Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 202 A Warrior is a Warrior
into the night.

Beta and his good friend He Gao were digging sand on the coast barefoot.

As the dead light faded at night, the real sea regained its vitality from under the cover of the Dead Sea, and the waves continued to wash the beach.

Two months ago, a super typhoon swept through Beike City, bringing with it a lot of things, some of which were scattered around and some of which were buried in the sand.

Beta dug up a strip of plastic and a half-broken metal window frame. These were from the Age of Gods, and he sold them to a merchant for some money.

He Gao even found a soft hammer that seemed to be filled with sand. When shaken, it made a pleasant rustling sound, as if it was a prehistoric musical instrument.

Several merchants offered high prices to buy it.

He Gao refused to sell it.

Beta didn't understand: "Why not exchange money?"

"I'm going to use this as my heirloom."

He Gao held the soft hammer and said, "My ancestors had a family heirloom, which was made by my grandfather's father. His name was He Jue. He had a silver cup engraved with very beautiful patterns, but when it came to my father, he sold the heirloom because of gambling, and then I was sold too."

"I want to create a family heirloom again, and make it glorious. This way my descendants will remember me."

"Do you know Jue?"

Beta shook his head: "I can't read."

"Jue refers to a kind of jade that is easily broken, a type of gemstone. Because it is a family heirloom, my father and I remember this ancestor whom we have never met."

He Gao looked at the hammer in his hand and said, "I hope that people in the future will remember me as they remember him."

He always says something difficult to understand.

Beta felt that He Gao thought too much.

He just wanted to get some delicious food, such as dried sweet potatoes and peanuts from the Wasteland Development Company.

"Hey, there's something!"

Beta's face suddenly lit up with joy. He dug the soil faster with the shovel in his hand and pulled out a strange thing from the sand.

He squeezed it.

This thing is soft, very small, light, about the size of an egg. It is yellow all over, with upright legs, short raised claws, wide fins on its back, and a mouth full of sharp teeth.

“A statue from the Age of Gods!”

He Gao sighed: "You are so lucky, but why is it so small... Such a small statue is really rare."

Beta scraped the sand off the statue. Under the illumination of the diamond-shaped lamp, the texture of the statue was very clear, though it looked a little wrinkled.

Do you need water?

Beta placed it in a small puddle nearby.

Then he and He Gao chatted while digging in the sand, just like everyone else on the coast.

The night was getting colder and colder, and the constant wind made Beta and He Gao sneeze constantly. They both wrapped themselves tightly in their clothes and worked with their noses sniffing.

Beta kept looking at the puddle beside him.

After an hour, he couldn't help but yell, "It's getting bigger!"

"Really?"

He Gao also came over, looking curious.

Beta picked up the monster statue. It was indeed a lot bigger than before, occupying most of his palm and twice as big as before.

He Gao frowned: "This statue originally drinks water. If we continue to feed it water, it will grow bigger and bigger, and maybe it will be resurrected in the end."

"Do you know the Church of Night? They are the gods who revived the Age of Gods and brought down the Night God. Maybe you are also a god, but you look a bit fierce..."

Beta also sounded a little worried.

Both of them scratched their heads, not knowing what to do.

Finally, Beta decided that in order to prevent it from causing harm to the world, he had to seal the monster statue. He took it out of the water, wiped it dry with clothes, wrapped it up, and put it in his pocket.

He Gao suddenly said: "This is your heirloom."

Beta thought so too.

He could kind of understand that feeling.

He is reluctant to sell it and wants to keep it so that it can be secretly seen by his own people.

Suddenly, it started to snow.

The diamond-shaped lights on the coast began to disappear, and a large number of people rushed towards the city.

Beta and He Gao hurriedly packed their tools and bags and rushed to Shell City.

Winter is here.

The war has begun.

……

After returning to the mushroom house, Beta couldn't fall asleep.

He Gao, who was sleeping on the upper layer of the diaphragm, looked down through the hole and said, "Do you think this place can hold up?"

Beta said: "I don't know."

"Will we be defeated in an instant, just like the Emerald City did when it attacked our city? If that happens, what should we do? We have to find a way to retreat."

Beta rested his head on the soft straw pillow: "Now is not the time to say such things..."

The mushroom house suddenly began to shake violently.

They both curled up.

The vibrations continued for a moment, and then came a second time.

Then it calmed down.

After waiting for a long time, Beta dared to pull away the fiber layer of the mushroom house and look outside.

A large pit was blown up less than six meters away, and the mushroom house on the other side turned into burning debris.

There were bursts of thunder in the sky, but no one could see what was launching the attack.

He Gao tied up his bag and said calmly, "It may not be safe here anymore. We have to go to the city. There are more soldiers there."

"wrong."

Beta tried hard to suppress the discomfort in his heart, and he remembered Dr. Feng Ying's instructions.

"If you need help, stay in an open area. The mayor has also said before that we should try not to run around and wait for rescue and follow-up notifications from the city."

"This place has been attacked before, so it might be safer."

He Gao frowned, but ultimately did not object.

So the two of them stayed in the mushroom house and hung diamond-shaped lights outside to make it easier for the soldiers to find them.

Beta pulled back the fabric and looked out.

Glowing meteors are falling from the sky, red and white. They are hitting the land where Shell City is located, and the ground is shaking and trembling constantly.

Many places in the distance were on fire, and fleeing figures could be seen in the firelight.

But I can't see where the enemy is.

All Beta knew was that they were throwing meteors to destroy the place.

Every falling meteor made Beta tremble with fear. He held the monster statue tightly and prayed silently in his heart, hoping that the bombing would stay away from here.

The bombing outside finally stopped at daybreak.

Beta came down from the rope ladder, his legs were weak. Outside, there was a pile of burnt black ash. In addition to the mushroom house that was directly hit and blown up, there was another mushroom house next to it with only half of it left, as if the mushroom cap had been bitten off by a giant beast.

There were not many people who stayed in the mushroom house, most of them escaped.

A soldier was going around counting casualties.

Beta went over to him and asked, "What should we do now?"

"Stay home and don't run around."

The other party just used charcoal to record on paper.

Beta found that the soldier had a bloody bandage on his forehead and looked very tired.

At night the mushroom house began to shake again, this time lasting longer and with greater intensity.

He Gao shook the soft hammer.

Beta squeezed the monster statue hard.

For three consecutive days, Miedinggong launched multiple rounds of aerial bombardments on Beike City.

It is said that the attacker is a B-level monster called Thunder Beast, which can fly thousands of meters in the sky and release a powerful ball of death light. Another part of the enemy in the air throws a special energy bomb to bomb the ground.

The death ball is a red meteor that can cause powerful damage and explosions, but its range is limited. The mushroom house that was blown into charcoal was caused by it.

The energy bomb is the White Meteor, which is much weaker in power, but has splash damage and ignition capabilities, causing high-temperature damage and fire over a wider area.

The two types of high-altitude weapons bombarded alternately, launching indiscriminate attacks on Beike City and surrounding towns.

The choking smell of smoke filled the air, accompanied by the cries and shouts of the residents.

All this made Beta feel desperate.

He now understood that when Shell City was breached, the Wasteland Development Company's Emerald City had been extremely restrained.

Now this is what war really looks like.

The most difficult thing is that Shell City seems to have no countermeasures against air strikes.

The Thunder Beast is too strong and too tall.

As a high-altitude combat force, the Fantasy Fish cannot rise to that height, and the Thunder Beast will leave after bombing and will never stay.

The enemy just bombed and bombed.

There was no offensive or defensive battle at all, only our side was being beaten unilaterally.

Beta went to the city every day to collect relief food, and he saw it clearly.

The entire Shell City was visibly in ruins, with broken walls, collapsed houses, and pothole-filled roads everywhere. The mushroom houses that had been built with great difficulty were also damaged.

After the initial panic and crying, people gradually became numb and collapsed, and many of them stared blankly at the bodies of their relatives and friends.

The situation inside and outside Shell City has become extremely depressing.

No one dared to talk about the sea lord Bei Dugong, and could only curse Mayor Bei Jianxin for his incompetence and weakness.

He Gao said: "Don't think too much, just live one day at a time."

Beta suddenly wanted to summon the monster statue, allowing it to continue to grow, and after it was revived, it could fight against the invisible thunder beast in the sky.

But he knew that this was impossible.

A statue of a god is just a statue of a god and it cannot become a god.

This is nothing but my own baseless fantasy.

On the sixth day, a soldier came to inform us: "You two children, pack your things immediately and follow me to the south. Lord Bedou has ordered all women and children to move to Fullmetal Alchemy City."

Beta was not happy.

But he had a bad feeling in his heart. Was Shell City going to fall?

The two followed the soldiers all the way to the southern coast, where there were also large and small pits caused by air strikes, making it very inconvenient to walk.

The shore was crowded with children and women.

The Beiyang Corps is guarding here. The iron soldiers are armed with guns, swords and shields to maintain order and safety.

There were two long ships anchored on the coast, flying flags with a blue background and white anchors.

It is said that these two ships are from the Seventh Fleet of the Knights of the Dead Sea, and together with the Beiyang Corps, they were hired by the Wasteland Development Company to help defend Shell City.

People were crowded into the narrow cabin, which was filled with the strong stench of sweat and various body odors.

The Dead Sea was more bumpy than expected, and people were already tired and uncomfortable on the Dead Sea. Many people were vomiting and crying quietly, making the room even more stuffy.

Suddenly someone outside shouted, "The company's air reinforcements have arrived!"

Many people climbed out of the cabin and ran onto the deck.

Beta also squeezed out to see.

A translucent spherical light object appeared in the air, with a machine gun spewing flames on the sphere, which fired dense, point-like light bullets directly above the clouds.

He Gao next to him said, "Isn't this shooting distance too far... Can it hit the target?"

His voice stopped abruptly.

Some small black dots could be seen falling from the sky, which seemed to be the enemy's air forces hiding in the clouds.

"It's the spine hunter! It's the company's spine hunter. I heard about it from Doctor Feng."

Beta thought: "It's very strong! It has the power of a sea lord!"

Suddenly, red meteors fell from the sky, bombarding the spherical attacker.

The Ultralisk launched an attack on the Spinehunter.

The Ridgehunter nimbly dodged the impact of red meteors, and the crowd cheered.

The two sides exchanged blows for a while.

Suddenly, a green light flashed in the clouds, accompanied by extremely loud thunder, and then a huge monster slowly fell from the sky.

It looked like a huge black arrow, much larger than the spinehunter. It was pierced with two glowing holes and caused a sea shock after falling into the Dead Sea.

The people on the deck cheered immediately.

The previous extreme depression and despair were finally completely released at this moment.

The spinehunter in the air lowered its altitude and hovered above the ship. "The thunder beast has been killed, but follow-up air strikes will come. Move as soon as possible and don't stay."

The Dead Sea Knight drove the crowd back into the cabin.

Although the narrow cabin was still stuffy and smelly, the victory just now made everyone calmer and more at ease.

"sharp."

He Gao murmured: "The Wasteland Development Company is really amazing..."

Beta looked at the monster statue in his hand.

No need to turn to imaginary gods for help.

We already have warriors who fight bravely against the enemy.

Whether it was the ordinary soldiers who were counting and searching for survivors under the air raid, or the Beiyang Corps who had been defending on the coast, or the Spinehunters who had just fought the Thunder Beast with their small strength... they were all fighting in their own way.

The children and women were evacuated, and the only ones left behind were the warriors.

A warrior is a warrior, whether young or old and wounded.

The battle in Shell City has just begun.

(End of this chapter)