[Warning, you will enter a nuclear contaminated area]
A dilapidated and rusty road sign stood in front of him, graffiti filled with rude symbols and words.
The Bone and Blood District is located in the southwest of Flowing Light City, very far from the nearest Pharaoh District.
Now there is only a dilapidated road connecting this once glorious land. Except for the occasional speculators, criminals and crazy scientific researchers, few people visit this wasteland.
At this time, a heavily modified pickup truck was driving on the dilapidated road, with the blood blade logo painted on the body.
The song of a mariachi band floated out from the car window. Lorna's newly installed prosthetic body was holding the steering wheel with her right hand. She was wearing a red leather jacket and black leather pants, wearing a metal protective beak mask, and had a cigarette in her mouth. The smoke came from
The mask was lifted from the mouth and the mouth was floating.
She looked through the windshield at the barren, charred plain land ahead, and smoked even more fiercely.
A few decades ago, this was still an emerging area. Unlike many areas in Flowing Light City, which were dominated by immigrants, the Bone and Blood Area gathered people who were born in this Free State, and their bloodlines were mixed.
The first generation of people worked hard to open up this southwest wasteland and built roads and communities.
When there is a large enough population here, and when they have spent a few years, they have just made their home full of life.
Santo Corporation and various factories came in, bringing with them noise, sour air, polluted water flows and industrial waste.
This road is filled with rumbling trucks, trucks and various machinery and equipment all day long.
Santo focused on this place and wanted to turn it into a "Southwestern Industrial Zone" and also built a nuclear power plant.
The flesh-blooded people could not stop this, so they watched the park full of flowers gradually turn into a stinking pit full of waste materials, rotten cement, and cinders, turned into banknotes of the New World Bank, and red wine in the hands of rich people.
It was at that time that Roden Ludd, the second generation of Bone-blood people, stood up, and the Bone-blood flag began to fly.
"Fuck, that's a huge dead deer."
Lorna muttered, popping the finished cigarette butt out of the car window, causing sparks to fly.
There is a ruins of gas stations, restaurants, and motels over there. The walls that cross the ground have peeling paint, and the weird patterns and twisted words graffitied on them are no longer distinguishable.
There was a tattered flag of bones and blood leaning sideways among the bricks and tiles.
There was also a five-legged deer that was deformed by nuclear contamination and died next to the flag, with countless flies eating away at the carrion.
Nuclear pollution seems to have the magic power to reshape things. Even the flies have grown much bigger, as if they are going crazy.
However, there are not even a few vultures here, and they all seem to be dead.
The heavily loaded pickup truck did not stop, rumbled past at high speed, and continued to move forward.
Nowadays, some kids think that it was the poor people who started the trouble because they couldn't make ends meet. Lorna knows that's not true. In the hazy memories of her childhood, her parents took her to the amusement park in the center of the district, with people coming and going and cheers.
Laughter.
And those strange scenes created by the alchemists were still vivid in her mind.
Later, after Operation Bone and Blood failed, the nuclear power plant in Santo had a leak, which just happened to contaminate the entire bone and blood area, but nothing happened elsewhere.
And those chemical factories and machinery factories, in the name of commercial safety, blew themselves up, first the factory area, and then even the urban area was blown up due to "mistakes", turning the flesh and blood area into a huge ruin.
Lorna turned her head and looked in one direction outside the window, and saw a river, a river of bones and blood that existed in her memory.
When she was three or four years old, although the company had invaded, the river was still clear, so her father took her into the river to teach her how to swim. At first she almost drowned, and her mother was so frightened that she quickly fished her out.
"Are you afraid?" her father asked.
"Don't be afraid!" She remembered saying this, and she really wanted to continue swimming, so she plunged into the river again.
Now the wide river has dried up long ago, and has been completely blocked at both ends. The filled river is filled with strange and sticky black mud, which bubbles from time to time, and there is no telling what ghost is brewing in it.
The originally dense and lush trees on both sides of the river have long since died, and they have fallen here and there to form two long rows of coffins.
Everything that was once beautiful was so dead that the coffins couldn't even contain it.
But because before the Bone and Blood River was filled up, those factories discharged garbage freely for ten or eight days, and the valuable raw materials that were too late to be taken away were also dumped and buried deep in this putrid dead river.
She suddenly saw several figures emerging from the smoking black river mud.
They were wearing strange homemade protective clothing and holding a detector in their hands, which looked like a pile of human-shaped junk.
The scavengers in the Bone and Blood District dug into the dead river like this just because they wanted to find some valuable industrial raw materials.
Some of them wanted to exchange some money, and some of them wanted to mess around with some alchemy stuff.
Lorna withdrew her gaze and looked straight at the deserted road ahead. The chemical acid smell penetrated into the protective mask and was very pungent.
She didn't let her eyes show pain, didn't let it.
The place the car is going to is "Bone and Blood Town", which is the only settlement that still exists in the Bone and Blood area. There are tens of thousands of people who have never left. They have been reshaped by nuclear pollution and are isolated from the neon lights of Flowing City.
Some crumbling, dilapidated and dilapidated houses, as well as some tents that had been pitched for a long time, were sparsely located among the ruins of the original city, forming several streets that were not even paved with smooth cement.
This piece of ruined land, which even the rain does not like to visit, has not been cleaned up for so many years.
When Lorna drove into the town of Bone and Blood, she realized from a distance that she had been targeted by some sniper rifles and eyes in the ground. If it weren't for the Blood Blade logo on the car, she wouldn't have been able to get in.
Soon, the pickup truck stopped next to a collapsed wall. On the wall were the bloody palm prints of countless people and a line of blood words:
【Bone and Blood Oath】
Lorna got out of the car, stepped on the rubble on the ground, and walked towards the entrance of the town.
There were some guard-like men and women with guns in front of them, and some passers-by were looking in the distance. There were some dilapidated houses, shops and bars on both sides of the street, and more people came out to the street.
Everyone is full of vigilance that is almost malicious, and not many people come to Bone and Blood Town.
Lorna walked towards them, her heart suddenly went blank, it had been fifteen years.
In her dreams, she came back many times, but this time, she actually stepped on this land of flesh and blood.
"Who are you?" a young man shouted, "Which blood blade? Is there something going on?"
With this cry, more and more townspeople were alerted, as if a group of rats were emerging from the holes, and figures appeared on the streets. No matter adults or children, they were not wearing protective clothing or masks.
.
Some people have been deformed and modified accordingly, simply releasing the twisted bones from under the flesh.
However, those children born from unions after nuclear pollution show the tenacity of life, and all of them look normal.
"I'm Lorna Louder." Lorna just said it. "I want to see Jacqui Biggs. I have a question to ask him."
The people on the street over there were startled, and then there was a low uproar.
Except for a few kids, there's no one here who doesn't know who Lorna Lourd is.
Everyone who existed fifteen years ago, even a little baby, walked side by side with her on the front line.
"Lorna?" A fat middle-aged woman suddenly became excited, "It's really you? Are you back?"
Many people's eyes looked different one after another, as if some long-lasting fire had suddenly rekindled.
They have been staying here for many years, and their bones have been broken and grown again, and their skin and flesh have taken on a different color than before.
Only the color of the blood remained unchanged.
As if everything was waiting for this day, Rodan Ludd's daughter, the daughter of flesh and blood, came back.
Just when the noise was boiling, a small motorcade drove through the town, and a group of people got out. Everyone respected them, especially the man with a tall Chinese character and a tall face who was walking in the front.
Strong man.
The coat was made of metal and had many electronic wires of different colors, but it still looked like a pile of scrap metal.
Jacqui Biggs, now the leader of the Bones and Bloods gang.
After Rawdon-Lord was finished, Biggs took over.
At that time, the leaders were ranked, and Biggs was able to board the number one truck, and he was one of the few leaders who escaped the disaster. Because of this, everyone obeyed him, and he was able to lead the remaining people to swear to stay here.
Lorna didn't remember much about this middle-aged man, except that he had disliked her since she was a child.
"She's Lorna Lourd." At this time, Jacqui Biggs came to the front of the crowd and said one sentence that made everyone even more shocked.
But then he pointed at Lorna and said loudly: "But she is no longer a human being!"
The broken street suddenly fell silent, with complicated expressions on the slightly distorted faces.
"Lorna, look at you." Jacqui Biggs said again, "Wearing a protective mask and pretending to be a bird, you have been hanging around the city for a long time and are afraid that it will be dirty? If your father sees it, he will laugh to death.
!”
Everyone became more and more silent, and their faces looked like cracked ground.
The fat woman was eager to explain to Lorna, but she couldn't come up with anything.
"I am a second-programmer hunter. I am not afraid of mutation. I wear this bird mask to show that Lorna has not really come back."
As Lorna said that, she suddenly took off her beak mask, revealing her cold face.
At this time, the fat woman and many others couldn't help but be excited, "It's Lorna, it's her..."
Although Lorna has not come back in these years, the photos of her grown-up daughter have been circulated for a long time, and everyone knows about her.
"I came here this time to ask you a question."
Lorna said to the expressionless Biggs over there, then looked around and shouted: "Someone paid a large group of people to kill me! Kill the bloody girl! That bitch, is it you Jacqui-Bee?"
Gus?"
Everyone in Bone and Blood Town knows extraordinary knowledge, and there are no secrets in this regard here.
They knew what a swarm was, and they had seen swarms before, weird and terrifying swarms.
Jacqui Biggs frowned silently, as if it was an accident. He faced everyone's shocked and confused eyes and said sternly:
"I dared to say this even when Roden came, but it wasn't me! Lorna, the Bone and Blood Gang never wanted you dead, not then, not now, either. That was a lie used by the New World Bank to drive a wedge between us."
"That's fine."
Lorna stared at her green eyes, put on her beak mask again, turned and walked towards her pickup truck to leave this ruined land.
"I don't want to be beaten and a skeletal guy comes out of the big group. That would be too aberrant."