Chapter Forty-Three: The Willows and Flowers

The command post is about 10 kilometers away from the barracks in another dense forest, in the barbed wire fence camp, more than 400 soldiers of Kronos Energy have all been evacuated here, dozens of hoplite soldiers are guarding the barbed wire fence, three tanks, an armored command vehicle, and more than a dozen armored transport vehicles are parked in the camp.

It seems that they have long since taken refuge outside the blast radius of antimatter annihilation, and although the Younis run start program was hastily triggered, the command post did not give a notice of a full evacuation after that, which is obviously using the troops of other enterprises as cannon fodder.

Zhou Zhen would never have thought that the nonsense he made up casually was not pure fiction.

"The infidels are trying to kill people with the sword, may the goddess destroy their souls."

At the branch of a large tree next to the command post, the mysterious woman held her hands and cursed on her chest.

Zhou Zhen stood beside her with the trunk of the tree, like a resting koala, the branch of the tree was very narrow, and the two had to be close to each other to stand firmly.

"I don't know how to destroy souls, but now the question is, do you need me to tell the cannon to destroy their bodies?"

After turning off the phantom system, Zhou's injured leg could not support his weight, causing his arm to be sore.

"Thank you, Phantom, if it weren't for the information you brought, we probably wouldn't be able to go back."

The woman's thanks were said close to Zhou's ears, and the breath from her mouth and nose made him tingle all over his body, and he almost fell down.

"You're welcome, then I'll do it?"

Zhou Zhen asked in a low voice.

"Well, let's do it."

The woman nodded, and her long hair covered with leaves scratched Zhou Zhi's neck, and Zhou Zhen almost made a free fall movement again.

"Miss, let's discuss, can you go down for a while first, let me free my hand and throw a smoke bomb..."

Zhou Zhen made an embarrassing and polite request, but the woman seriously refused.

"I can't fully trust you yet, where are the smoke grenades, I can throw them for you."

Zhou Zhen's arm was about to be unable to support it, so he had to agree: "Okay, it's hanging on the backpack, you pick the orange one and throw it." ”

The woman seemed to know nothing about modern weapons, and after unloading an orange smoke bomb, she threw it directly at the command post with a raised hand.

The smoke bomb bounced twice on the ground and rolled down next to the command vehicle, and then there was no movement.

"Didn't you pull the safety ring?"

Zhou Zhi asked dejectedly.

The woman sighed, quickly untied another one, ripped off the safety ring, and the fuse was immediately ignited, making a clanging sound, the woman was startled, and the hand was not grasped steadily, and the smoke bomb fell straight under the tree, and the orange smoke slowly came out.

Zhou Zhen was suddenly so frightened that his blood was cold, and he patted the trunk of the tree and shouted, "Sister! Fast! The last orange one! Throw it and run! ”

The last orange smoke bomb finally hit the command post, Zhou Zhen shouted a running word, and immediately activated the phantom system and jumped off the tree, the woman was stunned for a few seconds, and then jumped down.

The woman was obviously not moving on the tree on the ground, and Zhou Zhen ran away for a while and looked back, she was still near the big tree shrouded in orange smoke, dragging the disguise of getting in the way and speeding up with difficulty.

In the direction of the barracks, the roar of field artillery has already sounded.

Dead! Zhou Zhen didn't say this about the mysterious woman, but about himself.

I couldn't tell whether it was out of pity or instinctive kindness, and Zhou Zhen began to subconsciously run back.

As he ran, he listened to the wind whistling overhead, judging where the shells would fall.

Upon reaching the woman's side, he turned off the phantom and sped down on her, both of them rolling into a dense jungle at the same time.

Less than a second later, the woman's position was engulfed in an explosion.

Zhou Zhen jumped up with the inertia of rolling, pulled her up again, and after running a few steps, the sky above the dense forest was full of fire, and the roof of luxuriant branches and foliage exploded, and sawdust and burning leaves flew in all directions.

After running for dozens of meters, and after several prone stand-ups, the two finally escaped to a safe distance.

The artillery fire began to extend, and there was a howl of ghosts and wolves from the command post.

Zhou Zhen lay on the ground panting: "I said, aren't you regular soldiers?" How can it be like an unearthed artifact, and even smoke bombs can't be played. ”

The woman crouched beside him in shock, patting her chest for a while before she could speak.

"I am a priest of the goddess Atun, and it is forbidden to use fire-breathing weapons."

"Feudal superstition kills people..."

Zhou Zhen let out a long sigh that could not be laughed or cried.

After slowing down for a few minutes, Zhou Zhen found that he couldn't stand up, and after the run just now, the wounds on his buttocks and thighs were torn, and the pain was unbearable when he moved slightly.

The mysterious woman saw that Zhou's injuries had recurred, and pulled out a short knife with one hand and grabbed his pants with the other.

"Don't, don't, I'll do it myself, you just pick me up."

Zhou Zhen remembered the fear of the blade pointing directly at the point two hours ago.

The woman helped him to sit up, the back of Zhou's head rested on her arm, and after tearing open half of his trouser legs, he reached out to the woman to ask for medicine.

The woman hesitated for a moment, then took out a paper bag and put it in his hand, muttering a prayer in her mouth: "Goddess Atun, please forgive me for giving the medicine to those who have not yet been blessed by you, for he is your future servant, who has saved the lives of your followers and thwarted the hatch plots. ”

After listening to her prayer, Zhou Zhen thought of the lie he had made up, and felt a sense of guilt in his heart, smiled embarrassedly and thanked him, and lowered his head to apply the black ointment in the paper bag to the wound.

Nunn Logistics's wound medicine is indeed worthy of its reputation, but in a few minutes, a cool breath replaces the pain, and Zhou Zhen can even feel that the wound is growing new flesh, except that the treatment speed is a little slower, the effect is almost the same as the longevity system.

"What kind of panacea is this?"

Zhou Zhen held the paper bag in front of him and smelled it, there was a fragrant smell of jasmine.

The woman snorted softly: "Didn't you just say that we are feudal superstitions?" ”

"Slip of the tongue..."

Zhou Zhen rewrapped the unused wound medicine and returned it to her, and cheekily stretched out his hand again: "And that, the matter of marking water." ”

The woman tilted her head to look at him: "Is your memory a little bad?" The cannon hasn't been blown up yet, the goddess's mission hasn't been completed, and I can't give you medicine. ”

Zhou Zhenman thought that making an exception was a matter of being born and cooked, but she didn't expect her to suddenly become so principled again, and the palm of her outstretched hand immediately turned into a fist with a thumb up: "Or you have a good memory, I was confused, in my backpack, blue smoke, throw it farther away, they will blow up the cannon when they see it." ”

The woman brushed back her arm from the back of his head, and Zhou Zhen hurriedly held his hands on the ground to stabilize his sitting posture: "What's wrong?" ”

The woman was really angry now: "I said that priests can't use your weapons, didn't you listen to me at all?" Besides, your legs should be able to stand up and throw this thing. ”

...

A few minutes later, the blue smoke in the dense forest gradually faded, and the smoke was still billowing over the distant command post, and the explosion almost caused a raging mountain fire, and the Kronos soldiers were stationed too intensively, and almost all of them were wiped out under the blows of precision artillery fire.

The soldiers of the rest of the enterprises were taken by the power of the artillery, and they all retreated out of the range of the field artillery.

In the entire dense forest, only two living people remained, Zhou Zhen and the priestess.

At the top of the banyan tree, where the two fought for the first time, the priestess stood in front of the branch, holding a remote sensing telescope looking at the barracks, and Zhou Zhi sat on the thick branch with her legs crossed, leaning her back against the trunk and smoking a cigarette.

After dozens of explosions in a row, black smoke rose from the barracks, and the shooting holes in the wall gradually burst into flames, and the barrels that poked out of the wall fell weakly.

The priestess put down the binoculars, took out a porcelain bottle from her satchel and threw it to Zhou Qian: "Drink it in three parts, one third a day, and the mark will be lifted after drinking." ”

Zhou Zhen took the porcelain vase and stuffed it into his breast pocket, and a stone in his heart finally landed: "Thank you, help me bring a good one to the goddess." ”

The priestess's slender eyes were half-narrowed, and she was obviously frowning under the oil paint: "Didn't you say that you would serve the goddess with me?" ”

Zhou Zhi lazily spit out a smoke ring: "I think that serving the goddess can be eclectic, such as helping the goddess guard the antimatter bomb and not letting the bomb hurt her old man's believers, it should also be regarded as a kind of service." ”

The priestess looked him in the eye for a moment of contemplation, then nodded, "You're right, then you can hand me the antimatter bomb." ”

Zhou Zhen waved his hand again and again: "This is not good, then the life safety of my brothers in Paoze will not be guaranteed." ”

The priestess argued puzzled, "The goddess has decreed, and she says that the bandits deserve to die. ”

Smoke erupted from Zhou's nose, and he hated this kind of slogan-style brainwashing the most, especially in the name of religion: "Do I deserve to die too?" I'm also a gangster, your life was saved by my gangster, so do you deserve to die? ”

The woman was speechless by Zhou Qian's rebuttal, lowered her head and thought about it, and when she looked up again, she bit her lower lip and said: "Then you are waiting for me in the barracks, I will bring these believers back to C09, and I will come to you after the goddess of enlightenment, and we will guard the antimatter bomb together, even if you have not broken your promise." ”

"Looking for me?"

Zhou Zhen was startled, almost choked to death by a puff of cigarette, coughed a few times and shook his head violently: "Don't, don't, your goddess won't let you go, believe me, I can serve the goddess alone, sleep with an antimatter bomb, and kowtow to the goddess sooner or later." ”

The priestess took two steps forward and pointed her index finger at his forehead: "The goddess also said that the grace of saving lives must be repaid, unless the life-saving benefactor dies." ”

"What kind of immoral will is this!"

Zhou Zhen hurriedly raised his hand to block his head, and then suddenly had an idea: "You really want to repay me for saving my life?" ”

The woman nodded, her fingers still not lowered: "Or kill you." ”

Zhou Zhen smiled: "Do you know the enterprise alliance expansion meeting at the end of the year?" ”