The ruins at night are more dangerous than during the day, and in addition to people, there are many animals that come out at night.

But even if there is a fault line in civilization, human beings are still at the top of the food chain, especially the strong individuals.

With a clattering sound, Boss Huo's mechanical arm floated up a red mist, and the metal palm easily crushed the head of a ruined coyote, threw it to the ground, and turned behind a ruined hill.

The tall, sturdy reddish-brown mule, with its small half-split head lowered, made a crisp woman's voice: "You're here." ”

Boss Huo stared at her split head: "You're late!" ”

The mule explained: "As soon as I entered the ruins of the city, I was caught by a slave owner and managed to escape. ”

Boss Huo understands the mentality of the mule: "You are a believer in the great flying goat, can you get rid of this stinky problem of not wanting to leave when you are caught?" You're sick! ”

The mule pretended not to hear: "The big sacrificial wine spreads, in the near future, you should do the internal response, cooperate with the thief group, break through the camp, and loot the supplies!" The cracked head has been slowly healing: "The sacrificial wine also plans to sack Sweetwater Town, and the autumn harvest will be coming soon, which is the time when Sweetwater Town has the most food, do you have any internal response in Sweetwater Town?" ”

Boss Huo nodded slightly: "There is one." ”

"Someone in Sweetwater is willing to do the guilty?" As far as the mules know, Sweetwater is in the best living conditions in this area of great power.

The corners of Boss Huo's mouth hooked: "Not every extraordinary twister is willing to protect a group of burdens, there are always people who yearn for freedom." ”

The mule was curious: "Who is it?" ”

Boss Huo looked at the mule and smiled, it should be the capital of his foothold in the thief group, how can he say it casually?

The mule didn't ask again, but said, "The great sacrifice of the flying goat needs a lot of wine, and there is not enough food, so we can't make so much wine, so you have to hurry!" ”

Boss Huo knew that there was no delay: "The camp is arranged, and I will go to meet him in person." ”

The fifth leg of the mule is tilted back, facing the sky, and the end becomes a sharp horn, and it says solemnly: "Born free!" ”

Boss Huo's hand shook in the air above his head, like touching a horn that didn't exist: "Born free!" ”

Early in the morning, with the help of the cover of his subordinate believers, Boss Huo returned to the singularity camp.

A cronie followed: "Head? ”

Boss Huo lowered his voice and said: "You develop more flying goat believers, cooperate with the thieves to break through the singularity camp, and another target is Sweetwater Town, the autumn wind is blowing, the crops in Sweetwater Town are about to ripen, the singularity caravan is also coming, so many supplies ......"

Someone pulled a flatbed truck over, and there were several corpses on the car, one of which was a child whose thin body could not support the big head, and a few crows were not afraid of people, and landed on the child's corpse, pecking meat one after another.

Boss Huo shook his head, took two steps forward, waved his hand away, and the crow flew into the sky, letting out a particularly ugly "Ah! Yikes! "Screams, circling around this side in the air.

…………

Bang –

As Dooche's blood gun fired, a large weathered rock shattered, and the scavengers who followed the carriage all stopped.

Du Qi put away the gun and told Zhuo Cheng: "Don't eat anything indiscriminately, fruits, roots, and leaves may kill people!" ”

Zhuo Cheng replied: "Yes." ”

To the east of the ruins of the city, there is also a Gobi Desert, but it is not as gravelly as the north, and there are many plants sparsely grown, especially bitter hemp grass, which are connected in some places.

Meadows and woods appear one after another, as if away from the ruins of the city, and the ground beneath your feet is more vibrant.

But the scavengers and wanderers who wander around do not dare to eat indiscriminately.

The so-called toxic world is not Zhuo Cheng complaining and complaining, this world is really poisonous, there are too many poisonous plants like bitter hemp grass.

It's not just humans who are distorted by radiant energy.

According to Lin Sheng, in some inaccessible places, there may be very, very strange existences.

The group did not enter the woods, but continued east along the edge of the woods.

"I've encountered a large mosquito." Lin Sheng drove the carriage and said to Zhuo Cheng as he walked: "Hey, when it sucks human blood, it automatically lays eggs on the human body, and it is not found and removed in time, and it waits until the mosquitoes hatch...... Boom! The human body disintegrated into a bunch of mosquitoes. ”

Zhuo Cheng nodded: "Terrible! ”

Lin Sheng, who talks a lot, has made him gain a lot of knowledge.

"Cough-cough-" Zhang Fan behind him coughed violently, coughing heartbreakingly.

Zhuo Cheng glanced back: "Are you okay?" ”

"No ......" Zhang Fan didn't say anything, he coughed again, and covered his mouth and big nose with one hand.

After coughing for a while, I opened my hand and saw that my palm was red.

Dooch passed by at this time and said: "Your distorted tumor cells are spreading, this is a complication, go back and change the medicine." ”

Zhang Fan's Xiaohong and Xiaobai rose and fell rapidly with their throats, but they didn't speak, afraid of coughing when they opened their mouths.

Zhuo Cheng gently patted him on the back and continued to move forward.

Even if the distorted tumor is benign, there are complications, Lin Shengbai's frightening complexion, native skin nodules and stool, Zhang Fan began to cough up blood, and Du Qi may have wandered at night......

Zhuo Cheng inevitably thought of his body, when his arm was strained, the tumor position would be sore, swelling and painful.

When the force is sufficient, the pain will be severe.

Zhuo Cheng couldn't help but complain: this team is full of rare extraordinary twisters, and at the same time they are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Along the way, Zhang Fan coughed from time to time, the soil was vivid and did not move to, Lin Shengbai lost his blood, and Du Qi drew one shriveled tumor after another......

The road gradually moved away from the woods to the north, and a hilly zone appeared in the field of vision, and a stone mountain suddenly stood on the periphery of the hill, and the stone mountain seemed to have been split by someone with a knife from the middle, and the steep mountain wall dozens of meters high was difficult for apes to climb.

Closer to the cliff, a semicircular wall of wood and stone is built against the hill on a large flat land beneath the cliff.

The fence separates the inside and outside, creating a relatively safe settlement.

Leaving the ruins of a city where a large organization is stationed, and entering the wilderness, the danger comes not only from nature with the distorted energy of radiation, but also from humanity itself.

The sacking of wilderness bandits, many times the chickens and dogs are not left.

Occasionally, if they have a good heart, they will also sell people into slavery.

The two carriages gradually approached the wall, Zhuo Cheng's curious eyes turned around, in front of the wall was a large open field, there was nowhere to hide people during the day, and at night it was okay to say that a single person could not approach quietly.

Next to the wall, there is a trench more than five meters wide and three meters deep, there is no water in the ditch, but pointed wooden stakes are erected at the bottom.

There is only one gate in the wall, and there is not only a drawbridge, but also a mechanical bed crossbow on each side of the bridge.

Zhuo Cheng has a sense of security and a sense of urgency.

"It's home! It's home! Zhang Fan became excited, followed by a cough.

Lin Sheng said: "Hey, don't talk if you can't do it!" ”

Even Du Qi's vicissitudes of life were a little relaxed.

"Mayor Mare is back!" Someone is shouting, "Mayor Mare's back!" Open the door! ”

Zhuo Cheng heard the sound of the iron rope rattling and twisting, and the erected wooden suspension bridge was slowly lowered, falling to the ground with a bang, and two thick wooden doors creaked open.

Duch's rough metal hand waved: "Go home!" ”

Tu Sheng and Lin Sheng each drove a car and took the lead on the suspension bridge, and Zhuo Cheng picked up the mechanical repeater and followed behind.

As soon as he entered the door, a middle-aged bald man greeted him, and Zhang Fan coughed and took a few steps forward: "Dad!" ”

The middle-aged bald man nodded slightly, looked at Zhuo Cheng curiously, and finally put his eyes on the two carts that were full: "Mayor Town, this time the harvest is great?" ”

"Except for the cart, the tent and the crossbow, the rest of the harvest was for the four of them," Duch said. ”

A group of young people who followed behind the middle-aged bald man all looked at Zhuo Cheng and the four of them with envy.

Compared with the familiar face, Zhuo Cheng's bare head attracted more curiosity and inquiry.

A person whispered to Zhang Fan: "Big nose, where did you get so many things?" ”

"Let me tell you, this time Xiaobai Xiaohong is very powerful...... Cough...... cough ......" Before he finished speaking, Zhang Fan suddenly coughed.

Du Qi pointed at Zhuo Cheng and introduced him to the people around him: "His name is Zhuo Cheng, the person I collected outside, a great young man." Zhang Fu, allocate a place to live, he will be a member of the militia in the future, and he will be born ......"

Seeing Tusheng's abdomen clamping, he changed his words: "Zhang Fan, you take Zhuo Cheng to take a bath and eat." ”

Zhang Fan should come down.

Zhang Fu accompanied the group inside.

There is a straight road leading to the town ahead, paved with compacted gravel, and on both sides it is full of farmland and vines.

Zhuo Cheng walked on the side of the road, observing the field on one side, it is not difficult for people who grew up in the countryside to recognize that the field is full of sweet potato seedlings.

Some people work in the fields, pinch off the young leaves and stems of sweet potato seedlings, and put them in baskets.

Looking at this scene, it is as if I have returned to the countryside when I was a child.

Thinking of the dried sweet potatoes he ate in the past two days, Zhuo Cheng immediately made a judgment that the main food crop in Sweetwater Town was sweet potatoes.

But anyone who has grown sweet potatoes knows that the yield of this thing is high, but the damage to the ground is very bad......

As soon as the thought came to mind, Zhuo Cheng shook his head, it would be good if some people could live if they ate.

"Mayor Mare!"

"Mayor Mare!"

Many people who were working near the roadside greeted Duch with a smile.

Zhuo Cheng observed very carefully, these dark-skinned people smiled sincerely, and seemed to have respect from the heart.

Passing through the farmland area, gradually approaching the entrance of the village, on both sides of the gravel road are some rough bluestone houses, the house has a small courtyard, about three meters high, the bluestone walls are exposed outside, one next to the other, it looks particularly rough.

Rather than a small town, it is more appropriate to say that a village is more appropriate.

It is even far less than the size of the medium-sized village in the east in the 2020s.

A few children were squatting on the side of the road at the entrance of the town to play with stones, and they saw a group of people running over.

Du Qi's face was gloomy, and he reprimanded: "Why didn't you go to the old god...... Didn't go to your teacher's class? ”

One of the boys pointed to the tower on the town's only two-story building and said, "Mayor, Mayor, look, look, class is over." ”

The tower is topped by a large mechanical clock that allows people to see the time at a glance.

But the most striking thing is the roof of the tower, on which the conical spire made of stone rises high and pierces the sky!

In class, after class, familiar and unfamiliar words, Zhuo Cheng heard it for the first time in this world.

Another little girl came to Zhuo Cheng's side and took Zhang Fan's hand and shook it: "Brother, have your Xiaobai and Xiaohong been powerful this time?" ”

"Ahem...... cough ......" Zhang Fan coughed for a while, and said with a little restraint: "An An, let me tell you, this time I hit twenty of them!" ”

The little girl didn't believe it, and subconsciously looked at Zhuo Cheng.

Zhuo Cheng smiled: "Really, your brother is amazing, and he saved my life!" ”

The little girl is over ten years old and knows what it means to save a life: "My brother is a big hero!" ”

Zhang Fan's nose suddenly became red.

Walking along the gravel road towards the center of the town, there are constantly people greeting you on the way, naturally, like eating and drinking.

There is no indifference among scavengers, no condescension of the Singularity to ordinary people, no mutual hostility over resources.

Zhuo Cheng remembers this kind of atmosphere, living in the countryside when he was a child.

The camp of the singularity, in order.

Sweetwater also has order.

But there is a clear distinction between order and order.

Here, the road is not wide, straight; The houses are rough and orderly.

Even every other section, there are public toilets marked with the words "men and women".

Coming to a small square in the center of the town, Zhang Fan coughed twice and said to Zhuo Cheng: "Let's go, I'll take you to take a bath, let's go eat after taking a bath!" ”

"Hey, I'll go too." Lin Sheng said.

"Good!" Zhuo Cheng followed them, his eyes drawn to the place where the spire tower was.

On the gate of the wall outside the tower, there is a wooden sign with a large line of words written on it - Singularity Orphanage!

I wonder if there will be an old man inside?