If it weren't for the answers of Carl and others, who have lived in the desert for a long time, the train gang would have unimagined that this vast and vast desert was a vast ocean hundreds of years ago.

At least, it is also a port city where cruise ships can dock.

Occasionally, you can see the wreckage of a ship buried in the yellow sand in the desert.

There are two ways for the Scorpion Gang to obtain supplies, one is from the wreckage of cruise ships scattered in the desert, and the former military base.

More of an airborne supply with the trademark "Bat".

Same as the valley.

Every once in a while, new supply crates will be airdropped across the desert.

At first, they thought it was somewhere in the last days, there was a super-camp with a lot of people.

Later, they learned from a group of worshippers of the Night Lady who were passing through the desert that the place might be, probably, or exist. The ideal country, which is said to be a place where supplies are regularly sent to the world, is called "Paradise".

"Didn't you even think about going and looking for Paradise?"

Kei-san asked Carl and the others questions that made him curious.

Mia nodded quickly, they were taking the train to the paradise, Mia longed for the paradise, longing for a return to the old civilization. Everyone has all kinds of beautiful imaginations about "paradise".

Legend has it that the food in the paradise is inexhaustible, the paradise is free of aberrant creatures and mice, the water in the paradise is clean, and everyone in the paradise can live freely under the eaves. Legend has it that every corner of the paradise is still bathed in the glow left by the "Lady of the Night", shining warmly on everything in the paradise.

Beyoncé grabbed the cold beer glass, licked the bottle intently, felt the coolness from the tip of her tongue, and secretly glanced at Zheng Xiu from time to time.

At this time, she heard Qing Shisan's question, and couldn't help but interject: "Looking for paradise? Easy to say, do you think it's that simple? Have you ever found a map of the world? Do you know how big the world is? ”

"The area where this desert is located, on the map of the world, is just a palm-sized piece, without transportation, we can't even get out of this desert unharmed, what else to talk about finding paradise?"

As she spoke, Beyoncé seemed to remember something, showed a sudden expression, and said in surprise: "Wait, your train...... Do you want to tell us that you want to take your train to find paradise? ”

Sitting on the observation deck, Mia and the others looked at each other.

"Hahaha-"

"Paradise!"

"I didn't expect that in these years, there are really people looking for paradise!"

"It's so funny! Those old legends are believed by everyone! ”

"The Night Lady and the Old Gods may just be fairy tales of the ancients! When I was a child, I heard my dad say that the world was destroyed because of the outbreak of the Sixth World War, and every country had a superweapon called a 'nuclear bomb', and a few drops could easily destroy a country. It is said that the world war was not a night lady vs. the old gods, but several countries couldn't figure it out for a while, and they all smashed nuclear bombs to death, and finally lost the world! ”

"Even if there really is, the world is so big, how can it be found!"

"It's better to stay in the desert for the rest of your life! I'd rather deal with sandworms and demons. ”

The marauders, who were accustomed to roaming the desert, burst into laughter without thinking when they heard this.

Carl coughed vigorously.

"Hahaha-"

The marauders are still laughing.

Carl coughed so hard for a while that his lungs were almost coming out.

Zheng Xiu gently tapped the steel bar under him.

I am most afraid of the sudden silence of the air.

There was silence for about a few seconds.

"Who can not have a dream?"

"Who the said that paradise doesn't exist, Lao Tzu went up with a grenade to fight with him! Don't stop any of you! ”

"What's the difference between someone who doesn't have a dream and a salted fish? Paradise exists! ”

"Alas, brother, did I tell you a few days ago that my greatest wish in this life is to find paradise and live in it for the rest of my life?"

"Huh? Did you say that? ”

"Yes! Said! Isn't it just when we're on duty outside! ”

Call~

For the sake of almost coughing up their lungs, these brothers finally had some eyesight and changed their words to talk about their dreams.

Cabbage was desperately signing on the side, trying to say something.

But because as soon as he spoke, he sprayed gas, and the gas exploded at a moment, so there were countless things in his heart that he couldn't say.

"Cabbage is trying to say,"

Beyoncé took the initiative to translate for cabbage: "Actually, there is nothing wrong with living in the desert for a long time. There are not many aberrant creatures in the desert, that is, there are demons migrating from time to time, or sandworms hiding underground. ”

"We're used to living here, and if there's nothing unexpected, we'll try to survive here."

The latter words are Beyoncé's own thoughts. She looked at the dark red clouds of dust in the sky and smiled faintly: "Even if we are humanoids, none of us know when we will die, in fact, whenever I find the airdrop supplies from Paradise, I have also thought more than once that there is a possibility that Paradise is near us, right within our reach." ”

"Maybe we just need to take a step out of the desert, a small step, a little beyond the dunes......"

Beyoncé looked at the rolling sand dunes in the dark night.

"You'll find a place where you can eat all-you-can-eat, drink clean water, and not worry about being attacked by aberrant creatures."

"But ah, none of us had the courage to take that step."

"We'd rather live each day in a place we know, where we can survive."

"Even if we die tomorrow, in a few days the corpse will rot, it will be eaten by sandworms, it will become a piece of sand in the desert, at least, we are still alive today."

Carl and the others calmed down after listening to Beyoncé's overly calm words.

For a while, on the observation deck, the marauders of the Scorpion Gang had a little more thoughtful look on their faces.

It's not that they don't really believe in paradise, but they don't want to let themselves dream of this place, they don't want "hope" to exist. As the old saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. They are more worried that once they step out of this desert, they will encounter more terrible dangers than here, encounter more ferocious creatures, and even lose the habitat that they can barely survive today.

The final outcome is more likely: start today in a magnificent way, and die insignificant tomorrow.

Everyone looked at the slight ripples of the beer in the cup due to the trembling hands, and said nothing.

"I'm sorry I said something I shouldn't have said."

Beyoncé raised her glass and smiled brightly: "Although we haven't known each other for a long time, thank you Brother Zheng for this glass of cold beer given by his ability!" ”

"Thanks for the ice!"

The rather dreary atmosphere was re-energized by Beyoncé's words.

There was laughter and laughter in the observation deck again, and everyone raised their wine glasses: "To Big Brother!" ”

Zheng Xiu was stunned, how could he suddenly become a big brother.

"To today!"

"Wow! To today! ”

"To the Night Lady!"

"Woohoo! To the Lady of the Night! ”

Zheng mended: "You should respect the god of correction." ”

Everyone looked at each other: "The god of correction? What's that? ”

"It doesn't matter what god he is, I'll talk about it after I pay respect!"

"To the god of correction!"

Each world has its own unique rules of survival.

There is no distinction between good and evil.

From a human perspective, when you come into contact with groups called "Marauders", you will feel that they are brutal and dehumanizing.

But from the point of view of "divinity", the survival rules of the marauders are no different from those of others, but they are just poor people who hope to live one more day in the last days.

That's all.

"The good I am who I am, the evil I am who I am, the human nature that I am, the divine nature which I am, are all me."

Night.

The men of the two gangs drank a total of nineteen barrels of beer, and almost all of them fell asleep.

In the observation deck, Shirley turned her body restlessly and muttered, "Voice of Evolution ......"

Mia slept next to Shirley, and when she heard Shirley's dream, her heart sank, but she silently patted Shirley's back, so that her sister, at least tonight, could sleep peacefully.

After a while, Shirley fell asleep, breathing long.

Zheng Xiu was alone, along the maintenance passage, and climbed to the top of the tower.

He sat on the highest peak of the desert, overlooking the vast land.

The darkness in the distance resembles a fierce herd of beasts.

Zheng Xiu sat cross-legged, looking at the posture in the distance, motionless, approaching the dawn.

Knock, knock, knock, knock.

The temperature difference between day and night made Zheng Xiu's hair hang crystal clear dewdrops, which showed that there was still moisture in the air in the desert.

At this time, Zheng Xiu heard a creeping sound of creeping from the maintenance ladder behind him.

"Carl asked you to come?"

Without waiting for the man to climb up, Zheng Xiu took the initiative to speak.

The sound of climbing paused slightly, Beyoncé grabbed a blanket with a smile on her face, sat down next to Zheng Xiu, and wrapped herself.

"Watching the sunrise?"

Zheng Xiu asked.

Beyoncé nodded, silent for a moment. She lifted the blanket to reveal a position, and smiled at Zheng Xiu defiantly: "Is it cold?" Do you want to come in and warm up? ”

"Uh...... Not necessarily. ”

Zheng Xiu shook his head and smiled politely but not embarrassed.

"Hmph, I don't understand the amorous guy."

The simple answer had already made Beyoncé understand Zheng Xiu's thoughts. She doesn't refuse to have a one-night affair with a man who fell in love at first sight, especially a man who makes her so inexplicably in love. Ever since the ice that had fallen into the beer, Beyoncé suddenly developed a strong curiosity about this man who behaved and behaved at odds with her surroundings.

His eyes, his words, his seemingly eternal calm, his calmness that nothing seemed to shake. Even though Beyoncé had only known this man for a few hours, the more she peeked, the more curious she became about this man.

Beyoncé keenly felt a dangerous and charming temperament from Zheng Xiu's body, it was this kind of impenetrable mystery, the muscular man who broke into this desert like a dazzling meteor, at least for a moment, Zheng Xiu moistened Beyoncé's dry heart.

Beyoncé also felt that her mentality was very strange. It was so fast for no reason, and it was so thick for no reason, and she couldn't understand it, but it happened strangely. This strange mood made Beyoncé not hesitate to muster up the courage, and while the sky was still before dawn, everyone had not woken up, and secretly climbed to the top floor of the iron tower, and Zheng Xiu had a morning luck that she would leave.

But Zheng Xiu refused.

Beyoncé didn't make any more senseless temptations or anything else, and she immediately understood that the reason for Zheng Xiu's refusal was because of that woman with white skin and beautiful as a fairy.

Beyoncé didn't want to humiliate herself.

She wrapped herself in a blanket and sat quietly beside Zheng Xiu.

Love comes quickly, like a tornado. It also walks fast, and it is like a tornado.

Overnight, Beyoncé experienced the complete process of falling in love and falling out of love.

She allowed herself to maintain the sense of "turning one second into ten seconds", and this short sunrise time became extraordinarily long.

Until sunrise.

Zheng Xiu stood up and smiled at Beyoncé, "For the sake of last night's meal, I give you a piece of advice. ”

"Oh?"

Beyoncé turned her head and looked at Zheng Xiu.

Zheng Xiu pointed to the direction from which the "voice of evolution" came from in the distance: "The rat swarm is coming." ”

"Rats?" Beyoncé was stunned when she heard this, and after a moment she couldn't help but laugh and laughed: "We received news from the next district on the radio, and we heard that there is an outbreak of plague in the next district. ”

"Well, it's a pretty bad plague."

"You may not know that in the desert, rats can't come. Unless it's an aberration mouse. Beyoncé thought for a moment, "Are those rats you are talking about, very big?" ”

Zheng Xiu shook his head: "It's not big, it looks similar to a normal mouse." ”

Beyoncé: "We've seen sandworms up to two meters long in the desert, and they have more than a dozen sets of jagged teeth in their mouths, and when they eat people, the sawworms spin wildly, and the human head ...... in an instant Whoosh, ground into minced meat. Sandworms are much scarier than rats. ”

"You're right."

"Moreover, no matter how many rats there are, they can't stay up in the desert for long, which is why we still live here in such a harsh environment."

Beyoncé thinks that normal rats can't cross the desert, and they are dried up in the sun, maybe they can enrich the stock of supplies.

The Scorpion Gang made a deal with the two bandits.

As soon as the morning dawned, Carl shook his groggy head and instructed his subordinates to prepare supplies for the two damned bandits. "Damn bandits", that's what Carl, the Marauder, called the two mysterious bandits.

Those two bandits were both humanoids who arrived in the desert from other areas a few months ago, and they are strong, so forget it. The point is that it is particularly shameless, if you can fight, you will rob, if you can't beat it, you will run, but they can't catch up, several confrontations, so angry that Carl gritted his teeth when he thought of the two "damn bandits".

And this time, the two damn bandits asked for so many supplies in one go, and according to the sum of Carl and the others last night, they were sure that the two damn bandits wanted to leave this desert and couldn't stand it, so they asked for so many supplies in one go.

For the departure of the two bandits, Karl wished that the two damned bandits would go as far as possible.

As soon as the bandits leave, their Scorpion Gang will restore their long-lost peace.

"Ah...... Praise the desert! Praise to the Lady of the Night! ”

The agreed location is at the bottom of the tower, and while waiting for the bandits to arrive on time, Carl sincerely praises the god of hundreds of years ago, the Night Lady.

He is not a believer, but this time, a word or two of praise is harmless.

While Carl was waiting for the two bandits, the Train Gang had already packed their bags and were ready to leave and continue north.

"My brother,"

Carl hugged Bearded Thirteen for a while, "Aren't you considering staying in the desert for a while?" Believe me, my brother, the desert is not as terrible as you think. ”

Qing 13 glanced at Zheng Xiu in embarrassment.

"Almost."

Zheng Xiu closed his eyes and waited in place for a few minutes, and in the confusion of the others, Zheng Xiu opened his eyes, threw a monocular at Carl, and pointed in a direction.

"Huh? How is the sand jumping? ”

There was a scorpion raider, glaring, lying on the desert with his eyes level on the ground. He exclaimed, and the sand on the ground was like a popping candy in his mouth, jumping happily up and down, left and right.

Soon, everyone noticed that the ground was shaking gently in small amplitudes, from far to near.

Carl caught the telescope handed by Zheng Xiu and looked in the direction that Zheng Xiu was pointing.

"Get in the car!"

Zheng Xiu beckoned to his brothers and sisters on his side.

Swish!

The train gang here, unequivocally, climbed all into the car with a whoosh.

They don't know what's going to happen, or they guess but aren't sure what's going to happen. It's just that the train gang members, whether they escaped from Area 32 or got on the train in the middle of the valley, they all firmly believe in one thing: listening to the boss will never be wrong.

Carl adjusted the focus of the telescope, and soon, he spotted a strange figure in the desert horizon.

A fierce man with flames under his feet, carrying an "object" that looks like a corpse on his shoulder, runs desperately across the desert. His terrifying speed stamped on the desert, kicking up a cloud of dust behind him.

"Damn bandits!"

Seeing the two shameless bandits, Karl gritted his teeth and cursed.

But in the next second, Carl's face changed slightly, and his mouth opened wider, getting bigger and bigger, so big that it was difficult to close.

"! What is that! ”

Behind the two bandits, a dense black line surged out on the horizon, which was rolling in this direction at a terrifying speed, closely chasing after the two bandits.

"Swarm."

Zheng Xiu said calmly.

(End of chapter)