A coin, mutilated, flipped up and down to reflect the hideous-looking sword-horned elk carved on it in the patina of the patina.

"Click-"

There was a crunch.

The coin was pressed against the back of the other by a charred, wrinkled hand, and then a hoarse, strange laugh rang out in the dilapidated house.

"Deer head, or bronze?"

This voice seemed to have infinite charm, attracting all the attention of the surrounding group of people, men, women and children, most of them were ragged, with thin and yellow faces, but their faces were full of excited expressions, staring at the back of the old man's hand, as if they could see through the heads and tails of the coins inside.

Silent as night.

A pair of greedy eyes were not only fixed on the back of his hand, but also on the ten brand-new Blue Star coins neatly arranged on the battered metal counter.

This kind of gambling game is very popular in the slums, Wanghai City is several times larger than Hou City, and it also absorbs many refugees from the border area, who gather in the slums, full of all kinds of bad habits, after the failure of indoctrination, they are concentrated in this special area, and live on the relief money of the military department.

Before they decided to leave, the refugees gathered around did not even dare to breathe, for fear that their luck would be lost.

The old man glanced around, smiling rather than smiling, like a blood-sucking bat, and let out a terrifying laugh.

Bronze letters!

Deer head!

Two different voices intertwined in their hearts.

Several steam lamps in the room went on and off a few times, and the whole room was suddenly detonated under the dim glow of yellow light!

"How could it be! How could it be a deer's head?!"

"Five deer heads in a row???"

Amidst a wail and exclamation, the old man triumphantly scooped up all the Blue Star coins on the metal counter.

There was jealousy, greed, and hatred in the eyes of the refugees, but no one dared to make trouble under the nose of the old gambler.

"The black mist shrouded the stars, and there were blood flowers blooming in the wind......"

“...... The white throne burns with light, wait, wait, my beloved White King......"

The old record player played unknown songs, the refugees lost all their money and left in disappointment, and in the corner squatted a young man with a backpack, he was dressed simply and cleanly, and he did not fit in with these people, although there were a few large refugees who tried to attack him, but after learning that he was the guest of the old gambler, they ran away.

After the crowd dispersed, the gambler old man sitting cross-legged on the ground dozed off, he heard the sound of Li Xiang rubbing metal parts, slowly opened his cloudy eyes, saw the person clearly, stretched out his hand and nodded the dilapidated mechanical communication device in front of him.

Li Xiang picked up the mechanical communication instrument on the ground, I don't know how many generations of styles have been eliminated on it, and it is extremely laborious to even turn it on, but it can still be used, which is also a miracle.

This is the old man's rule, and it is necessary to use this to communicate with him for business.

Li Xiang has been here for a long time, fiddling with a lot of discarded mechanical devices piled up in the room, using, repairing, and touching can improve some of the gray-white liquid in the gray scale bar, with the special ability of this mechanical mastery, he can easily manipulate all kinds of mechanical devices, and no practice makes perfect.

He typed in the invitation code L had given him, and after a while, the communicator beeped a few times.

- Wait.

The old man got up with great difficulty, knocked on the door behind him, the door opened slightly, stretched out a scorched hand, the old man took the piece of paper handed over, and gave it to Li Xiang, and then waved his hand to order the eviction.

Li Xiang was fiddling with a steam lamp that kept sizzling, he patted it lightly, twisted it with a small screwdriver, and the steam lamp "clattered" and emitted a pale yellow light.

"Uh, sorry. Li Xiang took the piece of paper and put down the steam lamp that had been lit, and there was an address written on the paper, and two signs were printed on it, one was an X formed by the symmetry of the black and white moon wheels, and the other was a black diamond.

"You fixed this?" said the old man, his voice hoarse, as he pointed to the steam lamp on the ground.

Li Xiang nodded.

"Oh, go ahead. The old man didn't say anything more, but picked up the steam lamp on the floor and put it in the cupboard behind him.

......

The address on paper leads to an old heavy factory, full of rough men with dark faces, and the creaking of gears and the roar of huge machinery starting and stopping.

Soon someone came to pick up Li Xiang, and after seeing the piece of paper in his hand, he boarded a heavy truck parked in the factory workshop.

The engine was replaced by a complex steam device, under the front cover was a dense test tube, which was filled with white steam, and only a transparent gas tank was gray-white gas, which was scarce in quantity, but it was the most important component of the whole plant.

Li Xiang boarded the container at the back, where there were two rows of benches, and in each row sat a dozen young people, both men and women, wearing uniform black uniforms that looked like prison uniforms with a striking white number.

How to feel like a prisoner. Li Xiang muttered in his heart, and his back was pushed down hard by the worker.

"The newcomer picks a set from the ground and puts it on. ”

After the worker finished speaking, he slammed the door of the container shut, and only a few flickering kerosene lamps above provided a faint light to the dim container.

When he entered, a few of the young people raised their heads and glanced slightly, most of them closing their eyes or bowing their heads in contemplation.

The atmosphere is eerie.

Li Xiang quickly picked up a set of clothes and pants that were still clean and changed into them, and the number on them was the Arabic numeral 8.

He sat down at the end of a random row of benches, and as soon as he sat down, he was gently poked in the waist.

"Hey, what's your name?" said the tall, thin boy next to him, his cheeks still covered with dust and dirt, and his dirty hands stretched out, with a smile on his face.

Li Xiang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and stretched out his hand to shake him heavily without care.

Li thought. He let go of the young man's hand, and the other party was a little shocked that he didn't care about his dirty palm, "Hello, Chen Fan." ”

"Ah, hello, ah, how do you know my name?" This old enemy who had hunted Li Xiang for seven or eight years in his previous life still looked a little immature at the moment, although his face was stained with dust and mud, but his delicate appearance had not changed at all.

"Secret, I'll tell you later. Li Xiang leaned his hands on the back of his head and began to close his eyes to recuperate, and when he met Chen Fan at this time, his irritable heart suddenly calmed down a little.

"God mysterious, cut. Chen Fan didn't care very much, he had just finished the unified recruitment exam, as a candidate from Wanghai City, there were many people who knew him, after all, the physical test results were so good, but he didn't even have the qualifications to be a player, and Li Xiang in Houcheng next door was called the two fallen geniuses.

Wait, Li Xiang?

He jerked up, and the thin girl on the right nudged him dissatisfiedly, cursing, "What the hell, insane." ”

"You just said your name is Li Xiang?" Chen Fan shook Li Xiang's shoulder, and when the name was shouted, some of the teenagers and girls in the container looked up one after another.

It's a pity that before Li Xiang could answer, a sharp and piercing sound suddenly exploded in the container!

Everyone covered their ears and screamed in pain.

It's so harsh!

It was as if it had been bombed, and his whole head was filled with that uncomfortable sound.

After a few seconds, a dull, heavy voice sounded around the container.

"Remember the numbers on your bodies! This is who you will be in the polar night training camp in the future, forget your past, from now on, no one is allowed to speak, no one is allowed to make any sound! No one is allowed to speak to you!"

The man's voice was mixed with incomparable coercion and indisobedience, and he repeated it three more times before the piercing sound faded as his words fell.

There was silence in the container.

Li Xiang leaned back in his chair and felt the trajectory of the truck, and there was a strong smell of smoke and dust rushing into the container, it seems that the truck not only uses steam power, but also uses fuel power, which was once popular.

At the beginning, the speed of progress was very fast, and the container was very stable, it should be driving on a plain-like landscape, and after the man finished speaking, the truck kept swaying, and in severe cases, it even showed an inclination of nearly 90 degrees.

After experiencing a steep mountain road, the truck's driving was smooth again, and when it sprinted at full speed, it actually made Li Xiang feel a little palpitating, which seemed to be an exaggeration of speed.

On city roads, there is a strict speed limit for vehicles, and the consequence of random drag racing is that the soldiers of the military department invite you to drink tea, and if you don't die, you will be stripped of your skin.

The truck left Wanghai City, fearing that it was driving in an unmanaged wilderness area.

Time passed little by little, the man warned that they were not allowed to speak, and everyone stopped communicating, and the dim space was filled with turbid air, and after three hours, many people fell asleep groggy.

Li Xiang also closed his eyes and squinted for a while, and at this moment, the truck suddenly braked suddenly!

The beast-like body shook violently, shook off an exaggerated angle, dragged two arc-shaped furrows on the ground, and the tail air pipe continued to spray white columns of air and black smoke, and then several valves clicked open, and countless steam spat out from the rear pipes.

Those who did not sit still fell to the ground, and woke up from their sleep without knowing the time and day.

Rao is excellent physical fitness, and they all turned pale one by one, holding back their vomiting, and they were soaked with sweat.

Bang bang bang!

After a few violent bangs on the outer door of the container, the voices of several men came in in small pieces.

Chen Fan gently pulled the corner of Li Xiang's clothes, and the two looked at each other, seeing the same worried look in each other's eyes.

Wrong.

The slapping became more intense, and the conversation turned into swearing.

There was a commotion outside.

A few of the young people, realizing that something was wrong, began to bow their heads and talk about what to do, but most of them waited quietly with bated breath.

Bang!

The handle of the outer door was smashed!

Li Xiang's heart chuckled, and the closed door was kicked open.