than their local armament. More elite in their hearts means more fierce and cruel, and they are already thankful that they don't come to collect military rations, so they naturally don't dare to surround and pray for their help.
The convoy headed north again, and the scene was much the same all the way. Suddenly, there was a fierce burst of gunfire in the distance, it was supposed that two groups were exchanging fire, and the convoy turned a corner and drove in the direction of the exchange of fire.
After a long distance, the convoy stopped, and Vincent picked up his binoculars to look at the scene of the exchange of fire in the distance. It was an armed force belonging to two different camps, and it looked like a militia, almost no one wore military uniforms, all of them were dressed as civilians and carried a gun on their backs. There are only a handful of people who look like leaders wearing camouflage, camouflage is colorful, there are desert camouflage, there are jungle camouflage, and even naval camouflage and air force camouflage, and at first glance it is a civilian version, not a military camouflage uniform.
Looking at the weapons in their hands, it made Vincent laugh, no wonder the red sleeves looked down on them so much, there were more than 60 people on both sides of the war, and the best weapon was the same antique AK-47, and there were no more than 4 of them, and the others were single-barreled or double-barreled shotguns, and there were even a lot of breech-loading powder guns. Vincent watched from the sidelines for 5 minutes, and the fierce exchange of fire between the two sides did not result in a single death, only one unlucky child was hit by a stray bullet.
There is no way, the people on both sides are 100 meters apart, and if they fight with a shotgun with a range of tens of meters or even only ten meters, they will be hit, and it will really be bloody. And the only ones who can hit the AK-47 on the opposite side, perhaps to save bullets, will only occasionally fire a shot, and those snatchers are obviously not sharpshooters, the huge recoil of the AK-47 makes them at least 90% of the bullets hit in mid-air.
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