Chapter 23: The Tides
The night on the planet XH-12 was unexpectedly cold.
The vision, which was already blurred by the dense fog, became worse and worse as the light disappeared. Visibility is getting lower and lower, and military tactical flashlights are playing little role, and this thick fog and darkness is like a giant beast that can swallow up all the light and hope.
In such a situation, it would be unwise to force on. Luo Fan and the fat man who was following behind had to say hello briefly, and then looked for a relatively open place to rest tonight. After laying more than a dozen simple warning traps around one after another, Luo Fan climbed to the big tree and picked a thick branch as a place to rest. Although it is only a branch, the tree is so large that the thickness of a single branch is enough to lie down and rest.
They didn't dare to light a bonfire. While that would be warmer, it could easily attract dangerous unknown creatures. Moreover, with the physical fitness of the awakened, ordinary cold cannot have much impact at all.
The fat guy seems to be born with a casual character, in this dangerous unknown planet, he actually leaned under a big tree with a comfortable face, and turned on the music function of the bracelet at this time to listen to the song. After all, he still has some basic morals, and he didn't play the music directly, but chose the "private appreciation" mode. However, seeing him shaking his head with his eyes closed, while twisting the middle part of his body that couldn't tell whether it was his waist or stomach, and humming out-of-tune tunes from time to time in his mouth, it seemed like he was going through a test of life and death, and he looked like he was going out to travel.
"Hey, I'm talking about mules," Luo Fan, who was resting in the tree, heard Qiqi's dissatisfied voice in his head, "the more I look at this guy, the more unhappy I become, let's just leave him alone and leave him here to feed the beasts." ”
"Don't worry," Luo Fan had already looked at the fat man, and after listening to Qiqi's words at this time, his face did not move, but he replied coldly in his heart, "This piece of goods is big, keep it first, and you can use him as a human shield at a critical moment." ”
Qiqi "grinned": "Mule, you are still insidious." After speaking, he stopped speaking.
On a quiet alien night, only the sound of the night wind stirring the leaves mixed with the out-of-tune humming of the fat man echoed low through the forest......
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Under the quiet night, Luo Fan's thoughts involuntarily drifted.
In my memory, countless nights like this, the one-armed old man, word by word, tirelessly taught himself. Firearms, fighting, survival skills, and ...... Behave.
Yes, a killer taught him how to behave. Luo Fan didn't think there was anything ridiculous about this.
In this new era, people advocate technology and pursue materiality. People who have lost their hearts have long forgotten what faith is. And that lonely old man, who lived his whole life for his beliefs, even gave his life for his beliefs in the end. Until the moment of death, he still had no regrets.
Luo Fan thanked him and respected him. I am grateful to him for selflessly raising myself for more than ten years, and respect him for doing the darkest work in the world, but always maintaining a heart that yearns for the light.
Although there is no blood relationship, in Luo Fan's heart, the one-armed guest is his father and the closest person to him in this world.
Luo Fan is not a timid person, he has little to fear. The only thing that really scared him was to disappoint his adoptive father. Every time he was practicing, when the tidal tiredness swept through his entire body, his adoptive father's disappointed expression would appear in front of his eyes, and then he would feel that all the fatigue would be swept away, and his body would be full of strength again.
He told himself that one day he would have to stand on the top of the world before he could be qualified to fulfill his adoptive father's last wish.
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"Mule danger!" Kiki's hurried warning suddenly sounded in his head.
At this moment, Luo Fan, who was resting on the tree, also sensed the danger of approaching: most of the traps he laid were destroyed in the blink of an eye!
His expression moved, and the whole person bounced violently, and almost without thinking rushed towards the fat man under the tree, reaching out to pull him and shouting: "Be careful! ”
Luo Fan just burst out, and with a "poof", a slender black shadow cut through the night like lightning, cutting off the branch where Luo Fan was before. At the same time, another black ray shot rapidly towards the fat man's fat body.
Luo Fan's heart sank: the offensive was so fast and fierce, it was too late to rescue him, and this unobtrusive fat man was only afraid of more than lucky.
Unexpectedly, the fat man, who had been shaking his head and listening to the song just now, suddenly opened his eyes at this moment, and his fat body drifted away several feet away with unimaginably light movements, and the black light shot into the ground where he was sitting just now with a terrible whistling sound.
The fat man's figure fell to the ground and grinned at Luo Fan: "Good boy, righteous enough!" The fat man knows people most accurately, and you can see at a glance that you are not the kind of villain who can't be saved when he sees death. ”
Luo Fan's heart was awe-inspiring: it turned out that while he was observing him, the other party was also observing himself.
As Kiki said, this fat man is really not a simple person!
"I said boy, the fat man has a map of the planet in his hand, and he can definitely find good things, but the fat man can't do it himself. How about it, are you interested in cooperating? Get the benefits of three seven open, you three and I seven. "The fat man's address to Luo Fan is becoming more and more concise, from you to brother, and now to a boy again. It seems that the more familiar everyone is, the less they will get his respect.
Luo Fan replied noncommittally: "Let's get past the current level alive first." ”
The fat man grinned and smiled: "That's right, only by surviving can you prove that you have real skills, and it is worth my cooperation with you." If you die, then you don't have to talk about it. ”
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Luo Fan did not continue with the fat man's words. The Awakened's keen senses had been completely spread, and at this moment, a strange feeling appeared in his heart. Luo Fan raised his head vigilantly to observe the situation above, and there was something faintly on the treetops.
The fat man noticed Luo Fan's abnormality and followed his gaze.
"What is it? Can you see clearly? Luo Fan asked the fat man.
"I can't see it clearly, it looks like it's just a fish. No big deal. The fat man replied uncertainly.
"Oh, it's just a fish, it's really not a big deal......"
Wait a minute!
What do you mean?
Of course, it's nothing to have fish in the water, but it's good to be in the forest! How can there be fish in the forest, and still in the trees?
Luo Fan's face became a little ugly, and he felt that changes were taking place around him.
What are those who keep closing in here?
It seems to be seawater? No, it's fog, the thick fog that covers this forest during the day. It's just that the white mist during the day has turned into a strange blood color at this moment.
The blood-colored fog churned like the rising tide of the sea, and even roared like thousands of horses galloping.
What's going on? Blood Mist Tides?
In the darkness of the night, a thick fog that was already thick and almost liquid came like a tide. In the depths of this blood mist tide, there was a faint roar of unknown creatures, the types of creatures were obviously not the same, all kinds of roars of different lengths and heights came and went, and the distance was getting closer and closer.
Luo Fan and the fat man's faces changed drastically.
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"Boy, I'm sorry, I can't help you, fat man, I can only go first. I'll come back to you at dawn, and if you're still alive, we'll talk about cooperation. If you die, remember the love you once saved me, and the fat man will definitely bury your body. Of course, the premise is that your corpse is not eaten......" After saying this, without waiting for Luo Fan to answer, the fat man quickly raised his right hand and patted the local tyrant gold bracelet on his left wrist, summoning his star pet.
This was the first time Luo Fan saw the fat man's star pet, and it was actually a big stone about a person high. The fat man took a step forward, and the whole person actually got into the big stone, as if the flesh and blood were actually fused with a stone. The next moment, the boulder trembled, and suddenly the whole stone fell to the ground, turning into a large mass of sandy and earthy substance, and quickly penetrated into the ground, and after just a few seconds, it disappeared completely.
"This fat man is very powerful." In the bracelet space, Qiqi said in amazement, "It's really not easy to find a sand beast that has been extinct for thousands of years to be a star pet." Mule, it looks like you might consider working with him. ”
"What kind of sand beast is this?" Luo Fan had never heard of this name before, and he was sure that there was no such creature on Earth.
"Very powerful, recognized as one of the most difficult creatures in the universe. Their bodies can be as hard as rocks as steel, or they can be scattered into sand, and no external force can cause them fatal damage. They are also proficient in earth escape, moving freely beneath the surface, making it difficult to catch them on the planet's surface. If their strength grows to the extreme, their special bodies can even reach an almost immortal existence. However, the reproductive ability of this creature is extremely low, so the number is very rare, and it is said that it has been extinct from the universe thousands of years ago. Mule, you have to be careful with him, this fat man is certainly not an ordinary character. ”
"No need to ask, I understand." Luo Fan nodded, "But the top priority is to avoid the immediate crisis first." ”
"This blood mist tide is too weird, don't say that you are only a third-order awakened person, even if it is a tenth-order, I am afraid it will be difficult to retreat with your whole body."
"What then? Is it possible to make me wait for death? ”
"Even if you die, you must be stupid! Won't you hide in the Star Luo Space? ”
"yes, how did I forget about this stubble!"
Luo Fan's mind moved, and his body immediately entered the Star Luo Space.
Star Luo Space is an independent space and space, and creatures from the outside world cannot enter, so naturally it will no longer pose the slightest threat to Luo Fan.
Not long after Luo Fan disappeared from this forest, the place was completely submerged by the overwhelming blood mist.
At the same time, in countless corners of the planet, gunshots and explosions were heard one after another. Countless screams of horror followed.
It was destined to be a terrifying sleepless night for the contestants on the planet XH-12......