Chapter 139: The appearance of all living beings in the dark age January 18, 1949, the city of Bath in ruins in southern England Two years have passed since the dawn of civilization extinguished from this land. yznn The Anglo-Saxon nation spent hundreds of years with untold hardships, adventurous expeditions and plundering all over the world, while desperately squeezing its own civilians, and the rich wealth accumulated with blood and tears was almost wiped out.
Countless factories, towns, mines, ports, buildings and industrial facilities that condensed the efforts and expectations of countless Europeans were all reduced to ashes in the brutal war and famine, leaving only a devastated area.
Today, the island of Great Britain has almost returned to the Dark Ages, and the light of hundreds of years of civilization from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution has been extinguished.
Scholars and experts who possessed knowledge died of hunger and cold, leaving only a group of lonely ghosts who had nothing left and continued to desperately survive in this land that had been repeatedly burned by wars and nuclear explosions.
Bath, a spa city that used to be clean and elegant, picturesque and crowded with tourists, is now almost only a dirty and ugly ruins burned by fire.
The British Empire collapsed, and the island of Great Britain endured two full years of civil strife.
After the war and famine, 99% of the original population of this scenic tourist city has disappeared without a trace.
However, some foreigners from far away are still wandering in the ruins of the city.
Just like after the collapse of the Roman Empire, various foreign barbarians, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Vikings to the Norman conquerors, crossed the sea and landed on the island of Great Britain, occupying the magpie's nest and seizing the fertile soil of England, and driving the old landowners, the Celts, to Scotland.
It's the same situation in the highlands.
Of course, in this nightmarish dark age, those who really live a difficult life in the ruins of Bath City will not have such poetic and philosophical associations in their hearts at this moment, but will only have the simplest desire to survive. , apart from that, there is infinite confusion, numbness and confusion.
"Today seems to be a good day.
At least it's not snowing anymore."
Quinta Kim, a dark-skinned former U.S.
Army captain, got out of the basement of a dilapidated house and looked at the horizon through the broken glass window.
The sunshine pierced the dark clouds everywhere, and he whispered softly.
In high latitudes like the UK, winter nights are particularly long and mornings come very late, so although it's still only dawn, Quinta Kim has been awake for a long time.
I was just afraid of the cold outside, and had been shrinking until now, and then I managed to get out.
In the past two years, the weather in the UK has been extremely cold.
Starting from late November, the entire island of Great Britain was enveloped in overwhelming wind and snow.
Especially shortly after the New Year, just like the frost giants in Nordic mythology coming to the world, a violent storm and snow suddenly swept across the sky, roaring for seven consecutive days and nights.
Many people were crushed by the falling snow and their houses were collapsed and died at home.
The snow near the city of Bath was also as deep as one or two meters, and it only barely subsided in recent days.
But the cold winter is not the most deadly thing.
The climate anomalies that last throughout the year are even more desperate.
Since 1947, the weather in the UK has almost never been normal, and there have been a few rainstorms from time to time in the summer.
It was snowing and the temperature was irregularly warm and cold.
Human beings with strong environmental adaptability can naturally withstand such strange weather changes, but the crops in the fields cannot do without the warmth and sunshine of summer.
You must know that once there is no assistance from industrial civilization, the most primitive farming is really about relying on the sky to make a living.
No matter how diligent the farmers are, a drop of sweat will fall into the ground and eight pieces of land will be broken.
If the sun doesn't shine for a few days, or if there is a late spring cold, the harvest will be greatly ruined.
As for this weird weather with snow falling in June and disordered seasons, for agriculture, it is even more unreasonable not to mention the continuous harvest.
Even crops that have been domesticated by humans for a long time and have adapted to the alpine zone cannot grow in the darkness, cold wind, ice and snow of winter.
As a result, British agriculture, which had already degraded to a medieval state due to the collapse of the fertilizer industry, the shutdown of agricultural machinery due to lack of oil, and the disrepair of water conservancy and irrigation projects, further degraded to the Ice Age in such an abnormal climate.
Except for a few fast-growing and cold-resistant crops, Basically there is no harvest.
Even if there is no complete harvest, the yield has dropped to medieval levels.
The harvest amount is at most four times the amount of sowing, and in some cases it is only twice.
To be honest, Captain Quinta Kim hardly knew how he and his black brothers survived these two years of purgatory.
Although he had captured a large amount of coal, flour, cans, biscuits and grease when he united with several groups of broken troops to attack the city of Bath, no matter how much supplies were seized at that time, if he just sat there and ate nothing, It is impossible to survive the full two years no matter what.
However, the harsh environment can really train people.
Driven by the survival instinct, Kim, who was not very good at farm work, turned into a modern version of Robinson, trying every means to create something in the ruins of Bath City.
A small farm and survival base.
They fished in the River Leven that flows through the city, opened up abandoned gardens in the city into farmland and vegetable gardens, and took advantage of the short and intermittent warm weather to plant potatoes, radishes and onions.
There was no harvest, but after all, there was a small harvest, which could replenish the increasingly depleted food reserves.
In addition, they also raised a flock of chickens using grass seeds, earthworms and insects collected from the wild.
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Unfortunately, no one was paying attention and the chickens were wiped out by a fox who stole the chickens.
However, as England returns to the Dark Ages, the biggest threat is not the unstoppable natural disasters, but other human beings.
During the three wars, Britain not only collapsed its government, disintegrated order, and lost its agricultural harvest, but also cut off its trade with overseas countries. .
With the pitiful output of this land during the disaster years, it was impossible to feed tens of millions of people.
And those extra people, if they don't want to starve to death quietly, can only become hordes of refugees, robbing homes and homes to make a living.
Before being converted into settlers, Captain Kim and his men were actually considered armed refugees. one of them.
Driven by hunger, these refugees are like locusts, eating all the way along.
If they can't find anything to eat, they will eat bark, grass roots or eat themselves directly.
In particular, fishermen and fishing villages that are less affected by the disaster climate and stock a lot of seafood are their key targets for robbery.
And those settlers who occupy fishing villages or manors also attack and fight each other from time to time in order to compete for territory, food, women or other things.
In this dark age without law and morality, the only thing left that determines survival is The simplest violence.
As the remaining humans fight against each other, the already scarce resources are further wasted, causing the population on this land to decrease.
Although the city of Bath is not directly adjacent to the sea, it is located on an important traffic artery, and crazy refugee gangs pass by from time to time.
Therefore, in the past two years, Kim and his black men who are entrenched here have also been attacked by armed refugees or gangs many times.
Strictly speaking, there is no difference between the two.
The grown potatoes and radishes were robbed, and even the seedlings were eaten up.
There were also a few unlucky black American soldiers who were accidentally caught by refugees in their sleep, skinned alive, cut into pieces, boiled and eaten.
After learning from the experience, in order to protect their own lives and hard-won food, Kim and his black men They worked tirelessly to remove bricks, columns, and stones from the ruins of the building, and built a fortification consisting of stone wall barricades and trenches.
It looked very much like an early medieval European cottage or an Eastern dock, so it was finally a little safer. .
Of course, don’t think Captain Quinta Kim and his black men are too kind.
During the previous food crisis, in order to save food consumption, they also mercilessly executed the remaining citizens of Bath City; in order to They have also had armed conflicts with other settlements near Bath City to snatch land and food.
However, so far, they have not been extremely hungry and have not eaten human flesh.
What's even more terrible is that despite struggling to survive, fighting against the sky, the earth, and people, the group of black people in Bath City continued to lose their numbers.
Some were beaten to death, some died of illness, and some died of freezing.
Some people were accidentally burned to death, but now, there are only about twenty people left.
In the British island of the Dark Ages, every person who survived was the legendary dead remnant who was as hard-hitting as a cockroach.
Thinking back to all the hardships and sufferings she had experienced in the past two years, Kim couldn't help but sigh.
She wrapped herself in a greasy and dirty coat, got out of the cellar where she slept, and walked through most of the doors and windows blocked by snow.
The first floor, which looked very dark, walked up the rickety stairs to the second floor.
To keep warm and safe, Captain Quinta Kim and his wife usually slept in the basement during the winter.
In an empty room on the second floor, a haggard-looking redhead had lit a bonfire and was cooking a pot of turbid soup.
The contents of the soup include potatoes, dried fish and a little meat.
The meat comes from an unlucky wild cat that Kunta Kim caught in a trap before the recent heavy snowfall.
Although the cat meat is so fishy and sour that it is difficult to eat it.
When swallowed, a stink will come out when cooked, but in these difficult times when people cannibalize, there is no room for waste, so Kim hid the cat in ice cubes and cut it from time to time.
Eat a few pieces of meat to add nutrients.
The red-haired woman who was making a fire for cooking was named Annie.
She was kidnapped by Kim when he conquered the city of Bath.
At the beginning, she was not willing to be ridden by a black man, and she was looking for life and death.
Several times, he even tried to escape.
But as time passed, especially after witnessing several tragedies of cannibalism by refugees, I gradually became numb.
In today's extremely harsh and cruel world, even if a weak woman like her could escape, It is impossible to find a way to survive on your own.
It is normal to starve to death and freeze to death, and they may even be used as food for hungry people.
But here, she is the personal favorite of the black leader, and she can enjoy special treatment.
She can at least eat half full every day, and she will not be cooked and eaten.
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At this moment, the red-haired Anne's belly is already slightly With the bulge, she was obviously pregnant with Kim's child so she resigned to her fate.
Quinta Kim whistled and went to the pot to take a look.
The soup in the pot had just begun to steam, and it was still far from being edible.
I looked at the place where the firewood was piled and found that there was not much firewood left before the snow started.
It would be used up after two or three days of burning at most.
But winter will last for a long time.
If you don't take advantage of the short sunny days after the snow stops to brave the cold wind and go out to collect some firewood and come back, then when the terrifying violent snowstorm comes again, you will never be able to go out, but the house will be full of firewood.
If there is no fuel for heating, there is a risk of freezing to death in bed.
Last winter, many of his men froze to death together with their women.
Normally, he would have kicked Annie's ass with his leather shoes and urged this lazy girl to go out to collect firewood.
However, now this red-haired white girl is carrying her own baby in her belly, so she has to take more care of her.
So after hesitating for a while, Kim turned around and picked up an ax by himself.
Then, he didn't bother to dig a hole out of the door buried in snow.
Instead, he jumped directly from the balcony on the second floor and stepped two meters away.
High snow drifts out.
As soon as I left the house, the strong wind blew fine pieces of snow foam towards my face, hitting my face painfully.
Kim had no choice but to lower her head and wrap her coat tightly, and continued to move forward with difficulty through the snow.
After walking a few steps, she saw a rough barricade made of furniture, gravel, bricks, broken cars, etc.
It is the defense of Captain Kim's small settlement.
The entire settlement happens to be located on a small promontory surrounded by rivers on three sides.
The roaring river water forms a natural defense barrier.
As long as you spend some effort to build a wall on the only side connected to the land, you can defend it decently.
However, Captain Quinta Kim couldn't help but frown at this time, because he discovered that because the snow was falling so hard, the snow was up to two meters thick, and anyone could easily step on the snow and walk from the side of the barricade. to the other side, and the ditch outside was filled with snow.
In addition, the river behind is also frozen solid, and even cars can run on it.
In other words, the current settlement has become completely defenseless.
But even if he knew about this kind of thing, he had no way to solve it.
He thought that it was freezing now, and there would be no enemies to attack the poor physique of the refugees who were half-starved to death, dressed in ragged clothes, and covered with abscesses.
You probably wouldn't be able to walk more than a few kilometers in this kind of weather before you'd be frozen into a popsicle.
So Quinta Kim just said hello to the shrinking black sentry in the barricade guard box, and went out carrying the ax.
Outside the barricade guarding the black settlement in Bath City, separated by a small open space, there are still abandoned houses with no trace of people.
In the first days, in order to be lazy, Kim and his black men directly looked for combustible wooden doors, floors, books, and newspapers from the ruins of the city.
Everything was dry and good fuel for the fire.
However, as more than two years have passed, the wood and books that are easy to collect and resistant to burning have been almost burned out.
Those things like cloth, clothes, and other better uses such as keeping out the cold, The remaining small amount of coal and fuel oil are the last reserves treasured by Kunta Kim.
They must not be used easily unless it is absolutely necessary.
Therefore, now Quinta Kim can only use an ax to cut branches like the ancient woodcutter without walking too far.
As a tourist city with a high degree of greenness, in the urban area and city of Bath, the hot spring city There are enough trees in the suburbs to provide firewood.
After working for more than an hour, and just feeling a little warm, Kim collected two large bundles of firewood.
He tied the firewood with ropes, and used a steel pipe as a pole, and carried it back after the heavy snowfall.
The abandoned city feels extremely quiet.
The world seems to be bleak and white, and the only sound in the ears is the whistling sound of the strong wind.
Kim felt that all the heat in his body was being blown away by the cold wind.
His limbs, nerves, and senses were almost numb from the cold.
He just relied on instinct to step on the snow and carry the load back.
Walk.
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It wasn't until he accidentally noticed a flash of metal on the corner of the street that his frozen mind suddenly started working again, and he suddenly became alert.
However, by this time, it was too late for Captain Quinta Kim.
"Bang" Along with the flames spurting from the muzzle, a hot bullet shot out and penetrated Captain Quinta Kim's abdomen before he had time to dodge.
The next moment, because of the impact, his body arched and flew backwards, falling heavily into the snow.
The pole and firewood were scattered all over the floor, and warm blood flowed from his abdomen like a fountain.
The wound gushed out, turning a large area of white snow red in the blink of an eye.
"ah" The fatal pain caused Captain Quinta Kim to almost lose the ability to move in an instant.
However, he still struggled and tried to pull out the 1911 pistol from his waist to fight back.
However, at the next moment, he was hit hard by a wooden stick.
He was hit in the head and eventually fainted unwillingly.
Then, two homeless people, covered in rags and stinking dirty, like moving garbage dumps, jumped out excitedly and looked around Kim for a few times.
One of them pulled out a dagger from his waist and said, "Well done."
Okay, John, you can have a big dinner of nigger meat stew tonight."
But another guy named John stopped him, "Wait William, now is not the time to do this kind of thing.
Have you forgotten what we are here to do?
It is more serious to follow Boss Goodman to attack the stronghold by the river."
It is said that there are a lot of potatoes there, as well as biscuits, flour, canned food, and women.
If we delay here and get there late, others will snatch up all the good things there."
"That's right.
Alas, let's just leave this nigger here for now.
I hope that when we come back, the wild dogs won't take him away."
So, these two dirty and smelly refugees just took away Quinta Kim's pistol and axe, then turned around and walked down the street, leaving him lying in the snow stained red by a pool of blood to fend for himself.
After a while, the dying Captain Quinta Kim woke up again before he died, but he seemed to vaguely see the black smoke and fire rising in the direction of the settlement, and vaguely heard the violent explosions and heartbreaking sounds. lung-splitting cry
In this way, the already extremely weak light of civilization on the island of Great Britain was extinguished once again. s: The anime mentioned at the end of the previous chapter is Gosick, whose heroine is a blue-eyed blond lolita named Victorique de Blois.
There is a plot that on the eve of World War I, a small fictional Mediterranean country held a bloody festival, kidnapped girls and boys from various powers around the world, put them on a slowly sinking ship full of murderous traps, and forced them to kill each other.
A cruel divination to determine the winner of the world war by the identity of the last survivor.
Although the background and process are different, it is still reminiscent of the mysterious Sewol shipwreck in South Korea.
From the boss to the captain to most of the crew, they are cult believers.
It is said that there were students in the cabin 48 hours after the ship capsized.
He called his family members on his cell phone for help, but no one was rescued.
Afterwards, the female president also banned big-ticket artists and the media suppressed the news.
Hey, the female president of South Korea who worships indescribable things, and Mrs.
Clinton who likes to organize groups to go to Loli Island to play with imprisoned girls, the world is really getting more and more immoral.
I bet the best screenwriters will be shocked by this kind of plot.
Who said that art comes from life but is higher than life?
Facts tell us that life is the top art.
If Hillary is really as rumored, she plans to Just start a nuclear war immediately, play in the radioactive wasteland, and use a world war to get rid of the burden of the financial bubble.
Maybe I will believe it.
After all, countless facts over the past year have proven that we are far from understanding how low the moral integrity and IQ limits of political figures in this world are. oshow7: