Chapter 21: Tranquility
Wendy walked alone for a long, long time, until late at night, only to meet a sparsely populated town, after several twists and turns, finally found a fur merchant who was going to Danas, and only agreed to take her on the road at double the price, the merchant only used an ordinary freight car, from this edge town to Nas, even if it was overnight, it would take at least two days, but Wendy didn't have a choice, the town was too remote, and there was not even an airship to get here, and even a large bus would take two days to come, Wendy now just wanted to return to Danas, and didn't want to wait for a minuteγ
On the way, the merchant told Wendy about his experiences without saying a word, or many people thought it was a wonderful experience, but Wendy was not interested, and only answered occasionally.
"Miss, are you out of love?" the merchant suddenly turned his head to look at Wendy, who was sitting next to him, and his inquiring tone had the same expression.
It turned out to be so obvious, and I thought I had covered it up well, Wendy tried her best to calm her emotions, retracted her thoughts immersed in grievances, and was not very willing to talk to a stranger about her thoughts: "No, no." β
Hearing Wendy's answer, the businessman didn't think so, and took this reaction for granted: "This kind of thing is not a big deal, and it will be fine after a while." β
"Not really. Wendy felt that this businessman was a little annoying, although he helped himself, it didn't mean that he could ask other people's ** casually.
"Okay, forget it, drink water?" as if he felt bored with himself, and stopped asking. The merchant handed over a bottle of water, and Wendy didn't eat or drink any water along the way, and she did feel thirsty at this point.
"Thank you!" Wendy opened and took a sip before turning her head to look out the window.
"No thanks, I'm afraid you don't like to drink, Miss is a stranger, right?" The merchant suddenly changed to a very smug smile, and his eyes were full of teasing.
Wendy was suddenly alert, and was even more shocked when she saw the merchant's eyes, and the atmosphere became tense: "Why are you asking this?"
"That's right, in fact, I have other businesses besides doing some fur business. The merchant laughed even more unscrupulously, and his voice was even more chilly.
"You!" Wendy already knew that she had encountered a villain and wanted to use her powers, but she suddenly found that she couldn't condense her spiritual power at all, and a burst of despair surged into her heart: "How can this be!"
"Hmph, don't waste your efforts, I added a little material to the water, specially prepared for the supernatural!" As if looking at the prey in the cage, the merchant's face was full of greed and ferocity at this time: "I think the price of a supernatural person should be much higher than that of ordinary people!"
Wendy felt so helpless for the first time in her life, and remembered the sad things that happened before, and tears couldn't stop coming out of her eyes: "What are you going to do?
The merchant felt that the girl in front of him was really ridiculous, how could such an ignorant girl dare to travel alone at night, he was really lucky: "You are really naΓ―ve, after selling you, don't all the things on you belong to me? The truck stopped on the side of the road, and there was a deep forest on both sides of the road, except for the occasional breeze that rustled the leaves, and there was not even the sound of insects, and there was silence!
"Let go of me, help!" Wendy was already terrified, knowing for the first time that there was such a dark side to this world, and she could only cry out in vain and scream in despair when she was in danger.
"Bump!" a pitch-black cheetah burst into the carriage and bit off the merchant's neck, gushing blood!
"Ahh
The merchant died in front of Wendy like this, and when the panther saw that the person in his mouth had stopped moving, he immediately let go, stretched out his tongue and licked the back of Wendy's hand, which frightened Wendy to retreat again and again, in fact, when the merchant wanted to do wrong, Wendy had already retreated to the window, and at this time, he could no longer retreat. The panther looked at the frightened Wendy, and unexpectedly showed a helpless look, and then jumped out of the window and yelled at Wendy under the car window.
Wendy slowly calmed down, because she felt that the panther's cry seemed to be very gentle, why did it feel this way? It bit the merchant to death, but only licked its own hand, was it a gesture of goodwill to itself? How could there be such a cheetah?
Wendy remembered an old legend that once there was such a group of people in Nohir, they were the guardians of the night, each of them had the strength to surpass the transcendent, and could rely on the power of the moonlight to destroy all kinds of powerful enemies, they all had the same kind of mount, or they all had the same companion, a black cheetah, they had an honorable title, the Knights of the Moon.
The people of Nohir believe in the goddess of the moon, the knight of the moon, that is, the knight of the goddess, representing piety and justice! Although the legend is a long time ago, although the gods have long since fallen, this black cheetah, with all kinds of unusual behavior, should not be an ordinary beast of prey? Wendy hesitated again and again, thinking that she could try, so she talked to a black cheetah: "Are you here to save me?"
"Woo woo...... "The cheetah roared twice and jumped happily on the ground, and it seemed that it was finally understood!
"Thank you, you can't speak, but you're much better than a lot of people who can talk!" After a shock, Wendy gradually forgot her sadness, and was left with the joy of the rest of her life.
Looking at the dense jungle around him, only a road that was not very wide in front of him, Wendy opened the car door and walked down, looked back at the dead businessman, and a trace of pity appeared in his eyes, took a deep breath, turned to look at the cheetah, and asked with anxiety: "Can you help me?"
The cheetah naturally understood what Wendy was saying, and obviously agreed to Wendy's request, and consciously fell to the ground, waiting for Wendy to sit up.
Wendy was a little nervous, although she had confirmed that this cheetah was well-intentioned, but it was the first time to get close to such a beast, and she remembered that she had just thrown a fireball at the beast from a distance before, and she was already excited, and when she touched the cheetah, her fingers trembled unnaturally.
Carefully observing the cheetah in front of him, nearly two meters long, with a solid back, densely covered with black and shiny hair, and his erected ears shaking from time to time, making people feel extremely cute, maybe it is not appropriate to use the word cute to describe a beast, but this is Wendy's feeling at this time.
Wendy tried to sit on the back of the cheetah, but the cheetah only got up slightly, twisted twice, and threw Wendy off, so many times, Wendy finally understood the meaning of the cheetah, and rode on the back of the cheetah steadily, holding the cheetah's erect neck with both hands, a cheerful roar accompanied by a scream, the black cheetah carried the tired Wendy, ran in the direction of Danas, and disappeared at the end of the road in a blink of an eye.
In the mothership commander-in-chief's office, Marshal Lin roughly looked through the mecha's change plan, and then put the report back on the table: "How is the preparation of the Quartermaster Department?" This preparation obviously does not refer to the report on the table, but something else.
"This, Marshal rest assured, can definitely be completed before the Dumping Nest Plan is launched. Floweron sat on the couch next to him, fiddling with a delicate glass of water, which had been drunk and seemed to have been here for a while.
"Very well, I don't know what happened to George and the deacon of Nohir in Nohir. When Marshal Lin looked through the mecha change plan, Jason was already waiting aside, and he also had a document in his hand.
"Report Marshal, Chairman George and Mr. Rum, that all the terms of trade have been negotiated, and here is the record, you may take a look. β
"No need, I don't understand this, just negotiate, I think George is not a person who will suffer. β
Marshal Lin was obviously more concerned about one more thing than about business: "How is the combat training going?"
Jason was as serious as ever: "Report Marshal, the new additional equipment and special techniques for bugs have been fully promoted, and the degree of improvement this time is not much, I believe it is easy for everyone to adapt." β
"Where has this kid been these days? It seems that I haven't seen him for a few days?" suddenly asked such an inopportune question, which made Jason not know how to answer for a while, this is not recorded.
"Report, I don't know this, except for the training time, everyone rarely sees Li Guochang. β
"Who is looking for me? Jason, we said okay, just call me Ah Xun in the future, Li Guochang Li Guochang, I feel uncomfortable when I call me, did you mean it?" It sounds like Ah Xun's state has adjusted well in the past few days.
Seeing Ah Xun coming like a tailwind, Jason thought of a word, elusive, and it was quite appropriate to describe the situation of this guy in the past few days: "Report to the marshal, Li Guochang is here!"
"It seems that you did it on purpose. Ah Xun feels that he and this guy are also born and died, how do you feel that you are not familiar with each other at all?
"Okay, let's all disperse, what can we do first!" Of course, this everyone does not include Ah Xun, and when Jason and Crane left, Marshal Lin looked Ah Xun up and down: "Stinky boy, tell me why you have been there these days? As a personal guard, you leave your post every day, do you think it is appropriate?"
"Report, I've been studying the supernatural knowledge of the Nohil people for the past few days, and as long as my research makes a breakthrough, those who are the strongest and the transcendent are all like chopping melons and vegetables. Ah Xun thinks that Jarvis's set is still very useful, whether it succeeds or not, it's okay to bluff people.
Marshal Lin was happy when he arrived, with a strange expression of believing in you: "Keep blowing, I see if you can blow the mothership into the sky!"
"Why do you want to go to the sky, it took a long time to land. Ah Xun found a position and leaned back in a chair in as comfortable a position as possible.
"I have a task for you, and you know the agreement we have with the Nohirs, right?"
"Is there anyone who doesn't know about this now? I was here that day, okay?" I thought, is this old man demented?
"Just know, you may be on a mission to obtain the Divine Heart. "I'm afraid that you kid pretend not to know, and ask me to tell you again, Marshal Lin showed an expression of successful conspiracy.
Of course, Ah Xun also found out that he had been tricked, and immediately began to take verbal revenge: "Old man, do you want to borrow a knife to kill people? Although I usually don't respect you enough, and I like to despise you behind my back, you can't push me into the fire pit!"
"It's a task that only you can do, and the environment in which the Sacred Heart is buried can be complex, and your foreknowledge skills must be used to minimize the casualties of the Einsatzgruppen. "Young people should have a sense of mission, and the elderly are giving you the opportunity to perform, and you must know how to show your talents and contribute to the great cause of building a home for mankind.
"It's the same as the truth, didn't you let me go to death?" Of course, Ah Xun doesn't eat this set, it's commonplace, and there's nothing new.
"Well, I'm going to send you to death, you can prepare. Marshal Lin also felt that there was no need to say more, anyway, this kid is like this, and when the time comes, he can do things honestly.
"Yes, sir. Ah Xun gave a standard military salute and left the office.
The nest plan needs to be killed with one blow, otherwise there will be no second chance, once the plan fails, the future of mankind is worrying, in order for the plan to be perfectly executed, the final action time is set for a month later, that is, human beings still need a month of preparation time, of course, Tyran can take action at any time, as long as he explains the matter to the rest of the council.
In addition to the daily training camp, the high-level and the quartermaster department, who should be busy now, seem to be extraordinarily calm, which should be considered normal in normal times, but it is inevitable that it is uneasy to be so calm on the eve of the battle for survival, and a whole week has passed.
"Yang Hao, is there any inside information?" Dashi, who was resting at the training ground, suddenly asked a question that had no beginning or end.
Yang Hao naturally couldn't understand the meaning of Dashi, and looked at Dashi very strangely: "What?"
Dashi showed an expression that you don't understand: "Pre-war preparations, why is there no movement at all now, every day is for us to train." He pointed to the other soldiers who were still busy on the training ground: "Not to mention the training intensity, all the mecha only have a nano umbrella shield, so that we can rely on that kind of umbrella thinner than paper to defeat the insect tide?"
Hearing this, Yang Hao gave Dashi a roll of his eyes, and thought, it is really worthy of your nickname, this kind of thing has to be explained to you by others: "Don't underestimate the nano umbrella shield, since it is said to be a shield, it is natural to have the bearing capacity of the shield, and you will understand it after you come into contact." β
Dashi responded to Yang Hao's strange expression, but he was a little curious: "Is it so mysterious?"
Yang Hao looked at Dashi's strong biceps, and his eyes were full of something great, of course, he also had a sour grape mentality: "How thick can you break the steel bar now?"
Dashi thought for a while: "The last test result was 1.1 cm, which was relatively reluctant. Hehe...... "Although he is very modest in his mouth, his face is full of pride.
"Then you must be pulling a thread on the umbrella!" Yang Hao nodded over and over again, as if confirming his estimate, and didn't notice whether it should be calculated like this at all.
"I don't read much, don't lie to me. β
"Do I look like a braggart person?"
"Like!" Dashi thought again: "No, you are." β
Yang Hao shook his head, looking like he hated iron but not steel: "My friends are over, I have nothing to say to you." β
"You're empty-hearted, have you been exposed?"
"If you don't believe me, go ask Ah Xun. Yang Hao looked at the training ground, and he was no longer interested in this issue.
"Why didn't I think of it!" Dashi was especially unaware: "Ah Xun is by the leader's side every day, and it must be more reliable to know more." Confirm the direction of Ah Xun in the crowd, and then get up and run.
Yang Hao rested for a while, and was about to get up to continue the training, when he saw Dashi come back with an indignant face: "How is it, is what I said right?"
"Ah Xun is more unreliable than you, he said that if I pull the silk on the umbrella shield, the result will definitely not be a question of whether the nanowire can be broken, but whether my hand will be broken. β
"That's right, such a thin silk, if you pull it, your fingers must be the same as cutting a radish!" Yang Hao suddenly realized, with the tenacity of nanowire, it is even sharper than a blade!
"There's no way to communicate with you, I'll go see Jonya. Dashi, who had just come back, felt that he had been hit again and turned to leave.
"Wait for me, go and go, I'm going to tell Jonya your questions. Yang Hao also felt that he hadn't seen Jonya for a few days, and it stands to reason that the injury on her head should be healed.
Time flies very slowly, at least Ah Xun thinks so, Jonia temporarily withdrew from the training camp, of course, it is not a problem of injury, the burn on her head has actually recovered the next day, the key is that Jonia has become a little nun, and she refuses to come out to see people, and she can't wear a hat! There is only one condition for her to participate in the training camp, Ah Xun must order her a wig that is exactly the same as the original long hair, otherwise she will not consider the training camp again, in fact, most people's training goals have been achieved, but Jonya, as an A-class mutant, received the task of finding and taking away the Divine Heart with Ah Xun!
Including Jason, Da Shi, Yang Hao, plus Jonya and Ah Xun, the five of them set up a salary drawing team at the bottom of the kettle, as the core task of the nest plan, the difficulty of stealing the sacred heart is obvious, and the training intensity should also be consciously strengthened, but Jonia just quit at this time.
For the concept of exactly the same, it's simple and simple, but if it's more real, it's simply a requirement that can't be completed, and in the past few days, Ah Xun has tried to order more than a dozen wigs, and Jonya can always find out what's wrong, and finally Ah Xun won't do it, anyway, I don't expect Jonya's personal combat power, hypnosis, it's only easy to use when it interferes and assists, and I'll work hard, as long as she doesn't make a mess when the time comes.
With the passage of time, it was getting closer and closer to the scheduled time, and finally on the fifteenth day after the plan was formulated, the Quartermaster Department began to act, and this move was earth-shattering!