Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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"Two, we are almost at the appointed place."

"Okay, got it."

Seth got up from the back seat, and Xiu beside him clenched his fists without saying a word, staring at the sky outside the window.

The sun has not yet risen, and the chilly wind is blowing across the wilderness, and the sand and dust are also cold. Small reptiles scrambled into the cracks in the rocks to avoid the first ray of sunlight cast from the sky.

Seth covered Xiu's fist, Xiu looked back at him, opened his palms, and clasped him tightly.

"I'll repeat the plan again."

Two days ago, in the command center.

Adonis waved his hand to bring up the holographic model of the earth: "In the past few years, we have roughly analyzed several possible routes of Avalon through monitoring and tracking unknown signals in the sky, and the approximate meeting point is in this area .”

Adonis drew a small circle on the Gobi desert in the western part of the mainland, and several dotted lines representing the direction of Avalon's travel happened to be within this small circle: "According to calculations, you must reach the designated area within two days, otherwise You will miss the Sky Fortress."

Franz reminded: "Don't think that there is plenty of time. Avalon exists in the form of a sky fortress. In order to absorb enough energy, he must follow the sun 24 hours a day. Therefore, you can only travel at night."

Xiu asked: "Will it be too abrupt for us to appear rashly? In Avalon's vision, we should still be in Tinis City."

"Yes, but without the assistance of satellites, Avalon can't do real-time monitoring, which gives us a lot of room to operate."

Franz zoomed in on the earth model, and marked the trade route between Tinis City and Covinion with a red line: "In order to cover your actions and strive for realism, Tinis City has sent a team of people disguised as two A caravan between cities. At dawn two days later, you will meet fifty kilometers east of the designated area."

Lunag said: "My people will send you to the meeting place. At that time, you will sit in the mercenary car protecting the caravan and follow the route of the caravan. On the way, we will attract a wave of strange beasts to the designated area , all you have to do is protect the caravan and wait for Avalon to show up automatically."

"What if he doesn't show up? Or, what if we have a time lag?" Seth asked, "On the map, these routes look very close, but in the real scene, they are far away."

"You don't need to think so complicated," Kafka reminded, "You want to enter Avalon, and Avalon also wants to see you. If he wants to persuade you to be his spokesperson, he has to stand on the moral high ground and understand the truth. , moved with emotion, such a he will not "do nothing to save him". Moreover, this is also to give him a "reasonable" reason to appear in front of you."

Xiu frowned: "Will it really be so smooth?"

Elena said: "This is already the fastest way we can think of to sneak into Avalon. It's best if it succeeds. If it doesn't work, we'll find another way. After all, our plan itself is a gamble."

Seth asked, "And then?"

Adonis said: "According to our vision, after Avalon 'assisting' you in resolving the crisis, he will 'understand the righteousness' and invite you to the Sky Fortress. From now on, we can only rely on you to play freely."

Lunag said: "Before you, we have sent a few soldiers disguised as poor people to Avalon on the grounds of immigration. At that time, you can contact them with a secret code, and they will provide you with unconditional help......"

"Neither sour nor spicy is not delicious."

Seth and Xiu got out of the car, and quickly changed into the car in Tinis City as planned, complaining in a low voice: "Covinion's code is as strange as their taste."

The motorcade rushed to the designated place non-stop, Xiu checked the time, and then stared out the window.

There were still two hours before the start of the plan, and he was sitting on pins and needles, his nervous palms were sweating.

"Relax, Xiu."

Seth whispered, "It's easy to be too nervous, so don't think about the plan, just think we're going to Avalon to meet Prine."

"If you don't tell me, I almost forgot."

Xiu asked: "Why did Prin destroy the isolation container? He obviously doesn't know the use of the little white ball."

"I'm also very strange," Seth sighed, and said with an ugly face, "Prince doesn't have the authority to freely enter and exit the temple tower, and the little white ball is also hidden in the secret room by Dr. Franz. I really don't understand him. How did you find it there?"

Xiu thought of a possibility: "Is he being used?"

"I don't know, let's ask again"

Seth yawned, rubbed his reddened eyes, and leaned on Xiu's shoulder: "I'll wait a while, call me when we arrive."

"Brother, can you still sleep?"

"I can sleep well. When I was on the battlefield, my clothes were rolled up in the trenches and I just closed my eyes."

Said, Seth has closed his eyes, and his breathing gradually became steady and long: "If you don't sleep, how can you have strength, if you don't have strength, how can I protect you, baby..."

"Oh, fool."

Xiu smiled, touched his forehead, and squeezed his hand tightly.

The sun rises slowly, and the blue-gray desert reveals its dry and yellowish color, loess withered grass, flying sand and rocks, only Populus euphratica stretches out its dead branches, watching this lifeless land.

"coming......"

Dust billowed, hawks chirped all over the field, and black vultures in the sky were overwhelmingly approaching the convoy. Their huge wings spread out, tearing the sky to pieces like covering the sky.

"Strange Beast! It's a Strange Beast! Attention everyone!!!"

The convoy started to speed up, crazily escaping from the encirclement of the alien beasts as if fleeing. The car in which Seth and Xiu were riding followed at the end. After the vultures approached, they protected the caravan together with other mercenaries.

But......

"Wait, what's wrong?"

"Honey, did you notice that too?"

Due to the extreme environment and the extreme heat, the two of them exhausted their physical strength much faster than expected. Not only that, the number of strange beasts not only did not decrease, but increased.

While speaking, the vultures surrounded the convoy overwhelmingly, their sharp claws and beaks kept hitting the car windows, and their crazy howling sounded in their ears.

"No, if this goes on, before Avalon appears, we'll have to finish the game!"

Seth made a quick decision: "You drive! I'll lure them all away!"

"Okay! Hold on tight!"

Xiu immediately took over the driver's seat, kicked the accelerator and knocked away the vultures on the windshield, and then dropped all the vultures on the car body with a drift, and went straight to the caravan.

Seth shouted to the soldiers in the car: "Listen to me, the cover caravan retreats first, and we stop!"

"However, the order we received was to delay the time as much as possible until Avalon appears!"

"Idiot! Even fools can see that this is a problem! Avalon hasn't appeared yet, and you all have to become the dishes of strange beasts!"

After all, Seth pushed open the skylight, and under the blessing of high temperature, the gushing fire instantly turned the chasing vulture into a pile of charcoal.Ke Saite's actions did not ease the attack of the alien beast tide at all, and the vultures roared and rushed towards the off-road vehicle where they were, as if they were irritated.

"Yes! All come to Lao Tzu's side!"

Seth continued to use fire to hinder the vulture's attack on the caravan, and the others were responsible for Seth's safety, repairing the left-turn car body, and keeping a distance from the caravan.

Seeing that the caravan was about to get out of trouble, there was a burst of yellow sand flying not far away, and a group of lions suddenly appeared from nowhere, and instantly surrounded the caravan that was out of trouble.

"Fuck! This can't be...Damn! Do you have to play so big! You don't need to be so realistic for acting and doing a full set! Xiu!"

"understood!"

Xiu responded loudly to Seth, slammed the steering wheel and headed straight for the lions.

The truck of the caravan was no match for the lions at all. Chased by the lions, the driver overturned the car in a panic. The lions instantly submerged the car body, smashed the window with sharp claws, and rushed into the car with a bloody mouth. There was a loud "boom", and a deep pit was smashed out less than two meters away from the overturned truck. The splash of sand and strong impact smashed the lions into pieces, and the lions on the truck fled in all directions.

In everyone's astonishment, the vulture group suddenly changed their attack direction and rushed straight into the sky.

The next moment, explosions like fireworks resounded across the sky, and the vultures were blasted into charred corpses, and their scorched and burning feathers fluttered down like snowflakes, just like the scene when Carmelita fell down in a flattened valley.

"coming......"

The off-road vehicle was repaired, and the roar of the engine echoed in the sky. The huge floating warship blocked the sun like the end of the world. Looking up, it seemed like it was in the dark night.

"It's really coming."

The hatch of the floating battleship opened, and the movement was like the sound of the sky.

A small airship slowly landed in front of everyone. Under the escort of guards with guns in white armor and masks, the man got off the airship, stood in front of the off-road vehicle, and looked at the people in the vehicle. A gentleman's salute was performed.

"Greetings, humble Sanderson, Chief of Guard of Avalon."

Seth lowered his head and looked at Xiu, then supported the car basket with both hands, flipped out the sunroof and landed on the ground, wiping the sweat off his face with the back of his hand: "Avalon? What are you doing here?"

Sanderson showed a marked and polite smile: "Just passing by, if you are in trouble, please help me."

"Thank you."

Xiu pushed the door and got out of the car, his heart beating nervously, but he fully cooperated with Seth's performance: "Thanks to you, otherwise, we would be in danger."

"You're welcome."

Sanderson looked at Xiu, narrowing his eyes slightly: "Where are you going?"

"We're going to..."

"Tell you why?"

Seth interrupted Xiu and pulled him to check the condition of the car: "If you have time to chat and don't come to help, if there is no problem with the car, we have to get on the road quickly. This is a loss-making business, I don't want to stay in the wild for so long."

"Okay, got it."

Xiu reluctantly opened the hood, and the surging heat wave hit him. He turned sideways involuntarily, and glanced at the man not far away from the corner of his eye.

"Trade?"

Sanderson followed behind them, keeping a distance that was neither too close nor too far from the convoy: "Are you a caravan?"

Xiu pointed the direction of the overturned truck with his chin, and the other 'mercenaries' were pulling the 'caravan' people out of the cab: "They are, we are not."

Seth rolled up his sleeves, carried a wrench on his shoulders, repaired the car in a dignified manner, and said casually, "I'm a mercenary team, not a caravan team. What a sharp eye."

Sanderson kept smiling, and the perfect curve of the corners of his mouth didn't seem to change. He turned around and waved to the guards. The guards put away their guns and worked together to right the overturned truck.

Those guards...are robots?

Seth and Xiu secretly exchanged a look. From the slightly unsuitable movements, they were sure that the guards were not human.

"Yes, it's quite strong." Seth said with a smile, "Thanks, it saved us a lot of trouble."

"Hands up."

Seeing that Seth's temper had improved, Sanderson approached a few steps and asked, "At present, alien beasts are rampant, and Tinis City has suffered heavy losses. Why did you take the risk of traveling thousands of miles when you should have recuperated and rebuilt the city?" What about the trade route?"

"Nonsense, how can we live if we don't run the trade route?"

Seth said angrily, "We are not like you who fly in the sky all day long. When we are on the ground, we have to eat, drink, sleep and sleep, and we have to work and save money to support our family. Danger is nothing. No money is fatal."

"In that case... why don't you come to Avalon."