Chapter 288: Ordinary, a Soldier

Liu Yuan.

A soldier.

A minor character.

His life was so ordinary.

Ordinary family, ordinary grades, ordinary job.

Just like countless ordinary people, he went to school step by step, barely found a job with ordinary salary, and was lost in the masses.

Such ordinary people seemed to be a mirror of the masses, and they could always see themselves in him.

"Click."

Liu Yuan installed the drum magazine on the heavy machine gun.

His clothes were covered with gray and black left by oil and stains, and there were also streaks of dust on his cheeks, and the whole person looked greasy.

Just like his teammates beside him.

That's right.

After the outbreak of the apocalypse, Liu Yuan was conscripted and became a soldier.

"I am lucky."

Liu Yuan always said this.

Most of the people around him died.

Parents, brothers, relatives and friends, or even the girl he loved, all turned into monsters with the apocalyptic disaster, or were cruelly swallowed and killed.

It is lucky to survive.

It is also unfortunate to survive.

To live... means to bear the burden of pain.

"Hey."

"Liu Yuan."

"Have one."

A soldier on one side took out a box of brand new cigarettes, which was a luxury item in the apocalypse, a pack of Huazi.

"Where did you get them?"

Liu Yuan's eyes flashed. It was definitely a blessing for a soldier like him to be able to taste such a luxury item.

"The Buddha gave it to me."

"The Smiling Buddha gave us soldiers some things."

A teammate took out a cigarette and handed it to Liu Yuan. The flickering flame lit the cigarette, and he took a deep puff in his mouth. A strong smell of tobacco filled his lungs.

"Cough, cough, cough."

Liu Yuan coughed hard a few times.

I used to be unable to smoke or drink, but now I have learned everything.

Nullification.

People in the apocalypse always have to find ways to numb themselves.

Cigarettes can calm people, and alcohol can make people dizzy. Occasionally, Liu Yuan would go to some pink tent areas to have fun and vent his panic and despair.

"The first time I smoked."

"I was still a new soldier."

"My hand holding the gun was shaking all the time, and I couldn't control it."

Liu Yuan recalled the past, took another puff of the cigarette between his fingers, and continued: "When the monster rushed over, I was stunned."

"My body was stiff and my mind was blank."

"The captain kicked me down with one foot, protected me behind him, and saved my life."

Liu Yuan's eyes gradually became blurred.

He seemed to be recalling the captain's appearance and expression, but the face became blurred. A year made Liu Yuan forget the details of the captain's face.

"I only remember that his face was covered with blood."

"The captain took out a pack of wrinkled cigarettes from his pocket, but his chewed fingers couldn't pull the lighter."

After Liu Yuan finished speaking, he took another puff of the cigarette.

The white smoke rose slowly.

Liu Yuan's eyes were slightly moist, but with a trace of fear that he didn't want to recall.

"That was my first time smoking."

"I picked up the wrinkled cigarette box in the captain's hand, took out a cigarette and put it in my mouth, then lit it with a lighter."

"The captain said... smoke..."

"I did as he said and smoked with all my strength. The cigarette filled my lungs for the first time, and the pungent smell made me cough wildly."

Liu Yuan glanced at the cigarette in his hand, which was half burned at this time.

"I put the cigarette to the captain's mouth."

"Although I can't remember his appearance, I always remember clearly... his blood-stained face, showing a satisfied smile."

"Cool."

"This is the last word the captain said."

Liu Yuan fell into deep memories.

He couldn't help but smoke the cigarette in his hand again, as if he was tasting the same taste of the former captain.

"Strange."

"It's really strange."

"After the captain died, my hands stopped shaking."

"I pulled the trigger and shot at those monsters, piercing their heads and skulls."

"When I couldn't hold on, I took out a cigarette and lit it for myself like the captain, and I always felt much calmer."

When Liu Yuan said this, the cigarette had burned to the end.

Just as he said.

From that moment on, Liu Yuan became a veteran.

He participated in various battles, big and small, and his teammates died one after another beside him, but Liu Yuan was lucky to survive.

An ordinary story.

An ordinary person.

But... these words resonated with many ordinary soldiers.

They all experienced the same thing, from an unknown worker, struggling to survive in the end of the world, and gradually becoming the numb and desperate veterans now.

"What happened next?"

A young stranger asked lightly.

The man had a cold face. He was not a soldier, but he always sat on the side and listened, with a child beside him.

"Later?"

"What's the later?"

"We are just small soldiers. If we die, we die."

Liu Yuan threw the cigarette butt in his hand and crushed it with his toes. There was a hint of mockery and sarcasm in his eyes.

"Our lives are nothing to the big guys."

"My name is Liu Yuan."

"Other Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu, Zhao Liu, at most, will appear on the list of sacrifices."

Liu Yuan laughed at himself.

Just as he said.

In this outpost fortress, even if all the people died, no one would remember their names.

A list of 300 people, who died in their posts, every ordinary name will not be remembered, just like a page in a history book.

In the battle of so-and-so, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people died.

This number... is made up of countless ordinary people like Liu Yuan, each of whom has flesh and blood, and each of whom has an ordinary and legendary life.

How heavy.

How sad.

"They are coming."

Liu Yuan's face changed, and the alarm in the outpost sounded.

Every soldier quickly returned to his post, holding his own weapon, looking at the distant horizon.

A strong fishy smell came to his face, and countless fish monsters turned into a tide of beasts and surged, like waves pouring out from the horizon.

Fish monsters.

Sea beasts.

They have different shapes and bodies that have been severely deformed. Various fish have grown limbs and tentacles on their bodies and are climbing quickly on the ground.

Among them are some large sea beasts.

A man-eating tiger shark, after its body is deformed, is more than ten meters long. There are dozens of strong and sturdy human thighs growing under its body.

Not only that.

Nuclear pollution has caused it to have more weird alienation, such as abscesses that emit fluorescence on the side of its body, and parasites swimming in the pus inside.

[Deformed Human Shark]

The madly running deformed human shark is actually brain dead, and what controls it are the abscesses and parasites in the brain.

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