Chapter 331: The Final Stage – Mass (2)
There are only two buttons in the elevator, and there is no need to choose at all, but Cheng Mo's hand still hovered for a moment on the number "II.", just now he had counted countless gains and losses under the water, not that there was no choice, but that there was no choice.
He can only follow the script of the Joker Sith, as for the ending......
Cheng Mo pressed the black button, and the old elevator trembled slightly twice and began to rise slowly. He raised the silver flask carved with the "Black Eagle" in his hand and glanced at the dim light, the symbol of the Black Eagle from the Second German Reich that he had seen countless times.
Li Jiting had told him that the flask had been used by the Führer, but the date at the bottom of the jug had nothing to do with the Führer, and that His Excellency would not be born until more than a year later. In 1888, Wilhelm II came to the throne, and the unified Germany began to advance towards imperialism, and the "First World War" that changed the world began.
Cheng Mo's mind flashed through the events of Germany in the vicinity of 1887, and he didn't find anything special, so he didn't bother with the trivial things at the moment.
At this moment, he could only sigh in his heart: "Is this a coincidence, or fate?"
Cheng Mo stuffed the flask back into his jacket pocket, thinking that there was no bulletproof exoskeleton now, he hesitated for a moment and put the flask on the left pocket of his jacket, above the heart. The combat uniform is not very close, and it does not look obtrusive when placed close to the body.
The picture of Xie Minyun shooting at his heart suddenly jumped out of his mind, Cheng Mo's heart trembled slightly, he pressed the wine pot placed in his heart, spat out deeply, put aside distracting thoughts, and carefully observed the car.
It stands to reason that for this kind of antique elevator, the car stops on the first floor, which means that the last person to take the car is leaving the Eiffel Tower, not going up, which is naturally safer for Cheng Mo. But when Cheng Mo lowered his head, he found a trace of abnormality, the entire floor was yellow and clear, reflecting the light, only a small area on the right foot was very dull.
If ordinary people may not pay attention to such inconsequential details, but Cheng Mo has always been cautious, and in such a dangerous environment, although the Clown Sith will most likely not shadow himself, he has always believed in the heart of defense. So he crouched down, reached out and touched the darker spots, and then touched the other normal places.
Obviously, the entire elevator floor has been waxed, but the wax in this wrong color seems to have been wiped off. Cheng Mo knelt on the floor, bowed his head and sniffed on the floor, and smelled a faint smell of blood.
Judging from the location of the drop, there is a high probability that it is blood dripping from the right hand.
The combination of the two conditions of "Explorer's Club" and "Wounded Right Hand" reminded Cheng Mo of the terrorists who were called "Duke Sutherland" by the Sith the Clown in the underground bunker.
The 31st ranked Red Lion deputy captain of the English Red Lion is called Williams Sutherland.
Cheng Mo gasped, he stood up again and turned his head to look at the window on the right side of the elevator, from the cramped round glass window, he could see the craggy steel support, and he could see that the elevator was getting farther and farther away from the ground.
Seeing that he was about to arrive at the entrance of the "Adventurers Club" on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower, Cheng Mo hurriedly took out a spare simple gas mask from the bag hanging on his waist and put it on, and chose to squat down close to the center of the elevator door.
The vast majority of people will choose a hidden place to hide, Cheng Mo thinks in reverse, does the opposite, and chooses a position that ordinary people will not choose. Of course, this was not enough, and then Cheng Mo threw a smoke bomb in the elevator. In an instant, the entire elevator was filled with gray-green smoke.
Even if he was wearing a gas mask, Cheng Mo couldn't see anything when he stood in the thick smoke, and even if he raised his hand, he had to put his hand in front of him to see clearly. He was half-squatting at the elevator door, holding a submachine gun like a mobile phone when going to the toilet, the "Seven Sins Sect" had completely lost energy, and Cheng Mo could only rely on this now.
At this time, time slowed down, perhaps because the speed of the antique elevator itself was not fast enough. The already tired thigh muscles began to ache and numb, and Cheng Mo tried his best to maintain his bad posture, the muzzle of the gun was pointed upwards, about the position of the head, he remembered that the Duke of Sutherland was wearing an exoskeleton. Recalling the layout of the entrance to the Explorers Club, I waited with bated breath for the elevator doors to open.
Finally the car shook a bit and stopped rising.
With a "ding" sound, the elevator door slowly opened, and thick smoke spread outward along the crack in the door, Cheng Mo couldn't see the situation outside clearly, and the expected gunshots did not ring. Cheng Mo restrained the urge to rush out, and half-squatted in place motionless.
The elevator door shrank to the end, paused, and closed again.
The smoke was still flowing outward, Cheng Mo kicked the smoke bomb at his feet gently, and at the same time used his foot to prevent the elevator door from closing, and with a "ding", the elevator door opened again. There was no sound outside, and Cheng Mo was not in a hurry to go out, waiting for the elevator door to close again, he raised his foot again to prevent the elevator door from closing.......
Cheng Mo tensed his nerves and listened carefully to the sound outside, allowing the elevator door to close again and again without success, and then made a sound.
After more than a dozen sounds, the smoke emitted by the smoke bombs filled the entire foyer, but there was still silence outside the elevator, and there was no sound.
Cheng Mo didn't dare to be careless at all, but he couldn't wait for the smoke to dissipate, time was limited, and this risk had to be taken. After another "ding" sound, he decisively arched out of the elevator and crashed directly into the smoke like a bull out of the slaughter.
At this moment, there was a sound of breaking the sky overhead, Cheng Mo's body reaction speed was still too slow, and he had no professional training, even if he was prepared, he was kicked off the submachine gun that burst into flames when he turned around and shot, and then he was ridden on his body.
A cold light pierced the fog on Cheng Mo's right side, and a figure wearing an exoskeleton appeared in the haze. There is no doubt that the other party can't see himself, thinks that he is also wearing an exoskeleton, and wants to use a dagger into his neck to solve himself directly. And using the left hand to swing the knife, naturally because the right hand was injured.
At the moment of crisis, Cheng Mo covered his neck with his left hand, raised his right hand and posed as if he was about to shoot the "Seven Sins Sect", and shouted in English: "Duke Sutherland, I'm Sairen, I don't want to kill you, and you'd better not continue to move......."
The sharp dagger stopped at the edge of Cheng Mo's left arm, and the tip of the knife failed to pierce the special operations suit, but the arm pierced was painful.
"Seren?" asked the Duke of Sutherland in a deep voice.
"Yes, Your Excellency. Cheng Mo raised his empty right hand and said calmly.
In the thick fog, they couldn't see each other's expressions, only vague figures, and everyone guessed each other's thoughts and movements based on their tones.
Cheng Mo was sure that the other party would never want to break the net with a nobody like himself. Killing himself didn't do him any good, on the contrary they had a common enemy - the Sith the Clown.
Sure enough, the other party put away the knife and said in a low voice: "I didn't expect you to be able to go to the 'Explorers Club'......."
Cheng Mo also put down his right hand that was impossible to shoot out of the "Seven Sins Sect": "I have followed my guide. ”
Last time in the "Explorers Club", Li Jiting introduced Clarke, the owner of the Explorers Club, to Clarke, saying that he was his "guide", and Cheng Mo always felt that this title had some special meaning.
"Guide?" said Duke Sutherland, standing up and disappearing into the fog, "What an old title, since the flooding of Uroboros, there are very few powerful mentors willing to be 'guides'..... Looks like you're valued. ”
"It's okay!" Cheng Mo also stood up against the cold floor, the heating in the front hall was not turned on, and the marble floor was frozen like ice. The adrenal hormone made Cheng Mo's pain deeper into the bone marrow, he endured the aggravated pain around him, stared at the faint figure in front of him, and asked in a casual whisper, "Your Excellency the Duke...... Let's go inside now?"
Not being able to see the other party's expression made Cheng Mo uneasy, and he had to choose a more suitable place to talk.
"OK!" said the Duke of Sutherland, after a pause, "you go ahead." ”
"No problem. Cheng Mo turned around and walked towards the stone arch of the ancient French monastery according to his memory, at this time he was still hovering in his mind the question of what the meaning of "guide" was, but unfortunately it was not convenient for him to ask.
Soon, the two of them broke through the fog and walked to the antique front desk living room. Impressed by this living room full of cultural relics, Cheng Mo glanced at the gloomy chair that belonged to the last emperor, Fu Yi, and then stopped, turning to look at the Duke of Sutherland behind him.
Cheng Mo raised his hand and took off his mask, looked at the Duke of Sutherland, who was raising a gun at him, with a sincere expression, and said, "Your Excellency, I think you didn't leave, but chose to come here, definitely to kill the clown Sith....... I think we can work together......"
The Duke of Sutherland did not take off the mask like Cheng Mo did, he looked down at the much shorter Cheng Mo through the plexiglass and asked, "How did you escape from the Sith the Clown?"
"Escape?" Cheng Mo shook his head and said expressionlessly, "He asked me to choose who among my companions would live, and I did it his way, so he let me go." ”
"Aha!" the Duke of Sutherland tilted his head, "it seems that he really likes you." ”
"We used to meet at K20. ”
"I know about it. The Duke of Sutherland nodded, still not putting down his gun, and continued to ask, "You said just now that your 'guide' brought you here...... Can you take the liberty of asking who he is?"
"King of Lanling - Li Jiting. ”
"Haha!" the Duke of Sutherland laughed, and then he coughed dryly, as if choking on saliva.
"What's so funny?"
"No, nothing funny. It's just a surprise......" Duke Sutherland put down the gun in his hand, walked to the globe next to the coffee table, raised his left hand and spun it, "It turns out that you are Lyon's apprentice, no wonder you are so cautious like a little fox......"
Hearing that Duke Sutherland said "apprentice" instead of "student", Cheng Mo became more and more suspicious in his heart, and he whispered, "Thank you for the compliment." ”
"In that case, we still have a basis for cooperation. Duke Sutherland turned his head to look at Cheng Mo, "But I'm curious about what makes you have to fight to the death with a powerful character like the Clown Sith when you can leave safely, justice, glory, and profit, and he let you go twice......"
Cheng Mo sneered: "Let me go? He shook his head and whispered, "I don't have a choice." ”
The Duke of Sutherland nodded and said....., "All right! I get it. I'm here to stop that madman from launching a nuclear weapon. It's not a fun toy......" he shrugged his shoulders and said quickly, "Now that you're here, Nasis must be at the top, we don't have much time, we need to hurry." ”
Cheng Mo could understand the eagerness in Duke Sutherland's tone, "Then what else is delaying?"
"Clean. The Duke of Sutherland applauded, "It's easier to deal with than that old fox in Leon." ”
"I'll go ahead. Cheng Mo took the lead in walking to the corridor on the right side of the living room, and he remembered that there was an elevator in the dining room, and according to the structure of the Eiffel Tower, that was the elevator leading to the top floor on the second floor.
Entering the corridor full of oil paintings, the Duke of Sutherland began to ramble about some of the past events he had dealt with Li Jiting, Cheng Mo had no room to interject, he could only listen attentively, and when he walked into the restaurant, Cheng Mo saw the portrait of Xie Minyun hanging in the most conspicuous position at first glance.
She looked arrogant and indifferent at first glance, but her eyes were heavy, as if she had passed through everything and seemed to be so empty that she could not avoid everything, nor could she greet it.
I don't know who the master of the painting is, Cheng Mo feels that the other party has refined Xie Minyun's characteristics, not only beauty, but also a sense of religion that transcends mortals. Looking closely at her flawless face, it is hard to believe that this is a face of reality, and there is a kind of Eastern Buddhist emotion permeating, an expression of superiority, eternity, pity.
Seeing that Cheng Mo stopped, the Duke of Sutherland stared intently at Xie Minyun's portrait and asked a little strangely, "What's the matter, what does this painting have to do with you?"
"Well, this is my wife. Clarke, the owner of the Explorers Club at the time, said that if I wanted to get what I wanted, I had to leave my wife's portrait here. Cheng Moyi explained in a nutshell.
At that time, Cheng Mo didn't want to agree for the sake of "Death Light", but Xie Minyun agreed and made a bet with Clark that as long as she could win against Athena, who ranked first in the heavenly rankings, she could take the painting back. Cheng Mo is not a person who blindly keeps his promises, not to mention that it was a gamble between Clark and Xie Minyun, and it had nothing to do with him, so Cheng Mo went straight to the oil painting, took down the oil painting frame the same size as "Mona Lisa's Smile", opened it three times and divided it by two, and pulled out the oil painting inside.
"That's something that Clark's old bastard can do. He has always been fond of women who look like works of art, and if he can get them, he will keep them in his hands, and if he can't get them, he will have to make a painting, which seems to be his proud work, and it can be hung side by side with Hedy Lamarr's portrait. The Duke of Sutherland said in a puff.
Cheng Mo glanced at Hedy Lamarr, who was "known as the most beautiful woman in the world" next to him, and did not make a sound, he folded the oil painting and stuffed it into the back of his clothes.
The Duke of Sutherland sighed with regret again: "If you want to treat such a perfect oil painting like this, you might as well leave it here." ”
"That's not going to work. ”
"It's a shame to know that you're going to do that....... I should have stopped you. Sutherland shook his head.
Cheng Mo ignored it and walked towards the elevator door on the left side of the restaurant, and he asked in a low voice, "Your Excellency Duke, what are you going to do?"
The Duke of Sutherland followed Cheng Mo's footsteps and said as if he suddenly remembered: "We must not be able to Shangqiu at the same time, there is not much space on the top floor, one person must go up to attract the attention of the Clown Sith first, and the other person will wait for the opportunity to activate the carrier." Given your relationship with the Sith the Clown, you're the only one to get attention. He raised his left hand and made a gesture of shooting at his temple, "If I go up, he will definitely not let me say a word, just shoot." ”
The Duke of Sutherland threw the most dangerous task to himself as if nothing happened, and Cheng Mo did not bargain, in the case of unequal strength, there is no point in bargaining, not to mention that the other party is also telling the truth, so Cheng Mo just thought about it for a while and said: "What if when I go out, his people still enter the elevator to check? ”
The Duke of Sutherland smiled, as if admiring Cheng Mo's courage and responsibility, "This is very thoughtful. He looked at the elevator door, "You go first, I'll open the door on the outer floor of the elevator later." When you're up, grab the cable and follow you up so no one notices. As long as we can work together to kill the Clown Sith, you will become famous!!The bounty on the dark web will be yours, and I don't need to ...... a dime"
This kind of superficial chicken blood made Cheng Mo spurn in his heart, maybe the other party just regarded himself as a high-level cannon fodder, but he didn't show it, just glanced at Duke Sutherland's injured right hand and asked, "Is it okay? This action is not an ordinary adventure." ”
"Hmm, you are showing naked contempt for a senior!" Duke Sutherland said in a stunned tone, as he pressed the elevator door for Cheng Mo, and couldn't wait to push Cheng Mo in, leaned over and pressed the elevator button, and before the elevator door closed, he waved his fist and said, "We can do it." ”
Cheng Mo put the gas mask back on, watched the Duke of Sutherland disappear from view, and thought to himself: I don't know who will be cannon fodder. The elevator began to rise, and after a moment he felt the car sink downward, then shake twice.
It seems that the Duke of Sutherland has "taken" the elevator as he wished, although the Duke of Sutherland's motives are not pure, Cheng Mo still expects everything to go well.
As the elevator went up, Cheng Mo kept raising his wrist to try to see if there was a signal, and finally when he was close to the top of the tower, the map popped up. But the speed of the elevator is too fast, and it is close to the top floor, Cheng Mo, who is in the elevator, has no way to activate the carrier for his own safety, and even the Duke of Sutherland, who is attached to the bottom of the elevator, had better not activate the carrier at this time, in case the other party finds out and throws a bomb directly into the car, then the Duke of Sutherland will become cannon fodder faster than Cheng Mo.
As soon as Cheng Mo's thoughts flashed, the elevator had already reached the top floor. Cheng Mo hurriedly put down his right hand, and with a "ding" sound, the elevator door opened, and the not-so-large top-floor viewing hall appeared in Cheng Mo's field of vision.
The Sith the Clown and Commander Michelle, strapped to a computer chair, are in the center of the observation deck, and a camera is shooting at them, with several men in gas masks working on their laptops.
The sound of the elevator door opening attracted everyone's attention, and the clown Sith, who was originally paying attention to the live broadcast, also straightened up, he turned to look at Cheng Mo, patted the shoulder of Commander Michelle, and chuckled and said, "Look! The supporting characters are starting to appear!"
Cheng Mo didn't linger in the elevator for a second longer, and walked out of the elevator directly. The guards on the side immediately leaned in, pressed the down button, and threw a bomb inside. Cheng Mo heard the collision sound of bombs spinning in the car, and his heart sank, knowing that the Duke of Sutherland was unlucky, but he didn't look back.
Moments later, a violent explosion resounded over the Eiffel Tower, orange light shone around the glass windows of the observation deck, and the tower shook slightly, letting out a soft wail.
Cheng Mo looked at the clown Sith without changing his face, and said lightly: "Mr. Sith is really cautious. ”
"I thought it was the Duke of Sutherland who came up from that elevator, but I didn't expect it to be you. He waved his hand, "But it's okay, it's just a pity that I set up a fun quiz session for you at North Point......"
Cheng Mo stood in place and shrugged his shoulders and said, "That's really a pity." ”
Sith the Clown pointed to the laptop on the table, grinned and said: "Come and watch the live broadcast, the voting will end in five minutes, and now 98.5% of the citizens of Paris are strongly asking His Excellency the Commander to launch a nuclear bomb, and the people who have been begging for love and peace all day long are forcing the country to war......." The Clown Sith sighed, wrinkled and complained, "It looks like my gas device is going to be useless!
Cheng Mo didn't answer, but turned his head to look at the several computers on the table, one of which was playing the voting data of the Parisians in real time, and the French host with a serious look next to him was taking pains to analyze the possibility of falsification of the Clown Sith data. They believed that it was absolutely impossible for the brave people of Paris to be willing to sacrifice themselves only by 1.5 percent. People from other countries don't be fooled, this is definitely a smear by the Syths of the Clowns against all the French.
On the other laptop, the head of England, who was a guest on BBC News, was mourning the suffering of the Parisians with a sad face, and at the same time mercifully reassuring the Parisians that poison gas was not a big deal, and everyone squeezed together to get some gas masks to pass soon, and the wounds caused by nuclear war could never be healed.
The clown Sith said that it was terrible, but in fact, the smile in his head was about to burst out, he pointed to the computer next to him and said: "Look at it, look at it, isn't this world funny, in fact, everyone is the ass decides the head, but they have to pretend to be fair and just, and they say high-sounding words." ”
The spokesman in military uniform said with a serious face that country A would not sit idly by and watch any terrorist acts, and that no matter which country or organization tried to attack country A, it would take reciprocal retaliation. Country A is confident that it will defeat the conspiracy of any country or terrorist organization, and all the people of country A can rest assured.
Whether it is Tokyo at noon or New York in the middle of the night, whether it is a remote village in Africa or a war-torn town of Suriya, whether it is a nightclub with flashing laser lights, or a breakfast restaurant filled with fog, whether it is a panicked Hawaii, or a country H eating melons through the wall......
All eyes are on Paris, all eyes are on the developments. Everyone logged on to the film network and spent a dollar to exchange voting rights to exercise their insignificant and heavy rights.
However, the statement of the spokesperson of country A did not stop people around the world from voting. The histogram representing country A has risen rapidly, and there are already hundreds of millions of viewers who want to see France launch a nuclear bomb at country A.
The Republic of Tuva in the South Pacific, which has just been urgently announced by the United Nations, is an uninhabited island without any countries around it, and only tens of millions of votes have been voted, which is a drop in the bucket compared to country A, which was elected with hundreds of millions of votes.......
The clown Sith chattered and laughed, he shook the computer chair with one hand, pointed at the computer with the other and said, "Look how ridiculous, people have the ability to keep the war from breaking out, but look at the real vote." Smiling, he raised his hand to wipe his tears, and turned his head to look at Cheng Mo, "Guess what caused such a result?"
"Hatred, jealousy, who knows? Anyway, there are quite a few people who hate country A. ”
"No, no....." the Clown Sith shook his finger, "it's love......! Love!"
Cheng Mo felt that the Clown Sith had entered a state of madness, he couldn't understand what the Clown Sith wanted to do, at first he thought that the Clown Sith was an extreme anarchist, and now he was a little confused. For now, he only hopes that Xie Minyun had better not come and let everything pass.
Whether or not the Sith the Clown releases poison gas or nuclear bombs in the end, it has nothing to do with them anyway.
Cheng Mo stared at the alarm clock in front of the camera, the old clockwork alarm clock was spinning minute by minute, and the voting page on the computer also entered the countdown.
10。
9。
8........
As time was about to jump to zero, the Sith the Clown excitedly raised his hands and shouted, "Look, this is the carnival of the people of the world! This is the greatest stage! I am the exposer of the mask! I am the immortal comedian!"
At this moment, a golden glow flashed not far from the observation deck, as if the sun was rising from the sky.......
Xie Minyun came down like a god.
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