Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Just after the sandstorm, Hummingbird Town ushered in a group of unexpected guests.

Those people were dressed in uniform gray-green clothing. They looked like an army, but there were only more than 30 people left. They supported each other and came to the gate of Hummingbird Town. They sat down and fell down, obviously exhausted. Do your best.

In the past few months, Hummingbird Town has been sending out information as much as possible through traveling merchants and broadcasting, telling people on the wasteland that there is inexhaustible pure water here, enough to be used for bathing and watering the ground, here There are powerful hurricane mercenaries and mutants fighting side by side with humans. There are also geniuses who can repair everything here. All survivors except bandits are welcome to settle in Hummingbird Town. Everyone who joins will get a house, a job and free money. of drinking water.

This set of propaganda is very effective. Before the end of winter, some refugees came to Hummingbird Town one after another against the wind and snow. After the garrison conducted basic inspections, they settled down in the town. But the presence of so many armed soldiers at one time like today still made the garrison a little nervous, so they closed the gate tightly before these people approached.

When encountering such a thing, Li Kailin didn't dare to make decisions without authorization. She notified Fu Yunlan, and Fu Yunlan came over to take a look, and felt that it would be better for Celeste to make a decision in this situation.

Because he recognized the uniforms of these people, although everyone's uniforms were dirty and tattered, and the original color was almost invisible due to the dust, he could still tell that these people were members of the Merced Self-Defense Forces.

When the walls of the Merced Republic were breached by zombies, the Self-Defense Forces, which had already suffered heavy casualties, did not choose to fight to the end. Instead, they threw the entire population of Merced to the zombies and fled in a hurry with their supplies. , Also detonated the nuclear bomb in the camp.

These should be the self-defense members who survived the escape. The leader is a man in his thirties and 40s, wearing a worn-out military uniform, with two bars of three-star colonel rank faintly visible on his shoulders. He shouted hoarsely at the people on the top of the wall Said: "We heard that Hummingbird Town will accept all outsiders, so we risked our lives and rushed here from a long distance. You can't just lock us out like this, let us in!"

Li Kailin cautiously refused: "You are not ordinary refugees, we need to discuss it before making a decision."

"Then discuss it quickly. Before that, can you give us some water and food? We have not eaten or drunk for several days, and some soldiers are almost unable to hold on."

Seeing that their situation was really not optimistic, Fu Yunlan asked someone to hang some water bottles down with ropes. The soldiers outside the door seemed to have never drank water in their life, and poured water down their throats.

After a while, Celeste came, and he looked at the officer below the city with some surprise.

"Hey, Celeste." An embarrassed smile appeared on the colonel's dirty face, "Unexpectedly, we meet again under such circumstances, do you still recognize me?"

"Modal." Celeste said his name.

"Yes, it's me." Modar said, "I heard that you survived the disaster of Merced tenaciously and became the leader of Hummingbird Town. I am really surprised and happy for you. My men There are 31 more people, I brought them all here, hoping to be of some use to you."

"My survival has nothing to do with my tenacity. After you left me and escaped, it was the Hurricane Mercenaries who risked their lives to break into Merced and rescued me from the laboratory." Celeste was expressionless. Said, "Manpower trained in combat is indeed very useful to me. I accept the man, and you can go."

The almost flattering smile on Modal's face disappeared: "Don't be like this, Celeste, I know you must blame me for not abandoning you at that time, but have you forgotten how much I took care of you in the past? At that time , everyone can only try their best to find a way to keep themselves alive, you should be able to understand my difficulties, right?"

"I haven't forgotten, I remember everything that happened. I also remember that after my mother was bitten by a zombie, Ken begged you to take me with you when you retreated. You promised her, but it was not far from the camp. You see When a few soldiers ran over and wanted to escape together, they pushed me out of the car without hesitation."

"They were all fighters who followed me through life and death. There was no room in the car at the time. I knew that what I did was bad, but think about it differently. If you were in such a situation, what would you choose?" Modal tried Justify your actions.

"It's not that the car can't hold me, you just don't want to waste food and water for my 'worthless target'. I can understand your approach, but I'm not going to forgive you, that's all." Celeste said to Li Kailin said, "People other than Modar can enter Hummingbird Town. As for Modar, give him food and water for three days and let him go."

"You can't do this!" Modal yelled, "Did you forget how clingy you were to me before, always followed me and looked at me secretly, and blushed when you talked to me, how could you become so now? Ruthless? I beg you, don't drive me away, you are sending me to my death, you know?!"

Celeste ignored his yelling and walked down the city wall.

The gate opened, and the people outside hurriedly dragged their tired bodies towards the town, and Modar couldn't care less about interceding with Celeste: "Wait! Stop, I didn't allow you to act without permission! "

A soldier turned his head, looked at him regretfully and said, "Colonel, you heard what he said. We can only survive if we stay. You should understand our difficulties, right?"

Modal was speechless, he could only watch the Black Tower, Bomber and others come to the door, pick out the exhausted soldiers one by one, take away their weapons, and decide one by one whether they should be assigned to the mercenary regiment or For the defense team, it's better to go to the hospital for a few days to recuperate first.

No one chose to stay outside with Modal, only a few soldiers who were more or less grateful to him for leading them out of the dead place left ammunition to him, Modal had no choice but to throw the mercenary group Given him food and water, he walked helplessly to the wilderness.

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Celeste walked home in silence, and Fu Yunlan followed. He still cared a little about this man named Modal: "Celister, can you tell me what happened before? What's the relationship with you?"

"Modal was my mother's partner. They were together when I was young. He used to take good care of me. My mother was busy with work. When he didn't have time to look after me, he would take me to the barracks and play. Make some small toys for me." Celeste's tone remained the same, but Fu Yunlan felt that his mood was a little depressed, "He's right, my personality wasn't like this in the past, I was A weak, gentle and shy boy, but after that nuclear explosion, I was like a different person."

"So, this is another unsolved mystery?" Fu Yunlan stroked his hair reassuringly, "Actually, I also felt this way. When I found you in the warehouse of the laboratory, your expression was still very strange. Rich, I can see you were terrified in those few days. I never asked you what happened, I don't want you to revisit the horrors, it's been so long now, if you feel the need to talk, I will here."

Celeste looked at him for a while, and decided to speak out his thoughts: "I can't forgive Modal, even though he used to be very good to our mother and child, he was still the object of my admiration since childhood, but for my mother, I will not Forgive him. I always remember that at that time he pushed me out of the car, I could only carefully avoid the zombies all over the street, and returned to the laboratory with a narrow escape. When my mother saw that I was back again, she I'll never forget that look of despair—I miss her, it's strange, I never felt sad when I thought of her before, even now, it's just a little... a little bit sad, I... I don't know what's wrong with me."

Fu Yunlan sighed, he didn't know what to say to comfort Celeste who suddenly felt sad, so he could only silently embrace her in his arms.

Celeste hugged his shoulders, and after a long silence, he said: "Although I remember all the past, between the present me and the past me, it seems that there are two separate lives. I must make it clear." Know exactly what happened to me."

"No matter why you became like this, no matter what you were like in the past, for me, the you you are now is what I... like." Fu Yunlan is not very good at comforting people, the only thing he can do is All he did was try to divert Celeste's attention, "Then what... let's do it."

"Hmm..." Celeste's ending disappeared into the kiss, and he would never refuse such a thing.

Fu Yunlan wanted to make Celeste have no time to think about those unhappy things, so today she didn't go straight to the subject, but worked hard to tease Celeste's lust, and Celeste was aroused by him, He simply threw himself on Fu Yunlan: "Lan, let me do a good job today?"

Fu Yunlan was taken aback by this sudden request, and then agreed: "Okay."

"It will hurt a little." Celeste said, Fu Yunlan didn't have a medical robot that could quickly heal those minor lacerations and abrasions, so he had to suffer a bit.

"It's okay, I'm not afraid of pain."

Although Fu Yunlan agreed, but when Celeste really planned to continue, he felt that his muscles were a little stiff, and he endured it with an awkward expression.

"Aren't you happy?" Thelister stopped, and his tone was as flat as discussing a circuit board, "I don't want to make you feel unhappy during sex, if you think that being the one who bears it will If it is detrimental to masculinity and psychologically unacceptable, you can reject me. I was just suddenly a little curious about what it would be like to be the one who entered, and it doesn’t really matter whether you want it or not.”

"...Masculinity is not determined by who goes up and who goes down." Celeste is always so frank and straightforward in this kind of matter, making Fu Yunlan's ears reddened, "I'm just a little... Not used to it, but you know, I..."

Fu Yunlan was still not very good at expressing his feelings. He hugged Celeste tightly, pressed the other's head on his shoulder, and avoided those clear blue eyes before he had the courage to continue: "...I Willing to do anything for you."