We must trust Xing Bi. This trip to Donglin Town, from survival safety to the route ahead and whether we can arrive alive, every step depends on Xing Bi.
Qiu Shi suddenly realized deeply the huge difference between humans and biochemical bodies.
After it was completely dark, he glanced at Xing Bi who was still driving and asked, "Do you need a rest?"
"Not now," Xing Bi said, "Just go to sleep."
"How much gas is left in this car?" Qiu Shi asked.
"If the car is still in the same place when we return, we can drive back to Yuncheng." Xing Bi said.
"Yeah." Qiu Shi closed his eyes and laid the seat flat.
I was quite sleepy and the road was much smoother than before, but now that I had decided to go to bed, I couldn't fall asleep.
"When no one is talking to you, do you think about anything?" Qiu Shi asked with his eyes closed.
"I do." Xing Bi said.
"So what were you thinking about just now?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Why are you wiping your hands with my clothes?" Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi opened his eyes and was stunned for a while before he laughed: "Really? I'm used to it."
"Are you used to wiping your hands on other people?" Xing Bi said.
"Yeah." Qiu Shi rested his head on his arm, "Have you figured out why?"
"You subconsciously consider me as a friend." Xing Bi said.
"Don't be ridiculous," Qiu Shi said, "You first-level biochemical bodies are so confident..."
"Will you wipe your hands on Li Feng?" Xing Bi asked.
Qiu Shi looked at him.
"Or Zhang Qifeng? Colonel Xu?" Xing Bi continued to ask, "Mr. Long?"
"I'm sick!" said Qiu Shi.
"You wiped your hands on Zhao Lu's clothes," Xing Bi said, "and you might have wiped your hands on Hu Xiaoling's clothes as well."
Qiu Shi was silent.
Although he had never thought about this problem seriously, it seemed to be the case.
"You only wipe your hands on people you are familiar with and trust," Xing Bi said, "It may not be completely accurate, but... 99.7 percent."
"Is Deng Yeye's finger coming again?" Qiu Shi said.
Xing Bi paused for a moment and suddenly laughed.
The laugh sounded relaxed, came from the heart, was natural and joyful, and Qiu Shi couldn't help but laugh along.
It took him a long time to stop talking, and he let out a long sigh: "You are actually quite boring, thinking about everything."
"I'm used to it," Xing Bi said, "Time passes very slowly. The easiest way to make it go faster is to think... to ponder."
"It's the only thing we can do," Qiu Shi thought of the hibernation capsule Xing Bi mentioned before, "Your hibernation capsule, it's called a hibernation capsule, shouldn't it be dormant?"
"Yes." Xing Bi said.
"What is it?" Qiu Shi asked.
"The body is dormant," Xing Bi said, "but the brain is not."
"What kind of setting is this..." Qiu Shi said, "It's a bit too inhumane."
"It's better to be awake," Xing Bi said, "there is no unknown."
Qiu Shi glanced at him, and finally didn't know what to say: "I'll take a nap, call me when you need to rest."
"Yeah." Xing Bi nodded.
This section of road is at the junction of the forest area and the mudflat, so the car drives much smoother than before, and the bumps caused by the uneven ground begin to become softer, with the cushioning from the mud.
This feeling is quite suitable for sleeping.
When Qiu Shi woke up, he looked at the time and found that he had slept for about three hours.
It's a bit outrageous. Normally he rarely sleeps for such a long time continuously. He always wakes up from falling asleep repeatedly.
The car was parked at the moment, and Xing Bi was actually leaning on the driver's seat with his eyes closed. He looked like he was sleeping soundly, but I don't know if he was really asleep or just like he said, his body was sleeping while his mind was wondering why he was rubbing his hand on his sleeve.
However, Qiu Shi noticed that he had earphones in his ears, the wired kind.
Following the line, I saw the old man's small metal stick for listening to music. When Qiu Shi returned to the house, he threw it on the table together with the small rechargeable gadget and forgot about it afterwards.
Xing Bi not only charged it, but also brought it out.
Qiu Shiting wanted to hear what kind of music was in it and what was good about it so that he could take it with him and listen to it on the road.
For Qiu Shi, his first reaction when talking about music is Mr. Long's blessings that come from the loudspeakers in the outer city during the city celebration every year. The music in the background sounds cheerful with its tinkling sounds, but as soon as Mr. Long opens his mouth, he feels depressed.
He hesitated for a moment but still didn't say anything. Xing Bi looked too much like he was asleep, so he decided to get off the car and pee.
Just as he opened the car door and before he stepped out, Xing Bi suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm: "Where are you going?"
"I'll go find your ancestors!" Qiu Shi was shocked. "Where are you looking for the prisoner?"
Xing Bi took off his headphones, seemed to be listening to the noise, then glanced at him and said, "Going to the bathroom?"
"So polite," Qiu Shi shook off his hand and got out of the car, "Just pee, there's no toilet for me to use in the middle of nowhere..."
"Go to the front of the car." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi stopped and stared at him: "You don't have any fetishes, right?"
"Don't close the car door." Xing Bi said.
"Okay," Qiu Shi nodded, walked around to the front of the car, and looked at Xing Bi in the cab, "As long as you don't mind, I'll stand on the front of the car and pee for you."
"I can't see it from here." Xing Bi leaned back in his chair.
Qiu Shi clicked his tongue. Actually, he didn't want to say so much nonsense, but after getting out of the car, the sudden drop in temperature around him, the damp and earthy air, these strange smells that were completely different from those near Yuncheng made him feel uneasy.
Talk to Xing Bi for a while to make him less nervous.
After peeing, he quickly returned to the car. As soon as he sat down, Xing Bi threw a gun on his legs.
"Huh?" Qiu Shi was a little confused, but he immediately picked up the gun and checked it.
"Someone is coming." Xing Bi said.
"Which direction?" Qiu Shi slid down and used the back of the chair to cover his body.
"Directly behind us," Xing Bi said, "there are still two hundred meters, five to seven people, with weapons."
"People?" Qiu Shi asked.
“Both,” Xing Bi said, “I can’t tell which one is which.”
"Can't you feel something else..." Qiu Shi turned sideways and looked back over the edge of the chair, but under the not-so-bright starlight, he couldn't see anything more than fifty meters away.
"It's not a symbiote," Xing Bi said, "it's a first-level biochemical organism, but I don't know if it's a latent guard."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything. To him, there was not much difference between symbiotes and non-symbiotes, but there was still a big difference between a first-level ordinary biochemical body and a first-level stealth guard.
Just when he was about to ask Xing Bixi whether he wanted to open the map, several bright lights suddenly burst out in the darkness behind him, followed by a burst of gunfire.
The car body is bulletproof, but the explosion when it is hit still makes your ears buzz.
"Six." Xing Bi said, opened the car door and got out. Almost at the same time as the second burst of gunfire, he opened the back door of the car, used the door as cover, and fired two shots.
Qiu Shi didn't have the speed to ensure that he wouldn't be shot in the head immediately after getting out of the car and could open the back door. Fortunately, the seat was still flat. He rushed over to open the back door, then turned around and jumped out from the passenger seat.
The car was turned off, and Qiu Shi didn't dare turn on the headlights at this moment, as it would expose his exact position. He fired a shot in that direction, and the other party followed up with another volley of bullets, sweeping the car door in front of him.
With the help of the light from the shooting, he found that the other party was not just armed, but armed.
Xing Bi's two shots should have killed two people. Now there are still four people that can be seen clearly. Two of them are in the front, each holding a huge thing like a transparent shield, blocking the people behind them very well.
The two people at the back were carrying several guns and towing a strangely shaped small "car" behind them, which looked like the sleds seen in old pictures, except that this car was not pulling people, but something that looked very similar to a small artillery piece.
"Legs." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi lowered the muzzle of his gun and fired at the same time as Xing Bi, firing two rounds at their calves.
When the two people in the front knelt down, they suddenly pushed the large transparent shield to the ground, and the shield was still blocking.
Just when Qiu Shi was planning to find an opportunity to hit the man behind him on the head, the person next to the car suddenly tapped the small cannon, as if pressing a switch.
There was no fire, and there was no sound at that moment.
But at this moment, Qiu Shi felt a sense of suffocation and a sharp tinnitus rang in his ears, as if someone had hit him on the head with a stick, and then he knew nothing.
The old man said that before a person dies, there will be a scrolling screen, and everything you have experienced since childhood will flash before your eyes.
"Don't be afraid that you will forget something, you will remember it when you die," said the old man.
At that time, Qiu Shi even looked forward to dying.
I should be dying now, but there is nothing, nothing but black chaos, no picture, no sound...
No, there were still sounds, very muffled ones, coming from far away, a messy sound separated by layers of chaos, someone was talking.
Just as Qiu Shi was trying hard to hear clearly, someone slapped him in the face.
Your ancestors!
No one in his life has ever dared to come up and hit him in the face!
"Fuck your ancestors." Qiu Shi cursed and heard his own voice.
Then his eyes suddenly lit up, and a woman's voice came clearly into his ears: "He's awake, give him some water."
A pipe was poked at his mouth, poking and rubbing at the corner of his mouth.
Qiu Shi was immediately furious, and when he opened his eyes he blurted out: "Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll..."
"You don't know what's good for you!" someone cursed, then punched him in the stomach.
His stomach suddenly churned. Qiu Shi gritted his teeth and resisted the urge to retch. He waited until the suffocating dizziness passed and he finally woke up completely.
This is a muddy wetland. You can see grass and hear the sound of water, but it is not flowing water, but still water.
swamp
Unable to move his hands and feet, he was tied to a wooden frame with his hands raised flat on the ground.
There were three men standing in front of a fire, a woman sitting next to them, and two people lying at his feet.
Six people, Xing Bi’s judgment was correct.
Where is Xing Bi!
Qiu Shi suddenly raised his head. Where is Xing Bi
Xing Bi
When Qiu Shi saw Xing Bishi sitting on a chair opposite him on the other side of the fire, looking at him, he was completely stunned.
Xing Bi's hands and feet were not tied like him, but he had two thin steel ropes on his body. He could even sit back in the chair in a posture that looked somewhat comfortable.
"Xing Bi?" Qiu Shi tried to call him.
Xing Bi didn't answer, just looked at him.
"Very dedicated," the woman by the fire stood up and slowly walked to him, "The first thing he did when he woke up was to check on his partner. He is indeed a kite flyer."
Qiu Shi took a look and saw that the woman was very young, with fair and delicate skin. She was in stark contrast to the scars on the faces of the men next to her who were obviously exposed to the wind and sun.
This is a biochemical entity.
"Xing Bi," Qiu Shi looked from her ear to Xing Bi over there, "How are you?"
“He’s fine,” the woman said, “He just won’t accept your control anymore.”
WTF
Qiu Shi's gaze fell back on her face.
The woman looked him in the eye calmly and said, "I'll give you one minute to remove the restrictions on your partner's abilities."
Qiu Shi really didn't understand. He had no idea what had happened since the tinnitus beside the car just now.
What to release
A man swung a stick and hit Qiu Shi in the stomach.
“… Fuck you.” Qiu Shi felt like his stomach was about to be smashed out of his throat, and tears welled up in his eyes from the pain.
Capacity limitations
Did I limit Xing Bi's abilities myself
The man swung the stick again.
At this moment, Qiu Shi no longer felt any pain, he just felt like vomiting.
Man flying a kite.
He looked at Xing Bi.
Finally he realized that those gestures the woman was talking about were the gestures he used to control his submersible partner.
But he never used it.
Xing must be pretending.
Fuck.
Why was he pretending? Was he defeated? Was he injured? Or...
In this situation, he didn't believe that Xing Bi would cheat him, but Xing Bi said nothing, his eyes were calm, even cold, and he just looked at him. He admitted that for a second he thought Xing Bi wanted to take this opportunity to kill him and then run away.
But he soon realized that Xing Bi would never use such a trick as it was too easy to be discovered. He only needed to deny it and actually control Xing Bi to prove it.
There is only one possibility, Xing Bi is pretending, and it is possible that he really cannot move, otherwise he would not pretend to be restricted.
"Yes," Qiu Shi nodded, looking at the man holding the stick and preparing to hit him again, "Two more hits, just kill me, and he will sit there forever and never get up again."
The woman stopped the man with the stick who was about to attack.
“Even if he can never leave,” the woman looked at Qiu Shi, “we will not give up on him. You can die slowly here.”
Qiu Shi didn't say anything and looked at Xing Bi.
Suddenly I found that the two steel ropes on Xing Bi seemed to be looser than before.
The woman also looked back at this time.
"Are all biochemical beings so childish?" Qiu Shi asked.
The woman turned back to look at him.
"You are just tools of humans," Qiu Shi continued, "Your emotions and thoughts are all given to you by humans. Now you look back and think of yourself as a human being?"
"How arrogant." said the woman in a calm tone.
The man with the stick next to him swung his stick again.
Qiu Shi almost couldn't breathe, and his previously injured ribs began to hurt as well.
Xing Bi, hurry up, you'd better really think of a way to escape.
"The control system is behind his neck," Xing Bi suddenly said, "Dig it out."
Several people looked at Qiu Shi at the same time.
“It should be possible,” the woman said, “If you really don’t want to cooperate, just dig it out.”
Fuck | your ancestor Xing Bi!
The other two men by the fire also stood up, turned around and walked towards Qiu Shi, and one of them even drew a knife from his waist.
Xing Bi, what the hell are you thinking about!
Xing Bi moved, and the steel rope on his body slipped down.
As he stood up, he raised his hand and swung the steel rope out. The buckle at the other end of the steel rope left a thin streak of light in the fire, drew an arc in the air, and went around the necks of the two men beside the fire.
Then Xing Bi pulled it back suddenly.
The steel rope passed neatly between the necks of the two men.
There was only a slight "pop" sound, and not even the sound of the bone being cut.
When the woman turned around, two headless corpses were slowly kneeling down in front of her.
The knife in one of the corpses' hands had been taken by Xing Bi, who held it against the back of her neck.
The man with the stick reacted quickly. He pulled out the gun from his waist and pointed it at Xing Bi.
But half of Xing Bi's body was behind the woman. In the one second when he wanted to aim, Xing Bi pulled out the woman's gun and shot him without any pause.
Right in the middle of the eyebrows.
"Why?" The woman tilted her head, trying to look at Xing Bi, "Humans are not friends."
Xing Bi said nothing as the knife stabbed into the back of her neck.
The woman fell to the ground, and Xing Bi raised his leg and stepped on the back of her neck.
The sound of shattering was heard, just like the first time he saw Xing Bi in the dense forest, decisive and calm.
The surroundings were quiet. In just a dozen seconds, the only people and biological bodies left standing were Xing Bi and Qiu Shi, who was still tied to the wooden rack.
Xing Bi came over and cut the rope on the rack.
The weight of his entire body suddenly fell down, and Qiu Shi felt a sharp pain in his body and almost fell to his knees.
Xing Bi stretched out his hands to hold him, dragged him to the fire, hooked his feet over a chair and let him sit down.
Qiu Shi didn't say anything. He was even a little dazed. He didn't know what to say, and it seemed that he had nothing to say.
This was the first time he saw Xing Bi kill someone like this.
Precise and decisive.
It's completely different from the state during the mission.
Xing Bi didn't say anything. He turned over the corpses on the ground, took out the small cube from behind their necks, and threw it into the fire.
What surprised Qiu Shi was that except for the female biochemical body, the other men also had that small square on their bodies.
That small square was also on these human corpses that were splattered with blood.
"Aren't they human?" Qiu Shi asked.
"He's a human being, he's been reformed," Xing Bi took the bottle of water that the others had given Qiu Shi, "Would you like some water?"
"… I don't want to drink," Qiu Shi said. He didn't want to ask about the transformation anymore. He had a vague feeling that Li Feng and the others must know about it, and Director Wu might be able to do it too. He frowned, "I don't have an appetite."
Xing Bi opened the bottle cap, poured the water on his hands and washed away the blood.
"Were you really unable to move just now?" Qiu Shi asked.
"It can move," Xing Bi glanced at the cannon placed aside, "but that thing also has an effect on biological bodies. I need time to recover. There are many of them. We must deal with them all at once so that we don't have a chance to kill you."
Qiu Shi looked at him, and when he wanted to speak, he felt his stomach churning again. The pain was so severe that it was difficult for him to breathe. He slid off the chair, knelt on the ground, and retched for a long time before he recovered.
"Take off your clothes," Xing Bi walked into the darkness beside him, "There is a medical kit in the car."
Qiu Shi didn't move, and watched him take the medical kit from the car.
From the surroundings, it can be seen that this is no longer the place where they were attacked just now: "Did they bring the car here too?"
"Yeah." Xing Bi put the medical box on the ground and looked at him, probably waiting for him to take off his clothes.
"It should be fine," Qiu Shi did not move, "The bones are not broken, I can do it myself."
Xing Bi said nothing else and stood up and sat on the other side of the fire.
Qiu Shi opened the medical box, rummaged through it, took out a painkiller needle and gave himself an injection.
This thing took effect very quickly. After a short while, he felt a lot more comfortable, but still not very strong. He was too lazy to sit back in the chair and just sat on the ground leaning against the chair legs.
These chairs were crude, made of wood cut from the forest and nailed together, and were not comfortable to sit on.
"Where is this?" Qiu Shi looked around. He could still hear the faint sound of water and see some star-like reflections in the distance, but he couldn't see anything else clearly.
"In the swamp." Xing Bi said, "I have never been here. We have to wait until daybreak before we can leave."
"Do they have any accomplices?" Qiu Shi was a little worried.
"No," said Xingbi. "They are swamp nomads."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything.
"Let's get some sleep," Xing Bi said. "They have a boat and will set off at daybreak."
Qiu Shi responded but still didn't move.
"Whether from a mission or a personal perspective," Xing Bi said, "I will not kill you."
"Yeah." Qiu Shi smiled.
He believed what Xing Bi said. He couldn't tell whether his low mood was due to the beating or the scene of Xing Bi killing someone just now, maybe both.
He pushed back his chair and lay down where he was, by the fire.
Through the fire, Xing Bi's face looked a little warmer than usual, but it was not very clear.
"Xing Bi." Qiu Shi closed his eyes.
"Yeah." Xing Bi responded.
"What I just said," Qiu Shi said, "I was not a tool or anything like that..."
"I know." Xing Bi said.
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Continue tomorrow⊙▽⊙.
Then, I am afraid that some children will be confused in daily life, so let me talk about the first-level ordinary biochemical body and the first-level hidden guard. It is equivalent to the first-level biochemical body. This group has its own thoughts and emotions and also has different strengthening directions. The hidden guard is like Bigo, and there will be other types.