"I think you may not understand yet. We are not hired by you to save you, but your father."
Seeing this little boy's willfulness with his own eyes made Ma Tao very angry. He got into trouble and needed someone to save him, but he still picked on this and that. Isn't this just a jerk?
"Then I don't need you, I can protect myself!"
The boy is very stubborn.
"How do you protect yourself, just with the stone in your hand?"
Ma Tao was really angry. He couldn't give him a good look when dealing with such a naughty kid. He immediately said: "I tell you, you can go today, or you have to go if you don't want to go."
"Why, I won't leave!"
The little boy wasn't afraid of this and just got tough.
Ma Tao smiled, then directly raised the neutron cannon in his hand and turned it towards the little boy.
"What are you doing!!!"
When the little boy saw that the other party was about to use a gun, he immediately turned around and ran to hide behind the pile of debris.
"Your father just said that we should save you, but he didn't say that you must live. If we kill you, we only need to say that you died in the hands of a monster and you can still take away your father's car."
Ma Tao, whose tone was emotionless and indifferent, smiled evilly and answered.
"You dare! I..."
The little boy was so anxious when he heard it, but he really couldn't think of any good solution. He hid behind the pile of debris and didn't know what to do.
Ma Tao could tell from the little boy's tone that he had frightened him. He immediately smiled and planned to add fuel to his fire, so that the boy would learn a lesson and avoid causing any trouble later. Come.
Ma Tao slightly adjusted the angle of the neutron cannon in his hand and pulled the trigger.
Whoosh~
The blue neutron beam was like a bolt of lightning, instantly blowing away the pile of debris.
"Ah!!! No!!! Don't shoot!!!"
The neutron beam exploded next to him. The little boy was so frightened that he quickly hugged his head and subconsciously exclaimed out of conditioned reflex.
"Are you crazy? Do you really want to kill him?"
Su Lanyu on the side did not expect Ma Tao to actually shoot.
"Don't worry, I'm sure. This guy doesn't know the heights of the world. If you don't scare him, he will definitely be dishonest in a while."
Ma Tao answered her softly.
"What, have you decided whether to come with us? Or let us take your body with us?"
Ma Tao, who pretended to be yin and yang, slowly put down his weapon and stared at the pile of debris.
"I...I'll go with you..."
The little boy gave in.
Ma Tao felt happy in his heart. He knew it was done but still said with a straight face: "Then get out of here now!"
Everyone wanted to laugh when they saw the little boy's expression of reluctance but dare not say anything.
"You really have the potential to be a bad guy."
Gao Han didn't dare to say anything when he saw Ma Tao gathering him. The little boy who stood there obediently and didn't even have the courage to look up at him said helplessly.
This method is not the best to deal with children in the rebellious period, but it is the simplest and most effective. Children in this period worship freedom, worship carefree, and also worship capable and powerful people. They are in adulthood and underage. Children between them are yearning and curious about everything, because they feel that they have grown up and no longer need the control of their parents, but they still do not understand the hardships of life and the value of the future, let alone the importance of rules. During this period, Guidance for children is important, but serious mistakes must be severely punished.
"May I have your name?"
Ma Tao asked coldly.
"My name is Lake"
The little boy replied,
Seeing the little boy at this moment, Ma Tao was very satisfied. He looked at the corpse of the water ghost on the ground that was about to be burned to coke and said to him, "Did you kill this?"
The little boy nodded, still not daring to look up at Ma Tao, as if one look at Ma Tao would kill him.
"How did you get killed?"
A young boy of twelve or thirteen years old could actually kill a water ghost. Even though this water ghost was half-finished, he was really powerful. Ma Tao was curious about how he killed this water ghost.
"Use fire bottles. I brought six fire bottles when I came here..."
The little boy Lake replied timidly.
"Is there any more?"
Gao Han's mind moved and he asked quickly.
If this kid had a bottle of fire on him, he would be seriously injured even if he didn't die. The high temperature of the flames is no joke.
"No more...all used"
The little boy Lake also stretched out his hands to show that what he said was true.
"I'm asking you something"
Ma Tao stared at him for a long time and then asked: "Where is your stone that looks like a spectacle lens? Can you show it to us?"
"Stone?"
The little boy Lake was stunned for a moment, then pouted and said: "I don't know where I dropped that stone when I ran away."
"Lost?"
Xiao Jinzi didn't believe it when he heard it.
"Everything I say is true, you believe me"
The little boy Lake was also scared, not so much because he was afraid of losing the stone, but because he was afraid that these people would think that what he told were lies and actually kill him.
Immediately afterwards, the little boy Lake told in detail his experience in the sewer these past few days.
It turned out that he got into the sewer in anger after an argument with his father, but he regretted it after he came down. However, for the sake of face, he could only walk around in it. It was only when he couldn't get to the exit that he became afraid. , only then did he realize that he was probably lost. Anxiously and helplessly, he immediately discovered that he was not the only one in the sewer, but there was also a strange-looking man with blue skin all over his body and a spear gun on his back. Creatures, these monsters will kill each other, but there is another monster that is even more terrifying. It feeds on this kind of blue-skinned monster. With its huge mouth, it can directly swallow one of that kind of blue-skinned monster alive. Monster man, but then he discovered that the terrifying monster's eyesight seemed to be poor, and he could only rely on hearing to identify the enemy. How many times when the blue-skinned man was chasing him, as soon as the monster appeared, the surroundings seemed to be dead. The silence felt like everyone was under petrification magic for a moment.
Since discovering the existence of these monsters, the little boy Lake has been very cautious these days in the sewer. He eats basically nothing and drinks water from the groundwater seeping from the cracks in the wall. That spectacle lens The same meteorite was lost yesterday when he went to drink water from the gap in the wall and encountered a blue-skinned water ghost while escaping. The water ghost was swallowed by the big monster in one gulp, along with the piece of energy. The shiny spectacle lenses were all swallowed. It was precisely because of this that the little boy Lake lost his only source of light. When he came back, he was chased by a water ghost. After escaping back, he used the trap he had prepared to use fire. Ping roasted the water ghost alive, but his fire bottle was also exhausted. He had no choice but to hide in this place. Whether Ma Tao or the others came, he planned to eat the water ghost. The corpses come for sustenance.
After listening to what he said, Ma Tao could only sigh that this boy's life was really big and good enough. He encountered only a single water ghost. Even if there was one more, he might not have the life to survive until now.
"Are you hungry? Take it and eat it."
Gao Han knelt down, took out some dry food and water from his backpack and handed them to him.
Seeing the food and water, the little boy Lake's eyes turned red. Without even saying thank you, he took a handful and started to eat hungrily. He choked several times, but he was asked to drink water. Go down, you can see from the way this kid is eating, he is really hungry.
"I can't find something, what should I do?"
Seeing the little boy Lake gobbling up food, Gao Han turned around and asked.
"How sure do you think we are of that crocodile?"
Ma Tao did not answer her words but asked her a question.
"There is no certainty at all, death is certain"
Gao Han replied without thinking.
"Are you planning to go into the water and bayonet with that monster?"
After Xiao Jinzi said this, Ma Tao subconsciously glanced at Su Lanyu who was holding an alloy sword.
"Are you crazy?"
Su Lanyu directly handed the knife to Ma Tao and said, "I want you to go. Isn't this obviously a matter of death?"
"What if we fight on land?"
Ma Tao knew that they all understood it wrong.
"What do you mean? Do you have any ideas to lure that monster up?"
Gao Han asked strangely.
"Is there any way to get rid of the water here?"
Speaking of this, Ma Tao also felt a little embarrassed.
“This is not simple yet”
At this time, the little boy Leike ate a few mouthfuls and no longer felt so hungry. When he heard Ma Tao and the others were studying how to drain the water, with a lot of food stuffed in his mouth, he continued with a bulging mouth: "Turn on the drainage pump, and it will be done." Drain the water”
"Pump?"
Ma Tao was overjoyed when he heard this.
"Normally, the water here will basically not be clogged, but that big monster just blocked the eye of the drain outlet, but there is a backup drain pump here, and it won't take long to open it after opening it. But I don’t dare to go there.”
The little boy Lake quickly swallowed the food in his mouth.
"Where is this backup water pump you mentioned?"
Xiao Jinzi asked hurriedly.
"Go out from here and go to the passage to the west to see the pump room."
After answering, the little boy Lake looked at them all with eager expressions and said, "You...are not really going to find that monster, are you?"
Ma Tao looked at Gao Han again. Their eyes met in mid-air, and they both saw the look of contemplation in the other's eyes.
"Sister Han, how confident do you think we will be if there is no water?"
Ma Tao asked again. He wanted to know whether Gao Han had the same idea as him.
"At least more than half"
Gao Han replied.
"Done"
Ma Tao was cruel and decided to meet this big crocodile for a while.
"Aren't you just here for that broken stone? It's just a glowing stone. It's nothing special. Really, how about you send me out first and then you come?"
When Lake heard that this group of people were actually going to find that terrifying monster, he was immediately frightened. In his heart, he classified this group of people as lunatics. He didn't even think about finding such a terrifying monster. Dare to think.
"Just stay here. The monster will come looking for you after we kill it."
Having made a decision in his heart, Ma Tao was about to prepare to implement his idea. First of all, this little boy must not be sent away first. What if what he just said was a lie? After all, he was really rescued. , if his father refuses to give away the armored personnel carrier because he has not killed the monster, it will not be so easy next time. If he takes this kid with him, there will be a real fight, and there will be no time to take care of him. He, despite what Ma Tao said, if this child had any shortcomings, he would definitely feel sorry for himself.
It is said that this little boy has been hiding in this place for so long without any problem. This is enough to show the safety of this place. Therefore, letting this boy stay here for a while is also an insurance measure.
"Oh well"
Compared to fighting the big monster, it was obviously safer to stay here, so the little boy Lake chose to stay here.
After leaving him another bottle of water and enough food for the next meal, Ma Tao and others walked towards the passage to the west.
In fact, normally he shouldn't leave supplies for this little boy. If something unexpected happened and he and the others couldn't come back, who else could he point to to save him? But Ma Tao concluded that he didn't know yet. If the other party comes back when, the little boy will definitely not choose to eat all the food. The most likely thing is to save food as much as possible and wait for Ma Tao and the others to return. Sometimes, these things that he thinks are smart are actually not Not the smartest choice.
After walking along the passage to the west for about two miles, a reservoir appeared in front of it again, but it was also a storage of sewage. It must have been cleaned by no one for a long time, and the same stench filled the sky.
After approaching the reservoir, there was a computer room in the middle. The iron door was already dilapidated due to corrosion from water vapor. Ma Tao tried it twice, but it couldn't be opened at all. He simply went up and pushed the rusty door open with his feet. The broken iron door was kicked open.
The rusty broken iron door was kicked to the ground, raising a layer of dust that choked people and made it difficult to open their eyes.
"It's not good to be violent like this all the time. You won't be afraid of attracting all those water ghosts."
Gao Han laughed at him and mocked him.
Because the iron door blocks some water vapor, the inside of the computer room is relatively dry.
After the dust subsided a little, everyone filed in.
There is nothing in the control room except some equipment. There is a round water valve in the middle, but it is very huge. The diameter is about five meters at least by visual inspection. The round handle is as thick as a child's arm. This thing At first glance, it seems that it cannot be operated manually.
"Found it, the controller is here!"
Xiao Jinzi walked around the pile of mechanical equipment and finally found the controller screen.
No one has been here for a long time and the screen has become covered with dust. The thick dust is like paint covering the screen. I am fortunate that the quality of electronic equipment in this world is good enough. The equipment here has been running for so many years. It can still run normally.
"Damn! You actually need a password! Are you bullying me?"
Xiao Jinzi manipulated the screen a few times and found that he needed to enter a password to turn on the water pump. Then he took out the small black box he had always carried with him and started the cracking project.
A few minutes later, Xiao Jinzi tapped the virtual keyboard one last time and shouted "Done"
Accompanied by the sound of mechanical switches running, the giant metal water valve in the middle slowly turned. Then, the sound of rushing water was like a stormy sea. The sound was astonishing. Not only that, the lights in the entire sewer were illuminated. The system was actually activated by Xiao Jinzi. It seemed that this guy not only invaded the system that controls the valve but also entered other programs.
“Well done”
Gao Han didn't notice that there were lights hidden above the sewer. Although she couldn't use it, enough light could allow Ma Tao and the others to maximize their fighting power. Otherwise, they would need to use it when a fight broke out. It would be too troublesome to keep the lighting equipment on.
"Hey, this is a trivial matter. I happened to see a lighting program in the system and gave it a try."
Xiao Jinzi said very proudly.
Ma Tao hurriedly ran to the outside of the computer room control room to check.
You can see from the water level in the reservoir that it has dropped significantly, but it will probably take a while before it is completely emptied.
"How long will it take to empty the entire sewer?"
While staring at the vortex in the middle of the reservoir, he shouted to Xiao Jinzi who was still in the control room of the computer room.
"The device indicates that it will take three minutes and twenty-five seconds."
Hearing Ma Tao calling him, Xiao Jinzi hurriedly took another look at the seconds displayed on the controller.
"It's already here, don't miss this moment, just wait a moment."
Gao Han came to Ma Tao's side and said.
"You said that with such a strong suction power, the water outlet must be quite large. Will it suck that monster in?"
The rapidly falling water level means that the water level is being discharged crazily. Ma Tao does not want the monster to be discharged together with the water. In that case, if he wants to find the eye piece meteorite, it will really be like finding a needle in a haystack. It's hopeless.
"Probably not. Animals have a keen sense of danger. With such a strong suction, that thing must be the first to feel it in the water. According to the habits of animals, they must stay away and not get closer."
Gao Han thought for a moment before speaking.
"I hope so"
Ma Tao is still a little worried. If the monster is really swept away by the current, then everything will be in vain. If this is the result, it is better to let the monster be trapped in the sewer, which is better than being washed away by the water. good.
The loud splashing sound lasted for five or six minutes, and the sound of water flow began to weaken until it was finally so weak that it could not be heard at all.
At this time, the reservoir in front of Ma Tao and the others had been emptied. Due to the huge pulling force generated by the agitation of the water flow, there was probably no silt at the bottom of the reservoir. I don't know what happened in other places.
The five people walked from the gentle platform on the side to the bottom of the reservoir. They felt okay. There was no mud that affected the passage. On the contrary, it was quite solid to step on.
There are two huge pipes under the reservoir that are high enough for people to pass through, with a diameter of about four or five meters. They should be used to store water and drain water respectively. According to the direction of the water flow, Ma Tao clearly knows the direction in which the water flow recedes.
The drainage pipe is very long, but it is not dark inside because there is light illumination, which allows everyone at this end of the pipe to see what is happening on the other side.
Along the way, there are some branches connected to this pipeline, but they are all sealed by strong and thick iron railings. People can't get through at all, and there is no need to worry about other monsters coming in.
After walking in this pipeline for two to three hundred meters, seeing the exit right in front, a black shadow flashed past the exit.
"It's the monster!"
With just such a hasty glance, Gao Han was able to tell from the dark red skin on the figure that this figure was the crocodile-like monster.
The tense atmosphere filled the air instantly, and a thin layer of sweat broke out on everyone's palms.
It would be a lie to say that you are not afraid of such a big monster. It will kill or injure you casually. You must not only be careful about it, but also be careful not to be seized by this monster.
After the five people carefully arrived at the exit, they could hear the crawling sound of the big monster outside. It was very heavy and powerful.
He secretly took off the watch on his wrist, then slightly extended the mouth of the pipe, and scanned the scanning area to the outside. Some information was actually displayed on the watch. Ma Tao held back his surprise and hurriedly He took the watch back and shared this information with the team channel.
The watch information displays a scanned photo. You can see part of the dark red crocodile in the photo, but this is enough. Only this part is enough for the watch to compare the information.
(The alien fish is a monster whose genetic chromosomes have been changed by radiation. The basic prototype is a crocodile. The radiation gives it a more suitable means of survival. Not only does the alien fish have sharp claws, it can also spit fire, and it can also change its body. The color thus blends more perfectly with the surrounding environment) Not much information, but enough.
Ma Tao looked back at everyone, and then, after confirming that everyone was waiting for his instructions, he began to sign with his hands. He was so close to the monster, and his words were easily exposed, so simple sign language was used. is the key to communication.
The general meaning is that he and Gao Han are responsible for containment, while Xiao Jinzi, Su Lanyu and his sister are responsible for attacking.
At this moment, Sister R has taken off her tight-fitting tactical clothes and transformed into a fighting form. Her all-metal body is very bright under the light. It is almost the same as the steel-clad mechas worn by Ma Tao and others. The electromagnetic gun he holds in his hand is the electromagnetic gun. In the other hand, the translucent energy shield has been turned on, perfectly maintaining a space with a diameter of less than half a meter. To be honest, the combat effectiveness of the entire team is not inferior to R. My sister is strong on her own. After all, my sister's body made of memory metal is not afraid of fire or water damage, let alone fractures. How much strength is required to break the memory alloy is not something that can be competed head-on.
Everyone nodded to show their understanding of Ma Tao's sign language instructions.
After the division of labor was clarified, Ma Tao and Gao Han looked at each other. The two of them clenched the neutron cannons in their hands, nodded together and rushed out of the pipe mouth.
