indescribable cyberpunk.

Chapter 490 Sacrifice
"If we don't fight for ourselves, who will help us!"

"Brothers and sisters, we should stand up and win a better future for our next generation!"

"What are you waiting for? Are you willing to stay in this garbage dump for the rest of your life?"

The extremely crude crate, the small amplifier with the handle glued with tape, plus a few decent banners, a small publicity station is built like this.

The young man was standing on the side of the street, shouting at the top of his lungs. Beside him, there were a few companions in formal attire who kept distributing leaflets to passers-by.

Unfortunately, this is community No. 37.

Their activity seems to be in another world. Passers-by give them the most eager response is to politely take the flyer, use the hard corner to scrape off the mud on the heel and the edge, and then stuff it aside trash can.

"Cough cough~"

His throat was so dry that he felt sore when he coughed. The young man finally left the crate, turned his back to the crowd, leaned against the door of a convenience store on the street, and poured water in mouthfuls.

"Kevin, today we still haven't been able to develop a member. This is pipa syrup, moisten the throat."

A round-faced girl in a rustic beige sweater with a ponytail squatted down beside him, handed him a bottle of drink, and whispered.

"It's normal. I knew from the very beginning that the path we were going to take was very difficult. People at the bottom of the community ignored us because they thought we couldn't succeed. These people are actually capable."

Burying his depression deep in his heart, the young man named Kevin looked at the purple-red afterglow that was about to disappear in the distant obscure sky, barely smiled, and raised his finger to the crowd on the street.

"As long as they are united, we may have a chance to negotiate with the government. Whether they succeed or not, they will improve the living environment of the lower-level communities to a certain extent in order to calm public opinion. As long as we have the first time, our Ideas will be embraced and then everything will be fine!"

"Well, we will definitely succeed!"

The girl obviously trusted Kevin very much, she clenched her fist and waved it, and the companions next to her turned around with smiles on their sweaty faces.

"Let's go here first today. It's going to be dark soon. I know that everyone still has part-time jobs at night. Activities belong to activities. Life is the first thing to take care of."

Put the megaphone in your hand into your backpack, say goodbye to everyone, turn on your phone to check the time and the message from the store manager on "TALK".

In fact, Kevin also has a job, working as a waiter in the tavern in the No. 35 community, and he has to go back and change quickly.

The drink in his hand was quickly drained due to thirst, and he walked around a corner, ready to throw the empty bottle into the trash can.

His eyes subconsciously glanced at the mouth of the trash can, and the hand holding the empty bottle just stretched out, but stopped halfway.

A man was lying behind an old trash can.

Surprised, he went around to check. A man was leaning against the trash can, his face flushed red.

"gentlemen?"

Shouted, but the other party did not answer, Kevin knelt down to confirm his situation, put his fingers under his nose, and could still feel a little heat.

The man who looked like a drunk just a second ago suddenly opened his eyes, grabbed his hand and growled: "Help me, save me!"

Subconsciously, he wanted to break free from the other party's entanglement, but the strength of the man in front of him was beyond Kevin's imagination. Those two hands were like two iron clamps, tightly restraining him.

"Hey, I can contact the hospital for you, can you let me go before that?"

Raising the phone and shaking it in front of the man, the tingling pain from his arm was unbearable.

vomit~
Sudden retching, a mass of dark red cloudy liquid just vomited out of the man's mouth.

Kevin was caught off guard, and suffered immediately. Before he could react, his face was covered with paste, and the pungent stench filled his nostrils.

Normal people will definitely fall into a state of sluggishness the first time they encounter this situation, and Kevin is no exception.

By the time he realized it, the man in front of him had already struggled to his feet and ran towards the street on the other side. At this moment, he was naturally not in the mood to catch up, and all he could think about was to find a place to clean up the dirt on his face. Sewage.

Fortunately, this is not a remote place, there is a shop behind him, he rushed in and asked where the toilet was, then ran inside regardless, locked the door and began to wash his face.

Supporting the sink with both hands, he turned his face sideways and put his head under the water column. The cold water washed his cheeks, resisting the discomfort until the pungent smell dissipated before getting up and opening his eyes.

The mirrors taped to the walls with yellow-brown wide tape at the corners reflected the young man's cheeks.

Two streaks of blood dripped from the nostrils, dripping on the edge of the sink, and several blood flowers bloomed!
"Is it because the water is too cold?"

He raised his head to stop the nosebleed from continuing to flow down, took the backpack in front of him, took out a pack of tissues from the right interlayer, crumpled them into two rolls and stuffed his nostrils.

Throat suddenly felt a little itchy.

Cough!

A particularly loud cough.

The young man's expression suddenly turned pale, because he saw the mirror surface full of blood. The blood was dripping along the smooth mirror surface to the edge of the sink, and then gradually slid into it, looking like scattered blood.

Like a big net, grabbing his heart.
"Struggling for the rights and interests of the people at the bottom, unity is strength?"

A voice sounded behind him, and he turned his head hastily. What Kevin saw was a gray-haired middle-aged man holding a leaflet in his hand.

It should be that he ran in in a hurry just now and left it outside.

Kevin noticed that his left hand was holding a pair of gloves, which were dripping dark red liquid.

"Young man, your ideal is very good, I appreciate you very much."

The middle-aged man shook the flyer casually, and looked at Kevin with approval in his eyes.

"A few years ago, my thoughts were not much different from yours. At that time, our situation was much better than yours now. The parade went smoothly, everyone was very united, and victory was close at hand. It felt very good. If possible, I hope Stay in that time for the rest of your life.”

As if thinking of his past, the face of the middle-aged man was full of memories.

Such a gesture did not have the slightest intimacy in Kevin's eyes, and all he could think about now was how to get out of here.

The dark red blood in the sink is so dazzling!
He kept moving towards the door of the toilet, took a few steps to the door, raised his hand to cover the lower half of his face, and wanted to squeeze through sideways.

"I thought you'd want to know how we failed, and that would give you a lot of experience, wouldn't it?"

"Sorry, I really want to have a long talk with you, but now there are some special circumstances, I have to leave first."

While talking, he strode around the middle-aged man and walked towards the door of the shop without stopping.

However, before he took a few steps, his legs could no longer move, his eyes widened, and the arms holding the backpack were tightened again and again due to excessive tension.

The few remaining rays of purple-red afterglow of the setting sun fell in the dark shops.

On the floor lay the owner of the shop and the "drunkard" he saw outside just now, his limbs were twisted in a strange state.

The dark red blood constantly overflowing from the bottom of the two bodies had a disgusting color.

cough!Well!
Covering his mouth, the nausea caused his stomach to twitch, Kevin half-bowed, and subconsciously covered his mouth.

"If you want to succeed, you have to sacrifice. This is very important. If you want to let others know your determination, you will never succeed by relying on your words. You have to show the attitude you should have. This is my attitude. What do you think? ?”

Putting on the gloves again, the middle-aged man looked at the frightened and overwhelmed young man, stepped forward to pat him on the back, and said warmly,

"Just imagine what it would be like if this kind of scene appeared on the street outside. Would those people still ignore you like they did just now? No, they would feel fear, and then they would be in awe of your ability."

Kevin disagreed with the sudden appearance of the murderer and was disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

But at the same time, his mind was slipping into a strange trance.

Kneeling weakly on the ground, some ravings came from all directions in the haze.

After a while, this voice sounded from his body again.

The color in front of my eyes is getting thicker and thicker, like a ball of paint that has been muddied in water, chaotic and disorderly.

"Use your brain and think again, if such a scene appears everywhere in the lower-level community, who can ignore what happened here?"

"Everyone will see your determination, whether it's passers-by outside, or those guys who claim to be new humans but are full of evil desires inside."

"By then, your opinion will not be ignored and you will have respect from everyone."

The voice of the middle-aged man was like the whisper of a devil, constantly destroying the will of the young man, whose spirit, which was already on the verge of collapse, was even more crumbling at this moment.

"what on earth do you want!"

Kevin gritted his teeth, the veins on his forehead popped out, and he blushed and questioned the people behind him.

"I just want you to join us. As I said just now, I appreciate young people like you. The business that my companions and I are working on requires fresh blood like you."

The middle-aged man squatted in front of Kevin, with his hands on his knees, and his voice was neither too urgent nor too slow,
"As long as you are willing to help me, you will find that everything is different, take it easy, don't you feel that your persistence is very hard?"

"I promise to join you, can you send me to the hospital first?"

Rather than worrying about whether or not to join the other party, Kevin needs the help of the doctor more, and the remaining rationality prompts him to compromise with the people in front of him.

"So you agreed?"

He seemed to care about Kevin's attitude.

"Yes, I agree, we are companions now, you should send me to the hospital!"

At this time, Kevin couldn't care so much.

"Why are you going to the hospital?"

The tone of the middle-aged man was very puzzled.

"I feel dizzy and something is wrong with my body"

"Don't worry, this is just a small test for you to join us, just get through it."

After getting the answer he wanted, the middle-aged man patted Kevin on the shoulder, as if suddenly thinking of something, he glanced at the corpse of the "drunkard" next to him,
"Since you have agreed to join us, I have a task here, which is very easy for you. To be precise, this task must be done by you."

"what?"

"You will know later, this 'knowing' process will take about one to two hours..."

After the words fell, the middle-aged man turned around and walked to the door of the shop. While closing the sliding door, he picked up the iron hook leaning against the corner of the wall, and was about to pull down the outer iron rolling door. The young man paused, leaned forward, pressed his forehead against the translucent sliding door, and said in a low voice,
"If you want to succeed, someone has to sacrifice. This is true. The only pity is that I don't want to sacrifice yet, so you promised to help me before, and you can't go back on it now!"

(End of this chapter)