The night came as scheduled.

Gu Lichuan and Ying Lan walked into the top floor of the base, Andre and Long Ao were already waiting for them there, and behind them, a pitch-black fighter plane was docked there. Gu Lichuan raised his head and looked at the dome above his head and the beautiful night sky above the dome.

"Very punctual. Andrei beckoned to them and turned to step into the plane.

"Are we going to sit here to carry out the mission later?" Gu Lichuan looked at the fighter plane and asked Long Ao. This was the first time he had come into contact with this kind of fighter, it was even bigger than he had imagined, and from a distance, it looked like a giant manta ray.

"Yes," Long Ao nodded, "After all, this time we have to go a long way." ”

While they were talking, Mu Yi also walked in with a gun on his back, followed by Xingchen.

"It seems that the white fox is the last one. Long Ao shook his head helplessly.

Sure enough, the last one to come in was a white fox with a lollipop in his mouth. Although he was the last, he did not look in a hurry at all, and even paced very leisurely, as if he had stepped onto the stage.

"Damn, the last one is still such an uncle?" Mu Yi raised his middle finger at the white fox.

"Huh?" the white fox raised his eyebrows and teased Mu Yi, "Are you late?"

"Not really. Mu Yi replied a little unwillingly.

"Isn't that it," the white fox patted Mu Yi's shoulder and walked towards the plane cabin, "Young people now, they just can't hold their breath." Mu Yi was left behind by the white fox, but he had nothing to say.

"Let's go. Long Ao also turned around and walked towards the cabin, and everyone followed him into the plane.

The cabin was more spacious than Gu Lichuan imagined, and the equipment inside was obviously much more advanced than that of a civil aircraft, with all kinds of weapons placed in transparent containers like pulling cabinets, and all kinds of equipment and instruments were available. While watching, Gu Lichuan slowly sat down next to the white fox. Andrei sat in the driver's seat, turned to the crowd and asked, "Are you all seated?" ”

After speaking, the lights in the base hall were extinguished together, the spherical dome slowly opened, the night poured in like fog, and the roaring fighter planes slowly levitated.

That's how my first mission began. Feeling the shaking of the fighter plane from the ground as it slowly rose, Gu Lichuan thought silently.

To his left, the white fox was already kneeling on his seat and began to chat with Ying Lan in the back seat.

Yes, the white fox is already a veteran of a hundred battles, how can he cower like me? Gu Lichuan laughed at himself, smiling and shaking his head.

"It's okay, it's okay, if you encounter something beyond common sense, if you beg me, I'll save you. Yin Tong comforted Gu Lichuan nonchalantly.

"Cut, anyway, I'm also a person who can fight on an equal footing with the No. 13 mecha, you don't look down on people. Gu Lichuan retorted.

"Pull it down, if it weren't for me, you would still want to win the thirteenth mecha with your small body?

That, that is also what you voluntarily lent to me. ”

"You're not wrong about that, after all, I'm in your body, and this power should be something you can drive, but ......"

"But what?" Gu Lichuan felt the tone of the silver pupil change, and hurriedly asked.

"You may encounter many more characters than the No. 13 Mecha Bull on this mission, you must be careful," the serious tone of the silver pupil caused Gu Lichuan to become nervous.

So he responded to the silver pupils, as if this response could calm his nervous mood: "Okay, okay, I know, don't you be so serious, I'm a little scared." ”

"What do you want?" At this time, Gu Lichuan was dragged back by the voice of inquiry, and turned his head to see that it was Xingchen.

Smiling awkwardly, Gu Lichuan responded: "I'm a little nervous, after all, it's the first time to participate in this kind of mission." ”

"It's always good to be careful. The stars stopped looking at him, and turned back to look at their feet.

"Xingchen, have you participated in a lot of battles?" Gu Lichuan felt that it was too embarrassing to let the atmosphere cool down, so he spoke first.

Xingchen was silent for a moment: "I'm not impressed." ”

"There must be very few missions like this. Gu Lichuan asked again.

"Just once. Xingchen blinked, perhaps remembering that collective mission.

"That must have done the job perfectly. Gu Lichuan said, and began to calculate, if he succeeded, then this time it is estimated that the pressure will not be great; if he fails, then write a suicide note before this mission. However, there is such a human self-propelled artillery that is called the "strongest", how can there be a reason for the failure of the mission.

However, Xingchen's answer was beyond Gu Lichuan's expectations.

"Failed," Xingchen licked his lips, and in addition to indifference, there was a hint of guilt on his face, "that mission allowed us to rescue the hostages - the man was not saved, he died." ”

"Yes......" An unbelievable expression appeared on Gu Lichuan's face, "It must be a very important person to be able to dispatch all the staff to rescue the hostages." ”

"It's the daughter of the dragon boss. Xingchen raised his eyes and looked at Long Ao, who was sitting next to Andre and staring into the distance.

"Boss Long's daughter?" Gu Lichuan was a little surprised, but he lowered his voice.

"Ah," Xingchen nodded slightly, "yes." ”

In the abandoned chemical factory, the dark green viscous waste liquid is tumbling in the filthy iron cylinder, and the pungent smell fills every corner. Xingchen sat on the ground, the girl slumped in the crook of his arm, and even though his eyes lost their brilliance, the lifeless corpse still looked as delicate and beautiful as a puppet. Dark red blood flowed from her abdomen, slowly enveloping the stars. Xingchen looked down at her, unable to make a sound, just sitting silently. Flames burned all around him, and countless corpses lay in front of him, but it seemed too late.

"Stars. Coming back to his senses, Xingchen looked at Gu Lichuan who called for him.

"I'm sorry to remind you of such an unpleasant thing. Gu Lichuan clasped his hands together and said very apologetically.

"It's okay," Xingchen still had a blank face, just shaking his head gently and muttering to himself, "It's all over." ”

With that, he silently looked out the window and never said a word again. So Gu Lichuan also looked out of his window, and only the white fox was still laughing with Mu Yi in the cabin.

The night embraced the sky, flying west with the warplanes. The bright lights over the city slowly faded, and the stars in the sky became more and more numerous. Gu Lichuan looked at the starry sky, and glanced back at Yinglan again. She was holding her cheek with one hand, looking out the window without saying a word, her face slowly enveloping a look of relief, and there seemed to be some emotion hidden in her amber eyes, which was an elusive feeling, a nostalgic look, mixed with the color of resentment and sadness.

Looking back, Gu Lichuan folded his hands and fell into deep thought.

"Yinglan, is what you said true......

"Do you mean I like you?" Yin Tong learned to haunt Lan and teased Gu Lichuan on the side.

"Don't come to tease me," Gu Lichuan complained to Yintong, "You shouldn't believe what you said about her." ”

"I'd rather believe it than believe it," Yintong encouraged Gu Lichuan, "Congratulations to Mr. Gu Lichuan on ushering in the second spring!"

"Go, go," Gu Lichuan was a little embarrassed, "but that dream ...... this morning" said, and the hideous face of Rita in the dream appeared in front of his eyes again.

"You kid, I'm too lazy to talk about you. Silver Hitomi sighed, and just as he wanted to say something, the fighter suddenly shook violently, so everyone came back to their senses and looked at Andre who was sitting in the driver's seat.

"Guys, we're here. Andrei looked back and smiled, and the fighter plane was slowly descending.

"yes——! drive there!" the white fox jumped up from his seat and ran to the back of the cabin.

"Where is he going?" Gu Lichuan asked Mu Yi.

"Drive that bulletproof jeep," Mu Yi replied to Gu Lichuan with some headaches, "Driving has always been the White Fox's favorite, because that car is equipped with a front-mounted machine gun and several rockets, and the bulletproof effect is first-class, and the White Fox likes to drive that car to charge into battle the most." The immortal man and the immortal car are a perfect match. ”

"That's right. Gu Lichuan laughed, he caught the word "immortal" in Mu Yi's mouth.

"The immortal person is the special ability of the white fox. Thinking back to the mortal punch of the silver pupil and the evil smile of the white fox, Gu Lichuan nodded and followed everyone towards the rear cabin of the fighter.

"Andre and I will wait for news in the fighter, you bring the key to find the door, once you find it, report it immediately, and we will rush over immediately. Long Ao methodically commanded everyone and handed the capsule-shaped container to Xingchen.

"Got it. Xingchen took the container and turned to get into the car.

The rear hatch of the fighter plane slowly lowered, the bulletproof jeep sped out of it, and the white fox slammed on the accelerator while humming a cheerful tune, completely ignoring the danger that might plunge the car into a sea of sand. Xingchen sat in the co-pilot, holding the container in his hand, and Ying Lan and Gu Lichuan sat in the back. As soon as he rushed out of the cabin, Gu Lichuan felt a chill to his bones, although it was summer, the desert at night was so cold, it could be regarded as his own experience.

The desert at night was not at all as golden as Gu Lichuan imagined, and what appeared under the illumination of the headlights was a kind of paleness, a kind of powerless paleness. On the sand dunes in the distance, from time to time, there will be a few pairs of small eyes with a faint green light peeking at the walking people, like ghost fire.

"Where are we?" Gu Lichuan looked at the boundless sea of sand in front of him, got up and asked Xingchen.

"Lop Nur. Xingchen said lightly.

"Attention friends of the special operations group, we are now in the central area of Lop Nur, see if there is something in the shape of a stone tablet in the distance?" With the help of the moonlight and the headlights, Gu Lichuan really saw a few stele-like marker trees there,

"That's the sign of the middle of the Lop Nur Lake. As he spoke, the white fox slammed in the direction and drove towards the signs. As they got closer, they realized that it was not a stone tablet at all, but just a few simple wooden tablets.

Stopping steadily on the edge of the wooden monument, the white fox jumped out of the car, looked around, and turned back to call everyone: "Come down, what are you doing in a daze." ”

So Gu Lichuan also jumped out of the car and walked in the direction of the white fox. Except for the light that could be seen, everything around was hidden in the darkness, and from time to time there was a rustling sound, which added a layer of weirdness to this desolation.

"I heard that Lop Nur has conducted a total of 45 nuclear tests. The white fox looked through the information about Lop Nur in the contact.

"Then will we be irradiated?" asked Ying Lan as she looked at the white fox and asked half-jokingly.

"Who knows," the white fox blew the hair on his forehead, and suddenly smiled evilly at Ying Lan, "Maybe your chest will get a little bigger after the radiation." ”

Hearing this, Ying Lan kicked the white fox's ass violently: "Can you not open which pot and which pot to mention?"

Ignoring their trouble, Xingchen walked to the wooden tablet, slowly put the transparent capsule container on the ground, and gently pressed the button, "snort", the container slowly opened, and for a while a lilac light emitted from the stone in the container.

"No reaction," leaned forward to look at the glowing stone, and the white fox frowned, "Could it be that the Technology Development Bureau took a toy to fool us?"

"Get out of the way. Reaching out and tugging at the white fox in front of the stone, the stars noticed something unusual—the light emanating from the stone suddenly brightened and extinguished like a beating heart. As everyone approached it, the light grew stronger with each movement, as if it was enough to illuminate half of the sky above the sea of sand. All four were silent, looking forward to what would happen next.

In the inner perimeter of Lop Nur, Andre and Long Ao, who were attracted by the color, looked at the dark purple sky.

"Is this the so-called 'supernatural power'?" Andrei couldn't believe his eyes, he had done countless tasks, big and small, but he had never encountered such a spectacle.

The white fox, who was looking at the stones, suddenly felt that the sand under his feet was slowly moving, so he got up suddenly and pulled Gu Lichuan and Ying Lan up: "Hurry up, it seems that something is coming out under your feet." ”

As he spoke, a violent tremor came up from the ground, as violent as an earthquake. Xingchen quickly closed the container and shouted "disperse", and the four of them quickly dispersed and jumped into the jeep. The white fox rarely reverses in a serious way. In front of the car, the ground began to sink downward, and quicksand began to collect towards the center of Lop Nur Lake. The edge of the depression was constantly expanding outward, and the jeep driven by the white fox was forced to retreat continuously, and the slightest misstep would cause the car to fall into the huge quicksand whirlpool.

Xingchen was carrying the container, and suddenly something didn't feel right—the stones in the container were beating violently, hitting the inner walls of the container, as if they were resonating with the violent vibrations. Then the star opened the lid, and the stone flew amazingly towards the center of the depression, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, and at the same time, the shaking stopped, and everything returned to calm, leaving behind a huge sand pit.

"What does this mean?" After turning off the fire, the white fox jumped out of the car and walked to the edge of the bunker, and looked into the bunker, but there was nothing but sand and sand.

"What, it's nothing, is there a mistake in the boss?" the white fox turned around and walked towards the jeep suspiciously, and said to the people in the car.

"White Fox! behind you!" said Ying Lan, pointing behind the white fox.

"Huh?" Just as the white fox looked back at Ying Lan, a rumbling sound came from in front of him. The white fox looked back again, and saw that the lilac stone had slowly risen from the center of the bunker, and with it was a huge altar-like building.

"What is this?!" Taken aback, the white fox slowly approached the altar, which was covered with carved patterns and hung with a few unknown vegetation trees that had long since died, perhaps due to age, and many parts of the altar were broken. Yellow sand spilled out of the altar, and the rumbling slowly stopped.

Everyone jumped out of the car, and Xingchen took out his contact.

"Boss, we've found it. ”

"Got it, I'll be there soon. After receiving the news, Long Ao turned off the liaison and sat back in his place: "Let's go, Andre, let's go and pick them up." ”

"Yes, I found it so quickly. Mu Yi smiled and picked up his gun.

Gu Lichuan stared blankly at the huge altar in front of him, not knowing what to say for a while. In the center of the altar, the glow of the purple stone softened.

"It's called a 'gate'. Lan looked at the altar.

"Yes," Xingchen nodded, "let's wait for the boss." ”

"Those explorers thought that finding the center of Lop Nur would be considered a complete merit, but tsk, it's a pity. The white fox sighed with a look of regret.

Is this the life that the special operations team experiences every day? Gu Lichuan thought in his heart, a little excited, a little nervous, and a little happy.

At this time, the voice of the silver pupil came: "Don't be complacent there, something is approaching." ”

Coming back to his senses, Gu Lichuan, who looked into the distance through his left eye, pointed to the darkness: "Everyone, there is something over there." ”

"Something is coming so soon?" the white fox turned around excitedly and pulled out his gun.

Sure enough, soon, a noisy sound came, very similar to the sound of quicksand just now, but the sound seemed to be surprisingly fast, closer and louder. Gu Lichuan took out the gun hanging from his waist and swallowed his saliva. Everyone was ready for battle, fully armed and waiting for "that thing" to arrive.

"It's a big guy. The white fox listened to the loud noise and narrowed his fox eyes.

A gust of wind and sand drifted by, and in the midst of the wind and sand, to everyone's surprise, a thin figure slowly walked - a man in a robe staggered closer.

"Could it be the guardian of the altar hidden in the desert?" the white fox aimed at the figure, "Walk like a zombie, can't it be too old?"

"Can you be quiet. Xingchen held his gun and looked at the slowly approaching figure.

"Just one person, can you make such a big move?" Gu Lichuan asked, and at the same time became more vigilant, "Impossible, it's definitely not her." ”

As soon as the words fell, the figure suddenly fell to the ground with a thud.

"Let's go, go up and have a look. Xingchen said, put the gun away, and ran towards the fallen figure, Gu Lichuan followed closely behind. The white fox and the young Lan looked forward and turned backwards, beware of the approach of uninvited guests, and slowly followed the stars.

Picking up the man in the robe, Gu Lichuan took off the huge hood on the man's head, and was really taken aback. Under the robe, there was a comatose girl, who looked to be twenty years old, although her clothes were damaged by the wind and sand, her complexion was still fair, her facial features were very delicate, and her appearance was pure, especially the lilac hair, which was very eye-catching.

"Female?" the white fox leaned closer, making an incredulous sound.

"It's beautiful. Ying Lan looked at the girl, and then looked at Gu Lichuan who was holding the girl.

Gu Lichuan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly sent the girl to Xingchen's arms.

"It doesn't look like she made the noise. Xingchen looked at the girl, and then turned to look at the glowing altar.

"It's so late, why is this girl alone in the heart of Lop Nur?" Gu Lichuan pointed to the center of the question.

"But everything will have to wait until the girl wakes up......"

"Ah——!h

The girl woke up and looked at the crowd watching her, panting heavily and in a cold sweat.

"Are you okay?" Gu Lichuan asked her in an approachable manner.

"Then, is that guy here?!" the girl asked Gu Lichuan with a frightened expression.

Sure enough, there are others!

In an instant, a trace of killing intent flashed in the white fox's eyes. Drawing the knife violently, the white fox turned and slashed out, and a withered claw fell to the ground, a piercing scream sounded, and the arm that had lost its claw swooped back into the sand.

"Damn, Ying Lan, Gu Lichuan, take that girl to the altar quickly!" Seeing that he couldn't kill the other party with one blow, the white fox scolded and raised the knife and said without looking back. Beside him, Xingchen had already gotten up, handed the girl to Ying Lan with one hand, and held a gun in the other, shooting at the place where the arm was withdrawn.

"Don't waste bullets, that guy looks like something that can dive into the sand, the sand resistance is so great, how can the bullets hit?" the white fox glanced at the stars and said.

With a "boom", a huge hundred-legged leapt up from the sand, roaring, dark green venom flowing down from the corner of its mouth, very disgusting.

"Uh-huh, this is the monster guarding the altar. The white fox smiled and took the gun.

"Be careful. Xingchen threw away the gun in his hand and clenched his fists.

"Thank you for your concern, but I think that every time I am on a mission, I am more seriously injured than I am injured in battle. White Fox quipped.

Xingchen showed a rare smile, and there seemed to be a fire in his eyes.

On the other side, the lower half of the body was still buried in the sand, and all the feet were open outward, although they were feet, they were a little far-fetched—those feet had human palms at the ends, and each hand and every finger writhed back and forth, which was disgusting. It glared at the white fox and the stars, and let out an eerie cry that sounded like the hoarse roar of a withered old man squeezing out of his vocal cords with all his might.

Holding the purple-haired girl, Ying Lan and Gu Lichuan hurriedly ran towards the altar.

"Why don't we help Xingchen?" asked Gu Lichuan to Ying Lan.

"It's better not to get close," said Lingering Arashi without looking back, "and you'll be affected by the attack of the stars and die." ”

She didn't notice that a lilac mark on the Purple-Haired Girl's forehead was emitting a lilac glow along with the "key" on the altar, jumping in a breath-like rhythm.