There's not much distance ahead. Is it easy to cut?
In this way, we will be closer to Li Taisheng... and the mud tiger.
As the surrounding aircraft wreckage was still emitting green smoke, Long Qi roughly guessed the identity of the man in front of Li Taisheng. He was unwilling to do so, but had no choice but to restart and drive the hoverbike. Sliding feebly over the swamp.
The roar of the half-dead engine was already a rather harsh sound source in the relatively empty swamp area. Deep in the wildly overgrown grass and mud in recent days, the movement of living creatures and even the sounds of breathing have become even more hidden.
Even if Long Qi knew what Ruiwen wanted to do, it would be very difficult to judge the location at this time, but looking at the swamp mud environment, it is difficult to say that he would be tracking on foot...
He didn't speak, but the person behind him took the initiative to pat his shoulder. Long Qi stopped again tacitly, while Ruiwen didn't waste a moment and jumped off the hoverbike, not caring about the mud gushing upwards as she stepped lightly from below. harsh environment.
Well, the description of "gurgling mud when you step on it lightly" is more suitable for Long Qi, who got off the car later.
Raven, whose body was too light, seemed to be floating on the grass blades of the swamp... But she obviously did not deliberately form this posture, because the next moment she stretched out her hand, not caring about the smelly mud that had accumulated for many years, and directly broke through it. He opened the surface of the swamp, grabbed the target below, and lifted it out no matter how hard it struggled.
It was a lizard-like creature, about the length of an average person's forearm. It was suddenly grabbed, and its scales stood upright, each one as sharp as a knife, and it twisted crazily between Raven's fingers.
Raven still didn't care. She slid her slender fingers on the lizard's skin, simply and directly, until it reached its head and neck, and shook it vigorously a few times. It was shaking so hard that the "lizard" swallowed its long tongue and spitted randomly. At the same time, there were some "impurities" mixed in and falling down.
Long Qi had been paying attention to it for a long time, and he also opened the glass bottle used for storage first. He endured the instinctive feeling of nausea and put the small things mixed with the sticky saliva into the bottle together with the mud soup. go.
He asked one more question smoothly:
"Can't you drown?"
"Vulcan ant? This little thing likes heat but is not afraid of cold, water or fire..."
Although it was the answer, it didn't come from Raven's mouth.
At the same time, an arm covered in mud came across and grabbed a certain Vulcan ant in the mud first, letting the little thing fight for its life at the fingertips.
The owner of this arm continued to speak: "...they can interfere with the nerves that control other species; the internal ecological integrity of the system has reached a certain scale, and the collective consciousness is enough to stir up the abyss. If the individuals were not too fragile, they would be perfect deformed social creatures. standard."
As he spoke, he crushed the Vulcan ant into crumbs with a little force of his fingers.
Although they are called social creatures, other Vulcan ants are quite indifferent to the death of their own kind, and they are still doing meaningless crawling movements in the glass bottle on the swamp mud path.
Long Qi, on the other hand, frowned, and when he saw clearly the "mud figure" approaching in front of him, the expression on his face became a little stiff, and then he turned away as if nothing had happened.
...This kind of action is not so natural.
The tiger didn't pay attention to the tool man next to him. Even if he took the initiative to answer the conversation, he was speaking to Raven from the beginning to the end.
During this period, his eyes never left the girl opposite him for a moment.
After Long Qi turned his face, he felt that he was showing too much weakness, so he quickly turned back and raised his neck.
. Unfortunately, this didn't help him attract the other person's attention, it only gave him the opportunity to continue observing.
The mountain king smiled when he took the initiative to talk to me. His smiling face looked very relaxed, but his eyes never left Raven.
The burning eyes, as well as the emotions and even desires contained in them, cannot be covered up even if the mud is applied all over the face... and there is no intention to hide it at all.
Long Qi confirmed this.
Of course, the desire mentioned here, if clearly directed, is more similar to greed.
Long Qi couldn't stand such a look, but Ruiwen didn't have any obvious reaction. She still controlled the lizard-like abnormality, and her eyes passed over the crushed Vulcan ant. She didn't mean to care about it, but reminded Long Qi:
"The host also needs to take it with him. He needs a box."
"Box? Yes."
Long Qi, who was in a tense state of emotion, reacted instinctively. He turned around and went to get the collection box that had been prepared in advance.
And when he got up like this, the last insignificant obstacle between Tiger and Ruiwen was removed.
The distance between the two is really within reach.
"Ms. Ruiwen?"
Tiger's voice paused for a moment, and the rest of it became muffled and muffled, and it just vaguely felt like a few short numbers.
It took half a second before it became clear again: "Actually, we should have met last year."
Raven's eyes finally stopped on this face, and it seemed that she needed to break through the interference of mud to identify it, but in the end, she just replied:
"oh."
Immediately, her eyes returned to the swamp ground where mud and vegetation were mixed. I can't tell whether it's sociophobic introversion or complete indifference.
"Sure enough, it's not very mature... but it's enough. This is my opinion." Tiger spoke again, just murmuring, more like talking to himself.
Later, Li Taisheng was still hesitating whether to get closer or not. When he vaguely heard this sentence, he was stunned at his feet.
In this state, the tiger doesn't look any more "mature" than the little girl opposite.
At this time, the tiger was in a half-crouching, half-kneeling position, with his body lowered, roughly at the same level as the current Ruiwen.
Most of his body was wrapped in mud, and he looked embarrassed, but his slender body was undulating slightly, maintaining dynamic tension, just like a hungry and thin tiger prostrate on the edge of the swamp, ready to hunt.
All that's left is the saliva hanging from the edge of his mouth.
When Long Qi on the other side recovered from his instinct and turned around while pressing the collection box, the scene in front of him was like a thick claw in front of his throat, making his whole body stiff and paralyzed. .
Only then did he realize that in the area he was in, the material level was clearly mixed with overly active disturbance factors - it should have come from the abyss. Although it was not particularly obvious, it seemed to be only separated by a layer. Thin paper that breaks when poked.
It doesn't even require the tiger himself to exert any deliberate force. Maybe it's just the inadvertent movements of others that can break this fragile balance... Only God knows what will happen next.
This is what Long Qi never expected to happen after he recognized the tiger.
The extraordinary person in front of him, who is famous in the other world, at this moment, has no concern at all about the consequences of expansion at any time, and is more like a beast completely dominated by basic desires.
Naked and explicit.
"Crack...bang."
The very typical sound of car doors opening and closing sounded. Modern people should already be familiar with this rhythm routine, but
At the moment, both Long Qi and Li Taisheng felt that the voice was abrupt and harsh...
Including tigers.
Therefore, the three of them turned around at the same time, and they all saw Baze, who had just gotten off the car, leaning on the junction of the front and the body of the car, facing three pairs of eyes, expressionless, and his eyesight was a bit misplaced, as if he had just gotten off the car. Come get a breath of fresh air.
But at this moment, Long Qi suddenly felt that the paper-thin distance between the Abyss Zone and the material world seemed to be misaligned again...
Just like Baze's eyes were misaligned with theirs.
"……Hey!"
The tiger seemed a little surprised, but soon he let out a sneer of unknown meaning.
In fact, since he took the initiative to greet Ruiwen, a series of actions were decoupled from the logic and meaning of normal interpersonal communication.
Therefore, neither Long Qi nor Li Taisheng could guess his next move at all. But everyone can feel that behind this unpredictable situation, there is a highly dangerous possibility.
Li Taisheng can only consider the outline of events on a larger scale:
The tiger came over in a hurry. Could it be that he turned over the table and grabbed people?
When Baze intervened in this way, was it a warning from the person behind him?
Is total war about to break out? This is too...
Well, many people actually believe that after the Deep Blue World became public and the contradiction between Luo and Li became apparent, the fuse for a full-scale war was already burning.
Li Taisheng never wanted the first explosive point to be at his feet. In contrast, he would rather play a brain-burning guessing game.
In just a few breaths, Li Taisheng's head almost exploded. He was not filled with thoughts, but with heavy and burning emotions...
To put it simply, it is more similar to fear.
He was obviously close at hand, and had some close relationship with both parties, so he could definitely do something - just like he often did before.
But at this critical and fatal moment, he shrank, like a blade of grass trampled into the mire, unable to do anything except passively endure.
Just as he was feeling annoyed, another voice sounded, like the vibration of a communicator. The location was in front of the off-road vehicle, near the wreckage of the aircraft with smoke rising from somewhere.
I don’t know what kind of logic there is, but after several vibrations, the communication was connected, and a voice that sounded too casual sounded:
"Hello, Mr. Tiger? You have gained weight recently, otherwise why would the aircraft explode while you were on the phone? Speaking of which, your landing place is not far from the cave, and you don't do it if you are lazy... Don't doubt it, I But I see you, the reconnaissance plane is flying above your head."
Yuan Wuwei's usually high-pitched voice sounded particularly pleasant to the ears now. Both Li Taisheng and Long Qi could feel that with his messy speech, the highly tense atmosphere around them was quickly relaxing and diluting.
At this time, Yuan Wuwei shouted again, with an exaggerated sense of making a fuss:
"Ruiwen, Miss Ruiwen, right? I was just wondering why you slipped away!
"Because of you, after the ZM explosion, I don't know how many people lost the meaning of life! Including a retired old man who was alone.
"Hey, where is my notebook?"
The latter sentence sounded like Yuan Wuwei was talking to the people around him, but he quickly turned back:
"Miss Ruiwen, when you come over, I will make an appointment for an autograph. You won't refuse, for the sake of us having to worry about it together.
"Well, how about I come over?"
