Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

two days later

In a dilapidated and ruined city, Fredo stopped his motorcycle. The surroundings were quiet. In the distance, Branch 99 could be seen under the gray sky.

Branch 99 is located in the southeast of this land, close to a huge city called WDLY. The city still retains many building facilities from the past. This is the most relaxed place in the entire kangaroo society, and many escaped slaves will run away. Go live in the city.

When sleepy, they go to bed, and when hungry, they go to nearby fields to steal some food. Many kangaroos turn a blind eye because the food output here is the highest among the entire red kangaroos. Many kangaroos turn a blind eye. Food has been overproduced, some even rotting in the ground, and human beings' daily work is relatively unorganized.

Fredo has heard people mention it in the past. Although it is his first time here, he has already collected enough information.

Jamie looked around nervously. He was still a little worried. After all, he was in a strange environment. This city was completely different from the previous cities Jamie had seen. Although it was dilapidated, it was better than other cities.

There were many facilities that Jamie had never seen before. Fredo rode slowly on the dilapidated streets. Many cars had only skeletons left. Koko had already noticed that there were many people around.

Danger.

At this moment, a whooshing sound sounded. Fredo stood up alertly, watching the long steel arrows fly past. Fredo quickly stood up, and the laser blade in his right hand appeared, directly shooting several steel arrows. Cut into two pieces.

In an instant, Fredo jumped out, a full nine meters away. He clearly saw the movements of more than ten people. They were retreating, but the next second Fredo moved quickly and intercepted their movements. On the way out, holding up the laser transmitter in his hand, more than ten people rushed forward.

Fredo did not fire, but directly knocked down these thin people. They looked at Fredo in horror.

"We are just passing by. There is no hostility. I don't belong to any kangaroo army or city. I am a wanderer."

Fredo looked at the humans in front of him with some disbelief. They were in ragged clothes, and they were holding some steel weapons in their hands. Many of them looked polished, including primitive spears, bows, and blades.

"You're really different from other kangaroos."

The leader named Jason muttered, and more than fifty people gathered next to Fredo's motorcycle. Jamie was holding the wine. Some people immediately stuck out their tongues after trying it, feeling uncomfortable, but there were more. More people try it.

"We still have a lot of food left, let's have a meal together."

Many hungry people were waiting. Now that the large pocket on the back of the motorcycle could be stowed away, Fredo took out a lot of food and planned to cook a meal for these people.

Many of them seem to have never seen normal human food, and have only seen it in some posters and books where human facilities still existed in the past.

Jason used to live here with nearly 300 people, but now there are only more than 50 people left. Some were killed by kangaroos, and some couldn't bear it anymore and returned to the farmland.

They have also hunted some kangaroos, but not in large numbers. So far they have killed a total of 5 kangaroos, but all with huge casualties.

Fredo has seen many such rebellious kangaroo humans in the past, but many of them will disappear in the end because they can't do anything. These people, like Jamie, don't even understand the most basic arithmetic.

There are some signs of human civilization everywhere on the street. Fredo can understand them, but these people don't know anything about them.

In order to eliminate all human civilization knowledge, the kangaroos will separate human newborns from their parents from the beginning, and resolutely do not allow humans to pass on certain things. In the past war years, those with rich knowledge will be concentrated in Together, they were forced to work to death.

Newborns will be taken to other places for training, and gradually the inheritance of mankind is cut off. Although humans have thought of many ways to pass on their civilization in the past, once the kangaroos find out, they will completely erase this information inheritance.

No matter how smart humans are, as long as they have no knowledge, they cannot pose a substantial threat to kangaroo society.

These primitive and crude weapons are already the limit of what humans can do. As for more lethal firearms, it is impossible for humans to use them. After the kangaroos defeated humans in the past, they carried out a large-scale carpet sweep of human weapons. After the recovery, all weapons-related knowledge was recorded and then destroyed.

The kangaroos have already set rules long ago to block everything from humans, so that humans can never become the enemies of the kangaroos.

"What are you going to do?"

Fredo asked with a smile, and there was confusion in Jason's eyes. The reason why he escaped was just because the woman he liked was going to be taken away. Then after they came out, they had to face an even more tragic situation. Food became Their only bottom line.

Afterwards, Jason tried to gather everyone together and successfully stole a lot of food. However, such actions were often accompanied by casualties, and some people could not bear it anymore and took the initiative to go back.

Although the kangaroos of Branch 99 will not hunt them on a large scale, once they are dispatched, their only option is to escape. Although they successfully ambushed several small groups of kangaroo troops, they paid extremely heavy casualties.

Jason shook his head, picked up a bottle of wine, and took a sip.

Looking at this group of confused people, Fredo knew that there was nothing he could do. At this time, the crowd burst into exclamations. Jamie was talking to them about Brilliant City, and Jason was a little surprised.

"Is what he said true?"

Fredo nodded.

"Is there really a city under human rule?"

"Yes, I'm sure, so I want to find that city and then find the answer from the humans there."

Jason's consciousness was a little blurry. He looked at the bottle in his hand, looking very sad. Fredo handed him a cigar. After Jason lit it, he took a decent sip, but he immediately coughed and wheezed. got up.

"Cigars use small capillaries to circulate, so they don't need to be inhaled into the lungs."

Such words made Jason seem a little at a loss, because what Fredo said was difficult for him to understand.

"You are really an alien Fredo. I have heard about you before."

Not only Jason, but some people have also heard about Fredo, a kangaroo who rescued human slaves and became an enemy of the kangaroos. This seemed unbelievable to Jason.

"What do you plan to do here?"

"Looking for a grain compression technology from the 99 branch."

Seeing that Jason couldn't understand, Fredo thought for a while and said.

"To put it simply, this piece of pancake was originally that big, but a pancake of the same size would only be as big as a fingernail, and the amount would be the same."

Jason frowned slightly, and Fredo knew that he probably couldn't understand, so he asked directly.

"Have you ever seen the kangaroos in Branch 99 shrinking the grain size?"

"Saw it."

Jason gestured and talked about what he saw. When the kangaroos in Branch 99 harvested food, they would put the food into some kind of machinery and then turn the food into lumps. They only had one piece of food to eat every day. It's a small piece, only about four or five centimeters.

Fredo asked some more details, and then Fredo planned to entrust Jamie and Imogen to Jason and his group, and Jason agreed.

"How about I go with you, Fredo."

Jamie said dazedly, and Fredo smiled.

"It's more convenient for me to go in alone. Just wait for me here. It's more convenient for me to go in alone."

Jamie nodded. Indeed, if he went in with Fredo, he would become a burden to Fredo if something went wrong.

Fredo plans to rest for another night, enter the 99 branch city early tomorrow morning, and leave as soon as he obtains this technology.

Jamie happily chatted with these people about some of his experiences along the way. After everyone had eaten and drank, they all talked and laughed happily.

Jason looked at the girl sitting blankly aside and couldn't help but ask.

"Fredo, is the child stimulated by something?"

"maybe."

Jason bluntly said that he had seen many people like this in the past, with dull eyes and expressionless faces. No matter what they said or did, they seemed to have no reaction. It was a very strange disease. Jason asked the kangaroos and they said these people were brains. Injured, or some are born that way.

Fredo was not going to tell them that it was much better to have hope than to despair. This was what Fredo had read in the book.

It would probably be very sad for those who worry about what they want them to do if they know that these people have undergone such cruel surgeries and will remain in this condition until they die.

Laughter kept coming, and Fredo looked over. It was Jamie who was tinkering with kangaroo weapons again. Many people advised Jamie that it was useless. They humans couldn't use kangaroo weapons at all.

But Jamie still persisted and said that maybe one day he could use these weapons. As long as he could use these weapons, he might be able to compete with the kangaroos.

"Is he always like this?"

Jason looked at Jamie and couldn't help but remember that when he was a child, he would secretly clean the weapons of the kangaroos and try to tinker with them, hoping to use these weapons like the kangaroos. However, when he grew up, Jason Gradually he understood that no matter what they humans did, it would be useless because they could no longer understand the world.

"Where's the girl you like?"

Fredo asked and Jason smiled.

"I now go back to see her from time to time, and she is still alive. Because I have a child, and if I don't go back, I won't be able to get good care."

Fredo nodded.

"Continue to persevere. One day, this land will usher in the dawn. I have a hunch that if we can really find the Brilliant City, this land will be saved. Although you have cut off all knowledge inheritance, But the humans in Brilliant City don’t.”

Jason smiled bitterly.

"I hope so. Come on, I'll take you to our camp. There are more than ten people there."

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Fredo and the others entered an underground garage. There were a lot of things in it, many of which were spliced ​​together with the waste of human beings in the past. The temperature here was not too low, but a little warm, a lot Thick leather bags and water were placed everywhere.

There were 73 people left in total. The dozen or so people who had not come out before were old, weak, sick and disabled. Jason brought them food.

Then Jamie and Imogen lived in Jason's row in a hut made of discarded metal.

Looking at these people living freely, Fredo would always think of his comrades, but in the end they disappeared one by one, until he was the only one left.

They will also become like this, and eventually disappear one by one.

"Fredo, how much longer do you think we can sustain this?"

Jason asked and Fredo smiled.

"Just work hard to survive until tomorrow, don't think about unnecessary things."

Several people gathered around, Fredo knew what they wanted to do, and then smiled helplessly.

"I can tell you as many of the kangaroos' weaknesses as you can write down, including their behavioral patterns and what kind of machinery they have placed in the farmland. How can you avoid them? Write down as many as you can. "

Fredo began to tell the group of people seriously, and everyone was very serious. After that, more and more people came closer, with a similar desire to Jamie's in their eyes.

Fredo has seen too many scenes like this, just like scattered points of light in the dark night. Unfortunately, these light points cannot be combined into a flame.

One hour, two hours, three hours, Fredo has explained as much as possible, restraining the irritability in his body.

"Thank you Fredo, you are really different from other kangaroos."

Jason held Fredo's hand excitedly, and Fredo nodded.

At 10 o'clock in the morning the next day, after having a simple meal, Fredo planned to leave.

"Be careful Fredo."

Jamie said worriedly, Fredo held on to his sunglasses and laughed.

"It will only take a few days at most Jamie, take good care of Imogen."

Watching Fredo leave, Jamie chased him and watched the motorcycle drive onto the road and quickly disappear. He watched quietly for a while before turning back.

The motorcycle was traveling fast on the road, and Fredo was on the edge of the city.

"Kou Kou, find a hidden place."

Soon Fredo parked his motorcycle under a dilapidated building, took some weapons, put on a vest and headed directly towards the steel city in the distance.

"Kou Kou, new identity forgery."

After Fredo finished speaking, he quickly sprinted forward. This kind of temporary identity forgery only lasted a few minutes. During these few minutes, Fredo had to enter the city and do everything he could to get food. Compress technology and escape.

Some farmland appeared in front of them, and some humans could be seen working. Some kangaroos were chatting and laughing on the side. Fredo quickly jumped over.