Chapter 67: The Shadow of the Black Swan
Lu Mingfei opened his eyes and woke up from his sleep, although he did not have a "tonic ganglion", he remained vigilant during light sleep.
What caught his eye was Chu Tianjiao with a dignified face. "What's wrong?" He asked, his eyes scanning the inside of the cabin.
The cabin was warm and serene, isolated from the howling wind outside the window, and the front window of the hovercraft was covered with a thick layer of snow and frost when the snow wipers were not working; Zero is also curled up in the corner to rest, the child seems to always have nightmares and needs to hold his hand to fall asleep.
Old Bunin was already awake, and he hid under the porthole with a frightened expression, as if he had seen something terrible.
"I was just going to wake you up...... Something was staring at us from outside. Chu Tianjiao held his village rain knife with a solemn expression.
"Hah...... Is it a polar bear? Fingal was also woken up, yawning - he was in charge of the last vigil, "They hibernate and wake up hungry to find food?" ”
Five days have passed since they set off from City 023, and the supply depots marked on Bunin's map, whether they are a legacy of the Soviet-era Siberian development or the aliens behind the scenes, have been specially built for them in advance, and these metal bunkers that store canned diesel, compressed biscuits, canned beef, and dehydrated vegetables give the hovercraft enough confidence to walk into the freezing Arctic Circle.
During this period, the wind and the blizzard never stopped, and it was extremely risky to travel in this weather, not to mention that the sky and the earth were white and a very low visibility environment, if the hovercraft had some malfunction and strike, then they would all have to be trapped in this uninhabited and uncommunicated ice and snow world.
"If it's a polar bear, there's no need to wake you two," Chu Tianjiao said, "and our comrade Bunin won't be so frightened by a polar bear." ”
Lu Mingfei got up and walked to the porthole closely, and the light source in the hovercraft reflected the snowflakes outside that were rolling like silver needles in the storm. People generally call this bad weather "white-haired wind", even experienced hunters will get lost in this white hair, until the physical strength is exhausted and freeze to death in the cold, there was once a folklore of "white-haired wind cannibalism".
"Yes...... There are monsters outside, Mr. Lu ......" Old Bunin's voice was stiff, as if he was frightened.
But if the "white-haired wind cannibal" is true, then what Lu Mingfei sees now may be the initiator of the legend.
Outside of the dark snowfields that cannot be illuminated by light sources, there are fireflies-like points of light fluttering, and if you don't look closely, you can easily be obscured by splashing snowflakes - of course, there are no fireflies in this kind of place and weather, and the eyes of some creatures are also the same firefly color at night, such as wolves and leopards......
A pair of eyes glowing with dark golden light faintly illuminated their slender bodies, like strange figures in a horror movie, they stood unaffected as if they had blended into this cold blizzard, peering on the only light and man in the darkness.
Of course, Lu Mingfei was no stranger to this, he had killed various versions of these things—the Deadpool Alien who had crossed the line of dragon blood in his body and had fallen, and was now no longer human.
"When did you find out?" He asked calmly.
"Just now...... When I get up to go to the bathroom, I always feel like something is staring at me outside...... Then he immediately notified Mr. Chu. Bunin was terrified, and even though he had been able to talk and laugh with the top of the state and witness mythical creatures, the fear of the unknown would still involuntarily hang over his heart when he encountered such a scene.
"To be honest, they didn't come closer, and I had a hard time noticing," Chu Tianjiao shrugged, indicating that it was by no means his responsibility for his negligence in keeping vigil, "maybe they will be here when Brother Fingal is." ”
"It doesn't matter, these things are not enough for us to fight," Fingal didn't care about Chu Tianjiao's flicking of the pot, and looked at Lu Mingfei with some eagerness, "Go out and slaughter them all?" ”
Lu Mingfei instinctively wanted to nod his head in agreement, no matter where these aliens came from, all purification would definitely be right, but he still calmed down: "It's a little suspicious, wait for now." ”
Zero didn't know when she woke up, she lay in front of the porthole in a daze, her beautiful ice blue eyes dyed with a layer of brilliant gold, reflecting those slender ghosts in the darkness, and her body trembled slightly.
Lu Mingfei's eyes signaled, and Fingal immediately understood that this kind of thing was just right for them, but it might be a little inappropriate for children. So just as she was about to go over to comfort Zero and take her away, Zero stretched out his finger and pointed to the window, his voice trembling:
"He is Yakov......"
Fingal was stunned.
"He's Sergey...... She's Khorkina...... Anton...... "Zero counted the distant ghosts one by one and said their names, as if they were friends she had known for years," Malov ......said, "the experimental children who grew up with me in Black Swan Harbor, and the nurses and soldiers...... They were all there. ”
She turned her head sideways and looked at Lu Mingfei with a pale face: "And me...... And you...... It's all in there, too. ”
"Nothing to fear, kid, just a little trick of the aliens." Lu Mingfei touched Zero's head and said gently, "Don't worry, no matter what lies ahead, no matter what tasks Lu Mingze forces you to perform...... The trip will soon be over. Rest well now. ”
He then looked cold: "Brother Fingal." ”
"Hey, hey, come on!" Fingal was already impatient, and in Lu Mingfei's opinion, this belonged to the "desire to fight", which was the performance of a normal warrior.
"And I'm staying here again?" Chu Tianjiao spread his hands a little helplessly.
"Your strength and your words are trustworthy." Lu Mingfei nodded in agreement.
"Okay...... Then I won't interfere with your immortal fights, come on. ”
The cabin door opened, and the roar of the blizzard outside was instantly amplified dozens of times, and the wind and snow and severe cold quickly poured into the cabin, but then Fingal closed the door intimately.
"Rush over?"
"It's okay to move to another place, but not now. It's obviously a trap for me or zero. Lu Mingfei said calmly, "Right here, blast them off." ”
"Shhh...... I thought I was going to transform. Then I'll go back and put on my military coat now...... I'm joking about the head of the regiment. Fingal smiled wryly, climbed up to the cabin wearing a wool vest and wool shorts, and took off the necklace around his neck to complete the transformation of the first stage of dragon scale armor in an instant, obviously he could not withstand the severe cold and wind of nearly sixty degrees below zero.
His monstrous, strong, armor-covered fingers pinched a grayish-white octagonal rune stone, which was pointed at the front of the bright-eyed Deadpool in the distance, carved into a dragon pattern composed of red lines, and a dull thunderous incantation came from behind the pitch-black bone visor:
"Jun Yan, activate!"
The dragon charm containing the power of the "Jun Flame" was activated, the alchemy matrix activated the expansion field, and Fingal's surging qi and blood were frantically extracted by the charm to replace the fire elemental that was almost non-existent here.
In the thunderous explosion of syllables, a fiery red sun briefly rose in the dark snowfield, and the blazing light reflected everything within a radius of three hundred meters, and also reflected the appearance of the group of Deadpools—some of their faces shrouded in tattered black robes seemed to heal after being severely burned, some seemed to be shockingly dented after being hit head-on by a heavy object, and some even looked like two faces were fused together......
The gray-white scales of the armor and the irregular lines of vines that grow like crazy vines are not so much curing them, but rather piecing them together in another way to look weird and crazy, and ordinary people may have nightmares when they look at their faces, but Zero can still recognize them and say their names.
The extremely warmed flame had condensed in front of Fingal's palm, and the emaciated Deadpools did not howl or charge...... It's like a stone statue, and it doesn't react to any movement.
They watched in silence as the fireball dragged its glittering tail down on them, and when it hit, it was as if someone had kicked over a furnace filled with the sun, engulfing them all with a blazing firework of molten iron!
"Boom!"
The howling wind seemed to stop for a few seconds under the shocking explosion, and the Deadpools didn't let out a single wail, and the fireballs burned them like incinerators.
The fear of the people in the cabin was dispelled, and they looked in shock at the sky-high fire not far away. Bunin, in particular, did not know when his hovercraft was equipped with an 85-mm T-34 tank gun.
The warm hot wind was blowing in his face, and Lu Mingfei frowned slightly, noticing that there was still an alien standing there, as if it had not been completely destroyed.
"Give it another small one?" Fingal's mid-qi was obviously a little lacking, and the cost of using a dragon charm in such a place was too high.
"I'll take a look." Lu Mingfei jumped off the hovercraft and walked quickly to the explosion in the face of the rapidly cooling storm and the smell of burning.
The charred Deadpool seemed to notice Lu Mingfei's arrival, and his dark golden eyes instantly became bright and shining, reflecting his face that was somewhat similar to Lu Mingfei-
Although this sounds a bit nonsense, it gives Lu Mingfei the feeling that this is the case.
Is that what Zero just meant? Here yourself?
"Boring tricks, damn aliens."
Lu Mingfei muttered to himself coldly, the metal prosthetic body of his left arm decomposed and popped out of the pitch-black muzzle, and two explosive bullets directly shattered the braincase of this Deadpool, who it is and what genes it has to do with him.
Just as he turned around and walked away, in the darkness not far behind him, someone rang the bangzi, only the crisp, monotonous, empty, and weird bangzi sound came from the whistling wind and snow, and then replaced it in Lu Mingfei's ears and penetrated into his mind.
I'm sorry.,It should have been more yesterday.,But I wrote it out and tasted it myself.,I think it's a running account + defense.,This kind of thing obviously can't be served.,So delete and rewrite.。 Previously, I fell into the strange circle of tangled pursuit of the original book, and now I am ready to speed up. Push the book, a friend writes the hammer