Chapter 5: Thorns in the New Road
As far as the eye can see, the land formed by the dissolution and rejection of orange and gray can be seen on it, and the cities that once served as the home of humans are now assimilated by dense isomorphs, and occasionally a few humans and other animals that have been fixed in place and whose parts of their bodies have disappeared. Such a picture was naturally invisible within Canaan. And the reason why Izumi Huangbo can see everything now is because-
"Wait, wait, ah, ah, Mr. Mendechel!! I don't know how to adjust the speed and height of the levitator! Save—"
Mendevilel put his right hand on the driver's screen to keep it running, and his left hand pulled up the team communicator on the side, not looking at the slightest bit infected by Izumi's panic, but shouted at him in a very good mood: "It's okay! The hoverizer will automatically stabilize according to your brain waves, so before you calm down, come, don't be afraid ......"
"I can't calm down now, ahhhh
Mendevilel smiled and shook his head, feeling in his heart that it was good to be young, as he casually pressed two buttons on the screen. The control panel shrank down and moved to the upper left corner, and the middle position was replaced by a thrush that flapped its wings and tilted its head: "Good afternoon, Leader of the Emissary Battle Squad Mendechel, is there anything I can do for you?" ”
"Could you please change the driving mode of team member Izumi Arami to auto-follow mode...... Change the settings in about five minutes, and then please chart a route for me in order of the isomorphic reaction index from low to high. If there is an overlap with the morning, try to avoid it. ”
"Understood." The figure of the mistletoe quickly disappeared. Mendecchel retracted his smile and lowered his head, his gaze lingering on the middle finger of his left hand, where there was a silver ring that said "Wu" in beautiful flowered English.
The trio quickly took the elevator to the rooftop part of the building. It was unusually flat because it was divided into helipads, and there were several black ships that looked like eggshells lying horizontally in the different colored parking lots—messenger vehicles, and a few hovers that used isocrystals as a source of energy, and the only way to distinguish them was to look at the color of the paint on the left fuselage of the eggshell around the Canaanite logo. The paper ancestor flying bird is red, the Jigao Shino dance is purple, and Zhuang Sihong's is orange, so the remaining two areas are golden, the other is blue, could it be ......
"Ah, it looks like a few children are coming quite quickly! I thought I'd forget! ”
A hearty and clear male voice suddenly came from the air. Izumi and the others looked up at the same time, and a shadow cast over their heads, covering the pale sky and the sun, and a golden light bloomed above them, turning into the shape of a hydrangea and slowly dissipating. And sitting inside the hoverizer was none other than Mendechel. Izumi had a chance to take a closer look at him, and unlike his skinny self, Mendechel looked slender but had smooth muscle curves, and unlike these noisy teenagers and girls, he seemed to be about the same age as Kyotaro Yanagida. The levitator descended a little closer to the ground, and Mendecchel opened the window and jumped between them, and his height of one hundred and eighty-eight centimeters formed a steady decreasing shape with Izumi Araga, Paper Zu Asuka, and Yoshitaka Shinomai.
"I've been concerned about it for a long time, what Mr. Jun's son will be like, and it's really similar to him, and he looks very stable. I'm Isaac Joseph Mendelchel, and of course I'll just call me Mendechel. Nice to meet you! He pointed to himself, and his other hand gently patted Izumi Araba's shoulder, and he could feel the high temperature of his palm; Then he turned his attention to Yoshitaka Shino Dance and Paper Ancestor Asuka, "These two people quarreled again when I was away, right?" It's really hard for you, that's how the two of them fight around, but it's also cute, right? ”
"It's obvious that the guy from the paper ancestor owed it first." Ji Gao Shi Nai danced and turned his head.
"Instead of this, take your eldest lady first, bastard!" Paper ancestor flying bird hands on the waist.
Mendevilel laughed, more than embarrassed: "The relationship is so good-"
“…… I'm also glad to meet you, Mr. Mendechel. So shall we go back to the second floor for dinner? Izumi asked, looking up.
Mendecel nodded: "Yes, and then you will have to work on the material problems on your side for a while, and I will leave the dormitory to Mr. Asuka to deal with, as for you-" He suddenly changed his words, and his tone was a little pleasant for some reason, "In the afternoon, you will go on patrol with me outside." ”
"What?!"
"Is this going?!"
“…… Yes? ”
The three of them all expressed their surprise, and the captain explained as if he hadn't noticed it at all: "After all, you have to get acquainted with it, Miss Hong has already sent a message, she will leave it at night, but the growth rate of them will slow down at night......"
"No, no, Mr. Mendechel, it doesn't make sense, Izumi is just a novice, right? The training time and the combat method are completely inadequate, not to mention that he has no record of entering the Envoy Training Center!! Shino Yoshitaka stepped forward anxiously, "In this case, he will be in danger, even if you take him, it will be dangerous!" ”
"I don't understand it either, but this is the request of the people above, and I can't help it. But I'll protect Mr. Arami, after all, patrolling doesn't have to be face-to-face with Tongjingzi, and I still have this level of strength. Mendevilel shrugged.
"But even if that'......"
"Okay, okay, good Jigao, trust Mr. Mendechel's judgment, there is such a shortage of messengers now." Paper Ancestor Asuka wanted to touch Yoshitaka Shino Dance with his elbow, but was quickly dodged by the other party, so he had to stab Izumi Arami in the opposite direction, "What's more, I've fought against Araga-kun, his strength should not be underestimated, even a novice knows how to attack me and how to find my weaknesses, I'm very optimistic about Arabami-kun!" Right, partner—"
"Anyway, I'm also Mr. Mendechel's partner now." Izumi Araba reluctantly asked him to move, "Okay, I'm fine, if it's Miss Yoshitaka's order." ”
"That's right, good boy, let's go! The target is the cafeteria on the second floor...... But first...... Mendechel leaned over, the corners of his mouth curled in a malicious curvature, his eyes narrowed slightly like an eagle about to ambush, and he put his hands on Shino Yoshidaka who had hurried back a few steps away when he realized something, and Asuka the Paper Ancestor, who was still showing off with Izumi Arami, and then—pulled them straight by the collar, let go of his hand, and clamped his arm between them before they fell to the ground.
"Let's get along, !! two"
"Wait for Mr. Mendevilell!!"
"Hello?! Arami-kun!! Save me!!! ”
Izumi Huangbo helped the goggles to record the clip in front of him: "I think it's good, let's go." ”
"I'm moving!"
After saying this sentence with their hands folded in unison, the four of them began to eat with great interest. That being said, what is in front of them is nothing more than an artificial energy block, rich in nutrients that humans need and can properly stimulate the taste buds to bring the senses, and the taste is also different, but the only drawback is to say it......
"Eat this energy block all day long...... When will I be able to go to the inner city? I want to eat ice cream, real ice cream! It's summer! Paper Ancestor Flying Bird picked up a chopstick yellow energy block and put it in his mouth, a small creaking sound came out of his mouth, and he suddenly covered his mouth and bent over, "Hmm! Why is this spicy?! ”
"It's because you didn't look at today's menu, and it was originally said that this is a simulation of mapo tofu." Ji Gao Shi Nai Wu watched the paper ancestor flying bird run to drink water, and couldn't help covering his mouth and snickering. There wasn't a hint of yellow on her plate. "Alright, let's get down to business, Mr. Mendevilell, where are you going to patrol this time?"
"The southern region, the index is a bit high over there. In other places, although it is high, there is no obvious activity of the same crystal, so if you do, it will bother you. Mendevilel pointed to the watch he was wearing on his wrist, which was black like Asahi Takemoto, but on the surface it looked completely different from the values that were used to demarcate and monitor; His plate was the exact opposite of the Paper Ancestor Bird, filled with yellow energy blocks, "If you hear an alarm or if something is wrong with the index here, you must notify us." ”
"I see, it's not the first time I've stayed here...... Hey, eh! Izumi, what are you thinking? ”
Only then did Izumi withdraw from his thoughts. He had been inexplicably silent since he had been in line just now—and it was only when Shinomai Yoshitaka followed his gaze for a moment that he figured out what was going on. Three minutes ago, while they were still waiting for the lunch box to be filled with energy blocks in the messenger's passage, a girl with long hair and a particularly timid look walked into the cafeteria with cautious steps; She kept her head down, her gaze evasive, as if avoiding eye contact with anyone. After they had left, she stepped forward to the messenger's passage to get her share of lunch.
Is that Zhuang Sihong......?
"Could it be...... Shhh......h Could it be that you ...... Akuba-kun" Paper Ancestor Asuka returned to his seat with a glass of cold water and drank it all, "You fell in love with Shoji at first sight......?" It's not impossible, but no matter how you say it, she can't fall in love with you, I'm serious, after all, she doesn't even want to meet anyone. ”
"I wanted to talk to her before, but it didn't seem to be useful, even if I couldn't talk to her about books."
Zhuang Sihong sat quietly in the corner and ate, eating quickly, spoonful after spoonful.
"It can't be helped, some people just prefer to be on their own, or just need an opportunity for them to be awakened." Mendevilel scooped the last scoop of energy cubes from his plate into his mouth, "I'm going to add another meal!" Aunt! Trouble a little more! ”
A moment later, Izumi Arba and Mendechel, with certificates around their necks, walked one after the other leading to the airport. Izumi was still wearing goggles, staring down at the ground with his face unchanged. Mendelchel glanced at him through the glass window in front of him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Araga, your goggles - no, the head-mounted terminal was given to you by Mr. Jun, right?" What about the quality? ”
Terminals, in pre-new terms, are processors such as smartphones and computers, and there are already different styles in Canaan today. Izumi Huangbo's steps stopped in place for a moment, and he quickly caught up again: "...... Why do you know this? ”
"As for me, I used to be a Canaanite structural designer in Canada, and I had a hard time working as a designer and a messenger at that time, how could I not recognize this kind of thing that is at the forefront of science and technology?"
The information of "Mendechel" flashed in front of the screen of the head-mounted terminal, and Izumi Aragami stared fixedly, reached out to turn it off, and then turned on the recording function, and Mendechel's voice was recorded in it.
"I don't know why your father wanted you to carry this, but maybe it has something to do with your physique? Maybe it's to save you more conveniently, maybe it's something else, but of course I can't speculate so much about a father's thoughts...... Anyway, it's just what I said casually. Mr. Arami, here we are. ”
Mendevilel stopped, pressed the middle finger of his left hand to the fingerprint identification area, and the crisp "ding dong" sound sounded, and the door opened. They walked out the door and came to the parking field where they had just met, the hoverboard belonging to Izumi Araba had been parked on the ground sprayed with the word "Aranami", unlike the pure black of the other hovers, this hoverboard was pure white, and the blue paint around the Canaan logo on the fuselage was particularly conspicuous. Izumi took off the terminal and hung it around his neck and put on his helmet, pressed the certificate to the door, and the door that was just enough for a whole person to enter and exit opened. He burrowed into the hovership and observed, surrounded by a number of sophisticated equipment, the front of which was the operator's station, on which various switches were set up, accompanied by simple text prompts. The semi-circular transparent window that covers the top slowly emerges, similar to the one displayed on the head-mounted terminal.
Mendevilel was not in a hurry to log in to his hover, but stood aside and commanded: "You press that to turn on, and then put your hand on the driving screen on the very edge, and it will activate, and it will adjust its speed by itself, and if there is a direction option, choose the patrol route." ”
Izumi let out an "um" and pressed the red "Open", then pressed his right hand on the lit screen, and clicked on the "Patrol Route" option with his index finger - and then, unexpectedly and reasonably, bursts of blue gas erupted from behind the levitator, and with a whoosh, he rushed out of the airport with the levitator and sprinted into the distance.
A shrill scream came from afar into Mendechel's ears, and he slipped into his hover, slamming into the top of the door because he was too tall.