Embers Ad Infinitum

In the North Amherford area, there are no ruins in the ruins of a city where hunters come.

Yas stood on the top floor of the tallest building, looking at the surrounding scenery through the floor-to-ceiling windows that were still intact and clean.

The cities in the old world were so big that most of the scenes that caught his eye were still various buildings, wide or narrow streets, and rusted cars that could no longer be repaired.

They spread out, painting a picture of loss and desolation on the earth.

But unlike the old world, the city at this time is wrapped and entangled in green, with various plants growing and a large number of mosquitoes flying around, just like a real jungle.

Yas is the leader of the "Vulture" bandit group. In the North Shore Wasteland, their reputation is only slightly worse than that of "North" and a few of their peers.

Frankly speaking, Yas looked down on the bandit groups like "North" a little bit, thinking that they had no brains, never thought about the future, and would only do things that harmed their own future interests, such as participating in the slave trade.

In Yas's view, population is the most precious resource. Everyone in the wasteland can create wealth for themselves, and selling them to slave traders is simply stupid.

He believed that the settlements of those wilderness wanderers must not only remain, but also provide certain protection to prevent the slave-catching teams of the "Prime City" from finding and destroying them.

This is because wilderness wanderers always follow the instinct engraved in their blood and establish settlements in places suitable for farming. Whenever they are about to harvest food, Yas will lead the "Vulture" bandit group there to rob it.

Relying on this strategy and relying on large and small gathering points, the "Vulture" bandit group never worried about food and lived with confidence every day.

For this reason, when they rob those settlements, they will not take away all the food, but will definitely leave part of it. In this way, with wild hunting, a large number of those wilderness wanderers can survive the winter and survive until the third day. In the second year, farming continues to form a cycle.

Of course, the "Vulture" bandit group will not directly say that this is our purpose. Yas will use the tone of charity to ask the people in the settlements to donate the selected women to satisfy themselves and their men's desires, in exchange for corresponding of food.

If the other party refuses, Yas will not hesitate to use bullets, blades and blood to let them know who is the master, and then use violence in front of them to directly achieve his goal.

Yas, who likes to read history books about the old world, has even considered whether to implement the "right of first night" in areas that his bandit group can cover.

He eventually gave up on the idea because it was impossible to achieve.

They have no way to truly take those settlements as their own. The slave-catching team of the "Prime City", the regular army chasing the bandit groups, other bandit groups, and the occasional part-time bandit and ruin hunter team that has reached a certain scale will all attack those Settlements cause harm.

Why do the people on the gray earth still call the residents in the settlements wilderness wanderers? It’s because they cannot settle in one place for a long time. After seven or eight years, or even shorter, they will be forced by reality and have to move to other places. place.

Fortunately, other bandit groups only made deals with slave merchants and were hesitant to directly cooperate with the slave-catching team of the "Prime City". They were afraid that they would also become the other party's trophies. Otherwise, the settlement would provide food for the "Vulture" bandit group. There are not many left.

As for the group of bandits who controlled mineral resources and broke into settlements to accumulate slaves for their own industry, Yas felt that their behavior was understandable and only made people jealous.

When food is basically guaranteed, the behavior of "vultures" is just like their name. They like to "hover" around their prey, wait for the opponent to show their weak side, and then go up and grab the fattest parts.

This is why every time Yas enters the ruins of a city, he always likes to find the top of a tall building and look around.

This gave him a sense of satisfaction in overlooking the world and controlling everything.

In his eyes, every person and every team in the wasteland on the north shore, as long as they showed weakness, were prey that was about to die. He and his bandit group were waiting to turn them into corpses and carrion.

As night fell, the ruins of the city were gradually swallowed up by darkness. Yas reluctantly withdrew his gaze and walked down the stairs.

For him, climbing stairs is also a kind of exercise.

The journey down was much easier than the one up, but Yas, who liked reading old world books, still wore knee pads outside his trousers to protect his joints.

"Knowledge is power..." Whenever he encounters a similar scene, Yas will think of this old world proverb.

This is what he heard from his teacher when he was a child.

At that time, he was still living in a homeless settlement in the wilderness, and adults would take turns as teachers every week to teach children writing.

When he reached adulthood, he could go out hunting. The long-standing feeling of not being able to fill his stomach and his strong desire for all kinds of things made Yas and a group of companions completely embark on the road of banditry.

To this day, he still remembers the old world proverb that prompted him to make up his mind:

Strength is better than hard work!

As for the original settlement of wanderers in the wilderness, after the older generation who looked down on bandits withered away, the remaining people either followed Yas or moved to other places.

In the memory, Yas returned to the ground floor of the building. His men gathered in small groups, playing cards, drinking a batch of wine they grabbed yesterday, or hiding in other rooms deep in the corridor to comfort themselves. each other.

Female robbers are not a rare phenomenon in the dusty world, and guns make them equally dangerous.

Raising his hand and touching his shaved temples, Yas shouted to his men patrolling outside the building:

"It's going to rain, don't relax!"

This is considered one of the strongholds of the "Vulture" bandit group.

Yas likes this kind of urban ruins. In such a large place, if the enemy wants to find the building where they live, it is no less than fishing for a steel needle from the sea.

"Yes, boss!" Outside the building, the robbers armed with submachine guns responded.

Yas nodded with satisfaction and patrolled the bottom floor.

Two armored vehicles, several artillery pieces, and multiple machine guns passed by his eyes one by one.

At this time, the rain that had been brewing for a long time finally fell. It was not too heavy, but it made the night look foggy.

The whole city, except this building, was dead silent.

Suddenly, a loud voice came from somewhere outside:

"You are surrounded!

"Put down your weapons and choose to surrender!"

This comes from a man.

Yas's eyes suddenly widened, and he waved his hand to signal all his subordinates to guard against enemy attacks.

The sound outside did not stop, but it seemed to be a different person, becoming slightly magnetic, and accompanied by a sizzling movement:

“So, we must remember that when faced with things we don’t understand, we must humbly ask for advice, let go of the prejudices brought by experience, and do not be full of resistance at the beginning. We must adopt an open-minded attitude to learn and understand. , to master, to accept..."

On a quiet rainy night, this sound echoed, as if accompanied by electricity.

This... doubtful thought emerged in the minds of each of the robbers.

They don't understand why the enemy talks about such nonsense, which has nothing to do with the current situation.

Yas had a vague premonition. Although he didn't know what was going on, years of experience told him that anything abnormal meant trouble.

When the sound subsided, two figures each held a black umbrella and walked towards the building where the "Vulture" bandit group was located.

"Stop!" Yas shouted.

Unusual circumstances prevented him from giving the direct order to shoot.

One of the two figures answered:

"We're here to make friends!"

Yas opened his mouth and felt that the other party was not lying.

Soon, two figures entered the bright world created by flashlights and torches from the extremely dark city ruins.

They are a man and a woman. The man is tall, masculine and handsome, and the woman is beautiful and heroic.

They all had kind smiles on their faces.

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My name is Yas, and I am the leader of the "Vulture" bandit group.

I like to look down at the ruins of the city from a high place, it makes me feel like I am the master of this world.

I am different from other bandits. I understand the value of cultivating people and the importance of a stable food source. In my eyes, the "North" gang is indeed very powerful, but they have no brains. In order to earn some supplies, they work with slaves. Merchants cooperate to sell wild wanderers in the wasteland.

Maybe they never think about the future.

My bandit gang and I plundered everything we could plunder, like vultures in the sky, treating every weak target as carrion.

I thought my life would continue like this, I thought my bandit group would grow stronger day by day, and eventually become the master of the North Shore Wasteland, until that day, those two people came to visit.

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That night, Yas, the leader of the "Vulture" bandit group, and his men were convinced of the weakness of the Chuchun garrison.