Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Kars couldn't accept this huge gap for a while: "What the fuck are you kidding, either make me the boss, or put me back, it is absolutely impossible to make me bow down!"

"You really have backbone." Beethoven grabbed his clothes by the chest and lifted him out of the guardrail of the city wall, leaving his feet dangling outside, "How dare you swear at my master, if you If you want to go back so much, I will let you go now, okay?"

Kars was so frightened that he tightly grabbed Beethoven's arm. He didn't have the physique of a mutant. If he was thrown from the city wall more than ten meters high, he would be disabled even if he didn't die, but he still refused. Subdued, he turned his head hard to look at Celeste and said, "Hey, stop messing around! Celeste, take care of your dog, do you really want to watch your brother be thrown to death?"

"You are not my brother." Celeste calmly stated the truth.

"How do you know?" Kars struggled to go back into the city wall, but Beethoven stretched his hand on the guardrail, as if Kars was a weightless paper man, stretching him further out: "Master, let's throw him down, shall we? My hands are so sore that I can hardly hold him. If I accidentally slipped my hands, you won't blame me, will you?"

"Don't, don't, don't, have something to say, have something to say!" Kars was finally afraid.

Thurlist signaled Beethoven to put Kars down: "Can I agree now?"

"Everything else is easy to say... only one thing..." Kars gasped, holding his neck, raised his head and looked angrily at Fu Yunlan who had been silent all this time, and didn't know what kind of hatred there was between them, " It is absolutely impossible for me to be a cow to the Hurricane Wolf."

Celeste said blankly, "So, what if it's me?"

"You?" Kars looked at him in astonishment.

"Would you like to be my subordinate?"

Celeste's words surprised everyone around, but Kars was very straightforward: "I am willing!"

He figured it out, in terms of being ruthless, merciless, ruthless, ruthless, and unrecognizable by his relatives, Celeste was many ranks higher than his father Fu Yuanshan, if he disagreed, would he still be alive?

Besides, Celeste is not only a genius who can repair everything, but also can tame mutants to be as loyal as dogs. I don’t want to hug such a fool with thick thighs. Kars can go all the way from the punk struggling at the bottom To become the boss of a power today, the biggest characteristic is to have eyesight and know current affairs.

The residents of the Kingdom of Kars outside the city did not dare to have any opinions on this. Although their loyalty to Kars was limited, Beethoven's move had frightened all of them. Powering up is the most important thing. As for whether Kars is the boss or Celeste is the boss, it doesn't make much difference to them.

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Too many things happened today. In the morning, Celeste said that he would demolish the waterworks. At noon, he released mutants. In the afternoon, a small group of people in Hummingbird Town got the bad news that "humanity is really going to end this time." Now, people from the Kingdom of Kars have poured into Hummingbird Town again, and many people's brains are still ignorant until now.

The half of the residents who have just moved into Hummingbird Town are also a little at a loss, but no matter what, it is only serious to settle down first. When Li Jiesi, Kars and others had to get busy to accommodate the newcomers, Celeste left the crowd with Beethoven.

Fu Yunlan was stunned when he realized that Celeste was gone. He hurriedly explained the matter at hand to others, and looked for him in the direction of going home.

"Thelister." Fu Yunlan tried her best to ignore Beethoven, who was like an asshole, and said, "What are your plans, can you tell me?"

Celistra pulled his collar and exhaled white mist in the cold winter: "Kars has more people and power than you. Will it bother you if I let him live in Hummingbird Town?"

"No, it's just that too many things happened today, and my mind is still a bit messed up." Fu Yunlan said, "However, if you want to become the leader of Hummingbird Town, my mercenary group and I will definitely fully support you your."

"I want to be a leader." Thelister said, "The people who protested today made me understand that what I want to do next will definitely not work without power, force, and deterrence. Today They are few in number and have been under the control of the mercenary group for a long time, so they can still be intimidated by you. Another day, if there are enough people gathered, and they have not seen how powerful you are, they will definitely swarm up and use their ignorance and prejudice to overwhelm you. My work is ruined."

Fu Yunlan frowned when she thought of this terrible incident: "After I recover from my injury, I will reorganize my atmosphere and never let such a thing happen again."

"I believe you can do it, but what I want is not as simple as a small town's obedient people. Hummingbird Town is just a starting point. After I make a water purifier and have cheap and clean water, the next step It is to find ways to reduce soil pollution, increase crop yields, and have more food to feed more people. Then I will gradually restore education, medical care, transportation, and communication. One day I will clear all obstacles and build a The power to unify the entire wasteland allows people to live a life without war and famine again."

Fu Yunlan looked at Celeste with some surprise. He didn't understand why Celeste was able to maintain such confidence after knowing so many things. Before he could say anything, Beethoven spoke He said: "Can I interject? Master, your thinking like this is very dangerous. You should have seen the lessons learned from Merced and Hummingbird Town. As long as you develop any force to the extent that you may be able to unify the wasteland , will become the next target of the True God Sect, your artificial intelligence system also said that the Devourer is not something you can deal with."

"If I don't do anything, will the Devourer let me go?" Thelister continued walking in the snow, his tone as flat as talking about the weather, "They will neither let you go, nor Let me go, sooner or later we will fight to the death, the stronger our strength, the more chance we have to win this struggle."

"...You're right." Fu Yunlan said, "Even if we still can't avoid the fate of perishing until the end, at least we tried our best. It's better than lying down and waiting to die."

"That's it." Celeste turned to look at him, showing a faint smile, "Let's go, we still have a lot of things to do."

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From that day on, Celeste no longer had any reservations about his abilities, and he displayed unimaginable talents. With the efforts of him and Old Hunter, the water purifier project was quickly completed.

When the pure water with almost no radiation pollution and chemical pollution flowed out of the water pipe, many people over the age of 30 were moved to tears—they watched the world fall from the warm and affluent paradise before the war to the present Miserable, and seeing everything getting worse and more hopeless, although Thelister has not really solved the series of problems he promised to solve, they finally saw a little bit of life in their lifetime. signs of getting better.

Many people have begun to worship Celeste as a god, and their devotion to him is no less than the devotion of the True God to the Devourer. This kind of blind worship caught Celeste a little by surprise. In the long run This is not a good phenomenon, but for now, it is of great benefit to consolidating his dominance and improving people's enthusiasm for work and confidence in life.

With such popularity, and with Beethoven, Kars, and Fu Yunlan all supporting Celeste unconditionally, no one will question Celeste's status as the leader of the power, even though he is only a 16 year old boy.

Thurlist, who has become the "king", has become very busy. Today, he discussed with Cedric how to breed seeds that are more suitable for high-pollution and low-light environments. Tomorrow, he discussed with Coulson the establishment of production bases and raw materials for pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. The source of the problem, the knowledge base in his mind that knows everything except his own life experience has finally played a role without reservation, and it has made people more convinced of the rumors that "Chorister is the savior".

During this period, Fu Yunlan was not idle either. Celeste remodeled some machine tools and established a small military production base. Every day, he either supervised the manufacture of arms and firearms, or strictly trained new recruits from the mercenary regiment and the garrison. Members, most of the young and strong brought by Kars joined the mercenary group with better treatment and more reasonable bosses. Kars had no choice but to sulk.

Fortunately, he didn't spend much time in the town. Celeste always asked him to take people out to perform tasks, brave the wind and snow to collect some machinery and equipment or raw materials that people might not even want to look at before. .

It's true that Celeste didn't let him directly serve Fu Yunlan as his subordinate, but every time Fu Yunlan decided what action to take, Celeste then ordered Kars to do it.

This sometimes made Kars unavoidably angry from the heart to the side, and he was so upset that he beat the case, but Beethoven stood beside Celeste smiling and picking his nails, and Kars's anger immediately faded.

Although the insiders in Hummingbird Town were all up and ready to deal with the attack of the True God Sect, the True God Sect and the Devourer behind them remained silent.Thus, in the day-to-day production and busyness, spring in the traditional sense passed quietly. It was already the beginning of May, and the land that had been frozen for more than half a year began to thaw gradually. The first storm of this year also approaching.

Due to the death of a large number of vegetation after the nuclear war, large areas of the land are exposed to the air, which looks like a lifeless desert. Every spring, when the monsoon on the Pacific Ocean comes, it is time for sandstorms to rage again. Dust, mixed with radioactive particles left over from nuclear wars, swept across every corner of the wasteland as usual.

Masi took on the responsibility of weather forecasting and issued a warning on the town radio several days in advance. People stocked up food and drinking water early, closed doors and windows, plugged every gap that could be drilled by wind and sand, and calmed down. Quietly waiting for this deadly sandstorm to pass.

Fu Yunlan checked the door and windows that were sealed by tape again before she took off her clothes and climbed onto the bed. The blanket was already warmed by the electric blanket, and Celeste, who had just taken a shower, was lying beside her, There was a pleasant smell on his body.

It was pitch black outside, and there were flashes of lightning from time to time, followed by dull thunder rolling by, and the sand kept hitting the glass windows, making a crackling sound.

Fu Yunlan turned off the light, embraced the warm body of his lover, and Celeste kissed him, stroking the newly healed wound on his abdomen, gently scratching the uneven surface of the scar with his fingertips, causing waves of pain. Itching from the inside out.

For some reason, the noise of the sandstorm made them feel extra calm. They no longer thought about the enemy who was too powerful to be defeated, no longer worried about the dangerous future, and only concentrated on immersing themselves in the tranquility and happiness of this moment.

And in the remote Hawaiian Islands, in the depths of the headquarters building of the Blue Shield Group, President He Xiao was looking at the information displayed on the big screen, with the corners of his mouth curled up to reveal a shallow smile.

"Got you."

- end of part one -

rise of the second part