Chapter 78 What Did You See?
There was a strong pungent smell in the air, which Monica was not used to. Not far away was an abandoned city. This was the first time in her life that she had seen a city that humans once lived in.
Many houses had almost turned black, and a small part of them could still be seen in their original appearance. It was already 9 o'clock in the morning. Monica did not go down that night, but walked for a while and found a sheltered place to sleep.
This was still the outskirts of the city. Monica walked to the side of a road and looked at some dismantled cars and skeletons that had merged with the ground.
These things were the first time Monica had seen them. Her mother had never told her about everything in front of her. When Monica was a child, she had asked her mother a lot about their journey after the apocalypse, but her mother never told her.
Monica had also seen some doomsday-themed movies and TV series, which were film and television works in the past human society. She had always felt that they were probably exactly the same as those movies and TV series.
But now Monica doesn't think so. Everything in front of her looks creepy. She doesn't know what human energy was in the past. Although life was a little difficult when she was sensible, and she also experienced heavy snow, it didn't seem to be a big deal for Monica.
Childhood memories kept emerging, and Monica remembered her mother's sad profile, which was the look her mother always showed every time she asked about the end of the world.
So Monica asked less and less later. Although she was still a little ignorant, she knew that her mother would be sad when she asked.
After Monica continued walking for a while, she saw a dilapidated house. After walking over, she saw a lot of corpses, which had hardened and turned black, and could only be identified by shape.
The tragic scene in front of her was probably attacked by artillery shells, and then the house collapsed. The people in the house should have died at that time.
Monica continued to move forward, paying attention to everything around her. She had a strong sense of perception, and the gods had specially trained her ability in this area.
Soon Monica came to the entrance of the city. The scene in front of her shocked Monica. The whole street was full of corpses. This was something Monica could not imagine. She couldn't help but cover her mouth.
After coming to the street, Monica felt a chill on her back. In addition to corpses, most of the houses around were damaged to varying degrees. It can be seen that they were fighting for something, or there was a massacre.
There was silence around, only the humming sound of the wind blowing from time to time, like some kind of sobbing.
Monica looked around. She had to find traces of activity before she could confirm something. Although she was still doubting whether what Jed said was true, because Monica didn't see any new traces of activity now.
Monica continued to walk along the street. She looked around. At this time, Monica saw a house. After he walked in, he found that the house was full of broken things, and many things had signs of being demolished.
"Can we really survive in such a world?"
Monica couldn't help but be suspicious, because she had never thought about the scene of the end of the world. Maybe it existed but only in her own imagination. She couldn't imagine how humans survived at that time.
Soon Monica came to the end of a street. There were some collapsed houses in front of her. Monica felt something and ran over. Sure enough, she saw some traces of activities in the collapsed place, and they were very new, which seemed out of tune with some of the surrounding environment.
It was the trace of a car. Monica continued to walk along the trace. She was already in a state of high alert. As long as there was a little bit of movement, Monica would immediately launch an attack.
At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps on the left side of Monica, and in an instant Monica leaned down and jumped over.
Bang
Accompanied by a loud noise, Monica's fist directly smashed a wall, and the powerful red particles instantly destroyed the front wall.
"Stop Monica."
Swoosh
Monica deflected her fist.
In front of her was an elite mutant of the Special Investigation Bureau who was extremely terrified.
"Deputy Director, you almost killed me."
Monica saw clearly that it was Kramer with three elite mutants.
"Why did you come here just now? You left before us."
Monica looked at the tired people and smiled helplessly.
"I was too sleepy on the way, so I slept for a few hours."
Then Kramer took Monica to the end of the car track on the ruins. The car disappeared on a road. The road was obviously in ruins. If a car with such deep indentations drove over, it would definitely leave traces.
"We have searched many places in the south. Except for the traces here, there are no new traces in other places. Maybe they have been here before, but they don't have a base here."
Monica took out a cigarette and lit it and took a puff. The three subordinates were also looking around.
"Keep going. I think we can get the result today. If there are no traces in other areas, we will go back, so that Jed can be relieved."
After Kramer finished speaking, looking at Monica's expression, she seemed a little dull, and her eyes were a little wrong.
"What's wrong, Monica?"
At this moment, Monica remembered that Kramer had also experienced the apocalypse and survived with great difficulty. After all, he was almost 50 years old.
"Can you tell me? How did you get here all the way? It was so miserable after all. It's really a wonder that you survived..."
"It's lucky."
Kramer laughed helplessly, and several other team members also came over with interest. They were already in this grassland when they began to remember.
"Actually, it's nothing. I'm really lucky."
Kramer looked at the four of them helplessly. They all wanted to hear a story, and then Kramer pointed to a house not far away.
"Let's go over there and I'll tell you a little bit."
After a while, Kramer lit a cigarette, and he showed a somewhat unspeakable expression. Monica noticed that his expression was the same as her mother's.
"Where do I start? By the way, I won't talk about my past."
Kramer lowered his head and fell into a brief silence, with a trace of sadness in his eyes, and then he began to speak.
Kramer originally took his fiancée to travel to a small tropical country in the southern part of Y state.
When the disaster happened, no one realized what happened, and the upper echelons of the country didn't know either. Because the country was too small, everyone could only see the colorful sky after the blazing white light in the sky.
In just 48 hours, riots broke out in the small country where Kramer and his family were located. He took his fiancée to hide in a small mountain village to escape the war, but soon everyone in the mountain village discovered that this was no longer the case. War is so simple.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
The food in the village began to dry up. In desperation, Kramer took his fiancée on the road after staying for less than a month. When he said this, Kramer fell silent.
"Did something unpleasant happen?"
Monica asked, and Kramer said after thinking for a moment.
"It's nothing. On our way to escape, we were kidnapped by a group of people, and then... my fiancée was taken away and tortured every day. I thought about committing suicide countless times, but in the end I No."
Monica swallowed, and the other three looked at Kramer comfortingly, and Kramer laughed.
"It has been almost 30 years and I have never mentioned this to anyone."
After being patient for a month, Kramer finally found an opportunity to rescue his fiancée, who had been tortured and had mental problems, from the gang. He ran away with his wife.
However, on the way to escape, they would often be accompanied by hunger. Kramer knew very well that they had to find a shelter. Later, Kramer and the others heard that they could see the sun if they walked to higher places.
As long as there is sunshine, he can survive. Kramer fled with his fiancée, who was in a very unstable mental condition, and passed through many big cities.
It's basically the same everywhere. Various gangs are constantly fighting with each other, and killings for food can often be seen.
People are the biggest threat, so Kramer and his fiancée would avoid people along the way, but his fiancée still died.
Under long-term mental and physical torture, Kramer went out to look for food one day. When he came back, his wife had disappeared. Kramer last saw her under a tall building. She had fallen to pieces. Model Lake.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned it."
Monica said, Kramer shook his head.
"It's nothing. Some things are actually better to be spoken out. When I came here, I thought of many things in the past."
Kramer knew very well that what he saw before him was only a very small part of their escape journey in the past.
Kramer originally thought of dying with his wife, but the appearance of a woman saved him. She also escaped alone like Kramer. Under the woman's persuasion, Kramer agreed to go on the road with the woman.
The two experienced countless hardships and obstacles and finally arrived on this plateau. However, at that time they entered a relatively stable city, but everything in the city made them very clear that they had to go to a higher place. OK.
After living in the city for a while and collecting some supplies and seeds, the two left. Their departure was correct because the city broke out in a war not long after they left.
"This is the city we came to in the end. We should have arrived here earlier than God."
Monica hummed, took out a cigarette and handed one to Kramer. At this time, Kramer seemed to be missing something.
"This is probably the happiest period of my life."
Kramer and the woman fell in love. Because of the mutual help and encouragement along the way, the two settled down in this city. They just hoped to be more stable.
Among the gangs in the city at that time, the Hillman family was the strongest, followed by the Angus family, and many gangs were running the city. Everything was fine at the beginning.
But as people kept coming in, Kramer and the woman didn't know what to do, because there were more and more people and more and more disputes.
Until one day, the Angus family had a war with some other gangs. Kramer originally thought that the Angus family was doomed, but what he didn't expect was that eight scientists appeared among them, and with their help , the Angus family won the war and successfully left the city.
Kramer regretted not following them away, and some people who seemed to understand followed them.
"I made a wrong choice. If I had taken my wife away and caught up with the gods, maybe she wouldn't have died."
Kramer said as Monica raised her hands.
"enough."
Kramer hummed, and Monica had actually heard of what happened next. Kramer married another woman on the grassland. Unfortunately, the woman died, and she also died in a dispute. In the end, Kramer Then he killed many people in a rage.
"Then what exactly did you see?"
Monica asked, and Kramer hesitated for a while before saying.
"Maliciousness, all I saw along the way was malice. Human beings who should have united together to overcome difficulties, uukanshu.com www.uukanshu.com, instead unleashed malice for themselves. This kind of malice is growing with the development of human beings. Migration continued to spread, and the era when everyone was in danger began from that time.”
Monica sighed and patted Kramer on the shoulder.
"Let's go. If we can finish this early, I'll have a nice drink with you when we get back."
The five people began to move towards the center of the city. They carefully checked all the traces along the way, but after half an hour, nothing was found. Monica suggested that everyone separate, so that they could explore a larger area.
Finally, Kramer asked everyone to keep a distance of at least 30 meters, after all, if there is a problem, they can rescue each other.
"Really, that old man Jade is probably dead. It's impossible for him to survive."
Monica said boringly, and then lit a cigarette. The moment the fire lit up, Monica caught a glimpse of something in the corner of her eyes. She immediately looked to the left, and there was a figure in the distance. Standing on the tall building, Monica suddenly shouted.
"Are you Alan?"
Monica ejected in an instant, but soon the man in front of her disappeared. Monica jumped directly to the rooftop of the building, making a kacha sound and the ground beneath her feet cracked.
"Be careful ma'am, most of the houses here are very old."
A gentle voice came, and Monica raised her fists, but soon she saw the man in front of her raising his hands.
"I'm not here to fight you, I just want to talk to you. I am Alan Hillman."
Monica smiled and was about to shout, but then Alan spoke.
"You really want to know why I did this, right? If you want to know, I can tell you clearly what I saw and what I saw in humans!"