Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 18 18. Secondly, I have a bold plan
What's the best way to find a few specific people in a group?
Search them one by one? Investigate and track them down? Or set up a stall on the street and shout a few words?
All of the above methods are feasible, but they are not the optimal solutions, especially when there is no extra time to waste at the moment, so Zhou Ke chose the most direct one.

He made the guys who were hiding come to him on their own initiative.

The plan went quite smoothly!
Just when Zhou Ke chose a small house in good condition and ordered Ajie to wield a cutting saw to drive all the bastards out of the house, someone came to him.

"Did you make those messy scribbles on the wall?"

The man wearing a cloak was also very rude. He pointed at Zhou Ke and asked:

"What it is?"

"If you don't even know what that is, you shouldn't be coming to me, man."

Standing at the entrance of his "new home", Zhou Ke looked at the mess in the house with disgust. There was disgusting garbage everywhere. He was thinking about how to clean it up, so he said to the person who came after him without turning his head:

"Go back, don't waste the limited time you have. Let someone who can understand come and talk to me."

"Talking in your place? Don't be ridiculous. Even the place where they bury donkeys is more elegant than this."

The guy sneered, looked around, and said:
"Come on, someone wants to see you."

"But I don't want to see him or her. I told you to get someone who can understand to come and talk to me. Don't you understand?"

Zhou Ke turned around and said impatiently to the messenger behind him:

"It's already this hour, and you're still playing this childish 'spy game'. Instead of doing this kind of formalism, why don't you do something practical?

The Tiger Nation clearly doesn't care what we unfortunate dying guys want to do, and they haven't even arranged any surveillance or patrols in this neighborhood. Obviously, for the Tiger King in the Tiger's Nest, allowing the fighters to connect with each other and try to escape from this doomed situation may also be a part of the final celebration.

No one cares anymore, why do you still care so much?
go with!
Send your leader over! Don't you know the rules for asking for help?
My sincerity is there, now it's your turn, right here, I'll only wait for 30 minutes, come if you want!
I believe you are not the only one among this group of people who want to survive.
What are you still standing here for?
how?

Are you a fast runner? 30 minutes is enough for you to rush from the End Castle to the Rust Castle and fight back and forth twice?

I warn you, when you come here later, you are not allowed to play with passwords or secret words. I am sick of those childish things. "

After saying that, he waved his hand and picked up a stick at hand, intending to clean up this damn place first. The End Celebration would begin in two days, which meant that Zhou Ke would have to stay here for at least two days.

In every sense, he is a person who pays great attention to the quality of life, commonly known as "pretentious".

The "messenger" who had never been looked at by him from beginning to end was furious, but he could not do anything to Zhou Ke. Although he might be one of the best gunmen in the wasteland, shooting in this neighborhood would only bring trouble to himself.

After glaring at Zhou Ke's dilapidated house to express his anger, the guy turned around, put on his hood and prepared to find other people to discuss. After taking a few steps, he remembered Zhou Ke's very impolite but reasonable words, and in an instant, the novelty of the "secret operation" in his heart became boring.

Yes.

The Tiger Nation doesn't care at all about what kind of crap these dying people do. It's just a waste of time for them to do this.

Thinking of this, he no longer sneaked along the wall, nor looked left and right, and did not care about keeping a low profile. He pulled up his hood, kicked away the guy blocking his way, and ran towards their stronghold.

At the window, Zhou Ke watched the guy disappear around the corner. He turned back and said to Ajie:

"They were able to notice the sewer structure we left at the corner of the street in such a short time and find us. These guys are quite capable, at least in terms of execution.

very good!

They passed the 'primary election'.

Now let's see if anyone else comes through. It's always good to have more options."

Ajie was chewing an energy bar, looking clear and stupid. It was obvious that he didn't understand Zhou Ke's mumbling, or maybe he didn't care at all?

His lavish eating and drinking showed his open-minded attitude towards life, which can be summed up in four words:

What the hell do you do to me?

About twenty minutes later, the group arrived at Zhou Ke's house. When they pushed the door open, they saw that in addition to Zhou Ke and his madman pendant, there was another group of people in the house.

The two groups were stunned when they met, and then reached for the weapons at their waists in unison.

Obviously, they don't get along.

"Hey, guys, this is in my house, why don't you give me some face? After listening to my plan, will you go out and find a place to draw your guns and shoot each other?"

Zhou Ke stood in the middle and coughed, looking at the leaders of both sides. They were both typical wasteland men, and one could tell they were not easy to mess with just by looking at their appearance.

Both teams are quite streamlined, with five people on one side and four people on the other. The members are smart and capable, and they exude a sense of toughness. It is no exaggeration to say that if these two groups of people are thrown into any world and stand at the door of a bank doing nothing, the cowardly tellers inside will scream and call the police.

Zhou Ke expressed satisfaction with these "new members". It is enough to bring a burden like Lao Bai once, and he did not come to the wasteland to apply for the position of "king of kids".

"Come here, take a look at the map, and discuss the next course of action."

Zhou Ke ignored the tension between the two sides and had no interest in their past grievances and conflicts. He tapped the energy device on his left arm, activating it to project the image onto the cleaned wall next to him.

The next moment, a plan view of the city's underground structure appeared in front of everyone, and this thing naturally attracted everyone's attention.

But their focus is a bit strange.

"You're from the city-state?"

The leader of Team A exclaimed, and the leader of Team B went a step further. He glared at Zhou Ke and shouted with vigilance and hostility:

"A researcher from the Acholi Consortium? Are you a corporate dog?"

"Are you here to escape from prison? Or are you here to check the household registration?"

Zhou Ke popped out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then asked:
"If you don't want to do this, get out now! Just find some Tiger Nation guy to report me, and I'll cut off your last chance. I don't care. I'm just a lonely man with a miserable life. But you guys are trying to escape at all costs, maybe you have some ties or hatreds that you can't let go of, right?

Come.

I'll give you three seconds to weigh in.

Either get out of here or shut up and listen to what I'm saying.

I don't need your opinions, I have my own plans, and I hate smart-assed people."

Wastelanders all have bad tempers, and such impolite words immediately made several people from both teams angry. However, the two leaders were quite good at disciplining their subordinates, and without them speaking, the subordinates just glared at them and did not come up to fight.

The hostility of these people stimulated Ajie. He turned around with half a delicious energy bar in his mouth, picked up the cutting saw at his feet, and stared at someone's neck eagerly, like a well-trained and ferocious guard dog, ready to pounce and tear the enemy into pieces at Zhou Ke's gesture.

"Three seconds have passed and you haven't left. Very good. You still have some brains. Now look at the picture!"

Zhou Ke picked up a half-broken stick that he had picked up, pointed at the projection structure at a constant position on the wall, and said to the nine "jailbreakers":

“This sewer map is from decades ago. It’s hard to say whether Tiger State has modified the underground structure. But this is not a big problem. Such a large-scale underground structure has already been fixed in size. Even if it is modified later, its main direction cannot be changed.

Therefore, we have two best routes to escape.

One is to go through the large sewage outlet on the east side.

That is the confluence outlet of the entire sewer system. Since this city of more than 100,000 people is still operating, it is impossible for the Tiger State to block it, but I suspect that there must be people from the Tiger State guarding the sewage outlet, so there will definitely be a fight if we take this route."

"It's just a fight, it doesn't matter."

Leader A, who was very strong and looked very social, had a crooked hairtail tattoo on his shoulder. He stared at the line that Zhou Ke had drawn with the stick, his narrowed eyes gleaming with brilliance, and he said:
"Let's take this route."

"Shut up, he hasn't finished yet."

The long-haired leader B choked and made a "please" gesture.

Zhou Ke was very satisfied with such politeness. He turned the stick in his hand, drew another line, and said:

"The second route starts from Tiger's Nest and goes north to the sewage treatment unit. It's a shorter distance, and everyone knows where the north of Fort End is. If you take this route, you might be able to take advantage of the chaos and sneak into the border of the city-state area.

The influence of the Tiger State in the City-State District is far less than that in the Bad Land, and the biggest problem with taking the first route is that even if we rush out, we may not be able to escape from the Tiger State's sphere of influence under the pursuit of the pursuers, mainly because we don't have reliable contacts outside.

This is the biggest problem.

So, what do you think? "

The nine people hesitated. If they still did not trust Zhou Ke before, now that he had laid out the two paths clearly before them, their focus of consideration had changed.

A few minutes later, Leader A spoke first:

"In fact, we have also started exploring the sewer system from this block in the past few days, but without a map, it is like a maze inside. Even if we spread everyone in the block down, we can't find the way in a short time. Your map is really helpful.

I don't think it's time to make a decision yet. We should at least figure out whether the two routes are feasible. How about this? We explore the first route, Moni, and your people explore the second route.

Hurry up and gather the information before the End Celebration begins?"

"Okay! I'll listen to you this time, Mark."

Leader B Moni agreed straightforwardly, but he raised another question. He looked at Zhou Ke and said:
"Even if we find the way, it's just the beginning. If we don't create chaos, there will be no chance of escape. About this."

"What was your original plan?"

Zhou Ke sat at the broken table, exhaled a puff of smoke and asked.

The two leaders looked at each other, and the strong man Mark spoke first:

"We privately contacted a group of people who didn't want to die. Of course, everyone in this block didn't want to die, so it was easy to find such people. We promised to take them out and asked them to cause chaos at a certain time."

"Same for us."

Leader B Moni also nodded and said:

"The general idea is the same, but we are more radical. We plan to persuade a group of people to directly attack the guards of Tiger State."

Neither of them said it explicitly, but Zhou Ke knew very well what these guys were planning. They had no intention of taking more people away.

This is not a moral issue, but simply a question of ability.

Even Zhou Ke didn't have the crazy idea of "saving everyone", not to mention that he was not a saint.

“Creating chaos in the prison and then taking advantage of the situation is a classic and practical method. However, the End of the World Celebration has been held for more than a dozen times, and the five-star good citizens in the End of the World Castle are well-informed in this regard. Such an unoriginal method is completely useless.

It's like a movie that has been spoiled in advance, there is nothing fresh about it.

What's more, everyone has pheromone barcodes for positioning. Well, looking at your stupid yet clear eyes at this moment, I know that you don't understand what these marks that Hubang put on us are for, right?"

Zhou Ke curled his lips, pointed at the black barcode on his neck that looked like a tattoo, and said:
“This thing from the old civilization, in addition to marking personal information, contains pheromones that can be tracked!
You don't need to understand what pheromones are, you just need to know that they have a "magic little machine" in their hands, which can confirm the real-time location of each fighter when turned on. This inconspicuous little gadget is the main reason why no one has been able to escape in the past 30 years.

If we want to break the impasse, we have to do something new, something cruel that the people of Hubang have never seen before.

Leave this brain-intensive work to me."

"What do we do with this pheromone marking?"

Leader A, Mark, grabbed the barcode on his arm and asked, while the others looked at Zhou Ke eagerly, just like the helpless Nobita No. 1 to No. 9 praying for the magical blue cat in front of them who was pitch dark to show some power.

From this point, it can be seen that Zhou Ke has initially taken control of the two groups by successively revealing two key pieces of information, and has become a figure similar to the "White Paper Fan".

What he needs to do now is to continue to deepen this impression so that these brothers who prefer to use their hands rather than their brains can develop the habit of "obedience".

"Simple!"

Zhou Ke threw the cigarette butt aside and said:
"Just tear off that piece of skin and throw it away."

"Swish"

A big guy immediately drew out a dagger, but before he could do anything, the leader next to him slapped him in the hand.

"Idiot, wait until you can act! Are you trying to kill us now?"

"It's okay. I still have some brains."

Zhou Ke nodded with satisfaction. He jumped off the table, pointed at the map on the wall, and said:

"I have shown my sincerity. Now it's your turn to show it. Do you see it? There is a hole here. This is the location of the Tiger's Nest. The terrain structure over there cannot be recognized by the old map. I need an information interface that can connect to the inside of the Tiger's Nest.

I guess you haven't seen this kind of thing, but the information interface left by old civilizations is actually very easy to identify.

I need you to mobilize all the resources at hand to help me deal with this thing. It is related to whether I can find the key information so that we can stir up a sufficiently eye-catching chaos before we take action. The fighters add up to only 5,000 people. Facing the heavy firepower of the Tiger State, such a small number of people can't cause any waves.

If we want to give Wu Qinhu and his tiger cubs a hard time, we have to find a way to use some of their unstable factors."

Zhou Ke clapped his hands as the "temporary chairman of the Jailbreak Committee" and said to the guys in front of him:
"There are still two days left, brothers, get moving, we still have a lot to do."

The members of the two gangs looked at each other, and then took action under the arrangements of the two leaders, but Moni, the leader of Gang B, secretly ran back a few minutes after leaving.

When he pushed open the door, he saw Zhou Ke standing in front of the wall, deep in thought, as if he was really thinking about how to break the impasse.

"I have some information that may be useful to you."

Moni brushed her iconic long hair, lowered her voice and said:

"The information interface you're looking for that can connect to the Tiger's Nest is difficult, but in another way, the Tiger Nation soldiers have their own communication devices. Is the wireless signal of that thing OK?"

"Hey, there's actually a 'wasteland scientist' hidden in our small group! I know you're something special when you can say these professional terms. This amount of knowledge exceeds 90% of the wastelanders. Keep up the good work, brother."

Zhou Ke turned around, looked at him with interest, and said:
"Of course, it would be best to have a ready-made mobile signal source within the Tiger State system, but how can we get it?"

"Simple. The soldiers of Tiger Nation are also human beings. They also have needs. Castle End is famous for having more men than women. The women are all monopolized by the cadres. The lower-level soldiers can only find time to go to the surrounding towns to have fun."

Moni narrowed his eyes and whispered:

"I controlled some of the female gunmen who were sent here under duress among the fighters. Before you came, I had already won over some soldiers. I had originally intended to use them as a side move, but after reading your plan, I realized that our previous preparations were completely useless.

But you know, even the most serious man will relax in bed.

Also, are you curious about my identity?

There's nothing much to explore. I used to be a city-statesman, but was banished to the wasteland and became one of you. No, that's not accurate. We are the same kind of people.

You and me.
We are different from everyone else in these streets!"

"Well, although I have no interest in stupid bloodline theories, I have to admit that in a sense, there is something wrong with what you said."

For the first time, Zhou Ke took the initiative to reach out to the guy in front of him and said:

"Let me introduce myself again. My name is Zhou Ke, what's yours?"

"Moni, my father is the legitimate son of the previous head of the Panis family in the city-state area, and my mother is..."

"Alright, alright, brother, don't talk so much like a noble reading out the menu. You know that the things you value most can't help you at all in this situation, and will only cause you to bear unnecessary pressure."

Zhou Ke interrupted his description, stared at Moni and said:

"So I guess, no matter which way your brothers are going, you will definitely take the road to the Polis District. You want to go back to the 'paradise' you once knew, right?"

"Well, not just back to heaven."

Moni showed a sinister and vicious expression and said:
"I will also drag some people down to hell, just like they did to me before. Let's cooperate, Zhou Ke. Not the kind of cooperation based on temporary needs just now, but long-term cooperation.

You are a talented person!
I have been in the Bad Land for ten years, and I have rarely seen people like you."

"Are you so sure we can escape?"

Zhou Ke asked back, Moni smiled and said:
"Finding something to think about is the only way to hold on in hell. This is my experience over the past ten years. Now let's talk about what to do after we escape. Let's pretend that we have gained freedom. Imagination can sometimes bring motivation.

How to say?
Want to cooperate?"

"Of course, friends are like toilet paper under the sink. It's never a bad idea to have a few extra rolls ready."

Zhou Ke said:
"I also have an 'informant' in the Polis district. His name is Old White and he's a pathetic cripple. If you can escape, go to the black market or find him near the garbage dump. Tell me my name and he will do his best to help you."

"Ha, I knew you were not an ordinary person. Okay, I'll get you the signal you need tonight! Also, before you abandon those pieces of junk, remember to remind me."

"So your subordinates are not good, right? Moni from Panis."

"Subordinates? No, before they are recognized by me from the bottom of my heart and become my brothers and sisters, they are just tools waiting to be tested. I said, only you and I are the same kind of people here, Zhou Ke of the Evil Land."

(End of this chapter)