Guo Baibo's heart thumped loudly, as if the only sound left in the world was the sound of his heartbeat in his chest. She raised her little hand and knocked on the door gently.
"Wu Qi, are you there?" Guo Baibai spoke in a low voice, as if he was expecting something.
There was no response from Wu Qi behind the door. Guo Baibo knocked on the door again and waited for a long 10 seconds, but still did not hear Wu Qi's voice.
Is Wu Qi sleeping? Guo Baibo thought. Her hand slowly reached for the doorknob, and her long white fingers pressed against the cold doorknob. Turn, push the door.
Guo Baibo regretted a little. Maybe it would be better to get drunk first and then do this. But now, it was too late to think so much, so Guo Baibo closed his eyes and walked into the darkness.
When Guo Baibo opened her eyes again, the scene she saw was not what she expected. Wu Qi's bed was empty, even the quilt was folded. On the contrary, the bedroom window was wide open, and the curtains swayed left and right with the cold wind.
Guo Baibo stopped in place blankly, his hands sliding down to both sides of his thighs, at a loss.
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Hundreds of kilometers west of Chang'an District. Wu Qi was wearing a dark gray combat uniform, with a long knife sheathed and slung on his back. His arms and legs swung rapidly, running at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour in a straight line on the wilderness illuminated by the silver moonlight, quickly and silently.
Wu Qi's black eyes looked like an owl at night into the dark wilderness, and his sensory net was released in all directions, observing the surrounding environment with 100% vigilance at all times.
Wu Qi was indeed dissuaded by Wang Yan in the afternoon. He thought a lot afterwards and still couldn't fall asleep, so he walked out of the room and went straight to the high wall west of Chang'an District.
Wu Qi understands that if you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get the tiger's cubs. Now he and his companions are being hunted by Xinjing's forces. As the leader of the Black Cavalry, he must do his best to "light up" the unknown shadow areas in the wilderness as much as possible.
It's not dangerous to peer into the shadows, but with one more piece of information, when the pursuers are approaching, you'll be able to see a clear path when escaping.
The cold wind beat hard on Wu Qi's body, a sign of winter coming. Wu Qi stepped up his pace and ran towards the end of the dark abyss-like wilderness.
Wu Qi counted the time silently. When the time to leave Chang'an District came to 1 hour and 20 minutes, there was something more at the end of the wilderness in Wu Qi's eyes, a tall wall that spanned all areas in his field of vision!
"Is that the high wall at the border?"
Wu Qi quickly approached the high wall until he was one kilometer away from the high wall, and then he slowly stopped.
It was a 40-meter-high dark gray wall with a path for soldiers to walk on the top. Looking around, a heavy cannon was set up every 50 meters on the top of the high wall. The heavy cannon's dark and thick muzzle was pointed at the occupied area outside the border, like a steel guard on the human frontier.
Wu Qi could see dozens of beams of white light on the high wall. Obviously, they were searchlights set up on the top of the high wall. The end of the searchlight formed a white circle of light on the land in the occupied area, and moved regularly within the set range.
Suddenly, Wu Qi saw a heavy cannon move its muzzle slightly, and then fired a shot without warning! The shocking sound of the cannon was clearly transmitted to Wu Qi's ears from a distance of one thousand meters, like the roar of a giant.
A tall fountain of dust rose from the land in the occupied area. A plague species in the occupied area was detected by the searchlight and was instantly bombarded by heavy artillery into a puddle of flesh and blood.
This is the role of the "guard system" connected behind the heavy artillery. The "guard system" with artificial intelligence can directly detect whether the approaching target is a plague species, and then automatically issue an attack order to the heavy artillery.
After the heavy cannon killed a plague species near the high wall with one blow, the internal mechanical structure automatically loaded a new cannonball, making a rumbling sound of heavy objects rubbing and rolling.
Wu Qi witnessed with his own eyes the power of the unguarded system at the high border wall, and gained a new estimate of the military power of the border army. He looked from the left side of the high wall all the way to the right until he reached the end as far as he could see. He didn't see any building that looked like a Zhenjiang base.
"It seems not." Wu Qi noted it down. Going all the way west in Chang'an District, there is no Zhenjiang base near the high border wall. That is to say, there are no border troops here, but it cannot be said that there is no one. After all, he is not sure what the structure of the thick high wall is inside. It is not guaranteed that people can live inside, including some maintenance personnel.
Wu Qi confirmed a guess and was ready to confirm the next guess. He took a step forward, and several searchlights on the high walls suddenly swept 180 degrees. The white aperture of the searchlight crossed the wilderness in front of Wu Qi, passing by the land in front of his feet, and then continued to rotate the remaining 180 degrees, re-deploying the search scope to the occupied area.
Wu Qi's right foot froze in place, and cells all over his body faintly emitted a weak sense of electricity. Cold sweat broke out on his back. After much hesitation, he decided to take another step forward.
The scene just now was exactly what Wu Qi had guessed. Since the defensive ability of the high wall is so excellent, it is not necessary to only explore the outside of the wall and completely abandon the inside.
The muzzles of the heavy artillery are all pointed in the direction outside the wall. The worst case scenario is that at night, the guard system of the high wall will fire artillery fire to kill any target it detects. However, it took time for the heavy artillery to move from outside the wall to inside the wall. Wu Qi thought of the worst outcome and decided to go forward and give it a try.
Wu Qi waited for 20 seconds, and the searchlight on the high wall turned to the inside of the wall again. He stepped on the area that the searchlight had originally illuminated, and this time the white light of the searchlight hit him head-on.
The dazzling white light blocked most of Wu Qi's vision, making it difficult for Wu Qi to open his eyes, let alone clearly see the trajectory of the heavy artillery on the high wall.
A weak sense of electricity instantly filled his body, and Wu Qi immediately retreated. The strength accumulated in the muscles of his legs helped him stay away from the range of the searchlight in an instant, and then the searchlight turned away as before.
As a result, the heavy artillery did not fire.
Wu Qi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the guard system of the high wall was quite advanced. It was detected that ordinary people could not fire cannons to kill them, so they must be able to identify the plague species.
After exploring the border information, Wu Qi thought it was time to return. This trip was very rewarding. He determined that if the pursuers were to kill him, he could lead his companions to run towards the border. As a last resort, crossing the high wall of the border and escaping to the occupied area was also a way to survive.
There are only three ways to escape, to the south, to the occupied area, and to the north. Wu Qi subconsciously did not want to go south, because he walked all the way from the southwest corner of the mainland. Wu Qi was not sure whether this was a kind of connection with Sister Ruorong. He felt that Sister Ruorong could not stay in the southwest corner of the mainland. She could go anywhere in the vast land.
Going south is the least likely option to find Sister Ruorong.
Wu Qi turned around and took steps to return to Chang'an District. At this moment, he felt a strong seismic wave coming out of thin air from the ground under his feet, and a sense of electric current that predicted danger went from the soles of his feet to the top of his head like a bolt of lightning!
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ps: The title has been changed.