Chapter 13: Three Dream Years
On October 10, 1288 in the new calendar, the 17th attack of the Devourer-Ouranos took place in Xihua Prison. It was also the day when the juvenile offenders in the juvenile ward of Xihua Prison planned to escape from prison.
If Xihua is the most chaotic place in the Chinese Empire, then Xihua Prison is the most chaotic place in Xihua Prefecture, the easternmost part of Xihua Prefecture, there is a former civilization ruins surrounded by shadow areas on all sides, the area is not big or small, only 5 square kilometers, but there are never organic puppets here, it is a natural safety island, this strange relic attracts countless Taobao people to patronize, but even if there is a search organized by the Chasseur Association to conduct a Fall standard Na-level search, nothing has been found, and slowly people have begun to forget it, It wasn't until the brother-in-law of the governor of Xihua Prefecture took a fancy to the plot where the original Xihua Prison was located, and three years later, Xihua Prison was relocated to this isolated safety island of the former civilization relics.
In a place where you can only return to the city once a month, from the prison warden to the prison guards, there is basically only one recreation, and that is to torture the prisoners. In Xihua Prefecture, they would rather be sentenced to double the sentence than be imprisoned in Xihua Prison, and generally the sentenced prisoners will try their best not to be sent to Xihua Prison, and those who are sent to Xihua Prison naturally have no way or are "taken care of", so the prison guards in Xihua Prison are even more unscrupulous.
When the South China Expo comes here, it is both helpless and "cared for". In the first three months of prison, except for being often troubled by Li Lie, everything else was fine, and after becoming Li Lie's Nange, no one came to find trouble, after all, the prison director and prison guards always focused on the women's prison and the girls' prison area.
However, the good times did not last long, and in the fourth month after Nanbo entered here, the prison warden was replaced, and he was replaced by a nobleman who had a great background, both men and women, no bottom line, and no scruples.
In the first month of the new warden's arrival, seven good-looking inmates and one prison guard who were relatively good to inmates were "missing" in the juvenile wards alone, while the other wards were said to be more serious.
Because Nan Bo was on guard and Li Lie was escorted, Nan Bo's separate interrogation many times were unsuccessful. But Nanbo, who already felt that he was being targeted, decided to escape from prison, Li Lie coincided with Nanbo, and everyone in the juvenile prison area actively participated in Nanbo's escape plan.
Just at midnight after the ****** carnival of the prison guards, Nanbo and others began the escape plan, under Nanbo's careful design, the prison escape operation went very smoothly, but unfortunately people are not as good as the sky, when Nanbo and others thought that they were about to regain their freedom, the devourer - Ouranos appeared......
"Weakened? What do you mean? A puppet is a machine, not a living thing, so it can't be weaker or stronger, right? A puppet emperor like Ouranos, maybe every part is made of celestial-level charging materials even if it is not a universe-level, as long as the energy is not exhausted, this material will not have problems, as for the energy core above Lv.9, even if it continues to have a maximum power output of 1000 years, the energy core will not be exhausted, not to mention that most of the events of the puppet are in standby state. For what Li Lie said, Fran was a little incomprehensible.
"Do you remember what happened on the day you broke from prison?" Nanbo didn't pay attention to Fran and didn't answer Li Lie, but asked thoughtfully.
Li Lie said with palpitations: "That day...... As soon as Ouranos appeared, everyone was scared stupid, and I was about the same, I just remember that the whole prison turned into a sea of fire, and I had only one belief at that time, which was to follow you. One of the things I can recall later is that you pulled me on the top of the tower and jumped on the head of Ouranos, only to have Ouranos suddenly look up, and you pushed me away in mid-air, and you yourself were swallowed by Ouranos. ”
Nanbo originally talked about the situation when Ouranos first appeared, but he was reminded by Li Lie's words of some memories that puzzled him for a long time, and he followed Li Lie's words with emotion: "Yes, it was really chaotic that day. ”
Although it is common for ordinary people to be diverted from their own thoughts by other people's topics, it is very rare for Nanbo.
In this western wilderness where the weak eat the strong and the survival of the fittest, a weak and "restless" orphan like Nanbo can survive without being presumptuous and vigilant for a moment, Nanbo has already developed the idea of maintaining independent thinking or guiding others at all times, because in this way can always grasp the initiative, once their thinking is guided by the words of others, then the risk will follow, and with the risk comes only death or something more painful than death.
But at this moment, Nanbo's mind once again fell into that thrilling night, returning to the library that I didn't know if it was a dream or reality, and I couldn't turn back for a long time.
October 10, 1288 of the new calendar is the seventh day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, although it is only the upper Xuanyue, but Nanbo clearly remembers that the black dragon flashed from the moon ago, and galloped towards Xihua Prison.
After a brief blank space in the brain due to excessive fright, all the living people screamed like crazy and fled in all directions, Nan Bo, who was only 8 years old at the time, was no exception, and Nan Bo, who barely maintained a trace of sanity, fled out of prison with Li Lie, who could no longer speak. But in the end, the tower was forced by the collapse of the building and the spreading fire.
On the tower was a rope made of bed sheets that the juvenile offenders had hidden, which was an alternative escape route that Nan Bo had originally planned, and it became the last hope for himself and Li Lie.
Hope is also great, the despair brought by the disillusionment of hope is great, when Nanbo pulled Li Lie to the top of the tower, found the rope, rebirth and freedom are only one step away from them, from the sky devouring the devourer-Ouranos will hit the top of the tower, the top of the tower cone row of covering, to the giant with his hand, at the same time was taken away by Nan Bo just hanging in the top window of the rope, Nan Bo and Li Liesheng's hope.
The tower that lost its top was like a thick smoke rush, the black smoke formed by the fire and the dust raised by the strong impact gushed out together, and Nan Bo and Li Lie standing on the top of the tower were like standing in the crater of a volcano about to erupt, and bursts of heat waves gushed from below to the top.
Hope can give people the motivation to continue fleeing, and despair can sometimes give people the courage to break the kettle and fight for their lives.
In the gap between the smoke and dust, Nanbo vaguely saw Ouranos like an angry king cobra, its tail coiled on the ground, and its upper body standing upright, as if staring at something in the sky.
Ouranos is naturally staring at Nanbo and Li Lie, whether it is size or strength, Nanbo and Li Lie are just ants in front of Ouranos, and it must be the same dangerous existence that needs to be so vigilant by Ouranos.
But Nanbo can't care about this, no matter what Ouranos is staring at, in the eyes of Nanbo, who has been blurred by black smoke and dizzy by the heat wave, Ouranos's straight torso covered with huge scales is a perfect ladder, and Nanbo, who has no way to escape, pulls Li Lie and jumps towards the demon Ouranos from hell.
Nanbo, who has no choice, can only hope that Ouranos will ignore himself and Li Lie, two ant-like existences, and let them slide down its torso, but reality is not a movie novel after all, and miracles can always happen at the most critical time.
Just when Nan Bo and Li Lie had just jumped and could not be recovered, Ouranos didn't know whether he saw the struggle of the two ants, or sensed something, and the huge head suddenly tilted upward, which caused Nan Bo and Li Lie to fall from the top of the dragon's head to the dragon's mouth.
At the moment when death was about to come, Nan Bo suddenly became conscious, and after his brain was running at high speed, Nan Bo made a decision to kick Li Lie away as much as he could in the air.
Nanbo admits that he is not a great teenager who will sacrifice himself to save others, but he does not have the dark psychology of pulling others to die with him when his ending is destined to be unchangeable. Since it is impossible to expect Li Lie, who is already frightened, to save himself, he will try his best to create a chance for him to live.
"After all, such a guy is still good to himself."
In the last corner of his eye, he saw Li Lie, who was a fool and a fool, fell to the roof of the dragon's jaw, and finally scratched out of his mouth. Thinking like this in Nanbo's mind, there seemed to be a hint of relief welling up.
It was not so much that he was devoured by Rauranos, but that Nanbo, who jumped into the mouth of Ouranos, lost consciousness after a few short seconds, but in these short seconds, Nanbo clearly remembered a few things.
First, Ouranos's body is mostly hollow, so he feels like he's falling down all the time.
Second, Ouranos was "injured", because of the continuous falling process, Nanbo clearly saw that there was a "wound" on the surface of Ouranos's body, although it was only for a moment, but Nanbo could conclude that the "wound" was definitely caused by the blade.
Thirdly, I also fell on a soft thing, it was a strange texture, soft and cold, I seemed to be slowly falling into it, but soon the whole thing was like an electric shock, and I lost consciousness.
And at the end of the moment when he lost consciousness, there seemed to be a shout from a certain blessed fool in his ears.
And when Nanbo "regained consciousness" again, he found himself in a quaint and huge library, but he was not surprised by the changes in front of him, nor did he try to find an exit to leave, Nanbo naturally began to read.
It was a very subtle feeling, like in a dream, with a sense of natural identification with everything that was happening in front of him, Nanbo was just reading one book after another, and everything seemed to have nothing to do with him except for books.
But everything is clearer than a dream, and Nanbo feels that every book he has read is as clear as if engraved into his mind. Nanbo can also feel that time is flowing, there is no clock and calendar, but Nanbo can clearly feel that time is passing day by day, month by month, and even year by year.
Nanbo has always been reading, tireless, hungry, and bored. It's just that an eleven or twelve-year-old girl occasionally appears on the stairs leading to the second floor of the library, Nan Bo can't see her face clearly, and he has never spoken to her, he feels that everything should be like this, where the little girl appears, it should be like this, it should be like this when he reads by himself, and it is reasonable that he doesn't talk to her.
Until Nan Bo entered this library for three years, it was a full three years without a second, Nan Bo had such a perception, which little girl finally said to Nan Bo: "You can go." ”
Nan Bo woke up again, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Li Lie in tears, Nan Bo didn't remember what he was talking about, but he only had some doubts, why three years had passed, Li Lie still looked like this, it seemed that even his clothes were still prisoner clothes, but his face was haggard, his hair was longer, his clothes were torn, and he looked very sloppy.
Later, Nanbo learned that for Li Lie, only three months had passed, since he entered the belly of Ouranos, Li Lie did not escape, but looked for himself for three months in this dangerous fog area, and simply did not encounter too much danger, after all, Li Lie was not yet 12 years old at that time, and finally found the unconscious Nanbo in a building that looked like a former civilization ruins.
It was hopelessly stupid to see yourself in the belly of Ouranos and to look for yourself in the Misty Zone for three months.
Nan Bo thought so, but didn't say it, for the stupid person in front of him who he had always despised, he didn't part ways once he escaped from prison as he had planned before, but took Li Lie to Sanye Port and began to work hard together to survive.
After repeated confirmation, Nanbo finally believed that the time was really only three months, but every book he had read in the "three years" was still clearly recorded in his mind, although this experience has been bothering him, but Nanbo is grateful from the heart to bring himself to this experience, because this is a wonderful journey to transform his IQ into wisdom, maybe other people want to get strong strength or endless wealth, but for Nanbo, the growth of the mind is the best gift.