Spoilage

(46)

The Ulu Empire blatantly violated the century-old peace agreement and detained the Federation's diplomatic ambassador to the Empire, intending to put pressure on the Federation to return the Luohe Island that the Empire had colonized a hundred years ago.

This incident caused an uproar in the federal political circles, and the citizens were outraged by the bad behavior of the empire.

Song Yan also paid special attention to this matter.In terms of his status as a federal citizen, the request of the Ulu Empire is unreasonable, even hateful.

Unlike the Ulu Empire, which expanded its territory by force, the Federation was established hundreds of years ago by the independent union of hundreds of small countries.Luohe Island used to be the capital of one of the countries, but it was destroyed by the imperial invasion.All former citizens belong to the Federation and are committed to recovering their homeland.

The ancestors of the Guan family were residents of Luohe Island.

In the star calendar of 2050, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. Song Yan's great-grandfather started living in exile with his family when he was only five years old.Grandpa Zeng's father died of a sudden illness on the way, and his father and elder brother also died on the battlefield.Grandpa Zeng, who was an orphan, was adopted by an old man named Guan when he was seven years old, and he joined the army as an adult.Star calendar 2075, after the Luohe Island War broke out again, after five years of war, Luohe Island was merged into the territory of the Federation, and the original citizens could live in Luohe Island first.After Grandpa Zeng retired, he returned to Luohe Island to live, but because his body was damaged during the war, he died before he was 70 years old.

Guan Lin often tells Song Yan the story of Grandpa Zeng as a bedtime story. The family goes back to Luohe Island every year for a short period of time, and pays homage to Grandpa Zeng who was buried in Luohe Island.

(47)

The Federation and the Empire face each other across the sea, and Luohe Island is located on the ocean, closer to the Federation.

What is the reason that made the empire eager to provoke a dispute?Song Yan wanted to know, but he was only a high school student, and he seemed extremely small in front of a huge country.

The Guan family is in business and does not participate in politics, so they don't have good friends with politicians.

The Federation and the Empire often had diplomatic quarrels. Qin Chen did not have Song Yan's political sensitivity, and did not take the news to heart, nor did he notice Song Yan's recent abnormalities.

(48)

During the winter vacation of the third year of high school, Song Yan planned to go to the empire.

The number of people going to the empire is pitifully small, and there are only a few scattered passengers on the plane, even fewer than the flight attendants.

Song Yan was the only one in the first class cabin. He moved his eyes from the dark sky outside the window to the cabin, intending to call Qin Chen.

Communication is unimpeded even at high altitudes.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Qin Chen was concentrating on playing the game. When he saw the name on the screen, he got excited and the character on the screen died. But the game is not as important as Song Yan, "Yan Yan! Why did you call?"

"Are you playing a game?" Song Yan heard a voice.

"Hey, I'll close the game right away." Qin Chen promised Song Yan that he would go to bed at eleven o'clock.

The flight attendant on the plane came over to ask if he needed a drink, and Song Yan asked for a glass of milk.

"Yanyan, who are you talking to?" Qin Chen heard a man's voice.

"The flight attendant on the plane." Song Yan didn't tell Qin Chen his journey.

"airplane!??"

"Well, I have something to do. It may take a week before I can go back."

"Where have you been?" Qin Chen was a little uneasy.

"It's just a small town." Song Yan was afraid that Tan Chen would go to the Ulu Empire to find him, "I'll bring you special products then."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I want to give you a surprise." Song Yan lied to Tan Chen for the first time, and his palms were already sweating from nervousness, "Your birthday is coming, and I want to give you a unique gift."

"What gift takes so long?"

In the past, when Song Yan went to Luohe Island, Qin Chen would go with him.This is probably the first time they have been separated for such a long time since they met.

"I'm not sure." Song Yan was actually not sure what he would encounter.

Song Yan didn't want to lie anymore, and said hastily: "Go to sleep, I'll call you as soon as I get off the plane."

"when will you arrive?"

"Two more hours."

"So long?" Qin Chen was a little skeptical. With the current speed of the plane per hour, it only takes 5 hours to cross a planet.

All planes headed to the Ulu Empire have to be inspected at the air park, two hours is still the time before.

"Good night." Without answering Qin Chen, Song Yan quickly hung up the phone.

(49)

After arriving in Ulu Empire, Song Yan had no chance to call to report safety.

At the air terminal, all passenger communication devices were confiscated without the possibility of their return.The Ulu Imperial Capital Airport was also heavily guarded, and they were searched three times before they were released.

After leaving the airport, Song Yan stood beside the pillar at the gate of the airport, with a natural expression, covered his left hand with his body, and knocked on the pillar regularly.

In less than a minute, a red convertible sports car stopped in front of Song Yan. The blond man in the driver's seat took off his sunglasses, revealing a handsome face, looked Song Yan up and down, raised his eyebrows and said, "Song Yan?"

Song Yan nodded.

"Put your luggage in the back row," said the blond man Ruiz.

After Song Yan sat down in the co-pilot, Ruiz pressed the roof lifter of the sports car, and the convertible immediately formed a closed space.After Ruiz set the autopilot, he looked at Song Yan with great interest.

Ruiz was met by Song Yan on the hacker website.

Song Yan's computer skills were first used for the game players who scolded Tan Chen, but later he found it interesting and became a hacker by relying on online tutorials.

This time when he came to the Ulu Empire, Song Yan thought of Ruiz who lived in the empire.

"I'm going to Keyi Hotel." Song Yan didn't trust Ruiz 100%.

"What kind of hotel are you going to, come stay at my house." Ruiz was very interested in Song Yan, "You don't have a pass right now, do you?"

Without a pass, Song Yan could only stay in the hotel when he arrived in the Ulu Empire, and could not walk around the city at all.

"Come to my house, I'll take care of it for you." Ruiz patted his chest and promised.

"Row."

(50)

Ruiz gnawed on a big chicken leg and said inarticulately: "Song Yan, your cooking skills are amazing."

"Don't talk while eating." Song Yan was afraid that Ruiz's saliva would spray on the dishes.

This is the second day that Song Yan stayed at Ruiz's house.

On the first day, Ruiz helped Song Yan get a pass and did not forget to give him a new mobile phone.Ruiz refused to accept Song Yan's money, so Song Yan had to cook to offset Ruiz's help.

"I'm going out for a while today." Song Yan came to the empire simply to see the world.

Ruiz swallowed the delicious chicken and said, "Okay, I'll go with you."

Song Yan didn't want to trouble Ruiz too much: "I can go by myself."

"The Ulu Empire is a hierarchical country, are you sure you don't need me to accompany you?"

Song Yan knew about this country before coming to the Ulu Empire, so he naturally knew this: the concept of hierarchy in the Ulu Empire is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although foreigners are not the last in the hierarchy, they are still low.

Seeing Song Yan's hesitation, Ruiz said: "The Ulu Empire's hatred for the Federation did not develop overnight. Especially during this period of time, if it is known that you are a member of the Federation, I can guarantee that you will not be able to come back completely. "

"How is it possible?" If the Empire is so hostile to the Federation, why is there no news from the Federation.

"Anything is possible." Ruiz took a sip of the soup, "For the sake of your cooking skills, I will help you."

"Thank you very much." Song Yan regretted a little, maybe he shouldn't be willful and stubbornly want to see what the empire is like.

(51)

The Ulu Empire is the complete opposite of the Federation: strict, repressive, and authoritarian.

Song Yan didn't know what level Ruiz belonged to, but it was definitely higher than the nobility.

When the two were walking on the road, passers-by would deliberately stop and bow to Ruiz, and they would not continue walking until Ruiz passed by.Even other drivers in the lane will voluntarily give up an entire lane to let Ruiz go first.Song Yan was shocked by these things that he had not trained in advance.

Looking into the eyes of those people, Song Yan felt chills running down his back. What kind of power could make people willingly submit to the hierarchy and bow their knees to admire the superiors.

In the next few days, Song Yan seemed to have returned to the ancient feudal empire.

He saw nobles shoot a commoner in the street, but no one stopped in the whole street, and continued their original work, as if people with bleeding heads on the street never existed.After the nobleman drove away, several cleaners came out from the corner, skillfully threw the corpse into a black bag, and quickly cleaned the scene of the incident. Within half an hour, the street was clean again.

Song Yan, who witnessed the whole process, seemed to have fallen into an ice cave.Ruiz sipped tea and watched leisurely, and even sneered.

The police are also divided into grades. The police who serve the nobles are well-trained and show their police power, as if they came from the army.The police who serve civilians are not much different from the common federal police. The police who are in charge of untouchables are not like police. Beating up people in the name of law enforcement, Song Yan was so angry that he couldn't do anything.

The untouchables under the common people live in a ramshackle bungalow outside the city, as if a gust of wind can blow a whole house.

It's been 2175 in the star calendar, and there are still slums in the Ulu Empire.In order to prevent natural disasters and man-made disasters, the existing houses in the Federation are all made of fine steel, and there are no dangerous houses at all.

"Why didn't these houses be demolished and rebuilt?" Song Yan was puzzled.

Ruiz: "If the untouchables live in good houses, then the nobles will have a lot less fun."

"The Ulu Empire advocates a hierarchical system, and low-level people will never be able to become high-level people." Ruiz continued, "Most of the untouchables in the empire come from the descendants of captives from defeated countries. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer untouchables this year. "

Ruiz's words gave Song Yan a guess: "The Ulu Empire is now launching a war for new captives."

"And new lands, to build new paradises."

Ruiz's icy gaze rested on the child curled up next to the trash can, cold-bloodedly guessing that he would die in a few minutes.

But Song Yan didn't find that child, his attention was on a little boy in ragged clothes.

The skinny child was holding a black object in his hand, and biting heavily.He met Song Yan's eyes, speeded up his eating, and then limped away.

Until returning to Ruiz's villa, Song Yan still hadn't recovered.The little boy's eyes, which were empty and numb without any light, kept appearing in his mind.

(52)

Ruiz didn't stop there, he also took Song Yan to the arena, a human arena of all ages.A child there is like a wolf, fighting in the arena with his friend or brother.

It was the paradise of the upper classes, the hell in Song Yan's eyes.

Song Yan felt that his nerves were about to collapse in a second. His nightmares at night were filled with the stumped limbs of children, the numbness of the poor, and the laughter of the upper classes.

Song Yan quickly lost weight.

At twelve o'clock in the night, Song Yan was woken up by a nightmare and couldn't help but vomited again.He looked at himself in the mirror and wondered if he had come by mistake.

(53)

Five days passed quickly. After seeing the lower class of the Ulu Empire, Song Yan and Ruiz wandered through the luxurious banquets of the upper class. Looking at the glamorous nobles, they felt that they were surrounded by cold-blooded animals.

Ruiz has seen Song Yan's pain these days. After all, he caused it, didn't he?

Seeing Song Yan packing his luggage, Ruiz asked regretfully, "Are you leaving tomorrow?"

Song Yan nodded.

Song Yan doesn't know how to face Ruiz now, Ruiz's blood is colder than a poisonous snake.He saw Ruiz pull out a man's tongue while he was eating.

Ruiz sat down on the couch: "Oh, I can't eat your cooking anymore."

Song Yan only cooked on the first day.

"Let me give you a farewell gift." What Ruiz said could not be refused by Song Yan.

"what gift?"

"Zombies."

(54)

This time Ruiz took Song Yan to the Imperial Research Institute.

Through the transparent glass, Song Yan could see the researchers in white coats in the room, and they were all concentrating on observing and recording.

There will also be one or two researchers in a hurry on the road, but before passing Ruiz, they will still stop at the same time, stand aside respectfully, and wait for Ruiz to pass by before taking action.

The two came to a room similar to a laboratory, with a transparent glass wall inside, and they could clearly see the scene next door: a pure black wolfhound with blood-red eyes facing them, with its back arched and its limbs clinging to the ground ,grimace in pain.

"This dog is quite interesting." Ruiz is very interested. The glass is one-way, so it is impossible for the dog to see them.

A researcher waiting by the side asked respectfully: "Your Excellency, do you want to start?"

"Let's start." Ruiz couldn't wait, and couldn't wait to admire Song Yan's expression.

(55)

As soon as the door of the next room was opened, the wolf dog rushed up. Before the wolf dog ran to the door, the door quickly closed, leaving a man with a face full of fear.

The man's whole body was trembling. He looked around tremblingly, and before he could take a few glances, he was bitten by the flesh and blood fiercely by something rushing toward his face.The man fell to the ground. He struggled with all his strength but was unable to remove the dog from him.The wolfhound gnawed on his arm, swallowed his flesh and bones, and wagged its tail behind him in excitement.

It took less than 30 seconds from when the man entered the door to when the legs and feet stopped shaking.

Song Yan's face was pale, and there was only blood red in his vision.Compared with the scenes he had seen before, this scene was not too bloody, even mild, but he still couldn't accept that a living life died before his eyes.

Song Yan happily thought that this bloody drama was over, but it wasn't there yet.

Ten seconds after the man stopped moving, he suddenly moved. He vigorously lifted the wolf dog off his body, and before the wolf dog counterattacked, he took the initiative to pounce on the wolf dog, wrapping his right hand tightly around the wolf dog's neck.The man's left hand had already been bitten off by the wolf dog, and the surging blood donation splashed around with his movements.The man even bit the wolfhound's neck with his mouth, as if he wanted to swallow it into his stomach.

Song Yan only met the man's eyes for a moment, as if someone was strangling his neck, and the moment of suffocation even made him feel death.

The man's blood-red eyes were like the eyes of a wild dog, ferocious, irritable, and ruthless.They are like a killing machine without any human emotion.

When the man bit off the fur of the wolf dog, Song Yan finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground.That man can no longer be called a human being.

Only then did Song Yan understand Ruiz's meaning, isn't "zombie" just the state of the man in front of him.

This bloody drama finally ended with the death of both sides. The man's body was no longer complete, and his limbs were all bitten to pieces by wolf dogs.The man's teeth were not sharp, but he bit off the wolfdog's tail, poked out his eyes, and the man bit out his stomach.

Song Yan couldn't help trembling, the scene in front of him was frozen as if he pressed the pause button, the wreckage of the wolf dog and the man seemed to be enlarged in front of his eyes, he could even see the muscles that were still wriggling.

His pale fingers pressed against the cold ground, his legs still trembled slightly even though he was enduring his fear. Song Yan, who used to live in an ivory tower, felt that there was only room for fear in his head.

"Your psychological quality~" Ruiz deliberately elongated his voice, "It's much better than the medicine I thought, and you didn't pee your pants."

Ruiz's regretful tone dispelled any excuse Song Yan made for him, and Ruiz did it on purpose.

Song Yan asked: "What is that?"

Ruiz replied, "Zombie soldiers."

(56)

From the time he left the institute to the next day on the airport apron, Song Yan didn't speak again.

Ruiz was not annoyed, and used his privilege to book a plane ticket to the Federation for Song Yan, and drove him to the airport himself.

Before boarding the plane, Song Yan asked Ruiz, "Aren't you afraid that I'm a spy?"

Song Yan couldn't figure out Ruiz's intentions, the untouchable area, the high-class banquet to the research institute.

"If you say this, it means you are not." Ruiz chuckled, "Didn't you doubt me?"

"Doubt?" Song Yan had too many doubts about Ruiz.

"Like, am I not the guy you met on the hacker site?"

Song Yan never doubted this matter, he shook his head honestly.

Ruiz's grin widened: "I'm not."

"then who are you?"

"Fun seekers," Ruiz said softly.

Song Yan didn't hear Ruiz's answer. When he asked Ruiz's identity, the boarding prompt sounded. He didn't attach to Ruiz's answer, so he turned and left.

(57)

Standing on the land of the Federation, Song Yan felt that he had come alive.

The author has something to say: take the first step out of the ivory tower.

Forecast: The next chapter is very likely to end.The update time depends on the chapter completion

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