Chapter 21: The Caravan on the Edge
At the sight of a figure in the distance, Babu seemed to see another world.
With a red vision and a dark sky, the world is nothing but ruins.
In the sky above the ruins, there was a dark darkness with no end in sight, and the darkness was like a dark cloud, hanging over the ruin-like world. Below the clouds, there seemed to be countless pairs of slender shadow arms sticking out, hundreds, thousands, thousands, too many to count, simply countless. The arms were constantly waving downward, scratching, tearing, and with each wave, large droplet-like shadows dripped downward. With each drop of shadow falling to the ground, there will be an additional moving darkness between the ruins, allowing the darkness to gradually cover the entire surface, and the darkness will continue to scratch the glass while scattering, making people feel like they are in hell for a while.
This image flashed by and only appeared in front of Ba'b's eyes for a moment, after which everything returned to normal, and even Babu could no longer see any vision. But it was at this moment that those strange and unacceptable images had been deeply imprinted in Babu's mind, and Babu felt that it would be difficult for him to forget it in his life.
Everyone is normal, although Babu, who pretends to be calm and expressionless, has been shocked into a cold sweat, but the others are not abnormal at all, and they still look elated, which makes Babu very suspicious, is it because these people left on the edge just now, and they still have the energy of the illusion of world pollution, so that he who is too sensitive to perception has another illusion?
Before he could think deeply, he suddenly felt warm, a hard hand had already held his hand at an angle that was not noticed, Monica's face was still facing the front, but the voice floated over: "What's the matter, it looks like you're not right, it's okay." ”
"I'm not sure if it's a delusion." Babu lowered her voice and responded, "Let's wait and see." ”
As the two were muttering, the carriage from the town had stopped beside them, the door opened, and a short, thin man in his fifties walked down on crutches, the man had a kind face and a smile on his face, which made people can't help but feel good.
Babu remembered this man, or at least the bald head that glittered in the sun, and this man was none other than Loren Moon, the mayor of Thor, who had a good reputation in the town, and together with several elders of the Presbyterian Church, he kept the town of Thor in order.
"Monica, Monica, long time no see." Before he arrived, Loren stretched out her hands with a smile on her face, made a hug, and greeted Monica, "I was thinking if you would come over too, hahahaha, I heard that you ...... last night"
"Heh, heh, heh." Monica didn't respond, but stared at the other party's hand with a smile, I don't know when the whip was already in his hand, the end of the grip was against Luo Lan's chest, pushing him far away, and said with a sneer: "Dear mayor is not busy with work, did you forget to come to the door and shake my hand for three minutes yesterday afternoon, you can't shake off that, I can't talk about a long time no see, hehehe." ”
"Huh? Hahaha, I must have forgotten, forgot. Mayor Luo Lan rubbed his hands in embarrassment, and suddenly lowered his voice and whispered, "I heard Brother Gauss say that you are ready to take the initiative tomorrow." I don't know about your scavenging team, and I can't control it, but if there's anything I need to cooperate with, just tell me, and I'll do my best. ”
"The most important thing I hope is to let them go quickly." Monica wasn't polite at all, "It's better to turn around and leave now, or I'm worried that they'll cause trouble at a critical time." ”
"Can you be sure there's something wrong with them?" The mayor put away his smile and asked seriously.
Monica kept her mouth shut, she was just worried, not sure at all. The mayor sighed knowingly, "Then please bother with it." ”
"Oh~~" There was a cheer around him, and the caravan in the distance finally crossed the farmland on the outskirts of the town and was about to enter the range of the town.
Several groups of security guards came running with whistles, separating the onlookers and making way for them, and the soldiers of several garrison regiments, fully armed, lined up on both sides, like a guard of honor for welcome, but also exuding majesty and oppression.
As the convoy approached slowly, Babu searched through two sets of memories and found that it was the first time he had seen such a car.
The front of the car is a bit like the bicycle in the memory of the past, but it is a double side by side, with human pedaling forward, the visible structure under the chassis is already very complex, and there are various energies flowing, obviously energy and manpower are jointly driven, otherwise it is difficult to drive such a large car behind it with manpower alone.
Indeed, the carriage was large, at least five meters long and three meters wide, and it was piled with all sorts of debris, covered with a tarpaulin, and fastened tightly. There were also several fixed seats on both sides of the carriage, and the rest of the caravan sat on the seats with large bags and small bags, and the only empty seats were also piled with goods. A group of people are singing and singing more and more closely, and they can already see the smiles on each other's faces, smell the fragrance of fruit wafting from each other's cars, and there is a smell of corruption in it, it seems that there are really a lot of corrupt and lost goods along the way.
As soon as the car stopped, the mayor of the town and the captain of the security team went up, and the surrounding people also gathered to the side, chattering and arguing, Babu and Monica did not get close for the time being, and watched from a distance, carefully observing the members of the caravan.
The caravan was not large, there were six people in total, led by an obese man in his thirties, and beside him was this thin old man who almost had shrewdness written on his face, and the two were standing next to the front of the car, chatting happily with the mayor of the town, Lolan. The other four people, two men and two women, stayed around the carriage, untied the lid of the carriage, set up the table, and carried out small and fragmented goods from the carriage.
Fresh fruits, smoked salted fish, strangely shaped vegetables, never-before-seen grains, well-made ornaments, brightly colored porcelain, all sorts of bits and pieces of goods were piled up on the table that served as a counter in a blink of an eye, and although it was only a sample for display, a large group of townspeople soon gathered around, coming and going, and the noise was like a festival.
A caravan that looked normal, with abundant goods and friendly members, and nothing suspicious, Monica breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and was thinking that maybe their arrival was really just a coincidence, when she saw Babu's eyes flicker, with a thoughtful look.
"Say it, observer." Monica had no doubts about Babu's ability to observe and perceive, and when she looked at him, she knew that he had made a discovery, and asked directly, "What's wrong with them?" ”
"It's not a problem." Babu pouted at the car Nunu, "They just lost men. ”
"Huh?"
"Several chairs in the car can be disassembled, and if you look at the few bolts fixed underneath, it is not difficult to remove, but it takes a little time. If you want to load more goods, you can completely disassemble the chair and load the goods directly in the car, there is no need to pile large bags and small bags on the chair, which will reduce the loading capacity. According to normal people's ideas, they must install chairs according to their heads, save space and grab space for goods, but they now have an extra chair for no reason and have not removed it in time, it is very likely that there is a temporary lack of people, and they have not had time to deal with his seat. ”
Monica frowned and thought for a while, and with a pull of Babu's arm, the two of them met in the direction of the mayor.
The mayor was discussing a large deal with the fat leader of the caravan about iron ingots, and when he saw Monica coming, he stopped very cooperatively.
"I'm Monica, the captain of the town's scavenger team, a former Marginal Traveler." Monica strode in front of the other party, her tall figure and high heels, her condescending downward squint, coupled with her cold expression and straight to the point, the whole person was full of oppressive momentum, making people involuntarily look away and not dare to look directly, "What's wrong with your people?" ”
"Huh?"
"There are seven of you, and now only six have appeared, and what about the other one? What's going on? ”
"This, this ......" Monica's oppressive force made the fat leader stammer, forgetting how to explain it.
"You don't care how I know, we can know more than you think, I just need your answer now, even if you say that another person is dead, as long as you can come up with evidence, I can accept it." Monica gave Babu a narrow look from an angle that no one else could see, and then said with a straight face, "But if you can't give us a satisfactory answer, then we can only suspect that you have malicious intentions." ”
"I, we...... Well, I'll admit, we're seven people, but we have absolutely no ill will. The fat leader waved his hand vigorously, and the imposing Monica caught him off guard, completely losing his previous slipperyness, and after a long time of talking, he sighed, and walked towards the covered carriage with the mayor and Monica Babu, and said as he went, "Is there something wrong around your town?" ”
"Huh?" Several people glanced at each other, and Monica squinted at each other, "Did you meet those strange things?" ”
"But isn't it, we didn't expect that there was an entrance to the present world here, and it was all over, but we ran into a large group of third-order monsters head-on, and we were forced to retreat by them, and we just happened to find this entrance, and it can be regarded as an escape." The fat leader patted his chest in fear, and said with palpitations, "Luckily, the goods have not suffered any losses, it is one of our companions, something went wrong after being sneak attacked." I didn't want to alarm you, but since you've found out, I won't hide it. However, believe me, we really don't have any malice, just a few of us, and we're not masters, and we don't dare to have malice, I'm just afraid that you will mind. ”
As he spoke, the fat leader untied the tarpaulin covering the inside of the carriage, revealing the space underneath.
and a man lying in between.
The moment he saw this person, there was a suppressed low exclamation around him.
"Shhh......h