If we say that Area 32 after the disaster is just a village to the whole world.
Mia, Jimmy, and Jim are the human beings born and raised in this village.
What happened tonight had a huge impact on them.
The "strength" displayed by the two humanoids was "inhuman" to them, unheard of and unimaginable. They couldn't even understand that with Zheng Xiu's ability to freeze the earth with his movements and his ability to breathe the outside air freely, what else could be so difficult for him.
I don’t even dare to write like this.
What shocked them even more was that among the followers of the Lady of the Night, the "spokesperson" with a high status, a humanoid called "Madam" by the fanatics, hugged their boss in the blink of an eye and truly became theirs. Mrs. Boss.
Because of the reasons that Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong are well known to each other.
Four people from the Orange Cat Club stayed at the assembly center in the mall for the night.
Mia, Jim, and Jimmy took the initiative to apply for night duty tonight.
The reason is simple: they don't want to be around Lady Night's fanatics.
After the fanatics took off their masks, their faces were painted messily with paint, giving them the illusion that they would be eaten alive at any time if they stayed there for a few seconds.
call! call! call!
Tonight's night is extremely cold.
The air was slightly distorted by cold fog.
"Mia! Mia! Mia! Jim calls Mia!"
Through the filter, the sound of heavy breathing came back to my ears. Mia hid in the darkness, silently wiping the barrel of the gun with a rag soaked in maintenance oil. From time to time, she tried to aim at the three dots and one line to check the function of the mechanical sight - although the barrel that was bent by the bullet was casually broken by Zheng Xiu It was straight, but Mia was still worried that the accuracy and durability of her beloved firearm would be fatally affected, so she checked it repeatedly.
At this moment, Jim's voice of surprise came from Mia's headset.
"Keep your voice down!" Mia lowered her voice and pressed her ears angrily and replied: "Do you want to attract a large group of crawlers?"
"Quick! Mia, Jimmy! Take off the mask!"
"What? Are you crazy?"
Jimmy and Mia agreed that Jim was crazy.
"I'm not crazy! You will know after you take it off and try it! I just monitored it and found that the concentration of polluted dust in the air is extremely low. Phew...it's a bit cold, but it smells good! The air tastes like ice cream!" It still smells like gasoline!”
Jim giggled in the communication, accompanied by the sound of heavy breathing.
Mia was stunned. She suddenly remembered something, suddenly took off her mask, and took a deep breath.
"Gasoline-flavored... ice cream?"
Mia breathed heavily, greedily.
She raised her head in disbelief and looked at a lonely figure lying on her back in a comfortable posture on a twisted and exposed steel bar on the shopping mall dome, throwing a twenty-sided box rhythmically with her palms.
Mia thought of the man's knife that froze everything around him like a god not long ago.
A bold and terrifying thought emerged in her mind: That man froze and precipitated all the polluted dust in the air with a wave of his hand?
This... he is still human... Bah! Is he still just humanoid?
"Those who believe in me will break out of their cocoons and be reborn."
In the dead silence of the night, Mia breathed the fresh air from the ground for the first time with random thoughts, and this sentence echoed over and over in her mind.
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The hustle and bustle of the world has gone away due to the desolation. What makes Zheng Xiu feel ironic is that he does not hate the purity and tranquility at this moment.
Toss, catch, toss, catch.
When Zheng Xiu got the twenty-sided box from Yue Linglong, he lay here, looking up at the dirty dust cloud, and repeated this action mechanically.
The orange cat straightened its back and squatted steadily on the tip of the steel bar. Annie's head nodded up and down as Zheng Xiu threw and caught it.
"You have thrown this thing away one thousand two hundred and forty-three times. This is a bad habit of human beings. They always like to make mechanical repetitive movements in meaningless things."
Zheng Xiu was stunned and looked at Annie.
"I'm telling you to throw the box."
Hopefully you really mean throwing the box.
Zheng Xiu looked away silently.
Unexpectedly, Anne could count them all clearly.
"Is it that fun?"
Snapped.
The dark red twenty-sided box fell steadily into Zheng Xiu's palm.
Zheng Xiu gently rubbed the beautiful word "北" on one side, smiled and shook his head: "It's not fun."
"Then you throw a hammer?"
The orange cat cursed angrily.
Zheng Xiu wasn't angry either: "I was just wondering why Feng Bei left this box. She wanted to use this box to leave me... something."
"Stupid god, what do you have in mind? Open it and take a look, you will know, meow?"
Zheng Xiu threw the box towards Annie.
Annie was stunned, stretched out her claws, and caught it.
Zheng Xiu smiled and made a "please" gesture.
"snort."
The orange cat snorted coldly and slapped his paws... "Huh?" The box didn't move at all.
Zheng Xiu smiled even more.
"Hum hum!"
The orange cat was annoyed and raised its paw again. The pink soft ball of flesh pressed against the box with enough power to smash a city into ruins.
Even if the orange cat stretches its hips and backtracks, it no longer looks like a master and is no longer elegant. But it can still do it with ease, and only Zheng Xiu can see the terrifying power hidden in the orange cat's seemingly random slap.
The moment the orange cat dropped its paw, the cat's paw disappeared in front of Zheng Xiu's eyes. At that moment, the speed of the claws exceeded the limit of Zheng Xiushen's eyes. The air between the paw and the box is instantly squeezed out, forming a partial vacuum. When the claws were raised, the air was sucked back, making a strange "pop" sound like when something was pulled out.
The twenty-sided box remained motionless.
"Weird."
The orange cat didn't believe it anymore, so he put the box in his mouth and bit it.
"Click!"
Anne's tooth was chipped.
The great, immortal, indescribable, proud, toothless Lady Anne was dumbfounded and was stunned for several seconds.
She reacted and angrily threw the box back to Zheng Xiu, gritting her teeth and saying, "That damn bat tampered with it!"
Lady Anne skipped the reasoning process and came to the conclusion directly.
There was no way that a small box could break her teeth. The only explanation was that someone had tampered with the box.
"Feng Bei probably wants to tell me something, or... wants to leave something for me."
Seeing that this thing even chipped the orange cat's teeth, Zheng Xiu finally became convinced and affirmed: "But I don't understand why she used this roundabout way. She clearly knows that I hate the Riddler."
"It's not a riddle, is it?" The orange cat covered his teeth angrily: "Isn't it obvious that I want you to go 'north'?"
Zheng Xiu was silent.
"As for the box," the orange cat became more and more angry the more he looked at the small box, and his eyes were so angry: "If there are no accidents, we should find what they call 'Paradise' and we can open it. It's a boring puzzle, huh, human beings are stupid. Detours and hesitations. Hmm, meow, meow, meow?... Paradise?"
For some reason, when the orange cat muttered the word "Paradise", she subconsciously raised her head and looked somewhere. She seemed to have noticed something, or maybe the word "Paradise" made her notice something. After carefully identifying the strange feeling, the orange cat shook his head vigorously and did not notice anything wrong.
"That's right."
Zheng Xiu held the small box tightly and said with a smile: "There is no rush anyway, the others have not gathered yet, so let's first follow the clues left by Feng Bei and find the 'paradise' she left. Based on my feelings towards her, Understand, if the legend about 'Paradise' is really left by her hundreds of years ago, then there must be a 'Paradise' somewhere in this world, and it is by no means an empty talk or an illusory legend."
In fact, when Zheng Xiu saw the "twenty-sided" small box, he was already convinced that Feng Bei had left something for him somewhere in this world. Either a message or an item, in short, it must be there. Because Zheng Xiu once mentioned to Feng Bei that the appearance of his "prisoner" was a twenty-sided dice, which was equivalent to an unwritten code between their husband and wife.
Nothing happened all night.
In the middle of the night, Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong fell asleep hugging each other.
The next day, Mia and the others appeared in front of Zheng Xiu with dark circles under their eyes.
"Boss, are you leaving?"
The conversation between Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong yesterday made Mia keenly aware of Zheng Xiu's intention to follow them.
"I'm going to find what believers call 'Paradise.'"
Zheng Xiu did not hide Mia, and in fact there was no need to hide it. There is no need to explain God’s actions to humans.
"Boss, Mia, I, you..."
When Mia heard this, her face turned pale slightly, she bit her lower lip tightly and stopped talking.
Zheng Xiu smiled slightly and saw through Mia's thoughts.
"Two days, pack your things and take Shirley with you."
Mia was startled when she heard this, and then her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Oh," Zheng Xiu raised an index finger: "I lack a guide and a maid to take care of daily tasks. If you don't want to, forget it."
"Mia will, Mia will!"
As if she was afraid that Zheng Xiu would regret it, Mia grabbed Zheng Xiu's sleeve and nodded very hard and shouted.
Hundreds of fanatic believers surrounded Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong like stars over the moon, and marched toward the Orange Cat Club's camp.
Yue Linglong followed Zheng Xiu.
"Actually, you know very well that we can find paradise without them."
"They worship Lady of the Night. They regard Lady of the Night as a god. Even before they die, they will smile and praise Lady of the Night." Yue Linglong whispered: "I don't know why, their situation makes I thought of Yue'er's clan members in the past." After saying that, Yue Linglong sighed softly: "Yue'er also knows that they may become a burden to us, but in the past six months, they have taken great care of Yue'er. If we abandon them, , Yue'er couldn't bear it. But if their following goes against my husband's invasion plan... then forget it. Everything should be based on the overall situation. "
Hearing this, Zheng Xiu showed no anger, contemplation, hesitation or other emotions on his face. He smiled and said cheerfully: "It doesn't matter, just follow. With our current strength, as long as we don't encounter... haha, we have nothing to fear. . Since you have nothing to fear, what’s the harm in acting more recklessly?”
Yue Linglong took Zheng Xiu's arm and said, "My husband is wise."
"Besides, we are indeed not familiar enough with this world. Whether it is your followers or the survivors, they are far more familiar with this world than we are. Being a guide is more than enough. It is not necessary to encounter any monsters that can be solved with bullets. Use your thaumaturgy to minimize the risk of exposing us if not necessary."
"A believer of Lady Night's 'Senior'."
Yue Linglong seriously corrected Zheng Xiu's remarks. She didn't know why, but she was inexplicably concerned about this matter. Especially when the word "senior" is spoken.
When they were about to arrive at the territory of the Orange Cat Club, Lady Anne, who had a broken tooth in her arms, suddenly popped her head out of her clothes. At the same time, Zheng Xiu paused in his words and turned to look south. One person and one cat were looking in the same direction, frozen. There was a moment of silence. Zheng Xiu looked away and thought for a moment: "When you came...were you followed by anything?"
Yue Linglong's pupils shrank slightly: "Husband, you mean..."
"Shh. That's all. No need to say more."
Yue Linglong suddenly understood, understood in her heart, and silently closed her mouth.
Zheng Xiu's casual expression became a little more solemn. Hundreds of people crowded into the sewer at the same time, making the already narrow sewer even more crowded. Passing by the place where he was attacked last time, Zheng Xiufa turned white with frost. He patted the wall and quietly eliminated a group of crawlers.
There was a lifeless atmosphere in the Orange Cat Club. Zheng Xiu, Mia and others reappeared one night later, and the remaining ten or so people all showed surprise and fear. The followers of the Lady of the Night have unique shapes, and their gas masks are all painted with murderous paint, which makes them look unkind at first glance. The ragged woman huddled in the corner with a blank look, numbly waiting for others to take charge of her destiny.
As soon as Mia returned to the camp, she went to see her sister anxiously.
Zheng Xiu took Jimmy and Jim to inspect the intact carriages used for living in the camp.
"What?"
When the two Jiji brothers heard Zheng Xiu's request, their eyes widened in fear: "Boss, boss, you mean... you want to drive this abandoned train... out?"
The Jiji brothers looked at each other. One was shocked, and the other felt outrageous. The whole world was doomed. Who would think of driving a train out? Is it polyencephalitis caused by poisonous gas inhalation?
Besides, can this car still move?
Of course, the brothers would not say such words foolishly, otherwise they would turn into ice sculptures in the next second.
Jimmy was silent for a while: "I don't know anything else, but this engine can rotate."
Jim was about to say that the engine hadn't been used in hundreds of years and was long gone. Unexpectedly, he was interrupted by his brother before he could say anything. Jim frowned and angrily shouted: "Jimmy, don't talk nonsense! How could you possibly move? Were you stunned by the poisonous gas on the ground? Or were you mutated by radiation? Or? Is there an aberration in your brain?”
When Jimmy heard this, his face turned red: "I'm not talking nonsense! I saw it with my own eyes! Do you remember that one day every week, the fire rats will drive all of us out and order us not to enter the camp without permission. Shoot to kill! One time I was curious about why he would do this, so I secretly climbed in through the ventilation duct to take a look! I found that the bastard actually poured precious fuel into the engine! He started the car! There was a lot of traffic in the car. The electricity and hot water are turned on! That damn precious gasoline is used to start the engine, just to enjoy a warm shower with the music loud and the lights on once a week!!"
When Jim heard this, he was stunned for ten seconds.
Ten seconds later, he looked ferocious, wishing he could drag back the body of the fire rat that had been thrown into the wild and shoot it again: "Damn it! That's how you can enjoy a hot shower with the music on and the lights on!"
They all imagined the ecstasy-like scene of imperial health care.
Zheng Xiu scratched his head, unable to understand this kind of groundless envy and hatred.
Sure enough, humans and gods cannot fully empathize. This is called the generation gap.
If you tell them that you once took a flower petal bath in Dagan, and there were real people playing, playing, singing, and rubbing shoulders and backs next to them, wouldn't it mean that the brain tissue responsible for imagination has been burned out?
Zheng Xiu patted the iron shell of the carriage: "You mean, this thing can spin, right?"
Jimmy nodded vigorously and said decisively: "It can turn!"
Zheng Xiu lowered his head and looked at the orange cat. They felt relieved when they heard "it can be transferred".
If you can, it will be done.
Rumble, rumble——
An almost undetectable vibration came from the distant ground again.
Zheng Xiu looked south again.
There was something in that direction, approaching at a terrifying speed.
(End of chapter)
