pain.
Headache.
Headache, butt pain, back pain, arm pain and leg pain...
Ning Gu knew that this pain belonged to the handsome ghost town facade. Although the previous pain was equally real, after experiencing it three times, he could already clearly feel that the pain accompanied by despair and struggle belonged to Lian Chuan.
But he didn't know why he was in so much pain.
Based on the experience of previous injuries, no matter whether you are fainted, asleep or in any other state with closed eyes, do not open your eyes after waking up.
If someone is waiting to punch you, question you, torture you, it's time to start when you open your eyes.
You have to confirm the surrounding situation first, especially in a place full of inexplicable and weird things like Lost Valley, and after a confrontation where you can't tell whether it was a fight or not.
"Stop pretending." A voice rang in my ear.
This voice was really beyond Ning Gu's expectation, the distance was too close, and the breath coming from this person could be felt on his face when he spoke.
"I know… "
Ning Gu swung his arm in the direction of the voice, then jumped up and opened his eyes.
Snapped!
I could tell by the feel of my hands that I slapped a face with a crisp sound.
When he turned his head and looked in the direction where the sound came from, he saw a man wearing a dog-headed bat mask, covering his face while standing two meters away from him.
Ning Gu didn't care about anything else, so he quickly looked around, and found that he was no longer in the previous shaft, but the cone-shaped shaft he saw when he came to Lost Valley last time bottom of the .
When I looked up, the caves that extended upward layer by layer revealed a red light, and the momentum was quite majestic.
What about Lianchuan
What about the vertical hole just now
This one... these two... these three...
Beside the dog-headed bat, at some point, seven or eight people quietly appeared, all of whom could be seen to be bats.
Where did these bats come from
Ning Gu suddenly remembered what the old blind man said.
This is the nest of Nine Wings.
Nine Wings is the boss of the bat, that is, the dog-headed bat that was just slapped by him.
Yes, as expected of a ghost town bully, he slapped Jiu Yi in his lair.
"I said he should be tied up." A skinny bat beside Nine Wings said, "Tie him up?"
"Go get the rope." Nine Wings said.
Several bats ran away.
Jiu Yi slowly walked in front of Ning Gu, looking him up and down.
Ning Gu was also polite, nodding his head up and down and looking at him.
However, Jiu Yi is different from what Ning Gu imagined, except for the mask that covers half of his face, there is no trace of modification on his body.
"Where's Lian Chuan?" Jiu Yi stretched out his index finger and pointed at Ning Gu's face. When he was still half an arm away, the fingertips flashed coldly, and a metal spike stretched out, poking Ning Gu's face .
Oh, there are still modifications. Sure enough, the modification of the bat boss is much more refined.
"Who is Lian Chuan?" Ning Gu raised his hand and flicked Jiu Yi's finger prick away from his face with a ding.
"Don't play dumb," Jiu Yi said, "Traveler doesn't know who Lian Chuan is?"
"I was just born six months ago," Ning Gu said. "It's the first time I came to the main city. What kind of big man is Lian Chuan? I want to know who he is?"
Jiu Yi paused, staring at him for a long time before turning around and saying to the bat next to him: "Check to see if his brain is broken."
"You don't know that travelers are born fast?" Ning Gu clicked his tongue, "It looks like you are the boss, but you don't even know, how did you become the boss?"
Jiu Yi turned his head back and stared at him.
Ning Gu ignored him, and took the time to look around, observe the terrain, and look for the escape route.
"Fast birth!" Nine Wings roared suddenly.
The reverberating roar shocked Ning Gu so much that his back didn't even hurt.
"Speedbirth is the regeneration of severed limbs! The only one who died ten years ago!" Nine Wings roared again, "I've never heard of a six-month-old baby quickly becoming a man!"
"You're right if you haven't heard of it," Ning Gu raised the corner of his mouth, "I lied to you."
"Hit him," said a bat.
"Tie them up and beat them again," Jiuyi said.
When fighting with bats, Ning Gu is still very confident. It is nothing more than jumping higher, metal accessories are more powerful, and some accessories seem to be electrified, and they sting when touched.
But the bat fight is different from the traveler, it doesn't consider heads-up at all, it's just eight bats jumping at the same time.
As soon as Ning Gu kicked the middle one, his body was already hit more than a dozen times.
He hesitated for a second between running or not, and after being hit several times, he turned and jumped onto a big iron pier next to him, kicked two bats over, and was hit by a circle of bats on his legs, almost unable to bend. Another bat jumped on top of him.
He quickly jumped off the pier, but was still poked by something on the back.
And this time, it hurt him.
Burning with anger.
Tangtang ghost town... Forget about Tangtang, he was beaten when he left the ghost town, and he was beaten all the time, so there was no time to feel proud!
Now a few broken bats want to tie him up and beat him!
Guicheng doesn't know if he can go back now, his only life-saving straw, Lian Chuan, is still missing, and now he is surrounded and beaten by a group of bat cubs in the bat's lair, and their boss is still proudly following the show like...
This kind of scene reminded him of the metal frame fight on the stage before, very... aggrieved.
dignified! Traveler!
This is a grievance that he has never experienced since he was a child, even if he was hung on the bell tower to show the public.
Burning with anger! burn!
"You guys," Ning Gu turned his head abruptly, staring at the bats chasing after him, feeling his eyes burning with anger, "go play shit."
With his last words, everyone felt the shock.
The vibration seemed to come from within the body, there was no sound, but the air seemed to freeze.
There are ripples.
Just for a moment.
The red light of Nine Wings Lair was completely extinguished.
When the red light came out again from the cave walls, all the little bats except Nine Wings fell to the ground, holding their heads in pain and humming.
Ning Gu didn't know what happened, but felt that the place where his back was stabbed was still hurting.
"Excellent," Jiu Yi raised his hand and slapped his hands, "Excellent, no wonder the main city wants Lian Chuan to arrest you."
"What about Lian Chuan?" Ning Gu didn't go around in circles with him anymore. Jiuyi looked nervous, but he wasn't the kind of person who could calm down and negotiate conditions after a few circles.
"I don't know," Jiu Yi looked at his subordinates who were slowly getting up, "but I can help you."
Ning Gu didn't speak, just looked at him.
"I can help you find Lianchuan. Whether it's people or things here, if the bat says they can't find them, no one will be able to find them," Jiu Yi walked to the iron platform and sat down, sticking out his fingernails, and moving up and down on the platform Knocking, "I can still send you out safely."
"Conditions." Ning Gu asked.
"Lian Chuan belongs to me," Jiu Yi said, "When you destroy the main city in the future, leave half of it for the bats."
Ning Gu's silence this time was not because he wanted to suppress his momentum, it was because of Jiu Yi's words that he really didn't know what to say so he could not ask him if he had some hidden brain disease.
"Do you think I'm crazy?" Nine Wings asked.
"It's okay." Ning Gu said.
"There are so many failed experimental subjects in the main city, destroyed and discarded, the number is countless," Jiuyi rested his chin, and tapped his finger pricks on the mask again and again, "What are they all for? Throwing them into What about those in Misty Ridge?"
"What is Misty Ridge?" Ning Gu asked.
"Lost in the Tunnel," Jiu Yi looked at him, "You can't really be half a year old, are you? You don't even know this?"
"I don't know the scientific name." Ning Gu said.
"Did you not understand what I just said?" Nine Wings asked.
It's true that he doesn't understand, but now he has no interest in experimental subjects other than Lian Chuan.
"Why are you okay?" Ning Gu stared at Jiu Yi's mask, no matter what happened just now, it is a certain fact that Jiu Yi was not affected.
"Me?" Jiu Yi stopped tapping the mask with his fingers, and shook it slightly, "I have no brains."
The lines were actually copied.
This was Ning Gu's first reaction.
"I have no brains—" Jiu Yi opened his arms, raised his face and shouted happily, "The main city can't do anything with me—the poet can't do anything with me! Qi Hang can't do anything with me either!"
Ning Gu looked at him in shock, it was the first time he saw someone ecstatic because he had no brains.
"However," Jiu Yi withdrew his arm, continued to support his chin, and smiled at him, "I can't leave the Valley of Lost Way, just go up for a year to catch my breath."
"Is it empty?" Ning Gu pointed to his head.
"It's full!" Nine Wings said, "It's all dead."
Ning Gu was silent.
"How? My conditions." Nine Wings returned to the topic.
Talking about things with Jiuyi is not as efficient as talking with Lian Chuan, and Lian Chuan will not digress.
"Lianchuan belongs to me," Ning Gu said, "Destroy the main city..."
He really didn't have the confidence to say this: "Afterwards, half of the territory will be divided between you."
"He wants to kill you," Nine Wings looked at him. "He arrested you and handed you over to the main city. Don't you know? They need special ingredients, like yours, or their experiments The body will always be just a walking dead, you should give Lian Chuan to me, and I will kill him for you."
"Materials," Ning Gu thought for a while, "how to use?"
"Are you like this?" Nine Wings stood up, walked in front of him, and poked his finger back and forth, "Tie it up, poke a thread on his head, keep going, keep going, give those empty shells..."
"Don't touch me." Ning Gu's back felt a little hairy, and he didn't know if it was true or not, so he slapped Jiu Yi's hand away.
"Why don't you ask Lian Chuan," Jiu Yi backed away, "but he definitely doesn't remember."
"He is a precursor experimental subject." Ning Gu said.
"Ah, yes, you have met the poet," Jiu Yi nodded, "The poet wants Lianchuan..."
Just as Ning Gu was about to speak, Jiu Yi slapped his leg suddenly: "Then we must be quick, and the poet will take the lead if we are late!"
"Take me to find him." Ning Gu said.
"Conditions." Nine Wings said, "We haven't negotiated a deal yet."
"Lianchuan is mine," Ning Gu repeated, "you will get half of the main city."
"Lianchuan mine." Jiuyi said.
"I'll find it myself," Ning Gu said, "You have no share in the main city."
Jiu Yi stared at him for a long time before asking: "Why? You insist on saving him?"
"He saved me." Ning Gu said.
"It's me!" Jiu Yi roared, "I saved you!"
"Where did you save me?" Ning Gu asked.
"My people found you in a ruined cave in Chanting Vertical Cave." Nine Wings said.
"Why am I there?" Ning Gu asked, "The last thing I remember is that Lian Chuan pulled me into the vertical hole."
"How do I know!" Nine Wings roared.
"So he saved me," Ning Gu said, "it wasn't you, he disappeared because of saving me."
Jiu Yi laughed for a long time, then suddenly raised his hand, flicked his fingers, and the finger pricks made a buzzing sound.
Several dark shadows appeared on the surrounding cave walls.
"Go to Lian Chuan," Jiu Yi said, "recite the bottom of the vertical cave, hurry up, before the poet wakes up."
The Black Ring team was much more efficient than going to Ninggu to find Lianchuan. They were familiar with the terrain and could pass without hindrance.
But Ning Gu still insisted on looking for it.
He didn't want to stay with Jiuyi for fear of being infected by the brainless monster.
Also because of anxiety.
When Lian Chuan was found, he had to be there. He couldn't trust the moody Nine Wings. This person had a deep entanglement with the main city. After all, the Lost Valley was once the territory of the main city.
Also because of those words of Nine Wings.
Some of the 10,000, or more, or other experimental subjects that failed in the main city were thrown into the Valley of Lost Path.
He suspected that Nine Wings, who had no brains and was still alive, might be an experimental subject.
These words even made him think of the secret basement in the ghost town, no one could go in, and many people didn't even know what was in the basement.
Those "former travelers" in the basement...
Ever since he knew that Lian Chuan was an experimental subject, he didn't think it was strange who was an experimental subject.
Such a living person doesn't seem to have no emotions most of the time, but he knows the feelings he has had, although they are all painful.
Pain is the real thing.
The head of the group said: "You will only remember when it hurts."
Lian Chuan was actually an experimental subject.
Ning Gu is not sure why Lian Chuan saved him.
He only knows that he has the card that can restrain Lian Chuan, but the reason why Lian Chuan can bet so big... is because he knows that he can save him too.
In this case, he has to save Lian Chuan.
Only by saving Lianchuan can he figure out many things.
And the traveler who has been fighting against the main city, is an enemy of the main city, will plunder, and will be killed... What kind of existence is it
Still waiting for him to be like his father, a leader who is loving, strict, rewarding and punishing, makes him afraid and gives him a sense of security...
his parents…
"Don't think that you are really the savior." A little bat walked behind Ning Gu and said.
This bat named Fu Lu was sent by Nine Wings to stare at him, Ning Gu looked back, with such a small body, he could punch him through with one punch.
"Then you are." Ning Gu said.
"Of course I'm not," Flow said, "I'm just reminding you that there are hundreds of keys."
"What?" Ning Gu was stunned.
"You stole the key from Huayan, right?" Fu Lu said, "Although everyone wants that thing, there are hundreds of keys in the Valley of Lost Ways. A hundred of them are in Lost Ridge, and no one can get them."
"Can you count?" Ning Gu couldn't help asking.
"Just to tell you, it's useless if you take it," Fulu said, "Don't think you can challenge Nine Wings by taking one."
Ning Gu was very moved.
Fu Lu went around in a circle just to protect his boss.
Lost Valley, where there are no travelers, looks a little lonely, and many places are very quiet. In the trading halls passing by, the owner of the goods can't see it, only a pile of goods piled up in a mess.
The Black Ring team had split up to go to the Chanting Vertical Cave. There was only one Black Ring leading the way for Ning Gu. Ning Gu didn't have any awesome modifications, so he couldn't jump up and down on the cave wall, so he had to go down by a mine cart.
The road was very complicated, without Lianchuan, Ning Gu didn't know where he was after three turns.
I just know that it keeps going down.
Finally, they stopped in front of a narrow cave covered with red light, and the leader of the road, Black Ring, turned his head: "Don't talk before the car stops, and no one will survive if you wake up the poet."
"Go." Ning Gu said.
The mine car was like an iron bowl, and it was full when three people stood in it. Ning Gu leaned against the side of the bowl, and when the car was moving, he saw a track underneath.
The track spiraled downwards round and round on the cliff of the huge well, as if about to fall into the abyss.
The speed of the mine cart was quite fast, and Ning Gu had never fallen from such a high place before, so he was a little nervous and grabbed the edge of the bowl.
At the bottom of the chanting vertical hole, there is no red light anymore, it is dark.
When the mine cart stopped, Ning Gu felt a biting cold.
Although there is no wind here, this kind of cold is more penetrating than the cold of the ghost town, Ning Gu shivered.
The bottom of the vertical hole is not flat, and there are many pointed vertebrae as tall as two people, which looks like a place of torture.
A few black rings climbed and jumped nimbly from the sharp spines, and arrived in front of them.
One of them gestured.
The gesture was too simple and there was no secrecy at all. Ning Gu could tell at a glance that this movement of swipe his hand on his neck and tilt his head meant he had found Lian Chuan.
And it's a dead Lianchuan.
Ning Gu couldn't tell what kind of mood he was in, he wasn't very sad, a hyena who had been trying to kill him, catch him, beat him countless times, and was not friendly to him, died as soon as he died.
Without Lian Chuan, those secrets may not be unsolved.
Without Lianchuan, he could still negotiate terms with Jiuyi to protect himself.
but…
He felt a little cold in his heart, and his mood sank along with the temperature here.
After all, according to his understanding, Lian Chuan's death was to keep him alive.
There were only the slight footsteps of a few people around, and there seemed to be nothing else in the Jianzhui forest, and there was no trace of the poet or Qi Hang.
They passed through the sharp vertebral forest, and a small flat land appeared in front of them, and beyond the flat land, there was a huge hole.
Inside the cave entrance is the familiar black mist that Ning Gu is familiar with, and a red light that is so dark that it can almost be covered by the black mist.
When he looked into the hole, his body tensed up.
Lianchuan hangs in the air.
A faint golden light emerged from the black mist, and it was constantly revolving around him.
Before Ning Gu could figure out what it was, a black mist passed through Lian Chuan's chest.