Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Until the last mutant also fell down, Fu Yunlan had suffered several wounds all over his body. Holding a special alloy machete that had been broken in half, he looked warily at Beethoven, who had just killed the mutants together with him.

"It's...it's great, you're still alive, there's still time..." Beethoven was much more seriously injured than Fu Yunlan. He clutched his fractured and deformed right hand, closed one eye tightly, and tried his best with blood on his head. Get close to Fu Yunlan.

"Don't come here!" Fu Yunlan pointed the broken knife at him.

"Okay, I won't come here." Beethoven stood still, "I did this to you, and you should not trust me, but I really didn't mean it. At that time, I couldn't control myself at all. When I came back to my senses and found out what I had done, I wished I could kill myself. For the past few days, I have been stuck on the experimental table, unable to move, until the Devourer seemed to be restrained by something just now Now, loosen the control over here, I have a chance to escape to make up for what I did, whether you believe me or not, take advantage of this opportunity to escape, it will be too late!"

Fu Yunlan's mind was still a little unclear, and he tried his best to think about the weirdness of this matter: "How do I know that this is not a conspiracy by the Devourer, otherwise why are these mutants so vulnerable?"

"I overheard something when I was tied up. This should be the secret base of the Devourer. It seems that the Devourer has also improved the virus just like us, turning its loyal scientists into mutants." Beethoven was full. His face was anxious. If he hadn't been able to beat Fu Yunlan at all right now, he really wanted to knock him out and carry him away. "We'll explain more after we go out? Once the Devourer comes back, we won't have a chance again. "

Fu Yunlan still didn't quite believe Beethoven's words, but he at least knew one thing - no matter what Beethoven said was true or not, the situation couldn't be worse than it is now, so Fu Yunlan asked Beethoven to lead the way, He kept a certain distance and followed behind Beethoven.

Beethoven didn't know much about the structure of this secret base, so he could only stagger and grope forward until they came to a long corridor. Beethoven said a little excitedly: "I remember this! Turn a corner not far from the front and go up the stairs It's the exit, hurry up!"

The two almost ran wildly in the passage, freedom seemed to be in sight, but the metal partition door of the passage suddenly began to close layer by layer from the outside to the inside without anyone operating it.

"Oops, it's back!" cried Beethoven in panic.

Before Fu Yunlan closed the metal door in front of him, she rolled over through the crack of the door, but the door on the outer floor was closed, and Beethoven was trapped in the same compartment as him. Try digging your fingers into the narrow door opening.

Fu Yunlan heard his own voice—or the voice of the Devourer, coming from the built-in speaker on the wall without any ups and downs: "You would rather give up the power and knowledge at your fingertips, and choose to be a mediocre Are the busy human beings dying like this?"

Fu Yunlan was trying to insert the broken knife through the crack of the door to pry open the sealed door, but the knife broke as soon as he tried hard, and he could only throw the knife on the ground angrily: "That's not something you can get at your fingertips at all." Power and knowledge, you are just tricking me! If I merge with you, I will only lose myself and become a part of you, and I will never let you use me!"

"That's not losing yourself, it's just a kind of growth." Devourer said cogently, "It's like you who were ignorant and ignorant when you were 3 years old, and suddenly became the strong and rational you now. I just let you save the intermediate gain. A process of knowledge and experience. You certainly don’t think about things like you did when you were 3 years old, but does that count as a loss of self? No, you just have a stronger, more complete self.”

"Shut up!" Fu Yunlan didn't have time to pay attention to the sweet words of the Devourer. He found that the isolation door of the passage was very thick, but the doors of the rooms on both sides were much weaker, so he began to kick the door.

In the sound of kicking the door, the Devourer continued to say calmly: "Have you ever thought about how He Xiao will treat you after you escape back? Both of you understand his methods." , as long as he doesn’t know what I did to you, he won’t let you, a dangerous item, move around, let alone let you have any chance to get close to Celeste. The better result is to imprison you forever and isolate you from the outside world If it’s a little bit worse, he might hide it from Celeste, open your mind, and then dispose of the corpse without a trace.”

Fu Yunlan ignored the Devourer. Relying on his strengthened body, he forcefully kicked the metal door and deformed it. Beethoven helped him break open the metal door and entered the room on the left side of the passage, and found that it was an ammunition warehouse.

They began to search for things that could be used, and the devourer continued his persuasion: "Do you think the 'Guardian' is the savior of mankind? They just regard human beings as their domestic animals. When the time comes, they will arbitrarily take away your body and destroy your spirit. They keep you in captivity in the name of protection, isolate you from all contact with other civilizations, and watch your technological progress like monkeys in a zoo. You have worked hard to find your way forward, but you are not willing to give even a little bit of knowledge to help you."

Both Fu Yunlan and Beethoven took some weapons from the warehouse to arm themselves. Fu Yunlan also found a box of button bombs. Fu Yunlan's life was almost killed by a type of explosion. In the simulation training, he often dealt with this kind of small explosive.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Seeing that Fu Yunlan was unmoved, the Devourer gave up the pointless persuasion, "If the bomb is detonated in such a small space, if the weight is not well controlled, you will also Died in the explosion."

"That is to say, as long as the weight is right, we can survive." Fu Yunlan has already started to stick these bombs in the corners of the iron gate one by one.

Beethoven looked at the man in front of him who looked extremely calm but was actually crazier than him with some fear: "How sure are you?"

"It's not that big, but I have to go back no matter what!"

The Devourer couldn't stop them, so he could only try to make a final persuasion: "You don't need to take such a risk, if you wait here, maybe they will come to save you."

Fu Yunlan ignored him, and after finding the hiding place, she pressed the switch of the row of button bombs as fast as she could, and then jumped behind the hiding place.

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A few tens of kilometers away, Mars suddenly reminded Celeste: "Master, I found the trace of Beethoven."

The interference of the Devourer in this area is still very strong. Marth can't directly show him a complete image like in the past, but only reported a rough coordinate. Celeste did not hesitate to fight against the super soldiers under him. Order: "Go and find him immediately!"

The super soldiers were well trained and equipped and boarded the fighter plane. When Celeste himself was about to climb up the fighter plane, He Xiao stopped him: "This is probably a trap, don't go there yourself."

Celeste turned his head and looked at him expressionlessly.

"Calm down." He Xiao met the opponent's gaze calmly, "They are all very good fighters. If there is indeed a clue about Fu Yunlan, they will bring him back."

After a few seconds of silence on the spot, Celeste turned and left the fighter plane: "Let them set out to investigate the situation first, and I'll be there in half an hour."

"Okay." He Xiao didn't object this time. Celeste, who had gradually recovered his memory, could no longer listen to him in everything as he did in the past. He had already been mentally prepared for this.

-

Fu Yunlan finally blasted open the door of this secret base.

Outside the gate, there are barren mountains at a glance. The altitude here should be quite high, and the surroundings are covered with white snow. I don't know where it is.

Fu Yunlan's head was buzzing, he was so dull that he could hardly think, and he just walked out step by step by instinct.Although the initial explosion did not kill him, it also caused him to suffer more serious injuries. If it were not for the support of his strengthened physique and the obsession to return to Celeste, Fu Yunlan would probably have died sooner or later. Just passed out.

Beethoven looked even more miserable than Fu Yunlan. He barely left the gate of the secret base, and collapsed on the ground.

Fu Yunlan hesitated for a few seconds, and turned back to pull him up, but Beethoven suddenly pointed the gun at Fu Yunlan: "Don't come over!"

Fu Yunlan was only stunned for a moment, and Beethoven put down the gun weakly, and said very dejectedly: "Don't come here...you go away...I don't know what happened to me, and I don't know if I will come again... Do something strange, I can no longer act with you."

"...When we get back to the base, maybe He Xiao will find a solution."

Beethoven shook his head: "I don't have the face to go back to see him, let alone the master. They won't forgive me for what I did. If I go back to the base, I won't be able to go back to the base other than being locked up as a guinea pig." There is another ending...Although I was the one who caught you, but for the sake of my desperate efforts to save you, let me fend for myself alone."

"...Okay, be careful yourself." Fu Yunlan didn't try to persuade him, turned around and walked down the mountain. He just wanted to get back to Celeste as soon as possible. As for whether he wants to take Beethoven back in the future, it's fine. Then consider the long term.

After walking less than ten meters, he heard something strange coming from behind.

Looking back, Beethoven seemed to be a completely different person, standing there expressionless, aiming the gun steadily at Fu Yunlan, and said in a very calm tone: "Since you insist on not listening Advise, sorry, I can't let you go back alive."

This kind of gun is specially made for mutants. It has a lot of recoil and is very powerful. If it is shot at this distance, it is really hard to say whether Fu Yunlan can survive.

Fu Yunlan knew that Beethoven was probably being manipulated by the Devourer again, just like when he was kidnapped last time.He was so unaware just now, and turned his back to this dangerous person who had betrayed him. Now it is too late to regret it, so he can only stare at Beethoven's every move, tense his muscles, and prepare to At the moment when the opponent shoots, dodge as much as possible.

But Beethoven didn't shoot. His eyes gradually became bloodshot, his expression became more and more ferocious, and the hand holding the gun kept shaking. Suddenly, the mutant yelled: "You don't want to control me anymore!"

After speaking, he stuffed the muzzle of the gun into his mouth and pulled the trigger.

After a "bang" gunshot, the surroundings returned to deathly silence.

Fu Yunlan froze for a moment, and suddenly the ground under her feet began to tremble, followed by a burst of dazzling white light in front of her eyes.

The Devourer knew that the people who rescued Fu Yunlan had arrived nearby.

The Devourer also knows that it can isolate He Xiao from long-distance snooping, but it cannot prevent humans from finding its secret base with the naked eye, and bring the contents inside to He Xiao, so that He Xiao and the Guardian Alliance behind him have a chance to crack it. Some technologies that did not belong to them originally.

So after losing control of Beethoven, the Devourer decisively detonated the self-destruct device that had been prepared in the secret base.