Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"You're right." Fu Yunlan decided not to think about those desperate things for the time being, and he said to Celeste with a solemn expression, "But we have no way to actively contact the Blue Shield Group, I only know that every year When the ice melts, they will send supply ships to the shore to exchange food or other scarce commodities with the people on the wasteland.”

"It's really strange. There are very few cars that can even drive in the wasteland, but they have planes and ships."

"Yes, they must be quite powerful. People say that the headquarters of the Blue Shield Group is a paradise-like existence. It is a place where everyone in the wasteland wants to go. People often venture out to sea by boat, hoping to find the Hawaiian Islands , but no news came back."

Celeste asked suspiciously: "What do they usually exchange with people in the wasteland?"

Li Jiesi answered for Fu Yunlan: "Mainly scrap metals, rare metals, books, old computer hard drives, CDs and the like."

"Books and computer hard drives..." Celeste thought for a while and said, "It sounds like they are collecting knowledge."

Li Jiesi said: "Yes, they will accept both good and bad hard drives. If it is a particularly useful book, or if there is any valuable information in the hard drive, they will give extra rewards. There are legends like 'a homeless man picked up a hard drive and traded tons of food'."

"In addition to knowledge, they also collect talents. I remember Lan mentioned this." Celeste said, "Will the Blue Shield Group's actions save the future of mankind? After all, as long as knowledge and civilization can be passed on , When the disaster is over, it will be easier for human beings to recover.”

"I don't think so." Fu Yunlan frowned and said, "We only know that they built an isolated human base on the Hawaiian Islands far from the mainland, but they never cared about other people's lives, nor did they No visible effort has been made to stop wars or improve the environment."

Beethoven agreed: "It's not so much that they want to save human civilization, but I think they want to leave some nice epitaphs after the extinction of human beings. Maybe after aliens destroy human beings and occupy the earth, they can use these cultural relics." Mourning a species that no longer exists - sounds romantic, doesn't it?"

Celeste was noncommittal about this "romance": "What is the attitude of the True God Church towards the Blue Shield Group?"

"The Blue Shield Group didn't seem to have done anything radical other than sending out leaflets saying bad things about the True God Church. I heard that General Tallis had fired a lot of missiles and nuclear bombs at them under God's instructions. The only fleet was also sent to attack the Hawaiian Islands, but these missiles suddenly disappeared into the vast sea without any feedback from the fleet. The Blue Shield Group was still there, without counterattack or retaliation, as if nothing happened , After one or two times, the True God Sect was busy fighting among themselves, and never managed them again."

Celeste asked: "Does the Devourer just sit back and watch them grow?"

"I don't know what kind of temper God is. I guess it may have something to do with the Blue Shield Group just sweeping the door and doing nothing?"

"It's strange..." Celeste fell into deep thought.

"Okay, we can't guess anything here." Fu Yunlan said, "When the ice melts, I will take you to find them."

Originally, this informal meeting hadn't come to an end yet, but a defender suddenly came to Li Kailin: "Captain! Captain! It's not good!"

Li Kailin frowned: "Don't panic, what happened?"

The guard looked at the mutant sitting in the room with some fear, and stammered, "...he, they are here!"

"They?" Fu Yunlan quickly realized who they were, "Let's go, let's check the situation first."

"Wait first!" Li Jiesi stopped the people who were going out, and said solemnly, "Whatever you have seen and heard today, no matter what you think about it, please let it rot in your stomach. ?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and they all understood Li Jiesi's worry. Although countless people had said things like "humanity is doomed", there had never been any news that made them feel such real despair.

But even if tomorrow is the end, we still have to try our best to live today. Spreading this panic will only make them uneasy even in their last days.

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The gate of Hummingbird Town was closed tightly, and the remaining guards and mercenaries were standing on the tower above the gate.

As expected, Kars brought all the people from the entire Kingdom of Kars. There were ragged old women and children in the team, as well as strong men with weapons. They pushed carts, pulled sleds, and brought everything they could bring out. , Gathered in twos and threes in an open space about a mile outside the city wall. The total number of people seemed to be not far from the people in Hummingbird Town, but there were much more combatants.

Kars sat on a box, crossed his legs and shook his toes, raised his chin and looked at the guards on the city wall who were facing an enemy, and shouted loudly with a loudspeaker in his hand: "Where is my brother, you guys Don't hang around in front of my uncle, little miscellaneous fish, go and call my brother over."

Celeste soon came to the city wall with Fu Yunlan, and Beethoven also followed Celestial confidently, although it was widely known that Celeste surrendered the mutant a few hours ago. No one knows, but seeing Beethoven walking so swaggeringly with their own eyes, many people couldn't help but retreat a little, watching his every move nervously.

Outside the city gate, Kars yelled with a loudspeaker: "Long time no see, my dear brother, I agreed that I would bring people over to join Hummingbird Town, and now I am here, but why are you all connected like seeing the plague god?" Why don't you open it?"

Everyone looked at Fu Yunlan, but Fu Yunlan looked at Celeste.

"Let them come in." Celeste said, "What you were worried about before was the lack of combat power in Hummingbird Town, but it's different now. As long as Beethoven is around, he can't turn the world around."

Beethoven immediately said that he was at his command: "Whoever you want me to eat, you talk, and I will do it."

"Okay, don't open the door yet, talk to them about the terms." Fu Yunlan also decided to trust Celeste's judgment this time.

Celeste picked up the intercom on the top of the city, and said to Kars through the loudspeaker: "You can live in Hummingbird Town, and we will give you the same treatment as all townspeople, but the premise is that you and Your men must listen to us."

Kars chuckled: "Okay, no problem."

Fu Yunlan said softly beside Celeste: "Kars will definitely not be so honest. If they come in with weapons and then attack suddenly, both sides will inevitably suffer casualties. We must try our best to avoid this from happening. "

"Yeah." Celeste nodded.

"Hey, my dear brother, what are you mumbling about there, please open the door for us quickly." Kars seemed a little impatient.

Celeste said, "Let the others stay where they are, and come in by yourself."

"Are you kidding me?" Kars said, "Don't be fooled by the Hurricane Wolf's few words to make you lose your way, and plan to blame your own brother."

As he spoke, he stood on the box and gave an ultimatum to the people on the top of the city in a louder voice: "Hurricane Wolf and the people on the top of the city listen to me, or open the door and let all of us Go in together, or hold back and don't open the door, but we still want everyone to go in together. Look at you, the whole town who can act as a face has already been pulled to the top of the city, so don't do it with so few people Unnecessary struggle. I promise, if we walk in, I will treat you well, just like treating my own people, but if we have to climb the wall to come in, then the entire Hummingbird Town, as long as they have resisted , everything will be very miserable, you must not imagine how miserable it is."

"...Unfortunately, the negotiation broke down." Celeste said, "Beethoven, bring him here."

"Look at mine." Beethoven said and jumped off the city wall.

Mutants don't look much different from ordinary people from a distance, so Kars and the others didn't notice something strange standing on the top of the city wall at first. When Beethoven jumped off the city wall, they still I thought it was someone who couldn't think about committing suicide, until Beethoven rushed towards them in a z-shaped route like an agile leopard after landing.

In order to express their disdain, none of the people on Kars' side were in a state of readiness before. Now they took off their weapons in shock, pulled the bolt to load them, and raised their guns to aim. To Kars, Kars only had time to shoot him once before he was caught by the barrel of the gun.

Beethoven grasped the barrel of the gun with the inertia of sprinting, and swung Kars, who was clinging to the handle of the gun, into the air. rushed back as quickly.

Many people had just loaded their bullets until this time, and the speed of the mutated people was so fast that they couldn't aim at all. They just fired a few shots sparsely, and watched Beethoven jump up with Kars on his shoulders, grabbing The protruding part of the big iron gate jumped up and landed firmly on the top of the city.

When Kars was thrown to the ground, he held his stomach and almost vomited. It felt like being hit on the stomach with a sledgehammer, and then he was tied upside down on the roller coaster and experienced a round of unexpected speed. Same.

"Mutants...shouldn't they be locked in a cage and starve to death?" Kars looked at Beethoven in disbelief, let alone half a minute ago he was surrounded by his subordinates and faced the people on the city wall He uttered nonsense, and half a minute later he was inexplicably tied to the top of the wall and became a prisoner.

"Beethoven is now my subordinate." Celeste said, "You neither walked in nor climbed the wall. So, can you agree to my request?"