Countless Su-27s exploded into fireworks all over the sky.
Renata closed her eyes and covered her ears, squatting next to Zero who was staring at the sky unconsciously. The sled dogs guarded her in the middle, seeming to regard her as Agata's mother, that is, their Grandma.
Gu Bei patted the little girl's head. It felt so good that he couldn't help but rub it twice: "It's fine now."
The little girl opened her eyes in confusion and longing, and found that the plane hovering in the sky had disappeared. Scattered black smoke was floating in the surrounding snowfield, and the young man was squatting in front of her with a smile.
"Big brother……"
"Happy birthday," the boy said, taking out a flowerpot from somewhere, "Here, a birthday present."
"This is……"
"Arctic poppy," Gu Bei put the flower pot in the little girl's hand, "it's the white flower."
"This kind of flower will never die. I found a lot of seeds from the warehouse in Black Swan Port. I don't know why they are transporting these things here, but now it is easier for me."
The boy smiled, as if using flower seeds stolen from the warehouse as a gift was something funny.
"I promised to use freedom as your birthday gift. You said it was your only birthday gift, but now that I think about it, it is very ridiculous. Freedom is something that belongs to everyone. I will use it as yours. It’s really not a suitable birthday gift, because freedom is your own thing.”
"But every girl should have a birthday gift. Girls who don't have birthday gifts are very pitiful. Let this flower be my birthday gift to you."
The boy stood up, and Renata suddenly discovered that the boy's body seemed to have become transparent, and golden light spots were escaping from the boy's body.
Renata suddenly felt a bad feeling, and she asked with a trembling voice: "What, what is this?"
The boy said something carelessly that Renata couldn't understand: "I'm about to wake up..."
woke up? What's the meaning?
Renata didn't have time to think. She instinctively felt that the mysterious boy in front of her had become even more mysterious, so mysterious that she couldn't even see his figure clearly.
In fact, this was indeed the case. The boy's figure was so transparent that it was almost blurry.
She rushed forward, but passed through the boy's body, and the boy's shadow became blurry again.
She shed tears anxiously, but the boy shook his head: "Don't cry, Renata."
He had already noticed it from just now. His hand fell on Renata's head, but he could not feel the soft hair. From then on, he knew that this absurd and confusing dream was coming to an end.
"This is not death, just a brief separation."
"I am a traveler who does not belong to this era, and now I am going back to the place I should have returned to."
"Renata."
The boy's call made Renata raise her head. She looked at the boy with red eyes. The boy raised his hand and pointed in one direction: "Let Agata and the others take you there, to Moscow. Zero will protect you. He will Take you to a safe place...be obedient."
"We will meet again eventually, but not here, not now. Our time is always enough. In the story, we will witness everything."
After saying these words, the boy's figure had faded to only an outline, swaying with the blizzard, as if it would disappear at any time.
Renata nodded, wanting to stop her tears, but the pearls formed an unbreakable string of ice crystals.
Suddenly a strong wind blew between the sky and the earth. The young man felt something in his heart and raised his head: "The time has come..."
"etc!"
Renata raised her head, and the tears froze as soon as they left her eyes: "I don't know your name yet."
But that figure has completely disappeared between heaven and earth, and only the voice sent back by the wind: "My name is..."
"...Gu Bei."
——
The halo slowly descended, and the huge keel appeared
The deck of the Lenin lay flat.
Bondarev approached this incredibly huge wreckage, stretched out his gloved hand, and gently touched the bones that were harder than steel.
"Captain, are you sailing now?" the first mate boarded the deck.
"Let's set sail. Don't make the ship too fast. Don't make it look like you are rushing to escape the scene." Bondarev pointed to the sky. "There are eyes in the sky."
He was referring to spy satellites in low Earth orbit.
"Understood, we will anchor at the target location to investigate the water quality of the Arctic Ocean. We are a scientific research vessel." The first mate gave a military salute.
"Try to drive as smoothly as possible. I need to perform an operation on this thing."
Bondarev opened the box he had prepared and took out the folded metal bracket. After opening it, it could be fixed on the dragon's facial bones and cover the dragon's pale left eye.
Bondarev took a few steps back and remotely turned on the laser on the metal stand. The metal stand pushed the laser to rotate along a circular track and cut along the dragon's eye socket.
The keel could not withstand the high temperature and pressure of the laser, and the cutting was completed quickly. Bondarev used a suction cup with a handle to lift the longan out.
The longan is about the size of a basketball, similar to the eyeball of a whale. It seems to have become petrified after being frozen for many years. It looks like white marble with fine lines on its surface.
Bondarev gently wiped the surface of the longan. Strangely, the eyeball should be connected to rich blood vessels and neural tubes, but it was completely invisible on the longan. It was as clean as an ostrich egg.
"For all these years, Herzog didn't realize that a real ancient dragon was gestating under his feet."
Bondarev sighed.
In fact, not only Herzog, but also Gu Bei, who was extremely sensitive, didn't notice it.
The dragon power and the smell of death in the ice covered the breath of life and reduced the activity of the egg to a minimum. In addition, Bondarev and Herzog interrupted midway, so he also ignored the birth of the egg. s life.
His eyeballs suddenly shook, and Bondarev felt a heavy pressure falling from the sky, which almost crushed him.
It was a kind of majesty, a shocking majesty, like a god coming to the world, able to crush mankind with just one breath!
A realm began to expand from the dragon's eye, and Bondarev's ears heard loud sounds like the roar of swords, storms and tsunamis, and it was like thousands of gods shouting in unison.
"Quick! Liquid nitrogen!" Bondarev shouted.
The sailors immediately opened the metal cans that had been prepared, and milky white steam quickly climbed out along the inner wall of the cans.
Those are the physical properties of liquid nitrogen. The metal tank contains liquid nitrogen at minus two hundred degrees Celsius. Bondarev threw the longan in and connected the metal tank to the liquid nitrogen cylinder with copper pipes. The almost endless liquid nitrogen could "cool" the violent longan at any time.
The restless power in Longyan gradually subsided, and the majesty that almost overwhelmed Bondarev also gradually disappeared.
Bondarev wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "You are still an egg and you are so violent. When you hatch, what kind of devil will you be!"
"Send this thing to the bottom, no one is allowed to go near it without my order!" Bondarev ordered the sailors.
"What about this big thing?"
The sailor pointed to the remaining keel: "If you throw it in the high seas, you might be afraid of being discovered by those engaged in ocean fishing, and it will be very troublesome to carry it with you."
"To be honest, I haven't thought about it. I don't know what to use it for. But it would be a pity to throw it away. If this skeleton were taken to an auction house, it could be sold for at least tens of billions of dollars, right? It's a pity that it would Reveal our secrets."
Bondarev shook his head: "Cover it with a rainproof cloth and let it rest on the deck for a few days. The dragon's cocoon has been separated, and this thing is no longer dangerous."
The tarpaulin covered the keel, and just as Bondarev was about to enter the cockpit, the sailors screamed.
He looked at the southern sky. In the dark polar night, a string of gorgeous fireworks bloomed.
No, that's not fireworks
, that was the Su-27 Squadron originally stationed in Verkhoyansk!
An entire squadron had turned into a sky full of fireworks and broken iron sheets, and their blood turned into rainwater and melted into the blizzard.
Bondarev's mind went blank and he had no idea what was going on, but his basic sanity was still there.
He yelled at the sailors: "Quick, get out of here, the sooner the better!"
The fire lit up half of the sky, and in the night, the "research ship" flew away.
——
On the pier on the side of the ruined Black Swan Port.
Because of the confidentiality of Black Swan Port, the port and Black Swan Port were built separately. Therefore, the serial explosions at Black Swan Port did not cause any damage to the port. At most, two houses were shaken so hard that the walls cracked.
A blizzard swept through, covering the hard frozen soil with a layer of goose feathers.
Suddenly, a hand broke through the snow and stretched out from under the stall.
The silver-haired old man climbed out of the pit with difficulty, checked the injuries on his body without saying a word, and after briefly treating them, he staggered onto the port dragging his seriously injured body.
There are plenty of spare boats here.
This is his only hope of survival.
——
In January 1992, the great Redist Alliance disintegrated.
Zero was huddled in a long black windbreaker.
There is a saying that he prefers more formal clothes such as small suits or dresses, but apart from the clothes he brought from Black Swan Port, he only has a black trench coat given to him by Gu Bei.
When Gu Bei gave it to him, he said that it probably wouldn't fit a kid, but thanks to Renata's skillful hands, she helped him change the size.
The way he wears these clothes now doesn't look like a kid sneaking into adults' clothes... like a kid seriously imitating adults' clothes.
There is no way, it is also a mistake to be too young. No one would associate such a face with the Dragon King who slaughtered countries and cities, even if he was the Dragon King who also slaughtered countries and cities, and also had such a face. Neither would Constantine.
Thinking of the terrible couple he saw in the Academy of Sciences Library before, Number Zero couldn't help but spit.
To sum it up, it’s the stupid, middle-aged, alcoholic, bald, useless professor of genetic theology, and his somewhat pretty but slutty wife.
Originally, he wanted to help little Renata find her parents, and then take advantage of the little girl's happiness to think of some way to fool and coax Renata into a very useful subordinate - after all, Gu Bei gave this The little girl's impression seemed to be a bit too deep and she needed to find something to offset it.
He didn't want the little girl he had worked so hard to cultivate to fall into the arms of someone else as soon as he turned around.
But seeing such scumbag parents made him so disgusted that he accidentally killed them.
Of course, he has no regrets.
"I really can't understand how such a scumbag could give birth to an excellent blood descendant like Renata..."
No. 0 complained. Although the two insignificant ants were killed, and he was dignified enough to give them one hundred thousand rubles as burial companions, he had to restructure this small script for this momentary idea... …
He didn't like to disrupt the original arrangement, even if it was caused by himself - he wanted to trade, oh no, cooperate with Gu Bei.
The one who proposed cooperation with Gu Bei was himself. In this situation, he really shot himself in the foot.
Well, if you think about it carefully, it seems like he doesn't need to make such a fuss.
After all, this isn't the first time.
'It shouldn't be difficult to fool such a little girl, right? ,
Thinking like this, No. 0 caught a glimpse of the slightly lonely and desolate figure in the crowd. He couldn't help but take a breath, then bought two cups of warm coffee from the side and walked quickly over.
"Has anyone ever said that you look like a kitten abandoned by your owner?"
Renata, who had her head lowered and was about to cry, looked at the steaming coffee handed to her in a daze.
But his hands had already subconsciously taken the cup.
The warmth seemed to reach into her heart through the leather gloves she was wearing, dispelling her worries, and a slight smile appeared on her ice-like face.
Zero also smiled and stood aside waiting for the K4 train with her.
"Dang Dang Dang——"
It was probably the K4 bus was about to leave, and people were rushing to the ticket gate desperately. No one knew whether there were enough seats on the bus. Boarding the bus earlier would give one more chance to leave Moscow.
But the ticket gate was not opened.
Renata was sitting on Zero's shoulder and saw the ticket inspector ringing a copper bell while writing on the small blackboard: "I received an urgent notice from the management department. Due to lack of maintenance on the rails, the K4 train will stop operating from now on."
The hopes raised by the people were suddenly extinguished, and everyone stood blankly, unable to believe the bad news.
"The K4 train has been cancelled," Renata said.
Zero hugged Renata down and lowered his voice: "The news about Black Swan Port has reached Moscow."
Renata looked around alertly.
"There is no doubt that they have realized that someone has escaped from Black Swan Port. If it were me, I would immediately block traffic."
Zero dragged Renata outside.
"The train station will be blocked first, and then they will step up checks at highway checkpoints and airports."
"What do we do?" Renata asked.
"We're going to China," Zero dragged her out of the train station and looked up at the snowy sky, "We're going to China."
"Celestial Dynasty?"
"Do you know why I want to go to China?" Zero asked.
Renata shook her head, she hadn't thought about it. Maybe it's because Zero looks like a Chinese, and they can hide better there.
"I was chatting with Gu Bei before. He is from China. I heard him say that it is a very beautiful place."
Number Zero touched her face: "The sky is in the south, where it is very warm. There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter, and flowers bloom in three of them. Not just Arctic poppies, there are thousands of flowers there! Spring! At that time, every valley was full of different flowers, all of different colors."
He smiled proudly: "I'll take you to see it!"
His eyes were full of childish excitement, as if those valleys filled with flowers were right in front of him.
"Then let's go to Heaven."
Thinking of Gu Bei, Renata nodded: "Go to a warm place in the south."
——
"Are we going like this?" Renata asked softly.
"If k4 were still operating, I would definitely be able to get special seats."
No. 0 sighed: "But this is the only way now. Don't complain, I'm still going behind your back..."
On the endless snowfield, the railway tracks are like long parallel black snakes, sometimes submerged under the snow, sometimes exposed, and going intermittently into the distance.
There is no human habitation for dozens of kilometers, not even a thatched house can be seen, only withered red pine stands on the snowy field.
They were walking along the tracks, knee-deep in snow.
"You will never get lost if you follow the railway track. This railway track is used by K4. If you follow it, you can go to Heaven." Number Zero said this.
It seems like this guy's plan is to go to the capital.
From the map, this railway track is 7,000 kilometers long. Normal people would not make such a bold travel plan, but Zero said that he is a psycho, so this is not surprising.
Renata's physical fitness after awakening was far better than that of ordinary people, but even so, after trekking 120 kilometers on sleepers, she was still a little unable to hold on, and her legs seemed like they were no longer her own.
"Women are just tender, there's nothing you can do about it, I'll carry you."
Zero took off Renata's ankle boots, wrapped her blistered feet with gauze, and carried her on his back.
"I don't want to go all the way to the capital."
Zero said: "As long as we reach the next
We can pick up oil tankers at this station. The only one with strict blockade is Moscow. Just hold on, according to my calculations, we still have... um... about 800 kilometers..."
"Okay," Renata said softly.
"Hey! Don't sleep! You'll catch a cold if you sleep in this weather!"
Zero shook Renata hard.
"In this world of ice and snow, I am the only one who can warm you. I don't mind cuddling you, but aren't you afraid of me?"
"Oh." Renata was so tired that she couldn't even open her eyes.
"I can't help it. Let me tell you about your parents. This will help you feel more energetic. Your parents..."
Zero, who finally found the topic, started talking on his own, but Renata's eyes dimmed.
Her eyes, which had been strengthened by dragon blood and became extremely sharp, stared at the imperceptible drop of blood on the cuff of No. 0, and she suddenly felt a burst of sadness for no reason.
For a long time, when Zero was still talking and spitting, she whispered: "You killed them, right."
No. 0 paused again. This time, others would have either become angry or speechless - but No. 0 was open-minded and could continue talking quickly.
"Yes, I lied to you. In fact, they can all be scum. Your father is a bald loser who drinks and cheats money, and your mother is a good dancer but a bit slutty. But the saddest thing is that... You, such a beautiful and outstanding daughter, want to sell you to someone else - for only one hundred thousand rubles."
Well, no matter how you look at it, this is the moment when he can gain interest every time, and it can be regarded as the only value of that disgusting couple.
Renata stopped talking and fell silent again.
But after a while, she made another request: "Tell me about Gu Bei."
"...Gu Bei?"
Zero seemed to be impatient with Renata's stimulation, or maybe he didn't want to mention "Gu Bei".
Well, it’s actually quite interesting, probably.
"That guy sneaked into Black Swan Port secretly. He is different from you, and he is different from me. He is not a human being. Although he says he is a human being, I understand that he is actually an alien."
"I don't know what he came for, but he came to me first before I investigated him——"
"He negotiated a deal with me. No, according to him, it was cooperation. His bargaining chip was freedom. He could help me get my freedom!"
"As for what he wants, he didn't say. Maybe he simply wants to watch a good show, or something else. In short, that's the only connection between us."
"But thanks to his presence, my plan went more smoothly, and I escaped from there without much effort."
"Now that I think about it, I still have to thank him properly."
Number Zero became more and more excited as he spoke. His voice was like a roaring lion cub, and his eyes were filled with blood-red gold, which was breathtaking.
"Yes, I should thank him properly. As a thank you for taking away the handy tool that I personally cultivated, the next time we meet..."
"...I will personally accept that humble life."
(End of chapter)
