Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

The gangster who was changing the magazine for the submachine gun shook his hand, and the magazine was scared off. When he squatted down to pick it up tremblingly, Celeste had thrown away his coat and stood up, and shot him in the chest. In the right eye, the bullet pierced the skull, and the gangster fell down without a word.

The six gangsters died in a very short period of time, and only the last female gangster was left, and she was obviously not a competent desperado, not only had she been hiding at the back, and hadn't fired a single shot since just now, but she also For a moment, it seemed that her hands were shaking so much that she could hardly hold the broken pistol. When Celeste looked at her, she simply dropped the gun, raised her hands and fell to her knees with a plop.

Celeste, who was about to shoot, froze for a moment, but didn't pull the trigger.

Fu Yunlan had already replaced the empty magazines at this time. When he walked towards the female gangster, the dirty face of the female gangster was already covered with tears. She knelt on the ground and walked backward step by step, trembling. Lips begged for mercy: "Please, let me go... I was forced to join, I don't want to be a gangster, please forgive me, I will listen to you, I will give you children..."

Fu Yunlan wanted to tell Celeste to turn his head and not look at it, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was meaningless. He already knew what he should know about the darkness and danger of the wasteland, even if he didn't know it now, He will know sooner or later--not to mention that just now, he killed two gangsters with his own hands.

So, while the female gangster was still crying and begging for mercy, Fu Yunlan shot her in the back of the head under Celeste's gaze.

After a "bang" gunshot, the sobbing of the female gangster stopped abruptly.

"...I thought you would let her go." Celeste said.

Fu Yunlan went back and picked up the down jacket with the torn hat: "Why do you think so?"

"You are a good man, and full of compassion for the weak."

"That's why I won't let her go. To be kind to these people is to be cruel to the weak." Fu Yunlan shook the water on the coat. Fortunately, the waterproof down jacket was barely wet.

"Maybe she was really forced, maybe she will change it?" Celeste's tone was not questioning, but just curious.

"Maybe, but there is no need to take this risk." Fu Yunlan paused, he felt that he should let Celeste know some things that might not be good, "You may have heard of it, before you came When I arrived in Hummingbird Town, this happened. There was a young female bandit who came to Hummingbird Town alone on a cold snowy night and surrendered to the guards. She said that she was taken away by the bandits. Seeing her, forcing her to choose, either eat people with them or be eaten by them. She said in tears that she didn't want to be a gangster or cannibal at all. She was pregnant and just wanted to live, so she pretended to surrender and took advantage of She escaped at the risk of her life when the bandits let down their vigilance, and if we don’t take her in, she will die.”

"So you took her in?"

"Yes, my father agreed for her to stay, and arranged for her to work in a mushroom factory. At first she was grateful to Dade, and she completely changed her mind to welcome a new life. After a long time, she gradually became unwilling to continue. Engaged in the hard work of the mushroom factory, but chose to pick up customers in Heipingzi Lane to make a living, contracted a whole body of diseases and drug addiction, and the child died." Fu Yunlan sighed, "It was nothing at first, she was willing It is also her freedom to spend her life without work, but later, we found that homeless people in the town often disappeared inexplicably, and finally we found her. In the basement of her house, I found some skeletons that had been eaten clean, and one recently disappeared. The bum--has been eaten in half and is still alive because she...has no refrigerator."

Even if Fu Yunlan thinks about it now, he still feels a little nauseated, but Celeste just listened calmly. Fu Yunlan looked at his expressionless expression, sighed before continuing: "Some people vomited at that time. Even a murderous mercenary like us couldn't do it. After cutting off so many... parts, it didn't make people die. I don't know how many times of practice it was. learned method."

Fu Yunlan described the cruel scene as tactfully as possible, and Celeste still said calmly after hearing this: "I understand, but even if one female gangster hasn't changed, it doesn't mean that all the gangsters have changed." Won't you change your ways and turn back to your right?"

"Indeed, but we don't need to take the risk of other people's lives. Bandit gangs in the wasteland have similar rules. The first threshold to join the bandit is to eat people, and some are even asked to kill and Eat your own companions. I said that once a person crosses the bottom line, he will never learn to respect life again. Maybe she is forced to help, maybe not every gangster is hopeless, but we don’t have to Let innocent people take the risk."

While Fu Yunlan was speaking, she put the coat back on her body a little stiffly.

Celeste finally noticed his abnormality: "How is your injury?"

"It's nothing...it's a big problem." Fu Yunlan frowned in pain when she spoke.

"Let me see."

Although Fu Yunlan didn't cooperate very much, Celeste insisted on lifting his clothes, and saw that the gauze wrapped around his abdominal wound had leaked red.

"Your wound is bleeding again." Celeste said anxiously. He must have used too much force in the battle just now, and the wound that hadn't healed broke open again.

"It's okay...the wound was stitched with needles, it's not easy to tear, at most the thread is worn out." Fu Yunlan carefully sat down on a stone and said, "Go back and ask Coulson to treat it for me again. Enough."

"But you can't just walk back like this, or the condition of the wound will be worse." Thelister said, "If you get infected again, I don't know where to go to find anti-inflammatory drugs."

Fu Yunlan didn't want to be brave either. It was Celeste who took his life back from the gate of hell with great difficulty. If he put himself in because of this wound that was already healing, it would be too uneconomical, he thought. Say at once: "You go back first and let them drive over to pick me up."

"No, you may run into other gangsters again, and maybe Kars and the others will turn back when they hear the gunshots. I can't leave you here alone."

Celeste became stubborn, and Fu Yunlan had nothing to do with him: "Then what do you want to do?"

"Wait for me for a while."

As Celeste spoke, he dragged Fu Yunlan's heavy backpack over. There were a lot of things and food for camping and lighting a fire in the bag. It was obvious that Fu Yunlan was well prepared before going out. Celeste would Fu Yunlan's gun and the gangster's weapon were also stuffed into the backpack, and then he hid the backpack in a rocky crevice that was not easy to find.

"Throw away the luggage to lighten the load, and then what?" Fu Yunlan said helplessly, "You are not going to carry me back, are you?"

"You can't use your back, it will press your wound." Celeste squatted down beside him, put one hand under his armpit and the other behind his knee, trying to hug him stand up.

"Stop messing around, your physical strength is too much for you." Fu Yunlan refused awkwardly.

"Don't move around, you have to relax your body now, especially your abdomen, don't force yourself." Celeste really hugged Fu Yunlan up as soon as he exerted his strength.

Fu Yunlan feels that Celeste is completely messing around. After all, he is tall and has long legs, and his weight alone is nearly 80 kilograms. Although it is not far from Hummingbird Town, it is at least two or three kilometers away. How could Lister have the strength to carry him all the way back?

But the condition of his wound is indeed not optimistic. He didn’t feel it when he was fighting just now. Not only did the wound start to throb now, but also the consequences of traveling long distances before his body recovered finally appeared. He is now dizzy It was almost impossible to stand, and it would not be good for both of them if they still struggled and caused Celeste to lose his balance and fall.

Fu Yunlan could only reach out and hook Celeste's neck cooperatively, try to adjust the center of gravity to reduce the pressure on his arm, and said helplessly: "...It would be better if you put me on the ground and drag me. "

"Okay, when I can't hold you anymore, I'll put you on the ground and drag you." Celeste replied solemnly.

Fu Yunlan stopped talking. Talking to Celeste at this time would only make it harder for him.

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Fu Yunlan originally thought that Celeste would give up after taking a few steps, but he was surprised that Celeste's physical strength was not as weak as he thought.

Even though every few tens of meters, Celeste had to put him down to let the sore muscles rest, and then picked him up again and walked tens of meters, tens of meters and then tens of meters, slowly They moved away from the place where they were attacked just now.

Fu Yunlan felt as if all his strength had flowed from the wound, and he could do nothing but watch Celeste laboriously move him back.

Unable to move, Fu Yunlan began to think, why does he always have the illusion that Celeste is still a child?

Mingming Celeste has grown to be as tall as some grown men, and he has begun to have his own opinions on many things. No matter how he looks at it, he is no longer the weak boy Fu Yunlan just brought back. .

"We're almost there." Celeste put Fu Yunlan down again. From here, they could already see the city wall of Hummingbird Town from a distance, and the guards on the city wall were also looking this way with binoculars.

Celeste said: "They found us, you lie down and don't move, wait for them to come over with a stretcher and carry you away."

"En." Fu Yunlan replied weakly, and Celeste also sat down on the ground to rest, letting Fu Yunlan's head rest on his lap.