Chapter 49 (II) The Powder Keg That Ignites Quickly
By the time Tang Shuxing woke up, Gaia's body was already soft.
When a person is alive, his body is soft and his heart is hard, but after death, his body is hard and his heart is soft.
When Gaia was alive, her body was as solid as a rock because of her "heart", but what about after she died?
Tang Shuxing got up and stared at Gaia for a long time, then he lifted the dragon blade and carefully dissected her body, and after the dissection, Tang Shuxing was stunned for a moment, because in addition to the body tissues in Gaia's body, there are also sophisticated machinery in it, that is to say, Gaia is an intelligent creature composed of biological machinery, and this kind of technique has not been reached by the new human so far.
The real basalt was placed in a strange frame in the heart, still shimmering, changing color every second, from gray to black, from black to white, and then repeating.
Tang Shuxing stretched out his hand to take out the basalt, and he didn't look at it carefully, but just handed it to Ji Kefeng who came over: "Okay, this thing belongs to you, and we have to make up a story about slaying the dragon when we go back, of course the protagonist is you, and it has nothing to do with me." ”
Ji Kefeng nodded slightly, and packed the basalt, while Tang Shuxing stood there staring at Gaia, who was gradually rotting up and down after taking the basalt away, and when they were about to change into those weird diving suits and prepare to leave, four things that were exactly the same as Gaia were drilled out of the passage connecting the cave next to them, but in the shape of a small snake.
"That's Gaia's child." Tang Shuxing looked at it and said, "All the eggs she laid are stone eggs, the reason is because of the basalt, and now the basalt is gone." The petrified eggs returned to normal. ”
"What about these little things?" Ji Kefeng looked at the little Gaia who was squirming around Tang Shuxing's ankles.
"Let it be, fend for itself." Tang Shuxing leaned over, stretched out his hand and touched the four little Gaia respectively, and then jumped straight into the pool.
"Let's go!" After Colin also entered the water, Gu Huaiyi turned around and jumped.
Ji Kefeng stood there, staring at the little Gaia who moved to the edge of the waterhole, kept staring, and let out a low sound, wanting to lean over and touch the little Gaia, who knew that Lu Dao's hand had just touched it. Little Gaia immediately took on an attacking stance. It seems that they are only close to Tang Shuxing.
"See you again, Gaia, Xie Lu Xie ......" Ji Kefeng entered the water, but he himself didn't know what Lu Dao said to Gaia. Or Tang Shu's punishment.
Same as Gaia said. They're wearing those weird wetsuits. They weren't attacked by strange creatures underwater, but instead avoided them. The clothes don't have oxygen cylinders, and the so-called helmets just fit snugly around the face like ski masks. There was still a steady stream of oxygen pouring in from the notch in the mouth.
The current at the bottom of the sea was very fast, although they were wearing clothes like that, they were still carried by the current on the bottom of the sea, and after being washed for nearly forty minutes, they didn't know how far the road was, and Tang Shuxing, who was at the front, began to swim towards the surface of the sea.
When the four of them emerged from the sea, they found themselves in the center of the ocean, with no islands or land around them, and it seemed that the currents under the sea had washed them very far away from Hashima.
"Hashima seems to be in that direction!" Ji Kefeng pointed to his side, and among the four people, he was the implanter with the best vision.
Tang Shuxing looked at the outline of Hashima, recalled the direction, and then pointed to the other side and said: "Swim over there, the southeast is the mainland direction, we should be able to save a lot of effort by wearing such clothes." ”
Although everyone was tired and panting, they did not swim in the direction of land, once it was night, the temperature of the sea water dropped, and they were all injured, and they were very likely to die, so they had to slowly swim towards the southeast according to Tang Shuxing's instructions.
After swimming for nearly an hour, there was still no shadow of land, but they saw a single-trawl diesel engine fishing boat slowly approaching from the opposite side with black smoke.
The fishing boat soon noticed them, and turned around and headed towards them at a high speed, saying that it was fast, but in their eyes it was like a crawling turtle, and it took about ten minutes for the fishing boat to come by eyeing the close distance.
The fishing boat turned off its engine when it was about ten meters away from them, and slowly drifted along the current, after which a man in a fisherman's suit standing on the boat lowered the lifebuoy tied to the rope and dragged them up one by one.
Tang Shu, who was the first to be dragged onto the boat, tortured Xie Luxie, and at the same time felt in his heart that the fisherman's strength was really great, and he easily dragged himself up, but when the fisherman took off the hat and grinned at him, he realized that it was no one else standing in front of him, it was the arms dealer and the undercover Quinn of the British Intelligence Agency who was lurking in the Sharman Company.
"Quinn!?" Tang Shuxing was extremely surprised, "How could it be you?" ”
"How could it not be me?" Quinn smiled and motioned for Tang Shuxing to help drag everyone else up with him, and after Gu Huaiyi and Ji Kefeng got on the boat and found out that it was Quinn, they were also extremely surprised, I don't know why he actually appeared in this place.
Colin looked at Quinn, and although he didn't know who he was, he politely thanked him.
"Don't thank me, thank him." Quinn pointed to the middle-aged man who had come out of the cockpit, holding a large pile of clothes, tanned from top to bottom, and bearded.
Tang Shuxing looked at it fixedly, and after looking at it for a long time, he realized that it was Hawke, and stepped forward to give him a hug.
Hawke threw his clothes on the deck and motioned for the others to change into them.
"Didn't I hear you're in Europe? How did it end up here? Tang Shuxing asked, then turned his head to look at Quinn and said, "Why are you with Quinn?" ”
"Let's change your clothes first, then eat something, we'll check your injuries, and then go see Yue." Hawke didn't say much, and judging from the new scars on his body, he had been through a lot recently.
"What about Keane, Stan, and Tom?" Tang Shuxing put his clothes and weapons in a deep water bag that Quinn had prepared, mixed them with the others, and then added a few pieces of iron and sank into the sea.
"It's not safe up there, go down!" Hawke motioned for Quinn to sail back to the ship, and he led the others out of the cabin.
Got into the bilge. Hawke briefly checked their injuries, because Tang Shuxing, Gu Huaiyi, and Ji Kefeng all used the medicine that Gaia said, and the injuries didn't matter, but they needed to recover, and Hawke just disinfected, sutured, and bandaged Colin's wounds again.
"Friends, America is finished, Jason is dead, I'm wanted again, and the situation on the European side is not ideal. A lot has happened in less than a week. Hawke wiped his hands when he finished. I took out the drink and drank it slowly.
Tang Shuxing leaned to the side and asked, "What does it mean that the United States is finished?" ”
"The incumbent president compromised, recognized the legitimacy of Shando, and privately signed a non-aggression pact with Shandu. Recognize that the territorial extent of Shandu is the whole of Southeast Asia. Now the world is full of this news. Hawke smiled wryly. In Europe, with the United Kingdom's referendum to leave the European Union, 'Leaving the European Union' spread like a plague in an instant. Next to each other, Germany, France, and so on have announced their departure from the European Union, but then the problem came again, Britain has not joined the eurozone, is using the pound, and Germany, France have replaced the original mark and franc with the euro, and now suddenly separated, fearing that the EU economy will be dragged down, and it is also a problem to use the original currency again. ”
Hawke was drinking, but his face was already flushed, and he seemed to be anxious: "Take the Deutsche Mark as an example, before it was gradually replaced by the euro, the Mark had an average inflation rate of 3%, and the value was only a quarter of the original, and the euro suddenly became waste paper, and the Mark returned, which means that the economy collapsed, and the EU member states were in a dilemma, if you stay, you will die, and if you don't stay, it is better to withdraw, give an explanation to the people, and everyone will work hard and fend for themselves." ”
I didn't understand the monetary policy very well, but just asked: "Have Britain, France, and Germany recognized the status of Shangdu?" ”
"Britain followed the United States to admit it, it should be said that many countries have admitted it in disguise, they are worried at the same time, but also think that the people in the top of their country who have infiltrated Shangdu have existed many years ago, and they are also worried that they can no longer control the army, in order to protect themselves, they can only admit it. At present, the only countries in the world that do not recognize Shangdu and insist that Shangdu are terrorist organizations and cults are China, Russia, France, India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Sweden, Venezuela, and some other small countries, which have declared neutrality and displayed innocent expressions. Hawke shook his cup, "Brazil is in civil strife, and there is a civil war, because the Brazilian government has even claimed that some new drugs have been medicalized, and they have also been legalized in disguise, and they have also been included in the national tax, which has caused dissatisfaction among people in the country, including a group of drug dealers, and the war is burning instantly, because the government wants to include drug sales in the tax, and the drug dealers will be finished." ”
In Brazil's civil war, the government forces immediately took the upper hand, and the rebels claimed that the government was in collusion with the Shandu terrorist organization, and appealed to other countries that did not recognize Shandu for help, but received no response – who would declare that they would help drug traffickers against the government? Because drug dealers are not motivated by justice either, but simply by profit.
"Venezuela regrets the affairs of Brazil, but it is only watching from the other side of the strait and does not dare to intervene lightly." Hawke's eyes were closed, and he couldn't say any more, "Guess what's the most peaceful place now?" ”
"Africa." Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi said in unison.
"Yes, Africa!" Hawke smiled bitterly, "Bafang and Shaman Power finally put down the rebellion of some small organizations in Africa, unified the whole of Africa, incorporated the armies of various countries and then reorganized, stationed troops around the Suez Canal, Djibouti and Benghazi, worried that Europe would invade, in fact, they did this to resist Shangdu, basically the whole world knows that the Bafang and Shaman Power broke with Shangdu." ”
"The powder keg is about to ignite." Gu Huaiyi got up and walked towards the deck, "If the Russian side doesn't hold back for a while, then the Third World War will start." ”
"Don't worry, not for the time being." Hawke looked at everyone, "Led by China and Russia, a joint army called the 'Asia-Europe Peacekeeping Support Force' has been established, which is a good chess game, and at the same time it has avoided many problems, and they should be the most resistant to it." ”
"And ......," Hawke added, "Israel sent a note to the U.S. ambassador saying that Israel would declare war on the U.S. if the U.S. became an accomplice in Shandu and helped terrorism take root in the world...... I have to say, the Jews did a great job! (To be continued......)