Chapter Twenty-Six: Extinguishing the Flames
In the hanging garden on a windy day, the neon light is still there. Hundreds of suspension cables drive the cable car and the lights on the cable car, and the lights are flowing in the air, and they are all purple and red.
And when a man falls in a hanging garden, it is like being lost in a mountain.
It's hard to say how big the hanging nursery is.
For the city on earth cannot be compared to a hanging garden in any way. In the case of the earth, for example, the primitive city is just a piece of the ground, even if a few tall buildings and a few iron towers are raised, and a few cellars and graves are dug down, that height is not worth mentioning compared to the length and width of the city covering the earth's surface.
It was not until the Industrial Revolution that the increasingly complex sewer system and the air interchange system greatly increased the complexity of the city.
And the hanging garden does not need extra construction, it naturally does. It is not an isolated island, there are dozens of major landmasses. Every piece of land is floating and moving in the float. There are countless minor small landmasses. Suspension cables are connected between land and land. As the land drifts, the suspension line also changes positions slightly. Nothing stays where it is, and nothing stays on a plane forever.
The Hanging Garden is an irregular ball with a complex maze of inhabitants from the top to the bottom. The occasional flying spot of light is eye-catching, but no one thinks of it as an important fugitive.
Therefore, the young man's second imagination is correct.
Flying into the air, with the rain, fog, sand, and neon in the air, he didn't need to be afraid to be noticed immediately. Even if the abnormal flickering in the air is seen by the guards, the guards will not realize that this is a wanted criminal before the ultimatum for the assassination of the elder dragon is issued, just like the police witnessed a suspected UFO in the air, and they will not immediately think of reporting it to the government to deal with the UFO quickly.
What he had to do was to leave as soon as possible during the golden time when there was no incident.
After that, he had to face the choice.
"Now there are two ways, one is to fly directly out of the hanging garden and wait for the opportunity to come again."
But it's hard.
On the one hand, the overhanging garden is so large that it may not be able to fly with the flashing wings of a baby dragon alone. On the other hand, on the periphery of the hanging garden, the number of patrolling guards will increase explosively. This is what he knew, and he had just approached the Hanging Garden when he was spotted by the guards.
On the contrary, on the inside of the hanging garden, in the area of civic activity, the number of guards is small.
"But this second way to hide in the hanging garden, my current clothes and appearance are not suitable."
He still had blood on his body, and he was still wearing that protective suit, and he hid the dragon's heart horn, the child and mother substance, the prison, and the flashing wings in this protective suit.
And he is alone here.
In the past struggle with nature, he had companions, the confidence of victory, and thus excitement. And now the struggle with humans and alien dragons only makes him feel extremely tired and embarrassed.
He didn't dare to go to see the rime. It seems that the trustworthy Tianrime is in the twenty-third district. District 23 is dangerous. In addition, the people he knew were limited, and excluding the bureaucrats and bureaucrats in the hanging garden, there was only heaven and hope. Those two men seemed cold and dangerous to him.
He was alone, flying in the air blankly, with no one around him and nowhere to stop. At that time, there were tamed allosaurs flying between land and land, as well as between the buildings of heaven and earth, and the dragon seemed to have spotted his point of light, but there was no reaction.
But he hid in a panic and hastily, avoiding the dragon's gaze.
"No, no, what was I thinking? What am I talking about......! I can only rely on myself, and I can't think about relying on others, let alone people I don't know well. ”
He calmly reminded himself.
"If I'm going to hide in a hanging garden, the first thing I'm going to do is simple...... It's very simple, it's a change of outfit. ”
He aimed at the nearest island, where it was night, and under the neon glow, there were always people tethered to the action.
In a world where there is no sunrise or sunset, these people are like the nightlife of the cities of the modern world of the earth, and they fall day and night.
The flash wings of the juvenile monarch dragon were only about slightly larger than a human arm, and after flying over, Gu Chuan rolled up the flash wings and hid them in his sleeve.
Then, he quietly landed in a dark alley. There is no one around the alley for the time being, and there are complex and changeable doors and intersections. The neon transistors cobbled together a variety of words, one of which read the clothing store and its advertisement. But the shop was closed, and the doors were locked.
But this is only a small thing for young people. He calmly withdrew the slump from his left hand again. The thin, crimson blade pierced his muscles and skin again, stained with his blood, as well as the blood of the Black Elder Dragon.
But the young man was regarded as the same race by the dragon, and his vitality had long been far beyond common sense, and in an instant, the flesh was closed again and covered at the end of the stone.
He carefully controlled the flow of water as the snake had taught him, preventing himself from cutting himself in half in reverse, and then swung forward.
The door lock didn't even make a symphony of gold and iron, as if the center had been melted, and it suddenly broke off, lagging behind the young man's right hand.
He slipped into the room through a small crack.
When the door closed, the young man felt a little relieved, but he still didn't dare to make a sound.
The Hanging Garden is still very old in this regard. The second floor or ground floor of a shop, or even the next room, could be the residence of the owner or tenant.
Sure enough, the upstairs and downstairs doors were locked, and through the bluestone door, the sound of breathing could be heard in the deep sleep.
He didn't pretend to be a demon, and went into the shop, and found a room full of cabinets by the faint light of the stream.
After rising to the sky, the temperature cools suddenly, so it is not uncommon to wear thick clothes in low temperatures.
However, when the young man who had never bought clothes saw the dazzling array of fabrics, he suddenly realized that the clothing industry in the hanging garden was not as developed as that of the crystal, and there were few clothes in the industrial process of standard styles, which were still mainly "customized". In other words, it is mainly up to the customer to send raw materials or old clothes, and then the tailor reprocesses them into suitable new clothes according to the customer's requirements.
After Gu Chuan realized this, he exhaled heavily:
"It's easy to find out that a custom piece of clothing has been stolen...... I can't think about it so much, and I can't care about it that much. The 'police' of the hanging garden may not be so sharp. ”
He rummaged for a while, and found a suitable windbreaker made of thick cloth with a lot of pockets, which was almost finished. He changed into his protective suit, and put all the important items into the pockets of his trench coat, and the two tough flashwings were tucked into the cuffs, and the ends were pressed against the back of his shoulders.
"Do you want to set a fire...... That way it will never be discovered...... Even the protective clothing was burned off......"
This thought came to the young man's mind as if fascinated. All sorts of fantasies make his heart beat so violently that the young man can barely control himself. Despite trying to control himself, he was still breathing horribly.
The master was snoring on the roof of the building, and no one could find him.
"But what if the people upstairs die...... Wait a minute, even if it's ...... Even if the owner unfortunately dies...... But I have no loss either...... No, it's not. But ......" he remembers the past. At that time, he had not only created a scam in Sunset City to deceive ignorant foreign villagers, but also ruthlessly abused a cogwheel man who was actually wise in the Great Wilderness, "I don't need to think of myself as so kind...... I just want to achieve my own ends. ”
His heart was beating terribly. But the surroundings were still quiet, and quieter.
He glanced out the window, and only a few figures walked past the resting land. It was as if everything needed before setting a fire was ready.
The young man spun around in distraction. At this moment, a deep hunger struck him.
He walked into the side room and found some comfrey from the cabinet. He didn't dare to eat violently, only dared to carefully stuff it into his mouth and chew. Chewing comfrey raw gave him a sense of happiness in this tense environment. It was only by the faint light of the stream that when he turned his eyes sideways, three pairs of washed cutlery at the spout fell into his eyes.
At that time, he thought:
"Forget it...... I haven't set it on fire, so how should I put it if I want to? What's more, if the movement is intense...... People will come together, and I will be besieged......"
He froze, suppressed his thoughts, put down the only currency he had hanging on the table, and slipped quietly through the side door.
He did the same thing, changed rooms, washed his face, smeared some harmless soot, did a little makeup, and walked the circular path of the island.
This island cannot be left for long.
He needed to go to another, safer island. And the measurement of the Hanging Gardens is part of the content of his original fantasy of escaping after the assassination, and it is the only one that can be used now.
"The Twelfth Island is the most suitable."
Large, complex, with outsiders, the most frequent activities of the citizens, but not many guards. On top of that, the headquarters of the Treasures Division is on the Twelfth Island.
Gu Chuan wore a hood and stood on the outside of the cable car site, watching the process of ordinary people taking the cable car for a while.
"I'm not a public official now, but I don't have any money, so I can't take the cable car...... And there were quite a few guards inside. So, how do I go? ”
He lifted his sleeve and looked at the bright wings in the two layers of cuffs that were clinging to his skin.
"Fly again?"
The neon lights outside the cable car site are particularly gorgeous. He didn't stay long, but went out. No one paid any attention to such a traveler, and the young man himself was silent, looking in all directions and listening to what was going on around him.
Neon lights up every corner of the gray world, and the lights are bright and green, and people come and go. Hundreds of people are on the surface, and everywhere there are roads to the more prosperous and splendid underground. The ground of the bluestone was covered with the moisture left by the heavy rain some time ago, and the strong wind blew, leaving a cloud of soot on the ground. He walked all the way to the end of the road and came across an old wall. He was leaning against the wall and perched slightly.
The Hanging Garden after the birth of the National Assembly was full of life. On the edge of the wall, shops, doctors, hairdressers, people's voices noisily converge under the neon glow. He was overwhelmed by the noise around him, and tried to calm down and think about the next step, but he couldn't eliminate the interference from the outside world.
Just then, he heard several familiar voices.
"It's ......"
The young man's gaze sharpened, and he followed the sound. He soon saw several familiar figures.
It's just that these figures have now changed out of their clothes that belong to the characteristics of Bu Zi, and they have dressed themselves up as ordinary Qiongqiu people, and blended into the hanging garden.
Gu Chuan followed behind them.
And they soon noticed that someone was following behind them, so they turned into the uninhabited and dark alleyway, hid in all directions, and surrounded the young man in the middle.
Gu Chuan, who didn't know the threat, continued to take a step forward, and the figure rushing out from the left side slashed the knife across his neck.
"Don't get so excited, friends."
Gu Chuan whispered:
"I'm from Buzi, and I'm under the orders of Longhou Tianting."
These people were none other than the other team sent by the snake in the first place. Gu Chuan had followed them through an extremely complicated road. Then they stayed at the Fire Road Hotel, while Gu Chuan continued to go to the hanging garden.
The team sent by Tianting looked at each other, these people were not ordinary ignorant villagers, they were once members of the Central Sect Army of the Old Dynasty. Instead of letting go of their weapons, they deliberated in a whisper, and then the first man said in a cold voice:
"Come with us first, don't make a small move."
They went underground.
The land was intricately underground, and several people passed through a dozen doors in a row, and soon retreated into a makeshift shelter. In this residence, three of their companions were staying behind, and they were surprised to see such a stranger with a blood-red face.
"Captain, what's wrong?"
The captain said:
"Open the way."
They pushed open the cabinet in the inner room, and knocked on the mechanism of the floor tiles in a regular manner, revealing a pipe. The two of them took Gu Chuan to lie down together and crawled into the extremely narrow pipe for a while, and then they saw another cave.
It's a small hut tucked away in the rocks. And this room, which can only be accessed through the pipe, is extremely hidden, and there is hardly any wind leakage.
Out of the corner of his eye, Gu Chuan could see boxes of dangerous goods, contraband, and weapons hidden in the room, and according to the labels, there might be special medicines and mysterious strange things that he didn't know. This room may have been some hidden shelter in the past, and it was very safe.
The captain asks:
"You said you were a subordinate of Tianting Hou, how can you prove your identity?"
The room is wider than the passage, but it is still narrow, and it is only allowed to sit and no one is allowed to stand.
The person who was holding him back and forth let go of the beast, Gu Chuan adjusted his sitting posture, faced the weapon, and said calmly:
"You came to the Hanging Garden from Bu Zi with a secret mission, and if I wasn't your accomplice, you would have been exposed...... What I want to say is that I also received a secret mission to the Hanging Garden. ”
He didn't know if the room was being listened to by Psychic Whispers...... Although he didn't know what was going on with the Psychic Whisper Listening that Tian Yan was talking about, he wouldn't use it rashly for the time being.
The situation is not tense now.
"What task?"
The captain continued.
The young man shook his head, guessing that the team had believed him, and said:
"You'll probably find out from the news on the streets in a little while...... Can I rest for a while? I'm already tired...... I have other things to do after that, and I hope you can help me. ”
They deliberated in a whisper for a while. captain says:
"Yes, you can sleep here."
He arranged for another person to guard Gu Chuan, and the rest of the people withdrew from the small room in the crack in the wall.
The young man could no longer suppress his sleepiness, but he still did not dare to fall asleep completely, so he could only lean lightly against the stone and fall asleep for a while.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw the captain's frightened face, and his high-pitched questioning:
"It's been rumored outside that the Black Elder Dragon has been seriously injured, his body has been broken into two, and he will soon die! Immortal and forever crippled......"
"It's about this time."
At this time, when he really heard the news, he was extremely calm.
"You did it?"
"Not bad."
He said.
"My God......"
The captain and the others were groggy for a moment, and they all took a step back and leaned against the edge of the box, their eyes wide as if they had been hit the head.
"Do you know what you've done? Tianting Hou...... Elder...... You, they called you, kill God—you kill God! ”
A god who has watched mankind for thousands of years.
It's like a legend that was forbidden to circulate in the past.
"If every Elder Dragon is a god to you......" The tired young man could know the mood of this group of people without relying on the dragon's heart, he wiped his face, and his voice was extremely faint, "That's right, can you let me be quiet for a while and sleep for a while?" ”
"Okay...... Good...... Dragon Slayer......"
Their faces were a mixture of reverence, fear, and bewilderment, and they silently withdrew from the room, closing the neon glow.
In the quiet darkness, the young man closed his eyes quietly.