The night wind is strong and cold. Not far away, the iron sheet in the window of a small building blew "pa pa" really loud, which became another sound besides the wind in the night.
Zero and Agatha didn't speak, but the silence didn't last long. A moment later, Agatha's voice came into zero's ears with the sound of the wind again.
"Captain zero, do you have a dream?"
Zero was stunned and looked at Agatha in surprise.
Dream, what a beautiful word. However, dreams belong to the old times. At that time, although resources had begun to be tight, the economy was not so prosperous, and the unemployment rate remained high in many countries. But on the whole, the world is still beautiful. At least there is no ubiquitous radiation, and there are no mutants competing for living space with humans. Although there are wars, wars are limited and occur only in the civil strife of some countries, not involving the whole continent or even the whole world.
The old era is an irreversible dream for all mankind. The sky is blue, the clouds are white, there will be no strong radiation in the rain, and the snowflakes are romantic. Now, the old age is like a fairy tale, which exists in everyone's heart.
Dream is a word often spoken by people in the old times. At that time, even if life was hard, people always had their own dreams. As long as there is a dream, no matter how hard life can be colorful.
In the new era, for most people, life is gray. People who struggle on the line of life and death every day have no dreams.
For these soldiers, they certainly live better than ordinary people. But their mortality rate is not lower than that of ordinary people, but may be higher. Ordinary people can live as long as they have food, but soldiers don't know whether they can live today. Therefore, for them, the dream is even more distant, and no one will even think about it.
I didn't expect that Agatha would ask such a question. Perhaps, women's nerves are always thinner than men. Like maple, zero bet that his thoughts will never include dreams.
"It's ridiculous." Agatha bent her legs and buried her face between her legs: "people like us shouldn't have extravagant dreams..."
"I think those who still have dreams are much more respectable than those butchers who only know killing." zero asked faintly, "what is captain Agatha's dream?"
Agatha looked at the endless night sky, and her eyes became a little far-reaching: "my dream is to marry myself one day, own a house, plant some flowers and have one or two children..."
As she spoke, she smiled: "it's very ordinary, a dream without great ambition."
"Dreams are not ordinary or noble." zero shook his head in denial.
Agatha smiled and said, "although captain zero is usually very cold, he can't see that he is a very gentle person. So Captain zero, do you have a dream?"
Zero also looked up at the sky, but somehow his breath became colder and colder. In the end, it was even mixed with a killing machine. The cold wind didn't make Agatha feel cold, but at this time she shivered for the cold breath of zero. At this time, the sound of zero sounded. His voice was like a howling cold wind, with a strange howling sound in the hole.
"Yes, my dream is to destroy the world!"
Agatha breathed suddenly because she felt that zero was no joke.
"It's night, Captain Agatha, go to have a rest. We have to hurry tomorrow." the cold killing machine on zero disappeared, as if it was Agatha's illusion.
Perhaps because of the scattered killing, Agatha nodded and left without saying anything. After Agatha left, she looked at the sky and said slowly, "only by completely destroying this shit world can you realize your dream..."
The voice gradually dispersed in the night wind. Perhaps no one will understand the dream of zero.
And zero, do not need others to understand!
The wilderness is very quiet. At noon in the day, the radiation is the strongest in the day. No one or other creatures come and go at this time. The heat rising from the earth distorts the scenery and seems so unreal.
On the highway along the coastline, only hot winds occasionally pass by. Heat waves broke out, and even the most vigorous mutant grass on both sides of the road bowed down and looked listless. Although it is only spring, the temperature is as high as midsummer. In real summer, the temperature during the day can reach up to 60 degrees!
A male corpse was wandering on the road. He was wearing a dirty suit, a gray white shirt, loose on his thin body, and a tie loosely around his neck, as if maintaining his dignity.
There was no skin on the corpse's face, revealing Mori's white skull. Occasionally, a maggot will climb out of his head. At this time, the corpse will grope for it, catch it, send it to his mouth, chew it with black and yellow fangs, turn the insect into meat mud, and then swallow it. But that's all the food for the living corpse. No other food can be found.
The corpse walked numbly across the road. In the distance, there was endless wilderness. Occasionally, a dark shadow could be seen, which was the silhouette of the ruins of a city. Several towering but skewed electric towers are the only decoration. There may not be human beings there, but there may be mutant animals living there. For living corpses, mutant animals can also be food without humans.
It walked to the other side of the road. When it reached the middle of the road, there was a whistling sound in its ear.
It's not a natural sound, it's a thought in the corpse's mind, that's all. With its intelligence, it is unable to understand the special sound made by the power unit of the automobile engine during operation. But this did not prevent the corpse from turning around to observe, but its body moved and a gunshot rang in the distance.
The whole body of the corpse shook violently, and a blood line bounced from the head. It fell heavily and a bullet hole appeared in the middle of its eyebrow. Then the still wide open eyes reflected the roaring and outdated floor of a car. After passing another car like this, a heavy tire pressed heavily on its head and completely crushed the head of the corpse!
Behind the three SUVs, there were five light motorcycles. On the motorcycles, there were two knights. A total of ten soldiers became the escort of the motorcade. But none of the three SUVs needed the protection of any soldiers. The tight black tactical clothes showed that they were not only soldiers, but also elite soldiers.
Zero sat on one of the SUVs, wearing goggles. Although for those with ability, the very strong sky light will not cause any harm to ordinary people, too strong light will still affect perception, at least the judgment of visual field. Therefore, no matter zero or others, they wear asgat's standard goggles on their faces.
A tablet brain in your hand is showing a topographic map, zero fingers across the screen, and the topographic map is constantly changing. The topographic map in zhinao's head is reflected in the lens of the goggles. It can be seen that it is the environment near the coastline highway, in which there are some flashing red dots, obviously some marks. These marks represent zero of all settlements or bases they have passed in the past three days, and more than 30 bases, large and small, are empty.
Yes, no death, no body, just no one.
But the people in these bases are also not as simple as moving elsewhere, because they have found traces of combat in these bases, which shows that violent conflicts have occurred in the bases. But in addition to blood, there is no base for a corpse, leaving only strangeness and doubt to the zero class.
These bases will be found because Agatha has followed the energy traces left by creator gulad all the way. Agatha's ability is mainly in observation, and its other ability "energy perception" is also a great reconnaissance means. In addition to identifying the nature and strength of energy, we can also track the traces left by them. Because of this, zero and others can find such a base one by one.
There is no doubt that these bases have been visited by the creator. But where the people in the base went is an unsolvable mystery.
Agatha's description of the energy left by the creator makes everyone feel heavy.
"It is a kind of energy without ups and downs, which is almost constant and terrible. If I had to describe it, I would say it is an energy without soul," Agatha said.
You should know that no creature's energy will be constant. Even if there is only an instinctive living corpse, the energy on the living corpse will fluctuate during the time of eating and non eating, let alone after entering the combat state, the fluctuation range of energy will be more obvious due to different combat conditions.
But Agatha recalled that until she was bombarded by zero one, the creator's energy was still the same, as accurate as a machine. Biological weapons are often described by machines, but since the word "biological" is used, some biological instincts are retained. For example, when you are afraid, you will retreat, when you are angry, your combat power will increase slightly, and so on.
The creator gave Agatha the feeling of a machine dressed in a biological coat. It has no soul, no instinct, and only a series of programs loyal to orders!
So, how did the creator gulad and the other three companions come from? They are called creators, and who created them? All the answers point to what gulad called the "Queen" before his death.
The final problem left to the zero is also the task of their trip. That is, where is the queen now?
It can be speculated that as long as we follow the energy traces left by the creator, we can finally find the location of the queen and the Promethean kingdom. But the problem is that the energy traces of the creator are weakening.
Energy cannot remain permanently. It will dissipate gradually under the influence of the external environment. In fact, Agatha has been able to track for three days, and the creator's energy characteristics have surprised Agatha, who has the ability of perception domain. The creator is a very special biological weapon. It has no combat effectiveness, but it can produce different types of corpse weapons. In addition, it also has the characteristics of saving energy for a long time, just like a bioenergy battery.
Because of this characteristic, the energy traces left on the wilderness can be tracked by Agatha's perception, otherwise they would have dissipated in the air.
But even so, the traces of creators have become more and more rare, but they still haven't found the existence of the living corpse kingdom. When the traces of energy dissipate completely, their actions will become like looking for a needle in a haystack, which will depend on luck to a great extent.
Zero constantly observes the path of the creator in the intellectual brain in order to find out some laws. At this time, the motorcade got off the highway. Under the command of Agatha, they drove to a branch road under the Shanghai coastline highway. What appeared in front of zero was the canyon landform he was familiar with. After leaving the canyon, there was a flat wilderness terrain. At the end of the road is a continuous mountain range. Zero knows there will be a base there.
Z7 base!
It was a place where zero woke up from a deep sleep and lived for two years. There are many memories of zero. Although those memories, many things can not be called happy. But anyway, z7 base is zero's first home.
Now, zero comes back. But he didn't feel at all at home. In addition to the change of mood, there was another important reason. Z7 base was found by Agatha. In other words, the creator has been here!
The team stopped at the gate of z7 base and jumped off the SUV. The army boots stepped on several pieces of gravel, which splashed and fell to the ground, making a fine noise. The sound was not loud, but it seemed abrupt in front of the silent base gate, making the feeling of silence more and more heavy.
No need to enter the base. Zero is certain that no one exists in the base. After all, too many bases have confirmed this. As long as the creator has visited, the people in the base may have become the creator's food. Otherwise, there will be one or two bodies left. But no, not to mention the body, not even a little meat crumb.
The hydraulic steel door of z7 base is still closed, but there is a gap enough for off-road vehicles to pass in the middle of the door. The edge of the notch is smooth, which does not look like violent damage, but is caused by melting through corrosion with some substances such as strong acid. Such a gap is not uncommon in the base explored by zero and others. It seems that it should be a special skill possessed by the creator or his biological weapons. Most of this skill is not used in combat, but used to destroy the entrance of the base.
Fortunately, the creator was killed by zero when he came. Otherwise, if it was allowed to produce a living corpse with this special ability, remt would never stick to the arrival of asgat reinforcements.
Johnny and Jonah walked ahead, and six servants fanned out to guard Agatha who was walking behind. In the back, there are two teams: zero and belline. At the end were the remaining four servants. Such a team filed into z7 base. Along the channel, they soon came to the operation area.
Z7 base is a semi domestic and semi industrial production base, and its power source is two high-power power power units deep in the base. Now the power unit has stopped working, so the base is dark. In addition to blocking strong light, zero's goggles also have some other small functions. Infrared vision is one of them, so darkness is not difficult for them.
There is a slight deviation between the working area and the memory before zero, which comes from several mining cars parked in the working area. I remember that only old jack used to have such a mining car, but now there are four more. It seems that the production tools of the base have been improved a lot. In addition, zero also saw five tactical platforms suspended above the entrance and exit of the mining area.
In addition to intimidating workers, these things should also be used to defend against some mutant creatures living underground. In general, z7 base has improved its production kits and weapons and equipment to a higher level. It seems that pachlan chaebol has not abandoned this remote base. But now, z7 base is as quiet as ghosts.
The sound of footsteps broke the zero thought, but the servants who came to the living area came back. After listening to the servant's simple report, Agatha shook her head at zero and others: "like the previous bases, there are signs of fighting and no bodies. Gentlemen, this is the last base on the coastline. It can be said that there is no human survival from remt!"
Z7 base is already the last base in the south of the coastline. In the future, the trend of the mainland will turn to the continuous mountains in the West. With a length of nearly 10000 kilometers, the Shuangta mountains stretch and occupy the middle of the western land and coastline. There is a peak at both ends of the mountain in the north-south direction. It is shaped like a steeple, so it is called the twin towers. After the twin towers, there is a flat land. There are also settlements built on the urban ruins of the old times. Occasionally, adventurous businessmen pass by, but rarely appear in the eyes of people in coastal cities.
After all, the Shuangta mountains make the traffic on both sides of the mountains extremely difficult, which is also a common situation in the new era. The complex geographical environment makes the distribution of human beings no longer as dense as in the old times. The inconvenience of transportation and the lag of information make the inheritance and exchange of knowledge and civilization very difficult. This makes a huge gap in regional human civilization.
Maybe the human civilization on this side of the mountain is very advanced, while the human on the other side of the mountain live a primitive life. The gap between civilizations is so great that it will bring war and expedition.
If z7 base does not have any instructions from the corpse Kingdom, zero and others will inevitably change their way to the west, cross the Shuangta mountains and set foot on the unknown and mysterious land in the West.
No one knows what will be there?
When zero one was about to leave z7 base, zero suddenly stood still and quickly looked in the direction of the gate of the mining area. The gate of the mining area was not completely closed, but revealed a gap for only one person to pass through. In this gap, a dark shadow flashed in the zero goggles.
It seems that the z7 base is still dead.
Zero immediately ran towards the gate. His speed was so fast that he almost took a step. The next moment he had swept to the door with pieces of shadow. Zero doesn't stay, flash in the door. As soon as he entered the mining area, he suddenly stopped.
An old-fashioned double hole shotgun was standing on his forehead. But judging from the constant shaking of the shotgun, it seemed that the owner of the shotgun was not so calm at the moment.