Chapter 217 Lao Mo is dead
Chapter 217 Lao Mo is dead
"Black...black bib?!" Mao Feiyang was shocked.
But Mu Daxian seemed to be immersed in his memories. He ignored Mao Feiyang's shock and continued to say, "Lao Mo told me to follow him. No matter what happens, don't care. No matter what I encounter, don't look at it..."
"I did as he was told, and Lao Mo, holding a kitchen knife, escorted me back to the teaching building..."
"I was staring at Lao Mo's back the whole time. I only knew that Lao Mo killed countless pseudo-people by himself... Their blood and flesh splattered all over Lao Mo and me. When I returned to the teaching building, I found that all the blood had turned into ketchup..."
"It seems that it was that opportunity that allowed me to come into deep contact with pollution for the first time. It was probably from that time that I gradually began to accept the pollution of supernatural powers..."
"Later I learned that Lao Mo was injured on his way out because he passed by an 'angel' on the way back. Although he didn't have a head-on confrontation, he still encountered the smiling angel that followed the 'angel'..."
"Lao Mo confronted the Laughing Angel head-on and gained the upper hand, but he was still injured... Later I roughly understood that Lao Mo eventually became like this, perhaps because of the injury he suffered at that time."
"I didn't meet Old Mo for a long time after that, but I became more and more interested in Old Mo in the black bib."
"You also know that there are only two types of chefs in the student cafeteria, blue bib chefs and green bib chefs. Strictly speaking, there should only be blue bib chefs in the student cafeteria, right?"
"A chef in a black bib who can appear in foggy weather gives me the same shock as seeing a security guard."
"But Lao Mo obviously has more... well, how should I put it, 'popularity'... or... 'worldliness' than the security guard?"
"The security guard is like a cold-blooded enforcer of order, while Lao Mo... is more like a wanton chivalrous knight who seeks revenge, like Gai Nie who led Tian Ming through the Qin army's cavalry in The Legend of Qin..."
"Later I learned that the black bib chef's position in the cafeteria is 'logistics', while the blue bib chef is more inclined to 'service', so there is no information about the black bib chef in the regular rules."
"After that, I stayed in school for some reasons, and through some means, I changed from an experience student to an art student, and I have stayed as an art student ever since..."
"Thanks to my status as an art student, I met Lao Mo several times later."
"Lao Mo is always like that, with a cold face and seemingly no expression. He rarely speaks and is sometimes very sharp-tongued, but he is a very good person. He does more than he talks, and he may have killed more fake people than he has cooked..."
"But about a year ago, when the gray fog invaded for the 72nd time, I went to the cafeteria to replenish my student commemorative coins, but I didn't meet Lao Mo again..."
"In the subsequent gray fog invasion incidents, I never found Lao Mo."
"I gradually realized that something was wrong, so I asked some other chefs..."
"Then I learned that during the 70th gray fog invasion, Lao Mo fought with the alien angel in order to save the athletes who were in danger on the road outside the gymnasium..."
Having said this, Mu Daxian paused.
Mao Feiyang did not dare to interrupt and just listened silently.
"Lao Mo... I heard that they cut in from the front of the battlefield and delayed until the enemy's troops arrived to support them before leaving."
"When he left, I was already seriously injured..."
"When he returned to the cafeteria, he found that there were still many students at the cafeteria entrance who had gone to avoid the abnormal weather. He dragged his wounded body to fight side by side with the other chefs in black bibs..."
"In the early morning of that day, the power of the 70th 'Gray Fog Invasion' should have reached its peak. Everyone in the battle circle was too busy to handle everything. Only the 'chef' who served as the 'logistics' had the ability to rush to the battlefield to provide assistance..."
"Not only Lao Mo, almost all the black bib chefs have entered the battlefield..."
"The battle that night was extremely fierce, and the cafeteria was invaded less than other areas. So, under the order of the canteen owner, except for Lao Mo and some other black bib chefs who stayed in the cafeteria to protect the students who took refuge, the rest of them went to other building areas to help relieve the pressure..."
"But that invasion was extremely horrific. It is said that nearly half of the chefs in black bibs who rushed out to help were killed, and the chefs who stayed in the cafeteria to protect the students, including the students... none of them survived."
"The whole army was wiped out?!" Mao Feiyang couldn't help but screamed, "But he, but he was clearly there..."
As Mao Feiyang spoke, he felt less and less confident, so his voice became softer and softer.
Lao Mo's condition was indeed very strange, giving him an indescribable weird feeling, but... but if you said that Lao Mo was dead, he didn't feel that way at all.
Mu Daxian was silent for a long time, and then he said solemnly: "That's right... that's right..."
"Lao Mo...actually, he has died in the battle..."
"The cafeteria has counted the number of people many times. Old Mo... is really dead..."
"That night, the gray fog infiltrated the cafeteria from the inside. In order to expel 'Him', the store owner led Him to another place."
"The store owner set up a final line of defense before leaving, but the gray fog tide eventually broke through the cafeteria's defenses."
"In order to resist the invasion, all the blue-bibbed chefs in the cafeteria who have any fighting ability have joined the battle..."
"But there is no way. The canteen's logistics support is no longer guaranteed since the canteen owner is not here. So... the canteen is almost destroyed."
"Lao Mo kept fighting, and kept fighting... The chefs around him all fell, the people who were able to fight also fell, and even the people he wanted to protect fell... But he didn't fall."
"To be precise, he has fallen down countless times, but he stood up every time. Although it's not nice to say this, he really was like a Zhou Tai who had turned on the cheat code that day. He was still "unyielding" even with the deck of cards on his back..."
"He kept fighting, fighting until his body was completely dead, and he was still fighting... It was because of his miraculous continuous fighting that the cafeteria area was able to hold out until the canteen owner came back."
"I don't understand." Mao Feiyang shook his head. "The store owner is so powerful, why did he leave the cafeteria area?"
Mu Daxian looked at Mao Feiyang calmly: "You should understand."
Mao Feiyang: “?”
"Others may not understand, but you should understand." Mao Feiyang: "???"
Mu Daxian's tone was slightly heavy, and he said quietly: "If the cafeteria becomes a place where the canteen owner and "Him" confront each other, then... no one can survive in that area."
Mao Feiyang's pupils trembled and he understood something instantly.
Mu Daxian continued, "To be able to fight against Him, the shop owner himself is not an 'ordinary person'..."
"When gods fight, mortals suffer. The simplest truths are often the hardest to understand."
"Godzilla can fight King Kong, but the cities affected are the biggest victims... When the defenders personally take action, wherever the flames of war are, there will be piles of dry bones. Do you understand?"
Mao Feiyang's expression became serious. He understood: "But... we can't leave more people in the cafeteria. In that case..."
"You are too soft-hearted." Mu Daxian interrupted Mao Feiyang. "The students who took refuge in the cafeteria are human beings. There are 36 classes in the teaching building, so many students sleeping in the dormitory building, and the students in the gymnasium, art building, library...are they not human beings?"
"The cafeteria is just a logistics center, and it's already like that. How can other areas be easy?"
"During the 70th Gray Fog Invasion, our lives were hanging by a thread, and we were just a little bit away from being completely destroyed..." Mu Daxian solemnly made a hand gesture that the idiots hate the most, "It was really just a little bit away."
"The canteen is the strongest shield behind the battlefield because of the existence of the canteen owner, and the chef is the logistics, used to provide support to various areas."
"Everything is being carried out according to plan. The only change is that he shouldn't be in the cafeteria area."
"The canteen could have been defended according to the store owner's calculations, but man proposes, God disposes. The 70th Gray Fog Invasion is said to be the largest invasion in the past decade. The store owner has already conservatively estimated the crisis and set up that line of defense..."
Mu Daxian spoke in a calm tone, without blaming the store owner at all.
This puzzled Mao Feiyang. He always felt that the closure of the cafeteria was due to problems in the decision-making of the convenience store owner, and he was to blame.
However, as a person who was present at the 70th grey fog invasion, Mu Daxian's personal experience must have given him a deeper impression and understanding than this person who only heard about it from others.
Mu Daxian sighed: "In the 70th gray fog invasion, there were many victims like Lao Mo who fought to death. The store owner also paid a price that we can't imagine in order to expel him..."
"In that battle, the individual gains and losses can be ignored. We need to measure it based on the casualties of the entire campus..."
"As long as there is fighting, there will be sacrifices. Don't blame leaders for their incompetence because of the sacrifices. What they bear and face is heavier than any of us."
"The victims... from the time they fought to the time they sacrificed themselves, and even after their sacrifice, they never considered any way to protect themselves. This is not to say that no one will be left unscathed when the nest is overturned, but that behind them, no, behind us, there are more people who need protection..."
"From the moment we decided to stay on campus, it meant we were ready to make sacrifices."
"Sacrifice does not mean it's free. It is because sacrifice is possible that we need to maximize the value gained from individual sacrifice..."
"We can't see what the store owners do, so we can't make any assumptions."
"But we can see what Lao Mo and others have done, so we admire them and keep moving forward."
Listening to Mu Daxian's description, Mao Feiyang could vaguely feel how fierce the battle that night was. However, just like the younger generation has never experienced the wars of the older generation, they cannot personally experience that heavy history soaked in blood and tears just from the description in words.
He could imagine that what really happened on the night of the 70th gray fog invasion must have been far more tragic than what Mu Daxian described.
He had been stuttering a lot, but he didn't say a word the whole time. He seemed to feel something heavy, as if the weight of the falling sky was evenly distributed across the entire campus...
No wonder Mu Daxian said that he would drop his little pearl after hearing about Lao Mo’s story.
"Brother Xian, since Lao Mo has died in the battle, then what is the 'Lao Mo' who just treated our injuries?" Mao Feiyang pursed his lips, "Is it some kind of lingering heroic spirit?"
Because he accepted the concept that supernatural powers exist in this world, Mao Feiyang's scope of acceptance suddenly expanded a lot.
"If you want to say it's a heroic spirit, that's fine..." Mu Daxian shook his head, "So far, we still can't understand what his current life form is..."
"what?"
"Do you remember the boundary between 'life' and 'death' that I told you about?"
"Could it be... that he is the kind of person who is between life and death?" Mao Feiyang guessed.
"No." Mu Daxian denied, "Lao Mo is really dead. He is not the kind of 'already dead but still thinking he is alive', nor is he the kind of 'seemingly alive but already dead', nor is he a 'person' who has been severely polluted..."
"Lao Mo is one of those contaminated mutants who knows he is dead but still hangs on to his last breath, maintaining his dead body and guarding the entrance of the cafeteria."
"His body is dead, but his will is still there."
"Or rather, his remaining brain waves are attached to the cafeteria, and they have condensed into a body for him to drive. His current body is not much different from the sculptured body of the nocturnal species, but his will is beyond that of an ordinary "employee."
"Willpower? Relying on willpower to stay alive, to maintain that kind of life... emmm... at least to look like being alive?" Mao Feiyang said in surprise, "This is no longer a will of steel, right? This..."
"This should be called "Immortal Will", right?" Mu Daxian glanced in the direction of Lao Mo, "That's why it's strange..."
"There are many speculations at present. One of the more reliable ones is that on that night, Lao Mo relied on his iron will to fight to survive. Every time he fell, he absorbed the extraordinary power in the bodies of the pseudo-humans and nocturnal species to force himself to continue fighting."
"It's like having an all-powerful blood-sucking buff. By absorbing the 'blood' of the pseudo-people he killed, he can maintain his combat effectiveness..."
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