"… You?"
The Golden Tooth grabbed Bai Xiaolu's collar and pulled him up.
For a moment, Bai Xiaolu's heart skipped a beat. He was afraid that his shirt would be torn by the man's iron hands and his brother's secret would be exposed.
However, the leader of the Citi Gang just glanced at him casually and threw him aside. He fell to the ground with a bloody nose and a swollen face.
Bai Xiaolu's overconfident behavior made the people of Tombstone burst into laughter.
However, the laughter made The Golden Tooth's red eyes become particularly cold. He stroked his beard and suddenly laughed. "Good. I didn't expect you to be so young. You have more guts than most of the people here. However, if I give you a woman, do you know how to play with her?"
"I …"
Bai Xiaolu blushed and did not know how to respond.
The Golden Tooth laughed and waved his hand. "It doesn't matter if you know how to play with women or not. What's important is whether you know how to play with guns. What's your name? Do you know how to play with guns?"
"My name is Bai Xiaolu."
Bai Xiaolu became alert and nodded. "I know how to play with guns!"
Most of the children in the wasteland knew how to play with knives and guns.
Even if those sturdy automatic rifles were rusty after decades of wind, frost, snow, and rain, as long as they were close enough, they could still kill people.
Even if bullets were hard to get and they had never fired a gun before, they treated it as a toy. They studied its structure carefully and learned how to aim from adults. This was a common experience for all the Children of the Wasteland. In fact, guns were the only toys they had since they were young.
As long as they had bullets, no Child of the Wasteland would say that they could not play with guns.
"Very good. As long as you know how to play with guns, you know how to play with women. After conquering New Gold Mountain, there will be a lot of women waiting for you to slowly practice and play with them. You're lucky. Once you start, you can play with real women!"
The Golden Tooth did not seem to remember Bai Xiaolu's name, but that was not important. The cold red light surged toward the people of Tombstone like a tide. "I'll take you in. When the time comes, follow me. You'll have a share of whatever I get. Who else?"
"This is bad."
Bai Xiaolu said in her heart, "You've outsmarted yourself. With The Golden Tooth by your side, how could you have a chance to escape?"
"Idiot."
However, the elder brother said, "It's better to stay by The Golden Tooth's side. The Citi Gang is obviously coming to every town to catch strong men. Everyone is The Golden Tooth's cannon fodder. They will probably be killed in the first wave. Only by staying by The Golden Tooth's side will they be safe.
"We can slowly think of a way to escape. If we can't even keep our lives, then it's useless to say anything."
Perhaps it was because of Bai Xiaolu's "example," The Golden Tooth roared a few more times. Finally, hundreds of Tombstone Town residents responded.
Like Bai Xiaolu, everyone was given a rusty automatic rifle and a dozen or so precious magazines. Some of the guys with stronger arms were even given two grenades.
Although the equipment was tempting, the rest of the people were not willing to get involved. They bit their lips and did not move.
The Golden Tooth did not waste time. He waved his hand, and the Citi Gang's convoy left Tombstone Town with the newly recruited soldiers.
Bai Xiaolu sat in the back of a military truck and was bumping up and down. Just as she was feeling dizzy and nauseous, she suddenly heard a few violent explosions behind her. Together with everyone else, she pulled open the tent of the truck and looked out. On the horizon, thick black smoke rose in the direction of Tombstone Town. The whole town was burning.
"See, I told you. The Golden Tooth won't let the rest of the guys go so easily."
Bai Xiaolu's elder brother sighed in his heart. "The public recruitment just now was probably just a test. Those who passed the test can barely be considered 'recruits.' Those who failed the test are just slave soldiers who don't want face. They have remote-controlled bombs on them and are the lowest level of cannon fodder forced to charge at the front. This is inevitable."
Bai Xiaolu looked at the burning Tombstone Town and did not speak for a long time.
"What about the village? What about my sister? "
Although he did not like the rotting smell of Tombstone Town, this was his hometown after all. The black flames in the leaden clouds made him feel lonely and insignificant for the first time.
"The village is very far from Tombstone Town, and it's in a secluded valley. The Citi Gang might not find it. The war is urgent. I don't think they'll waste a lot of time on a small mountain village with no benefits."
Her elder brother said, "As for the future … let's leave it to fate!"
…
Bai Xiaolu could only leave it to fate.
Over the next few days, they went to several large towns with large populations in the vicinity one after another. It was the same strategy. First, they "recruited with a large sum of money" and then threatened them with force. Including Bai Xiaolu, the "immature brat", The Golden Tooth used him as a living advertisement to mock the cowardice of those who were afraid of him. Just like that, he gathered a team of more than ten thousand people like a rolling snowball.
After the incident with "Lord Snake," Bai Xiaolu was somewhat traumatized. She was extremely fearful and wary of the infamous and vicious The Golden Tooth. Fortunately, he was not interested in this kind of thing. Before the war, he was busy with military affairs and did not have much time to deal with Bai Xiaolu. He only let Bai Xiaolu learn some basic operations on the battlefield from one of his guards. After a fierce beating, Bai Xiaolu tried her best to learn to increase her chances of survival.
But one day, The Golden Tooth learned from the recruits of Tombstone Town that Bai Xiaolu had killed "Lord Snake", the big boss of Sirius Casino. He became interested and asked Bai Xiaolu about it during a meal.
Naturally, Bai Xiaolu was unwilling to reveal her elder brother's secret. She only said that she took out the pistol at "Lord Snake"'s waist when he was unprepared and blasted his head. She then used her thin body to sneak out of the ventilation window, but she did not mention the details.
"Lord Snake" was famous in the vicinity of Tombstone Town, but to a fierce god like The Golden Tooth, it was nothing. He was too lazy to pursue the details. He simply spread his fingers and patted Bai Xiaolu's shoulder heavily. "Good boy, you've got guts. I knew I wouldn't misjudge you. After this battle, if you don't die and chop off five more heads, I'll let you join the Citi Gang!"
Bai Xiaolu grimaced in pain after being patted. Looking at The Golden Tooth's ugly face that was covered in patches, she did not find it as scary as before. The strong stench on her body also seemed to have faded a lot.
…
After another three days, they finally arrived above the underground city of the "Alliance", "New Golden Mountain".
The reason why they had been delayed for so many days was that new teams of devils were constantly joining their ranks.
As it turned out, the strength of the Citi Gang was far greater than what Bai Xiaolu had seen in Tombstone Town. They had sent out dozens of "armed recruitment teams" and looted almost all the populated towns in the Blazing Blood Wasteland, gathering countless "new recruits".
Dozens of notorious and sinful gangs also came to "join" the Citi Gang. They wanted to break into the "New Golden Mountain" together with the Citi Gang and loot it.
Bai Xiaolu only realized the vastness of the world after seeing so many strange looking Devil Race clans. Just the Bloodseeker Wasteland alone had so many unique and distinct cities and tribes.
Some of the members of the gangs were wearing stinging armor made of the shells of giant scorpions, which made them look like giant scorpions standing on their hind legs.
Some of the tribes were covered in feathers from head to toe without leaving any gaps. It was said that they could resist the severe radiation.
There was also a town where all the residents had deformed and swollen right arms that took up almost half of their bodies. It was extremely inconvenient for them to walk. However, The Golden Tooth said that they were natural experts at throwing grenades. They could accurately throw a bundle of grenades hundreds of meters away. They were the best at sieging a city.
Of course, Bai Xiaolu also saw countless "slave soldiers" who had been forced to come.
They were usually dressed in rags and had miserable faces. Chains were wrapped around their necks, and remote-controlled bombs were hanging from the chains. They were chained together in groups of three to five. They could only move forward and were not allowed to retreat. If they moved forward, they would have a chance to survive. If they retreated, their heads and those of their companions would fly into the air. They were simply a bunch of walking corpses.
Among them were some of the townspeople of Tombstone Town.
Even the spectators of Sirius Casino who were lucky enough to survive.
After seeing their end, Bai Xiaolu finally realized how wise his brother had been when he had asked him to sign up. One wrong decision was the difference between heaven and hell.
Even though this "heaven" was just a layer above hell.
Even with The Golden Tooth's fierce reputation and commanding ability, it still took him three full days to barely make the majority of the troops march to "New Golden Mountain".
This was the northeastern part of the Bloodthirsty Wasteland. It was literally like hell.
The Bloodthirsty Wasteland was originally a region of death made up of the red Gobi Desert and desert.
After more than half a month of carpet bombing, the mountaintop had been flattened. The plants that had been stubbornly struggling on the flat ground had all been turned into fine powder, leaving behind shocking craters that reflected colorful lights and recorded the extremely high temperature of the explosions.
Among them, there were dozens of dark and bottomless oval-shaped craters that were particularly eye-catching.
The Golden Tooth told Bai Xiaolu that these were the damage caused by the Earth Penetrator Bombs.
In order to facilitate the infantrymen's charge, the Earth Penetrator Bomb didn't land vertically, but at a slanted angle. Once it exploded, it would form a natural slope. Even if the demons relied on their feet, they would be able to rush in directly.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Every five minutes, an ear-splitting shriek would burst out in the air, followed by a deafening explosion. A fireball would rise above "New Golden Mountain" and turn into a raging black cloud.
It was a railway cannon from very far away. It was said that a railway cannon was hundreds of meters long and had a shooting range that could cover the entire Bloodthirsty Wasteland. Every five minutes, it would bombard the entire "New Golden Mountain". Although it could not cause too much damage, it could greatly shock the entire "New Golden Mountain" and greatly disturb the morale of the defenders.
It further proved her brother's judgment that railway cannons were definitely not something that the Citi Gang could have. They must be the standard equipment of the "agreement".
At two o 'clock in the afternoon, everybody, including the slave soldiers, was given a very suspicious pill, which was claimed to protect them from poison gas and radiation.
Most of them swallowed it, but Bai Xiaolu hid it under her tongue and secretly spat it out when she went to the toilet. When she came back, she looked at everybody like a ferocious beast that had lost its mind.
At two thirty in the afternoon, the last bombardment was launched, but the smoke turned crimson.
It was the order of the "agreement" for a general attack.
"Kill!"
The Golden Tooth stood on the armored vehicle and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Take 'New Golden Mountain'! Steal the water, steal the food, and steal the women!"
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What's going on?
I, I can't control my hands at all!
For the first time, I realized that the days when I didn't write were so empty and lonely. It was like the withdrawal reaction of an addiction!
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