The Watchful Night Chapter 26 The Ember Slave Strikes!
"Poof!!" Principal Wang finally squirted out, saying that he had only not paid attention to that side for a few hours, and this product had done such a tasteless thing. It's okay to sing sweet honey in the middle of the night in the swamp, don't mention it if you remember the wrong order of the lyrics, don't say it when you sing sweet honey and sing it into licking Mimi, and finally add a stupid warm-up sentence, it's just worthy of being a funny comparison that you are optimistic about!
"Damn...... Thump!...... Poofhahahaha!!" And Hao Song, who was showing off the lower limit over there, was obviously almost scared by the sudden sound coming from the headphones. Principal Wang could immediately hear the sound of a splash into the water, and Edward's wild laughter.
On the other two sides of the "Whale Roar", Hao Song got up from the shallow water of the swamp next to the high ground, half of his body was almost soaked, and his face was gloomy. Edward, who had been leaning against a large tree and listening to the song with a sore face, was now rolling on the ground and laughing exaggeratedly.
At this time, there were two "cough-cough" sounds from the earphones, and then I heard Principal Wang say: "Old man Naihat-Bihevel-Wang, this is an urgent communication release task, please listen! Old man needs someone to help me explore the center of the basin, the situation of the volcano, you should be the most capable and the closest person." ”
Edward said "Got it", not caring about the specifics. And Hao Songxin said senior, you are the kind of guy who has been sold and will help the number of people to guard the safe!
Then he had to ask himself, "Aren't we supposed to be there, why do you suddenly send up a mission, and how do you get into the internal channel of Whale Roar?"
In the headset, Principal Wang said solemnly: "Because you have to set off now, march to Yizhang Volcano and report the situation to me." As for the matter of communication, the matter is urgent, and the old man has his own means. ”
"Let's go now!? At this time, in addition to pulling the skin, you just want to sweep the rhythm of pornography in the middle of the night, hey! And you can't be eavesdropping all the time, right?" Hao Song suspected.
"It's urgent, don't care about those details!" Principal Wang replied reluctantly and solemnly, in fact, he was very relaxed when he talked to Hao Song, Edward and others.
"Alright then, I'll leave when I'm done eating this egg. Hao Song nodded as he spoke, but did not make any movement.
"There is still ?...... Eh, you kid cheated on the old man!" It's a pity that the headmaster is too relaxed and easy to capsize in the gutter.
"The headmaster is so obscene!" Catherine's tsundere voice furious.
"The headmaster is horrible......" Avril cried in horror.
"Principal Ya Yan Butterfly ~ Sokuwa Baa ~ " Hao Song's contrived female / excellent voice. (The principal doesn't want it~It's not okay there~)
“...... You're enough!" the two girls snorted together.
"So the headmaster has been eavesdropping!" Edward finally came to his senses.
"Senior, how long is your reflex arc..."Hao Song complained.
A few minutes later, Principal Wang, who had been exposed for the eavesdropping, was forced to agree to a high amount of credit for the emergency mission, as well as a promise to give Hao Song an internship after completion.
"There are probably a thousand Ember Slaves in the Central Heights. Edward, though frizzy, was able to protect himself. Hao Song, you kid have to be very careful. I wish you all the best in your sneak in!" After being blackmailed with twenty credits, Principal Wang confessed with some pain.
As an old-timer who has been cultivating the mind for hundreds of years, it is really embarrassing to sigh because of his curiosity and Hao Song's low-level language trap.
"Headmaster, I won't sneak into this kind of work, can I just rush over?" Edward protested because he felt that grinding his sneaking style was too troublesome.
"Senior, you are wise and powerful, domineering, and your front is tough and strong, and your martial arts are prosperous! I will wave the flag and shout and beat the drum to cheer you from a distance!" Hao Song immediately happily said his plan to retreat.
"Edward, you are in charge of covering, and Hao Song must go. Your observations have been mentioned by Professor Cesar and the old man. So if there is any problem this time, I guess you will have to investigate. Principal Wang seemed to have anticipated Hao Song's reaction and immediately said. I don't know if it's revenge or if it really has to be Hao Song.
When the cowards heard this, they immediately put on an old constipated face, complained bitterly, and said with rain: "I didn't deliver food with this small body in the past!
Principal Wang said earnestly and seriously: "Don't overestimate the visual information, the world we see is only one percent of the real one, and the video should even be weakened on this one percent, which is the most irresponsible way to record." Use your five senses, your intuition, your heart to observe and tell me what's going on!"
Hao Song still wanted to talk nonsense, but for some reason, he couldn't say anything when he heard this earnest teaching. This feels like Chinese hearing "great righteousness" and foreigners hearing "freedom", and they can't resist in their hearts, so they have to agree.
Without further ado, after Principal Wang disconnected the communication in the name of resting, the two guys began to pack up their equipment and prepare for a rapid march. Unlike the internship qualification test, which aims to survive for seven days, the goal this time is to get to the One Palm Volcano as quickly as possible in order to find clues before the signs of mutation fade.
And a lot of equipment for survival purposes is more cumbersome and not suitable for rapid marching, so these things cannot be carried. For example, sleeping bags, hard-to-carry food (fried chicken), various small instruments (condensation covers, etc.), and most medicines (anti-miasma betel nut pills, vitamin tablets, anti-mosquito water, Yunnan Baiyao, etc.).
Of course, these things are not discarded, but they are dug in the woods and buried in the heights, and marked for future generations or for their own use. Edward, as a muscular rough man, naturally did this kind of hard work by him, while Hao Song was lazy and said that he was in charge of letting go of the wind and planned to go up the tree to see the scenery.
This wooded highland is too small, and Hao Song didn't find a suitable vine for a while. So he spread out the laces, tied the two laces together, and then sandwiched the trunk between his feet, using the friction of the upper and the laces of the boot against the trunk and began to climb the tree. This method is very suitable for climbing trees that go straight up and down and have few branches.
But there's the question of whether your laces are tough enough to provide you with the friction to climb trees without breaking. Hao Song's boots are special wear-resistant military boots made by the college, and the same goes for the laces, as long as you don't use them to climb Daoshan Mountain and squeeze the Chinese Spring Festival, there is basically no problem.
Hao Song climbed to the first branch of the tree nearly four meters high and stopped, because the bark was soaked by the water droplets that had condensed during the night, and the shoelaces did not guarantee that he would not slip and fall. Looking down at Edward, who had dug the pit half a person deep, Hao Song's belly slandered that the excavator was weak or something, it was better to learn that thing than to find a good friend who cultivated his mind, and he could dig any terrain......
The cowardly looked up at the reddish mist in the distance, which had faded a lot after the water vapor had condensed a lot, and the line of sight could extend as far as 20 meters away, which was already very good at night.
The reddish mist is like a beautiful dream, waiting for the sleepwalker in the distance. But it makes the awakened slightly uneasy, as if they are on the edge of the abyss, as if they are closer to hell with every step they take, and they just want people to scream and escape. Hao Song, a guy with a big brain, could imagine that there must be lava, volcanoes, and flames waiting for them behind the fog, as well as a group of zombie-like ember slaves.
Thinking of those unknown creatures, Hao Song beat a drum in his heart, and hurriedly made some mental preparations for himself.
Edward said that Ember Slaves were made of animal corpses and volcanic ash, so there must be no embalming measures, and the disgusting rancid stench would be the same as the zombies in the movie, and they would also have rotten flesh and rotten skin and an abominable face;
There is also mobility and perception, and logically speaking, this immortal thing should be unable to act and have no sense. It's a pity that if everything in the world should be true, then there will be no unknowns and accidents. Since Edward said that he can only block two of them with his bare hands, then his mobility and perception are only no worse than those of the original animals;
In the end, the most important thing in the eyes of cowards is IQ, which determines how much of an accident such a thing as an Ember Slave can cause, and this is difficult to judge. So he asked Edward in a loud voice, "Senior, how is the intelligence of the Ember Slave?"
Edward dug the pit without a single sweat left, which was a manifestation of maximizing the use of his body's heat energy. Hearing the coward's questioning, Edward wondered, "Intelligence? No one has tested their intelligence, I don't know." ”
The corners of Hao Song's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he said in his heart that the most helpless thing was to meet this kind of cold joke that told a cold joke and didn't feel it at all. So he pretended not to hear and asked instead: "Just tell me how you feel, do you think it's stupid or smart to fight them?"
Edward finally understood this kind of question, he raised his head and shouted: "A group of dead animals are naturally stupid and panicked! The time when your eldest brother and I rushed the first one more than a month ago, they obviously couldn't stop Lao Tzu, and they tried their best to stop it. Of course, they are not very afraid of death, after all, as long as the corpse is not destroyed to the point where the prototype is not visible, the Ember Slave will stand up again under the connection of the volcanic ash. ”
Edward didn't seem to take it seriously, but the cowards sent chills through his heart. First of all, it is more obvious that the Ember Slave will be reborn without destroying the corpse and destroying the traces! This is as troublesome as if the condemned prisoners would be resurrected. Secondly, Hao Song faintly sensed from Edward's description that these Ember Slaves seemed to know how to cooperate, and they might even know some superficial military formations!
The more Hao Song thought about it, the more he frowned, and began to speculate about how the Ember Slave would guard the Yizhang Volcano and the situation he might face:
First of all, I guess there will be a sentinel near the volcano, so what kind of animal will the sentinel be......
This ancient rabbit is an endangered species, and it is the only rabbit that can swim, and the night watchman university has done a good job for endangered animals......
Well...... This rabbit's eyes are really as red as it meows, like fire. Swim pretty neatly, just like a dog. If it weren't for the fact that the eyes of this product were too red and obvious at night, it would be really difficult to find......
Huh? This rabbit still dares to stare at me? Believe it or not, Uncle Ben shot you to death? Uh, no, it was a crossbow that shot you?...... Yay, infrared sights, why are there so many red dots?
"it, there's a situation! Edward!" Hao Song looked at the sight in front of him, his scalp was numb, and his whole body was overpowered, and he suddenly reacted, and shouted in panic.
"What?" Edward asked, confused, as he had just thrown something into a two-meter-deep pit. Then the cargo leaned out, and at a glance he saw a dense field of vision, full of red eyes like burning flames!
["When I first saw so many red flaming eyes, I understood that the horror had nothing to do with dense phobia!"]
- Gretheau-S Hao]