Chapter 19: The Key
Despite riding the ultra-high-speed elevator, which reached a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, it took nearly an hour to get back to the surface from the experimental center.
Walking out of the elevator door, Zhou Zhen saw a familiar scene again, a group of heavily armed security guards and a row of black muzzles.
Normally, he would raise his hand and try to get his opponent to let his guard down and buy more time to respond, but today he didn't, and he didn't want to make any more gestures of submission to the corporate alliance.
The two sides faced off at the elevator door for a few seconds, and Amiko grabbed his hands from behind and slammed his knee against his lower back.
"This is my prisoner, I want to escort him back to A28, everyone is traveling together, please give way."
Amiko pulled Zhou's arms back with one hand, and raised her work card with the other.
A security guard standing in the middle stepped forward to look at the contents of the work card, turned around and gestured, and the queue of security guards made way for a way.
Amiko was about to say thank you, but found that this road was not for her and Zhou Qian, and two people walked out of the middle of the road, one was Su Jian, Jiro Oshima's assistant, and the other was a strong black man who was half a body taller than Su Jian.
"Amiko, since you're here to arrest the criminal, why did you knock me out from behind?"
Su Jian held an ice pack to the back of her head.
Amiko smiled awkwardly: "I'm sorry, Sister Su, I thought you were in the same party as this key criminal, just..."
", we've known each other for five years, you won't recognize me?"
Su Jian glared at Amiko angrily, but it didn't look scary at all, and Amiko stuck out her tongue with a hippie smile.
"Miss Su, do you need me to arrest them?"
The black strong man walked up to Zhou Qian, half-squatted down to look at Zhou Qian's face, and took out the portable terminal to scan it, and the terminal emitted a Didi alarm sound.
"There is no ID chip, it seems that it is a gang, and it is okay to execute on the spot."
As he spoke, the strong man waved his fist the size of a bowl and slammed it towards Zhou Zhen's stomach.
Zhou Zhen grabbed Amiko's wrist with his backhand, turned his body sideways and kicked his fist away, the black strong man thought that he had been subdued by Amiko, but he didn't expect this, the fist was kicked up by him, and it hit his chin hard, and his half-squatting body sat on the ground.
"Hahahaha, Brother Solomon, why don't you want to beat yourself."
Amiko laughed, and the row of security guards lowered their heads and let out a few coughs to hide their laughter.
Solomon got up from the ground and swung his fist again in annoyance, but this time the target was not Shushi, but Amiko's face.
"Amiko, get out of the way!"
Shuzhi pushed Amiko away and kicked Solomon in the leg again, trying to trip him up, but this time, it was like kicking an iron plate, and he felt a piercing pain in his foot.
Solomon, however, continued to attack as if he didn't feel anything, and Amiko was cornered.
"With your saber!"
Zhou Zhen rubbed her feet and reminded that Amiko had no time to reply, and she did not fight back, she was like a small grasshopper dodging the wheels under the carriage, and she had no power to fight back before Solomon's stormy attack, so she could only barely dodge and retreat.
The pain in her foot subsided slightly, and Zhou Zhi was about to go up to help, but she saw Amiko dodge Solomon's punch on the top of her head, and waved her hand at him to signal not to step forward.
At the moment when he was puzzled, Su Jian walked out of the security queue and shouted, "Minister Solomon, you can stop." ”
Her voice was not loud, but this sentence was like pressing the pause button on the remote control, which immediately stopped Solomon's attack, and the big black man jumped back like an obedient rabbit, and turned to face Su Jian.
"Mr. Jiro Oshima sent a message, he is safe and sound, let's let Amiko go back to A28 to resume her life."
Su Jian walked over and handed him the portable terminal, Solomon took it with respectful hands, looked at the information, and handed it back to her with both hands, and then called the team and withdrew with the security guard.
Su Jian walked towards Amiko, didn't say anything, bit her lower lip and nodded on her head, and continued to walk forward into the elevator.
"Why didn't you use a saber just now?" Zhou Zhen limped over and helped Amiko.
Amiko grabbed Zhou Zhi's arm and replied breathlessly: "That Solomon, is the security minister of A01, he also has a parasitic system in his body, called armor, my saber can't hurt him at all, not to mention that he didn't want to kill me, otherwise he would have shot a long time ago, he is one of the best fast gunners in the corporate alliance." ”
"Hehe, fast gunner, Dad, I was the first sharpshooter of the corporate coalition during the energy war." Zhou Zhen was aroused by Amiko's words, and raised his hand to Solomon's back to make a gesture of aim.
"Don't mention the courage of the year, you don't even have a slingshot now." Amiko scoffed.
Zhou Zhen sighed deeply, he was really nothing now.
Walking to A01's temporary stable, Amiko brought her white horse, and Zhou Zhen and her rode one after the other.
"Where do we go next?" Amiko asked.
Zhou Zhen grabbed the reins and thought for a while: "There is a place, I don't know if you dare to go." ”
"Is there any place I dare not go? Don't forget, I'm better than you right now! ”
Amiko snorted, and the spit spittled onto the back of Zhou's neck.
"I would like to remind you...... You're also in your forties, can you be a little more steady? ”
Zhou Zhen groaned as he touched his neck, and the horse's hooves sped up and ran out of the city gate.
……
The ten-day trip was fleeting, and Zhou Zhen found that he and Amiko had a lot less in common.
When she was a child, Sarah didn't understand anything, she was curious about everything, and now Amiko, in addition to the appearance of a girl, has long been aware of the world in her heart, and she doesn't care about everything Zhou Zhen says.
Until this evening I met the bandits.
It was a small detachment of five people and five horses driving a blood-stained wagon, and the coachman was tied up with ropes and dragged behind the cart, apparently, it was a full return mission.
Zhou Zhi and Amiko spotted their whereabouts on a hill, and the bandit squad made their way through the valley road a kilometer away, where the terrain was flat enough for horse-drawn carriages.
The screams of the coachman echoed through the valley, and the bloodthirsty pleasure made the bandits let their guard down, and they didn't notice the two men who had been staring at them from above.
"Dad, don't wait, I can handle these five guys."
The bandits just blocked Zhou Zhen and Amiko's way down the mountain, Amiko kicked the white horse's stomach impatiently, but Zhou Zhen just pulled the reins tightly: "Don't worry, there is a curfew where we are going, I want to use them as keys." ”
"What about the coachman? Don't you save him? Amiko asked.
"Look at his blood loss, we can't save him." Zhou Zhi pointed to a dark red trail of blood between the ruts.
Amiko frowned, and the hands holding Zhou Zhi's waist were released, whether in A28 or A01, she felt that Zhou Zhi was too sentimental, and even a little indecisive, but when he arrived in the wild, he seemed to change immediately, becoming a hunter who was calm to the point of cold-bloodedness.
The two followed the gang from a distance, not stopping until the screaming stopped.
By this time it was getting late, and the bandits had set up camp under a leeward hillside, and Zhou Zhi found a small wood, tied his horse, took a rein from his saddle bag, and sneaked with Amiko to the downwind of the camp.
"Do it now?" Amiko measured the distance, and ten more steps forward, and the saber was ready to work.
"Can you cut the rope with a saber?" Zhou Zhen said and tied his horse's reins into a slipknot, and the end of the rope formed a lasso.
Amiko nodded inexplicably.
"Okay, I'll send you a signal when I go around to the opposite side of the camp, three howls, and when I hear you, do it, the target is the colt pulling the cart, cut off their reins first, and then bite them with the parasitic robot, and drive the carriage away, without hurting people or horses."
Zhou Zhen pointed in the direction of the carriage, and the two horses pulling the carriage had not yet unloaded the wheels, but were hastily tied to a stone with the reins.
"Yes, yes, but what are you going to do?" Amiko became more and more confused.
"Remember, there's never one way to get there, and sometimes it's more effective to help someone than to kill someone." Zhou Zhen touched her head, and his tone was as soft as when he taught her to identify animals and plants when he was a child.
After Zhou Zhen's figure disappeared into the night, after another ten minutes, Amiko heard three vivid night owl cries, she hid in the grass, issued a conscious command, the saber accurately cut off the reins that held the horses, and pierced a shallow blood hole in the buttocks of the two horses.
The two horses neighed at the same time, and dragged the wagon at a gallop, and the bandits threw down their food and wine glasses, grabbed firewood for torches, and ran separately to their horses.
While they were messing around, "Ouch! Zhou Zhen's exclamation came from afar, followed by a burst of noise and neighing.
The bandits rode in the direction of the sound with torches, but before they had gone far they stopped, took their bows and crossbows and guns from their horses, and aimed them ahead.
Through the firelight, Amiko saw Zhou Zhi, who was holding the reins in one hand and raising the other above his head, slowly advancing towards the bandits from the edge of the torch-illuminated range.
"Guys, don't shoot! I'm also a member of the government army! ”
Zhou Zhen shouted inarticulately, and Amiko couldn't close her mouth in surprise, only to see that he had a bruised nose and swollen face, and the corners of his mouth were still bloodshot.
"Which war zone are you? What are you doing with us? The leading bandit asked, pointing a gun at him.
"Don't, don't shoot, my cousin, it's your little boss, he developed mine, I, I was about to go to him, I got lost, I was sleeping on the side of the road in front, I didn't expect to be hit by your carriage so coincidentally." Zhou Zhen spat the blood in his mouth on the ground while swallowing and spitting explanations.
"Who is your cousin?" When the bandits saw that he looked embarrassed, they thought it a little funny, and raised the muzzle of the gun a little.
"My cousin, called H, H. Abdulayevich."
When Zhou Zhen said this name, the gangsters burst into laughter, and the leader laughed breathlessly: "H, hahaha, the officer of the entire First War Zone, he is the stupidest in his brain, what?" Developed your cousin and threw you down again? ”
Zhou Zhen scratched his head embarrassedly: "Yes, yes, we made an appointment to meet in the old city near here, I waited for ten days, but he didn't show up, I guess he forgot about me." ”
The leader put the gun back in the saddle, covered his waist and laughed: "H definitely did this, but he is still a righteous robe, and he has helped me a lot, for the sake of you helping us find the carriage, we will take you to him." ”
A relatively calm bandit stepped forward and whispered a few words to the leader, who simply waved his hand: "No, it's not his relatives and friends, who remembers his full name?" Can you remember? ”
The calm bandit shook his head, but still insisted on his opinion: "It's always right to check his ID chip." ”
The leader impatiently raised his chin to Zhou Qian: "Go ahead." ”
The bandit dismounted and took out an old-fashioned chip scanner, walked to Zhou Zhen and scanned it, there was no response, he adjusted the equipment suspiciously, and was about to sweep it again, Zhou Zhen lifted the T-shirt, revealing a stitched scar on his chest.
"Pao Ze, I'm an honest man, my cousin found someone to get my chip, so I couldn't stay in the company, so I had to go to him."
Zhou Zhen had a bitter look on his face, and the bandits laughed even harder.
Although Amiko didn't understand his purpose for doing this, he was really amused by his embarrassment, covering his mouth and laughing in the grass, Zhou Zhen drove the bandits back to the camp, and when he unloaded the car, he winked at Amiko, and then secretly made a few gestures.
It was the operational sign language of the security department, and although Amiko was able to interpret it, she was even more confused by the content, and the gesture meant: "Follow secretly, pay attention to your back." ”