6
As if it heard Long Biao's words, this thing suddenly raised its head.
Several people fell silent.
"It has no hearing," Lian Chuan said.
"You know?" Long Biao immediately choked back, "It turned its head."
Maybe because their mission did not require them to take any action and they only needed to watch here, Long Biao spoke more than usual. Normally, if the two of them had a coordinated mission, Long Biao would basically not say a word, and Lian Chuan had to understand everything on his own.
Instead, it would create the illusion that the two of them had a good understanding of each other, which would make Long Biao extremely unhappy.
"It can feel the vibration," Lian Chuan closed his eyes, "someone is coming."
The boss on the opposite ladder also responded and slowly retreated back to the roof.
The person was still far away, but Lian Chuan could hear it, or feel the vibration. He could even judge that the footsteps, which were different in weight and speed from those of ordinary people, were because of the equipment he was carrying.
He frowned.
This is the security team of the Internal Defense Department.
There are three people in a group, who are responsible for the internal security of the main city, one with the city guards and the other with the city guards. During the celebration day, additional personnel are dispatched to the security team and the city guards.
If the security team came over and saw the confused K29-like monster below...
The situation will become troublesome.
In theory, the Cleaning Team is also the darling of the Internal Defense Department, but compared with the City Guards and the Public Security Team, the Cleaning Team is more like an illegitimate child who cannot be on the stage. They do shady work in dark corners, and being looked down upon by both the eldest and second brothers is a tradition of the Internal Defense Department.
"Who?" Cui Ping asked.
"The security team," Lian Chuan glanced at the direction where the voice came from. Unfortunately, it looked like the security team was going to patrol Xingpan Street. "They're almost there."
"What a crappy mission." Long Biao was very unhappy.
Although he didn't say anything else, Lian Chuan still saw Long Biao's intention from his moving position. Long Biao wanted to drive away the monster below and avoid the security team's route.
This practice was not in compliance with regulations. They were performing a non-contact mission, and the target's data only included the basic biological information just scanned, which was considered to be completely unknown. Long Biao was obviously impulsive.
Lian Chuan made a gesture to the opposite side, asking the boss to pay attention to protecting Long Biao.
He did not remind Long Biao. After all, Long Biao stuck to his impulsive and violent tags and his personality had never deviated.
And he also knew the reason why Long Biao did this.
When Long Biao rushed out from the side alley, Cui Ping also rushed out from another fork in the road, forming an angle with Long Biao behind the monster.
As long as Lian Chuan and the boss can control both sides well, if nothing goes wrong, they will be able to quickly force the monsters forward into the maze-like dense alleys deep in Xingpan Street.
It was risky, but he had to do it.
A couple can still divorce, but once a cleanup team’s partner is chosen, there will be no replacement; their life is in the hands of their partner.
So Long Biao rushed out, he had to rush out, at the critical moment Long Biao couldn't be the only one making a stupid move, both of them had to make a stupid move together.
The gamble now is that the target will not attack, and after being startled, will flee in the direction they compressed.
However, as soon as they rushed out of the path, before they had time to get a close look at the target, their gamble had already been lost.
The target suddenly turned its head and propped up its body with its legs. Its straight legs and suddenly stretched neck made its upright height increase instantly.
This heroic state probably won't flee, let alone flee because of being frightened.
Even planning to attack.
When the target let out a dull whistle from inside its body, even Lian Chuan, who dominated with his speed, didn't have time to react.
It wasn't just because the sound came suddenly, nor was it just because it was so loud. The sound was like the alarm sounded by travelers rushing into the main city.
But there has never been any creature whose cry can be like the target in front of him, stabbing straight into the brain like a blunt knife.
In the first moment, Lian Chuan even felt that time had stopped and the whole world was blank.
When Cui Ping woke up, he was already kneeling on the ground. Given his uncontrollable state, if he had woken up later, he might have kowtowed to the target.
"Retreat quickly!" Lian Chuan's voice sounded in his ears, and then he was pulled up from the ground.
"Call for reinforcements." Long Biao retreated with them and returned to the alley on the other side.
"No." Lian Chuan answered simply.
Before Long Biao could ask him the reason, the gray-white thing wrapped in translucent aerosol rushed towards him with its arms raised.
He could not attack. This was an order that could not be disobeyed. He could only continue to retreat, trying to lead this thing to another path and avoid the security team that would arrive soon.
But although this thing doesn't seem to have a high IQ, its strength and speed are quite good. When Long Biao took a completely defensive posture, it was able to throw him against the wall with just one swing of its arm.
The length of the arm was beyond Long Biao's expectations.
He didn't have time to feel depressed about this mistake. Even with the cushioning of the exoskeleton, his back was still painful.
The second attack began before he had even completely landed on the ground.
He was hit in the stomach again.
But this time it was Lianchuan’s caracal.
The boss knocked him out of attack range.
"Who's that over there!" someone shouted. From the powerful tone, one could tell who it was. "Prepare to attack!"
The security team that was sent to deliver heads finally arrived as scheduled. Although they were shocked by what they saw, the three of them still raised their weapons at the same time.
Unlike the cleanup team, the work of the security team is not that complicated. Anything that may threaten the lives and property of the people in the main city is their enemy.
Raising a gun means biubiubiu.
Long Biao didn't say anything. It was meaningless to say anything at this moment.
Eyewitnesses have emerged.
Witnesses are to attack the self-destruct target.
Witness identity is sensitive.
But he didn't even have time to ask Lei Yu for instructions on the next course of action.
The boss growled beside him.
He immediately looked across.
Lian Chuan was standing across the street, raising his weapon and aiming at them.
"Who does he want to kill?" Long Biao lowered his voice.
"What is this?" Nail leaned on the mattress and pointed at the thing in Ning Gu's hand with his toes.
"Flash bomb." Ning Gu said as he carefully put the thing into his bag.
"You'll be fine if you follow my brother," Dingzi said, "The leader said that his ability is about to catch up with Li Xiang."
"What's the use?" Ning Gu continued to put things into his bag. "The captain also said that any weapon in the main city has a range and power that is beyond his control."
"Then he didn't die every time he went there," said Dingzi.
"I'm not dead either." Ning Gu said.
"You didn't enter the main city." Nail continued.
"You don't even dare to go." Ning Gu looked at him.
Dingzi laughed and looked at the goggles in his hand. These were Ning Gu's old goggles, which he had repaired and gave to him. Although they no longer leaked air, there was always a black line in his vision, making it uncomfortable to see things.
He knocked on the goggles and said, "If you can go to the underground market this time, please help me find a pair of goggles."
"Yeah." Ning Gu nodded.
Dingzi didn't say anything else. He watched him put things into the bag one by one, various small equipment he had collected, for fighting, for bearing the blows, for escaping, and for food.
"Are you coming back?" Dingzi couldn't help but ask.
Ning Gu paused and said, "Why are you asking this?"
"Just asking," said Nail, "That's how I feel. If you have the chance to leave, you will definitely not look back."
"The main city is not that attractive to me." Ning Gu said with some disdain.
"Outside the fog." said Nail.
Ning Gu buckled the bag in silence before looking up at him: "Old rules, don't tell anyone I'm in the car, or you'll have to run for your life the moment I come back, or I'll bury you in Tongue Bay."
The car was a train that came out of the black fog, with steam coming out of its closed front.
No one has ever entered the cab. All we know is that it goes back and forth along a track with an unknown starting point and end point, following an unknown pattern.
The traveler's starting point and end point are just two small stops on his mysterious trajectory.
The car hasn't arrived yet, and no one knows when it will arrive.
But everyone will know when it comes.
The distant sound of a whistle in the black fog, as if from an ancient monster, passed through the sky above the entire ghost town, high-pitched and mellow, lonely and ethereal, each sound pleasing to the ear yet far away in the sky.
"This is the sound of a whale." said Uncle Crazy.
Ning Gu didn't know what a whale was, and Uncle Feng had never drawn one for him. But when he talked about other things, he would always draw a few incomprehensible lines.
Therefore, Ning Gu reasonably inferred that Uncle Crazy had no idea what a whale was, and couldn't even imagine a few confusing lines.
But Uncle Feng insisted that it was the sound of a whale. Ning Gu guessed that his only reason might be that he felt it was impossible for a machine to make such a sound.
When a long and distant sound came from the sky, a group of people who had been squatting or sitting beside the iron frame for a day stood up, lit up the flash bottles in their hands, and raised them up at the same time.
This bright light only appears at moments like this, struggling to tear a thin gap in the black fog.
Li Xiang, like everyone else, looked to the right.
It's not because the sound came from the right, no one can hear where the sound came from, but everyone knows that after this sound, a car will come from the right.
Following the well-worn track that extends out of the black fog.
"Our estimate is pretty accurate," the captain said. "Have you checked it?"
"Hmm?" Li Xiang glanced at him. They had taken this ghost train to the main city countless times. The leader rarely asked such questions, but Li Xiang didn't say much. He just nodded and said, "I checked it and nothing was missed."
"A lot of people are going this time." The team leader looked around and saw that everyone had stood up, but no one moved. They were all waiting for the team leader to take action.
Although these people are familiar with this train, they will never let their guard down.
After all, this car came from a place they couldn't go to, and went to a place they couldn't go to. The number of people who disappeared on the car was long lost, and there was no consensus among the travelers as to whether it was a dead metal object or a living thing.
"Yes," Li Xiang whispered, "I didn't see Ning Gu. He should still be obedient."
"You watched him grow up, how could you trust him so much?" The captain laughed. "If he was found by you, it was only because he was not afraid of being found. Who has ever found him when he didn't want to be found?"
Li Xiang sighed softly.
"If he gets on the train this time, he must be going to the main city." The captain stared at the train that slowly stopped in front of them.
Li Xiang turned his head in surprise.
They all knew that Ning Gu would follow secretly in the past, but because of the team leader's words, he never left the parking spot.
After the captain said this, Li Xiang couldn't tell what he felt, whether it was emotion, worry, or confusion.
I always feel like something is going to happen.
The car stopped silently on the track in front of them.
The train is not long, sometimes it has seven carriages, sometimes it has eight. Each carriage is the same, empty and has no windows, only two opposite doorways, waiting quietly.
"Does it look like a monster's mouth?" Dingzi squatted beside Ning Gu's legs and asked softly.
"Well, after it went in, I don't know whether it was spit out or pulled out." Ning Gu said.
Those who vomit it out are alive, and those who defecate it are dead.
He touched a small metal cube in his hand. Occasionally, you can find really good things at the land king's place.
By pressing the small round button above, all his biological auras can be temporarily blocked, and Li Xiang, who has the ability to perceive, will not be able to detect him.
Although there are too many people gathered together now, even someone with a strong perception like Li Xiang would not be able to tell them apart, but he still wants to be absolutely sure, so he wants to go to the main city to take a look.
I have never had such a strong urge.
The captain walked towards the hole in the carriage, put one foot on the edge, and looked inside.
As he started to move towards the carriage, the travelers, who had been as quiet as a group of sculptures before, suddenly let out a loud roar and rushed towards the carriage at the same time.
Some people jumped directly into the carriage, some climbed onto the roof, and some ran all the way along the track, constantly jumping and pushing towards the carriage and then forward, as if they were flying close to the car.
Knowing that someone will never come back, the trip to the main city is always a life-or-death carnival, and no one thinks that will be them.
Or, don't think about it at all.
They are travelers.
Just like this train, it has no origin and no destination. It has a gathering place but no home. It has the instinct to survive but no fear of being reduced to ashes.
Just another journey.
From the time the first person touches the car to the time the car starts moving forward, the time in between is very short.
Ning Gu couldn't wait until the end, he had to rush forward when the most people got on the bus and avoid Li Xiang.
"Goggles! Don't forget them!" Nail whispered behind him, "Bring them back to me!"
Ning Gu made an OK gesture behind him.
Goggles are not important for a nail that can help him find a feather in the wind even though he has to squint all year round.
Nail was just afraid that he wouldn't come back.
"Lian Chuan, we will ask a few questions about today's mission. Please answer them truthfully."
"good."
There were four people in the conference room, and Lian Chuan sat on a chair in the middle.
There were three people sitting in a row behind the long table opposite. In the middle was Minister Chen, on the right was Xiao Lin, the highest commander of the security team, and on the left was the secretary of the Internal Defense Department's Disciplinary Committee.
Lian Chuan has experienced this kind of situation many times, and it usually occurs after a task has been completed in an alternative way.
But if I remember correctly, it was the first time that the cleanup team opened fire on the security team.
Xiao Lin's face turned pale, and his eyes had been darting back and forth across his face since he walked into the meeting room.
"During today's mission, you shot and killed three members of the security team," Minister Chen looked at him, "Is that true?"
"It's true." Lian Chuan replied.
"What was the reason for the killing?" Minister Chen continued to ask.
"This mission requires ensuring that there are no witnesses." Lian Chuan replied.
"Why don't you use the recovery device to attack?" Xiao Lin suppressed his anger, "Why use destructive weapons?"
Lian Chuan looked at him and answered after a while: "Making sure there are no witnesses also includes making sure that witnesses never appear again."
"Why didn't you ask for instructions?" Xiao Lin asked.
"No time," Lianchuan replied, "I also need to make sure the target is self-destructing."
"Make sure, make sure," Xiao Lin sneered and nodded, "The other party is your compatriot, your comrade-in-arms, don't you think you need to ask for instructions?"
"No need, and there is no time," Lian Chuan repeated, "The mission only has two major elements: the target is self-destructive, and there are no witnesses."
"So you think they are just witnesses?" Xiao Lin asked.
"Yes." Lian Chuan replied.
Xiao Lin stared at him for a long time and spat out two words: "Cold-blooded."
Before Xiao Lin could speak again, Minister Chen raised his hand to stop him.
At the same time, as if to echo Xiao Lin's comment, the bright lights in front of him suddenly went out, and the surroundings fell into darkness.
It was just a moment, like a blink of an eye.
When the lights came back on, people in the room noticed that the absolute darkness was not just in the conference room.
The bright sunlight of the main city outside the window also disappeared.
Just a moment.