Melting City

Chapter 77

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"Don't take the things yet!" Guang Guang shouted, "Go to the underground warehouse! Everyone go down!"

"Those are the weapons of the city guards and patrols," a man raised his hand and shouted, "This is a conspiracy by the main city! They want to kill us and save the supplies for those parasites in Area A!"

"Go down!" Guangguang ignored him and continued to push other people towards the stairs.

"We can't let them slaughter us anymore!" the man shouted, "They have never treated us as human beings! We must resist!"

"The travelers are not good people. They won't share all the supplies they have stored with us. Maybe they have already discussed with the main city how to distribute them in the future!"

This statement, which sounded extremely stupid to Guangguang, actually received a lot of response from people, and they began to want to rush into the room where the travelers stored food and supplies.

"All women and the wounded should go down. No matter what, you have to stay alive first." Guangguang shouted.

When I turned around to look for the man who was leading the group, the three travelers who stayed here to guard had already blocked the door of the room.

Because they were ordered not to use their abilities, the three travelers were holding long swords and iron spikes.

“Don’t…” Before Guang Guang could finish his words, the man rushed up with several people.

None of the travelers spoke, not even a sound was made; the assault was over.

The three travelers were still standing at the door of the room. The few people who had rushed over had all fallen to the ground and were no longer moving.

"Keep calm!" Guangguang looked at the rest of the people, "Don't do such meaningless things! We are alive today because of the protection of the travelers."

"They just killed one of our guys!" one man yelled.

"Go down," one of the travelers said, "if you don't go down, I will kill you all."

All the refugees who could be found went down the stairs and hid in the underground warehouse. Although there was no safety at all, as they would all die if they came across the crack, the danger was only in front of them, and the most pressing danger now came from the ground.

Guangguang wiped the sweat off her face. She grew up in the main city, but this was the first time that her eyes were blurred by sweat after just shouting and running a few times.

The main city's constant temperature has been destroyed and the temperature continues to rise due to the fire.

"You should go down too," the traveler who had spoken earlier came over, "it's useless for you to stay up there."

"I want to watch," Guangguang said, "If they attack, I will go down again."

"Whatever." The traveler turned and walked to the window, looking in the direction of the dewdrops.

"My name is Guangguang." Guangguang also walked over.

"My name is Hammer." The traveler said and then looked at his companion, "Any news?"

"They're fighting." His companion looked a little anxious. For a traveler, watching a fight was probably an unbearable pain. He jumped onto the windowsill and looked over there.

"I can't see clearly." Ning Gu lay behind a wall and looked through the crack in the wall.

It was indeed difficult to see clearly, even though the entire main city was illuminated by the fire and the sun was still bright so it looked like it was noon, but the only things that could be seen amidst the thick smoke and flying debris were flashes of red and orange.

It can be seen from the web woven by the shooting that the battle was fierce.

Lei Yu led the cleanup team and cut in from the side alley behind them.

"They didn't copy the cleanup team," Lian Chuan turned around and looked at Lei Yu, "because the cleanup team had never attacked before."

"What else?" Lei Yu rushed to them.

"Ez is already in place. I just saw the transport truck passing by." Lian Chuan looked back at the terrain. "Ning Gu and I will go a little further. These copied things should have some connection with the dewdrop mother body. We need to find out what it is."

Lei Yu didn't say anything.

After a few seconds, he frowned and said, "If you two are copied..."

"If you have a copy, you can fight the copy," Ning Gu said, "There are countless people like me, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"I'll be careful," Lian Chuan whispered, "If they attack us, the cleanup team will retreat. Don't try to resist. We have limited energy. Wait until Chen Fei's supplies arrive."

"Your Aunt Chun asked me to tell you something," Lei Yu also whispered, "Alive."

Led by the team leader and Li Xiang, the travelers have dispersed in all directions, with several travelers in each group, accompanied by a team of puppet legions.

Lian Chuan also moved forward at a normal speed, with Ning Gu following behind him.

The team leader was at the front of all the "watching" teams. When he saw the two of them coming up, he frowned like Lei Yu, but didn't say anything.

"Is ez enabled?" Lian Chuan asked.

"The box was sent in," said the captain, "a minute ago."

"Let's go." Lian Chuan tilted his head towards Ning Gu.

Ning Gu glanced at the captain, walked past him hesitantly, and after running a few steps, he turned back and said, "Don't worry."

The captain waved at him.

Amid the huge buzzing sound of the raging fire, the sounds of fierce fighting could be clearly heard.

In addition to the sound of weapons firing through the air, there were also various shouts.

In the thick smoke, Lian Chuan saw the box containing EZ, which was already opened. Several green lights were flashing in the box, indicating that EZ had been activated and was waiting to be started.

Several city guards were hiding near the boxes. The red light coming from the front shattered the road surface around them, which was already broken beyond recognition.

Ning Gu saw several people walking out of the thick smoke.

Wearing the clothes of a city guard, wearing the goggles of a city guard, and holding the weapons of a city guard.

"Open fire!" the city guard hiding near the box shouted and started shooting at the same time.

"Really..." Ning Gu hid behind a pillar and shouted in a low voice, "They are exactly the same, how can we tell them apart!"

Lianchuan stared ahead, and a copy of the city guard was hit.

The moment he fell to the ground, it seemed as if some force dragged his body backwards, and then he saw a thin flash of silver light.

"Something is controlling them," Lianchuan said, "Did you see the injured fake city guard?"

"I saw it," Ning Gu said, "the fake ones are not good. A bullet in the shoulder will kill you."

Lian Chuan looked at him without saying anything.

Ning Gu also looked at Lian Chuan, and after a while he looked over there again, and said in shock: "Is he not dead?"

"Dead," Lian Chuan said, "There was something connected to him. He didn't die from the shoulder injury. Maybe the connection was broken... But that connection didn't seem to come from the dewdrop..."

"Why didn't I see it?" Ning Gu was shocked again. He felt like he was staring at the clone without blinking.

"It's very fast," Lianchuan said. "Ordinary people can't see it."

"You are not an ordinary person." Ning Gu said, "You are a powerful person."

"Yes." Lian Chuan replied.

"I find that you are quite thick-skinned." Ning Gu said.

"I never said I was handsome." Lian Chuan looked towards ez's box.

"Still copying!" the city guard shouted into the intercom, "There aren't many of them here, but they keep coming... They're easy to kill, but you can't kill them all..."

"You're pretty handsome." Ning Gu also stared at the box. He didn't want to miss any key information. "Why don't they release Ezreal?"

"We will also consider what to do if it is copied." Lian Chuan said, "I think we will release it."

"Ez will lose control and self-destruct, right?" Ning Gu said, "Even if it is copied, it will die if it doesn't attack."

"But it can be replicated further," Lian Chuan said, "it all depends on how crazy Liu Dong is."

"How crazy can it be?" Ning Gu asked in a low voice.

"Ez's combat power is far beyond the city guards and patrols. If at the end, Dewdrop is left with only Ez, which needs to be replicated constantly to maintain its combat power," Lian Chuan said, "as long as Liu Dong can ensure that he is the last person who can control Ez..."

"The transport vehicle can't get out," Captain Li stood beside Chen Fei anxiously, "Liu Dong's firepower is only on one side, and the ones near Area A are all copied city guards!"

"Force the charge," Chen Fei said, "We can get through the city by going around the Black Iron Wasteland. We must send the weapon energy to the Lost Valley no matter what. Only if we can preserve the combat effectiveness of the cleanup team and the travelers, we can form an encirclement of Dewdrop."

"The communication is connected!" someone shouted nearby.

"Connect to Lei Yu," Chen Fei pressed the intercom. A few seconds later he heard the "beep" sound of the channel being connected. "Captain Lei."

"Minister Chen." Lei Yu's voice came out.

"We are trying to send the supplies over," Chen Fei said, "How is the situation over there?"

"It's a bit chaotic," Lei Yu said, "It happened too suddenly. The cleanup team is fine, but I don't know how long the travelers will be stable. It's not their habit to wait and see what happens."

"Don't go in, stay outside," Chen Fei said, "Liu Dong is a lunatic, no one knows what he will do now..."

Suddenly, there was a sound of explosion from the direction of Luzhu.

This was a very familiar sound in Chen Fei's memory. The city guards' heavy weapon "Heavy Stone" would only be used when dealing with large-scale attacks by travelers.

Heavy stone opened fire in the center of the main city, whether attacking or defending, which would cause serious consequences due to its large range.

Chen Fei rushed out of the camp's shelter.

Half of the dewdrop has been wrapped in the red light net.

"He's crazy! Retreat!" Fade Chen yelled and pressed the intercom, "Lei Yu, lead your people to retreat. If Luzhu copies the heavy stone, your current position is very dangerous!"

"Are you going to give such a powerful weapon to Luzhu?" Ning Gu roared.

"Retreat!" Lian Chuan jumped up, "Let the travelers retreat!"

As Ning Gu let out a whistle, the walls of the ez loading box in front of him collapsed to the surroundings, and the ez in several loading boxes jumped out at the same time.

Like a black bullet wrapped in wind, it rushed towards the small bubbles around the dewdrops.

The city guard who just appeared in the bubble was cut in half by ez before he could raise his gun.

Then more ez jumped up to a high place and pounced on the dew drops, which were shattered by the red light of the heavy stone and exploded into black debris.

Then the second round of heavy stone attack was launched.

ez continued to rush out, repeatedly falling on the dewdrops and being smashed again.

Liu Dong probably wanted to use the special material of the ez experimental body to block the connection between the small bubbles and the dewdrops, but there was no way to verify whether this method was effective or not.

If these two rounds of powerful attacks were replicated by Luzhu, half of the main city’s armed forces at Luzhu’s location would be destroyed immediately.

"Mad man." Ning Gu said.

The dewdrops sparkled with white light.

Lian Chuan grabbed Ning Gu's hand, and then Ning Gu felt himself flying into the air.

Between the possibility of being copied and staying alive, Lian Chuan decisively chose to live first.

But the dewdrops did not attack. As the white light flashed, the small bubbles around them even began to shrink, and then they hovered quietly in the air.

"I feel..." Ning Gu said, "something is... wrong."

"What?" Lian Chuan jumped onto the roof.

When he jumped from the air to the roof of the building next to him, a person appeared in the middle of the road under his feet.

No, not alone.

It's a shadow.

It looks like a projected image, and you can even see blurred boundaries and flashing lights.

Lian Chuan stopped on the roof.

"What do you feel?" He looked at Ning Gu.

"I can't tell," Ning Gu frowned, "Did you see anything?"

"There's a person on the street," Lianchuan said, "like a projected image."

"Is that it?" Ning Gu looked behind him.

When Lian Chuan turned around, he had already pulled Ning Gu off the rooftop and took the nearest road towards the Lost Valley.

The projection-like image appeared again in front of him on the right, in the ruins of a house with only one wall left.

"It's me." Ning Gu said.

"It's not you." Lian Chuan accelerated and rushed through the crack where flames were jumping.

"It's not a copy of me," Ning Gu's voice was a little dazed, "It's another me."

Although Lian Chuan still has a limiter on his neck and his current speed is still beyond the reach of any experimental subject, the projection always flashes in a direction parallel to him.

This thing is chasing them.

Lian Chuan's speed was not enough to shake him off.

"Ning Gu," Lian Chuan squeezed Ning Gu's hand hard, "We need to get rid of him."

"Yeah." Ning Gu responded.

Betelgeuse, wake up.

receive.

The dark shadow of Betelgeuse passed over the rooftop like a drop of ink passing through the sky.

The projection flashed back and forth on the ruins several times.

Then it disappeared.

Lian Chuan's intercom rang, and Lei Yu's voice came: "Where are you?"

"Go to Lost Valley immediately," Lian Chuan replied, "Ning Valley has been targeted by Lu Zhu, we can't stay outside any longer, have we all evacuated?"

"They have retreated, and the travelers have also retreated," Lei Yu said, "The dewdrops' attack has stopped."

"It won't stop," Lian Chuan said, "It's looking for Ning Gu."

"Is Lost Valley safe?" Lei Yu asked.

"This is the place in the main city with the strongest spiritual power," Lian Chuan said, "If it's not safe here, there's nowhere else to hide."

"Betelgeuse," Jiuyi moved his fingers and slowly raised his head, "entering the Lost Valley."

"Boss," Fulu shouted from the cave entrance, "Boss, are you awake?"

"Boss, are you awake?" Suki shouted.

"Are you blind?" Jiu Yi said.

"It's the boss!" Fu Lu Shouxi shouted in surprise, rushed into the cave and threw himself at Jiuyi's feet.

"Let's take you off!" Fulu shouted.

"We can't pick it," Suki reminded him, "it's the thorn of Betelgeuse."

"Get out of the way." Jiu Yi said.

Fulukushouxi jumped to the side.

Jiuyi slowly arched his body and slid himself out from the thorns stuck in the wall of the cave.

When they landed, Lian Chuan and Ning Gu rushed into the cave.

"Nine Wings?" Ning Gu looked at him.

"Yeah." Jiuyi stood up. The black wound caused by Betelgeuse was clearly visible, and the place where his shoulder was pierced could even be seen as a hole.

"Dewdrop is a spiritual entity." Lianchuan said.

Jiu Yi looked at him: "Spirit body? Isn't it just a copying machine?"

"I see me," Ning Gu said, "Dew is chasing us."

Jiu Yi didn't say anything, just looked at them.

"Jiu Yi!" Ning Gu walked up to him and stared at him, "Wake up! Don't you want to live? Then live! What are you thinking about?"

"That's not a scavenger." Jiu Yi said.

"The destruction you saw," Lianchuan said, "had no dew, did it?"

"Dewdrops have nothing to do with destruction." Jiuyi said this with certainty.

The three of them fell silent at the same time.

Lianchuan and Ninggu had seen the world where the scavengers appeared and the dark shadows rushing out of the fire, but they had not seen any dewdrops or anything that looked like dewdrops.

"The destruction has nothing to do with Ning Gu," Jiu Yi said, "and has nothing to do with Ye Xi."

"It's just a set ending, and these elements are not necessary," Lian Chuan said.

"Yes." Jiu Yi said.

"What are those dewdrops?" Lian Chuan asked.

"What are dewdrops?" Ning Gu asked.

"Are you Fu Lu Shou Xi?" Jiu Yi asked.

"I'm your father!" Ning Gu glared at him, "Watch your words!"

"What's wrong with us!" Frue cried, "We don't want to be you!"

"That's not what I meant." Ning Gu was reminded of Fulu's broken leg when he saw him, and he immediately felt bad. "You guys are great."

"Yes." Suki nodded.

"Luzhu is another Ninggu," Jiuyi said, "another world."

Ning Gu looked at Jiu Yi.

"What did you say," Jiu Yi looked at him, "You don't make choices, right?"

"If I don't make a choice, my world will exist forever," Ning Gu said, "I am the exit."

"Some people think the same way," Lian Chuan said, "You can be the end or the beginning."

"You mean..." Ning Gu was silent for a long time, and finally came up with an answer that he himself could not believe, "There are other 'Ning Gu' who made the same decision as me... Then why come here? This is my world! They just need to guard their own world!"

"What if we fail?" Lian Chuan said, "What if... they find the other side of the world?"