Chapter 53: Like Clouds and Fog (1)
"Dut...... Honk...... Toot ......"
"What sound?"
In a daze, I heard an urgent but regular voice.
At first, I thought I was in that dark place again. However, in the haze, a blazing sun pierced my eyelids, and I immediately dismissed the idea.
I struggled to keep my eyes open, but my vision was still a little blurry, so I gently rubbed it twice.
That's right, it's already morning.
I sat up uncomfortably, my limbs numb. I was half asleep all night last night, probably because the cab wasn't as comfortable as the bed in the hold.
"Dut...... Honk...... Toot ......"
What exactly is the sound?
I looked around, trying to find out what the sound was coming from. After a while, my eyes fell on the control panel on the cab, which I remember was blue all along. But now it keeps flashing red, and it makes a "beep" sound with the frequency of the flash.
It turned out that the sound came from here, and finding the source of the sound solved my first question of the day.
However, in this place, one doubt is solved, and then another. I looked at the situation in front of me in confusion and wondered, what is the situation?
At this point, the entire cab was dyed pale red by the flashing red lights, and a triangular sign with an exclamation mark in the middle appeared on the control panel.
Just as I was about to tap the sign with my hand, it suddenly disappeared. Immediately after, a circle of circular lines appeared on the control panel, and in the center of the circle was the pattern of a truck.
"Isn't this a radar?" I thought to myself.
A white dot appears in the upper left corner of the radar, and the screen flashes every time this white dot moves. And if you look closely, you can see that it is clearly moving closer to the truck pattern in the center.
Wait, it's in ...... Approaching us? I was suddenly startled, and I had a premonition that something was wrong.
"Lao Xu, Lao Xu, come on!" I turned, clenched my fists, and tapped the small window. I looked back at the white dot, and in the blink of an eye, it was a little closer to the truck!
"Lao Xu!" I cried out hysterically.
"What's wrong?" Lao Xu only got down from the warehouse at this time, and trotted slowly to the door of the cab.
"Something is approaching us!"
"What?"
He quickly opened the car door and jumped up, and when he looked at the radar on the panel, his whole body was so frightened that his hairs stood on end.
"Oh my god, it's over, it's over!" said Lao Xu in a panic.
When I saw his reaction, I could roughly guess what the white dot was that was approaching us.
Who else is there but laziness in our pursuit of us?
Lao Xu started the pickup truck without saying a word, and he didn't know what button he pressed again, and the whole car immediately made a loud noise. I was still wondering what the sound was, but the car began to slowly hang in the air.
I poked my head out the window and saw that the wheels were shrinking under the car, and a blue flame was ejecting from the middle of the wheels, as if it had become a jet, and the pickup truck had become a small spaceship.
"That's how I said it yesterday?!" I asked aloud.
"What? Say it again!"
"That's how you said it yesterday?!"
"Ahh
Lao Xu pulled me back into the driver's seat and told me to fasten my seatbelt immediately, and the car was ready to take off.
At this moment, the frequency of the flashing on the radar was faster, and the sound was more rapid. Lao Xu was irritable, and pressed the mute mode with one hand to turn off the "beep" sound.
"Sit down! Ready to take off!"
Lao Xu held the steering wheel tightly with both hands, and he pushed the steering wheel forward vigorously first. After pushing it all the way down, he flipped a switch on the control panel and pulled the steering wheel back hard. After this series of movements, the whole car began to rise vertically, and the speed became faster and faster.
I looked at the scene in front of me, grasping the handrail on the door with one hand, the seat belt with the other, and my feet pressed together. I was nervous and scared, and frankly, I wasn't worried about Lao Xu's technology at all, I was nervous and scared of what was gradually approaching us.
In the blink of an eye, we had risen to a few tens of meters above the ground.
Lao Xu took a deep breath, turned the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator fiercely, and the car sprayed forward and began to fly quickly towards the hillside.
That's when I looked in the rearview mirror and noticed a few black dots on it. I thought it was the rearview mirror that was dirty, but when I noticed that the black dots were getting bigger and bigger, I realized that something was wrong.
I looked closely, and the few black dots were not dirty, but a few large black ships.
"Old Xu, Old Xu, they're coming!" I shouted in panic.
"They ?!!"
Lao Xu took a closer look at the radar on the control panel in disbelief, and then at the rearview mirror, his expression immediately became solemn, and a drop of sweat the size of a bean slid down his cheek.
It turned out that he had always thought that Lazy had only sent one spaceship, but he didn't expect to send several spacecraft over, and they were huddled together, so only a white dot was displayed on the radar.
Lao Xu stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the small truck was flying forward at the fastest speed, but it seemed to be far inferior to the spaceships behind him.
In the blink of an eye, we were already above the bowl-shaped valley we had seen earlier. I pressed my face close to the window, and when I looked down, there was a white mist underneath.
Seeing that the spaceships behind him were getting closer and closer, Lao Xu pushed the steering wheel forward with one hand, and the pickup truck immediately turned around and fell quickly underground. It's like we're on a roller coaster, the blood in our bodies stops flowing, and our hearts are being raised to our throats because of inertia.
And my hand, which was clutching the handrails and seat belts, went numb for a moment. I wanted to scream, but I found I couldn't even open my mouth.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
The ships behind them finally opened fire on us, and five or six lasers fired at us at the same time.
In the midst of the lightning, Lao Xu filled the steering wheel with all his might, changing the direction of flight to dodge the laser attack. And I looked out the window and clearly saw the lasers passing by the side of the car, just a dozen centimeters, and we would be turned into ashes.
However, no matter how fast Lao Xu reacted, there was no way to dodge the lasers flying towards us from the sky.
Lao Xu desperately turned the steering wheel, and at the moment when he was tired, a laser hit the cargo compartment behind the car. The sound of the explosion behind me made my ears buzz, and I quickly covered my ears, they couldn't stand the impact a second time.
But fortunately, although Lao Xu's small truck is small, there is still a weak protective layer, and the laser only knocked the door of the warehouse away, but did not blow up the entire warehouse.
However, without the warehouse door, all the bits and pieces in the warehouse slipped out and disappeared into the air.
I anxiously leaned out the window to see what was going on behind the car.
What I'm worried about is not those pots and pans and food, nor Lao Xu's goods, but Gu Chengzi who is still in the warehouse.
"Little Joan, danger! Come back quickly!" Lao Xu shouted, but it was so noisy outside, and I could only vaguely hear what he was saying.
"Gu Chengzi! Gu Chengzi in the warehouse!" I also shouted at Lao Xu who was driving.
He had too many scruples to keep him right, so he didn't have the hands to pull me back, so he had to continue yelling at me.
"You come back first! Chengzi is fine! I have already tied him to a fixed place with a safety rope!"
"Are you sure?!!!"
"Safety rope!Of course it's safe!!"
Just as Lao Xu shouted that his safety rope was safe, I saw a very familiar object fall from the hold. I took a closer look, wasn't it just a bed, and it was the bed Gu Chengzi slept on!
In order to see if Gu Chengzi fell out with the bed, almost my whole body was about to lean out of the window, and my heart was full of worry at this moment.
Suddenly, I watched a rope slowly slip out of the hold, and there seemed to be a lump of white stuff tied to the other end of the rope.
"Old Xu !!"
"What's wrong!!"
"Gu Chengzi! fly!!"
"What!!"
The white thing that was thrown around in mid-air was Gu Chengzi, why did he become white? Because Lao Xu tied him up with a quilt, and now he looked like a roll of paper flying freely in the sky.
Suddenly, several more lasers shot at us, and Lao Xu turned the steering wheel, made a sharp turn, and dodged with his life hanging by a thread.
But I think that we don't count our lives hanging by a thread, and Gu Chengzi, who was pulled by a rope in mid-air, is really a "rope" hanging by fate.
I sat back speechless, looking at Lao Xu who was driving in disbelief.
"He's flying!"
"What's flying?"
"Gu Chengzi! He's been left out of the car now!"
"Huh?"
Lao Xu was taken aback by what I said, and he anxiously looked out the window, where there was really a white thing tied with a rope and flying around in mid-air.
His eyes couldn't be wider, and he wiped the sweat from his face with one hand, with an embarrassed and overwhelmed expression.
"You remember to tie him up, why don't you remember tying up his bed too!" Although I knew that Lao Xu couldn't be blamed for this, I couldn't hold back my mouth, and I said everything I shouldn't have said.
"I ...... I didn't know there would be such a show!"
"So what should we do now? He's still outside!"
"There's no way, if we keep entangled, we'll definitely be hit...... Now it's just a matter of rushing down. ”
Lao Xu pushed the steering wheel to the end with one hand, stepped on the accelerator with his right foot, and rushed straight towards the white mist underground.
The ships behind us also swooped down, and in the blink of an eye, several more lasers shot at us. This time, Lao Xu didn't care so much, and he used all his strength to press the accelerator to the end.
At this time, the pickup truck seemed to have turned into a meteorite that strayed into the earth, and I was sitting in the car, watching the white mist getting closer and closer, and I was nervous and scared.
What's going to be down there? Is it going to be a bottomless pit, or is it going to be a rocky bottom?
I believe that Lao Xu has no bottom in his heart, and if he is given a choice, he will definitely not rush down rashly without knowing anything about the following.
But in such a situation, we have no choice, if we keep fighting with those spaceships in the air, we will be shot down by lasers sooner or later.
How do you say it? It seems to be called: put death in the place and then live.
We were getting closer and closer to the white mist, and the red light on Lao Xu's control panel flashed rapidly, illuminating the entire cab red.
Lao Xu closed the windows on both doors and turned off the car's external circulation system to prevent unknown gases from entering the car.
At this moment, a dangerous sign appears on the screen, and it tells us how far we are left from the unknown.
50 m ......
30 m ......
10 m ......
I clutched the handrails and seatbelts tightly with both hands, my eyes closed, and I didn't have the courage to look at what was going to happen next, and if I was really going to come, I wouldn't be aware of it.
Suddenly, it was as if the mute button had been pressed outside, and there was no sound at all. I opened one eye and tentatively looked around me, but when I saw what was going on outside, I was shocked that both of my eyes were about to fall out.
The screen shows:
0 m ......
Obviously, we are already in that white mist. Wait, fog? Is this really fog?
I pressed my face to the window and looked out of the window with bright eyes, but there was nothing but a white layer of fluid, like a river.
And our pickup truck, in this white unidentified fluid, staggered down.