quicksand
At this moment, as soon as he saw Sun Wuliang coming here with the strange child, he was the first to teach Sun Wuliang a serious face: "Everyone has arrived, just wait for the last two of you."
I told you at the beginning not to come out together.
Now I understand that it is not some unwarranted warning. ”
Sun Wuliang ignored the precept in his ear, and just took the strange child to the front of the fireworks, and let go of his embrace, so that the other party could be warmed by the fireworks.
After that, soon, the strange child's body no longer couldn't help but shiver from the cold wind.
He opened his eyes and looked at Sun Wuliang who was holding him with a smile on his face.
Sun Wuliang, on the other hand, didn't make any expression, just quietly stared at the fire in front of him.
The white-clothed officials around looked at Sun Wuliang in the field, each with their own look in their eyes, and they didn't know what they were thinking.
Xuan Tiangang is not a shrew who scolds the street, and he is not constantly deafening.
There was only a slight silence in the field.
After that, I heard that Xuantiangang said to Sun Wuliang with a sad face: "If you think it's really not good, you two can go back first."
The minimum remuneration is still there, but the rest will no longer be calculated for you. ”
Hearing this, Sun Wuliang was silent for a while, and then saw him look at the fireworks, and replied tepidly: "Let's try it first, and this hasn't officially started yet." ”
Seeing him respond like this, Xuan Tiangang didn't say anything more, and instead made it public to everyone present: "I don't need to say more about the characteristics of the people we need to find.
Besides, in this barren desert, if someone appears, as long as they are not blind, they should be able to sweep it at a glance.
The original plan was for us to walk together and look for it, but considering the impact of this unstable factor of quicksand.
I think it's better for everyone to act separately.
In this way, if you really encounter quicksand, you don't have to worry about the factors of other people around you, and you can play freely, and the possibility of survival will be greater.
Just remember that whether you find anyone or not, you have to come back here every night.
And then – I'll decide when to go again, depending on the situation.
Got it?"
Hearing this, the people around nodded their heads in agreement with the plan.
Next, I saw Xuan Tiangang drop a sentence: "Well, let's go our separate ways."
Do you want to get up and get into the task now, or do you want to rest for a while and make your own arrangements, just decide.
Just don't be too lazy, otherwise it won't be paid.
You should all be able to understand it. ”
Then, I saw him walk out of this mountain corner, and was about to go to other corners to inform him of this plan, after all, not all the manpower here.
The other is also to enable the white-clothed officers in other directions in the desert to be able to see the firelight distributed in any direction at a glance, no matter where they come from, and go there to join their companions.
After Xuantian really walked out of there and disappeared from everyone's field of vision, many people in the corner also walked out on their own, intending to directly carry out the task of this trip.
Soon, only Sun Wuliang's strange child and two other female officials were left here.
Until now, Sun Wuliang has not behaved in any other way, basically just staring at the fireworks in front of him motionlessly.
He began to think and struggle.
According to the routine of a mortal, and a child, it is time for the strange child to go to bed now.
Therefore, he should not have taken the strange child out to run with him in the cold desert.
But should you leave the weird kid here alone and go out on his own?
Although this time, except for the two foreign officials in the team who were used by the imperial court to supervise their white-clothed officials, the rest of the team were their own people.
But these so-called own people are also other white-clothed officials, and Sun Wuliang's relationship with them is only at the work level.
If there was no such white clothes, then their Sun Wuliang and them would be directly equivalent to strangers who had met once.
Leave the weird kids to this group of strangers?
It is clear that this cannot and should not be.
For a while, Sun Wuliang was in a dilemma.
During this period, after the two female officials on the side whispered for a while, they expressed to Sun Wuliang the attitude that they could leave the strange child to their care.
Seeing this, Sun Wuliang didn't feel any gratitude in his heart, only cared about what they had said in a whisper just now.
Did you discuss some kind of non-divisive thinking about weird children?
Thinking of this, Sun Wuliang immediately rejected their kindness.
It was also after this that he made the decision that he would rather stay here and spend the night watching the weird kids.
It was decided to wait for the strange child to get a good night's sleep and pick him up the next day on a mission.
In this way, from the first half of the night to the early morning, the strange child is the real return from sleep to reality.
The reason why I say this is because he had been awake several times before he woke up this time.
It was only now that Sun Wuliang was convinced that his mental state had reached its best.
Moreover, the cold air has weakened a lot by this time, and it is obvious that it will not be long before the temperature returns to normal and is no longer cold.
Out of these objective favorable conditions, he led the strange child out of the corner of the mountain.
At that time, many white-clothed officers who had left in the middle of the night had already returned there.
They looked at Sun Wuliang's dynamics, and asked each other with a little confusion if Sun Wuliang had stayed here for a night and had not started his mission until now......
After a few days like this, Xuantian just gathered all the white-clothed officials together, and under the supervision of the two court supervisors beside him, he announced the regrettable end of this mission.
Obviously, the gang didn't find the court officials they were supposed to be looking for.
But they were not sad when they heard the news, on the contrary, the group was smiling and brightening from then on.
Especially when Xuantian just announced that he could disband and return to the city, a group of people immediately flew out like each other.
At that time, Sun Wuliang and the strange boy were not actually in the team, and many people, including Xuan Tiangang, knew this.
But Xuan Tiangang didn't care, as far as he thought, Sun Wuliang should have already returned home with the strange child.
What's more, because Sun Wuliang insisted on bringing the strange child this time, and the bad news of the failure of the mission.
Both of these things made him very dissatisfied in his heart, and a bad breath blocked his heart, making him feel like a fish in his throat.
Therefore, he ignored the fact that Sun Wuliang and the others had not returned to the team at this time, and there was actually a little gambling element caught in it.
In this way, the group of white-clothed officers led by Xuan Tiangang left, in the cold and biting night.
Halfway through, Xuantian just bumped into the oncoming Sun Wuliang, who was still holding the strange child in his arms.
As soon as they met, without waiting for Sun Wuliang to ask why a group of people announced their return to the city without waiting for him to return to the team, Xuan Tiangang preemptively asked: "Where did you two run away and haven't seen anyone for so long?"
There was obvious displeasure and dissatisfaction in his context, as if he was really complaining that Sun Wuliang did not return to the team in time.
But Sun Wuliang didn't care, in addition to feeling it in his heart, he also sensed Xuan Tiangang's emotions, and the cause was not as simple as he showed.
Among them, there must be other backgrounds.
But Sun Wuliang didn't dwell on this, he just asked casually as he seemed to be indifferent: "Is the mission over?"
After that, while Xuan Tiangang still maintained his original attitude, he asked again: "You haven't explained it clearly, where did you go?"
Hearing this, Sun Wuliang said truthfully without any scheming: "The food and water prepared for this kid before have been consumed, so I went out to repack a bag of food and water for him and came back." ”
When he said this, Sun Wuliang looked at the strange child in his arms and gestured.
Seeing him say this, Xuan Tiangang sneered inexplicably, and then asked again in a strange tone: "So, you went out and did something else on the way to the mission?"
"There's no way around it, otherwise it's impossible for this kid to starve or die of thirst here, right?"
Sun Wuliang responded like this, and a bad expectation had risen in his heart.
As expected, then, Xuantian suddenly retracted all his expressions, turned his head to look at the outside of the desert, and coldly threw down a sentence: "This mission, just if you haven't been here, I only guarantee you." ”
As he spoke, he saw Sun Wuliang in front of him by himself, and rushed out of the desert like the other white-clothed officers in front of him who had disappeared.
Sun Wuliang, who didn't know what to say, stood there.
The strange child in his arms couldn't understand what the conversation he had just had with Xuan Tiangang meant.
But the weird kid who has been in human society for a while understands that it is not a good atmosphere for conversation, and it is estimated that he has not gotten any good results for conversation.
Especially seeing Sun Wuliang's performance of staying where he was, the strange child's heart was even more sure of this.
In addition, he felt that this had something to do with his follow-up to Sun Wuliang to the desert that he couldn't understand for the time being.
"What's wrong, brother, is there something wrong with me?"
The strange child asked in a low voice in Sun Wuliang's arms, and his words were full of guilt that bordered on timidity.
"Because we are out of the mission, I will not be paid for this mission, and I will only get a guaranteed salary.
Although remuneration and salary are called and have different meanings, most of them mean money.
The guaranteed salary we just talked about is less than the remuneration, because I can only get the guarantee, and those who can get paid will not only be paid, but the guarantee will also be in their pockets.
In addition to this, the word remuneration can also refer to other things......"
As he spoke, Sun Wuliang gave a lesson to the strange child, and at the same time, he turned around and walked in the direction where Xuan Tiangang and the other white-clothed officials were running together.
Under Sun Wuliang's words that couldn't help but change the topic, the strange child quickly forgot about his previous unhappiness, and instead chatted with Sun Wuliang about all kinds of questions that were getting farther and farther away.
Unconsciously, Sun Wuliang was secretly vigilant in his heart.
Because he sensed the subtle mutations in the sand beneath his feet.
Quicksand was the first word that came to his mind since then.
Gradually, he stopped talking to the weird kids, and every question and answer was ambiguous and perfunctory
And the strange kid quickly noticed the change in the other party's attitude, and he asked, "What's wrong, brother?"
Seeing him ask this, Sun Wuliang knew that the other party had probably noticed something, and immediately agreed bluntly: "Be careful, it may be quicksand." ”