The "train" that was burned into a broken iron shell went against common sense and moved along the railway track, making a "rumbling" sound as it passed through the tunnel.
Chu Zihang's tennis bag had been thrown away long ago. He was leaning against the burnt armrest with his eyes closed and concentrating. Murasame Heshen was hugged by him on his chest, and below him were the angular abdominal muscles.
Most of the materials on the seats on the train are flammable. Regardless of the special function of burning life, the temperature of the black monarch flame is much higher than that of ordinary flames when facing dead objects. There is not much left in the entire train except for the iron sheet. thing.
Fortunately, this is because the iron sheet does not support combustion very much, otherwise there would be no iron sheet left.
Gu Bei randomly found a spot that didn't look too dirty, put the suitcase containing the square on it, then sat down on the suitcase, and raised his head. The iron sheet on the roof of the car was melted by the black flames, leaving many holes. Wind and rain poured in through the holes.
Gu Bei's tone was a little helpless: "What does this mean..."
To be honest, his mind is a bit messed up.
His image has always been seen by people around him as resourceful. Even if he is a bit neurotic, a bit of a loser, and sometimes acts like a bad person, it does not prevent the brothers from thinking that he is reliable.
But Gu Bei himself knew very well that he just liked to think before doing anything.
Whether it was the first time he brought Chu Zihang into contact with Kassel or the subsequent establishment of Nadutong, from the trip to Tokyo to the Changbai Mountain incident, or the year-long trip and last night's night visit to the Chen family.
If you think about it carefully, the events Gu Bei faced rarely had sudden situations. Even if an accident happened, it was within Gu Bei's expectation and there was always a way to solve it.
But this time Gu Bei really had no plans.
Things happened so suddenly. The disappearance of Old Tang and Xia Mi was completely beyond Gu Bei's expectation. He, who always planned before taking action, had no idea for a while and could only take one step at a time.
Until now he has not completely sorted out the situation.
The time in the Nibelungen did not correspond to that outside. Gu Bei and Chu Zihang's mobile phones and watches were also affected by unknown factors and were disrupted. However, judging from the time perspective, it should be past two o'clock in the morning.
Thirty-six hours have passed since Old Tang and Xia Mi disappeared, and now questions are popping up in Gu Bei's mind like bubbling.
Although Tang and Xia Mi disappeared at the same time, will they really be together?
The answer given in the interior scene is that Old Tang's location is related to the legend of the subway, but it doesn't say that Old Tang must be in the subway, right?
Moreover, even if it is really related to the Metro legend, it may not necessarily be the Nibelungen where the two are currently.
To put it bluntly, it has been more than thirty-six hours now. Assuming that Old Tang and Xia Mi were together, wouldn't one of the two people have become completely cold by now based on the everlasting relationship between the Dragon Kings?
Gu Bei's mind was full of thoughts, and he couldn't figure out any useful clues. He simply stopped thinking about it and turned his gaze to Chu Zihang: "Senior brother, aren't you worried?"
"worry about what?"
Chu Zihang opened his eyes. Naturally, he couldn't cover up his twinkling golden eyes without wearing beautiful children's clothes. The cold light on the roof of the tram had long been burned into glass water in the flames. Now these two golden lights were probably It’s the brightest light in this deep place.
Gu Bei became a little angry when he saw Chu Zihang acting like it had nothing to do with him: "Xia Mi, Xia Mi!"
Chu Zihang tilted his head: "What's wrong with Xia Mi?"
Gu Bei stomped his feet angrily: "She is the Dragon King! Old Tang is also the Dragon King! Now they both disappeared at the same time! Aren't you worried that something will happen to Xia Mi? Aren't you a top student? Don't tell me you don't know about the Dragon King The relationship with the Dragon King!"
After listening to Gu Bei's words, Chu Zihang closed his eyes again: "I know."
Gu Bei curled his lips: "You don't act like you know."
"How can I know?"
Chu Zihang held Murasumi in his arms, his face as cold as the Siberian snowfields that had never changed.
"I know that dragon kings need to devour each other. When two dragon kings meet, only one can survive. Whether it is Xia Mi or Old Tang, their current situation is very dangerous. I am worried that this useless emotion will only affect our judgment. The most important thing now is to find them both before something happens."
Gu Bei was stunned, feeling that what Chu Zihang said made sense, but something was wrong: "Why do I feel that you don't care about Xia Mi as much as I do about Old Tang, senior brother? Do you really like Xia Mi?"
Chu Zihang closed his mouth and said nothing, and the tunnel fell into dead silence in the darkness.
Gu Bei knew that this stubborn man from science and engineering wanted to find something tangible to prove that he liked Xia Mi, but he could never find anything decisive. In the logic of the man from science and engineering, there was no proof. The proposition is a false proposition, and Chu Zihang cannot question his own heart.
Gu Bei said: "Some things need to be proved, and some things don't, but feelings are somewhere in between. His existence needs to be proved but cannot be proved. You can promise that guy Caesar You can use the whole world to please her as proof, or you can do nothing, because feelings never exist because of proof, proof is just a form of expression, and feelings are there, do you like her?"
"I have no idea."
As a knife, Chu Zihang is absolutely qualified, but in terms of emotional experience, it is not as good as one thousandth of his level of cutting people and eating melons.
But for the individual "Chu Zihang", I don't know is the best answer.
Chu Zihang's life is like the north and south poles of a magnet. There are no other options except right and wrong, and "I don't know" that is not among the options means that he is wavering.
Besides, Chu Zihang just couldn't see his feelings clearly, but it wasn't that he didn't have feelings. Without feelings, it would be impossible for him to ask Gu Bei to study how to create hybrids and transplant the Dragon King's soul.
And Chu Zihang's attitude when facing Xia Mi is enough to explain everything. The kind of gentleness hidden under the cold face, Gu Bei has only seen when Chu Zihang faced Su Xiaoyan.
Everyone is gentle, and the thing hidden in this tenderness is called "love".
It's like the big devil in the anime who has been practicing hard for many years and is defeated by the protagonist group with "justice, courage, friendship and love". "Love" is such an unreasonable thing.
There was silence in the carriage again.
The train passed through the tunnel little by little, and Gu Bei looked at the dots of light at the front of the train that could never be touched, as if there was an open door at the end of the road, with colorful lights on and the words "exit" .
The train is moving forward towards the "exit" and cannot look back.
He suddenly remembered that in Greek mythology there was a brother named Orpheus, the son of the sun god Apollo.
That brother played the piano very well, he was a strong man who could make the rocks cry and the three-headed dogs of hell whine around him. He also had a beautiful wife named Eurydice.
But Eurydice was bitten by a poisonous snake and died.
After the Orpheus brothers washed their faces with tears, they took his men and ran to the underworld, making all the boatmen on the Styx weep along the way.
Finally, he went to Hades, the boss of the underworld, and said, I want my wife.
Hades said you are awesome! OK! You can take my wife away, but there is a condition. You cannot look back at her before leaving the underworld, otherwise she will stay here forever.
Brother Orpheus took his wife all the way forward, and her wife followed him and kept talking about missing her. Brother Orpheus made up his mind and didn't look back to talk to his wife all the way.
Just when they had seen the sunshine of the world, my wife complained that you don't love me anymore.
Brother Orpheus's heart suddenly overflowed with tenderness, and he turned around to hug his wife. She was pulled back by the long arms of hell, leaving only a string of tears for him.
This story shows that nine out of ten heroes in the world are hung on that fatal tenderness. Therefore, the Sunflower Book teaches everyone that "if you want to practice magic, you must first commit suicide." This is indeed a wonderful truth!
But so what?
Dongfang Bubai did so bravely, but there was Yang Lianting ambushing him behind!
Most people in this world are gentle, especially when facing "love".
Even if it is a noble son like Caesar.
Even though he had been killing fish in RT-Mart for ten years, Chu Zihang's heart was as cold as a knife.
Even Gu Bei, a mental patient from another world who traveled through time and space.
Before they met love, these people were considered heroes. One took a cruise ship and rode the waves in the Pacific; one carried a knife and chopped down groups of dead waiters; and the other was heartless and did whatever he wanted from morning to night. What to do.
As for now... don't talk about it.
The train slowed down little by little, and then slowly approached the station.
Gu Bei brought up one of the few functional functions on his phone - the flashlight, and took the lead to get out of the car with his suitcase. Chu Zihang followed behind with Murasame in his arms.
After taking care of the Deadpools and Kamamaitachi, the skeletons in the tunnel wall stopped waking up, as if they were frightened by the intruder's tough killing style.
There was no light on the platform, only the sound of dripping water.
The extremely long concrete platform was sleeping in complete darkness, as if no one had visited it for decades. Everywhere the flashlight aperture scanned was dilapidated, with peeling walls, rusted metal railings, and large pillars painted white and gray to support it. At the top, the sound of footsteps echoed repeatedly in the huge space.
Gu Bei looked up and down: "This place is even more deserted than before."
"It should be very similar to the real Station 102. This subway station is not for civilian use, so it is very simple and has no decoration at all. If you hide it at Apple Orchard Station and don't get off, you can follow the train here."
Chu Zihang suddenly stopped: "Someone just came here."
Gu Bei suddenly perked up: "Any clues? Old Tang or Xia Mi?"
"Not sure."
He took a few steps forward, turned on the flashlight, and illuminated the dusty incandescent lamp above: "This bulb is still hot, so it was on not long ago. Deadpool or other dead things naturally don't need light. .There should be others here.”
He knelt down and grabbed a handful of dust. The dust was bronze and covered with a dark brown linen cloth.
"It's a bit like those Deadpool ashes."
Gu Bei twisted a little and brought it to the tip of his nose. He couldn't smell anything at all. It was like stone powder, but very heavy: "Could it be made by Old Tang? Xia Mi shouldn't have the ability of bronze and fire, right?"
Chu Zihang nodded: "Probably."
Gu Bei raised his eyebrows: "Then let's take a bus to the next stop?"
Chu Zihang had no objection.
The iron-clad train started moving again. Gu Bei was in a good mood after discovering the clue. He stood at the front of the train waving his hands and shouting: "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Hurry up! Go to the Shampoo Islands!"
Chu Zihang looked confused. Xia Mi also said this bad joke. It was an allusion from One Piece. This endless long comic drew until the author felt bored and had to resort to "after two years of practicing each other in Shampoo" The reunion of "Island of Earth" brought about a big reunion. Two years later, the boy began to turn into an uncle, and the lolita became a little sister, so there was a new story to tell.
The Shampoo Islands, that's a place of reunion.
Chu Zihang's eyes were blurry, and he suddenly felt lost when he remembered that he and the girl had walked under the same shade of a tree in Shilan Middle School.
This time the clue may point to Old Tang, or it may point to two people, but it does not point to Xia Mi alone. In other words, Xia Mi may be here or not.
Chu Zihang had no idea.
Suddenly, Chu Zihang's expression stiffened and he lowered his head silently.
The corners of his eyes twitched and he straightened up. The birthmark on his shoulder blades seemed to be burning.
Gu Bei looked at him: "What's wrong?"
"Something's wrong..."
Gu Bei frowned and started to look around.
Chu Zihang was suddenly startled, "There was some noise, did you hear it?"
Gu Bei's brows furrowed even more tightly.
In terms of physical fitness and perception ability, Gu Bei could completely defeat Chu Zihang, but Chu Zihang heard the sound, but Gu Bei heard nothing.
At this time, he was suddenly stunned. He saw a stone like a boundary monument. The surface was simply inscribed with words and filled with red paint. There was only one number: "100".
"One hundred? What do you mean?"
"Not a hundred."
Chu Zihang said: "It's the number of the next stop."
"Each station on the Beijing Metro has a number, and the numbers on Line 1 get larger and larger from west to east. But the westernmost Pingguoyuan Station is not No. 101 but No. 103, because there are two hidden stations, Fushouling. and Takai, the numbers are 102 and 101 respectively. We have just passed those two stations, and if the number is pushed forward, it will be 100, which means the zeroth station..."
He suddenly froze, his whole body was cold, and there was a sharp pain deep in his head.
Stop zero?
How could it be station zero?
Even if there are still two stations that are not in use, no one will number them as station zero and station minus one.
Zero should not appear in common numbers. This strange number was invented by the ancient Arabs and was a huge breakthrough in the history of mathematics.
It's not so much a number as it is a generalization, an empty concept that represents...
"does not exist"!
"Stop! We can't go any further!"
He jumped to the door and actually wanted to jump out of the moving train!
At this time, he finally heard the strange noise just now.
That's the sound of a car engine!
A bright light shone from the tunnel behind, and then there was a "boom"!
A scarred Maybach, with its headlights on and roaring loudly, drove along the railway track at high speed and crashed into the train.
The train swayed, slowed down, and began to slide slowly. Chu Zihang and Gu Bei quickly lowered their center of gravity to prevent them from falling.
The wind roared in Chu Zihang's ears. It didn't look like he was gliding, but like he was falling towards the endless abyss.
The memory that had been blocked by something suddenly came to life.
On the day Typhoon Dandelion made landfall, the man in the storm drove the Maybach and took him secretly into the closed elevated road, that strange entrance that was ignored by everyone...
A street sign obscured by willow branches...
The wind once lifted the branches instantly, allowing him to see the entrance number!
Entrance to the "000" elevated road!
No. 0 elevated road entrance!
That Maybach chased him that rainy night and rushed into the Nibelung!
——
In a place far away from Gu Bei and Chu Zihang, far away from Old Tang, far away from all the people and dragons in the Nibelungs, the girl stood in front of the eight-legged divine horse, and the golden boy looked at the god on the horse.
"This is not the place for you, Odin."
