One Piece: Me, the Fourth Person

Katamu is just an inconspicuous small county in the vast Xinjiang, located on the edge of the entrance to the vast desert.

Generally, deserts are very short of water. There is not much rain in a year. The weather is scorching hot on weekdays. This is why there is no grass growing in the desert. All the soil and sand are cracked by the sun, and sandstorms are flying all over the sky. .

The desert is a tropical area, and the small town of Katamu next to the desert can be regarded as a small town with very limited water resources. Basically, at a glance, it is a cracked land caused by lack of water.

When a person walks onto the land, the hot surface temperature immediately penetrates the soles of the shoes and makes the soles of the feet feel warm, just like running in warm water.

However, humans are very adaptable animals. After getting used to feeling the warmth of the ground on the soles of their feet, they gradually lose consciousness and only feel that the soles of their feet are slippery, as if they were walking in mud.

The small town of Katamu is too hot, and the water source is scarce. The drought on the surface is not suitable for growing food at all. We can only grow some camel thorns, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Haloxylon ammodendron, sand watermelon, cactus, and some extremely drought-tolerant desert plants and weeds. etc.

For example, if rice and wheat cannot be grown, food in Katamu Town will become extremely difficult. You can’t eat ostrich meat, camel, and sandy watermelon and cantaloupe every day.

In ancient times, transportation was underdeveloped and information was limited. Even many people did not know how huge the ancient country of China was. Only those who are lucky enough to look at the map will understand how small their place is. People who don’t have a map think it’s amazing that they have circled this land, or even one-third of an acre of several surrounding villages and towns, and have no idea how vast the outside world is.

Food could not be grown in the ancient Katam town, but villages and tribes farther away could grow food and raise cattle and sheep because of the heavy rainfall and nearby lakes and grasslands. Whenever they needed food, they would plant their own food. The sand melons, ostriches, etc. raised in the town were exchanged for food.

When there was no water to drink during a severe drought, everyone would carry a bucket and run to the neighboring village to get it. If the neighboring village didn't have any, they would continue to look for water. When they went too far, they began to move their families, gradually looking for places with abundant water resources to settle. When water shortages appeared again, they continued to move to other places, which is now called fleeing.

Gradually, fewer and fewer people living in Katam are willing to endure the torment of drought and exchange locally produced desert animals and plants for food and water.

In addition, in just a few decades since the founding of China, various high-tech technologies have developed rapidly, communications and transportation have become popular, people have learned more knowledge, and more and more people have seen the wonderful world outside. Compared with the place where I live, which is so poor that even the water is hard to drink, the contrast in my heart must be very strong, so the only remaining people ran out one by one. After enjoying the wonderful world outside, none of them wanted to come back. .

It's like northerners who come to live and work in the south for a while and never want to go back to the north. They have to endure the days of being beaten with wooden sticks when they urinate.

If there are no parents and some important relatives at home, to be honest, people who come to work in the north really don’t want to go back, and most of them have bought real estate in the south.

The same goes for the residents of Katamu Town. Anyone who left here has never come back. What used to be a huge town now only has a dozen households left.

Among these more than a dozen families, five or six of them are elderly and widowed, and their children have gone to the outside world to work and earn money. They have lived on this barren one-third of an acre of land for most of their lives, and everything here has been completely integrated into them. In the blood, it becomes an closely related part of life. In addition, the Chinese people have a particularly serious desire to return to their roots after dying, and they want to be buried locally when they die. These old people have become the ruins watchers of Katamu Town.

Except for the old people who stay here to die, the remaining few families stay here specifically to do business.

Because most of the local people chose to flee, a lot of the vacant land became free for them to use as farmland. They can grow sandy watermelons and cantaloupe in large quantities. They can make a lot of money all year round, which is many times better than working outside. But everyone has come back to farm, and the area is too small to make money anymore.

Moreover, the Chinese government knew that there was an endless desert next to the small town of Katamu, and it was sparsely populated, so it established an experimental base. With the experimental base, soldiers and scientists all need water for eating, drinking, and eating, so the government department established a tap water project to directly deliver water to the experimental base through pipes, and also conveniently provided water to the residents of Katamu Town. .

It is because of the blessing of the experimental base that they can use the same tap water as in the city that these remaining aborigines are willing to stay here and become the last watchmen of Katamu Town.

Many old houses in the town have collapsed, and no one is repairing them. After repairs, no one will live in them. After this generation was all laid to rest, the town truly became a desolate ruin.

"Sir Lu, the ordnance experimental base is ahead."

A young man wearing a dark green military uniform pointed to a large factory-like building in front of him and said to another young man wearing casual clothes in the co-pilot.

This young man was Lu Xuan, who came directly from Shengjing City by helicopter. Not long after he got off the helicopter, he was driven away by the intelligence contact who had been waiting nearby for a long time.

The outer walls of the experimental base are about ten meters high and are made of solid cement. There is a fifty-centimeter-wide measure in the middle, which presumably divides the house into two floors. The function of the top layer of factory-like iron sheet is to insulate and absorb solar energy and convert it into electrical energy, so that people in the laboratory no longer feel so dry, hot and fully utilized.

Coupled with the fact that modern air conditioning manufacturing technology is so advanced, even if the sun is shining brightly outside, it is easy for people to feel shivering inside the house.

The experimental base is very large. After entering the gate of this building, you can see the vast desert. There are even more than a dozen large buildings next to and in the distance, including canteens, experimental buildings, arsenals, dormitories, and Some floors that even Lu Xuan didn't know what they were used for.

At the same time, there are various military cars, trucks, tanks, aircraft and artillery nearby, as well as sentries standing guard outside with guns and staring into the scorching sun. The security is very tight, which shows that the country attaches great importance to this base.

The population density of Huaxia is too high. Even in the mountains in the countryside, there is a village every few kilometers. If you want to build a weapons experimental base, you can only go to this kind of desert where no one lives and the area is very empty. Let's do an experiment.

"That's the building in front."

After the military Humvee ran on the sand for a while, the young man who led it pointed to a large building in front of him that was surrounded by a group of soldiers, and spoke slowly as a reminder.

"Are all those monsters trapped in that building?" Lu Xuan took a look and asked casually.

The young man nodded and replied: "Yes, they are all blocked inside, but the building is very big, and the number of more than two hundred people inside is not visible at all. In addition, they are smart and good at hiding, and they attack rashly." It's easy to get ambushed by them if you go in."

"These guys are really difficult to deal with," Lu Xuan sighed.

When the young man heard what Lu Xuan said, he quickly echoed, "Isn't that true? They are all extremely powerful and very smart. It is really a headache and difficult to deal with."

When Lu Xuan was still thinking of responding, the car stopped with a "magnetic" sound and had already arrived in front of the experimental building full of monsters.

"Sir Lu, your comrades in the same team are at the front. The soldiers who pass through these surroundings can see them." After the car stopped, the young man pointed to the densely guarded soldiers in front of him and gently reminded him. road.

"Thank you." Lu Xuan said politely, opened the door and got out of the car, and walked towards the monsters who were in a stalemate with the monsters.

While walking, his perception ability was released, suddenly covering a kilometer radius including the building.

Now Lu Xuan is about a hundred meters away from the experimental building, and the range that his perception ability can detect is only 900 meters. But the distance of 900 meters has not yet enveloped the entire building. I think this building is bigger than imagined.

No wonder it is difficult for people to find more than two hundred monsters inside. With such an abundant space, even if they hide individually at a distance, it is difficult to find them. If they lurk together in a group, they will give the special forces soldiers who rush in rash a blow.

"This"

The moment the perception ability penetrated into the experimental building, Lu Xuan couldn't help but was shocked and stunned, because he finally clearly saw the monsters he had heard about for a long time.

Each of them is very tall and strong, not like normal humans at all. Each of them is more than two meters tall, like basketball giant Yao Ming, but their bodies are stronger than Yao Ming. Their muscles are very developed and full of explosions. muscular man.

With such a bomb-like figure, even if they don't have super combat power, appearing in large numbers in the world will make people panic and even become an evil force that is difficult to annihilate.

With such a body, it is not a problem for one person to defeat three ordinary people, let alone now have combat power comparable to that of top special forces.

After taking the medicine, each of them became bigger and stronger, and more importantly, their eyes no longer looked like those of normal humans.

The eyes of the monsters are all blood red, as if they are possessed by a maniac, filled with rage and completely insane.

There were a total of thirty two monsters in Lu Xuan's sight. Some of them were hiding in large objects and waiting for the special forces to rush in. Some of them were sitting idle on the ground eating human flesh with relish, completely ignoring the situation that was surrounded by heavy troops outside.

"Kakaka!" A monster took the dead arm of a certain soldier and bit it like a chicken leg. It even swallowed some cartilage into its stomach. This shows how hard their teeth are after the upgrade.

The ground within the detection range was covered with blood that dried up and turned black and purple, soaking the entire floor into a different color, which was enough to show how tragic a battle had taken place here and how heavy the casualties were.