I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 189 The Strong Kill and the Weak Help Each Other

In the bottom nest, picking up garbage is also a highly competitive business, and you can lose your life if you are not careful.

Using cold weapons is the most cost-effective. After all, in the bottom nest, bullets are hard currency. Unless there is a very valuable treasure, few scavengers will use guns.

Some gangs even have special teams of scavengers who are responsible for purchasing the output of a particular garbage mountain.

They don't need to search the stinking garbage dumps themselves, they just need to guard a few exits, and all the scavengers can do is sell their finds to them at a low price. As for the scavengers fighting each other, they don't care.

There are more useless people in the bottom nest than cockroaches, and no one cares about the life or death of others.

At a corner of the edge of the garbage mountain, a scavenger sneaked away from the edge with the "treasures" he had picked up, trying to bypass the core area where the conflict was fierce, but he didn't expect that he had been spotted by others.

When he passed a corner, he was suddenly stabbed by another scavenger who was lying in ambush. After the scavenger looted the dead man's body, he ran away not far and was robbed by two other scavengers.

This kind of drama of you kill me and I kill you is repeated every day in the garbage area.

Unexpectedly, the two scavengers who joined forces failed in their attempt to rob their thieves, and were actually counterattacked and killed by the other party before they died. All three of them died.

For a moment, the killing in this corner subsided, and no one noticed what was happening here.

A certain bystander who had been watching silently in the darkness took advantage of the opportunity to act.

The short figure, less than 1.4 meters tall, barefoot and dressed in a black robe, blended perfectly into the shadows. He moved quickly and silently without attracting anyone's attention.

He quickly moved to the location of the three dead bodies, touched all three bodies in just a few seconds, and then quickly got back into the narrow pipe.

More than an hour later, the short figure appeared in a hidden area at the bottom of the nest, dragging a tattered bag.

The bottom layer of the bottom nest is in an unstable state and may collapse at any time due to the huge weight of the bottom nest structure above.

In fact, the bottom layer of the bottom nest collapses every once in a while, becoming an abandoned area that is uninhabitable. At the same time, the ground part of the bottom nest is constantly expanding upward. After the bottom layer collapses, the layer above it will replace it as the bottom layer, and the whole nest maintains a certain dynamic stability.

The abandoned collapsed area is the hiding place of all kinds of extreme cultists, evil mutants and various life forms that are not even welcomed by the people of the Bottom Nest.

Of course, there are also some ordinary people who want to avoid gang vendettas and persecution hiding here.

For example, Mario Hughes and his Society for the Weak.

No one knows where Mario Hughes came from. All we know is that this 1.8-meter-tall man is proficient in construction, casting, and weapons. He is also a good fighter. He is usually taciturn and his body is covered with scars.

Some say that he was once the boss of the Bottom Nest gang, others say that he is a wanted criminal on the run, and some even say that he is a heretic apprentice of the Mechanicus... there are many different opinions.

In short, the only thing that can be confirmed is that Mario Hughes is one of the few "good guys" in Bottom Nest.

Mario Hughes built a secret base deep in the Bottom Nest, took in many orphans, and helped and taught them how to survive.

In Bottom Nest, there is no group more vulnerable than children. Many aborted fetuses and even live babies are abandoned in the sewers every day.

In the Dichao, a place lacking in materials and humanity, contraception and childbearing are luxuries, while indulgence and drunkenness are the norm. The promiscuous men and women naturally produce a large number of abandoned babies.

Mario would selectively adopt some of the abandoned babies. As for those born with defects and unhealthy conditions, he would "mercifully" grant them relief, so that they would not have to become food for the beasts in the bottom nest.

Mario taught his "children" to unite and help each other, the weak to help each other, to use wisdom to make up for the lack of strength, to maintain the most basic bottom line of being a human being, and not to rely on oppression and exploitation of the weak for a living like other people in the hive.

He taught the children various skills: scavenging, repairing, forging, how to extract edible parts from poisonous fungi and insects, how to make medicines, weapons and traps with simple conditions, how to sneak and avoid enemy pursuit...

Under Mario's teaching, many children who had no chance of survival did survive. When they grew up, they became staunch supporters of the "Weak Mutual Aid Association" and followers of Mario, helping people who had the same experience as them.

The strength of the [Weak Mutual Aid Association] is gradually increasing, and it has become an invisible force in the bottom nest that cannot be underestimated.

"Father, this is my harvest today."

"Well done, Osside. Go claim your reward. May the Emperor continue to bless you!"

The boy handed over his haul from the garbage dump, received the chief's kind praise, went to the logistics department to register his contribution, received today's share of food, and returned to his nest to rest.

"Brother Odyssey is back!"

"Pigeons, geese, geese~"

A group of children younger than Odyssey happily surrounded him and asked him for food. These were Odyssey's "brothers and sisters". As the "parents" of this dormitory, Odyssey and several other older children were responsible for taking care of the younger children.

The Weak Mutual Aid Association is a big family headed by Mario Hughes, with many small families under it. Children have to take care of their younger siblings from an early age. Six-year-olds take care of one- and two-year-olds, and ten-year-olds take care of five- and six-year-olds. A small family has ten to twenty members.

"Don't worry, everyone has a share!"

Today's harvest was rich. Odyssey received plenty of supplies and everyone got some food.

Although each child usually has a certain amount of rations, it is only enough for them to avoid starvation, and it is far from enough to fill their stomachs. How to make the brothers and sisters at home live better is also something that Odyssey and other older brothers and sisters have to worry about.

"Where's Kevin?"

Odyssey didn't see his good brother and couldn't help asking. Kevin is the other parent of this small family.

The children shook their heads and said that they had not seen brother Kevin come back.

Odyssey had a bad feeling in his heart. Usually at this time, Kevin would have returned long ago.

He hurriedly finished his dinner, asked his father for permission, and then sneaked out with a brother at night to the place where Kevin usually scavenged, looking for Kevin's trace.

They didn't find the person, but they discovered a sword that was obviously priceless in a place where supplies were hidden that only these close brothers knew about.

After searching all the places where Kevin usually went, and finding no one alive or dead, Odyssey and his brothers returned to the hideout of the Weak Mutual Aid Association with the sword.

Come to the leader Mario Hughes and hand over the sword.

Mario looked at the sword with surprise and said, "This is the power sword used by Lord Hunter..."