Chapter 94 The Mark of Blood
Chapter 94 The Mark of Blood
Linghu Wetland Park.
Beside the nameless river, there are charred soil and tree trunks all around.
The previous fire has been put out, and torches are placed in a circle on the open space, surrounding the twenty-nine dejected captives in the middle.
It is already the late night, and it will be dawn in a few hours.
Ye Shi, who was standing by, yawned and looked at Lao Bai.
”How long will it take for the manager to come back?”
”I don’t know.”
”Where’s Kuangfeng?”
Fang Chang pointed his chin at the half-dug cave by the river.
”He has classes in the afternoon and fell asleep there.”
It is actually quite convenient to log off this game. In addition to logging off safely at the resurrection point, you can disconnect in any scene as long as you lose consciousness.
Including but not limited to being knocked unconscious or falling asleep normally.
It’s just that this method cannot save the progress of the gene sequence.
Hearing that Kuangfeng actually went to class, Ye Shi asked in confusion.
”Didn’t you send the PPT to the assistant?”
”I don’t know. Maybe he can’t let go of his students. Anyway, the group fight is over. I see that he is distracted, so I just let him go offline first. When he wakes up, he can take our shift.”
As the oldest person in the Niuma group, Lao Bai is probably the one who has been in contact with Kuangfeng for the longest time, and is also the one who knows him best in the group.
”…Don’t look at Kuangfeng bragging to you guys in the group every day. In reality, he is actually a very honest and dull person. He is a group of dedicated workers. He has no other hobbies except games.”
Ye Shi chuckled.
”I didn’t see that he is honest, but he is a bit shy.”
Lao Bai laughed.
”Haha, just take advantage of him when he is not online!”
Ye Shi: “By the way…after logging off, the game character has no response no matter what you do?”
”Probably, so logging out of the non-safe zone is actually quite dangerous, if no one is watching,” Fang Chang glanced at Ye Shiyi, “What do you want to do.”
Ye Shi’s eyes rolled.
”I’m not thinking of anything. I’m just thinking…if we all go offline, can’t the NPC do whatever they want to us in the incubator?”
Hearing this idea, Lao Bai and Fang Chang were choked by their saliva.
”Puff.”
”Cough! Okay, don’t use your dirty thoughts to speculate about others. Besides, this kind of groundless speculation is meaningless. You have no evidence to prove it, and there is no evidence to disprove it. Similar questions include but are not limited to whether aliens have always been around us? Is our world actually a game? Is the science we know still valid outside our “horizon”? Endless suspicion is purely asking for trouble, unless you can find reliable evidence.”
”What do you mean by dirty! Can’t you be curious? What else do you do when you are on guard, be in a daze? And why is your tone of preaching more and more like a gust of wind.” Ye Shi rolled his eyes speechlessly.
Fang Chang shrugged.
”No, I just think that people who think about this question are very problematic.”
Lao Bai nodded in agreement and added a knife.
”That’s right, and I don’t think anyone would do whatever they want with your body.”
Ye Shi: “I said it’s hypothetical! Hypothetical! Hey, I really have nothing in common with you old people.”
Fang Chang: “…”
Lao Bai: “…”
At this time, Tomato Scrambled Eggs and three other players came over from a distance.
Seizing the opportunity, Ye Shi immediately changed the subject.
”Hey, Brother Scrambled Eggs, why are you here?”
”I’m here to change shifts. Didn’t the manager say that I’ll be on duty after two o’clock?” Brother Scrambled Eggs saw that there was one less person, so he asked curiously, “Where’s Kuangfeng?”
”He’s offline. Something happened in real life. We’ll carry him back later.”
Scrambled Eggs nodded in understanding.
”Ahhh.”
Since someone is changing shifts, it’s much more comfortable.
Just go offline to have a meal, rest for a while, and then come back to play.
Lao Bai carried Kuangfeng on his shoulders, and then handed over the matters of guarding the prisoners to Brother Scrambled Eggs and others, and then left with Ye Shi, Fang Chang and others.
This time it was the turn of Scrambled Eggs and others to be bored.
The four little players stood guard with a serious face at first, but seeing that the captives were all asleep, they also stood together and chatted to kill time.
”It was hasty. If I had known that standing guard would be so boring, I should have gone to the warehouse to buy some meat and charcoal to grill.”
”Yeah, speaking of it, brother Chaodan, is rhino meat delicious?”
”I’ve never eaten that stuff…”
”Aren’t you a chef?”
”Which restaurant dares to do this???”
”I heard that rhinos are species listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). It seems that the starting period is five years, and there is no upper limit. But there are probably no wild rhinos in China, so you have to go to South Africa.” ”
…Hey, it should be okay in the game, right?”
The players were chatting.
At this time, a rustling sound came from the woods nearby.
A group of people immediately tensed up and held their guns, but soon, they relaxed.
It was our own people who came.
”How are the captives?”
”They are all still here, respected administrator.”
”Very good.”
Chu Guang nodded, looked at the players beside him and gave them instructions.
”Take these people with you.”
A player on duty said excitedly.
”Take them back and hang them?”
They have always done this!
However, this time the administrator seemed to have a new idea.
”Take them to the abandoned tire factory four kilometers away, where there is a dungeon they built themselves,” Chu Guang glanced at the villains and said lightly, “Death is too easy for them. They will spend the rest of their lives in the mines of Honghe Town.”
The mines in Honghe Town are not real mines. Most of them are the former sites of landfills.
Only God knows what will be dug out from them. It would not be surprising even if they dig out nuclear waste that was illegally buried.
The slaves working there are consumables. Few people can survive for more than ten years, and some even die in two or three years.
But who cares?
People die every day in the wasteland.
All the dozing captives were woken up. More than 20 people were tied together by a rope, forming a long line.
There were a dozen players holding guns nearby, so they were not afraid of them running away.
They walked four kilometers along the elevated road out of the city, turned into a street, and soon arrived at the abandoned tire factory.
Seeing that there were people standing on the wall of the old nest, the faces of these predators were ashen, and they all showed desperate expressions.
In the camp, the liberated captives stood in the open space with a blank look on their faces, looking at the returning predators, and instinctively feared and wanted to escape.
However, when they saw the ropes tied to the predators and the soldiers holding them down, these poor people became quiet again.
Even if they were not smart, they could see it.
The owner of this place has changed.
After issuing the “garrison mission” with a high reward, Chu Guang picked out the ten lucky players who raised their hands first to guard here, and then arranged those players who raised their hands slowly to collect the spoils and pack the spoils on the carts and carts brought from the base.
According to the “contract” between him and Haien, all the spoils belong to him.
After making these arrangements, Chu Guang walked up to Haien and said to the merchant who had made great contributions.
”When do you plan to leave?”
Haien said respectfully.
”I have sent Wen back. He is very fast and should be able to return with what you want within four days.”
Chu Guang asked.
”He alone?”
”Of course, it is fastest to go alone. He has my token on him, so it doesn’t matter whether I am with him or not.” This cunning businessman may have suddenly thought of something, and he added, “I know what you are worried about. Don’t worry, I am willing to stay here as a hostage. Even if you don’t trust my character, you should believe that I will not joke with my life.”
Chu Guang looked at him with interest.
It’s okay to know what I am worried about.
I don’t even know it myself.
”It’s up to you. I don’t believe in your character, nor do I care about your tricks. I’m going to go back to the outpost in a while. Do you plan to stay here? Or go back with me?”
He left ten players in the base, five people in a group, divided into two groups to take turns. Basically, two people stand in the dungeon, and three people stand on the wall and the door. It’s more than enough to watch these prisoners.
These spoils cannot be moved in one trip, and they have to come several times during the day.
The players will be busy all day tomorrow.
”I’ll go back with you,” Haien said immediately after making a judgment in just one second, “I don’t want to stay here for a second.”
Plunderers usually don’t pay much attention to hygiene. The village is filled with a rotten and fishy smell. Normal people can’t stay here. Only rats and cockroaches like it.
Chu Guang nodded, said nothing, and gestured to the players beside him who were pulling carts and pushing carts and ready.
”Let’s go.”
”Take our spoils.”
”Go home!”
…
It was already four o’clock in the morning when we returned to the outpost.
Looking through the gaps in the forest, a few wisps of white can be vaguely seen.
Except for the guards standing guard on the wall and a few professional life players busy in the industrial area, there are basically few people in the base.
But wait a little longer, there will be more people.
Chu Guang randomly found two empty rooms in the main building of the sanatorium and lent them to Hain and his female bodyguard.
Then Chu Guang asked Luca, who had just woken up, to keep an eye on them for a while, and then he carried Xiao Qi back to the shelter.
He put Xiao Qi in the corner to charge, and told it to wake Xia Yan up on time tomorrow to go to work, but not to let her come to disturb him, and then turned back to his room.
The door was closed.
Chu Guang sat on the soft bed and took out a yellowed notebook from his pocket.
This was the collection he found in the “bear’s” room.
Because there was a bloody handprint on the cover of the notebook, Chu Guang thought it should be some kind of token of the Blood Hand Clan, so he curiously put it in his pocket.
However, what Chu Guang did not expect was that when he opened the title page of the notebook, he found that what was recorded inside was not the weird customs or traditions he had imagined, but just a simple diary.
[January 2, 2129]
”The war ended at the end of 2128, 2129… In other words, this diary was written in the first year of the Wasteland Era?”
Chu Guang is very sensitive to numbers and basically will not forget what he has seen.
Speaking of which, in all the information he has collected so far, there is no news about that war.
Perhaps this diary can give him some clues.
With a little curiosity about visiting ancient sites, Chu Guang looked at the first line under the date label in the soft light in the room.
It was a very intriguing sentence.
[…That day, I survived. ]
(End of this chapter)
