In the open space in the middle of the work area, Old Jack raised his hand and made a gesture. Immediately, the chattering crowd gradually quieted down.
Old Jack cleared his throat, pointed to Hans and said, "Today, I want to tell everyone a sad news. Just last night, Hans, a bitch, raped this poor girl!"
Although everyone had vaguely guessed what happened, when the truth came out of Old Jack's mouth, it still caused a commotion. Many men yelled at Hans, but they didn't know whether it was out of sympathy for Lida or anger at Hans for taking the lead.
Zero also clenched his fists tightly, Rita's misfortune could be said to be indirectly caused by him. If he hadn't pushed Rita out of the room last night, it might have been a different ending.
But the matter is a foregone conclusion, even if it is zero, it can't change Lida's upcoming fate.
Old Jack waved his hand again, and after calming everyone down, he pointed at Hans angrily and said, "This cheap dog ignores the rules set by my old Jack. How do you punish him?"
After a brief silence, whoever yelled "throw it into the wilderness to feed the wolves" was followed by voices of approval one after another.
Hans, who was kneeling in the field, glanced at these people with vicious eyes. He opened his mouth like a ferocious dog trying to devour people and let out a deep growl. Finally, his eyes fell on Old Jack.
Old Jack looked at him without mercy, like looking at a corpse wolf in the wilderness: "Did you hear that? You broke the rules first. I won't kill you, but I will make you feel worse than death. "
"I'm going to kill you! And you, one day, I will come back and kill you all!"
Hans yelled like crazy, and tried to rush up and bite Old Jack. But he was kicked to the ground by Zuoge next to him, and he gave the mad dog a few times with the butt of his gun, which made his forehead bleed. Hans could only kick on the ground in vain.
Old Jack waved his hand, Zuo Ge called two soldiers, they picked up Hans, escorted him out of the work area. The fate of Hans can be foreseen. He will be thrown out of the wilderness by the base, and the records of this person will be published through the internal computer network of the Parkland Chaebol. Hans will never be able to enter the various branches and bases opened by the Parkland Chaebol. serve.
While being taken away, Hans was still cursing the people in the base vaguely. Naturally, many men gave him two punches when he passed by, but the soldiers did not stop him. For those who break the rules, there will never be forgiveness and mercy.
After Hans left, Lida was left on the field. Old Jack looked at her, sighed, and said, "Lida, the most beautiful woman in our base bar. This poor woman, according to the regulations, should have been compensated a lot of money, so as to smooth the impact of this incident on her. coming hurt. But..."
Old Jack hesitated to speak, as if the next words made it difficult for him to speak. Seeing that the usually decisive old Jack hesitated, everyone knew that nothing good would happen next. Sure enough, old Jack said something that shocked everyone.
"However, it's unfortunate. That bitch of Hans got the virus from unknown sources, and Lida, who had sex with him, we detected an alarm signal of a level-three virus on her body."
There was another uproar.
For ubiquitous viruses, the standards of major companies in the world are combined to strictly divide them. Like the danger of monsters and the safety of food, the degree of harm of viruses to the human body is also divided into ten levels. And the virus infection above the third level not only means that the infected person is sure to die, but also the virus infected on the body is contagious, so it is already within the scope of major hazards.
There are usually only two ways for people infected with the virus above the third level. One is to be shot on the spot, and the infected person’s body is completely burned with high-temperature flames; the second is to isolate and rescue, but the Z7 base does not have the conditions and technology to cure the third-level virus infected person, as for sending it to the Parkland headquarters for rescue, Neither the base nor Lida has that qualification.
There's no way the Parkland plutocrats are spending tons of money and drugs to cure a fringe base barmaid.
Old Jack's heavy eyes fell on Lida, and he sighed: "My child, I hope you can understand my current mood. If possible, I definitely don't want to abandon you. But now, for the safety of other people in the base, I can only ... Please leave the base!"
Leaving the base means facing the infinitely dangerous wilderness alone. And with the third-level virus, Lida will not be taken in by any base or company, it is no different from death.
Lida's body swayed slightly, but she was strong enough not to fall down. She nodded solemnly, with tears in her eyes.
Old Jack sighed again, turned around and waved his hand. Zuoge went up, shook his head, and took Lida's hand towards the exit of the base.
The crowd automatically separated from the two sides to make way for a passage.
However, at that passage, Zero straightened his body. When Rita saw him, her body shook slightly.
Zuo Ge took her to Zero's side.
Looking at this woman, Ling almost squeezed out a few words: "What I owe you, I must pay back!"
Rita smiled.
She bumped into Zuoge suddenly, pulled out the pistol from his waist, and pointed at Zero.
Everyone's face changed drastically, except for Zero.
Ling Yi remained motionless, standing on the spot like a stone statue, silently looking at the black muzzle pointing at him.
"You are wrong, Zero." Lida showed a poignant smile: "Some debts cannot be repaid, because I want you to owe me forever!"
The muzzle turned and pointed at his temple.
Zero finally bent, and his body thrust forward.
The trigger is pulled.
He was still a little late.
Just as he was about to catch Rita's pistol, the poor woman shot herself. Lida's head swung violently to one side, and the kinetic energy of the bullet lifted her legs off the ground, and she fell sideways.
Her body fell lightly onto the palms of both hands.
It was Zuoge's palm, he caught Lida's body from behind, preventing her from touching the filth of this world again.
Zero's hands were stretched out in the air, but he didn't catch anything. After a long time, he withdrew his hand and said softly to Zuo Ge: "Thank you."
Zuoge nodded, then shook his head again with a complicated expression.
Rita died, her body was cremated, and the remaining ashes were placed in a box and buried in the communal cemetery behind the base's living quarters. A not-so-beautiful tombstone witnessed the existence of this beautiful woman. In the photo on the tombstone, Lida smiled slightly.
A bouquet of light yellow flowers was placed in front of Lida's grave. Zero stood up and bowed three times towards the tombstone. It took him a day to collect this bouquet of flowers, under the strong ultraviolet rays, almost all over the wasteland within a hundred kilometers outside the base, and shot and killed several corpse wolves. This represents a little bit of thought from Zero, even if this little bit of heart can no longer be received by Lida.
He looked at the woman in the photo and gently said the name "Lida" back and forth three times. Zero knows that this woman will never be forgotten in this life, and she will occupy a corner of Zero's heart. No matter how small that position is, it will never die.
As Rita said, it was his debt to her. A debt that can never be repaid.
In the following days, the base returned to calm. In addition to being with Leah every day, Zero also gets two hours of practice time. During these two hours, Zero continued to familiarize himself with his abilities in the soldier training ground at the base. The first level of strength enhancement can make Zero One punch with a strength of 700 pounds, and the force of the violent kick is as high as about 3,000 pounds, which means that Zero can easily bend a steel plate, and at the same time distinguish him from ordinary people .
As for the first-order defense enhancement, Zero only did a simple test. He stabbed his thigh with his own dagger, but the moment the dagger entered his body, the muscles of his thigh naturally rebounded, so that the dagger only penetrated less than 3 centimeters into his body. And the force of zero is enough to plunge the dagger into the human body.
Zero even considered shooting himself with a gun, but eventually gave up on the crazy idea.
And these data, naturally, he secretly collected in private, but he dared not openly do it in front of the second person.
During this period, Old Jack returned to the Parkland headquarters for a routine report, and Ling asked him to order 50 rounds of special M500 bullets. After possessing a physique with first-order strength enhancement, Zero has the confidence to control the ferocious recoil of this pair of large-caliber revolvers.
Time passed day by day, spring and autumn came, and two years passed in a blink of an eye.
It's another spring.
For the old days, spring symbolized the awakening of all things, and it was a season bestowed with good wishes. In the turbulent new era, spring has the same symbol, but the awakened things are not so beautiful for human beings.
Those mutated creatures that fell asleep because of winter, after waking up in spring, the hunger in their stomachs will make them even more violent.
Near the Z7 base, the most numerous creatures are corpse wolves. This scavenging animal that feeds on corpses mutates due to infection with corpse poison or other viruses. Their bodies are much bigger than the wild wolves of the old era. After several generations of genetic inheritance and transformation, they belong to the third generation of corpse wolves. Adult male wolves weigh up to 40 kilograms.
They become stronger and more resistant to radiation. This is quite an ironic fact. In the turbulent age, beasts are far more suitable for the changes in the surface environment than humans.
It is spring now, the dead wolves wake up from hibernation, and they search for food all over the mountains and plains. According to the past records of the base, when the corpse wolves couldn't find enough food, they would often attack human settlements in groups, causing quite a bit of trouble.
So on this morning, Zero appeared on a hill one kilometer away from the base, and started the third hunt for corpse wolves. This is the latest mission of the base, and every ten corpse wolves is worth one yuan. Although there are not many, Zero believes in the principle that gathering sand makes a tower.