“……”

With the neat and powerful steps of the soldiers as they assembled, the owner of the unfamiliar voice also walked slowly towards them.

It was a woman who was hard to describe in words. Gentle and elegant, with a blue heart, and light and dust...... All the words in the world seem to only embellish a ten-thousandth of her, and the first thing you notice will never be her appearance, body shape, and age, because she is so special.

Especially like a passer-by who is not dazzling, like being able to trample all the wind and frost under his feet, like the delicate and vast Wei River when the tide recedes, he is confined to that mountain and blue sky.

She opened her mouth slightly, and gently spat out words with a slight smile, "What's the matter, Rodel, don't know me anymore?" ”

“…… Long time no see. ”

When he woke up from a big dream, the old man didn't even look back, he turned his back to the crowd surrounding them in an outflanking shape, and repeated softly, "Long time no see, Luoshui." ”

Luoshui......

Qiu Xuan hid in the crowd and looked at the women who didn't fit in with the surrounding atmosphere. At this point, she finally met the chief administrator of the Academy of Sciences, who had been mentioned many times by various rumors, the number one magician of the current era, the winner of the selection competition, and the planner of the "goal of human co-evolution".

She had too many titles, each of which Qiu Xuan had heard from the mouths of others, either with admiration, respect, or disdain. And really facing this "legendary" character like now, she was speechless for a while, and she was defeated in her unique aura that did not seem to be in the world.

"Ah, Mr. Qin, Miss Ling You, look up for a long time." As if he didn't care about the imminent atmosphere between the soldiers in the encirclement, Luo Shui immediately looked at the location of Qin Jiuyuan and Ling You and said with a smile. "It's too rude to talk here, why don't we go to the elders' house together?"

"I don't have to, 'Your Excellency.' Ling You pulled Lin Mo, who was still in the shadow of his mind and went crazy, "Sometimes I really want to ask you, have you ever regretted the decision you made for a moment?" ”

"I don't, kid." Luo Shui still looked like she had been quiet for years, and she looked at Ling You calmly, "What should I regret for what I did?" ”

"You should know it in your own heart! Could it be that the plague ......"

"Enough!" The old man turned around and interrupted her sharply, "Don't say anything, it's all over." Luoshui is different from the Academy of Sciences, I think you should have a judgment in your own heart. ”

The gathered soldiers continued to surround her, and Luo Shui looked at the people with different reactions with tolerant eyes, as if she was looking at the children who made her unconscious. And I don't know if it's Qiu Xuan's illusion, she always felt that her heavy gaze swept over the crowd one by one and stayed on her for a few seconds, but in an instant, it slipped away again.

Ling You took out a soft whip to protect Lin Mo behind him and looked vigilantly at the soldiers who were in an offensive posture, Qiu Xuan paused, and suddenly gently pushed Qin Jiuyuan on the side with his elbow.

"How's it going, can you run away?"

"It depends, half and half." Qin Jiuyuan also tilted his head and replied in a low voice, "I don't know what level the old witch's real strength is, I can only look at luck and take one step at a time." ”

Luo Shui suddenly raised his head and glanced at this side.

Now is the time!

"Shen Luyan!" Qiu Xuan rolled on the spot and preemptively swung a feint, and as a gap soldier subconsciously dodged backwards, a huge and thin monster appeared in the sky and opened its sharp teeth and bit down fiercely.

"It's the monster, it's reappeared!" After a brief moment of panic, the soldiers spontaneously filled the ammunition arsenal at the back of the line with a strange-looking gun aimed at Xiaolu. "Don't fight, go!" Qiu Xuan held Qin Jiuyuan's arm and turned over and jumped up from above the fort, swinging the blade in his hand, but he felt that something was wrong the moment he made a move.

The liquid seemed to be a living metal, and at the moment of collision, it wrapped around the knife in Qiu Xuan's hand, Xiao Lu turned around and swung his claws to this side, temporarily breaking free from the shackles of the soft metal, and Qiu Xuan bounced back a few steps to avoid a relatively safe distance.

The soldiers in this squad turned out to be all mechanics.

The Academy of Sciences has really made a lot of money. Qiu Xuan heard Ling You beside him scolding in a low voice, although Qin Jiuyuan was still there and could still drag on for a while, but there was no time to waste it on them.

Qiu Xuan stood up a little straighter, took a breath and shouted at the old man and Luo Shui who were stunned and didn't move. "Old man, old man, you can catch up with the old people!" As she spoke, she reached out and took Ling You's long whip, rolled up the old man and smashed it towards the position where Luo Shui was standing, the soldiers were taken aback and hurriedly turned around to stop it, and the next second Xiaolu's huge figure hit a gap in the encirclement, and rushed out with Qiu Xuan on a rampage.

"Grass!" Finally reacted, the old man dragged the weight with one hand and tried not to hit Luoshui, and the next second, the long whip that had never been defended at all seemed to be ruthless but in fact whipped him in the back without pain, completely breaking the balance that was hard to stabilize.

"Qiu Xuan !!"

"Gone!" Qiu Xuan ran behind the giant Wendigo and waved at him, Ling You shrugged helplessly, and then ran away faster than anyone else.

"I just found out today," Qiu Xuan said faintly as she swung her arms and sprinted as hard as she could, "It turns out that the happiest thing in every world is selling teammates. ”

"Lieutenant Rodel is probably going to blow up." Ling You snorted, but his face retracted when the next moment his feet touched a crack and trembled. On the ground under their feet, it was obvious that the smooth, well-groomed ground had suddenly cracked out of place. The space as far as the eye can see is visibly folded, and the road ahead suddenly collapses between them, forming a deep moat in the flying sand and rolling stones.

The suddenly erected stone wall blocked the tip of Qiu Xuan's nose, and she was completely left behind. Looking ahead, she finally gritted her teeth and let Xiaolu bite the collars of Ling You and Qin Jiuyuan and jump into the air and cross the abyss.

There was no time to look at the expressions on the faces of the two, and in a few breaths, the follow-up pursuers had already surrounded her. Qiu Xuan paused, and slowly raised his hands to signal that he would no longer resist.

Next, almost familiar with the road, she was taken with the old man to the special steam car of the Academy of Sciences in a familiar posture with her hands tied behind her back. The old man's bracelet was handcuffed to hers, and when he saw her get into the car, he unceremoniously rolled his eyes at her.

"The happiest thing in this world is selling my teammates." The old man snorted coldly and said in a strange manner.

“……”

"I have extenuating circumstances." Qiu Xuan leaned against the car window and said lazily, "What are you, aren't you good friends with Na Luoshui, why are you also locked in?" Do you want to involve me together? ”

The old man angrily waved the chain cuffs in his hand at her, and the metal clattered. "Tell you to fart again, Lao Tzu will smash your head!"

"If you have the ability, come."

"What are you doing! Be honest with me! The soldier in the cab poked his head out and yelled impatiently.

The two of them finally glared at each other, turned their heads to look out the window and closed their mouths.

Nothing to say all the way.

"When you arrive, be honest!" The swaggering soldier tugged at the chain between their handcuffs and rudely dragged them out of the car. "I don't care what your identity was, but when you get to the Academy of Sciences, you have to be obedient, or ......"

Qiu Xuan looked around, Luo Shui didn't know where he went, and there was no one around the cold and solemn building of the Academy of Sciences, I don't know if he sent all the soldiers stationed on patrol out or for some other reason. By the time they were led by the soldier towards a certain part of the laboratory building, the magician who had only shown the tip of his true strength was gone.

"Hey boy," the old man shouted at the man in front of him after walking a distance of dozens of meters. "Send us to the confinement room, we can stay anywhere anyway, and it's more convenient for you to be close, isn't it?"

"Shut up."

"Huh?" The old man raised one eyebrow and glared at the soldier, Qiu Xuan didn't even need to look at it to know that his next sentence would definitely be something like: "Young people nowadays are really not like words, do you know what I used to do, do you dare to talk to me like this." So she cleared her throat and struck before the old man could speak.

"He means that the confinement is by far the best place for us to go, you know Hengxie, right? It's the magician with the Luoshui Elemental Staff who came before us, and he ......"

"Shut up, too."

Qiu Xuan: "......"

Old man: "Ha, you also have today. ”

On the second floor of the underground laboratory, at the edge of the cage where the test subjects are held. The two stinking men were put in cages by the soldiers, one on each side, a few feet away from the center of the small cage.

Qiu Xuan sat on the cold and hard floor, glanced at the old man sitting on the other side, and muttered "childish ghost". The old man leaned against the wall and closed his eyes, not knowing if he hadn't heard.

It was getting dark.

Half-asleep and half-awake, Qiu Xuan faintly felt that someone opened the cell door and walked in. She came to her senses, her body ready to fight back, while her eyes were still closed, trying to breathe steadily, pretending to sleep.

"Wake up." The visitor kicked her impatiently, and Qiu Xuan looked blankly as if she had just been awakened from her dream, and found that it was the high-spirited soldier in the morning. Seeing that she woke up, the soldier stopped talking nonsense, "Hurry up and follow me, the adults want to see you." ”

“…… Which 'adult'? ”

"Why do you ask so much?" The soldier directly pulled the shackles on her hand and dragged her up from the ground, "Just obey the order." ”

Qiu Xuan stopped talking and followed him out of the cage, and as she was about to step into the corner, she lowered her eyelids and blinked slightly. Taking advantage of the dim light of the inner room, he took out the simple version of the intercom behind his back, and threw his wrist the old man with his eyes closed.

The two of them walked up the dark and long spiral staircase, and when they passed the elders' house, the door of a conference room was suddenly blasted open by an external force. A mechanic-like man slammed open the door and fell to the ground, and the shouts of several people could be heard faintly in the conference room.

Passing by her, Qiu Xuan glanced in, and it was this glance that made her stunned for a moment. Directly across from the door, sat a black man with only one leg - to be honest, there was nothing surprising about it, there were many people who had lost any part of their four bodies in an accident during the Steam Age. And the key is that the other two black men and a woman standing next to the black man in the wheelchair, not to mention their slightly familiar facial features, the pitch-black totem printed on the hand of one of the black people made Qiu Xuan completely pause.

Since discovering that he could give totems to black people, Qiu Xuan had only used this ability on a few people, including that ...... A soldier from Chuanliu Town who was originally under Zhao Mingsi's command, she also asked him to take care of the child An Zixuan before leaving. In this way, the identities of the other two are better confirmed, they are the black people who participated in the rebellion in Chuanliu Town, and they once swore to build a better Chuanliu.

But how could they be here, is this also part of the Academy of Sciences' program?

As if sensing the sudden gaze of onlookers, another man with silver hair and silver beard stood up and stared at the soldier outside the door warningly, then dragged the fallen mechanic in impatiently, and slammed the door slammed shut.

"Don't look, let's go!"

The shackles were pulled forward again, Qiu Xuan staggered forward a few steps uncontrollably, thinking to himself, wait until I go out one day, I will handcuff you on the steam-powered train and run, don't you like to pull people.

Stumbling through for a while, they reached a tall building at the junction of the House of Elders and the Lab. The soldier unfastened the chains, leaving only his hands handcuffed behind his back, "Go in." He said.

Qiu Xuan raised her eyebrows and pushed open the door with her shoulder, and unexpectedly saw Luo Shui sitting on the sofa with her feet crossed, looking at her.

"Hello, finally meet, 'miracle'."

Qiu Xuan: ?

“…… What did you say? ”

"Have you never wondered where your abilities come from, child?" Luo Shui tilted his head to look at her, and there was a hint of cunning in his quiet face.

"You know my ......" Qiu Xuan paused for a few seconds to look at Luo Shui, and then spoke, "This is the curse ability of the second prophet Fu Zeqi, and I don't know why I inherited his ability even though I am not a prophet." ”

"Cursed?" As if she had heard some funny joke, Luo Shui stroked her palms and laughed happily, and after a while, she looked solemn and looked at Qiu Xuan seriously. "It's certainly not a curse on my child."

"It's a miracle." She repeated, "It's a miracle, Qiu Xuan." ”

"You're a miracle."

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