"80 percent of the water propulsion was damaged...... The propulsion was completely damaged, the engine axle was damaged by 60 percent, the jet drive was damaged by 70 percent, the power take-off was completely damaged, and the on-board public address system was damaged by ...... Zero. ”

Ander read it out according to the contents of the display, then turned his head to curse something fiercely. "If the mechanical maintenance guys had given even half of their PA system to the rest, we wouldn't be where we are."

"Do you have the strength to hold on?" Ander turned around and gestured to Qiu Xuan, "Now I have no choice but to abandon the car, you still have an oxygen mask, be prepared and we will jump out of the car directly." ”

"And what about those who are infected?" Qiu Xuan stood on the edge of the stairs and grabbed the handrail, watching the stunned people on the first floor gradually recover, and staggered to stand up with the infected.

Saying that abandoning the car is really abandoning the car directly, Ander cut off all the switches of the steam bus at some point, got up from the driver's seat and walked to Qiu Xuan's side to look down with her. "When the time comes, we'll just kick them back into the water, and then we'll just swim to the shore faster than they do."

Qiu Xuan: "Are you thinking about fart? ”

"Why scold people when you talk, otherwise what else can you do in this situation?"

Qiu Xuan let out a long sigh and looked at Ander with a caring foolish gaze. "Where there is the flow of the Wei River, there are these infected people, who were born and grew up in the river, and in a sense, even symbiotic with the Wei River. Putting aside how dangerous it is to swim in the tide, do you think your so-called champion swimmer can cross the river itself? ”

"Then you have the ability, you go directly to heaven, otherwise...... Hey, don't go, can't you afford to play, can't you say that I can't run, isn't it? ”

Regarding the clamor behind him, Qiu Xuantou didn't bother to go back again. Step by step, she walked down the handrail of the staircase, slowly but steadily.

The old man frowned when he saw this, and his metal arm stretched out to intercept an infected person who rushed towards the stairs in a daze. Just when he wanted to open his mouth to habitually sarcastically say something, Ji Da, who had been acting as a background board in the corner, suddenly stood up.

The muscular ex-mercenary walked straight towards Number One as if he had been manipulated by some invisible hand, and One's already frosty face was even colder, and the metal gears spun at high speed, sparks flying everywhere to warn anyone who wanted to act rashly.

But Ji Da completely lost his sense of perceiving danger, and raised his hand to grab No. 1 with a rotten face. The cold hard metal against the rotting torso, the atmosphere is on the verge of breaking out in this confrontation.

At this moment, Qiu Xuan moved!

Changing her previous slow and heavy pace, the black-haired young girl swooped down at a speed that no one expected, and with a flip of her wrist in her left hand, she controlled Ji Da to do her best to contain No. One's attack, and her right hand suddenly pulled a meter in front of the sparkling gear in No. 1's hand.

The action of No. 1's attack stiffened suddenly, and it was this moment that Ji Da's arm lock completely restrained his movements. Behind him, Qiu Xuan quickly pulled Shuying out of the danger range, and then stepped on Mr. Yang, who was still fainting, and jumped in the air and kicked No. 1 in the back.

As Ji Da quickly retracted his tightened arms, No. 1's center of gravity was unstable and fell into the Wei River. The huge splash hit the wall of the car outside, and as soon as a few waves hit, his figure disappeared into the water.

Just when everyone was bewildered by this sudden incident, something even more bizarre happened. Just a few breaths after No. 1 fell into the water, those infected people who were still in the carriage or were still trying to pick up the walls of the car stopped attacking, like a few ducklings being led to swim in the water, jumping into the water one after another.

"This ......" Ander was still dumbfounded on the stairs looking at this side, and after a while, he reacted and looked at Qiu Xuan in disbelief. Is it really that brother who brought the infected people? Didn't you just kick it if you said it, and don't leave people behind for a proper interrogation? ”

"You're crying and begging him to let him stay, and then begging him to tell you the truth?" Through this scene combined with what he had seen before, the old man was the first to react to the ins and outs of the matter, and then unceremoniously opened his mouth to mock. "It's not me saying that if you can survive ten seconds in the hands of that freak, I will lose."

"Tsk, how do you talk old man?"

Qiu Xuan stood aside, first grabbed his hair, and apologized to the monk who was still a little stunned, then sat down on the spot and continued to recover his strength, while separating a trace of his mind and directing Ji Da to tie Su Su, who was in a fever and coma, on his back.

The underbody of the car continued to shake, and the unpleasant creaking sound intensified, and the water level gradually overflowed, soaking the ankles of the crowd. Ling You treated the wound briefly, then stood up from the ground all of a sudden, interrupting the childish mouth cannon attack between Ander and the old man.

"How long will it be before our car sinks completely?"

"Half an hour if it's slow, five minutes if it's fast?" Ander scratched his head, "It depends on whether the grandsons who repaired the machinery were well maintained last time." ”

The bottom of the car shook violently, and a slowly extending fault began to appear between the first and second floors.

Accompanied by Lin Mo's scream, and Qin Jiuyuan's unusually calm voice mixed with the chaos of the crowd, he said, "It can't be delayed any longer, all the people who still have the strength to jump out of the car with the incapacitated people on their backs, jump now, it's not a joke to be crushed under the bus when the time comes." ”

Seeing this, Ander shrugged his shoulders and said to Ling You, "It seems that there is none." ”

Qiu Xuan stood with Ji Da, who was carrying Su Su on his back, and carefully put on an oxygen mask on the black girl who was in a coma and showed pain on her face. She looked down at the turbulent river, and simply made mental preparations and wanted to pull Ji Da to jump down, but someone grabbed her arm at the last second.

Qin Jiuyuan was looking at her with a heavy gaze, "Send me a message when you can go ashore safely, you know, if you don't receive any response, you can leave us alone." Follow the Wei River in the direction you had to go on, and when you get to Norbery, you will pass by a necessary post station, where I have already greeted you and our men will meet you. ”

Qiu Xuan frowned.

"I'm going to send you a message? If there is no response, I will ...... What are you doing with me?! Qin Jiuyuan!! ”

Feeling cold, she fell into the cold and turbulent water, and the world's Wan Lai suddenly left her, and in the blurred light and shadow, she could only vaguely see the last second of falling into the water Qin Jiuyuan looked at her, and her bony fingers made a circle at the middle of her left hand.

She rose and fell in the river with the undulating waves, but in a few breaths she was swept a hundred meters away. The vision was blurred and I couldn't see anyone's figure clearly, only that with a loud bang, the huge amphibious bus was swept up and knocked down by the wind and waves. The scattered parts splashed countless times, and with the fault on the first and second floors, the car body completely shattered, and it pressed down heavily on the people below who didn't know if they had evacuated.

Ji Da's hand beside her was still firmly grasping her according to the instructions from dozens of seconds ago, and the appropriate pain made her mind sober up, floating in the cold and fishy water of the Wei River, her expression was obscure.

Qiu Xuan was reluctant to recall what happened after that, only knowing that his consciousness was half-awake and half-blurred with the fluctuations of the waves. She was like a mouse that had been mistakenly caught in a drum washing machine or something, the cold and rushing water hitting her, and the lines of her palms had long been wrinkled and white.

At first, she and Ji Da were still delusional about struggling to escape from Weishui's control, but later found out that what they had said in the previous literacy class about the tide of the Weihe River was right. Under the majestic power of nature, any struggle with mere human power is stupid and powerless.

In this way, he drifted and rolled in the waves for a whole day, and finally, under the mercy of another big wave, Qiu Xuan was slapped heavily on the shallows of the riverbank.

The scenery around her was no different to her now, and there was no device to tell her where she was being swept away by the tide.

She turned over with difficulty like a fish out of water, and found that Ji Da's arm that had been hit so badly that it didn't have a piece of good flesh - although he was already rotten - was still clutching her, and it was estimated that there was already a bruise on the skin of that arm.

Suddenly remembering something, Qiu Xuan shook her hands to look at Su Su who was tied to her back by Ji Da. Removing the oxygen mask from her face, she found that she was no different from when she first fell unconscious, except for the inevitable chapped lips and a slightly pale complexion, so she lay back down in relief.

Did you forget something?

At the last second of completely losing consciousness, Qiu Xuan thought so. But she couldn't resist the instinct of her body, her eyes went black, and she fell into a coma.

……

"Is the black man you picked up at the end of the Wei River awake?"

"Not yet, I didn't say she wouldn't be dying. Think about it for yourself, a black person, still a woman, was swept away by the tide of the Wei River, and it is difficult to live. ”

"Phew, you don't have a crow's mouth, if she can't wake up, who will the adults go to ask for questions? We've been staring at the mercenary group for so long, and it's hard to wait for such an opportunity, if she dies, unless we go and catch another one, there will be no good fruit to eat! ”

"Oh, too."

…… It's noisy.

Qiu Xuan's eyelids trembled slightly, and she vaguely heard two noisy voices muttering in her ear all the time, but her mind was chaotic, and there was foggy gray everywhere.

She tried several times to open her stuck eyelids, but failed, her consciousness was still drowsy, and she could faintly feel a little sense of the outside world, but nothing else.

Finally, after a few more moments, she seemed to find a glimmer of light at the end of the long and boundless gray darkness. As he struggled to open his dead eyelids, the gray mist dissipated, and the shaky and messy light and shadow came into view again.

"Hey, wake up, wake up!"

Hearing the prestige, he was stunned for a while, and his out-of-focus gaze finally adjusted the focus little by little. Two big faces crashed into the field of vision, and Qiu Xuan couldn't help blinking his eyes very slowly.

"You, you're arrested now, you know?" The big-faced owner standing on the right stepped back a little, then raised his head and said with a proud expression. The plainly dressed man was dressed in the gray-black costume that was most commonly worn by the soldiers of the Steam Continent, and he looked like a black man.

The person next to him was also dressed in the same way, but at this time he was half-squatting on the ground like a silly staring at her.

Qiu Xuan slowly turned her neck, and unexpectedly heard the pain cry of musculoskeletal overwhelm all over her body. Her whole body was so sore now that she didn't even need to look at it to know that it must have been a large bruise, and her throat seemed to be stuffed into a whole dryer, so dry that she didn't want to speak.

I don't know what place it was, a dim, dilapidated and damp little room like some kind of improvised cell. None of the basic facilities necessary for human survival exist here, but a hint of blood can be smelled in the damp and muddy corners. She was tied to a chair with her hands behind her back, Ji Da and Su Su didn't know where they were going, and now there were only three people in the small room: her and the two unknown soldiers.

But the fact that she didn't open her mouth didn't mean that the two black soldiers gave up so easily. "Hey, the captives have a bit of a captive consciousness." Seeing that the people woke up and looked at them and closed their eyes again, the arrogant soldier standing on the right side couldn't help but be a little angry. "From now on, you will answer whatever we ask, you better be obedient and know, otherwise you will have good fruit to eat!"

"First question, are you someone who came out of the mercenary group and is now separated from them?"

Qiu Xuan opened her mouth, but no sound came out of her throat.

"What do you mean, you're still playing here?!" The soldier on the right stood up abruptly and looked at her condescendingly, "It seems that non-violence is not cooperative, and you must suffer something, right?" ”

"Ahh "You see that she must have not recovered from her fainting for so long, why don't I go and pour her a glass of water?"

"Are you going to get some food for her, idiot?!" The soldier known as "Ah Da" kicked him, "Find out, she is a captive that the adults asked to capture, even if you have good food and drink now, if you can't ask anything when the adults come, we will all have to finish the fun!" ”

"But, but ......"

"Ahem."

Qiu Xuan sat on the chair and coughed lightly to clear her throat, and her hands tied behind her back moved quietly. Seeing that the attention of the two was successfully attracted, she endured the dryness of her throat and finally said the first words after waking up-

"I'm hungry."

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