1.
They changed two more cars, bought some food in the self-service restaurant, drank half a bowl of porridge in Xia Tian, and vomited it all up again.
Bai Jing'an sent him to sleep in the back seat, he carried two guns, a bazooka, and a small bag of bombs reluctantly, but he fell asleep immediately after closing his eyes.
Bai Jing'an went all the way down, passed through the maintenance station leading to the lower city - the authority of the construction department directly let the car pass - and continued on the road of escape.
The upper city and the lower city are like two worlds, but when you have the authority, it is not far to walk, it is just a floating city wall.
The sun had already risen, and they entered the downtown all the way, seeing the sunny N7 area from a distance on a suspended road.
The sun shines down, warm and magnificent, giving this city a strange sense of sacredness.
In the area beyond that, the shadow cast by the upper city became more and more shocking, and the light seemed so weak that it could not illuminate anything. Under the floating city, the whole world is in darkness.
The N7 area is very lively at this time.
Not long after the water in Yingkong Lake receded, garbage and silt could be seen everywhere. Everyone was new to the city, who had never seen the sun, gathered here to watch the sun.
Bai Jing'an never imagined that one day his hometown would be shrouded in such light and filled with people again. Those people will live here, do business, fight, fall in love and die. They also talked about Killing Show, God of War Xia Tian and Bai Jing'an, they talked about the riots in District N, and Bai Lin—downtown people always talk about Bai Lin.
Bai Jing'an got off the suspended highway, switched to ground driving mode, and entered the streets of N7 area. Before saving Xia Tian, he located a place to stay on the Internet, and he should be able to hide for a while.
After so many years, he returned to the city again, seeking asylum.
Different from the disguised stage in the memorial show, the real N7 area has been abandoned for a long time, dirty and broken, and its broken limbs are slowly stretching out in the sun.
Bai Jing'an skillfully turned a corner, he was familiar with this place from the bottom of his bones. He knew all the corners, bricks, building boards, billboards and locked drains. Although his memory has been swallowed up, an irrecoverable black hole, something persists.
This is his hometown.
There is a storefront screen showing video clips of "Son of Darkness", and one scene is a fantasy of Bai Lin going to the upper city to see the sun for the first time. People in the upper city like to fantasize about these things, but Bai Lin has never seen the sun in his life.
In fact, the man failed to save the person he wanted to save in the end. All he wanted to protect, his hometown, friends and dreams were all dead and buried in darkness.
It's just that people are still talking about rebellion.
Now, as Bai Jing'an walks through the streets that look bleak even in the sun, he seems to be able to see the skeletons in the corners, belonging to all those who tried hard to hold on but failed.
The sun is here at last, shining on the tomb, and the street is still the same.
He heard Xia Tian in the back seat calling in a daze: "Xiao Bai?"
"Well, I'm here." Bai Jing'an said.
Xia Tian calmed down and fell asleep again.
Bai Jing'an looked at him from the rearview mirror, he was curled up in a ball, holding a gun, he was still in pain and alert in his dream.
Fifth day of the guest show. An endless hell is finally coming to an end.
But it won't end like this, he destroyed the whole Ukiyo Paradise, which is still a big hole in the air, no one can do such a thing without paying a price.
And Xia Tian... Xia Tian has not been crushed, and those people have not eaten him until there is nothing left, and they will not let him go.
They're massive devouring monsters that destroy everything that's good. It's like once eating Baisang, Bailin, his entire hometown...
Bai Jing'an twitched again, almost lost control of the steering wheel, but quickly controlled it.
The damage of overmedication is showing...but now is not the time for things to go wrong, and the guest show goes on and it's not getting better.
Although at this moment, looking at the street in the sun, he suddenly had an unrealistic feeling that everything would be fine. Something smoothed the dreadful and dark chasm and made him feel safe.
In order to protect what he wants to protect, he can kill anyone who needs to be killed and do any extreme things.
On the back seat, Xia Tian had a nightmare and woke up with a start.
He was also very quiet when he was having nightmares, but curled up tighter, his breathing was rapid, and his fingertips were trembling, defending against enemies coming from nowhere.
He wakes up quickly. Bai Jing'an was about to wake him up, but he suddenly opened his eyes, clutching the gun tightly, not knowing where he was for a moment.
He was blank for a while, then crawled to the front seat sullenly, his hands shaking. Bai Jing'an turned to look at him.
"It's okay." Xia Tian said with contempt, "It's just a dream."
He dug out from the locker a small bag of fruit candies he had bought in the cafeteria, and handed one to Bai Jing'an. Bai Jing'an took it, strawberry flavored, and the candy wrapper was shiny and beautiful. He picked another one himself, which probably tasted like an orange.
Xia Tian tore off the candy wrapper, looked outside, and said, "N7 area?"
"En." Bai Jing'an said.
"I have been here several times." Xia Tian said.
He looked at the city that was dilapidated like a garbage dump under the sun, but also shining brightly, and suddenly said: "He is only for his sister."
"Some things, you know you can't do it, but you have to do it." Bai Jing'an said.
All around them, the sunlight and the shadow cast by the Upper City were as sharp as a chasm. There was something about the city that stretched around him, bringing warmth, and the encouragement of bigotry, violence, and hatred.
Xia Tian bit a candy and smiled at him again in the sun.
Bai Jing'an held his own, thinking that this candy must be really sweet.
Bai Jing'an transferred the car to the reserved property, which is for people from the upper city to come to "pilgrimage". The sunken Yingkong Lake is like a connection, which strengthens the connection between the two cities a lot.
Bai Jing'an parked the car, packed the weapons, food and medical kits inside - he always prepared them, they would be needed in summer - and walked into this residential house hidden on the edge of the sun.
There is nothing in the house except the necessities, but it is very clean. Xia Tian was happy to find that there was hot water in the bathroom, and said, "I want to take a shower first."
Bai Jing'an nodded, watching the man disappear, the sound of water came from the bathroom.
He listened nervously for a while, then turned to get the box of the therapeutic device. For a moment, his heart beat faster and his whole body trembled. He pressed down on the table and stood firm without falling.
He took a breath, felt that the situation was okay, continued to disassemble the treatment device, and said to Xia Tian who came out of the bathroom: "Sit down, let me take a look at your physical condition. Take off your shirt."
Xia Tian was reluctant, but still took it off, Bai Jing'an saw the welt marks on his back at a glance.
It must have improved a lot, but it is still densely packed, it is hard to imagine how tragic it was before, Bai Jing'an tentatively reached out to touch it, Xia Tian's body tensed up suddenly.
"It will be fine." Xia Tian said in a tone as flat as possible, "Leave it alone."
Bai Jingan put down his hands, and let out a cold "hmm". Xia Tian looked down at the gun on the coffee table, his body was tense, his fists were tightly clenched, and his expression couldn't be seen clearly.
Bai Jing'an walked over and suddenly hugged him forcefully.
Ever since he knew Xia Tian, he has had more physical contact with people than in his memory, but he has no other choice, he can only hug him.
The man relaxed carefully, resting his chin in the crescent of his neck, trembling.
"I, I can't say this..." he whispered, "This time it hurts...it hurts, Xiaobai..."
"I know, I know." Bai Jing'an said.
He felt that he was also shaking, because his fingertips were getting hot because of anger, and his heart became extremely soft, but he was hit hard by an unknown force again, and the pain was unbearable.
He couldn't move, but he never wanted to destroy anything and make anyone pay the price!
I don't know what those people have done, Xia Tian's physical indicators are in a mess, it's a mess, it makes people wonder how he can still walk.
Bai Jing'an used the latest general medical equipment from the Fujin Medical Department obtained with the authority of the Hall of Sacrifice, but he couldn't give any treatment advice, so he could only advise him to wait.
Bai Jing'an looked at the data with a gloomy face, Xia Tian said: "It's nothing, it's just that the medicine was taken too hard, it will be metabolized in a few hours and it will be fine."
Bai Jing'an thought, what he said was probably right, at least his injuries would recover soon. These people tortured him in the most extreme ways, and injected him with everything, repaired his appearance, made him look as if he was intact, and maintained the appearance of a good consumer product under the lights of the holy style.
The matter of the guest show... will not be over, but this time he will never be separated from Xia Tian again. He couldn't do it again.
Xia Tian reached out to touch a wound on his forehead, with a worried expression, but his fingertips were warm. Bai Jing'an hid for a while and said, "I'm fine, you..."
Before he finished speaking, the next moment, the whole world became pitch black, turned upside down, and he fell towards somewhere—
Xia Tian quickly supported him.
Bai Jing'an struggled to stand still, and said, "I'm fine, you sit back..."
Xia Tian ignored him, dragged him to the sofa, went to get the healing device, Bai Jing'an unconsciously grabbed Xia Tian's arm with one hand, wanted to call him back and treat the injury properly, but he couldn't say anything.
It seemed that all the words were broken, and the body couldn't control it... The black hole was always in his body, empty, huge, and full of corpses. He was never whole, that hell swallowed so much.
But he has to put himself back together, the situation is still bad, he can't have an accident at this time—
"You have to deal with the wound, Xiaobai," Xia Tian said, "If you do this again, you will die—"
Bai Jing'an wanted to say that he would not die, although he was dilapidated, he could persist for a long time without smashing into pieces, he could pick up his gun and make the best plan...but he couldn't speak, he could only hold on tightly The injured teammate next to him, he rescued with great difficulty, what if he disappeared again
But summer didn't go away. He helped Bai Jingan onto the bed, and took off his uniform. The blood on the black clothes was not conspicuous, and Bai Jing'an didn't feel the pain, but the injury probably wasn't serious, and Xia Tian's complexion was very ugly.
The man treated the wound, located his body, and injected him with therapeutic injections.
Bai Jing'an finally regained a little ability to speak, he tried his best to make himself appear normal and confident, although he was still trembling and couldn't control it at all. He said to Xia Tian: "I'm fine, it's just that the medicine is overdone, your injury needs to be dealt with..."
"You lie down!" Xia Tian said.
He pinned him on the bed and dragged the blanket over.
The blanket is very warm. There was a smell of disinfectant in the air, and Bai Jingan could faintly hear the noise of the N7 area outside the window, which was loosely wrapped around him, huge and safe.
Xia Tian said: "I will take care of us, you sleep for a while."
Bai Jing'an doesn't think he should sleep, the situation is still very bad... This is not a world where you can sleep, you have to be awake all the time, guarding your most important things. There is no time for treatment, the wound will just fester, and there are enough medicines in Uptown to treat it.
But Xia Tian pressed him with great strength, and even stretched out his hand to smooth his hair, as if smoothing the hair of a wounded animal. His movements are gentle.
Then Bai Jing'an realized that he had no strength. His hands and feet were weak, and his exhaustion weighed down heavily. All the strength he had accumulated with great difficulty disappeared in the bed and this unrealistic sense of security.
"Sleep for a while." Xia Tian said.
Bai Jing'an closed his eyes, he couldn't resist, he had no choice. He thought to himself that he could just sleep for a little while, and it shouldn't be a problem for a little while...
He fell asleep quickly.
Bai Jingan's sleep has always been light and conditional, but this time, sleepiness is like a new thing, growing out of his body with warmth and tingling. He had never slept so deeply.
When he woke up, he didn't know what time it was, and he couldn't remember where he was.
He was still aching all over, as if he had been torn apart and barely put together, and the spell was not right at all. Feeling inexplicably terrified, as if a moment of sleep had deprived him of something extremely important, he reached for the gun—
At this time he saw Xia Tian and realized where he was.
Nothing happened, Xia Tian curled up and slept next to him, breathing, and he could touch it with his hand.
Bai Jing'an could feel the weak trembling in his body, and his head still hurts, it's nothing, he knew that there will be this stage, and the situation is already very good now.
He moved his fingers to make sure he could kill the intruder in the first place if need be. He shouldn't have left any clues to the place, but—
He knew he had to stop.
He has already thought about all the possibilities, what he needs now is rest, otherwise this anxiety will really drag him to hell.
He looked at the man next to him curled up in a ball, warm and safe and alive. He leaned a little closer, stretched out his hand, and gently put it on Xia Tian's body.
Xia Tian woke up, but didn't open his eyes, rubbed his fingertips on his arm, and fell asleep again.
Bai Jing'an listened to his breathing, feeling warm and safe, filling the whole world.
He also closed his eyes and fell asleep again.
2.
Bai Jing'an felt that he might have a nightmare or something, but his sleep was peaceful and peaceful.
It was already afternoon when he woke up again, he hugged Xia Tian's waist, as if he was asleep and didn't let go. Xia Tian wrapped his arms around his shoulders, still sleeping.
Bai Jing'an didn't move, maintaining this posture, raised his hand to grope Xia Tian's back. The whiplash is a little shallower and looks like it will recover soon, and the medical skills in Uptown are amazing.
He felt that he should check the next time, but he was too lazy to move. This warmth fixed and comforted him like an anchor, his mind went blank, and he just lay there doing nothing for about twenty minutes.
Until Xia Tian woke up and closed his eyes to check the time on Bai Jingan's cell phone, he finally felt that he still had to get up.
So he got out of bed, went to the kitchen to prepare food, wandered over to help in Xia Tian, unpacked a few food boxes, and decided to cook porridge.
Both of them are not very good at cooking, so they just made something and threw it into the porridge to cook. Bai Jing'an took the opportunity to take a shower and change his clothes, and he could always hear the sound of Xia Tian's activities outside.
The taste of porridge is actually not bad, probably because I am hungry. The two quickly resolved it, and Xia Tian curled up under the blanket again to brush Bai Jingan's cell phone.
Bai Jing'an also returned to the bed, sitting next to Xia Tian, the man was curled up in the blanket and the pulled sofa cushion, his hair was tied up in a mess, he looked like he would fall asleep again at any moment.
Bai Jing'an moved over to a screen to see the situation outside.
The Ukiyo Paradise sank, and those solid supports, land, "ocean", castles and lush flowers and trees all fell down and smashed to pieces on the surface.
Below is the M2 area. Last year, the population was halved due to melting disease—although the vaccine has not kept up, the special programs have made a lot of money—the casualties are not great. On the video of the TV station, those people with blurred faces and melted into monsters raised their heads from the darkness and watched this spectacular "fall from heaven".
In all the games, movies, and novels of Uptown, the powerful are invincible.
They are the dark undertones of life, the invincible opponents of conspiracy theories, and the monsters who finally end the glory of a hero's life. This undertone creates much of Uptown's culture.
But today, that myth has been shattered.
The powerful and powerful, which was dazzling like a fairyland, and the floating world that the common people could not even imagine, was burned and shattered by two humble killing show contestants, and fell into "hell" in the early hours of this morning.
The attention curve of the whole thing in the floating city turned into a lonely and sharp peak. There has never been a line like that in Uptown's ratings history, not even close to it.
What's even more unbelievable is that there are videos of guest shows everywhere on the Internet.
While fleeing, Bai Jing'an knew that some videos in the Temple of War God had been circulated on the Internet, and he felt that they would be deleted soon. After all, the guest show is the private property of the rich and powerful, and their image in it is not very good. But looking online now, these things are actually released in the official version, just like the killing show video, and they are listed for sale!
It has been three hours since the sale started, and the purchase homepage of the guest show is magnificent. Xia Tian is dressed in white clothes like a sacrificial offering, standing in front of him with a heavy gun in his hand. His long hair was disheveled, and the golden light covered his body, brilliant and sacred, full of evil spirit, but inexplicably erotic. Standing beside Xia Tian, with eyes downcast and expressionless, he cast a huge dark red shadow like a bloody abyss.
The promotional words were passionate and sensational. Bai Jing'an checked the background data of the website with the authority of the Sacrificial Hall, and immediately realized why the rich and powerful were so fast, enthusiastic and self-sacrificing.
—The amount of money involved in the guest show is simply creepy, and the income in one hour is worth half a dozen Ukiyo Paradises!
In the upper city, money is always the ruler of everything. This giant is pressed on the entire floating city, shining brightly in the sun, and its roots are tightly grasping the earth in the darkness, sucking the pain, dead bodies, and rotten things in the sewers . No one can resist.
The rich and powerful were never short of money, of course, but it was too large to remain indifferent, and grabbing was their instinct.
In this way, this twisted and crazy show entered everyone's terminal, and at the same time, the paranoid, angry, and unyielding God of War stood on the top again.
This time God of War didn't say a word, it wasn't a gorgeous display in front of the camera, there were no famous quotes, even the camera was sneaky. This is his life.
Desperation to the extreme.
But also cool and proud to the extreme.
Bai Jingan sat cross-legged on the bed - Xia Tian even put a blanket over him - to check the situation outside.
The noise of the market can be faintly heard outside the house. The house is not in the sun, so it is relatively quiet. The camera can see the surrounding situation at a glance, and it looks safe.
But Bai Jing'an could feel the heat of the whole world gathered, it was so strong that it gave goosebumps.
He remembered the escape route he had planned before saving Xia Tian. Because the man has a chip implanted in him, all the planned locations are in the lower city, where the signal is most likely to be blocked... or maybe not, but he can't control it.
But at the moment they escaped from the floating world, the Temple of War God received a new sacrifice: a high-end pet management interface with a built-in destruction program in the background.
Bai Jing'an doesn't know who gave this thing, it's probably a senior programmer. It was a high-end management program, and the other party directly gave him a one-click removal of the bomb virus.
This thing destroyed all the nobles' "pet" management connections and permissions in an instant. Even if he tried his best to recover, it would take at least ten days and a half a month.
In this bottomless crisis, he also seems to have gained some kind of unfathomable power.
Now, Xia Tian logged into the Temple of War God, and stared at the Hall of Sacrifice in a daze for a while.
Bai Jing'an discovered that after they fled, the number of sacrifices had tripled again, and it was still increasing rapidly.
In the opening title of Fujin TV's special program, the whole upper city seemed to be having a high fever. The red in countless screens reflected the sky of the Floating Void City, like the flames of war, and also like an upside-down red abyss.
The upper world is falling into a hot place, no one knows where it leads, but it just keeps heating up without end.
Up to now, what the players are eager to hand over is no longer money, cheers or love, but the authority of the most real force in the upper city.
But there is no God of War, it is a phantom created by the killing culture in the upper city, and only Xia Tian exists. A downtown felon who is emotional, laughs, has a sister, has lost a lot, is full of anger, and is trying to survive.
The God of War only exists in the blood-red carnival of nothingness in the upper city, and sacrifices are also piled up towards nothingness. But when possessed of such terrible power, the virtual image will become real.
At this moment, a video advertisement popped up on the terminal, it was from the guest show.
Xia Tian was tied to a big crimson bed like a huge plate, those people stretched his limbs, several snakes moved lazily on his body, sticking out their forked tongues from time to time. A golden snake tangled in his hair, holding him up to the light.
He was in so much pain and was crying, the orange light shone on his face, and the tears were like gold.
Who... with six fingers with one more joint, more like claws, reached out to touch his tears, licked them in his mouth, and said, "It's extremely delicious."
Xia Tian stretched out his hand suddenly to turn it off.
He stared at the blank screen, his whole body tensed up and his breathing quickened. His eyes were gloomy, like a sky about to burst into a storm, trying to destroy something.
The aging light bulb flickered, and the room suddenly went dark. For a moment, it seemed that the whole world was plunged into the dark night and the abyss.
Xia Tian turned on the virtual mode with a cold face and entered the Temple of War God. At least there are no ads.
Bai Jing'an walked in. Xia Tian is counting the weapons, most of the place is in the shadows, the shimmering light over the stones shines on him, the God of War has no expression on his face, he concentrates on counting the things he owns, his body is like a white hot fire.
When he finished counting, the weapon would disappear into his hands as if it had been absorbed. After all, there is a possibility of exposure here, and they will instinctively hide all their power, and save it for use when they are forced to, and will never hand it over.
This kind of force has never belonged to any one person or few people, nor should it be so densely handed over to the angry criminals in the lower city.
The ground in the upper city is tilting, and it's not just a hole or two. But don't know where it will go.
Xia Tian looked at the black long sword of the Defense Department in his hand, it was the highest authority of the "Abyss" series of weapons. The pitch-black shadow was reflected in his eyes, also like a bottomless abyss.
Bai Jing'an sat down beside him and said, "I've been thinking..."
At this moment, his cell phone rang.
Bai Jing'an was taken aback. This is a private number, which cannot be traced. Very few people know it. It is prepared for emergencies. Xia Tian's mobile phone has long since disappeared, and the only way to find them is through this mobile phone.
He picked it up, and it showed Haida's number on it.
At the sight of it, his heart sank, unsure for a moment whether it would beat again.
He plugged it in, and their figure-planning voices sounded exhausted and shaking from the opposite side.
"Where are you?" she asked.