Chapter 1395 - The Dangerous Mission (1/2)
The heavy eyelids moved lightly.
Consciousness gradually returned.
Blood Axe opened his eyes, shook his dizzy head, and struggled to get up from the ground. He saw his rifle was on the ground not far away. He stumbled over, picked up the rifle, used it as support, and finally stood up against the wall.
He couldn’t see his fingers in the dark cave. He moved his corner of his cracked lips, then took out a red flare rod from his backpack. After he lit it with a lighter, he threw it forward with force.
The orange-red flame formed a projectile in the air and rolled to the ground. It lit up the entire space.
Blood Axe used the flashing firelight, narrowed his eyes, and looked around.
The steep cliff was like a cage that imprisoned him in darkness and despair. From time to time, strands of fine quicksand fell from above. Like a light yarn, it dragged across the dry ground and left a faint line on the ground. Right in front him was a dark cave. The cave seemed like the only way out, and he didn’t know where it led…
“Where the fu*k is this place?” He cursed and opened the EP on his left wrist. Like most survivors, his EP was equipped with a radio mapping chip, which allowed simple surveying and mapping of small-scale terrain even without relying on satellites. However, it was not very useful at this moment. The length of the cave in front of him was obviously longer than one hundred meters and there was darkness at the end of the map
“FU*K!”
He slammed his fist against the rock wall and a trace of despair appeared on his face.
He started to regret…
Just a month ago, he took this task from Zhou Guoping. The Asian promised him that if he found NATO’s nuclear arsenal, he would be awarded the status of the upper-class citizen of NAC, and he would be rewarded with a full box of canned food.
For the mercenaries that served the colony, the status of a legal citizen was everything they dreamt of. Even for a leader among predators, like Blood Axe, not to mention that he would directly become an upper-class citizen.
To become an upper-class citizen meant never starving to death. Even if he did nothing, he could enjoy necessities. If he worked a little harder and gain merits in the army, it was possible to become an honorable knight.
But now all these dreams were nonsense. If he could not walk out of here alive, what would be the difference between being a knight or a predator?
Blood Axe fixated his sights on the only way out and hesitated for a moment. Then he loaded the automatic rifle, walked forward, and picked up the flare rod from the ground.
It was an inevitable death to stay, and there was only one way in front of him, he could only continue forward.
No matter if the way led to heaven or hell, no matter if it was the lair of Death Claws or other mutants, he could only continue.
In the end, the desire to live defeated the fear of darkness and the unknown.
“FU*K! FU*K!”
After he cursed a few times, as if it was a way to cheer himself up, Blood Axe spat on the ground. Determined, he put the rifle under his right arm, held the flare rod like a torch with his left hand, and carefully moved toward the depths of the cave.
…
Black Skull was thrown into the colony’s prison. Based on NAC’s law, he would be sentenced to death. However, Jiang Chen gave him a chance to atone for his sins. If he could confess something useful, it would not be impossible to spare his sinful life.
As for the predators, they were all demoted to slaves. The survivors who had been enlisted at Santa Monica Airport immediately came in handy. They were led by the foreman Han Yue. They pointed their rifles at these predators and watched them work on the construction site.
The two hundred immigrants detained in the colony were all rescued, and together with the more than one thousand survivors from the fallout shelter, they were temporarily placed in the colony’s residence. Before Jiang Chen could determine the reason why the inhabitants of the colony disappeared, he didn’t have much work for them.