If it weren't for Karl and others who had lived in the desert for a long time, it would be difficult for the Train Gang and his party to imagine that this vast desert was once a vast ocean hundreds of years ago.
At the very least, it is a port city that can dock cruise ships.
Occasionally, shipwrecks buried in the sand can be seen in the desert.
There are two ways for the Scorpion Gang to obtain supplies. One is from the wreckage of cruise ships and former military bases scattered in the desert.
More are airborne supplies with the "Bat" trademark.
Same as the valley.
Every once in a while, there will be brand new supply boxes in the sky, dropped by airdrops, all over the desert.
At first they thought that somewhere in the end of the world, there was a super camp where many people gathered.
Later, they learned from a group of followers of the Lady of the Night who passed through the desert that that place might, might, or exist. In the legend, the utopia that regularly releases supplies to the world is called "Paradise".
"Haven't you ever thought about looking for 'paradise'?"
Qing Shisan asked Karl and others questions that made him curious.
Mia also nodded quickly. They were taking the train to the paradise. Mia longed for the paradise and returned to the old civilization. Everyone has all kinds of beautiful imaginations about "Paradise".
Legend has it that there is inexhaustible food in the paradise, there are no aberrant creatures or rats in the paradise, the water in the paradise is clean, and everyone in the paradise can live freely under the roof. Legend has it that every corner of the paradise is still bathed in the glow left by the "Ms. of the Night", shining gently on everything in the paradise.
Beyoncé grabbed the ice-cold beer glass and licked the mouth of the bottle, feeling the coolness on her tongue. She glanced secretly at Zheng Xiu from time to time.
At this time, she heard Qing Shisan's question and couldn't help but interject: "Looking for paradise? It's easy to say. Do you think it's that simple? Have you ever found a world map? Do you know how big the world is?"
"The area where this desert is located is only a palm-sized area on the world map. Without transportation, we can't even get out of this desert safely. How can we talk about finding a paradise?"
As she said that, Beyoncé seemed to have thought of something, and she looked astonished and said in surprise: "Wait, your train...don't you want to tell us that you want to take your train to find paradise?"
Sitting on the viewing platform, Mia and others looked at each other.
"Hahaha--"
"paradise!"
"I didn't expect that these days, there would be people actually looking for paradise!"
"How funny! Some people believe those old legends!"
"The Lady of the Night and the Old Gods may just be fairy tales of ancient people! When I was a child, I heard my dad say that the world was destroyed because of the outbreak of the Sixth World War. Every country has a super weapon called a 'nuclear bomb' , a few dropped, can easily destroy a country. It is said that the world war was not about the Lady of the Night fighting the old gods, but several countries who couldn't figure it out for a while, and they all dropped nuclear bombs to death, and finally destroyed the world! "
"Even if there really is one, how could it be possible to find it in such a big world!"
"It's better to stay in the desert for the rest of my life! I'd rather deal with sandworms and demons."
The predators who were accustomed to running rampant in the desert burst into laughter without thinking when they heard this.
Carl coughed hard.
"Hahaha--"
The marauders were still laughing.
Karl coughed hard for a long time, until his lungs almost came out.
Zheng Xiu lightly tapped the steel bar under him.
What I fear most is that the air suddenly becomes quiet.
There was dead silence for about a few seconds.
"Who can live without dreams?"
"Who the hell said paradise doesn't exist? I'm going up with a grenade to fight with him! Don't let any of you stop me!"
"What's the difference between a person without dreams and a salted fish? Paradise exists!"
"Hey, brother, did I tell you a few days ago that my greatest wish in this life is to find paradise and live there for the rest of my life?"
"Huh? Did you say that?"
"I told you! I told you! Just when we are on duty together outside!"
Phew~
Seeing that they almost coughed out their lungs, these brothers finally had some insight and started talking about their dreams instead.
Cabbage was desperately gesturing on the side, trying to say something.
But because he sprayed gas whenever he spoke, and the gas exploded at any moment, there were countless things in his heart that he wanted to say but could not say.
"Cabbage is trying to say,"
Beyoncé took the initiative to translate for Cabbage: "Actually, there is nothing wrong with living in the desert for a long time. There are not many aberrant creatures in the desert, that is, there are demons migrating from time to time, or sandworms hiding underground."
"We are used to living here, and if nothing unexpected happens, we will work hard to survive here."
The rest of the words are Beyoncé’s own thoughts. She looked at the dark red dust cloud in the sky and smiled faintly: "Even if we are humanoids, none of us know which day we will die. In fact, whenever I find airdropped supplies from the paradise, I I have also thought about it more than once, is there a possibility that paradise is near us, just within our reach."
"Maybe we just need to take one step out of the desert, a small step, a little beyond the dunes..."
Beyoncé looked at the rolling sand dunes in the dark night.
"You can find a place where you can have enough food, drink clean water, and don't have to worry about being attacked by aberrant creatures."
"But none of us have the courage to take this step."
"We would rather live every day in a place we are familiar with, a place where we can survive."
"Even if we die tomorrow, the body will rot in a few days, be eaten by sandworms, and become a gravel in the desert. At least, we are still alive today."
Carl and others calmed down after listening to Beyoncé's overly calm words.
For a moment, the Scorpion Gang's marauders on the observation deck had a somewhat thoughtful look on their faces.
It's not that they really don't believe in paradise, but they don't want to allow themselves to long for this place and don't want "hope" to exist. As the old saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. What they are more worried about is that once they step out of this desert, they will encounter more terrifying dangers and more ferocious creatures than here. They may even lose the habitat that they can barely survive today.
The final outcome is more likely to be: starting out magnificently today and dying insignificantly tomorrow.
Everyone watched the beer in the glass ripple slightly due to their trembling hands and remained silent.
"Sorry, I said something I shouldn't have said."
Beyoncé raised her glass and showed a bright smile: "Although we have not known each other for a long time, thank you for this glass of cold beer given by Brother Zheng's ability!"
"Thanks for the ice!"
The rather dull atmosphere became lively again because of Beyoncé's words.
There was laughter and laughter again in the observation deck, and everyone raised their glasses: "Here's to brother!"
Zheng Xiu was stunned, how could he suddenly become the eldest brother?
"Today!"
"Wow! Here's to today!"
"Here's to Lady Night!"
"Ouch! Here's to Lady Night!"
Zheng repaired: "You should respect the God of Correction."
Everyone looked at each other: "God of Correction? What the hell?"
"It doesn't matter what god it is, just pay respect to it!"
“Hail to the God of Correction!”
Each world has its own unique rules of survival.
No distinction between good and evil.
From a human perspective, when you come into contact with a group called "Predators", you will feel that they are cruel and inhumane.
But from a "divine" perspective, the survival rules of the predators are no different from those of other people. They are just poor people who look forward to living one more day in the end of the world.
That's all.
"The good self is me, the evil self is me, humanity is me, divinity is me, it's all me."
Late at night.
The two gang members drank a total of nineteen barrels of beer. They were so drunk that almost everyone fell asleep.
In the observation deck, Shirley turned her body uneasily and muttered: "The sound of evolution..."
Mia was sleeping next to Shirley. When she heard Shirley talking in her sleep, her heart sank, but she silently patted Shirley on the back so that her sister could sleep peacefully, at least tonight.
After a while, Shirley fell asleep, breathing long and long.
Zheng Xiu climbed to the top of the iron tower along the maintenance channel alone.
He sat on the highest peak of the desert, overlooking the vast land.
The darkness in the distance looked like a herd of ferocious beasts, ready to move.
Zheng Xiu sat cross-legged, looking into the distance, motionless until dawn.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
The temperature difference between day and night caused crystal clear dewdrops to hang on Zheng Xiu's hair, which showed that there was still moisture in the air in the desert.
At this time, Zheng Xiu heard a sound of tiptoe climbing from the maintenance ladder behind him.
"Karl asked you to come?"
Before the man could climb up, Zheng Xiu took the initiative and spoke.
The sound of climbing paused for a moment, and Beyoncé grabbed a blanket with a smile on her face, sat next to Zheng Xiu, and wrapped herself up.
"Watch the sunrise?"
Zheng Xiu asked.
Beyoncé nodded and was silent for a while. She lifted the blanket to reveal a spot and smiled provocatively at Zheng Xiu: "Are you cold? Do you want to come in and warm yourself up?"
"Uh... no need."
Zheng Xiu shook his head and smiled politely but not awkwardly.
"Humph, you're a guy who doesn't know how to be charming."
The simple reply made Beyoncé understand Zheng Xiu's thoughts. She would not refuse to have a one-night affair with a man she fell in love with at first sight, especially a man she fell in love with inexplicably. Ever since the piece of ice fell into the beer, Beyoncé suddenly developed a strong curiosity about this man whose words and deeds were incompatible with those around him.
His eyes, his words, his seemingly eternal calmness, his calmness that nothing seems to be able to shake. Even though Beyoncé only knew this man for a few hours, the more she peeked at him, the more curious she became about him.
Beyoncé keenly sensed a dangerous and charming temperament from Zheng Xiu. It was this kind of invisible mystery. The muscular man who broke into this desert like a dazzling meteor was at least so... In an instant, Zheng Xiu nourished Beyoncé’s dry heart.
Beyoncé also feels that her mentality is very strange. It was fast for no reason, and thick for no reason. She couldn't explain it, but it just happened like this. This strange mood made Beyonce muster up the courage to sneak up to the top of the iron tower before dawn and everyone was still awake, and have a morning luck with Zheng Xiu.
But Zheng Xiu refused.
Beyoncé did not conduct any unnecessary tests or anything else. She immediately understood the reason for Zheng Xiu's rejection. It was because of that woman whose skin was whiter than snow and as beautiful as a fairy.
Beyoncé doesn’t want to embarrass herself.
She was wrapped in a blanket and sat quietly next to Zheng Xiu.
Falling in love comes quickly, like a tornado. It also moves fast, like a tornado.
Overnight, Beyoncé experienced the complete process of falling in love and falling out of love.
She allowed herself to maintain the sense of "turning one second into ten seconds", and this short sunrise time became extremely long.
until sunrise.
Zheng Xiu stood up and smiled at Beyoncé: "For the sake of the meal last night, I will give you a piece of advice."
"oh?"
Beyoncé turned her head and looked at Zheng Xiu.
Zheng Xiu pointed to the direction in the distance where the "voice of evolution" came from: "The rats are coming."
"Rat pack?" Beyoncé was stunned when she heard this. After a moment, she couldn't help laughing and smiled: "We received news from the next area through the radio that there was a plague outbreak in the next area."
"Well, it's quite a severe plague."
"You may not understand that rats can't come in the desert. Unless they are deformed rats." Beyoncé thought for a while: "Are the rats you mentioned big?"
Zheng Xiu shook his head: "It's not big, it looks similar to a normal mouse."
Beyoncé: "We have seen sandworms up to two meters long in the desert. Their mouths have more than a dozen rings of saw-like teeth. When they eat a person, the saw teeth will spin crazily and the person's head will In an instant... whoosh, they were minced into pieces. Sandworms are much scarier than mice."
"you're right."
"Moreover, no matter how many rats there are, they can't survive long in the desert. This is why the environment here is so harsh and why we still live here."
Beyoncé believes that normal mice cannot cross the desert, and if they are dried in the sun, they may be able to enrich their supply inventory.
The Scorpion Gang reached a deal with the two gangsters.
At dawn, Karl shook his groggy head and directed his subordinates to prepare supplies for the two damn bandits. "Damn bandits", this is what Karl, a plunderer, called the two mysterious bandits.
The two bandits were both humanoids who arrived in the desert from other areas a few months ago. They were very powerful, so forget it. The key point is that they are very shameless. They grab if they can be beaten and run away if they can't be beaten. However, they still can't catch up. After several confrontations, Karl is so angry that he grits his teeth when he thinks of the two "damn bandits".
But this time the two damn bandits demanded so much supplies at once. Based on the sum total last night, Carl and others were convinced that the two damn bandits wanted to leave the desert and couldn't stand it any longer, so they asked for it all at once. So many supplies.
Regarding the departure of the two bandits, Karl wished that the two damn bandits would go as far away as possible.
Once the bandits are gone, the Scorpion Gang will regain their long-lost peace.
"Ah... Praise to the desert! Praise to the Lady of the Night!"
The agreed place was just below the Iron Tower. While waiting for the bandits to arrive on time, Carl heartily praised the goddess from hundreds of years ago - the Lady of the Night.
He is not a believer, but this time, a word or two of praise is harmless.
While Carl was waiting for the two bandits, the Train Gang had packed their luggage and was preparing to leave and continue heading north.
"my brother,"
Karl hugged Bearded Thirteen heavily for a while: "Don't you consider staying in the desert for a while? Believe me, my brother, the desert is not as scary as you think."
Qing Shisan glanced at Zheng Xiu in embarrassment.
"about there."
Zheng Xiu waited there for a few minutes with his eyes closed. Amidst the confused reactions of others, Zheng Xiu opened his eyes, threw a monocular telescope towards Karl, and pointed in a direction.
"Huh? Why is the sand jumping?"
There was a predator from the Scorpion Gang, staring, lying on the desert, his eyes level with the ground. He exclaimed, the gravel on the ground was like popping candy in his mouth, jumping happily up and down, left and right.
Soon, everyone noticed that the ground was vibrating slightly, from far to near.
Karl took the telescope handed by Zheng Xiu and looked in the direction Zheng Xiu pointed.
"boarding!"
Zheng Xiu waved to his brothers and sisters.
Uh-huh!
The train gang, without any hesitation, all climbed onto the train in one swish.
They don't know what's going to happen, or they guess but aren't sure what's going to happen. It's just that the people of the Train Gang, whether they escaped from Area 32 or got on the train in the valley, they all firmly believe in one thing: listening to the boss will never be wrong.
Karl adjusted the focus of the telescope, and soon he spotted a strange figure on the desert horizon.
A macho man with flames under his feet ran desperately across the desert with an "object" that looked like a corpse on his shoulders. His terrifying speed stepped on the desert, kicking up a sky of dust behind him.
"Damn bandits!"
Seeing those two shameless bandits, Karl gritted his teeth and cursed.
But the next second, Karl's expression changed slightly, and his mouth opened wider, getting wider and wider, until it was so big that it was difficult to close it.
"Fuck! What is that!"
Behind the two bandits, a dense black line emerged on the horizon, rolling in this direction at a terrifying speed, chasing closely behind the two bandits.
"Rat Pack."
Zheng Xiu said calmly.
(End of chapter)
