Chapter Ninety-Two: The Land of Silver Frost Under the Moon
"Who are you, who are you, I'm a member of the Leopard Head Gang, if you provoke us, it won't be easy to live in this North Second District." Although he felt an inexplicable fear in the face of the cold black-haired girl in front of him, he still endured his heart and said this sentence.
The black-haired girl sitting in the chair didn't answer his question, but just looked at him coldly, as if looking down on garbage.
In this regard, the few people who were tied to the ground threatened a few more words, but there was no response, the air seemed to be silent, their voices became smaller and weaker, and the chill from the girl's body seemed to spread to the depths of the soul, making people feel frozen from the inside out, and even the consciousness gradually stiffened and blurred.
"Please...... You guys...... Put...... Leave me alone. Finally, the man at the head could not hold back his fear, and slowly fell to his knees, wanting to ask for a little mercy.
At first, Ti Lan still had some questions to ask, but when she sat here, her desire to ask slowly faded, and finally only a faint disgust remained.
What about asking, it's nothing more than lust, or greed, it's almost impossible for this kind of scum to demand morality, I guess they don't have this concept.
So, she stopped talking, and under her momentum and emotion, the people around her also closed their mouths, just stood quietly, and looked at the four enemies who were slowly showing their ugliness.
Time passed minute by minute, and just as several people slowly became conscious and stiffened, the black-haired girl finally spoke.
"Give me a reason to let you go, this is your last chance to live." After saying this, she said no more.
"I, I'm ......" Seeing that the girl finally let go of a little suppression, the few people who knelt on the ground took a little breath and struggled.
At this time, the sky was slowly darkening, and just behind the invisible of a few people, a few flames slowly floated over, surrounding everyone in the middle.
In the cold earth outside the wilderness, these orange flames almost became the only warmth, allowing the kneeling few people to regain the strength to speak, and in front of them, the black-haired girl was still sitting upright, her face, skirt, and expression were reflected in the firelight, and the shadows were shaking.
She didn't say much, she didn't pretend, she stared at the few people as motionless as a statue, and this amazing calmness and self-control made the people below fearful.
"I can take out all my savings and money and just redeem my previous offense." The short, middle-aged man on the ground begged to speak, and this was the most likely way he could think of it.
Money?,If it was a year ago, she was really short of money.,Cash-constrained.,Even hesitating to buy snacks.,But now she doesn't lack these anymore.,Even without the assistance of Eddes Academy.,Now you can live well with the power brought by talent and extraordinary sequences.γ
The girl's eyes slowly closed, as if mocking the person's ignorance and incorrigibility.
"I, I can cut off an arm to show that I admit my mistake, please, let us go." A younger brother beside him shouted urgently.
In this regard, the black-haired girl remained unmoved, and sat there quietly.
"I can swear, uh, swear......" He himself slowly stopped, how many people believe in this kind of oath, and he probably doesn't believe it himself.
If a person with a good reputation and credibility can still make an oath in exchange for life in a crisis, but a person who has no reputation and has done all the bad things, once he fails and is caught, no one will believe him anymore, and he will not get any forgiveness.
Several people wanted to say something to save their lives, but the reasons given were so weak that even what they said was not enough.
Sure enough, is it still overestimating them, the black-haired girl slowly opened her eyes, and then raised her palm, and the cold spread up along the four of them, and the white frost slowly climbed up her body, gradually condensing them into ice cubes.
The scene fell silent again, and she stood up as well, no longer sitting in her previous position.
"Whew, it's a relief." Aaron clutched his chest and breathed relief.
"Is this what the president will look like when he gets serious, it's scary." Several other people also had palpitations, perhaps because the black-haired girl had been soft-spoken, making people forget her appearance.
Jinsenke approached the frozen ice sculptures of the people, carefully tapped them with his hands, and finally couldn't help but ask.
"Are they dead, or are they frozen temporarily?"
On the other side, Ti Lan was about to get into the car to rest, and turned around after hearing the inquiry, "I'm frozen temporarily, but if it freezes for too long, I'll die." β
After saying that, she boarded the car and prepared to continue to catch up on sleep, and Deloris in the car looked at the girl who was lying on the bed and rolled up after she came back, touched her hair and shoulders with pity, and then prepared to get something to eat, after all, it would be night.
That night, the crowd gathered around the campfire again to eat, and the previous captives were tied up and placed not far from the ice sculptures.
Looking at Brother Long and the others who were frozen into ice, they were scared, but they felt a burst of fear and happiness in their hearts, although the eldest brother was gone, but he survived.
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Late at night, Ti Lan, who woke up leisurely, sat up from the bed, rubbed her eyes, looked at the time, and then remembered the few people who were frozen by her, so she put on her shoes and got out of the car again.
There were only two people keeping vigil outside, Valker and Phyllis, who flipped through an old book that he had bought at the last supply station, supposedly printed from the early days of the Emerald Skirt, and told some stories from that time.
As for Valker, he sat cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed, standing still in the cold wind of the wilderness, as if he were doing some kind of spiritual practice.
"Will the president wake up?" Seeing Tilan get out of the car, Phyllis greeted her.
"I'm a little hungry." The girl said honestly, and then Phyllis laughed, and pulled out a can from the campfire and handed it to the girl.
'T5 grade canned orange cod', looking at the sign on it, the girl carefully opened the can, and then ate it with a spoon, looking at the bonfire in a daze.
After eating, her conscious body gradually recovered, and after that, she walked to the frozen people in the distance again.
Seeing Tilan walking over, Valker, who had been sitting on the ground, stood up, grabbed his gun and followed.
In the cold silver moonlight, the girl sat down in the chair again, but this time it was much more ladylike, and Valk stood behind her, to which the girl nodded slightly.
She raised her palm, and the originally frozen people slowly melted, the frost on her body faded, and then she collapsed to the ground, and it took a while to raise her head with difficulty.
In this frozen time, they were like near-death, and indeed near-death, the heat flow and hallucinations before death, as well as the spread of deep sleepiness, all experienced, this fear of wandering like filaments on the edge of death, almost carved into the bone marrow, even a little recall, they were frightened.
Although the girl did not ask, she understood what it was like, for she had experienced it several times, once in the pipe where she was attacked on her home, and once when she fell into stagnant water and drowned.
Many of people's troubles and illusions are easily crushed like glass in the face of death, and only death is so fair and real, so that the real gems of life stand out from the bottom of the water and understand the beauty of life.
This is probably the meaning of the existence of the necromantic sequence (withering sequence).
"Let me tell you what it means to live." The girl spoke softly, and her words became the only one.
"Try to be a person with a conscience, I don't ask you to do anything good, but at least don't do evil, don't go along with it, if you can't stay in the North Second District, just leave here, the world is big, there are many choices, and depravity is not the only answer."
Although it looked like it was the eldest lady of the dark wind, the words spoken in her mouth were so warm that it was unbelievable, if it was before, Brother Long would definitely laugh at this innocent and ridiculous idea, maybe he would have to spit a few mouthfuls of spit.
But today he didn't dare, and he also rose up with some kind of happiness for the rest of his life, saying that the girl in front of him was naΓ―ve and ignorant, but at least because of this quality, he survived, otherwise he would have died a long time ago if he really met that kind of ruthless person.
It's better to be alive than anything else, he breathes the air greedily, he hasn't had this real experience in decades, and if someone can give him a warm bed and a hot meal, he can exchange all the money for it.
"I, I can do it, I swear." He opened his mouth weakly, propped his hands on the ground, and stroked the granular soil and gravel on his fingertips, what he used to think was ordinary, but now he pinched it in his hand, but he couldn't help but make people want to cry.
Will I ever see the next sunrise, he asked himself.
The girl nodded and shook her head, "I try to believe you, but my intellect tells me that it will be difficult for you to do so. β
After speaking, she sighed, raised her hand again, and saw that these people were frightened, and they fell to the ground one after another, constantly kowtowing and begging for mercy.
The frost spread across the earth, the fine crystals turning gray in the moonlight, and the frosty ground slowly parted as it spread in front of the four of them, bypassing them and moving backwards.
Frozen grains of sand and ice, the undulating and frozen waves that surrounded the four of them, and the frosty earth that stretched to the end of the horizon.
The gray next door, which was already swaying in the moonlight, showed a rare whiteness under the reflection and backdrop of this frost, until the end of the field of vision and the world.
At least the surrounding dozens of miles of the earth are covered by this thin frost, as if the whole world is frozen and stopped at this moment, this miraculous scene is deeply engraved in the minds of several people, and may not be forgotten for a lifetime.
"I hope you will remember today's words." In response, the girl closed her almost bewitching blue eyes and slowly got up.
Then, like ripples on the surface of the water, the countless frost that spread from afar melted and retreated, re-passing the four of them, retracting into her feet, and disappearing without a trace.
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The next day, they woke up in the early morning sun, and when they ate breakfast, they found that the men who had been captured yesterday were gone.
"Tilan got up last night and let them go." N replied with a cup of hot milk, as if he were talking about a trivial matter that he didn't need to care about.
"Well, is it just a release, what if they find it back?" Gu Luo ate instant noodles and opened his mouth in a slurred voice.
"It's okay, they made a big vow that they shouldn't come back." N replied with his chin rubbed.
"Does Teacher N actually approve of it?" Gu Luo was puzzled, but he was not the kind of person who got to the bottom of it, let it go, otherwise he didn't know what to do if he kept it, he couldn't kill it, and he would have to cross a distance of hundreds of kilometers to send it to the nearest police station, so he really didn't have that time and time.
Among the others, the girls didn't care much about this kind of thing, among the boys, Valk and Phyllis were silent, Kinsink muttered that the toys were gone, and Aaron was curious about what those people said last night, and Tilan actually let them go.
After asking to no avail, everyone set off again and went to the next sampling point, a total of 683 nodes, and they have now run more than 200, almost 7-8 a day, and most of the time is spent in the car.
"Now that you're getting more proficient, I've decided to start the second phase of your training." Two days later, N spoke to the crowd.
"What's the matter, teacher?" Everyone was curious.
"In the next few years, I will no longer drive, but you will drive by yourself, and you should have noticed that because the fuel cost in the North 2 District is very high, the funds given at the beginning are gradually insufficient, and we have only completed a third of the distance."
"So, in the next time, you must not only take samples, but also take time to complete some small tasks for local residents, or use legal means to make money to ensure that the journey continues." N clasped his hands over his shoulders and stood in front of everyone to announce.
"Can't you subsidize it with your own money?" One of the members asked.
N shakes the finger with the obvious knuckle to indicate no.
"If everything is subsidized with money, then what's the point of training you? It only makes sense to have rules and experience, otherwise you can even say, why do I have to go to school, anyway, the family has money, and I don't have to worry about eating and drinking. β
"In addition, I would like to remind you that the use of firearms will be gradually eliminated in the next stage, which means that you cannot use the firearms and weapons you brought, and if they were captured by you in the middle of the process, it will be another matter."
"In short, give full play to your ingenuity, although the chaotic area is full of crises, it is also a good place for experiments and actual combat, and you are not allowed to come to the bustling South 1st District like this."
"Think about it carefully,You should be glad,With a teacher like me escorting and the school park behind the support,When I first joined the firm,It's quite common for the companions around me to sacrifice.,Some of them,I even think I'm not as talented as the other party.,It's just that I survived in the end.,And many people either died halfway.,Or left disheartened after experiencing various blows.,There aren't many people who can take a back seat as smoothly as me.γ
After understanding the teacher's decision and the arrangement of the school park,Everyone had to gradually accept,Begin to plan and assign the future task routeγ
"I always feel like I'm on a thief ship, I'm a good idol star, why do I have to come here to live a life of bullets." Ruby complained about her miscalculation in joining the event, then took out a small mirror to look at herself, and when she saw that the image was still so perfect, she snapped the mirror shut.
"You're fine, but our Avne is the one who was surprised." As she spoke, Delores pressed her hands on the goldfish's shoulders and asked if she was a little regretful and scared.
"No, maybe I'm missing some experience." She shook her head slightly, looking at the quiet black-haired girl in front of her with a little envy and admiration, during this time, she was also slowly convinced, but she was used to being arrogant on weekdays, and she didn't know how to get close to people, and she didn't know how to go up and talk to her.
(End of chapter)