Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"So, do you agree?" Celeste asked looking at the mutant in the cage.

"Music that I can't listen to for decades, sounds really tempting..." The mutant plugged in one earphone again, and shook his legs following the music, "Deal."

Li Kailin happened to pass by with two guards, and when she saw Fu Yunlan and Celeste huddled in front of the mutant's cage, she walked over in confusion: "Captain, what are you doing here? "

Fu Yunlan asked: "Do you have the key to the iron cage?"

"Yes." Li Kailin took off a bunch of keys from her belt and rummaged through them, "Do you want to keep them yourself?"

"No." Fu Yunlan said, "Go and open the cage."

"Are you joking?" Li Kailin couldn't believe her ears, "No, this... This is too dangerous!"

Fu Yunlan frowned: "Give me the key."

After all, obeying orders has become Li Kailin's habit, so she gritted her teeth and handed over the key.

Although Fu Yunlan felt that doing this was more than just playing with fire, it was like playing with a bomb with the safety device dismantled, but he was still willing to believe in Celeste, not only because Celeste was his lover, but also because Because the unsolved mysteries of Celeste may be the key opportunity to bring changes to the wasteland.

The old lock was already rusty, and it was covered with ice in the past few days. Fu Yunlan tried several times but failed to open it. Celeste said impatiently to the mutant: "Don't waste time, Come out by yourself."

"Since you've said that, then fine." The mutant grasped the iron railing with both hands, and began to forcefully break it to both sides.

Under the shocked gazes of everyone, the iron railing, which was as thick as a child's arm, began to deform little by little until there was a gap that people could slip through. Drilled out.

Except for Celeste, everyone present was stunned. They all knew that the mutant was powerful, but no one expected that the mutant was so powerful.When they thought that they let such a monster stay in a paper-like iron cage for several days, and they still slept in a place close to him with peace of mind, everyone present couldn't help sweating belatedly.

Fu Yunlan subconsciously took a step in front of Celeste. The two guards turned around and ran away in fright, even crawling away. They didn't know whether they wanted to escape or find someone to be brave. Li Kailin was the first Shi Shi raised his gun and pointed it at the mutant, but the mutant rushed to her side and grabbed the barrel at a speed that was impossible for a human being, and said with a wicked smile: "Little girl, don't be so impulsive, or it will be very difficult next time." Something terrible might happen, after all, you guys have starved me for so many days, and I just want to eat one or two people to make up for it, so let’s start with you, okay?”

Li Kailin couldn't grab the gun at all, she kicked it with a slap in the face in panic, the mutant let go of the gun barrel and jumped back, exaggeratedly shouting: "Wow! How fierce!"

Li Kailin stepped back a few steps before stopping, the hand holding the gun was trembling, she cast her despairing eyes on Fu Yunlan, if this is the most powerful mercenary captain in her mind, she can't deal with the mutation If it is a human, then there is no one in the whole town who can be the opponent of the mutant.

"That's enough, don't scare her." Celeste said, "Karin, put the gun down, he's not our enemy."

"Well, I won't scare her, so I'll scare you, okay?" The mutant licked his lips and bared his teeth dangerously at Celeste, "Little guy, how dare you ask me to do something for you?" , aren’t you afraid that I’ll get angry and bite off your soft little neck? What is it that makes you so confident, tell me, is it the human being next to you that I can strangle to death with one hand?”

As he spoke, he looked Fu Yunlan up and down, as if he was thinking about which hand to use to strangle this fragile human being. Fu Yunlan looked back at him fearlessly, but his fingers tightly grasped the pistol in his clothes --The mutant in front of him looks much weaker than the one he fought before. After all, he has not eaten or drank for more than half a month, but he is still not sure of victory.

"Are you so interesting?" Celeste looked at the mutant helplessly, and the mutant laughed mischievously: "It's very interesting."

"Well, if that's the case—" said Thelister, "Mass, do it."

The mp3 earphone emitted infrasound waves that only mutants could hear. The mutant immediately jumped up like an electric shock, and ripped off the mp3 earphone with such force that the earphone cable was ripped into three pieces.

He looked at the mp3 that fell on the ground in panic, his expression was like seeing a ghost: "What, what's going on!"

"That's why I'm confident." Celeste said flatly, "Mass, do it again."

Higher-power infrasound blasted from loudspeakers in the town square.

Fu Yunlan and Li Kailin didn't hear or feel anything, they could only stare dumbfounded at what happened in front of them, Celeste stood motionless, while the mutated man covered his ears and rolled on the ground in pain Rolling around, struggling and screaming: "I know... I know I was wrong! Stop this damn infrasound! I just want to make a joke, I will obey you obediently, my Lord, please forgive me!"

The infrasound finally stopped, and the weeping mutant seemed so weak that he couldn't even get up. He was wriggling on the ground, as if he wanted to get away from the terrifying Celeste, but with little success.

"Don't bow down to me with the mentality of playing house with a child. I am not joking when I say that I will fight against the people who chase you." Celeste said, "I can kill the mutants who chase you Humans can also kill you."

He knelt down and looked at the half-dead mutant expressionlessly: "Is it clear?"

The mutated man shrank back in fear, and replied in a low voice: "...I see."

"So, tell me, what's your name?"

"number 793."

"That's not really a name," said Thelister.

"We are just 'tools'. As long as the tools have numbers to distinguish them, they don't need names."

"I don't see you as a tool," Thelister said. "You should have a normal name."

"Then... let's call it Beethoven. Although I don't remember where I saw this name, I think it sounds nice." The mutant sat up, but after such a short time, his spirit had already Much better, as if he wasn't the one who was tortured to death by the infrasound just now, "Master, I would like to ask, how much do you know about my former master—that is, the enemy you will face in the future?"

"Nothing," said Thelister. "I was waiting for you to tell me."

"This matter is very, very long, and I have been hungry for more than half a month. If you don't mind, can I go find something to eat first, my master?" The mutant who named himself Beethoven used a She looked at Celeste with pitiful eyes like a puppy.

"Go." Celeste added, "No cannibalism."

"No problem, my master." Beethoven patted his buttocks and stood up, regretfully picked up the MP3 he had thrown away just now, looked at Celeste in embarrassment and said, "That...it seems that I messed with this thing. It’s broken, does the music you can’t listen to for decades still count?”

"Don't worry, I'll fix it." Celeste took the mp3.

"You must fix it. I'll come back to you when I'm full." As Beethoven said, he jumped up a small building, and after a few vertical jumps, he jumped onto a city wall more than ten meters high. , disappeared from their sight.

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Fu Yunlan and Li Kailin looked away, looking at Celeste with complicated emotions.

"...Who can explain to me what's going on?" Li Kailin finally spoke.

"I have to go home first," Thurlist said. "There are still many things to prepare."

Maybe it's because there are few people going out in winter, and the release of mutants hasn't caused a commotion for the time being, but when Celeste returned home, he saw dozens of townspeople gathered outside his house, and they seemed excited , and some held crude signs with slogans such as "Don't stop the water" written crookedly in ink.

Old Hunter was standing on the steps of their house, trying to explain to the crowd: "Believe me, the water cutoff is only temporary. After the water plant is demolished, we will soon build a new water purifier, and then Provide everyone with pure water without radiation and pollution. Have you all forgotten that Celeste repaired the hydropower station? Since he can repair the generator of the hydropower station, he can build a water purifier. Don’t make trouble Alright, hurry up and leave."

In this situation, you can tell what happened at a glance.

As the captain of the defense, Li Kailin stepped forward and scolded: "What are you all doing here? There are still a few of you, why are you joining in the fun? Hurry up and evacuate the crowd!"

The guards turned a deaf ear to it, and one of them said: "Captain, you don't know what happened, do you? That half-blood boy is going to tear down the water plant and stop our water supply. How can we live if the water is useless?"

The crowd noticed that Celeste had returned, and turned to this side one after another. They excitedly held signs, one person took the lead, and a group of people raised their arms and shouted "Don't stop the water!", "We need water!", etc. Although the slogan is only a few dozen people, its momentum is quite scary.

Celeste frowned displeased.

Before he could do anything, Fu Yunlan had already pulled him behind, stood up and stood in front of the people.

"Shut up, you idiots!" he yelled back at the excited crowd.

In people's minds, Fu Yunlan has always been a silent and serious mercenary, who often frightens others with just one glance. He has never seen him get angry like this, and the townspeople are immediately shocked by him. Shouting for a moment, the scene fell silent for a while.