1.
Bai Jing'an realized that he was dreaming.
In the dream, they were out of danger and stopped somewhere to rest. There is no camera around, it is very safe, his wound has been bandaged, and Xia Tian also has some injuries, but overall he is very healthy.
Xia Tian said to him: "You don't want to die!"
"I'm alive," he said.
"Nearly died."
"It won't die."
Xia Tian stared at him, Bai Jingan didn't know what to say, he thought to himself, he was sad. Really bad.
It was at this moment that Bai Jing'an realized that he was dreaming.
The body is still falling down, and the speed has slowed down a bit, but the effect of the medicine has not passed. He closed his eyes, surrounded by darkness, and he didn't know what was behind this blackness.
He looked at this dream, he and Xia Tian were sitting in the car full of holes and talking, the sun was shining obliquely, and the few locks of the man's hair were tanned brown, looking very warm.
He reached out and pinned a lock of his hair that had fallen behind his ear.
"We're fine," he said.
"Yeah." Xia Tian said.
"You said you would bring us out."
"Well, we're all fine."
"If you can't get out, we are together anyway."
They are next to a street, and there is a dessert shop on the corner. They are doing holiday promotions, and the red confetti looks like a lot of candies. The street is very lively, but the sound cannot be heard, they are safe.
The other one looked at the scene under the sun from a distance, his face was expressionless, a part of his soul was cold and silent, and the background was pitch black.
He doesn't want to wake up. He didn't know what he would see when he opened his eyes.
Never good. This world is a hell, a burning dump of desire, without hope. Here, all good things are only for destruction!
In the dream, Xia Tian said that he was hungry, why not find something to eat first.
He said to himself, "What do you want to eat?"
"Bean paste pie," Xia Tian said, "and fruit cake—"
Bai Jing'an knew that he had to wake up.
He was in the guest show, he didn't have time to sleep and dream, and listened to Xia Tian saying what he wanted to eat. Though he'd love to hear it all, and then they can go to the store next door, and he can see the sweets in the bright window, which seem to be delicious—
When the idea of waking up arises, the sunshine in the dream sinks irresistibly, and goes away from his world like all good things. The orange light jumps and then goes out.
Pain welling up in his body, the air damp and musty, he returned to the real world.
Bai Jingan opened his eyes, first he saw a dark gray roof.
He realized he was lying in the back seat of a stretch van, his wounds treated, a soft blanket over him, and the orange lights in the car.
Then he saw Xia Tian.
The man was sitting beside the makeshift bed, leaning against the carriage, watching him.
He got a light-colored T-shirt from somewhere, with a cartoon explosion effect printed on it. He was wearing a denim jacket and his hair was tied up casually, like a street gangster. Bai Jing'an felt that this was more suitable for him than the sky-high priced formal suits from the sponsors.
Because he kept leaning against the carriage, the man had a mark on his face, and he didn't know how long he sat there.
Seeing that he woke up, Xia Tian smiled at him, like a cluster of fire lights in the car, illuminating the damp, pain and hopelessness.
Xia Tian's injury has been treated, but it is very rough, Bai Jing'an feels that it needs to be bandaged again.
"You slept for six hours." Xia Tian said.
For a while, Bai Jing'an was not sure if he was still dreaming, something in the dream was very real.
He tried to sit up, but he felt dizzy and the pain flooded in, and it felt real now. Xia Tian pressed him back to the bed.
"Lie down," he said.
"Where are we?" Bai Jingan said.
"An abandoned rest area on the underground expressway." Xia Tian said.
He smiled wider at him and said, "There is no camera."
According to what Xia Tian said, there was something wrong with the roadblock when he rushed out, and the closing time error was about two seconds, enough for them to rush out of that piece of hell.
He changed four cars along the way, and also used a program shared by Xiao Minkov during the third round of truce, called "invisibility cloak", which can prevent camera information from being retrieved and uploaded, and is one of the core products of the mountain gods. The kid is sending it around like he doesn't want money.
After all, no matter how advanced the camera is, it is not brave enough to track them with its own engine. The omnipotent information query and tracking is the key for the organizer to locate them.
"When I was entering the underground expressway, I saw a 'Red Hurricane' parked next to the Hunting Club. Get one, the owner saw me—”
He said in a slightly weird tone: "Happily, he directly transferred the authority of the car to me, and gave me three hundred yuan, saying that it was a pity that there was only such a little cash in his pocket. The same is true for the latter two cars."
He took a stack of bills from his pocket and said, "I got a lot of cash."
Bai Jing'an took the money, counted it, and it was indeed quite a lot. Xia Tian continued: "When I met the owner of this car, she had just bought fruit cake and bean paste pie, and she also sent them to me."
Bai Jing'an looked at the car, the decoration was low-key and elegant, and the price was not cheap. He wasn't quite sure how this had happened - maybe he had a good smile and she gave him the car
He suspected that he had a dream because he smelled the smell of food at that time.
At this moment, Xia Tian sideways dragged a packing bag with cartoon strawberries printed on it from the front seat, and said to him: "Do you want to eat?"
Bai Jingan sat up slowly.
He was shirtless and had healing bandages on his body, professionally done in the summer. The warm light in the car illuminated the intertwined wounds on his body.
Countless old wounds. From his dark and tragic past, it seemed to have completely torn his body apart.
This is the body of a warrior, and also a body crawled out from the depths of hell. After many years, it is displayed under the light without caring.
Xia Tian thought of how he was when he was taken off the armored vehicle. The man didn't respond, and looked very fragile, like a small group of fire that would go out at any time.
But he will not extinguish it, he is so stubborn, he has experienced the most terrifying despair and fighting, and he has such a powerful force in his bones.
Xia Tian handed him a cup of hot juice, Bai Jingan took it, his hands were still shaking, but the effect of the medicine had worn off, he slowly sipped the hot drink to replenish his energy.
Xia Tian skillfully divided the cake with "cotton candy", while saying: "There is one more thing."
He handed over Bai Jing'an's part, and continued: "There was something wrong with their roadblock when I came out, but it wasn't a malfunction."
Bai Jing'an turned to look at him, put away the knife in Xia Tian, opened the homepage of the Temple of War God, and said, "Look at this."
Bai Jing'an discovered that he was using the Master ID of God of War, and did not enter the temple through the gate with the inscription "Never give up hope" burning. Turned into the scarlet cloak behind the God of War.
In the blink of an eye, the sacrificed Yingkong Lake has arrived.
"I received some... offerings." Said the new god of war in the upper city. On the holographic screen, the god's perspective floated above the waters full of bones, like the ruler of the death domain.
"Only the God of War authority can view it," he said.
Bai Jing'an clicked on the sacrifice function, took a look, and almost spilled the drink in the cup.
When he and Xia Tian came here last time, they only saw endless skeletons, and people frantically piled blood and death here.
But now, believers offered new sacrifices.
Bai Jingan stared at the data in front of him. Under the holographic image, on the gold plate was the security private permission code of "Bingshan Private Security Company"—the company that hunted them down and served five or six large powerful clubs at the same time. The authority codes of the H and T series of weapons contractors, and there is a fucking backdoor channel code for the surveillance satellite of the Ministry of Defense...
He continued to look, and the more he looked, the tighter his body became, like a bowstring being stretched.
This time, dedicated to the God of War, it is no longer the "beast of doom", "the scepter of the God of War" or pure execution. These people are sending the authority of the truly terrifying weapon in the upper city into the hands of the God of War Xia Tian.
The two high-profile celebrities nestled in the dark and quiet abandoned rest area, shared bean paste pie and fruit cake, and discussed the next step.
They won't be able to hide for long. The guest show said that the players are allowed to escape freely with all their resources, but the rules are for those who hold knives and forks at the banquet.
As prey, if they are "disobedient", punishment will follow. Didi, Eric, Weixi... all live in the hunting grounds of the rich and powerful. They had better be smart and appear in front of the camera .
This is not a show that can be won, but at the same time, in the vast upper city, there are countless people paying attention to them, very angry, and want to do something.
They have tasted the sweetness of resistance, like countless tinder, longing for the fire to fill the sky.
After a while, the two Killing Show contestants found the address, registration information, person in charge and various rumors of Bingshan Private Security.
Now they even have permission to use satellite monitoring, and it is extremely simple to inquire about relevant information, and they can do all the work by moving their fingers in the car.
Without the information disadvantage of the camera, the discussion between the two is very fast, mixed with technical terms, the latest information, and all the details that have been paid attention to in the process of being hunted down, the weaknesses that the enemy can use... ruthless, efficient And hit the nail on the head.
Bai Jing'an thought about what the power handed over to them represented.
The rest area is like a tomb forgotten by the world. The light of the headlights in the distance sweeps across. Where there is water on the ground, sparkling waves are reflected on the zenith and the ground. The colors are clear, as if you are at the bottom of the water.
The whole world is very quiet, as if there has never been a killing show, no hunting and bloody games, just the two of them.
But no, the world exists, burning above their heads and rotting beneath their feet.
They're cornered beasts, and Uptown's top hunters. In order to escape, they will use everything at their disposal, and at any cost.
2.
The night was getting darker.
In the abandoned rest area of the underground expressway, the blue and white light of the energy-saving lamps does not illuminate the vast darkness.
Bai Jing'an got out of bed, without his shirt on, still wearing the warm blanket with cartoon stars printed on it, left the back of the car, and looked at the surrounding environment.
Six or seven hours ago, when he came out of the explosion, he thought he was going to die, but now with his wounds bandaged and a very sweet drink, he feels fine.
This place has a lot of history, the doors of the surrounding buildings are all sealed, and it is so dark that you can't see clearly.
The architectural pattern of the upper city is often changed, and sealed roads and houses can be seen everywhere, quietly hidden in the darkness, accumulating layer by layer.
He could hear the sound of cars speeding past the main road from a distance, and the rolled up dust piled up on the corners, and some low plants grew in the cracked building boards, and small yellow and red plants bloomed. flowers.
Bai Jingan looked around, thinking that this place is not bad, if he finds a suitable valve, he might be able to take a hot bath later.
In the next twenty minutes, he roughly calculated the size of the service area, how many doors there were, and the escape route. He behaves like a recovering patient on a walk, but at the same time a deadly beast measuring its territory.
When he walked to the door of the employee service area, Bai Jing'an saw the dead body of a mouse.
As big as a dog, it is not common in the upper city, but there are many in the lower city, which is the result of protracted genetic pollution from above. Always hungry, they hide in sewers and attack children and the wounded.
Whoever shot it twice, it fled here, and finally seemed to want to rush into the sealed door. What was it thinking when it was dying? Maybe it was to ask for help, although no one in the world would save a mouse.
Now, it has been dead for several days. The corpse is highly corrupted, swollen and swollen, exuding the nightmare smell of blood and flesh decomposing, and the maggots inside are wriggling frantically, feasting on it.
Bai Jing'an stared blankly for a while, then turned and left.
He walked back to his car, only the car glowing warmly in this dark deserted area.
Xia Tian stood in that piece of light and looked at him.
Bai Jing'an returned to the temporary bed in the van, feeling cold, so he dragged another blanket over.
The rear compartment was open, like an awning, Xia Tian helped him pull up the blanket, and brought a cushion over.
"There is a corpse of a mutated mouse over there." Bai Jing'an said.
"It must have escaped from the lower city." Xia Tian said.
"Unfortunately, this is not a good place."
"Worse than below."
Bai Jing'an fell silent, a ball car sped past the corner in front, bringing a burst of hysterical music, a hoarse male voice shouted "The world is a rotten scar", and the screams of the young people seemed to be howling in pain.
Bai Jing'an stared at his arm, an old wound extended from his forearm, it seemed to be left by... He didn't know what kind of mutated new creature, it looked like a mouse, maybe it wasn't.
The roller had sucked its lower body in, and the remaining half was still frantically wanting to attack and devour.
He touched the wound, which seemed to be from the beginning, and someone helped him bandage and apply medicine... He couldn't remember who it was, only remembered to whom he said "it will be better soon".
Xia Tian turned to look at him.
"What's wrong?" Xia Tian said.
"I... thought about the encapsulation area." Bai Jing'an said, "At the end, the scene was terrible... The temperature was too high, the corpses were decomposed, and there were... a lot of maggots... It looked terrible..."
He doesn't know why he's saying it now, he'll never be ready to say it. He heard his own voice shaking, broken and hysterical.
"I can still smell that smell in my dreams...it's everywhere, I can't get out," he said, "the whole area is full of maggot-infested corpses, flies, stumps, internal organs, guns that are no longer useful... And the...stuff that comes out of the dead body. It's all in the street, in the house, and it's not at all like...not the way it used to be...not like they...'
He stuttered. Sitting next to Xia Tian, very close, he could feel the heat he emitted, hear his soft breathing, the feeling of being alive.
"In the end, you just... couldn't hold anything," he said, "with all your strength, all your strength—"
He stopped, shaking all over.
Xia Tian looked at him and didn't say anything to comfort him like "it's all over". They all knew that it would never pass.
The night is shrouded in the surroundings, and the wind blows down from the vent, blowing away a little musty smell, and blowing the low flowers in front, the flowers sway gently.
Xia Tian stretched out his hand and touched a wound on Bai Jingan's shoulder.
Even now it can be seen that it was once very deep, an almost fatal blow from that slaughterhouse.
Bai Jing'an didn't move. In his imagination, he wouldn't let anyone see these things in his life. He would hide them in the depths of darkness forever, and he couldn't stand just thinking about them.
But for the moment he felt safe, in a mess, on a makeshift bed in a car in an abandoned rest area.
Xia Tian's fingertips stroked his wound, it was a little itchy, but very warm.
"It must be very painful." Xia Tian said.
"Well," Bai Jing'an said, "it hurts."
That night, they studied the water pipes in the abandoned rest area and actually took a hot shower.
The water temperature is very comfortable and makes people relax. Summer also found a very soft bath towel in the car.
After taking a shower, Bai Jing'an slept for another three hours. When he was sleeping, Xia Tian wiped his hair next to him, sometimes water droplets would splash on his body. He closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep, not remembering what he dreamed of.
In the middle of the night, they decided to change places, so they crossed the underground expressway that ran through the city like a blood vessel. At this depth, the organizers cannot locate the penalty chip for the summer.
Bai Jingan drove the car and turned a U-shaped turn steadily. From the rearview mirror, he could see Xia Tian curled up in the back seat of the car and fell asleep - he supervised him to re-bandage the wound - and did not wake up.
The light of the street lamps flicked through layers, and there were almost no cars on the road, and occasionally one came and went in a hurry.
The whole world is sleeping, waiting for the sun to rise. The dial on the car was made dark red, the time was beating steadily, and the sky in the upper city should be turning pale.
Another bloody morning.
Bai Jing'an knew that before ten o'clock this morning, they had to return to the camera to continue this hunting game.
He murmured, "Day four."
On the back seat, Xia Tian opened his eyes and looked at him, without moving, not quite sober.
"Sleep for a while longer." Bai Jing'an said.
The man didn't speak, just looked at him.
Bai Jing'an switched the car to automatic driving, went to the back seat, and sat next to him.
Layers of high-speed brackets passed overhead like dark clouds, and occasionally a ray of bright light fell from above, shining on their faces, and then disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"They will find us today." Xia Tian said.
"Yes." Bai Jing'an said.
"surprise."