Chapter 207: The chaos

The hand holding the gun was a little sweaty.

Lin Xiang has never killed an innocent person.

The bandits may be full of evil, and their hands may be covered with blood, but no matter what, they did not provoke Lin Xiang. According to the laws of the wasteland world, they belong to two independent groups with no disputes of interest and no connection.

The bandit leader asked right - why did you attack us?

Although he does not have moral advantage, Lin Xiang must stand on his own side. No matter why Molly fires a gun, as the commander, he will help the girl who survived the riot.

"You're right, we really don't have any holidays."

He shook the hot gun barrel of m500, poured out the shells in it "clang", took out the bullets from his pocket and loaded them one by one. The little guilt in Lin Xiang's eyes gradually disappeared. He pointed the gun full of bullets again at the dying bandit leader and said lightly: "There is no reason to kill people. If you must give me a reasonable answer... I am better than you, this is enough."

The bandit leader was stunned, and then the expression on his face became tragic. He gasped heavily and said with difficulty: "Mom, you, you, you..."

A mouthful of thick blood surged into his throat, choking him for a long time and couldn't speak.

Lin Xiang's expression did not change at all. He raised his gun, pointed it at the head of the bandit leader, and pulled the trigger hard.

...

The tavern was in a mess. The chubby boss sat in front of the wine cabinet, with his short and thick legs placed horizontally on his knees. The fat fat man held a handful of melon seeds in his hands and threw a piece into his mouth from time to time, making it crisp and loud. The face, which was covered with white powder and inferior cosmetics, had an indifferent expression.

This kind of thing has happened too much in the tavern, and she can't remember how many times it was? How many people have died?

But then again, she could also get a lot of benefits from it - the clothes, weapons and personal items on the deceased could be recycled. The marinated corpse pieces tasted very good, and the drinkers also liked it. If these impulsive and passionate guys had fought each other, the tavern would have been closed long ago, and it would have been impossible for them to remain in the wilderness until now.

Lin Xiang turned around, looked at Molly standing silently with complicated eyes, and asked coldly: "Why do you want to do this? Do you know these people? Or do you have a grudge against them?"

The girl remained silent, and the light deep in her eyes was like ice that was still moving.

She held the gun and walked slowly to the wooden cage, reached out to pull away the robber's body that was slamming on the cage, and twisted the wire stuck in front of the cage door with force.

Lin Xiang walked to the window, reached out and pushed open the window, letting the cold night wind blow on his face. He took out a pack of "marlboro" from his pocket, took out a piece of ignition, and took a deep breath. The burning tobacco emitted a spicy smell, and the molly figure surrounded by the smoke gradually became more and more blurred.

This girl has a heart that is so cold that it has almost no emotions.

But she retains the most basic human nature.

Lin Xiang knew what she wanted to do and also understood what the consequences would have.

But he didn't want to stop it, nor would he stop it.

Relatives are killed, homes are destroyed, and oneself is raped... Almost the most tragic things in the world are concentrated on that fragile and childish body. If it were him, he would need to vent his strength and find a balance between sustenance and hope.

The wooden cage was opened.

The moment the cage door was loose, the mob boy imprisoned in the cage pushed open the wooden railing extremely roughly, roared like a wild beast, rushed out, and threw himself into Molly's arms standing in front of him, opened his mouth full of sharp teeth, and bit her right hand holding the gun heavily.

Perhaps because of the mutation, the mob has a much sharper ability to judge danger than humans. They will choose an opponent with the closest distance and a weapon to launch an attack.

Compared with others who are standing slightly remote, molly holding an assault rifle in his hand is undoubtedly the most dangerous target in the eyes of mob boys.

"Damn it, this damn mob scum—"

The sergeant standing next to him angrily raised the gun in his hand and aimed at the boy, but Lin Xiang reached out to block it.

"No one can help her. This problem must be solved by herself-"

Molly was surprised, her face full of incredible fear and surprise. She opened her mouth wide and looked at the mob boy who was biting her desperately in pain and despair. The severe pain made her unable to help but hum, and a tear fell from the corners of her eyes.

"Che"

The sharp teeth tightened the fibers of the clothes, and the strong masseurs teared a small ripple from the surface of the tightly woven fabric. The bright red liquid penetrated from the inside, and the smell of blood made the boy feel unprecedentedly stimulating and excited. He hugged Molly's arm tightly, and bit off a large piece of meat from the broken combat suit. With a vague roar from his throat, he chewed unscrupulously in his mouth.

"You saved him, but he wanted to eat you. This is reality-"

Lin Xiang's words hit Molly's heart like a heavy hammer. The girl's eyes were filled with unconcealed pain and unspeakable fear. She struggled desperately, and suddenly pulled out the fighting knife on her waist with her left hand, stabbed it horizontally into the boy's throat, stirring it hard.

The boy staggered back. He held his head up and his hands stuck his throat tightly, as if doing so could relieve the strong suffocation and restore the bleeding wound to its original state. However, the inhaled air could not enter the body along the throat. His face became whiter and white, and his black eyes were also squeezing desperately outside the socket. His slightly opened pupils had turned red due to congestion.

Lin Xiang was still smoking, his expression was cold and there was no change.

Molly stood there blankly and looked at all this. Suddenly, she picked up the assault rifle that was hanging down at her hand like crazy, as if a violent female dragon who had just woken up from her sleep, aiming at the staggering mob boy and desperately pouring bullets. Until she knocked the young body overflowing with bullet holes and fell to the corner of the wall, she let go of her hands holding the gun, her legs softened, and she collapsed to the ground with a depressed expression, covering her face tightly with both hands, and sobbing in pain.

...

Standing under the gray sky and breathing in the cold air, Liu Yuchen felt that the biting cold was slowly freezing the blood, turning his body into a piece of hard ice.

The white arched dome of the City of Life No. 24 is as beautiful as before. From a distance, it looks like broken eggshells that have been torn apart roughly and scattered on the desolate wilderness.

Looking from the rooftop of the dome, you can see a place far away from the end of the world. The desolate world also has a special, primitive beauty.

However, that's all the past.

Thick wooden poles stand on the horizon, scattered, like an irregular fence, surrounding the No. 24 City of Life from all directions.

At the top of each wooden pole, a naked body hung.

There are men and women.

Their death was very miserable. Most of them were pierced by bullets, and some were injured by sharp objects such as knives and axes. Some corpses had no limbs, some directly lost their heads, and some were directly hollowed out of their abdomen, or simply removed the entire spine from their backs. Only the soft body was dragged by ropes and floated back and forth in the cold wind.

They are all members of the City of Life No. 24. To be precise, they should be made by this city and belong to the replicants of each department.

Like the same type of bases set up in other parts of the world, the Twenty-Four City of Life also has various necessary attachments as a city. The huge egg-shaped building is just the core of the city. In order to maintain normal operation, the doctors and associations used biotechnology to create a large number of test tube people. According to the different types of memories in the brain, these non-natural products also have different functions. The army, maintenance personnel, chefs, and subordinate managers...their numbers are as large as ten thousand, just like the densely packed worker bees in the nest, busy in different locations, just to support them to live at the top of the city's pyramid, and to have the highest level of life and death for everything and command the power.

The siege began last month.

This is a planned conspiracy.

Instead of directly attacking the central building with strong defensive power, the attackers first erode the annexes of the city's periphery. Power plants, water purification centers, energy reserve warehouses, and food processing plants... These originally beautiful buildings have become broken walls and broken walls blackened by smoke. From a strategic perspective, these areas have an irreplaceable supporting role for the No. 24 City of Life. They are an indispensable combination part of the city. Once missing, they will cause a complete collapse of the defense system in a short period of time.

Thousands of people were killed, and countless corpses were hung on the tops of wooden poles, slowly rotting in the severe wind, rain and cold. In the eyes of those who guided the war, this was actually just an indispensable means to achieve their own goals. It was not cruel, nor was it moral. After all, those killed were not natural people born freely from the mother body, but gene replicas that came out of the cultivation trough. At best, it can only be regarded as a waste of resources. Those rotten corpses that swayed back and forth in the cold wind were actually just pieces of human-shaped proteins that turned into rot.

The Association of Doctors is a huge organization.

As long as you have the most basic class and social structure, something like "power" will always exist.

Most of the members of the association are scholars who are obsessed with biological sciences, but this does not prevent a few outliers from appearing among them who like to control everything.

"Lola, Chricks...and...Leisl."

Looking at the dark sky in the distance, Liu Yuchen murmured these names that had been called countless times, and his face emitted a terrifying cold air.

They are both vice presidents of the Association of Doctors and three giants second only to President Josephine. They once stood firmly at the peak of power like a small pyramid. Now, the solid triangle fulcrum has begun to bend and break, and the foundation of the power under their feet is still solid, and the only one who is affected and shaky is the only one who is only Josephine.

The Big Three are dissatisfied with Josephine, which is well-known in the Association of Doctors.

Each of them secretly gathers their own forces and uses threats, temptations, coercion and other methods to allow more members to join their independent groups. Due to the special composition of the association itself, each member has a laboratory that can independently create and train people. In other words, as long as there is enough time and supplies, each of them can create a biochemical army with amazing combat power. When more and more members turn to the three giants, Josephine's actual control ability will be greatly reduced.

There are hundreds of cities of life all over the world. However, the only one loyal to Josephine is this city named "Twenty-four". Moreover, it is under attack and may fall at any time.

As early as half a year ago, Liu Yuchen had already noticed the abnormal movements of the three giants. But he never expected that the three guys Lola, Chris and Lesl would move so quickly, and launched an attack on President Josephine's residence in the most direct and brutal way of war.

Speaking of which, he should have discovered those clues long ago.

Artificial protein production last quarter was only one-third of the planned plan.

The uranium ore transported from Central Asia City No. 22, the city of Life No. 22, is half less than the actual amount that should have arrived.

The winter equipment allocated to train soldiers was delayed for nearly a month. Under the strict urging, Cricks, who was in charge of logistics management, reluctantly issued 500 sets.

There are also problems in weapons, ammunition, electricity, food, etc.... either delays in transportation dates or significantly reduced quantity.

Liu Yuchen is a doctor. To be precise, he is an excellent and genius biologist.

He was very slow to respond to political and power struggles, had no experience in this area, nor had the material basis to fight against those guys. He was faithful to Josephine and had extremely deep feelings for this terminally ill old woman. Of course, what he refers to here is not physical entanglement and love between men and women, but caring and respect from the heart.

The rebels advanced extremely quickly. Driven by their command, the replicant army removed all strategically valuable strongholds around the city one by one. They cut off water, power, and food supply... As a seemingly effective method of intimidation, every captive was hung on a wooden pole. They used this primitive and cruel method to tell those who were guarding the central core building that this was the end of resistance and rejection.

The Central Building is a separate building.

As early as the beginning of the design, the builders installed independent large power generation devices in the underground part, as well as various supporting equipment such as biological cultivation and food production tools. It is precisely because of this that Liu Yuchen was able to gather more than 5,000 trained soldiers to defend the entire building.

He has never saved as much as he is now, and has reasonably allocated every little resource to the most urgently needed department.

The bodies of the dead are recycled and the substance is decomposed in the dissolution pool. The resulting proteins and nutrients are entered into the culture tank to regenerate a new replicator.

The work of reinstalling ammunition using shell shells has been fully launched, and machine guns and direct-sighting cannons on fixed shooting positions are gradually being replaced with electric-driven magnetic weapons.

Food is rationed, and the excess of the harvested farms is completely dissolved into concentrated nutrient solution, and all efforts are made to ensure that people are trained to produce.

Liu Yuchen is not a warrior, but he has no choice - except Josephine, he is the last natural human in the city, and he is also the only non-artificial life form that can command and order all people to cultivate.

War spread all over the world, and the rest of the cities were also attacking each other. They were all under the banner of opposing or supporting Josephine. Liu Yuchen didn't know how many of them could be considered his own people. He never regarded this chaos as an effective way to select our enemies. Everyone has their own independent thinking and cannot see through people's hearts. Loyalty and opposition can only be kept verbally. Even if they really support the woman who is lying on the sickbed, who can guarantee that when they receive absolute support and interests, there will be no more Lola, Chris and Lesl...

Whether during the day or at night, the sound of cannons sounds from time to time, and the sound of gunfire continues.

The rebels are much more powerful than the guardians.

Liu Yuchen knew very well that relying on his thousands of trained soldiers with the highest level 4 evolutionary abilities, it was impossible to stop the attack of the three giants.

Each of them is a parasite. It is said that the most powerful of them, Crix, has more than nine stars in his power.

They didn't need to be so troublesome to siege. As long as Cricks alone was enough to break through all the defenses of the Central Building.

However, they did not do so.

The three giants did not even cut off the signal transmitting device for communication with the outside world at the top of the building. They just ordered the army to surround the giant building, not letting people go out, nor let anyone come in.

They seemed to be waiting, and they seemed to be waiting and watching. As for the actual reasons... only they themselves know the most.

Maybe it's not just them who understand the truth.

Although President Josephine was already half ill and relied on a large number of drugs and various life-saving devices every day, she was very clear-headed. She never expressed her opinions on the battle situation, nor gave any instructions to Liu Yuchen. She just leaned quietly in his arms and looked at the distant, gray sky with her turbid eyes.

Liu Yuchen had a premonition that the deadlock would not last for too long. The reason why the three giants surrounded him and did not attack was that they seemed to be waiting for the signs of life to slowly disappear from Josephine's body.
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