After waiting for a long time, I finally couldn't hear the "crackling" sound of wildfire burning. After waiting for more than half an hour, they felt the temperature above slightly lowered before crawling out. At this time, the four of them had already been relatively
Exhausted and drowsy at the high temperature.
By the time they climbed out again, the sun was about to set, the surrounding wasteland was burned to the point of being dark, and the originally dense forest had become empty shelves, leaving only a few larger trunks, which can be seen from time to time.
Holding the corpse of a burned wild rat together.
On the road in the distance, except for the two destroyed armored vehicles, the remaining ones were the corpses of soldiers. Most of the corpses were burned to the darkness and the guns could no longer be used. The two T-type tanks
I had long disappeared - the commander of the Golden Frenzy Eddie ignored their lives and death. Maybe I was chasing the liberation front, or maybe I retreated.
Tang Shuxing rubbed his eyes that could not be opened, sat next to the tunnel and reached out to touch the kettle. He remembered that the water inside had already been completely poured out, and he could only drink turbid water, but his mouth was
The hair was so dry that it was cracked, and the facial skin seemed to be being torn hard by something.
"The first time I encountered a wildfire was in Somalia. At that time, I brought five people with me, two of them were employers. I didn't understand at that time. I ran away when I saw the fire. At the end, the others couldn't run and were burned to death.
I was lucky enough to fall into a crater and survived." Quinn took out a soft-packed juice drink from his backpack, "and this one, vitamins and necessary water every day, otherwise in this ghost place in Africa,
You can't stand this kind of sun for a day."
"You have prepared juice? That's great!" Ji Kefeng turned it out of his backpack and sucked greedily.
Quinn raised the juice and touched Ji Kefeng's wrist: "I wish we all can go back alive."
"Tong Zhu." Tang Shuxing also raised his juice and then handed it to Ji Kefeng - he could not eat what normal humans should eat, otherwise he would die.
After a while, the four of them got up and walked through the burnt wasteland and headed towards the highway. Who knew that as soon as they walked on the road full of corpses and wreckage, countless ragged men, women, and young people ran from both sides. The four of them immediately
He held the gun in his hand tightly, but was waved to put it down by Quinn.
Quinn carried his assault rifle and walked over a corpse: "These are all victims of war and people who still hold hope for life. Every time the battle ends, they will run out at risk and pick up some trash.
Go to exchange money and food, but they won't take guns, because whether it's the Liberation Front, the Golden Frenzy, or the Political and Axe Army, if they find that they have hidden guns, they will immediately frame them as a gang, and even the entire village will be
The gun was implicated."
Quinn pointed to the side and said, "There was once a bustling village on the east side. That year, because of a gun, the whole village was massacred. About twenty of the dead were underage children."
No one answered Quinn and asked anything else. It was only a few minutes later that Ji Kefeng changed the subject and asked: "How long will it take to go to Kanka Province?" He was exhausted, and was in the pit.
After squatting for nearly two hours, my energy was exhausted by the stuffiness.
"We have to walk for a whole day at this walking speed." Quinn said casually with his gun in his arms, "But with me, you won't be bored along the way. I will explain the customs and culture here, and you can still eat with good luck!
The last meal of the local delicious barbecue wild rat was not the kind that was burned to death by wildfires.”
Quinn stopped talking, the team fell silent again, and everyone continued to move along the highway. The civilians who came to pick up rags also regarded them as air. Except for a small number of children, no one had to look at them directly, and they didn't know
Is it because of fear or has long been used to it?
After walking for a few hours, I only knew to walk to the north, from the highway to the wasteland, then from the wasteland, onto the path that people stepped out, then into the dense bushes, and then onto the so-called road full of devastatedness, and finally saw a hundred meters.
There was a little fire outside, and I looked up at the sky and it was already dark. The four of them walked numbly and continued to move forward, maintaining the most basic vigilance.
"There is probably a refugee camp ahead, and they are all escaping from war everywhere. It can also be said that they are chasing the war, because only where the battle occurs can you pick up something to change the basic supplies of daily necessities." Quinn held his gun, "
From now on, put away the guns and don’t cause unnecessary trouble. Sleep in crowded places tonight and set off before dawn tomorrow. I guess I will be able to arrive in Kankasa by night.”
The other three nodded numbly and continued to move forward. Tang Shuxing took two steps and asked Quinn breathlessly: "Why doesn't the United Nations send peacekeeping troops?"
"It's useless." Quinn glanced at him, "The earliest peacekeeping forces were from Britain and France, but because these two countries had colonized here before, they were subject to two other factions except the political and axe army.
Oppose, and even the Liberation Front and the Golden Frenzy formed a temporary alliance for the first time, constantly attacking peacekeeping troops, and finally had to withdraw. Immediately afterwards, the United States and Russia came in quietly, the Americans supported the Political and Axe Army, and the Russians supported the Golden Frenzy. From that day on, the war was in full swing.
It never stopped again, but it gave arms dealers and mercenaries room to survive."
"For the mineral resources here?" Ji Kefeng asked afterwards.
"What do those resources count?" Quinn stopped, "Then I ask you, what is Ethiopia? What is Somalia? What is Congo? On this magical continent of Africa, you can't find a place without war, and
Wars are not caused by resources, there are many other things, differences between different ethnic groups, immature political demands, etc..”
"But, I don't understand why the great powers are looking at this place. I've been curious, but I didn't find it out." Quinn shook his head.
Tang Shuxing stared at the road and thought, not for resources, why should he focus on such a small country? It is not a key military buffer zone. If there is a conflict between the two neighboring countries of Astaya, war will occur at any time.
Therefore, it is understandable to choose Astaya as a non-military buffer zone, but the fact is that the neighboring countries themselves are still in a civil war.
Finally approaching the camp, everyone could see the bonfires lit up, and the civilians singing and dancing around the bonfires. They were all naked, covered with black mud all over their bodies, as if they were performing some ritual.
But when they found that Quinn and the other four arrived, they immediately stopped their activities and looked back at them. The atmosphere in the camp became very strange in an instant.
Quinn raised his hands and pointed at the tree next to him, saying that he would not approach or disturb them. Then he turned around and found a few trees to sit down, and gestured to let them continue, and then greeted Tang Shu.
Xing and others approach him and don’t step forward again.
"What are they doing?" Tang Shuxing sat down and asked.
Quinn whispered: "A indigenous ritual, in Astaya, a tribe may be a nation of different beliefs. Before Britain and France colonized here, wars occurred frequently in tribes because of the gods they believe in.
They are all headhunting, but strange things have happened before..."
When Quinn just said this, the people on the bonfire suddenly raised a teenager and sang loudly, then put the teenager down again. Everyone touched the blood from their index finger on the teenager's chest, and then
Under the command of a leader, the boy was thrown directly into the fire.
"I'll go! Kill someone, is this?" Tang Shuxing stood up and wanted to stop him.
"Don't go!" Gu Huaiyi stopped him, "This is their own business. We are outsiders, and they don't feel cruel."
"But..." Tang Shuxing saw the young man standing up as if nothing had happened from the fire, holding up his hands high, and there was a blue flame in his hands. The people around him immediately knelt down and worshiped.
Continue to sing.
"Do you do magic?" Tang Shuxing looked at him in surprise.
"Africa is a magical land." Quinn yawned, "Don't be so surprised."
Ji Kefeng nodded and stared at the boy: "It's indeed amazing."
What happened next is even more incomprehensible and bloody and cruel - those people surrounded the boy who walked out of the fire with their knives, cutting his flesh with one knife and one piece of meat, just like China
In ancient times, Ling Chi executed him, but he only cut off the flesh of the boy's upper body and did not move his legs.
The boy who was cut off his flesh was just standing there, motionless, without any pain on his face. Every time someone finished cutting, he had to look at the man and talk to himself, as if he was giving blessings.
After each of the people who held the ceremony cut a piece of meat, the young man who was cut slowly turned around and left, step by step towards the wasteland, while the others lined up neatly and stood behind, singing to send off.
After he walked away and disappeared into the dark wasteland, the people in the ceremony returned to the bonfire, roasted the piece of meat in their hands and ate it with satisfaction.
"Eat human flesh!?" Ji Kefeng covered his mouth.
Quinn and Gu Huaiyi looked like they were not strange, but what about Tang Shuxing? He actually smelled the smell of Ji Kefeng being disgusting and wanted to vomit, and he drooled in greed - he had long been unable to eat food that normal people had eaten, but
I didn't dare to let Quinn know that he was a monster. He had been holding on before, or pretending to eat, and then found a place to vomit.
"They think they eat not human flesh, but God's gift." Quinn explained, "The young man was a victim chosen by everyone, and a sacrifice to the spirit of the wasteland. However, before offering sacrifices, they must first taste the sacrifice.
, it can be regarded as a respect for the spirit of the wasteland, just like someone who had to help test the poison before eating in an ancient emperor."
"Where has that boy gone?" Tang Shuxing stood up and looked around.
"He would walk slowly on the wasteland until he fell down until he was eaten by the animals on the wasteland, for in the eyes of the Astaya, the spirit of the wasteland would possess all kinds of animals,
Sometimes it is a lion, sometimes it is a leopard, sometimes it is something else. The tribes believe that the spirit of the wasteland, that is, the totems they worship, are different, but everyone recognizes that there are spirits of the wasteland, especially as the war spreads across the country.
Today.”
"What I'm curious about is..." Tang Shuxing stared at the direction of the boy leaving, "He is not dead in the fire, and his upper body is almost cut to the point where only the skeleton is left, is it because?" Tang Shuxing subconsciously said that
Looking at Gu Huaiyi.
"Alien Artist." Gu Huaiyi whispered, "There are also in Africa, and they are everywhere in the world, but everyone calls them differently. In Africa, many wizards are alien Artists, and that young man may be the descendant of the wizard."
"When the French colonized here, strange things also happened..." Quinn suddenly said, staring at the position of the ceremony, "At that time, there were not many French troops in Astaya, because here at that time, it was not yet a lot of here.
Very backward, without firearms, only bows, arrows, spears, and swords, so there is no need for many garrisons to eliminate opposing tribal forces. At that time, they just regarded this country as a barren land until World War II broke out and France surrendered to Nazi Germany.
The Nazi forces penetrated deep into Africa. Although the main battlefield was in North Africa at that time, due to a conflict between the French garrison and local tribes, the Nazis turned their attention to Astaya in East Africa."
At that time, Italy was not smooth on the battlefield in East Africa. It was beaten by the British army for several rounds and finally had to ask for help from allies, Nazi Germany. The intervention of the German army under Rommel made the Axis powers reverse the situation in North Africa.
The French had surrendered nearly a year ago. Although they gave up their war zone, the British still insisted and began to use the power of the colonial natives to drive away the fascists.
The battle in the small country of Asata is also going on quietly, but the French foreign legions are fighting here. Because France surrenders, the legions are divided into two parties, one side is loyal to free France led by Charles de Gaulle, while the other side is loyal to Germany.
When their battle began, the situation in East Africa had not yet been completely opened, and the main battlefield was still in North Africa.
One night, the foreign legion loyal to Vichy Axe was under renovation. The day before, they had just experienced a cruel battle and finally found a water source to camp and rest. Who knew that when the evening came, they were full of people.
The ** boy with a weird totem tattoo appeared outside their camp, without any weapons, just stood there blankly, watching the soldiers staring at him in the camp.
The soldier scolded him to leave, but the officer thought he was just here to find water, and asked the translator to come forward and tell the young man that he could use the vessel to carry the water he needed, because the water source was sufficient, enough for his soldiers, and even enough for them.
bath.
The boy didn't say anything, and even his eyes didn't fall on the translator. He just stared at the officer, his eyes becoming more and more greedy, blending with an indescribable horror.
"Hey—" The translator stepped forward again and looked at the boy. Just as he was about to speak, the boy raised his index finger and stuffed it into the translator's mouth. Then the translator trembled all over and stood up.
The officers in the camp could only see the translator standing there with his back facing him, his hands slightly spreading, and they kept a stiff and motionless posture. They immediately realized something was wrong and shouted loudly to the soldiers to be alert. At this moment,
The first aboriginal people appeared on all sides of the camp, all with the same tattoos as the teenagers, and had no weapons in their hands. They just stood there and looked at the foreign legion soldiers in the camp.
The atmosphere solidified, the boy withdrew his hand, turned around, faced the camp, and then accelerated his pace and rushed towards the officer...