The Death Knell

A huge black bear is crawling slowly in the wilderness. Its fur has large festers. There are nests of flies around the wound and rotten flesh, as if it is still carrying a cloud of black when it is moving.

It is said that the eyes are the window of the soul, so this bear should be very old, and there is only numbness and sadness in its eyes, as if human beings have lost something important.

There are dense clouds in the sky, but the sky is not dark, and the air is much better than Delhi, at least one can smell all kinds of chemicals.

Maybe it was the incomplete combustion of gasoline and diesel, maybe there was an accident of chemical waste leaking somewhere nearby. In short, a bit of sour smell irritated the nasal cavity.

The huge bear climbed up a mountain of garbage. It first raised its head to look towards the distant horizon, and then lowered its head to search for food.

It expertly opened an abandoned refrigerator, and then escaped the rotten things inside to feast on it. The death knell a few hundred meters away didn't know what it was eating, but judging from the color of the colorful rotten substances, no What a good thing will be.

"This bear is so big. I have never heard of a big bear lying on the ground with a shoulder height of more than three meters." The secret guest knelt on one knee and whispered to the teacher beside him, even if it was subtle. The sound also caused Big Bear to raise his head and look here.

Fortunately, the flies may have affected its vision. When the big bear was eating, the little flying insects were naturally unwilling to bear, swarming around its mouth.

"Good luck." Su Ming sat on the ground with his back leaning on a tree stump, only letting the strangling reveal a bean sprout. His head looked like a periscope. He himself pointed to the white river of light across the sky in the sky: "We have arrived in the middle world. , As long as you follow the light, you can enter the end world and find the Dark Tower. In addition, this bear is also one of the goals."

"Is it one of the 12 patron saints?" The secret guest showed some interest. As a Maomei, she was only a teenager when she was abducted to hell, and she had never had the experience of playing with bears.

The only pity is that this bear looks dirty and smelly, even if it is a bionic animal, it is too real.

"It's called Shadike. It is indeed a product of the Northern Central Positron Group. Look at its ears, there is a faintly visible trademark." Su Ming asked the secret guest to pay attention, although the logo has been severely faded. The ears of this big bear are also full of dirt and abscesses. If you can use your imagination, you can still think of that logo.

The giant bear lowered its head. It probably didn't perceive the approach of danger. As a wise advanced creature, it certainly knew that its body needed to replenish energy, so eating was a necessary behavior.

A large part of the program is missing. It no longer remembers where it came from and what mission it has, but it wants to live.

Pulling open the empty refrigerator with its paws, it then digs down, hoping that the next luck is also so good.

"Can you wait for it to finish eating? It's pitiful." Liana kind of likes big bears, especially its round ears, so she wants to fight for the treatment of being a ghost.

"Okay, you can also sit down and rest for a while, just let the strangulation stare at it, unless you like to watch others eat trash." The teacher patted the ground beside him. There is no trash here, just for the girl to sit down.

As the two talked, a red bullet train drove quickly on the viaduct not far away. The carriages were open one by one, and a large amount of garbage was thrown out like a goddess, and it fell on the ground and gave out hail. The sound like a slap on the roof.

This is a wasteland, but there should be an Internet of Things composed of certain cities nearby. They will transport the garbage here through the monorail on the elevated railroad track, and they will drive and discharge the garbage at the same time.

Compared with the inner world where resources are scarce, the end of the middle world is more embodied in the social form, where there is no hope.

Take the viaduct as an example. The rails are hundreds of meters above the ground, in order to prevent the savages on the wasteland from climbing up and entering a certain city along the railway.

It's not that no one has done this in the past, but at this time their bodies are all placed in large iron cages along with the betrayed slave laborers or the poor worms who have offended people, and are hung on both sides of the viaduct. Valley

Every ten meters, there is a bridge pier, which arches upwards from the platform for the sleepers. The long sleepers for the railway tracks protrude from the platform. The monorail is like a narrow road suspended in the air.

And at both ends of almost every sleeper are hung such big iron cages.

The corpses in the iron cage are all in the same posture, without clothes, curled up like a fetus, but if you look closely, they are all kneeling. When they died, their mouths were wide open, and their fingers were bent in front of them, as if they were Begging for mercy or praying.

The speed of the train is very fast, with a gust of wind, not only is it completely air-dried the corpses to show them mummy-like and exhibited to the posterity, but also allows them to achieve the effect of a wind chime, making a crisp metal sound when they collide with each other.

Whenever the wind bell rang, Sidike and the monsters in the surrounding wilderness knew that it was time for dinner again, along the railway line, waiting for a gift from the sky.

Although it only eats garbage, if in the inner world, how many humans want to eat garbage yet.

"What kind of world is this here..." The secret passenger's gaze followed the red train, which looked very beautiful, like a long ruby ​​snake.

Especially when it is spewing steam, it can run to 800 kilometers per hour.

She doesn't even know how the steam engine can do this, so curiosity is inevitable.

Noting her gaze, her teacher took out two bottles of soda to share with her, and told her:

"The train you just saw appeared from a dream of a madman. The man at UU Reading www.uukanshu.com was a train fan before he went mad, and he has been dreaming after he was mad, and there is some kind of power to him. The trains in his dream become reality, and then these trains are used by other humans."

Liana took the soda and took a sip: "Some kind of power? Is it the spokesperson Merlin?"

"Maybe, who knows, but this is a world where magic exists. Everything is possible." The death knell watched the train disappear into the haze as a small red dot in the blink of an eye, and said while drinking a soda. This is just the beginning. Strange things are emerging here, and you will find out after a while."

Sure enough, when the high-speed train passed, another small train came soon.

This little train is also a monorail. The huge ‘I’-shaped steel rail is stuck in the central groove of its front, and it makes a harsh rubbing sound when it brakes.

Some people with huge iron hooks jumped out of the car.

They used tools to recycle several iron cages, took out the air-dried corpses, knocked them into powder, put them in plastic bags, and moved them back to the small train.

Then he took out some new corpses from the car, put them in the cage, set that posture, and then hung the cage back.

"Strange, are they still responsible for recycling the ashes?" The secret guest's expression seemed to be smiling, and he blinked.

"It seems that there is a steampunk-style city-state near us. Then this will not be a kindness to help the untouchables collect the dead bodies, but the capitalists must completely squeeze out any trace of surplus value. These air-dried'mummy ash' will be taken. Go back to paste walls or make cosmetics, or fish feed? Anyway, it has many uses."

Liana wrinkled her nose and her little face was full of disgust: "Well, if we pass there anyway, I won't eat fish sold in the city."