Death that cannot be escaped (VII) He is the first...
Just like that, he joined my base and became a member of the team.
He is very capable and fearless. He always follows every mission and is always at the front. As a result, he quickly became the deputy captain of the team.
Although he arrived late, he convinced everyone with his strong strength.
I sometimes feel regretful - if I had his help in my previous reincarnation, my progress in fighting against the heavens might have been able to expand faster.
I don't know if it's due to the setting or his own personality, but he gives people the feeling of being a standard good student - the kind of good student who, when he was a student, made teachers and parents feel at ease saying to their children, "Play with others more, do you hear me?"
This feeling is actually a bit novel to me.
Because whether it is me or my friends, most of us have some reckless genes engraved in our bones - whether it is "Dr. Yi" who abandoned his family business and insisted on becoming a doctor, or my friend who broke the old-fashioned tradition of his family and insisted on becoming a bar owner.
As for Lu Renjia, he perfectly meets the expectations of the public and his parents, and there is no sign of rebellion.
But I have to say that Lu Renjia's personality is really suitable for being my deputy.
This time we are going to a large shopping mall that was built before the asteroid hit the earth to see if there are any supplies we need in the underground warehouse of this mall.
The mall was wrapped in a huge Venus flytrap. If we wanted to enter the mall, we had to cut the Venus flytrap first, so it was a very dangerous mission.
This day happened to be Lu Renjia’s younger brother’s birthday.
Therefore, we deliberately gave him more time so that he could spend his birthday with his brother before traveling.
We all got ready and after gathering together, we went to Lu Renjia's home together.
When we arrived, we happened to see the Lu family seeing Lu Renjia off.
"Mom and Dad, Xiaokang, you don't have to send me off. Don't worry, I will come back safely."
Compared to his worried parents and brother with a concerned face, the smiling Lu Renjia seemed more relaxed, as if he was not going to an expedition but a trip.
I took a step forward, patted Lu Renjia on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will bring everyone back."
Then their eyes turned to me, and they began to surround me and say some words of thanks and pleading.
I responded with a smile, but couldn't help but think of the last time I responded to the pea seedlings.
The two of them were united in their hearts, and both sided with the younger brother who was born weak.
This boy named Lu Kang is five years younger than Lu Renjia, but he looks like a junior high school student. He is pale and weak, and coughs from time to time.
It has been two years since the asteroid hit the earth, and a large number of humans died. People like him who were born with deficiencies and no special talents had long since turned into nutrients for mutated animals and plants.
He was the only one who was well taken care of, with a pair of pale and slender hands without even any calluses.
It shows how much his family loves him.
But does it mean that the Lu family only loves the younger brother and not Lu Renjia?
Absolutely not.
They just didn't give Lu Renjia as much love as they gave Lu Kang, that's all.
The difference in love is very subtle, so subtle that it cannot be seen at ordinary times. Both parents try their best to give the same resources to the two of them. Only when it comes to life and death can the difference be seen.
The Lu family's parents in front of me, like every other parent who is worried about their child, wanted a guarantee from me, but also wanted to get closer to me, hoping that I could save their child at the critical moment of life and death.
So can we say they don’t love?
Of course not.
We waved goodbye to the Lu family. Even after we turned around, we could still feel their eyes on our backs.
Lu Renjia beside me breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't make a sound, but his tense back suddenly relaxed.
This is also the reason why I took the initiative to attract the attention of Lu’s parents.
Lu Renjia didn't like the farewell scene just now.
In other words, it’s not that I don’t like it, but I feel a slight discomfort with it.
The love of the Lu family is like a bowl of delicious seafood porridge, but with a dead fly on the soup.
He couldn't say that the bowl of seafood porridge was not delicious, but he also couldn't drink the porridge with the dead fly without any hesitation.
Neither love nor hate is pure enough, so we feel pain.
Since joining the team, he began to apply for missions frequently.
The team members teased him, saying that he was eager to make a contribution, but he just smiled and did not refute.
But in fact, he was more relaxed when he was on a mission than when he was at home.
Perhaps he didn't know how to face his father, mother, and his favored younger brother.
So he worked desperately on missions, earning a lot of supplies and medicines, as well as free time so that he didn't have to face his family.
Meeting my gaze, Lu Renjia turned her head and looked at me with her beautiful eyes.
He actually has a very cold appearance. When he doesn't smile, he looks a bit cold and aloof, and there seems to be frost in his eyes.
But he rarely fails to smile.
Especially when facing me, he always has a faint smile on his face.
Then the snow on the top of the mountain was melted by the warmth of the spring breeze, turning into snow water and hazy mist, which flowed down the mountain along the cliffs and rocks in the form of clear springs, tinkling all the way.
I smiled back, patted his shoulder, raised the Mo Dao in my hand, and shouted loudly into the distance.
"Set off!"
The team members cheered and shouted along.
"Set off--!"
…
The encirclement and suppression went smoothly, only two team members were slightly injured, and no one died.
The doctor was busy bandaging the two wounded, and the logistics team began to cut up the giant Venus flytrap.
The Venus flytrap can secrete nectar. After the Venus flytrap mutated, the nectar also mutated. For humans, this nectar is a very good energy-replenishing drink.
Some team members were on guard outside, and the rest followed me to the underground warehouse.
Although the members of the base have solved the problem of food by hunting mutated animals and plants, the food that has been almost unprocessed is not as delicious as the finely processed food before the destruction of technology.
Moreover, most of the mutated animals and plants are difficult to digest and are not suitable for feeding to the wounded.
I had high hopes for this warehouse.
This Venus flytrap, an invasive species that should not live in the local area, grew wildly at the beginning of the mutation and directly covered the entire shopping mall.
It only eats living things and is not interested in food stored in warehouses.
Therefore, the surrounding mutant animals cannot approach the warehouse, and the food in the warehouse has a high probability of remaining intact.
We went straight to the warehouse and, as expected, saw countless well-preserved supplies.
The team members cheered, and I sent two people back to the base to gather people and start the move.
Then we walked towards the ground to see if there were any usable supplies on the surface.
The shopping mall was badly damaged, with blood and dirt everywhere, and broken glass scattered around the windows.
Through the window, you can see the withered stems and leaves of the Venus flytrap hanging outside the window.
There is almost nothing left to use.
I walked up slowly and reached the top floor. Through the windows without glass, I could see people carrying supplies on the ground.
After the destruction of technology, technological products could not be used and the technological level returned to the pre-steam age. Therefore, this transportation had to rely entirely on manpower.
Looking down from a high place, people were like ants, carrying supplies and slowly returning to the base.
I don't know what the purpose of the raiders destroying technology this time, maybe it's a "script" arrangement, or maybe it's just because it's interesting.
I don’t know when this raider will come, five years from now, a month from now, or tomorrow.
I also don’t know when this hunt in the higher world will end.
But human vitality is very tenacious, even more tenacious than the grass that pushes away bricks.
Some people in the team used the human-powered carts and pull carts made by carpenters at the base. Several people worked together to carry away a cart of food, which was more labor-saving than carrying it on their backs.
This good harvest brought happy smiles to everyone’s faces, and some people even started singing.
I listened carefully and it was an old song.
“The sun always comes after the rain, and there is a clear sky above the dark clouds. Cherish all the touches you feel, and every hope is in your hands…”
"Captain, all the supplies on the fifth floor of the shopping mall have been collected." Lu Renjia walked up to me, stood beside me and reported to me.
I nodded and handed him the item tucked under my arm.
"For you."
For the first time, a look of surprise appeared on his usually calm face.
"Captain, this is..."
"It's a pink basketball. I found it in the corner. It's covered in dust, but I tried it and it's still playable."
The basketball that I roughly cleaned off the dust faintly showed a light pink color underneath the dust.
He was slow to take it, so I asked curiously, "Don't you like it? When I first met you, you were holding a basketball, and I thought you would like it."
His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing and just reached out to take it.
"No thanks Captain, I love it."
I turned around again and looked at the crowd below.
Many people can sing this song, and more and more people joined the celebratory chorus.
“The sun always comes after the rain, please believe there is a rainbow, accept all the ups and downs, I will always be by your side…”
He asked me, "Captain, all disasters will end, right?"
I answered him.
"Of course."
…
In this life, Lu Renjia still died before me.
The cause of death was related to me.
In the third year of the apocalypse, the Raiders appeared.
She was extremely beautiful, she came out from among the plants, she had lost all her memories, she was innocent and naive, and she fell in love with me at first sight.
The script she wanted to act in was "The Doomsday Base Boss Pampers His Little Wife".
According to the original script, she should have met me at the beginning of the doomsday, shared the joys and sorrows with me, developed the deepest feelings, become my most capable assistant, and become the lover I could not give up.
But this attacker is afraid of dirt and tiredness. She is afraid of everything. She has turned our world into this state, but she cannot endure any hardship.
So she only appeared after the base was built, the doomsday development period was over, and the base integration period began.
But at this time, the most difficult days have passed. Why should I trust a suspicious woman who appeared out of nowhere when various bases are competing?
She also realized this, so she came up with a bad idea.
She killed my most capable deputy captain, Lu Renjia.
During the mission, she used tricks to cause Lu Renjia to be swept away by a mutant octopus.
After I learned the news, I immediately led the team to carry out rescue operations.
At first I didn't suspect her at all.
——The person she wants to conquer is me. Instead of doing it to others, she might as well do it directly to me and then stage a beauty saving the hero scene.
Until I heard her conversation with the system.
She said that being a beauty saving heroes was too tiring, and she didn't want to be thrown onto a deserted island for the sake of strategies, nor did she want to have her ribs strangled by an octopus.
【Let others bear this kind of suffering! 】
[Let that passerby A die. He has such a good relationship with the president. If he dies, the president will definitely be very sad. If I comfort him and accompany him, won't I be able to successfully replace the passerby A? ]
There was a brief blank in my brain for a moment.
It’s because of this reason.
Such a ridiculous reason.
No, I should have known that.
These higher worlds don’t consider the people in our world as human beings at all.
They just treat our world as a big game, a novel, a virtual world.
The evil they have done in this world, they will forget all about it once they go home and have a good sleep, and they may even be complacent about their own "clever ideas".
Just like the woman in front of me.
I closed my eyes and didn't catch her immediately. Instead, I expanded the search area as much as possible.
On the third day, I found Lu Renjia.
He died in a homemade boat.
He was worked to death.
He escaped from the fight with the octopus and was swept to a deserted island by the waves.
He judged that this place was not far from the land.
But he couldn't wait for rescue.
Because the island is very small, there is almost no place to stand when the tide is high.
It is more like a huge reef than an island.
There were not many supplies on the island, so he did his best to make a very small boat that was just enough for him to sit and lie on.
He had to get out of here before the tide came in.
He had been in a fight and was injured. Deciding that the island could not wait for rescue, he immediately made a boat and went out to sea overnight.
The water chased him.
He didn't dare to rest.
In the end, he was exhausted to death on the boat.
It would be nice if the boat wasn't human powered.
It would be nice if seawater could be used as a driving force.
I took some people and buried him.
His parents and younger brother burst into tears.
This little boat seems to have become my obsession.
A year later, seawater-powered ships came into being.
Humans have the ability to fight against mutated marine life.
At this moment, inappropriately, I remembered the previous reincarnations.
I think of the countless times he gave me direct or indirect revelations.
If I were to say that my path to the throne is paved with gorgeous golden bricks.
Then, he is the first gold brick, witnessing my road to becoming king with his death.
So, he is just an ordinary person.
He was caught up in the plot and was the first witness of my dramatic life.
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