Chapter Ninety-Eight: Mayor of the Town
The snowstorm outside the cave grows heavier, and Red Bean and Fluttershy are worried about Mishima and Zhangzawa below. People with no experience in climbing snowy mountains can be dangerous in a blizzard, and the blizzard at this time can be intimidating even for those who regularly climb snowy mountains.
Red Bean and Fluttershy sit at the bar at the bar, each ordering a cup of hot cocoa, as a blizzard blows the signs outside the store. The ears of wheat were dotted with the silent worry between the two. This is also a tacit understanding that needs to be polished and experienced, and it grows in the rain of bullets every time. At this time, there was a sound of trees breaking outside the store, and everyone in the bar looked out, and the bartender also went to look at it, and came back to say to Red Bean.
"It's nothing, it's just that a blizzard blew the tree off."
Fluttershy says to Red Bean, a little nervously.
"They're going to be fine, right?"
"It's okay, don't worry. Your brother won't hang up so easily. ”
At this time, a drunk man staggered out of the bar with a wine bottle, and the moment the rattle bell rang on the door, a cold wind came in through the crack in the door and swept away a lot of warmth. The warmth that had been swept away swayed up and down in the cold wind, and finally returned to the cave.
At this time, Zhang Ze and Mishima in the cave stared intently at what would come in at the door. After waiting for a long time, there was nothing but the bone-chilling wind. Zhang Ze whispered.
"Is the thing out there gone?"
"I'll go out and have a look."
Mishima bypassed the sensor mine on the ground and gently pulled the door open from the inside, and he poked his head out and looked around. Outside, there were powdered ice chips on the ground, and the walls on both sides were still covered in a thick layer of ice. Mishima shone a flashlight on the top of his head again, but he didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Mishima muttered to himself.
"Am I mistaken?"
Suddenly, there was a jumble of footsteps in the house, and he hurried back. At this time, a certain nerve in his brain was pulled, and he secretly screamed in his heart. The induction mine in front of the door was still there, and he was waiting for the induction mine to explode like ashes. After about 2 seconds, nothing happened, and he looked down at his feet, and the sensor mine was gone. Mishima walked suspiciously towards the house, shouting quietly as he walked.
"Zhang Ze, Zhang Ze."
Zhang Ze didn't respond, and Mishima felt that he was one step closer to danger with every step he took. Just as Mishima was on guard against the dangers around him, he saw Zhang Ze who had fainted. He hurriedly ran over to help Zhang Ze up, and put his fingers on his neck. The pulse was normal, just passed out. Mishima pinched Zhang Ze's middle man hard, and Zhang Ze woke up immediately, Mishima asked.
"How are you?"
Zhang Ze rubbed the back of his neck and said.
"There's something here that knocked me unconscious."
"Do you see what?"
"No, he's fast."
"Let's get out of here first."
Mishima picked up Zhang Ze and walked out, Zhang Ze said.
"It's okay, I can do it myself."
After that, Zhang Ze picked up a piece of ice from the ground and pressed it on his forehead, and suddenly the whole person was a lot more sober, and Zhang Ze shuddered. The two crept out of the iron door, lest they disturb something hiding in the dark corner. They were now back on the main road, and the ground was still shattered with ice crystals, making a crisp and pleasant sound with every step. But at this time, the two were not in the mood to appreciate the moving sound coming from this foot, and the end of the road under their feet was a shortcut to the top of the mountain. Zhang Ze shone his flashlight back and forth around, and Mishima's speed gradually became faster. Zhang Ze said.
"Stop."
The voice under his feet muffled Zhang Ze's voice, and Mishima didn't hear it and kept walking forward. In a trance, Zhang Ze heard some squirming sounds like crawling coming from the top of his head, just as Zhang Ze looked up and looked, he suddenly saw a white shadow flashing above his head and rushed towards Mishima's back, Zhang Ze shouted to be careful, and he had already kicked hard and ran out. He knocked Mishima out with all his might, and Mishima staggered back and saw that Zhang Ze was being crushed under a white-haired snow monster. Mishima looked at it and saw that its snow-white eyes were shining blue, it looked like an orangutan, two fangs protruding from its mouth, and its fat palm could definitely easily slap a bison to death.
The snow monster raised his slap and slapped at Zhang Ze, Zhang Ze raised his mechanical arm to block it, but it seemed to be almost the same as the effect of the mantis arm as a car. Just as the snow monster attacked Zhang Ze for the second time, Mishima pulled out his saber and stabbed it under the snow monster's ribs, and when it touched the opponent's body, the tip of the knife actually slid to one side. But this attack succeeded in attracting the attention of the snow monster, and it got up and chased after Mishima, who ran desperately out of the cave. At this time, Zhang Ze stood up from the ground, he checked the mechanical arm first, and the blow that just received the snow monster seemed to have a lot of impact on the mechanical arm, but fortunately, the mechanical arm was not damaged.
When he ran out of the cave, he found that Mishima and the snow monster were gone, and the dark clouds in the sky were scattered by the strong wind, and the sun slanted down, and the snow flakes on the ground reflected the bluest clear sky. Suddenly, a light shook Zhang Ze's eyes, and he walked over to the light and found that it was Mishima's saber that fell to the ground. Zhang Ze shouted loudly.
"Mishima, Mishima."
At this time, Mishima didn't bother to respond even if he heard his shout. Just now, Mishima ran desperately towards the entrance of the cave in order to escape from the pursuit of the snow monster. But the snow monster moved extremely fast, and just as he was about to reach the mouth of the cave, he felt a heavy punch in the back, and then he fell out of the cave and kept rolling downward, not even noticing the saber that had fallen aside. The snow monster chased all the way down in the direction of Mishima's tumble, and finally came to a stop next to a large rock. Mishima got up and patted the snow on his body, looked at the snow monster in front of him, and said.
"I didn't expect that one day I would be chased by a gorilla."
The snow monster let out a low roar in its throat, white gas bubbled from its large nostrils, and its eyes stared intently at Mishima. At this time, Mishima discovered a detail, the snow monster did not attack Mishima directly, but circled around Mishima from just now, circle by circle. Mishima really wanted to stop it because it was so dizzy.
Mishima touched the saber on his waist, and since the other party didn't move, he could only make the first move. Suddenly, he realized that his saber was missing, and after scolding, he took out a reagent from his pocket and stabbed it on his thigh. Suddenly, Mishima's muscles swelled up like a blowing ball, and he lunged at the snow monster. But at the moment when Mishima kicked the ground hard, the ground under his feet suddenly sank, and Mishima fell heavily into the pit. The snow monster roared on the pit, and Mishima realized that the snow monster knew the terrain here well, and it didn't attack because it knew that there was a pit next to Mishima.
The pit is five meters deep, and it is almost impossible to jump on. And this trap is likely to have been dug by these snow monsters, and the roar of the snow monsters still continues. Suddenly, a small ball flew into the snow monster's mouth. Suddenly, a smiling expression appeared on the snow monster's face, and it seemed to be happier. It turned out that Zhang Ze, who had arrived in a hurry, threw the super sweet candy prepared in advance into the mouth of the snow monster, and the snow monster was beating happily in place with both hands clapping at this time. Zhang Ze came to the edge of the pit and shouted.
"Mishima, how are you?"
"It's not a big deal."
After that, Zhang Ze threw down the saber.
"Mishima, can you come up yourself?"
"No problem, you deal with it carefully."
Mishima plunged his saber into the pit wall and climbed upwards with his strength. In order to help Mishima buy time, Zhang Ze threw another candy to the snow monster, and the snow monster at this time sat beside Zhang Ze like a pet, poking Zhang Ze with his finger whenever he finished eating, and then Zhang Ze handed it another candy. Mishima climbed up and was stunned by the scene in front of him, and said.
"I almost got to death, and you kid settled it with a few pieces of candy?"
"You forgot the candy I bought?"
Mishima said helplessly.
"How could you go looking for candy in such an emergency just now?"
"That's right."
When Zhang Ze stretched out his hand to signal that the snow monster candy was gone, it first showed a burst of disappointment, and then made an unexpected move. It took the initiative to stretch out the hand that had just slapped Zhang Ze in front of Zhang Ze, and then scratched its head embarrassedly with the other hand. As if he was apologizing for what happened just now, Zhang Ze stepped forward and shook his hand. After a while, the snow monster took out a sensor mine from under its thick fur and threw it on the ground, and then ran away. Zhang Ze picked up the induction mine on the ground and put it in his pocket, Mishima said.
"The difference between this thing and a human is that it can't speak."
Zhang Ze nodded in agreement, and then said.
"I think it's higher than human intelligence."
With that, he patted Mishima on the shoulder. Mishima said viciously.
"Zhang Ze, sooner or later, one day I will have to break your body into ten thousand pieces."
Zhang Ze smiled and said.
"Let's go, we still have to hurry."
Mishima took out the map and looked at it, and said.
"The top of the hill is just a short distance ahead. I don't know why I feel like we've come for nothing. ”
"What do you mean?"
"Didn't you just notice the direction the snow monster left? It seems to run like the top of a mountain. ”
"Ahh It's not the top of the mountain..."
At this point, the two of them looked at the top of the mountain at the same time, and they quickened their pace to the top. The moment they stood on the top of the hill and looked down at the town of Kashi at their feet, Zhang Ze said.
"I kind of don't want to go down anymore."
Mishima, who had been observing his surroundings, said.
"I guess they don't want you to go down either."
"What do you mean?"
Zhang Ze looked at the place where Mishima pointed and said.
"We're right."
I saw that there was a high tower piled up with snow in the low place between the two peaks, and at the top of the tower, a blooming Virgin Snow Lotus was exuding its most dazzling light, there were many white-haired snow monsters kneeling in front of the tower, they kowtowed to the Virgin Snow Lotus devoutly, and there was a snowmonster with gray fur sitting on the seat in front of the tower, and what was even more strange was that there was a human standing next to it. Zhang Ze and Mishima were hiding in the dark at this time, and when they saw this scene, they were a little stunned, the one just now could be done with candy, and now what is the use of this large snow monster? He said.
"Mishima, what are we going to do?"
"Is there more candy?"
"Yes, but it's not enough for so many snow monsters. Why don't we do it? ”
"When we fight with them, we can't take advantage of it at all, and my saber just now was bounced off by that snow monster."
Mishima looked at the gray-white snow monster in front of the tower and continued.
"That is probably the Snow Monster King."
"Isn't it supposed to be guarding the ice?"
"Don't you understand?"
Suddenly, Zhang Ze reacted and said excitedly.
"Ice is nearby."
Mishima, continued.
"The ice is here, which means that the ice wall is also here, and there is an ice ditch under the ice wall. What we want is the heart of the Virgin Snow Lotus and the Snow Monster King, but in the current situation, it is unlikely that we will take the heart of the Snow Monster King. ”
"Let's get Snow Lotus first. I'll use candy tactics, and you go and get rid of that human next to the Snow King. ”
Mishima said with an embarrassed face.
"I don't even know that person, what's the matter? It's up to you to negotiate. ”
"Okay then."
After that, Zhang Ze divided the candy in his pocket into two large piles, then divided one of the large piles into two small piles, and finally put the three piles of candy into three different pockets, handed one of the small piles to Mishima, and said.
"That's our ammunition."
Then he handed Mishima a large pile of candy as well, and he continued.
"You carry this on your back, listen to my command, and when I let you scatter, you will scatter the candy into the sky."
"Got it."
The two slowly slid down the snow slope, and the moment they landed, they alarmed the snow monster who was kneeling down to worship Snow Lotus. Zhang Ze and Mishima hurriedly took out the candy in their pockets, the snow monster just now remembered Zhang Ze, and when it saw Zhang Ze coming, it immediately ran over very friendly.
The snow monster took the candy in Zhang Ze's hand and put it in his mouth, and then his face was full of happiness. Seeing this, the rest of the snow monsters also ran over, and soon a small pile of candy was distributed. At this time, the snow monster king sitting in front of the tower let out a shocking roar, and it seemed that it was a little unable to look at the shameful appearance of these snow monsters under his command.
When the Snow King's roar was heard, all the Snow Monsters fell to their knees. Suddenly, the Snow Monster King pointed at Zhang Ze, and then two Snow Monsters escorted Zhang Ze to the Snow Monster King's side. At this time, the human walked up to Zhang Ze with his hands behind his back, he reached out and took out a candy from his pocket, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and said.
"Looks like you're here prepared."
Zhang Ze asked in surprise.
"Who are you?"
"I am God's messenger, dedicated to preaching the gospel to God."
Looking at this person's appearance of pretending to be a ghost, Zhang Ze smiled disdainfully and said.
"Are these orangutans the gods you are talking about?"
"Bold, disrespectful to God."
After that, he made a gesture to the snow monster, and suddenly several snow monsters were holding Zhang Ze and preparing to go to a place, Zhang Ze saw that the other party was really coming, and hurriedly said.
"There's something to say, there's something to say."
The self-proclaimed messenger said with a smile.
"That's right. What is the purpose of your visit? ”
"We want to get the Virgin Snow Lotus."
The man looked Zhang Ze up and down and said.
"Did the Mandrill Gang send you here?"
Zhang Ze asked in surprise.
"How do you know?"
"It's not been a day or two since the Mandrill Gang coveted Snow Lotus."
It seems that the purpose of the Mandrill Gang to get Snow Lotus is really not simple, Zhang Ze then asked.
"Why do they have to get Snow Lotus?"
"Because they're making poison?"
"Poison? What do you mean? ”
The man suddenly smiled sinisterly and said.
"You know enough for a dead man."
After that, the man waved his hand, and suddenly the snow monster holding Zhang Ze's arm lifted Zhang Ze up, and then the five snow monsters grabbed Zhang Ze's limbs and head respectively, much like an ancient car split. Mishima was overwhelmed by the other snow monsters and couldn't move at all.
I saw the man's hand wave downward, and suddenly the five snow monsters exerted force in five directions at the same time, Zhang Ze shouted in pain, and then Zhang Ze suddenly shouted.
"Stop, stop. I have a detoxification. ”
Hearing this, the man immediately raised his hand again, and the snow monster immediately stopped pulling. The man motioned for the snow monster to put Zhang Ze down, and he walked up to Zhang Ze and said.
"You'd better not lie to me."
"Do you think I'm lying to you?"
"Then tell me about your antidote to the virus."
Zhang Ze thought to himself, in fact, he just said it in passing, how do you know what kind of detoxification method. What's more, they don't know what kind of poison they are talking about. At this time, a ray of sunlight swept overhead, and Zhang Ze suddenly noticed that a blue light flashed on this person's face. It turned out that this person was also infected with a psychotoxin, Zhang Ze said to him.
"It's painful not to sleep, isn't it?"
The man looked startled at first, but immediately regained his composure, and he said slowly.
"Now that you know, I'd like to hear your antidote now."
"You let go of my friend first."
The man gestured to the snow monster that was pressing on Mishima, Zhang Ze thought they would let go of Mishima, but who knew that another snow monster pressed on Mishima, and then Mishima finally couldn't help but cry out sadly. Seeing this, Zhang Ze said angrily.
"You..."
"If you say it, you can say it, if you don't say it, he will die first, and then it will be you."
Zhang Ze walked towards Mishima, and suddenly two snow monsters stopped in front of him, and the man waved his hand to ask the snow monsters in front of Zhang Ze not to stop him. Zhang Ze took out the information from Mishima's pocket, and then whispered to Mishima.
"Bear with me a little longer."
Zhang Ze quietly put the previous induction mine into Mishima's pocket and whispered.
"Bear with me a little longer, and use it again at a very moment."
Zhang Ze returned to the man and showed him the profile photo on his mobile phone and said.
"This is the schematic diagram of the psychotoxin and the equation for making the drug, and as long as we have this, we can make the antidote."
The man looked at it and raised his hand to signal the snow monster to release Mishima. The snow monster moved away from Mishima, he walked over and looked at the man viciously, and Zhang Ze motioned for him to calm down. The man said.
"Can you really make an antidote?"
"Yes. But I have a question before I make the antidote. ”
The man looked at Zhang Ze domineeringly and said.
"What?"
"I wonder what you just said they used to make poison out of the Virgin Snow Lotus?"
The man said warily.
"You come with me."
Zhang Ze and Mishima walked behind the man, he said.
"Five years ago, a scientific expedition came to the town, and they claimed that they were here to investigate the nearby ecological environment. I was the mayor of the town and a guide. The town had always been poor, and I thought I could use them to help us make a publicity, but it turned out to be wishful thinking. After coming here, they went straight up the mountain, and one of them kept asking me about the location of Feng Shihanbing. The Sealed Ice is the treasure of this snow-capped mountain, and it is also the divine ice that blesses the residents of the town, so naturally I can't tell them. Later, they built a laboratory in the mountains, searching for the location of the ice and making neurotoxins.
They put me under house arrest and used every means to force me to tell me the whereabouts of the cold ice, and the last resort was to threaten the lives of the entire town. I can't sacrifice the lives of the whole town for a piece of ice, and I can only tell them where it is. When they learned the location of the ice, they still detonated the laboratory, releasing psychotoxins, and they were a bunch of despicable villains. In the end they blamed me for all their sins, and I was ostracized by the townspeople, so I had to live here. ”
There was not much difference between his narrative and what Hongdou said, and then Zhang Ze suddenly realized something. He asked.
"You just said there was a woman in that expedition, right?"
The mayor nodded, and Zhang Ze then asked.
"Do you remember her name?"
"I remember that the people who came with her at the time called her Red Bean."
Hearing this, Zhang Ze and Mishima looked at the skinny middle-aged man in front of them dumbfounded.