Chapter 18: The Temptation of the Prophet Tribulation
More than 100 light-years away from the solar system, a single star system, 11 planets orbiting, and in the outer space orbit of the 10th terrestrial planet, in a space station the size of the moon, several Atlanteans are discussing an emergency.
"Today's emergency meeting was proposed by Hetib, and I'm sure you've received some news, so tell us what you think," the chief presiding over the meeting sat in his place, looking at the three humanoid projections in front of him.
"Can it be solved once and for all, isn't there on Earth," said the Emir, "and now that the situation is tense again, we don't have the energy to deal with the affairs of Earth." ”
"No, the existence of the Prophet is still of great significance to mankind," the Grand Commander directly rejected the emir's proposal.
"I have an idea, I want the Archians to handle it safely, and we'll let them know and see what they think," Mufu said.
"This can be done, you will contact Hetibu in a while, and then inform the remaining guards of the earth to contact the prophet first, see what is going on, and then we should solve this problem once and for all, Atfi has been a little active recently, and everyone is also prepared, praise the sun god." The Grand Commander ended the conversation and said a word of praise.
"Praise the sun god," the other three also resounded at the same time.
"What does this prophet want to do? It seems that the humans of Earth have not yet met the requirements of the Ascension Project," the Commander alone, also thinking about the Prophet's intentions.
After Zhao Deming's special car left the scheduled route, the security department did not attract much attention at first, but only made routine inquiries, and the driver Liu En's reply was Zhao Deming's arrangement, after all, this situation often occurs, and the security department did not study too deeply, but the situation after that was a little too abnormal, when seeing that the vehicle had signs of going out of the city, the security department contacted Liu En again, and found that it could not be contacted, something happened! This was their first reaction, and they immediately activated the emergency mechanism, but when their personnel arrived at the scene of the vehicle, they did not even see a ghost.
Zhao Deming was actually shot by Liu En shortly after getting into the car, and when he saw a needle stuck in his chest, he didn't have time to ask what was going on, so he fell headlong in the car and fell asleep. When he awoke, he was in a very strange place, and it was very dark all around, except for a small dim light bulb in front of him, and he himself was tied to a column.
"Ahem, cough, cough" Zhao Deming couldn't help coughing a few times, and a familiar smell from childhood also poured into his nose, "This is the vegetable cellar?" As a northerner, he was too familiar with this taste, and when he was a child, he went to the vegetable cellar to pick up vegetables in winter, and he hated this taste the most.
"Liu En, what are you doing here?" Zhao Deming saw Liu En coming out of the shadows in the distance, and asked loudly.
"Zhao Deming, for the sake of our friendship for more than a year, I advise you to save some effort." Liu En also plugged Zhao Deming's mouth with a ball of cloth as soon as he finished saying this.
"Hmm..... Hmm......" Zhao Deming seemed to want to say something, but he could only make that indistinct mumping sound.
"I see that you are usually a good person, I won't do it today," Liu En, who was already walking into the dark shadows, suddenly spoke, "Remember to keep your hands, don't kill you." Obviously, the words behind this were not said to Zhao Deming, and before the words fell, a strong man like Zhang Lei came to Zhao Deming, and he couldn't help but say that it was a violent beating.
At the same time, the Temporary Command.
The people who came and went were all heavy-faced, they all had the latest information about Zhao Deming in their hands, but none of them were good news, Zhang Lili and Yang Le were in charge of the command, they dealt with the intelligence from their own side respectively, and then coordinated the next move.
"The latest intelligence shows that they may be in the direction of the desert, the other party is a veteran, there are not many clues left for us, we have called for support, it is estimated that we can arrive in the middle of the night today, see if they can think of some way, Zhang Lei estimates that they can also arrive at night, and I don't know if he can help," it was Yang Le who spoke, he was in charge of the coordination of the government, "I don't know how the noodles are!" What do you say you should do, can there be mistakes in such an important position as a driver? ”
"It's useless to say that now, we suspect that the radicals are doing it, and we have contacted them, but their reply is very vague, just saying that they want to investigate," Zhang Lili replied.
"What's the difference between that and not saying it! I'll see if I can get some manpower, if only I could use a helicopter this big night, alas! After Yang Le said these words, he also sighed and left.
"Zhao Deming, I didn't do a good job, I'm sorry, don't have an accident!" Zhang Lili, who blamed herself in her heart, also had rows of tears flowing down her cheeks.
Late at night, vegetable cellar.
Zhao Deming couldn't remember how many rounds of beatings he had been beaten by them, and these people didn't have any communication during the whole process, just routinely vented their excess strength on him.
A basin of cold water washed down, Zhao Deming woke up slowly, his body was completely soaked, and he didn't know where the wind came from, he couldn't help but shiver, but his consciousness was suddenly much more sober.
"You rest for a while, and then drink some water," Liu En's words reached Zhao Deming's ears, he reluctantly raised his head, and the anger in his eyes seemed to be able to burn the person in front of him, "It seems that you are quite energetic, then take a break, come, ask him to drink some water, don't blame me"
Two people came while talking, and Zhao Deming was released, "Aren't you not resting?" What is this for," Zhao Deming also didn't understand in his heart, but soon he knew the answer.
Zhao Deming was re-tied to a chair, and as a strong man kicked down the chair where Zhao Deming was sitting, he had a new understanding of the word drinking water, "waterboarding".
I don't know how long it took, Zhao Deming woke up slowly, recalling all the pain in the waterboarding, his body couldn't help but start twitching, he couldn't control it, fortunately there was a piece of cloth in his mouth, otherwise he really suspected that he would bite off his tongue.
"I'm tied to this wood again, it seems that waterboarding is temporarily exempted," after waking up, Zhao Deming found that he was about to be tied to the cylinder again, he seemed to be a little happy that he could be tied here, that thing he definitely didn't have the courage to try a second time, he raised his head with difficulty, he tried to observe something, but nothing, the same emptiness as when he came, "What is their purpose?" This is his biggest doubt, judging from the current situation, he basically ruled out the possibility of kidnapping, because he didn't treat the meat ticket like this, and he didn't say a word when he came up, it was a beating, and this was what he was most worried about, if it wasn't kidnapping, it was a personal vendetta, and he had the ability to help him here, and there could be an internal response like Liu En, the answer was almost imminent, and the radical was the most likely answer he thought of.
"No, I have to find a way to escape, staying here is only a dead end," After thinking about all this, Zhao Deming tried to escape and began to struggle hard with the rope on his body.
"Don't do useless struggles, you can't escape, listen to me, save some strength and rest for a while," Liu En's figure appeared again in the shadows.
Zhao Deming didn't seem to hear it, his body was still shaking violently, trying to get rid of the rope tied to him, and his mouth was also making a slurred sound.
"You are quite energetic, when the arbiter comes, but it is up to you to suffer, it is also for your good to persuade you to rest, for the sake of insurance, you still have to suffer a little grievance," said Liu En and stabbed a tube of liquid on Zhao Deming's shoulder, Zhao Deming tried to resist, but he clearly felt that his strength was disappearing, until he completely lost consciousness.
"Sleep well, I'm afraid you won't be able to see the sun tomorrow," saying these words, Liu En also patted Zhao Deming's shoulder, and then disappeared into the shadows, "Pata Pata," a flame lit up, the faint light of the fire illuminated Liu En's face, without any expression, he lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly, in the dark, the cigarette butt was also accompanied by Liu En's breathing.
"Wake him up!" A lame-sounding Chinese sounded.
"Boom ......" A splashing sound sounded, Zhao Deming was stunned, and then sobered up.
A brazier appeared in front of Zhao Deming's eyes at some point, and the blazing charcoal fire scorched Zhao Deming's face.
"Just wake up, save my hands, come, look at this," a burst of strange-sounding Chinese appeared in Zhao Deming's ears, he raised his head and saw a foreign woman in her forties, simple black civilian clothes, pale face with almost no blood, facial features typical Westerners, very three-dimensional, if he wants to evaluate this person's appearance, it should be said that it is the kind of person who has a very taste, except for these, it is the bright red shirt inside this woman, which is too eye-catching.
"Huhu ......" suddenly a red object appeared in front of Zhao Deming's eyes with a scorching heat, he could see clearly, this was a fist-sized, X-like burning red iron block, was approaching his chest step by step, he tried his best to dodge, swaying back and forth, feeling that the pillars that tied him began to loosen under his shaking, and a little dust began to fall from above.
"Hold him down, and tear that piece of clothing off for me, and I want to see with my own eyes this mark on his chest, and keep it even if he is dead." Under the scolding of the strange woman, Zhao Deming was obediently held down and ripped off the piece of clothing on his chest.
"Do you know how much kindness you've spoiled me?" The strange woman looked at the red-hot piece of iron and blew softly, "This is the price, the price of bad things for me." ”
"Ah...... Hiss ......" accompanied by Zhao Deming's indistinct roar, a trace of green smoke also rose on Zhao Deming's chest, and he fainted again.
"Wake him up for me, I want him to be awake and bear my wrath," the strange woman yelled hysterically.
After hearing the order, someone also poured a basin of cold water on Zhao Deming again, but he didn't have any reaction, and the strange woman also came to him in person when she saw this and checked his breath.
"It's so weak, how could I lose to such a person, let's see what's going on first, okay, call me, snap," After finishing speaking, the strange woman also slapped Zhao Deming twice in the face before leaving in a huff.