I’m Not Shouldering This Blame

Chapter 119: way of life

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The sky is no longer lit, and under the dark night, the wind brings the roar of monsters in the distance.

A small pickup did not even dare to turn on the headlights, and drove cautiously on the road.

The carriage was covered with several layers of thick canvas, and there were hand-welded metal railings on both sides. There was an unpleasant smell in the car. The source was a stack of plastic bags wrapped in kraft paper stacked in the corner. out.

A young power user glanced at the paper bag in disgust. He touched his empty stomach and asked tangled, "Uncle Ma, is the information you inquired about right? Can cooked food be eaten in the military base?"

"Look at what you said, there are still fewer people in the country? Don't worry about not having fire-type abilities..."

The man named Uncle Ma is a dark-skinned middle-aged man. He looks like someone who does manual labor. He has rough palms and thick calluses. safest location.

Those with powers who were overwhelmed by the bumps sat near the vents and the rear of the car.

They were more or less adorned with stipples, even the girls were unkempt, with a few mud marks on their cheeks, and everyone looked like a bird in shock, holding a sharp object tightly in their hands.

Some are knives, some are small steel bars, and some even have a bottle opener.

They are separated from each other by a certain distance. This is the experience of abandoning the world to survive in a difficult way. It is the experience of being close to others. If they encounter an attack, both of them will be finished.

Abandoned world is in danger, in order to survive, people are forced to rely on the strength of the group, but people are more terrible than monsters, the supernatural beings are on guard against each other, and they can't wait to sleep with one eye open.

For most supernatural beings, this world has no relatives, no friends, and no trusted acquaintances - living alone, like primitive people who drink blood.

"There are not only fire-type abilities in the army, but also water-type abilities!"

Cooked food, clean drinking water, lying on a soft bed without worrying about being attacked by monsters, nothing more than heaven on earth.

The power users on the pickup all showed eager eyes, hoping that the rumors were true, but they were afraid that the facts would not match them.

"When we walked with Uncle Ma, didn't there still be people who didn't believe it? They said that the army had guns in their hands, and no matter how much material reserves they could bring in, they didn't have enough rations to serve as soldiers, so who cares about our lives."

Uncle Ma snorted: "There is no conclusive news, I dare to take you on the highway for a long time, and run to Haicheng at the risk of being eaten by monsters?"

"You are always looking forward..."

"Put away your sloppy words. You can't talk about being far-sighted or anything, but I just saw the group of power users running to Haicheng... The group of guys with black badges that you have seen."

"Heiyuan?" Everyone was very surprised.

The Abandoned World has been around for a long time, and various gangs and mutual aids will spring up faster than bamboo shoots after the rain, but as long as these organizations are a little bigger, they will encounter people who "recommend themselves". Wearing a badge with a gold border and a black background, they are of different ages. The common point is that they have a very good understanding of monsters, and they can also get some confidential information, which is very popular with small groups of power users.

There are also people who try to pretend to be "Heiyuan", and they are usually exposed very quickly. The black abyss is well-organized, and every ability user who wants to enter the black abyss needs to refer people and pass the assessment. Even if he joins Heiyuan, it is still outside, and he is not qualified to wear a badge. It is difficult to find out any secrets.

There are also rumors that Heiyuan has a great background.

"Hopefully, when the abandoned world is over, people in the military won't take us away."

This is the most feared thing for superpowers. When they return to reality, they are imprisoned. How to face their parents and friends

With a small cigarette butt in his mouth, Uncle Ma sighed longly: "Didn't you hear it? Someone entered the Abandoned World a few days ago and stayed in this damn place for a whole month. There are monsters everywhere in Haicheng. , we are weak, how many days can we hold on?"

At this time, the wheel jumped up suddenly, as if it had run over something.

The power user in the car was very nervous, looking at the dark sky outside with fear.

"What's the matter, didn't I let you follow the mushroom bushes?"

"Yes... But, Uncle Ma, look at both sides of the road."

There are trees on both sides of the road, of course, because of the monster attack, the crossbars on the highway are damaged, the street lights seem to be gone, the visibility is very low, and the tree trunks are connected with their shadows.

Uncle Ma doesn't know how to drive. In the middle of the night, he couldn't see the surroundings clearly. He only felt a palpitation. This was the feeling of being stared at by some monster—

"That's not a tree!" A power user in Picari exclaimed.

How come there are big trees more than ten meters high on both sides of the highway, if they encounter a curve, they will not block the line of sight

In the panic, the driver turned on the lights, illuminating the road ahead, and standing silently on the side of the road—Mushroom!

Everyone's faces were pale and dumbfounded.

At some point, they drove into the mushroom base camp. This road runs through the mushroom jungle. It looks like a safe passage that someone has opened up. The huge mushroom caps on both sides of the road are as high as five floors.

There are some mushrooms on top of them, and the withered arms and bodies of monsters are hanging on them, which looks horrifying in the dark night.

It seemed to be stimulated by the light, the front side turned slowly with the fungus cap, and the protruding hyphae extended towards the pickup. The mycelium of the giant mushroom is as thick as a rope, and when it hits the face, it is like a whip, which can smash the car into pieces.

"Ah!" The driver stepped on the accelerator with his eyes closed.

"Calm down, you idiot!"

The mycelium connected into several "barricades", forcing the car to slow down, and the noose-like "ropes" were thrown at the car one by one. Finally, the pickup truck was suspended in the air, the whole body was suspended, and the wheels were idling wildly.

The powers grabbed the board of the carriage in panic, and their bodies involuntarily followed the body tilt.

Mycelium rudely lifted the roof covered by the thick cloth, swam into the car like a snake, and aggressively "searched" the car. Carefully "sniffing" the blood-soaked oil paper bag, and found that these were the slag left over from "myself" eating. The mushroom immediately lost interest, and shifted the focus to the ability user.

Although they have all been in close contact with mushrooms and have been bound by mycelium, mycelium is very different from mycelium! Thinner than a hair, it can be ignored. Noodles are so wide, people will feel hairy. When these things with the thickness of the mouth of the bowl appear in front of them, the legs of those who can barely bear it will become weak.

Fortunately, they were all killed from the monster pile, and none of them fainted on the spot.

In the midst of horror, the sound of car horns came from the road behind.

"What's the situation, why is the front blocked?"

"...Don't come here, there are mushrooms!" The voice of the person on the side of the car trembled.

"Of course there are mushrooms. There are mushrooms for a few kilometers around here!" The person in the car behind said angrily.

Otherwise, the Red Dragon Base gathered so many ability users, wouldn't it be a fragrant table of Manchu in the eyes of monsters

"Huh? Haicheng's license plate, who are you guys and what are you doing here?"

The modified roof behind the pickup was blown away, and several abilities were pale, watching the mycelium tying up the off-road vehicle behind and hanging it up to a place parallel to them.

Mycelium indiscriminately "searched" them.

Compared with the dead or alive, the people on the off-road vehicle seemed much more relaxed, leaning on the seat and letting the mycelium wrap around and inspecting it, as if they were used to it.

"Black, black badge." The female power user next to Uncle Ma saw the sign of Heiyuan.

Wearing the badge is a young man, with eight teeth in a smile, which contrasts with his ordinary appearance. What made Uncle Ma and the others concerned was that everyone else in the car was wearing camouflage uniforms.

"We want to go... We heard there's a base near here where the military is stationed."

Looking at those eager eyes, the young man in Heiyuan nodded and asked in a long tone, "Have you registered your identity information?"

"what?"

"I mean, have you, as powers, registered your identities with the country?"

"..." It's too late to hide this, so you still take the initiative to report it to the police

"If you don't have information, it will be troublesome, because the identity and household registration information can only be queried in the real world. The registration information of the ability user has been handwritten by a special person and placed in the base. If you don't have it, you can't enter the base, you can only live in the periphery. Oh, The so-called perimeter is the inside of the temporary tent built by mushrooms.”

Several power users on the pickup were hesitant to speak.

After the mushroom search was over, the mycelium slowly loosened, and the two cars were put back on the road. They held several monster corpses that had been turned over from the off-road vehicle and left happily.

"It's really a pain to feed these guys, they don't eat the stale ones." The young man in Heiyuan complained in a low voice.

Mushrooms extract the power of monsters, not to devour flesh and blood. The power of the long-dead corpse has dissipated, and of course they will not look at it again.

"Aren't you the one in charge of this job?" the Red Dragon team member who drove the car teased, "Everyone knows that."

"I've never fed mushrooms with a radius of several kilometers. The mushrooms outside are full, and the ones inside are still hungry!"

This young man from Heiyuan is Yang Chao. He still has one thing in his mind. Li Fei recently hinted that he controls the range and quantity of mushrooms.

It is not difficult to say, but it is not so easy to say. Take the mushroom forest near the Red Dragon base as an example. There is only food on the edge. The mycelium inside will disappear when the energy is exhausted. The mushrooms that are full outside will be separated. The mycelium extends back, and there is a reasonable cycle of ups and downs. The problem is that mushrooms run around everywhere, and they can't stop them. It's more difficult for mushrooms to not open up new territory than an addict.

"Follow the car!"

Yang Chao greeted the pickup.

Surrounded by mushrooms, this group of power users had no choice. The driver held the steering wheel tremblingly and carefully followed the off-road vehicle.

The road gradually disappeared, and the road surface became more and more bumpy, sometimes twisting and turning like a labyrinth.

When the bright lights appeared in front of them, none of the power users on the pickup could tell where the Red Dragon Base was, and they couldn't even tell the difference between east, west, north and west.

The warm lights and the smell of barbecue wafting in the wind lifted their spirits.

When they were near the gate of the base, Uncle Ma and others were surprised to find that there were many cars parked here. Roughly counted, there were at least dozens of power users gathered here, some people lined up to register, and some people gathered around to cook. The cauldron and the one who pulled a hammock and slept under the mushroom handle were very lively.

The off-road vehicle drove straight in and drove into the heavily guarded gate of the base.

A two-person tall bronze sculpture with a strange shape similar to an hourglass was erected at the door. The newcomer did not understand and asked others in a low voice.

"Timekeeping..."

The mechanical arm of the bronze sculpture made a low impact sound, everyone fell silent, the person who was eating stopped moving, and the person who was talking and arguing straightened up, looking melancholy and lost.

People in camouflage uniforms climbed up the stilted building made of two mushrooms at the entrance of the base, and changed the number of iron cards hanging from 7 to 8.

- The eighth day that the entire Haicheng entered the abandoned world.

Vehicles come over every once in a while at the entrance of the base. Some of them are power users who heard the news like Uncle Ma, and there are members of the Red Dragon team who came from other cities to pass the news.

These cars were badly damaged, and some seriously injured people were lifted from the cars. It took them several days to reach Haicheng. They encountered countless dangers along the way. No matter how well prepared they were, they would always run out of ammunition, not to mention accidents were everywhere.

The map hanging on the wall of Major Zhang's office, the area circled by the red pen is getting bigger and bigger.

"The current policy is to defend the base, protect as many ordinary ability users as possible, and keep in touch with the outside world..." Zhang Yaojin paused, looking at the people in the conference room, "This time the whole earth has entered the abandoned world, and it continues in the original book. The time is one year, who of you will tell the Balrog and the Devourer this news?"

Everyone turned to look at the thin man with the code name Albatross.

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