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"Apart from Lian Chuan coming out, are there any other changes in Luzhu?" Liu Dong was sitting in the command vehicle. The people he brought out were setting up a base outside. The place he was retreating to now was the location of the training department's spare warehouse that he had occupied at the beginning. There were many materials that could be used for protection.
However, he brought a lot of people with him, plus the ones Xiao Lin brought, it was impossible to protect them all. The current defense basically only ensures the safety of the command center.
All the unused ez items are also kept in the loading box.
Xiao Lin was very dissatisfied with this, thinking that he didn't care about the lives of these people. He even protected Ez, but left living people outside ready to die at any time.
But for Liu Dong, the main city weapons that have little killing power against scavengers are far less valuable than the ez that can tear the scavengers apart.
"No changes," someone reported to him from outside the car, "and the cracks haven't increased. I guess Lian Chuan did something to interfere with the scavengers. As long as we can handle these, the main city will probably be saved."
"Then the next step is our battle with Chen Fei's alliance," Liu Dong said, "How much of the weapon modification has been completed?"
"Almost half," the person outside the car said, "Now we can basically completely target the travelers and destroy at least two of their defense capabilities."
"Only two?" Liu Dong frowned, "Do you know how many kinds of defense capabilities they have?"
"There's not enough energy, the technical conditions are not met, and there are not enough references. There are too many restrictions," the person outside the car sighed. "The weapon was originally only required to increase damage against travelers, and it also had to be effective against experimental subjects and various redundancies and bugs. Now, with such a short time, this is all we can do."
"Okay," Liu Dong waved his hand. "Dew's position is still unclear, but no matter what it is, we can keep the same position with it first, and then put an information recorder in it after an hour to express our willingness to cooperate."
"Understood." The person outside walked away.
"What is a recorder?" Xiao Lin's voice came from the back seat of the car.
"Don't you know what a recorder is?" Liu Dong looked back at him.
"What does it mean to put a recorder in a dewdrop?" Xiao Lin said, "What does it mean to express a willingness to cooperate?"
"It means exactly what it says," Liu Dong said. "Is there any other explanation?"
"You didn't tell me that you wanted to cooperate with Luzhu," Xiao Lin said, "Our goal is to drive away the scavengers and seize the hegemony of the new world. How did Luzhu copy and kill people? Why do you want to cooperate with Luzhu?"
"At the beginning, I really didn't think about cooperation," Liu Dong said. "I didn't even think about whether the Scavengers could be defeated at first, but you saw how strong Ninggu is, how strong Betelgeuse is, how strong the Traveler is, how strong their puppets are, and even the Lost Valley that we didn't consider. Did you think that Jiuyi would leave the Lost Valley? The Cleanup Team and Chen Fei have joined forces with them. Have you thought about it?"
"We can..." Xiao Lin was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"We can't do that," Liu Dong said. "We have to join forces from the beginning. If we don't cooperate at the beginning, it will be impossible to cooperate again. What's the benefit of cooperation for us? Don't you understand? No matter whether the main city is safe or the exit is found in the end, the next leader will be either Ning Gu or Lian Chuan. What should we do?"
Xiao Lin didn't say anything.
"Even if there is no destruction, in this chaotic world, if you don't stand above everyone else, don't hold the highest power, and don't control the most resources," Liu Dong looked forward, "you will be living a life worse than death."
"You are so scary." Xiao Lin said.
"It's not terrible. It's just ambition. Everyone has it," Liu Dong said. "It's just that there's no opportunity."
Xiao Lin was silent for a while, then opened the car door and got out.
Liu Dong looked at his back, knocked on the car window, and someone came over.
"Keep an eye on Commander Xiao," Liu Dong said, "and report to me when he leaves the base."
The black iron barriers blown out by the molten fire pipes isolated the scavengers in relatively small areas. Now that the scavengers were out of control, the difficulty of clearing them one by one was much lower than before.
The large machinery dispatched by Chen Fei has begun to demolish the ground of the main city under the cover of the travelers, uncovering the black iron layer beneath the ground.
Ning Gu really wanted to go back to the wasteland to see the battle situation of the puppet army and see what was happening with E.
But the main city still needed his and Lian Chuan's assistance. He could only grit his teeth and work with Lian Chuan to continuously turn over the black iron layer and cut off the scavengers' passage so that the refugees who were still stranded near Area C could safely reach the camp set up by Chen Fei.
No one asked him to go back to command the puppet army, which means E is still alive.
Liu Dong and his troops have completely withdrawn from the battle, which is the second thing that worries him.
"When you came out of the dewdrop," Ning Gu raised his hand, and a large golden light enveloped the large number of scavengers rushing out of the fire in front. Several travelers followed and quickly began to clean up the scavengers that escaped. Ning Gu glanced at Lian Chuan and said, "What does the dewdrop look like? We didn't see it when we went in. We went straight into the code wind tunnel."
"It's hard to explain," Lian Chuan said, "Like the memory galaxy of Ye Xi that we saw before, there are many small dewdrops, maybe they store things, people, things, and memories from their world, but I can't access the consciousness in the small dewdrops, only you can."
"If we want to destroy them," Ning Gu looked in the direction of the dew, "we should do it before they are released from the dew into our world."
"When the scavengers are almost done with the encirclement, we can give it a try," Lian Chuan said, "If Liu Dong wants to borrow the power of the dew, he will probably have made almost all the contact by then. It may be too late if we delay any longer."
After clearing two more streets, Ning Gu's injury, which had just healed a little, became more severe. He looked at Lian Chuan with some frustration: "Didn't you just say it was very painful and unbearable? How come you are fine?"
"There was no serious injury." Lian Chuan said.
"I didn't suffer any serious injuries," Ning Gu said, "I just fired a few shots."
"If it were someone else, he would have been killed by those shots," Lian Chuan said, "Your ribs must have been broken too."
"You still know?" When Ning Gu mentioned this, he could still remember Lian Chuan rushing in front of him and punching him. He couldn't help but press his chest, "But I've never encountered such a thing before, and my body wasn't in the dew, so how could I be injured like this?"
"You don't have any external injuries on your body," Lian Chuan said, "This injury is originally in your consciousness."
"Just like my consciousness tells me that sugar is sweet, so it is sweet," Ning Gu said, "my consciousness tells me that I am hurt, and I can feel it."
"Let's go there." Lian Chuan saw a destroyed yard next to it and a building that had collapsed and only half of it was left.
He paused.
"Hmm?" Ning Gu asked.
"That's... the dormitory of the cleanup team." Lian Chuan said.
"Do you live there?" Ning Gu asked.
"Yeah." Lian Chuan responded.
"Did it collapse?" Ning Gu asked again immediately.
"No," Lian Chuan pointed, "The curtains are still there... If the sleeping cabin is still there, I wonder if it can help you recover."
"No need, I tell myself now that I'm not injured." Ning Gu said.
Lian Chuan looked at him.
Ning Gu hesitated for a second, then turned and walked over there: "Okay, let's go and take a look."
"What are you looking at?" Lian Chuan was stunned.
"I don't know," Ning Gu said, "You've seen my house. My house is so interesting. Let me see yours."
Lian Chuan followed him and took him into the half-collapsed building.
This place is relatively better preserved than other places. After all, it is the dormitory of the cleaning team. Even if all the members of the cleaning team have slept on the Black Iron Wasteland outside the Lost Valley, it is still somewhat intimidating to many people.
Even the door of Lianchuan's room was still closed, but the window was broken and the curtains were covered with dust.
After opening the room, Ning Gu smelled a scent of dust.
But the empty house still surprised him: "Has everything been emptied?"
"What is it?" Lian Chuan asked.
"It's just... all kinds of things." Ning Gu didn't know how to describe it. "Don't you have something you like? You will take it back home and keep it."
Lian Chuan seemed to be thinking, and after a while he answered affirmatively: "No."
"Well, you... really didn't have the mood to like anything before," Ning Gu slowly walked around his room, "I miss my little house a little bit. I don't know what it has become. It has already collapsed."
"There may be no scavengers in a ghost town." Lian Chuan glanced at him.
"I thought so too," Ning Gu said, "That's why I was sent to the ghost town. However, the car never came. Ye Xi said there has never been a ghost town. Does that mean the ghost town no longer exists for the main city?"
"I don't know." Lian Chuan walked to the sleeping cabin and pressed a few times. "If we save this world this time, the ghost town will lose its necessity to exist for us. It may never be connected to the main city again."
"I really miss Uncle Feng." Ning Gu lowered his head, "And Lin Fan, I don't know what happened to that old man Di Wang..."
The door of the sleeping cabin opened, Lian Chuan turned and looked at Ning Gu: "Go in and give it a try."
"You go in," Ning Gu said, "The things in your main city are always petty. You can't use anything without a certain status."
Lian Chuan grabbed his hand and shook it, a small spot of light flashed on the back of his hand: "We are married, so it should be okay."
"How long are you going to lie down?" Ning Gu leaned half of his body into the sleeping cabin and looked up and down.
"Set it to 0.5 and see if it helps with your injury," Lian Chuan said.
"Yeah." Ning Gu entered the sleeping cabin and lay down.
Lian Chuan squeezed in and lay down next to him.
"Didn't you ask me to treat your injuries?" Ning Gu turned his head and looked at him.
"I'm afraid of accidents," Lian Chuan said, "The system will use the sleeping cabin to clear the memories we shouldn't have."
"The system no longer exists, and the administrators are gone," Ning Gu said. "Besides, I don't think anyone can control me now."
Lian Chuan sat up.
"What for?" Ning Gu asked.
"I'm going out." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu laughed, held his arm, and laughed for a long time before saying, "That's not what I meant. I just want you to stop worrying."
Lian Chuan lay back down beside him: "I'm not too worried, I just don't want any accidents."
The sleeping cabin was closed and the lights in it were turned off.
"There won't be any more accidents," Ning Gu said in the darkness, "We have already survived all the accidents."
"Yeah," Lian Chuan responded, "Do you feel anything? Do you want to sleep?"
"I don't want to," Ning Gu said, "I just feel very comfortable lying down. I haven't lay down like this for a long time."
"Then lie down for a while." Lian Chuan said.
"When all this is over," Ning Gu said, "the Scavengers are gone, the Dewdrops are gone, where are we going? Are you going to stay in the main city?"
"I haven't thought about it yet," Lian Chuan said, "where do you want to go?"
"I told you not to laugh." Ning Gu said.
"Yeah." Lian Chuan responded.
"I want to keep walking," Ning Gu said, "I want to go to the edge of the Black Iron Wasteland, the end of the world, no matter what, I still want to go and see the world I have lived in, the world that everyone has paid so much to leave behind. I want to know what it looks like. Is it really just black iron..."
"Okay." Lian Chuan said.
"Are you going?" Ning Gu asked.
"Go." Lian Chuan said.
"Do you think there will be anyone else who wants to go with us?" Ning Gu thought for a moment, "Jiu Yi, other travelers, people from the cleanup team, if Ding Zi... can wake up, he will definitely want to go with us."
"Without Nine Wings," Lian Chuan said, "anyone else will do."
Ning Gu laughed and touched his ribs while laughing: "Hey, it doesn't hurt so much anymore."
"It's still somewhat useful," Lian Chuan said.
"Why not bring Jiuyi?" Ning Gu said, "He's quite powerful. It's safer with him."
"He also wants to bring Fu Lu Shou Xi, which is too noisy." Lian Chuan said.
The light in the sleeping cabin suddenly lit up.
A mechanical female voice came out: "Call message."
"What..." Before Ning Gu finished asking, Jiu Yi's voice was heard in the cabin.
"Lianchuan! Ninggu! Chunsan and Longbiao can't be contacted anymore. I'm on my way there."
Lian Chuan opened the hatch and jumped out almost as soon as Jiu Yi uttered the first word of this sentence.
Ning Gu quickly followed and jumped out: "Long Biao took Aunt Chun to check the communication."
"It's right at the edge of Area A, not far away," Lian Chuan rushed out the door, "There are no cracks, no scavengers, and it has been isolated."
"Liu Dong?" Ning Gu followed behind him.
"That's what I'm afraid of." Lian Chuan jumped out of the corridor and rushed into the equipment warehouse on the first floor. He found an A01 covered in dust and crushed by a collapsed floor. "Get up."
Ning Gu jumped into the car.
He touched Lian Chuan's waist and found that the wound he had stabbed seemed to have begun to heal. He breathed a sigh of relief.
"Put your hands on yourself." Lian Chuan said as he started the A01. Amid the roar of the engine, they broke through half of the broken wall and rushed out.
"Let me see your wounds!" Ning Gu lowered his voice, "How much do you think I want to touch you? If I touch you, you'll be covered in wounds!"
a01 climbed vertically along a wall, then leaped into the air. With a flash of blue light, Lian Chuan activated the vehicle-mounted weapons.
The wind blew violently beside Ning Gu's ears, and Ning Gu took out his goggles and put them on.
After hesitating for a moment, he took it off again and wanted to put it on Lianchuan's head.
"No need," Lian Chuan said, "I can find the way even with my eyes closed."
Ning Gu put the goggles back on his face.
Is it a big deal to close your eyes
The communication posts between the main city and Lost Valley were all charred.
Even if the system was overhauled during the spring, communications must have been interrupted again and would not be restored in a short period of time.
There was no one around, no scavengers, and no Liu Dong's men.
When the Nine Wings landed, there were only three of them in sight.
"This belongs to Long Biao." Lian Chuan got out of the car, walked to the communication post, and picked up a silver sign.
To be honest, he was extremely annoyed now. All of everyone's attention was on the chaos caused by the scavengers. There were no scavengers here, and with Long Biao's escort, even he didn't give it much thought.
It really doesn't suit his style.
"Both the people and the car are gone?" Jiuyi looked around again.
Lian Chuan reached out and touched the destroyed communication post, rubbing the black burnt ash on his hands.
"This is the weapon of the main city," Lian Chuan said, "but it is not a regular weapon and does not belong to any team."
"What do you mean?" Jiu Yi asked, "Has it been modified?"
"Yes." Lian Chuan glanced at Lu Zhu, "This is the message Liu Dong left for us. He has better weapons and hostages."
"I'll go and get the person." Ning Gu said.
"I have to go," Lian Chuan said, "He won't want you. He can't control you and won't let you into his territory."
"He can't control me even when I'm outside." Ning Gu said.
"How about I go?" Jiu Yi said.
Neither Lian Chuan nor Ning Gu said anything.
"So, Lian Chuan should go," Jiu Yi said, "Liu Dong wants Lian Chuan. Lian Chuan is in his hands. Ning Gu won't dare to act rashly. If Ning Gu doesn't dare to move, then we won't dare to move either."
"So we're giving him a weak spot? Are we sick?" Ning Gu said.
"Someone has to find out their situation. Do they have any shameless deals with Luzhu? Does Luzhu have any flaws?" Jiuyi looked at him. "Can you kill Luzhu in one second? You can't. As long as you can't, we need to have more information to be foolproof. The Scavenger hasn't finished its outbreak yet, and we don't know how long E can hold out. If you leave, what if E is finished? Who will command so many puppets?"
"You talk so much." Ning Gu sighed.
"It's a rare opportunity to eliminate the strongest hyena," Jiu Yi said, "I can say twice as much."
"You spoke your mind." Ning Gu said.
"Yes." Jiu Yi said.
"Throw me over there," Lian Chuan glanced at Jiu Yi, "and get close to Lu Zhu to see if there are any changes."
"Yeah." Jiuyi nodded.
"Drive A01 to find the travelers," Lian Chuan looked at Ning Gu, "and tell them to hide. Liu Dong may have stronger weapons against travelers."
"Yeah." Ning Gu responded very reluctantly.
"Then go back to Lost Valley." Lianchuan said.
"What for?" Ning Gu asked.
"Have some sleep," Lian Chuan looked at him, "You have to find me, just like the first time you saw Betelgeuse."
Ning Gu understood what he meant: "Okay, I'll win every time I gamble."
"I will win every bet." Lian Chuan grabbed his hand and shook it, and a small spot of light flashed.
"Ah..." Jiuyi turned his head away, "Call me after you're done saying goodbye."
"Let's go." Lian Chuan let go of Ning Gu's hand, turned around and rushed towards Luzhu.
Jiuyi ran a few steps, jumped up, spread his wings, chased after Lianchuan, pulled him into the air, and soon disappeared in the smoke.