Countless Su-27s exploded into fireworks in the sky.

Renata closed her eyes and ears, crouching beside Zero, who was staring at the sky unconsciously, and the sled dogs arched her in the middle, as if they were Agata 's mother, their grandmother.

Gu Bei patted the little girl's head, it felt so good that she couldn't help but rub it twice: "It's okay already."

The little girl opened her eyes in a daze, and found that the plane hovering in the sky had disappeared, and scattered black smoke was floating from the surrounding snowfields, and the boy was squatting in front of her with a smile.

"Big Brother ......"

"Happy birthday," the boy said, finding a flower pot out of nowhere, "Here, birthday present."

"It's ......"

"Arctic poppy," Gu Bei put the pot in the little girl's hand, "it's the white flower."

"This flower doesn't die, I found a lot of seeds from the warehouse in Black Swan Harbor, and I don't know why they're shipping these things here, but it's cheaper for me now."

The boy smiled, as if it was funny to give a gift of flower seeds stolen from the warehouse.

"I promised to give you freedom as your birthday present, and you said it was your only birthday present, but now that I think about it, it's a very ridiculous thing, freedom is something that belongs to everyone, and it's really not appropriate for me to use it as your birthday present, because freedom is your own thing."

"But every girl deserves a birthday present, and a girl without a birthday gift is pitiful, so this flower will be my birthday present to you."

The boy stood up, and Renata suddenly noticed that the boy's body seemed to become transparent, and golden points of light escaped from the boy's body.

Renata suddenly felt bad, and she asked in a trembling voice, "What is this?"

The boy said nonchalantly to Reynata's incomprehensible words, "I'm going to wake up......

Awake? What do you mean?

Renata didn't have time to think, she instinctively felt that the mysterious young man in front of her had become even more mysterious, so mysterious that she couldn't even see his figure clearly.

In fact, it was, the boy's figure was so transparent that it was almost blurred.

She pounced, but passed through the boy's body, and the boy's shadow blurred again.

She burst into tears in her anxiety, but the boy shook his head, "Don't cry, Renata."

He had already noticed it from a moment ago, his hand fell on Renata's head, but he could not feel the silky hair, and he knew from then that this absurd dream was coming to an end.

"It's not death, it's just a brief parting."

"I'm a traveler who doesn't belong to this era, and now I'm going back where I'm supposed to be."

"Renata."

The boy's call made Renata raise her head, she looked at the boy with red eyes, and the boy raised his hand and pointed in one direction: "Let Agata take you there, to Moscow, Zero will protect you, he will take you to safety...... Be obedient."

"We will meet again, but not here, not now, we have always had enough time, and in the story, we will witness everything."

After saying these words, the young man's figure had faded to only one silhouette, swaying with the blizzard, as if it would dissipate at any time.

Renata nodded, tempting to stop her tears, but the pearls were connected into a string of ice crystals that could not be broken.

A strong wind suddenly blew between heaven and earth, and the young man felt something in his heart and raised his head: "It's time......

"Wait!"

Renata looked up, tears freezing as soon as they left her eyes, "I don't know your name yet."

But the figure had completely disappeared from heaven and earth, and only the voice that came back with the wind: "My name is ......."

「…… Gu Bei."

——

The aura slowly descended, and the huge keel was there

The deck of the Lenin lay flat.

Bondarev approached the impossibly large wreckage, stretched out his gloved hand, and gently stroked the bones that were harder than steel.

"Captain, are you sailing now?" The first mate boarded the deck.

"Set sail, don't be too fast, don't look like you're in a hurry to flee the scene," Bondarev pointed to the sky, "There are eyes in the sky."

He was referring to spy satellites in low-earth orbit.

"Understand, we will go to the target location to drop anchor to investigate the water quality of the Arctic Ocean, we are a scientific research ship." The first mate gave a military salute.

"Try to drive as smoothly as possible, I'll need to do an operation on this thing."

Bondarev opened the box that had been prepared and took out the folded metal bracket, which was just enough to be attached to the dragon's facial bone, covering the dragon's pale left eye.

Bondarev took a few steps back and remotely turned on the laser on the metal rack, which proppelled the laser to rotate in a circular orbit and cut along the dragon's eye socket.

The keel could not withstand the high temperature and pressure of the laser, and the cutting was quickly completed, and Bondarev lifted the longan out with a suction cup with a handle.

The dragon's eye is about the size of a basketball, about the size of a cetaceans' eyeball, and after years of freezing, it seems to have petrified, looking a lot like white marble, with fine lines on the surface.

Bondarev gently wiped the surface of the dragon's eye, strangely enough, the eyeball should be connected with rich blood vessels and neural tubes, but this longan is completely invisible, it is as clean as an ostrich egg.

"For all these years, Herzog didn't realize that there was a real ancient dragon beneath his feet."

Bondarev sighed.

In fact, not only Herzog, but even Gu Bei, who was extremely keen, did not notice it.

The smell of dragon power and death in the ice obscured the breath of life and minimized the activity of the eggs, plus Bondarev and Herzog interrupted halfway, so he also ignored the life that was in the process of being born.

His eyeballs suddenly shook, and Bondarev felt the weight of the sky almost crushing him.

It was a majesty, a shocking majesty, as if God had come down into the world and could crush humanity with just one breath!

A realm began to expand from the dragon's eye, and the roar of swords and the roar of a storm and a tsunami resounded in Bondarev's ears, and it was as if thousands of gods were shouting in unison.

"Quick! Liquid nitrogen!" Bondarev yelled.

The sailors immediately opened the metal canister that had been prepared for a long time, and milky white steam quickly crawled out along the inner wall of the canister.

That's the physical properties of liquid nitrogen, and the metal canister contains minus 200 degrees of liquid nitrogen. Bondarev threw the longan into it, and connected the metal canister to the liquid nitrogen cylinder with a copper pipe, and the almost endless amount of liquid nitrogen could "cool" the irascible dragon eye at any time.

The restless power in the dragon's eye gradually subsided, and the majesty that almost crushed Bondarev gradually disappeared.

Bondarev wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "It's still an egg that is so tyrannical, and when you hatch, what kind of devil will you be!"

"Send this thing to the bottom cabin, and no one is to approach it without my orders!" Bondarev gave orders to the sailors.

"And what about this big thing?"

The water pointed to the remaining keel: "If you throw it in the open sea, you are afraid that those who are engaged in marine fishing will find it, and if you carry it, it will be very troublesome."

"To be honest, I didn't think about it, I don't know what to do with it, but it would be a shame to throw it away, if this skeleton were to be sold for at least tens of billions of dollars if it were taken to some auction house, right? It's a pity that it would reveal our secrets."

Bondarev shook his head: "Cover it with a rainproof cloth and let it rest on the deck for a few days, the dragon's cocoon has been separated, and this thing is no longer in danger."

The tarpaulin covered the keel, and Bondarev was just about to step into the cockpit when the sailors exclaimed.

He looked at the southern sky, and in the dark polar night, strings of brilliant fireworks were blooming.

No, that's not fireworks

, that was the Su-27 squadron, which was originally stationed in Verkhoyansk!

An entire squadron of flying flies had been turned into fireworks and shattered iron sheets, and the blood had melted into the rain into the blizzard.

Bondarev's mind went blank and he had no idea what was going on, but his basic sanity was there.

He yelled at the sailors, "Quick, get out of here, the sooner the better!"

The firelight blew up half of the sky, and in the night, the "research ship" flew away.

——

On the pier on the side of the destroyed Black Swan Harbor.

Because of the secrecy of the Black Swan Port, the port and the Black Swan Port were built separately, so the serial explosions of the Black Swan Port did not cause any damage to the port, at most two houses were shocked and the walls were cracked.

A blizzard swept in, covering the hard frozen soil with a layer of goose feathers.

Suddenly, a hand broke through the snow and reached out from under the stall.

The silver-haired old man crawled out of the pit with difficulty, checked the injuries on his body without saying a word, and after a brief treatment, dragged the seriously injured body and staggered to the port.

There are plenty of spare boats here.

This is his only hope of survival.

——

In January 1992, the great Red League dissolved.

Zero was tucked into a long black trench coat.

One thing to say is that he prefers more formal clothes such as small suits or dresses, but in addition to the clothes he brought out from Black Swan Harbor, he only has a black windbreaker given to him by Gu Bei.

When Gu Bei sent him, he said that the little kid probably couldn't wear it, but thanks to Renata's skillful hands, he helped him change the size.

Now he doesn't look like a kid stealing adult clothes...... It's like a child who is a serious imitation of an adult's attire.

There's no way, it's also a mistake to grow too tender, no one would associate such a face with the dragon king who slaughtered the country and destroyed the city, even Konstantin, who was also the dragon king who also slaughtered the country and destroyed the city, and also had such a face.

Remembering the terrible couple he had seen in the library of the Academy of Sciences, Zero couldn't help but take a sip.

To sum up, it's the stupid middle-aged drunken and bald professor of genetic theology, and his slightly beautiful but dissolute wife.

Originally, he still wanted to help little Renata find her parents, and then take advantage of the little girl's happiness to find some way to fool and coax a few times, so that Renata could be taken in as a very useful subordinate - after all, this Gu Bei's impression on this little girl seems to be a little too deep, and he needs to find something to hedge.

He didn't want the little girl he had worked so hard to cultivate to throw herself into the arms of others as soon as she turned her head.

But seeing that kind of scumbag parents was so disgusting to him that he killed them without paying attention.

Of course, he doesn't regret it.

"I really can't figure out how such a scumbag could give birth to an excellent bloodline like Renata......

Zero complained that although the two insignificant ants were killed, and he had the honour to give them 100,000 rubles as a burial companion, he had to reconstruct the little script for the sake of the moment......

He doesn't like to disrupt the original arrangement, even if it is caused by himself - he wants to trade with Gu Bei himself, oh no, it is cooperation.

It was he who proposed to cooperate with Gu Bei, and now this situation is really shooting himself in the foot.

Well, if you think about it, it seems that he doesn't have to make such a fuss.

After all, this is not the first time.

It shouldn't be too hard to fool a little girl like that, right?' ，

Thinking so, Zero caught a glimpse of the slightly lonely little figure in the crowd, inhaled, and then bought two cups of warm coffee from the side and walked over quickly.

"Has anyone ever said that you look a lot like a kitten abandoned by your owner?"

Renata, who lowered her head and was about to cry, looked at the steaming coffee handed to her in front of her in a little daze.

Both hands have already subconsciously taken the cup.

The temperature seemed to reach her heart through the leather gloves she was wearing, dissolving the worries in her stomach, and she couldn't help but smile a little on her snowy face.

Zero smiled as well, and stood aside to wait with her for the K4 train.

"Bell, bell, bell—"

It was probably the K4 train that was ready to depart, and people were desperately crowding the ticket gates, no one knew if there would be enough seats on the bus, and the early boarding of the train would give them an extra chance of leaving Moscow.

However, the ticket gates were not opened.

Renata sat on Zero's shoulder and saw the ticket inspector shaking the brass bell while writing on the small blackboard: "I have received an urgent notice from the management department, due to the lack of maintenance of the tracks, the K4 train will stop operating with immediate effect."

The hopes that had been raised were extinguished at once, and everyone stood dumbfounded, unable to believe the bad news.

"The K4 train has been cancelled." Renata said.

Zero hugged Renata down and lowered his voice, "The news of Black Swan Harbor has reached Moscow."

Renata looked around alarmingly.

"There is no doubt that they have realized that someone has escaped from Black Swan Harbor, and if it were me, I would have blocked the traffic immediately."

Zero dragged Renata out.

"The train station will be blocked first, and then they will step up checkpoints on the highway and at the airport."

"What shall we do?" Renata asked.

"Go to the Celestial Empire," Zero dragged her out of the train station, looking up at the snowy sky, "let's go to the Celestial Empire."

"Celestial Empire?"

"Do you know why I'm going to the Celestial Empire?" Zero asked.

Renata shook her head, she hadn't thought about it. Maybe it's because Zero looks like a Celestial Empire, where they can hide better.

"I chatted with Gu Bei before, he is from the Celestial Empire, and I heard him say that it is a very beautiful place."

Zero touched her face: "The Celestial Empire is in the south, it is very warm there, there are four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter in a year, and three of them have flowers blooming, not just the Arctic poppy, there are thousands of flowers there! In the spring, each valley is full of different flowers, all of which are different colors."

He smiled smugly, "I'll show you!"

His eyes were full of childish excitement, as if the valleys filled with flowers were right in front of him.

"Then let's go to the Celestial Empire."

Thinking of Gu Bei, Renata nodded: "Go to the warm place in the south."

——

"Shall we go like this?" Renata asked softly.

"If K4 were still operating, I'd be able to get a statehouse."

Zero sighed, "But that's the only way to do it now. Don't complain, I'm still carrying your ......."

On the endless snowfield, the railroad tracks are like parallel black snakes, sometimes submerged under the snow, sometimes exposed, and intermittently going into the distance.

There are no people for dozens of kilometers, not even a thatched house, only withered red pines standing on the snowy fields.

They were moving along the railroad tracks, one foot deep and one shallow foot in knee-deep snow.

"You won't get lost along the railroad tracks, this track is the K4 walk, and you can go to the Celestial Empire by following it." That's what Zero said.

It looks like this guy's plan is to go to the capital.

Looking at the 7,000-kilometer track on the map, normal people would not make such a bold travel plan, but Zero says that he is a psychopath, so it is not surprising.

Renata's physical fitness after awakening is far better than that of ordinary people, but even so, after trekking 120 kilometers on the sleeper, she is still a little unable to hold on, and her legs don't seem to be her own.

"Women are just tender, there is no way, I'll carry you."

Zero took Renata's ankle boots off, wrapped her blood-blistered feet in gauze, and lifted her on her back.

"I'm not going all the way to the capital."

Zero said, "Just get to the next one."

One station we can pick up tanker cars, it's only Moscow that is tightly blocked, insist on it, according to my calculations, we still have ...... Well...... About 800 kilometers ......"

"Okay." Renata said softly.

"Hey, hey! Don't sleep! Falling asleep in this kind of weather will catch a cold!"

Zero shook Renata vigorously.

"In this icy and snowy place, I'm the only one who can warm you, I don't mind *** hugging you, but aren't you afraid of me?"

"Oh." Renata was so tired that she couldn't even open her eyes.

"No way, tell you about your parents, so that you will have spirits, your parents, let's ......

Zero, who had finally found the topic, began to talk to himself, but Renata's eyes dimmed.

Her eyes, strengthened by dragon blood and unusually keen, stared at the imperceptible drop of blood on Zero's cuff, and suddenly felt a pang of sadness for no apparent reason.

For a long time, as Zero was still spitting, she whispered, "You killed them, didn't you?"

Zero froze again, and this time someone else was afraid that they would either be annoyed or speechless - but Zero was open and could quickly continue.

"That's right, I lied to you, in fact, they can all be scumbags, your father is a bald loser who cheats money under the guise of alcoholism, and your mother is a good dancer but a bit of a slutty woman, but the saddest thing is that you are such a beautiful and excellent daughter who wants to sell you to someone else - only 100,000 rubles."

Well, no matter how you look at it, every time at this time is a moment when he can have fun, and it can be regarded as the only value of that disgusting couple.

Renata stopped talking, but returned to silence.

It was only after a while that she made another request: "Tell me about Gu Bei."

「…… Gu Bei?"

Zero seemed to be irritated by Renata's impatience, or maybe he didn't want to mention "Gu Bei".

Well, it's actually quite interesting, probably.

"That guy sneaked into Black Swan Harbor, he's not like you, he's not like me, and he's not a human - even though he says he's human, I understand he's an anomaly."

"I don't know what he's up to, but he found me before I investigated him—"

"He negotiated a deal with me, no, according to his words, cooperation, his chip is freedom, he can help me get free!"

"As for what he wants, he doesn't say, maybe he just wants to see a good show, or something, but that's all we have."

"But thanks to him, my plans went much more smoothly, and I escaped from there without much effort."

"Now that I think about it, I still have to thank him."

The more Zero spoke, the more excited he became, his voice like a roaring lion cub, and his eyes were filled with blood-red gold.

"Yes, I should thank him well, as a thank you for snatching the tool I personally cultivated, and the next time we meet......

「…… I will take that humble life myself."

(End of chapter)