death of hope

Chapter 284 "Corporate Warrior" (200) The Madman in the Swamp

Passing through the swamp, I ran into a survivor, who was also Lynch's fellow villager, Mr. Taywell, the dentist in the town.

This old man is crazy, his beard and hair are white, his arms are bare, his body is as thin as a stick, his skin is tanned, he is squatting on the ground and digging something with a hoe:
"Found it! Good baby!"

The crazy old man scraped off a section of lotus root, excitedly wiped off the dirt, smashed it with a stone, greedily sucked the lotus root juice, and muttered with his almost toothless mouth:

"It's delicious! It's a pity that the idiots can't drink it! They are dead! The idiots are all dead! Only this uncle is alive! Hahahaha!"

Lodayev said: "This guy reminds me of Gollum from Lord of the Rings..."

Lynch was about to approach, but was stopped by Ang Jien:
"Beware, that fellow Taywell... has gone mad since his wife and son were eaten by a blind beast, talking to himself, so manic that he will attack all living things, including other survivors."

"How did this lunatic survive?"

"Tywell lives in a tent in the middle of the swamp, that damn place is full of poisonous bugs and germs, and was once a nuclear waste landfill,

But any rational human would never live there, and even blind beasts would not approach it. This old lunatic is a fool. "

Shaft glanced at the warning message on the helmet visor and was taken aback:
"Boss, there is indeed nuclear waste here! The radiation reading has already exceeded 0.04 roentgen, Cao! Is this old man mutated?"

"0.04 roentgen, that's it? The nuclear power plant in our hometown exploded, so we can live as usual."

Lodayev was unmoved at all: "0.04 roentgen, that is, the amount of radiation from taking a few more X-rays, it will scare you."

Seeing everyone stepping on the mud, Shaft had no choice but to follow up, muttering, "Who is the madman?"

"Who?! Don't...don't come here! This is my land card!"

Old lunatic Taywell drew out his rusty Browning automatic pistol and shot Lynch in one shot;
"Boom!" The bullet was stopped by the energy shield, and Lynch's spiritual energy fluctuated, creating blue ripples in the air.

"You actually shot! You bastard! You're looking for death!" Wang Hongye was about to fire when Lynch grabbed the muzzle of the gun and pressed down:

"Hongye, don't get angry with the lunatic, he can't hurt us."

"What a piece of crap! The chain dropped at a critical moment!" The crazy old man's Browning automatic pistol jammed due to lack of maintenance for a long time.
The old lunatic disassembled the case cursingly, pulled out the spring inside, spat and rubbed back and forth on his trousers:
"Trash! This broken gun! It's completely broken! It's all your fault! Outsiders!"

"Sorry, sir."

To show that he was not hostile, Lynch threw a pistol with no bullets over it. It was a brand-new military version of the pirate scimitar with a long magazine, and its appearance was very handsome and eye-catching:
"This is a meeting ceremony, Uncle Taywell, do you remember me?"

"Sparkling... baby!" The old lunatic saw the shiny new silver gun with anti-rust chrome-plated surface, picked it up happily, then looked at Lynch, and smirked:
"Thank you, big fool! You are uglier than me... Hahaha!"

He looked at the others again: "Hey! Isn't this Angjien! You old man! Haven't you been buried yet? Isn't your grandson dead?"

"Fuck you, Tywell!" Ungern yelled, "You stupid bastard!"

"Hahahaha! I'm in a good mood today, so spare your lives! How about this, I'll dig a lotus root for you to eat!"

The old lunatic inserted the new gun into the broken belt at an angle, spat and rubbed it against the palm of his hand, picked up the hoe and scraped the soft mud vigorously,
With a bang, I found a metal sign, and when I pulled it out, I saw that it was a billboard for recruiting people from the coal mine in the next town many years ago.

"Lie! There's room for a promotion! There's a fart!"

The old lunatic Tywell smashed the billboard with a hoe: "I have never seen a coal miner who became a coal boss because he dug coal quickly and well! If you want to make a fortune, you have to be a dentist like me. Big money! Hahaha!"

"This old guy is hopeless, let's go." Onjien turned his head annoyed.

"Wait, he might know something."

Lynch walked to the old lunatic; "Uncle Taywell, when I was a child, my mother took me to your clinic. Do you still remember that you pulled out my wisdom teeth?"

"Oh! It's you! The little bastard of Lynch's family!" The old lunatic threw down his hoe, and seemed to regain some sense:
"Little Marcus? The son of miner Patricia Lynch?"

"it's me."

"For such a big man, follow your uncle, it's just that his appearance is a bit ugly,

Those scars... yes!That vicious dog attacked your sister Bess, what a stupid dog, isn't it? It's not good to bully someone's sister, that beast was torn apart by your bare hands, right? It's a rugby player, such a fierce kid. "

"Uncle Taywell, you are not confused, you still remember."

"Of course, I'm a dentist, a high-income occupation! I'm much smarter than a miner like your father!"

Sigurdriefa clenched her fists, wishing she could smash this mean-mouthed crazy old man into the mud with one punch, but Lynch wasn't angry at all:

"Uncle Taywell, you are still so venomous."

"I can say whatever I want to say! Remember, little Marcus, don't be like your stubborn donkey father. You can't get along with the people above. If you offend the boss, you are asking for trouble."

"What did you say?" Lynch was shocked: "Did my father offend someone?"

"Hmph, that guy Patricia, you can't be naive, you want an eight-hour work system, you want weekends, and you want to apply for pneumoconiosis medical insurance for the miners, and you bring people from the union to make trouble, and move other people's cakes, no? Bad luck...

That's right... I almost forgot, Patricia is already dead!died!Ha ha ha ha! "

Laughing hysterically, he coughed violently, with blood in his saliva. This person had been exposed to excessive radiation for a long time, and he must have died soon.

"Bastard!" Onjien rolled up his sleeves and wanted to beat up the old lunatic, but was stopped by Lynch:
"Forget it, Uncle Onjean, don't get angry with the lunatic, he won't be alive for a few days, let's go, Sig, and leave him some boxes of biscuits and antibiotics."

Leaving the swamp, Shaft repaired a half-track military vehicle, arrived at the blockade an hour later, and began to walk. The scene here is reminiscent of the battlefield of World War II.

There are lookout posts all over the place, several circles of barbed wire around the mine, many concrete piers to block the commuting of vehicles, and finally a rusty iron fence.

After the mine accident happened that year, all the mines were bombed and blocked to prevent blind beasts from climbing out of the ground. The official claimed that in order to prevent people from breaking in, the mine was listed as a forbidden area and guarded all day long.
It is also not allowed for people with good intentions to take a short video, and they will be prosecuted for obstructing public safety and sentenced to heavy sentences.

It seemed ironic afterwards that the high wall and barbed wire blocked the entry of curious journalists and self-media, and the family members of the miners who came to pay homage to their loved ones, but they could not stop the deadly underground creatures from crawling out of hell.

Ang Jien used to work as a security guard in the mine, so he was familiar with this place, and led everyone to the No. 242 mine where Lynch's father had an accident.
His little grandson Joey has not yet recovered from the pain of losing his mother, and he wiped away tears along the way. Wang Hongye and Sigdelifa comforted the child together and handed him chocolates.

Lodayev started the diesel generator, and the loud noise attracted a few blind beasts nearby, and they were picked up by this group of ruthless people in a few moments. Without a large-scale gathering, such monsters would not pose any threat.

Carrying the oxygen tank on his back, he took the elevator to 300 meters underground, cut through the dense iron nets, cracked the door locks, and finally saw the "242" sign.

The mine is deep and long, and going to the depths along the track is like a journey to hell. Engaging in such a dangerous and difficult business shows how difficult it was for my father to support the family back then.
Lynch's mood also became more and more heavy,

(After the father and the others had an accident...the authorities immediately blocked the news and refused to cooperate with relevant departments to search and rescue survivors,
And then desperately built blockades...to prevent any media interviews,
What are they trying to hide? )

(End of this chapter)