【Zhou Ye】The Foot of Time

Later, as far as Zhou Zekai knew, for a long time, when it came to the cybernetic invasion incident in the Hangzhou branch base, everyone jokingly called it the peak duel between the handmade emperors, and the meaning of the ridicule was beyond words.And the reason why people can talk about it so easily is not only because it is very rare for an enemy to emerge directly from the base camp, but also because from the occurrence of the incident to the end, Zhou Zekai, one of their half-fold cheats, has been only deciphering and modifying. , and because no one was killed in such a large-scale battle—Ye Xiu was not counted—only four were seriously injured, and all of them were saved by An Wenyi's treatment.

The action of this event can be called perfect.So people can talk about it without shy away, and even make jokes about Zhou Zekai's behavior of "picking up junk" in a pile of "alien garbage".

It wasn't until one year later on earth time that the welcome party for Bai Shu, the deputy director of the Tianjin branch, ended, and many high-level personnel signed a new contract with Glory, scaring the chairman Feng Xianjun to the point of having a heart attack. The human invasion incident was not what they had always thought.But by then, Xiao Shiqin was able to calmly talk about those metal parts on his body, and sincerely recommended the brand of lubricating oil for machinery.

As for how bitter it was back then, apart from Xiao Shiqin himself, only Zhou Zekai and Ye Xiu knew.

Zhou Zekai, who is already over [-] years old, has enough time to learn all kinds of knowledge, and because he has been performing the military missions of Galli Frey all the year round, Zhou Zekai is even more familiar with the firearms of various civilizations and different periods—— What's more, it is a long-term opponent.Many types of guns can double the firepower with just a few minor adjustments; even some weapons with high damage are so strange in shape that the people of Glory don't even notice their purpose, and compare them with ordinary sundries Mixed together, for example, Zhou Zekai saw the bomb earring Tang Rou was wearing during the incident of the people in the sea, and now it is still mixed in a pile of broken glass-of course, it is impossible to use it under the current situation, otherwise the whole city of Hangzhou will be destroyed. To be leveled in the blink of an eye.

With Zhou Zekai's modification and assembly, the firepower on Glory's side immediately increased greatly, and they began to advance layer by layer to implement anti-siege, and the situation was very good.But Zhou Zekai and Ye Xiu still didn't let down their vigilance. A lot of experience told them that the more they were in sight of victory, the more accidents would happen, and they might even be killed by the Jedi.

"Xiao Tang, don't rush so fast! Come back!"

Zhou Zekai kept his hands on his hands, and tapped out of the corner of his eye——Ye Xiu stepped forward with a stick, stopped the cyberman who was about to attack, and then pressed a blue disc in the middle of the stick. Press the button, and there was a strong electric sound from the place where it was in contact with the Cyberman. The big metal man shook and then fell to the ground.Ye Xiu pried open the energy cover on the cyberman's chest, took out the energy center that was emitting blue light, and replaced the one in the center of the stick—if Zhou Zekai hadn't been here, they really wouldn't have thought of using the cybernetic energy center directly. It's a matter of human energy.Of course, even if you have this idea, you definitely don't know how to convert it.

"It's good to be motivated, but you should also pay attention to what's behind you." Ye Xiu knocked on the headset, "Okay."

Xiao Shiqin said: "Still protecting Zhou Zekai where you are, you have too many things piled up there, and there should be parts needed by the Cybermen, four of them are coming."

"Okay." Ye Xiu looked back at Zhou Zekai who was focusing on assembling the weapon with a flashlight in his mouth, and suddenly felt Tang Rou's different gaze, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I didn't expect you to use this kind of thing."

"Just kidding, brother is someone who has studied in Shaolin Temple, the authentic Shaolin Temple in Song Dynasty. I also learned guns from the Yang family." Ye Xiu shook his stick.

A commando next to him said enviously, "Close combat is indeed more exciting, but not everyone is like Senior Ye Xiu. You don't have to worry about getting hurt. If you ask me, I'd rather use a gun."

"Hahaha..." Zhou Zekai clearly felt Ye Xiu's gaze shifting towards him for a while, and then he heard him say, "Actually, I'm very good in both long-distance and close combat. There's nothing I can do about it. The guy who is thinking about it needs to be protected, so he can only train himself to be an all-round fighter."

"I can tell, it's quite successful." Tang Ju said.

"Successful yarn, I don't want to see him reborn again."

"Huh?" Tang Rou looked back, "He was reborn? Can't tell."

"He doesn't have this right now, but even if it's—ah, here it is, get ready."

Hearing the sound of gunfire, Zhou Zekai disassembled a gun that had no power source, and took out the firing device inside.With Ye Xiu guarding by his side, his heart was terribly quiet - he knew that Ye Xiu would not let any danger approach, nor would he get hurt, because the other party had been acting like this all along, and he would rather die than let himself be hurt. Make a small slit.

He knew that this was what people often called a sense of security.This kind of security that Ye Xiu brought to him is simply obsessive, but there is a pain that cannot be ignored in the sweetness.

"Consultant Zhou." Xiao Shiqin connected his headset, and after hearing Zhou Zekai's "hmm", the other party's voice sounded again, "Good news, Sun Xiang has already dismantled half of the operating table."

"...How many are left?"

"There are eleven more in the warehouse."

"Hmm..." The movements of his hands slowed down slightly, and Zhou Zekai was still a little uneasy.He always felt that there was going to be some accident, and he still couldn't believe that things were going so smoothly.

But until they dispersed the last cyberman in the warehouse and restored the power supply to the warehouse, the accident still did not happen.

"...It's over?" Ye Xiu hadn't put down the stick yet, Zhou Zekai could see the muscles in his arms were still tense.

"It can only be said that it has come to an end." Xiao Shiqin's steady voice came from the headset, "There are still sixteen cybermen who haven't appeared yet."

sixteen.

In normal times, Zhou Zekai could even say that the remaining cybermen are no longer a threat, but in the current situation, he only thinks that they are sixteen landmines buried on the road ahead, and they were accidentally blown to pieces .

What else could there be?

Watching the commandos in the warehouse sweep the battlefield and take out the energy from the cyberman's chest one by one, Zhou Zekai only felt that there must be a blind spot in his sight, which was hidden in a blind spot, dangerous enough to be fatal.

"...I don't think it's that simple." Before he knew it, Ye Xiu had returned to him, lowering his voice, "The crack hasn't moved for 10 minutes, so it shouldn't be closed, right? If not, what else can transform him?"

Zhou Zekai felt that the current situation was too bad. This feeling of having to find hidden dangers from the tranquility made people feel uncomfortable all over, but he still couldn't convince himself to relax.

Ye Xiu had no choice but to talk to Xiao Shiqin: "How about Xiao Xiao? Is the crack okay?"

"...For the time being. To be honest, I'm even more nervous than before." Xiao Shiqin's wry laugh was heard in the headset.

"What's there to be nervous about?" Wei Chen, who didn't know the truth, yelled from the side. "Even if they pop up again, there are only sixteen left. I can hit ten by myself!"

Xiao Shiqin also couldn't help laughing: "Haha, then I'll ask Senior Wei Chen to protect... Pata!"

"Xiao Xiao?" Sensing something was wrong, Ye Xiu hurriedly called out, and he heard the chaotic exclamations in the background.

A panicked voice rang through the line, it was Luo Ji: "Senior! Minister Xiao, he, he's gone! Disappeared! Just now there was a rare inverse peak in the crack—"

"Damn it!" Ye Xiu slammed his fist at the door of the warehouse next to him, "How could I forget that the cracks go both ways?!" But at the moment when he was so annoyed that he almost gnashed his teeth, Ye Xiu's eyes suddenly lit up. , hurriedly shouted, "Go and pull down the door of the TARDIS—can you pull it open?"

There was a sound of hurried footsteps, followed by Luo Ji's answer: "I can't open it—it seems to be locked!"

"...Hoo." Ye Xiu let out a long breath, and Zhou Zekai also found that his palms were already wet with sweat, "Damn, I'm scared to death...it's okay, Xiao Xiao must be smiling right now, wait for me Go back and open the door." Lord Grim was locked, which proved that Xiao Shiqin had activated the emergency security protocol and sent it back.

After cutting off the call, Ye Xiu immediately turned around and hugged Zhou Zekai tightly.

"... Fortunately, you told me, thank you Xiao Zhou."

There was an imperceptible tremor in Ye Xiu's voice.

"We finally succeeded... Finally. I will not give up on Xiao Zhou, no matter what the goddamn timeline wants to do, I will not want that future. I will never let go of your hand, starting today , absolutely. Xiao Zhou, it turns out that you are wrong—as long as we work together, it can be changed!"

Zhou Zekai met Ye Xiu's delighted eyes.

"Promise me, don't say you've given up—will you?"

Zhou Zekai's lips trembled slightly.

"……it is good."

He heard himself speak like this.In his sight, Ye Xiu laughed.He saw the blazing sun shining on the mountain peak, and the stubborn snow line that never refused to melt receded in an instant, turning into a sweet stream and rushing down, where the grass seeds germinated and the flower stems twirled—this is a flower blooming in the mountains. Spring in the eyes.

"Hey the two over there! Have time to talk about love but don't you have time to clean up the battlefield?" An anxious voice sounded not far away, and the two turned their heads to look, and saw Sun Xiang protesting with his fists at them.

"Comrade Sun Xiang has worked hard, you continue, Xiao Zhou and I will go back to the testing room to report to Xiao Xiao."

"Hey, why didn't I hear such an order—you want to skip work and just say so! Hey—do you listen to people? Damn... run away!"

Holding hands by Ye Xiu, the two of them ran to the elevator entrance together, Ye Xiu panted and swiped his card with a smile: "Hahaha Sun Xiang's expression is really amazing - the feeling of being overwhelmed by a first-rank official, don't say it, it's so cool! "

The elevator was slowly ascending, but Ye Xiu was still talking non-stop, obviously the excitement hadn't subsided yet.

"I have to say that my brother is too prescient to set up a security protocol for Xiao Xiao—but it's lucky enough, right? The position of the starship is not beyond the teleportation range. I remember that the maximum space radius is ten trillion light years, the maximum time radius is 1 years, right?"

The elevator door opened, and the two walked to the testing room.

"It doesn't matter, I didn't exceed it anyway, otherwise I really don't know where to find him. Now Xiao Xiao has reached the safest place in the universe. Hey, it's exactly five o'clock, and it's almost time to get off work—— His last day in our place was thrilling enough, let him come to my office to sign later, we treat him to a meal to calm the shock, and then send him back to Wuhan directly, saving him from spending half a day running go back……"

The people in the monitoring room were not idle because the war was over - counting the war damage and recording data were the current focus. After the two came in, no one cared about them at all, and they were all immersed in their work.Ye Xiu walked up to Lord Grim, took out the key from his pocket, inserted it into the keyhole, and turned it around.

"Don't say I'm really curious about Xiao Xiao's expression - I haven't seen him startled yet."

The two walked in, and the door closed behind them.

"He and Wenzhou Xinjie have the same virtue, and Mount Tai will not collapse in front of them...Xiao Xiao? Where is he?"

There was silence in the cab, and it looked almost empty.

Zhou Zekai could feel Ye Xiu's breathing stagnate.

"Xiao Shiqin!" Ye Xiu yelled, but there was still no response. Just as Lord Grim was about to do an internal scan, they heard a light tapping on metal—from the back of the cab. here.Ye Xiu subconsciously wanted to take a step there, but Zhou Zekai grabbed his arm.

"Xiao Zhou?"

Zhou Zekai pulled out the gun silently, and swept his gaze to the ground.Ye Xiu lowered his head following his gesture, and saw a mess of data cables lying on the ground.

—This is what they ripped out of the bridge and attached to the Cyberman corpse.

And now, the body was gone.

Zhou Zekai could clearly see the panic in Ye Xiu's eyes. This was the first time he had seen Ye Xiu express such emotion directly - just now he was in heaven, but the next step was already in hell. It is impossible to maintain a consistent calm.

Ye Xiu also held his own gun in his hand. He took a quick breath, held his breath, and walked around from one side of the bridge—while Zhou Zekai chose the other side, he was a step behind Ye Xiu , when he saw the situation behind the bridge, the gun in Ye Xiu's hand fell to the ground.

It was Xiao Shiqin, and he was sitting with his back against the circular bridge. Seeing them coming, he only slightly turned his half-closed right eye. He was obviously on the verge of losing consciousness and was unable to make any movements. .

Ye Xiu knelt down on one knee, and stretched out his hand to touch Xiao Shiqin's left cheek - there was a piece of hard, silver cold metal covering half of his face inside.In addition to this half of his face, Xiao Shiqin's left arm was also covered with a metal shell, which looked like a cyberman's arm.

And beside him, there were still some metal body remains scattered, which obviously belonged to the disappeared corpse.

It seemed that he saw the person coming, his good right eye regained a little bit of energy, Xiao Shiqin spoke with difficulty, his voice was so weak that they had to concentrate on listening.

"Shell...sneak attack...be careful..."

Zhou Zekai felt movement behind him, and when he turned around, he saw another broken metal arm crawling towards him.Without hesitation, he fired a single shot, smashing it completely.

"...Cyberman's metal coat, is it alive?" Zhou Zekai heard Ye Xiu's stagnant voice.

"...I don't know." Zhou Zekai dropped his hand weakly, "I've never... heard of it." If the metal shells of cybermen are alive, they have been attacked countless times in the warehouse, and there is no such thing as just now. The possibility of winning so easily.Only this cyberman's metal coat is a special case, but the difference between it and other shells is——

……what.

Zhou Zekai leaned back, he had to rely on the support of the bridge to stand upright.

—It connected to the TARDIS.

When they downloaded the Cyberman data, the Cyberman database also got the TARDIS data through the connection line, which was two-way.It has acquired a lot of technological knowledge beyond cyberman levels, and the metal-clad AI system has been upgraded in the past two hours-so it has learned to abandon its original biological carrier and find new targets.

The safest place inside the TARDIS has become the most dangerous place.

And Xiao Shiqin who was teleported back, and Xiao Shiqin who was locked in a room with it and couldn't get out...became the prey that was sent to the door.

Zhou Zekai felt dizzy in his brain, he stretched out his hand to cover his face, and sat down against the driver's seat, only Ye Xiu's low voice kept repeating in his ears——

"I'm sorry...Xiao Xiao..."

"Sorry……"

Everything they did today seemed to be a complete joke at this moment.

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I feel sorry for the three of them...

Because they know the future and try to change the future, but instead lead to the occurrence of this future...

There is nothing more cruel than this...

Such a timeline, what to use to fight...