Some people are alive, but they are already dead; some people are dead, but they are still alive.
Some people carve their names into stones in order to be "immortal", while others would rather be weeds and wait for the fire in the ground to burn them.
Life spans only tens to hundreds of years, and no one wants to become famous forever and stand at the highest point.
On earth, Soma failed to make most people remember him, and he even failed to make people other than his relatives have a deep impression on him.
But in this wasteland, it is no exaggeration.
If there is one thing that these remaining survivors should keep in mind, that is it.
His face!
In the wasteland, this face represents rules and hope.
Likewise, for ordinary people, it means surviving!
"Howl is Soma, no wonder Soma is Howl, no wonder!"
"Only he can make an ordinary demon soul clan become famous and glorious in just a few days. Only he has the ability to turn decay into magic!"
Looking at that tall and majestic figure that makes people unable to take their eyes away, watching him join the humans coming in front with a full smile.
Marshal Wang's feet gave way and he collapsed directly to the ground.
In the last second, his mind flashed back to the arrogance of standing in front of Somo, shouting at him, asking him to bring him the broth.
The next second, he remembered that he was facing the strongest man in the human race, facing the flag of the human race, facing this famous God-Slayer, and he actually waved his fist and smashed it hard.
"I actually talked loudly to Su Shen? How dare I take action against Su Shen?"
His mind was suddenly confused, and Marshal Wang started talking back and forth. He was obviously frightened!
Of course, Sumo, who had already stepped forward to greet him, did not know about these psychological activities of his.
Facing the menacing attack, everyone looked like they were raising an army to punish the enemy.
Looking at Oreo's anxious but happy dog face, he seemed to have remembered something. The smile on Somo's face froze, and his steps subconsciously stopped.
"Director, director, no matter what you say this time, we won't let you go out again."
"Yes, that's the truth. Director, next time you go out, I, Li Hu, have to stay with you even if I die, otherwise these people will skin me!"
"Woof! Woof! Woof!"
"Master, this time Moore will follow you. Moore doesn't want to work at home. Moore wants to fight!"
"Brother, you promised not to leave behind my back, but you ran away and took risks. You wanted to scare us to death at home!!!"
Voices of blame sounded one after another, and behind the voices were familiar faces full of worry.
Obviously, on the day when the Demon Soul Clan was seriously injured, everyone was frightened through Oreo's early warning.
If Soma hadn't left a fatal order before leaving, no one could leave the territory's borders for any reason.
Otherwise, it will be in the form of that day.
I'm afraid there will be a depression
All hands on deck!
"I"
Hugging Su Chan, who rushed over, and looking at the people surrounding him, Su Mo opened his mouth, but was still able to say a word.
"Brother, I want you to promise me now, otherwise the next time you leave, I will follow you immediately."
"They can't stop me!"
The wind and snow that lasted for a day had only stopped for two or three hours. Just like the Demon Soul Clan's territory, every part of the depression was covered with snow, turning it into a kingdom of ice and snow.
At around six o'clock in the morning, the rising sun in the sky was only a pale white, and it did not fully shine.
With Oreo's early warning of joy, Chen Shen, Li Hu, Pei Shao, Shen Ke and others were just disheveled, so they took a piece of clothing and threw it on before rushing out.
But Su Chan didn't even wear any shoes, she just stepped on the cold snow and ran for nearly a kilometer.
Along the way, even though she fell twice and bruised her elbows, she didn't let anyone, including Oreo, help her up.
"Does it hurt?"
"I want you to answer me now!"
Inheriting Su's mother's stubborn temper, Su Chan stubbornly turned away her arm and stared straight at Su Mo when she heard that Su Mo did not answer her question directly.
Others also turned their gazes over at this moment, staring directly at Somo.
Logically speaking, this scene is a very strange thing.
It is completely different from other territories. If Somo is now indulging in enjoyment every day and ignoring the development of the territory, then it will be okay for everyone to come up and give advice.
But the fact is that compared to Somo who is struggling outside and working through life and death, they are like the ones enjoying themselves at home.
But there is no other way, for the safety of this great lord.
Counting the people in the entire territory who can say this, Su Chan is the only one left!
"Okay, I promise you, I won't go into danger alone again until this winter is over!"
Knowing that everyone wanted to "force him into the palace", Su Mo had no choice but to smile helplessly, muttered, and carried Su Chan on his back.
"You guys"
He looked around at the people who looked a little guilty and dodge their eyes.
After pouting at Marshal Wang behind him, Sumo took the lead and walked forward.
Most of the time, he cherishes his life more than everyone present. No one knows better than him the principle of enduring for a while and taking a step back to calm down.
But there were a few moments when he was like those passionate young people who were willing to give up their own safety for certain ideals and certain missions.
This is not immaturity, nor is it the stubbornness of young people.
But after such a long time, Sumo knew more and more clearly what he needed now.
He wanted all the survivors in the depression to have a house to live in, to have something to eat, and to spend this cold winter safely.
He wants the lowland to become rich, the technology tree to revive, the economy to circulate, everyone to have their own treasury, and everyone to have their own pursuits.
He didn't want to see a super-large human gathering place like what Marshal Wang said, where everyone was trying to survive, giving up their bottom line as a human being, and releasing their animal nature.
These people, including Su Chan, have no idea at all!
From being beaten by others to the door, an ordinary person can only sit on a stool and cheer himself up.
He has evolved to this day and is a tyrannical warrior who dares to risk life and death and has ruthless methods. What has he experienced?
"Su Chan, you know, I have to fight. It has nothing to do with what kind of life we want to live, but I can't stop anymore!"
After carrying his sister on his back and striding away from the crowd behind him, Somo seemed to be talking to himself or to the person on his back.
"You need me, my parents need me, Oreo, Moore, Big and Little Sparks, they all need me."
"But besides you, the villagers in this depression, Chen Shen and Li Hu, also need me!"
"But apart from you, do you know that in this wasteland, the people who need me more than you are actually the ordinary people who are still struggling between life and death today?"
Speaking of this, Su Chan trembled violently on his back, and Su Mo stopped talking in time.
For his sister, who is destined to live under his wings, sometimes Sumo doesn't want to pass on too much fear and pressure.
But living in the apocalypse, no one dares to say that they will definitely survive.
To prepare for a rainy day, Sumo chose the method that was not gentle but the most acceptable.
However, Su Chan's strength, or ordinary people's understanding of the end of the world, once again exceeded Somo's original impression.
"Brother, do you think I don't understand?"
"Let's not talk about the admiration of those ordinary people for you when I was in the Tundra Refuge. Let's just talk about these people in our territory."
"When you were here, Chen Shen was full of confidence every day. He was busy with this and that every day. He wished he could work 24 hours a day and devote his passion to construction. But once you left, development, economy, life, etc. were burdened with many things.
After I pressed him, I never saw a smile on his face, nor did I see him finish a complete meal. When you are here and when you are not, he is basically two people."
"Brother Hu, when you are here, Brother Hu only needs to lead people to patrol once a day and return to the village to train the militia team. But once you leave, Brother Hu has to go to the border to lead patrols every day. For fear of
Someone ran into the territory. Every night, after everyone went to bed, he sat anxiously in the duty room at the entrance of the village, waiting for news from the outgoing team."
"There are also Sister Shen, Su Yuan and the others. When you were here, most of their energy was focused on how to arrange better tasks to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm. But after you left, they worked tirelessly every day to count the rest of us.
We are studying how to save the materials we purchased so that you don’t feel too stressed.”
"Including ordinary villagers, and even the cooks who cook every day, when you were here, I could feel their concentration and gratitude in every meal, but after you left, their meals also lost a lot of flavor."
“…”
Counting from the beginning to the end of the village, from the village chief Chen Shen, all the way to the cook in the shelter.
On the surface, Su Chan, who was happily grazing cattle and sheep every day, observed the territory in such detail that it completely exceeded Somo's imagination.
Even most of the situations she mentioned existed that even Sumo himself could not observe.
"Brother, do you think we don't know we need you? Or do you think everyone doesn't know the importance of you in this territory?"
"With you, it is our home, and it is the home that we have to water with our sweat and defend with our lives!"
"What is it without you?"
Dongri’s tears were warm and warm.
After saying the last sentence with a hint of crying, Su Chan's tears began to flow down, and finally hit Su Mo's shoulder and fell on his hand.
"Brother, do you know what we, the rest of us, should do if something happens to you?"
An angry punch hit Somo on the chest. Although Su Chan used her own strength, it was still like scratching an itch for the demigod's body.
But it was at this moment that, just as the dry and cracked skin was soaked with tears, Somo's dry heart was also injected with a living spring.
"It's me. It's me. I'm so selfish."
Su Chan stopped sobbing: "No, brother, you are not too selfish, you are too selfless!"
"You have to know that you are just an old otaku who has lived on earth for more than 20 years. You are not the warriors in the game who defeated the devil at all!"
Little or no one knows about Soma's past.
In the spotlight, he is always so perfect and always so domineering!
It is difficult for people to think that such a person is just an ordinary person among the crowd on earth.
But in the eyes of his relatives, Sumo will always be that ordinary person who laughs and laughs. His greatest happiness is playing games and bragging with netizens.
"Ha, if you didn't tell me, I would hardly be able to remember, and I would still be an ordinary person."
"That's right, it's my turn to worry about everything in this world!"
After communicating with Marshal Wang, and on the way back to the depression, Sumo was thinking about how to destroy this 30,000-person base and how to accept the people inside.
But at this moment, he realized that he was wrong.
It's not that he was wrong or had a problem with his thinking, but that he had been living a smooth life without any awareness of the doomsday wasteland.
In real comparison, he was not as good as Su Chan, who had lived in the tundra refuge for more than a month.
There was never a morsel of food or a sip of water.
I have never had the experience of being naked and having to hide in the cold wind to survive.
I have never experienced intrigues with other survivors, playing tricks on each other, and plotting against each other's supplies.
Since arriving in the wasteland, Sumo admitted that he was a bit lucky.
Having a system helped him avoid the difficult situations faced by more than 99% of survivors.
But at the same time, it also caused him to lose the opportunity to change his mentality in a certain sense, making his thoughts a little naive on rare occasions.
"You're right. I don't have the ability to save everyone in the world. I can't even save a base with 30,000 people."
After walking most of the way back to the shelter, he heard Su Chan bursting into laughter behind her. Somo shook his head in relief, and then all the sorrow on his face disappeared.
Sometimes, admitting one's own incompetence is indeed difficult for oneself to accept.
But sometimes, once you really let go of this burden, what you can feel is peace in your heart.
"Isn't that right? It's just a base of 30,000 people?"
"Brother, have you found anyone else outside?"
"Well, I got some news that there are about 30,000 people near us!"
Without any cover-up, Sumo slowly told the story of the war that took place in Liberty City, how he met Marshal Wang, and how he subdued him through a strange combination of circumstances.
Among them, Somo did not sugarcoat the news about the human gathering place and the cruelty inside.
"Ah? They have developed into this? This is too much."
"I'm considering waiting until the heavy snow is over and sending people there to inquire about the news. Firstly, we really need some people in the depression. Secondly, after knowing this, I still have some unreasonable thoughts in my mind if I don't go there."
"But there's no rush on this matter. There's going to be heavy snowfall soon. Our first priority must be to solve our problem!"
The sun rises, accompanied by the rising sun's rays.
I hope that many villagers in the village have already gotten up and are moving in groups.
Different from those lazy people in Liberty City who are just for profit.
Within a radius of 500 meters surrounding the village, apart from the snowflakes that fell last night, there was no snow at all as expected.
Even the roofs of prefabricated houses and some hidden places have been cleaned up by the villagers!
Moreover, on the right side of the village, there are already two huge jars covered with thick "coats" standing up, with a large word "water" clearly written on them.
Run through the heating pipes and start burning the boiler.
Soon, the water in these two jars will heat up immediately, providing everyone in the depression with hard-earned hot water!
Seeing a strange figure carrying someone on his back walking from a distance, the people in the village reacted quickly.
At first, they thought one of their own was injured outside and was being carried back by his teammates, so they quickly wanted to come over and help.
But after taking two steps closer and realizing that it was Somo who was coming back, they stepped back in surprise, and then started to scream strangely after escaping from Somo's sight.
It's not a wake-up call, it's better than a wake-up call.
Hearing the five words from the director, some people who were still sleeping and still lying in bed immediately lost the slightest bit of sleepiness, quickly put on their clothes and rushed out.
"Hahaha, these people are really..."
"Brother, they love you, no, they love you. Look, they are so energetic!"
In less than three minutes, more than a thousand people quickly "gathered" together.
In order to look familiar in Somo, some of the social bad habits are to get dressed, pick up a shovel, rush out, and work directly on last night's snow.
Most people, however, timidly looked at Somo from a distance, with undisguised awe and happiness on their faces.
"You didn't turn on the heating last night?"
"It was turned on, but it's no different than not turned on. We didn't have enough coal. It only turned on for two hours and then turned off!"
When he heard the words "coal is not enough," Sumo couldn't help but frowned.
With the current temperature and the physiques of the people in the depression, they will definitely not be able to withstand widespread illness for a long time.
But the next second, when he thought of the hundreds of marks on his waist and the more than 500 templates he brought back, Sumo couldn't help but laugh.
"Don't worry, we don't have enough coal, but our neighbors have plenty of coal."
"There is a saying that happiness alone is not as good as happiness among everyone. The day after tomorrow, no, tomorrow morning, I will take people there to pick up the coal that my friend gave us!"