monster he just wants to be a good guy

Isn't it better to come to Adjutant Chen to discuss it...

When Lin Yao woke him up, Lu Man only felt refreshed, only to realize that he had slept all the way, and the car had already arrived outside the station gate.

Lin Yao and the others cannot come in and out freely like Lu Man for the time being, but need to be taken to a special point in the station for inspection and information registration.As one of the "outsiders", Lu Man had no choice but to temporarily part ways with Lu Man here.

Lin Yao put his hand gently on Lu Man's shoulder, silently signaling that they would take good care of his brother, Lu Man nodded slowly to him, indicating that he was fine.

"Xiao Man, go to Adjutant Chen, I will come to you later."

Lu Man waved at them, then turned to look at Zhuang Mansheng.

"Sister Mansheng, do you know where Adjutant Chen is now? I have something to ask him."

"I should be in his office now. I just have something to report to him. Let's go there together."

Lu Man sat on the rest chair outside the door and waited quietly. After a while, the heavy pear wood door was pushed open.

Zhuang Mansheng told Lu Man that he could go in, while he held a thick stack of documents in his arms and stood tall, stepping on his boots with heels and walking away.

Before Lu Manjiao stepped into the door, he smelled the smell of coffee powder in the room.

Chen Mu's forehead hair was still meticulously taken care of, and he took off his glasses and put them on his right hand.

He stretched out his left hand and rubbed the dry and tired eye sockets, held the kettle with his right hand, and poured water into the cup filled with coffee powder.

As the hot water is poured into the cup, the aroma instantly lingers throughout the office.Realizing that someone was visiting, Chen Mu put on his glasses to see clearly that the person standing at the door was Lu Man.

"Xiao Lu?" Chen Mu asked Lu Man to come over and sit opposite him, and took out a brand new ceramic cup from the cabinet, "How about some tea?"

When Chen Mu was about to lower his head to search for broken tea cakes in the cupboard, Lu Man stopped him: "Adjutant Chen doesn't need to make tea. This time, I want to try coffee."

Chen Mu was stunned for a moment, with a smile unconsciously in his eyes.

After a while, the same cup of coffee appeared in front of Lu Man.He looked at the dark brown liquid that smelled good inside, picked up the cup and followed Chen Mu's example, and took a sip.

"About your uncle, the relevant equipment is still being sorted out. You can start tomorrow at the earliest. Don't worry."

"Thank you, Adjutant Chen. I've heard the specifics from Chief Lin...but I'm here this time because I have something else to tell you."

Chen Mulue raised his eyebrows in surprise, and quickly realized: "Oh yes, your family and friends are still living in the staff dormitory. I asked He Jing to take care of it. He said that everyone has gradually Adapted to the new life in the harbor."

"When the new housing is completed at the end of the month, they can be taken over. At that time, children of the right age will be sent to school. Others will arrange corresponding jobs based on their ability test results. You can arrange this job. Don't worry."

Lu Man finally understood why He Jing nicknamed Chen Mu "Old Madam Chen" in private. Adjutant Chen really did everything, providing all-round care and care like a mother.

"Thank you Gangwan for your great help to us, but actually, I came to Adjutant Chen this time to discuss with you about going out of the city."

"Leaving the city?" Chen Mu's eyes widened.

"Yes, I want to leave the city." Lu Man nodded seriously.

Lu Man roughly told Chen Mu about his original intention of going out of the city, and Chen Mu didn't interrupt him, but listened without saying a word, holding the handle of the ceramic cup tightly.

"Little Lu, some words may not sound good, but I have to tell you."

"As you said, the city outside the siege has become a vast ocean, and the original map of the surrounding cities has long since been turned into a piece of waste paper. How can you guarantee that there must be other cities outside the city?"

Lu Man moved in the iron block Robert parked outside the door.

"This is not the creation of the siege." Lu Man said firmly.

Chen Mu looked at Robert, who looked like a man with iron light in front of him, looked at him for a moment, and murmured:

"You are right. The besieged city has always been short of steel and mineral resources, and lacks the conditions to develop new technologies. Before the catastrophe, the primary industry of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry has always been the main industry."

Chen Mu recalled in his mind the historical strategy class he had taken in school.

In fact, for a long time in the past, apart from agriculture, the siege had to rely on the support of other cities for everything else. At best, it was the "granary" of other big cities' reserves, and at worst, it was economic dependency.

Half a century ago, after some mines were dug out from the ground one after another, the industry in the besieged city gradually developed, and it also attracted a batch of fresh blood into the veins of the besieged city.

But the iron guy in front of him is not within the scope of the siege.

"I know this thing, a robot. I saw it in other cities when I was a child. They can sing and do the most basic commands...but that was before the cataclysm. Maybe this robot was buried in the ocean from other cities Floating over from the wreckage?"

Lu Man shook his head: "Adjutant Chen, this robot may be different from what you know."

As he spoke, he connected the fiber to his arm. Two seconds later, the indicator light on its head lit up. Robert opened his "eyes" and moved his hands and feet. Chen Mu's eyes flashed with surprise.

"Hello, your most intimate smart home assistant, Robert is at your service." Robert bent slightly and bowed to them.

"Robert, where are you from?"

"Robert is from Hongdu."

"When was your factory date?"

"April 2041, 10."

It is only ten years away from now, which shows that at least after the catastrophe broke out, there must be cities with highly developed technology outside.

"Xiao Ai, what about you?"

“报告主人，小艾的出厂日期在2050年7月11日19:07:12。”距离现在，也才两年不到。

"I went out of the city this time not just to find Uncle Lu, but also to know something about the cave."

"Has Adjutant Chen seen anything under the cave?"

Chen Mu's eyes flickered, he didn't speak, but stared straight at Lu Man, waiting for him to say the next sentence.

"I've seen it. Under the cave, there is an endless wall of monster flesh. Many monsters ran out of the wall."

"I know." Chen Mu's fingers holding the cup tightened slightly, and the knuckles were a little white.

"Then, has Adjutant Chen thought about where the end of the meat wall leads?"

Chen Mu remained silent, his thoughts were pulled back a long time ago.

He was only 12 years old then, younger than Lu Man.

At the beginning of the disaster, there were only a few animals biting people madly on the street, and the police shot them to death.

During dinner, my father used to read the newspaper while eating, and Chen Mu sat beside him, and happened to glance at it.On the front page of the newspaper, the mayor reassured the general public that everything was under official control.

While chewing vegetables, Chen Mu looked at the mayor's slightly bald head, a little worried whether his hair would be thin like this at his age in the future.

"Be careful when you go out tomorrow, stay away from these animals." His father told him casually, and turned to the next page to read the joke column.

Everyone didn't take this matter to heart. After all, new things like this happen every day, and they will soon disappear.

However, the animal madness did not stop, but intensified. Chen Mu could hear gunshots on the street every day on his way to and from school.

Later, he witnessed with his own eyes that the neighbor next door took his pet dog for a walk on the street. The puppy was wagging its tail enthusiastically at him a few minutes ago. After he walked away, he heard a scream.

Turning his head, Chen Mu saw that docile puppy, distorted and swollen, with scarlet eyes and sharp teeth gleaming, drooling at its former owner.

A few police officers with guns surrounded him, and there were bursts of gunshots behind him, accompanied by screams and barks.

Chen Mu's heart was pounding, and he didn't dare to stay any longer, so he ran towards home.

At some point, the gunshots and screams disappeared, replaced by some kind of clicking sound.Chen Mu could tell that the neighbor's dog used to gnaw bones like this.

When he got to the door of the house, Chen Mu looked dazed and his legs were weak. When he opened the door, he saw that the house was in chaos as if it had been ransacked by thieves.

He screamed "Dad" and rushed into the room, only to see his father wringing his clothes into a ball and stuffing them into the suitcase.

"Mumu, hurry up and clean up."

"Are we... are we going to move?"

"There are rumors that the city is about to be closed."

After packing up their luggage, they got in the car and drove out of the street, when they heard the horns used to broadcast the evening news on weekdays, making a unified sound:

"Urgent notice, citizens are requested to follow the command and evacuate outside the city in an orderly manner."

Many people on the street heard the gossip and drove out.

Following the announcement, the road was even more blocked.The traffic lights were completely useless, the horns were blaring one after another, the traffic in different lanes was crowded together, and even the sidewalks were full of cars.In the face of disaster, everyone wants to take the first step and escape from this place.

"The passage from the city will not be closed until everyone has evacuated safely. Please don't worry and evacuate out of the city in an orderly manner."

When traffic personnel came to maintain order, everyone took reassurance, and the originally congested road became unimpeded a little bit, and their cars also approached the exit a little bit.

Chen Mu's memory of what happened next was a little fuzzy.Monsters, screams, blood, car crashes, mayhem.

After waking up, Chen Mu found that he was pressed under the stone slab. He tried his best to poke his head out of the gap, but his father was nowhere to be seen.

Many people around were crushed under cars or under the rubble, only half of their lower limbs were exposed which had been gnawed to a bloody mess.

Chen Mu almost retched, but his stomach was empty, but some bitter bile came back.

Turning his head to look, he couldn't help staring wide-eyed, the exit from the city in front of him had been blocked by a towering wall.

Perhaps they closed the channel ahead of time to prevent the monster virus from spreading to other cities.

Those people, animals and monsters who failed to leave the city in time were locked in this "cage".

After wandering for a period of time, Chen Mu finally settled in the survivor organization Harbor.

After more than ten or twenty years of spreading, almost all the animals in the wilderness in the besieged city have been alienated into monsters.Only some small herbivores that have not been in contact with flesh and blood survived, but they are very few, because some plants may also become virus carriers.

After years of development, the harbor has also accommodated most of the victims who were stranded in the besieged city, and its construction has begun to take shape.After being able to guarantee their survival, they began to explore and develop outside.

Chen Mu knew that Gangwan had been trying to get in touch with the outside world, but the distress signal sent out went nowhere.

In addition, everyone is also working hard to destroy monsters and improve the living conditions in the city.

Even ants can eat elephants together.

Humans cooperate to kill monsters, and the number of monsters should be killed less and less, but these years, the overall number of monsters has not only not decreased, but more and more.

Until a few years ago, they finally discovered the "cave" and started to study this thing.No one knows when the caves began to exist, before or after the Cataclysm.

The cave was not exposed on the surface at first, but quietly dormant there.

After the monsters in the flesh wall gradually regained consciousness, they broke out of the ground like insects that had ended their hibernation, leaving extremely ugly wounds on the surface.This is how the caves that suddenly appeared in District 3 came from.

Just dealing with the monsters emerging from the cave, the harbor is already overwhelmed—as for how many fleshy walls exist in the underground of the siege city, and where the end of the fleshy wall leads, they don't have the energy and ability to explore it for the time being. thing.

They were unable to climb over the towering walls, nor were they able to cross the unknown ocean, so they could only shelve this idea and limit their sights to the siege itself.

Chen Mu did not expect that Lu Man would take the initiative to bring up this matter.

His heartbeat accelerated a little bit, and he couldn't sit still.He raised his cup again, took a sip of coffee, and managed to suppress the impetuousness in his heart.

"Do you have to go?" He asked Lu Man.

Lu Man nodded firmly, "I have to go to the other side."

Not only to find Uncle Lu, but also to explore where the "wall of flesh" that breeds monsters comes from.

Chen Mu sighed, raised his head and drank the coffee in the cup, and then asked Lu Man, "Then what are you going to do?"

"Adjutant Chen should have already guessed it. After I ingest the monster's blood, I won't be completely alienated, but can gain some abilities."

Lu Man paused for a while, and looked up at Adjutant Chen's expression. As he expected, Chen Mu's expression was calm and he was not surprised.

He pursed his lips slightly, and continued: "When I was besieging the bat monster last time, I got some blood from them. I can fly out of the high wall, and then use ultrasonic waves to locate the location of the passage. In addition, I got some arrows Fish blood."

Lu Man took out the small bottle that was about to be broken from his arms, and showed it to Chen Mu: "Swordfish can swim at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour in the sea, and is one of the fastest creatures in the ocean. I You can follow the passage all the way to the other end."

"Your thinking is very clear and feasible, but there are still many problems that need to be solved in detail." Problems popped up in Chen Mu's mind like bubbles.

Lu Man frowned, with a smile on his face: "This is also the purpose of my coming to find Adjutant Chen this time. I have limited ability and experience alone, so I want to ask Adjutant Chen to give me some advice."

Hearing what Lu Man said, Chen Mu chuckled. He took out a piece of paper, took out a signature pen from his breast pocket, opened the lid and began to sort out his thoughts on the paper.

"Survive, connect, adapt" he wrote down three words.

"The first is survival. We don't know how long you have to walk to reach the end, and we don't know what monsters you will encounter on the way. After the food you carry is gone, you have to forage for yourself. And in the wilderness, you must always be vigilant .”

"Secondly, contact. In the siege, the team will use the communicator to keep in touch with the headquarters at all times and report the situation. But after you leave the city for a certain distance, the communicator will lose its function. We have no way of knowing your situation outside How, have you encountered any danger? To put it bluntly, even if you die outside, we may not know about it, let alone carry out rescue or response."

"Finally, about adaptation. Where is the end of the passage? Is it the Hongdu mentioned by this robot, or some other place? These are also unknown. After you reach the end, you are penniless and may not understand the language. What should you do?" Adapting to the new environment is also a big problem. Have you considered these issues?"

Lu Man was taken aback by what he said.

Regarding survival, he had thought about it. If he was hungry, he would just catch some fish to eat. Anyway, he was not picky about eating and drinking at all.He ignored the remaining two questions completely.

"Oh yes, there is one more question. Are you...not a road idiot? Can you find your way back later?"

Lu Man pointed to the pearl earring on his left ear and said, "This earring is actually a navigator that can help me remember my way."

Chen Mu obviously didn't want to let him go so easily: "What if the ear stud is lost? Can you guarantee that it can always be worn on your ear?"

Lu Man recalled that the reason he lost his way to the harbor was because he lost his earrings, and he said with a sneer: "Isn't it better to come to Adjutant Chen to discuss it..."

Chen Mu was speechless for a moment.Maybe this guy just got mad and wanted to go out of the city without thinking about anything.Fortunately, Lu Manneng thought of coming to him to discuss it.

But it's okay, he didn't think about it, so they will help him think about it.

Speaking of it, Lu Man seems to have changed a bit. At the beginning, he was completely a lone wolf, relying on his own ability to go straight up.Now I have learned to rely on others, which is really a big improvement.

"About when are you leaving?"

"Maybe we can wait until the new residence is completed at the end of the month before setting off."

Then there are still more than half a month, and it should be too late.

"If you can obtain the corresponding ability by ingesting monster blood, then you can make up for some defects by ingesting the corresponding monster blood—for example, if you can't find your way easily, then find or even breed a pigeon monster, Pigeons can find their way home by sensing magnetic fields, so you don’t have to worry about getting lost.”

"We will send people to the wilderness to find out which monsters we need to use. Lin Yao from Aurora also has research on monsters, so you can ask them about this."

"By the way, your ability has no side effects, right? For example, what kind of consequences will it cause if the type of intake exceeds a certain carrying value?"

Obtaining a certain ability will naturally pay a corresponding price. There is no free lunch in the world.Energy conservation and equivalent exchange are the truths of all things in the world.

Lu Man was stunned for a moment, then murmured: "No..."

"What? Louder!"

"I do not know either……"

Chen Mu looked at him with hatred: "How can you not even understand your own abilities! What if you use too much and it will cause a serious load on your body?"

"I didn't think so much before. When I need to use it...just use it." Lu Man scratched his head, his eyes wandered, and his tone was weak, obviously a little lacking in confidence.

"Okay, don't explain anymore. Anyway, during this period of time, one of your main tasks is to re-explore and develop your own abilities. I will send someone to assist you."

"Okay, thank you, Adjutant Chen." Lu Man hurriedly nodded obediently like a chicken pecking at rice.

"As for the second question, the current communication system should not be able to support long-distance communication..."

Lu Man raised his hand to express that he had something to say: "I have a solution for this!"

"Oh?" Chen Mu raised his eyebrows. "Contact" is the most difficult problem to solve at present. He is quite curious about how Lu Man can solve this problem.

"I can split myself. Well... this is also an ability I got from a monster I encountered before."

As he said that, two Lu Man who looked exactly the same appeared in front of Chen Mu, and they greeted him together.

"This is my half body. His name is Lu Man...Actually, you have seen him, Adjutant Chen. Before Qingmiao Village moved to Hong Kong, this guy was the one who made trouble in the front station."

Lu Man finally seized the opportunity to wash away the "grievances" on his body and restore his innocence.

"Hey!" Lu Man tugged at his cheek in dissatisfaction.

"We can communicate spiritually over a long distance, and the injured half of the main body will feel pain accordingly. But whether it can be done hundreds of miles away, I am not sure for the time being."

Chen Mu opened his mouth wide in a daze, opened and closed it again, and held it back for a long time: "Then your twin brother..."

"That's also my half body. His name is Lu Man."

Chen Mu stroked his forehead, feeling dizzy.Just now when Zhuang Mansheng came to report his work, he mentioned it. He was still surprised, but he didn't expect to be alone.

Chen Mu rubbed his dry eye sockets, and thought, if only he had the ability to split, his work efficiency could be doubled by reviewing documents, presiding over meetings, and inspecting the site.

"Can you change back?"

Lu Man nodded, and performed a hug fusion for him on the spot, although Lu Man looked reluctant.

"I understand. I will slowly explore this ability after this period of time. Don't worry, I will keep things about you secret at the highest level." Chen Mu calmed down and pushed the glasses frame on the bridge of his nose.

"Please, Adjutant Chen." Lu Man narrowed his eyes with a smile.

"Finally, in terms of learning how to adapt to a new environment, I know someone who can definitely teach you."

"Who is it?" Lu Man asked him curiously.

"It was a senior I met before I came to the harbor. He saved me, and I learned a lot from him."

"Before coming to Hong Kong..." Lu Man grasped the point, "Is this senior not in Hong Kong now?"

Chen Mu nodded, his eyes drifted a little far away, as if he was lost in thought: "It's not that I haven't invited him to the harbor before, but he refused every time."

"Then where is he now?"

"He wandered in the wilderness."

Lu Man couldn't help but widen his eyes.

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