Chapter 1062 Some roads are destined to death from the beginning

  Chapter 1062 Some roads are destined to die from the beginning

  The broken high-rise buildings stand in the desolate wilderness, like a giant covered with wounds.

  The walls full of holes are breathing thick black smoke, just like the broken spirits of the citizens of the Bugera Free State.

  No one cares about the occasional explosion.

  After all, the residents of this settlement have heard too many similar sounds in the past year.

  This is Bugera.

  Rather than saying that this is another ideal city in the wasteland, it is better to say that this is a huge prison.

  Although it sounds a bit like a hell joke, it sounds cooler than a zoo.

  Dragging light blue plasma plumes, four “Viper” light transport planes roared over the southern district of Bugera City.

  Sitting on the edge of the cabin, I looked at the broken high-rise buildings under my feet and couldn’t help but smacked my tongue.

  ”It’s so miserable.”

  Kakarot, who was sitting opposite, shrugged his shoulders and didn’t have much sympathy for the people here.

  ”All troubles are self-inflicted.”

  The entire settlement is like a huge vacuum cleaner, siphoning the garbage from the entire wasteland, and when it is full, it mixes it together and spits it back out.

  99% of the looters sell stolen goods here directly or indirectly, and also purchase weapons from here.

  The ideal city at least exports some order to the wasteland, even if that order is not always good.

  But here, there is only chaos, and it is even one of the roots of chaos.

  The lowest-level corporate dogs live in a 20-square-meter single room, carrying a loan that can be repaid for a century, and using a super-artificial intelligence refrigerator that requires iris focus for 30 seconds to open the door. On the surface, they do not seem to exploit anyone, but whether it is a 20-square-meter single room or a loan and refrigerator full of routines, they are all designed by themselves, and these things are obviously not just themselves.

  After all, there are millions of unemployed people living in coffin rooms of less than four square meters, contributing lifespans and labor that are so cheap that they can be almost ignored, decomposing the production surplus of the entire huge system like “decomposers” in the ecosystem, and acting as a lubricant between the city of sin and the wasteland.

  The gangs outside the Stone City actually came from here.

  Not only that, the most profitable industries of the Firestone Group are weapons and various addictive drugs, which are not only the residents of the Bugera Free State.

  In this system of conspiracy, it is difficult to find a truly innocent victim, and those who have awakened have already left here, and they will not wait until the cage falls and start screaming.

  What did you do earlier?

  At least that’s what he thought.

  Rather than helping these villains to reform, he wanted to go to Triumph City to attend his good brother’s wedding.

  The second weekend of January every year is the birthday of the Willant people, and they set the wedding on the third day after their birthday.

  If they can’t make it, they can only let that guy do it again in Dawn City.

  ”Let the past be the past, even if it’s meaningless to humiliate them. At least, they have awakened.”

  Patting Kakarot’s shoulder, the Fountain Commander pointed his index finger at the side of the helmet, switched the communication channel to the entire team, and shouted to the newbies on the other three planes.

  ”Okay, rookies, we’re almost there. Remember your mission, clear the way for the NPCs and relief supplies in the refugee home, establish a safe zone at the coordinates, pay attention to avoid civilian casualties, and don’t open fire unless necessary, unless it’s gang members–”

  Brother Quanshui hadn’t finished his words when a burst of dense gunfire came from a tall building not far away.

  Bullets whizzed through the sky, not even hitting the tail flames of the four “Vipers”.

  Those armed elements were neither employees of the Firestone Group nor the Hound Special Forces controlled by the City Hall, but looters who took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the city.

  It’s not accurate to say that they sneaked in. Many looters in this area are mercenaries or gang members of the Free State. Some notorious mercenary groups have even gone public.

  Several villains with prosthetic tattoos on their faces gave the middle finger to the whizzing plane, and one of them with a Mohawk even clamped his rifle between his legs, screaming and making a shushing gesture.

  That was probably the way the cyber lunatics declared their sovereignty, perhaps to indicate that this building belonged to them.

  Unexpectedly, these guys were so disrespectful. Brother Quanshui frowned and said, “Don’t waste bullets,” and switched the communication channel to the rear command center.

  ”… I’m having a problem here, and I need a drone.”

  ”Got it.”

  In less than a minute, a black dot fell from the sky. When it flew over the southern city of the Free State, it unfolded its four folded rotors to slow down, and with a “whoosh” it flew towards the building that had previously fired at the “Storm Squad.”

  The gang members standing on the rooftop did not notice the danger at all. Seeing that the alliance’s plane ignored them, they turned their mouths up and returned to the base on the top floor.

  The drone did not launch an attack immediately, but flew around the top floor of the building, marking the attacker’s identity and confirming that there were no civilians present, and then crashed into a window.

  With the sound of broken glass, the five-kilogram fragmentation warhead exploded instantly, splashing thousands of steel balls in the hot flames and thick smoke!

  Several gang members who were smoking and sitting on the sofa had no time to react. They were shot into briquettes by the rain of bullets, along with the sofa and the wall behind them, in the eyes of horror.

  The floor was cleared at a fixed point.

  Only a small amount of smoke and dust floated out of the broken window.

  ”Done.”

  The intelligence player sitting in the cabin opened his eyes and made a gesture of “done” in the direction of the fountain.

  The latter nodded and continued to explain the server rules to the eager newbies in the team.

  Although they are called newbies, these guys are actually more than 20 levels old. They are not lacking in combat experience, but they are just lacking in team battle experience.

  But then again, the “entry threshold” of this game is getting higher and higher.

  Now if you don’t have 8,000 hours of online time, you are embarrassed to call yourself an old player…

  …

  Passing through a dense forest of steel, the formation of four Vipers quickly arrived at the destination.

  The target of the mission is located in the ecological park in the urban area of ​​the southwest region of the Free State.

  This dome-shaped landmark building was once the backyard of Firestone Group’s top executives and wealthy people. The single-family houses nearby were even more expensive, with prices measured in trillions.

  But all of this is in the past.

  Currently, the entire area is under the control of Mayor Odo’s “Hound” special forces and police agencies, serving as a safe zone to accommodate nearby civilians, and has been entrusted to the Alliance’s refugee home to take over.

  This is part of the cooperation between the authorities and the alliance.

  Although the local war has ended, there is still a long way to go before order is restored.

  In the dense steel forest, there are not only the remnants of the Firestone Group, but also active plundering organizations and gangs trying to replace the Firestone Group.

  The troops stationed in the area can only clean up the mess after ensuring the safety of the safe zone.

  To be honest, the Free State today is like a giant whale stranded on the beach… and it is countless times larger than the former Boulder City.

  Once a whale explosion occurs, the terrifying power will be far beyond the collapse of the inner city of Boulder City.

  Fortunately, the alliance has grown up now, and its experience and capabilities are far beyond the past. Not only that

  , Boulder City, which has walked out of its own haze, has become a more powerful existence than before.

  Those who have already lived in the new era will not leave these survivors struggling in the northern part of the Valley Province alone. The one

  who came to meet was Lieutenant Colonel Adam, the commander of the 4th Regiment of the Hound Special Forces.

  He strode towards the landing pad wearing a bulky exoskeleton, looking like the iron baboons of the Jungle Corps.

  Commander Quanshui looked at his resume and found that this guy was actually an old acquaintance of the Alliance. He had fought side by side with several Alliance corps on the Ten Peaks Mountain before.

  Including the adjutant named Tang Feng who followed behind Adam, who seemed to be a volunteer from Ideal City and a veteran from the Ten Peaks Mountain.

  In addition, Quanshui was surprised to find some Willant people mixed in the volunteer team.

  ”Thank you, you are finally here.” Patting Quanshui’s arm, Adam said with gratitude.

  Quanshui smiled lightly and stretched out his fist to knock on his shoulder armor.

  ”That’s too polite, just leave it to us here, go help your brothers.”

  Adam nodded solemnly, put his fist on his chest and saluted, and then walked away towards the entrance of the safe zone without a word of nonsense.

  After all, it was his duty.

  He must fulfill it himself.

  Quanshui watched him leave, then turned his attention to the safe zone not far away. After reporting the local situation to the headquarters, he prepared to assist the NPCs of the refugee home and the local security personnel in handing over their work. After

  all, Bugera City is not a settlement of the Alliance, and the local residents are not residents of the Alliance.

  Although Mayor Odo and his supporters are willing to cling to the Alliance, the Alliance cannot come and go as it pleases.

  There are too many things involved, and it is not something that can be decided by patting your head.

  In particular, the vast majority of Alliance residents do not have a very friendly impression of Bugera citizens.

  However, although the administrator did not immediately approve Bugera City’s “application for membership”, it has granted the latter the status of “collaborator” and promised to hold referendums in both places when the situation is appropriate.

  This time may be one year, or two years, but it will not be too long. At

  the same time, a group of people were gathered in front of the checkpoint not far from the helipad.

  They are all residents of Bugera, but not all of them are residents of Bugera… For example, Mr. House, who was squeezed in the front row.

  When he saw the Alliance plane landing on the tarmac, he rushed forward regardless of anything, as if he had seen a life-saving straw, until he was stopped by the soldiers of the Hound Special Forces.

  Looking at the arms and checkpoints blocking him, House screamed with his duck voice as if he had gone crazy.

  ”Get out of the way! You bunch of wild dogs, do you know who I am?! I am from Boulder City! I am also a citizen of the Alliance!”

  He wanted to get on the plane to Dawn City immediately.

  The two things he regretted most in his life were that he did not change the overnight avalanche of Bugla dollars into silver coins before others, and that he did not escape from this rotten and stinking ditch before the war broke out.

  This sentence really confused several soldiers, and they didn’t know what to do for a while.

  There are indeed some citizens of the Alliance in the safe zone, and even quite a few in the volunteer team.

  Just when everyone was in trouble, the commander of the spring had already come over with his men.

  Looking at the familiar face in the crowd, the darkest man standing next to him suddenly brightened his eyes, and walked up to him with a playful smile.

  ”Hey, Mr. House, long time no see, how come you are still alive?”

  Hearing the voice coming from behind, the soldier on duty immediately turned around and saluted.

  The commander of the fountain nodded to them, signaled with his eyes, “Leave it to me here”, and then walked to the pale House, staring into his eyes and said.

  ”What is your ID number?”

  ”…”

  House’s lips trembled and he couldn’t speak, looking aggrieved.

  How could he have that thing?

  Although the Stone City joined the alliance, he had already run to the garbage city at that time, and moving to Bugla to resume his old business was a matter of time.

  Kakarot secretly glanced at the grave ghost catcher next to him, and lowered his voice to tease.

  ”Actually, I don’t think this guy is bad, but he is not very smart. At least he did what he said, and he is definitely not one of us.”

  The grave ghost catcher smiled and curled his lips.

  ”I don’t care. I’m a fun-loving person.”

  Looking at House who was speechless for a long time, the commander of the fountain shrugged his shoulders.

  ”It’s up to you. It’s not illegal to pretend to be a citizen of the Alliance, but you’d better not disrupt the order here.”

  At this point, he looked at the group of people behind House and turned on the loudspeaker.

  ”Everyone, I don’t care where you are from or where you plan to go after this. At least while you are still here, please abide by the order here.”

  ”The evacuation planes will arrive here, but not the ones in front of you. What you have to do is register your name and the number of your tent, then wait patiently and evacuate in order.”

  As early as the beginning of the war, the Alliance had evacuated most of the citizens active in the area. Even if there were a few special cases, it would be impossible for so many to appear at the same time.

  The commander of the fountain could guess without asking that most of the people gathered here were guys who were trying to fish in troubled waters.

  How could it be so good to mess up your own home and then escape, leaving the mess behind to others?

  The Alliance could not accommodate so many people in an instant, and the Ideal City could not either.

  The people here must and can only stay where they are and take up the responsibilities they once abandoned.

  Before the outside world is rich enough to give or accommodate them without reservation, they can only save themselves.

  This is also the only chance to atone for their sins.

  Hearing that the plane parked here was not an evacuation plane, the refugees surrounding the checkpoint dispersed.

  House also wanted to take the opportunity to slip away, but the playful Izuihei put his hand on his shoulder.

  ”How about I show you a way? When this war is over, you can take a boat from Silver Moon Bay to Golden Gallon Port, and then go west along the Yongliu River to find a place called Tiandu… There may be a place where your talents can be used.”

  ”While there is still a place for you in this world, seize the opportunity and slip away quickly.”

  After saying that, he smiled and patted House’s shoulder, letting the guy who was scared out of his wits go.

  On the other side.

  At the door of a tent in the living area, Weijia, the owner of Weijia Trading Company, was looking coldly at the disappointed fellows who dispersed.

  Many of them were once residents of Boulder City. They moved to this city after the collapse of the inner city.

  Although they basically don’t contact each other at ordinary times, when faced with such a big change, they have to stick together even if they are reluctant.

  After all, if they didn’t do this, they might not even wait for the establishment of this safe zone, and they wouldn’t even be able to get here.

  However, Weijia would not look down on these useless trash.

  Unlike these idiots who are useless after leaving the inner city, he can get into the local upper class, or at least the middle and upper class, wherever he goes.

  Before the outbreak of this war, these trash didn’t even have the chance to see him.

  If it weren’t for the loss of power of the top executives of Sigma and Firestone Group, this ecological park, where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, would be where he usually walks his dog, and these guys wouldn’t even have the chance to beg for food here.

  However, there are unexpected events, who would have thought that Firestone Group would collapse?

  He once stood in front of the French window of the Far Wind Hotel, quietly watching the rise and fall of the giant stone tower, but now he has become the one being looked down upon.

  But fortunately.

  He didn’t put all his eggs in one basket, and deposited a sum of money in the banks of the Alliance and Ideal City as the start-up capital for his new business.

  Difficulties are always only temporary.

  After today’s hurdle, he still has a chance to make a comeback. At worst

  , he can just be an honest man in the future. “My dear Master Sid… I’m really sorry that your servant didn’t do his job well and failed to take good care of your wife and children. If you are still alive, please don’t blame me…”

  Weijia, who was still sneering a second ago, suddenly showed a compassionate expression.

  What a pity.

  He had obviously made Bonnie his own both physically and mentally, but in the end he had to get rid of this perfect work of art.

  There was no way.

  She knew too many things she shouldn’t know, and the dark mud might become an obstacle to his obtaining legal status.

  After all, the Alliance opposed slavery and all anti-human atrocities.

  In serious cases, he might even be identified as a plunderer, even if what he did to the lady was not even a thing in the former Bughra.

  In any case, he hated risks, so he gave her a quick death in the end.

  Although that was only a quick death in the end.

  Just when Weijia was seriously thinking about future plans and how to use the resources in his hands to seize the opportunity of rebuilding Bugera City, Grandpa Sid’s youngest son Kumit walked in front of him.

  The young master who used to hide behind his parents and show off his power now seems to be much more sensible.

  After all, there is a favor from Master Sid that cannot be repaid. Although Weijia always adds “Dear Master Kumit” when calling him, he never spoils him and often turns his face to give him a big slap in the face.

  During the days of living under someone else’s roof, not to mention the clothes he wore and the things he used, even the meals he ate on weekdays were all leftovers from his former follower Piru, Weijia’s son. So much

  so that Piru sometimes couldn’t stand it, and occasionally secretly gave him money and comforted him without telling his father.

  As a part of satisfying his twisted hobby, Weijia didn’t deal with him like he dealt with his mother.

  First, he didn’t think that this cowardly child could pose any threat to him, and second, he never let this guy know about the bad things he did.

  He was playing a big game. He planned to raise this child to be as twisted as Master Sid, and then make up for the things he had lost in his childhood.

  Looking at Weijia’s face, Kumit was instinctively a little scared, but unlike before, he did not run away, but stared at the forehead of the former and said.

  ”Mr. Weijia.”

  Hearing the voice from above his head, Weijia squeezed out a warm smile on his impatient face and said gently.

  ”What’s wrong, my dear Master Kumit, do you have any instructions?”

  In normal times, if Kumit dared to make any request according to his words, no matter how humble the request was, he would definitely be beaten by him.

  But this time, Kumit did not show too much fear, but just looked at him with empty eyes.

  ”Where is my mother? You said that you would take me to see her when we get to the safe zone.”

  A trace of annoyance flashed across Weijia’s face.

  I perfunctorily dealt with this question a long time ago, why is this kid still endless.

  Because the patrolling guards were still nearby, he did not immediately beat or scold him, but just said with a smile.

  ”Ah… Are you talking about Mrs. Bonnie? I have sent her to Ideal City. After all, you have seen that this settlement has suddenly become very dangerous, very, very dangerous.”

  Ah…

  poor Master Sid.

  His son will never know what price his gentle mother paid to protect him.

  But who can be blamed for this?

  Is that kid a good man?

  The youngest son of the Sid family did the same thing as the fool of the Melvin family, and he always found someone to take the blame.

  Even if he did something bad, it was considered to be doing justice for the heaven.

  Looking at Uncle Vega with a smile on his face, Kumit uttered a word from his dry lips.

  ”You are lying…”

  Vega’s smile froze on his face for a moment, but soon returned to normal.

  ”How could I lie to you? You are the son of my dearest friend, and I treat you like my own son—”

  Kumit did not speak, but just stood there with lifeless eyes and threw a holographic computer pen on the ground.

  Weijia was stunned for a moment, frowning, not knowing what was going on, until the pale blue cube emitted an unbearable picture and an unbearable sound. With

  a buzzing sound.

  Looking at the blood-thrilling picture and the face that should not be here, Weijia felt as if his head had exploded, and he was stunned for a moment.

  The refugees nearby were also stunned, confused by the sudden movie.

  Weijia was the first person to wake up.

  And the moment he woke up, cold sweat broke out from his forehead like a waterfall.

  Especially when those pairs of stunned eyes looked over here, he seemed to be standing naked in the middle of the street.

  ”Are you crazy?! She, she is your mother!”

  Weijia rushed over in panic, not caring about the dirt on his knees, and covered the holographic computer pen and his twisted and perverted desire with his fat belly, just like when he suppressed Sid’s wife.

  Kumit quietly looked at the face twisted by anger, without fear, despair, or even sadness.

  He just calmly reached into his pocket, and then took out a pistol in front of all the stunned eyes.

  ”Bang!”

  A blood hole appeared on Weijia’s forehead, and he fell in a pool of blood in astonishment.

  The whole world was quiet. He never expected

  that he would fall before dawn after all his efforts, and die so carelessly.

  No!

  How could he

  accept such an ending? !

  He finally got here!

  Why? !

  His spasmodic hands subconsciously curled up the soil on the ground, leaving a few shallow claw marks in the mud.

  He didn’t want to die!

  However.

  He had no choice…

  ”Hey!!”

  ”What are you doing! Put down the gun!”

  Looking at the boy who killed someone, the soldiers heard the gunshot and roared and rushed over here quickly.

  If it weren’t for the other party’s age, they might have already shot.

  However, Kumit did not listen to the roar of the adults, but just put the smoking muzzle of the gun against his thin chin with an impatient look.

  It was so noisy…

  It was so boring.

  ”Bang!”

  As the second gunshot rang out, he fell to the ground like a puppet with a broken string.

  Everyone was stunned, whether it was the refugees in the residential area or the soldiers who came following the gunshots.

  The whole scene was only echoing with unbearable sounds…

  The commotion in the residential area attracted the attention of the alliance soldiers, and Quanshui and his group quickly rushed over from the helipad.

  After confirmation, the deceased was Weijia, the owner of Weijia Trading Company, and the murderer was his adopted son Kumit.

  The murderer committed suicide on the spot after the murder and had no vital signs.

  According to further background investigation, everyone learned that the former was the white glove of Sid, a noble in the inner city of Giant Stone City, and escaped unscathed when the inner city collapsed. He came to Bugera Free State with a huge fortune to continue running Weijia Trading Company, and at the same time adopted Sid’s helpless widow and children.

  As for the motive of Kumit’s murder, it was also completely preserved at the crime scene.

  ”It’s really twisted…”

  After returning to the sheriff’s office, I inserted the chip of the holographic computer pen into the terminal and took a look at it. In the end, I couldn’t help but complain.

  No one else said anything, only Brother Quanshui silently pressed a pause.

  ”Forget it.”

  There was nothing to see in the content. It was nothing more than the process of the dead being violent to another dead.

  The guy named Weijia had a habit of recording.

  He recorded the whole process of Bonnie’s mental breakdown, and somehow her son Kumit found it.

  Maybe this was part of the guy’s bad taste, maybe he miscalculated, or was plotted by his enemies. After all, it was a doubt that Kumit could get a pistol from the safe zone… But these trivial details are no longer important.

  The locals who died in this settlement are already too many to burn, and outsiders are even queuing up.

  Just ensuring the basic order of the safe zone is enough to exhaust the security personnel of the new authorities.

  At this critical moment when troubles are piling up, no one has the extra energy to seek justice for a beast.

  Let’s stop here.

  …

  Crime scene.

  The crowd did not disperse for a long time, and they were all talking about the two dead people.

  Especially those who came from other residential areas to join in the fun.

  They were confused about this murder case and asked the refugees who had lived in the Stone City nearby about the identities of the two people and the grievances behind them.

  Others were asking about “resources”.

  After all, in such a place where there is a lack of entertainment, everything that can be entertained can become fun.

  Not far away, a white and fat boy stood in the crowd, looking at the old man who died on the street and was carried on a stretcher. He sighed, made a sad expression on his face, and muttered to himself in his chubby mouth.

  ”Dad, don’t you feel too tired? We fled from the Stone City to the Free State, and we don’t know where to escape to next…”

  The hypocritical sadness was exactly the same as his father.

  ”I’m almost tired of playing with this toy Kumit. I really can’t do anything new with it… I’m still not as good as you in this aspect. You can train Aunt Bonnie to be obedient and she will do whatever you ask her to do.”

  ”But don’t you think it’s a pity to kill such an obedient person? Anyway, you are tired of playing with it, why don’t you leave it to me?”

  Piru suddenly sighed a little lonely and shook his head with a lack of interest.

  ”Forget it, you can’t hear it either… Anyway, I will keep the inheritance for you, and I will never let you work in vain in this life.”

  ”You can rest in peace.”

  Like a fat ghost, he turned around clumsily and merged into the crowd that didn’t fit in with him, and disappeared completely as if he didn’t know everyone here…

  …

  In the south of Bugera City, about 50 kilometers away from the urban area, the largest stronghold of the refugee house in the vicinity is located in the wasteland.

  Although most of the refugees were stranded in the city, a considerable number of survivors still escaped.

  The Alliance will not stop those refugees from leaving here, no matter where they plan to wander next.

  However, for the survivors who are willing to stay and rebuild their homes, the refugee home will provide them with food, fresh water, and necessary daily necessities and medicines.

  In fact, most people are more willing to stay if their basic survival needs are guaranteed.

  After all, for them, whose cognition is still in the 215th year of the Wasteland Era, the outside world is still a world of cannibalism, and no matter how hard the civil war in Bugla is fought, there are still a lot of high-rise buildings left. Although

  the latter is not uncommon in the wasteland, the survivors born in this settlement have never seen it after all.

  Many people have never left the streets where they live in their entire lives, let alone the world outside the city. After all,

  there are very few people who run around like players in the wasteland.

  In the center of the camp, Chu Guang once again met Mayor Odo of Bugla.

  Unlike the last meeting in the Great Rift Valley, this guy has changed a lot. He has changed from a stable bureaucrat to a real leader.

  This guy is a talent.

  After the two of them exchanged greetings, they chatted about the scene in the camp.

  ”…There are still many people in this world who need to do their best to survive.”

  ”Yes.”

  Hearing that inhumane answer, Odo couldn’t help but think of those who died in the war, and couldn’t help but ask a relatively sharp question.

  ”Even so, can it still be called the ‘New Era’?”

  He didn’t mean to blame the Alliance, the Enterprise, or the Academy.

  After all, it was a favor for others to help them, and it was their duty not to help them. He had no position to complain.

  Moreover, while they were fighting the civil war, other forces in the wasteland were dealing with more serious threats.

  They didn’t cause trouble for others, but they were basically useless.

  However, even so.

  The announcement of the arrival of the “New Era” and the resolution on Nanmen II by the Communities at this time still hurt the feelings of the citizens of Bugera.

  It felt like they were left behind.

  And in the earlier Torch War, they had clearly put in some effort…

  After reading Oddo’s eyes, Chu Guang’s thoughts did not change much, and he just nodded with a normal look.

  ”Yes.”

  Oddo’s expression was a little tense, and he asked.

  ”Why…”

  Chu Guang cast his eyes on the camp in the distance and said in a gentle tone.

  ”The initiative we launched on the sticky community about the new era does not claim that we have built a utopia on the earth, but means that we no longer wait for the arrival of the savior, no longer indulge in the fantasy that the prosperous era is difficult to continue, but save ourselves by ourselves and become our own light.”

  ”If you really understand the weight of this sentence, then you are also a member of the new era, and we will never give up on you, just like we are standing here today. If you can’t understand it, it means that you still need some time.”

  This settlement is not hopeless.

  In addition to the piles of body bags, he also saw a person supporting another person’s shoulders.

  No one has ever abandoned them.

  Even though many people had already hated this evil place and wanted to blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

  When people saw their determination to resist, they still extended a helping hand to them.

  Odo was silent for a long time.

  The pair of eyes that were originally confused finally showed a glimmer of enlightenment.

  ”… So that’s it, I understand.”

  His face regained a smile, he looked at Chu Guang beside him, and sincerely extended his right hand.

  ”Thank you, and… please give us, the residents of Bugera, a chance to move forward with others in the new era.”

  ”We actually did this a long time ago.”

  Chu Guang smiled and shook his hand.

  ”Welcome.”

  Odo showed a relieved smile on his face, and cast his slightly haggard and tired eyes to the city and wilderness in the distance.

  ”I don’t know how people in the future will evaluate us… and the new era they are about to live in.”

  They are neither as prosperous as the prosperous era, nor as desolate as the wasteland era.

  It’s really hard to evaluate.

  He thought for a long time but couldn’t think of any words to summarize the difference between today and yesterday.

  However,

  perhaps, the people at the end of the Prosperous Era were also confused by a similar problem: how should they explain to their children that the world they once lived in was not what it is now.

  Looking at Oddo who was lost in thought, Chu Guang was not particularly entangled in this distant question, but just shrugged his shoulders lightly.

  ”It’s better to leave this kind of thing for them to think about it themselves.”

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  (PS: The ending of the Free State is actually a continuation of the Stone City. The former participated in the events of the Stone City just like the Alliance, but inherited different things. In order not to repeat the plot, I wrote this paragraph from the side. In addition, this chapter is connected to Chapter 545 “The Road is Chosen by Oneself”. If you have no impression at all, you can also start from Chapter 517 “Going Home” to review~)

  (End of this chapter)