Huo Ci...
This weird and ambiguous combination made the major general stiffen all over. He turned his head slightly and said nothing. Instead, he stood timidly behind Huo Xianfeng.
West didn't notice Jiang Ci's strange reaction. After all, as members of the Illusion God Cult who think highly of themselves, they generally don't care too much about a group of ordinary people who are like ants.
"Those few moves just now were quite clever. What did you do before?"
"Ugh—"
Huo Xianfeng acted like an honest man.
"I do a lot of different things, usually some manual labor, as long as I can make money. I heard that the factory here was short of people, so I came here to work as a temporary worker."
At this time, a guard walked up to West and whispered something respectfully. After listening, the latter casually glanced at the chimpanzee lying on the ground.
Huo Xianfeng knew that the other party would send someone to check the location where the anesthetic needle was injected.
At that time, after he got the anesthetic gun and injected three shots of anesthetic, he fired a few more shots, but this time he did not shoot specifically at the wound, but randomly chose a few locations.
Therefore, after the guard checked the wound and the location of the anesthetic needle, the only conclusion he came to was that this guy had hit the jackpot by accident, and three needles happened to be injected into the wound. It was purely a blind cat catching a dead mouse.
"Yes, I understand."
After all, it was unreasonable for a temporary worker to have such great skills. But now it seemed that he was just a poor boy with some courage.
Thinking of this, West's slightly cold expression softened a lot.
"Doing hard labor?"
He looked Huo Xianfeng up and down again. Although he had done some deliberate ugly cover-ups, such as dyeing his hair brown, combing his hair down to cover his eyebrows, changing his hairstyle to a silly schoolboy hairstyle, adding freckles, and some other ugly details.
But none of these can change the boy's handsome and deep bone structure.
West was a little suspicious, and suddenly reached out and pinched Huo Xianfeng's shoulder and arm, but raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Well, although he looks like a gigolo, he is actually quite real." Huo, the gigolo, Xianfeng: "..."
What? Just because you’re handsome doesn’t mean you’re allowed to be strong
After listening to the whole thing, Jiang Ci silently pursed her lips to hide the barely perceptible smile.
After all, he had always been looked down upon because of his outstanding appearance. This time it was Huo Xianfeng's turn, which made him feel a sense of balance, thinking, "Finally, there is someone like me."
West withdrew his hand, crossed his arms, and said in a condescending tone,
"It just so happens that I'm in need of a laborer right now. Come with me."
Since Geda broke his leg, he had to supervise the transportation of Class C assets by himself, and he was indeed short of manpower.
This sentence hit the mark exactly what Huo Xianfeng wanted, or rather, he had staged this drama deliberately in order to take advantage of these believers to enter a more confidential place.
However, the other party would certainly not rashly bring two temporary workers with them, so Huo Xianfeng waited until the chimpanzee broke the leg of one of the believers before choosing to take action.
But at this moment, Huo Xianfeng showed some hesitation. He lowered his eyes.
"But, sir, if I go with you, he..."
The young man did not finish the rest of the words, but deliberately showed the hands he was holding with Jiang Ci in front of the believers.
West was led by Huo Xianfeng's gaze to look down, and just happened to see the two holding hands. But this was just the beginning, because the next second, he saw the boy deliberately loosen his hand slightly, then hooked Jiang Ci's finger and slowly inserted it between his fingers.
—Finally, they interlocked their fingers.
West: “…”
Jiang Ci: “…???”
The hand holding just now was just to better convey the message, but West suddenly came over and Jiang Ci was unable to withdraw his hand in time. However, he never thought that Huo Xianfeng would be so bold as to do such a thing in public? ! !
At this moment, the fine and dense electric current touched the skin and ran into the bones. In just a few seconds, Jiang Ci felt that his entire forearm was numb.
But he couldn't shake it off or withdraw right away, because all eyes around were focused on their interlocked hands. In the end, the major general could only stand there stiffly, lowering his head silently.
Because he couldn't control himself at all, and couldn't imagine what kind of expression he should show at this moment. However, this posture, from a third-person perspective, looked completely shy.
"Excuse me, sir,"
Huo Xianfeng's face showed an embarrassed yet somewhat expectant look, and the meaning of this action was very obvious.
"This one in my family is timid and delicate. He can't leave me for even a minute. Can you please..."
Timid and delicate Jiang Ci: "..."
The major general had a wooden face, not showing any shock at all, and just watched Huo Xianfeng's performance quietly.
—He was now used to this guy talking nonsense in a serious manner.
But when West heard this, his eyes suddenly darkened.
This guy actually wants to bring another person with him? !
After all, no lowly ordinary person dared to negotiate with the Illusion God Cult. It was a blessing for the other party that he liked this guy. He actually wanted to bargain with him, with his family? !
"you… !"
However, before he could even start his angry rebuke, Huo Xianfeng quickly interrupted him.
"Can you give me two minutes to comfort him?"
The young man held out his two index fingers and put them together, his tone as if he was ready to die.
"Just say a few words and I'll go with you right away, no matter what happens!"
West choked: "... ?"
He originally thought that this guy was trying to negotiate conditions to get him to agree to bring one more person, but he didn't expect that he would just give him two minutes to say a few words
This was a trivial request, and they needed to deal with the scene, so it would take some time. In addition, the other party's solemn pledge of loyalty was really interesting, so West nodded reluctantly.
"Okay, just two minutes."
Huo Xianfeng turned his head to look at Jiang Ci. In fact, his original intention was indeed to take Jiang Ci with him, but after seeing that West's face was not right, he immediately changed his words.
"Huo Ci, tell me, how dangerous you were just now,"
Huo Xianfeng winked at Jiang Ci without leaving a trace.
"You obviously noticed that there was something wrong with the box a long time ago, but you still rushed over to save people!"
"… "
The name Huo Ci made the major general's heart slightly warm. It took him two seconds to come back to his senses, and he immediately cooperated with Huo Xianfeng to continue.
"But... But Brother Liu is always so kind to us, how could I just stand there and watch him die?"
Perhaps because he had been with Huo Xianfeng for a long time, Jiang Ci's acting skills had improved greatly. He frowned and quickly got into the role.
"Besides, the problem this time is clearly with Brother Wang..."
In fact, their voices were not that loud, and they were even deliberately lowered, just like a secret whisper between lovers. But the more they acted, the less they wanted others to hear.
But the suspicious West had been paying attention and eavesdropping, so the more the two of them acted as if they didn't want others to hear, the more West thought it was real.
The white-robed cultist frowned, then suddenly turned around and strode back, questioning Jiang Ci directly,
"How did you find out there was something wrong with the box?"
It's strange. The experimental materials had been injected with anesthetics, but the effect disappeared. Moreover, the man was in a manic state and broke through the biological box.
Jiang Ci did not answer immediately, nor did he even look at West. He maintained his timid and delicate personality, silently hid behind Huo Xianfeng, and whispered,
"It's just... the oxygen index suddenly changed..."
But this is a very easy thing for the major general who often drives mechas in combat.
West was startled, then suddenly realized.
—So that’s how it is.
He couldn't help but look at Jiang Ci twice more. He had to say that being able to notice such tiny details was indeed quite sharp. He also remembered that Jiang Ci had taken the opportunity to drag Liu Shengli out of the danger zone, which was also quite agile.
"… "
West stared at Jiang Ci for a few seconds and said coldly,
"You come along too!"
"Ah, but..."
Huo Xianfeng immediately showed a hesitant expression, but Jiang Ci cooperated and pulled him back. The latter nodded to West, lowered his eyes and showed a submissive look.
"Thank you for your appreciation, sir."
West snorted coldly, turned around and strode away. He ordered sternly,
"Have someone repack the assets immediately and check them carefully from now on. If anything goes wrong again and it affects the higher-ups, you'll all lose your heads!"
Several low-level believers standing guard nearby nodded their heads and nodded in agreement. The guards looked at each other and could only start to act immediately.
Huo Xianfeng and Jiang Ci looked at each other, and the latter suddenly pulled his hand away as if he had been electrocuted. Jiang Ci could feel the other's body temperature and an indescribable numbness in his palm.
He pinched his numb fingers, but the residual touch still lingered, so he could only rub it hard on his body. Jiang Ci raised his head and just opened his mouth,
"-Eh!"
As if he had guessed what he was going to say, Huo Xianfeng immediately interrupted him. He raised his chin slightly, tilted his head slightly, and said in a tone like a child who was the first to complain after a quarrel,
"You held my hand first this time! I didn't touch you first."
Jiang Ci: “…”
He stared at the other person's face, choked for a long time, and finally could only grit his teeth and say,
"Huo Xianfeng! If you hold my hand again, I will really take your last name!!!"
After saying that, the major general turned his head in anger and followed West in front of him. Huo Xianfeng stood there, first casually glanced at the omega's angry and frustrated back, and then slowly followed.
But even so, the two of them walked at the back of several low-level believers in a tacit understanding.
Wow!
The special passage opened, and West entered the factory directly, followed by two or three low-level believers.
Before going in, Huo Xianfeng looked back. In just a few minutes, the anesthetized and unconscious chimpanzee had been captured and temporarily put into a giant iron cage.
As for the workers on the carrier, they actually only serve as a transport. After unloading, they return to the carrier.
The young man lowered his eyes and quietly followed the person in front of him.
It seems that the high-ranking cultist named Wester must have received a temporary order to transport the so-called Class C assets, otherwise he would not have brought a huge biological box with him and went to the factory for an inspection at such a troublesome time.
Therefore, the most likely scenario is that the original main task of this senior cultist was to guard the factory, but he received an order to transport C-class assets...
West had no idea that in just a few minutes, Huo Xianfeng had figured out his identity and main tasks. He was still racking his brains over how to balance the operation of the factory and the temporary transportation tasks he had received.
After all, on the one hand, there was a mistake in the nectar transportation data of the carrier, and on the other hand, there was a problem with the transported C-class assets just now.
After walking for about three minutes, they entered the elevator and went down. Just when Huo Xianfeng estimated that they were about 500 meters away, the elevator stopped.
The cold alloy door slowly opened.
Wow!
The smell of rotting rosemary flowers, a hundred times stronger than that on the carrier, hit me in the face.
Outside, countless assembly line pipes came into view, each pipe glowing with a light red halo, like peeled blood vessels.
But the whole picture is more like a piece of black drawing paper with weird and messy lines drawn on it with a red pen, which makes people feel inexplicably uncomfortable.
They were standing on a photon bridge in the middle, which was over a hundred meters high. There were no fences on either side. Below was a blood-red stream of water, like boiling water, with small gurgling bubbles occasionally bubbling out.
Jiang Ci frowned slightly, but still followed him out. However, after taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped.
—Because Huo Xianfeng didn’t keep up.
Jiang Ci turned around and found that the boy was frozen in place, looking down.
Perhaps with human vision, one can only see a blood-red water surface below, but Huo Xianfeng can clearly see the scene underneath.
In fact, he had been mentally prepared before entering the factory. When Jiang Ci told him that the church was using the nectar of rose flowers to breed Zerg inside, Huo Xianfeng had some not-so-beautiful images in his mind.
But the truth of the matter was beyond his expectations and imagination.
Because underneath are densely packed, countless weird, deformed, and painfully struggling Zerg.
Each of them is underdeveloped, with a huge head and a body that has shrunk to an extremely weird degree.
If the original head-to-body ratio should be one to nine, now it is completely the opposite.
Huo Xianfeng could not sense any clear thoughts from them.
There was only endless chaotic and painful emotions pouring down like a tsunami, pouring straight into his brain.
"—Huo Xianfeng!!!"
The boy suddenly opened his eyes, his face pale as if he had just struggled out of the deep sea where he had drowned. It took more than ten seconds for his dilated pupils to gradually focus, and his vision finally became clear.
Huo Xianfeng's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, he turned his head, and found that Jiang Ci was holding his hand tightly.
—If not, he might have jumped just now.
"Huo Xianfeng, what's wrong with you? You almost..."
Jiang Ci hadn't finished her question when she suddenly saw the other person turn his head and look at her. He panted slightly and asked,
"Why, have you changed your mind and decided to take my last name?"
Jiang Ci: “…”
Eh
He was stunned for several seconds before he remembered what he had said before.
[Huo Xianfeng! If you hold my hand again, I will really take your last name!!!]
"… "
asphyxia!
How could he forget this!!!
(End of this chapter)