East of Eden

Chapter 40 DOG TAG

At the cost of sacrificing two layers of "walls", human beings temporarily blocked Ye Pulong's attack.

Seeing that the dragon egg was destroyed, Ye Pulong whined and circled on the cliff, and did not go for a long time, until night fell before disappearing into the jungle.It has not given up its revenge on human beings, and will make a comeback soon.

After Ye Pulong left, people began to clean up the mess on the wall.The wounded soldier was carried on a stretcher, and the mob's body was sealed in a biochemical garbage bag. As for the broken dragon egg, the Yepu Dragon Clan researcher suggested that it be incinerated on the spot.

Then a flame rose up and burned blazingly in the night, the eggshell made a crackling sound, and the dead mutated young dragon inside was quickly swallowed by the flames.In ancient times, there were always people dancing and playing music under the huge bonfire, but this time, everyone’s heart was very heavy, and they took the elevator down with a tacit understanding.

The elevator door slammed open, and as soon as he stepped out, Xing was hit in the face by a rotten egg that fell from the sky.It turned out that a group of protesting villagers were surrounding the elevator, and they were very hostile to Xing and his party. He heard someone in the crowd shouting:

"It's because of you foreigners that Ye Pulong was brought here!"

"The village has been peaceful for so many years, but it was all broken by you!"

The sticky egg liquid slid down Xing's cheeks, smelling sour. Before Xing could wipe it off, he was escorted into the disinfection room for a full-body shower.

After taking off his clothes, he found that he was seriously injured, his left arm was bruised, and there were many bleeding wounds on his back and shoulders. The person who disinfected him was a young Yepulong youth. He was shocked to see him like this : "Sir, I suggest you to treat as soon as possible."

"Well, I'll go get the medicine." Xing said lightly, washing his shoulders.In fact, there is a high probability that he will not go to get medicine, this level of injury is within his tolerance, and he hates to trouble others because of injuries.

During this wash, Xing paid special attention to the scar on his chest for the first time.That scar has been there since he woke up, and it should be his fatal wound left 3000 years ago.Now the scar has been stitched up, and the color has faded a lot, but he suddenly felt that this scar gave him a feeling of deja vu.

The man who killed him 3000 years ago...has he ever met?

He touched the wound and shook his head, that's all, don't think about it.

When Xing finished changing clothes and went out after being disinfected, he encountered protesting crowds again.

The crowd of protesters gathered in the square under the elevator, but Dr. Sophia, Shano and Helios were unexpectedly in the center of the siege.

"Don't even try to run, kid!"

Although Xing was dressed in black and relatively concealed, he was still grabbed by the sharp-eyed aunt and thrown into the encirclement of the crowd, hitting Helios' back with his back.

"Oh? You're here too?" Helios said with a sarcastic smile.

"Xing, the villagers are not very friendly to us now, thinking that we recruited Ye Pulong." Sophia explained the situation to him, and before she finished speaking, a rotten cabbage leaf hung on her head.

Sophia cursed secretly and pulled off the cabbage: "It's really terrible, obviously we are helping them..."

The four of Weaver's party were surrounded in a circle, and endless harsh reproaches fell on them.At this time, the two men rushed out of the crowd, grabbed Xing and Shano by their collars, pulled out the metal tags around their necks, and showed them around:

"Look, this is the hanging tag of Arthuria and the Silver Pigeon Knight. Do you remember the expedition team sent by our village ten years ago? They also found the same hanging tag in the Dragon Cave!"

Someone cheered and said: "Remember, all our expedition members died, and only brought back the photo of this hanging tag, which was indeed found in the Dragon Cave."

"Don't think that we don't know. Liang Shiheng arranged for the four clans to guard the holy relics, Arthuria, Silver Pigeon Knight, Ye Pulong and Holy Moon Church. You are all in the same group! It is because of you two, Ye Pu The dragon sensed you, that's why it flew over!"

"We don't care about your entanglement with the sacred objects, but can you leave our village alone? Do you know how many soldiers were injured this time? It's all because of you foreigners!"

"Confronting Ye Pulong will bring disaster, do you understand that!?"

Through their incitement, everyone scolded more and more vigorously. Xing and Shano were always dragged by their collars to show the public, but neither of them fought back.In fact, the thoughts of the Yepulong people are understandable. They are forced to fight against their patron saints. The village is facing disaster. Under the pressure, they urgently need to find a vent.

"Okay, shut up, you didn't understand the situation at all!" At this moment, a man in a white coat suddenly rushed out of the crowd, stepped onto the flower bed, and occupied the highest point of the square. Xing took a closer look, Only to find out that he was the researcher who chatted with Sophia at the Beast Beast Monitoring Station that day.

Sophia shouted in surprise: "Mr. Young!"

The researcher named Nian Liang raised his voice and said to everyone: "25 years ago, Su Huang poisoned the water source near the Dragon Cave, causing a large scale of armored beasts. It was not Ye Pulong's curse, but man-made. Pollution. For many years, we have tried to clean up the water source of the dragon cave, but dragons have killed batch after batch of people. Do we have to endure the coexistence with armored beasts? Do we have to live in fear every day? Why not? Let's end it with this!"

"That's right, they are foreigners. Maybe they have a reaction with Ye Pulong and attracted the giant dragon. But all of this is not caused by them. It is Su Huang who caused the rampage of armored beasts and the poisoning of Ye Pulong! Don't you think so?" Don't you understand? To eradicate the armored beast forever, you must pass the barrier of Yepulong and purify the water near the dragon's cave.

"If I have to fight Yepulong, I will join without hesitation. If I want to live with the armored beast for the rest of my life, then I would rather slay the dragon! All the curses and sins will be borne by me!"

Mr. Researcher was impassioned, his cheeks were already flushed, and he raised his fisted arm high towards the sky.

His speech attracted almost the entire village. People were silent at first, and then several villagers raised their hands:

"I agree!"

"I agree too!"

Once the lead was taken, more and more people raised their arms to show their determination.Among them are young and generous warriors, wise and calm elders, rational and straightforward women, and passionate and innocent children.

Gradually, the raised arms accounted for the majority of the crowd. Perhaps the researcher’s words spoke their minds. The Yepulong people are a nation of joy and hatred. Compromise and stealth and blind superstition are not their style. It is in line with their blood nature.

The situation has been reversed, 80% of the villagers support a head-on confrontation with Ye Pulong, and the remaining 20% ​​of the conservatives left the square muttering. exhale.

"Thank you." Sophia bowed deeply to the researcher.

"It's okay, I just said what I wanted to say many years ago." The man waved his hand.

At this time, Xing noticed that the boy Sui Sui was also standing in the crowd, unexpectedly he did not raise his hand, but lowered his head, and left silently, the street lamps stretched his shadow very long...

"Let's formulate a strategy for the future." In the living room of Nian Sui's house, Sophia made a cup of coffee and sat at the table.

Today can be described as a wave of ups and downs, like a whole century, but the threat of Ye Pulong is still there, and there is no time to rest and complain.

Sophia listed her plans: before the next Yepulong attack, she will be in charge of developing vaccines and conducting in vivo experiments; Canxing Xano and the mech guards will train together, ready to fight on the wall at any time; as for Helios , responsible for collecting intelligence and predicting the situation in advance.

"By the way, Xiaohe, how did you know that the dragon would come today? We were shocked." Sophia said, "But thanks to you opening the nine-story wall, the village will not be destroyed."

"Haha, I'm an IT engineer, and I'm in charge of intelligence processing. It's my responsibility to predict the future." Helios raised a bright smile.

Sophia said approvingly: "Our Weaver Party really has a lot of talents!"

Hearing this, Xing on the side choked on the coffee, Helios glanced at him quickly, Xing coughed a few times and resumed his silence.

"By the way, Doctor, I want to make some adjustments to your strategy." Helios said, "I wonder if you know that there is a pyramid from the Yin Qi period near the Dragon Cave?"

"Huh? Pyramid?"

Helios explained to Sophia the inference that Yelan City Xing summoned Jian Yu and Xing Xing could activate some ancient technologies.

"You mean to say that the pyramid is actually some kind of technology left by the Yin Qi civilization, and Xing can activate it and add buffs to us?"

"That's right, it's a buff." Helios was relieved that Sophia could understand, "Maybe it's a particularly critical buff."

"I understand what you mean, but it takes a lot of time to unlock the pyramid. If the stars don't fight on the wall, we will lose a large part of our combat power."

"That's right." Shano added: "Besides, complex intellectual games like unlocking the pyramid are not suitable for Xing, and only by letting him participate in the battle will he be able to exert his greatest effectiveness."

Helios sighed: "This is indeed a problem. It would be great if I alone could solve the pyramid, but this kind of ancient ruins seem to only know Cang Xing."

He shrugged and leaned his head back on the chair, his long blond hair slid down.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Xing suddenly spoke.

"Maybe not knowing me, but knowing this."

He took off the Athenia tag on his neck and handed it to Helios. The frosted tag swayed slightly in the air, shining with light.

"This is......"

"The identity card of the madman Arthuria."

Shano frowned, and said in a low voice, "Hey, how can you give this kind of thing to others so easily."

As the silent ones who guard the sacred objects, the identity card means inheritance and responsibility to them, and it must not be taken off easily.So much so that Cang Xing 3000 years ago, even after "death", still carried this brand and never left his body.

But now he took it down and gave it to someone else.

Helios was also taken aback suddenly: "You want to give it to me?"

"Aren't you going to solve the pyramid?" Xing raised his head slightly.

"No, what I mean is, do you trust me?" Helios was a bit out of order. In his understanding, a man who rejected his cooperation invitation and tripped him up many times would never be with him. Build a relationship of trust.

"Aren't you trustworthy?" Xing asked back.

Backlash seems to work well for Cyborg, especially when his abilities are called into question.Helios took the hanging tag of the star, twirled it a few times with his fingertips, and met his sharp eyes unceremoniously: "Of course, I will perfectly solve the puzzle of the pyramid."

Sophia and Shano didn't understand why they were so tit-for-tat, and their words were full of gunpowder, but they were all glad that the matter had been resolved.

So the new strategy was adjusted for Helios to explore the pyramid, and the others remained unchanged.

Three

Late at night, Xing stood in a daze on the balcony on the second floor.When he is not fighting, he likes to sit alone like this, watching some flowers and plants swaying in the wind, as well as birds in the sky, a bit like an old man who is greedy for stability.

At this time, footsteps sounded in his ears, and he didn't need to look, he knew it was Helios, and Helios could always find him accurately.

"Hey, Cang Xing." The man threw him a bottle of ice-cold canned beer. Xing caught it firmly, and peeled off the tab with one hand, making a crisp steaming sound.

"The old man seems to have disappeared. I haven't seen him all night." Helios stood beside him, and also opened a bottle of canned drink, but it was orange-flavored soda.

Xing then told him about seeing Nian Sui in the crowd today, and said, "Nian Sui seems to be reluctant to fight Ye Pulong."

"That little brat, there may be some knots in your mind." Helios took a sip of soda, "Forget it, let's not talk about this, let's talk about your tag."

Helios showed the tag in his hand, swung it like a pendulum clock in front of Xingxing's eyes, and then took it back.

"Are you not afraid that I will run away with it? Or destroy it?"

"I don't think you would do that."

"Oh?" Helios raised his eyebrows, a little surprised at his confident answer, "Then let me give you a gift in return, so that you won't be lonely without a tag by your side." He took out a paper folded card from his pocket. Athenia, swinging lightly on Star's beer can.

"A special origami robot, through which you can contact me at any time, for you."

Unlike the mass-produced claws, it is a carefully designed wolf shape, and the wings are folded out according to the appearance of Arthuria. It really is a special model.

Xing held the exquisite origami robot in his hands, looked left and right, and said to Helios, "Don't get me wrong, my tag is only lent to you temporarily, and of course, there is trust."

Helios was silent for a while, then replied with a smile:

"Don't get me wrong, my robot is only lent to you temporarily, in case you are killed by a dragon and no one will collect your body."