East of Eden

The sentry on the tower adjusted the focus: "They are here, there are four of them."

"One less?" Shano stood facing the wind, his silver hair bundled up with black satin, and he reached out to take the handed telescope.

"Maybe dead."

The four people, who were as small as ants, walked towards Yelan City. They didn't have uniform clothes or weapons, and they looked like scattered soldiers.The image transmitted by the telescope cast a layer of noise on Shan Mu's face, but it can be seen that he has a calm expression, a certain smile in his eyes, and even looked in the direction of the camera several times.

"Why are you so afraid of Shanmu Zhelang? I don't think he is more than that," said the sentinel.

Shano put down the binoculars: "Do you know what it means to be listed in crimson on Su Huang's wanted list?"

"Very dangerous?"

"It means that he has never missed, even in the face of Su Huang's pursuit."

Hearing this, the sentinel let out a soft "tsk".

Yelan City entered a state of war readiness, every house turned off the lights, and the whole city was pitch black.People hid behind walls and peeped from above through holes.

Under the city wall, three women had short hair, and two knives were inserted obliquely into an "X" shape on their backs.They wear tights that are easy to fight, skirts with high slits, and daggers tied to their slender thighs, like singers waiting for the opening in the background, their high-heeled shoes slapping the ground to make a crisp sound, and their red lips are full of cigarettes , Stretch your posture with your hands crossed.

"The ones who come tonight are all distinguished guests." The leader smiled and said, "It's our turn to play."

Footsteps sounded behind them, and they turned their heads to see a woman in a cloak approaching, with two swords, one long and one short, shining coldly at her waist.

"Xiao Suan, you are late."

"Sorry." The woman shook off her short silver hair.Her eyes were lighter than everyone else's, and there was a scar from her neck to her chest. It was a wound in Beta City, so she always wore high-necked clothes afterwards.

"It's the first time I've seen a priest's daughter go to kill someone."

"It's also the first time I've seen a Sakuwa woman pick up a knife."

They looked at each other and smiled, and there was a bright color on the ruins.

At the same time, Shanmu Zhelang walked to the gate of the Scorched Earth City.It is not accurate to say that it is a door, because it is a triangle formed by two fallen stone pillars.

"Prepare."

Following the doctor's instructions, they put a non-invasive neurostimulation device into the cochlea, and a current was transmitted from the left ear to the right ear, which was refreshing.This can give them a continuous nerve impulse to stimulate the secretion of adrenaline hormones, which is very important in combat.

"Bring out your best form."

"Yes!"

Tetsuro Sugi pressed the countdown on his watch and smiled meaningfully.He seemed to be waiting for something, but he seemed to be waiting for nothing.

The city of scorched earth is like a giant labyrinth, with jagged stone walls that block sight, and inscriptions and patterns engraved on the walls, but the stories they tell are no longer known.

Their footsteps were very light, the flashlight pierced the darkness, and sometimes some portraits with fangs on the wall were illuminated, Siswell could only pinch the back of his hand: "Hey, please, you are a professional, you have experienced so many ancient tombs Why are you still afraid of his baptism?" She criticized herself in her heart, but she had to admit that there was a special atmosphere in the city, as if something was waiting for them.

"It's abnormally quiet..." Yun An muttered in a low voice, always feeling that someone was watching, and frequently checked his surroundings.The scorched earth city showed strange behaviors everywhere, and he gradually discovered that the damage here was not only caused by a fire, but more like a brutal war.The boy was just about to report, but Dr. Shanmu suddenly stopped, and he bumped into his back.

"Hey, look." Between the second and third walls, the doctor illuminated a circular arc upwards.This may be a collapsed roof, covered with bullet holes, like a pomegranate smoked by oil, it is shocking to watch.

"Do you still remember the headless statue outside?" Shan Mu said: "Its head did not fall naturally, but was cut off by a laser, and the bullet hole here belongs to the same period."

Yun An suddenly said: "Does that mean someone has been here before? And it was with great fanfare."

"Su Huang's masterpiece." The doctor said in a deep voice.

Before the words were finished, a heat wave suddenly roiled in the darkness, an exploding arrow stretched out from the heat wave vortex, and shot at several people at an astonishing speed, Siswell turned her head, and the arrow tip magnified infinitely in her pupils.

"Be careful!" The doctor blocked her behind with a wave of his big arm, his right hand greeted the flames, his five fingers spread out, and a translucent barrier composed of small hexagonal pieces quickly unfolded above his head, forming a half spherical shell.Explosion | The explosive arrow hit the shell and shattered, and the sparks splashed down on the surface of the shell like water droplets.

Honeycomb ball, a portable defense device independently developed by WF, is usually worn on the wrist.The open-palm instant stimulation device sprays a benzalin solution, which can quickly form a barrier film in the air, but only lasts for thirty to fifty seconds at most.

"Yun'an, direction at ten o'clock!" Shan Mu ordered while defending against the explosion.

The boy set up a machine gun and fired. At first, Siswell doubted that there was no one there, but she clearly heard the sound of bullets hitting the wall, as well as rustling footsteps mixed with it.It turns out that someone has been waiting in the dark.The enemy is in the dark and we are clear. Everyone speculates where the enemy will appear from in the next second, like a goalkeeper during a penalty kick.

Boom!

I saw a pair of high-heeled shoes falling abruptly on the shell. Looking up, I saw the woman's plump long legs, which went straight into the skirt. Even in such a tense atmosphere, this scene still brought a lot of shock to everyone. .The time limit for the honeycomb ball was up, and the woman didn't panic at all. As it melted, it stuck straight to the ground, and raised the knife to make a trick on the top of her head.

"welcome."

There was a greasy smile on the corner of her lips, and she greeted two female swordsmen who were dressed in the same dress behind her. She drew her swords in a charming and long movement, with ease, and the fire light wandered wantonly on their silver hair and skin uninvited. They become more attractive and more dangerous.

Shan Mu maintained the calmness that a veteran should have, and even made a joke to Long without changing his face: "Female swordsman is the type you like."

Long smiled bitterly: "It's a pity that the atmosphere is not good tonight."

The woman's hand slowly moved to her chest, as if she was deliberately attracting attention, and suddenly a flying | dart appeared in that hand like magic.This time Siswell was prepared, the high-strength polyethylene gloves in the shape of a small dinosaur, the dinosaur's mouth opened and closed, perfectly biting the dart, and it made a "baji" sound.

It worked!Her heart exploded.It's a bit embarrassing to say it, but she's really, really excited.

It's a pity that her humble excitement lasted only a few tenths of a second, and before her teammates even had time to complain, a wave of magnificent cold air hit from behind, causing people's hearts to constrict.It was an extremely sharp slash, passing over the heads of the four of them. If the doctor hadn't released the honeycomb ball again, the heads of all of them would have been harvested on the spot.

The sharp blade was bounced off by the spherical shell, and the arc turned, and the tip of the knife pierced the yellow sand first, followed by the figure of a woman.She withdrew her strength from the knife just now, panting a little, wearing a black cloak different from others, with a unique abstinence temperament.She glanced at them nonchalantly, as if resentful of her slip-up.

"Good job, Su An." The female swordsman encouraged her.

"It's not close." The woman put away the knife, her silver-gray eyes seemed to be ice that could not be melted, and there was strong hostility: "Next, I will play something else with you."

She raised her hand wrapped in black lace gloves and snapped her fingers.

Shan Mu's expression changed, and he shouted: "Not good!"

Suddenly, the yellow sand under people's feet sank, and their bodies were swallowed by the quicksand and fell uncontrollably.In the endless darkness that greeted them came the howling of hideous beasts.

Xing trembled slightly, waking up from sleep, half of his face was buried in the sand, and there was a fishy smell in his mouth.It was just dawn now, and the statue of the Giant of the West was in shadow, rimmed red with the morning light rising on the horizon.

Birds flew overhead, and the sound of flapping their wings was clearly audible.

His body was sore and his throat was hoarse. He got up and looked at the iron ring on his ankle, tried to break it twice, but he didn't move, so he lay down again, facing the sky where the clouds were illuminated into pink.This is the last daylight of the day, with a hint of despair.

Just now, he had a dream.He dreamed of a man in the dark and snowy night with a spear at his shoulder, a scarlet banner flying above his head, and an eagle perched on his shoulder.A man has the darkest and darkest eyes like a star, but there is a madness in his eyes that has been long forgotten by the world.

After a long time, Xing realized vaguely that it seemed to be himself, so distant yet so familiar.However, now he was wearing a worn jacket, with uncombed hair covering his cheeks, and he was like a dying fish in the desert, dying with his white belly turned over.Give him a mirror and he'll look like a skeleton, or a drug addict in a brochure—decadent as hell.

"Forget it..." He thought lightly, planning to sleep again in a daze, when he had auditory hallucinations.

"Why did you give up, Xing?" An old voice asked in his ear: "You were so arrogant and unruly, which surprised me like a falcon spreading its huge wings. Everyone envied your madness and courage. !But now you are willing to drag out an existence here, how sad it is!"

He shook hands in the air: "...Who are you?"

"You will think of me like you think of others." The outline of the man gradually appeared, it was an old man wearing wolf hair and bone ornaments on his head, with two smears of red paint on his cheeks.Xing felt that they had known each other, perhaps an elder he met in childhood.

"Look at what you used to be." The old man said, covering Xing's eyes with his hands, making him feel a long-lost warmth: "If your destiny falls far away, go after it, go after your own name ! Never forget!"

After all, he tapped lightly between his eyebrows, and the warmth disappeared.Xing suddenly opened his eyes, the sky was still the same few clouds, the old man and his powerful words disappeared without a trace.He patted his cheeks, and the pain made him fully awake. He realized that those were dreams and hallucinations, but an uncontrollable strong thought began to surge in his blood: he wants to get out!

The limbs suddenly regained strength, Xing sat up in a jerk, tied up the hair that was in the way, picked up a stone from the side and threw it at the ankles. "Dang! Dang! Dang!", the stone shattered into many pieces and rolled from between his fingers, while the anklets were as clean as new.

I didn't expect the stones in the desert to be so rough.Somewhat angrily, he grabbed another stone, but each time the result was the same.So Star turned to Cameron Disk, trying to lift it up.For some reason, the disk was firmly embedded in the soil and did not move. He broke a nail and still failed.

At this moment, Xing saw the faintly shining hang tag on his chest.He hesitated for a second, took it off and wrapped it around his hands: unknown material, cold matte texture, deep purple in black.

"Maybe it will work." Xing thought so, pushing it into the seam where the shackles were assembled, trying to pry it open.He cherished this tag, so he didn't use any special force, but at this moment a miracle happened, the clear scratches left by the tag on the shackles - this is a manifestation of high hardness.

Xing felt incredible, and raised his head as if remembering something.The upside-down pyramid in the hands of the huge statue floats in the air in the sacred morning light, and it is also black and purple, with a slightly rough surface.He had an intuition that the pyramid and his tag might be made of the same material:

A black technology from civilization 3000 years ago!

He was suddenly full of confidence, held the tag tightly above his head, and then slammed it down like a knife.In an instant, a shock wave like an explosion came from the contact surface, and the man was completely thrown away.His eardrums buzzed, and he barely stopped after rolling in the yellow sand more than a dozen times.Standing up, the shackles have fallen off, even the Cameron disk is shaken out of the soil, the red light is flashing, and the error is constantly reported: "WARNING! WARNING!"

What a man in a tantrum does with a loud machine: kick it to shut up.In fact, the star did the same.The explosion just now was unexpected. The magnetic device should not have produced such a large force, but Xing had no time to take care of it. He simply thought about how to use the Cameron disk and threw it into his pocket.

"If your destiny falls there, go after it, go after your own name, never forget it"

The star overlooked the scorched earth city from the sand dunes, and a crimson dawn was tearing through the night, piercing a dazzling light in the east.There was still a trace of residual warmth in the hanging tag in his palm, he stroked it with his thumb and put it on his neck again.

Staggering, he dragged his numb legs for a few steps, and then ran faster and faster, his jacket rattling by the wind.

He wants to get back the missing part.

Keep me from the cages

let me escape

Under the control

controlled cage

Running in the dark

run in the dark

To find East of Eden

Finding the East of Eden