Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

The mercenaries left, and Fu Yunlan was so angry with their self-righteousness that her wound hurt, so she sat down on the sofa clutching her stomach, waiting for the pain to pass.

"Lan, don't be angry." Celeste looked at Fu Yunlan. For some reason, Fu Yunlan always felt that he could read his worry from his unchanged expression.

"Well, don't be angry." Fu Yunlan rubbed Celeste's hair to comfort him, "I'm just worried that they will bring danger to the whole town if they behave like this."

"They haven't really seen the destructive power of mutants, so they are not afraid." Celeste said in a flat tone, "But compared to mutants, I care more about who hurt the mutants into this It looks like, if the goal of the... person or something else who injured the mutant was to put the mutant to death, would he follow the injured mutant to find us?"

Hearing what he said, Fu Yunlan became even more worried. They couldn't even deal with mutants. If something more powerful than mutants came...

For a moment, Fu Yunlan even had the idea of ​​asking Celeste to escape from Hummingbird Town, but he just thought about it, as long as he couldn't leave because of injury, Celeste might not be able to drive him away.

And even if he is willing to leave, where can he go? Is there any safe place in the wasteland?

"Does the Black Tower want to replace you?" Celeste asked, "He intentionally brought the mutants back alive to make people think that you can't beat the mutants, but he can capture the mutants alive. He is better than you. ,Yeah?"

Fu Yunlan patted his head, and sighed with resignation: "Don't think so much, help me to see the situation of that mutant, remember not to get too close to the cage, pay attention to safety."

"Okay." Celeste took the MP3 and went out.

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There was no one around the cage where the mutants were kept, and everyone dispersed after watching for a while. After all, people nowadays don't have so much energy to hunt for novelties.

When Celeste approached, the mutated man was curled up in a corner of the iron cage, motionless as if he was already dead, fine pieces of snow fell, covering his body with a thin layer.

When Celeste got closer, he heard the mutant humming something in a low voice.

"Why are you serenading?" Thelister asked.

"Really, so this song is called Serenade..." The mutant stopped humming, raised his eyelids and looked lazily at Celeste.

Celeste got a little closer and observed him. This mutant was not the same as the one who almost killed Fu Yunlan last time, but he also had pale skin and blue-black hair. His injuries were very serious, and his clothes Black blood can be seen everywhere on the body, and if the wound on the stomach had been a human being, I am afraid that he would have died a long time ago.

"Do mutants also like music?" Celeste asked curiously.

The mutant smiled palely, and did not answer his question: "Little guy, aren't you afraid of me?"

"I'm not a little guy, and you have nothing to be afraid of."

"Interesting little guy." The mutant said, "You are the first human being not afraid of me."

Celeste asked again: "Where are you from? You seem to rarely appear in people's sight. Where do you usually live?"

"...do you really want to know?"

"think."

"I'm from the future." The mutated man said flatly, "I'm a devil who came out of a book. I usually live in the book and come out at night to catch children who refuse to go home to sleep, like you."

As he spoke, the mutant licked his lips, showing a ferocious smile like a big villain.

"You didn't come out of a book," said Thelister. "Why won't you tell me?"

"What else do you want to know from me?" The mutant smiled sarcastically, "As far as I know, human beings have already come to their own conclusions, and you call us mutants—meaning mutated humans, How appropriate, we are the unlucky ghosts who were infected with the zombie virus but did not turn into zombies, and the lucky ones who obtained mysterious powers due to radiation and genetic mutations. We are destiny and the future. In the last days when human beings are destined to be eliminated, only We can adapt to the environment, we will survive like cockroaches, replace you, and become the new masters of the earth, you still have time to prostrate yourself now..."

Celeste ignored his performance, but said in a calm tone: "This is unreasonable. Genetic mutations caused by radiation or viruses are not enough to modify your genes to this extent. Which force actually created you?" 'Tentacles,' huh? Wait—" He stopped abruptly and put on his earphones, "What do you mean 'tentacles'?"

"Sorry, I don't have the authority to answer this question." Marth gave an answer that was not what Celeste expected.

"It seems that this word is also related to that 'secret', I made a note of it."

"Master, you are truly wise and powerful, with extraordinary wisdom, meticulous logic, and insightful knowledge. My admiration for you is like a torrential river, or..."

While Mars was still talking nonsense in the earphones, the mutant's expression became unusually serious: "...what do you know?"

"It seems I'm right. You were created, and for what purpose?" Celeste didn't wait for his answer before starting to guess, "Anyone who has an army of mutants , even if it is not an army, just a dozen or so mutants are enough to sweep the wasteland and become king, but there is no organization that does this. The horrible image of cruelty and blood devouring, it seems that the other party has never thought about establishing any political power. The purpose of all this is just to make the people in the wasteland uneasy-so the destruction of Merced is also related to you ?"

"Little guy, knowing too much is not a good thing." The mutant's blue-gray eyes no longer had the laziness and casualness just now.

"I'm not a little guy." Celeste looked at him fearlessly and said, "I don't know enough. Would you like to tell me something more?"

The mutant smiled: "Why should I tell you?"

"Why didn't you tell me that the person who made you didn't let you tell?"

"...Well, I really don't seem to have any reason to keep a secret for them." The mutant said, "What do you want to know?"

Celeste first asked the question he was most concerned about: "Who hurt you?"

"My kind, another mutant." The mutant said, "I killed him, and I was seriously injured, and it happened to be taken advantage of by passing humans."

"Why do you want to kill each other with your own kind?"

"Because I betrayed them, I betrayed my master." The mutated man looked at him with almost pity eyes, "They won't just let it go...they will definitely find me, when the time comes this little The town is over - those humans shouldn't have picked me up, it's too late for you to throw me out now, people who have been in contact with me, no matter what you know or don't know , they won’t be left alive anyway.”

"Oh." Celeste continued to ask in a flat tone, "Then who is your master?"

"True God." The mutant said, "I guess you should have heard of this name."

"This is unreasonable." Celeste said, "If the True God Cult has mastered such a terrifying power of mutants, why hasn't it become a force that spans all continents? Obviously, as long as a team of mutants is sent over, they threaten to say, 'I am not a member of my religion. Shoot or kill', everyone has to believe obediently whether they believe it or not, so why do they need to use various means to go to the wasteland to preach?"

The mutant seemed a little speechless by his question, and Celeste looked at him suspiciously: "Why didn't you speak?"

"Okay little guy, don't be so greedy, you can only ask me three questions a day." The mutated man sighed and said, "If you want to know more information, come back to me tomorrow."

"Why?" Celeste asked.

"No reason, I just want to be so willful." The mutated man smiled mischievously.

"...Okay then, see you tomorrow."

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On the way back, Celeste put on the earphones: "Mass, what do you know about the True God?"

Masi was silent for two seconds before saying: "They are a huge force, they have established a country called the Kingdom of God, and the main forces are distributed in Europe. They have some unknown technologies, such as the one you have seen Bracelets that can block bullets and the like. Although their influence in Europe is already unparalleled, the leadership of the True God Religion is severely divided, and the military, political and religious parties are choking each other to death, which greatly limits their external expansion. In Hummingbird Town The one who sold 'holy water' to deceive people into the church was a spy sent by the government of the True Kingdom of God, the priest who was killed by the mercenary group was sent by the church, and the mutants only obeyed the orders of the military."

"Hmm." Celeste fell silent after a reply.

"What is the master thinking?" Marth asked unwillingly.

"I don't know why, but I always feel that you are deliberately simplifying some content that should not be ignored." Celeste asked, "Is it because of that 'no authority' again?"