Chapter Twenty-Nine: Homecoming
Late at night, Dome Fishery.
The two people who were entering the black fog at the same time in different time and space collided unexpectedly and both fell out of the black fog.
They were also outlaws licking blood from the knife edge, and after the initial surprise, the two of them invariably drew their weapons together, opening up a relatively safe distance.
"Is that you?"
After seeing each other's eyes clearly, the two exclaimed in unison.
Surprised, after all, he is not an enemy, and in this canyon full of weirdness, there is someone he knows around him who is finally more at ease.
"Why are you here?" Hong Coriander put down the gun, looked around, her eyes became strange, and she wondered, "Huh? Still here? ”
Laili settled down and had a plan in her heart.
According to Zheng Nannan, Hong Xiangcai left before their convoy arrived, and should have entered the fishing ground in advance. When their army arrived at the fishing ground, they did not see Hong Xiangcai, and everyone thought that Hong Xiangcai had entered the black fog and her whereabouts were unknown. Unexpectedly, the black fog that entered first would be encountered by Laili, and it was in this strange space.
Laili didn't realize the temporal confusion that had occurred in the Dome Fishery at the moment, and thought that Hong Cilancai had stumbled into this place by mistake from somewhere else.
"This isn't the igloo you came in." Based on a day's experience and her own judgment, Riley defines the current space: "There is something strange here, as if something will materialize according to the ideas in your head. ”
"What are you talking about?" Hong Coriander looked puzzled and asked, "What about Hu Sentian and that kid?" Why are you alone? You're pretty fast, and you're ahead of me. What about the hive? Where's the hive? Why is there no one in the Dome Fishery? ”
Faced with Hong Coriander's series of questions, Laili was silent and silent.
"You're in the black fog?" Laili vaguely felt that something was wrong, and secretly observed Hong Xiangcai's expression, and wondered, "What do you see?" ”
Hong Coriander was in a similar mood to Laili at this time, and she also had a feeling of talking to a duck and a duck, and she was not familiar with Laili, but it was just a one-sided relationship that night in Raw Meat Town, and when she saw that she didn't answer her own questions and tried to talk about it, she didn't pay attention to her anymore.
"The road is facing the sky, each to his side." Hong Coriander smiled coldly and said, "My goal is the hive, don't get in my way." ”
Laili smiled dumbly, dare you love you so long before us, but you still don't know that this black fog is a beehive??
"I advise you, don't walk around, don't think about it." Laili didn't want to entangle with her more, but because of the weirdness of this fishing ground, if Hong Cilantro caused something again, she would have to suffer too.
But Laili's persuasion changed in Hong Xiangcai's ears...... What are you? Command me?
Hong Xiangcai's evil temper rose at that time, squinting at Laili, who was covered in blood, and hummed, "What did you say? ”
is also a female man who broke out of the blood and fire, and Laili couldn't feel Hong Xiangcai's provocation, but at this moment, she really didn't have the energy to compete with her, and sighed: "Whatever you want." "Then look at the black fog, and think to yourself what you like to do, the old lady will wear it again, and see where the black fog can take her this time.
Hong Coriander was closed, and seeing that Laili was no longer preying on her edge, she also grummered, and walked across the rope bridge towards the reservoir.
Laili stepped into the black fog again, only to hear the wind whistling in her ears, as if the world was spinning, and when she opened her eyes, it had changed again.
The sky was dark red, thunder was rolling, the wind was raging, and the yellow sand was howling.
"This is not a dome fishery......"
Riley's brain almost shut down, and she had trouble breathing for a while, but she finally understood her current situation.
The sandstorm was the one they had when they rushed to the Dome Fishery.
Laili was now in a wasteland next to the national highway, surrounded by wind-eroded earth platforms several people high, and the sandstorm had swept over, obscuring the sky and the sun, and the visibility was rapidly decreasing.
I just got out of the cold night of the fishing ground, and in the blink of an eye, I walked into a sandstorm under the scorching sun.
Laili wanted to cry without tears, so she could only grope her way to a place under an earthen platform for temporary shelter.
The sandstorm in the lower city is a very terrible murderer, the sand and dust are turbulent, the wind knife is like a blade, and she is now dressed in a vest and shorts, and the sandstorm can peel off her skin with a face.
The wind and sand were getting bigger and bigger, and Laili, who didn't have goggles, could only bury her head in the crook of her arm and try her best to shrink her body into the depression of the earthen platform.
Faintly, Laili seemed to hear Zheng Nannan's voice.
Laili froze for a moment, covering her eyes with her hands, trying to discern something from the orange in her eyes.
It was also a coincidence that when Laili's eyes swept across the earthen platform opposite, she happened to see a figure lying down, although the wind and sand were blinding, Laili was sure that she was not mistaken.
Remembering the faint voice she had just heard, Laili leaned down and crawled towards the figure.
The speed of the sandstorm was faster than expected, and the huge wind resistance made it difficult to walk an inch in just a distance of more than ten meters, and in the blink of an eye, the calf was almost buried by the yellow sand.
In desperation, Laili had no choice but to gamble, got up with her waist bent, and took advantage of the wind to take advantage of the stride, her back and thighs were opened by the rocks in the wind and sand, and it hurt and hurt.
After a few minutes, he finally climbed to the position where the figure had just been.
The figure was gone, but there was a recognizable crawling mark.
Laili followed the traces and saw that Zheng Nannan was struggling to move forward, and his body was already covered with a thick layer of sand.
"Fool, get up!" Laili gritted her teeth and pounced on the sandstorm, grabbing Zheng Nannan's arm with all her might, trying to drag him up.
Zheng Nannan seemed to be stunned by the sandstorm, stunned for a long time, and then reluctantly stood up, the two supported each other against the wind, and were about to walk on the national highway, when a rocky suddenly hit in the wind and sand, and hit Laili's forehead impartially.
Laili only felt a sharp pain in her head, her body couldn't help but fall back, and her hand holding Zheng Nannan was loosened, and she fell heavily to the ground.
In a trance, Laili seemed to see Zheng Nannan trying to turn back to her, but a more violent sandstorm hit like a tsunami, and Laili's weakly supported body was swept down the dirt slope like a plastic bag, and Zheng Nannan's silhouette disappeared.
Blood on her forehead covered her eyes, and Laili covered the wound on her head, struggling in the wind and sand, crawling with a will to survive.
There was thunder in his ears, and his eyes were scarlet.
Laili felt her hand touch the edge of the earthen platform, as if she was about to drown someone grasping a life-saving straw, stimulating the last energy of her body, and crawling to the other side of life with her hands and feet.
Riley succeeded, and she could feel the sand on her body like a knife cut a little less.
He sat up slowly against the earthen platform, curled up like a baby, and then had time to wipe away the blood scabs that had formed a mass with the sand in front of him.
The wound to her forehead was severe, and Riley's hand covering the wound could almost feel her skull collapsing.
With this kind of injury, I am isolated and trapped in a sandstorm, but I am afraid that it will be more than lucky.
Riley exhaled and slowly opened her eyes, and it was only then that she suddenly remembered......
After rescuing Zheng Nannan in the dead city, he thanked himself twice in the car for saving him. At that time, Laili thought that he had just made a slip of the tongue, and then Zheng Nannan asked her about the sandstorm, as if he was asking for something.
At that time, Laili's attention was more focused on Zheng Nannan, and she didn't care about these ambiguous questions.
At this moment, Riley finally understood.
The feeling of vertigo was eating away at her consciousness, and Riley struggled to sit up, her hands on the ground, slammed by something hard.
Riley removed her hand, and it was a withered human hand.
Looking up along the withered hands, a dried corpse with dry flesh and a sunken belly leaned quietly beside her.
Laili was in a trance, patted the sand on the corpse's body, the camisole and shorts on the corpse could still be vaguely recognizable in color, the corpse's hair was knotted, the eye sockets were deep, the forehead was cracked, and the air-dried brain tissue shrunk into a blue-gray clump.
Next to the dry corpses, there were many dried corpses sitting in the same posture, and the further back they went, the bodies of many dried corpses had been buried in the yellow sand, leaving only broken heads, dozens of them.
Riley smiled miserably.
……
Outside the Uptown, the Wasteland.
The black buggy pulls into the col and comes to a slow stop.
Jin Ling jumped out of the car in an ill-fitting uniform, looked around for a while, and after making sure it was safe, found a bush and squatted down.
After solving the physiological problem, Jin Ling returned to the car, lit a cigarette left by the driver, closed her eyes, pressed her temples to soothe her spirit, frowned, and seemed to be trying to sense something.
"Old Meng, can you hear me?" Jin Ling whispered.
I don't know how long it took, Jin Ling suddenly opened her eyes, and the vision in front of her changed to a snow-white prison cell.
"Escaped?"
Meng Chang's tired voice sounded in Jin Ling's ears.
Jin Ling nodded, looking from the outside, as if she was talking to herself.
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Jin Ling: "Thanks to your reminder, I was prepared. ”
Meng Chang: "That's good, I'm really sorry to involve you." ”
Jin Ling: "We are a community, so we don't have to say such things. But I do want to scold you, how can your residence have my address and information? ”
Meng Chang: "I'm sorry, out of research habits...... I like to write everything down and make a list......"
Jin Ling: "So Nanfang and Lori are also exposed?" ”
Meng Chang: "That's not true, I don't know much about them, so I can't list them." ”
Jin Ling: "Forget it, don't mention this, where are you?" I'm going to save you? ”
Meng Chang: "Don't, it won't take long for the news of your escape to be exposed, they will track you down, and you came here to throw yourself into the net." ”
Jin Ling: "Then what should I do?" ”
Meng Chang: "Go to the south, but you can't enter the area of Raw Meat Town." ”
Jin Ling: "What do you mean?" How can I find him if I don't go in? ”
Meng Chang: "There is a problem with the schedule chosen for the road race, and there is a crack there. ”
Jin Ling: "Tell me something I can understand." ”
Meng Chang: "Let's put it this way, with Raw Meat Town and the Dome Fishing Ground as the two ends, within these two ends, there is all the scope of influence of the rift!" ”
Jin Ling: "What is the rift?" ”
Meng Chang: "You can think of it as an upgraded version of the beehive, just like a snail and a cow, a gecko and a tiger...... Do you understand that? ”
Jin Ling: "I mean, the south is now in the hive?" ”
Meng Chang: "That's right, he has been in the hive since the day he arrived in Raw Meat Town, but at that time, he was far away from the center of the hive, and it didn't have much effect." The synaesthesia connection between us has been broken since he left Raw Meat Town, and I think he's already in the Hive Center. ”
Jin Ling: "Then what should I do?" How can I find him if I don't go in? I haven't taken any blockers during this time, but I still can't contact him. ”
Meng Chang: "I can't help it, I'm too reckless to report it directly." You protect yourself first, find a way to lurk around there, wait and see, as long as the south does not die, it will always leave the center of the hive, I believe he should be aware that something is wrong. By the time he leaves the Hive Center, he should be able to be contacted. ”
Jin Ling: "I understand, what about you?" ”
Meng Chang: "Don't worry about me for now, the experimental team can't catch you, and they can't convict me, so they shouldn't do anything to me." You merge with the South first, and then find a way to solve my problem. ”
Jin Ling: "Okay, then take care of yourself, and I'll contact you when you find the south." ”
Meng Chang: "Hmm...... Also, I saw a person from Lori's field of vision yesterday who I had seen at the site of the lockdown in the Eastern Hive, who was a senior member of the head office. ”
Jin Ling: "So? Could it be that Lori's parents are also senior members of your company? ”
Meng Chang: "I'm not sure, Luo Li wasn't at the scene of the conversation, I only saw him from the field of vision, he was a one-eyed man." Once you're safe, find a way to get in touch with Lori and see if you can ask something. ”