Space-time Traveler Chapter 19: Barbarian Age 1
Pasha looked a little silent when she went back.
When she arrived at the camp, she turned to look at Su Ziyu and said, "I will help you get some bullets over tomorrow."
"That's right."
"Don't walk around at night recently."
This is the second time Pasha warned Su Ziyu not to run around, but she did not say why.
"Thanks." Su Ziyu smiled.
A group of scavengers just came back outside the gate. Their expressions looked a little sad and numb. Many of them had blood on their bodies. There were five or six wounded people lying in the car being helped. A boy who was only fifteen or sixteen years old lost his arm, half of his body was covered with blood, and his consciousness was a bit blurred at this moment.
Pasha stood there and watched for a while, then suddenly sighed and shook her head, pulling Su Ziyu away.
"If there are enough medicines, they don't have to face these dangers." Pasha's voice was a little low, as if suppressing something, and slowly said: "The income of ordinary people's labor is not enough to buy the expensive ones. Anti-radiation agents. They have to take risks, only in this way can they make enough money."
"Either work in the factory day and night, or become a scavenger and go out to fight for life."
"We have no more choices."
The materials retrieved by the scavengers will be recovered by the major chaebol forces. Good luck may use this to make a fortune. Bad luck is like these people in front of them.
Radiation has completely changed the world.
This is an unsolvable problem. Everyone has a very urgent need for drugs, but the chaebols who inherited the old world heritage are too powerful. There is no organization that can confront them head-on. In this wasteland era, they have almost the final say in drug resources, and they decide how many drugs can be discharged each year.
Su Ziyu was silent.
On the one hand, he sympathizes with the people of this era, on the other hand, he knows that all this has nothing to do with him.
He is just a passerby in this world.
The Hourglass of Time chose him to take him through the world. It must have a special mission, but the information in it has been missing. Now he himself is just a struggling to survive and want to go home. Ordinary people. Even, he lives more dangerous than these people, because the woman from Atlantis told him that the hourglass of time will take him to find those ‘unexplainable horrors’ regardless of whether he wants it or not.
Su Ziyu is not sure if she will survive the next time she encounters those horrors.
Others looked at these distressed scavengers with numb expressions, maybe they have been used to all this a long time ago. A middle-aged man who looked like the leader of the team was pleading with the fat man I saw yesterday, but the fat man’s expressionless expression seemed to be a different one compared to when he faced Old Bill yesterday. Same as people.
The middle-aged man who led the team was hoarse, his forehead was full of blood, and his pupils were bloodshot, as if he was suppressing some emotions, trying to restrain something, he was begging, begging, begging, but in the end the fat man was just a face He smoked his cigar expressionlessly, then turned away with a cold face.
"fuck!"
The leading middle-aged man even put his hand on his waist, but in the end he seemed to have lost all his strength, and helplessly dropped his palm, he raised his hand and wiped his eyes, then turned Turning around to say something to other people, it seemed to be asking everyone to pay for some money to treat the wounded.
Some people left.
Those who were not injured, and some others showed embarrassment, some difficult to get out some things, only a small amount of money, mostly old world luxury goods, such as watches, rings, necklaces, etc. The leading middle-aged man was pulling his hair irritably, and Su Ziyu even saw him tear off a **** scalp.
"Let's go." Pasha's voice was a little erratic.
Su Ziyu followed in silence.
Night fell on this camp soon, and everything outside became noisy again.
Some black people didn't know which corner they came out of. They wandered the streets in the dark, looking at other people with very unkind eyes.
Pasha has gone back.
Go back to the back of the fence.
Su Ziyu doesn't really want to go back to the hotel now. He doesn't know what he should do, but he really doesn't feel sleepy now. About half an hour later, while observing everything silently, he heard a sound. It was a few black people talking in a low voice. They stood on the edge of the alley and then entered a dark alley.
"It's another one. Take it away." The black man who was speaking looked not young, and his voice was a little hoarse.
They moved a man out of the alley, and then carried him all the way to the left and right into the large garbage dump in the camp. Su Ziyu didn't know what they were going to do, but the curiosity in his heart made him follow. These black generals still entered the garbage dump and left.
The man lay motionless in the garbage, and didn't know if he was dead.
Su Ziyu suddenly thought of the name ‘scavengers’ he heard when he was near the hotel during the day, and instinctively told him that maybe these black people are the scavengers among the population.
He saw some people coming out from behind the huge garbage dump.
Following the faint light, Su Ziyu saw them clearly, and then trembled.
Those should be humans, right?
Their faces are extremely ugly. There are many scars on the surface of their bodies, their bodies have obvious deformities, their skin looks very ugly, with burn-like scars, and some people even have sarcomas covering the stratum corneum. They look It seems to be humanoid monsters one by one, but they are obviously still human because they are talking in human language.
"Is this still saved?" A rough, hoarse voice sounded.
"It's no help. Get rid of it." Another voice sounded, seeming to be a woman.
Then these people with obvious physical deformities dragged the person on the ground away. They didn't seem to communicate much, so they walked silently into the huge mountain of garbage.
There are still people living there!
Suziyu never asked Pasha a question, that is, where did the people who were born with serious deformities due to radiation pollution go? Where are the people who have been contaminated by radiation and have acquired disease?
He couldn't ask this question.
But it seems he has found the answer.
The wind is a bit cold at night.
Su Ziyu silently took out a pack of cigarettes, which Pasha gave him during the day, and he had never opened it. Su Ziyu opened his finger slightly and took out a cigarette, lit a cigarette for himself in the dark, and then took a deep breath, he took a breath, then threw the cigarette on the ground and raised his foot. Stepped out, turned and left.
This is the North Star.
The base camp led by those free people are trying to break the plutocracy's monopoly on medicines and rebuild a free and equal civilized society.
But here Su Ziyu does not see freedom and equality, let alone a civilized society.
Not even a bit.
He only saw darkness, deep darkness, darkness flowing under the surface order, maybe Pasha was right, this is a barbaric era.
Civilization is really gone.
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