Longmen Memoirs

It's not that the weapons are becoming heavier, but that as an infected person, even if he is as powerful as a Wendigo, the Originium Disease and time are depriving him of his life and strength.

It’s not like Chen Mo never thought about letting Wendigo go to Kazdale for treatment.

But regardless of whether Wendigo is willing to agree or not, today's team cannot do without him. Today's team can lose Tallulah and Chen Mo, but it cannot lose the Patriot.

He is the pillar of support for all the infected people here, and also the pillar of Tallulah herself. He is the only symbol on the way south that can make the infected people believe that they have the ability to survive.

Apart from the Shield of the Infected in the Snowfield, it is difficult for Ursus to find anyone who can have this weight in the hearts of the infected.

Chen Mo handed over the task of contacting Kazdaele for the second time to the guerrillas. If the patriot is willing, even if he no longer sets foot on the land of Kazdaele, he can visit his compatriots and learn from them first-hand. They learned about the situation in their hometown from their mouths.

There are too few good things that infected people can encounter, so even a little bit is enough to make up for and comfort them a lot. In the eyes of others, the tall Wendigo, no matter how many titles he has, in Chen Mo's view, is just a person. He is just a stubborn old man who is full of regrets, unable to make amends and unable to look back.

He is competing with himself, and it is difficult for him not to compete with himself.

Chapter 83 Political Commissar

Arrival at the outskirts of Kentara Farm was in the evening.

Kentara Farm, said to be a farm, is actually a vast plantation, mainly producing light industrial raw materials and grains such as hemp and wheat. The local farmer is an emerging bourgeois businessman who was reformed by the new emperor in the late Ursus Revolution. One of the beneficiaries is also one of the owners of several large-scale plantations in this area of ​​the Volga Plain.

The infected people gathered at the edge of the farm, near a hill near the woods. They built simple houses there. No defensive walls could be seen. The view was mostly large tobacco leaves and several small rivers. A very simple private workshop.

"The infected here seem to be doing pretty well."

The accompanying soldiers couldn't help but speak out.

"It's not bad." Chen Mo said, but gradually he didn't have much hope for this contact. "The others stayed outside, Kahn took two warriors and went in with me."

"Why don't we go in together, Mr. Chen?"

"We are not here to fight. Having a large number of people may not be useful. Besides, this is our first time here. If there are too many outsiders, we will easily be wary."

"Listen to you."

Chen Mo took off the weapon hanging from his belt.

"Leave the weapons behind, too."

"Even weapons?"

"Correct."

"Ah, okay."

The soldiers reluctantly put down their weapons that had not been used for a long time, and could not help but tell other soldiers who were responsible for keeping the weapons, as if they were temporarily handing over their beloved things to others.

It didn't take much effort.

They followed the path into the village.

In the evening before nightfall, as expected, the infected people in the village discovered these outsiders.

"Who are you? You... strangers I haven't seen before, what are you doing here?!"

Several villagers raised the tools and wooden sticks in their hands, and cautiously blocked the direction of the village entrance, stopping the four people who entered the village.

"Don't be nervous, we don't mean any harm." Chen Mo raised his hand. "We are friends of Mr. Shekov and are here to find him."

The villagers looked at each other for a few times.

"We don't have any Shekov here. You are in the wrong place. Outsiders, please leave quickly. Outsiders are not welcome in our village!"

"We really don't mean any harm, friends, we did meet Shekov here, he lived here a few years ago."

"I have already said that there is no Shekov here. Don't you understand human language? You go on your own and don't force me to do it!"

"Watch your tone, those handfuls of rotten wood in your hands can't scare anyone."

Before Chen Mo could speak, Kahn beside him had lost too much patience.

"You still want to take action, we are not afraid of you!"

Several villagers took a few steps back and clenched the weapons in their hands. Probably because Kahn's expression was too ferocious, they were stern and restrained and did not dare to step forward.

"Kahn, calm down."

"Mr. Chen, these guys have weird expressions. They must have something going on in their minds."

"I can tell, but we are not here to fight. Don't forget what I said before." Chen Mo looked into Kahn's eyes, and Kahn helplessly retreated into the team.

He looked at the villagers again.

"Sorry, my friend was too excited before, but we really are not looking for trouble. Maybe we remembered the wrong place. You see it is already so late. Can you let us rest here for the night? Tomorrow morning We must leave."

"What were you mumbling about just now?"

"I'm trying to persuade my friend. He has a bad temper. I'm afraid he might have some conflict with you. After all, we really thought that friend lived here before."

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief.

"You talk nicely and are better than your unreasonable friend, but we really can't let you in, outsiders, and we don't have any extra place for you to live in the village."

"We're not particular about it, as long as we have a place to take shelter from the rain."

Chen Mo took out a few silver ruble coins from his pocket. "We don't stay in vain, one night, these are our expenses."

The villagers hesitated for a while, then looked at the silver coins in Chen Mo's hand. Perhaps they felt that they didn't look like much of a threat, but in the end they didn't let go.

"It's really not possible. This is not about money. Alas... I can't explain it to you. You should go elsewhere anyway."

Chen Mo knew what they were worried about.

In the end, he failed to expose the fact that several of them were infected. Perhaps after this fact was exposed, what awaited him was not cordial welcome and acceptance, but deep hostility.

Chen Mo had no choice but to put away the silver coins and return the way he came with a few soldiers. The contact person recorded in Tallulah's directory for Kentara Farm to contact had obviously lost its original role.

Received weapons from the soldiers guarding the perimeter.

"Why did you come back so quickly? Kahn, where is the contact person? The infected people there were discussed and dealt with so quickly."

"Stop talking, we can't even enter the village." Kahn shook his head and replied. He looked in the direction of Chen Mo and hesitated to speak.

Chen Mo noticed his gaze.

"Go on, say what you want to say, don't hold it in your heart."

Kahn finally couldn't bear to speak.

"Mr. Chen, you clearly know that those guys must be lying. We could have caught them and asked them about the whereabouts of the contact person!"

"Then……"

Kahn was stunned.

"Then?"

"Then the infected in the village treat us as enemies, which is the opposite of what we came here for."

"Then it's the same now. We can't even enter the village, and our contact person is missing."

"It's not that he is missing." Chen Mo said: "He is either dead or unwilling to see us. I guess it will be the former. Ideally, he has left here."

"But those villagers are all infected." Kahn wanted to say something else. "Could they..."

"Shouldn't they be our companions?" Chen Mo asked, "What do you think will happen if we tell them that we are also infected, and they will welcome us in? No, Kahn, they will be worried that our arrival will endanger them. You also see how wary they are of outsiders."

"Then this is over? Mr. Chen, we came all the way here and it's over without doing anything?"

"What did you see when you came here? Compared with other places, the infected people here live pretty well. They have their own land and several small workshops." Chen Mo said: "But there is also a large one nearby The plantation belongs to an Ursus farmer. Look at the tobacco leaves grown in the field. It is obvious that those things are not of much value to the infected, but almost all of them here are planted with tobacco leaves. Those few buildings You can smell the smoked tobacco leaves from afar."

"They don't have access to those things, which only means they are doing it for others [&%

"You're saying that the farmers here are harboring these infected people."

"It's not a cover-up. Before the infected picket team found this place, he could take in this group of infected people. He only needed to provide a little land to make these infected people who had nowhere to go to work for him wholeheartedly. There is no comparison. This is a more cost-effective deal, and he doesn't even have to provide food and reward to these infected people. Once exposed, these infected people have nothing to do with him. Perhaps before being exposed, the farm guards will quietly come and deal with the place. When it is reported, it will be another credit."

"Damn it."

Kahn cursed subconsciously, and then turned his attention to Chen Mo.

"Then we..."

"It's useless." Chen Mo shook his head: "If you want to tell those infected people the truth, will they believe you? Will they believe you, a foreign infected person like them, or will they believe the farmer who gave them land to keep them alive? .”

Kahn lowered his head.

"Don't be too frustrated. This is just my conjecture and may not be the truth."

"There's no need to comfort me, Mr. Chen. I'm not that naive. I can also see that something is wrong here." Kahn said: "I'm not depressed, I just feel a little... can't express it."

"I feel a little inappropriate. I feel that the infected are our compatriots. Indeed, Kahn, the infected are our natural friends, but they do not necessarily have to be friends." Chen Mo said: "The infected here must either kill Bekov , or drive him to other places, in short, these infected people will not believe us."

"But this only means that we haven't done enough now. This is normal. Kahn, listen, we will encounter more similar things in the future, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. At least those who are still willing to join us of infected people, we can know that they are truly trustworthy companions, and maybe in the future we will meet infected enemies and ordinary people friends."

Chen Mo said, looking at the other soldiers.

"What I want to tell you is that the identity of an infected person is not necessarily the only thing that distinguishes us from others. Rather, in addition, what distinguishes us more is our philosophy and purpose. This has nothing to do with whether we are infected or not. This It just depends on whether we have the same thing and want to achieve the same thing.”

"I still don't dare to think about it, Mr. Chen, you said that one day ordinary people will join us and fight alongside us? I don't even dare to think about it."

Chen Mo smiled.

"Then let me tell you, after returning this time, there will be a batch of more brand-new weapons and equipment waiting for you to use in the camp. Do you believe it?"

"I definitely wouldn't have believed it before." Kahn didn't even think about answering. He turned his attention to the equipment on other warriors and subconsciously held the weapon at his waist.

He looked at Chen Mo.

"But now, I believe it."

"Let's go, let's go to Tallulah now. I hope they can make some progress there."

Chen Mo took out a booklet from his bag, crossed out a location on it, and put it back into the bag again.

It was the directory that Tallulah used to contact infected people from all over the world. Many names in the directory have been crossed out during this period, but there are also new places added, or old places still remain on it. .

After this directory is updated, they will probably be close to Chernobog, and they will not be the only ones infected by then.

Chen Mo's only worry was whether he could persist until the directory was refurbished.

I don't know how the progress of Frost Star and the Snow Monster is going. Chen Mo feels that Frost Star doesn't have such a good temper as him. Maybe it was her at this time, and she might have already entered. He couldn't help but think that, at least he could make it happen. I feel a little more balanced in my heart.

Tallulah crossed out a contact in her directory.

He put away the directory.

The infected warriors are coming from outside. Their current location is underground of an abandoned house in the east of the city. Together with the city's sewers, before the mobile city was built, there was a large underground space there, which later became the city's infected The place where the protesters hid from the military police.

"team leader."

"How's the situation?"

"We are trying to find ways to gather the infected people in the city. The infected people outside are okay, but there is still a group of infected people in the factory. They are escorted to work in the factory and cannot escape from inside."

"Where is the location?"

"To the east of the city, there is a garrison station nearby. With our small manpower, we can't force our way in and rescue people. And to be honest, even if we rescue them, it will be difficult to get out of the city without tools. go out."

"And the infected people in the city may not really want to leave with us, right?"

"I'm a little worried."

"How many people are willing to come with us?"

"The soldiers are still counting."

"First find a way to contact the compatriots who are still in the factory. I want to know if they are willing to leave with us. There are also infected people who choose to stay here. Don't be too pushy. As long as they promise not to betray our whereabouts, don't go. Make things difficult for them.”

"We didn't do that either."

"Just a reminder, the attitude of soldiers towards their compatriots has changed recently. I hope everyone can remember that we are the same as other infected people. Not because we have become soldiers or because we have done more than them, we are the same. More noble than them."

"I understand." The soldier nodded and said, "By the way, captain, the messenger we sent out has returned. He sent a letter from outside the city saying that Mr. Chen has taken his team to Kentala Farm, and he also brought back a team. Now stay on standby outside the city with our soldiers."

"Is there any problem with them?"

"Ah, Captain, are you asking the soldiers outside the city or Mr. Chen?"

"All."

"It's not clear yet. I'll ask again later."

"No, don't contact the outside too frequently. It's more important to ensure the safety and concealment of the soldiers. Gather the soldiers in the city. After everyone has assigned tasks, start taking action. By the way, you go to the infected in the city. Ask if there is any other way out of the city, they are always a little more familiar with this than us."