Chapter 34: The Flames (4)
The sky was still blood-red, and it sighed to the ground, and suddenly, a hot and humid wind began to blow on the ground. I tried to resist the wind and walk, but as soon as my body touched it, my skin felt like it was burning, and it hurt a lot.
So, I climbed over the fence and hid in a house and waited for it to pass. I don't know why, but my heart always felt like it was being weighed down by a big rock, and it was almost out of breath.
I looked down at the little thing that Hibiscus had given me in my hand, it was a small ring, with several recessed strips in the ring, and a few fingernail-long scratches on the ring. I held it tightly in the palm of my hand, hoping that this little thing would learn all about it soon.
I don't want anything else, I don't ask for anything, I just hope that we can return to the base safely, continue to lurk, and continue to live ordinary lives.
I made a claim, as if I were the owner of this house, and found a nice cup in the cupboard and poured a glass of water. At this point, the view outside the window was obscured by the strong wind, and all I could hear was the sound of the sand in the wind scraping against the window, a fidgety and impatient sound.
After a while, the gust of wind finally passed, and the blood-red sunlight pierced through the windows, turning the whole house blood-red. I squinted my eyes and looked outβLazy was still dozing off in mid-air, but he seemed to have shifted his position, and he sat under the platform we had raised, just enough shade to block the sun.
I collected my thoughts, opened the door and moved on.
"Little girl, how are you doing over there?" asked Mo Qingyan.
"I'm fine, you wait for me a little longer, three minutes, in three minutes, I will definitely appear in front of you. β
"Good. Stay safe. β
I climbed over fences, climbed over holes in walls, jumped over windows...... finally came to the house where Lao Xu and Mo Qingyan were hiding. I rolled over and walked inside, walking cautiously with my head down. Suddenly, there were several bangs under the floor, and I took two steps back, lightly tapped my toes, and nervously picked up a gun and pointed it at the ground.
There was a sound of footsteps from underground, getting closer and closer. After a while, a crack was opened in the floor, and it was pitch black inside, and it was impossible to see what was going on inside, and there was no response for a long time. My palms were sweating with nervousness, and I gripped the handle even harder. Just as I was crouching down and approaching the slit, a hand suddenly stretched out from inside, and my five fingers opened and slammed into the floor. It scared me and I fell to the ground.
The hand continued to stretch out, and I swallowed nervously, but just as the hand reached forward, the floor that had been lifted suddenly fell and clamped the hand hard. Immediately after, a scream was heard from under the floor.
"Ah~!!"
"What's the situation? who!" I shouted nervously, pointing my gun at the floor.
"It's me!
"Old Xu?"
"Hurry up, get that plank away!"
I hurriedly crawled over and lifted the floor, and Lao Xu's hand was quickly retracted, only to hear him blowing his hand underneath. I lifted the floor hard, and a ladder appeared under the ground, and Lao Xu just climbed to the top. When his hands were able to move, he climbed up.
"Little Joan, you're finally here!"
"Come, I give you the ring that Fleur gave me. β
"Okay. β
"Why are you the only one coming up?"
"Mo Qingyan said that he has to guard below. It's a good thing I came up just in time, otherwise you'd have fallen. β
"Hehe, how can this be possible, I look at the ground is quite solid. Unless my limbs are uncoordinated, how can I fall badly. β
"Hahaha, you'll find out later. β
Lao Xu led me around the house and stopped in front of a large wardrobe, I wondered why he took me to see it. But before I could ask, he opened the door of the closet, and there was a staircase going down.
The two of us slipped into the closet and followed the stairs to the ground. I saw Mo Qingyan sitting on the stone drinking water, and as soon as he saw us coming down, he immediately ran over happily, and Lao Xu handed him the small ring of hibiscus.
It was a different scene underneath, not like a cellar or a tunnel, but like a large pit dug out, three or four meters deep, with their half-finished cannons in the middle, and some tools and parts scattered around.
What was even more surprising was that when I looked up, it was all transparent, and I could clearly see the clouds, see the sky, and see laziness. And what I had just seen on it, the furniture, the solid floor, turned out to be fake, just a projection of their machinery.
"No wonder...... No wonder you said I'm going to fall. It's going to really fall down......"
"Hey, when did I lie to you. Lao Xu said very slyly.
"You often lie to me!"
"Hey, hey, hey, it's an exaggeration, how often do I lie to you. β
"That's a lot. β
"For example?"
"When I first came, you knew that I had no sense of taste, but you didn't tell me, and then, once, when it was something that was going to be sent to the logistics department, you tried to trick me into saying that I was going to send it to the weapons department, which made me lose face and made me dare not go to the weapons department; and then, there was another ......."
"Stop, stop for a while, I see you little girl, you still have a little book in mind, right? Let me tell you that you really spit it out like a machine gun. β
"I remember all the things you do, and one day I'll let you come back one by one. β
"Oh, I'm all joking, Sister Qiong, you won't retaliate against me. β
"Provoke, you bounce away. β
I pushed away Lao Xu, who was dead-skinned, and went to check on Mo Qingyan's situation. He played with the little ring given by Hibiscus, and then gently placed it on the ground, then took a small flask from his pocket, took out a drop of green liquid from it, and dripped it onto the little ring.
He told me to stand back, and I obediently stood aside and waited. At first, the small ring did not move, but after more than ten seconds, the small ring began to vibrate, and then it began to expand and expand, and spewed out some gas. As the ring grows larger, it becomes more and more like the head of a cannon. After a while, it finally stopped, and it went from a small ring the size of a finger to a gun head the size of a wheel, and I watched in amazement, it was incredible!
Lao Xu and Mo Qingyan moved it to the front of the cannon, aimed the recessed strip inside it at the protruding strip of the cannon body, and then pushed the entire cannon head forward, and their cannon finally came out of shape. Then, Lao Xu picked up the wrench on the ground, picked up a few large screws, stuffed them into the hole where the gun head and the gun body were sewn, turned them in, and strengthened the gun head. Mo Qingyan admired the cannon while debugging the function of the cannon, as if he was very confident in it.
I looked at the two of them, and though I wanted to be happy for them, I was still very worried, one was worried about the hibiscus still outside, and the other was that the cannon would not be able to penetrate the laziness as expected. Phew, don't think about the bad ones, everyone will definitely get through it and leave together.
Lao Xu put down the wrench in his hand, and Mo Qingyan also completed the debugging, after Mo Qingyan debugged the cannon, the cannon could be automatically aimed at laziness. The three of us stayed quietly in this big pit, waiting for the opportunity to strike.
I held my breath as if the whole world had fallen silent. I looked at the "high" lazy man, who was still sitting there unaware, with his legs cocked, his feet not shaking a few times, his hands on his head, and his eyes closed. He probably didn't know it, but in a few minutes, he was going to be pierced and beaten to ashes. Wait, ashes?
"Wait!"
"What's wrong?" Mo Qingyan asked in surprise with a frown.
"Can you really beat people to ashes with this cannon?"
"Of course! I can guarantee that if you pierce the protective layer of laziness, laziness will turn to dust in no time. β
"Then you can't hit him!"
"Who?"
β...... Lazy ......"
"Little girl, are you crazy? What a good opportunity! Why not?"
"I ...... I said yes...... Someone...... Don't hurt laziness just yet!"
"Who? What did you promise? Don't hurt laziness? Why! Why is it up to you to decide!"
"I ...... I can't say, but I've promised that if laziness doesn't hurt us, we won't hurt him. β
"What! Don't hurt us? Look at our current situation, don't you think this is a kind of hurt, a kind of persecution? It's him! Forcing us like this! This is not called harm! Is it called charity!!"
"I ......"
"Eh, two, dissipate. Lao Xu ran over, intervened between the two of us, waved us all to stop, and continued.
"Eliminate gas, eliminate gas. Xiao Qiong, you come here with me first. β
Lao Xu pulled me aside, Mo Qingyan picked up the parts on the ground and threw them on the ground fiercely, I had never seen him look so angry, and my shoulders shook twice in fright. Lao Xu asked with concern.
"Xiaoqiong, you tell me the truth, who did you promise?"
"I ......"
"Say it. β
"I promised Aunt Xue. β
"Aunt Xue, Aunt Xue, is she okay?"
"Aunt Xue, she's fine, just now, when you couldn't find me, that Luo guard took me to see Aunt Xue. Aunt Xue seems to be fine, but she is not in a very good mood, she gave me this, and then asked me to promise her not to hurt laziness. β
I showed the gold rope on my wrist to Lao Xu, and he looked at the string left and right, and if he didn't look closely, he really couldn't notice that I had tied this rope. He asked curiously.
"What is this little rope?
"Aunt Xue said that this is a code that can control lazy machinery, but it is only used once......"
"What!" Mo Qingyan heard our conversation and turned his head and called out in surprise.
Lao Xu and Mo Qingyan grabbed my hand and looked at this thin golden rope left and right, as if they wanted to see a reason from it, but from the outside, it was an ordinary rope. The two of them watched it for a long time, but they still didn't understand, and they shook their heads one after another.
"Old Xu, have you ever seen this form of code?" asked Mo Qingyan.
"I've never seen, never seen anyone materialize code. β
"Who the hell did that? It's a big head. β
"I don't know, but I'm sure it wasn't done lazy. β
"Nonsense, that guy would leave this kind of thing?! Alas, he would still like to catch even the little girl. β
Mo Qingyan tilted his head and stared at the rope and sighed, but after he finished speaking, he immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, raised his head, and looked at me, the eyes of the two of us met for a few seconds, and he pretended to scratch his back hand unintentionally and walked away. Lao Xu leaned into my ear and whispered.
"Don't you care, he's a little bit up-and-coming now, and he's a little straight. Rest assured, we've got you covered. β
"Okay. I replied with a smile.
"It's okay, since the person you promised is Aunt Xue...... Hey, thanks to you!"
"Thanks to me for what?"
"Thanks to your reminder, if we really beat our laziness to ashes today, it is estimated that we will not have the face to see Aunt Xue in the future. She's going to hate us to death!, right, Old Mo!"
"......" Mo Qingyan walked silently towards the cannon.
"He understands, he understands. Lao Xu's eyes widened, and he nodded at me with a smile.
Mo Qingyan clicked on the cannon's controller and adjusted it to be fired manually, which meant that the cannon would not be fired immediately. When I saw him do this, I calmed down a little and promised others something, and we must do our best to do it.
I sat on the ground, looking up at the blood-red sky, the clouds did not move, the light did not move, the sky at this time was like a painting soaked in blood, although a little bloody and a little desolate, but it was still comfortable and desirable, but my heart at the moment could not go with it, my heart was still restless and still hesitating.
"Ahh
Suddenly, a scream pierced the sky, and I woke up from my troubled thoughts, and Lao Xu and Mo Qingyan turned their heads around in vigilance almost at the same time, looking at a place.
That direction is the position of the Fleur.