Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"Of course I can't tell you the ending when the movie just entered the scene, nor can I throw a lot of background settings and character attributes in front of you at the beginning of the game, waiting for you to slow down. Wouldn't it be more fun to explore and discover slowly, my dear master."

"I give 1 point for this analogy, no more points," Celeste said.

"It's really sad, I thought this metaphor should at least get a three-point rating."

Celeste temporarily stopped talking to Mars, because a guard from Hummingbird Town was walking towards him. When Stoshi also looked at him, he quickly looked away again.

After the two passed by, Celeste continued to say to Mars: "I always talk to myself with my earphones on like this. It looks stupid. You have a way to talk to me without earphones or speakers. Do you want to communicate?"

"Of course, as long as I get your permission, I can establish a spiritual connection with you through the medical robot, and you don't have to worry about privacy issues at all. I can only see what you want to say to me. It only needs to pass some With simple practice, the owner will soon be able to master this communication method proficiently."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Celeste was a little unhappy.

"Master, you never asked." Marth said innocently, "If you hadn't asked, I'd tell all the important and unimportant things I know, and you would think I was annoying, and then Don’t let me talk anymore. If I can’t talk to you, what is the meaning of my artificial intelligence system? Although I seem to say that existence is meaning, but you also said that it is just meaningless chicken soup for the soul... ..."

"Okay, okay, I don't blame you." Celeste had to interrupt Marth's eloquence.

---

When Celeste returned home, Fu Yunlan was still anxiously waiting for his news. Celeste thought about it, and said to Yunlan, "That mutant is not a threat."

Fu Yunlan waited for a while, seeing that Celeste had no intention of continuing, she asked, "Why do you think so?"

"He was indeed seriously injured, and he was beaten like this because he had conflicts with other mutants. Maybe we can take advantage of this and make him our side."

"He told you all this by himself?" Fu Yunlan said, "No one knows whether what he said is true. If he is lying and tricking us into letting him out, I'm afraid no one will be able to stop him by then." Hold him."

"Don't worry about that."

"Why?" Fu Yunlan looked at him and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"...What's for dinner?" Celeste didn't answer his doubts, but forcibly changed the subject.

"Eat the rest of the potatoes first." Fu Yunlan sighed softly, Celeste avoided it so obviously, and he didn't want to press the question any further.

---

The next day, Fu Yunlan didn't know if he was too sensitive. He always felt that there were sporadic gunshots and bombs mixed in with the wind and snow. If there was another battle in the town, the alarm should have sounded long ago. .

In the afternoon, several members of the mercenary group came to the door again.

"What happened?" Fu Yunlan immediately had a bad feeling when he saw their expressions.

"Captain, we knew we were wrong, and we didn't listen to you." Heita said in embarrassment and struggle, "That mutant is indeed very dangerous. He fooled all of us. Last night, a guard saw He was walking around in the cage, the injuries on his body seemed to have completely healed, and he was so frightened that he immediately took a gun to kill the mutant, but... the mutant dodged all the bullets in the cage."

The cowboy said: "This morning, while he was sleeping, I shot him from a distance. Although he was hit, he didn't care to tear open the wound with his nails, dug the bullet out, and almost didn't die. What kind of blood is bleeding, only half an hour has passed, and there is only a shallow mark left on the wound."

"Later, we also tried various methods to kill him, but ordinary guns were useless to him, and I didn't have the materials to make enough powerful explosives. Now we have nothing to do with him." Bomb Ji said, "Fortunately, he couldn't open that cage and was stuck inside."

Fu Yunlan's frown became deeper and deeper. That cage was once used by zoos to keep elephants. The iron bars were as thick as a child's arm, but the width and height were enough for mutants to move around in it, unless dozens of guns came together. Fire to form a bullet screen without gaps, otherwise he can dodge as much as he wants-but even if he hits, the damage of the bullets to the mutants is limited, not to mention that they don't have so many bullets to waste.

"Captain, what do you think should be done?" Heita finally thought of calling him Captain at this moment.

Fu Yunlan sighed weakly: "Since he can't open the cage, everyone stay away, and don't let him have any chance to get food and water."

"You mean to starve him to death?"

"Yes, this is the only way we can think of at present."

As he spoke, he glanced in Celeste's direction, Celeste was fiddling with some parts in the corner, as low-key as usual, without any sense of presence.

---

The next day, Celeste came to the mutant's iron cage again.

"Ah, you really came." The mutant looked a little happy, "Do you want to continue asking yesterday's questions?"

Celeste shook his head: "No, I have some new questions."

"Ask, curious little guy." The mutant sat on the edge of the iron cage, dangling his feet out of the iron cage, "Why don't you get closer, are you finally starting to be afraid of me?"

"Lan won't let me get too close," Thelister said, "They want to starve you to death."

"Well, yes, this is the only way they can come up with."

"Why didn't you run away?" Thelister asked, "Staying here will only make you easier to find."

"I don't know where else I can escape, I'm tired and tired." The mutant said with his face squeezed between the railings, "I've been running away for a long time, avoiding endless pursuit all alone , and there seems to be no end to such days. You see, human beings will not accept me, and the True God religion only wants my life. There were a few gangsters who wanted to follow me--I quite admire their kind I don’t care about the species, I just yearn for the strong. Unfortunately, they were slaughtered by the mutants who chased and killed me. If I continue to escape, I may be able to live for a while, but I can already foresee that in my remaining For the rest of my life, I will repeat this boring chase and escape every day until I die."

"So you gave up and waited here to die?"

"Well, at least you can see a little different scenery before you die." The mutant looked around and smiled at a few people who were looking at him from a distance, scaring them away. He never tires of such pranks, "You know, I was once a human, and although I don't remember my life as a human at all, I'm sure I wasn't born with this ghost."

"What was that like?"

"I don't know, all I know is that one day I woke up in the factory, and all I could think about was battle-related knowledge, and the idea of ​​being absolutely loyal to that stupid King of the Real God Kingdom, and I did it for them like an idiot. A lot of things, killing a lot of people, until one day, I suddenly began to feel that I was an idiot." The mutant paused, "Don't you want to ask why?"

"Today's three questions are over."

"Oh, three damn questions, I just hope that someone will come and talk to me every day, so that the process of waiting to die will not be so boring." The mutant said, "If you have any questions, just ask, and I will tell you." Your -- if only I knew the answer."

"Tomorrow, I have to fix things, I just stopped by and asked." Celeste stood up, ready to leave.

"Damn it, I just started talking about sex." The mutant said reluctantly, "You have to come back tomorrow, you are the only one who dares to talk to me in this place."

"Okay, I will."

---

Celeste is going to repair the power grid outside the city wall today. When the population of Hummingbird Town was the largest, the land was not enough to grow, so they used the power grid to enclose some land near the root of the city wall. From the sentry tower on the city wall, you can see it at any time. Regarding the situation of those lands, there still needs to be a deterrent power grid to ensure that the crops in the field will not be stolen or plundered. At the same time, if there are zombies or bandits who want to rush in, the power grid can also become a line of defense.

Now there are not so many people in Hummingbird Town who can cultivate the land outside the city walls, so after the power grid system failed, no one took care of it. However, after Hummingbird Town was attacked by bandits, Fu Yunlan also realized that the land on the city walls The lack of garrison strength is already a looming problem, and reactivating the grid can largely make up for this shortcoming.

Celeste was not as suspicious as before. He always felt that everyone wanted Fu Yunlan's life. He left the pistol for Fu Yunlan's self-defense, and then put on his tool bag and went out to work.

After staying with the mutants for a while, Celeste first went to the power distribution room in the garrison camp, checked the circuit and switches, and repaired the part that was burned by the short circuit. After the power was connected, the power grid still could not be energized normally.

It seems that during these days when the grid is out of power, there are also some problems with the part of the city wall that is powered on.

The garrison on duty carried tools such as copper wire cutters and accompanied him out of the city to repair the broken power grid. After leaving the city gate, Celeste heard Masi's voice in his head: "Master, don't you?" Great, I found several people hiding around the front corner, none of them are from Hummingbird Town."