Chapter 204 The Ironic Truth
What really made Youxi alert was when she saw what was cooking in the refugees’ camping pot.
It was the sole of a person’s foot, which was floating up and down with the boiling soup in the pot.
The refugees here—eat people! ?
Regardless of whether the people cooked in the pot were natural people or adulterated people, this place was not suitable for staying for long.
But, since she had come here, she didn’t want to make a wasted trip. She told Xing Min about this, and after quietly observing the situation and placement area of the low-altitude vehicle, she chose the latter between returning to drive the armored vehicle to leave and driving the low-altitude vehicle directly to leave.
Anyway, they all wanted to escape from this wolf-tiger place, and driving the low-altitude vehicle was more cost-effective from all aspects.
She knew what the other party relied on. For example, although there was crystalline fuel in the fuel tank of the low-altitude vehicle, it was only a little bit left and would be used up in a few minutes. For another example, although the warehouse was on the ground floor, the movable door facing outward was obviously locked. As long as they were trapped here, they would not be able to escape even with a low-altitude vehicle.
Of course, the smoke spraying device was an accident, but she was now fully equipped and could deal with all emergencies.
After the low-altitude vehicle drove to a safe area, You Xi leaned back into the car, closed the door, and said to Cheng Fang, who was still staring at him blankly: "Notify the headquarters. If you move slowly, the people in the supermarket will probably all run away."
However, the communication equipment on the low-altitude vehicle was broken. Cheng Fang finally contacted the headquarters with his mobile phone. Because of the signal problem, it took a long time to explain the situation.
Based on his speculation and the information provided by You Xi, they roughly pieced together the situation here.
Completely contrary to their initial guess, the natural person should be in control of the overall situation here, and the subordinates are the completely suppressed party. Just like some subordinates hate natural persons, the natural persons here obviously cannot tolerate the existence of subordinates.
The captain of the unit originally in charge of this place may not have sacrificed, and there may be other reasons for death.
The refugees here may not be cannibalizing people because of food shortages, after all, there are still many boxes of supplies on the shelves on the lower level.
They are obviously regarded as prey and "food" by the other side, especially Hei Mu and the other four...
As
for the other truths and details, it is up to the people in the headquarters to investigate.
Cheng Fang understood that his most important task was to escort Zhou Zhitong back safely, so after reporting the situation here, the two flying cars drove at full speed in the direction of the headquarters.
After the sun set, the scorching temperature dropped, and You Xi sat in the last row with his eyes closed to rest.
Night fell, the stars and the moon rose into the sky, and the flying car crossed a large area of land in Huaguo, which was desolate, broken, charred, cracked...
Most of the areas were deserted. Occasionally, a transfer convoy would be seen, like migrating birds, with the cars lined up in a neat team and slowly passing through the wasteland.
Occasionally, they would also see other flying tools appear on the radar screen of the low-altitude car, but Cheng Fang and his team chose to avoid them from a distance to avoid a head-on confrontation.
After flying carefully for six hours, the low-altitude car finally arrived at the destination of this trip. Cheng Fang's
joyful voice came from the side, and Youxi slowly opened his eyes. A huge fortress stood quietly under the stars and the moon.
This scene is very similar to the scenes in science fiction movies that Youxi had seen before. The fortress is about a hundred stories high and is composed of many silver-black cylinders of different heights and sizes. The smallest of those cylinders is twice the size of the apartment building where she used to live.
There are many platforms on the cylinders to provide landing for various flying vehicles. Many low-altitude vehicles that land on them will be transferred into the cylinder through the passage below the platform.
On the outer edge of this giant fortress is a circle of steel walls that are 40 to 50 meters high.
The land outside the wall is broken and black, while the ground inside the wall is paved with clean and tidy stone slabs.
Cheng Fang told her that it was not a slate, but a new type of material that could effectively prevent the invasion of red lotus software from the soil, and at the same time resist the invasion and destruction of ice blades. In the gaps when the ice blades stopped, the sewage mixed with software remains could be cleared out of the wall by cleaning vehicles to prevent them from staying inside the wall.
As for this fortress, in addition to this new material, it was also mixed with another very, very expensive material.
"Driftwood?" You Xi asked.
"How did you guess it?" Cheng Fang was a little surprised.
You Xi smiled and said nothing. She could think of using driftwood to build a villa, and of course others would think of using driftwood to build other buildings.
What's more, she had already recognized this place. Not far behind the giant fortress was the mountain range where the driftwood was originally found. The headquarters chose this place to build the fortress. It can't be because of the nearby scenery, right?
After passing the air security check, the two low-altitude flying vehicles stopped on the platform of one of the cylinders one after the other. Cheng Fang saw the low-altitude vehicles parked steadily, and turned to Xing Min and said, "In fact, this fortress had already started to be built before the end of the world, but at that time it was still a confidential matter of the army. No one thought that this fortress would eventually become the hope and pure land of Huaguo."
Because this was the secret construction site of the fortress, after the Honglian disaster began, the people in the urban area of the 29th district were able to evacuate into the fortress in a timely and rapid manner.
At that time, the fortress had not been fully built, at least the ground had not been paved, and the walls had not been built, but with the strength of its new material, it would not collapse even if the ground cracked.
Even if bad luck really came and red lotus appeared nearby, the fortress had its own way of protecting itself.
However, probably because it was on the mountain range, and probably because of good luck, red lotus did not appear nearby in the end, and the fortress avoided the first disaster, and the subsequent gray fog and ice blades caused less damage to it.
Although it was almost midnight, Zhou Zhitong's father was still waiting for his son to return.
His identity made it impossible for him to put down everything in the headquarters and leave rashly to pick him up in person, but after knowing that the other party was still alive, he was waiting every moment.
Xing Min had all of Zhou Zhitong's memories, and he also knew that his biggest regret when he was dying was that he could not see his father again.
Zhou Yuan is a serious father. Like most people on this planet, he and his wife had a difficult pregnancy, and finally had Zhou Zhitong when they were 40 years old.
But after his son was born, he was still busy with work every day. Later, his wife died of illness at an early age, and there was a gap between him and his son. They were not close since childhood.
But blood is thicker than water. After all, he is his son. How could he not love him? And vice versa.
In the face of life and death, any barrier becomes insignificant. Unfortunately, once Xing Min leaves Zhou Zhitong's body, without his energy to maintain it, this body will soon return to a state of near death, with no possibility of continuing to live.
This fact made Xing Min feel pity for this old man who was nearly sixty years old. He was a stranger to Zhou Yuan, but he felt familiar with him because of Zhou Zhitong.
He stretched out his hand, and when the other party hugged him tightly, he hugged the other party back with Zhou Zhitong's arm.
You Xi looked at the person in front of him quietly, and the voice of the system popped up in his mind.
[Random task: Within the time limit of the world main line task, safely deliver Zhou Zhitong to the headquarters of the 29th city district troops of Huaguo. The number of star coins is 1235. 】
**
Youxi woke up in a simple dark grey room.
The room was about 20 square meters, with a bathroom, a narrow window with a removable closed baffle, a metal bed board fixed to the window, a simple table and chairs for dining, and a built-in induction cooker.
It was a small, clean and simple room, and looked quite like a cabin in a spaceship in a science fiction movie. Although it looked simple, in fact, such a single room was only available because she was Zhou Zhitong's "lifesaver".
Most ordinary people still lived in dormitory rooms with eight, sixteen or even more people.
People like Hei Mu lived in double rooms a few floors below - of course, compared to ordinary people, it was already very good.
You Xi sat up on the bed, reached out and pressed the button of the barrier. The rectangular barrier was immediately divided into two parts, and slowly moved away outside the double-layer bulletproof glass.
As the barrier opened, the scorching sunlight from the outside immediately fell on her through the glass. She could feel the heat of the sunlight even through two layers of glass. The temperature today seemed to have risen again.
There is no doubt that the next disaster should be high temperature.
But fortunately, they have arrived at the headquarters. At least they will not be too passive in the short term, and they don’t have to worry too much about survival.
[Are you awake? ]
Xing Min’s voice rang in his mind.
You Xi:... I’m awake. You have been asking me every ten minutes since half an hour ago, can I continue to sleep?
The other party seemed to smile.
[After waking up, I washed up and had something to eat, then went to the 20th floor of Building C. He Mo and the others had been caught, and they would be interrogated today.]
You Xi jumped off the metal bed immediately, unlocked the faucet in the bathroom, spent five minutes washing up, changed into a clean T-shirt and trousers, and then took a sea salt bread for breakfast.
The refugees here will get different access control bracelets according to the different room types.
This access control bracelet is made of special materials. It is a door card, an entry and exit pass, a meal card and a water card, as well as an internal communicator and identity certificate of the fortress.
Each person has a ring, which is embedded with the person's fingerprints, irises and voice records. Even if it is picked up by someone, it cannot be used at will. Of course, if you lose this bracelet, it will take a lot of work to get a replacement.
Youxi ate a few bites of sea salt bread with beef, egg, tomato and lettuce, went to the next room to find Xingmin, and took the shuttle with him to Building C.
The shuttle is equivalent to a shuttle bus between different "cylinders". If you walk from Building G where they are, it will probably take an hour.
It's still early, but there are already a lot of people coming and going around. Everyone here, as long as they are over 14 years old and under 65 years old, must do the arranged work every day.
The same is true for servants. As long as they are under 65 years old, regardless of whether they have an owner, they must accept the new work arrangement.
The money of the former peaceful world has lost its effect inside this fortress. Now, working hours are used as the currency for exchanging materials. There is a random check every two weeks.
The random check is to check whether the other party completes the work seriously within the working hours. There are cameras installed in every workplace, and no one can be lazy under such circumstances.
Once lazy, the person's access control wristband will be downgraded, and it will be reflected in various aspects afterwards, such as downgrading from a dormitory for 16 people to a dormitory for 32 people, the types of meals available for dining will also be reduced, the amount of clean water available every day will also be reduced, and the types of items exchanged at the supermarket will also be limited...
Of course, the access control wristband can also be upgraded, but the conditions for meeting the upgrade are very harsh.
So generally speaking, the refugees here, whether they are natural persons or servants, will not be lazy.
As for the impact of the previous rebellion of the servants, it does not seem to have much impact here. After all, living in such a safe fortress with no shortage of water and water, all personnel, whether they are natural persons or servants, are treated equally. Unless they are crazy, they will not cause trouble.
Of course, there are such people, but they have been publicly executed once they are discovered.
Under the absolutely powerful rules of law, the chaos of the end of the world has little impact on the inside of the fortress.
So some people, for their own selfish reasons, would rather give up the safe and comfortable environment of the headquarters to achieve their goals.
**
Homer's story is very simple. When he led a team to escort medical supplies and cold-resistant supplies on a long journey to support the supermarket refuge area, he was still an ordinary captain. The incident happened after he learned about the rebellion of the Congren.
He has a daughter who lives in the Congren factory area seven or eight city districts away.
She is very smart and has shown super intelligence since she was a child. She skipped grades all the way. After graduating from university at the age of sixteen, she entered the Congren Research Laboratory to continue her studies and became a senior engineer. She has been working in the Congren factory.
After the end of the world, the two sides had contacted each other. The signal was good at that time. He learned that his only precious daughter was safe and sound, so he always wanted to pick her up to the headquarters.
But his daughter refused repeatedly, saying that she didn't want him to take risks. After all, the distance was too far and she was safe there.
So He Mo desperately took on missions, hoping to accumulate more merits, and after being promoted, he would rely on the strength of the headquarters to form a team and bring the best equipment to pick up his daughter.
But when he was carrying out this mission, he received news of the rebellion of the people in the factory area, and he never contacted his daughter again...
The first batch of indigenous refugees in the supermarket area and the troops who later protected a group of people evacuated here had long been resentful.
The people protected by the troops were all rich people. They used to look down on them, the poor people, but after the end of the world, they broke into their supermarkets, requisitioned them in the name of the troops, and turned their food into everyone's.
Each of those rich people brought with him several servants, who provided food, drink and other necessities... But in the minds of the indigenous people, all the resources here belonged to them. If the other party had no right to use them, their servants had even less right.
The conflict had existed from the beginning, but at that time, no one dared to make trouble due to the army.
After the news of the rebellion of the slaves spread, there were conflicts among the troops themselves, so the indigenous residents began to plan, and they found the desperate and crazy He Mo, and also found several other senior members in the army who were extremely dissatisfied with the slaves.
Afterwards, they cooperated inside and outside, and killed all the natural persons in the army who protected the slaves.
The entire supermarket shelter was reshuffled, and He Mo became the new captain in the end.
At the beginning, everyone just killed the slaves who resisted fiercely, imprisoned the remaining slaves and their wealthy masters, and did not think about other aspects.
Later, because they had been trapped for a long time, many people had not tasted the taste of fresh meat for a long time, so some people secretly cut some from the dead slaves and cooked them quietly.
It was just the simplest sliced and roasted meat, but the aroma attracted many refugees to grab food...
During those few days, because the temperature was still low, refugees who were willing to risk their lives would sneak to the body dumping area on the lower level from time to time to cut off the frozen hard pieces of meat and return to their tents...
Later, the news spread, and to He Mo, who hated human beings, human beings were not human beings at all. They were objects created on the test bench, pets like cats and dogs. If pets dared to rebel and kill humans, it was an unforgivable crime!
Since everyone wants to eat, then eat. There are still a lot of meat in the detention room anyway. Those who dare not eat are also forced to eat later...
Occasionally, a new refugee team passes by the supermarket and finds clues. They will be lured into the warehouse by the supermarket people with low-altitude vehicles and sprayed with drugs, and then they will be captured one by one. The results of these people are self-evident.
As for the natural persons who originally lived in the supermarket and tried their best to escape and refuse to "eat meat", they were all killed on the charge of betrayal in the end.
They even hung the bodies of some people and betrayers in the woods next to the supermarket as a tool to intimidate other people who want to escape...
**
Outside the interrogation room, You Xi felt a chill all over his body listening to these words that were taken for granted.
The interrogation was still going on. He Mo was injured when he was arrested and had a broken leg. He was now locked in the interrogation chair with a pale face, but he was still smiling.
This smile made the senior captain, who was once a comrade-in-arms, frown.
He asked the other team members to leave first, turned off the surveillance in the interrogation room, took the stretch screen on the table next to him, called up a blurry picture, and placed it in front of He Mo.
"This is a video footage taken by a team member who went to the factory area on a secret mission three days ago. You never came back after you went to the supermarket shelter, and you never contacted the headquarters. We all thought something happened to you, so we couldn't notify you when we got the news three days ago."
The man saw He Mo closed his eyes and moved the stretch screen closer to him again, "Take a look, your daughter is not dead, she is still alive--"
He Mo opened his eyes instantly, and his bloodshot eyes stared straight at the blurred picture on the screen that was paused and magnified countless times.
As a father, he recognized his daughter at a glance.
"She is now in the slave factory area, with those rebellious servants. She used to be a senior engineer there, and her lover is also a servant of hers. She didn't let you pick her up before, maybe just because she didn't want to come to the headquarters...
Her status among these servants is not low. We even suspect that she is the instigator of this servant rebellion..."
"Impossible! This is impossible!" He Mo stared at the screen and began to shake his head and roar in a state of disbelief, "You deliberately lied to me, this can't be the picture from three days ago, the servant rebellion started ten days ago, she is dead! Already dead!"
"Think whatever you want. It doesn't matter anyway. Your previous actions are enough to make you die ten times. Whether your daughter is still alive or not, whether she participated in the rebellion from the National People's Congress, it will not change your ending. I tell you this just to let you know how ridiculous all the crimes you have committed are..."
The senior captain said, retracted the stretch screen, and turned on the surveillance again, "You will be executed with the highest level of death penalty this afternoon. Whether she is alive or not, you will never see her again."
He opened the door and let several team members come back in. Several people took a metal mouth gag and locked all the parts below Homer's nose to prevent him from biting his tongue to commit suicide in advance in order to avoid the painful death penalty.
He began to sway left and right on the interrogation chair, but he couldn't get rid of the shackles at all.
He was pushed out along with his chair, and locked in a small dark room, where he waited for his death in the afternoon under surveillance.
The senior captain looked at the closed door of the room, and was silent for a long time before ordering the team members to bring in the next person to be interrogated.
Once this anti-human incident was reported, it attracted the attention of the headquarters. The headquarters knew that sending a team from the 29th District would take several hours even at full speed, and by then the people there would probably have already run away.
This outcome could not be avoided, so the headquarters contacted other refuge areas around the 18th District where the supermarket was located, where there were members of the headquarters stationed. The members surrounded the area from the air and land, and finally captured all the relevant personnel.
The main culprits, led by He Mo, were sent to the headquarters overnight for interrogation and public execution.
No one knew that two people with extraordinary hearing standing outside the other wall of the interrogation room had heard everything.
He Mo fell into a frenzy of revenge for his daughter who was "killed" by his followers, but in the end he was told that his daughter was not only alive, but was also likely to be the initiator of the rebellion.
This is really a huge irony.
"In the end of the world, the most terrifying thing is never the disaster itself." You Xi turned around and left the interrogation room.
There are too many negative emotions here, and she doesn't want to stay any longer.
If possible, she wants to save these worlds, but Xing Min said that she needs to go to more worlds and complete more tasks.
She was really afraid that before she had the ability to save these worlds, the people in these worlds had already trapped themselves in an irretrievable situation because of various selfishness and desires.
**
This is the fourth day since Youxi and his group arrived at the headquarters. After just a few days, the rising temperature has never dropped during the day except for a slight drop at night.
It is now February, but the outdoor temperature during the day has reached 45 degrees.
People are gradually falling down due to fever in shelters all over the planet. Some people just have heatstroke due to staying outdoors for a period of time, high temperature and lack of water. As long as they are properly cared for and rested, they can slowly recover.
But among these unconscious people, there are also some special cases.
After these people fainted, they developed a high fever, and the medicine could not completely suppress it. The high fever recurred, and the human body once burned to an extremely high temperature of 42 degrees, but the patients were still alive, without any seizures or convulsions, but they were always unconscious.
In some places, the medical facilities are too poor, and it is impossible to conduct a more comprehensive and in-depth examination of the patient's whole body.
The situation at the headquarters is better than that in the refuge area outside.
A temperature control system is installed inside the fort, but because the temperature difference between the inside and the outside is too large, the amount of fuel required for cooling is huge, and the burden is excessive. Not all areas can adjust the temperature to the most comfortable temperature for the human body.
In some areas, the internal temperature is also above 35 degrees.
In some areas, the temperature control system may malfunction due to overwork. If repairs are not made in time, the temperature inside the fort will rise quickly and become extremely hot and stuffy, even hotter than outside.
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