Wasteland Echoer

Zhenye Empire, Old Uko Province, the main road outside the Donusk ruins.

The few people who drove from the village settlement "Wuxin Village" to the main road remained silent and silent.

Wright, who was sitting in the middle left position of the middle row of the mechanical chariot, lowered his head and opened his sleeves and glanced at the old mechanical watch. At the same time, he also held the watch left by Moros in his left hand and used it to set the time to ensure that There is no big deviation in the control of time.

"Is it five o'clock? Time flies so fast. It seems that the ability of [Dream Builder] is indeed powerful. When I met Natasha, Aaron, and even Yato before, I didn't have any serious mental problems. Shock. But this [Dream Constructor] principle, he just... waved his hands lightly, and I fell into a semi-real illusion. It's really... scary, scary ability."

Although he has already walked from the winding road of "Wuxin Village" to the main road, and has long since lost sight of the low-rise bungalow area with dim colors, Wright still seems to feel that Li Na is lingering in his ears, as if he can't play. The person's voice is like playing a violin forcibly, and Feng's voice is full of youthfulness and is worthy of love.

"Indeed, [Dream Builder] is very powerful. Feng is right, it is also very rare. If there are a large number of powerful people, they will inevitably be in a state of involution, and the powerful will become ordinary, and then become not enough. powerful'."

"It seems that the old man can construct semi-realistic and semi-hallucinatory dreams. It should be hypnosis. He can hypnotize others to obtain some expected results. I just don't know what the "external force physically controls human beings and unintentional people" mentioned in the trend is. I think it should be Compared to [Seducer] Yato’s ability is more interesting and maybe more effective.”

Wright had a slightly twisted expression, with a half-smile on his lips.

He rubbed the "Crazy Bear" pistol on his left hand and the "Tool Yuan" brand rifle that had not been used much.

In his right hand is the personal pistol "Federal 01" left by Moros. It seems that he has never seen Moros use it.

"I remember what the big man Brett said in the morning. He followed Moros's example while we were sleeping last night and secretly set up the antenna used for the telegraph. He contacted us through the 'Military F-01' telegraph machine. I went to the Sugra Guards’ channel and sent back the news of Moros’s death.”

"Alas, Moros is one of the unlucky people in the wasteland battle. Most of the imperial soldiers can leave their bodies behind when fighting the Heartless and the Lost. Even the infected [soldiers] will be killed after being killed. They were then buried in the cemetery, which is the special treatment given to soldiers by the empire."

"Moros has no body. If the black particles floating in the wind can be considered his body, I'm afraid his cemetery and tombstone are smaller than others. Human beings are really weak in the wasteland world. . If you become a god, I’m afraid you won’t have so many worries.” Wright thought sadly to himself.

"I remember that after I came out of the manager's room just now, Brett just woke up Miyou without saying a word. But he, a big man, really seemed like a big brother, and he didn't let Miyou, a child, do manual labor. Instead, he picked up the silent, strange, half-lost woman and placed her on the back seat."

"He also thoughtfully handed him a 2 Singapore dollar note. On the front was the hero of Socrates, a very handsome man, but his facial features were similar to the hero statue he saw when he went to the library where George was that day. Together, I can’t see my face clearly. It seems that all the banknotes in this edition are of this style. However, 2 yuan of new coins should not be too much for the poor Feng Heli. Moreover, Brett also left a box of cans, which But none of us thought about the opened canned fruit along the way."

"If you don't eat some fruits and just eat meat and dry food in the Donusk ruins, you may not be able to escape from scurvy."

Just as Wright was looking out the car window at the still bright sky after the rain, and the gradually becoming clearer ruins of huge urban buildings, noisy sounds like the chirping of insects and the flapping of the wings of birds and animals suddenly came out of the window.

A few minutes later, Wright looked out the window curiously.

"What is that?" he asked curiously, stretching out his calloused right index finger wearing a black half-finger glove.

There seemed to be a mass of brown material hovering in the direction he was pointing. From a distance, it looked like a messy mass of brown hair, like a [scholar] who didn't care about cleanliness had been thinking about an epic mathematical problem for several days. .

The "hair" was suspended in the air, looking out of place with the white clouds in the sky, but it complemented the tall ruins in the distance that were clearly visible on the ground.

After Wright stared blankly at the "hair" for a few minutes, the mass of hair became larger and larger, and gradually became clearer.

It seems... it seems that the "hair" is not expanding its body, but getting closer and closer to the mechanical chariot driven by Brett!

And it doesn't seem to be birds, or some floating plants, but a group of - insects?

As the insect swarm gradually approached, Wright could see their appearance clearly from a distance of about four to five meters.

Their bodies are brown, with two scarlet-colored antennae, and each insect has six downy legs.

Judging from the body shape, if all the tentacles and legs of those insects were removed, they would look like "watermelon seeds"!

Moreover, they also have a pair of small, bat-like wings.

They were suspended above the mechanical chariot, waving their blue-grey wings hard, and their mosquito-like mouthparts were actually exposed.

They're like a disgusting patchwork of insects and birds!

"What exactly is it?" Wright asked curiously.

"It's a cockroach. To be precise, it's a 'careless cockroach', a mutated product affected by the virus." Brett, who had been silent before driving the chariot, answered in a hoarse and heavy voice.

"Wuxin... Wuxin cockroaches? Are their bodies also filled with burning fluid?" Wright asked.

"That's right. And there is a heart similar to humans under their mouthparts. If you look carefully, they are about five or six centimeters in length. They are considered to be relatively large cockroaches. I remember that in the northern border of the empire, Zine Many of the ones encountered during missions near Tsk were only a centimeter or more at most. In the southern part of the empire, especially near Ptoya, there are such huge unintentional cockroaches. And it is said that some individuals were affected by the burning liquid, plus Individuals who have sucked the blood of the Lost can grow to thirty or forty centimeters. However," Brett said in a calm tone:

"As long as we don't take the initiative to provoke them, they generally won't attack humans. After all, this kind of unintentional cockroaches don't know how they are affected. When most of them encounter humans, they will use their mouthparts to inject burning fluid into their bodies to spread the virus, causing humans to mutate into unintentional cockroaches. Humans. On the contrary, they do not aim to suck blood or kill humans. But generally speaking, it is not common.”

"It looks like the work of some whimsical scientist." Wright breathed a sigh of relief and commented with a smile.

"Indeed. I remember that according to records in some documents of the empire, the earliest appearance of the unintentional cockroach can only be traced back to more than two hundred years ago. At that time, it happened to be the day when the empire launched a major counterattack on several strongholds and important areas. The empire launched successive Several important battles once made people feel that it was possible to eliminate the unintentional people and expel the lost. And the first 'Lonely Light' battle to regain Donusk was launched during that time." Brett used his experience in Kusha City The history, biology and military knowledge learned are explained.

"Although none of us have experienced that day, listening to your story makes me feel full of hope." Wright said with emotion.

From Brett's description, Wright seemed to see light, that kind of holy light, as if an angel had descended!

"But I still have a question." Wright asked while grabbing Brett's seat in front of him:

"They will not actively attack humans, and they will infect humans when they encounter them. What if they are lost or unintentional?"

"There will be a fight," Brett replied casually.

"Wait." He suddenly realized a serious problem.

"There will be a fight!!!" Brett and Wright exclaimed at the same time.

"Their food is on the one hand the plants growing in the wilderness, and on the other hand the bodies of the Heartless! Both the Heartless and the Lost will emit a unique scent that attracts them, and many mutant animals will also be attracted by this scent. Attracted." Brett's tone suddenly became urgent.

"The aura of the Lost, if coupled with the aura of the Vampires..."

Wright looked at Miyou who was curled up on the right side of the middle seat and fell into a short sleep with a shocked look on his face.

He is an out-and-out lost person, not an intermediate being who is half-lost.

If you say so...

Wright quickly rolled up the open window and looked up at the careless cockroaches.

Sure enough, as Brett said, those mutant insects with open wings got closer to the mechanical chariot.

Now we are only about three meters away from them.

Moreover, both sides actually kept moving forward at the same speed, showing a relatively static state.

But those careless cockroaches did not seem to extend their mosquito-like mouthparts, but instead shook their bodies.

After a while, a hole of about one centimeter opened in the lower part of the body of those unintentional cockroaches. A bright, high-temperature liquid with a red smell condensed into a water ball, hanging swayingly on their bodies. the second half.

"Are those liquids burning liquid? Brett." Wright asked, pointing to the red and burning "water balls".

"No, it's an enhanced version of burning liquid. It's extremely corrosive. If it gets contaminated, I'm afraid we'll all have to walk! Wright, hold on to the handrail next to you. I'm going to speed up." Brett roared.

He stepped on the accelerator of the mechanical chariot hard and firmly grasped the steering wheel with both hands to ensure that the direction of the mechanical chariot would not deviate too much.

Buzz, buzz, boom!

The roar of the machine and the impact of acceleration made Wright experience drag racing for the first time in this world!

He felt his body jerking backwards, and then he felt his body swaying uncontrollably from side to side as Brett turned the steering wheel sharply to go around the winding road.

At this time, Brett seemed to see himself in the fantasy again.

The tall knight in silver-white armor, this time the sharp sword in his hand has disappeared, and the brown-haired horse underneath him is panting forward, with blood-like sweat flowing out of his body.

He was unable to move from left to right, barely driving his horse to avoid the pursuit of the nomadic tribesmen cavalry behind him, known as the "Scourge of the Lord".

The careless cockroaches and the "enhanced version of the burning fluid" they threw at the car were like arrows that could kill people, and they were flying towards Brett, the "knight".

Fortunately, after a brief and thrilling, adrenaline-filled ride with bumps and bumps, Wright looked back and saw that the group of brown unintentional cockroaches had been pulled away from each other.

Wright seemed to be able to hear the angry insect-like chirping from the mouthparts of the unintentional cockroaches, as well as the sound of their flapping wings rubbing against the air.

Immediately afterwards, the group of unintentional cockroaches gradually flew upwards, quickly widening the distance from the mechanical chariot, and returned to the state of a ball of brown "hair".

However, the bump just now did not allow the person lying in the back seat to lie down. I don't know if the half-lost [Prayer] woman who fell into a deep sleep made any noise or made any unnecessary movements.

Even Miyu, who fell asleep most of the day because he was afraid of the scorching sun, was not awakened, but he instead curled up in the middle of the seat, close to Wright.

After walking for another four or five minutes along the road that was covered with yellow sand and filled with a withered and dilapidated atmosphere, Wright and Brett finally saw some plants.

Some poplar trees grow messily on both sides of the road.

After losing human "guidance" and being affected by the virus in the air, they did not grow completely straight and were slightly twisted, but a few untimely green leaves grew thickly near the roots.

Wright observed that the closer we got to the Donusk site, the more obvious the traces of vegetation became.

At first there were yellow and messy weeds, and some sea buckthorn that can grow in the Gobi desert and fix the sand.

But now everything in front of me is green plants. In addition to the lush wild grasses, there are even a few tulips growing not far in front of me, next to the swamp near the road.

As the car continued to move forward, Wright noticed that the appearance of the road had gradually changed from the previous state of dilapidation, filled with unintentional human burns, dark red blood, and various unknown rotting objects, to one that was generally intact. , even with a bit of neatness.

A few minutes later, the mechanical chariot drove past several dilapidated and rusty vehicles parked on the side of the road before walking onto a viaduct.

After the mechanical chariot got on the bridge, Wright found that his field of vision had broadened a lot.

The surrounding space also quickly switched from the Gobi wilderness to a state of high-rise buildings and ruins.

Green plants began to appear everywhere.

Accompanied only by the rumble of mechanical chariots and the seemingly manic sound of the wind, Wright discovered that the abandoned high-rise buildings in the city ruins gradually changed from five or six floors to seven or eight floors, or even more than ten floors.

Those "tall buildings" were scorched and dilapidated after being baptized by the flames of war. Most of the windows in the houses were missing, and in the rare ones, only some broken glass pieces were left.

However, the smell of plants makes up for the vacancy left by humans.

Most of those concrete buildings that seem to be getting taller and taller are occupied by vines and green ivy, bathing in the "sacred light" exclusive to green plants under the sun.

It presents a realm of vitality and all things competing.

It’s as if the God of Nature, No. 81, is declaring His sovereignty!

The Donusk chapter is here! ! !