The sky is hot and dry, and the air is like twisted dough.
In the small gathering place, survivors in twos and threes were like dehydrated mummies, sitting feebly under the wooden eaves.
On the streets, flies buzzed around like swarms of bees, looking for bits of meat.
The survivors here seem to have become accustomed to the company of flies. They saw an old man as thin as firewood lying on the chopping board, shaking his arms to grab the flies on his eyelids, pinching them gently, and sent them in
Chew it hard in your mouth.
His calf was rotten, and under the rolled-up trouser legs, the calf looked like a dried cow leg. At the wound as big as a bowl, dense white spots drilled in and out of the moist flesh.
But maybe the old man's flesh was too thick, and except for the rotten flesh and blood at the wound, he could still drill through it. The maggots actually used too much force while drilling in, and they bounced to the ground with a snap.
"Little Kaqi, your grandpa is quite able to endure it. He still has the heart to eat at this time."
"We agreed, if this leg is cut off, it will be mine."
Behind the pallet, a skinny man wearing a dirty smelly apron looked at the little boy next to the pallet and smiled.
As he spoke, he turned his wrist and raised a chipped boning knife high, aiming at the old man's joints.
In his words, cutting off a leg did not seem to be such a shocking thing. Several survivors who were lazily watching the show even teased the boy:
"Little Kaqi, why do you still care about this old man?"
"Why don't we share a little bit with each other? Maybe when the caravan comes, we can exchange for a few cans."
Listening to the adults' teasing, the little boy with the jug on his head that was bigger than his head just shook his head firmly, and with a pair of eyes on his tanned face, he just looked at his grandfather nervously.
"Master Ke Luo, you can chop it, I can feed my grandpa!"
After the words fell, Little Kaqi forcefully pulled the strip of cloth tied to the old man's foot, worried that there would be too much bleeding. Although, Grandpa's body might not even have much blood left.
On the pallet, the old man still showed no reaction. Even if his legs were about to be chopped off, it felt like he was chopping firewood.
He just numbly picked up the flies and fleas on his body and threw them into his mouth, which made a few crunching sounds, just like eating broad beans.
Perhaps he felt the trembling of little Kaqi's hand. After the old man swallowed the fleas with great effort, he suddenly seemed to think of something. With some difficulty, he grabbed a handful of white maggots crawling around from his wound and handed it to the boy sideways.
before.
"Little Kaqi...eat...Grandpa is useless..."
"Don't be afraid... Hold the cloth tighter, and grandpa will live a few more days... You can raise a lot of maggots like that..."
"Remember...eat more liver...liver contains iron...you still need to grow..."
"Hoho...ho..."
The old man laughed hoarsely. Although the smile was terrifying, as stiff as a mummy. But in the eyes of little Kaqi, Grandpa's eyes were full of kindness.
"No...! Grandpa! I won't eat you...! You won't die!"
Listening to his grandfather starting to teach him how to survive with his body, little Kaqi couldn't bear it anymore and burst into tears.
He has nothing left but his grandfather.
The zombies ate my father, and my mother was captured by the caravan.
If grandpa died, he wouldn't want to live anymore.
The boy's cry was a bit harsh in the silent gathering place, but people were indifferent and just looked at him calmly, no one even said words of comfort.
The ten-year-long apocalypse has almost turned people into another kind of zombies.
It is hard to imagine that they are actually quite lucky and kind-hearted. They do not eat living people and still retain the last trace of their humanity.
They were a scientific expedition team, and the man responsible for cutting off the old man's calf was the best surgeon in their team before the end.
"Snapped!"
When he picked up the knife and dropped it, not even a few drops of blood spilled.
With a grunt, a skinny leg rolled to the boy's feet.
"Little Kachi...my...good boy..."
"Take it and cook it with everyone..."
....
High in the sky, Zhang Tie looked at the scene below him with some dullness.
He should have taken action long ago, but after he and Captain Lin separated, he hesitated at the first stop.
What happened in the town was not very touching, it was just the most common norm in the apocalypse.
"Captain Lin, do we really want to kill everyone?"
Zhang Tie couldn't help but ask Xiang Lin An. He was neither pedantic nor holy. But he still felt a little uncomfortable when he was asked to kill everyone.
especially...
This world is very big.
"We are not trying to kill them, and we are not killing anyone."
"We are just ending this place and restarting it. Zhang Tie, they are just NPCs."
As if he had expected it, Lin An's calm voice sounded instantly.
Almost at the moment he finished speaking, a deafening explosion suddenly came from the communication.
Zhang Tie's heart was shaken, and with his perception, he naturally realized that Captain Lin had already started to take action.
Behind him, a flash of light suddenly illuminated the sky.
"The end here...doesn't count as a human being..."
"Why..."
With a sigh, Zhang Tie shook his head with complicated eyes and simply didn't think much about it.
The next second, he took a deep breath and punched the ground hard!
earthquake!
"boom!!!!"
The huge power and spiritual energy instantly generated a high-energy earthquake, but in the blink of an eye, the ground around the gathering place collapsed like a wave.
Perhaps because he couldn't bear it, when he destroyed this place with one blow, Zhang Tie wasted a lot of spiritual energy to sweep it first, just to let the people here die more happily.
"boom...!!!"
The aftermath of the explosion continues.
Seeing the gathering place under his feet turned into a deep pit, Xiong Hanzi let out a long breath and secretly apologized in his heart.
"It doesn't matter if you die quickly, you are forced to eat your own people to survive, and you have to be reincarnated over and over again..."
"I, Lao Zhang, will help you get rid of it..."
"Boom!"
Without thinking any more and making up his mind, Zhang Tie simply followed Lin An's example and flew directly close to the ground at supersonic speeds.
Human beings in this world are very weak. The sonic boom produced by his flight alone is enough to kill most people. Out of sight and calm in mind, they are in a hurry.
But for some reason, Zhang Tie remembered the alien species in his trance.
That group of monsters had done this before.
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Thousands of meters underground, hive.
A burst of rapid red light suddenly lit up.
After a rapid scanning and projection of a red laser, a virtual projection wearing a red baby dress opened its eyes instantly.
