"Uncle, Shirley opened it!"
Shirley ran out happily holding her floral skirt.
"ah!"
The little loli who ran too fast unexpectedly fell on the ground. She was dancing and dancing and was about to fall to the ground.
Qing Shisan has sharp eyes and a quick mouth, whoosh! He opened his mouth and blew out a puff of thick smoke towards Shirley.
Bang!
Under Qing Shisan's shocked eyes, Zheng Xiu slapped away the unformed smoke.
At this moment, Qing Shisan's eyes dazzled slightly. He was about to fall down when he saw Shirley just now, but in the blink of an eye, Shirley continued to "happily run towards Zheng Xiu while carrying a floral skirt." go".
"ah?"
Qing Shisan's eyes widened and he rubbed them hard, wondering if he was dazzled.
"Shirley opened it!"
Shirley didn't seem to know what had just happened.
Zheng Xiu squatted in front of Shirley, smiled and looked at Shirley, who had suffered a "dark childhood" and was now regaining happiness little by little, and asked with a smile: "Shirley is great!"
Qing Shisan twitched the corner of his mouth, with a black thread, and silently extinguished the fire in the cigarette rod.
"Um!"
Shirley nodded vigorously, fearing that Zheng Xiu didn't know how awesome she was.
"Uncle wants to know how Shirley knew the password."
Shirley tilted her head and thought for a while.
Just thought about it.
She shook her head:
"Shirley doesn't know."
An expression called "confused" appeared on her delicate little face that had been washed and carved. She obviously couldn't understand the true meaning of Zheng Xiu's question.
After a while.
Shirley shook her head again and replied: "Shirley doesn't know. Shirley wants to help her uncle. There are many, many numbers on it...it opened."
Zheng Xiu: "..."
Qing Shisan scratched his head: "Did this girl... omit a few hundred words in the middle?"
Zheng Xiu didn't say anything.
Mia and Xia Sha couldn't even understand what happened.
Xia Sha winked at Qing Shisan, silently wiped her neck, and then turned her head slightly, as if waiting for Qing Shisan to make a decision.
The predators who understood Xia Sha's actions suddenly felt a chill on their necks, and the thought of "fighting to the death" suddenly came to their minds. But Qing Shisan shook his head and smiled: "Don't make your own decisions, listen to the boss."
In front of outsiders, Qing Shisan, like Mia, calls Zheng Xiu "boss".
There is no other meaning, it is just for unification, grounding, and ease of communication.
Xia Sha nodded, looking at Qing Shisan's back following Zheng Xiu into the computer room, she pursed her lips.
…
The computer room was dark and lightless, and the spacious operating desk almost spanned the entire computer room.
There is a painting above the operating table.
A "map of the world".
Zheng Xiu originally thought that with the level of technology in this world, it would at least be an LCD screen, or something higher-end. The "world map" erected above the operating table is just a world map drawn on a large steel plate with anti-rust coating and paint.
Zheng Xiu knocked hard, and it made a banging sound, solid and hard.
The territory of the world, as Zheng Xiu knew, is composed of several plates of land and ocean. The unfamiliar map uses basic colors of red, yellow, blue and green to distinguish the boundaries of different countries - to be precise, they should be the "national boundaries" used by the previous civilization.
Every country that ever existed in the "world" had a tiny little light bulb with a red light on.
What surprised Zheng Xiu was that there were various mechanical knobs, levers, and closing buttons scattered on the operating table. There was not even a touch screen, which looked very backward at first glance.
Qing Shisan's reaction was the opposite to Zheng Xiu's. He had never seen such a complicated "machine" before, and he exclaimed: "Awesome!"
Zheng Xiu then thought about it. As the saying goes, the more complex the structure, the easier it is to break. The simplest and most primitive mechanical and circuit structure is the main reason why this machine can still keep working after hundreds of years of silence.
Although there is no instruction manual or operating manual, every button, knob, and lever is labeled with a label explaining the function of each button.
Zheng Xiu glanced at it and instantly understood how to operate.
He lifted all the levers in one breath.
Ding!
Ding!
Ding!
Ding!
As the red lights on the "world map" turn to green.
Sizzling——
swish swish——
Hua Hua Hua——
The computer room was filled with noisy current sounds and noises.
suddenly,
"Boom!"
The sound of houses collapsing.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
There was a strange sound coming from the speakers.
What followed was a sound like a flood... no, more like some kind of swarm of creatures, a huge and unified swarm of creatures, trampling through the city.
"Sector 2 is calling! Sector 2 is calling! We are surrounded! We are surrounded!"
"Are there any living people? Are there any living people in the world!"
"They're coming! Ah-fuck! Help! They-tap, tap, tap... ah!"
Screams, gunshots, footsteps.
"District 13 is over!"
"It's all them! It's all them!"
"District 19 is over!"
"Quick! Run! To the north! There are no them in the north!"
"District 29 is over!"
"Oh my God! They're surrounding us!"
"They are everywhere, they go everywhere, the sea is full of them..."
"Shashasha..."
"Shashasha..."
More and more voices sounded.
Immediately afterwards, these voices that sounded in the computer room and came from all over the world and every hardest-hit area stopped abruptly after conveying the despair, struggle, and difficulties they faced.
Qing Shisan listened quietly to the sounds from the world. At first, he could barely keep his expression calm, but as radio reports of life and death came from all over the world, his face became increasingly ugly.
Even though he didn't know what was happening in a certain corner of the world and who the people who were shouting were, and Qing Shisan didn't even know them, their shouts made Qing Shisan suddenly feel that countless lives were in his ears. The illusion of disappearing without warning.
This illusion made Qing Shisan feel inexplicably uncomfortable. Obviously after the signal shielding was cancelled, the computer room was filled with noisy sounds from all over the world, but these "noisy sounds" were like the "sound of life" in this land of rare peace. When it sounds, it means that there are still people alive somewhere in the world. When the "sound of life" suddenly stops, it means that there is a... no, swaths of life in the world are disappearing.
"Shashasha..."
"Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk."
"Click."
The voice on the radio suddenly became clear.
It looked like someone was tapping on a "machine" used to transmit radio signals.
A tired and young voice suddenly sounded in the computer room.
"C-can anyone hear me?"
The voice is childish and slightly hoarse.
"The rats are coming."
"Shashasha... Mom asked me to hide here. She said she told me not to go out. She said she wanted to hide and seek with me..."
"Shashasha..."
"Mom said we should be very serious about catching hide and seek this time."
"Shasha... Mom said that if she finds me, she won't be Mana's mother."
"Mom said there's no need to be afraid. Mom said dad went to catch mice."
"So hungry..."
"It's so dark..."
"My mother said that when Marner couldn't stand it anymore, he would use the radio to talk to someone."
"But it's been a long, long, long time..."
"Mom didn't come back."
"Shasha...Did mom forget Mana? Shasha...I'm so hungry. Mana is so hungry."
"anyone there?"
"Many uncles and aunts were bitten by rats."
"anyone there?"
"Mana is so hungry..."
"Mother……"
Qing Shisan's expression changed slightly, he rushed past Zheng Xiu to the console, grabbed the microphone, and there was a hint of roaring in his voice: "This is the valley! This is the valley! I am Qing! Where are you?"
"Ah? There's someone here! Mom didn't lie to me!"
"Tell me quickly, where are you!"
"Shasha... I'm so hungry... uncle... can you help Mana... Zizi - find mom... Shasha... ah!"
The unknown boy Qing Shisan contacted through the radio, his tired and weak voice was full of surprise, but a moment later, he screamed, "Bang——"
Something smacked the radio equipment hard. Qing Shisan reacted instantly, and the boy panicked and covered the microphone with his palm.
"Zizzi...shh!"
The boy tried his best to suppress the trembling and fear in his voice.
"Shh...shh...keep your voice down."
The boy said in a small voice for fear of disturbing something: "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
The brief call was interrupted by the boy's scream.
Qing Shisan held the phone blankly, his eyes blank.
A generous palm gently patted Qing Shisan on the shoulder, bringing Qing Shisan back to his senses. Looking back, he saw Zheng Xiu's calm expression. Zheng Xiu shook his head slowly, Qing Shisan remained silent and put down the phone.
"You didn't seem to be such a hot-blooded person before. ... He is dead."
Qing Shisan was silent for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "Qing also felt puzzled. Who in the world can survive? Qing knows this truth, and also knows that this trip for us to follow the master to conquer other worlds has a more important purpose. But Qing Just now, an unsatisfactory thought still appeared in my mind: Is it possible that if Qing could use the 'Ferryman' magic to its full potential, he could easily save him somewhere?"
Zheng Xiu said nothing.
Qing Shisan walked to the corner and silently lit the cigarette pole. In the dark computer room, Qing Shisan's red-hot cigarette stick flickered on and off, reflecting Qing Shisan's face that looked slightly weathered after going through many things, and his thick and sexy beard.
After taking a few puffs, Qing Shisan calmed down and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, sir, Qing... is naive."
"We don't have much time."
Zheng Xiu seemed to understand Qing Shisan's "Mother's Heart" that was born out of the shining part of human nature at that moment. In fact, everyone will have such "occasional" times, but more often, this kind of The mood will be easily suppressed by various realities and rationality.
"Try to contact Pei Gaoya and Gu Qiutang and tell them that we are heading north."
Qing Shisan nodded, and without waiting for Zheng Xiu's instructions, he took the initiative to open a door leading to the bottom of the dam. He should do whatever he could to save the master some distance.
Zheng Xiu pushed Qing Shisan away and opened the "Bund Door". When he was about to step in, he stopped.
He closed his eyes. After unblocking the signal, the information in the radio signals from all over the world was intertwined in Zheng Xiu's mind. After quick processing, a terrifying picture was formed.
On the "world map", "black waves" surge from all directions, twisting and squeezing the world.
Zheng Xiu turned around suddenly and glanced at the map. He suddenly understood: "This is... a battle royale."
At this time, the hot blood rushing to Qing Shisan's head had cooled down, and he returned to his usual calmness. Hearing this, Qing Shisan was suddenly startled: "Battle Royale?"
Zheng Xiu stared closely at the world map and murmured to himself: "Area 2, Area 32, Area 13, Area 29..." Zheng Xiu listed the areas that had been devastated by the "rat tide" on the radio just now. Read it out.
Qing Shisan's eyes moved along with Zheng Xiu's muttering, and he soon understood, and said in surprise: "Rats are appearing from all over the world, like a wave, sweeping the world? Impossible! How could it be possible? There are so many...rats?"
It was still early for Qing Shisan to come to the valley. He had never seen the horror of the rat tide in Area 32 with his own eyes, so it was reasonable to think so.
The area where the rat tide spreads is like a huge poisonous circle on the world map. The areas in the poisonous circle have all encountered the terrible rat tide. Presumably, there are only a few people who can survive the rat tide, or those who Only "humanoids" with various strange abilities can escape.
An idea became clearer in Zheng Xiu's thoughts.
"The rat tide is a poisonous circle, covering the whole world. At this moment, while the rat tide is expanding, the poisonous circle is also shrinking at a terrifying speed."
"The sound of evolution, it turns out this is the 'sound of evolution'!"
"He drives the rat tide. In this way, he forces the 'new humans' who can survive to escape towards the place he envisions."
"This is an 'elimination', an 'evolution', a 'screening', a round...'battle royale'!"
"I was wrong."
Zheng Xiu's face showed a sudden realization: "It's not that He is chasing the relics of 'Lady of the Night', but the believers who are carrying the relics of 'Ms. of the Night' have to run for their lives towards the final destination driven by the 'poison circle'!" "
"He is also looking for 'Paradise'?"
"No..." Zheng Xiu's eyes flashed, he shook his head, and quickly denied the last thought: "For hundreds of years, he has known that 'Paradise' is in the north. He has known it for a long time, but 'Paradise' There is something in there that makes Him afraid, so He uses this cruel method to drive the surviving people towards 'Paradise'!"
Zheng Xiu, who wanted to understand this matter, suddenly stepped through the door. Before disappearing, he left a message to Qing Shisan: "I understand. Try to practice with Lao Pei and those who can't move. It doesn't matter if you can't contact him. Because If they can survive, eventually we will all be together in... Paradise!"
"Tell them to leave before dawn. If the train cannot be repaired before dawn, then they don't have to leave. We will go to 'Paradise' alone."
Zheng Xiu gave Qing Shisan an almost ruthless word, and his tone was still calm, but Zheng Xiu's decision seemed to set a countdown in Qing Shisan's mind. He vaguely figured out what Zheng Xiu was from Zheng Xiu's words. The worries at the moment and his judgment of the current critical situation.
After crossing the door, Zheng Xiu returned to the quiet town and the dilapidated hut where they temporarily lived.
A dim oil lamp was lit in the room. "Oil" is also a luxury item in this world. When Zheng Xiu stepped into the house, Yue Linglong was lying on the table and fell asleep. At this time, she woke up in a daze, rubbing her sleepy eyes: "Husband, you are back."
The reason why she burned "oil" extravagantly was to light a lamp for Zheng Xiu to go home.
Temporary home.
"You can continue to sleep."
Hululu...
Hululu...
Orange cats never sleep, for some well-known reason. I saw the orange cat lying on a pile of cans with the "Fengbei cuisine smell", neatly and elegantly making a bed with the cans, eyes half open and half closed, as if sleeping but not sleeping. She seemed to be asleep, but she was not completely asleep.
"Take a step to speak!"
Zheng Xiu unceremoniously lifted the soft flesh on the back of Lady Anne's neck and strode out of the house.
One person and one cat were sitting on the eaves. Lady Anne was pretending to have a sweet dream about hanging bats, and Zheng Xiu was quite unhappy for disturbing Yaxing. Just when he was about to get angry, "Boom!", the macho man pressed his palm on Lady Anne's furry head and rubbed it hard.
"Annie, do you know that the 'humanoids' in this world have so interesting abilities?"
"Forcibly changing 'what' into 'what' while subject to certain restrictions."
"Like turning your hair into a drill."
"Turning the two dots and one line of two coins into a railgun."
"Turning the trench coat into a leather suit."
The orange cat was all excited, and subconsciously wanted to walk into the house, pretending to be okay, but Zheng Xiu pressed her head in advance. Unless she went crazy, she really wouldn't be able to jump out of the macho man's palm for a while. come out. Besides, the fact that Zheng Xiu used [Amendment] to twist her authority into a macho shape actually left a lot of shadows in Lady Anne's heart.
I don’t want it! Annie shook her head vigorously, she didn't want her super power to be twisted around by a strong man again.
"There is a little girl whose abilities are even more outrageous."
In the dark night, Zheng Xiu's voice had a more eerie and mysterious flavor.
"She can make all her wishes come true. I guess it's the ability to turn 'ideal' into 'reality'?"
"This, hahaha..." Lady Anne laughed awkwardly: "It's very interesting."
Zheng Xiu grabbed the orange cat's head and raised the whole cat in front of him. He squinted his eyes and showed an amiable smile: "You said that a system so similar to 'Menjing', you feel that what you are telling me now has nothing to do with you. Do you think I’d believe it?”
(End of chapter)
