East of Eden

Xing and Helios spent the night together in the off-road vehicle, until the next day, Years old arrived belatedly on a motorcycle to pick them up.

"I'm sorry, I forgot the time watching the cartoon last night." Nian Sui smiled and showed his missing front teeth, a little embarrassed, "But I don't think you will be in danger around the pyramids, but it is dangerous to walk through the rainforest at night, so I simply Just came this morning."

"It's okay, please come and go, we are very grateful." Helios was not angry, this was exactly what he expected, so he patted the boy's head with a smile.

Nian Sui took out tools and briefly repaired the damaged off-road vehicle, like a nimble little monkey. Finally, he tied a thick steel rope to the front of the vehicle and the other end to the rear of his motorcycle, ready to tow the vehicle back .His motorcycle has been specially modified to be so powerful that once the dirt bike is pulled, it takes almost no effort behind it.

Xing and Helios sat on both sides of Sui Sui's four-seater motorcycle, Sui Sui put on goggles, and asked, "By the way, what happened to you two yesterday? Did you meet a beast?"

"Well." Helios said, "According to their recent movement data, there shouldn't be so many armored beasts there, and we also applied Echinacea oil on the car, but it didn't work at all, which is really strange. "

He rested his fingers on his chin in thought.

In the village of the Yepulong tribe, there is a "Monitoring Station for Beasts", in which a group of experienced local scientists are stationed.After all, they have been fighting against armored beasts for more than [-] years, and now they can use infrared monitoring to grasp the movements of monsters in the jungle in real time.

Before setting off, Helios had obtained data from the monitoring station. The route he planned should have avoided the armored beasts, but he did not expect to encounter such a crisis.Anything beyond his calculations is worthy of serious suspicion.

Nian Sui also echoed: "Yes, it's really strange. Recently, the activities of the armored beast seem to be more and more frequent, and the purple thorn grass is gradually not working... Oh yes! I forgot to tell you that yesterday the monitoring station Some people said that they found some armored beasts active near the tiankeng recently, and the whole village has entered the third-level alert last night."

"Has the armored beast approached the village?" Xing couldn't help asking.

"Actually, don't worry too much. This happens many times a year. Our clan's super powerful mech guards will drive them away."

The tone of the year is very relaxed, as if he is used to this situation.But Helios has been thinking in silence, making Xing faintly feel that the situation is not simple.

......

When they took the elevator to the bottom of the tiankeng, it was almost time for the Yepulong people to eat lunch.A wooden barrel steamed rice is popular in their family. The steamed rice is soft and glutinous. It is topped with a layer of rich curry, sprinkled with shrimp and chicken, which is very appetizing. In addition, there are stewed beef brisket and fried wild mushrooms. Waiting for the delicious food, every household in the whole village is filled with the aroma of food.

After a day of hunger and hunger, Xing had dinner at Nian Sui's house, but found that Dr. Sophia and Shano were nowhere to be seen.

Just as he was about to ask, he saw his aged grandma walking over and brushing her hair handsomely:

"Hey, handsome black-haired guy, that lady with glasses knows you're back, and asks you to bring a white box in the trunk of the car to the Beast Monitoring Station, where she'll wait for you."

Yepulong Clan · Beast Monitoring Station.

The entire village is in the shape of a semicircle, and the monitoring station is located in the center of the semicircle, with the waterfall and the water wheel of the power station as its background.Like other buildings in the village, this monitoring station has a simple and retro temperament. It has an iron shell and a large glass on the top. It looks like a beetle, and the curved walls are covered with wisteria.

"This is an armored beast we just captured recently. Because two teeth were shattered by bullets, it is called 'Missing Two Teeth'. It is one of the milder armored beasts here."

Before the researcher finished his sentence, a handful of bright yellow slime bloomed on the corrosion-resistant tempered glass wall behind him, and at the same time, there was the monster's bloody mouth.The bloody mouth almost hit Sophia's face, but she just glanced into the armored beast's mouth, and said indifferently:

"Well, it really is missing two teeth."

Seeing such a scene, they can still keep their expressions on their faces. As expected of the senior researcher Mr. Sophia and Dr. Sophia of the monitoring station. From the moment they met, their brainwaves were connected strangely, and they were engaged in academic exchanges incessantly.

The researcher enthusiastically showed them the live armored beasts in the station (they were kept in a glass enclosure), while Sophia took notes along the way, raising her hand to ask questions from time to time, like a good student who often sits in the first row and listens carefully to the class.

Shano originally came as a bodyguard, but he gradually found himself very redundant, so he had to wait boredly for Cang Xing to arrive.

"Dr. Sophia really deserves to be a Ph.D. from the Jinsuo Society. She is indeed well-informed."

"Wherever you are, you are also very powerful."

Classic business exchange session.

The researcher took her to the next place and introduced: "This is the armored beast that you and your friends brought over before. Because it is not very harmful, we kept it here."

Sophia looked into the glass cover and said excitedly: "Isn't this my GPS! I thought it was disposed of!"

When she was chased by a beast in the forest before, Sophia's GPS was infected with eggs and was occupied by the beast. With her repeated insistence, Xingyu Shano captured the beast and put it in the biochemical box, but after entering During the killing work in Yepulong Village, it disappeared. It turned out that it was brought to the monitoring station by researchers.

"What's its name?" Sofia asked.

"'Can't navigate'." The researcher was serious.

"Oh oh~~"

No matter who you are, you will be deeply impressed by the art of naming here!

At this time, Xing hurried over with a white suitcase.This time he came alone, and Helios went back to his room, not knowing what research to do.

Seeing the star, Sophia ran towards her with her arms outstretched, "Oh, you're finally here!"

Xing thought she was going for a warm hug or something, but Sophia completely ignored him, took the white suitcase with both hands, and stroked it like a treasure.

"It contains my hard work for a year, and it finally arrived without incident!" She said emotionally.

"Dr. Sophia, what's in here?" the researcher asked.

Sophia smiled lightly, pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, like a magician about to show on the stage: "Hmph, there are good things in here..."

She opened the box, and billowing white mist came out, making one feel a chill.It turned out that this was a low-temperature refrigerator with a honeycomb structure inside, and rows of vaccines were neatly placed.

Sophia took out one of the vaccines and explained: "Before entering the rainforest, we conducted detailed research on the armored beast. This is an inhibitor developed by our team for a year. It can destroy the metabolic tissue of the armored beast and reduce The monster's blood volume and fecundity."

"Sounds good," the researcher praised, "I don't know how effective it is?"

"Isn't this going to be tested?" Sophia laughed.

"Since there are inhibitors, why didn't they come out sooner? Before we were chased by so many armored beasts, we almost died." Shano asked.

Sophia looked righteous and awe-inspiring: "This is not allowed! How can a vaccine that has not been tested biologically in advance be abused in the rainforest? It might pollute the entire rainforest ecosystem!"

"That's right, the doctor's awareness is really high. The rainforest ecosystem is said to be strong and powerful, but it is also fragile. If the drugs made by humans are abused, those chemicals will flow into the water source and infiltrate the soil, which will cause great harm to the rainforest. Back then, Su Huang That's how...that's what created the armored beast." The researcher nodded approvingly.

Xing caught the point of his words in astonishment: "Wait, you said that the armored beast was created by Su Huang?"

"That's right, you weren't here yesterday, so I didn't hear it. Let the researcher explain it to you again now." Sophia said.

"Okay." The researcher took the words professionally, and the tone changed to documentary narration mode:

"As early as 20 years ago, Su Huang's army invaded the south, using the pretext of suppressing the rebellion, but in fact secretly looking for the whereabouts of the holy object. It didn't take long for them to find that the holy object was on Ye Pulong's body, yes, on its head On one of the scales of..."

The man cleared his throat, and continued: "But no one can defeat a living dragon, so they came up with a nasty way, which is to poison the dragon to make it die slowly. They put a lot of poisonous drugs into it In the water source near the dragon cave, over time, not only did the dragon not be poisoned to death, but the armored beast virus broke out in the rainforest.

"The armored beasts grew out of various machines. The army's tanks, guns, radars, and even the radio stations were all occupied by armored beasts. They killed a large number of soldiers and also harmed our Yepulong clan. Later, after a series of folk Praise and artistic processing, this tragedy caused by water pollution has been passed down as the 'Curse of Ye Pulong'."

After hearing this past story, Xing said: "Su Huang is truly an unforgivable crime."

"That's why we are willing to assist your Weaver Party." The researcher sighed softly.

Dr. Sophia made a passionate statement: "In order to live up to everyone's trust, I will definitely help you eliminate the armored beasts and return you a peaceful rainforest!"

Sofia goes to test her vaccine, and Hoshi and Shano step out of the monitoring station to hang out around the waterfall.

Before the age, I told him that there might be an armored beast invading recently, and the whole village has entered the third-level alert state, but there are still people coming and going on the street.

There were indeed some large mechs and guards patrolling, but overall the village was peaceful and peaceful.

Shano and Xing walked through a flower garden, Shano suddenly said: "Xing, do two tricks with me?"

Xing was surprised, but accepted his invitation.Neither of the two were equipped with weapons, and they fought close to each other with body skills in an open field. Moyo carried out more than a dozen rounds.

Both were a little tired, so the two simply bought water and sat on a bench beside the road to enjoy the breeze. Shanuo said, "It's been a long time since we fought, and you still play in the same brutal way."

"..."

Shano lit a cigarette, and his silver eyes reflected the crowds of the past: the farmers who planted flowers, the singers who sang, the owners of small shops selling rice balls, and the guards passing by driving mechs...everything is thriving, in Apple pie order.

"Sometimes, I am very envious of this nation." He exhaled, "They are not bound by the duty of guarding sacred objects, unlike Sakuwa, so they live more easily. On the contrary, it was the family that Su Huang took away the sacred object first, don't you think this is ridiculous?"

All this is due to fate.The people of the Yepulong tribe didn't care about any sacred objects at all, but they preserved them by accident until now. The Sakuwa clan regarded the sacred objects as supreme treasures, but they were snatched away by Su Huang early on, and they have not been able to retrieve them so far.

Xing didn't know how to comfort him, so he patted him on the shoulder to express his understanding of his remorse and sadness.

Shano continued: "If my ancestor Du Chunfeng knew what I am like now, he would definitely kill me. I really don't have the qualifications to be a knight, I really don't have the qualifications."

The silver-haired man showed a rare look of fragility.

Xing finally squeezed out a sentence: "You have tried your best, it's okay."

But Shano stood up and glanced at him: "... Xing, your beautiful words are really bad." Then he walked away alone, smoking a cigarette.

Xing was a little at a loss, and sat stiffly in place.

He is really not good at dealing with complex interpersonal relationships.

At this time, it was a siren that saved his embarrassment.Just listening to the sudden sound of the siren in the village, flocks of birds fluttered and flew high:

"All departments, please pay attention! All departments, please pay attention! Three armored beasts have entered the cordon, and the countdown is 10 minutes. Please prepare immediately!"

The ground under his feet made a loud bang, and the rocks shook. Xing immediately got up and looked at the sky vigilantly.