Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Celeste was flying over the Pacific Ocean on a military transport plane. The back cabin was full of food and supplies that were going to be sent to the frontline bases to relieve refugees. Looking through the porthole, he could still see two warships on the sea braving the wind and waves. .

These warships have been transformed into a type that can be operated purely manually. Except that they are nuclear powered instead of coal-fired, their core parts are similar to ships in the steam age. There are also some electronic products on board, but as soon as they are disturbed by the Devourer, These electronic products can be immediately disconnected from the hull without affecting the main functions of the ship.

In order to cope with the ubiquitous infiltration of the Devourer, most of the weapons and vehicles in the base have been transformed into such a structure, as is the plane he was flying in. As long as it is disturbed, all electronic equipment will be disconnected, and then the plane Like the old-fashioned biplanes before World War I, the pilots who have been strictly trained rely on their experience to control the landing of the aircraft.

And with Mars, at least within a small range, it can be guaranteed that the Devourer will not be able to interfere with any equipment on the plane. Celeste is not worried about his own safety, let alone Beethoven sitting on the plane with a dejected expression on his face. by his side.

Beethoven exudes low air pressure all over his body. Although he hugged the pillar before, crying and howling and saying: "I won't go, I will never leave my stereo and snacks!" He Xiao forcibly carried him onto the plane to give Celeste as bodyguard.

"Are you so unwilling?" Celeste felt that Beethoven's resentment was about to materialize. "If you want to listen to music, you can wear headphones and bring snacks. Why are you so depressed?"

Beethoven bit the handkerchief mournfully, but he bit a hole in the handkerchief at once. He threw away the handkerchief in frustration, not caring that there were pilots and several staff members besides them in the cabin, and said with drooping shoulders: "Actually, I It’s not that I’m reluctant to part with the stereo and snacks, it’s just that I won’t be able to see He Xiao after leaving the base... I thought that everyone in the base knew that I was secretly in love with him, except for himself, and you didn’t even know about the master.”

"You mean He Xiao?" Celeste looked at Beethoven in surprise, "Are you serious?"

"Of course I'm serious. As long as I see him every day and know that he is near me, I will feel very happy." Beethoven looked at Celeste expectantly like a young girl and asked, "What do you think he is?" Will you like me?"

"No." Celeste said firmly.

"Why? Is it because I'm a mutant, I'm not gentle enough or pretty enough, or because I'm a man?" Beethoven asked a series of questions, and Celeste just shook his head: "I don't remember him but I know he's not like us and he's not going to like anyone."

Celeste was just telling the truth, and had no intention of comforting others at all, but Beethoven didn't seem to be shocked at all: "Since he hasn't liked anyone so far, maybe someday in the future he might like What about me? Who can say clearly about feelings."

"I don't think so," said Thelister. "Why do you like him?"

"Then there is no need to ask, he is the most powerful. He even dared to face the god of the True God Sect, scaring the Devourer so much that he dare not show up. Such a powerful person, who else can I like if I don't like him?"

"Is it just because he's great?" Celeste asked thoughtfully, "If he wasn't great, would you still like him?"

"I haven't thought about this problem. In short, even that boring Fu Yunlan can show affection to his master every day. Everyone is envious to see it. I also want someone who can show affection and blind the eyes of those onlookers. , it would be better if this person is tall and handsome, just like He Xiao."

"If it's for this reason, you shouldn't be looking for He Xiao."

Before Beethoven had time to ask "Why", Celeste heard Masi's voice urgently rang in the cabin: "Master, I detected an anomaly in the space."

"What's wrong?" Celeste asked.

"I don't know, this kind of strange fluctuation is beyond my comprehension! But it must be dangerous, be careful!" Marth was so nervous that he didn't talk nonsense.

As soon as the words fell, Celeste saw a spherical translucent object appear in the air, as if a soap bubble suddenly appeared, but it only existed for a moment and then disappeared.

Celeste thought there was an illusion, but he clearly smelled a smell of sulfur, and a bubble appeared right after that—to be precise, it was a round water ball, only half of which was inside the cabin. , the other half is outside the cabin, and Celeste can even see the sky outside through the water polo.

The existence of the water polo was only a matter of a moment, and it immediately dispersed, splashing water, and the entire round cabin wall where the water polo was located disappeared, and the metal cut was as smooth as a mirror .

A huge hole half a person's height suddenly appeared in the cabin. The difference in internal and external pressure caused a staff member on the plane to be sucked out by the strong airflow immediately, and Celeste was almost sucked away. Fortunately, Beethoven caught him with his sharp eyesight and quick hands. With his other hand, he firmly grasped the crossbar on the plane like a pair of iron pliers.

The plane was already approaching the coastline, and the captain shouted loudly to make an emergency landing, but Celeste couldn't hear anything clearly in the strong airflow. In a second, a round boulder suddenly appeared in the cabin.

This time, a pilot who was trying to come over to Latherist was unlucky enough to stand exactly where the stone appeared.

The stone was perfectly embedded on the cabin floor, and most of the pilot's body slid down from the smooth stone as if it had been carefully polished, as if a perfect arc had been cut away by an invisible knife.

"My God, what the hell is going on!" Beethoven had time to exclaim, when he felt a pain in his arm, and half of his hand disappeared together with the whole Celeste, a large lump of spherical garbage, Rubble and dust appeared where Celeste had been just now.

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Celeste felt top-heavy all of a sudden, as if he had been thrown into a front-loading washing machine and spun several times. He fell into a pit in a daze with his underdeveloped motor nerves, and was almost buried alive by the rubble and dust pouring down from all around him. up.

Celeste's mind was still buzzing. He struggled, using his hands and feet with great difficulty, and finally crawled out of the pit, panting and looking around.

This seems to be a large piece of old ruins, and a whole spherical volume was suddenly hollowed out very close to the surface, causing the loose earth and stone debris of the surrounding structure to pour down, a part of the body of the unlucky pilot and Beethoven The hand that held him also fell into this sudden hole, and is now almost invisible.

Celeste checked himself in shock. There was a hole in his elbow, a piece of his clothes and skin were neatly cut off, and part of his hair was missing. Now his whole body was covered in blood and mud. All embarrassed.

What made him even more flustered was that in the past, if he accidentally made a small wound on himself, it would always heal quickly, but this time, the wound didn't even stop bleeding on its own, and Celeste took off the top of his dress. The armed belt tightened above the wound, and the bleeding slowly stopped.

Most of his sleeves were already soaked in blood, the wound was not deep, but because it was soiled by sand and lime soil when he crawled out, he throbbed intermittently, Celeste tried to call Mars in his mind as usual , but no response was received.

Celeste was at a loss, he didn't know where he was, and he didn't know what happened, so he could only make a rough guess, maybe the Devourer used a new technology that even He Xiao hadn't seen to distort the space, Randomly swapped the space in one place with another.

Probably because the technology is not enough to pass the test, neither the size nor the position is well grasped, and he is lucky, not only half of the body was "swapped" like the pilot, and he was not "swapped" to death Go to a predetermined place, such as deep sea, high altitude, or in a rock formation, even if he appears at a depth of five or ten meters, he will probably only be buried alive.

Thelister looked around, trying to figure out what this place was, but he soon realized it was futile.

People living on the ruins of the United States call that piece of land the wasteland, but this place is much more desolate than the wasteland, it is simply a wasteland full of sewage and no grass.

Celeste squatted down and poked away a layer of scorched earth on the ground, and dug out a piece of blue glass shard the size of a thumb. Judging from the thickness and the way it was cracked, it was probably a piece of a glass curtain wall, that is to say, This place should be the ruins of a city, at least a fairly developed town, but looking around, this piece of land seems to have been plowed several times by bombs, and there is not even a single broken building.Celeste didn't know how serious the radiation pollution or other pollution was in this place. He only knew that even the most tenacious weeds couldn't grow on this scorched land.

He rested for a while, then stood up after recovering a little strength, tightened the belt tied above the wound, managed to recognize the direction, and then walked towards the sun rising—or maybe setting.