Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 20. What? I play the opening game? Can I win?
"The specific plan is this. It's not hard to understand. On the night of the carnival, gather a group of people and rush into the firewall entity area under the Tiger's Nest. You break the outer shell, and I will handle the rest.

If you have any questions, ask now. "

In Zhou Ke's shabby house, with 9 hours left before the start of the Final Ceremony, the core members of Moni and Mark's team were all here listening to Zhou Ke telling them about the prison escape plan.

Zhou Ke noticed that there were three more tough-looking female gunmen in Moni's team.

There were still traces of whipping and even biting on their bodies, which looked horrifying. It was obvious that it was their "efforts" that created the opportunity for Moni and Zhou Ke last night. Because of their efforts, these three ladies were able to join Moni's jailbreak team and become core members.

But unfortunately, these three ladies are just as confused as the other men.

There was a gleam of confusion in their eyes, as if they had just met an alien who called himself a great immortal and described the grand unified equation to them in a jumbled manner.

They know it’s important, and they know they need to understand, but they just can’t wrap their head around those complicated nouns.

This is normal.

Knowledge is not necessary for survival in the Badlands.

In Moni's words, the world has reached this stage where the inheritance of knowledge has long been discontinued and is even almost monopolized by the ruling class centered on the "Garden of Eden". Ordinary people don't know what this thing is useful for, and those who know the value of knowledge cannot be ordinary people.

"Ugh"

Zhou Ke sighed helplessly, knocked on the wall with two routes drawn on it with the half-broken stick in his hand, and said briefly to everyone in front of him:

"Follow me to the underground on the night of the carnival. As long as we break through this place, Tiger State and the entire End Castle will have no time to care about us. Then you can choose between the two paths. It is up to you to decide whether to return to the Bad Land or go to the City-State.

But there is one!
We are seriously short of manpower now. We need at least a hundred people just to break through the underground firewall area."

"People are not a problem. We don't even need to consider the factor of loyalty. Since Tiger Country does not accept prisoners, all fighters are our natural allies."

Mark, the gang leader with a very gangster-like air, moved his neck, and there was a fiery light in the eyes of this rough man.

If he was only 30% confident about the prison break before, now with Zhou Ke's complete plan, he believed that his chances of leaving End Castle alive had increased to 90%.

Of course, this is just an unfounded confidence.

If Zhou Kerui really wanted to comment, he would definitely tell Mark that the success rate of his previous rubbish plan was less than 0.001 Chengdu, and he was just treating Tiger State as fools.

"Mark is right, but I would like to add that this matter concerns everyone's life and property, so we still need to work together in the next few hours."

Moni was playing with a silver lighter from an old civilization era. He said calmly:

"Each of you should recruit people. Don't hire useless people. Don't hire trash. Recruit real experts! I don't know what you think, but I would rather team up with a warrior to attack an army of 100,000 than lead 300,000 cowards to a doomed conquest."

"Leave it to us, Boss."

The younger brothers were eager to try and said:
"We know some very capable guys, and no one wants to die. Nine hours is more than enough time to recruit an army. The best part is, everyone here has a gun!"

"Guns won't solve the problem in this situation, unless you can get a blue-flaming Gatling gun for each of us, but it's up to you. I don't care about the process."

Zhou Ke waved his hand and said:
"Go and get ready. We will gather at Elevator No. 13 on the festival floor at midnight on carnival night. It is the only elevator that leads directly to the underground area. There will definitely be guards there, but that is your problem to solve.

Try not to make too much noise."

Although Zhou Ke hated meaningless paper work, a group of people still held a "covenant ceremony" in Zhou Ke's house with a sense of ritual.

The core members here put their hands together and agreed to advance and retreat together. You know what, this scene of kids playing house was pretty damn exciting, and there were even a few guys who were better at acting shed tears on the spot.

But this is normal.

When doing something big, you have to have a sense of ritual. If all the snakes here hadn't been eaten up, maybe these bastards would have caught a white snake and let Zhou Ke kill it with one sword.

After everyone else left excitedly, Moni handed an address to Zhou Ke before leaving and whispered:
"If you have the chance to go to the central city of the City-State District in the future, remember to come find me here. This is the 'safe house' I prepared for myself before I was expelled. It has everything I need for survival."

"Well, it seems that when you were expelled ten years ago, you were sure that you would survive and return for revenge. Man, you are really not an ordinary person."

Zhou Ke said with a smile.

Moni shrugged. The burly man with long black hair and blue eyes grinned and said:
"As I said before, people need to have something to live for, otherwise they won't be able to survive the journey through hell. Here, I give this to you, also to deepen the trust between us."

He threw his silver lighter to Zhou Ke and then strode away.

To be honest, Zhou Ke was a little touched. After all, giving a lighter as a gift was the "highest courtesy" among smokers. But if this could make him trust Moni without reservation, it would be a bit of an insult to the word "trust".

After all, they had only known each other for less than two days.

"Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat. You've eaten up all the supplies I worked so hard to get. Behave yourself tomorrow night, you bastard. I can throw money into the water and it will make a noise."

He returned to the house and scolded Ajie who was looking for an energy bar in his bag.

The latter didn't even raise his head. He found an energy bar, clumsily tore open the package and stuffed it into his mouth with satisfaction. I have to emphasize again that such an open-minded attitude towards life is really enviable.

However, Zhou Ke still found many wonderful patterns in Ajie's living habits. For example, he knew that Ajie ate enough food every day to feed four adults, but he only went to the toilet once a day. Okay, this kind of peeping sounds a bit perverted, but it actually proves that the biochemical warrior has a super awesome ability to absorb nutrients.

To be honest, apart from the damage to intelligence and brain, biochemical warriors are simply perfect "superhuman" samples. Based on Moni's previous descriptions of the biological weapons of the old civilization, it is not difficult for Zhou Ke to infer that biochemical warriors are actually a kind of biological weapon.

It's a pity that this thing was really abused in the Badlands era.

While other jailbreakers were working hard to form gangs, Zhou Ke was sleeping soundly in his house as if nothing had happened.

He called this recharging his strength, and he slept like this until that night. When the rather crude military truck of Hubang drove into the neighborhood, all the fighters here knew that the moment that would decide their fate was coming.

"boarding!"

The leading Tiger State cadre waved his hand, and the fully armed Tiger State soldiers drove the fighters onto the vehicles.

The Tiger State warriors that appeared this time were obviously of two different levels from those crappy thugs before. The real elites could be identified just by looking at their aura. These guys were all high-level biochemical warriors, and each of them had bulging muscles like Ajie.

This is probably the core strength of Tiger State.

This force boasts of having 100,000 biochemical warriors, but in fact, it is already very impressive to have such an elite core force of 10,000 people. Even if they are secretly colluding with big forces like the Acholi Consortium, Zhou Ke believes that in this barren badland era, the Tiger State does not have enough resources to raise a real army.

However, compared with other forces in the Bad Land, the Tiger State can indeed be called a standard "authentic dog warlord".

"Zhou Ke, come to this car!"

Just when Zhou Ke, who had eaten and drunk his fill, was walking out of the house with Ajie in his rather cool clothes, they saw a truck passing by. Moni in the car waved to him. Zhou Ke responded and quickly ran a few steps with Ajie and climbed onto the truck. The Tiger State soldiers in the cab turned a blind eye to this.

Their only responsibility is to send these dying creatures to the tiger's nest, and then they can sit in the audience and enjoy the spectacular scene of them fighting for survival.

"In the car?"

Zhou Ke sat next to Moni, looked around and asked in a low voice.

Moni nodded and said:

"They are all good hands! If they can survive, I will take them to the city-state. I will also need some help from my brothers and sisters. Of course, the ones who can't leave alive are not my brothers."

"So, this is a selection, a recruitment, and the participants are required to submit their lives as a resume. I didn't expect that you are such a bastard who deserves to be put on the street lamp."

Zhou Ke cursed:

"In the past, I would hire a guy like you if I saw one. Haha! After all, I was once a jerk like that."

"Come with me to the city-state!"

Moni suddenly said in a serious tone:

"I'll let you be my second in command. Once we take down the Panis family, I'll share power with you. If we ever have the chance to go to 'heaven', I swear to take you with me! What I'm going to do later is much more dangerous than escaping from here, and I need someone like you."

"Tsk, do you think I'm the kind of person who would play second fiddle to someone else?"

Zhou Ke waved his hand and refused:
"I will go to the City-State area, but not now. I haven't figured out the Badlands yet, so there's no rush to change the map." "Then I'll wait, and you have to get here before I get killed."

Moni laughed without showing any embarrassment or anger.

The two of them sat in the wobbly car and chatted about other interesting stories of the wasteland, as if they were not heading to hell, but rather to a banquet in the Tiger's Nest.

This long convoy passed through the streets and alleys along the way. Everywhere there were residents of Tiger State dressed in strange clothes watching the fun. Some people cheered and threw all kinds of strange things onto the cars, and regarded this as a "blessing" to these fighters.

Zhou Ke raised his eyebrows at this fanatical attitude that was almost religious. He asked curiously:
"It is said that the biochemical warriors of Tiger Country believe in something called 'The End'. I have never really understood what this strange belief means."

"I don't really understand either."

Moni shrugged and said:

“Only the wastelanders who join the Tiger State will be read the doctrine of the End, but I heard that the people of the Tiger State attribute all disasters to the End. They believe that it is the aggregation of all death, destruction and disasters, and that everything that happens in this world is due to the gaze of the End and its approaching footsteps.

So they hold such a ceremony every three years, trying to offer blood food to the End in order to please it and pray that it will spare the world.

It's not really interesting, just the classic old cult stuff.

It is only because of the ridiculous living conditions in the Bad Land that this third-rate belief that cannot even be logically self-consistent has spread so widely. Why? A wise man like you is also interested in such an illusory thing?"

"I wasn't interested in it at first, and I didn't even bother to take a second look, but there's nothing I can do about this damn place that has 'psychic energy'."

Zhou Ke shook his head and said:
"Since supernatural power has emerged and spread to form a system, these mysterious things have to be treated more seriously. By the way, how much do you know about psychic power?"

“Not much, but not a little either.”

Moni smiled delicately and said:
“I don’t have a talent for psychic powers, but I know that my family’s database contains complete research on psychic powers. It is probably the most complete store of knowledge in the Badlands, except for the database of the Acholi Consortium.

So if you are interested"

"You're just staring at me, right? Forget it. I've already told you this is not the right time. What are those guys doing? Blocking the entrance and collecting tickets?"

Zhou Ke changed the subject and pointed at a group of strangely dressed Tiger Gang members gathered at the gate leading to the Tiger's Nest and asked.

Moni glanced at it, shook his head and said:
"That's the Tiger Nation's psychic selecting the 'sacrifice', remember? Every festival has an opening battle, and no one knows what the criteria are for selecting the sacrifice, but there will always be an unlucky person who will be beheaded in front of everyone and become the first blood flower flowing in the final festival.

Don't worry, they will only pick the weak guys and throw them to the Tiger State warriors to be killed, in order to publicize the strength of the Tiger State.

Tsk, a bunch of bullies who only bully the weak and fear the strong."

He said this and jumped out after the truck stopped.

The people in this car and the two cars behind were all men recruited by Moni. They acted in unison and looked very imposing.

Zhou Ke looked back and saw Mark and his men not far away.

That guy was even more arrogant. He found more people than Moni and they were more domineering. But as I said, Hu Bang didn't care.

There are twenty unmanned heavy machine gun towers standing on the positions on both sides in front of the Tiger's Nest alone, and there are also two-legged heavy mecha robots patrolling back and forth that Zhou Ke is very interested in. The rocket nests on the back of that thing and the rotary heavy machine guns on its arms are no joke.

Given the defensive strength of this position, you can’t even think of getting close unless a thousand men are killed.

Not to mention the biochemical warriors patrolling high up and the snipers hidden in various places. This building over 100 meters high is a fortress, and it is a tough nut to crack in any world and any era.

"Hand out!"

The group followed the crowd into the Tiger's Nest. At the entrance, fierce Tiger State warriors shouted at them to raise their hands. Nearby, a few mysteriously dressed psychics held strange incense burners and touched each fighter's arm, as if it was a routine.

Moni was in front of Zhou Ke. The old psychic just touched him and waved to let him go. Zhou Ke curled his lips and walked up to him, stretching out his hand and placing it there.

It was just a formality, but he had already touched at least a thousand people. The old psychic, whose arms were so sore, began to twitch all over as if he had been electrocuted the moment he touched Zhou Ke's arm.

"It's him! It's him! It's him!"

The old man was like a madman, with disgusting white bubbles coming out of his mouth, but his cloudy eyes were now a terrifying white, as if they had no pupils. He didn't know where he got the strength from, but he grabbed Zhou Ke's wrist tightly and shouted in a sharp voice like the cry of a hellish ghost:
"It is He! The perfect sacrifice! Ah, the End is roaring, it longs to see this perfect sacrifice being offered! His blood will flow! In that holy blood, all of the End's anger will be appeased!

The most perfect sacrifice ever!
Catch him! Offer him up!

Offer him up, and we shall all be pardoned! Ah, the amnesty has come! Great good fortune!"

"WTF?"

Zhou Ke was shocked.

What the hell is going on? Wasn't it agreed to just go through the motions?

Seeing several Tiger Nation soldiers coming forward to take Zhou Ke away, even Moni and Mark in the crowd behind became anxious. I finally found a white paper fan and led everyone to escape from prison and lead a better life, but you guys want to take him away?

Is this okay?

Ajie, the most angry one, had already raised his fist to save Zhou Ke. Moni and Mark also rushed over here. As a result, the next moment, red spots of light fell on them. There were at least twenty cursors shaking on each of them. If they were not worried about hurting the "sacrifice", those snipers would probably shoot without hesitation.

Zhuo, with your damn firepower density, why are you still staying in the Bad Land as a dog warlord? Why don't you go fight the Trisolarans alone?

"Stop! Don't be impulsive!"

The moment Zhou Ke was caught by several high-level biochemical warriors, he immediately shouted:

"Just do what you need to do. I'm going to survive. Ajie, put down your cutting saw!"

Moni and Mark stopped immediately, but Ajie didn't understand and was still trying to save people. Zhou Ke turned around and shouted to the psychic who was still twitching madly beside him:
“That’s my brother. Let him come with me. Don’t let him die here. Isn’t it unlucky to see blood before the ceremony begins?

I will get angry in the end!"

"Well, yes, that's right. We can't anger the God of Destruction. Take them both away!"

The psychic has a very high status in Tiger Nation. With a wave of his hand, Zhou Ke and Ajie were taken into custody. Then they were "escorted" by a dozen burly men and followed the old psychic through another VIP channel.

The moment they were sent into the elevator, Moni and Mark in the crowd both showed helpless expressions.

This development disrupted all their plans. Now they could only pray that Zhou Ke's methods were as useful as his brain. Otherwise, if he died while carrying out the most important core task, the prison break plan would be ruined.
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"What? The psionicist said he found a sacrifice?"

In the "office" at the top of the Tiger's Nest, a giant man who was shaking his fist at a "dummy" made of some kind of alloy heard the report from his subordinates.

But he didn't care and didn't even stop hitting.

The fist, which was bigger than an ordinary person's head, hit the alloy dummy, leaving a horrible fist mark. Looking closely, there were scarlet spots of light on this guy's fist, exactly the same as the spots of light when Ohm kicked someone.

This is also a strong man in the sublimated state.

And just by looking at his aura, you can tell that he is stronger than Ohm.

"They always say that, they always say that sacrifices calm the anger, but the Badlands still look like this. Tsk, let them do whatever they want. He's just a fighter. It doesn't matter.

Go out, I'll practice for a while, a real guest will be coming soon, you should be ready to receive him!"

The giant's reply startled the subordinate who came to report the news.

He originally wanted to explain that the psychic was talking about the "perfect sacrifice", and even specifically asked Lord Wu Qinhu to personally kill the sacrifice and offer it to the End, but when he saw that the Tiger King himself didn't care, his subordinates responded obediently and left.

He didn't want to anger the Tiger King, the most powerful legend in the evil land who could crush him to death with just a breath.

So be it.

Picking any powerful warrior to deal with the so-called "perfect sacrifice" is nothing more than a formality. This is how it has been done for the past 30 years. Look at this rotting world.

If offering a sacrifice can really quell all disasters, that is too abstract.

(End of this chapter)