The sofa in Wangdu's apartment is not too short. Xu Le likes to sit on it and watch Channel 23 with snacks. This shows that his life is actually as warm and harmonious as that of many ordinary young people, but many things happened in the past years, It's enough to prove that once he is forced into a corner where he can't turn around by the environment or his own obsession, he will always narrow his eyes or brighten his eyes and smash all the way to the past, and interpret the words decisively. is extraordinarily vivid.
Remove the chip on the back of the neck, avoid the surveillance of the empire, quietly enter the vast crowd of people in the capital, hide his whereabouts with the help of the prosperity of the world, patiently wait for the empire to reveal any cracks, and find all possible ways to leave this planet. , sneak into the border star field, prepare to meet the counterattacking federal troops or go directly through the Wanscorpion Nebula passage to return to his hometown... This is his original escape plan. without hesitation.
Therefore, today's hesitation is not because of the identity cognition doubts full of literary youth, and the lack of spirit separated from the past, but based on a very simple reason: he is afraid of pain, or more precisely, he is afraid of passing out of pain and becoming a A comatose and poor prey under the iron hooves of the imperial search force.
In the autumn of the sixty-fifth year of the constitutional calendar, he began his first escape in his life, a life-changing escape. At the beginning of that escape, he replaced the chip on the back of his neck, and he fell into a coma in the stormy Qingqiu forest. All night.
Now that five years have passed, he has started to flee again, but he still has a fresh memory of the pain that humans can't bear and can only passively resist by fainting.
If he was in the Federation, he still dared to take the risk of finding a secluded place to gamble, but at this time, countless imperial soldiers were searching for him. Once he fainted, he would fall into the sea of death forever.
With the help of the sewer map in the bracelet, he was trying to find an opportunity to find a safe place to replace the chip behind his neck, but he did not expect that the pursuit of the imperial army was so strong that it was not good at all. time.
In the dark underground waterway like the years, he carried a firearm, stepped on the military boots that kept wearing heels, looked at the map and walked silently, but the question kept echoing in his mind: To gamble or not to gamble
It took him three minutes in total to get the answer. At a distance of 300 meters, in a dark corner without any lights, looking at the iron door of the layman's passage faintly visible in the distance, Xu Le took a deep breath, swelled and squinted. A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and the left hand that was hanging by the waist suddenly tightened.
The wire in the bracelet slowly stretched out like a ghost, aiming at the naked skin behind his neck. The surrounding environment was pitch black, but the metal wires reflected the luster from where they came from.
The extremely slender and extremely sharp metal wire swayed gently in his trembling hands.
Xu Le took a deep breath again, then closed his eyes, and moved his left hand to the back of his neck again.
When the metal wire came within three centimeters of the skin on the back of his neck, the sharp tip suddenly trembled strangely, just like a hungry bee, suddenly smelling the charming nectar, and quickly and excitedly flapping the transparent double wing.
Tiny invisible electric charges were continuously condensed on the tip of the wire, an extremely small electromagnetic field enveloped the area behind the neck, and a small pimple slowly appeared on the naked skin.
Xu Le's face was expressionless, his eyes were tightly closed, and he could feel the strangeness behind his neck, but he didn't react. Although the last chip replacement was five years ago, he remembered the details of every step very clearly.
The sewage below the underground platform was flowing slowly, and the dry air was full of the rotten smell of life.
Suddenly, the tip of the wire automatically extended with a snort, accurately stabbed the small pimple on the back of his neck, and then vibrated and kept probing into the cervical spine!
The severe pain followed the nerve bundles in the cervical vertebrae and slammed into the brain violently. Xu Le's half-kneeling body suddenly froze, his closed eyes suddenly opened, his facial features twisted in pain, and the burning and endless heat in his body froze. The pain is intertwined, and it seems to be burning to ashes!
A few minutes later, a trembling figure stretched out his right hand with difficulty, touched the heavy iron door, walked out of the underground waterway, and climbed to the ground along the old-style stairs until he climbed out of the ground. After resting for a while in a low bush, the figure struggled to stand up again and moved on, looking like a dying patient who could fall to the ground and die at any time.
Luckily, he didn't pass out. Unfortunately, he needed to stay awake to endure more and more severe pain. The joints where the chip was implanted in the cervical spine seemed to be shattered in pain, and his fingers began to feel numb.
The night was dark, and there was no one in the southwest of the Tianjing Xingdu City. Xu Le, with a pale face, moved his body miserably along the green space by the street, moving his body that was trembling with pain.
The trembling body brushed past the bushes and made a rustling sound. Fortunately, the night wind was blowing, and Lin Shao rubbed each other's bodies from time to time, covering up the sound that might reveal his whereabouts.
Because he didn't faint, he could clearly perceive the strangeness and unbearable pain on the back of his neck more than five years ago, his injured leg dragging slowly in the grass, his body almost unable to support himself, he didn't even notice his own His teeth had bitten his lip, and there was not much blood dripping on the military uniform.
A person who is extremely sleepy cannot see the bed, a person who is extremely hungry cannot see food, and a person who is extremely painful cannot relax in the slightest. At this time, Xu Le had endless temptations in his heart, and wanted to let himself fall, unconscious, and unwilling to bear this terrible pain.
In addition to the pain, there is also a strange feeling of emptiness. This time, it is not to replace the chip, but to perform the procedure of removing the chip. Since his birth more than 20 years ago, for the first time, there is no chip on the back of his neck. Although the federal people usually I can't feel the existence of the chip at all, but my reason tells me that the chip is gone. It feels like one of my organs has suddenly disappeared, which is inexplicable.
Pain and emptiness, the unknown dangerous road ahead, the fainting desire that strikes all the time, Xu Le pursed his lips tightly, resisting with superhuman perseverance.
Perhaps it was because in the hospital, in the days when he was paralyzed and forcibly broke through the meridians, he had endured too many levels of pain that were rare in the world, so... He survived, although it was very hard.
Fortunately, these pains and hardships are valuable. After leaving the underground water system and entering the heavily fortified city surface, he has not alerted the ubiquitous imperial chip monitoring equipment.
But the danger remains. After struggling for a long time in the cracks of the residential apartment buildings, a straight and empty road stopped in front of him. What was more troublesome was that there were many military police at the crossing, watching the surrounding movements vigilantly.
His planned target was a chaotic and unsupervised slum a few kilometers away. If he had no choice but to stay in this apartment complex, it would be difficult to escape the daytime raids by the imperial army and police.
The street in front of him is not too wide. If he is in a healthy state, he only needs to bend his body a few wrong steps to pass by, and he will not alarm the military police at all, but the problem is that he is in the weakest state now. , may fall at any time.
The dim street lamp, through the bushes, fell on his pale cheeks, and he squinted there, waiting for an opportune moment, only to discover with great coldness that, because of the pain and weakness and exhaustion, his His vision began to blur.
It's almost unbearable.
At this moment, an imperial man who seemed to be drunk staggered across the sidewalk at the edge of the bushes, muttering something, and rushed towards the other side of the street.
Probably only the most drunk imperial people will ignore the gloomy military police, and will not know the order of curfew tonight.
The military police at the intersection became nervous, and scolded the drunken man and surrounded him. The military police who did not move also looked over there subconsciously.
Xu Le did not miss this fleeting opportunity, and took a deep breath of the cool imperial autumn night wind with difficulty. His throat seemed to be smoking, and his right leg, which had been deeply immersed in the mud beforehand, suddenly burst into flames. The military trousers on his legs shattered, and the final explosive force shook back, driving his body to turn into a gray shadow and swept across the street in an instant!
He fell heavily into the dirt, he didn't dare to make a sound, and he continued to lie down for a long time, resisting the strong will to faint from his brain, until he confirmed that the military and police did not find him, then he supported the ground with his hands and carefully lifted it. He got up, turned his head and glanced in the direction of the intersection.
The drunk who could be regarded as his savior had been beaten to the ground by the military police with electric batons, beaten savagely, and rolled and moaned in pain on the ground.
Xu Le narrowed his eyes and was silent for a moment, then turned around.
He walked through the wet slate alleys with difficulty, supported the walls through the paths between the buildings, and climbed over the low walls with his hands and feet in pain. In this strange and exotic urban building, he moved forward slowly and firmly.
The body became colder and colder, the tremors became more and more severe, the left leg felt as if it was broken, and the vision became more and more blurred.
The night was still so dark, and the city's main street was still so dangerous. After he rolled into the messy and filthy neighborhood, he still didn't dare to relax his vigilance. undulating violently.
There were eaves on the wall, and dew dripped gently on the eaves, dripping on his face, he subconsciously raised his head and took a sip, the tip of his tongue slid across his dry lips.
Feeling a little better, Xu Le observed the cluttered environment around him, climbed into a dilapidated courtyard along the corner of the wall, and used his last strength to climb up to the dusty attic.
Opposite the attic was a wild cat, huddled in the green grass growing from the corner of the eaves, staring curiously at this strange guy.
Xu Le looked at the wild cat, smiled with difficulty, stretched out his hand to cover the window, and then passed out recklessly.