"Let it be! When you die, you die! We don't want to live for the sake of living! The world is going to be destroyed, we can't change anything, we don't need to change, there is no exit, don't live..."
For the first time in two days, Fade Chen left the underground office and came to the top floor of the city affairs hall. Standing by the window, he looked at the smoky main city.
In the distance, the members of "Let it be" shouted, almost uninterrupted from morning to night, and desperate residents continued to join, and began to develop branches. Some people believed that death was the exit. When the main city was destroyed , is when all the dead are born again.
The daylight was still bright as usual, and now it was nearing dusk in the afternoon, and the daylight was beginning to fade.
There are no passers-by in the core area of the main city, only red and orange lights flashing from time to time. All the entrances downstairs of the city affairs hall are guarded, and no one can enter without special permission.
But none of this can make Chen Fei standing here feel safe. People standing on the edge of the cliff, no matter how solid the ground under their feet, will still be terrified by the abyss in front of them.
He was waiting for the stairs to go down the cliff, for the exit to live.
All abnormalities within the main city have been repeatedly detected, and there is no feature that can be regarded as an "exit". The main city is the safest and strongest place in this world. Perhaps because of this, the exit is not in the main city.
Lian Chuan has already gone to the ghost town, but he still wants to go back to the main city with all his might, even if he can send the traveler to his death, he has to help him back... It seems that the exit will not be in the ghost town.
Black Iron Wasteland? Except for the part that belonged to the main city that once collapsed, there is a dead silence any farther away. The main city has released detectors in several directions. After three celebration days, the detectors are still moving forward. If they detect anything, they don't get any useful information before the power is exhausted. Even if the exit is somewhere, they can't reach it.
Lost Valley
Lost Valley is the only thing that can be clearly left behind by the main city of the previous generation, but no one can pass freely in it except for bats, and Nine Wings cut off the molten pipe and has to fight against the armed forces of the main city, which shows that he has no other There is only one way to retreat, he must stick to the Valley of Lost...
Fade Chen closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.
There were footsteps coming from the corridor, Fade Chen opened his eyes vigilantly.
"It's Xiao Lin." A voice floated from above from the corner behind him.
"Just right," Fade Chen said, "I want to see him too."
Xiao Lin pushed open the door and walked straight to him: "Let Chun San go."
"That's the only way we can restrict Betelgeuse and the cleanup team." Fade Chen looked at him.
"That's the biggest reason that angered Betelgeuse and the cleanup team," Xiao Lin said. "Controlling Chunsan is to push them away completely, and there is no chance to negotiate in the end."
"Are you willing to negotiate with Lian Chuan?" Fade Chen laughed, "You just gave an order to destroy him directly if you have a chance."
"At least we can fight for the cleanup team." Xiao Lin said.
"No more," Fade Chen sighed, "No more, when Lei Yu took people away from the main city, he had no plan to take Chunsan away. This must be their joint decision. Taking Chunsan away will alarm us, even They may have been preparing after Chuan was expelled, and the independent communication of the cleaning team will not be interfered by the main city system, this can only be done by Chunsan."
"What if they come back to save Chunsan again?" Xiao Lin stared at him.
"No more," Fade Chen said, "Giving up Chunsan is to ensure that the loss is minimized."
Xiao Lin was silent for a long time: "Are you going to kill Chunsan?"
Fade Chen looked out the window and laughed: "Do you think I will?"
"Not before," Xiao Lin said, "I'm not sure now, I've worked with you for so many years, and I've never found out that you are such a person, you are more ruthless than Liu Dong."
"Am I ruthless?" Fade Chen turned his head, "Maybe, a weak top leader, illegal research in private, colleagues who want to take over the mountain as soon as the exit comes out..."
He stared at Xiao Lin: "There is also you who just want to act according to your personal likes and dislikes when disaster strikes!"
"What did you say!" Xiao Lin roared.
"Can I not be ruthless?" Fade Chen approached him, "If I am not ruthless, I will be dragged into the water and hell by you!"
Xiao Lin stared at him without speaking.
"Kill Chunsan?" Fade Chen said, "I won't, and Lei Yu knows very well that I am the only one who can guarantee Chunsan's life."
"More than half of the technology in the main city is in Chunsan's hands." Lei Yu squatted behind a huge black iron piled up from nowhere, and looked at Lian Chuan. "If an exit is found, Chen Fei needs her."
"Are you sure?" Lian Chuan asked.
"Your Aunt Chun is sure," Lei Yu said, "I trust her judgment."
"The main city is retreating now," Lian Chuan glanced there through the gap in the black iron, "What's the plan for the cleaning team?"
"Set camp first," Lei Yu said, "Let's discuss with Nine Wings. Lost Valley has enough supplies. As long as they are willing, the cleanup team can build a temporary base here."
"Tell Ning Gu to talk to Jiu Yi." Lian Chuan said.
"Ning Gu?" Lei Yu paused, "It's not that I can't trust him, can he talk clearly?"
"I can't match the channel with Nine Wings," Lian Chuan said, "he can."
"...Understood." Lei Yu nodded, "If you can enter the Valley of Lost, don't stay outside, go to rest first, let the wound recover."
"Well, the poet might wake up," Lian Chuan whispered, "Ning Gu felt it just now, if the poet wakes up..."
"You want to find a poet?" Lei Yu interrupted him.
"Is there another way?" Lian Chuan said.
The molten fire pipeline passing through the hard ground of the Black Iron Wasteland has cooled down slowly, better than Nine Wings expected, and the pipeline did not melt in the molten fire because the protective layer was damaged.
Now the pipeline is the highest place on the Black Iron Wasteland.
Nine Wings crouched on the top and looked in the direction of the main city, but was a little disappointed.
He always thought that standing on a higher place, he could see the main city more clearly, but it turns out that what he saw when squatting here was different from what he usually saw when squatting on the big black iron pier at the exit. too much difference.
Maybe it's because of the distance.
The black rings below were climbing up, and Jiu Yi squatted without moving, tapping lightly on the pipe at his feet.
Ding ding ding.
After Hei Jie came up, he saw Ning Gu following behind.
"What are you doing up here?" Nine Wings' finger stabs suddenly stretched out, and when Ning Gu was about to reach the top, it touched the tip of his nose.
"I warn you." Ning Gu looked at the finger prick.
"Warning me for what?" Nine Wings laughed, and there was joy in the sharp laughter, "Your abilities are useless to me."
"That's not necessarily the case." Ning Gu held up a finger, and the fingertip slowly glowed with a dark silver light.
Jiu Yi looked at the light on his fingertips, and said after a while: "It's the first time I've seen the ability to see."
Ning Gu also stared at his fingertips for a long time: "I thought... I didn't expect..."
"What?" Nine Wings looked at him.
Ning Gu didn't speak any more, just shook his fingertips slightly, three thin scratches flitted in the air, Jiu Yi felt like the light drawn by his own finger pricks in the air.
Just when he was about to speak, the finger that he poked in front of Ning Gu suddenly broke into several pieces and fell down.
Ning Gu climbed to the top of the pipe.
Nine Wings was still staring at his bald finger pricks.
"You..." Ning Gu bent down and looked at his feet, "I really guessed right, some parts of the pipe were still hot when I came up, so I knew..."
The metal feet of the nine wings have disappeared, and the legs are fused with the top part of the pipe, as if they grew out of the pipe, or they seem to be welded to the top of the pipe.
Jiu Yi didn't speak, but looked at him.
"What should I do?" Ning Gu also looked at him.
Nine Wings raised his other hand, extended his finger spines, and shook it lightly twice.
The black ring next to him took out a gun-like thing, and began to cut the pipe at his feet.
"Cut more," Jiu Yi confessed, and continued to look at Ning Gu, "I did what I promised Lei Yu, and I also saved those travelers."
"I mean what I say." Ning Gu said.
"Then what are you doing here?" Nine Wings asked.
"Materials," Ning Gu said, "the cleaning team will camp outside Lost Valley, and they need supplies."
"Don't push yourself too far!" Nine Wings raised his voice sharply.
"The main city and the travelers," Ning Gu said, "you have to choose a side. There is no neutrality at this time."
"Is the cleaning team travelers?" Nine Wings laughed, "Who drove the travelers out of the main city, and how many travelers died in their hands, young man, don't you know?"
"The cleaning team has teamed up with the traveler," Ning Gu said, "If you don't stand up, the other half..."
"Why," Jiu Yi withdrew his smile, "Can you increase the price of the agreed deal? At the beginning, it was agreed to send you out of Lost Valley in exchange for half of the main city. Now I helped you fight and forced me to help Cleanup team doing work?"
"Help me." Ning Gu said.
"Who are you?" Nine Wings said coldly.
"Savior." Ning Gu said.
Lian Chuan stood at the entrance of Lost Valley. Lei Yu had just counted the losses of the liquidation team in this battle. Three liquidation team members died and seventeen were injured.
Li Liang came over with a medical bag and handed it to him: "Take care of it, there is no sleeping cabin now, so I have to rely on myself."
"Is it enough?" Lian Chuan asked.
"It's almost enough," Li Liang said, "Let's deal with the serious injuries first, and the other minor injuries are basically enough."
"If it's not enough, ask the bat." Ning Gu's voice came from the side.
Lian Chuan turned his head and saw a somewhat smug expression on his face.
"Have you talked with Nine Wings?" Li Liang asked.
"Well," Ning Gu nodded, "the bats will bring out the supplies in a while."
"It doesn't need to be too much, let's transport it for three to five days first," Lei Yu walked over, "We'll see when the time comes."
"Is three or five days enough?" Ning Gu was stunned. With the current situation, unless it is destroyed tomorrow, or the confrontation with the main city, it cannot be resolved in a few days.
"The normal task status of equipment power is ten days," Lian Chuan said in a low voice, "just after that game, it may last for a week."
Ning Gu looked at him and didn't speak.
"I'll take a break." Lian Chuan turned and walked into the entrance.
Ning Gu followed in: "Aren't you going to get together with the cleaning team?"
"Gathering what?" Lian Chuan asked.
"It's been so long." Ning Gu didn't understand, "Just helped us fight like this again, even if we are too familiar, don't say thank you, we should talk about it?"
"The people in the cleaning team didn't know that Betelgeuse was Lian Chuan." Lian Chuan didn't stop, and walked back to the small house that Fu Lu had found for them before.
"So what if I know now?" Ning Gu stopped after asking, "I know, according to your division, those in the cleanup team are all human, right, you are a weapon, even if you are not Betelgeuse , you’re just a precursor test subject, aren’t you?”
Lian Chuan glanced at him, but didn't speak.
"I don't think they will care about this," Ning Gu went to the cushion and sat down, leaning against the wall, "but if you don't want to, forget it."
"How do you feel?" Lian Chuan looked at Ning Gu.
"Me?" Ning Gu raised his head, "I don't think it makes any difference whether you are a weapon or a test subject, I..."
"I mean after the poet came." Lian Chuan interrupted him.
"Oh," Ning Gu was stunned for a moment, regained his energy, and patted the cushion next to him, "Come here, I was just about to tell you."
Lian Chuan sat next to him.
Ning Gu raised a finger: "Look."
Lian Chuan looked at him.
A small circle of ripples appeared around Ning Gu's fingers. He waved his hand lightly at the nearby cave wall, and three dark silver scratches flew across the air, and three knife-like scratches appeared on the hard cave wall. groove.
"I suddenly discovered that I can use this whatever I want," Ning Gu said, "I can use it as long as I want, but..."
He lowered his voice: "Qihang's one, it won't work, it won't activate after being used once in the car."
"This is your own ability," Lian Chuan looked at the cave wall, "That... may not be used near Lost Valley."
"Because Qi Hang is here?" Ning Gu asked.
"It may also be a poet." Lian Chuan said, "Things related to spiritual power may be influenced by poets, or Nine Wings would not..."
"Will the poet still come?" Ning Gu looked around, "He snorted and left, and there has been no movement until now."
"I'll take a rest." Lian Chuan tilted to the side and lay down on the mat. "I'll chant the vertical hole when I recover a bit."
"Looking for him?" Ning Gu sat up straight.
"Well," Lian Chuan responded, "The Lost Valley is left over from the main city of the previous generation. The poet must know something."
"The last time he took you away, you almost left a shell," Ning Gu looked at him, "Are you still going?"
"You can pull me back," Lian Chuan closed his eyes, "The savior will win every bet."
Ning Gu didn't speak.
Every bet will win.
Does it count as ability
He looked at Lian Chuan, probably very tired. Lian Chuan didn't even adjust his posture when he lay down, and there was no cushion for his head. He just lay crookedly, and his neck felt sore just looking at it.
"Hey," Ning Gu pulled Lianchuan's arm, "Liangou."
"En." Lian Chuan responded.
"Do you want to sleep with something on your pillow?" Ning Gu said, "Isn't your neck uncomfortable? There's still a limiter poking at the back."
Lian Chuan opened his eyes and looked around, then closed them again.
In addition to some rations and water, there is nothing to sleep on in the room.
Ning Gu thought for a while, then took his arm and tugged it.
When Lian Chuan was dragged to sit up by him, his opened eyes were full of "annoy me one more time and you will die", Ning Gu quickly dragged him around half a circle, and then pressed down: "You sleep here. "
Lian Chuan fell down and fell on his lap.
"Are you comfortable?" Ning Gu said.
Lian Chuan didn't make a sound, but he didn't move either.
It is still more comfortable to sleep with a pillow, although Lian Chuan is not so particular about it.
But the rest process is not too comfortable.
He could see Chun San when he closed his eyes.
Chunsan who took him to see artificial small animals when he was a child, Chunsan who bought him various flavors of nutrient solution, Chunsan who had a cold expression but anxious eyes every time after his training...
Lian Chuan, live!
Lian Chuan opened his eyes suddenly, feeling that his breathing was a little messy.
"Are you awake?" Ning Gu's voice came from above.
Lian Chuan didn't move.
"I slept for a long time," Ning Gu looked down at him, "Is it better?"
Was it a long time... Lian Chuan didn't feel it, only felt that he opened his eyes as soon as he closed them.
"It's okay." When he was about to sit up, he saw Ning Gu's hand resting on his knee, with a small piece of yellowed paper between his fingertips. "What is it?"
"This," Ning Gu handed him the piece of paper, "I kept it there. Just now I remembered that there is still this thing. I picked it up in Tongwan. It should be handwritten, and I don't know any of it."
Lian Chuan sat up, took the paper and looked at it.
It was indeed handwritten, black characters, a little messy.
The part torn out has only three broken lines, and there is no coherent meaning.
But when he saw the last line, Lian Chuan suddenly turned his head and glanced at Ning Gu.
- the most incredible
- for a moment, only in the brain
- the savior actually