Chapter 20: The Outsider
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The sun scorched the earth, and the heat of the place name disturbed the air, causing the winding road to appear inexplicably distorted. At the end of the twisted road, the low roar of the engine is heard, and a team of three trucks suddenly appears at the end of the road.
In the old days, it was not nice to see trucks, but in the new era after the cataclysm, anyone will be surprised to see such a convoy. The end times have come, and with the passage of time, the high-tech books of the old era have become a pile of scrap metal, and mankind has returned to the days of drinking blood.
The truck raced down the road, its tires rubbing against the ground, leaving a dark wheelchair trail, and the smell of burning tires was faintly smelling in the air.
Several mutant beasts that were foraging nearby were attracted by the roaring sound and climbed the road to find out. Suddenly, an arrow **** came, directly piercing the body of the mutant beast, turning it into a corpse, and a series of arrows shot out of the truck, killing the enemies blocking the way one by one.
The truck suddenly turned around, bypassed the corpses on the road, and continued on its way.
The man who had just shot the mutant beast on the road retracted his body back into the truck and casually gestured to his companion with his thighs crossed behind him, indicating that the crisis had been resolved.
"Thankfully! Also, if you can close the curtain, I feel like I'm about to be dried up. The driver in the driver's seat felt the hot air coming from the side and couldn't help but complain. Driver Bell felt that his luck was terrible, he was supposed to be rolling the sheets with the pretty chick in bed now, but because the previous driver lost his life in an accident, he had to leave the comfortable bed and take the other person's place to come to this kind of ghost place.
People who are in a bad mood are not a driver, especially in this kind of stove-like cockpit, it is hellish to be in a good mood.
As the leader of the expedition, Kaga was assigned to be active during the day when he drew the mission, and this bad luck seemed to continue, regardless of the time of his luck. He left the last fortress with his convoy and headed west, passing several cities along the way, but those who had become savages seemed to have a special hostility towards him, and his convoy was driven out of the city by weapons and arrows, and the two sides clashed as a result, each suffering casualties.
The convoy had nothing to gain, and the food they had brought out was not much to consume, so they had to find a place to resupply, otherwise they would face a terrible disaster of running out of water, food, and oil.
Kajah soon found two more cities, and he thought his lucky day had arrived. Unexpectedly, this time things were even worse, his convoy faced a violent beast tide, but fortunately, this group of beasts hurried to avoid the danger of the convoy being wiped out. However, in the face of the beast tide, Kaga's team paid a terrible price for two trucks and eleven teammates.
Along the way, Kaga cursed all eighteen generations of the ancestors of the guy who issued the mission. He suspects that today is his own day of disaster. Sure enough, a wave of unsettled waves rose again!
After all, the nightmare still fell on his head, and there was already a shortage of supplies stored in the convoy. In this kind of wilderness, the meat can be cut from the body of the mutant beast, but where to find water to drink, and even worse, gasoline, once the oil in the truck is dry, the group can only rely on walking, in this hot weather, it is undoubtedly a disaster.
The city was getting closer and closer ahead of the winding road, and Kaja hoped that he would be able to find a material replenishment convoy in the city, and then return to the final fortress as soon as possible, away from this place of right and wrong.
The Last Fortress is undoubtedly one of the few cities that have survived intact, with a complete water and electricity supply system, and the products of the early old era are still usable, compared to those who live a life of wool and blood, the Last Fortress is a paradise.
Although the management continues to send signal waves to gather survivors from other cities. With the passage of time, I am afraid that no one can receive the source of the signal wave except for the well-preserved city!
The task of the exploration team is to collect food, and find the ability to survive other cities, so that the survivors gather to the last fortress, and then become explorers, this is a cyclical process, but also the obligation to live in the last fortress, if not followed, will be forcibly expelled, after all, the living space is limited, there is no extra supplies to feed the idlers.
In the post-apocalyptic era, the status of human beings on the planet is getting lower and lower, in addition to fighting for survival rate, they have to be forced to gather together to block the invasion of other mutant beasts, only if the strength is getting stronger and stronger, and finally the fortress will not be broken by mutant beasts and lead to the fall? The exploration team is a dangerous job, every time you go out, you die, and those who can survive are experienced and strong.
The weak are constantly being eliminated, and the strong are getting stronger and stronger, which is the natural law of survival.
"Boss Kaga, I noticed that there is a village ahead, and there are signs of survivors living in the village, but I have just experienced a beast tide, and there may be no other survivors. Where do I suggest looking, maybe get some supplies! The archer, who was sitting in the passenger seat, grabbed the glasses hanging on his chest and took a closer look, and shouted excitedly to the captain.
"I hope you can find some gas, or we'll have to push the truck back." Bell glanced at the gas gauge and muttered a grumble.
"Don't we still have two spare barrels of gasoline?" The archer said without thinking.
"What does it mean to have two barrels of spare gasoline, which is used to save lives, and if it is used, it is not called spare gasoline." Bell muttered loudly, unscrewing the lid of the kettle with one hand, moistening his dry throat.
Kaga knew Bell's worries and complaints, and comforted: "Don't worry, I have a hunch that we will gain something this time!" ”
"I wish your hunch was accurate."
The village was attacked by a beast tide, the rudimentary fence on the perimeter was completely destroyed, and the corpses of some mutant beasts lay on the ground, and there was no doubt that the village was inhabited by other survivors who fought back in the previous beast tide and killed some of the mutant beasts that invaded their homeland, but it is not known whether those people are still alive now.
Three trucks followed the road and crossed the debris of the fence into the village, scaring the survivors who had been handling the corpses of mutant beasts in the village into fleeing in all directions.
The next moment, three arrows shot out in a zigzag shape, looking at the glass, and sinking into the cushion behind him, one of which was grabbed by Kaga with his bare hands.
The truck was then surrounded by enemies coming from all directions.
Kaja realized that his actions just now were undoubtedly as rough as someone kicking someone else's door open, no wonder these people reacted so strongly.
"Stop my friend, I'm not your enemy!" Kaga walked down the door and raised his hands high, indicating that he was harmless to humans and animals, in fact, as the leader of an expedition, even if he had no weapons, his strength could not be ignored.
"Who are you? What are you doing here! As the leader of the camp, Wangxin stood up to speak to the other party. He could see in front of him that the strength of this seemingly harmless guy was no less than his own strength, and the companions around the other party were all good at fighting!
If the two sides are opponents, their own teams are definitely not opponents of each other.
"My name is Kaga, these are my teammates, and we are an expedition to the Last Fortress to collect other survivors and food!" Kaga briefly stated his intentions and showed his friendliness to the other party, and although these people seemed scruffy, they were at least reasonable.
"The Last Fortress, what's that?" Wangxin stared into the other man's eyes, knowing that he had not deceived himself, but still did not have the place name of the name in his memory.
"You don't mind, we went into the house and we were talking about these issues, and I felt like I was about to be dried by the sun." Kajah was not wearing an insulated cloak, but a suit that resembled a battle suit, and his forehead was covered with sweat from the scorching sun.
"I'm sorry, but I was forgetful, and we went into the house to talk." The man next to the Wangxin team said a few words, and then made an inviting pack to Kaga.
A few minutes later, Li Xin and Shihan arrived at the scene, and most of the people in the village gathered in the field. The last fortress, if according to the other party, is like a paradise for human beings, and where do you want to migrate to live?
"What a great guy, it's just a fight with those guys in the city!" When he saw Li Xin and Shihan enter the house, Kajia's brows jumped, and with last year's experience, he was vaguely able to find out the strength of the other party.
You must know that now Li Xin has restrained his breath and returned to the appearance of an ordinary person, and even the black scales on his body have completely disappeared. After all, he has been in a lot of fighting, and the smell of blood on his body will not disappear so easily.
"Tell me about the Last Fortress!" Li Xin ignored the others and simply inserted the subject.
"The last fortress is the original capital, after the cataclysm monsters emerge in an endless stream, the capital's defense and military are very perfect, the survivors use the power of science and technology to clean up most of the monsters in the city, and control the situation to keep the city. After that, we built a strong wall around the city to protect the city, and Ye was given the title of the Last Fortress. Kaga didn't hide it either, telling the other party everything he knew. His aim was to lure the survivors to the final fortress with a new charm of living enough: "The fortress is basically inhabited by 50,000 people, 98 percent of whom are capable people, and so far it has a complete water conservancy and power supply system, which is barely enough to function for the city, and finally the fortress is ruled and managed by eight supreme men." He hesitated for a moment before saying, "Everyone's strength is probably about the same as yours." They are mainly responsible for keeping the city safe and repelling powerful invaders. ”
Actually, the last sentence Kaga said to Li Xin. Secretly remind him that if you go to the Last Fortress, it means that you may become the ninth ruler.
"How can we get to the capital?"
"You need trucks, food and water. However, I must remind you that in the end the fortress does not support idlers, and the weak are likely to starve to death or lose their lives while participating in the hunt. Everyone has to pay enough to get the right to live in the city. Kaga swept over the scrawny and excited guys, and coldly poured a bucket of cold water to remind everyone.
He added: "However, there is at least hope that you will go, you can become stronger, or you can attach to a powerful hunting party and seek refuge, at least there is no problem in eating together." As for mortals who are completely incapacitated, I'm sorry, there is hardly any way to survive except for women! After all, the survival of the fittest, the guy who does not dare to face the reality has long lost the chance to live. ”
Kaga's words are cold, but also realistic, because that's what they are!
"What are you going to do now, leave with us, or stay here." Wangxin felt a heavy heart, and at first when he set up the camp, he hoped to survive with the others. Now, he had a better choice, except that if he left the camp and went to the final fortress, it would mean that he would most likely abandon most of the people, and the outcasts would mean death.
There were not many people in the camp in the first place, and after a series of washing, there were about two hundred. In the previous Beast Tide and Ant-Man invasion, there were less than a hundred survivors who survived the lesson, and except for the teammates he took with him earlier, at least two-thirds of them were guys who didn't have much combat ability.
"Go, why not go, go and meet the last city, at least there are new options." Li Xin remembered to look at other people with abilities that were almost the same as his own strength, and his intuition told him that where he went, he would definitely gain something.
That's right, leaving this ghost place, it is said that after just experiencing the beast tide, most of the mutant beasts in this city have disappeared, and in the next few days, it will become extremely difficult to hunt mutant beasts.
"In that case, I agreed!" Other people with good strength, I heard that they had a good life, how could they give up this good opportunity.
"Chief, are you going to send us to our deaths?" The crowd representing the weak, someone finally spoke.
From the words of the other party, it can be known that in the end, the fortress is a place for the survival of the fittest. If Wangxin took most of the strong men in the camp, even if they stayed, it would only be a dead end.
"Watch your tone, from the very beginning, no one was responsible for your life. I set up this camp to make it better for everyone to live, we accept you, we give you shelter, this is a kind of charity, but don't look at him as an obligation, you can accept alms, but you can never ask others for alms. Wangxin didn't expect these people to take things for granted, and spit out the words in their hearts.
"At the beginning of the cataclysm, everyone stood on the same starting line, and all my strength was ahead of you, which was accumulated by fighting bit by bit with my own life. As for your situation, don't blame others. If you go, it doesn't have to be dead, there will always be other hope that is alive and going. "This group of people, with their hypocritical faces, is annoying when they see it, they usually run for their lives faster than anyone else, and when they encounter something, they will only condemn others from the perspective of so-called morality, what qualifications do you have......