Chapter 114: Entering the Ruins for the First Time (Part 1)
Zhenye Empire, Old Uko Province, Donusk Ruins Outer Main Road.
The few people who drove from the village settlement "Wuxin Village" to the main road remained silent and silent.
Laite, who was sitting in the middle left position of the middle row of the mechanical chariot, lowered his head and opened his sleeves, and glanced at the old mechanical watch. At the same time, he also held the watch left by Moros in his left hand to set the time.
There is no big deviation in the control of time.
"Is it five o'clock? Time flies so fast. It seems that [Dream Builder]'s ability is really powerful. When I met Natasha, Aaron, and even Yato before, I didn't have any serious mental problems.
Shock. But this [Dream Constructor] principle, he just... waved his hands lightly, and I fell into a semi-real illusion. It's really... scary, scary ability."
Although he has already walked from the winding road of "Wuxin Village" to the main road, and has long since lost sight of the low-rise bungalow area with dim colors, Laite still seems to feel that Li Na is lingering in his ears.
The performer forced a violin-like voice, and the wind had a youthful voice that was worthy of love.
"Indeed, [Dream Builder] is very powerful. Feng is right, it is also very rare. If there are a large number of powerful people, they will inevitably be in a state of involution, and the powerful will become ordinary, and then become not enough.
powerful'."
"It seems that the old man can construct semi-realistic and semi-hallucinatory dreams. It should be hypnosis. He can hypnotize others to obtain some expected results. I just don't know what the "external force physically controls human beings and unintentional people" mentioned in the trend is. I think it should be
Compared to [Seducer] Yato’s ability is more interesting and maybe more effective.”
Laite had a slightly twisted expression, and his mouth seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
He rubbed the "Crazy Bear" pistol on his left hand and the "Tool Yuan" brand rifle that had not been used much.
In his right hand is the personal pistol "Federal 01" left by Moros. It seems that he has never seen Moros use it.
"I remember that the big man Brett said in the morning that he followed Moros' example while we were sleeping last night and secretly set up the antenna for the telegraph, and contacted him through the 'Military F-01' telegraph machine.
I went to the channel of the Sugra Guards and sent back the news of Moros’s death.”
"Alas, Moros is one of the unlucky people in the wasteland battle. Most of the imperial soldiers can leave their bodies behind when fighting the Heartless and the Lost. Even the infected [soldiers] will be killed after being killed.
Then he was buried in the cemetery, which is the special treatment given to soldiers by the empire."
"Moros has no body. If the black particles floating in the wind can be considered his body, I'm afraid his cemetery and tombstone are smaller than others. Human beings are really weak in the wasteland world.
.If you become a god, I probably won’t have so many worries." Laite thought sadly to himself.
"I remember that after I came out of the manager's room just now, Brett just woke up Miyou without saying a word. However, he really seemed like a big brother and didn't let Miyou, a kid, do manual labor.
Instead, he picked up the silent, strange, half-lost woman and placed her on the back seat."
"He also thoughtfully handed him a 2 Singapore dollar note. On the front was the hero of Socrates, a very handsome man, but his facial features were similar to the statue of the hero he saw when he went to the library where George was that day. It blended well.
They were all together and couldn't see their faces clearly. It seemed that all the banknotes in this edition were of this style. However, the 2 Singapore dollars was not too much for the poor Feng Heli. Moreover, Brett also left a box of cans.
This is a can of fruit that none of us thought about opening during the journey."
"If you don't eat some fruits and just eat meat and dry food in the Donusk ruins, you may not be able to escape from scurvy."
Just as Laite was looking out the car window at the still bright sky after the rain, and the gradually becoming clearer ruins of huge urban buildings, noisy sounds of insects chirping and the wings of birds and animals suddenly came out of the window.
A few minutes later, Laite looked out the window curiously.
"What is that?" he asked curiously, stretching out his calloused right index finger wearing a black half-finger glove.
There seemed to be a mass of brown material hovering in the direction he was pointing. From a distance, it looked like a messy mass of brown hair, as if a [scholar] who didn't care about cleanliness had been thinking about an epic mathematical problem for several days.
.
The "hair" was suspended in the air, looking out of place with the white clouds in the sky, but it complemented the tall ruins in the distance that were clearly visible on the ground.
After Laite stared blankly at the "hair" for a few minutes, the mass of hair became larger and larger, and gradually became clearer.
It seems... it seems that the "hair" is not expanding its body, but getting closer and closer to the mechanical chariot driven by Brett!
And it doesn't seem to be birds or some floating plants, but a group of - insects?
As the insect swarm gradually approached, Laite could see their appearance clearly from a distance of about four or five meters.
Their bodies are brown, with two scarlet-colored antennae, and each insect has six downy legs.
Judging from the body shape, if all the tentacles and legs of those insects were removed, they would look like "watermelon seeds"!
Moreover, they also have a pair of small, bat-like wings.
They were suspended above the mechanical chariot, waving their blue-grey wings hard, and their mosquito-like mouthparts were actually exposed.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
They're like a disgusting patchwork of insects and birds!
"What on earth is it?" Laite asked curiously.
"It's a cockroach. To be precise, it's a 'careless cockroach', a mutated product affected by the virus." Brett, who had been silent before driving the chariot, answered in a hoarse and heavy voice.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Wuxin... Wuxin cockroaches? Are their bodies also filled with burning liquid?" Laite asked.
"That's right. And there is a heart similar to humans under their mouthparts. If you look carefully, they are about five or six centimeters in length, which is considered a relatively large cockroach. I remember that in the northern border of the empire, Zine
During the mission near Tsk, many of them were only a centimeter or more at most. In the southern part of the empire, especially near Ptoya, there are such huge unintentional cockroaches. And it is said that some of them were affected by the burning liquid, plus
Individuals who have sucked the blood of the Lost can grow to thirty or forty centimeters. However," Brett said in a calm tone:
"As long as we don't take the initiative to provoke them, they generally won't attack humans. After all, this kind of unintentional cockroaches don't know how they are affected. When most of them encounter humans, they will use their mouthparts to inject burning liquid into their bodies to spread the virus, causing humans to mutate into unintentional cockroaches. People, on the other hand, do not aim to suck blood or kill humans. But generally speaking, it is not common."
"It looks like the work of some whimsical scientist." Laite breathed a sigh of relief and commented with a smile.
"Indeed. I remember that according to records in some documents of the empire, the earliest appearance of the unintentional cockroach can only be traced back to more than two hundred years ago. At that time, it happened to be the day when the empire launched a major counterattack on several strongholds and important areas. The empire launched successive After several important battles, people once felt that it was possible to eliminate the unintentional people and expel the lost ones. And the first 'Silent Light' battle to regain Donusk was launched during that time." Brett used his experience in Kusha City The history, biology and military knowledge learned are explained.
"Although none of us have experienced that day, listening to your story makes me feel full of hope." Laite said with emotion.
From Brett's description, Laite seemed to see light, that kind of holy light, as if an angel had descended!
"But I still have a question." Laite asked while grabbing Brett's seat in front of him:
"They will not actively attack humans, and they will infect humans when they encounter them. So what if they are lost or unintentional?"
"There will be a fight." Brett replied casually.
"Wait." He suddenly realized a serious problem.
"There will be a fight!!!" Brett and Wright exclaimed at the same time.
"Their food is on the one hand the plants growing in the wilderness, and on the other hand the bodies of the Heartless! Both the Heartless and the Lost will emit a unique scent that attracts them, and many mutant animals will also be attracted by this scent. Attracted." Brett's tone suddenly became urgent.
"The aura of the Lost, if coupled with the aura of the Vampires..."
Laite looked at Miyou who was curled up on the right side of the middle seat and fell into a short sleep with a shocked look on his face.
He is an out-and-out lost person, not an intermediate being who is semi-lost.
If you say so...
Laite quickly rolled up the open window and looked up at the careless cockroaches.
Sure enough, as Brett said, those mutated insects with open wings got a little closer to the mechanical chariot.
Now we are only about three meters away from them.
Moreover, both sides actually kept moving forward at the same speed, showing a relatively stationary state.
But those careless cockroaches did not seem to extend their mosquito-like mouthparts, but instead shook their bodies.
After a while, a hole of about one centimeter opened in the lower part of the body of those unintentional cockroaches, and a bright, high-temperature liquid with a red smell condensed into a water ball, hanging swayingly on their bodies. the second half.
"Are those liquids burning liquid? Brett." Wright asked, pointing to the "water balls" that were red and burning.
"No, it's an enhanced version of the burning fluid, which is extremely corrosive. If it gets contaminated, I'm afraid we'll all have to walk! Laite, hold on to the handrail next to me, I'm going to speed up." Te roared.
He stepped on the accelerator of the mechanical chariot hard and firmly grasped the steering wheel with both hands to ensure that the direction of the mechanical chariot would not deviate too much.
Buzz, buzz, boom!
The roar of the machine accompanied by the impact of acceleration made Laite experience racing for the first time in this world!
He felt his body lean back violently, and then when Brett turned the steering wheel hard to go left and right along the winding road, he felt his body swaying uncontrollably from side to side.
At this time, Brett seemed to see himself in the fantasy again.
The tall knight in silver-white armor, this time the sharp sword in his hand has disappeared, and the brown-haired horse underneath him is panting and moving forward, with blood-like sweat flowing out of his body.
He was left to his own devices, barely able to drive his horse to avoid the pursuit of the nomadic tribesmen cavalry behind him, known as the "Scourge of the Lord".
The unintentional cockroaches and the "enhanced version of the burning fluid" they threw at the car were like arrows that could kill people and flew towards Brett, the "knight".
Fortunately, after a brief period of bumpy and exciting racing that made people soar with adrenaline, Laite looked back and saw that the group of brown unintentional cockroaches had been separated from each other.
Laite seemed to be able to hear the angry insect-like chirps coming from the mouthparts of Wuxinless cockroaches, as well as the sound of their flapping wings rubbing against the air.
Immediately afterwards, the group of unintentional cockroaches gradually flew upwards, quickly widening the distance from the mechanical chariot, and returned to the state of a ball of brown "hair".
However, the bump just now did not allow the person lying in the back seat to lie down. I don't know if the half-lost [Prayer] woman who fell into a deep sleep made any noise or made any unnecessary movements.
Even Miyou, who fell asleep most of the day because he was afraid of the scorching sun, was not awakened, but he instead curled up in the middle of the seat, close to Laite.
After walking for another four or five minutes along the road covered with yellow sand and filled with a withered and dilapidated atmosphere, Laite and Brett finally saw some plants.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Some poplar trees growing messily on both sides of the road.
After losing human "guidance" and being affected by the virus that permeated the air, they did not grow completely straight and were slightly twisted, but several untimely green leaves grew thickly near the roots.
Leiter observed that the closer to the Donusk ruins, the more obvious the traces of plants.
It started with yellow and messy weeds, and some plants that can grow in the desert and fix the sand.
But now everything in front of me is green plants. In addition to the lush wild grasses, there are even a few tulips growing not far in front of me, beside the swamp near the road.
As the car continued to move forward, Laite noticed that the appearance of the road had gradually changed from the previous dilapidated state, filled with unintentional burn fluid, dark red blood and various unknown rotting objects, to a fairly general one.
Complete, even a little tidy.
A few minutes later, the mechanical chariot drove past several dilapidated and rusty vehicles parked on the side of the road before walking onto a viaduct.
After the mechanical chariot got on the bridge, Laite found that his field of vision had broadened a lot.
The surrounding space also quickly switched from the Gobi wilderness to a state of high-rise buildings and ruins.
Green plants begin to appear everywhere.
Accompanied only by the rumble of mechanical chariots and the seemingly manic sound of the wind, Laite discovered that the abandoned high-rise buildings in the city ruins had gradually grown from five or six floors to seven or eight floors, or even more than ten floors.
Those "tall buildings" were scorched and dilapidated after being baptized by the flames of war. Most of the windows in the houses were missing, and in rare cases only some broken glass pieces were left.
However, the smell of plants makes up for the vacancy left by humans.
Most of those concrete buildings that seem to be getting taller and taller are occupied by vines and green ivy, bathing in the "sacred light" exclusive to green plants under the sun.
It presents a realm of vitality and all things competing.
It’s as if the God of Nature, No. 81, is declaring her sovereignty!