Chapter 383: "Bearded Thirteen"
Shortly after the believers led by Gappa left, it happened to be the time of a mixed bath, and in a short time, a dense burst of gunfire rang out in the depths of the jungle.
Mia and the others, who were guarding the train, were waiting and resting boredly, when they heard the gunshots, they sat up one after another, and subconsciously hid behind the train, using the train as a cover, and were vigilant around.
At this moment, Zheng Xiu, whose hair was wet, followed by the red-faced "Madame", walked from the river to the riverbank with a big grin.
Zheng Xiu combed his wet hair to the back of his head with five fingers, left himself a "big back" hairstyle, looked at the nervous crowd, and couldn't help but smile: "This is the gun fired by Gapa." ”
Woooo
At Zheng Xiu's feet, the lonely, immortal, eternal, and elegant Lord Anne also took a bath for the first time in a long time, shaking her whole body like an electric shock, shaking from her head to her tail, and shaking off the water on her body.
"Gapa ......?"
Mia was still enjoying the fresh air that she hadn't seen for a long time, and she didn't have to wear a protective mask to breathe on the surface for a long time, and after listening to Zheng Xiu's words, Mia and a few other people around her suddenly became nervous.
Yue Linglong lowered her head and patted her red face with her hand, it was hot, she secretly hid back in the carriage while others were not paying attention.
Zheng Xiu began to arrange work.
"Ji ......" Zheng Xiu pointed his finger at the two brothers who were also black-headed and black-faced, and said in a tone: "Brother Jiji." ”
Jim and Jimmy looked at each other.
"You're in charge of fixing the train."
Jim: "Huh? ”
Jimmy: "Huh?? ”
Mia: "Ah??? ”
Zheng Xiu smiled: "Believe in your potential, as long as you work hard, there is nothing you can't do." Didn't you just drive this broken car out of Area 32 with your own efforts? ”
When the stunned Jiji brothers heard it, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but there seemed to be something wrong, but they couldn't say it for a while, so they could only nod vigorously and agree blankly.
"Mia, after settling your sister, you send a message on the radio."
Mia was stunned when she heard this, why did she suddenly become the exclusive correspondent of the Orange Cat Club? But when the boss spoke, Mia didn't dare to disobey, she nodded: "That...... What frequency bands are used? What to send? ”
"If you send all the bands that you can search, tell everyone in the vicinity who can receive the radio, tell them that we're from Area 32, ask for a call, and look for mechanics who know how to do it."
After a pause, Zheng Xiu thought for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Also, tell them that we are looking for 'paradise'. ”
"As for the others," Zheng Xiu clapped his hands, looking like he was the shopkeeper, pointing at whoever he wanted to do.
"You, take a few people, and be responsible for surveying the surrounding landscape."
"You're in charge of collecting fresh water resources."
"You, arrange for personnel to take turns on duty, don't let people lose this car."
Zheng Xiu arranged it one by one, Mia listened quietly on the side, and felt that something was wrong when she heard it, and after Zheng Xiu finished arranging, Yue Linglong regained her cold appearance, walked off the carriage with a dark green military kettle, and handed the kettle to Zheng Xiu's mouth just right.
"Thank you, ma'am." Zheng Xiu winked at Yue Linglong and took a sip of water to moisten his throat.
"That'...... Where's you, boss? ”
"Me?" Zheng Xiu looked calmly in the direction of the dam: "Go to the jungle and take a walk." In my absence with Madame, Mia is in charge. ”
Swish.
In an instant, everyone's eyes converged on Mia.
Entering the jungle, the moist soil smells of decay.
Looking up, the dark red dust cloud is nowhere near as decadent and spectacular as the sky above the urban ruins of District 32, but the sunlight is still refracted through the dust cloud to the earth, which is still refracted with colorful or gray brilliance.
About half an hour later.
The husband and wife, with a cat, walked in the dense forest like an outing.
Yue Linglong has not been alone with Zheng Xiu for half a year, and now that they are reunited, the two of them leave others behind and walk on the forest path, which makes Yue Linglong involuntarily give birth to a kind of happiness of "Xiao Biesheng is newlywed".
In her memory, Zheng Xiu did not have an ex-wife named "Fengbei", and she didn't know that the "senior" she said in her mouth could be called her predecessor in every sense.
Now Yue Linglong naturally held Zheng Xiu's hand, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, her gait was generous, and she was calm and decent.
The orange cat sat on Zheng Xiu's shoulder, looked down at Yue Linglong, who "didn't know anything", shook his head a little funny, and sneered in his heart, "Heh~ stupid human", pointing in a certain direction in the jungle to show Zheng Xiu the way.
Going deep into the dense forest, the orange cat suddenly meowed: "Broken here." ”
When Yue Linglong heard this, she was puzzled: "What's broken?" ”
The corners of the orange cat's mouth were crooked, as if smiling rather than smiling.
Zheng Xiu pressed the orange cat's head: "Don't pay attention to this stupid cat." ”
"What did you say?"
"Shut up, mascot."
“……”
Under a towering tree, there was a mound of earth, and a large number of decaying leaves buried the mound, and it was obvious that something was hidden inside. Zheng Xiu's palm was lightly fanned, and a gust of wind blew, and the fallen leaves rolled up, and the sky was yellow, revealing the buried things.
Beneath the fallen leaves, the buried object was a rusty oval-shaped capsule, hollow in the chamber, the contents long since gone, and the lid was missing, and I don't know where it went. There is a row of thin hooks left on the edge of the cabin, and it is not difficult to see what was once hung on the hooks.
Zheng Xiu exerted his bull force and easily turned the cabin over.
Bang!
The orange cat became ill and slapped the rusty capsule into a large hole.
“……”
Where the orange cat was photographed, there had been a striking bat-shaped logo a second ago.
"Dead bats!"
The orange cat jumped onto the rusty pod, kicking hard one foot after another.
Yue Linglong secretly tugged at the corner of Zheng Xiu's clothes: "Our cat, has it been bitten by a bat?" ”
The orange cat was covered in chrysanthemums, and looked at the moon with an unkind expression.
Zheng Xiu couldn't help but smile: "Almost." Don't put those two words in front of it. ”
Yue Linglong showed a look of sudden realization and nodded, indicating that she knew.
The orange cat naturally wouldn't take the grudge that happened many years ago, this bit of anger, sprinkled on the innocent Yue Linglong's head, and after completely stepping on the cabin into a cake, the orange cat breathed a long sigh of relief, refreshed, and jumped on Zheng Xiu's shoulder again.
"See what?"
Orange asked.
"Probably...... I guess I used to have a parachute attached to it. Zheng Xiu observed the shape of the cabin, this thing was probably similar to the "material drop cabin" or something like "during his lifetime".
"Judging by the degree of rust, it should have been in recent years." Zheng Xiu stroked his fingers over the rust on the surface and fell into deep thought: "Actually, when I was in District 32, I already had some doubts about the production date of those cans. ”
"Isn't there no production date?" The orange cat looked puzzled at first, but quickly figured it out, gritted its teeth and said, "Wait, the dead bat is still there!!!! ”
"Not necessarily." Zheng Xiu soothed the orange cat's emotions: "I suspect that somewhere in the world, there should be a place that produces these cans, and from time to time uses this way to put them all over the world. ”
At this time, Zheng Xiu seemed to remember something, and a faint smile appeared on his face. This is very similar to Fengbei's style, Fengbei has always been cold on the outside and hot on the inside, since she has been here, facing the false gods, when she sees the withering and desolate world, she must have left something behind and done.
Beside Zheng Xiu, Yue Linglong silently looked at her husband's faint smile without warning, and inexplicably felt a little sour that even she didn't know why.
"Ahem, meow!"
Lady Anne meowed and coughed twice.
Zheng Xiu came back to his senses and put away his smile.
"Husband."
At this moment, Yue Linglong's expression was slightly abrupt and she said.
"yes, I know."
Zheng Xiu nodded, and his expression didn't have any other waves since he put away his smile.
"To be honest, it's more difficult to keep your abilities on the level of 'friendliness' than to go on a killing spree."
Shout!
The figure in the jungle flickered, and an arrow with a green glow at the end shot towards Zheng Xiu's door without warning.
Zheng Xiu raised his hand and steadily grasped the arrow in his hand.
He looked at the tip of the arrow, soaked in a layer of colorful color: "Is it poisonous?" Breaking the poisoned arrow, Zheng Xiu's figure moved, knocked down a big tree like a tank, and rushed straight towards the place where the arrow came from.
On the treetops, with Zheng Xiu's savage collision, there was a sudden exclamation. A petite figure screamed and fell from the tree.
Zheng Xiu's eyes were quick and he grabbed the man in his hand.
What was caught in Zheng Xiu's hands was a woman as dirty as a savage. The woman's upper and lower body were covered with rudimentary rags, unkempt, and her face was painted in dark green.
Along with the wildling, there was also a well-maintained, lethal composite crossbow, from which the poisoned arrows fired at Zheng Xiu apparently came from. Infrared sights were also mounted above the crossbow. Zheng Xiu sighed lightly, this crossbow can be regarded as a precious killing weapon in this world, not like a product that can be made by the existing level of craftsmanship, but more likely to be a relic left by the predecessors of the previous civilization.
The wild man screamed in his mouth, and she was being lifted upside down in the air by Zheng Xiu at the moment, struggling frantically and biting towards Zheng Xiu in a pendulum motion. Zheng Xiu casually threw the wild man not far away, the wild man was thrown aside, she didn't seem to expect Zheng Xiu, who had grabbed her, to let her go so easily, obviously stunned for a moment, and then quickly put an arrow on the compound and shot it at Zheng Xiu's chest.
Zheng Xiu smiled and slapped off the poisoned arrow.
Shout!
The third arrow, the fourth arrow.
Zheng Xiu waved his palm, and the arrow landed.
The woman was dumbfounded, the compound crossbow hung in her hand, and she looked at Zheng Xiu in a daze, her frightened gaze as if she was looking at a monster.
"Y-You're humanoid too!"
The savage said something that Zheng Xiu could understand.
Zheng Xiu smiled slightly, noncommittal.
If others misunderstand, they will misunderstand, he can't admit that he is a low-level thing like a "humanoid".
Zheng Xiu's silence became an alternative silence in the eyes of the savage, and the savage gritted his teeth, grabbed the last poisoned arrow in the quiver behind his back, and stabbed it in his neck.
"Why bother?"
Zheng Xiu shook his head, flicked his fingers, and a faint white mist popped out. In an instant, the poisoned arrow in the wild man's hand was frozen into powder, and the wild man's original suicide action turned into a punch on his neck, and the violent suffocation made her lie on the ground and retched and coughed, and it took a long time to recover.
You can't fight it, and you can't die if you die. The savage lay on the ground panting, looking up at Zheng Xiu, revealing a gaze that seemed to be about to eat people.
The orange cat's nose fluttered slightly, "Meow? ”
Zheng Xiu also moved his nose.
He carefully looked at the savage's face and was silent for a moment: "You, do you know a person named Qing Thirteen?" ”
Ten minutes later.
The wild man twisted his ass and led the way ahead.
The jungle is sparsely populated, and there are no roads to speak of. The path Zheng Xiu is walking now is all savages using arrows to pluck dwarf bushes, splitting out, leading Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong to a certain place.
The wild man turned back from time to time, looking vigilantly at Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong, as well as the kitten with strange behavior and as smart as a human. The wild man looked at the fat meat on the kitten's body, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva from time to time, but soon turned his head hard, looking very difficult.
The wild man turned back in ten steps, and the greedy gaze alerted Lord Anne.
She pointed at herself in confusion, her left eye narrowed and her right eye opened, "Isn't this stupid human being the flesh of the audacity to gluttonous me?" ”
"Ahem, delusion, delusion." Zheng Xiu hid the orange cat in his arms, firstly, to prevent the savages from being greedy, and secondly, to prevent Lord Anne from going crazy.
Yue Linglong followed closely behind Zheng Xiu, and the jungle was terrifyingly quiet, not even a single grass fly, or a bird, a snake, or an insect could be seen. Yue Linglong leaned closer, lowered her voice and asked, "Husband, how did you notice this...... Girl, has something to do with the thirteenth brother? ”
"The smell of smoke."
Zheng Xiu said with a smile.
"The kind that the thirteenth brother usually smokes?"
"Of course not." Zheng Xiu smiled and shook his head: "First the smell of smoke, then intuition." Zheng Xiu knocked on the position of his temple: "Although it is intuition, in the final analysis, after becoming a god, I have a keen sense of these 'truths', and when I smell the smell, I naturally think of Qingpi." casually asked, if this is the case, her expression, eight or nine is not far from ten, that is. ”
Zheng Xiu's rhetoric was quite metaphysical, and Yue Linglong couldn't understand it. But her husband's tone is firm, and she is convinced.
The wild man led the way, and gradually, the messy trees showed a certain regularity, faintly taking on the shape of a road. Red, green, and green rooftops can be seen in the distance, as well as a dilapidated bell tower.
The hands above the bell tower stopped beating, and the surface of the clock was covered with moss.
Click.
Zheng Xiu stepped on the mud and stepped on something. When I removed the boots, I saw that it was a plastic doll, shabby and old, half of the once lovely face was shattered, and the baby's face looked a little hideous and terrifying in this dead jungle.
"When we arrived, 'Bearded Thirteen' was inside."
When the savage said this sentence in a jerky tone, Yue Linglong, who had a stiff face, suddenly laughed, and the corners of her eyes twitched desperately, unable to hold back.
This is the third time she has heard the wild man shout out the new nickname of Qing Thirteen, the first two times she can endure it, this time, it is difficult.
The savages took Zheng Xiu, Yue Linglong, and Anne to an abandoned town.
The run-down town has long since lost its former prosperity, and it seems to have been a resort town in the past. At the entrance of the town, Zheng Xiu saw a signboard on the side of the road, on which was painted a hot girl with a missing upper body, only two legs left on the signboard, and a line of missing small words next to it: Welcome to the degree X day X, grid X town.
Probably a delightful resort town, that means.
As he was about to enter the town, the wildling whistled twice into it.
Yue Linglong's face tightened, Zheng Xiu was slightly stunned when he heard the whistle, and then showed a nostalgic look.
That's right, this is the secret whistle that their Zheng clan once sounded through the capital.
"Sir! Madam! ”
"Woooooooooooo You're finally ...... It's finally here! ”
The whistle sounded loudly, and a man with a thick beard on cowhide military boots shouted in surprise, crying and laughing, and pounced on Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong.