Wasteland Echoer

Zine Empire, Old Uko Province, Route 62.

"Brother Luonie, wake up, wake up."

A boyish voice came from beside him into the sleeping Luo Nie's ears. Under the shaking of a pair of white hands with strange patterned wristbands, he rubbed his sore eyes, hearing from the strange dream of noisy whispers and messy light. Struggling to wake up.

"Say? What time is it? Huh, I'm so sleepy." Luo Nie stretched out of habit, unbuttoned the small round buttons on the cuffs of the brown leather jacket, opened the cuffs and looked through the eyes stained with a little dark red liquid. The glass cover looks inwards.

During the two days that he took Sayi to drive from Sugra City past the three tall guards and to the town of Sunida, the only way to the Silent Highlands, resting in the car became a temporary habit for Luonie.

"It's only 8 o'clock. What's wrong, Luo Nie? We just bypassed Highway 65 and drove to Highway 62 yesterday. I'm afraid it's still a half-day's drive to Sunida Town near Lvjing Forest. I guess we can do some supplies when we get there. Let's go to Silent Highland. What? Are you anxious? Do you want to see some of your brothers and sisters from the Tengyin sect?" Luo Nie said in a soft tone, stroking Sayi's golden hair a few times with his hand.

"It's not brother, look...out the window." Sai whispered, staring out the window with cautious brown eyes, and stretched out a finger to gently tap the left side of Luo's head in one direction.

"Outside the window?" Luo Nie asked curiously, turning his head to look a little sleepily.

"Unintentional people? Why are they here?" A trace of human fear flashed through Luo Nie's light blue eyes. Then, he touched his right hand to his waist and took out the pistol he carried when he left the city of Sugra. .

"Get ready to fight, Sai. I don't know if this group of unintentional people has a leader. If they are just a few wandering unintentional people, it's okay. If they are controlled by a few lost ones under the church, I'm afraid we have to pay a price." Luo He shook the "BK-58" pistol in his hand.

He got this from the lean old man in Bude. Naturally, he spent some new currency, about 70 yuan.

For no other reason than for the old man Bude's habit, he likes to smoke incense flowers mixed with tobacco ground from other plants, as well as low-purity beer rich in maltose.

This "BK-58" pistol is said to be a high-end weapon mass-produced before the New Yuan Dynasty. Bude exchanged it for a treasure from a soldier from the old Krusted Federation who fled to the Zhiné Empire a few years ago.

This weapon is said to have been invented by an unknown soldier from Old Crusted who loves to study. It has strong performance, is not afraid of harsh and extreme environments, is not easily stuck, and can still be used normally even after being eroded by sand, soil and rain.

However, since this pistol is a pre-New Zealand style, it can only use brass as the bullet material. If it is made of stainless steel, not to mention the current industrial capabilities of the Zine Empire, it will be compromised in terms of pure performance matching.

"Brother Luonie." Sai's childish voice came out of his mouth again.

"Are you ready to fight?" After a slight "click" sound, Luo Nie loaded the bullet and asked in a low voice.

"Actually, those unintentional people, they have been following us for half the night..." Sai's voice seemed a little weak, and he lowered his head, as if he had done something wrong.

"What? You just woke me up now? When you left Sugra, you promised to be my deputy. I also promised to officially hire you in accordance with the "Work Act" and give you a salary of 1 Singapore dollar a day. This is what you paid The boss works?" Luo Nie complained angrily.

"No, no." Sai shook his head quickly, "I mean, those unintentional people don't seem to be hostile to us. In other words, not yet. It may be because of me. I... fought with you to form a spirit. At that time, the remaining force field energy and magic source power seemed to make them afraid to approach us. I originally wanted to force them to leave by continuously releasing the magic source power, but I didn't expect that there were more and more of them."

"More and more? I have to check how many there are." Luo Nie looked out of the car glass in a panic.

There are already more than a dozen Wu Xinren who are over 2.5 meters tall and huge, with chests glowing red with burning liquid, and gray and white bodies. They are showing their teeth with blood and meat residue hanging from the corners of their mouths.

They looked greedily at the two people huddled in the iron old-style car that looked like a classic car produced in the last century.

"You have to use spiritual power to detect it." Luo Nie said.

Immediately afterwards, he slowly tried to surge the rich light green spiritual power in his body in a way that would not disturb Wu Xinren who was contaminated with mysterious power.

This kind of power spirit formation extended from the magic power of plants and trees will produce a mild effect. Most of the time, not only will the target not notice it, but even after the order level is increased, the target will inadvertently enjoy the illusory comfort produced by the spirit formation. Feel.

However, Luo Jie has not yet obtained the Wisdom Sequence Core, and is currently not in the ranks of extraordinary people, but it is more than enough to deal with these unintentional people who have no intelligence, slow movements, and even lower status than animals who rely on instinct to act.

After briefly observing the surroundings and confirming that the Wuxin people had no offensive intentions for the time being, Luo Nie breathed a sigh of relief and muttered a spell belonging to the magic field.

"God of Machinery, please protect your believers."

Immediately afterwards, a strange blue-green light flashed in his left eye. At the same time, the perspective of his left eye changed into a product of red and green lines, which looked like some kind of weapon recently developed by the Zine Empire.

"There are fifteen unintentional people around, and there are twenty or thirty others wandering on the highway. There are also," Luo Nie reported in a soft voice.

Then, he adjusted the position covered by the remaining spiritual power, extended it forward, and continued:

"There seemed to be an accident at the center of No. 62. I felt several dead humans and some unintentional people eating their bodies. Maybe the blood attracted them and it was a spontaneous act. But I didn't feel anything else. The power of the Lost, Say, maybe the two of us can deal with them."

After Luo Nie took back the remaining spiritual power, he turned his head and glanced at Sayi with his blue eyes, signaling him to make preparations.

"I...of course I can fight, but...I don't have much magic power left. If it's overdrawn, I might lose my mind." Sai said hesitantly.

"Lost your mind? Aren't you the Lost One? The Lost One should have been infected with the mutation once, and the battle at dusk that day showed me how powerful you are, Sai." Luo Nie said with a little ridicule.

"Brother Luonie. Although I am a lost person, I have no profession and am not completely lost. Half of my body belongs to human beings. I told you this when I walked out of the Sokra Gate. Moreover, that day I actually ...Actually..." Sai's tone was a little twisted, as if there was something unspeakable.

"You took a potion that overdrafted your body and strengthened your strength, right?" Luo Nie directly added the second half of the sentence.

"How do you know?" Sai looked a little surprised, staring at Luo Nie with doubtful eyes, as if he was observing a [Perceiver] who could read the mind.

"I have studied both occultism and pharmacy. I have learned a lot in more than a hundred years. Like you, I am also trying to become a real human being. However, after arriving in Sunida Town, I I need to try to configure the emblem that the false god told me, maybe it can help us find the [Order]. But having said that, if you can't participate in the battle now, keep releasing your magic power and watch my performance!"

Luo Nie said, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and his eyes flashed with light blue light.

Since the magic power consumed in the previous battle with Sai had not been fully recovered, Luo Nie chose to hold the "BK-58" pistol tightly with his left hand, and held the old steering wheel with rotten leather in his right hand. He stepped on the accelerator and jerked towards Rush forward.

"Roar!"

As the car suddenly passed through the simple encirclement formed by the Wuxin people, those Wuxin people who had just been briefly affected by the magic power let out high and furious roars.

Immediately afterwards, the few Wu Xinren closest to them who smelled the extraordinary and human aura, with bright red blood stains all over their bodies and small streams of burning fluid leaking out of their bodies, stretched out their arms that looked like a combination of eagle and tiger. The claws, with heavy steps that almost tore the earth apart and trembled, attacked Luo Nie's car window.

bump!

bump!

The yellow brass bullet punched out a straight and elegant line!

Luonie relied on his many years of experience in using guns in the Zine Empire and the perfect memory of the mechanical body, allowing him to quickly complete the task of aiming and shooting with the support of a small amount of spiritual power.

"Ho! Roar!"

A few meters in front of the car, several tall, gray-white unintentional people seemed a little angry when they saw their companions falling, and roared like wild beasts.

Immediately afterwards, they struck again, waving their strange eagle-like claws, towards the old car window glass.

"Touch! Touch!"

With a smile on his face, Luo pinched his left hand half-bend, and the brass bullet fired from his "BK-58" accurately passed through the gap in the car window, penetrating the steel-hard body of Wuxinman filled with burning fluid. chest.

"Look, they were annihilated." Luo Nie shouted excitedly towards Sayi.

His brief battle with the Heartless Man seemed more like an elegant impromptu drama.

Sai looked back along the position where the Wu Xin Man fell. The heart of the Wu Xin Man who had just been knocked down was shining with bright red and yellow light. Along with the remains of the brass bullets, hot red fluid flowed from their chests. It overflowed outwards, and bursts of white smoke came out when it came into contact with the asphalt ground.

Along with the smoke, Say actually felt an energy that was very beneficial to the lost from the breath of the burning liquid.

"Say, you see, this is burning liquid, good medicinal materials and metal materials. Fortunately, the two of us are not real humans. If we were soldiers from the escort or the army, we might have been infected. . The burning liquid will provide the lost with power, you should know more about it."

Just as Luo Nie was explaining proudly, he suddenly felt that there were not many unintentional people with putrid smells near the speeding car.

Moreover, when the car passed through the central accident section of Route 62 that was previously detected by spiritual power, except for the broken silver-white scrap metal with black smoke and a pile of scattered internal organs, there seemed to be no trace of the presence of an unintentional person.

"Completely solved?" Luo Nie wondered inwardly.

However, just as the car was speeding along Route 62 for almost half an hour, and according to the map previously printed by the "Sugla Military Materials Production Factory", there were still several hours' drive to the end of the road, the town of Sunida, when he suddenly A strange chirping sound was heard.

"Sound?" Luo Nie asked doubtfully, looking forward carefully.

However, accompanied by a strange chirping sound that sounded like a combination of some kind of bird and human voice, a huge, octopus-like dark tentacle stretched out from the gray-yellow soil next to the road.

Immediately afterwards, the tentacle seemed to be driven by some extraordinary power, and it whizzed heavily towards the asphalt road and lay across the road.

呲————

Luo Nie hurriedly stepped on the brakes and almost hit the windshield due to inertia.

But before he could recover and carefully observe the situation ahead, a huge crack appeared on the gray earth on the right side of the car.

As the crack gradually widened, a giant monster about seven or eight meters tall unexpectedly broke out of the ground. It was carrying the strange bird-like chirping just now, and only then did Luonie and Sai see its appearance clearly.

The huge body resembles a combination of a sphere and a cube. Its body is covered with villi that squirm outward and appear to be alive and resemble maggots.

The octopus-like jet-black tentacles with eyeballs that it stretched out just now are just one of eight equally huge tentacles that are used to replace legs.

Its chest is covered with various protective layers made of bones that look like armor or scales, but the red heart filled with scorching liquid at its core clearly shows its alien identity.

"A rare mutated species?" Luo Nie said in panic, feeling an indescribable fear coming from deep inside.

Even so, he hurriedly unbuckled the car's seat belt, opened the car door that was stained with high-strength corrosive burning liquid, and held the "BK-58" pistol tightly with his white hands, preparing to get out of the car and fight.

But at the same time, the monster slowly opened the cat-like down covering its upper part in front of the two people, revealing a pair of bright red ones without any modification, which made people feel... Trembling blood-red eyes.

It looks like two scarlet moons hanging in the night sky!