Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

Celeste was sitting in a corner of the passage where tools and sundries were piled up, holding the old Walkman, calling softly to his artificial intelligence system: "Mars, can you hear me, Mars?"

After a while, when Celeste thought that there would be no more responses, Marth's voice sounded: "Oh my God! Master, it's really the master! Master, are you okay! How is your injury? you……"

Celeste interrupted the excited Masi: "I'm fine, but the wound is a little inflamed. What's wrong with my medical robot?"

"At that moment, I detected a slight space distortion around the master. Such a slight stretch would not cause any damage to the cells of the human body, but it would be fatal to the micro-robots..."

Celeste just wanted to ask if the medical robot was malfunctioning, and now he was in no mood to understand the specific principle: "Okay, I know, let He Xiao and the others come to me quickly."

"I have notified them of the exact location of the master, and they will arrive in about an hour. But we found a sweeping team sent by the Real God Kingdom near this area, master, please be careful."

"Well, I see."

The space in the underground shelter is very limited. The place where Celeste is located is not far from the passageway where people come and go, and there is no such luxury as a "door". Zhang Lin and Fang Jingyu happened to pass by and heard something The movement came together.

"What are you doing, tipping off the news?" Zhang Lin asked sternly.

"No." Thelister said, "Why do you think I'm a spy until now?"

"Who told you to behave so suspiciously? Also, isn't this Walkman belonged to Jing Yu? When did you steal it? Tell me!"

"Enough Zhang Lin, I gave it to him myself, and who can use a Walkman to inform the outside world, don't be so suspicious." Fang Jingyu has always felt that Zhang Lin's attitude seems to be getting more and more excessive recently.

"I'm suspicious? You heard it yourself. He's hiding in a corner and talking to someone furtively. You don't think he's suspicious, but you think I'm suspicious?"

Fang Jingyu did hear it. Although he didn't think Celeste would be a spy, the soldiers who followed them were whispering to each other, and seemed to agree with Zhang Lin's suspicion, so he asked, "Cerlis Te, who were you talking to just now?"

"My artificial intelligence system." Thelister said calmly, "It said that someone will bring the army to pick me up soon."

Judging from Celeste's appearance, Fang Jingyu can only think that the child has fallen into the world of self-imagination again: "Okay, let's leave your 'artificial intelligence system' alone, come and join us. Let's practice."

"What exercise?" Celeste asked curiously as he followed his pace.

Although everyone thinks that Celeste is a patient with severe delusions, Fang Jingyu patiently explained the cause and effect to this new member: "Many nearby shelters have lost contact with us recently, probably because of an accident. , if our base is also invaded by the enemy, I have to ensure that everyone can respond quickly. I don’t have time to explain to you the method of retreat and the matters needing attention. You can just run with everyone later gone."

"Okay." Celeste responded obediently.

They had just walked out of that passage when they heard the alarm bell ringing. Celeste looked at Fang Jingyu and asked, "Should I start running?"

Many people left the work at hand and looked at each other, but no one moved. Fang Jingyu looked very surprised: "Isn't it time yet? What's going on?"

The voice of the sentinel came from the loudspeaker soon: "Attention! Someone rushed in while our people were coming back, and even destroyed the gate at the entrance of West 4. Now the gate can no longer be closed. Everyone immediately head east. 3 Entrance retreat! This is not a drill! Repeat, this is not a drill!"

The crowd finally panicked and began to swarm in one direction.

Celeste didn't follow immediately, because the underground passage was very narrow, and the crowd might be stampeded at any time when they were crowded together, and he also had some doubts whether the person who forcibly opened the entrance would be someone sent by He Xiao.

But after thinking about it, Masi said that they would arrive in half an hour, and now only a few minutes have passed. Although this artificial intelligence system is usually jittery and sometimes annoying, its calculations never show up. Such a big deviation.

Fang Jingyu called him, and Celeste followed them and retreated in the direction of the passage.

It is obviously not the first time that the people in the refuge have faced such a situation, and they may have already conducted many drills, so although they panicked, they were not chaotic, and although they were crowded, they did not push each other. They retreated in an orderly manner in the crowded passage.

Because he was afraid of arousing suspicion from others, Celeste had never left the shelter they lived in before. He only vaguely knew that these underground shelters were like rabbit nests, and there were at least three shelters in one shelter. There are four or even five entrances and exits, which are connected to other shelters through narrow passages. The passages are blocked by huge iron gates. If anything happens, as long as the iron gates fall, the passages will be completely sealed off. die.

Judging from their movements, it is obvious that they intend to abandon this place and retreat to other shelters. However, there are more than 150 people in this shelter. Even if there is no pushing and trampling, it will take at least a few minutes to enter the passage one by one at such a speed. Only then can it be withdrawn.

Fang Jingyu asked Zhang Lin to maintain order and lead the people to retreat, and he took a few soldiers to stop the invading enemy and bought these precious minutes for the civilians to retreat, but when the enemy who destroyed the iron gate at the entrance appeared from the corner of the passage, At that time, they were all stunned.

Only one person came.

A mutant.

He dragged the body of the sentinel, walked in like a leisurely stroll, and stuck out his tongue to lick the blood on his cheek.

Fang Jingyu decisively pushed the youngest soldier beside him: "Go and inform Zhang Lin, and close the passage immediately! Everyone else disperses, and close all the exits at all costs!"

Then he raised his submachine gun and shot the mutant first.

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The gunshots turned a few turns in the passage and reached Celeste's ears. He looked back worriedly.

Now most of the people have entered the passage, only a dozen of the slowest runners are still stuck at the entrance of the passage. A soldier ran over and said urgently to Zhang Lin who was waiting at the entrance of the passage: "It's not good, It was a mutant who broke in! General Fang told us to close the passage immediately!"

Zhang Lin's face also changed drastically, and he shouted to the people who were still crowded at the entrance: "You all heard it, why don't you hurry up!"

The rest of the people really pushed and squeezed into the passage.

"But Jing Yu hasn't come yet!" Cai Qin was about to cry, she knew very well what fate would happen to those who stayed in this refuge once the door of the passage was closed.

"He can't come, go in!" Zhang Lin cruelly pushed Cai Qin into the passage, and when he looked back, he saw Celeste running towards the depths of the shelter.

Zhang Lin has no time to worry about the life and death of Celeste. This is the time Fang Jingyu and others bought with their lives. He can't afford to delay even a few seconds. The end of the entire army was wiped out, so after he dodged into the passage, he sealed the iron gate from inside without hesitation.

When Celeste heard the "mutant", he wondered if it was Beethoven. If it was Beethoven, he should stop the conflict between the two sides. If not, Fang Jingyu would be dead.

Celeste doesn't want Fang Jingyu to die, he has been taking care of Celeste for the past few days, and he looks so much like Fu Yunlan.

Only a few tens of seconds had passed since they saw the mutated man. In the central hall of the refuge, there were corpses lying all over the floor, all with broken bones and fractures. Getting up, the submachine gun landed on the ground, the shape of the gun body was distorted beyond shape, and the mutant approached Fang Jingyu step by step: "Tsk tsk tsk, just relying on these weak mortals, they want to trap me here? Really? It's a pity that they didn't even have the chance to get close to the switch."

Fang Jingyu was sweating from the pain. Just now, while the mutant was focusing on the other soldiers, he secretly opened several safety devices in the shelter, but before he could do any more, the mutant He rushed up, and Fang Jingyu subconsciously blocked it with his arm. As a result, not only was he sent flying, but his arm was also broken.

"It's really too weak." The mutant shook his head and said, "I can kill you in an instant, but I always like to leave a living person to play slowly. You are the luckiest and unluckiest one at the same time." Let me think about it, how should I kill you? Skinning, disembowelling, or Lingchi?"

Under the perverted grin of the mutant, Fang Jingyu, who had no power to resist, could only crawl backwards in panic, until he leaned against a wall full of various mechanical devices.

Seeing that there was no way for him to retreat, Fang Jingyu grabbed a lever as if to support the weight of his body, and slammed down the lever before the mutant had time to react.

The mutated man's face changed, and he rushed towards the entrance like a flying arrow, but it was too late. After a series of earth-shattering explosions, the entrance and all the passages connected to the shelter, Everything was blown up by the pre-set explosives.

In fact, only a few people in the entire refuge knew that apart from the several-ton iron gate at the entrance, they also prepared a hidden killer move, which was to directly blow down all the entrances and exits.

The crude lighting system flickered for a while in the explosion, but it survived firmly.

The mutant who ate his face full of ashes rushed towards him furiously: "You..."

Fang Jingyu was already mentally prepared to die, but saw Celeste suddenly running over and standing in front of him: "Stop!"

"Sebao...how did you..." Fang Jingyu was stunned, he obviously told Celeste to retreat with the crowd.

The mutant also stopped in surprise: "It's you... This is really an unexpected harvest."