The truck bumped along the road. Gu Jun did not expect that such an ordinary poster would make Ah'Bao and the rest so excited and surprised.
"Brother, where did you get this?" Qiang, a young man with a bulbous nose, looked at the poster and said, "I am willing to exchange five mice for this!"
"Sigh, it would be great if Lishan could see it." Another young man, Skinny Monkey, felt pity. "She always wanted to know what the sea looks like."
Ah'Bao told Gu Jun that Lishan was Skinny Monkey's sister. What made Gu Jun confused was that they did not sound like Lishan had passed away or was in danger. He asked, "Will there be a chance?" Ah'Bao laughed, "Hard to say, hard to say."
"What is this?" Another slightly stronger and taller man, Da Niu, looked at the two animals in the poster, "Are they fish?"
"Of course, but I don't know what fish they are." Ah'Bao was annoyed. He had already determined that they were fish.
Gu Jun listened to their amazement. It seemed that they had never seen fish before. But looking at the dry land, fish must be very rare here.
"Actually, they are not fish. They are dolphins." He explained gently, "Although they live in the sea, they are also mammals with high IQ."
"What?" Ah'Bao was confused. Qiang, Skinny Monkey, Da Niu and the others did not understand. What did he mean by "not as good as mammals"?
Gu Jun was stunned. He looked at the puzzled faces of these young men. The education level of doomsday … What era is this? He had to seriously talk about biology, viviparous birth, and breastfeeding. "We humans are also mammals, but fish are not. Fish are hatched from fertilized eggs."
Everyone scratched their heads. Ah'Bao understood a little more, Da Niu understood a little less, but they all understood the meaning of breastfeeding.
"Breastfeeding, that is …" Ah'Bao circled his hands in front of his chest. He looked very excited, another kind of excitement.
They suddenly burst into laughter. Their laughter was full of ambiguity that all men could understand. But they did not believe that dolphins breastfeeding. They thought that this outsider was joking. "Breastfeeding in the sea? Do you want to eat seawater or that? "
"I don't know if the fish can breastfeed, but I don't see the thing it's breastfeeding on." Da Niu stared at the two dolphins in the poster.
Ah'Bao teased the outsider, "Brother, you must be crazy thinking about women's two lumps of meat. Everything you see makes you think about breastfeeding. Haha, really."
Everyone laughed even louder. A group of men gathered together to talk about this, and the more they talked, the more excited they became. Then they talked about which woman they knew was really big in that place. Even though they obviously didn't have enough to eat and were skinny, it seemed like all the meat in their body was growing there.
Gu Jun knew that if he didn't change the topic, these people would keep talking about it.
However, he had already tried to get information from them in a roundabout way, but they did not listen at all. It seemed that the environment of the wasteland had caused them to return to their wild nature. Whether it was vulgar or natural, they would say whatever was on their minds. They would not speak like how he knew them to.
"Everyone, I really want to know." Gu Jun asked directly, "What kind of place is Angel City?"
The laughter stopped. The car's engine was still roaring. Ah'Bao and the rest looked at each other.
"Fine, after all, no one here doesn't know." Ah'Bao thought about it and said, "What is the name of the place you came from? Oh, Eastern State, is that not like us? Angel City, they have the water source. Those who live a good life there. I hear the people there have a good life and they have the oil! They have everything. But some of the things that belong to us have been taken away from us … "
Ah'Bao's words were jumbled up, but Gu Jun got the gist of it.
Angel City was a powerful force that occupied all the resources and dominated this wasteland. Po and the others were from other settlements that had been exploited. They had endured humiliation, hidden from place to place, and fought back. Now, they couldn't live like this anymore.
"Let's do it!" Da Niu grumbled, "Angel City will not let us live. Then we will fight them."
Gu Jun, the leader knew these youngsters were not good at keeping secrets but he still arranged for Gu Jun to be on this car. Perhaps he wanted Gu Jun to understand the situation better.
"I heard from your leader earlier, Locust God?" Gu Jun asked, "I have not heard of this in my hometown."
The group was confused. Ah'Bao asked, "There is no locust plague at your place?"
"There is plague but there is no Locust God." Gu Jun looked at the road they passed. It was barren land. Could it be that this world … was destroyed by a plague of locusts? He said, "That should be due to the differences in history. What do you say here?"
"Aye!" Ah'Bao sighed. His young face was heavy. "A few hundred years ago? A thousand years ago, there was a huge plague of locusts, an endless plague of locusts. They ate up all the plants and many other things. The rivers also dried up. There was a huge plague, and many people died. "
"Then some people started to believe in this Locust God. The strongest worshippers in Angel City were called the Flying Locusts. The Flying Locusts did all kinds of evil. " Ah'Bao spat in disdain. "Locust God my * ss, we refuse to believe in it. Those bugs are our enemies …"
When he heard the word plague, Gu Jun frowned involuntarily.
This was not what he expected. The apocalypse described by the R'yleh cult was R'yleh rising from the sea, it had nothing to do with the plague of locusts.
'Bugs'? Gu Jun's heart skipped a beat. He was suddenly reminded of the witch's mocking comment, "The Yith are no match for bugs."
Was he being paranoid or … was there a connection?
"What kind of bugs are they?" Gu Jun asked, "What do they look like?"
"We have not seen them before, those who have are all dead." Ah'Bao said hatefully, "According to legend, they are a kind of aquatic bugs. When they fly away, they take the water with them."
Gu Jun was silent as he memorized this information. He wanted to know more about this world's abnormal power level. "Do the Flying Locusts really have some kind of divine power?"
When this was mentioned, there was anger and some fear but more than that, it was the passion of youth.
"Who cares if they do or not!" Ah'Bao grumbled, "Foreigner, tell us, Angel City is going to hold a big sacrifice, they are going to summon a plague of locusts! When that happens, other than Angel City, everything alive, including us, will be eaten by those water bugs! Do you think we can survive like this? "
"Then you …" Gu Jun hesitated. As he expected, they were going to Angel City to fight.
The problem was, Angel City had the power to control this wasteland, why would they be afraid of their convoy and guns?
"We are going to destroy that place." Ah'Bao gritted his teeth, "Today, we will destroy Angel City."
Da Niu beside him grumbled, "The women are not here yet, no women are allowed to come! We also have many men at home, my little brother is one of them. After we destroy Angel City, those scourges will be gone. The women will try their best to give birth to babies. They will not believe in those worms. In a few decades, everything will be fine! "
The expressions of Shou Hou, Qiang, and the others also became complicated. They were solemn, stirring, scared, and at a loss.
Gu Jun understood that none of the people in this convoy expected to return alive. This trip to Angel City was a suicide mission.
But there was one thing that confused him, "How big is Angel City? How many people are there? "
Could it be that Angel City was just a small residential area with a few hundred people living there?
"It's that way, take a look for yourself." Ah'Bao pointed at the direction the convoy was heading. The rumbling grew louder and the men started to cheer.
Gu Jun turned his head to look and was immediately dumbfounded.
At the end of the barren horizon, the silhouette of a city appeared. There were so many skyscrapers … Angel City was really a city.
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