After leaving the Habreys' cemetery, Hays asked the old man about the address of the Peak's house, but the old man did not know that after all, there were more than 100,000 people living in this area. However, according to Hays' description, the old man speculated that they should live near the ruins, which was the most rarely visited place in the town, because it was also the location where the reactor crashed when the factory area fell. There was a serious radioactive pollution. Even if the radiation level is now very low, the residents would instinctively stay away from there. Only the most desperate people would live there and search for garbage that could be sold in the sound of the Geiger counter.
So Hayes rushed to that place. At this time, people were still coming and going on the street. Few people noticed these strangers wearing breathing masks. In fact, as the largest waste distribution center in the area, there were always many outsiders here, and there were also many people with "strange shapes". Mutations and deformities in the bottom nest seemed to be a normal state.
After walking on the street for a while, the three of them followed the old man's guidance and turned to an empty path. At the end of the narrow path, there was a right-angle alley parallel to the main road.
At this time, Hays heard a painful gasp in his keen ears. He hesitated for a moment, took out a silver pistol from a slender holster close to his abdomen, then made a gesture of silence with the two behind him, and carefully moved to another exit of the alleyway, close to a wall.
Under the faint light, four figures were struggling. One of them fell to the ground, wearing a starry military uniform with obvious broken marks, and there was a metal crutch beside him. It was obvious that his right leg disappeared from his crotch. The other three were attackers, all of whom were young, with very typical outfits of the thugs and gangsters, leather pants and leather jackets, moxie's hair, dyed reddish brown or dark blue.
Soon, the two grabbed the fallen man's arm and dragged him up.
Hayes finally saw clearly that it was a man with a stubble face, a nose, an ear, and half of his face with obvious burn marks. He recognized the other party at a glance, must have been a soldier. He was so familiar with this kind of trauma.
There was an old-fashioned player hanging around the soldier's neck, and Hayes's most familiar slogan was played intermittently.
Suspected as a fatal flaw in any armor...
The thought of infidelity is as dangerous as a hundred bullets...
Death itself is a reward...
It’s better to die for the emperor than to live for yourself...
A good soldier needs nothing but hatred...
It seemed like just a repetitive hoarse whisper of an old servant, but took Hayes back to the scene of squatting in the cabin with his comrades and laughing and fighting.
At this time, the third one, who also looked like the leader, turned around and laughed:
"Old guy, if you want to have a few more teeth left and eat mud cakes, just hand over the medal honestly. I don't have much patience."
"No--"
The veteran moaned:
"Hope is a luxury...no choice between the emperor and the abyss..."
"Your chant scriptures to me, right?"
Just as he raised his stick, Hays appeared casually in the glimmer.
The man holding the veteran's right arm immediately roared and pulled out the dagger on his waist.
"You TM is—"
Before he could finish speaking, he fell down and his chest was burned through a hole.
The burnt smell of flesh and blood filled the air. Hayes was familiar with this smell. He hated it in the past, but now he missed it.
The other two stared at Hayes in disbelief, and the pistol in his hand, but Hayes no longer gave them any chance to explain, and the pistol muzzle flashed twice in the dark.
The dazzling spots hit the chest of the young man who was holding the veteran's right arm, and another shot hit the leader's abdomen. The eyes of the two men were protruding from shock. When the stick was benign, the two bodies collapsed to the ground.
Killing is as ordinary as drinking water for Hayes today, and there is no fluctuation in his heart.
After experiencing a dark childhood, Jialinna is not surprised by death. Andina is also growing up in the nest and has seen all kinds of chaotic scenes, so they did not make any fuss about Hays killing the three of them directly. Instead, they took the initiative to take the wind around the alley and observe whether anyone is approaching.
"Is it okay?"
Hayes squatted down and wanted to help the veteran up, and took the crutch beside him, but the other party seemed to be silent in prayer and was still muttering to himself.
"Don't retreat before death, don't be weak in the face of heresy..."
"Brother? Which unit are you from?"
Hearing Hayes' words, the veteran was stunned at first, then turned his head, and his gray face became more and more energetic for the first time.
"Who are you..."
"My name is Hays, I am from the 310th Regiment, and our leader is Arnie."
“310th regiment!?”
The man widened his eyes, then smiled and grabbed Hayes' arm, and the two stood up together.
"I'm from the 219th Regiment. If I remember correctly, we should have fought together in the ghost place of Endymion."
Hayes laughed, nodding vigorously.
"Ahh, yes, yes, your regiment's position seemed to be on the east side of us, and I also followed the company commander to visit you."
Although the two met for the first time, they instantly burst into passionate feelings like brothers.
"My name is Kang, and I belong to the regiment artillery."
As he said that, the man turned off the player hanging on his chest.
"Brother Hayes, are you here too?"
"I'm not, I'm here to find someone. Do you know the Peaks?"
"Pick?"
The veteran named Kang turned his head and thought for a while.
“A little impression…”
"Living on the other side of the Ruins."
"Oh, as soon as you said it, I remembered it. He was behind me in the recruitment team. In the past, when I went to the ruins to pick up garbage, I often saw him and his younger brother, and I probably knew where they lived."
Then he took the initiative to take Hayes and the other two to the place. As for the corpses on the ground, they didn't need to pay attention to them at all. After all, death in the bottom nest is very common.
Lu Shanghai Si learned about what happened to Kang.
His troops first landed in a battle with bloody bones and lost half of their men in an instant because of the accident. Then when they entered the battlefield due to information errors, they encountered unexpected sieges by many enemies. As a similar cannon fodder regiment, the 219th regiment was almost defeated. However, the commander of the artillery unit where Kang was located turned the tide at a critical moment and took the risk of adopting the close-firing tactic of bayonets on artillery. At an extremely dangerous distance, he used continuous artillery bombardment to blow up the enemy's charge line and destroyed the enemy's only armor. Kang himself even operated the petrified lizard and shot the enemy's commanders with one precise cannon. In the end, less than a thousand people survived after the war, and less than thirty people in the artillery regiment in Kang was survived.
Chapter completed!