How to Feed an Abyss!

The sandstorm got bigger again, and ghosts and wolves howled in the city.

Fortunately, after the aircraft approached, the signal got better, and Lu Tinghan and Adjutant Ning got in touch.

He briefly talked about the situation, saying that he might not be able to return to the aircraft for the time being when he encountered survivors.

Adjutant Ning was simply ecstatic, "Yes, are you from the Empire?!"

"Yes."

"Is their army coming! What do we need to do?!"

Lu Tinghan said, "No, not for the time being... The situation is different from what we thought." He paused, "Shi Yuan and I are not in danger, but it will take time. Find a safe place to avoid the sandstorm and contact us later. "

Adjutant Ning was very puzzled, but still said "Got it."

He turned his head and told Chi Yongge and Douglas the good news. For a while, the aircraft was full of cheers, and Douglas waved a wrench, almost hitting Chi Yongge's foot. None of them saw the appearance of the "survivor". If they did, they might not be able to celebrate freely.

Lu Tinghan turned off the communicator, and there was only the sound of wind and sand in the world again.

In this small room, weird people were writhing, surrounded by the old man with the same scary face.

Di Wen said hoarsely, "In your impression, what was the empire like in the end?"

Lu Tinghan pondered for two seconds, and replied, "Before the alliance loses contact with you, there should be 13 large cities in the empire that have not fallen, and the battle situation is better than that of the alliance."

Di Wen smiled strangely, "Oh! That was the era when 'moles' hadn't started breeding."

Lu Tinghan politely made a "please speak" gesture. He sat down cross-legged, stretched out his left hand, and immediately got into a time abyss.

These so-called "mole people" are sensitive to light.

So, Lu Tinghan and Shi Yuan stayed in the dark, Lu Tinghan hugged Shi Yuan, Shi Yuan hugged his tail, and listened to Di Wen talk about the past of the empire.

Di Wen said, "Whenever infected creatures attack, we always hide underground. As you know, the underground city gives us a great advantage when fighting the abyss...until the Gamma Abyss begins to stir."

- Alliance and Empire abysses are named differently. The Alliance refers to its abysses by numbers, while the Empire uses ancient letters such as Gamma, Alpha, and Sigma.

Di Wen continued, "The infection characteristic of the Gamma Abyss is 'reproductive frenzy'. All creatures infected by it will fall into an endless wave of reproduction... Their sexual maturity/maturation cycle is shortened by hundreds or thousands of times, and their fertility Also greatly enhanced, as long as they are alive, they will continue to mate and reproduce forever."

"In the infected group in the Gamma Abyss, there were a large number of rabbits at first, and then rodents took over. As long as you go out of the city, you can see groups of squirrels and guinea pigs everywhere, and the place near the water source is also occupied by beavers. "

Shi Yuan shook the tip of his tail, "Why is it a rodent?"

Di Wen turned his cloudy eyes and looked at Shi Yuan, his distorted face wrinkled even more.

Instinctively, she was very wary of Shi Yuan.

She made no secret of her wariness and hostility.

Shi Yuan, who is as dull as Shi Yuan, noticed it, the tip of his tail drooped——

Lu Tinghan rubbed his head in time, and explained, "Rodents reproduce the fastest among mammals, and their breeding cycle is also very short."

"Okay." Shi Yuan forgot about Di Wen as soon as his head was patted, "I know!"

Di Wen took a deep look at the two of them with probing eyes.

Then she said, "The rodents have brought a lot of trouble. They are cave dwellers and are good at moving underground. Several underground cities have fallen one after another. Fortunately, the large cities can still hold on. We didn't expect it. This is just the beginning. In March of 214, the Mole came."

"Moles are not rodents, and their reproductive ability is not as good as them, but there is a group of moles that has mutated. They are aggressive, cannibalistic, and devour infected rodents in large quantities. Before we noticed, they had already eaten Nearly one-third of the rodents were lost. The genes of the two were fused, and finally the mole rats also had a terrifying reproductive ability..." She closed her eyes, "I don't know, have you ever heard of a city called 'Laco'? Nu' city."

Shi Yuan raised his head and looked at Lu Tinghan.

Lu Tinghan replied, "Is it the 'Gear City Raconu'?"

"Yes." Di Wen said, "More than 40% of the robots in the empire were built by Raconu. It is a super-large underground city, impenetrable,"

She laughed sharply. "It was bombed three times by the Alliance Air Force, and it was not damaged at all. Since then, the residents of Rakonu have called the Alliance people idiots."

Lu Tinghan seldom wore epaulets and medals when he went out this time, but he was still wearing a military uniform, so he could tell at a glance that he was a soldier of the Union. Di Wen's words were really not friendly.

Lu Tinghan's face remained unchanged, he nodded and said, "I've heard something."

A strange man suddenly screamed a few times, shaking the black fur on his body. Di Wen turned her head back and yelled softly, "Quiet! Brownie, there's something to eat soon!"

The man listened to her very well, and retreated quietly to the corner of the room.

Di Wen looked at the two of them again and said, "I'll make a long story short. When the rodents are flooding, Rakonu has always been safe, and no monsters can pass through its underground defenses. But moles are different. Strong destructive power. One night late at night, the whole of Laconou was in a deep sleep, and people were woken up by the sound of teeth gnawing on the steel plate—the mole came, and the city defense was like paper in front of thousands of moles of."

"All the exits are occupied by mole swarms, and their proudest iron wall has become a cage. There is not a single survivor in the whole city, and they are all bitten to death by moles."

Di Wen's voice was hoarse, "It's very similar to the plague in the Middle Ages, right? It's just that they are ten thousand times more vicious than rats, and they regard cities as their granaries."

Lu Tinghan was silent for two seconds, "It's a very unfortunate story."

"...that was a nightmare! That was a massacre!" Di Wen's voice was still full of anger after many years, "Laconu has become a new nest for moles, and after two weeks of breeding season, they flock to the next one Cities. People kept dying, either eaten by moles or thoroughly infested by them—until, until the 'Mole Man' came along."

"The so-called mole man is a human after being bitten by a mole. We mutated, but we didn't die. The infection stopped at a certain critical point, turning us into this kind of people who are neither human nor ghost." DeWine said, "Most people change temperaments, just like them!"

She glanced back, and immediately a weird person crawled over with hands and feet, stretched out his hand to her, and called out vaguely, "Di Wen! Di Wen!"

Di Wen opened his pocket, took out something, and threw it into the Mole Man. The group of people boiled instantly, roaring and rushing together, there was a toothache crunching sound—it was the sound of raw meat being crushed to pieces.

Shi Yuan recalled a documentary he had seen that human beings have a kind of building called a "zoo". The breeder threw buckets of raw meat at the beasts, and the beasts drank their blood.

Di Wen is like that breeder, except that she feeds humans.

Di Wen looked at them with indescribably complicated eyes, "They like raw meat, their personalities are like beasts, and they only have the most basic language ability - when they are in a good state, they can still say a word or two to you. No, it's no different from an animal."

Lu Tinghan said, "You also seem to be infected by moles, but you are different from them."

"I'm one of the lucky few," Dewin said. "There are only three or four Mole People like me, and they stay at home."

She seemed to sigh, "When the Mole Man first appeared, most people didn't recognize them as human beings, and they weren't allowed to live in the city. They wouldn't hurt people, but they were still killed in large numbers. On the one hand, they were food Not enough, not enough to support so many mentally retarded people, on the one hand, it is also people’s fear of heresy, they think, what if? What if the Mole Man goes crazy one day, will he also devour the human race?”

Shi Yuan suddenly thought of the Abyss Watcher.

The Alliance people are afraid of the Watchers, and they are also afraid that they will one day go crazy.

Humans are afraid of the unknown.

What are they afraid of? I'm afraid I can't see whether the person in front of me is a ghost! Even someone who is outstanding and dedicated like Lu Tinghan has won the trust of the masses only after proving himself time and time again in the long test.

The Watchers survived years of Overwatch, the Mole Man survived a painful infection, and they both paid the price of being different.

Most people still respect the Watcher, but the Mole Man is completely different.

Di Wen, "As the cities fell, there were more and more Molemen, and the arrogance of people chasing and killing them became higher and higher, especially in the king..."

She paused for a moment, passed the paragraph vaguely, and smiled again. Her facial features were gathered together, and her whole body was covered with black fur. When she smiled, she couldn't match "kindness". The more she smiled, the more ferocious she became, and she was even scarier than a monster.

She said, "The mole man can easily move underground. When the underground city is attacked by moles again, all the people who can escape are the mole man." Her smile deepened, and the corners of her mouth almost bent to her ears. How, we are the last survivors. Infection is our curse and our blessing. Those who look down on us are dead long ago!"

Lu Tinghan lowered his eyes slightly, and asked, "Apart from the Mole Man, are there any survivors in the empire?"

"No." Di Wen replied bluntly, "If we die, we are the only ones left."

"..." Lu Tinghan looked at her and said, "The Alliance has a plan called 'Echo'. We spent more than fifty years creating a channel that can resist interference from the abyss to the highest degree, trying to contact the Empire. On that channel A year after opening ... we got a call from Leon."

Di Wen was taken aback for a moment, and almost screamed, "Dunton?! Capital Dunn?!"

"Yes, Leton has been calling us." Lu Tinghan said, "I don't know why, Leton has not been able to hear our calls. They have kept calling us every half a month until today. Our trip The destination is Dunton." He looked at Di Wen's astonished expression, "It seems that you don't know either."

"No, no, no, no, it's impossible!" Di Wen was confused, pulling her pale hair, "How could there be someone alive in Dunton! It must be a hallucination, you—you are lying to me!" she screamed , exposing the sharp teeth in the mouth.

After all, she is also a mole man, and it is difficult to suppress her animal nature when she is excited, revealing her ferocious side.

Lu Tinghan remained calm, "We don't need to lie to you."

Di Wen tugged at her hair tightly, screaming in a low and hoarse voice, chanting something like "Dun! How could it be Dun!", "Impossible, impossible, impossible..." and "They are already dead!"

After a long time, she calmed down a little and restrained her fangs.

She said slowly, "... time is running out, we have to finish things first."

Lu Tinghan asked, "What should I do?"

"We came out to find something to eat." Di Wen said, "It's in this small town, but there are some treasures left."

Lu Tinghan: "You mean the underground town?"

"Oh, you actually went there!" Di Wen's eyes flashed surprise, "but that's not what I'm talking about. Here—here's another secret. Alicia used to come to this town a lot, if she didn't get If she wants something, she will be furious. So there is a royal warehouse next to the town, full of good ingredients, dresses that can be changed at any time, jewelry of all kinds of jewels and diamonds, cooks, musicians, doctors and make-up artists, Got all the shit, just waiting for her to call the shots and be there when she's called."

Lu Tinghan understood, "Are you going to that warehouse?"

"Yeah," the Mole Man yelled again, and Dewin threw out two pieces of raw meat again for them to scramble for food, and she continued, "Ordinary food has long since gone bad, what we want is canned food and medical supplies , if we are lucky, we may find ammunition. Now we should start, and if it is daylight, we will be too late to go home."

She looked at Lu Tinghan and Shi Yuan, "Do you want to come together? Maybe on the way...we can still talk about Dunton."

Lu Tinghan looked at Shi Yuan, and when Shi Yuan nodded at him, he said, "Okay, let's go together. But—"

Di Wen "What?"

"Why do you know Alicia's secret town and warehouse?" Lu Tinghan asked, "Are you from the royal family?"

Di Wen was taken aback, and laughed quack quack, "Me? I'm no one, I'm just the person who looks down on the little princess the most in the world! I—I hate her the most."

She bared her fangs "Come on, go to the little princess's treasure house, we don't have time for nonsense!" She laughed sharply, "Follow us! If you can."

She uttered a few strange calls, and the Mole People started to move one after another, and they all got into the ground!

They are as nimble as those monsters living underground, like ducks in water, quickly skimming the ground, occasionally poking their heads, running on the ground with hands and feet, and when they breathe enough oxygen, they go back underground.

Di Wen took a deep look at the two of them one last time, dragged his shriveled body, and also got into the ground.

"Let's follow." Lu Tinghan and Shi Yuan said.

Shi Yuan "Okay."

Shi Yuan wanted to go outside, but was dragged back by Lu Tinghan's tail.

Lu Tinghan helped Shi Yuan put on his military jacket again, wrapping his sleeves around to cover his nose and mouth. When he came down like this, Yuan was wearing his coat, only revealing a pair of black eyes and a cheerfully wagging tail.

Lu Tinghan led Shi Yuan out.

The Mole Man was swimming underground, covered in black hair, with a hunched back, with exceptionally sharp nails and teeth, surrounded and followed Di Wen, towards the once extremely luxurious warehouse. No more royals, no more armies, and in the end, they are the deformed humans who survived.

The sandstorm covered the sky and covered the whole world with a dense night.

The only light source was the strong flashlight in Lu Tinghan's hand.

They hurried after the Mole Man. After a while, Lu Tinghan found that Shi Yuan was very quiet.

This silence is not the silence of not speaking. It was Shi Yuan's tail that hadn't shaken for a long time.

—Lu Tinghan understood that this meant that Shi Yuan was either thinking, struggling, or sad.

He approached Shi Yuan and asked, "Are you concerned about Di Wen's attitude?"

"Ah?" After a layer of military uniform, Shi Yuan's voice was muffled, "No, I was thinking about the Gamma Abyss. You-you must not be infected by it!"

Lu Tinghan's expression was gentle, "Why are you suddenly worried about this? If the mole is coming, I will know." The wind became louder, and he moved closer, almost biting Shi Yuan's ear and said, "Besides, isn't this Are you covering me?"

"No, I'm really worried this time." Shi Yuan was still worried, "The characteristic of its infection is breeding frenzy. If you get it, I'm finished."

Lu Tinghan "..."

Lu Tinghan "..."

Shi Yuan said again, "And I really don't know how to lay eggs. You can only continue to be fanatical..." He curled up his tail tangled up, "Although, it's not impossible...ah!"

Lu Tinghan gave Shi Yuan a heads up, "What are you thinking about!"