Nail was sitting at the door of Crazy Uncle's shabby house. It was the fourth day, and his face was numb from the wind.
The crazy uncle has not been in the house, and he doesn't know where he has gone.
Nail wondered if he had wandered around by himself and was eaten by the wandering aborigines in the black mist.
There were footsteps coming from behind the house, Nail was pleasantly surprised at first, and then quickly disappointed, the footsteps were too familiar, it belonged to his own brother.
"Eat." Hammer threw over a box of light yellow cubes, which he got back when he went to the main city, and it was better than the food in the ghost town.
"Not hungry." Nail said.
"The leader is looking for you." Hammer sat down beside him.
"I don't know anything about Ning Gu, why do you want me?" Nail said, "And didn't he ask you about Ning Gu in the main city before?"
"I don't know," the hammer slapped his head twice, "It's not too urgent, you can go to him when you have time, maybe he has some news about Ning Gu."
Before he could finish his sentence, Nail jumped up, and ran back to the shelter wrapped in the wind.
"You two have been wandering around together since childhood," Li Xiang sat by the table, looking at the nails, "sometimes you don't come back for a few days, where did you go?"
"We go to several shelters," Nail said, "sometimes I sleep in other people's places, and I often go to the garbage dump to find things... Don't you all know that?"
"Is there anything we don't know?" Li Xiang asked.
Nail was stunned: "I don't know?"
"I don't know." Li Xiang looked at him.
"I don't know..." Nail hesitated, "Tongue?"
"Where did you get to Tongwan?" Li Xiang continued to ask.
"Where is the tip of the tongue?" Nail looked blank, "But I don't go there often. Ning Gu said that it is easy to meet aborigines there, and no one will know if they die."
"Don't go in the future, he is very courageous, so you should run around with him." Li Xiang sighed.
"He's not timid," Nail said as he lay down on the table, his nose suddenly sour. "He's just curious and wants to know everything."
"For example?" asked the leader who had been standing aside with his arms folded.
"What's outside the black mist, how big is the ghost city, he..." Nail paused, these are all Ning Gu's doubts since he was a child, "Who are his parents, besides the main city and the ghost city, where else is there land? Ah... quite a lot."
The captain also sighed.
"Is there no news about him yet?" Nail asked cautiously.
"The car didn't come," Li Xiang said, "No one went to the main city, so there was no news."
"Oh." Nail wiped away tears.
When Nail returned to the door of Crazy Uncle's hut, Hammer was still sitting there waiting for him.
"What did you ask?" Hammer looked at him.
"I didn't ask anything important." Nail's eyes were still a little red. He pulled off the goggles and wiped his tears again, "but it's a bit strange."
"What?" Hammer was a little surprised, "Why are you still crying?"
"I just want to cry," Nail said, and lowered his voice again, "Besides, if I don't cry, how can they believe me."
"Are you acting again?" Hammer also lowered his voice.
"In the mouth of the tongue," said Nail in a voice that could almost be blown away by the wind, "there must be something."
Hammer looked at him in surprise.
"Li Xiang asked me if there was any place we have been to that he didn't know," Nail said in a low voice, "If I didn't say that I had been to Tongwan, they would not believe me, so I said Tongwan, but they asked me where Tongwan was. .”
"It's a bit strange to ask. You guys definitely wouldn't dare to go in after you went." Hammer thought for a while, "Did Ning Gu go in?"
"We didn't go in when we went together," Nail rubbed his nose, "Maybe Ning Gu went in, he wants to know everything..."
"Don't tell people this, we might all be doomed," Hammer sighed, "That's how I feel... Ning Gu..."
"Don't even say that!" Nail shouted.
"Don't talk, don't talk," Hammer stood up, "I'm going back, are you still waiting here?"
"Wait," Nail bit his lip, "I'll beat Uncle Crazy when he comes back, and if he doesn't ask anything."
"Okay." Hammer put the food in his hand, turned and left.
When Crazy Uncle's figure like a rotten quilt flickered in the black mist, Nail felt his butt go numb and his stomach couldn't take it anymore.
He jumped up and rushed over, and jumped up when he was far away, with a flying kick.
This is what Ning Gu taught him. Ning Gu taught him many fighting tricks. After all, incapable travelers have to fight hard if they want to avoid being bullied in the ghost town.
But when he was still a meter away, the crazy uncle raised his hand, and he was thrown back to the spot.
"Old man," Nail climbed up and pointed at him, "You must have a secret. I've never heard Ning Gu say that you have abilities."
"I have the power of prophecy," said the crazy uncle, leaning in front of him suddenly, "I prophesy, you are hungry."
Just as Nail was about to curse someone, his stomach let out a growl, which could be heard even in the strong wind.
"Go back and eat." Crazy Uncle said and entered the house.
"You must know more than me." The nail squeezed into the crack of the door when he closed it. "Is it dangerous for Ning Gu to go to the main city? Why don't the group leader let him go?"
Crazy Uncle pushed the door, and the nail's face was deformed, but he still insisted on holding the door: "You also said that he shouldn't go, why?"
"Protect yourself," said the crazy uncle, "wait for him to come back."
"If you don't tell me, you won't be able to wait for him to come back, will you believe me!" Nail yelled at him, "I'll bring a mine tomorrow and blow you up!"
"Don't go to Tongwan." Crazy Uncle said again.
Nail looked at him.
"I know you want to go," said the crazy uncle, "don't go."
"I want to go!" Nail said.
"Aren't you afraid that you will never see your good friend again?" Crazy Uncle pressed his face and pushed him out of the door.
Nail is a persistent and loyal person, just like Ning Gu, that's why the two of them have been hanging out together for so many years, and now they didn't give up even after being shut out, and he could be heard swearing and swearing around the room.
Crazy Uncle sighed and ignored it.
He lowered his head and quickly packed some bits and pieces that had been sorted out on the table into a cloth bag and put them in his backpack.
With Ning Gu leaving, the peace of the ghost town may soon be broken.
Although he knew that this would happen sooner or later, Uncle Crazy still feels a little regretful about the happy life in the ghost town for so many years, chaotic and energetic, mindless but also full of vitality.
He didn't know where else he could go if the ghost town fell into chaos, but he was still prepared.
"What's outside the black mist? Is there anyone? Is there a monster?"
It has been a long time since Ning Gu sat in the cave like a sculpture, and Lian Chuan has never seen him stay quietly for more than five minutes, except for sleeping.
It can be seen before that the relationship between Ning Gu and the leader is different from that of ordinary travelers. The person who can make the leader and the others help each other at the same time is at least a very close relationship.
But with such a close relationship, Ning Gu seems to know nothing about the contact between the ghost city and the main city.
And this fact made Ning Gu quite shocked, after yelling at him, he never spoke again.
But Lian Chuan is also in a daze now.
The head of the regiment and Li Xiang secretly transported raw materials to the main city. This matter is not considered a secret in the City Affairs Department and the Ministry of Internal Defense. It is difficult to supply non-standard raw materials if only relying on various redundant, illegal birth and BUG recycling Yes, it is impossible to apply for a normal birth population, and the control is very strict. The City Affairs Department does not allow such "inhumane" behavior.
So part of the raw materials come from ghost towns, Lianchuan is clear.
But the memory that Ning Gu told him today should have been reset, and he doesn't remember it.
The reason for being reset was the part he had always suspected.
Outside of the unofficial program, there are indeed other experiments going on.
Those escaped experimental subjects that need to be cleaned up by the cleanup team, those weird experimental subjects that make people suspect that the irregularities have exceeded their original purpose, and those experimental subjects that need to be transported back to the ghost town... The internal defense knows, but the city affairs department does not necessarily know. After all, it is the cleaning team that does the dirty work.
"I want to go back to the ghost city." Ning Gu suddenly turned to look at him and said something.
"I can't go back now." Lian Chuan said.
"I want to go back when the car comes," Ning Gu said, "Don't catch me, let me go back."
Lian Chuan looked at him, Ning Gu's voice was a little deep, and it was the first time that he didn't hear the elation and anger in his voice during the time we stayed with him.
"I know you have a mission," Ning Gu said, "but it would be better for you if you don't submit me, otherwise they would put me in the water column and make ten thousand of me... I don't know the end What's the use of it, anyway, you and Betelgeuse may be finished."
"At this time," Lian Chuan said, "you still threaten me?"
"Deal," Ning Gu stretched out his hand, "You let me go, I can help you any way you want."
"Have you thought about the consequences if I don't complete this task?" Lian Chuan asked.
"Thought about it," Ning Gu still stretched out his hand, "But I don't need to think about it, you already thought about the consequences when you threw me into the Valley of Lost, and now you already know what it means to you to take me back , According to your original plan, there should be two paths now, one, I will help you, and two, I will not help you and you will kill me, no matter which one, you will not be able to complete the task."
Lian Chuan looked at his hands, and said after a while: "You are not really out of your mind."
"What nonsense, the really brainless one is Nine Wings," Ning Gu frowned, "I want to go back, help me, I promise to come back with the nearest car to find you."
"Why do you have to go back?" Lian Chuan asked.
"I don't believe what you just said," Ning Gu said, "I want to figure it out myself."
"Don't you believe it?" Lian Chuan asked again.
"I don't believe it." Ning Gu stared at him.
Lian Chuan raised his hand and patted him lightly.
"Deal." Ning Gu said.
"I'll give you a suggestion." Lian Chuan said.
"What suggestion?" Ning Gu asked.
"Don't ask directly," Lian Chuan said, "I'm afraid you won't come back."
Ning Gu didn't speak, just stared at him.
Lian Chuan didn't speak any more.
"I'm going to ask directly." Ning Gu said.
Lian Chuan glanced at him and turned his head away.
"I don't believe it! Did you understand? I don't believe it!" Ning Gu suddenly raised his voice, "You don't know the leader at all! I don't believe he would do such a thing! I would believe you even if you said he sent the aborigines here. Traveler? I don't believe it."
Lian Chuan put his hand on his throat: "Don't shout, are you afraid that Nine Wings won't find us?"
"I'm going to shout!" Ning Gu's voice trembled with anger.
Lian Chuan pressed down with his fingers.
Ning Gu lost his voice.
When he released his fingers again, Ning Gu leaned back against the cave wall, looking very depressed.
The voice also lowered: "I have never known who my parents are. The head of the group is just like my father to me."
Lian Chuan didn't make a sound.
"He is very strict and fierce," Ning Gu said, "I'm quite afraid of him."
"You won't understand." Ning Gu said again.