Chapter 157: The World Is Hell
The once majestic walls of Savior City were now riddled with holes, full of bullet and shell holes. Some areas of the walls were even broken down with small gaps, looking like biscuits gnawed by mice. It had not been long since the war, so the repair work on the walls was still in progress.
The three big characters "Savior City" that originally stood at the city gate were now replaced by three fresh and bright neon characters "Eliminate Alien City".
Because there have been no major moves by zombies, orcs, and Zerg recently, all major fortresses are in a situation of loose outside but tight inside. Except for the gates of the foreign city which are wide open, a constant stream of people coming in and out line up at the checkpoints at the entrances.
The majority of the convoys entering the city were hunting teams. Most of their cars or roofs had several , like cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered, all of them numbly stayed there without any reaction. The place where the Savior Alliance was located originally had a large number of mutants living there, and the wanted order for mutants had just been issued not long ago, so these hunters had a great harvest.
In their opinion, the location of the Salvation Alliance is simply a primitive forest of alien species that has never been developed. The alien species that can be captured here are several times or even dozens of times more than in other places! Sometimes, as long as you blast open a shelter, you can find a small group of alien species, which is like a treasure.
In the eyes of hunters, these "aliens" are no longer human beings, but animals, precious animals that can be exchanged for supplies, ammunition, and women!
A huge wanted poster of Richemont was spray-painted on the ruined wall of Savior City. From a distance, one could see the pale face with an evil smile, contrasting with the bullet holes and scars on the wall, like a postmodern art work.
The astronomical bounties were printed in huge red letters below the photo, making the people coming and going envious. All these things added up were enough to be a small fortress. This Richemont was really too valuable. The hunters drooled and wished they could catch Richemont tomorrow. Richemont and the thousands of mutants who disappeared with him became the topic of conversation after dinner. Some people even bet on where Richemont was hiding and when he would be caught or killed.
On weekdays, when entering and leaving the city gate, Li Tian's favorite thing to do is to discuss with others the whereabouts of Lifeng and the huge reward, but at this moment he was in no mood to do so. Thinking of his usual boastful words, such as "I will shoot down Lifeng if I meet him", "I will become rich someday", etc., Li Tian wished he could go back to the past and tear off his bad mouth.
Greed blinded his mind, and when he really faced Richemont, he realized how terrible this ancestor was!
Looking at everything around him, Richemont did not react at all, and still sat in the cockpit calmly, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him. But when he saw those mutants tied up like livestock, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and a ray of cold light flashed across his eyes...
Just then, their truck drove to the checkpoint at the city gate. A soldier carrying a rifle walked over casually, and seeing Li Tian sitting in the passenger seat, he couldn't help but chuckled: "Captain Li, what good stuff did you get this time?" This soldier was very familiar with Li Tian, because Li Tian's luck was always good, and he was often able to catch alien species, or get some stored food, and the people at the checkpoint often took advantage of him.
Li Tian chuckled and said calmly, "I didn't get any good stuff this time, so I just got some people back."
"Let me see." Hearing about the "vegetable man", the inspection sentry's eyes immediately lit up, walked to the open door of the truck, and looked inside. The so-called "vegetable man" is actually the body of a dead original person. In this era of extreme material shortage, wasting any protein is a shameful act. Therefore, almost all the dead people have a new destination - the stomach of their companions.
Because the wilderness is full of dangers, people often die in the wilderness, and even some hunting teams are wiped out. If the bodies of these dead people are fresh enough, they will naturally be used as waste if they meet other hunting teams.
For many people today, this is not shameful, but a way to save resources. You know, without sunlight, there will be no new crops, and the food stored in the human fortress is not enough for the current long-term consumption. Therefore, all protein is so precious.
Moreover, when people really began to eat the flesh and blood of their own kind on a large scale, many people were surprised to find that human flesh was the most delicious food in the world, better than any other top-grade meat that had ever been worshiped. The smooth palms, strong limbs, refreshing chest spine, delicate fat, etc., even constituted a new cuisine in the food culture of the human beings in the end times...
The sentry checked the bodies one by one, frowned when he saw the wounds, and was about to say something when Li Feng came over with a machete in his hand. He cut off the right arm of a body and stuffed it into the sentry's clothes, saying with a joking smile, "Sir, we encountered these outside a small town. Please forgive me."
The inspector was stunned at first, but then he understood immediately, stuffed the severed right arm into his clothes, waved his hand and said, "Go in, no problem." At the same time, he thought to himself: Damn it, it would be great if I could get an alien arm someday. Of course, he also understood that these bodies were probably other hunting teams that were robbed by Li Tian's men, but he didn't bother to care about that. The bribe of a whole arm was enough to satisfy him.
Thinking of the braised crispy palms and stewed pork elbows tonight, the sentry began to drool.
"Next one!" He calmly threw the arm into a pocket on his waist and waved to the next car...
It seems that the situation of these human fortresses is more serious than I thought. Richemont thought silently as he slowly turned the steering wheel and drove forward.
The trade and consumption of people had become completely public, and the fortress army began to intensify its hunting of mutants. All this showed one thing, that is, there was not much food left, and the fortress officials urgently needed to form an army of mutants who were immune to the T virus, and then go to the ruins of the city to grab food!
Because modern human society has an abundance of material resources, urban ruins that contain large amounts of leftover food have become invisible granaries.
Food is extremely important to humans, who are composed of carbohydrates. Once fragile humans lose food, they lose the energy to maintain the body's operation and will immediately face death.
"The world is hell, and hell is the world..." Li Feng couldn't help but recite it in a low voice while looking at the original people on the street who were either listless or cunning, as well as the modified people who appeared from time to time and showed off their power.
