Thinking of gunpowder, a faint smell of gunpowder suddenly came from Ma Tao's nostrils, and it was the smell that can only be produced by burning gunpowder, but Ma Tao didn't pay much attention.
At the same time, the sound of a sizzling fuse burning also reached everyone's ears.
"Quick! Find cover! Get down quickly!"
The next second, Gao Han and Su Lanyu spoke almost at the same time to remind everyone. Just as their voices finished, a loud noise suddenly came from upstairs. The whole floor shook violently, and the ceiling slabs began to fall down. , blocks of cement boards began to collapse in large areas. In an instant, the 20th floor was filled with thick smoke and dust was raised everywhere. It was difficult to see clearly from a few meters away.
Fortunately, there are a lot of broken seats and benches on this floor. Otherwise, there would be no place to hide during the collapse of the floor, and my head would be smashed all over. If I was unlucky, a large piece of cement would fall down. There is absolutely no way to escape death if hit by a board.
At this moment, the four of them were hiding among the pile of broken tables, chairs and benches. Fortunately, there were a few iron cabinets on their side. Although they looked quite shabby, they were strong enough. If a large cement board were to smash them, The iron cabinet will definitely be much better than the wooden tables they are hiding on now.
The explosion upstairs ended quickly. By the time all the gravel and debris had finished falling, countless dust choked people and made it difficult to open their eyes. Ma Tao had to cover his nose with his hands and stretch out his hands to touch it. Be aware of your surroundings.
"Brother Tao! Are you okay! Where are you?"
Xiao Jinzi's shout came from behind, but the boy's voice was a little muffled, as if it was muffled by something.
"I'm here! Look for Sister Han and Su Lanyu!"
Ma Tao responded quickly. As he spoke, countless dust poured into his throat, which immediately made people cough.
As a last resort, Ma Tao could only pull out his underwear, tear off a piece with force, and quickly cover his mouth and nose with the clothes. Only then did he feel much better.
"We're all fine!"
This time it was Gao Han who responded, and he was quite close to him. From the sound of the voice, he should be two or three meters away to his left. Ma Tao quickly stretched out a hand and groped in that direction, hoping to meet up as soon as possible. To ensure everyone's safety.
Everything around him was gray. Although he couldn't say that he couldn't see anything, it could be said that he couldn't see his fingers. At this moment, Ma Tao couldn't see his own hands at all. All that was floating in front of his eyes was gray dust. , otherwise he wouldn't have to fumble to move forward.
In this way, one hand covered his mouth and nose with a piece of clothing to breathe, and the other hand slowly groped towards the direction where Gao Han and the others had just answered. Because of the change in the environment, Ma Tao also had to half-squat. Move forward.
Relying on the touch of this hand to find the way, Ma Tao actually avoided a collapsed floor. Before he could be happy, he was stunned.
What is this?
round?
Ma Tao stretched out a hand and groped around and suddenly caught something. The touch was not as hard as a cement wall, table, chair or bench, but very soft. It was also subconscious. Ma Tao grabbed it hard and it was quite good. Soft, it should feel like...
"Hey!"
While Ma Tao was thinking, a hurried feminine soft voice reached his ears, and then, the ball of softness that Ma Tao had just grasped suddenly escaped.
Holy shit! ! !
Ma Tao suddenly broke into a cold sweat after reacting.
active!
Can hide!
soft!
Still round!
What could this be?
I even pinched it myself!
Holy shit!
What's more important is the exclamation, but because it was too short and the sound was not loud, Ma Tao could only confirm that the sound must have been made by a woman, but whether it was Gao Han or Su Lanyu, the trouble was big. , because neither of them is a fuel-efficient lamp. It is precisely because of this that Ma Tao broke out in a cold sweat, but one thing I have to say is that the hand feeling is quite good...
"Brother Tao!"
Xiao Jinzi's shout sounded again from behind.
"I'm here!"
This time Ma Tao learned the lesson and touched Xiao Jinzi directly. He wanted to meet up with this kid first, but as soon as the words came out, Ma Tao wanted to give himself a slap in the face, no matter whether it was Gao Han or Su Lanyu he touched. , now that he is shouting, doesn’t he just announce to his family and admit that he is the only one here? In this way, no matter who he just accidentally bumped into, it is tantamount to asking for trouble, but the words have already been No one can do anything about the exit. The only thing to do next is to fight hard.
He turned around and groped towards the side where Xiao Jinzi was shouting. This time it went smoothly. Not long after walking back, he ran into Xiao Jinzi. This guy was covering his mouth with a towel and looking around for Ma Tao.
As soon as the two met, Xiao Jinzi was overjoyed. At this time, the dust around him had faded a lot, and he could barely see things about ten meters away.
On the left, two dark figures suddenly walked out, but they were Gao Han and Su Lanyu. What was unexpected was that the two of them were actually wearing masks and were not affected by the dust around them at all.
Because Ma Tao had just done something wrong, he didn't dare to say anything when the two eldest sisters appeared, and he didn't even ask where they got the masks.
But when I thought about it carefully, I remembered that they had found a mask downstairs before, and there was another mask in Xiao Jinzi's backpack before, so that was exactly two people. As for why the mask appeared on them Needless to say, the look on the two faces must have been given by Xiao Jinzi, so the boy retreated and used a towel to cover the dust. This further illustrates a problem, that is, when Ma Tao did not find Xiao Jinzi, this guy The boy must have met Gao Han and the others first.
"The elevator is over here! Follow me! Let's go upstairs quickly!"
Seeing that everyone had expired, Xiao Jinzi reached out and tugged Ma Tao's clothes, and then asked everyone to follow him and leave here quickly.
I don’t know if this kid memorized the route before the explosion or if he found the route after the explosion. After following him for a short distance, I saw the two red Arabic numerals 20 next to the elevator door. .
Snapped!
The elevator door opened, and the four people rushed into the elevator. The next second, Xiao Jinzi immediately closed the elevator door and pressed the button for the 21st floor without thinking.
The smoke rises upward, but the dust falls downward. At this time, the ground below must have become dusty due to the explosion. In addition, the floors below the 20th floor are closed spaces and will not disperse for a while. , so the top floor is exactly the most suitable location.
In the elevator, four people covered in dust were finally able to take off the things used to filter their mouths and noses. Ma Tao and Xiao Jinzi just put down their hands. Gao Han and Su Lanyu needed to take off the masks on their faces. This thing was used to clean their eyes. Once washed, you will continue to use it next time. Even if you don’t use it very often, it is still very useful at critical moments.
As soon as Ma Tao entered the elevator, he stood directly at the end, and then secretly looked at Gao Han and Su Lanyu in front of him with his eyes as if he was guilty. However, their expressions were normal. The scratching feeling made him even wonder if he had just hallucinated.
The elevator soon stopped at the 21st floor. Immediately afterwards, the elevator door opened. Because the 21st floor was the top floor and outside was the rooftop. A gust of wind that made people feel a little bit chilly blew in, which diluted a lot of the fatigue on the four of them. dust.
Gao Han and Su Lanyu hurriedly walked out of the elevator, and the next second they began to pat the dust off their bodies with their hands. Xiao Jinzi and Ma Tao also hurried out of the elevator to pat the dust off their bodies.
While dusting off the dust, Ma Tao observed the environment on the top floor.
Because there is a wall right in front of them, the wall is Z-shaped, so they need to go around a bit to pass.
After cleaning up the dust on their bodies, the four people walked towards the other side of the fence.
"Holy shit!!!"
Xiao Jinzi was the first to speak in surprise, and the other three were also dumbfounded.
After I came out, the scene in front of me was a bit shocking. The top floor had been bombed and was riddled with holes. There were holes everywhere, and smoke was still billowing out of the holes. It looked like a piece of cheese that had been gnawed by mice. , there are big holes inside small holes, and dust is still falling down from the small holes.
"How could this happen? It shouldn't be?"
When several people were surprised, a voice talking to themselves reached everyone's ears.
"There's someone over there!"
Someone spoke, and Xiao Jinzi immediately discovered the speaker.
It was a middle-aged man with messy hair. He was lying on the guardrail of the top floor and looking down at something. He had not noticed the appearance of Ma Tao and the others.
"I saw..."
Ma Tao naturally saw such a big living person, but the surrounding attic floors had been riddled with holes. Many places looked full of cracks and could collapse at any time. He wanted to get close to that person. You also need to find a way to pass from one side and approach slowly.
The area of this building is also large enough, and many places are still strong after being bombed like this. It is probably because that person did not blow up all the places in order to leave an escape route for himself, so he deliberately left a path for him to escape. Through the way out.
"Hey...are you...going to blow up the building?..."
Slowly approaching the middle-aged man with wild hair, Ma Tao asked him softly.
"Oh... it's too high... I can't pass it! Huh? Who are you?"
The man was still watching the situation downstairs, and didn't pay attention to the people around him. He heard someone asking and opened his mouth to answer, but soon the man reacted, turned around in a flash, and looked at him with a wary expression. Two men and two women suddenly appeared next to him.
"Hello...my name is Ma Tao, and they are my friends. Excuse me, are you Zima?"
Although Ma Tao was 90% sure that this man who was like a refugee was the guy named Zima who came out of Free Town, he still needed to hear confirmation from this man himself.
In many cases, it is not what you think you can determine. Without repeated confirmation, you will definitely suffer a big loss on many occasions.
"You know me? Who are you?"
This refugee-like middle-aged man did not relax his vigilance towards Ma Tao. Instead, he asked again after hearing his words.
"Well, don't be nervous. We just met a little girl named Lisa downstairs. She told us that she followed her father Zima out to find her mother, and asked us to help her father."
Gao Han slowly took a step forward, then smiled charmingly at the man, and said with a pair of dimples on his face.
"Yes! I also heard about you in Free."
Ma Tao also quickly explained that getting rid of other people's defensiveness as soon as possible is the key to taking the next step.
"Yes? Did my daughter tell you everything?"
Hearing what Gao Han said, the middle-aged man immediately relaxed his vigilance, then showed a very decadent expression on his face and then said in an extremely depressed manner: "Yes, I am the one whose wife ran away. Zima, I believe those guys in Free Town must have told you."
"Well...actually...we didn't stay in Fori for long."
Seeing Xiao Jinzi, Gao Han and Su Lanyu looking at him, it was obvious that they did not know this dirty man, but since Ma Tao said this, it means that Ma Tao must know what this man named Zima does. , but Ma Tao knows what those people in Free Town think of this man named Zima.
The story of a man whose wife ran away with someone is not a pleasant thing to hear, but such a thing is often a must-have topic for most people after dinner, and it is the most shameful shame for men. Such a scandal is so popular that it spreads widely. It was spread by hundreds of people, so that later it became more and more fierce, and when people heard about it later, they couldn't believe it at all.
"That's right, we killed the elephant tank and left."
Xiao Jinzi looked at Zima in front of him with a proud look on his face and said, he thought that this guy would definitely be like the Free people he had seen before, but he was wrong. When Zima heard that the elephant had been killed, he exposed it instead A particularly melancholy expression came out, and he almost cried. This made Xiao Jinzi stunned for a moment. This is an anecdote in the world. I have never seen anyone cry for a monster?
As soon as he heard Xiao Jinzi say that they had killed the elephant, Ma Tao knew it was not good, because he had heard someone talk about Zima in the bar before, but he was a freak who called for monster protection. The most powerful monster in the town would definitely not be happy after being killed. Fortunately, Zima had no abilities and would not pose a danger to them, so Ma Tao did not immediately think about controlling him.
"The elephant...is gone..."
As if she had fallen into deep self-blame and regret and was unable to extricate herself, Zima, who was a little distracted, lost all her strength and leaned on the wall of the attic behind her, shaking her head and repeating this sentence over and over again.
This scene not only stunned Xiao Jinzi, but also Gao Han and Su Lanyu looked like there must be something wrong with this person.
"Brother Tao...is this man...sick?"
Xiao Jinzi approached Ma Tao and asked him in a low voice.
"It's not you who did it, he's always been like this"
Ma Tao didn't know how to explain this man's infinitely miserable past to them, so he could only answer like this.
"I didn't say anything, either?"
Xiao Jinzi retorted in a particularly innocent tone.
"Forget it...the elephant is gone,...Furi...is about to..."
Suddenly, Zima seemed to have thought about something clearly, let out a long sigh and said.
"Free...it's over? Why do you say that?"
Gao Han heard something else in his words. He frowned and opened his mouth to ask.
When she asked, Ma Tao was also a little suspicious. After killing a wanted criminal with a bounty on his head, how could Free be finished?
"Whether you believe it or not, the elephant under Free Town has actually been protecting Free Town. It only hurts people unintentionally. Now, without the protection of the elephant, Free Town may be in real danger. Not far away”
Zima first looked at Gao Han who asked this question, then looked at Ma Tao and Xiao Jinzi before saying.
"You said that monster was protecting Free?"
Xiao Jinzi was stunned first.
"That's right, have you ever thought about how that elephant tank never came out to hurt others, but was right under there?"
This question of Zima has always been a strange thing in Ma Tao's heart.
"Of course it's too heavy to fit in the elevator."
Xiao Jinzi replied matter-of-factly.
"No"
Ma Tao denied this statement and continued, "Elephant tanks can be driven out of frozen slopes."
Recalling that thrilling battle again, Ma Tao suddenly felt that there were many doubts in it. Just as he just said, the elephant chariot was so heavy that it would have no problem moving on the ice. There would be no slippage at all, but when they entered the ice cave, the elephant tank parked there so quietly and did not launch an attack on their own side immediately. Instead, their own side attacked the elephant first. The tank fired. This fact alone is full of doubts now, but the matter is no longer suspicious, and there is no way to verify it.
"Actually, Free Town was not like this before, and there was no such thing as a frozen city. Later, great destruction broke out. The freezing system under Free Town was destroyed by something unknown, and the air-conditioning was constantly being produced. It was releasing cold air all the time, and then this elephant chariot appeared, and so many years passed in the blink of an eye."
Zima then told another piece of news that surprised everyone.
"The ice in Freetown has nothing to do with the Elephant Tank?"
Gao Han murmured thoughtfully and then looked at Ma Tao.
"How do you know so much?"
This guy had said so much in vain, and now Ma Tao suddenly doubted the credibility of this guy's words.
"Because I saw the Elephant tank, and I was saved by that tank."
What Zima said next was like a bolt from the blue, completely making Ma Tao and the four of them stunned on the spot.
"At that time, I went down to the first floor of the main building to find my wife, and then I was chased by a terrible person. The person was ruthless and the weapon in his hand could freeze people in an instant. If I hadn't encountered the Elephant Tank, I’m afraid he’s already dead down there.”
The surprised expressions of several people one after another did not make Zima find it funny, because he also knew that no one would believe what he said.
"So, the Elephant Chariot has been hiding down there to protect something important."
Gao Han took a deep breath before speaking.
Xiao Jinzi was already a little dumbfounded, and Su Lanyu was a little confused and confused, but Ma Tao understood.
To be honest, Ma Tao now has half of his instincts to believe this middle-aged man named Zima, because what he said coincides with the scene that he and the others saw on the underground floors of Free, so he said Those frozen naked corpses of men and women, how did they appear there, and why were they neatly arranged? If Ma Tao was not beaten to death by any external interference, it would be impossible for him to believe that these people looked like this when they died. Talking about those square freezers built into the wall, does Elephant Tank know how to use the freezer? Or are those frozen corpses placed there one by one by elephant tanks?
"If you say so..."
Ma Tao suddenly fell silent.
"When we were fighting the Elephant Tank, I had an illusion that the Elephant Tank did not attack us too violently. I even hurriedly realized that the Elephant Tank at that time was just trying to drive us out. "
Gao Han finally expressed what she thought at the time.
There are various indications that the elephant tanks at that time had many opportunities to kill them, but they gave up all of them. Even if they attacked, they did not carry out a devastating blow. In that battle, it was said that they were fighting the elephants to a greater extent. It is better to say that the elephant tank is working hard and struggling.
Suddenly, Ma Tao thought of another thing in his mind, that is, the drunk they met in the elevator. They remembered that this guy was in the elevator on the third floor, but the strange thing was that when they returned to the fifth floor That drunken drunkard disappeared without anyone noticing. Now think about it, how did such an drunkard survive in such a dangerous and cold place?
Everything seems to be covered with a layer of fine yarn, which seems very reasonable, but if you think about it carefully, you can always find something abnormal. What kind of secret is hidden in this elephant chariot that has been killed? Now It is no longer known. Everything disappeared with the destruction of the elephant chariot. Ma Tao does not know what the future of Free Town will be like. Perhaps, no one knows at all.
"Listen to Rico, you want to blow up the building?"
If he didn't understand, he didn't want to think about it. Ma Tao got back to the topic without discussing the elephant issue and went on to talk about the issues related to this building.
Whether the guy named Zima in front of them fails or not is enough for a man. They don't care. What they care about is when this man blows up the building.
"Yeah, but this building is too high and a bit difficult to get around, but we are doing something big, hurry up! Come with me!"
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