Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Fu Yunlan held the binoculars and looked at the moving dots on the mountains in the distance. The fanatical soldiers of the Real God Kingdom were coming over the mountains and preparing to launch the next wave of attacks on them.

During this period of time, they have been crazily attacked by this group of desperate fighters in a way that almost killed them all, and they can only retreat steadily, hiding in this fortress left over from the Cold War period for the final defense.

Celeste stuffed a piece of beef jerky into his mouth, and Fu Yunlan shook her head: "I'm not hungry."

At this point in the war, the remaining rations were running out, and he didn't want to waste it needlessly, but Celeste was unhappy and raised his face: "You turned me down?"

"...Okay, I'll eat." Fu Yunlan sighed. Celeste in the simulated training is undoubtedly the one with the biggest personality difference from the real person. He has no opinion on major matters, but demands his absolute obedience on small matters.

Probably He Xiao wanted to force Fu Yunlan to get used to treating His Majesty the emperor as soon as possible. During a simulated training, because he felt troublesome, he didn't obey an insignificant request from Celeste, and was simulated by Case. This "Thelister" of this is off confinement.

Fu Yunlan really has nothing to say about his grievances, and he can only comfort himself - at least the real Celeste will never be so harsh on him.

He chewed the beef jerky and told Celeste to go to the basement to hide. The next battle would be very fierce, and Celeste could not make any mistakes.

The command of the Devourer can only be described in detail. It can even guide each soldier's position and every step accurately. The gap between it and Fu Yunlan is like playing a real-time strategy game. Dozens of operations per second, to control the actions of each soldier, but the other party is handicapped, can only set a general direction and let the soldiers play freely.

When meeting such an opponent, Fu Yunlan was always abused to the point where she couldn't have any temper.

In fact, Mars's performance is not weaker than Case's. Even in actual combat, he can also assist him in conducting precise command down to the specific position like the Devourer. It's just that such command must be carried out through every soldier wearing a radio headset, and Electronic products are easily interfered by the Devourer, or directly paralyzed, or send false news. Their anti-jamming ability is obviously not as strong as the Devourer, so Fu Yunlan was forced to use the ancient communication methods such as war drums, signal flares, and semaphores. Used it again.

This simulated battle has been fought for more than 5 months. Fu Yunlan has brought into full play human's specialties - intrigues and tricks to the extreme, and she has finally been able to maintain her strength. Now the strength of both sides is at the end of their blows, and the true God Kingdom is still left. Of the last few hundred loyal fighters, there are only more than 100 soldiers left in the Earth Federation. People he was familiar with, such as the Black Tower and the Cowboys, have all died in front of him. Abandoning the child, he wiped out the opponent's mutant army.

According to He Xiao, Fu Yunlan finally got used to thinking like a commander without personal feelings.

After fierce resistance, the fanatical fighters of the True Kingdom of God still attacked the base under the command of the Devourer. Fu Yunlan retreated hastily with the last soldiers, not even having time to bring Celeste out of the basement.

The fanatics of the True Kingdom of God did not pursue, and the Devourer only took a minute to deploy its defenses to prevent Fu Yunlan from counterattacking back to rescue Celeste, and then it ordered to pry open the door of the basement.

That door was built during the Cold War to defend against the impact of atomic bombs. It was not an easy task to open it from the outside. When they were trying to find a way to pry the door, Fu Yunlan took the opportunity to detonate the ammunition depot in the fortress. .

After a loud bang, the last followers of the Kingdom of God were buried in the explosion and collapse.

Fu Yunlan had already asked Mars to calculate that the heavy metal door in the basement was strong enough to withstand the impact of the explosion. Celeste must be safe and sound at the moment, at most he was a little frightened. Just dig up the wreckage of the explosion and rescue Celeste.

"Nice job." He Xiao suddenly appeared beside Fu Yunlan, and Fu Yunlan almost drew his gun in fright.

Fu Yunlan, who was still in shock, breathed a sigh of relief: "I won."

"Indeed, your progress is impressive."

"And then, can it be over?" Fu Yunlan began to miss the real Celeste, although he could choose to speed up time during the simulation process, and when he didn't need to do anything, he could make the whole day pass by in the blink of an eye Improve the efficiency of the simulation battle, but no matter how you compress the time, after all, it has been so long.

"Of course not. The current situation is just that the Devourer has no fanatical followers to use for the time being, but your mission has not been completed." He Xiao said, "It's time to move on to the next step."

"Is there a next step?" Fu Yunlan asked in surprise.

"Of course, in reality, are you planning to leave the boss behind and leave it alone? Next, you have to lead the remaining human beings to recuperate and restore prosperity."

Fu Yunlan was dumbfounded.

The Blue Shield base has been bombed, and the war has further exacerbated the nuclear pollution. What's worse, even though we won, the world's population is running out.

Every time the army of the True God Kingdom went to a place, they would slaughter all the civilians they could find. Fu Yunlan thought that this behavior was to provoke him, and she was filled with righteous indignation at the beginning, but gradually ignored it after many times. , never thought that the other party's massacre was not for provocation, but for the ultimate goal of the Devourer.

He was so obsessed with victory on the battlefield that he ignored that the real purpose of the Devourer was not to defeat him at all, but to destroy all mankind.The current situation can be said to be exactly what the Devourer wants to see the most -- Fu Yunlan has used costly "victories" again and again to help the Devourer speed up the goal of destroying all human beings.

"There are currently 150 women in the world who are still fertile. Even if their free will is set aside and they are forced to maximize their fertility for the sake of human existence, it will take at least 200 years for the population to recover. Get within the safety line." He Xiao's smile was still elegant and perfect, but what he said made Fu Yunlan want to punch him in the face, "If you want to admit defeat, you can wait for Celeste to be dug out. Give him a shot."

Fu Yunlan gritted her teeth and said resolutely: "...200 years is 200 years, I will let human beings survive!"

"Then I'll wait and see." He Xiao said with a smile.

The reconstruction process was much harder than the war. Fu Yunlan led the remaining survivors to find arable land and drinking water with difficulty. Even He Xiao couldn't use a pile of garbage and scrap metal to directly To piece together a working robot, before he re-established the production line for manufacturing robots, people could only work as hard as Fu Yunlan did when he was still in Hummingbird Town, struggling to survive on the brink of famine.

Half a year later, the first batch of crude robots began to work for humans, and the living environment gradually improved through people's hard work day after day. Seeing that everything finally started to develop in a good direction, Fu Yunlan finally let go As soon as the tone was blown, tragedy happened.

Because Fu Yunlan only focused on the development of production, ignoring propaganda and defense work, a group of workers who had accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction in their hard life rioted under the secret instigation of the Devourer, and they vented all their unsatisfactory life anger on the emperor. In the head, he stabbed Theliste to death with a piece of secretly sharpened metal.

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Fu Yunlan failed again. He climbed out of the simulation cabin with vain steps. In reality, less than two days had passed, but he felt physically and mentally exhausted.

He Xiao kindly suggested: "You can use the simulation cabin to relax at the tourist attractions before the war, or take a one-day Jurassic tour, a three-day tour of the ancient cities of Tang and Song Dynasties."

He Xiao's proposal is indeed tempting, but Fu Yunlan just wants to hug his "long-lost" lover now: "Where is Celeste?"

"He set off for the wasteland two hours ago, and he should have landed by now."

Fu Yunlan stared at He Xiao in surprise: "What did you say? You know how dangerous that is, how could you let him leave the base? Why didn't you tell me!"

In repeated training simulations, Fu Yunlan has already become familiar with the means that the Devourer may adopt. He dares to say that as long as Celeste leaves the base, the Devourer will absolutely seize every possible opportunity to kill the Federal Republic of Earth. the emperor.

"He knew it was risky to do so, but he still decided to go." He Xiao said, "Maybe I need to remind you of the difference between reality and simulated training-no matter what decision Celeste makes, you still have to go." He can only suggest, not interfere, and he doesn’t need your approval to do anything.”

"That's not what I meant." Fu Yunlan said irritably, "But why did he go to the wasteland?"

"Because of the sense of responsibility as the emperor, because of homesickness, because of being bored after staying in the base for a long time, and because you haven't paid much attention to him recently. Which answer do you like?"

Fu Yunlan was speechless.

In fact, he also really wanted to go back to the wasteland to do something. Although he lived a good life in Blue Shield Base, he never forgot the people in Hummingbird Town who were still struggling on the verge of starvation. In front of a more ambitious goal, he couldn't help but spend his energy on this kind of place.

He could only let Li Kailin return to Hummingbird Town with some technologies and supplies that can improve the quality of life of the residents, and also brought back the news that the Federal Republic of the Earth will stand up against the Devourer, and by the way let Kars go back too , because that guy always courts Celeste in the name of "brother", which makes him very unhappy.

Since then, Celeste spent all day in the laboratory brainstorming about all kinds of novel things, while Fu Yunlan struggled under high-intensity training every day, and all the people who were lucky enough to come to this "paradise" In the same way, they no longer thought about everything that was hopeless in that wasteland—anyway, He Xiao had already begun to prepare for the war, and the Blue Shield base went around supporting those refugees who were about to die in the name of Celeste. Draw in all the forces that can be drawn in.

At the same time, the conflict within the Kingdom of True God also stopped, and the Devourer began to "appear" everywhere, instructing his fanatical believers to speed up the pace of exterminating other humans.

The sparsely populated wasteland has always been outside the sphere of influence of the true god kingdom, and now the missionaries they mixed into the wasteland began to speak three-inch tongues, showing various "miracles" and fooling people into listening to the instructions of the "true god" fight each other.

Correspondingly, He Xiao also appointed some representatives to the wasteland to lobby other forces to stop fighting each other and join the Earth Federation Republic.

The wasteland has become so barren that many people don't hesitate to throw themselves into the embrace of the Federal Republic of Earth as soon as they hear that they can get food aid and no longer be hungry.But there are still some forces, especially the unwelcome bandits, who hope to continue to rob others to live a good life.

Now all the forces that can be subdued have been subdued, and the remaining "unstable factors" that refuse to listen to persuasion can only be resolved by violence.

The Devourer will not focus the battle on the sparsely populated wasteland, nor does it have so many electronic devices that allow it to manipulate humans as it pleases, so He Xiao only sent a small elite force to the wasteland, preparing to wipe out all the people in one fell swoop. It was at that time that Celeste proposed to go to the wasteland himself.

"He said he was going, so you let him go?" Fu Yunlan still found it inconceivable, "Aren't you always very rational? There is obviously no need for Celeste to take the risk in person, even if he insists on going, Can't you persuade him?"

He Xiao smiled and said: "You must have misunderstood me. I thought that making Celeste the emperor had clearly stated my position-I was just a supporter, not a decision maker. Don't say that Celeste wants to go out to relax, even if he says he wants to blow up the earth, there is no valid reason, just for fun, I will carry it out."

Fu Yunlan was speechless again.