Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"But is it really reliable?" Fu Yunlan still hesitated, "This is also an electronic product, and if it is an electronic product, it may be interfered by the Devourer.

"Of course I took this into consideration when I designed it. In the future, you will be accompanied by more than two super soldiers to protect you at any time. After all, you can't fight the enemy after wearing the collar. As long as the Devourer interferes with the collar , it will emit a warning sound, and the super soldiers around you will control you to prevent you from hurting others. Even if the Devourer launches it forcibly, it will only electrocute you and cause no real damage." Surrey Ster skipped over the risks that He Xiao said, and took a step forward, "As long as you wear it, you can leave this room at will, except that you can't use force and you can't touch some core important equipment. will no longer be restricted."

How could Fu Yunlan refuse such a good thing? He obediently stretched his neck and asked Celeste to put it on for him. After fastening the collar, Celeste hugged Fu Yunlan and bowed his head. Taking a deep breath on his shoulder: "... It's been a long time since I hugged you like this, I miss you so much."

"Me too." Fu Yunlan finally felt relieved at this moment, and excitedly hugged his long-lost lover tightly.

The last real contact seemed to him centuries ago, they kissed fiercely, rolled on the soft bed, almost tore off each other's clothes, eager for more contact .

Case closed the door automatically, leaving them some privacy.

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It was several hours before they left the room.

Fu Yunlan had already lost the sense of time after staying in the virtual cabin. To him, it felt like centuries had passed, but in reality, only five years had passed.

When he walked out of the cell where he was held, the outside world had become strange to him.

Compared with my impression, the Blue Shield Base has changed a lot. Most of the people here have been assigned to various new settlements. All have been demolished, and more new facilities with unknown functions have been built by dedicated robots.

The first shift to become personal guards was his old subordinates Cowboy and Black Tower. They had long-lost smiles on their faces, but instead of calling him "boss" as they did in the past, they saluted him sternly. : "General."

After years of training in the regular army, his old men were no longer the slovenly slovenly men they used to be.

In front of outsiders, Celeste became the unsmiling His Majesty the Emperor again: "Lan, where do you want to go?"

Fu Yunlan actually didn't know where he should go or what to do now, the freedom came so suddenly that he was a little caught off guard.

He still has the title of general, but he has been out of political affairs for many years and knows nothing about the current situation of the army. Even if he wants to go back to work, he can't find a clue for a while.

Celeste suggested: "Or, let's go back to Hummingbird Town?"

"Okay." Fu Yunlan had no objection, so Celeste arranged the plane, and a few hours later, they landed at the airport outside Hummingbird Town.

Before landing, Fu Yunlan saw the city wall that once protected Hummingbird Town from bandits. Now all the barbed wire fences around the city wall have been removed, and nearby farmland that can hardly be seen has been excavated. Large machines are plowing the land, swallowing a large amount of sand, gravel and soil and then spitting it out from the other side to remove the pollution in the soil and prepare for a new round of sowing.

The garrison commander of Hummingbird Town, Li Kailin, was waiting to welcome them at the airport. Li Kailin, who finally got her wish and became a super soldier, looked refreshed. She cut her neat crew cut and dressed up in a military uniform. After the adults saluted, she drove them to Hummingbird Town.

The machine guard opened the gate, looking at Hummingbird Town which was completely different from what he remembered, Fu Yunlan simply got out of the car and walked, taking a look at those familiar places.

In fact, there are not many places he is familiar with. Five years is enough time for robots to knock down most of the old houses in the town and rebuild them into brand new modern residences. Some robots with very strange structures are still carrying construction materials. , Prepare to build leisure places such as gardens.

Looking at the robots everywhere, Fu Yunlan asked in confusion: "Aren't you afraid that the Devourer will control these robots to do bad things?"

"You probably don't know yet, do you?" Li Kailin smiled, "The Lister invented a defense device. I don't know the principle behind it. In short, these machines will immediately cut off the power supply when they are disturbed by the Devourer. We also have contingency plans in place to ensure that even if all the machines fail at the same time, there will be no serious consequences."

Fu Yunlan looked at Celeste with some admiration: "You actually invented such a powerful thing, why didn't you tell me?"

"When I invented this device, the True God Sect hadn't yet been destroyed. It was just that the technology wasn't mature enough at that time, so it wasn't popularized. You also used this device before, but you forgot."

"...Really?" Fu Yunlan really couldn't remember, the long years spent in the virtual world did make him forget a lot of things.

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Li Kailin introduced them to the current situation of Hummingbird Town. This town has changed a lot in the past five years. The old hydropower station that was originally outdated has been abandoned. To cast a brand new nuclear power plant.

The Crimson Bar is still in operation. Although robots can completely replace the work of manual sales, in order to avoid some unpredictable troubles, He Xiao does not want human society to undergo drastic changes, and he does not want the survivors among humans to suddenly change. From the days of lack of food and clothing to the days when clothes were used to stretch out hands to eat and mouths to open mouths, he retained most of the traditional types of work and added many new jobs. People still need to do light-intensity labor to earn new currency.

Kars still insists that Celeste is his blood brother, but no one will take this seriously. Miriam lives with him now, and there is no marriage in the wasteland. He said that Kars, who is about to become a father, can no longer do nothing like in the past, and has to work hard to save money for milk powder for his children.

Dr. Colson is the director of the newly built large hospital. Sufficient nursing staff and fewer patients make him no longer have two dark circles. In fact, high-tech medical equipment has replaced most of the medical equipment. Work, the existence of medical staff is more to give patients psychological comfort - people are still more accustomed to being treated by doctors, rather than leaving everything to machines.

Old Hunter has been in poor health since before, and always thought that he would go west at any time, but with the advanced medical technology provided by the base, he is still alive and well, and was poached by the science laboratory of the base headquarters some time ago Now, he has become a named professor, and he can get in touch with a lot of knowledge that he dreamed of before, which makes him burst out with enthusiasm like rejuvenation.

Li Kailin's father, Li Jiesi, lost in the last election for mayor, and moved to another nearby settlement, Bainiaogang, in a rage. It is said that he is doing well there now.

Along the way, some old residents of Hummingbird Town recognized Celeste and Fu Yunlan, and stopped to say hello to them. Some of them still felt familiar to Fu Yunlan, and some of them had no impression at all, but look It seems that everyone is generally doing well, and the faces that were once numb are now full of vitality.

All of this made Fu Yunlan feel relieved.

Turning around the corner of the street in memory, Fu Yunlan was surprised to find that their old house was still there, surrounded by a fence, and a sign said something like "Protection of cultural relics".

The robot guarding the door let them in, and Fu Yunlan saw that everything in the house was the same as when he left, only more neat and clean.

In fact, the time they really lived here was not long, but for Yun Lan, what was left here was his deepest and best memory.

He fondled Celeste's working table made of desks with nostalgia. On the table, there were tools arranged neatly from large to small as if obsessive-compulsive. Celeste had created many miracles on this workbench, and The water purifier that he made can still be used today, and there is also a stack of old magazines that he collected for him in case he was bored during his recovery. Fu Yunlan can even remember part of the content. helicopter model.

Every nook and cranny here is full of traces of their lives.

It could be seen that Fu Yunlan was reluctant to part with this old house, and Celeste simply lived in that night. They were lying on the bed where Fu Yunlan slept when he was injured, covered with the quilt that had been covered before, and neither of them would be afraid of the cold Ordinary people are afraid of heat, but Celeste still turned on the old electric blanket. The electric blanket can still be used even now, and the gradually evaporating warmth makes both of them feel very relaxed.

At night, the wind was a little stronger, and the windows that were not blown too hard rattled. They kissed in the warm blanket, and everything was the same as before.

Celeste didn't say anything, and Fu Yunlan didn't ask anything, but he did sense something keenly. That night, they lingered to death, as if they were having a final carnival, and they didn't stop until it was almost dawn.

In the dim light of the sky, Fu Yunlan held Celeste in her arms, as if she couldn't see enough to touch her, and kissed him on the forehead, nose tip or lips from time to time.

Celeste looked at him calmly with blue eyes: "Are you happy?"

"En." Fu Yunlan smiled, at least at this moment, he felt that life was like this, and he had nothing to ask for.

"I will try my best to let the people in every resettlement site live a healthy and happy life, and I will gradually remove the pollution on the ground and in the air, and slowly renew the whole earth." Celeste said, "These are your What I wanted to do the most in the past, I helped you do it.”

"Yes, you did it." Fu Yunlan's heart softened, and he grabbed Celeste's hand to his lips and kissed it.

"As long as you are happy." Celeste closed his eyes in silence for two seconds, looking inexplicably sad, but when he opened his eyes again, he was as calm as ever: "Where do you want to go today?" ?"

Fu Yunlan obviously felt that Celeste's attitude seemed to imply something not very good, but he didn't ask anything, just put his arms around Celeste's waist, just like Celeste was still a The same as when he was a teenager, he said lazily: "Let's talk about it, sleep for a while, it will be dawn soon."

"Yes." Celeste responded softly.