Chapter 16: Choices

The machine qì people have learned to lie, isn't this tantamount to admitting in disguise? Tang Shuxing looked at the bloodied child, and suddenly realized something, he turned his head to look at Ji Kefeng and Gu Yan, his eyes were full of a different kind of fear, Ji Kefeng and Gu Yan didn't understand before, but when Tang Shuxing looked at the child again, they suddenly realized something - according to the clown, there was only their team left in this competition area, and the child, the game was still going on, and then either they killed the child, or the child killed them!

Tang Shuxing walked up to the clown and asked, "Did you do it on purpose, right?" You guys threw this kid here on purpose, right? This kid isn't a ...... at all."

The clown directly interrupted Tang Shuxing's words: "There is no intention, I just want to sue you, that group of children born before the all-out war period are almost all so old now, but there are very few people who survive, very few, those who can live to this age, basically start to learn to use weapons at the age of four or five, one is self-preservation, and the other is killing." ”

Tang Shuxing frowned: "What's the use of you suing me about this?" You should sue Reinhardtshi, you should sue Gu Huaiyi, you should sue them, not us, we know better than you, I woke up seven years later and appeared on the beach in Spain, along the way, I have seen a lot of this kind of thing, even after the start of this competition, the land we are in, it is all this kind of thing. ”

"So—" the clown shook his head, "humanity needs progress, and human progress must be made under the premise of flogging, throughout human history. Humanity will not look for a solution until there is a serious crisis. Around 1340, an epidemic in Europe known as the Black Death claimed the lives of about 75 million people around the world, which was an inaccurate number, only more, not less, and only after people really noticed how important it was to improve the sanitation of their living environment, even in Renaissance Europe, where people's living conditions were extremely poor. Only some kind of heavy change will move humanity forward. Forced to move forward, like slaves, they will not go without whipping them. Won't move. ”

Tang Shuxing shook his head: "You are all a bunch of psychopathic bastards!" ”

"You only get one chance. Isn't that true of human history? I couldn't take that opportunity. Everybody's finished. The clown shook his head, "We're done too, Father said." If humanity can't seize the opportunity, the machine will be doomed, after all, we are your work. ”

As he spoke, the clown pointed to the watch on Tang Shuxing's wrist: "There is still half an hour before the end of the preliminaries in this area, and half an hour is enough for you to make a decision." ”

Tang Shuxing looked at the child sitting there in a daze, and stepped forward directly, Ji Kefeng stepped forward to stop him, Tang Shuxing said in a low voice: "Do you think I will kill him?" ”

Ji Kefeng let go of him, Tang Shuxing stepped forward and said to the child: "Child, don't be nervous, you listen to me, I'll check on you now to see if you are injured anywhere, if there is an injury, I will give you first aid, people only have one life, you have to cherish it." ”

The child just looked at Tang Shuxing with wooden eyes, Tang Shuxing tentatively stepped forward, checked it briefly, and then said: "There are many cuts on the body surface, the wound is not too deep, and there are many hanging colors, the most severe injury is a gunshot wound in the abdomen, and the bullet penetrates ......."

Speaking of which, Tang Shuxing didn't say any more, he knew very well that this child couldn't live, after all, he was only in his teens, and there were no medical conditions here at all, even if this was Shangdu, there were good hospitals and good doctors, and a sterile operating room, his body might not be able to carry it, not to mention the excessive blood loss, and his consciousness was already blurred, this age and weak body may not be able to withstand the anesthesia before the operation.

The kid was speechless, just stared blankly at Tang Shuxing, Tang Shuxing also looked at him, the clown slowly stepped forward, squatting behind Tang Shuxing, and didn't say a word.

Tang Shuxing said in a low voice: "Do you really think that I will attack a child?" ”

"I didn't think about anything, I just wanted to see a result." The clown said coldly, "After all, in this game, the best chance of winning is your team, if you don't win, the result of this game is that everyone has to lose, Reinhardt will win, it's as simple as that, I just want to see what you will do, for everyone, or for the children." ”

Ji Kefeng stood behind the clown, raised the rifle in his hand and said, "Are you cold-blooded?" This formula simply doesn't hold up and can't be placed on the scales. ”

The Joker stood up and raised his hands: "This weapon can't kill me, you know it very well, but I don't want to suffer any trauma here, please put down your gun, there shouldn't be any conflict between me and you, you know, we also participated in this competition, but you can only encounter us in the final game." ”

Ji Kefeng was taken aback: "You also participate in the competition?" ”

"Of course, with our strength, we don't need to participate in this kind of preliminaries, we will wait for you in the final." The clown laughed, "But you've won the preliminaries in the region, you can continue." ”

Ji Kefeng and Gu Yan only found out at this time that Tang Shuxing touched the child's forehead with his hand, and then cleaned his blood-stained face, because he was already dead, swallowed his last breath, and grabbed Tang Shuxing's wrist before he died, as if he had something to say.

The clown turned to leave, and as he left, he pointed to the truck and said, "The car is left for you, I don't need it." ”

Ji Kefeng shouted from behind: "How do we go next?" ”

"There's a map in the car toolbox, go to the location marked on the map, find another map at that location, and then go to the next place." The clown waved as he walked, "By the way, there are no strict competition restrictions in this competition, you can play as much as you want, even if it is for a lifetime." ”

Ji Kefeng looked at the clown's back and scolded: "This group of crazy people! ”

Tang Shuxing returned to the car, found some broken tools from the back, and began to dig a pit in the ground, Ji Kefeng and Gu Yan also stepped forward to help, after burying the little boy, Tang Shuxing made a simple tombstone with a wooden board, squatted there and said: "I only buried him, not the other people who participated in the competition, is it hypocrisy?" ”

Before Ji Kefeng could speak, Gu Yan preemptively said, "Forget it." ”

"Then be hypocritical." Tang Shuxing got up, returned to the car, found the map from the toolbox, looked at the annotations on the map, and then said, "The next location, which is about forty kilometers away from where we are, is not far, but the road is not easy to find." ”

Ji Kefeng took a look at it, raised his eyes and looked ahead: "It's only more than forty kilometers, and it can be reached in almost two hours." ”

"I don't know where else awaits us." Gu Yan got into the car, but Tang Shuxing didn't start the car, just held the steering wheel and waited.

Ji Kefeng looked at Tang Shuxing, then turned his head to look at Gu Yan, Gu Yan couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you drive?" ”

Tang Shuxing looked at Gu Yan from the rearview mirror: "Gu Yan, I'm curious, why...... Why should you take the initiative to participate in this contest? Even Zhan Tianya is not interested in something, but you are interested? ”

Gu Yan smiled: "Why are you interested?" ”

"I was forced." Tang Shuxing shook his head slightly, "This kind of dog day competition, I have participated in it once, I don't want to participate in the second time, if it is not forced, I will not come." ”

Gu Yan nodded and looked outside: "You also said that you didn't want to participate because you had participated, I didn't participate, I wanted to participate." ”

Tang Shu said: "Is it interesting to answer with many doubts?" ”

Gu Yan retorted: "It's better to answer with doubts than not to answer at all." ”

Ji Kefeng interjected: "Now is not the time for infighting, Gu Yan has already participated, he is already a member of the team, and it won't help to ask these questions again, Xing Er, let's drive, I also want to solve this matter as soon as possible, go and see that bastard as soon as possible, and find out what is going on." ”

Tang Shuxing started the car, and the car began to waddle on the uneven road: "The only thing I am curious about now is why Gu Huaiyi did that, yes, he is a madman, but I always feel that his madness has a bottom line, in Shangdu." If he really killed Tang Shuchan with his own hands and indirectly killed Zou Muqing, then he is really a madman, I will kill him, I will kill him on the spot, but he didn't, I even have a feeling that if I were going to attack Tang Shuchan at that time, he would also stop me. ”

Ji Kefeng said: "For so many years, I tried to understand him, but he didn't give me this opportunity, he never opened his heart to anyone, even the most trusted Tian Longting and Lin Suotu around him, and even if he did some things that others thought were dirty, he could find a reason that you couldn't refute every time, I still remember that three years ago, in a regional conflict, there was a resistance armed force that fought with the Shangdu Defense Force for a long time, and the battle lasted for half a month, because it was the period of clinical necropsy examination, so the necropsy of soldiers was very dangerous, At that time, Gu Huaiyi gave an order, he asked the helicopter of the army aviation to attack several surrounding villages, but only attacked in a circle on the periphery, and then withdrew. No one would have thought that after those villages were attacked, they would angrily help the resistance group that they didn't want to help, which was tantamount to making Shangdu make enemies everywhere. ”

Tang Shuxing turned his head to look at Ji Kefeng: "Then what?" ”

"And then of course there was a big fight, we fought very hard, because those people resisted like crazy, we killed a lot of people, but in the end we all killed the resistance, and we fought for almost a month, and when we found their camp, we found that they were all dead, dead from our fire." Ji Kefeng took a deep breath, "I stood there looking at Gu Huaiyi with a smile on his face, and said to him, look, this is the good thing you did, guess what he said?" ”

Tang Shuxing shook his head.

Ji Kefeng said: "He said, this is like words!" ”

"What?" Tang Shuxing asked, "Is this like words?" What do you mean? ”

Ji Kefeng just shook his head, because he still didn't understand what Gu Huaiyi meant. (To be continued......)