A month ago...

Originally, all this was developing in a good direction, in Blackwater City, everything was going on in an orderly manner, and the people's faces were full of good hopes for the future, as if the disaster was about to pass...

Just, I don't know why? A large number of refugees from the southern part of the empire suddenly appeared in droves on the outskirts of Blackwater City.

At first, they were polite, and looking at the abundant and well-stocked village outside Blackwater, they sent a temporary leader to try to negotiate for nothing.

However, this group of people is very stupid, thinking that when they have hundreds of thousands of people, they can use this to put pressure on Baron Tomato.

But what the refugees don't know is... Before they came, almost a million refugees had already been thrown into the fire by Baron Tomato...

If the pressure is forced, the results can be imagined.

The poor and ignorant refugees were poisoned, then stabbed by patrolling soldiers, and finally thrown into the fire and burned to ashes to feed the plough for the coming year.

Baron Tomato is also very helpless in doing this, after all, for the sake of the people in the territory, he can only make this decision not to let the order be destroyed!

Especially the terrible news that Father Martin brought before, and what he saw and heard along the way! A powerful warning for everyone in the city!

If order is disrupted, it won't be long before this becomes the next city of death!

The situation in the city of Hamburg and Munnebeaune is vivid, and Father Martin, who initially refused to do so, finally had to stand up and agree with Baron Tomato's approach.

Even if Blackwater City is considered one of the granaries of the empire, it will not be able to support refugees of this size, if they are all taken over, there should be nearly 10 million people!

With such a large number of people, just maintaining law and order is a problem! The existing number of troops is simply not capable of suppressing them!

Besides, this group of refugees is not grateful to Baron Tomato for putting them with food! Because before the start of the war, this group of refugees lived well in their homeland, at least they ate and drank!

It is because of the nobility, because of the emperor, and even more because of these soldiers that they will be uprooted and displaced!

So, even if Baron Tomato is generous, it will not be fruitful, because from the very beginning, this group of people hated him, hated the whole empire! Coupled with the inaction of the Empire, the revolt is even higher!

Back then, Ted's success story in the North was not suitable for this place, because the people of the North were used to living a hard life and had never had enough to eat! And Ted's move is to make this group of people go from frugality to luxury. It's easy, and the results are outstanding.

But now... No matter how much remedies are made, it will only make this group of refugees frugal and not get any benefits!

Even if Baron Tomato stops killing and pours out his heart and lungs to everyone...

The victims outside the city don't think about the bright side either!

In their opinion, Baron Tomato tortured and killed the victims and prevented them from entering the city! There is no food supply! I just want them all to die!

Since both horizontal and vertical are dead, it is better to gather all the victims together and resist him together!

The idea quickly spread through the camp, and it wasn't long before they were up and running!

Initially, at the beginning of the conflict, in order to get enough food, they chose to loot all the villages and granaries outside Blackwater!

Later, with the adequate ration of food, refugees from all over the world gathered more and more, and the camp grew in size!

At the same time, the victims of the disaster elected a new leader through elections, and relied on short-term common interests to pull up a large armed team with one mouth.

Although Baron Tomato lost 30% of the granaries at the beginning, it didn't matter, because in order of consumption, the grain outside the city was consumed first, and then the city.

The granaries in the village were basically empty, and for him, there were almost no losses, and the villagers outside the city had already evacuated without any casualties.

In Blackwater City, there are a total of 550,000 people, and the grain stored in the underground granary can last for up to a year and a half! So Baron Tomato is not in a hurry, but closes the city gate and guards it strictly!

At the beginning of the confrontation, everyone did not deliberately cause any conflicts, the outside could not enter, the inside was guarded by high walls, and they would not go out to find trouble.

It's just that after the food ran out, there were variables!

Driven by hunger, the victims outside have caught the attention of the city.

Presumably, there must be more food in the city than outside!

After that, I don't know who said: "Even if you die, you have to be a full ghost!" ”

So, with the slogan in force, the refugees squeezed out the last bit of food to feed the able-bodied men, cutting down nearby trees in preparation for the attack.

...

The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the day of murder and arson!

One night, a group of refugees, led by the leader, picked up the rough farm tools and launched the first attack on the broken ladder!

But Baron Tomato is not an idiot, he has long ordered the soldiers to be on duty around the clock, and the rolling logs and rocks on the head of the city, as well as the fire oil, are always in a state of readiness!

After receiving the enemy, in just 2 hours, the refugees were defeated...

This operation, too, ended in the failure of the refugee team's plan, and their new leader was killed in the battle.

After the defeat, they did not give up and, led by another leader, continued to attack the city!

But these attacks were finally blocked by Baron Tomato one by one!

...

However! There are always accidents happening in the world!

One day, Blackwater was nearly breached, as their new leader, who had been the captain of a militia and had relied on his less experience, came up with the idea of attacking the city.

Taking advantage of the night, when everyone couldn't see clearly, they launched a feint attack on the south gate of Blackwater City, and the main attack chose the east gate of the city...

Fortunately, the soldiers reacted quickly and did not cause irreparable consequences, but only allowed some refugees to rush to the city.

It's just that on this day, the form completely changed, from a stress-free defense to a 55-car.

The terrain is strange, and a small river happens to flow from east to west in Blackwater.

There is also a wide aqueduct in the castle, made of obsidian and marble, and the clear and transparent water flows from the outside, and when you come to the canal, you will be mistaken for black water, so the castle is called Blackwater Castle.

On this day, after a night of fighting, many dead bodies fell into the river!

Then, the nightmare began, because some of the dead were infected with cholera, and the germs flowed down the canal to Blackwater.

After that, a small part of the population in the city began to have diarrhea, which caused cramps and severe pain.

Because of their physical reasons, they could only curl up on the ground with their stomachs covered, and after a few hours, their strength disappeared little by little, and their bodies were no longer controlled.

Later, they had the horrible symptoms of dehydration! The body was gradually pumped into a human dry by this sudden disaster.

Finally, in the midst of a violent cough, they closed their eyes and stopped breathing ...

In an instant, the stench of corpses and excrement mixed together, and after microbial fermentation, it swept through the entire Blackwater City.

Because the city was besieged, people could not transport excrement or dead bodies out of the city en masse, so little by little, the workers threw the rotting corpses off the city walls!

After this, in order to prevent unsuspecting people from drinking the water from the canal, Baron Tomato completely sealed the inlet and switched to a well to get water.

However, the number of wells in the city is limited, and they cannot meet all the needs of the citizens, only for food and water. But that's better than nothing!

...

During this time, more and more refugees outside the city were found, the bark of the trees was gnawed away, the wild vegetables and wild animals were gnawed clean, and even the earthworms and insects in the ground were not spared.

The fertile fields and fertile plains were eaten by the refugees like locusts crossing the border, and finally became barren and bare, without any breath of life.

At the same time, in the refugee camps, cannibals are rising again!

Initially, they were suppressed by the new leader of the refugees, and under his big pie, everyone chose to believe in him again, to continue the previous attack, and to eat the food of the city after the breakdown!

But in the next few days, after one defeat after another, the cannibals stepped up again!

This time, quite a few people chose to join them!

At such times, not everyone can obey the order, especially in this group of refugees who can't read a single word, and there is no shadow of the rules.

Later, the leader who initially suppressed the cannibals eventually became the target of public criticism, and was caught by the growing cannibals and eaten on the barbecue.

It was from this time that the confrontation completely turned sour.

Outside the city, cannibals threw all those who chose not to eat people into cages as rations.

The goal has also changed from the original destruction of the city to the food to eat all the living creatures in the city!

At this time, there were 6 million refugees piled up outside the city, although the number of refugees was much smaller than that outside other cities~.

But there are only 550,000 people in Blackwater City, and there are only 30,000 militia and regular troops, and their military literacy is not high.

During the siege of the city, even with the blessing of fire oil, rolling logs, and falling rocks, this group of crazy refugees will still rush to the city.

Fortunately, in the end, there was no danger, and nothing happened.

But as time went on, things started to go wrong!

The refugees shifted their focus from the south of the city to the east of the city, which was two meters higher than the rest of the city, making it the most cost-effective way to attack the east of the city.

...

So, for the next 15 days, the cannibals and the frenzied refugees went on the offensive day and night.

On the first day of the attack, the leader of the cannibals died under the rolling logs, but his death did not cause any damage to the team, and the rest of the people still laughed hysterically and rushed to the city.

At first, they would also use tactics to match the attack, using a large number of ladders and death squads as cannon fodder to wear down the strength of the defenders.

But later, their brains were completely devoured by the virus, and they turned into walking corpses, remembering only the tasks assigned by the leader at the beginning.

That is the destruction of the city, and then after the destruction of the city, there is not a single living thing left in the city!

They abandoned their tactics and piled them all under the walls, trying to build an indestructible ladder with their flesh to attack the city!

...

On the 20th day of the siege, even if Bruce and Father Martin used up their lives, no matter how careful they were, they could not escape their doom in the end...

They contracted cholera, and within an hour, the pain in their abdomen began, making it difficult for them to move.

In the hours that followed, they were desperate, lying on the street waiting to die, and the scenes of their lives were constantly replaying in their minds...

Father Martin looked at the sun in the sky and swore in his heart that 'if he could do it all over again, he wouldn't die as this bullshit priest'.

It is said that people don't know what they really want until they die...

If Bruce had known that the disaster would turn out like this, he would have chosen to take his family and parents with him as soon as the war began, and go to the isolated North, where it was a little more bitter, tired, and cold, but still alive and not having to die on the streets as he is now.

The next moment, he felt that tens of thousands of ants were gnawing on his heart, but his body no longer allowed him to make any painful reactions...

As he lay dying, he stretched out his body and looked at the blue sky and prayed: "I hope... You can eat enough in the next life..."

Beside him, Father Martin ripped off the cross on his chest and threw him into the stinking ditch with the last of his strength.

In this life, let alone the guidance of God, or the sound of heaven, he has never even heard the sound of God's fart.

And he had to follow the orders of the religious church, in the name of God, to open a J courtyard to raise a lot of money to support the Pope's actions, in addition, he had to write indulgences himself, and then sell them to the nobles to continue to do those unspeakable deeds.

His whole life was fake, deceiving others, and deceiving himself... A whole life woven with lies is worthless!

If he could do it all over again, he would like to live in the remote north, where there are no churches, no churches, only simple men and women! With his hard-working personality, Martin was even able to marry a beautiful woman as his wife and have several children to live with...

"If there is an if, I must be a good person!"

Visions became blurred, breathing grew heavier, and every heart-rending cough seemed to shatter the already shattered body.

"Forget it, I've lived enough... Let a tragic death put an end to my hypocritical life..."

...

In Blackwater City, when the local priest organized the people to carry supplies, he inadvertently saw the two of them and felt compassion.

Even if Father Blackwater himself is very cold-blooded, but under the warm sunshine of a hundred years, his heart has changed!

He couldn't bear it, turned around and ordered his men, and quietly carried the two to the back of the church.

After a series of mysterious rituals, the two come to life, and the discomfort in their bodies is swept away.

When Father Martin came back to life, not only did he feel no discomfort all over his body, but the sequelae of years of illness were also swept away, and he even felt that his body was full of vitality! The feeling of being young is back!

Bruce even more so! He vaguely felt that his body had become stronger! The senses have also been strengthened a lot! In the shadows, you can see clearly!

However, just after the two regained their lives, they were left on the street and told by a strange man not to reveal anything or their lives would be lost!

Although the sun outside is a bit harsh, it doesn't interfere with daily life.

...

On the thirtieth day of the siege, a strange rat slipped into the inside of the granary, and due to the negligence of the caretaker, the rat was suffocated.

As the saying goes, blessings are incomparable, disasters are not one-way, and when you are unlucky, bad things are always buckled on your head one after another!

Immediately afterward, something similar happened to most of the granaries in the city! They're all polluted green... Only a small number of granaries survived.

Now, the grain that was originally enough to support a year and a half is now up to a month at most!

Baron Tomato thought that he could use the high wall outside to hold back the tide of zombie refugees, but after a few months, either all of them starved to death or were wiped out by the army sent by the Empire.

But now, that plan has come to naught!

The granary outside the city was looted by the refugees, the granary inside the city was contaminated, and the granary, which was used as a strategic store, was now in the barren mountains far north, and there was no way to get it now!

"It's... What can I do? ”

...

Just when Baron Tomato was desperate, an earth-shattering sound came...

"Boom!"

This sound was just the beginning, and then, the sound of explosions continued to come, like thunder in my ears! At this moment, Baron Tomato was desperate, he thought that the walls had fallen, or that the gates had been breached.

In short, it's certainly not a good thing!

Just as he was taking up his arms and preparing for the final battle with the rushing refugees, a guard came to the lord's hall in a panic and crawled to the lord's hall, grinning and shouting excitedly: "My lord! What a miracle! Miracles! The thunder that fell from the sky ignited the piles of corpses piled up outside the city! Their attack has stopped for the time being! ”

"Really? That's great! "Having said that, Baron Tomato didn't think so in his heart, even if there really was a God in the world, he wouldn't come to help him as a 'person'.

According to the doctrine, God will send angels to hunt him down!

So... It's either a conflict among the refugees, or someone is doing them a favor!

That group of refugees who have eaten human flesh, after so many days, their brains should have been devoured by the virus, how can they have the IQ to fight?

The results speak for themselves, someone must be helping in the shadows!

Baron Tomato put away his weapon and walked out with the guards beside him: "Let's go see what's going on!" ”

"Yes!"

...

1.2 kilometers east of the city, Ted held a telescope to observe the results.

The trucks next to him are covered with desert camouflage, and they will not be detected at all from a distance, even if you have good eyesight, you will think that you will recognize them as two stones on the Gobi when you see these two abrupt big guys!

After 100 shells, the shelling stopped.

Ted put down the binoculars in his hand and turned to look at the signal soldier who was on standby: "Send a report to the barracks and the city hall, send two infantry companies, and send another artillery company, and we will do a real combat exercise!" ”

"Yes!"

After the order was given, Steve next to him suddenly had a spirit, he pulled an empty ammunition box and put it under him, he put away the binoculars, put his hand on Ted's shoulder, and tried to ask:

"Ted, you are doing something to unarmed civilians like this, even if they eat people, you shouldn't sentence them to death... Isn't it a little too good? ”

The soldiers present had this question, but Ted didn't laugh at them, after all, they didn't know a certain amount of biology and didn't know how terrible prions or Kuru disease were!

Now, Ted is sitting here anyway, and being idle is idle! It is better to combine what you have learned, combine it with the books in the system, and use your own words to popularize the knowledge of the guards to the infantrymen.

"Comrades, there is a terrible virus in this world! It's a taboo written in our genes! Even if you're starving, don't do anything to your kind! Eating dung is better than that! ”

"Once you do that, the virus will jump from the protein into your body, eat away at your brain bit by bit, and eventually turn you into a walking corpse!"

This sentence must be nonsense for people who don't know this, thinking that Ted is telling ghost stories!

Steve drank half of the bottle of water and opened his mouth to confirm, "... This... You're not kidding, are you? Ted? ”

When he was serious about popular science, Ted would not make such an inappropriate joke, he took out a book and handed it to Steve, and said, "Of course I won't, if you don't believe me, I have a medical book, give!" Then you can also grab someone to look at it and compare the content of the book! ”

The soldiers saw Ted's serious expression and knew he wasn't joking, so they all sat on the ground without saying a word and waited for the next step.

The surroundings fell silent, and Ted continued: "After eating human flesh, it is about the third hour of the onset of the disease, and the person who eats human flesh will lose his mind and will only continue to act according to the goal that he was impressed by in life! ”

Then they laugh uncontrollably, intermittently, then maniacally, and finally hysterically! This laugh sounds quite penetrating, and trust me, you definitely don't want to hear it! It's going to be a nightmare that lingers in my memory..."

By the time he said this, the atmosphere around him had dropped to its lowest point...

"Later, their bodies will start to tremble and twitch uncontrollably, and the pain in their joints will make it difficult for them to move! Even standing is a problem! ”

"Gradually, they will gradually lose the ability to speak, and they will not even know how to eat!"

"Until the whole body stiffens and shrinks into a skinny mass, then paralyzed and incontinent, foaming at the mouth, and finally stops breathing."

"During this period, there will still be hysterical laughter from time to time, like a madman!"

After hearing this description, the soldiers subconsciously leaned towards their comrades around them, so as to alleviate their depression and fear.

After talking about these heinous symptoms, Ted let out a long breath, skipped some of the symptom descriptions, and came to the end: "If they are not treated, they will definitely die within a year, and in a serious week..."

"With the symptoms I just mentioned, it's easy to tell them from the crowd! It's also recorded in the imperial history, and you can look it up if you don't believe it, but I'm sure you don't want to see that description! ”

"I dare to say that even a doctor who has seen a lot of blood-soaked scenes has to shed a cold sweat when he sees that article!"

Steve couldn't hold back the shiver and rubbed his hands together to try to warm himself up!

After that, he shifted his position to Ted's side...

It seems that sitting next to this count, who knows everything, will gain an inexplicable sense of security.

It wasn't until Steve recovered that he remembered what he had read: "This... It turns out that everything in the record is true... I thought it was a deliberate exaggeration by the historians! ”

Ted shook his head, put a hand on Steve's shoulder, and said with a serious expression, "I don't need to make such a joke!" ”

After saying this, Ted turned his head to look at all the soldiers: "After they have eaten human flesh, they are no longer human, but a walking corpse!" Besides, there is no rule of law for this thing, and even if it is treated, the mortality rate is extremely high, and all we can do is to help them end their suffering as soon as possible..."

"Besides, this thing will be inherited, as long as it is found, it will have to be cut down and eradicated!"

"So, whatever the reason for choosing to eat people, it can't change the fact that I'm talking about, you may think it's cruel, but there's no better way..."

"All of you here are soldiers, and I hope that your psychological quality... At least better than me! In this way, we can protect the masses behind us! ”

No matter what the danger is, the soldiers must protect their families! This is where the strength of a strong army lies, as long as the home is still there, you can fight hard in front for the rear!

...

Just talking about prions, Ted suddenly recalls his college life.

I and my roommates deliberately let the characters eat human flesh in the DAYZ official uniform, and then hide in the grass by the sea in the dark to scare the new players who don't know anything.

Looking back on this now, I only feel afraid, if I could still get access to this game, Ted wouldn't have done it to death...

Just thinking about that oozing laughter, there's already PTSD...

But... Ted's mental endurance is not bad, and these shouldn't cause much trouble.

Hearing this, Steve seemed to understand something, he clenched his fists, slowly raised his head, looked at everyone with resolute eyes, and raised his hand to promise: "Don't worry, when I become the emperor, I will definitely not let other nobles and the damn church continue to exploit the commoners like this!" I, Steve, swear by me if I become a faint king! Ted could have shot me down! And then he came to be emperor! ”

"Ahem..."Ted was still a little uncomfortable when he suddenly saw this bloody scene, so he could only grab Steve's hand and quickly change the topic: "It's good to have this determination, but for now, we have to deal with the current problem..."

You have to solve the problems of the present before you are qualified to think about the future! Steve certainly knows this: "Of course, you name it!" Ted, what do we do next? ”

"Waiting for reinforcements..."Ted spread his hands and made a helpless expression, indicating that there was nothing he could do but sit down.

Ted just said that he wanted to solve the current problem, and then Steve asked for some reason, but only got this result, of course he was unwilling: "Just... Sitting so stupidly? Nothing? ”

Ted rolled his eyes fiercely, stretched out his right hand and patted the back of Steve's neck, and then pointed to the two trucks and more than 10 empty ammunition boxes next to him: "What do you think?" Our shells are gone, only heavy machine guns and light weapons, and we can't deal with millions of cannibals! ”

"Are there so many?" Steve looked incredulous, in his opinion, there should be few people besieging the city, at most 20,000!

Seeing Steve's stupid expression, Ted knew that he had given him the book, and he must not have even read it: "If you learn the course of tactical estimation, you can deduce it after a few glances..."

Steve was still unconvinced, ignoring Ted's answer, and continued to argue: "But... We've got to do something, right? ”

Steve in front of him made a common mistake, he had corrected Chris five months ago, and now, he can only say the same thing again!

"Remember! Never do something that doesn't work diao! What else to do!? We brought a total of 30,000 rounds of ammunition, and it was over when we were done, so we might as well wait for reinforcements! The artillery company will carry enough shells at a time to bombard the pile of people for a few hours before we go up ... Besides, the previous rounds of bombardment have already set the corpse mountain on fire, even if the cannibals have no brains, they should know that it hurts! Will wait for the fire to go out! During this time, our artillery will be able to arrive! ”

Steve knew the power of mortars, but even 81mm shells couldn't kill a large area, so he could only make a small circle: "Eh... Wait, you just said that you can bomb the cannibals in a few hours, what kind of cannon does that have to be? I know the power of 60mm mortars, and I know the power of 81mm shells, not as exaggerated as you say..."

Steve's observation skills are very poor, and it's normal that he didn't find anything that big, so Ted took out a picture of a cannon from his arms and handed it to him: "This... Haven't you seen the big guy in the barracks who looks like Optimus Prime? That's our new tested weapon! ”

When passing by the other day, Steve did see such a strange guy, but he didn't pay much attention to it: "You mean the big guy with two wheels?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! That's it. Ted gave a thumbs up and continued to make an introduction: "It's called the Krupp 105mm howitzer, and it's a big piece of high-explosive shells with steel balls, and we just need to wait for the cannon to arrive..."

Hearing that there was such a weapon of war, Steve was angry: "Such a good thing, why don't you bring it?" ”

Hearing Steve's reproachful tone, Ted pinched his waist and raised his voice three times and asked rhetorically, "That thing has to be pulled by a truck, our truck is already full, where can we tow two more heavy guns?" ”

"Also... That's right..."Steve could only sit on the sidelines and wait for reinforcements with everyone...