A man and a mech staggered across the wasteland at breakneck speed, blades cutting long scratches on the outer walls of the machine, which were intertwined with ochre brown and earthy yellow, and sparks flew from the metal striking, sending up a cloud of flying sand and rocks.

With a bang, the muzzle of the gun driven by the internal combustion engine in the huge mecha was aimed, and in a puff of light smoke, it exploded with an astonishing attack power, and layers of bullet holes shot into the loess. And he couldn't see his position clearly at all, Qin Jiuyuan's treacherous figure swirled straight up around the huge machine shape around the rain of bullets. He suddenly pulled out a long knife from behind his back, and a jump slash slammed through the joint of the machine into the mecha's shoulder blade with a thunderous force.

The huge technological monster several stories high shook its body in the air, the current splashed everywhere, and the interface in the cab was short-circuited for a moment, and the next moment, Bai Hexi's angry voice came out through the broadcast system.

"Qin Jiuyuan, it's the second time." The feminine and slender voice becomes more and more obscure and gloomy due to the ups and downs of the mentality. "I said when I was in the arena before, I'll make you regret it, I will."

The danger senser screamed, and a stream of condensed vapor rose from the bottom of the mech. With the roar of a huge machine, two old brown barrels rose from the load-bearing platform, and the pitch-black and cold hole caliber was aimed directly at the crowd. In an instant, everyone was locked by a cold and oppressive pressure, facing the muzzle of the cannon, and the chill involuntarily spread from the head to the soles of the feet.

"What's the matter with this elder??" Xi Hanting scolded loudly and pulled Qiu Xuan to run out of the attack range as fast as he could, "How do you say that you can release the cannon?!" The people from their own academy are still here! ”

"What can he do?" Qiu Xuan snorted coldly, broke free from Xi Hanting's hand and dragged her, and rushed towards the direction of the mecha without looking back.

"Are you crazy??"

"Meng Ge!" She took a deep breath and suddenly threw her head up and shouted at the steel beast. "Mencius is still here, don't you really care!"

"It's you......" In the cab, Bai Hexi was silent for a few seconds, "Are you still alive?" ”

Qiu Xuanli didn't want to pay attention to him, she cleared her throat and felt that her throat was still a little hoarse, she thought about it, rummaged through the tattered backpack that Ender stuffed into her before jumping out of the car, and took out a horn that had been removed from the broadcast system.

"Meng Ge Meng Ge." Through the sound transmission speaker, Qiu Xuan's voice resounded through the wasteland in an instant. "I saw you from the cab, don't hide. Your grandson is now in my hands, and this prophet of yours is also in my hands, so quickly pull away that fool who doesn't do anything, or I'll do it." ”

Mencius Period/Mengge: ......

Bai Hexi had a delicate and beautiful face, and his palm slapped on a button on the operation board.

A transparent barrier suddenly covered Qiu Xuan from beginning to end, she tilted her head, Xi Hanting strengthened the transparent barrier again with a stinky face, and muttered frantically to her in her mouth, "If it weren't for you being the only seedling in the dark, I would have ...... a long time ago."

"It's fine." Qiu Xuan said, "Meng Ge will stop him." ”

Sure enough, the next moment, the steel cannon barrel rotated twice, shrinking back into the machine with the unique roar of the machine. The transport track that stretched straight out of the cab stretched all the way to the ground, and Bai Hexi walked down from it with an obscure expression. When the soles of his feet touched the ground, the huge mecha figure behind him flashed for a moment, and then was retracted into the matching ring in his hand.

Immediately, Meng Ge landed on the ground in a flying machine made of a strange black box, his eyes focused on a black person in the crowd, and he could see the mess and wounds all over the person's body, and his expression was so numb that he didn't look like a young man of this age. "Ziqi ......" Meng Ge muttered, he opened his mouth unbearably, swallowed a few times in his throat but didn't say a word.

finally saw the family that he was thinking about, but Mencius stood in place with complicated eyes and did not take half a step.

"Grandfather...... You've known about the Academy's plans for a long time, haven't you? That about the extermination of the black people, the so-called, human co-evolution......"

Speaking of this, the black young man who had always been resolute and optimistic, born aristocratic and well-educated, and who insisted on not abandoning his companions, choked up, as if all the emotions buried deep in his heart had completely collapsed in an instant. The handsome young man who was bright and upward was crying fiercely under the moonlight at this moment, and the sobbing sound containing great sadness infected everyone present.

"Sub-period......" Meng Ge subconsciously took a step forward, but he didn't know what to think of and stopped abruptly. He lowered his hands in confusion, and all explanations seemed so pale at the moment. "It's not like that...... We never thought about destroying the black people. It's just that they're 'sick', and if we don't get rid of those pathogens, the black race will really go extinct......"

"Meng Ge, you're really old and confused." Bai Hexi leaned crookedly against the clean exterior wall of the post station. "When you kill people and sow seeds, you do it so simply, and now you pretend to be a good person in front of the children? As I said a long time ago, the least favorite thing is a person like you who has done all the evil things and is still full of benevolence and morality. How did the Academy of Sciences get to where it is today, don't we people have any points in our hearts, and none of them are innocent. ”

He suddenly stretched out his pale right hand and aimed it at the moon wheel, and the dim and bleak light leaked on his slender fingertips, scattered on that delicate and flawless face. "None of them are innocent."

Bai Hexi's evil eyes showed a trace of confusion, and he muttered and repeated the previous words, and his expression was innocent and fragile like a child for a moment.

"Not one......"

The poisonous, scimitars flashed with cold light, all coming in one direction. Qiu Xuan's face completely cooled down, and he pulled Qin Jiuyuan, who was the target of the attack, into the transparent barrier. The blade struck in the next second, sinking straight into the transparent but hard shield of the barrier's outer wall.

I don't know what Bai Hexi's weapon is made of, the tail of the dart trembled slightly, and after the initial stalemate, it slowly seeped into the protective shield little by little.

Seeing this, Xi Hanting glared at Qiu Xuan impatiently, and began to mumble complaints such as "why are you so troublesome for me". But he still raised his hand and held his posture, and strengthened the transparent barrier several layers in one go.

"What do you mean?" Qiu Xuan looked at Bai Hexi coldly, "If you surrender, you should look like you surrendered, don't make such a small move behind your back." ”

Qin Jiuyuan laughed lightly, touched his nose after being glared at, and completely stood by the side as quiet as a chicken.

Nervously laughed twice, Bai Hexi still leaned against the outer wall as if he had no bones, and his suppressed crazy cold gaze turned straight around the three people in the barrier, and the deep malice in it made people shudder.

“…… Sub-period. ”

In the dark atmosphere of oppressive confrontation, Meng Ge spoke in a hoarse voice. The originally vigorous and sturdy old man seemed to have decayed overnight, and even the spine that had always stood straight seemed to have been crushed by something.

"Go home with the army, ah, your mother is still looking forward to your return every day. Grandpa has arranged it for you, and when the time comes, you will stay in the main city with your mother, and no one will be able to touch you. ”

“……”

"Nope." Mencius raised his head, and the last half of the hesitation and retreat in his eyes that were red from crying were gone. "The Meng family's nurturing grace is something I can't afford to repay in the first half of my life, and I will definitely repay what I owe you later. But I'm also a black man, just like thousands of other black people in the world, and if you're really bent on exterminating the species, then start with me. ”

Hearing this, Bai Hexi sneered. "Look, another brainless, you Meng family is a hypocrite and a really retarded, it's really ...... Ha ha. ”

In this situation, Meng Ge couldn't care about Bai Hexi's ridicule, he rushed forward with an arrow to grab Mencius's arm, but he was also dodged and caught empty.

"Grandfather," Mencius looked at him with a solemn expression. "You have taught me before, free thought, independent personality. I've always kept this in my heart, so I don't blame you. Because everything people do is just for the 'Tao' in their hearts, and now that I finally know what I want to pursue, we just have different choices. So, please forgive me, and, hopefully, you will not be able to stop it. ”

"You can go—you're going to Nobel anyway. But the black man had to stay. ”

Everyone's eyes focused on Su Su, who was unconscious on Ji Da's back, and when the spiritual power was testing the pure black totem connected to Su Su's hand, Qiu Xuan was suddenly stunned for a moment, and his eyes were empty, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

And beside her, Xi Hanting shrugged his shoulders, pointed at Qiu Xuan and said, "We can't sit on the Lord in this matter, you have to ask her." ”

“…… OK. ”

“？！！”

At this moment, even No. 1, who has always lacked facial muscle emotion, looked incredible, Bai Hexi stretched out his tongue and licked the corners of his mouth, and bent over happily and let out a sickly and crazy laugh.

"Someone can give it to you." Qiu Xuan didn't pay attention to the different reactions of the people around her, and went straight to the end. "But the Nobeli pass has to be given to us."

"Ha, haha. Deal. ”

Bai Hexi glanced at her with interest again, and finally bent down and stood up from the outer wall to arrest someone. "Wait a minute," Mencius grabbed the arm stretched out towards Su Su, his face solemn, "This matter is not said by one person, but it still has to be discussed again." ”

"If you don't want her to die, let it go." Qiu Xuan and Xi Hanting packed their luggage and backpacks, looked at Mencius and said very calmly, "There is still a glimmer of life in taking people away, if she keeps following us in such a situation, she will only have a dead end." ”

Mencius was still clutching his arm.

"I don't want to talk any more nonsense." Qiu Xuan controlled Ji Da to let go of Su Su, and then turned around and marched with Qin Jiuyuan and them on the boundless wasteland. "If you want to hold a corpse and regret it for life, keep holding it."

After they had walked some distance, there was a sound of footsteps chasing and the aircraft activating behind them. Mencius followed silently at the back of the line, which was very different from the image of the bright and active young man on weekdays.

With Qin Jiuyuan leading the way in front, the group walked for a while. Qiu Xuan walked a few steps quickly to his side and quietly pulled the hem of his clothes.

"The One," she whispered back, "he's the prophet of this term." ”

Qin Jiuyuan: "That's it." ”

"What this and that. I ask you, haven't you been in the main city before, did you know that he was mentioned when the Academy of Sciences selected people? ”

"Since the incident in the arena, I haven't been in much contact with the Academy of Sciences except for the official cooperation of the mercenary group, so I don't know the specific situation." Qin Jiuyuan thought for a moment and said, "However, it was revealed before when an intelligence dealer exchanged information with us that the Academy of Sciences had chosen a 'half-blood' as the fourth prophet. ”

Hybrid? Qiu Xuan's brain has always passed the image of No. 1, is he also a mixed race, a human mixed machine, or amnesia mixed with stuttering?

"I think instead of dwelling on that, we should think about what we're going to do when we get to Nobel." Behind the two of them, Xi Hanting was lazy but still had a sharp voice.

Qiu Xuan paused and glared back at her, "Why are you eavesdropping on other people's speeches?" ”

"Huh? It's not like I want to hear it at all, you two whisper so obviously, who can't hear it! ”

"You don't plug your ears ......"

"Here we are." After that, One, who had been acting as a backdrop in the team, suddenly stopped and said in a cold voice.

Everyone looked at each other, and at some point, a behemoth with no edge in sight lay over their heads, and the shadow under the cage was enough to cover them all, just standing there and watching a deep oppression come to their faces. The giant city suspended in the air by special substances and magical elements is like a sleeping ancient beast, and under the seemingly large sleeping body, there is a gap in absolute power, which makes people dare not easily challenge its authority.

"This steampunk is really decent." Xi Hanting muttered words that no one could understand except Qiu Xuan. Qiu Xuan stood on the ground and looked up at this so-called fantasy city, once again deeply realized the insignificance of manpower.

"A few of them are members of the adventure team, do you want tickets, a day trip to Nobyley import and export, and we also have a free steam car to send you to the exit." A slightly flattering voice sounded out of place.

Smelling the prestige, he was a short, thin man. He shook the ticket in his hand and continued: "The entrance and exit of Nobele is also one of the few places where the plague has not spread, if you are also trying to escape the plague, you can buy our return ticket to go there." ”

In a sense, Qiu Xuan admires this kind of person. Even though the world is now apocalyptic, even if the plague is rampant now, some people seem to be born businessmen, seeking stability in the pursuit of making money—now it is a business opportunity to make money.

And just as Xi Hanting narrowed his eyes impatiently, and No. 1 activated the gears that were spinning at high speed, everyone unanimously heard a familiar voice coming from behind them.

"Qiu Xuan, here!"

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