The edge of the Wei River trunk road, in the riverflow town.

Mayor Zhao Mingsi, who looked better, was frowning at the table and looking at the documents in his hand, and with the report of the soldiers outside the door, he closed the documents and stood up and walked towards the door.

Seeing that the man was walking straight towards her, Qiu Xuan subconsciously took a step back, and then realized that no one could see her at this point in time. So she paused and walked out with Zhao Mingsi.

"Lord Zhao, our people have sent news that the main purpose of this inspection by the Academy of Sciences is to check the research process and send a batch of new 'goods' over." The adjutant followed Zhao Mingsi inch by inch, and whispered while looking at the parchment in his hand.

Zhao Mingsi nodded casually to indicate that he understood, and then waved his arm to tell the adjutant not to speak again.

The group walked silently and quickly in the corridor, so fast that Qiu Xuan, who was as fast as a race walking champion, was a little weak. The girl who looked like a transparent soul body pursed her lips, raised her eyebrows when she waved her wrist and accidentally found that she could penetrate the wall, and then saw the direction they were traveling in and took a shortcut through the wall without hesitation.

Just half an hour ago, in the silence after No. 1 said the sentence "I am Hengxie", the man whose body was covered with cold machinery suddenly struck the Great Elder a few meters away with a force of his wrist, and then removed the rotating gears on his mechanical arm and aimed them at his cranial cavity.

Qiu Xuan's intuition was not good, and she hit her with a backhand elbow to clamp her abdomen behind her, but the terrifyingly swollen muscles still locked her movements, and she couldn't break free for a while. "Let go, something is going to happen!" She yelled angrily at Hengxie, while the magician, who possessed some of the mechanic's powers, just stared at One, who was constantly making dangerous moves, as if he had already anticipated what he wanted to do.

In the next second, warm blood mixed with white brain pulp spurted out, and in the incredulous gaze of everyone except Heng Xie, Number One personally used the gear that was spinning at high speed to cut open his skull.

“……”

The red-and-white object splashed her and Hengxie's coats, and the No. 1 robotic arm finally operated, and finally stirred twice in the red, white and white brain, and pulled out a thumb-sized crystal. With a flick of his hand, he threw the crystal that could not be seen in the direction of Hengxie, and then his body leaned forward completely uncontrollably, and fell the cold floor, and the mixture of the brain pulp and the human tissue of the brain that had been stirred up was thrown to the ground along the cracked skull cavity, and the hard metal collided on the ground with a dull sound.

Qiu Xuan used her bent elbow to catch the crystal mixed with various liquids, and suddenly remembered what Fu Zeqi had said before. - "Memory, a process developed during the technological revolution to extract memories directly from the human brain. It must be extracted from the living human brain, so the brain can only be taken by craniotomy while the person is alive. Later, because it did not conform to the moral code of mankind, it was banned from drinking soon after the end of the scientific and technological revolution. ”

Is it just to convince them that No. 1 is Hengxie, so they don't hesitate to tell the truth? What kind of "truth" is it that deserves him to do so?

There was no time for them to react, and the next moment, under the order of the Great Elder, "Grab them and get that memory", the layers of soldiers instantly rushed towards them. Heng Xie gritted his teeth and said to Qiu Xuan, "Hold it for me", and then the sharp blade in his hand pressed hard to her neck.

"I told you so! Stand back for me, or I'll do it! ”

The Great Elder stood up with the hands of Gu Qing and his wife, and gritted his teeth with a hideous face. "Give it all to me, let's get it together! Get the memory first, and then grab the black woman, it's okay if you're half dead or not, just take a breath! ”

Hearing such an order, the soldiers in protective clothing no longer hesitated, and rushed up one after another, raising their weapons and attacking Qiu Xuan and Heng Xue. Qiu Xuan was stuck in the shackles, compared the distance between them and the old man and the others, and found that it was too late at all, so he quickly retreated with Hengxie and asked, "How do I use this?" ”

"Stop dreaming, do you think I'm going to show you this? You already know enough. ”

"You're going to die, and you're still struggling with these, are you thinking about fart?" Qiu Xuan scolded him unceremoniously, "The truth is only meaningful to the living." Then, she suddenly lowered an inch between the knotted muscles, and quickly turned half a circle, and the fingers of her right hand touched the crystal between the crooks of her elbows, and when everyone didn't react, she crushed it with all her might!

"You!"

The vortex that appeared above the heads of the two of them out of thin air rotated at a strange and chaotic frequency, accompanied by a burst of suction that was so strong that it was irresistible, Qiu Xuan's body was sucked into the vortex weightlessly, and Heng Xie grabbed her arm with one hand, and then stuck on the last tail and was brought in. The soldiers who arrived on their hind feet pounced, and could only wait for the wrath from the Great Elder in confusion and fear.

Time comes back to the moment.

Qiu Xuan followed the route of Zhao Mingsi and his adjutant closely, and while relying on his identity as a bystander, he unscrupulously shuttled through the wall to take shortcuts. After she was sucked into that memory and regained consciousness from a brief period of dizziness, Hengxie was already missing from her side, and she wondered if he had some secret that he didn't want to know or if the two of them didn't enter at the same time at all.

Confused, she walked around this place a few times in the form of an invisible soul body, and she finally recognized this as Chuanliu Town from some familiar buildings, but she didn't know what point in time it was Chuanliu, and now it seemed that Zhao Mingsi was still serving as the mayor? With the increasingly rapid pace of Zhao Mingsi and the adjutant, it took almost only a few minutes for them to walk from the central square to the foot of the towering parapet.

She stood a little behind Zhao Mingsi and looked at him with a gloomy face and waited for a while, when suddenly there was a commotion from under the towering city wall. Standing two steps forward and looking down, four young men dressed in black were knocking on the city gate and begging them to open it, and behind them, a dense crowd of infected people howled towards them.

Qiu Xuan was stunned for a moment, just because this was definitely a familiar picture, and at this time, one of the black people who were pleading raised his head, it was obviously Mencius's face.

He saw Zhao Mingsi and the adjutant who were also standing on the wall, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief and shouted loudly: "Mr. Zhao! Are you Mr. Zhao Mingsi, the mayor of Chuanliu Town? My companion and I have inadvertently ended up here, please open the door and let us in! ”

Zhao Mingsi seemed to observe with interest a flurry of panicked expressions on the faces of the four people as the tide of infected people approached, and finally spoke before they were on the verge of a complete collapse. "Oh, my dear child, of course, not only you, but everyone who has come to the river since the beginning of the last days will say that they have 'unwittingly wandered here and asked for help'. However, you must know that I am the mayor of the town and am responsible for my people, so how can you prove that you did not come with some ulterior malice? ”

"I ...... I'm from the Meng family in Norberry! Mencius hurriedly said, "My name is Mencius, you must know my grandfather Meng Ge, I heard that you were colleagues in the early years!" We're really not bad people, please open the door and let us in! ”

"Meng Ge, Meng Ge ......"

Zhao Mingsi muttered a few words in a low voice, and suddenly bent over and laughed. Everyone looked at his sudden reaction in a daze, and Zhao Mingsi laughed enough, and suddenly beckoned to the adjutant and asked him to hurry up and find a townsman who could sketch over, be quick.

The adjutant hurriedly broadcast the announcement, and Mencius pulled the trembling Su Su to look at the high wall a little overwhelmed, "You...... What are you doing here? ”

"What? What else can you do, of course, is to record the scene of you being eaten alive by the infected and send it to Meng Ge, the old immortal. Zhao Mingsi raised the corners of his mouth and laughed sickly, "I didn't expect it, Meng Ge, what kind of feeling does it feel for his only grandson to be eaten raw by a monster raised by himself...... Hahaha, I can't wait to see his face. ”

"You...... What are you talking about, grandfather...... Ahhhh ”

With Lin Mo's piercing scream, the swarming infected people instantly surrounded the four of them. Mencius gritted his teeth and waved the rudimentary weapon in his hand to protect the two girls behind him, but it was to no avail after all. Several infected people who were around the back tore Su Su's arm and bit it, and the blood splashed in an instant was like a signal, and then they smelled the breath of flesh and blood, and the thin four people were quickly engulfed, and there were incredibly painful screams from the crowd.

The painter who had been temporarily arrested trembled with his wrist and could barely hold the charcoal in his hand, and under the sharp blade of the soldiers around his neck, he finally endured his gagmatous emotions and painted the tragic scene on the paper with a white face. Zhao Mingsi stood beside him and watched this scene with appreciation, almost with a look of pleasure like appreciating art.

Shaking his transparent palm, Qiu Xuan's face suddenly turned cold, staring at the bloody below with a gloomy expression, not knowing what to think.

The infected people ate quickly, and it didn't take long for them to smell only a trace of disgusting blood that came up with the breeze, and when they saw that they couldn't break through the walls that were armed with layers, the infected crowd scattered in the field of vision like when they came. Only a few puddles of blood-stained human tissue on the pickled ground speak for themselves, but in these last days, under the white bones and flesh that can be seen everywhere, these few filths are so common that people are even numb enough to be interested.

With a wave of his hand, Zhao Mingsi picked up the realistic painting paper and admired it again, then rolled it up and stuffed it in a messenger and handed it to the adjutant next to him, asking him to "send it to Meng Ge and let people record his every expression to show me."

He paced the city walls for a while, and in a few minutes he saw the steam cart coming from the horizon, and he walked quickly down the spiral staircase down the gate and put an amiable smile on his face. The soldiers guarding the gate opened the city gate, and the steam cart with the unique badge of the Academy of Sciences slowly entered. "Fortunately, I will be happy! The young and promising distinguished guests, the contemptible Zhao Mingsi, have been waiting for your arrival with the river. ”

The girl who had just stepped out of the steam car was stunned, apparently not very used to the dramatic battle he had made, and then a tall, thin young man stood beside her and patted her on the shoulder soothingly. "Wherever and where, talents like Mr. Zhao are really the goals we admire and follow."

"Hahaha, you're really good at laughing. By the way, please come in quickly, please come in, how can there be a reason for the distinguished guests to wait at the door! ”

Several people pretended to compliment each other and walked into the gate of Chuanliu Town, and the closed doors were closed again, and Qiu Xuan also saw the comer clearly.

It's easy to recognize, almost indistinguishable from what it looks like now. The faces of these two young people, one belongs to Shuying, and the other belongs to Hengxie.

Combined with the previous events, the time node of the No. 1 memory where she is now obviously belongs to the time and space that the "original" No. 1 experienced. It may be a bit complicated to say this, which means that if the world that Qiu Xuan experienced is regarded as the "real world", No. 1 should be similar to the setting of a "reborn", he experienced some encounters in the "original world" and got the opportunity to be reborn by chance, so he returned to the "real world" as an amnesiac No. 1.

And in the original world of No. 1, because there was no intervention of Qiu Xuan, the four people of Mencius were already dead when they were in Chuanliu Town. No wonder No. 1 had been following her openly and secretly at that time, and it turned out that he had this in mind. Qiu Xuan touched her chin, put down her snacks and continued to read them.

The polite greetings continued.

"By the way, have you encountered any infected people on the way from the main city? I heard that there have been frequent waves of infections in this area recently, which is really frightening. Zhao Mingsi was not ashamed at all, and even hugged his shoulders as if he was still afraid, and saw Qiu Xuan rolling his eyes on the side.

"Ah, actually, we didn't set out from Nobel." Shu Ying smoothed her hair embarrassedly, and then looked at Heng Xie before continuing to speak, "When the plague broke out, I was training 108,000 miles away from the main city, and then I received a message from the teacher before I came to Chuanliu Town, and the teacher asked me to come to the mercenary group and have an annual routine exchange with you by the way. ”

"Oh, I see!" Zhao Mingsi suddenly realized, "Lord Luoshui's students are really talented!" Well, let me think about it...... So in other words, there are no 'new goods' delivered this time, right? ”

"New, goods?" Shuying wondered, "What's that?" The teacher didn't tell me what to bring you. ”

“……”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's not a big deal." Zhao Mingsi's expression darkened for a moment, and then he raised his face and returned to his amiable appearance. "However, I haven't received any news of the mercenary group's arrival for the time being, maybe it's delayed on the way, and I'm going to trouble you to spend the night in the town, after all, we have strict access control rules."

"Then I'm sorry for you."

"What's the trouble with that?" Zhao Mingsi suddenly smiled meaninglessly.

"If that's the case, I'm going to 'trouble' you."

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