Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

While talking, they had already arrived in front of the burning building, and Dandy took the lead to climb up the rope ladder. Celeste noticed that there were several dead and freeze-dried zombies near the rope ladder, presumably because zombies would not Climbing the rope ladder, the movement was very slow, and the person upstairs pushed a stone or something else down and killed him.

"Hi, Dandy." One of the people warming the fire greeted them. "Is this a new joiner? He looks pretty, look at that smooth skin..."

"Shut up Hans, he's not a joiner, he's just a passer-by, and I'll send him away soon." Dandy dug out a sleeping bag from among a lot of debris, and told Celeste Said: "It will be very dangerous if the vision is not good at night. Let's rest here for the night first. There is still a lot of way to go tomorrow."

"Yes." Celeste responded obediently.

The wind and snow have stopped, and it seems that tomorrow will be a sunny day. In the dark sky, a circular light spot can be vaguely seen-it seems that today is a full moon, but the sun cannot penetrate the thick layer of dust above the head The moonlight is even worse, every night on the wasteland is so dark that you can't see your fingers, especially in the ruins of this city without electricity.

Celeste leaned against the fire and looked at this sloppy settlement. Seven or eight beds or floor mats were scattered in every corner of the room, and boxes of food were piled up in the corners without distinguishing which ones were Anyone who wants to eat it can eat it.A few people with rotten faces were wrapped in thick clothes or quilts and sat withered by the fire, their cloudy eyes were open and they didn't know what they were thinking. People with better physical strength got up and moved from time to time , Sweep the ashes and food packaging and other garbage from the fire downstairs.

Dandy opened a bottle of wine, then pried open a can of luncheon meat and began to chew. Seeing Celeste looking at him helplessly, he said, "If you are very hungry, you can eat a little, but don't eat too much." , These things have been contaminated by radiation, if you eat too much, you will become like me sooner or later."

As he spoke, he rummaged through the box, found a can of meat that looked better sealed, opened it and handed it to Celeste.

"Thank you." Celeste took it, and Dandy found him a clean spoon, and asked Hans, "Where's the bottled water?"

"Isn't there wine here?" Hans pointed to the beer and liquor next to him with his chin.

"How can I give him a drink? Find water, it must be a sealed one." Dandy kicked Hans, and Hans complained to himself and went to find water for Celeste. Lister could see that his movement was very inconvenient, and he was limping when he walked, so he said, "Don't bother, it doesn't matter if I drink."

"Leave him alone, his toes are all glued together, and he'll die faster if he doesn't get up and move around." Dandy took a sip of spicy whiskey and said with a long breath, "Sweetie, I know what's going on outside Life here is very bitter, but you don’t want to stay here just because there is food here, only the waste that has completely given up hope will crawl here, lingering like maggots, waiting to die.”

He didn't shy away from the other people who were nesting by the fire, and those people who were described as "maggots" didn't respond at all. Instead, they were wrapped in quilts, chewing food, sitting by the fire and watching numbly. They didn't even look at them.

Dandy curled his lips, and was used to their numbness for a long time: "If you don't eat, you will starve to death, but you can only live for three or four years at most if you eat this kind of food, and in the last three or four years, you I will watch myself rot little by little, and my health will get worse and worse until I can't stand the pain anymore and commit suicide."

As Dandy took another sip of wine, Celeste chewed on the canned meat and looked at him and asked, "Doesn't it hurt you to drink?"

"Of course it will hurt. My esophagus and stomach are probably as rotten as my face." Dandy said with a breath of alcohol, "but I still have to drink."

Celeste got into his sleeping bag after eating the canned food. After a few hours of nap, he was woken up by some movement. Hans came back with several boxes of food and mineral water from nowhere. Go down the wooden ladder and help him carry things up.

Dandy got up and moved his body, grabbed two bottles of mineral water and a few cans and stuffed them into the pocket of Celeste's down jacket, patted him and said, "Let's continue on the road, these water and food are for your emergency, Don’t eat if you can, don’t eat until you’re really hungry, understand?”

"En." Celeste replied, and followed Dandy down the stairs.

It was not yet dawn at all, Dandy held the torch, and led Celeste to continue walking deep and shallow in the ruins of the city until dawn gradually appeared in the sky.

"Look, this is the radio and television building in the past. It's beautiful. Even though there are only three or four floors left, it's still very beautiful. Before it was bombed, it was an important landmark of the city." Dandy walked Like a tour guide, he introduced the wreckage of the city to Celeste, "In front is Liberty Square, have you seen the frozen dirty pool? There used to be a musical fountain here every night, but it was a holy place for couples to date. "

Celeste heard Dandy talk all the way, no matter how dull he was, he could feel the nostalgia and sadness revealed in Dandy's words: "Are you sad that this city has become like this?"

"Of course it's sad, but what's the use of it." Dandy patted him on the back and said, "Okay, cheer up, the exit of the subway station is ahead, there are still many living zombies in the subway station, now They usually won't come out when it's cold, and this way can save a lot of time."

Celeste has not wrestled for a long time, but he is not an agile person after all. When he was climbing down a pile of ruins, he suddenly stepped on the air, leaving a large piece of bricks, broken stones, cement bumps and the like The fragments of the building slid down in a "splash".

Dandy hurried down to help him up: "No injury?"

"Well, it's better to wear it much better." Celeste patted the ashes on his body and got up, and saw a zombie walking out of the exit of the subway station.

The movement of his slipping and falling seemed to have alarmed the zombies in the subway station. One after another, the zombies got out of the subway station. These zombies had been infected for a long time, and they might have been infected before the war. It was already wrinkled like a shriveled corpse, most of its lips, nose, and ears were rotten, and its movements were unsteady, and some could only crawl on the ground, but they still squirmed towards Celeste resolutely.

"Oh, shit." Dandy cursed, "Go up!"

Celeste tried to climb up the slope he just slid down, but he slid down three steps after climbing two steps, and Dandy had already taken off the shotgun on his back, squatting down and aiming at the approaching zombies.His marksmanship was pretty good, he basically shot one by one against slow-moving zombies, but after four or five shots, the shotgun jammed.

"Damn it!" Dandy tried hard to clear the jammed bullet with his fingers wearing leather gloves, but he couldn't clear it out because of his inflexible fingers. Seeing that the zombies had approached only a dozen steps away, Celis Te also gave up his useless efforts because he couldn't climb up. Dandy handed the shotgun to Celeste: "Help me!"

Then he picked up a sharp piece of rusted iron from the ground and held it in his hand.

Dandy's original intention was to hope that Celeste would help him remove the jam, although he was not sure whether Celeste knew what to do, but Celeste misunderstood his meaning and quickly cleared the jam He aimed his gun directly at the nearest zombie and shot in the head.

Immediately afterwards, under Dandy's astonished gaze, he shot and killed the approaching zombies one by one until the bullets ran out. He turned to Dandy and asked, "Are there any bullets?"

"...Yes." Dandy dropped the rusted iron piece in a daze to get out the bullets, and reached into his pocket several times before reaching into his pocket to grab a shotgun bullet and handing it to Celeste.

Celeste loaded the bullets and continued to shoot at the zombies that appeared at the exit of the subway station. He hit every shot and shot headshots. He didn't return the gun to Dandy until there were no more zombies at the exit.

Dandy took it with complicated emotions and put it on his body again. He saw Celeste turn around, picked up a photo from the ruins, wiped the dust off the photo with his fingers and handed it to him: "This is your photo." Something, it fell out of you just now."

Dandy took it over. It was a well-preserved photo in a plastic bag. In the photo, there was a sunny and tree-lined background, and you could see the fountain in the distance and the radio and television building in the distance. A beautiful girl with burgundy hair is smiling wildly at the camera, holding a half-eaten ice cream in one hand, and stretching the other hand towards the camera, the bright nail polish is clearly visible, the expression on her face is so Vivid, as if saying: "How dare you secretly take pictures of me, you are dead!"

"...Thank you." Dandy put the photo in his pocket, turned around and continued to walk out of the city.

"Is this something important?" Thelister asked.

"Yes, it's very important." Dandy knew that Celeste was a curious baby, but he didn't want to continue on this topic at all, "I didn't expect that little sweetheart is so powerful, why don't you just go back and kill those who want to catch you people."

"There are many of them, and I have no weapons."

"That's right." Dandy took out a pistol from a pocket, "Keep this small gun for your self-defense."

It was a very special weapon. The body of the gun was plated with silver and engraved with patterns of thorns and roses. Making this kind of labor-intensive and time-consuming but useless decoration showed the maker's love for it.

Celeste took it over, it wasn't mechanical, but he could still feel the exquisite rifling and the excellent performance of the bolt: "This is a good gun."

"Knowledge." Dandy praised.

"Why did you give it to me?" Celeste fiddled with the weapon, which had obviously been well maintained. He knew that this gift was very expensive.