It was quiet outside and there was no sound, of course, there was no sound at ordinary times.
But Ning Gu has a feeling that the quietness now is different from usual.
He suddenly became a little nervous, remembering what Lin Fan said before.
The car is coming
He pulled the iron door and shook it twice, but there was no movement, so he ran to the window and listened carefully... But when the car came, it made a loud noise, and it was impossible to miss it.
If he wanted to go to the main city before, it was only because his first trip to the main city was full of question marks, but now he wants to go to the main city more urgently because of Lin Fan's sentence "You look like your father ".
No one has ever taken the initiative to mention his parents to him. If he asked, he would always get silence.
With the relationship between Lin Fan and him, it is even more impossible to say such a sentence without a reason.
Under such circumstances, Lin Fan's words were definitely a hint.
It might even be a trap.
Yes, it could be a trap.
Ning Gu can't trust Lin Fan, and he is vigilant against all those who have no reason to take the initiative to show affection. This is the basic survival rule of the ghost town.
But even if this is a trap, he still has to go to the main city.
The life of travelers is not easy, the difficult living conditions, the aborigines hidden in the black mist, the fight for supplies, or even a fight that is just too boring, will make them die.
Maybe one day, he will disappear.
He just wanted to live a less ignorant life before that day came.
who am I.
Where am I.
What kind of existence am I in this world.
The whistle of the train came from the black mist, passing over the ghost town.
Ning Gu jumped up almost at the same time when he heard it, and threw himself at the iron door. After shaking it a few times, the door opened.
Although if the door couldn't be opened, he would definitely stick his head out of the window and yell at Lin Fan, cursing and verbally beating Lin Fan inhumanely... But now that the door really opened, he was stunned for two seconds.
What Lin Fan said was actually the truth.
But he didn't have time to judge what Lin Fan's intention was. The time from the whistle to the departure of the train was not too long. He had to run all the way from the bell tower. Landlord, take something important.
The wind was blowing very fast, but fortunately this section of the road was running with the wind, Ning Gu was almost flying.
There are a lot fewer travelers in the shelter, and everyone has already left. Although the cars come irregularly, experienced travelers can more or less intuitively judge the general situation. Some people can wait a day or two in advance.
Fewer people is good, less people means fewer enemies, although as Lin Fan said, the guards really have a gap, and no one stopped him when he came out, but he made a lot of troubles in the ghost town. Asylum No. 3 So he usually doesn't come here easily, after all, there are group fights between several shelters all over the place...
"Big ass!" Ning Gu saw a man squatting next to the lantern and smashing things in front of him, and ran past him while shouting, "Help me!"
As expected of a ghost town, the No. 3 Institute still has friends.
"Here we come!" Big Butt also shouted, jumped up and kicked in his direction with a whirlwind leg.
Ning Gu immediately felt a huge thrust, and jumped more than ten meters in the air with his strength. As soon as he landed, the second wave of thrust caught up with him. He took off again and jumped over several low houses.
"Talk or not!" Nail kicked Diwang on the ass, "How to get him out! You said send someone in for a change, who will you send in! How to change! Tell me!"
The hammer was loose on the ground, and the king of the land took the opportunity to get up: "You said you have claws, I have to look at them first, I have already given you a plan, now I need to see your goods..."
The king of the land couldn't finish his words, and took the opportunity to get close to Nail to see if he really had claws in his hand, but his attempt failed.
A solid iron door of the house was kicked open with a loud noise.
A man in a black coat rushed in, and before the people in the room could react, the man had already pushed the king to the ground and rode on him.
"Ning Gu?" Nail roared in shock.
This set of skillful tricks of putting people on the ground and riding up to smash them with fists is Ning Gu's representative move. He has experienced it countless times since he was a child.
Ning Gu pinched Di Wang's neck with one hand, turned his head and glanced at Nail: "Why are you here... oh, it's quite appropriate."
"Huh?" Nail was stunned before he realized, touched the goggle on his face, "It's the red edge..."
"I'll give you three seconds," Ning Gu poked his finger on Di Wang's eyelid, "give me a card."
"What card?" The three people in the room other than him asked at the same time.
"Identity card, the kind of blank card that can write data on it." Ning Gu continued to poke the eyelid of the king, "I know you have it, give it to me."
"Why do you want this?" Di Wang stared at him in surprise.
"Give it to me!" Ning Gu didn't have time to explain, and he didn't have time to deal with the land king slowly, and he didn't even have time to find something to exchange forcibly.
"Feather." After being surprised, the land king returned to his true self as a businessman, and he was still an old profiteer.
The value of feathers, which were once connected with flesh and blood on extinct animals, was completely different from that of the identity cards of the main city. Although the identity card is not easy to get, it is also a necessary thing for life in the main city after all. Those who can't live, those who don't want to live, those who are forced to live, and those who are lost and can no longer use it In the end, there will always be a small part of their identity cards, which will flow into the Valley of Lost and become a trade item that is in short supply but will not be out of stock.
The land king has an identity card in his hand, and those who go to the main city and don't plan to come back will change it from him. As for whether the data can be changed from the bat in the end, that's another matter.
"Give it to me!" Ning Gu punched Di Wang on the forehead, "I'll give you a foot hair!"
With this roar, the strong wind outside the house suddenly poured into the house, overturned a table, all kinds of messy pieces and gizmos were rolled up, and it was a mess.
"Give it to him." Nail suddenly said.
Even the king of the land was shocked by this sentence, he opened his mouth halfway and didn't bother to cry out the pain.
"What are you farting!" Ning Gu turned around and yelled at him.
"It's too late," said Nail, "I can still find it!"
Ning Gu was still strangling the Earth King's neck, but he didn't turn his head back, staring at the nail all the time.
"Give it to him," said Nail.
"Give it to him." Hammer added beside him, "If you don't leave today, you won't be able to leave in the future."
Ning Gu gritted his teeth, and slowly pulled out the feather from the hidden pocket inside the boot with his fingers, and put it in Di Wang's hand.
The King of Earth held the feather tightly, and carefully put it into his underwear pocket.
"Crap!" Nail threw himself at the King of Earth, and yelled at him, his neck turned red.
Di Wang struggled to bend one leg, pulled open the trouser leg, and then opened a small bag tied to his calf. He pinched the corner of the card from the bag with his fingers, and looked at Ning Gu: "You are crazy."
Ning Gu took the card, glanced at Nail, and rushed out the door.
Nail jumped up and chased after him.
How Ning Gu got out of the bell tower, and what he planned to do, he didn't say anything, but Nail already understood.
From the day he met Ning Gu, he knew that there would be such a day. On the surface, there would be an invincible opponent in the ghost town. Anyway, he was the overlord of the world just to understand the dullness. In his bones, he always had a disturbing curiosity. Countless questions of despair.
He knew from a young age that one day Ning Gu would leave the ghost town without looking back.
Perhaps only he who grew up with him will know that this is the only thought that Ning Gu has never mentioned but is the most firm.
"Can you really find it?" Ning Gu asked while running.
"Yes!" Nail answered loudly.
"Keep it well!" Ning Gu shouted.
"Come back and get it!" Nail shouted.
"I'll get it back!" Ning Gu turned his head and glanced at him.
"Don't look back, turning back will affect the speed!" Nail waved his arm at him.
"Don't follow me," Ning Gu shouted, "Don't let the leader know that you know about my going to the main city!"
"I don't understand!" Nail didn't stop, shouting while running.
"Don't follow," Ning Gu shouted again, "Those who don't know think you are my wife! You are so reluctant."
"Get out!" Nail stopped and cursed.
"Save the feathers for me—" Ning Gu shouted.
"Yeah." Nail replied, and raised his hand to wipe away his tears.
When he raised his head again, Ning Gu had disappeared into a gust of wind and black mist blurred by tears.
The head of the group stood in the center of Tongue Bay, silently looking in the direction of the shelter.
The surrounding wind swirls and gradually rises with the black mist, like a long and narrow barrel, with a breathless depression.
Gray and white shadows appear and disappear in the black mist, and there are small sounds from time to time, like bare feet stepping on fallen leaves, or someone breaking a bone.
The sound was almost inaudible in the strong wind, but the sound of the chain dragging on the ground was much clearer.
When the sound of iron chains slowly approached behind him, he tilted his head: "This is your only chance."
"I don't need this opportunity," someone in the thick fog behind replied panting with difficulty. "Collapse and destruction are irreversible. Once they start, they are irreversible, and there is no turning back."
"I don't need to turn back," said the captain, "I just need to go forward."
The people in the dense fog laughed, coughing and laughing non-stop, their voices were hoarse as if there were holes in them: "Do you think those people in the main city can't find Qi Hang? Do you think a Qi Hang... no , can a piece of Qihang change anything... "
The regiment leader didn't speak, and walked into the thick fog ahead.
There was a burst of broken noise behind him, like chattering, mixed with the sound of metal impact, but the chaos quickly subsided, and there was no other sound except the strong wind.
"Get in place." Lian Chuan squatted on the roof of a half-collapsed building, staring ahead.
Less than fifty meters away from him, it was one of the passages that the bat had chosen for travelers to enter the main city, the one closest to the Valley of Lost Way.
Whether Ning Gu will come, and where he will come from, no one knows.
The relationship between travelers and the main city will always check and balance each other, each time they can predict several passages, but travelers will always have another passage that they cannot discover.
Lian Chuan chose to squat near Lost Valley first, and Lei Yu asked him why in private.
"Is it to try to avoid entering the valley of loss?"
"I live to prove that I am irreplaceable."
The eight groups of the cleanup team have already spread out, and all the information of Ning Gu has been conveyed to each team member. As long as he appears, Lian Chuan will immediately get the coordinates.
The rest of the task is to capture the traveler Ninggu, which sounds very simple.
Ning Gu, the traveler who escaped twice, was shot twice by his men.
There was a short beep from the intercom, and the boss who was squatting on the roof opposite immediately lowered his body and prepared to attack.
Lian Chuan raised his head slightly, without the aid of equipment to aim and observe. When speed is needed, all equipment except the exoskeleton will hold back.
A thin metal reflection flashed through the black mist in the distance, Lian Chuan supported the edge of the roof with his hands, it was some careless bat.
This channel is half right, the bats will lead travelers into the main city through an abandoned sewer pipe under the ruins, and lucky travelers can hide directly in the Valley of Lost.
The first figure appeared on the edge of the black mist. He didn't move forward immediately. After looking around vigilantly, he suddenly rushed out.
At the same time, the wind suddenly blew up in front of him, kicking up sand and gravel debris on the ground, and his vision suddenly became chaotic.
Under such cover, more than a dozen black shadows surged out from the mouth of the pipe, constantly using their abilities to lift up the ground, sweep down the broken roof, and prop up the defense.
The defense ability is obviously not as good as Li Xiang's, but it still interferes with the scanning of the instrument. At this time, the only thing he can rely on is the naked eye that he has carried with him for more than 20 years.
"Travellers were observed at exit CH2 of Lost Valley." Lian Chuan reported.
"Traveler has been observed by B2 in Area D." The feedback from the compass also came from the intercom.
Of the eight groups, only these two squatting coordinates had travelers appearing, and all the rest were empty.
"Separate reinforcements according to the plan." Long Biao said.
A fuzzy black figure running towards the exit of the Lost Valley quickly attracted Lian Chuan's attention. Although entering the Lost Valley was the first choice, but with the unified style of the traveler's arrogance and unscrupulousness, seeking death as a stimulus, this one went straight to the exit. People who avoid the theme are extra chic.
A second later, Lian Chuan was sure that this person was Ning Gu.
"Found the target," Lian Chuan jumped down from the roof of the building while speaking, kicked his feet on the ground the moment he landed, and rushed forward, "Start to intercept and capture."
When Ning Gu saw someone rushing in the opposite direction, he was still more than ten meters away from the entrance of the Lost Valley. This was the information he obtained after beating and cursing three people in the car.
The only part of the main city he has a little understanding of is Lost Valley, and for him, this is the only relatively safe place.
Unexpectedly, I ran into a hyena before I even saw what the entrance looked like.
And this speed, this hyena that can directly appear within two meters without anyone reacting, regardless of the defense ability, can only be Lianchuan.
Ning Gu felt that none of the travelers who ran with him even saw Lian Chuan, he was already grabbed by Lian Chuan's arm, and then thrown into the entrance of Lost Valley, which he thought he would never reach.
This entrance is different from the entrance Hammer took him in before. There are no steps, but a downward slope. After falling in, he didn't even have a chance to stand up. Lian Chuan had already followed him in, and just kicked him. He rolled neatly all the way to the end of the chute, hitting the wall of the cave before stopping.
He still didn't see how Lian Chuan came here, but only saw two blue halos drawn by the weapon on Lian Chuan in the darkness.
Then the collar tightened, and he was picked up and pressed against the wall, with Lian Chuan's thumb pressed against his throat.
"If you move, you will die." Lian Chuan said.