Chapter 378: Train (4500 Words for a Monthly Pass)
If the 32nd district after the disaster is nothing more than a tun for the whole world.
Mia, Jimmy, and Jim are all human beings born and raised in this tunli.
What happened tonight was a huge shock to them.
The "strength" displayed by the two humanoids is "inhuman" to them, unheard of, and they dare not even imagine it. They couldn't understand what else could be difficult to get him with Zheng Xiu's ability to freeze the earth with such a gesture and breathe the air of the outside world freely.
I don't dare to write like that.
What shocked them even more was that among the followers of the Night Lady, the "spokesperson" with a high status, the humanoid who was called "Madame" by the fanatics, hugged their boss in the blink of an eye, and really became their boss's wife.
Because of the well-known reasons of Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong.
Four people from the Orange Cats Club stayed overnight at the mall's assembly site for the time being.
Mia, Jim, and Jimmy took the initiative to apply for tonight's night duty.
The reason is simple: they don't want to be with the Lady of the Night's fanatics.
After the fanatics took off their masks, their faces were scribbled with paint, giving them the illusion that they would be eaten alive at any time if they stayed for a few seconds.
Call! Call! Call!
Tonight's night was exceptionally cold.
The air is slightly distorted by the cold mist.
"Mia! Mia! Mia! Jim calls Mia! ”
Through the filter, the sound of heavy breathing came back to his ears. Mia hid in the dark, silently wiping the barrel with a rag soaked in maintenance oil, and tried to aim at the three-point line from time to time to check the function of the mechanical sight - although the bent barrel was straightened by Zheng Xiu, Mia was still worried that the accuracy and durability of her beloved firearm would be fatally hit, and repeatedly checked.
Just then, Mia's headset heard Jim's voice of surprise.
"Be quiet!" Mia lowered her voice and replied angrily by ear: "Do you want to recruit a large group of creepers!" ”
"Quick! Mia, Jimmy! Take off your mask! ”
"What? You are crazy? ”
Jimmy and Mia agree that Jim is crazy.
"I'm not crazy! Take it off and try it! I've just monitored it, and the concentration of polluted dust in the air is extremely low, and ...... It's a little cold, but it smells so good! The air licks like ice cream! It still smells of gasoline! ”
Jim giggled in the comms, accompanied by the sound of heavy breathing.
Mia was stunned for a moment, she suddenly remembered something, suddenly took off her mask, and took a hard breath.
"Gasoline-smelling ...... Ice cream? ”
Mia gulped, greedily.
She looked up in disbelief at the lonely figure lying on her back in a comfortable position on a twisted and exposed steel bar on the dome of the mall, with a rhythmic toss of a twenty-sided box in her palms.
Mia remembered not long ago, when the man's god-like knife froze everything around her.
A bold and terrible thought came to her mind: the man froze and precipitated all the polluted dust in the air with a wave of his hand?
This...... He's still human...... Bah! Is he still just humanoid?
"Those who believe in me will be reborn through the cocoon."
In the dead silence of the night, Mia, who was thinking about breathing the fresh air of the ground for the first time, resounded in her mind over and over again.
……
The hustle and bustle of the world was far away because of the desolation, and what made Zheng Xiu feel ironic was that he didn't hate the purity and tranquility at the moment.
Throw, catch, throw, catch.
When Zheng Xiu got the twenty-sided box from Yue Linglong's hand, he lay here, looking up at the filthy dust cloud, repeating the action mechanically.
The orange cat's waist is straight, and it squats steadily on the sharp tip of the end of the steel bar. Anne's head clicked up and down with Zheng Xiu's catch-and-catch movement.
"You've thrown this thing a thousand two hundred and forty-three times, it's a bad human habit to do mechanical repetitive motion on meaningless things."
Zheng Xiu was stunned for a moment and looked at Anne.
"I'm referring to you throwing the box."
Hopefully you're really talking about throwing boxes.
Zheng Xiu silently looked away.
I didn't expect Anne to count them all.
"Is it that fun?"
Syllable.
The dark red twentie-sided box fell steadily into Zheng Xiu's palm.
Zheng Xiu gently rubbed the beautiful "north" on one side, and shook his head with a smile: "It's not fun." ”
"Then you throw a hammer?"
The orange cat scolded angrily.
Zheng Xiu wasn't angry: "I'm just thinking, why did Fengbei leave this box." She wants to pass through this box and leave it to me...... What. ”
"Foolish God, what is there to think? Open it and see if you know meow? ”
Zheng Xiu threw the box at Anne.
Anne was stunned for a moment, stretched out her paws, and caught it.
Zheng Xiu smiled and made a "please" gesture.
"Hmph."
The orange cat snorted coldly, and slapped its paws...... "Huh? "The box didn't move.
Zheng Xiu's smile was even worse.
"Uh-huh!"
Annoyed, the orange cat raised its paws again. The soft pink ball of flesh pressed towards the box with enough force to slap a city into ruins.
Even if the orange cat pulls its crotch and goes back, it doesn't look like a master, it's not elegant. But it can still do it to the point of lifting weights, and only Zheng Xiu can see how terrifying the power hidden in the seemingly random beat of the orange cat.
At the moment when the orange cat dropped its paws, the cat's claws disappeared in front of Zheng Xiu's eyes for a moment. At that moment, the speed of the claws exceeded the limit of Zheng Xiushen's eye grasp. The air between the claw and the box is instantly squeezed out, creating a local vacuum. When the claws are raised, the air sucks back, making a strange "pop" sound like when something is pulled out.
The twenty-sided box is still in motion.
"It's weird."
The orange cat didn't believe it and put the box in its mouth and bit it.
"Click!"
Anne's tooth was broken.
The great, immortal, indescribable, proud, toothless Lord Anne was dumbfounded for several seconds.
She reacted, angrily threw the box back to Zheng Xiu, gritted her teeth and said, "That dead bat moved on it!" ”
Mistress Anne omitted the reasoning process and came to a conclusion.
It was impossible for a small box to crack her teeth anyway, and the only explanation was that a juggernaut had done something on top of it.
"Fengbei should be trying to tell me something, or ...... What do you want to leave me behind. ”
Zheng Xiu saw that this thing even cracked the orange cat's teeth, and finally convinced, and affirmed: "But I don't understand, why did she use such a roundabout way, she obviously knew that I hated the Riddler." ”
"It's not a riddle, is it?" The orange cat clutched his teeth indignantly: "It's not obvious that you want to go 'north'." ”
Zheng Xiu was silent.
"As for the box," the orange cat became more and more angry the more he looked at the small box, and his eyes were burning with anger: "If there is no accident, you should find what they call 'paradise', and you can open it, boring puzzles, hmph, the stupid detours and hesitations of human beings." Hmmm, meow, meow? …… Paradise? ”
For some reason, when the orange cat muttered the word "paradise", she subconsciously raised her head to look somewhere, and she seemed to notice something, or maybe the word "paradise" made her perceive something. After carefully discerning the strange feeling, the orange cat shook his head vigorously, not noticing anything wrong.
"That's right."
Zheng Xiu clenched the small box and said with a smile: "Anyway, there is no hurry, the others have not yet converged, so let's first follow the clues left by Fengbei and find the 'paradise' she left behind." From what I know of her, if the legend of 'Paradise' is really what she left behind hundreds of years ago, then there must be 'Paradise' somewhere in this world, and it is not an empty word or an ethereal legend. ”
In fact, when Zheng Xiu saw the "twenty-sided" small box, he was already convinced that Fengbei had left him something somewhere in this world. Whether it's a message, or an object, in short, there must be one. Because, Zheng Xiu once mentioned to Fengbei that the appearance of his "prisoner" back then was a twenty-sided dice, which was equivalent to an unwritten little code between their husband and wife.
Nothing happened overnight.
In the middle of the night, Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong hugged each other and fell asleep.
The next day, Mia and the three appeared in front of Zheng Xiu with dark circles under their eyes.
"Boss, are you leaving?"
Yesterday's conversation between Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong made Mia keenly aware of Zheng Xiu's plan to follow.
"I'm going to look for what believers call 'paradise.'"
Zheng Xiu didn't hide Mia, and in fact, there was no need to hide it. God's actions need not be explained to mankind.
"Boss, Mia, I, you'......"
When Mia heard this, her face turned slightly pale, she bit her lower lip tightly, and stopped talking.
Zheng Xiu smiled slightly, seeing through Mia's thoughts.
"Two days, pack up your things and bring Shirley."
Mia was stunned at first, and then her eyes lit up.
"Oh," Zheng Xiu raised an index finger, "I lack a guide, and a maid to take care of the day, if you don't want to, forget it." ”
"Mia willing, Mia willing!"
Mia was afraid that Zheng Xiu would regret it, so she grabbed Zheng Xiu's sleeve and nodded very hard and shouted.
Hundreds of fanatical believers, surrounded Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong like stars and moons, and walked towards the camp of the Orange Cat Society.
Yue Linglong followed Zheng Xiu's side.
"You know very well that we don't need them to find paradise."
"They worship the Night Lady, they worship the Night Lady as a god, and even before they die, they smile and praise the name of the Night Lady." Yue Linglong said in a low voice: "For some reason, their situation reminds me of the people of Yue'er in the past. After that, Yue Linglong sighed lightly: "Yue'er also knows that they may become a burden to us, but in the past half a year, they have taken good care of Yue'er, if they leave them, Yue'er can't bear it." But if their followers are against the husband's plan to invade...... That's it. Everything should be about the big picture. ”
When Zheng Xiu heard this, his face did not show annoyance, contemplation, hesitation and other emotions, he smiled, and said briskly: "It's okay, just follow it, with our current strength, as long as it doesn't run into ...... Hehe, all fearless. If you are fearless, why not act unscrupulously? ”
Yue Linglong grabbed Zheng Xiu's arm: "The husband is wise." ”
"Besides, we are really not familiar enough with this world, whether it is your followers or survivors, they are far more familiar with this world than we are, and it is more than enough to be a guide. If you encounter any monster that can be solved with bullets, you don't have to use your thaumaturgy, and if you don't have to, minimize the risk of exposing us as much as possible. ”
"It's a follower of the 'seniors' of the Night Lady."
Yue Linglong seriously corrected Zheng Xiu's rhetoric. She didn't know why, but she was inexplicably concerned about it. Especially when the word "senior" is spoken.
When he was about to arrive at the territory of the Orange Cat Club, Lord Anne, who had broken teeth in his arms, suddenly popped his head out of the placket, and at the same time, Zheng Xiu's voice froze, turning his head to look south, one person and one cat looked in the same direction, and was silent for a moment. Zheng Xiu looked away and thought for a moment: "When you came...... Are you being followed by something? ”
Yue Linglong's pupils shrank slightly: "Husband, do you mean ......?"
"Shhhh Needless to say. ”
Yue Linglong suddenly understood, understood in her heart, and silently closed her mouth.
Zheng Xiu's casual expression was a little more solemn. Hundreds of people squeezed into the sewer at the same time, making the already narrow sewer even more crowded. Passing by the place where he was attacked last time, Zheng Xiu's hair was dyed frosty white, and he slapped it on the wall casually, quietly solving a nest of creepers.
In the orange cat meeting, there was a lifeless atmosphere. Zheng Xiu, Mia and the others reappeared after a night, and the remaining dozen or so people all showed surprised and frightened eyes. The Lady of the Night Cultists have a unique look, and their gas masks are painted in murderous paint, which is not a good kind at first glance. The ragged woman curled up in a corner with a blank gaze, numbly waiting for someone else to take charge of her own destiny.
As soon as Mia returned to the camp, she went to see her sister in a hurry.
Zheng Xiu took Jimmy and Jim to inspect the intact carriages used for living in the camp.
"What?"
When the Jiji brothers heard Zheng Xiu's request, their eyes widened in fright: "Boss, what do you ......mean?" You're going to put this abandoned train ...... On, on, out? ”
The Gigi brothers looked at each other, one was shocked, the other was outrageous, the whole world was the end, who would think about driving the train out? Is it poisonous gas inhalation that causes multiple encephalitis?
Besides, can this car still move?
Of course, the brothers won't put this kind of thing on their lips stupidly, otherwise they will have to turn into ice sculptures in the next second.
Jimmy was silent for a while: "I don't know anything else, but this engine can turn." ”
Jim was about to say that the engine hadn't been used for hundreds of years, and it had long since been scrapped. Unexpectedly, before he could say anything, he was interrupted by his brother, Jim frowned, and angrily scolded: "Jimmy, don't talk nonsense! How is it possible to move? Are you stupid by the poisonous gas on the ground? Or is it mutated by irradiation? Or is there an aberration in the brain? ”
When Jimmy heard this, his face turned red: "I'm not talking nonsense! I saw it with my own eyes! Do you remember, one day a week, the fire rats would kick us all out and order that we should not be allowed to enter the camp without permission, and that no one would be killed! One time I wondered why he did this, so I crawled in through the ventilation duct to see! I found out that the bastard actually poured precious fuel into the engine! The carriage was activated! There is electricity and hot water in the carriage! That damn starting the engine with precious petrol is to listen to the stereo and light up once a week and enjoy the shower hot!! ”
Jim was stunned for ten seconds.
Ten seconds later, his face was hideous, and he couldn't wait to drag back the corpse of the fire rat that had already been thrown into the field, and shoot again: "Damn! It was listening to the sound of the stereo and the lights on, and enjoying the shower hot! ”
They invariably made up the kind of ecstatic scene like the emperor's great health care.
Zheng Xiu scratched his head, unable to understand this unprovoked envy and hatred.
It is true that there is no complete empathy between man and God, and this is called the generation gap.
If you tell them that you once soaked in a flower petal bath in Daqian, and there was a real person next to you who played and sang, and rubbed your shoulders and rubbed your back, wouldn't you even have the brain tissue responsible for imagination burned?
Zheng Xiu patted the iron shell of the carriage: "You mean, this thing can turn, right?" ”
Jimmy nodded vigorously and said categorically: "You can turn!" ”
Zheng Xiu lowered his head and glanced at the orange cat. When they heard that they could turn, they were relieved.
It can be turned into a success.
Boom Boom –
Distant ground, there was another barely detectable tremor.
Zheng Xiu looked to the south again.
Something in that direction was approaching this direction at a terrible speed.
(End of chapter)