East of Eden

Chapter 35 CROSSING

Xing really drank a little too much last night, and woke up the next day with a splitting headache.In fact, he couldn't remember how he got back to the room, maybe Helios carried him back.

When Xing went downstairs, Dr. Sophia and Shano were having breakfast, and the morning sun shone on the mechanical hut of the Yepulong people, giving off a different kind of warmth.

Shano wore thin metal-rimmed glasses, flipped through a newspaper in his hand, and said without looking up, "If you're looking for Helios, he's in the garage outside."

Xing wondered, "I'm not looking for him."

"Just now he said he would take you to pick up the car."

"what?"

Shanuo said: "We were checked by soldiers yesterday, and our car and a load of equipment were left at the rest station. You must have forgotten everything, right?"

"Of course not." Xingwei frowned, "But why did he go with me?"

"Helios has been here for a long time, and he is familiar with the rainforest. We can rest assured that he will lead the way. Today, Shano and I are still young enough to go to the jungle to investigate the armored beast, so I will trouble you to pick up the car." Sophia chewed Holding the bread, he glanced at Xing with eyes that knew everything, and joked:

"I think you have a good relationship. Didn't you drink secretly behind our backs last night?"

"It was Helios who carried you back." Shano added.

...Xing felt his head hurt even more.

So, Xing and Helios set foot on the road back to the rest station to pick up the car.

"How did you sleep last night, Cang Xing?" Helios asked.

His smile says it all: everything is under his control.

Xing Hei glanced at him with a dark face, but did not answer.

Helios intends to ride a motorcycle. This is a two-seater foldable off-road motorcycle. He has painted the body with Echinacea essential oil to prevent armored beasts, and is ready to set off with the stars.

Xing: "Wait, why am I sitting in the back seat?"

Helios: "Do you know the way in the rainforest?"

Xing: "I don't know."

Helios: "That's fine."

So they both got into the car, and Helios reminded him thoughtfully that if he didn't want to hug his waist, he could grab the handrail beside him with both hands. Two villagers happened to pass by in front of him, and he gave each of them a Yepulong clan Special straw hats, the two wore straw hats and rode a bicycle, like farmers brothers who went to the fields to plant rice.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, Helios's blond hair was flying, and Xing sat awkwardly behind him, watching the artificial interface on the back of his neck flashing faintly.Probably because he didn't care about the container of the body, Helios was very skilled in driving. He pressed the accelerator to the bottom all the way, as if he was desperate. He could only hear the whistling wind in his ears, but no other sound could be heard.

The journey went very smoothly. They rushed out of the rainforest area in about 10 minutes and came to the rest stop.

Sophia's dazzling red off-road vehicle was still in the parking lot. It hadn't been seen for a day. It didn't know when there were a few more dents and graffiti on it, probably caused by the gangsters wandering nearby.

Helios folded the motorcycle and stuffed it into the trunk. Xing noticed a line of signature on the motorcycle, "NING".

"NING? Ning?" With a familiar name, Xing recalled the cheerful girl in the old photos at that time, Dr. Shanmu's childhood sweetheart.

"You guessed it right." Helios seemed to read his mind, "This is Ning's motorcycle. During the war, she transported food and medicine to the village of Yepulong many times and saved many villagers. , until now, many people in the village still remember her, they call Ning the 'Girl with the Red Scarf'."

"Isn't she a soldier of Su Huang? Helping Yepulong people is a serious violation of discipline."

"Yes, a serious breach of discipline. So she was bitten to death by an armored beast. Do you think it was an accident or not?" Helios asked sharply.

Xing suddenly felt creepy. Ning was probably killed by the military himself. This can also explain why Shan Mu Zhelang hated Su Huang so much, and even defected.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, let's go back." Helios closed the trunk lid, and also covered Ning's motorcycle in the past.This slightly rusty motorcycle, silently carrying many past events, was sealed up in this sun-blocking tropical rainforest, gradually rusting and gradually being forgotten.

If it weren't for that old photo, service card, and this motorcycle, Ning would be as if he had never existed. Thinking of this, Xing couldn't help but feel a little sad, which he rarely does.In fact, human beings throughout the ages are the same, but they are all a wisp of smoke that will disappear at the flick of a finger in the great era.

Helios poured essential oil on the roof of the car and turned the key. He was still in charge of driving this time. Xing sat in the co-pilot seat and took back his Zhanfeng gun to fiddle with.

Helios connected the speaker to his device and played "Viva La Vida".

"Iused to rule the world,

The great world was once dominated by me,

Seas would rise when I gave the word,

The great waves also surged because of my life,

Now in the morning I sleep palone,

And now I sleep alone at dawn. ． ． "

"Androids can also listen to music?" Xing asked with his head propped up.

"Generally speaking, androids have no musical taste. The melody is just a repeated beat to our ears. But I like this song very much. It's called 'Long Live Life'. It tells the story of a decapitated emperor on the eve of the revolution. The story reminds me of Saspin II of Xizhou 3000 years ago, he had the ambition to conquer the world, but was finally broken by a man named Liang Shiheng."

Star also remembers that period of history.

"Because Liang Shiheng predicted a natural disaster." Xing Shen said.

The sorcerer Liang Shiheng was sent to Xizhou by the emperor of the Eastern Continent to preach the prophecy of natural disasters. Suspian II believed that his words were deceiving the public, and once pushed him onto the huge torture tool "Sword of Heavenly Punishment".Liang Shiheng's prophecy undoubtedly shattered Emperor Suspian's ambition to conquer the world. This realistic man hated Liang Shiheng who existed like a god, but in the end natural disasters did come and turned all his great achievements into dust.

Helios drove through the rainforest, and the green mottled scenery kept changing in front of his eyes. The two were thinking about different things, and they didn't talk for a long time.

In the rainforest, an off-road vehicle is not as convenient as a motorcycle, and it is extraordinarily strenuous to drive.After an unknown amount of time, there was a slight opening in front of the eyes, but suddenly there was a huge bump, the vehicle dived down, the front end landed on the ground, the airbags popped up one after another, the music stopped abruptly, and was replaced by a sharp hissing.

"quack--!"

"Ulu—! Ulu—!"

I saw a group of brightly colored tails slapping the front windshield continuously, and Xing saw a huge lobster crawling towards him, covering the roof like sushi, and the whole car shook.

Oops, it's a herd of beasts!

Three

Since it was not the first time for them to encounter a beast, and one was a man-made man and the other was an ancient berserker, they both seemed calmer.

"According to calculations, there shouldn't be armored beasts passing by on this road, unless they change their route." Helios lost the leisurely smile on his face, and his expression looked like he had suddenly encountered a traffic jam on the highway.

There are five small armored beasts, they grow in abandoned chainsaws, they have lizard-like bodies and long tails, and the chainsaw becomes the horns on their heads, whenever they neigh, they drive the white blades of the chainsaw to rotate, buzzing rattle.

In addition to these five small armored beasts, there is also a huge lobster-shaped armored beast, which is as big as an elephant. The soft body of its abdomen has absorbed many machines, and it is trying to swallow their off-road vehicles at this moment.

The yellow mucus exuded by the lobster flowed down the window glass, and the chainsaw of the little armored beast cut the car body back and forth. If this continues, the whole car will be seriously damaged. Xing and Helios made a decision in unison:

"get off!"

Helios throws Star a gas mask, but he doesn't need it himself.Xing put on his mask, picked up the Zhanfeng gun and jumped out of the car, while Helios took out the light gun hidden in his sleeve.

"Look this way." Helios whistled, and used the light spot of the light gun to attract the five little armored beasts to approach him.This trick really worked, and the armored beasts gave up cutting the vehicle, and instead scrambled to bite him.

Xing knew that Helios took the initiative to lure the little armored beast away, and he wanted to hand over the big lobster to him. Xing sighed, knowing that he had to drive it away, otherwise he would not be able to start the car at all.

"Come on..." he said silently in his heart, his right hand holding the spear shook slightly, and the Zhanfeng gun unfolded one by one, revealing all the sharp blades and spikes, like a cheetah that had been silent for many years finally saw the light of day , with a bloodthirsty desire.

This ancient Zhanfeng gun has been remodeled, and it is the first time he has fought side by side with him in a real sense after 3000 years.

The armored beast is huge, and it is all pressed against the roof of the car at this moment. We must try to lure it down, and it is absolutely impossible to use brute force.Although this kind of large armored beast has strong attack power, its thinking is relatively slow. There is only one way to attract its attention-painful stimulation, severe pain.

Holding guns in both hands, Xing went around behind the armored beast, and stomped on its back before it could react. The armored beast was about to raise its head, but was stepped on top of its head by Xingyi, and the upper molars slammed into the lower ones. With a sharp thud, Xing jumped up, and the blade of the long spear in his hand turned, instead of attacking its hard head, it stabbed at its left eye, and a gust of bitterness followed. , the Zhanfeng gun suddenly fell into its eyes.

Xing was extremely merciless, and his strikes were extremely ruthless. With strength in his arms, he sent all the spears into the armored beast's skull without changing his expression.I saw the spear piercing from the left eye, piercing through its entire head, and stabbing out from its right eye, sticky yellow liquid dripping down the black spear.

The modified Zhanfeng gun released a light blue current, completely destroying its visual nervous system.Xing held the handle of the gun, leaped forward, and used his body weight to pull the Zhanfeng Gun out of the monster's body, landed on the ground with both feet, and shook off the mucus on it. Still a perfect partner.The armored beast let out a wail, rolled over from the top of the off-road vehicle to the ground like a snow mountain collapse, and its whole body began to twitch violently.

Xing walked with a gun and was about to go forward to make up the knife, but at this time Helios, who had just dealt with the five armored beasts, grabbed him by the back of the collar and said, "Don't worry about it, drive away."

The two quickly got into the car, Helios started the car, stepped on the accelerator, the wheels idling in the mucus for a while, and finally rushed out. Unexpectedly, there was a little armored beast that slipped through the net and was lurking behind the car. When the vehicle started, it was ejected, and the chainsaw sliced ​​towards the back of Xingxing's head.

"Be careful!" Seeing this scene from the rearview mirror, Helios suddenly accelerated and threw the armored beast backward.It hit the rear window, and Helios shot it twice without looking back, while Star pierced it with a single shot and threw it out of the car.

"Huh." Helios held the gun in one hand and manipulated the steering wheel with the other. Xing pushed the gas mask away, took a few breaths, and pulled the mask off again.

"The lobster behind is chasing us." Xing did not forget to observe the situation behind.

The armored beast whose eyes were pierced just now has a great hatred for Cang Xing, and pursues him relentlessly.It gave up crawling, shrunk into a red ball as a whole, and rolled from the hillside with a grunt, overcoming thorns and thorns all the way at an astonishingly fast speed.

"How many meters is there?" Helios asked.

The star estimated: "100 meters."

The distance between the armored beast and the car was getting closer, but Helios neither accelerated nor slowed down. At this moment, Xing had no choice but to trust this man-made man in the appearance of Liang Shiheng.

"Alarm alert! There is a cliff ahead! Please slow down immediately!" The car navigation siren suddenly rang loudly.

It was only then that Xing noticed that the ray of sky light in front was the light of the cliff, and Helios was rushing straight towards the cliff, not to mention that they were chasing a monster behind them. This was undoubtedly an act of suicide! !

"Are you crazy?" He finally couldn't help shouting.

And Helios' golden eyes didn't even focus on the front, he kept staring at the electronic screen, when the wheel almost ran over the edge of the cliff, the armored beast behind also hit the rear of the car, the star's nails almost pinched into the palm of his hand, he Looking at the blue sky and white clouds suddenly unfolding in front of him, he thought that everything was over and he would die here.

But at this moment, Helios suddenly slammed the direction, and flew into the nearby jungle with an almost drifting turn. They hit a big tree and stopped, while the spherical armored beast behind them had no time to brake and rolled straight Fall into the abyss.

There was a sudden silence all around, so quiet that birds could be heard.

"Androids are never crazy."

The blue light on Helios' neck was dancing, and he turned his head towards the star to show a winning smile.