Chapter 33: The Flames (3)
Aunt Xue stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window without saying a word, her eyes were as clear as water, as if she was looking out of the window very quietly, not knowing what she was thinking in her heart now. However, in my eyes, it seems that there is never a trace of turbulence in her heart, always calm and calm.
But my mood can't be as calm as hers - Fu Yuan, Mo Qingyan and Lao Xu are still in dire straits. In fact, my heart was already anxious, but in front of Aunt Xue, I still had to suppress my anxiety and uneasiness, and I must not lose my temper.
At this moment, Aunt Xue picked up her handkerchief, arched a tip slightly with her fingertips, and gently tapped it next to her eyes. At this moment, I realized that a few tears gradually added to Aunt Xue's clear and bright eyes.
Guard Luo took the golden string from the box, tied it around my right wrist, and tied it in a dead knot.
Aunt Xue's eyes never left the window, and after she took a deep breath, she said to me gently.
"This rope can only be used once. Little Joan, you have to see the right time, and you can only use it when it's critical, and then it's a matter of life and death, you know?"
"Okay, Aunt Xue, I see. ”
"Hmmm......"
"Aunt Xue, thank you. ”
"Say thank you to me, you've ...... Bloodshed was made for this town. It's just that I should have said goodbye to you, thank you. ”
"No, no. It was all voluntary. ”
"Xiao Qiong......" Aunt Xue suddenly turned around, looked at me worriedly, and said to me, "There is one thing...... I want to please. ”
"What's the matter?"
"I want you to ...... Please...... In any case, don't hurt the lazy child, really don't hurt him. He's not like that. ”
Aunt Xue held my hand tightly and said it to me in the most sincere tone. I paused for a moment, not knowing what to say to her. Aunt Xue saw that I didn't answer her, and she continued.
"Really don't hurt him. Please. ”
"We never meant to hurt him, he kept hurting the townspeople, he kept hurting my friends. ”
"Your friend?"
"That's right, Fu Yuan, Lao Xu, and Mo Qingyan are all my friends, and now they are still outside in the uncertainty of their fate and death. ”
"Of course I know they're your friends, little Joan. But I ...... I watched them grow up, and in my eyes, they are all my children, they are all my treasures. ”
Her words pierced my heart like a needle.
"Aunt Snow......"
"Seeing them like this today, my heart hurts, it hurts, it hurts. I begged the lazy boy not to hurt his companion, but he didn't listen, and insisted on pressing him step by step, I really ...... I don't want to see him wake up one day, and it's too late to regret it. ”
“...... If he ...... What should I do if I can't wake up all the time?"
"He's going to come to his senses, he's going to wake up someday. As long as...... As long as you have to find Fen'er!"
"Fen'er?diligence?Aunt Xue, do you know where he is?!"
"To be honest, I don't know where Fen'er is. But lately I've been thinking about him in my mind, as if he's right next to me, as if ...... He's going to tell me the same thing. ”
"Aunt Snow......"
"Xiao Qiong, you promise me! Promise me well! My two sons, I have lost one, I don't want to ...... anymore Lose another one. ”
Seeing Aunt Xue's sad face, I knew that I should promise her.
"Okay. Aunt Xue, I can promise you, but I still have conditions. ”
"On what terms?"
"If laziness hurts my friends and hurts me, I must ...... I won't give up. ”
"I know, for so long, I don't ask for forgiveness. But if the lazy child does unforgivable things again, as a mother, no matter how heartbroken it is, I will not beg for mercy for him. You just do what you want. ”
"Okay, Aunt Xue, I promise you. I hope...... It doesn't happen. ”
"If Fen'er is here, there must be a way! ”
"Aunt Xue...... You mean we can beat laziness as long as we find diligence?"
Aunt Xue frowned slightly and looked at me in surprise. Her hands began to tremble unconsciously, and the handkerchief slipped down her fingertips, and I reached for it, but her handkerchief was so light that the wind moved a little, and it drifted away.
A tear fell to the ground and spread out into a splash.
Aunt Xue's voice was completely trembling, and she said that word with difficulty.
“...... It's ......"
Aunt Xue covered her face with her hand, and her emotions were out of control. After Guard Luo helped Aunt Xue into the room, he told me that I could leave.
I walked towards the door with heavy steps, as if I had inadvertently said something that should not be said, what is the meaning of finding diligence to defeat laziness, how can I say such a thing, it is really a misalignment in my head. In front of such a great mother, her two sons are fighting each other, which must be the last thing she wants to see, and it must be the most painful thing for her.
I walked out of the house with great remorse, and the Luo guard closed the door softly.
A moment of tranquility will eventually pass, and the incessant beacon fire will continue.
......
"Xiao Qiong, Xiao Qiong?!" Lao Xu's excited voice bombarded my ears.
"Sister Joan, where are you?"
"Little girl, Captain, why don't I go look for it?"
As soon as I was out of the yard, the nanosuits popped out of the device on my chest, and their voices poured into my ears.
The excited voices of Fuqu and Mo Qingyan also exploded in my ears, and my head was stirred by their chaotic voices, and I hurriedly looked for a button on my body that could make them lower the volume. But I touched myself, and I couldn't find a place to lower their volume. Their jumbled voices made my mood very bad all at once, so I yelled at the communication device in a heart-rending voice.
"I'm here, I'm here!"
For a moment, the world was silent. However, the tranquility did not last long, and they began to ask me again and again.
"Be quiet, be quiet!
"Sister Joan, what's going on with you? Just now, the system has been offline, and I can't contact you. ”
"Offline?"
"yes, no news at all. ”
"I was just ...... in the snow"
Is my communication system offline? I checked it -- it didn't turn it off. I recalled the situation when I followed Guard Luo to Aunt Xue's house just now, and there seemed to be a blue ribbon of light on the door of Aunt Xue's house. I walked past the light band, and the nanosuit automatically retracted, and maybe the signal was also blocked at that time, so I didn't hear them call me for so long. In this way, Aunt Xue is looking for me in private, and she doesn't want others to know.
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay, I'm just learning to use that remote control mode, maybe I'm fooling around and turning off the communication system. I'm sorry, guys. ”
"Oh, really?"
"yes, I'm still wondering why you haven't heard from you at all? Ha ha. ”
"Alright then, Sister Joan, you have to be safe. ”
I found a safe fence to hide and looked up to see what was going on overhead. At this time, Lazy sat in mid-air, sitting on the chair that appeared at the beginning, cross-legged, with his hands on his slightly tilted head, dozing off.
Seeing him like this, I thought to myself, no wonder he is called lazy! In such a tense situation, he can still doze off, either because he is very confident in his machinery, or he is too lazy to take care of us. Of these two points, I prefer the latter.
And Fuqu was not in the sky at this time, Mo Qingyan and Lao Xu didn't know where they went? The lazy mecha was flying parallel to the ground, his eyes emitting a blue light, scanning the situation on the ground, seeing that the situation should be looking for Fuyuan. I asked worriedly about them.
"Sister Fuqu, what's your situation?"
"It's not optimistic. ”
"Where are you located?"
"I'm hiding in a house right now, my device has no energy and needs a break. ”
"What about Lao Xu?
"We're assembling the cannon!" replied Xu easily.
"Cannon?"
"Little Joan, this is our big move. ”
"Your ultimate move turned out to be assembling a cannon. ”
"Oh, you seem to be disgusted, let me tell you, our cannon can penetrate anything!
"Yes, little girl, don't underestimate us, this cannon is very powerful. However, this cannon needs parts for three people to assemble, and now there is a shortage of captains. Mo Qingyan said.
"I really can't leave, Sister Joan, can you come and help me get it?"
"Yes, of course I can, where are you? I'll go right now?"
"Sister Joan, haven't you been able to see where we are?"
"I can't see it!"
"Right hand arm, you swipe and you can see a screen with a lot of functions in it. ”
I looked at my arm, my mind full of doubts. I gently pressed my right arm with my fingers, but there was no response, I swiped left on my arm and it didn't respond, I swiped right and it still didn't respond, I swiped down and it still didn't respond, I swiped up, and finally, a small screen circled around my arm and was facing me.
I swiped around the screen and clicked on an option that said "Show teammates' locations". I clicked on it without hesitation, and when I clicked on it, a line appeared in front of my eyes, on my blindfold, with the words "Loading...". After only a while, a small arrow was marked on it, I turned my head, and I saw several red figures, one squatting, two standing, obviously the one squatting was Fuqu, and the other two were Lao Xu and Mo Qingyan.
"I see you, I'll go now. ”
"Be careful. Fleur admonished again.
I crouched and cautiously walked forward, also dodging the scans of the lazy mech. As I walked, it suddenly occurred to me that we seemed to be missing someone, where was Ali? I looked in different directions, but I didn't see his image, he was gone from the beginning, where the hell had he gone? No matter what, it was important to find Hibiscus.
Fuqu and I weren't too far away, but both of us were moving to avoid the mech. I turned left and right, made countless turns, and sometimes even climbed over the fence and through other people's yards, into my room, and hid in other people's stoves. When I came out again, I was covered in ashes, and I waited for a row of dust on my body to pat myself before continuing to walk.
When I saw Fuqu again, she was in a much worse condition than I had imagined, hiding in a haystack in a small warehouse, her nanosuit covered in scars, and even completely peeled off in some places, revealing the skin underneath. It is conceivable how powerful a lazy mechanical weapon is, and such a powerful nanosuit in my eyes cannot resist its destruction.
I immediately went up to check on Fuqu to see if she was hurt, and she gently pushed me away, then brushed the dust off her body before letting me get closer to her. I asked anxiously.
"How are you? Hurt?"
"Are you hurt, are you hurt?"
"I'm fine, but it's you, I'm more worried about you. ”
"I can still hold on, but I'm running out of nanomaterials, and I may ......"
"Stop, don't say anything unlucky. You can't use mine, I'll give you mine. ”
"No, Sister Joan, you have to protect yourself. Come, I'll give you my part. ”
Fuqu tapped the device on her chest with her hand, and the device opened a small hole in it, and Fuqu put her hand in front of the device, and a small thing, squirting out of the small hole, landed steadily in the palm of her hand. She carefully handed me the little thing, and I took it with both hands, and I looked at it carefully, how can such a small thing be made into a cannon?
"That's it...... Such a small one?"
"Well, that's right. We've shrunk it down so we can take it with us. You give it to them and they'll get it. ”
"Okay, then I'll give it to them now. ”
"Okay, you go. ”
I held the little thing tightly in my palm, turned around and walked out, when Fuqu stopped me.
"Hey!"
"What's wrong?"
"We ...... Can you give it a hug?"
"Hug?"
"Hmm. ”
"Okay. ”
I turned and walked over to Fuqu, the two of them hugged each other tightly, I could feel her body temperature, she was not as warm as the others, but cold. It was only after a moment that Fuqu let go of her hand.
"Sister Joan, you have to pay attention to safety. ”
"You too. ”
"Go ahead, they are in a hurry. ”
We didn't say a word more, so I immediately set off and ran towards Lao Xu and Mo Qingyan's positions.
"Old Xu, Mo Qingyan, I'll go over to you now. ”
"Okay, Joan, we're underground, you have to pay attention to the ground when you come. ”
"Huh? Why?"
"I'm afraid you'll accidentally fall off and knock out your teeth, hahaha. ”
“......”
"Xiao Qiong, where are you going?"
"you big-headed ghost. ”
I walked in their direction worriedly, the mech above my head searching faster, but my heart suddenly felt heavy, as if it were ...... Bad things are about to happen.