With the death of the huntclaw, the battle in the abandoned town has ended, and the marauders of the horde such as the ogre are dead and fleeing.

Based on the direction in which the group of marauders fled, the Commander of the Spring basically deduced that their lair was in the area of the ruins of Iwasan City, about a hundred kilometers from Settlement Ten.

There are many ruins of the Prosperous Era on the northeast side of Haiya Province, and if you don't have a definite goal, looking for these guys is really no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

Later, by putting a few geostationary satellites into orbit, this problem may be solved.

In short, after identifying the lair of the marauders, a "Viper" transport plane took off from Settlement 10 and flew at a low altitude to the area of the abandoned town, loaded the nuclear bomb shielded with the communication module on the plane, and carried nearly ten players with the head iron to kill the area of Iwayama City.

At the same time, on the other side, the marauders who were lying in ambush on the west side of Settlement Ten were still counting the clouds in the sky, not knowing that their head was gone.

Sitting on the hood of the SUV, Ruifu raised the "new toy" in his hand and aimed at the bird parked on the branch, and was about to try his marksmanship, but saw the bird suddenly look left and right vigilantly, flapping its wings and flying away without warning, and couldn't help but smack his tongue, and put down the gun he raised.

The drone X-2 assault rifle, produced in the Boulder military industry, was manufactured in the wasteland era in 210 years, and the company's G9 "Black Swan" assault rifle is simply carved out of a mold.

I heard from the Southern Legion that anything can be obtained in the Free State as long as you have money.

And most importantly, they don't care if they're trading with people or ghosts, and they don't care where the money comes from.

It was a thousand kilometers away, but he really wanted to see it if he had the chance.

Looking at Lit, who was sitting next to him in a daze, he said in a casual tone.

"What are you going to do when this ticket is done?"

Hearing the voice on the side, Little yawned boredly and replied casually.

"I don't know, two bottles of wine, and then find a girl, how to live."

Hearing this dreamless answer, the corners of Ruifu's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

"Please, you don't have anything else in mind?"

Seeing Little's confused expression, he patiently continued.

"Listen, friend, troubled times are coming...... Just like the Southern Legion said, the entire alliance will collapse in an instant, and the eastern provinces will once again usher in our time, and there will be opportunities everywhere. ”

Looking at the lame guy who had been fooled, Little scoffed.

"Come on, those big noses have put a prosthetic body on you, and they have secretly changed your brains? The Alliance didn't exist two centuries ago, and when there were no blue gophers before, there was no chance, and it wasn't improvised. ”

"How can that be the same?" Ruifu shook his head, his eyes flashing with ambition, "The old bunch of scrap-picking guys weren't as fat as they are now, and we have got their farmland, factories, and research institutes, and we can use this wealth to build a kingdom of marauders!" ”

Little grinned.

"And then who are you going to rob?"

Fury was stunned for a moment, scratched his ears and cheeks for a while, and said nonsense.

"I haven't figured it out yet, I've heard that there's an old-time colony five light years away."

"It's up to you to build a spaceship to get there? Don't tease man. Little scoffed, mistaking it as a fart.

It's not that no one has tried to build a kingdom that belongs to the marauders, but those who have tried have all failed.

There is no other reason.

Marauders don't need a kingdom at all.

When there is nothing left to grab, they will fight for what little oil and water they have left.

He has seen too many such self-righteous fools, most of them carried away by the power that fell from the sky.

Looking at Ref, who was still unconvinced, Little paused and said in a tone of advice.

"You can believe half of what the big nose says, and it's better not to believe the remaining half...... Also, if you want to fly solo, it's best not to let One-Eye know. ”

"I'm just saying, I didn't think so." Ruifu glanced nervously behind him and said with a sneer.

The ogre tribe is the largest marauder tribe in Rock Mountain City, and the big and small leaders in it are also a little overlord who dominates the side when they are put on the Prancing Horse next door.

It is precisely because of this that the rules in this gang are not ordinarily strict, and if anyone dares to have two hearts, they really don't know how to write dead words.

They are with one-eyed.

That guy's heart is ruthless, and all of them are there for all to see.

At this moment, an unfamiliar voice came from behind the two.

"Haven't you ever thought about a different way of living?"

"A different way of living?" Little turned around to see a guy who looked about him sitting in the back of the car with his back to them.

He didn't recognize this guy, but it was actually normal, after all, there were people dying every day in the tribe, and new people coming in every day.

That honest conversation made him very uncomfortable, and he thought that he was a "civilized person" selected by the leader from the captives.

However, the man did not care about his cold tone, and continued in a gentle tone.

"That's right, like...... Go to the docks to get a job, or go to the construction site to pick up bricks. Of course, if you have a skill, you can do more work. ”

As soon as the words fell, the two people sitting on the hood burst out laughing.

"No kidding man, isn't that the same as those honest fat sheep?"

"Save up your life's savings, and then be robbed of them all? I'd rather be the one with a gun. ”

The man smiled faintly.

"That's right."

The understated laughter seemed incompatible with the unbridled laughter of the two.

Feeling that something was wrong with this guy, Little frowned, and reached for the rifle resting aside, vulture-like eyes staring at the man's back.

"Hey, what's your name?"

"Chu Guang."

Chu Guang......

What a familiar name.

Little frowned, his pupils dilated for a moment.

"You, you're ......"

Chu Guang jumped down from the back carriage, stood on the ground with his feet, and said in a casual tone.

"I was just curious about what you were thinking, and now my curiosity is satisfied."

Looking back at the two of them, he paused and continued.

"How about you surrender yourselves?"

"Dreaming!"

Before his words fell, Little roared and raised the barrel of the gun, pulled the trigger without hesitation, and suddenly strafed a shuttle.

That ferocious fire was enough to tear through a steel plate several millimeters thick!

However, the bullets were as slow as a stuttering slide in Chu Guang's eyes.

The whole world seemed to slow down.

He just took a step to the side, easily dodging the scorching tracks.

He didn't stop, and then pulled a silver coin of the smallest denomination from his pocket and threw it at the man who shot him.

A screeching sonic boom pushed through the white mist and whizzed past the slow-motion bullet.

Little didn't even see what was happening, he just felt a flower in front of him, and then he lost consciousness from the neck down, and his eyes flew up into the sky with the sky spinning.

Rainbow, who was standing on the sidelines, was the same, staring at the modified electronic prosthetic eyes.

He only vaguely saw an afterimage, and then the light seemed to disappear in place, and then Little's head flew off his shoulder.

A chill that penetrated deep into the bone marrow crept into his heart, and Ruifu looked at the man standing not far away in horror, his legs and stomach trembling.

“…… I...... I give up. ”

Finally unable to hold back the fear in his heart, he let go of the rifle leaning against the hood of the front of the car, raised his hands and knelt on the ground, and pleaded.

"Don't kill me......"

Chu Guang glanced at him, did not speak, and then cast his gaze to the corpse kneeling on the ground.

At this time, a crisp and pleasant sound drifted into his ears.

"Worthy of the host! It seems that the last time you leveled up, you unlocked a very powerful talent. ”

"It has nothing to do with talent."

Chu Guang replied casually.

In fact, instead of opening up his talent, he even used only forty percent of his strength.

Maybe Hea was right.

Although he still has 23 pairs of chromosomes, he is getting farther and farther away from humans.

Heavy footsteps came from not far away, and Lu Bei, who was wearing an exoskeleton, carried a head and strode to Chu Guang's side.

Staring at the bloody head, Reef finally got a good look at the face.

That guy is his one-eyed leader!

The moment he recognized that face, the sound of his breathing was completely frozen.

"Enemy units have been cleared, and we intercepted a vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft missile and several portable anti-tank rocket launchers during the battle."

"In the face of our advice, the enemy leader not only refused to surrender, but also intended to put up a stubborn resistance, and has now been killed."

As he spoke, Lu Bei rested his head on the carriage and rested his right fist on his chest.

The entire operation took less than three minutes from start to finish.

Satisfied with the efficiency of the Guards Corps, Chu Guang nodded and continued to order concisely.

"Those who surrendered were sent to prisoner of war camps, and the bodies were disposed of on the spot."

Lu Bei's expression was solemn, and he commanded.

"Yes!"

Ricke, who was kneeling in the front of the car, was completely frightened and wet his pants unconsciously.

"Do a good job of transformation and strive to be a new person...... If there's still a chance. Chu Guang glanced at him, threw down the words, and turned to leave.

Looking at the back of the alliance manager leaving, Ruifu's heart was both panic and puzzlement.

How could this guy be here?!

Didn't he go to the forest area to the north to inspect it?!

At this moment, there was a sudden muffled sound of rolling thunder from the north.

The voice seemed to come from far away, and there was a faint glimmer in the sky.

…… What is that?

Rif was stunned.

Not far away, Chu Guang also stopped and looked in the direction where the explosion came from.

"It looks like it's over."

Lu Bei, who was following closely behind him, was stunned, and then nodded with a smile.

"Hmm...... It's over. ”

……

As two flickering plasma plumes streaked by, a dazzling light finally descended on the sky above Iwayama City.

The deafening roar not only brought down the half-collapsed building, but also shattered the clouds in the sky.

A flaming mushroom cloud rose from the ground, and the spreading shockwave swept away the marauders fleeing for their lives with a devastating force.

And the marauders who narrowly escaped did not end well.

Deadly gamma rays easily pierced through the indestructible concrete, leaving invisible but fatal scars on their bodies.

Only a radiation suppressant can save their lives.

If they could explain how their radiation injuries came about, they might even be able to buy them in the pharmacy in Settlement Ten.

But that's all for another time.

At this moment, the city of Iwayama is in shambles, and there are shocking corpses everywhere under the rubble.

Not one of the surviving marauders remained, and the few who remained were all crawling under the radioactive fallout wailing in agony.

The rout soldiers who fled towards Iwayama City also stopped in despair.

Faced with the Storm Corps catching up, they could no longer muster the slightest will to resist, and threw the equipment provided to them by the Southern Army on the ground, and knelt on the ground with their hands raised in surrender.

It's over.

It was not only the fleeing marauders who were desperate, but also Wyatt, the head of Operation Guillotine.

Looking at the mushroom cloud that appeared in the opposite direction, his entire face had completely turned dead gray.

"No ......"

He didn't have time to think about how the nuclear bomb got in front of him.

At the same time that the mushroom cloud rose into the sky, a group of soldiers in exoskeletons had already killed him.

Looking at the badge and livery of the Storm Corps, Wyatt's heart sank, and he gritted his teeth and pulled out the gun on his waist to prepare to kill himself, but before he could open the safe, he was grabbed by an invisible hand and pressed his arms to the ground.

"Shoot—" Panicked, he opened his mouth to roar, but was held to his head and gnawed on a mouthful of mud.

The optical camouflage quickly dissipated, and a figure rode on top of him, holding a pistol to the back of his head.

Overwhelmed by this sudden shock, the six Willant guards standing around were all stunned, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Fortunately, the guy on their leader's back reminded them.

"Lay down your arms, raise your hands, or I'll make your heads' heads bloom."

With one hand, Wyatt, who was struggling desperately to speak, grinned as he rode on the grave on his back.

Faced with the black muzzles of the guns around them, the six Willant guards finally put down their weapons with amusement, and accepted the capture of the Storm Corps with their mouthful of mud.

At this moment, dozens of kilometers away in the city of Iwasama, the shock wave set off by the nuclear explosion has fallen silent.

Removing the concrete slab pressed against his chest, Wyatt's deputy, Auger, struggled to crawl out from under the rubble in the severe pain of a broken bone.

A sudden nuclear strike completely destroyed their stronghold......

The only thing to be thankful for is that what destroyed them was the aftermath of a nuclear strike.

Obviously, the coalition did not know their exact location, but only estimated their general location, and then hung their nuclear weapons on the plane and threw them back.

Looking at his colleague struggling under the rubble not far away, he limped up with a bitter expression on his face and helped the hapless child who was lucky enough to survive to clean up the rubble and rubble that weighed on him.

"How does it feel?"

Helping the man down to the wall and sitting down, Og handed him a radiator needle.

After the man took it, he decisively stuck it in his thigh, gasped and calmed down.

"Ahem...... Finally...... What's going on? ”

Looking at the base of operations turned into ruins, Og said with a wry smile.

"I don't know, I guess I lifted a rock and shot myself in the foot......"

Maybe his superiors were right, they really couldn't wait until they were 100% sure about everything.

However, his commander did not tell him what to do if he lost the bet......

If you think about it carefully, in the past, their opponents were either the civilian clique, or the mud of the Xilan Empire that couldn't support the wall, or the big and small tribes that were not even as good as the Xilan.

You really don't have to think about those troublesome things when you meet that kind of opponent.

And now, as expected, they have suffered a lot.

Now, though, is not the time for remorse.

The Coalition will certainly search the ruins in a moment, and they will have to evacuate before the Coalition arrives.

Og stood up from the ground and looked at his colleague to the side.

"Can you still move?"

His colleague grinned and struggled to get up from the ground against the wall.

"Make do with ......"

The two limped out of the rubble and finally stood on the rocky street.

And at this moment, the two people who were supporting each other saw the Viper transport plane parked on the street.

Og's heart tightened, and the colleague he was holding reached out and touched the gun on his waist.

Looking at the only two remaining survivors, the Commander of the Springs shouted at them.

"Surrender, you've already lost."

Ogy was silent for a moment.

Eventually, he pressed his colleague's grip on the gun's hand and shook his head at the stunned latter.

"It's over......"

……

On the other side, in the distant Great Rift Valley, the old man sitting in the empty conference room looked in the direction of the south and sighed slowly.

"Another ......"

Sure enough, the older a person gets, the more sluggish his sense of time becomes.

The nuclear bomb in Luoxia Province seemed to have happened yesterday, and in the blink of an eye, a mushroom cloud of nuclear explosion rose on the distant horizon.

Sitting here, he can't see, but the gamma-ray monitoring device in the Great Rift Valley doesn't lie.

Another tall man sat at the long conference table carved out of obsidian.

Unlike the old man with gray temples, he looked much younger, and his pupils were more intelligent.

"It's that sentence again, tsk, it seems that your language function has really degenerated."

The old man glanced at him with slight dissatisfaction.

"Your mouth is as poisonous as ever."

The tall man smiled, not taking the dissatisfaction to heart.

"I'll just think you're complimenting me."

However, can eternal and unchanging eternal life really be called eternal life?

The old man had reservations about it.

It seemed to him that the old friend in front of him was long dead.

However, instead of arguing with this annoying guy on boring issues as usual, he changed the subject without a trace.

"I can see you're in a good mood."

"Of course," said the tall man smiling, squinting at the floor-to-ceiling window, "our long-cherished wish is about to come true, and the flame of civilization will continue in our hands...... Thank goodness that after you guys messed everything up, we still had a chance to do it all over again. ”

"The Alliance promised to help you build a starship?"

"Yes."

The old man nodded.

"He's an open-minded young man...... What about your science and technology committee? Do you take them with you, or do you leave them to fend for themselves in the swamp? ”

When he said this, the old man spoke in a tentative tone.

After all, with his knowledge of the "conclusion", this guy would never reveal his plans.

However, to the old man's surprise, this guy was different from the past, and he said his arrangement straightforwardly.

"We will take away children who deserve to be saved. As for the children we can't take away, I have also thought of a way back for them, and I will entrust them and the Science and Technology Committee to the Alliance. ”

There was a look of surprise on the old man's face.

“…… Are you serious? ”

The conclusion was casually said.

"If nothing else, yes, but if there is, it's another story."

The old man was silent for a long time, and said with emotion.

"It's hard to believe...... I remember someone who saw the technology of those Age of Prosperity as the root of all the chaos, and that it was the unbridled misuse of technology that created the Wasteland Age for nearly two centuries. ”

Knowing that "someone" was referring to himself, the tall man said with a laugh.

"My thoughts haven't changed, it's the same as before. But I also said that we contain the technology so that it can be used in the right place...... And now, we think the time is right. ”

"Even if we bring the fruits of the Age of Prosperity to the light of day, their genius ideas will not be used by the scum of profit to oppress the descendants of the Human Federation, or to defend the vested interests of the Wasteland Age over the land, or any other distorted wish."

The old man nodded, as if agreeing with his words, and only with a part of his tirade.

But in any case, they have agreed on one thing.

"Maybe, maybe you're right, and I hope you're right......"

He got up from his chair, walked past the long obsidian table, and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the conference room.

It wasn't really a window, but the reflection of the panoramic imaging system on the wall.

But that barren land is real.

And the survivors who are struggling in that land are also real.

"There are some issues that have to be solved...... It can't be dragged on any longer. ”

The tall man sitting at the conference table rarely put away his playful expression, stood up solemnly, and bowed slightly towards the former chief of the War Construction Committee and now the chief of the Great Rift Valley.

"Wise decision, we have been waiting for this day for too long, but luckily we have finally made it ......"

As the words fell, the pale blue particles of light dispersed from the conference table.

A moment later, the door to the conference room opened, and a notekeeper in a silver robe walked in.

"Mr. Chief, are you looking for me?"

The old man, with his back to the notekeeper, nodded slowly.

"Write me a few letters, and wipe the table for me."

"It's been a century and a half, and it's time for us to put it to some use."

(End of chapter)