Chapter 683: The Pawn Who Crossed the River (2)
"Don't mind, there are only a few people in this town, the old man doesn't let me spar, is it possible to let you, a little girl, come?"
Facing Sun Jiayi's eye knife, Ji Donghai smiled cheekily.
"You can find whoever you like to accompany you, anyway, you are not allowed to practice with the old man!"
The girl stomped her foot, her whole face flushed with anger.
"Okay, Ah Hai, if you really feel itchy hands, I'll accompany you to practice?"
A young voice came from the corner, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, a thin soldier appeared.
Although the sunlight was still a little dazzling, Ji Donghai still recognized the person for the first time after turning his head to check.
"Brother Ma, please spare me, the strength of my three-legged cat, which is your old man's opponent......"
"Yo, the pony has become an old man in your mouth, so won't I, a person who has half of my body in the ground, become a coffin?"
Another slightly vicissitudes of life sounded, and just behind the thin young soldier, a sleepy-eyed middle-aged man walked out.
Team Zhang...... I didn't mean that......"
Ji Donghai, who could barely laugh a second ago, collapsed, and instantly changed to a crying face.
"It doesn't matter what you mean, anyway, I'll follow my understanding, how to say, practice?"
The corners of the middle-aged man's mouth were hooked, his right arm was placed in front of his chest, and he suddenly exerted force.
As he moved, the muscles on his forearm contracted rhythmically, and the pale blue fluorescence appeared on the surface of his skin, forming a strange ring-like pattern.
"Don't don't, Team Zhang, you're still good at giving birth, I'm just talking big and addicted, where do you dare to practice against you......"
"Yes, Lao Zhang, you can rest......"
The young soldier who was called Brother Ma by Ji Donghai looked worried, and seemed to be very worried about the state of the middle-aged man.
"Peace of mind, I still have this bit of strength, besides, I have raised it for a month, and I can't move?"
Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Ji Donghai's legs weakened, and his tower-like body almost fell to his knees.
"Humph! Uncle Zhang, beat him hard for me! ”
Sun Jiayi was like a winning little rooster, and waved his fist proudly at Ji Donghai.
The atmosphere is noisy, revealing warmth and harmony.
"Alright, it's not too early, it's time to go back."
Raising his hand to stop Lao Zhang, who was rolling up his sleeves, Hamilton spoke.
"It's only less than five o'clock ......"
failed to see the scene of Ji Donghai being flattened, Sun Jiayi was obviously a little dissatisfied, pinching the corner of Hamilton's clothes and complaining.
"I checked it just now, and your Minkowski unit has a slight decline, so to be on the safe side, we'll go back early today."
Hamilton explained, his face behind his sunglasses full of patience.
"Okay...... Then I'll give you a barbecue to eat later......"
Although she was a little reluctant, the girl nodded obediently and chose to follow the old man's advice.
Hearing the old man say that he wanted to go back early, Ji Donghai, who was already squatting on the ground in fear, regained his vitality and stood up with a swish.
"Is there a change in the shield claw?"
"I don't know, the light brain only gives rough calculation results, and in order to improve the calculation accuracy, you need to increase the upper limit of energy supply."
Hamilton replied lightly, pulling the girl towards a path on the edge of town.
"Didn't you say let you calculate, use your brain to think, and reason with all kinds of details......"
With the metal stick behind him, Ji Donghai took three steps and made two steps, trotting all the way to Hamilton.
"Can't think of it." Hamilton chuckled.
"That's your problem, you can't just think about protecting your goals, you have to learn how to be a human being~"
Ji Donghai's tone was relaxed, but it caused Sun Jiayi's strong dissatisfaction.
"Who said that the old man is not human, you are not human, you big stupid pig with muscles in your brain!"
"Hehe, if it weren't for my big stupid pig, we wouldn't be able to eat fresh pork......
Sun Jiayi's straightforwardness did not cause any disgust to Ji Donghai, on the contrary, he was still a little faintly proud.
"Then I won't bake it for you at night! You just go and nibble on the brine pork! ”
"Don't mind, I'm wrong, can't I......"
Seeing that the girl was really angry, Ji Donghai immediately softened and stuck to the other party's side and said good things.
Behind the three of them, the two soldiers walked side by side, a faint smile on their faces faded, and a heavy weight faintly appeared between their eyebrows.
"Over there in Siming Mountain, there is still no news?" The vicissitudes of life came with a thick tiredness.
"No, I've tried a lot and there is no sign of success."
"What about Lao Xu's private channel? Can you get in touch? The middle-aged man named Lao Zhang did not give up and continued to ask.
"No, the signal shielding in Yunlong Town is too strong......"
The young soldier shook his head and sighed lightly, "I don't think I can stay here any longer, although the safety is guaranteed, but after all, I still have to get in touch with Qiu Qianjun and them." ”
"Indeed." Lao Zhang nodded, looking ahead, "We are not idlers. ”
Hamilton's figure pulled out a long shadow in the afterglow of the setting sun, blocking the sunlight and providing comfortable shade for their eyes.
But the shadow didn't last long, and as Hamilton kept going, the shadows were shaking regularly.
There was still sunlight shining through the gaps, and the eyelids of the two stinging were slightly narrowed.
After a long silence, Lao Zhang spoke.
"Let's go after breakfast, after all, they saved our lives, so we should say goodbye no matter what......"
"That's exactly what I mean."
The young soldier nodded, and a faint smile appeared on his lips again.
Putting aside her own mission and tasks, the girl named Sun Jiayi has really good cooking skills, even if he is a professional soldier who is not very picky about food, after this period of 'feeding', his mouth has been raised a lot.
"Before committing to the mission, let's enjoy a beautiful life for another night......
Time passed, and night came as scheduled.
In the evening, the quiet and peaceful clouds and dragons were shrouded in a solemn dead silence at this moment.
Out of nowhere, the wind swept the gray and yellow sand on the ground, and when you looked down from the sky, you could see that there was a strange creature of huge size under this lifeless land.
However, this monster seems to be very well-behaved, and its range of activities is limited to the entire Yunlong Town, and it doesn't care about the things on the periphery at all.
Even the small thermal power station, which is just a wall away from the town, has not even paid attention to it, and there is a kind of idleness that 'this is not my territory, I don't bother to take care of it'.
It is precisely because they have long understood the habits of monsters that the survivors gathered in the thermal power station do not have much worry or fear, and gather around the fire one by one, or cook food, or talk to each other.
These survivors were not from Yunlong Town, a small number of them were from the surrounding villages, and most of them had escaped from the city.
The goal of these survivors was originally to go to the Siming Mountain Shelter, but they were all delayed next to Yunlong Town for various reasons, and after a long time, a small settlement was formed.
Of course, they didn't know what had happened to the thermal power station a month ago, only that there was a huge monster in the town with a regular routine, and that there was a powerful black man in the area.
Everyone subconsciously thinks of Hamilton as the leader of this small settlement, although the other party has no idea about it.
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"The skewers are ready, these two skewers of tenderloin are for you, remember to help me bake the pork eggs tenderly......"
Ji Donghai handed the food in his hand to Sun Jiayi, with an excited expression on his face, like a second senior brother waiting for a meal.
"Didn't I tell you to throw this thing away, why do you still keep it?! It's going to break down for so long......"
Sun Jiayi looked at the skewered pig balls on the wooden branch with a disgusted face, and her whole body was full of rejection.
"How can it be bad, I put it in the thick salt water to soak it, you see this on it, it is full of elasticity!"
As he spoke, Ji Donghai also stretched out his index finger and poked it.
"I can't help you ......"
The girl was kind after all, and after sighing in one breath, she took what was in the man's hand.
After sticking the whole branch on the edge of the bonfire, Sun Jiayi turned his head again and asked the two people sitting cross-legged opposite.
"Uncle Zhang, Brother Ma, do you two want to add food?"
"No, our bodies have recovered, and we have stored more food, maybe we will be able to use it in the future."
The young soldier opened his mouth in response, smiling and waving his hand.
Sun Jiayi is not reluctant, her attitude towards Lao Zhang and Xiaoma has always been friendly.
Wood crackles in the fire, sizzling pork soaked in salted water, and the mouth-watering aroma of meat quickly overflows, scrambling to burrow into people's nostrils.
"That's nice......"
Looking at the busy figure in front of the fire, the young soldier sighed.
Lao Zhang and Xiaoma are none other than Zhang Jike and Ma Long, who came to Yunlong Town with the large army earlier.
As for why the two stayed with Sun Jiayi, the story has to start a month ago, after Hamilton sent Lu Yu and others away.
At that time, Ma Long and Qiu Qianjun walked through the alley and went to the Poetic Hotel to search for and rescue targets.
Because he had already awakened his first-order ability, Ma Long deliberately chose the most dangerous position in the palace.
It is precisely because of this special position that he became the first target of a sneak attack by strange insects.
Before he fell unconscious, Malone only felt a few sharp piercing lines through his chest, and before he even had time to scream, his body was quickly dragged into the sand wall.
By the time he regained consciousness, he had been rescued by Hamilton, his naked body was covered in bandages, and he looked like he might burp at any moment.
Also lying on the bed with him, there were Zhang Jike and Ji Donghai, both of whom also didn't know what was going on, and could only vaguely remember some fragments before they lost consciousness.
For Ji Donghai and others, Hamilton's performance was surprisingly friendly, and after introducing his identity directly, the three soldiers ushered in a period of stunned days.
By the time they finally accepted the fact that Hamilton was a cyborg, two weeks had passed quietly.
It stands to reason that Lao Zhang and Xiaoma have their own tasks, and Ji Donghai is not an idler, so he shouldn't stay in the town for too long.
However, Hamilton used the calculation results given by the light brain as an excuse to stop the three people from wanting to go to the Siming Mountain Shelter, and insisted that a few people stay for a month.
In the course of a month, Hamilton not only healed the injuries on the three of them, but also gave a brief overview of the situation in Yunlong Town for the three of them.
Similarly, after learning that Hamilton is a guard-type cyborg, Zhang and Pony naturally become interested in his guardian target, Sun Jiayi.
After some exchange, the two were surprised to learn that the girl was Zhang Ning's girlfriend, and the sense of distance between the two parties quickly disappeared under the coincidence of shouting.
No, there was a scene in the evening when 'Uncle Zhang' came out for the girl.
The firewood crackled, the pork next to the fire began to sizzle with oil, and the aroma of food filled the air, teasing the taste buds of everyone present.
"Hehe, Jiayi, my pig balls should be baked...... Hurry up and season up with cumin and pepper! ”
Smelling the aroma of barbecue, Ji Donghai obviously couldn't hold back, and rubbed his hands together, like an impatient green-headed fly waiting for the meal to be served.
"Wait! Not yet! ”
Patting the man's arm, Sun Jiayi said seriously.
"If it's not baked, you'll have diarrhea if you eat it, and your body won't be able to recover for long, don't die."
"Hehe, I'm a first-order ability now, my physical fitness is much stronger than before, not to mention half-baked pig balls, even if it's raw, I can close my eyes and take a sip!"
As he spoke, Ji Donghai also made a chewing motion, as if the pig eggs on the branch had entered his mouth and were bursting with juice between his lips and teeth......
"To tell you the truth, if I could, I would have liked to pretend I didn't know you......"
Marlon slapped his forehead, with a loveless expression on his face.
"Gaha, Brother Ma, I'm just going to eat a pig's ball...... Why don't you bake it in a while, and I'll give you one? ”
After speaking, Ji Donghai showed a little reluctance on his face, as if giving Ma Long an egg was comparable to taking half a catty of meat off his body.
"Come on, you better enjoy it yourself, that thing is very fishy, I don't like to eat it......"
Ma Long waved his hand again and again, indicating that he was not blessed.
"Hehe, I've heard that others have awakened to become capable people, or their personalities have become perverse and their self-esteem is very high; Or maybe it's a change in mindset and a change in the way you act...... How did it come to you, it seems that only the characteristic of heavy mouth is highlighted......"
Lao Zhang's eyes were half-narrowed, like a sleepy old cat, looking Ji Donghai up and down.
"Team Zhang, what are you talking about, I just have a better appetite, what a good thing to eat, how can there be any strange changes, the barbecue delicacy of pig balls, I also loved to eat tight before the catastrophe broke out."
As he spoke, the man was about to reach for the skewers next to the fire, as if he couldn't wait.
"But I always feel like you've eaten a lot more......"
The expression on Lao Zhang's face did not change, and he continued.
"Could it be your first relationship with foreign genes, after all, pigs are creatures, in addition to being strong, the biggest feature is that they can eat, and the taste is very ......."
Speaking of this, he and Ma Long glanced at each other, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a knowing smile. "Uh......"
The outstretched hand was slapped back by Sun Jiayi, and Ji Donghai showed a thoughtful expression on his face.
"Is this possible? Eh, I don't care about it, anyway, I eat and drink well, and I can be happy physically and mentally, and now the world has become this terrible state, and it would be great to be able to live a life......"
"In terms of mentality, it really looks like a pig......
Sun Jiayi added quietly.
"Damn, my exogenous genes are also wild boars, not the kind of domestic pigs that eat and wait for death, okay, I'm still quite brave, don't say that I'm so unbearable......"
Just as Ji Donghai was about to say something more to justify his name, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from behind everyone, with a little restraint.
Except for Sun Jiayi, who was barbecuing, everyone around the fire subconsciously closed their mouths and looked back vigilantly.
The person who came was a woman, looking about thirty years old, with a mediocre appearance, but her figure was very angry.
Seeing that everyone noticed her approach, an embarrassed look appeared on the woman's face, and she stumbled.
"Chief, chief, this is the wild vegetable we found in the mountains and forests today, please smile and accept ......"
As she spoke, the woman placed the basket of mushrooms and wild herbs beside Hamilton, squeezing out a stern smile.
"Wild vegetables?"
Hamilton glanced at the basket, stretched out his right hand, and after picking it accurately, he passed it to Sun Jiayi's side.
"Thank you for your gift, and may the light of freedom bless you."
After a solemn thanks, Hamilton added.
"Besides, I'm not the head of this settlement, everyone is coming together voluntarily to help each other, so you don't need to show me too much respect...... and jealousy. ”
"Uh...... Okay chief, uh no, I mean Brother Han......"
In the face of Hamilton's kindness, the woman did not feel comfortable, but became more restrained.
Her cheeks flushed, and after she stumbled a few words, she hurried away, turned and fled in the direction she had come.
"Here, old man, your charm is still as high as ever......"
Stuffing a skewer of grilled meat into Hamilton's hand, Sun Jiayi squeezed his eyes meaningfully.
"Hehe, probably my appearance misunderstood her......"
Hamilton didn't hide it either, and said frankly.
Biting down half of the lean flesh from a branch, the cyborg continued.
"But human emotions are too difficult to figure out after all, and I've studied for so long, but I still haven't been able to grasp the essence of it......"
"I think you have a pretty good grasp of it, at least in terms of emotional intelligence is much better than someone who can only gnaw on pigs' balls!"
While speaking, Sun Jiayi stuffed the roasted pig eggs into Ji Donghai's hand, and gave a very generous slap in the face.
"I'm humorous! Is humor good! Eh, feed my little balls, you're finally baked......"
The surface of the roasted pig egg is slightly charred, and it is sprinkled with cumin and pepper, which is extremely tempting to look at.
After a few simple blows, Ji Donghai couldn't wait to pluck one with his teeth.
"Ho ho ho, it's hot, it's hot, it's hot......"
Taking his eyes off Ji Donghai's face, Sun Jiayi handed two more skewers of roasted pork to the two soldiers.
Taking the meat skewers, Malone was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking about something.
Eventually, he raised his head and spoke to Hamilton.
"Old man, the month has arrived, and Lao Zhang and I have decided to leave tomorrow morning and leave Yunlong Town."
"Are you sure you're leaving?" The Adam's apple rolls, and Hamilton swallows a piece of lean meat.
"Well, staying here is not a long-term solution, we still have to get in touch with the Simingshan Shelter as soon as possible."
Facing Hamilton, Malone's face was full of solemnity.
This is because the other party saved his life and deserves his full respect;
This is because of the special identity of the other party, so he has to pay attention to it.
“…… What about me......"
Ji Donghai, who swallowed the pig balls after wasting his strength, stared at his eyes and opened his mouth in surprise.
He is also a soldier, why didn't Ma Long inform him in advance when he had a plan to leave......
"You ......" Glancing up and down at Ji Donghai, Ma Long continued, "You can stay here, or go on the road with me and Lao Zhang, whatever you want." ”
"Why do you have to leave so suddenly......"
The expression in Ji Donghai's eyes changed, the whole person looked a little depressed, and the skewers that he got to his mouth were put down again, and it seemed that even the remaining half of the roast pig egg was not fragrant.
"It's only been a month, and I haven't been able to learn a few tricks from the old man......"
"Then you just continue to stay, Lao Zhang and I will go to see it first and explore the way for you." Ma Long said with a relaxed face and indifferently.
"Well, since you're ready to return to the team, there's no reason for me to continue to mess around here......"
made a decision in his heart, Ji Donghai took a bite of the remaining roast pig eggs and said seriously.
"Otherwise, if Captain Dugu asks about it at that time, you will have to work hard to make up a reason, but you are a little reluctant to learn about Xiao Jiayi's craftsmanship......"
At this point, the tower-like man stared at the empty branch for a long time, and let out a long sigh.
And Sun Jiayi, who was the object of praise, was also silent at this moment, looking at Hamilton with a little inquiry.
"Old man, when are we leaving?"
She and the old man had been here for a month, and it was time for them to take the next step, as they had said when they first arrived.
For the girl, although moving the nest means facing danger, it also means that she can have more opportunities to meet Zhang Ning.
Listening to what Uncle Zhang and Brother Ma said, Zhang Ning had left a message before separating from them, saying that if there was no accident, he would take his family to the Siming Mountain refuge together.
This is undoubtedly good news for Sun Jiayi.
"According to the results of the analysis given by the light brain a month ago, it is indeed a good time to leave recently."
Hearing the girl's inquiry, Hamilton's face remained unchanged, and he still nibbled on the skewers in his hand unhurriedly.
But before the girl's face could be filled with a smile, the cyborg said something that disappointed her.
"But we're not going to the Siming Mountain Shelter, if you go there, you might die."
"I'm going to die? How can this be......"
The girl muttered, and the whole person was like a deflated ball.
"Will she die if she goes? Could it be because of what will happen to the Siming Mountain Shelter? ”
Lao Zhang, who had not spoken much, noticed the deep meaning of his words, and subconsciously asked......