Tang Yi looked around and found that Lee was actually standing in front of them alone, and there was no guard as far as he could see. Tang Yi then stepped forward without hesitation and threw a punch, Lee took it firmly, his head slammed to the side, and his body lost his balance, took a few steps back and fell to the ground. Lee only felt dizzy and dizzy, with the smell of rust in his mouth being knocked out by his teeth, and hot and humid blood dripping from his nose.
He giggled as he wiped the blood from his nose with the back of his hand. Tang Yi couldn't believe that this pervert could still laugh, and said viciously, "This punch repays your last trick! If you provoke me again, I will let you go!"
He got up from the ground, his attitude was always calm, and he even made an expression of enjoyment against the red and swollen cheeks, "Sweetheart, you look so sexy when you are angry."
Just as Tang Yi was about to throw his fist again, Lee suddenly raised a finger, "Forget it once, if you are self-willed again, I can't guarantee that anything will happen to Luo Yang."
Tang Yi held his breath and his fists froze in the air. This time, it was Luo Wei who rushed over and grabbed Lee's collar, "Hurry up and hand over my brother!"
"Is this an attitude of asking for help?" With an expression of "you can't teach a child", Lee grabbed Luo Wei's sleeve with two fingers and tugged it. Luo Wei clenched his jaw, but he knew that Luo Yang was in the opponent's hands, and he couldn't do anything to the opponent at all.
After tidying up his clothes, he took out his pocket watch from his pocket, opened the lid with a clatter and looked at the time, "Well, it's almost time, come with me if you want to see Luo Yang."
Tang Yi and Luo Wei looked at each other and followed lee cautiously towards the large double-door elevator. Two soldiers with guns were waiting at the entrance of the elevator. After Lee appeared, he naturally followed Tang Yi and Luo Wei into the elevator. Mozart's "Magic Flute" was playing in the elevator, and Lee swayed his head gently along with the music, which made Tang Yi feel agitated.
Why is he stuck in the hands of this pervert? Why does the white-haired Kraken's last look at him keep flashing in his mind even now? So when did he, who was free in the army, disappear
The elevator descends vertically into the mountain. After the door is opened, there is an astonishingly wide underground weapons factory in front of it. Countless tall fighter planes and armored robots were neatly arranged in rows, some robotic arms were moving slowly and precisely in the sky, and the sparks of welding metal flickered one after another. Countless soldiers and mechanics came and went, taking their hats off to lee as they passed them.
The advanced level of this factory is no less than that of the third base, or even that of the first base. Tang Yi didn't expect the rebels to hide their real strength so deeply. It was ridiculous that the third base had been propagating that the rebels had been wiped out.
What are they waiting for
Take them into an empty room with several rebel fighters standing inside. Luo Yang was also among them, with his hands tied behind his back and forced to sit on a chair. The moment he saw Luo Wei, he was so excited that he wanted to jump up, but his shoulders were firmly held by the soldiers, so he could only shout "Big Brother!".
Luo Wei rushed over immediately, but was stopped by a soldier with a gun a few steps away. Lee chuckled behind him, "Don't be in such a hurry. Before reuniting your brothers, we still have some agreements to deal with."
Tang Yi said impatiently, "What do you want to do? We will never join the rebels."
"Why? You have already betrayed the third base, haven't you?"
"Even if you're not from the base, you won't join you terrorists." Tang Yi sneered, "I'd rather go back to the base to surrender or kill myself."
Those rebel soldiers all showed some resentment and ridicule when they heard his words, but only Lee laughed the most easily, "The base has really brainwashed you. You forgot, I used to be the chief wise man of the third base. The object of your allegiance."
"... My allegiance is to the system that can ensure the survival of human beings, to my comrades in arms who fight side by side with me, not to the so-called wise men like you."
"Ensuring the survival of human beings?" Lee seemed to be making a big joke, laughing so hard that tears came out. His laughter made Tang Yi more and more irritable, and this feeling of being laughed at made him want to beat people.
"The base system may have been a miracle a long time ago, but now it's rotten to a mess." Lee slowly circled around him with his hands on his back, "I don't need to say more, you should have seen how the base treats those people. People who dare to question their authority, right? The news you hear on the public information channel is all filtered and distorted information. You have no idea that the world has already changed. The base can no longer guarantee the survival of human beings. Instead, it will hasten the demise of humanity."
He snapped his fingers, and images suddenly appeared on the walls around the room.
It was a myriad of small screens where many researchers were experimenting. However, the experimental subjects on the screen are not ordinary things.
It was a myriad of grotesque creatures that would make you vomit just by looking at them. Those things—some even humanoid, but by no means human—that were supposed to exist only in the most terrifying hell humans could imagine, were pulled into reality.
Tang Yi saw a pile of wriggling flesh and rice separated into pieces of flesh that were devouring a living person. Although there was no sound on the screen, that person's face distorted by extreme pain and horror would be his nightmare tonight.
"Ah, that's lev24, a wonderful variant. It's eating an inferior citizen with a loyalty score of 10. Aren't you wondering where all those missing citizens went? Actually, in the sword. The biochemical experiments of our lab require dozens of subjects every day, and just feeding some of these variants consumes a dozen living people."
Luo Wei's eyes widened, looking at the terrifying images, "Impossible..."
"These are the top secrets that I brought out when I left the sword. You little soldiers have never had a chance to see them in this life~ These are the weapons that the third base plans to use against other bases. Everything could be released." Lee paced slowly around the room, suddenly stopped in front of an image, and tapped it with his hand. The screen suddenly enlarged, occupying the four walls of the room.
On screen, a researcher in a sterile suit injects an injection into a mid-Leviathan patient strapped to a chair. The patient had apparently entered the fifth day of the disease, his skin was severely festered, his eyes were blood red like two blood holes, and he struggled violently occasionally, showing his sharp teeth to the researcher.
Then Lee presses the fast-forward button and skips directly to ten minutes before continuing to play.
A miracle happened. The patient no longer struggled and sat in the same position obediently. The black lines that had spread on his face quickly faded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the pale skin returned little by little to a pale meter with vitality, and even the blood-red eyes were dazzling. Gradually changed back to the original blue.
Tang Yi and Luo Wei both froze.
This is... the antidote to the Leviathan virus that Lee mentioned earlier in the terrorist attack...
"This piece of information was entered a month before I left. At that time, the third base already had the ability to cure patients in the middle and late stages of the original virus. However, the third base not only refused to share this technology with other bases, but even to itself The people in the base were also kept secret. Even the researcher who developed this medicine was secretly under house arrest." Lee looked at Tang Yi, "Speaking of which, you have also seen that researcher's deputy, Park Shihuan, who you rescued in Area 210. He was dispatched to the frontier at that time, and we got in touch with him. He did not have the full formula of the vaccine, so he could only tell us the basic principles of the vaccine. Unfortunately, the base looked at him very closely, and he was worried about the safety of his daughter. , so cut off contact with us. Later, we used him as a bait to lure the mercury over."
Tang Yi frowned, "Park Shihuan is also yours?!"
"No, he's just one of countless people who are very disappointed with the base but have no courage to rebel against authority, just like you. However, he is a little braver than you."
Tang Yi's mind was confused. Admittedly, he had long been suspicious of the base. If that is really the only hope for human existence, why does everyone live so carefully and so frightened
Now, he is not too surprised to see that the third base really has a vaccine.
"The base you believe in no longer exists. The wise man in the sword will do anything to preserve his and his family's rights. Today's earth has run out of fuel, and in order to compete for resources and leadership, one of the five bases The battle between them has never stopped. It’s just that those battles in the past were all under the water, between us wise men and the Ministry of Security, and now the movement is getting louder and louder, you soldiers and civilians are aware of the third base and the The tense atmosphere between the first and second bases." Lee suddenly smiled brightly and opened his hands, "Now, you have also seen how vibrant our Rome is. Even outside the base system, it is not Can I live well? The base is not the only antidote at all."
Tang Yi admitted that he was really shaken in an instant. Although he is reluctant to admit it, he has long had a deep conflict with the base's system. So many lies, so many betrayals and denunciations, that's not a normal way of life.
However, this does not mean that he can forget the tragedy that happened in Kabukicho, and forget Rose's eyes before she died.
Tang Yi shook his head firmly and took a step back.
"I... stand by my choice."
But Luo Wei hesitated. Not just because of Lee's lobbying, but because his younger brother is still in their hands. He looked at his terrified brother, glanced at Tang Yi guiltily, pursed his lips tightly, and failed to give an answer.
Tang Yi looked at their brothers and somehow remembered how he and Tang Ya were when they were children.
Tang Yi didn't blame him, nodded to him comfortably, and then turned to lee, "It's just my choice, I hope you don't embarrass others. They have the right to choose."
There was no anger, not even surprise. He shrugged, "It's a pity, but I won't force you to accept it all at once." He paced in front of Tang Yi and suddenly grabbed Tang Yi's left wrist. Tang Yi was about to struggle, but suddenly a soldier pressed his shoulders. He felt lee stick something to his watch.
It was a small oval object. As soon as it sucked on the watch, there was a strange hissing sound from the dial, a burnt smell permeated, and then the dial went dark.
Tang Yi was stunned, not understanding why he wanted to destroy his watch.
"The watch that the base gave you has a tracking system in it. Although the base's signal has been blocked here, it's better to wear less of this kind of thing." Lee rubbed Tang Yi's wrist vaguely, and lightly unlocked the watch. He came down and threw it to the soldiers behind Tang Yi. Then he took a step back, with an enchanting smile, "Then, my little sweetheart, I'll be visiting you soon."
Tang Yi was still confused, what did he mean when he suddenly felt a sharp tingling pain in the back of his neck, the numbness of the electric shock quickly spread throughout his body, his eyes darkened and he fell into a coma.
Tang Yi didn't know how long he slept. His consciousness fluctuated in drowsiness, and he vaguely remembered that he had dreamed of a deep ocean, with Mercury holding his body suspended in the turbulent ocean tide. In the misty light, the Siren's focused and expressive eyes enveloped him layer by layer like the warmest moonlight. Then, the Kraken slowly let go of his hand, swaying his slender and elegant fish tail, and backed away little by little. He remembered that he stretched out his hand, wanted to grab the mercury, wanted to call his name, but when he opened his mouth, he could only spit out a string of pale bubbles.
And Mercury's eyes became alienated and indifferent, shook his head at him, turned around, and swam into the darkness of the deep sea.
Tang Yi was pulled back to consciousness by a dull pain. He wasn't sure if the pain was coming from his head or his heart.
The whole body is very heavy, as if an invisible stone has been pressed down. His temples throbbed with pain, and he groaned and opened his eyes.
Above the head is a mottled and dirty wooden ceiling, and a crumbling light bulb hangs, exuding a somewhat decadent orange light.
Under him was a hard bed, and the sheets were dry and stiff. This is a small and spacious room with simple furnishings. There is only a desk, a wardrobe, and a row of dirty cabinets nailed to the wall. There are black mildew spots on the wooden wall next to the bed. There was a stale smell.
He tried to move his arm and found that there was no shackles. However, when he sat up, he definitely felt a slight pain in the back of his neck.
He reached out and touched the back of his neck, his body froze for a moment.
Under the skin on the back of his neck, he felt a small, hard bump. He determined that the rebels had implanted something in his neck while he was unconscious.
what is that? tracker
He had heard before that the base would implant trackers in the bodies of key surveillance elements. As long as the other party left the set area, they would receive an electric shock and send an emergency signal to the security department. Didn't expect to have such a day.
A deep depression churned in his stomach, and he bent his knees and rubbed his tired face with his hands. Now he seems to have lost interest in where he is and how he will be treated by the rebels. It can't be broken anymore, can it
In less than a week, everything he had known and possessed before was gone. And he didn't even have time to sort out his aching mood, and could only be pushed to the present by the ever-developing changes.
Maybe that's okay, he won't have time to think about the things he's lost... and people.
He found a set of clothes on the bedside, a simple shirt and trousers. The base uniform on his body was so dirty after so many days of scrambling, he wrinkled his nose when he smelled it, and quickly changed his clothes. After walking around the house, I found that there were some toiletries in the cabinet, but there was no electronic equipment in the whole room, not even a computer. In the closet were several similar dull-colored clothes and shoes and socks.
Tang Yi tried to push the door, but found that the door was unlocked.
Outside the door was a narrow wooden corridor, with a few moss marks on the dark and uneven ground. On one side of the corridor is a wooden handrail, and on the other side there are several other doors similar to his room. Some doors have numbers on them, and some numbers have been dropped, leaving only faint traces. He looked back and saw "201" written on his door.
Is this a prison? Why is there a house number? Why isn't the door locked? Tang Yi was confused, and tentatively stepped down the creaking stairs.
At the door of the first floor, there was an old woman in her seventies who was peeling beans, and the light of the setting sun filled the air in the lobby like a purple mist. The old woman turned her head when she heard the sound, and said without surprise, "You're awake."
Tang Yi looked at her in confusion, "Uh... Who are you?"
"You can call me Granny Zeng, I'm your landlord."
"… landlord?"
"That's right, aren't you a new refugee? You're so proud of yourself, and the commander of the Allied Army brought you here in person." Grandma Zeng rambled while saying that the beans in the pod were squeezed into the basket. , "According to the old rules, I will waive your rent for the first month, and then you will give me four hundred dollars every month. I am here to collect new refugees. The rent is not high, but the environment is not much better. If you don't like it, you can find another room by yourself."
Tang Yi digested her words and blinked slowly, "...I'm not a prisoner?"
Grandma Zeng glanced at him strangely, "Of course not, but I heard from the commander that you are restricted in movement and cannot leave the territory of Rome. Just be careful not to step on the boundary monument. Ah yes." Grandma Zeng suddenly sat on the apron After wiping his hands, he stood up with a hoot, and took out a letter from his apron pocket, "This is the first month's food allowance issued by the Allied Army, and every new refugee has it."
Tang Yi hesitated to accept the letter, opened it and saw that there was a dozen coins in it.
This rebel is really strange, not only did he not put him in jail, but he also sent him money. Is this their way to win over people's hearts
Or, because he was afraid that if he stayed in the barracks, it would affect the mercury, so he simply threw him out? If so they overestimated his influence on Mercury.
What about the others? Are they also classified as refugees
Although you can't leave Rome, this level of freedom is too high, right? He is a member of the Kraken team, isn't he their nemesis
Seeing Tang Yi's confused expression, Grandma Zeng beat her waist and went back to the door to sit on the pony bar and peel the beans, "Young man, hurry up and find a job during the first month, or you won't be able to get a job in the future. People are relieved."
Tang Yinane nodded, and just turned around, as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned around and asked, "Grandma, did the person who sent me here only sent me here? Is there anyone else?"
Granny shook her head and said in a determined tone, "No, you are the only one."
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Tang Yi carried a large denomination of the world coins, tentatively stepped out of the small hotel, wandered around the strange and narrow streets without a head for a while, and ate a bowl of hands at an unbelievably simple noodle stall. Roll surface. The unfamiliar taste and the unfamiliar environment made him suddenly feel an unreal feeling.
Except for the most basic electrical appliances in this city, I haven't seen any electronic information products, not even computers. Even the noodle seller just calculated the change on a calculator so old that Tang Yi felt fresh, and then found the change from a small box and gave it to him.
Tang Yi almost thought that he had traveled to several centuries ago. He couldn't imagine how to live without a computer.
But looking at the men at the table next to him chatting and punching, it seems that they are quite happy
Tang Yi sighed, lowered his head and continued to pull the noodles into his mouth, sucking and sucking a few times. He suddenly remembered the scene when he took Mercury to his favorite ramen restaurant in Yandu to eat noodles, forcing Mercury to suck the noodles with him.
With a click, the tears that had been unwilling to fall, just dropped one without any precaution, splashing a small splash in the noodle soup. Tang Yi narrowed his nose hard and wiped his face with his sleeves. He took a few deep breaths, suppressing the throbbing pain in his chest.
It wasn't that bad, he told himself.
Although I still don't know much about the status quo, but where is it not living
He has escaped death so many times, and now at least he still has a life, he can definitely survive this. As for what will happen in the future, why do you think so much
Too many plans, too many hopes, can only be used to disillusion in the end.
He decided to go to the rebel camp tomorrow and ask about other people's news. If he really has no clue, maybe it would be good to find a job first.
He still has to live.