Longmen Memoirs

"That's not possible." Chen Mo took the blunderbuss and inserted it back into place: "It's not that I'm reluctant to give it to you, but I'm afraid that you'll lose your life for this thing that day."

"It's so serious."

"Not good."

"...Don't tell me which woman gave it to you." The sniper stared at Chen Mo sideways for a while and suddenly blurted out. Chen Mo didn't expect that he would guess so accurately.

"Who told you that."

"Hey, it's written on your face. Crow has been talking about you in the team, and now everyone is discussing how many women you have slept with."

Chen Mo fell silent, really silent this time.

He didn't expect that his reputation would be harmed to this extent thousands of miles away, but then again, Crow has always been particularly keen on these various gossips and gossip.

Chen Mo didn't answer for a long time.

The sniper pushed his shoulder again.

"It's the same thing this time, right? The dragon girl in your team doesn't look right at you, so I asked you how could you be so kind as to hang out with a group of infected people."

"Why are you so talkative now? I remember you didn't have this habit before. You stayed with Crow for a long time, so you were affected by her."

"Can you please stop mentioning this matter all the time." The sniper said with a bitter face, "It made me come all the way here, as if I was deliberately avoiding her."

"I didn't say that."

"That's what you mean in your words."

"That's what you said yourself." Chen Mo said. The sniper stared at his side face. After a while, he looked away.

"So you don't plan to go back to Colombia anymore?" he asked suddenly. "Before coming here, although a few guys in the team didn't say it directly, I know they all wanted to ask you about this. Ms. Ceria asked me to tell you that Ifrit's condition has stabilized a lot, and she hopes you can Take the time to go back, you are missing as the main person in charge of many affairs in the company."

Sitting behind a dusty truck under the hazy sky after a light rain, the sniper no longer looked at Chen Mo when he said this, but stared at the crowd not far away.

"understood."

"I thought that when I see you again this time, you will be the same as before, but now you make me feel that there have been great changes. In the past, you rarely said these insignificant things, and you always did what the vice-captain did. Pai, although I don’t recognize you as the captain very much, but now, to be honest, I actually miss the days when the team was in Sargon." He said: "I thought I was assigned to Sargon because I was infected. I may just stay there for the rest of my life. Colombia treats infected people well, but I haven't thought about becoming a pioneer. In fact, Black Steel's treatment of infected operators is considered to be the best in the industry. It’s very generous.”

"It's not too late to save these words for later. It sounds a little awkward to me, as if you were confessing your last words." Chen Mo picked his ears.

The sniper looked directly at him and sighed softly.

"Everyone... misses you very much." He hesitated and said.

Chen Mo didn't answer. The sniper watched him take out the cigarette box from his pocket. After taking out the cigarette, he didn't light it. When he found it, he stuffed the cigarette back into the bag. He didn't know where to put his hand, so he had to Put it in front of your knees.

"What do you want me to do?"

After a long time, he answered: "Everyone is living a good life now. Even if we become infected, we still have a way to survive."

He said, looking at the infected people below the car who were trying out weapons, watching them put on new equipment, and watching their faces with smiles that were rarely seen again.

"But they are different." He crossed his hands slightly on his knees: "They are different from us. We came from black steel, so even if we become infected, there is still a way to go. Become infected. At least we still have the ability to protect ourselves, they can’t, and neither can the many infected people on this land.”

"You can't help everyone. We haven't seen enough. The pioneer lands on the edge of Colombian cities, the wilderness of Sargon, the mines and villages under the hands of the lords, they are the same everywhere, even ourselves. , I think you know this best among our group, because everyone calls you snake and says you are cold-blooded and cold-blooded."

"I never thought that one day I would stand with the infected for their fate and suffering. Even if I became an infected person, I am far from being great enough to have the ideal of saving other people."

He turned his head and looked at the sniper, a smile slowly appearing on his dusty face.

"It was the same before. When we were in Sargon and Colombia, I also felt that what happened to the infected had nothing to do with me, because their lives and the unfair treatment of them by the city were beyond our control. In the end, we were just a small group of people. We are mercenaries who work for others and sell our lives for money. Before helping others, we all have to take care of our own lives."

"But sometimes it's so strange. No one can tell how far we will go to one thing. No one can tell whether we will do something ourselves at a certain moment. Decisions that I would never make before, I know sometimes it’s hard to go back after making some decisions, but I also know that if I don’t make that decision, I will never be able to forgive myself.”

The sniper wanted to say something more.

Chen Mo had already stood up.

He jumped out of the truck and looked at the sniper who remained on top.

"Let's go, I'll take you to meet the people here. Let's talk first, don't have high expectations for food."

The sniper breathed a sigh of relief, put down his folding crossbow and jumped out of the car with a grunt of displeasure.

"It can't taste worse than Black Steel's individual soldier rations."

"It's still better, but the nutrition is not as complete."

There was some regret in Chen Mo's words. Soon after, looking at the potato soup and moss biscuits in his hand, the sniper finally realized what Chen Mo's previous words meant.

He felt that he still had too much expectations for this group of colorfully dressed infected people, even though the sniper himself knew very well that even a few intermediate teams of Black Steel could easily defeat them, let alone the Ursus army. This group of infected people with backward equipment and no qualified combat qualities were annihilated.

But his captain seems to have adapted to this kind of life. Rather, he has always been the fastest to adapt in the team. Except for combat plans and deployments, the sniper has never seen him picky about anything. Maybe Because of this, he doesn't look like a qualified captain.

He was still thinking about what Chen Mo had said before, and became a little lost in thought before looking at the dry and unpalatable food in his hand.

I don’t understand that a person whom I once thought I knew very well, who was familiar with his character, and what he would do, suddenly changed into a completely different person just after not seeing him for a few years.

He didn't know that Chen Mo just had a bad life. The lives of those infected with Originium Disease were not very good, but if they were to be compared, they would not be the ones with the worst fate.

But what people fear most is comparison, and people also like to compare the most.

The Sakaz did not stop much, and the handover of weapons and supplies only took two hours. The Sakaz soldiers also taught the infected people basic operation and maintenance methods.

They come and go as fast as they come.

Considering the size of the infected team, the first batch of aid was actually not much. However, once the location and method of handover between the two parties are confirmed in advance, the next route will be much smoother.

More than 200 weapons of different shapes, light and heavy armors and combat uniforms, plus more than [-] boxes of various ammunition, long and short-range radio communicators and small batteries, a dozen reconnaissance drones and supporting maintenance of various models Tools, several boxes of general surgical units, and more than a dozen boxes of emergency medical drugs, including rare but precious analgesics and Originium disease inhibitors.

Judging from the size of Kazdaele, these things are pitifully rare, but in terms of quality, the value of this batch of equipment alone far exceeds everything the team currently has.

At least the infected didn't have any dissatisfaction.

Although there are no machine tools, no fuel, no light and heavy weapons, and no industrial equipment, they don't count on those, they don't ask for things that are too far away.

It has now far exceeded their expectations.

Although it was still a drop in the bucket, Chen Mo saw a glimmer of bright light in the gloomy eyes of these infected people, a scene that is difficult to describe in words. Only when you see it with your own eyes will you understand that human eyes are really Many things can be seen.

Maybe the one-eyed wolf was right.

People like them have become accustomed to these experiences of infected people, and even they themselves are one of them. Looking back, it is difficult for them to have too many other emotions about such tragic events, not because of habit, but because of their habit. It's because they have to let themselves survive before taking care of others.

But the word "other" is both too big and too small.

When you get to know a group of people and inevitably have an inseparable intersection with them, the word "other" will leave you far away.

The old Chen Mo understood this truth, so the old Chen Mo was called a snake, so he didn't have many friends before.

He understands it now, but unfortunately, although he understands this truth, he has no way and cannot allow himself to escape anymore.

Even if the road ahead is long, even if you can see your end point, you will always be willing to risk your life for one or two people or one or two things in your life.

Chapter 81 A broken ship heading south

The final purpose of going south is to return to the snowfield.

This is the first time that Chen Mo has formally proposed this idea. Considering the current situation, distribution, and living conditions of the infected throughout the Ursus Empire, as well as the attitude of the Ursus people towards the infected group, he wants to achieve long-term results in the south. Beneficial development is basically impossible on the current basis. Moreover, in the south, the closer to the Ursus core industrial city cluster and important commercial town alliance, the risks and threats faced by the infected group become more and more huge. This is not a Problems that initially developed groups should face at this stage.

In Chen Mo's view, one of the best ways now is to contact infected groups in southern cities and obtain certain technical talents, resources and equipment, while ensuring that we have the means to initially develop large areas of frozen soil resources in the north. , returned to the snowfield, and began to initially develop the infected's own light, heavy industry and military power.

Of course, there is a long road to explore, and in this process and direction, being prepared to face the threat of the Ursus army at any time is always the top priority.

The key is whether Ursus will let the infected develop their own cities in the impoverished snowfields, and whether the infected can maintain their determination to fight against the Ursus Empire and face various threats under such difficult conditions. It also depends on whether this trip south can successfully contact the infected people in the southern urban agglomeration of Ursus and gain their trust and support.

Chen Mo felt that it was too ambitious, but Tallulah didn't think so.

Chen Mo's words seemed to have given her some inspiration. To a certain extent, some of his ideas coincided with Tallulah's. But strangely, Tallulah's theories came from people who had worked hard for a long time and were infected. The experience gained from fighting together comes from her certain understanding of the political system of the Ursus Empire, and also from the conclusions she has drawn personally during the several years of contacting infected people from all sides outside the city of Ursus.

Chen Mo, on the other hand, seems to have been like this when he was a child. Even though he has never been exposed to things, he can always speak clearly and logically.

Tallulah didn't want to think about why the Sakaz soldier named Hedley had such a weird attitude towards Chen Mo, and she didn't want to think about why Chen Mo alone could infect this little-known member of theirs. The team of warriors received assistance from Kazdel.

In fact, it wasn't that Tallulah didn't understand many things, or that she couldn't guess them, but that she didn't let herself think too seriously, and she didn't ask about things that Chen Mo didn't mention to her.

For Tallulah, since he did not take the initiative to mention it to her, it meant that those things were not important to them now, and Tallulah did not cling to the little secret he had hidden, although she knew that if she You must know that after finding several excuses but unable to convince herself, Chen Mo would always let her get closer to the truth.

But that was too time-consuming and meaningless, and to Chen Mo, it felt like he didn't trust him.

No one could have imagined that their conversation would last several years later. The infected had indeed made some progress in the south, but they were trapped in the south of Ursus and could not return to the snowfield.

The original plan was only halfway through, but the person who proposed the idea had already left them. His departure gave the infected an opportunity to establish themselves in the south, and his departure also stalled their plan.

In the future, the infected will have to face many new threats and problems. For the entire Ursus Empire, the vast and huge Ursus Empire and its people, their situation seems to have never changed.

April 5

Time often passes much faster than people imagine. Maybe just inadvertently, another year has passed by in a hurry, but when I look back and think about it, I find that nothing much seems to have happened in this year. Big change.

Sometimes no change is a good thing, indicating that life is dull. Although there are occasional twists and turns, it is boring but at least stable. But for Tallulah, no change is not a good thing. Their situation and life can no longer change. broken.

The sniper found Chen Mo once in the middle.

It seemed that the life in the camp was indeed not what he expected. Even though he had prepared for Sargon's hard days, the actual situation still fell far beyond the sniper's expectations.

At this point, he is not a good sniper, because the first condition of a sniper is to learn to adapt.

But adapting doesn't mean staying like this all the time. Well, he just felt a little unhappy, so he went to Chen Mofa to complain. Even so, nothing could be changed. Even if he never thought about going back, he still had to let himself go. Mental balance.

In the past, from the perspective of Black Steel International's outstanding mercenaries, the sniper basically had no expectations for the combat quality of the entire infected team. Even the Colombian militia was better trained than them. What he said in private was even meaner than this. , but it also reflects from the side what level the combat strength of the entire camp is now.

Except for the guerrillas who are a little bit interesting and still have the same old-fashioned fighting mentality, the others cannot be called soldiers at all. If there were more people, they would be like the thugs that the team was responsible for suppressing in the past.

Although the sniper didn't say it so directly, Chen Mo still understood what he wanted to express.

He told the sniper that this was normal.

Because the group of people he saw, although they had new weapons and equipment in their hands, a few months ago, they were just a group of wanderers, farmers, and miners with nowhere to go. Most of them The people had no formal military training at all, and many of them could not even read Chinese characters.

Ursus' attitude and way of treating infected people is so cruel that it almost makes people despair.

These infected warriors are weak and have not learned how to fight. Even using the weapons in their hands requires a long time of exploration.

Of course they are not as good as the mercenary group of Kazdaele. At least Sakaz has talents in spells that other races cannot match. The long-term war has almost made every Sakaz who gave birth to Kazdare possess a certain degree of combat ability. Awareness, especially the rampant presence of mercenaries, allowed Sarkaz on that land to grow into an outstanding warrior in a very short period of time by almost picking up a weapon.

War is always the fastest and most direct way to train soldiers, because those who make mistakes are eliminated early, so those who survive are all excellent.

But Ursus is different.

In Ursus, the infected are just a group of marginalized people. They are so ravaged by the country's harsh criticism that they cannot even take up arms to resist, and even if they take up arms, they are no match for Ursus' army.

They are not enough to be called the majority. In the huge collective name of the Ursus people, they【}=

It's really disappointing, and indeed enough to be called desperate. When something becomes too big and involves too many things, personal abilities often appear particularly small.

There are so many issues that continue to be addressed right now.

Not to mention the issue of food supplies, train qualified soldiers, plan a route south, and then contact infected people in other places to gain enough trust for them to respond.

Everything is urgent and everything takes time.

In the past, the team led by Tallulah had been trapped in this stage, so that they had to constantly shift routes while training their soldiers, and therefore lacked supplies and respite. The consequence of this was that they had been unable to To achieve effective development, the entire team will always be in a state of disarray.

Tallulah didn't have time to put it all together.

Perhaps to some extent, it is not unreasonable for the patriots to think that she is a bit unrealistic, because Tallulah is thinking about going south. It seems to her that only after going south can they have the opportunity to solve these difficulties bit by bit, and in Snowfield, even if they solve these problems, they still need to face more problems caused by going south.

She thought too far and did not have much hope for the snowy plains, and the infected people in the snowy plains were her purpose of going north. In order to gain the trust and recognition of the patriots, she had to be trapped in the snowy plains for several years.

She seemed anxious.

Chen Mo can understand Tallulah's eagerness, and can understand that as a young infected fighter, she is eager to change her current situation. He can also understand that for the infected who have limited time, every step forward is huge. reward.

Tallulah has reason to be anxious, and perhaps she is also worried that when she cannot unite the infected and when everything she does cannot make progress, all the efforts she has made will be meaningless.

She couldn't place her expectations on the next person, the next person who had the same ideas as her, and even so, she felt that she should make the infected aware more of their own destiny before that person appeared.

Let them firmly believe that they are not alone, and let them believe that when they decide to take up arms and resist, they can change their own destiny in their own way.

Chen Mo likes Tallulah like this, but is too worried about it.

Now, he seemed to finally understand the reason for Hedley's gloomy face all day long, because even if he knew what the problem was, even if he needed something and how to do it, he had no way or the ability to do it. Those ones.

April 6

The soldiers finally returned to their camp near the Ula Ridge with supplies.

There were not many changes from when he left, but when the sleds and vehicles loaded with weapons entered the village, they still attracted the attention of the infected.

This is the only good thing they have encountered in the past few years. At least it is not much worse than the dilapidated small mobile city that was lost and lost. They have no ability to build and repair such a mobile city, and that will only Making their target bigger makes it easier for Ursus to take out the gathered infected.

It can't be considered a celebration. At least in Chen Mo's opinion, the food has not improved at all, but the cheers of the infected people still clearly ring in his ears, and at the center of the cheers and joy, among the soldiers, Chen Mo naturally saw Talu The figure of La.