Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

As Celeste said, things are very troublesome. Even if he has the special ability of cheating, it will take a long time to repair the generator set that has been broken for more than ten years.

On the first day, Celeste first repaired the broken circuit in the No. 3 generator set, while Li Jies ran around to appease the hearts of the people, trying to convince people that a call would come soon.The townspeople crowded into the small shelters, relying on the only storage battery for centralized heating, and waited suspiciously.

The next day, with the help of Old Hunter, Celeste took a long time to repair the No. 4 generator, and the breath of despair began to spread quietly among the townspeople again. Two families left Hummingbird Town in the severe cold, and their whereabouts have been unknown since then.

On the third day, Celeste finally repaired the remaining parts and connected all the lines. He turned on the switch, and with the obvious sound of "buzzing", the two generators that had been silent for more than ten years restarted. It started to operate. Although the water level of the reservoir is not high and there is a layer of floating ice, the electricity generated is enough for the entire town to continue to survive.

The moment the power was turned on, cheers resounded throughout the town, and people immediately worshiped Celeste as a hero. If it weren't for his indifferent expression of "stay away from me", they would have wished to lift him up and throw him away. God.

Some people also asked such questions in the chat - why did Celeste, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, have such professional knowledge in repairing hydraulic engines?

But more people don't care about this at all. The whole town is immersed in the joy of survival after the catastrophe, although the situation is actually not optimistic at all-their population is decreasing, and there are very few troops left. The farm has been severely damaged. Although the greenhouse has been heated and illuminated again, it is likely that there will be no harvest until the weather warms up. The livestock are few and skinny. The only thing left to eat is mushrooms, but they have There are not enough people to go further afield to cut trees.

And to make matters worse, the only one left in the mercenary group was the injured Fu Yunlan.

After the attack that day, some of the thieves who did not die escaped. The mercenaries tried to trace the traces left by the thieves and find their hiding places in the wild—there must be no food, otherwise the thieves would not be like this The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry to die, but if there were any other supplies left, it was a loot waiting for someone to come and get it.

Since then, they have not been heard from.

After Fu Yunlan heard the news, her brows were frowned like pimples. Celeste comforted him and said, "Don't worry, they're fine."

"I hope so." Fu Yunlan sighed, taking this sentence of consolation as just a consolation.

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Of course, Celeste had a reason for saying this. Although he didn't know the current situation of the mercenary group, Mars knew everything.

The day after he finished speaking, the mercenary group came back one by one. Not only did they bring back some gold, silver, currency, salt and other trophies, but they also brought back a surprising captive.

It was a mutant who was seriously injured.

The whole town exploded immediately—almost everyone in the wasteland grew up listening to the frightening legends of mutants. Wherever mutants passed by, they never left alive, leaving people only dead The miserable corpses and the glimpsed figures in the surveillance video, only a few lucky ones, such as Fu Yunlan and Celeste, have seen the real mutants face to face, but for others, mutants are through A frightening legend passed down by word of mouth.

Because the whereabouts of mutants are mysterious and very rare, many people have doubted whether such a nightmare-like monster really exists. Now, Heita and the others have caught a living one.

They locked the mutant in the big iron cage that was used to keep elephants and lions in zoos, and later people used to keep zombies. They put several locks on it, so that the townspeople could watch the mutant from a distance.

Although the weather was so cold that people didn't even want to step outside, and the food shortage had become an imminent problem, people still came to watch this legendary monster in an endless stream, and the mercenaries became famous because of it. Where cowboys and others passed by, people cast admiration and admiration.

When Coulson, who came over to change his dressing, told Fu Yunlan the news, Fu Yunlan was not calm at all.

"How could they be so stupid!" Fu Yunlan said, "No, I have to talk to them."

"Don't get excited. If you go out and walk around in your current situation, the consequences will be very serious. Don't blame me for not warning you in advance." Coulson said and left after packing the medicine box. He always has many patients to be busy.

Fu Yunlan didn't dare to disobey the doctor's advice, so she had no choice but to say to Celeste, "You go to the mercenary group, and let them come here quickly."

"No." Celeste, who was sinking his head into soldering the circuit board, said casually without looking back, "They're coming soon."

"What did you say?" Fu Yunlan looked at him in astonishment.

Celeste paused for a moment and did not answer.

"Celester..." Fu Yunlan felt Celeste's sudden nervousness. He was about to say something when there was a knock on the door, and the voice of the black tower came from outside the door: "Lan, Are you awake?"

Celeste got up without a word and went to open the door, Fu Yunlan had no choice but to let go of her doubts for the time being.

It was only after returning to the small town that the members of the mercenary group learned that Fu Yunlan had come back after closing the gate of hell. After some discussion, they finally came to visit him collectively.

Seeing the old subordinates, Fu Yunlan hurriedly asked without waiting for them to open their mouths to care about his injury, "Did you catch a mutant?"

"To be precise, we didn't 'catch' him." Heita replied, "We picked him up on the way back."

"Found it?" Fu Yunlan repeated in surprise, "Tell me what's going on."

The cowboy was happy to skip the awkward greeting and condolences, and he took the lead to describe the details: "Well, it took us a lot of trouble, and it took us many days to find the gangster's hiding place and come back with the loot At that time, we saw a man lying in the middle of the road, who seemed to be still moving. We thought it was a refugee at first, but we thought it would be a life saver, but when we got closer, we found out that it was a mutant. I was so scared that I pulled out my pistol and gave him amends. He fired several shots, but all of them were hit unexpectedly. He seemed to want to run away, but he couldn’t even crawl, and he surrendered to us with a dying appearance, saying that he was willing to join us and hoped that we would take him in.”

"So you brought him back?" Fu Yunlan was really angry, "How cruel and terrifying mutants are, do you want me to repeat it to you? Crow and Punk were killed when they met each other , I was also beaten to the point of being powerless to resist, but you actually brought a mutant back to the town alive, what do you think?"

"Didn't the cowboy say that the guy was only breathless, his chest and stomach were pierced in several places, and his internal organs were exposed, even if he left it alone, he wouldn't be able to live for long." He's locked up, locked in the cage that was used to keep zombies, and he can't escape."

"No, you must kill him immediately. Maybe you can succeed while he is seriously injured. Otherwise, once his injury recovers, the consequences will be disastrous."

The veterans of the mercenary group such as Heita, Cowboy, and Bomber looked at each other for a while, and Heita said: "Lan, I know you have a psychological shadow on mutants, but we deliberately brought him back alive, just to let people see Look, mutants are actually not that scary at all, and your urgency to take his life seems like a guilty conscience for our mercenary group."

"Listen, I once fought mutants and saw their terrifying recovery ability with my own eyes. Gunshot wounds and knife wounds healed completely in a short period of time." Fu Yunlan said anxiously, "Don't you take advantage of it? Kill him quickly when he is seriously injured, and if he recovers from his injuries, no one in the whole town will be able to stop him."

A mercenary made a questioning voice: "You have already told us the story of the mutant, but I still find it hard to believe. Is everything you said true?"

The bomber who has been following Fu Yunlan fights the injustice and said: "Although this matter sounds really incredible, but based on what we know about Lan, he never lies or brags, unlike a cowboy."

Cowboy dissatisfied: "Although I also think that Lan can't lie, but why are you getting involved with me when you are so good?"

The mercenary said, "I mean, maybe because you were too nervous, you slightly exaggerated the horror of mutants?"

Another mercenary said: "I think Lan has his reasons for saying this. Maybe we really underestimated the mutants. If you don't believe me, you can ask Celeste. He is also the one who witnessed the whole thing."

It was only then that everyone noticed Celeste, who had been low-key and non-existent from the beginning.

Celeste said: "We did encounter mutants. Lan did not exaggerate. The mutants are indeed very cruel, and the wounds heal quickly."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one spoke for a while.

"I said..." Heita broke the silence, and he suggested, "Since everyone has their own opinions, why not vote, and those who think that mutants should be killed immediately raise their hands."

The mercenaries raised their hands sparsely, and less than a third of them agreed.

Heita nodded in satisfaction: "Since everyone thinks so, let's make it so."

Fu Yunlan said anxiously: "This is not a child's play. You don't understand the risks you face at all. If you still think of me as the team leader, just trust my experience and don't leave this disaster behind."

"You should rest at ease and heal your wounds first." Heita said, "Of course you will still be our regiment leader after you recover from your injuries."