Chapter 399: Two Boxes (4700 Words for a Monthly Pass)
Woowoo woo –
As the whistle blew, the scarred Maomao train, with its new passengers, left the desert and headed for the unknown.
Bang! Bang!
When the train left, the scorpion who took the unfamiliar train helped everyone stretch out their hands by the window, hugged the tower several kilometers away, and shouted:
"Goodbye! Desert! ”
"Goodbye!"
"Woooooooooooo We'll be back someday! ”
"Boss, one day in the future, I must expel these damn rats, not a single one will be left!"
At this moment, an inconspicuous man named Alan made a grand wish with tears in his eyes.
But before the emotions of the "scorpions" passed, with a bang, the rat tide crossed the iron tower, and the iron tower, which had stood for hundreds of years, collapsed with a bang.
The air in the carriage suddenly froze.
Someone cried even louder.
Although the rat tide is terrible, the harsh desert environment still slows down the progress of the rat tide to some extent. As the train picked up speed, the distance between it and the rat tide gradually increased.
The survivors who are struggling with the end of the world have escaped from the rat's mouth like a single shot. While they breathed a sigh of relief, many people had a confused look in their eyes.
Where can they eventually escape?
At the end of the world, there is always an end.
They may not even reach the end of the world, and most of them will not be able to escape from the dreaded rat tide without the railroad ahead.
Qing 13 once again threw the last two carriages full of supplies into the "Bund" and returned to the first carriage listlessly.
In the first carriage, the atmosphere was oppressive and dreary.
The crowd behaved differently.
"Rustle......", Mia is using a portable radio device, searching for nearby signals, quiet and focused.
Yue Linglong, as always, held her white chin with one hand, smiled lightly, and looked out the window.
An orange cat with a bulging belly squatted on a table with several cans empty. The orange cat still tirelessly scrapes the opening of the can with its nails, and wants to open it, and from time to time sticks out its little pink tongue and licks it a few bites.
Zheng Xiu sat in front of Pei Gaoya, his thighs became Shirley's pillow, Shirley seemed to be indifferent to the movement of the rat swarm outside the train, muttering "The sound of evolution" from time to time, and fell asleep.
In the corner of the carriage, Gu Qiutang, who had long hair fluttering, stood in the corner, like a wax figure, holding a serious copy of "Physics" in his hand, motionless, staring wide-eyed and studying.
When Qing 13 stepped into the carriage, the movement in the carriage came into view. Zheng Xiu raised his head and beckoned to Chaoqing thirteen.
Qing Thirteen sat next to Pei Gaoya.
"I'm tired of Qing."
Qing 13 raised his presence in front of the leader without a trace, shook his sore shoulders, and the slender cigarette stick turned flexibly in the palm. "What are you talking about?" Before coming in, Qing 13 vaguely heard the conversation between Zheng Xiu and Pei Gaoya, and when he just asked this question casually, he looked down and suddenly saw a small box with twenty sides resting quietly on the table.
"Huh? How could you be so excited to show off your treasure today? ”
Qing 13 recognized this box, this box seems to be a relic left by a senior called "Lady of the Night", since the master got this box, he is like a baby, holding it in his hand all day long, how did it come out today?
"Flutter!"
Yue Linglong, who was looking at the scenery, smiled and couldn't hold back.
Pei Gaoya scratched his head in confusion: "Lao Qing, what are you talking about!" This is what we worked so hard to get back from the rat nest! ”
Qing 13 was stunned when he heard this: "Huh? ”
Zheng Xiu smiled and shook his head, he silently placed another twenty-sided box next to the first small box.
When the two boxes approached, the angular gap between the two boxes actually faintly shone with blood-red light, and the blood-red light condensed slightly, and gradually two straight thin lines appeared, crossing through Zheng Xiu's chest.
Everyone was stunned when they saw this.
The speed of the light is too fast, and it penetrates the master at once, which catches people off guard.
Although Yue Linglong said that she was looking at the scenery, her mind had always fallen on her husband.
The husband was "attacked", Yue Linglong suddenly stood up, her face pale: "Husband! ”
"Don't worry, I'm fine."
Zheng Xiu looked down at the "red line" that crossed his chest, knowing that everyone had misunderstood, and hurriedly spoke up to prove that he was fine. Except for himself, everyone present has lost his memories related to "Fengbei", but he knows that this box is a clue left by Fengbei's incarnation "Lady of the Night", and of course he is sure that Fengbei will not harm him.
Others don't know, of course they're in a hurry.
Zheng Xiu stood up and moved his position, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw it. It turned out that the convergence of the two red lines did not pass through the master, but the master just happened to block the staggered position of the red lines.
I saw two red threads running straight through the seats, through the train, and beyond the train.
In the cab of the front of the car, the Gigi brothers and Frankie suddenly exclaimed over the radio: "Boss! Boss! Call the boss! Strange infrared light suddenly appeared in front of the train, and we suspected that there was a sniper in the distance! ”
"Attention everyone! Attention everyone! We're being targeted! ”
"We're being targeted! Please ask the boss for instructions! ”
The sudden appearance of the "red line" caused the unknown believers and survivors to panic for a moment, and Zheng Xiu asked Mia to go to the cab to make a broadcast to stabilize the people's hearts and explain to the three tool men who drove the train.
The train was quiet again and continued to move.
"These two boxes refer to Direction Meow, stupid humans."
The orange cat whitened everyone with a disdainful gaze, and the unstoppable expression combined with the furry face made everyone involuntarily clench their fists and resist the urge to beat the cat.
Orange Cat was unaware of her arrogance, and she continued: "It should be her, hehe, who left a guide for you. ”
No one could see that at this time, Lady Anne looked lazy and elegant, but in fact, she hated it so much, and tried to do "the expression management of the master".
As we all know, this box is something that once broke her two teeth, and now that the "broken tooth box" has changed from one to two, Anne can not resist throwing the box out in front of everyone is already adhering to the "self-cultivation of the master".
Lady Anne made a pun on the truth that Zheng Xiu was embarrassed to tell in front of Yue Linglong. What Yue Linglong still doesn't know is that "Lady of the Night" can indeed be called her "senior" in various senses.
"Lady of the Night...... A guide for your husband? ”
The orange cat's words cast a stone in Yue Linglong's calm heart lake, and she became inexplicably alert, and even she couldn't tell where this strange vigilance came from.
"Wait a minute," Qing 13 bit the cigarette stick: "Lao Pei, tell me, how did this box come from?" ”
"Well, tell me."
Zheng Xiu knocked on the table.
Lao Pei tearfully told his tragic experience in the past three years.
It turned out that Pei Gaoya had landed in this world for three full years.
His "birthplace" was thousands of kilometers away from what he is now.
With the help of the translation function of "imprint", it didn't take long for him to integrate into this world and survive as a "survivor".
The area where Pei Gaoya is located is seriously radiated and polluted, similar to Area 32, and the ground environment is harsh, making it impossible for normal humans to survive.
In order to compete for insignificant supplies and "drop boxes", wars broke out in his district again and again, and he experienced corpses all over the field, rivers of blood, and watched the corpses rot and blood dried up again and again.
Pei Gaoya can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, and he quickly became famous in the local area.
Finally, one day, his area was too short of supplies to survive, and he decided to seek a way to survive in the next district.
Of course, Lao Pei has never given up meeting with Zheng Xiu and others, but in the last days, the transmission of signals has been seriously disrupted, and the communication between their apostles seems to have been somewhat strangely estranged, and he has no way to contact others.
After traversing the radiation-contaminated area and arriving at the next area, Pei Gaoya suffered from a severe "radiation sickness", and his body was festering with abscesses, which in his words was: almost mutated.
Moreover, the neighboring district was extremely xenophobic, and when the local armed group heard that a "powerful humanoid" was going to cross the district, they actually united and unanimously carried out a tragic siege against Pei Gaoya, who was infected with radiation sickness, in an ambush and sneak attack.
"On that day, we can't remember how many people we killed." Pei Gaoya looked at his calloused hands with a sigh: "In the past, I didn't like to kill people with my hands, and I always felt dirty when cooking." But that day, we couldn't help breaking the vows, this hand broke the necks of seventy-two people, and this hand broke the backbones of fifty-six people. ”
"As for what's underfoot, it's too much to count."
"Their firepower was so fierce that after we started to kill, we took advantage of the fact that they threw a lot of grenades and the streets were full of smoke, and they swooped open the manhole cover and slipped into the sewers."
"We don't remember how long we crawled in the sewers, and the wounds were covered with white bugs. We have wanted to press 'escape' several times and go back in a gloomy way, but it's a big deal to put a few more sticks of incense in front of the graves of the lady and the child, so that they don't blame Lao Pei for being incompetent. ”
The carriage fell silent, except for Pei Gaoya's slightly hoarse narration when he was nostalgic for the past.
It seems that they are all immersed in Lao Pei's desperate situation at that time, Mia seems to be touched by Lao Pei's words, remembering the tragic time when she lived in the sewer, and couldn't help but turn her head and secretly wipe her tears.
"Yo! But sure enough, believe in the old man and get eternal life! Lao Pei suddenly grinned: "We have really been sheltered by the master, what do you say?" The road to the sky? ”
"In the sewers, we saw a man in a daze, sitting there motionless, as if he were dead, and we crawled towards him, thinking that if this guy left some bread or something around him before he died, he could eat two bites?"
Motionless?
These four words instantly touched everyone's impression switch of someone, hmph! Everyone's eyes invariably looked at Gu Qiutang who was motionless in the corner.
The wolf is gone!
When Qing 13 heard this, the corners of his eyes and mouth twitched uncontrollably.
His words were not aimed at Pei Gaoya, but at Gu Qiutang.
Qing 130,000 never expected that Gu Qiutang's "immovable knife" for cultivation would hide in the sewer, a dim and foul place that extremely exercises human willpower, and said that being motionless is motionless.
This guy was rewarded by Zheng Xiu before going out and became a [chivalrous] door path alien, but his cultivation method has not yet departed from the set of "door rules", he is still diligent and diligent, abiding by the rules and restrictions, and deserves the evaluation of "wolf extermination".
Qing Shisan rubbed the corners of his mouth that was twitching faintly, and at the end he couldn't help but pat Pei Gaoya's shoulder and sighed: "He is more suitable than you to be a 'grave keeper'." ”
"Not really!" Pei Gaoya also wondered how he had become a "grave keeper" for some reason, but he quickly shook his head, and Chaoqing Thirteen blinked mysteriously: "Hey, don't say it, 'grave keeper', we have indeed developed a little insignificant thing......"
"Don't mention anything yet, let's move on to the box."
Seeing that Pei Gaoya couldn't help but brag about his "grave keeper" ability, Zheng Xiu was not interested, and knocked on the table again, reminding Pei Gaoya to continue talking about the box.
"Okay, sir!"
Pei Gaoya didn't brag in front of Qing Shisan, his heart was itching, but he didn't care too much, smacked his lips, and continued: "Later, we recovered from our illness under the care of Lao Tang, but I didn't expect that after being exposed to radiation, our body was stronger than usual. ”
Pei Gaoya called Gu Qiutang "Lao Tang", and Gu Qiutang called Pei Gaoya "Lao Pei", which shows that in the years that Zheng Xiu and Qing 13 were not around, the two depended on each other, became more familiar, and became friends of life and death.
This is also why Gu Qiutang was able to completely hand over his body to Pei Gaoya, and let Pei Gaoya carry him to run wildly, motionless for more than 20 days, and he didn't even want his life.
After Pei Gaoya's illness recovered, he naturally wanted to take revenge, and it took a few months for Pei Gaoya and Gu Qiutang to dominate the first district, gain a firm foothold, and kill all the marauders who surrounded and attacked him in the past.
Later, Pei Gaoya found that there were more and more rats in the ruins of the city, and the plague broke out. Pei Gaoya, who was bold and bold, guessed that there should be a big one behind this group of rats, so he thought about exterminating the rats, and also formulated a detailed rat extermination plan, wanting to kick this group of rats in a pot.
Pei Gaoya worked hard and finally found the base camp of the rats.
It was at this time that Pei Gaoya said what he saw in the rat's nest that he would never forget.
Pei Gaoya scratched his scalp and said with trepidation: "It was an old hydropower plant, and there used to be a huge reservoir underground. Pool...... Fuck, I've never seen so many rats in my life. ”
"A thousand? 10,000 heads? 100,000 heads? Lao Pei, I really can't count. Pei Gaoya recalled that scene: "Countless rats squeezed hard into the open space in the middle, squeezing out the internal organs, eyeballs, bones, and blood foam, and they kept squeezing and rushing towards the middle, as if there was something in the open space that attracted them, but the mice in the front seemed to be blocked, like an invisible wall." ”
"Stink! It stinks! In the cistern, the rats ate the carcasses of the dead mice, and they multiplied in place, giving birth to babies, and the babies that were born grew up quickly and squeezed forward. ”
Pei Gaoya struggled to describe the image that he would never forget with scarce words, and his words were pale and weak.
"Can you imagine that? The rats are squeezing, and if they can't squeeze in, they will be squeezed to death, the dead rats will be eaten, and the babies who eat the rat meat will give birth on the spot, and the new rats will start to squeeze forward again...... It's like ...... It's like ......"
Gu Qiutang, who was holding "Physics" and reading it silently, said two words coldly: "Cycle." ”
"That's right! Circulate! Pei Gaoya patted his head and gave a thumbs up in the direction of Gu Qiutang: "It's a cycle!" It's like they're in a loop! For the middle thing. ”
"Lao Pei, I know that this thing is very important at a glance, it is very likely to be a treasure, try to go in and take a look."
"I never expected that there were no invisible walls there at all, and Lao Tzu jumped in as soon as he jumped."
"In the clearing, surrounded by countless rats, it is this broken box that cannot be opened."
Pei Gaoya's voice slammed suddenly, lowered his head, and remembered something.
"As soon as we picked up the box, the circulating rat swarm suddenly became very strange and stopped moving."
"Really, a second ago they were still squeezing around, just a blink of an eye, an instant, huh! It was as if they were all frozen and didn't move. ”
The more Qing 13 listened, the more curious he became: "What happened later?" ”
Gu Qiutang walked in Pei Gaoya's direction, with a smile on his face: "Later, Lao Pei was like stabbing a rat's nest." ”
Qing 13 was stunned when he heard this: "What do you mean?" ”
Pei Gaoya smiled: "You also saw the rat frenzy in the desert today, right?" Hehe, it's similar to this, after taking the box, the rats all ran out, I grabbed Lao Tang's head and ran without looking back, ran out of the city, and looked back, the whole city was eaten by the rats. Later, as you probably guessed, I was chased by the rats for thousands of kilometers all the way here. ”
(End of chapter)