Book 1, Volume 1, Desert Ghost Town, Chapter 9: Change
The battle is over, and all the teams are picking up the pieces.
"Boss, it looks like Lin Xinyue is really interesting. Mu Cheng, the second leader of the dragon group, said to Li Tianqi, "But I owe them a personal favor now, and it won't be embarrassing to start when the time comes." β
"What are you afraid of, if I leave her, I will see what Fang Yunshan dares to say. Facing Mu Cheng's unpleasant remarks, Li Tianqi sneered.
"How do you explain that?" asked Mu Cheng.
"I'll explain it above. Li Tianqi waved his hand impatiently, "Clean up and set off immediately." β
"Yes. β
A battle ended, but the mentality of each of them was different, the other groups had equipment, and of course they also saw the combat effectiveness of Scarlet Night, and there was an internal discussion going on at the same time after sorting out and setting off.
The dragon group has been rampant and domineering in China for a long time, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that they have caused the dissatisfaction of the upper peak, and it seems that there is a lot of information behind the appearance of this scarlet night.
"You... Did you come too?" Edward didn't participate in his subordinates' discussions, but was just driving his car with peace of mind, but there was a subtle smile on the corner of his mouth.
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The sorted lineup was led by the enforcers, and the Heavenly Damnation and Dragon Group with the smallest losses were on the left and right respectively, and in this battle, the biggest loss was the Sky Rose at the head of the row, with a total loss of four cars and more than sixty people, and only one hundred and twenty people remained.
It stands to reason that there shouldn't be so much loss in the battle against the sand tooth worms, but there are four ghost poison insects, it seems that these four ghost poison insects should be hunting the sand tooth insects, and they don't have a person like Lin Xuan, so they can't help but lose a little more when they consider retaining a certain amount of strength, and two psychics died.
The wolf warrior was purely unlucky, and he got closer to the dragon group, but he suffered from the disaster of the fish pond. In this way, the two teams of them were in the middle, and the knight's sword was in charge of the back, and the whole team set off again.
Su Jiuxia looked at the desert behind him, it was only an hour, but dozens of people were buried over there, they were all some awesome figures in society, and they disappeared into this desert so quietly, Jiuxia couldn't help but feel a little worried, what about his fate?
He shook his head, he couldn't keep thinking about it anymore, his psychology of becoming stronger was even stronger, after this battle, Jiuxia understood that even if they were Qinghuan and them, they would die if they were not careful, and he had promised to protect her, no, it was to protect him, he had no strength, after all, it was just an empty word.
Closing his eyes, Jiuxia began to practice visualization again.
He must become stronger!
However, the front of the car...
"Master, something happened!" Gu Qinghuan looked at Xin Yue with sadness.
"Huh, what's wrong?" Xin Yue asked, could it be that she was hurt by something?
"Keel state... I can't lift it again..."
"You..."Lin Xinyue looked at Qinghuan's now pitiful girl's face, and looked up and sighed speechlessly, "If something happens again... Tie this to the bracelet. β
She took out a thin rope from her pocket that exuded a luster similar to that of crystal, and handed it to Qinghuan.
"Eh, this thing works?" Qing Huan took it, looking at this curiously, such a small rope can work on dragon blood?
"A friend gave it to inhibit the erosion of dragon blood, and it should help you suppress the state of the keel, maybe you can return to normal. β
"Good thing, how long will it take to work?"
"Two or three days. β
"Poof...", it's better than having no clue, then take it, Qinghuan silently tied the rope to his bracelet.
In this way, the entire convoy drove until dawn, and Xin Yue's words sounded in his ears before he woke up the sleeping Jiuxia, "It's going to the hinterland of the desert, there is no signal over there, what do you have to tell your parents, call quickly while there is still a signal." β
"Huh, no signal?" Jiuxia rubbed his sleepy eyes, turned on his phone, today is the thirteenth of July, he has actually been out for nine days, to be honest, the experience of last night is worth all his experiences in the past sixteen years, so he forgot to contact his parents for a while.
In fact, he didn't think about home all the way, but every time he picked up his mobile phone, he didn't know how to say this to his parents, and he could only think of saying some homely things about himself on the way.
"Alas. I wanted to dial a few times but finally just sent a message, "Dad, I went on a trip with my friends, you tell Mom, I'm fine, I guess I'll be back after a while." β
Pressing the send button, Su Jiuxia exhaled a long breath and leaned back on the seat.
"Homesick?" Xin Yue asked as she drove.
"Hmm. It was rare for Jiuxia not to hide his emotions, and the corners of his eyes were a little moist. "But, I don't regret the decision I made. β
"Then live well, for yourself, for your parents, and of course, for us, try not to die. β
Lin Xinyue's words made Jiuxia feel a little relieved, the words were very practical, but they were very useful, much easier to accept than those empty propaganda slogans.
"By the way, how did you use the HK416?"
"I'm basically proficient. Su Jiuxia didn't expect that he couldn't memorize words so quickly, although he didn't have the ability to disassemble the firearm as quickly as he had imagined before, but he was already proficient in the basic clamp reloading.
"Drink this. Xin Yue still didn't turn his head, but just handed over a test tube with his backhand, if Qing Huan hadn't fallen asleep, he would definitely find that the potion in this test tube looked almost exactly the same as Yu Qianye, except for the different colors and blue.
"What is this for?" Su Jiuxia took it.
"I heard Qinghuan say that your body is too weak, and it is used for conditioning, just drink it directly. β
"Oh. Su Jiuxia pulled the cork off the bottle and drank it directly, "It's a little fishy..."
"Good medicine, of course it tastes a little weird. Lin Xinyue smiled noncommittally, "Okay, there will be no signal here, Linxuan, the distance between the two cars should not exceed two meters, otherwise the communication between us will be cut off." β
"Hmm. Of course, Lin Xuan's attention was entirely on the anime, and she found that it looked better on the big screen in front of the car, so she just... Fortunately, her half-hearted skills have reached a realm, otherwise she would have had a car accident if she fell in love at this high-speed state.
However, after only more than ten minutes of driving, the entire convoy came to a halt.
"No, what's going on again?" Qinghuan hadn't woken up long after he washed up with the mineral water behind the car, and was nibbling on bread.
"Wait, we're not official representatives anyway. Xin Yue put her hands off the steering wheel indifferently, "Maybe someone will come looking for us in about five minutes." β
Sure enough, within five minutes, someone knocked on the window.
"Sister Yue, are you the reincarnation of Lord God?" Qing Huan almost choked to death with a mouthful of bread, can this be guessed? It's too fake, I obviously said that it wasn't an official team, so why did you come to us.
Putting down the second layer of dark bulletproof glass, looking through the first layer of one-way glass, the person who came turned out to be the leader of the dragon group, Li Tianqi.
lowered the first layer of glass, "What kind of wind blew you, the captain, over?" Xin Yue raised her eyebrows and looked at Li Tianqi with a smile, but her tone was quite cold, and that amorous glance made Li Tianqi's heart itch, but now he couldn't do it, so he had to curse in his heart.
And what Jiuxia thought in her heart was that a woman like Lin Xinyue would accept it without absolute strength, and she would definitely not know how she would die in the end, and taking it out would definitely be the type that attracted hatred and was not negotiable.
"There's something new ahead of them, and they think they should talk to you about it. Li Tianqi said with a smile.
"Let's go, Snow Hitomi, don't eat it. Xin Yue opened the car door and got out of the car, looking back at everyone else and inadvertently winked at Jiuxia.
"Snow...? Oh, here it is. Only then did Qing Huan remember that he hadn't lifted the keel state yet, and was still pretending to be Xiao Xuetong's identity, and got out of the car with the dark chocolate in his hand.
And here, Jiuxia was stunned in the car for a long time, he didn't think that he was being played ambiguously by Lin Xinyue, Sister Yue was trying to convey something, or...
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"This woman is really hardcore... You can still eat in this environment. β
"That's it, looking at her appearance, she eats quite deliciously, but it's a pity that she looks so cute, and her heart is so perverted..."
"What are you talking about?" said Edward, who came over to see his men gossiping.
"Team leader, over there..." The two of them were silent for a moment when they saw that the leader was coming, but at the same time silently pointed in the direction.
"Is that her?" Edward knew that Qinghuan was coming, but he didn't expect to meet her here.
"Since I said goodbye to Romania, I didn't expect to meet the young lady so soon. Gu Qinghuan was still eating the dark chocolate in his hand, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice in his ear, and turned his head, "Eh?!It's you! How do you know Chinese?"
"As a team leader, it's not normal to speak a lot of foreign languages, so I said that we seem to have communicated in Chinese. Edward smiled and looked down, where Qinghuan was at the edge of a big pit in front of her, Lin Xinyue was learning something from some technicians below, it seemed like everyone was revolving around her.
"Your mental quality is really good. Edward looked down at Qinghuan and couldn't help but smile, he was more like a child when he laughed, and he didn't have the temperament of the damned team leader at all.
Of course, it's no wonder that even Edward admires Qinghuan's psychological quality, this pit is about forty meters in diameter, but also twenty meters deep, in such a big pit there are not only human corpses, but also two strange-shaped creatures, judging from the state of death and corpses, it should not be long before they die, fat and fat maggots drill around in the maggot holes opened in the body, densely gathered, making people disgusting when they look at it, although they still don't know what this creature is, but it is a very unpleasant thing to see the dense maggot holes on such a large corpse, but Gu Qinghuan can still eat dark chocolate by himself in this environmentοΌοΌ
The whole place exudes a somewhat strange corpse smell, fortunately Jiuxia is not here, otherwise I would have to vomit out all the food of the previous year, and such a big pit, there are nearly 100 people in it alone, it seems that this should be a more important clue, otherwise the whole team will not stop.
"Then do you want a piece?" Qinghuan handed over a piece, for him, this so-called environment was just a specific kind of "receiving information", and there was nothing uncomfortable.
"Forget it, I don't have such a good appetite as Miss, but I wonder if I can tell me your name?" "It is very unreasonable to ask for the real name in this industry, because it is related to the social information and safety of the person, and it will not be told unless it is related to the family, and Edward's question is obviously a little abrupt.
"Then you don't want those two things last time, right?" Qing Huan could obviously feel that the things he used when he chased and killed him last time were very unusual, so he wanted to choke him back with a straight sentence.
"If you're saying your real name, I don't mind. Instead, it was Edward's words that made Qinghuan choke.
"Gu... Light Huan. "Then as soon as the habitual brain short-circuits, the name is directly exported.
"Qinghuan, my name is Fang Shuanghua, don't talk about it. Edward turned and walked down, "Why don't you go and have a look?"
"I told him... I'm going to be beaten to death by Master... What should I do?" Gu Qinghuan's attention was obviously not in this regard, he looked below, Lin Xinyue seemed to be discussing with others very intensely, "Forget it, I'm still watching from above." β
"Then I'll go down first. Fang Shuanghua chuckled, turned around and jumped down, in fact, the whole pit is not very steep, ordinary people can go down like this, but whether they can endure the smell of corpses and this disgusting environment is another matter.
"Wait, what is Fang Shuanghua talking to Sister Yue, won't he be talking about my situation..."Qing Huan saw Fang Shuanghua go down and went directly to Xin Yue, and it seemed that he was still chatting.
"No, go take a look, let him tell Sister Yue to go back and it's over..."Qing Huan threw the empty bag in his hand and jumped down.
In reality, however, they were talking about, "Did any of these corpses come up with anything?"
"There's no reason maggots to grow here, corpses in the desert usually only form dry corpses. Xin Yue pushed her glasses, quite intellectual, "This place is not quite right, and you look at those people's guns, etc... Why did you come down too, didn't you say that there are many people below who die on top?"
"Eh, that... You continue..."Qinghuan looked around and found that the leaders of each group were basically here this time.
Dao Chongxianyue, Fang Shuanghua, Alexei of Russia, Auguste of France and Anna, the only female representative of the United Kingdom, of course, Li Tianqi and his bunch of followers, as for their names and information, I don't know how Sister Yue got it, Qinghuan looked at the information on the lens while facing the number.
"Well, while metal objects are supposed to corrode more easily in the desert climate, these guns corrode so fast, like..."
"It's like being forcibly corroded. Fang Shuanghua flipped through the tattered firearm, it was an American-style M16 series modified model, and it was so corroded that it was almost impossible to see its prototype.
"It's also possible that there is a strong heat source, but of course this doesn't seem to make sense on a corpse. Xin Yue continued.
"Although this creature is not available in the data, I can roughly deduce what it was like at the time. Dao Chongxian suddenly said in a deep voice.
Gu Qinghuan has been watching Japanese comics with Lin Xuan all the year round, and he has also learned a little bit of Japanese, but he didn't expect it to come in handy here.
Although Dao Chongxianyue's words sounded a bit exaggerated, judging from the performance of the people around him who did not believe it, it was obvious that he did have ability, and Qinghuan couldn't help but carefully observe the youngest of the law enforcers, Amaterasu, who was only about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, looked soft and weak, and was angry, I really don't know how he served the public at the beginning, and the other swords on his waist should be the Tiancongyun that has been passed down from generation to generation by Amaterasu, and the sharpness of the sword according to Lin Xuan made her very jealous.
"I don't know who can fight better between him and Fang Shuanghua?"
"According to you, there is a third party in this fight. Fang Shuanghua said thoughtfully.
"There is no spiritual power left on the scene, it should be caused by physical strength, either it is a large team, or, it is an existence that can wipe out our entire army. August said.
"Is it possible to be as free as the one in our group?" Xin Yue said, everyone knew who she was referring to.
"You're really joking, she's the only one in this world who can claim to be a holy magician, and it's a great honor for her to come to us to lead us, but alas..." Auguste's tone was subdued and frustrated, full of quite charm, but he didn't forget to glance at Xin Yue affectionately as he spoke, of course, Xin Yue was used to this guy who made her unhappy.
The others looked at Anna more with doubts flashing in their eyes.
"Holy magician, I didn't expect that lily girl to be so strong..."Qinghuan's French is also half-, but some daily life can still be understood. "This August looks quite handsome, it is estimated that Sister Yue is not a good uncle, it's really embarrassing for him..."
However, the name of Baimo City has reached the point where everyone knows it, and Qinghuan decided to go back and build a good relationship.
"No, it's the Quartet. "Here, this wound penetrated the throat of this monster and slid out, according to the degree of this injury, it could not match the other injuries on the other corpses, and the second half of this knife was not here." β
In a short period of time, he actually saw all the corpses, and even Lin Xinyue was surprised by him.
"That could be a third party. β
"No, these scars are like puzzles, and if you look closely, there are a lot of pieces missing from the puzzle. Dao Chongxian's words were categorical, obviously he was absolutely confident in his judgment, although these corpses had begun to decay, but the flesh was relatively intact, so it had little impact on the judgment of the traces.
"These people, they are supposed to be mercenaries, and, moreover, they are... That's right, it's the Nogi Company of Boxi. Although Alexei is only the deputy leader, he himself has been dealing with various organizations in the world for a long time, and after thinking about it, he confirmed their identities.
"Looks like they're here before us. The original secret operation was suddenly interfered with, and Li Tianqi's eyes were cold, "Since this arms dealer doesn't want to live anymore, I'll finish him off after I get out." β
"Anna, what are you thinking?" Xin Yue ignored Li Tianqi and turned to Anna, who had been silent on the side, "That's right, I seem to have seen this kind of scratch when I traveled on a mission before." Anna pointed to a crack in the dark sand.
"What is it?"
"The final stage of the mutation. Anna's words didn't seem to answer Xin Yue's question, but they made the faces of the people present change at the same time, except for a daze who didn't know the truth.
"Interesting..."Xin Yue was stunned for a moment, and then a weird smile, "Everyone, it seems that we need real cooperation this time." β
Lin Xinyue's meaning is obvious, and she directly made it clear that everyone came here for their own purposes, but the current situation is somewhat beyond the scope of a single person's ability, so it is forbidden to fight infighting until the trouble is solved.
"Well, there are no more clues here, they should be ahead. "Dao Chongxianyue was the first to express his approval of Xin Yue.
"Okay", everyone thought about it and expressed their approval, Li Tianqi originally wanted to have a few words with Lin Xinyue, but seeing that everyone agreed so quickly, he had no choice but to agree, and then returned to their respective teams and started to march again according to the original formation.
"Jiuxia, your face is not very good?" Xin Yue took Qinghuan back, but saw Su Jiuxia with a haggard face.
"Don't say it, it's disgusting..."Jiu Xia's face turned pale and looked at Lin Xinyue with a complaining expression.
At that time, when Xin Yue winked at Jiuxia, Jiuxia felt that Sister Yue must have something to do with herself, that's right, Sister Yue must not mess up the task for the first time, and after some meditation, her brain was about to twitch, and somehow she thought of her glasses.
Maybe Sister Yue didn't worry about them or let herself record what she saw, so he tried to connect the main screen with Xin Yue's glasses, but he didn't expect it to be really connected, and he was secretly happy for a while, and then, as Qing Huan guessed, he almost vomited out the stomach acid in his entire stomach.
"Jiuxia, I suddenly found that you are so cute. Xin Yue suddenly sold cuteness seriously.
"Don't say it, let me slow down. There was no time to enjoy this rare beauty, so he poured his head with mineral water, and the cold feeling pulled back his nerves slightly, and Jiuxia finally felt a little more comfortable.
"Get in the car, we're going to keep going. β
In this way, he drove for a whole day and night, and encountered a lot of attacks along the way, but the scale was not large, so it did not have much impact on the speed of travel, and Qing Huan's unstable keel state finally recovered at the end of the day, and it was now the evening of July 15th.