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The tunnel was not too long, and there were noisy sounds coming from both sides. Some people were swearing at each other, some were arguing, some were trading, and some were laughing happily.
Ning Gu just stood at the door of the hut where there was no trace of red light anymore, staring at Lian Chuan who was lying motionless on the ground.
He is not an ungrateful person. Although Lian Chuan and he are basically in a tragic relationship of kill and be killed, his inexplicable dreams and hallucinations make him sure that he can get important information from Lian Chuan. For this reason, he should still save him.
There are three problems now. Is Lian Chuan dead? Of course, we don’t need to worry about him if he is dead. How to judge whether it is safe and how to rescue him? Should we drag him out with a mop, or go in and slap him in the face... This trick is a basic rescue operation in a ghost town.
"Lianchuan." He shouted again from outside the door.
Lian Chuan lay there motionless, without any reaction.
I feel like even if I'm not dead, I'll be dead if I continue in this state.
After being frozen for a few seconds, Ning Gu kicked the cave wall hard: "Hey!"
Then he rushed into the room, grabbed Lian Chuan by the collar, and was about to drag him out when he felt a sharp pain in his fingers.
The pain that instantly spread throughout half of his body was no less than the two shots Lian Chuan fired in the street.
Ning Gu nearly fell face down in pain.
This must be some device on the hyena's uniform.
He gritted his teeth and held on for two seconds. He was so angry that he jumped up and kicked Lian Chuan: "Die, hyena!"
He can't even touch his own clothes, but he is very good at snatching other people's clothes!
Suddenly, someone seemed to walk out from the darkness in the innermost part of the hut, bringing with it a slight breeze.
Then there was a sigh right behind my ear.
Ning Gu didn't know how he did it, but he grabbed Lian Chuan's wrist and almost swung Lian Chuan out of the hut. You could even see Lian Chuan's head hit the door.
Ning Gu felt a little guilty when he rushed out of the house.
…If Lian Chuan died, he might have been killed by himself.
But the guilt was short-lived. The goose bumps behind his ears caused by the sigh had not yet subsided. He quickly turned back and saw that the room was pitch black and there was no sound.
Out of anger and dissatisfaction, Ning Gu walked back to the door.
"Are you annoying?" He looked into the empty darkness, "How about I give you a chance?"
There was no response in the darkness.
"You don't dare, right?" Ning Gu nodded. "Then I'm putting it here. You'd better not dare to do it. If you really piss me off, I'll break into pieces and make your underground market never peaceful."
A blank.
Lian Chuan did not move when he regained consciousness. He only knew that his functions were normal and his condition was safe. He needed to maintain the status quo until he could figure out the situation.
This was a small room, about the same size as the previous one, but it was not empty. There was something in the room, as could be heard from the movements of the person in front of him on the left.
Lian Chuan could tell from some unique sounds when his clothes rubbed against each other that this person was Ning Gu.
Ning Gu's movements sounded quite relaxed, so there shouldn't be any danger.
But just when Lian Chuan wanted to open his eyes, another person's footsteps were heard, and it sounded like a woman coming in from outside.
"Are you still not awake?" asked a woman's voice, who should be about the same age as Chun San.
"If you're anxious, you can touch it now." Ning Gu replied.
What are you touching
"That's so boring," the woman said, "taking advantage of someone while they're asleep."
"If you touch him after he wakes up, wouldn't that be taking advantage of him?" Ning Gu said.
"Yes." The woman answered affirmatively.
What a mess
Although he felt that his life was not in danger, Lian Chuan was very uneasy about the conversation between Ning Gu and the woman, so he opened his eyes.
This is a trading hut. Lian Chuan was lying at the innermost part of the hut. There were a lot of messy things piled outside and near the door, emitting a strange smell.
An old, ancient smell.
Ning Gu sat on a chair next to him, with one leg bent and placed on the chair, and the other leg stretched out, with his toes swaying leisurely from side to side.
Ning Gu looked at him and raised his eyebrows: "Awake."
This sentence was not addressed to Lian Chuan. Before Lian Chuan could answer, a person who was wrapped so tightly that his face could not be seen suddenly appeared behind Ning Gu: "Let me see."
It's that woman.
Lian Chuan didn't say anything. He wanted to sit up, but when he moved, he found that his hands and feet were tied with iron chains, and the other end of the chain was deeply rooted in the hard ground.
This would not trap him, but if he forced it, it might cause unnecessary chaos.
"Let her touch it." Ning Gu shook his toes happily.
"What?" Lian Chuan was stunned.
"She asked us to hide here," Ning Gu put his arm on the armrest, tilted his head and supported his forehead with his fingers, and said very easily and naturally, "Just let her touch her face."
Lian Chuan said nothing.
It's not that he didn't want to speak, he just didn't know what to say.
He had lived for more than twenty years and had seen all kinds of dangerous, difficult, dilemmatic, and trilemma situations and had solved all kinds of dangerous goals, but this was the first time he had encountered such a thing.
This kind of thing was not dangerous at all, but it was so inexplicable that he couldn't react.
"You're so beautiful." The woman walked up to Lian Chuan.
Then she stretched out her hand and was about to touch his face, but Lian Chuan turned his head back and she touched nothing.
"It looks good." The woman touched it again.
Lian Chuan dodged again.
"What's going on?" The woman was very unhappy and turned to look at Ning Gu. "We agreed on this! If he doesn't let me touch him, I'll go out and find Fulu and the others right away!"
"I told you you can't touch it." Ning Gu laughed.
"What should I do!" said the woman.
"You touch him." Lian Chuan said.
"She just wants to touch a hyena. Travelers see them every day, so she's not new to it." Ning Gu narrowed his eyes, still with a happy expression.
Lian Chuan's face suddenly turned cold.
Ning Gu stood up, stretched his arms, walked to his side, bent down, and came close to his eyes, and whispered: "The bat is looking for the hyena, you have been exposed."
"She can't get out of this door at all." Lian Chuan's voice was cold.
"Apart from killing people, don't you know how to do anything else?" Ning Gu asked.
"Yes." Lian Chuan replied.
Ning Gu was stunned. This answer was so sincere that he couldn't recover for a while.
After a while, he tutted and turned to look at the woman: "I'll help you touch it."
"What's that?" the woman was unhappy.
"Add a hyena hair," Ning Gu said, "No one in Lost Valley can get this thing, right?"
“Give it to me.” The woman immediately stretched out her hand. Under the broken skin on her hand were metal knuckles inlaid with broken glass that was shining with tiny rays of light.
"Is this okay?" Ning Gu turned and looked at Lian Chuan again.
Lian Chuan didn't want to argue with Ning Gu now. He also needed to know how Ning Gu's ability was triggered, whether it was passive or active, and what he saw and felt from his memory that day.
He chose to be patient.
"Don't hide," Ning Gu stretched out his hand and whispered, "I know you're fast."
Lian Chuan didn't move.
Ning Gu gently flicked his head twice, pulled out a hair, and then touched his face.
The moment her fingertips touched his skin, the chains tied to Lian Chuan's hands and feet suddenly broke at the same time with a clang.
"Don't come over here! I'll scream if you start to attack me!" The woman standing next to them took several steps back in fear. "As soon as I scream, the whole Lost Valley will know that you are here!"
"I can't wait for you to make a sound before I kill you." Ning Gu tilted his head to look at her, "Stand over here."
The woman hesitated and walked back.
Ning Gu lowered his raised hand, touched Lian Chuan's face, then turned around and stretched his hand in front of the woman.
The woman slapped his hand, then pinched away the hair and carefully placed it in a bottle. "I'll find him some clothes to change into. His uniform is too obvious."
"Yeah." Ning Gu responded.
Lian Chuan sat up while the woman was rummaging through the mess nearby.
Ning Gu sat back in his chair and looked at him for a while: "Did you do that just now?"
Lian Chuan glanced at him without saying anything.
"Okay, then it's not me," Ning Gu pointed at himself, "It's me."
Lian Chuan still didn't say anything.
"I'm so awesome." Ning Gu poked himself in the face with his finger.
Nothing happened.
He stabbed twice more.
The woman threw a few pieces of clothing over: "That's all."
"Is there anything to eat?" Ning Gu asked, and continued to poke himself in the face a few more times.
Nothing happened.
Very disappointed.
Lian Chuan took the clothes and took a look at them. They were very bat-style clothes with metal pieces embellished in various unnecessary places.
In a place like this, it was unlikely to have a separate locker room, so he didn't waste time on this matter. He just stood up and took off his uniform.
Inside was a set of close-fitting underwear. The woman stared at him with obvious disappointment, but soon she reached out her hand: "Give me this uniform as a reward."
Lian Chuan raised his hand and threw the uniform into her hands.
The woman fell to the ground before she could even make a sound.
"Don't be too greedy." Ning Gu looked at her and sighed.
When Lian Chuan put on the bat suit, Ning Gu saw two long black wounds on his arms. Judging from the angle, they should have extended from the shoulder blade to the elbow.
"Were you injured just now?" Ning Gu couldn't help but frowned, "This shouldn't be the case."
"Old injury." Lian Chuan answered briefly and put on his coat.
"Old injury? How old?" Ning Gu asked.
Even travelers don’t have old injuries. Injuries that haven’t healed overnight are considered serious injuries. How could the strongest hyena in the main city cleanup team have injuries that haven’t healed
Lian Chuan turned around and looked at him. He was silent for a while before speaking: "Some of my injuries cannot be healed."
Following these words, Ning Gu suddenly felt dizzy. The images flashing quickly before his eyes made him breathless. When the last black shadow pounced on him, he didn't know whether it was an illusion or reality. He just felt like something sharp had scratched his stomach. The piercing pain made him hold his stomach and lean against the wall next to him.
By the time he recovered, Lian Chuan had already changed his clothes and put his uniform into a bag.
"What did you see?" Lian Chuan asked.
Ning Gu looked at him and said nothing.
"Is it there?" Lian Chuan looked at his belly.
"You want to know, right?" Ning Gu slowly stood up and folded his arms. "I saw something, I felt something, you want to know, right?"
There was no expression on Lian Chuan's face.
"You came to catch me. This should be your mission," Ning Gu pinched his chin, glanced at the woman who was still lying on the ground motionless, and said in a low voice, "But you didn't catch me, you just followed me."
Lian Chuan remained motionless and expressionless.
Ning Gu admitted that he had no idea what to do when facing Lian Chuan, a pervert who seemed to remain calm no matter what the situation. All his speculations could not be adjusted according to Lian Chuan's reaction, so he could only continue talking.
"You're asking me these questions again now," Ning Gu smiled and leaned close to Lian Chuan's ear, "You have a secret that no one else can know, and you're not sure what I know, right?"
Lian Chuan did not dodge, but also tilted his head and whispered in his ear: "I am now sure that, one, you can not only see it, but also feel it, and two, if you die, the problem will be solved."
"You don't dare to kill me, your mission must be to capture me alive." Ning Gu's voice was full of pride.
"The injuries I've received," Lian Chuan said, "are enough to kill you ten times."
Ning Gu fell silent, and after a while he slowly retreated to the wall, staring at him for a long time before speaking: "I have something very important to do. If you help me finish it, I will tell you."
Lian Chuan looked at him.
"Deal?" Ning Gu asked.
"Deal." Lian Chuan said.
When he walked out of the cabin, Ning Gu felt that he was relatively able to integrate into the environment of Lost Valley, so he had to find the bat that could help him with his ID card as soon as possible and then leave.
After all, there are many travelers in the Lost Valley now. Once the car leaves, the scene here will probably be completely different. It will be difficult for him to avoid the bats that are staring at him for some reason.
Especially... He turned around and glanced at Lian Chuan behind him. Even if this man changed into bat clothes, he still couldn't hide the temperament of the main city. Even if a hundred bats ran over at the same time, he could still find Lian Chuan from the pile of bats at a glance.
"That woman just now..." Lian Chuan spoke behind him.
"Why did you let her touch you, right? Because I told her it was okay to touch me but she refused," Ning Gu interrupted him impatiently, "Why did you just go along with her and not just kill her to silence her? Because this is not our territory, I still have things to do, it's best not to cause trouble, and most importantly, I found that I can't completely rely on you, you fainted faster than when you hit me."
"Let's go." Lian Chuan said.
"I wanted to ask her where I could find the bats that write data," Ning Gu continued walking forward, "but I didn't get to ask her."
"What data?" Lian Chuan asked.
"Main city ID card," Ning Gu patted the pocket on his leg, "I'm going to the main city."
"You can't use it." Lian Chuan said.
"Why can't I use it?" Ning Gu turned around.
"You can either die here or die in the lab," Lian Chuan said. "There is no third way."
Ning Gu glared at him: "Lian Chuan, let me ask you a question."
Lian Chuan looked at him in silence.
"Are you a robot?" Ning Gu frowned and looked him up and down. "Don't you feel bad when you say that? I saved you after all. Don't you feel bad when you arrange my death?"
Lian Chuan seemed to be in a trance and still did not respond.
"I won't die." Ning Gu said.