death of hope

Lorraine Fucker,

This poor little village is cut off from the world,

Indian Borough in west-central Mississippi.

Tornadoes have been raging in recent years, and the old wooden houses in the town can't bear it anymore.
Not even a single intact one could be found, and the village's residential areas and shopping streets slowly fell into disrepair.

All the villagers live pitifully in simple camps outside the town.

Living in an RV, prefab, or tent,

As soon as there is a turbulence in the weather forecast and a tornado strikes, someone will ring the alarm bell, and the whole town will have to flee.

·
The weather is very hot today, the sun is like a big furnace,

There is a small stream beside the road, and the villagers don't care about the stream heavily polluted by industrial drainage, so they come here to swim and cool off.

The rising heat, and the baked asphalt road, made things in the distance look like mirages.

"Whoosh!"

A civilian version of the "Dongfeng Warrior" off-road vehicle roared by,

Through the bulletproof window, the driver and passengers wearing sunglasses can be seen inside.

"It's a foreigner again." A long-haired Indian villager said.

"Recently, there are always foreigners coming over, coming to our poor fellow in the backcountry? What are you trying to do?" the old woman asked.

"Who knows, maybe oil has been discovered."

"Not oil! I'm sure!"

·
The little girl with braids and a swimming ring had a different opinion, and said in a childish voice:
"The group of outsiders who came before all had guns in their hands!

Max said that they occasionally hiked into the woods, shining with flashlights and sniffing with hounds, as if they were looking for something,
So, we nicknamed the gang of outlanders the 'Searchers'.

Once, we kicked a football into their camp, and my sister and I ran over to find the ball,

There was a bearded man in a baseball cap who threatened me with a machete and cut the ball in half with one knife. Sister Hill was frightened and cried. "

"My God..."

The old woman picked up the child distressedly: "Don't provoke those guys! Isn't it just a football, tell the scavengers later, let them find another one at the garbage dump."

"Auntie, look!"

The child pointed to the off-road vehicle:

"The car... was driving towards the Seeker's camp!"

"Maybe... it's for the 'Searchers'." Another child said.

"The four white ghosts sitting inside don't look like good people!"

·
The old woman muttered angrily, closed her eyes, put her hands together and began to pray:
"God of the sun, the elves in the forest... Please protect your Indian people, drive these white barbarians out of the sacred forest, it is best to let them kill dogs and kill each other..."

Soon, the old woman's wish came true, but it was not by the sun god.

·
"Boom! Bang bang!"

The townspeople enjoying the cool air by the stream heard continuous explosions and gunshots, and swam ashore one after another to watch the excitement:
"Wow! Let's do it!"

"What's wrong with this?"

"I can't make it!"

Several strands of black smoke curled up from the "Searchers" camp and shot straight into the sky.

Suddenly, a huge fireball rose up, and a car in the camp was blown up.

Sound travels slowly, and it takes a while to hear a loud explosion "Boom!".

·
"Hey! Something big has happened!"

"It's a mess, do you want to call the police?"

"You are so stupid! Where can we find a note in this poor place?!"

"And...the firepower of these people is too fierce...I'm afraid they won't be able to suppress the call..."

"The gunshots got louder, I heard the sound of bullets passing through the air!"

"White gangs fight, don't accidentally hurt us aborigines."

"Why are you still standing there? Bullets don't have eyes! Folks! Hurry up and hug the child and run away!"

"You heard what the mayor said! Folks! Hide in the forest!"

·
a mile away,
The "seekers" camp.

Dozens of corpses lay here and there on the ground,
The weather was hot, and some of the corpses were wearing tactical vests and heavy flak armor, but they were matched with shorts and slippers.

Even if they are not attacked by surprise and are prepared, even if these people are strong men who have been tempered, they will not escape bad luck.
The opponent is really too strong.

·
Four men in sunglasses are cleaning the battlefield,
Their car was parked after crashing the railing, the bulletproof doors were wide open, the windows were covered with bullet holes, and the heavy machine gun on the roof was steaming.

The previous battles did not soak the clothes of the men in sunglasses with sweat, but the scorching sun of Mississippi could easily do it.

Shaft took off his helmet, armor, tactical vest, wet cotton bottoming shirt and threw it on the ground, leaving only camouflage tactical pants and sunglasses:

"What the hell...the weather...it must be around forty degrees..."

"The weather forecast said 45 degrees Celsius." Oleg said: "The villagers nearby are enjoying the coolness by the stream, but we have to wear full equipment to fight."

"It's so simple, is it called fighting?"

Johnny Blazer curled his lips: "It's just a real CS game."

"No, no, old company commander, in fact, this group of people is quite strong, but they just met us."

Shaft pointed to the paralyzed, barrel-down automatic machine gun:
"You have to thank me for implanting the virus, disabling the automatic defense machine gun, and controlling the self-destruct drone to blow up their command vehicle, otherwise it would not be so smooth."

Johnny kicked a lying corpse so that he could see his face clearly: "What the hell, isn't that guy in the camp? He couldn't find him!"

·
"I said...Xiao Xia."

"Huh? Boss, what's the matter?"

Lynch said: "You said... Is there a possibility that the person we are looking for, the leader of this gang...will be in the command vehicle?... Was killed by your drone?"

"Uh... this is..."

Shaft scratched his hair and said with a playful smile: "Indeed, I didn't think about it...hehe...sorry."

Oleg made a shooting gesture at Shaft: "Hahaha, I'm making you cry! Let's screw it up now!"

Lynch looked at the corpses all over the floor: "It doesn't matter, whether that guy is dead or alive, at least the threat from the 'Fox Hunter' organization is temporarily lifted."

"Look at me!"

Shaft raised his assault rifle, fixed his eyes on the holographic sight, and fired a shot at the rope on the flagpole:
"Bah!"

The 5.56mm bullet missed the rope and bounced off the flagpole, and the jumping fragments of the bullet hit Oleg's helmet, scaring him so much that his neck shrank.

·
"Hey, I'm going! I'm scared!" Oleg scolded: "I said Xiaoxia! If you can't make it right, don't put coins!"

"The sun is too poisonous, the holographic scope can't see clearly!"

"Food is food, don't quibble, it's boring."

"You two stay away! Look at me!"

Johnny Blazer wanted to show off his skills. He hung his assault rifle on his chest, pulled out a shiny Smith & Wesson revolver, and aimed his iron sights at the dangling rope on the flagpole.

·
"Bah!"

The rope snapped,

The flag fluttering from the top of the pole showed a gunslinger with a hound on it and landed on the dirt.

"Yes! Yes!
Did you see it, it has to be the old company commander! ’ shouted Oleg, giving a thumbs up.

Shaft stuck out his tongue at him: "Sycophant!"

Marcus Lynch looked down at the flag:

"The 'Fox Hunter' banner,

These top bounty hunters command a lot of money, and ordinary people certainly cannot afford to hire them. "

Oleg stepped on the flag twice, and spat again:

"Fuck! What kind of bounty hunters are rotten fish and shrimps!
If you want to kill some of our brothers, unless... um... yes!Unless you hire a ghost pirate ship, or a big orc, or a lizard mercenary, then it will be interesting to fight! "

Johnny laughed and said, "It's best not to let the Queen of Spades hear what you say."