Ning Gu's first reaction was that a traveler was teasing him. After all, he could count at least three with just a snap of his fingers.
But he immediately overturned this idea, the voice was unfamiliar.
If it wasn't the traveler he knew, then no matter who the voice was, what ability it was, or what new device it was... he should run.
Ning Gu's running speed is the same as his fighting speed, which can be regarded as the top-notch among ordinary people.
When he swished out of the small black room, he felt that the sound was still in the room.
But even at such a fast speed, the hammer is still gone.
Ning Gu stood in the middle of the hall, looked around carefully, but still didn't see the hammer, this waste didn't know which passage to run to.
Running so resolutely, it seems that he has no confidence in the strength of the ghost town bully.
Ning Gu didn't immediately follow the passages that Hammer said he could go through. He was not familiar with the terrain, the behavior of the residents and tourists here, and he was not sure whether Hammer escaped or something happened.
Originally, he wanted to silently observe the people around him. After this kind of commotion, most people would pay attention to the direction of the deserters. Unfortunately, he soon discovered that this experience was not valid here.
The people around were walking around, seemingly carelessly, but he could see that they were all trying to pay attention to him quietly.
He simply looked at each other one by one. It seemed that everyone was not ready to be exposed, and the atmosphere suddenly froze.
Li Xiang walked towards Ning Gu from behind, and when there was still a distance, Ning Gu turned his head vigilantly, and his expression was indescribable when he saw him.
"Come with me." Li Xiang walked past him and said.
He was very pleased that Ning Gu could still have such acumen in such a chaotic and bewildered situation.
"The hammer is gone." Ning Gu followed, without defending himself, the first sentence was about the hammer.
"He's fine." Li Xiang walked into a passage on the left.
Ning Gu stopped behind him, and when Li Xiang looked back at him, he was looking at his wrist.
Li Xiang glanced at the bats with black rings on the fingers walking back and forth in the crowd, and then looked at Ning Gu's wrist, there were a few small blue dots on it: "What are you doing? Ok, I."
"Who are you?" Ning Gu didn't move, leaned to the side and looked at him.
"Li Xiang." Li Xiang replied.
"Who is Li Xiang?" Ning Gu stared at him.
"Li Xiang was the one who begged you for your mercy when you did bad things when you were young and dared not go home," Li Xiang replied, "It was you who broke up other people's houses and helped you to repair them together. The person who took you down in advance on the clock tower for three days is the person who tore your pants in a fight and helped you mend them..."
This method of verifying whether the other party is lost or not was definitely not taught by Hammer. Travelers who often come to the main city will not be so stupid. It seems that Ning Gu created it himself.
Rather vigilant.
"Alright, alright, alright," Ning Gu walked up to him quickly, waving his hands, "Don't talk about it, it's not very good, I still have to remember."
"Did the hammer teach you?" Li Xiang continued to walk forward, "The mark on your hand."
"Well," Ning Gu responded, "does it work?"
"The person you kicked just now," Li Xiang said, "made a cut on his face ten years ago, and he didn't return to the ghost town in the end."
Ning Gu suddenly lost his voice.
Li Xiang glanced back at him: "You, you are too disobedient."
"Nobody told me about this at all," Ning Gu frowned, "Why should I be obedient?"
Li Xiang didn't speak anymore, the black ring followed, and he continued to walk forward.
"Someone is following us," Ning Gu said, "the one wearing the black ring."
Li Xiang patted him on the shoulder: "They are following you."
"Why?" Ning Gu said, "Because I beat someone? No way... This doesn't look like a place with rules."
Li Xiang pushed him into a nearby hut.
Then he stretched out his fingers to the black rings who were following, the black rings stopped immediately, then turned around and walked away pretending nothing happened.
Ning Gu was still a little uncomfortable being pushed by Li Xiang, but after seeing the situation in the room, he immediately retreated to the door, and while pushing outside, he said sincerely: "I was wrong, I was wrong, I will never do it again." Dare."
In addition to Li Xiang who pushed him in again, there were three other people in the room, the head of the group, Lin Fan, the head's deputy, and sister Qi, the most powerful woman in the ghost town.
"What did you do wrong?" said the captain.
Sister Qi smiled at Ning Gu, and he immediately jumped onto a nearby table vigilantly, grabbed an iron rod stuck in the crack of the roof with another jump, and let himself hang in the air.
Sister Qi's ability is very strong, but he knows very well that as long as he doesn't touch the ground, he won't be dragged to the ground by this woman's invisible hand and lose all senses.
"Boy, don't come down if you have the guts." Sister Qi said.
"It's kind of like you've been here guarding me," Ning Gu said, "beauty."
"What's wrong with you!" the leader roared.
The smile that was about to spread on Sister Qi's face was frightened back by his voice, and she coughed several times.
"I shouldn't have sneaked into the main city." Ning Gu quickly recovered the theme.
"Where have you been? Did you meet anyone?" Lin Fan asked.
Lin Fan never smiled, and he was reluctant to even have an expression. Ning Gu always felt that among the first generation of travelers who were still alive, he was the least age-recognizable, probably because of his long-term expressionless face and no wrinkles.
Ning Gu is more afraid of him than the leader.
The head of the regiment is like a big hammer, swinging it with a loud sound, you can choose whether to run or carry it, while Lin Fan is like a thin steel wire, wrapped in black mist, sweeping over, and you will not be able to see before you are swept into two pieces. Can't find it.
"I walked three streets in the main city, went into a broken house and took a nap," Ning Gu hung on the roof, and replied honestly, "I went into a shop, took a piece of clothes, and put this on, and then came with the hammer. Here, I met Lian Chuan and his cat on the road."
When they heard the last sentence, all the people in the room raised their heads and looked at him together.
"Nearly died! He shot me twice in the leg! The pain made me almost faint, and he even robbed my bag," Ning Gu took the opportunity to win sympathy, "If we didn't run fast..."
"You run faster than Lian Chuan?" Li Xiang couldn't help asking, "Hammer also runs faster than him?"
"Can't we run faster than him?" Ning Gu thought for a while, "He doesn't seem to be chasing us."
"Are you sure you're telling the truth?" The team leader looked at him, "If what Hammer said doesn't match you when you go back, I'll send you to Tongwan Bay."
"The truth." Ning Gu said.
What has been said is the truth.
But the truth may not always come out.
Ning Gu grew up in a ghost town, and has been taken care of by the group leader so that he has no worries about food and clothing, but he wanders around every day, tricking cats and dogs to make troubles, a small fight every three days and a big fight every five days, and he knows very well that travelers are not kind poor fugitive.
It’s true that fleeing is fleeing, but if you can escape to a place like a ghost city and survive, there are no kind and pitiful ones. The kind and pitiful ones were already wiped out in the main city back then.
So, the suitcase the leader left there, his strange dream, why Lian Chuan allowed them to escape, and even the suddenly glowing cube that was snatched away, in Ning Gu's opinion, some of these can only be told to the leader , some can never be said.
Even beat the hammer so hard that I dare not speak.
"You stay here," said the regiment leader, "don't go anywhere, and come back with us when the time comes."
"I'm here..." Ning Gu grabbed the iron bar and didn't want to give in.
"It's all here," the leader glared at him, "If anything happens, you're dead!"
"You let Li Xiang follow me." Ning Gu said.
"Why does he follow you, who are you!" said the head of the group.
"I'll follow him," Li Xiang said, "If he doesn't go out, I have to guard him here. Someone has already come over."
"Who else have you met?" Lin Fan asked, "To be honest, after you get here."
"I met a bunch of lunatics who beat me," Ning Gu said, "Li Xiang should have seen it, right? I ran into him as soon as I came out."
"Where did you come from?" Lin Fan asked.
"That little room with no light," Ning Gu looked up at the gap above his head, "There is no such red light coming out..."
"Poets?" Lin Fan said.
"Huh?" Ning Gu was stunned, and didn't understand what he said. When he looked over, he found that he was speaking to Li Xiang.
"Not sure," Li Xiang answered simply, "The Black Ring team from Nine Wings is following."
Lin Fan didn't ask any more questions.
Probably because they still have to go shopping...they have other business to do, the head of the group took Lin Fan and sister Qi to leave.
"You can come down now." Sister Qi looked at Ning Gu who was still hanging in the air.
"No," Ning Gu said, "I just like hanging around."
Sister Qi rolled his eyes at him and followed the team leader out the door.
Only Li Xiang was in the room alone, so Ning Gu let go of his hands and jumped down, taking a closer look at the room.
Nothing.
"What's this room for?" he asked.
"It's empty, it's just a hole," Li Xiang replied, "There are many rooms like this. When you have something particularly confidential to trade, you should find a hole like this."
"Oh... let's go out too," Ning Gu said, "Just walk around the places you are familiar with."
"Who did you meet just now?" Li Xiang asked.
Ning Gu looked at him, and leaned against the cave wall behind him for a long time, crossing his arms: "Guess?"
"The owner of Lost Valley is not a bat, not a person from the main city, nor a traveler, nor a tramp," Li Xiang said, "The owner of Lost Valley is a poet."
"What is a poet?" Ning Gu asked.
"Alone." Li Xiang said.
"Oh," Ning Gu nodded, he thought poets were a group of people, just like them, "Then I haven't met poets."
Li Xiang's expression clearly showed disbelief, and his lie was indeed not very sincere, but Li Xiang didn't say anything, but added: "When the poet appeared, there was no light, and those who heard him lost their direction. .”
Ning Gu froze for a moment.
He doesn't care about not having light, but the second half of the sentence is different, and he wants to go back.
"Have you met?" Li Xiang asked again.
"Maybe it happened," Ning Gu said, "There is no light in that room."
"Did he say anything?" Li Xiang continued to ask.
"No." Ning Gu answered very simply, without hesitation at all.
Li Xiang seemed to be relieved, but quickly frowned again: "This is weird."
I don't know what's wrong, but Ning Gu chooses not to believe it.
Li Xiang is a gentle person, and he is the only one among all the travelers that Ning Gu knows who hasn't yelled at him.
But Ning Gu has his own judgment on "danger". Now he can't be sure whether what Li Xiang told him about the poet is true or not. After all, he has never heard it mentioned before, so Li Xiang's sentence has obvious meaning in his opinion. The guiding role of "this is strange" can be judged to be defrauding him for the time being.
"Where do you want to go?" Li Xiang asked.
"Find a goggle for Nail," Ning Gu said, "I still want to look for..."
"Draw?" Li Xiang asked.
"En." Ning Gu nodded.
"Maybe there isn't one here," Li Xiang said, "I've never seen it before."
"Then find a goggle." Ning Gu quickly simplified the purpose.
"Come on." Li Xiang walked out of the room.
When passing through the central hall, there were a lot of people around, and Ning Gu's breath suddenly became a little unclear, but footsteps could still be heard.
But when he turned around worryingly, he found that Ning Gu had disappeared in such a short distance of a dozen steps.
"You bastard." Li Xiang frowned and said softly.
A goggle, still with a red border, is simply amazing.
In the monotonous ghost town, this dazzling goggle will definitely make the nails a target, the first to be beaten when fighting, and the first to be caught while avoiding.
Ning Gu picked up the goggles, looked at a person who was sitting in the corner and didn't know whether he was asleep or awake: "Is this yours?"
"If you want it, it's mine," said the man.
"What do you want in exchange?" Ning Gu asked.
"What do you have?" The man moved, rubbing his right foot on his left leg.
Ning Gu touched his pocket. He didn’t have anything now. There were still some things in the bag that could be exchanged, but he didn’t know where they went. Lian Chuan picked them up. I don’t know if he would hand them in. When the opportunity comes, he will definitely make Lian Chuan pay for it, all of which are treasures he saved.
"Clothes." Ning Gu shook the coat he had snatched from him.
The man held out his hand without saying a word.
Ning Gu took off his clothes and threw them over.
The man took the clothes, shook, and waved at him.
Satisfied, Ning Gu hung the goggles on his lap. This was the first time he had exchanged things with someone outside of the ghost town, and he actually had a very enjoyable feeling.
It was as if a small window had suddenly opened. Although the scenery he could see was not very good, even if it was garbage, it was garbage he had never seen before.
When he left the hut, he looked around, but he didn't see Li Xiang, nor the black ring.
It is not difficult to get rid of Li Xiang. Since he was a child, he has got rid of not one hundred but five hundred people.
There are not five hundred but one hundred.
However, it is not difficult for Li Xiang to find him again, after all, he only dared to circle around in the intersecting tunnels and the caves at the end of the tunnels that the hammer pointed out to him.
He had to find the hammer before Li Xiang found him, and let the hammer shut his mouth tightly.
After wandering around for a while, Ning Gu understood why the hammer only needed to turn so little every time it came. These tunnels are very long and turn. Apart from the cave hall at the end, there is also a smaller cave hall in the middle, full of people and various interesting things.
Books full of symbols, bowls made of wood, dice that are said to be ground from the bones of ancient strange beasts, hourglasses with small mechanisms... There are also some things that Ning Gu can't guess what they are.
Some of the items exchanged were piled on the table, some on the floor, and some hung all over the owner.
Ning Gu stopped in front of a black iron table.
There are a lot of things on the table, piled up in a mess. According to the first trading experience in Guicheng, those who can have so many goods and put them so carelessly are all powerful characters, often with dark hearts.
And according to the second ghost city trading experience that Ning Gu doesn't know if it can be used here, the more you put it in a prominent position, the more you can't get rid of the fool's unsalable goods.
So he glanced to the side, and soon saw a dark green metal ball, the size of which can be bitten into the mouth, it is not very smooth, it is not known whether it was bitten or smashed, there are many small pits .
I don't see any use for it, but apart from things for self-defense and fighting, Ning Gu likes this kind of fun little things that are useless but colorful.
"What is this?" Ning Gu asked.
"The legendary key." The cargo owner leaned in front of him and said mysteriously.
The man was one-eyed, and in the socket where one eyeball was missing, there was a small iron flower painted yellow with paint.
Keys and other things are all deceptive things, and Ning Gu doesn't believe them at all.
"It's hidden inside," Huang Huayan motioned him to shake the small ball, "Only those who are destined to open it, as long as you can open it, you are the savior of the world."
Ning Gu shook the ball, and it was indeed hollow. When shaking, something inside hit the wall of the ball lightly. It felt that the texture was also metal. Maybe it was a steel ball, the most worthless thing.
"I don't know how many times I have traded this thing. No one can open it, and you probably can't open it, but it's okay. If you can't open it, you can take it back and exchange it with me, but the price has to be negotiated," Huang Huayan folded his arms Looking him up and down, "I haven't seen you before, is this the first time?"
Ning Gu glanced at him without making a sound, just shook the ball gently in his hand, and shook it from time to time.
"Do you want it?" Huang Huayan asked.
"No," Ning Gu threw the ball back on the table, "You just need to trade twice to eat the difference?"
"Get lost." Huang Huayan pointed at him.
Ning Gu smiled, put his hands in his pockets, walked away shaking.
He was bumped on the shoulder before taking two steps, turned his head and was about to curse, but found that it was a hammer, half of an iron hood was put on his head, and there was a spike-like thing on the top of the hood.
"What the hell is this?" Ning Gu asked, "Is this broken thing worth your money?"
"The leader found you?" Hammer asked, "I just picked this up."
"Li Xiang found me." Ning Gu looked around, "Today we entered the main city, ran three streets, took a nap, robbed a piece of clothing, ran into Lian Chuan and was beaten up, fled Into the Valley of Lost, you left me and ran away, understand?"
"I didn't leave you to run, I asked you to run with me, you didn't keep up!" Hammer was anxious.
"Understood?" Ning Gu stared at him.
"Understood." Hammer responded quickly.
"Find a place with few people," Ning Gu said, "Wait for Li Xiang to find us."
"Then..." Hammer raised his hand and was about to point, when there was a sudden commotion behind him.
"That's him!" Huang Huayan stood on the table, stepped on a pile of goods on the table, pointed to them and shouted, "He took the key—"
Everyone around looked here.
"What key?" Hammer suddenly turned to look at him, and the hood on his head moved half a circle.
"Run." Ning Gu grabbed the thorns on his hood and pulled the hood off, slammed it hard on the yellow eye, turned and ran.
"Right!" Hammer reminded him behind his voice.
On the right side are several stalls of goods piled on the ground, and it was too late to go around, Ning Gu just jumped, stepped on the messy things on the ground and ran over.
"Catch them!" The surroundings suddenly became a mess, shouting, cursing, throwing things, people who came out of nowhere, when Ning Gu and Hammer just ran into the tunnel, they were already chasing after them .
"Don't follow me!" Ning Gu grabbed whatever he could touch and threw it behind him, shouting while running, "They only catch me!"
"Bullshit, I've already followed!" Hammer held his head behind him, "Quick! Go out and turn left to go out to the stairs!"
"Where are you going?" Ning Gu shouted.
"Main city! Where else can I go!" Hammer roared.
Although it was chaotic, Ning Gu could still tell that his back, buttocks, and calves were all hit, but he didn't know that he was hit by something, and the back of his head was also hit by a feeling like an air current, and he felt dull for a while.
It seems that there are indeed travelers staying here, and they are no longer in the same group as the ghost town.
If it wasn't close to the exit, he and Hammer wondered if they could survive the group fight until Li Xiang and the group leader came to them.
When running up the stairs, Ning Gu grabbed a handful back, grabbed the hammer's arm, then yanked it hard, and threw him in front of him.
When the ability of the hammer is no longer available, he is a good-for-nothing young man who is not even as good as a nail. If he stays behind, he is afraid that he will die if he can't finish the stairs. It is better to let him go out first. As long as his feet are on the ground, the hammer is another good man.
When he saw the hammer rushing out of the exit, Ning Gu turned around and kicked the face of the person closest to him.
It has to be said that most of the bats are very flexible after the transformation. Ning Gu kicked down two bats but failed to stop the bats that rushed to the exit.
He rushed forward a few steps, heaved a sigh of relief when he stepped on the hard ground of the main city, and then saw the hammer bent down and stretched his hand to the ground.
But before the hammer showed its power, there was a low mechanical sound behind him, and when he turned his head, a bright light flashed across the exit.
With the black debris flying around in the violent air waves, a deep crack appeared on the ground.
The people who chased to the exit were shot back by the air wave before they showed their heads, and the sharp debris wrapped in it made a slight scream, and the people who were hit made all kinds of screams.
Ning Gu was thrown out by the blast, and only when he got up from the ground did he see clearly the creator of the explosion.
It's less than five meters away.
Lian Chuan had already got out of the car.
The scene is very familiar.
Black uniforms, silver mechanical exoskeletons, and weapons with blue light shining on their bodies have been aimed at their guns and the cold faces behind the guns.
And the caracal must have cut off their retreat.
Cleanup team of the main city, you have been locked, any action is a reason for me to shoot.
If Lian Chuan's line is a fixed procedure, then they still have about five seconds.
Before finishing this thought, Ning Gu realized that he didn't understand Lian Chuan's conclusion of "killing without blinking an eye" deeply enough.
Lian Chuan didn't say a word, the gun in his hand was activated, and the whole body glowed with dark blue light.