Night Hacker Chapter 41: Bone Blood Town
[Warning, you will enter the nuclear contaminated area]
A dilapidated and rusty street sign stood ahead, with some rude symbols and words graffitied on it.
The Bone and Blood District is located in the southwest of Liuguang City, very far from the nearest Pharaoh Quarter.
Now there is only one dilapidated road connecting this once glorious land, except for occasional speculators, lawbreakers and crazy scientific researchers, no one will visit this wasteland.
At this time, a heavily modified pickup truck was driving on the broken road, with the blood blade logo painted on its body.
The songs of the mariachi band floated from the car window. Lorna's newly installed prosthetic body was holding the steering wheel in her right hand, wearing a red leather jacket and black leather pants, wearing a metal protective bird's beak mask, and a Dongtu cigarette dangling from her mouth , the smoke drifted from the opened mouth of the mask.
Through the windshield, she looked at the barren, scorched plain land in front of her, smoking more fiercely.
A few decades ago, this area was still an emerging area. Unlike Liuguang City, where many areas were dominated by immigrants, the Bone and Blood Area gathered those who were born in this free state, and their bloodlines were mixed.
The first generation of flesh and blood people worked hard to open up this southwest wasteland, building roads and communities.
When there are enough people here, when they have spent some years, they have just built their homes full of life.
The Santo Company and various factories came in, bringing noise, sour air, polluted water and industrial waste.
Rumbling vans, trucks and various machinery and equipment pass through the road all day long.
Santo has his eye on this place, and plans to turn it into a "Southwest Industrial Zone" and build a nuclear power plant.
The people of flesh and blood couldn't stop all this, so they watched the park full of flowers gradually turn into a stinking pit full of waste, rotten cement, and cinders, and turned into banknotes of the New World Bank and red wine in the hands of the rich. .
At that time, Lawton Lude of the second generation of flesh and blood people stood up, and the flesh and blood flag began to fly.
"Fuck, that's a big dead deer."
Lorna muttered, popping the end of her cigarette out of the car window, sparks flying.
Over there, there are ruins of gas stations, restaurants, and motels. The paint on the walls crossing the ground has long since peeled off, and the weird patterns and distorted characters graffitied on them can no longer be clearly distinguished.
There was a tattered flag of flesh and blood lying down among the bricks and tiles.
There is also a five-legged deer deformed by nuclear pollution that died next to the flag, and countless flies are nibbling at this carrion.
Nuclear pollution seems to have a magical power to reshape things, and even the flies are much bigger, as if they have gone crazy.
However, there are not even a few vultures here, and they all seem to be dead.
The heavy pickup truck passed by at high speed without stopping, and continued to drive forward.
Now some brats think that the flesh and blood people were so poor that they made troubles. Lorna knew it was not. In the dim memory of her younger childhood, her parents took her to the amusement park in the center of the district, and there were many people coming and going. Going, laughing and laughing.
And those strange scenes created by alchemists, she still vividly remembers them.
Later, after Operation Bone and Blood failed, there was a leak in the nuclear power plant in Santo, which just happened to pollute the Bone and Blood area, and nothing else happened.
And those chemical factories and machinery factories blew up themselves in the name of commercial safety, first the factory area, and later "mistakes" even the urban area was blown up, and the flesh and blood area became a huge ruin.
Lorna turned her head and looked out the window in one direction, and saw a river, the River of Bone and Blood that existed in her memory.
When she was three or four years old, although the company had invaded, the river was still clear. Her father took her down to the river to teach her how to swim. At first she was almost drowning, and her mother was so scared that she quickly fished her ashore.
"Are you afraid?" her father asked.
"Don't be afraid!" She remembered saying that, and she really wanted to continue swimming, so she plunged into the river again.
Now the wide river has long since dried up, and both ends have been completely blocked. The filled river is full of weird sticky black mud, bubbling from time to time, and it is unknown what the **** is brewing inside.
The dense and lush trees on both sides of the river have long since died, and they fell there in disorder, forming two long rows of coffins.
Everything that was once beautiful is dead, more than those coffins can hold.
However, before the Bone and Blood River was filled, those factories dumped garbage for ten or eight days, and those valuable raw materials that were too late to take away were also dumped and buried deep in this rotten dead river.
She suddenly saw a few figures emerging from the smoldering black river mud.
They were wearing weird protective suits made by themselves and holding a detector in their hands, which looked like a pile of human-shaped broken copper and iron.
The scavengers in the Bone and Blood District, like this, got into the dead river just to find some valuable industrial raw materials.
Some are for some money, and some are trying to mess with some alchemy stuff.
Lorna withdrew her gaze and stared straight ahead at the deserted road ahead. The chemical acid smell penetrated into the protective mask, which was very pungent.
She doesn't let the pain in her eyes, don't let it.
The place the car is going to is "Bone and Blood Town", which is the only settlement still existing in the Bone and Blood District. There are tens of thousands of people who have never left. They have accepted the remodeling of nuclear pollution and are isolated from the neon lights of Liuguang City. .
Some crumbling, dilapidated and dilapidated houses, as well as some tents that had been set up for a long time, fell sparsely among the ruins of the original city, forming several streets that were not even paved with concrete.
This broken land that doesn't even like rainwater has been cleaned up after so many years.
When Lorna drove into the range of Bone Blood Town, she realized that she had been targeted by some sniper rifles and eyes in the broken ground. If it wasn't for the blood blade logo on the car, she couldn't get in.
Soon, the pickup truck stopped by a collapsed wall. There were countless people's **** palm prints and a line of blood on the wall:
【Bone and Blood Vow】
Lorna got out of the car, stepped on the rubble all over the ground, and walked forward from the entrance of the town.
There were some men and women with guns like guards in front of them cast their gazes, and some passers-by were watching from a distance. There were some dilapidated houses, shops and bars on both sides of the street, and more people came out to the street.
Everyone is full of vigilance that is almost malicious, and it is rare to see people coming to Bone Blood Town.
As Lorna walked towards them, her heart suddenly went blank. Fifteen years had passed.
In the dream, she came back many times, but this time, she actually stepped on the ground of flesh and blood.
"Who are you?" A young man shouted, "Which blood blade? Is there something wrong?"
Following this cry, more and more townspeople were alarmed, as if a group of mice had come out of a hole, and figures appeared on the street. No matter adults or children, they didn't wear protective clothing, protective masks or anything like that.
Some people have been deformed and modified accordingly, simply releasing the twisted bones from under the flesh.
However, those children who were born after the nuclear pollution showed the tenacity of life, and all of them seemed to be normal.
"I'm Lorna Lude." Lorna just said it, "I want to see Jackie Biggs, I have a question for him."
The people on the street over there were startled, and then there was a low-pitched uproar.
Except for some kids, there's not a single person here who doesn't know who Lorna Rudd is.
Anyone who existed fifteen years ago, even a baby, walked with her on the front line.
"Lorna?" A fat middle-aged woman was suddenly excited, "It's really you? Are you back?"
The eyes of many people changed, as if some long-standing fire suddenly rekindled.
They stayed here for many years, their bones were broken, and they grew again, and their skin and flesh had different colors from the past.
Only the color of blood has not changed.
As if everything was waiting for this day, the daughter of Lawton-Lude, the daughter of flesh and blood, came back.
Just as the noise was boiling, a small convoy drove up from all over the town, and a group of people got off. Everyone respected them, especially the one in the front who was wearing a heavy coat. A tall and strong man with a square face.
The coat is made of metal, with many electronic wires of different colors, but it also looks like a pile of broken copper and iron.
Jacqui Biggs, now the leader of the Bone and Blood Gang.
After Rowdon-Lode was done, Biggs took over.
At that time, there was a boss, and Biggs was able to board the number one truck, and he was one of the few bosses who survived the catastrophe. Because of this, if everyone obeys him, he will be able to lead the rest of the people to guard this place.
Lorna didn't remember much about this middle-aged man, she only knew that he didn't like her since she was a child.
"She's Lorna Lude." At this moment, Jacqui Biggs came to the front of the crowd, and his words made everyone even more shocked.
But then he pointed at Lorna and said loudly: "But she is no longer a flesh and blood person!"
The broken street suddenly fell silent, and the expressions on the slightly distorted faces were complicated.
"Lorna, look at you." Jacqui Biggs said again, "Wearing a protective mask and pretending to be a bird ~IndoMTL.com~ After hanging around in the city for a long time, afraid that this place is dirty? Let me see you Come on, he will die laughing!"
The crowd became more and more silent, and their faces looked like cracked ground.
The fat woman was eager to explain to Lorna, but she couldn't say anything.
"I am a second-program hunter, and I am not afraid of mutation. I wear this bird mask to show that Lorna has not really returned."
While speaking, Lorna took off the beak mask suddenly, revealing a cold face.
Now, the fat woman and many others couldn't help being excited, "It's Lorna, it's her..."
Although Lorna has not been back these years, the photos of the flesh and blood daughter growing up have been circulated for a long time, and everyone knows her.
"I'm here this time to ask you a question."
Lorna said to the expressionless Biggs over there, looked around again, and shouted: "Someone paid a large group of people to kill me! Kill the daughter of flesh and blood! That ****, is it you Jie?" Qui-Biggs?"
Everyone in Bone Blood Town knows supernatural knowledge, and there are no secrets about it here.
They know what a large group is, and they have seen large groups back then, weird and terrifying large groups.
Jacques Biggs frowned silently, as if it was an accident, he faced everyone's shocked and puzzled eyes, and said sharply:
"I dare to say that now that Lawton is here, it's not me! Lorna, the Flesh and Blood Gang never wanted you to die. They didn't back then, and they don't now. That's a lie used by the New World Bank to drive us apart."
"That's it."
Staring at her green eyes, Lorna put on the bird's beak mask again, turned and walked towards her pickup truck, intending to leave this broken ground.
"I don't want to fight around. If a flesh and blood guy runs out of the crowd, that would be too abnormal."