After realizing that he had been frightened by a scrawny pariah, the adjutant couldn't help but get angry, raised his hand and slammed the half-open door open with the butt of his gun, and rudely reprimanded: "We are following the order of the Alliance to search. Fugitives, if they don't cooperate, they will be regarded as cover up!"
The man shyly took two steps back:
"But, but you didn't come..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the Union Army who broke into the door directly, and his thin body, which had almost no strength due to hunger, suddenly fell heavily to the ground.
The room was small and empty, with hardly any place to hide.
The Union soldier who had completed the search turned and walked out, but a thin hand grabbed the leg of his trousers. He lowered his head and saw that the man was still holding a faint hope, and tremblingly asked, "Sir, the selection... "
Looking at the man's haggard and humble face, a trace of impatience flashed in the soldier's eyes. He kicked his head fiercely with his heavy military boots, and threw off the shackles of the other party: "Go away!"
The strange commotion here is like a stone thrown into the water, and the lifeless gathering area seems to have finally come to life.
All the crooked and crooked doors and crooked and dirty curtains were opened from the inside, and countless faces that were equally withered and lifeless looked out from the dark room, and each pair of turbid eyes flickered. With the same desire and hope, staring closely at the Alliance Army standing in the middle of the open space, small whispers spread from every corner:
"It's the Alliance Army, here they come!"
"Selection, it's a selection!"
"Please come here and take a look..."
"Come to us!"
Countless voices grown with thirst merged into a torrent, rushing towards them, describing the withered inhabitants like living skeletons, with a look of extreme concentration and hunger radiating from their deeply sunken eye sockets, they directed at the Alliance. The army staggered and raised his arms and gathered together. Such a scene was like being trapped in hell, and the scalp was tingling. The Union soldiers immediately raised their guns nervously and aimed at the surrounding residents.
Lying on the mountain of garbage, Xiao Dian raised his heart to his throat, and subconsciously raised his hand and grabbed Ge Xiu, who had arrived after receiving the notice.
His voice was only sharp because of nervousness: "Xiao, Xiao Qi, what should I do?"
Ge Xiu pointed his brain at the area not far away, and replied quietly:
"Wait."
The young couple of Ge Xiu had long been accustomed to trust and obedience, gritted their teeth, lay down again, and continued to observe the open field where many people gathered.
The most experienced adjutant in the entire team calmed down the fastest. He remembered what the man said about "selection" just now, and then thought of the recent alliance's too frequent slave expropriation, and finally realized that the other party mistook his group for him. The alliance army who came to select, although I don't know how such a misunderstanding happened, the most urgent task now is to stabilize the opponent.
It's just that the atmosphere of confrontation between the two parties is too tense, and the other party is too excited and fanatical to listen to them at all, so the adjutant has to bite the bullet and admit:
"Yes, that's right, we are indeed here for selection. Citizens are requested to cooperate with our work—"
The residents on Junk Star instantly quieted down, and everyone's eyes shone with hope. They became extremely obedient and obedient, for fear that their attitude would affect their qualifications for future selection.
Seeing that the scene was finally brought under control, the adjutant breathed a sigh of relief without a trace. He was about to take this opportunity to inquire about the traces of the fugitives, but unexpectedly, a terrified voice came from behind him:
"But, but, you, didn't you say that you were hunting down fugitives...?"
The adjutant turned his head and saw that the slender man just got up from the ground at an unknown time, looking at the Union army in surprise, with traces of being beaten on his face, his voice trembling slightly, and he asked in doubt. .
The adjutant's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition spread from the bottom of his heart.
There was hardly any time for him to react, and a faint but angry voice sounded from the crowd: "… Hunt down the fugitive?!"
"Like taking my child before?"
The suppressed noise resounded in the crowd of ragged clothes, and those humming whispers were like the wind blowing across the fields, setting off layers of ripples and waves, as if there was a kind of uneasy emotion surging faintly, hoarse, faint. , murmur, the voice of panic sounded from the dark and dirty streets.
At first, it was just a vague mix of whispers, and it was almost impossible to capture clear words. Later, even the adjutant, who was protected by the soldiers with guns in the middle, could hear the gradually noisy discussions in the crowd.
"My child was taken away and never came back..."
"Me, my brother too!"
"My husband... he, he was also taken away by the Union Army..."
Feelings of panic and disbelief spread like a deadly plague in the crowd.
These emotions accumulated rapidly and changed qualitatively at an uncontrollable speed. Those fearful and timid tones quickly became fearful and excited, and the low whispers brewed into clear and huge voices at an extremely alarming speed. Flow, out-of-control voices sounded from all directions, like an unstoppable wave, attacking the isolated Alliance Army:
"Yes, it's them!"
"... the same uniform!"
"Dad, Dad came back after being selected and left. He told us that everyone was a liar and he never left. Then the next day someone from the Alliance said he was a fugitive! Take him away!"
"They said that my brother was mentally unstable and wanted to take him back for treatment, but he is clearly normal!"
One voice after another.
One face after another.
Everyone is a mirror, magnifying the emotions projected on them and then releasing them.
The resonance in the crowd spread in a geometric progression, like a spark that fell into the wilderness, and a heat wave exploded almost instantly.
Countless skeleton-like dirty and thin faces were aimed straight at the soldiers. Those deeply sunken eyes were like dark caves, which made people shudder. The air was filled with a foul and foul smell, and the tense atmosphere seemed to be the next second. The bowstring that could be broken, all the soldiers subconsciously felt the fear of being threatened, and the muzzle that had just been lowered was raised again to aim at the crowd.
The adjutant sensed some kind of weird atmosphere, as if someone was watching from the dark, silently and secretly controlling the direction of everything, this feeling made his hair stand on end, and he had to desperately try to get things back on track— He tried to explain to the residents that his troops were not malicious, and also tried to tell the soldiers under him that the people who were raised as pigs and dogs could not take the initiative to attack the soldiers with live ammunition.
The next second, a thin figure slammed into the crowd, and there seemed to be a faint silver light flickering in his hand:
"My Louis..."
The spirit of the soldier closest to her was already extremely tense, and before she could finish speaking, she pulled the trigger.
The sound of the metal colliding was so clear, the crowd instantly fell silent, the unkempt and thin woman stared blankly at the person who shot her, the silver light in her hand fell to the ground with a clang - that was a simple Metal photo frame.
The adjutant sighed in his heart.
Oops.
This gunshot sounded like a spark that ignited a dynamite barrel in an instant, causing the people who had always been submissive to boil with rage. The crowd dominated by anger stared at them, and the hostility against them was overwhelming, and the air could almost smell the smell of gunpowder.
The adjutant realized that the boat was a done deal, all explanations were useless, and violent conflict was unavoidable. He felt that it was better to strike first, and he decisively ordered:
"Fire and break through!"
But in the next second, all the soldiers around him discovered at the same time that the weapons in their hands were all misfired, as silent as useless scrap iron.
The crowd around them was even more irritated, and the anger that had been suppressed for ten or twenty years poured out from their lifeless eyes and poured out towards the only gap in front of them. All obstacles are completely destroyed—
The adjutant raised his head in a daze, and the woman who suddenly rushed over just now was drowned in the crowd.
At this moment, he seemed to finally understand something, and turned his head sharply to look behind him.
The man has disappeared.
On the mountain of garbage not far away, Ge Xiu retracted his head, curled up and laughed out of breath: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha, did you see his expression? Hahahahahahaha!"
Xiao Yi was lying on the dirty ground, not recovering for a long time.
… what just happened? what happened
After a long time, Ge Xiu finally reluctantly stopped his laughter, and fished out an ugly machine from his arms:
"Electromagnetic pulses can indiscriminately destroy high-level energy sources within a kilometer in diameter - an indestructible stun gun cannot reach its energy threshold, but if it is a lethal light energy quantum weapon, you will not be so lucky."
He showed the pitted and black iron bump to Xiao Yi, raised his eyebrows happily and said, "Isn't it beautiful?"
Xiao Yi hesitated: "…"
Kind of ugly.
Gehu didn't notice Xiao Yi's indescribable complex expression, he just touched the ugly machine with some regret, and sighed:
"Unfortunately, for its next use, I had to reduce its radius of influence, and the damage caused is far less than the theory."
Suddenly, Xiao Yi thought of something: "So, you knew from the beginning that their guns couldn't fire?"
Gorgeous nodded of course.
Xiaoyi remembered his performance just now, and his face flushed red. From just now, he was extremely nervous from body to heart. When he saw the soldier pull the trigger and the adjutant ordered to fire, he panicked and almost pinched his fingernails. Into the palm of his hand, the sweat oozing from his body almost soaked his clothes. Ashamed and annoyed, he stammered and asked:
"Then... you, why didn't you tell me?"
Ge Xiu: "Because your expression is also very funny, hahahahahahaha!"
The little side slowly turned his head expressionlessly, looked at the imageless captain who was smiling beside him, and took a deep breath.
Not angry not angry.
Not worth it. Not worth it.
A few figures slipped over from the hidden path on the side. There were six people in total, all wearing the daily clothes of the residents of the garbage star. Obviously, they did not gain much weight while living on the main ship. They looked like this planet. Other residents are no different.
And the thin man who took the initiative to open the door, and the woman who rushed out of the crowd recklessly were all in line.
The man skillfully stopped the bleeding from the wound on his face. His face was slightly distorted by the pain, but the light flashing in his eyes was surprisingly bright: "Captain, we have completed the task you explained."
Ge Xiu nodded happily: "Well done."
Xiao Yi couldn't help peeking at him.
The young man's profile was a little blurry in the chaotic shimmer, and there was a careless smile on his lips, a sense of unpredictable danger.
He already knew that his former playmate had changed.
Become decisive, wise, and ruthless.
This time, he followed the opponent the whole time, watching Ge Xiu lay out the net step by step, no one knows this action better than him - it seems that only two people showed up, but the real effect But it was all the chess pieces arranged in the crowd. Under Ge Xiu's command, they moved people's emotions little by little, and patiently guided the situation to the direction set early. The whole process was so logical, like a work of art. Smooth and subtle.
And Ge Xiu, as the creator of the chaos in front of him, the trader who drives everything, doesn't seem to have any self-consciousness about what he has done.
Although they once grew up together, Xiao Qi now always makes him feel unspeakable awe and strangeness - human beings are always instinctively afraid of strange and unknown things.
However, since returning to this planet, Xiao Yi felt that the estrangement and fear in his heart began to disappear gradually.
-Because no matter how dangerous the situation is, Xiao Qi is always thinking of them and protecting them all the time.
Thinking of the amulet he gave out, he pursed his lips and smiled.
Ge Xiu threw the iron lump in his arms into Xiao Yi's arms, and stood up from the garbage heap contentedly. He patted the dirt and garbage debris on his body, and he didn't even look at the chaos and fierce battle not far away, right. The crew behind him said:
"The play is over, let's go."
Xiao Yi came back to his senses, stunned for a while, hugged the strange-shaped machine in his arms, and hurriedly followed Ge Xiu's footsteps:
"Go, where are you going?"
Ge Xiu looked down at the coordinates displayed on his brain, and replied without raising his head:
"Of course, the task is completed. Now this kind of passionate anger comes and goes quickly. If you don't make good use of it now, it will be too late."
After more than 20 minutes, the group of them stopped beside a high garbage mountain. It seemed to be fresh garbage that had just been dumped on the planet. Even the crew members who had grown up in this place could not help frowning and raised their hands to cover their mouths and noses.
Ge Xiu called out the command authority of the Leviathan and tapped twice on his brain.
The huge garbage mountain suddenly moved, and countless stinky and broken garbage debris slid down from the top of the mountain. Everyone heard the familiar humming sound, and then the whole garbage mountain collapsed like a mudslide, revealing the corrosion underneath. The rusted metal surface of the wreck - it was the cargo ship that sailed from the former Leport.
The crowd cheered.
It seems that this is how they left Junk Star and returned to the main ship.
But what they didn't expect was that Ge Xiu did not let everyone on board, but remotely controlled the cargo ship to lift off and slowly sailed to the place where they came before.
Although everyone was puzzled, no one raised any objections.
Because they all know that their captain will always have his own plans.
Ge Xiu still lowered his head and steered the ship on his own. Then he took out the metal sheet that Xiao Yi gave him from his pocket, scanned it with his brain and uploaded it to the cargo ship. He looked up at Xiao Yi. One, raised a bright smile:
"Thank you for your gift."
What
Xiao Yi didn't understand, and looked at the young man in front of him in confusion.
Ge Xiu said with a smile: "Don't worry, you'll find out later."
After speaking, he put the metal sheet back in his pocket, turned his head and winked slyly at the crew behind him, pretending to be mysterious:
"Okay! Now - Dangdang! Prize quiz, how do you think we're leaving this planet this time?"