East of Eden

——At that time, you were timid. When facing Ye Pulong, everyone was fighting on the wall, and you sat beside you dumbfounded, scared to pee your pants, right?

--nonsense!that's not me!

——Heh, you don’t even dare to admit it, so you still want to join the Mech Guard?They don't need a boy who can only pee.

--To shut up!

——Hahahaha, coward, coward...

At four o'clock in the morning, Nian Sui woke up suddenly from a nightmare, and the devil's laughter in the dream still lingered in his ears.Since he came back from the wall yesterday, he has locked himself in the room without even eating dinner. In the empty room at this moment, only the clicking sound of mechanical operation surrounds him.

The boy wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and wanted to pour himself a glass of water, but accidentally knocked over the mechanical bird on the bedside table.The mechanical bird made of brass fell into two pieces on the ground, and the internal springs and gears were scattered on the ground. Years old cursed secretly, and got out of bed with bare feet to clean up.When he picked up the fragments and raised his head, the bright red mech hanging beside the bed silently fell into his sight.

Nian Sui felt his heart being tugged.

The big red mecha and the pair of goggles are relics left to him by his father.

"That's right, I'm a coward." Nian Sui said to himself.

On the battlefield yesterday, he was wearing his father's mecha and his father's goggles, but he didn't fight as bravely as his father once did.Nian Sui realized that he was just a typical "Ye Gong and a good dragon", and every time he yelled for the captain to take him to the wall, but when the battlefield really appeared in front of him, he flinched.

"Nian Sui, stand up!" The captain yelled at him in the scuffle, but his legs were weak and he couldn't get up at all.

"I'm a useless coward..." Looking at the broken brass bird in his palm, Nian Sui felt his eyes moist.He tried to put the brass bird back together, but as if fate was against him, a piece of machinery was thrown out of the dent, and it couldn't be snapped together no matter what.

Nian Sui threw its parts on the ground as if venting, covered his head in pain, curled up, and couldn't get rid of the scene of yesterday.

"Years, stand up!"

The captain's voice echoed in his mind.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside.

"A Sui, come out."

It's grandma.

She leaned against the door and said, "Your father still has some relics, and it's time to give them to you."

The aged grandma smoked a very strong cigarette and took him to an open space behind the village.

This is the cemetery of the Yepulong tribe. On the green and soft lawn, the wind at four o'clock in the morning and the gray-blue mist float quietly together. The banyan trees on both sides of the cemetery are tied with yellow ribbons, most of which have decades of history. , Whether it is damaged or complete, they are all swaying in the wind.

Smoke rises from grandma's fingers, and under the faint morning light, Sui Sui finds for the first time that she is already a gray-haired old man, although she is still so cool, like an indestructible fortress.

"This is your father's tomb." Grandma took him to stop in front of a tombstone.

That tombstone is no different from other tombstones. They are quietly inserted obliquely on the grass, with wild flowers and grass growing underneath, silently telling the story of everyone's life.

"Your father was one of the most powerful fighters in the escort team back then. It was no problem to single out ten armored beasts. Not only that, he also designed a new type of mecha for the escort team. He really deserves to be my son."

"I know, Dad is both a mechanic and a fighter, very powerful." Nian Sui lowered his head, unconsciously stroking his goggles back and forth.

"Later, in order to protect the polluted water source in the rainforest, he volunteered to join the expedition to the Dragon Cave, hoping to bring hope to our village."

"But all of them died, which only brought despair." Nian Sui said flatly.

"He didn't bring nothing, at least he brought this." Grandma took out an old notebook from her pocket and stuffed it into Sian Sui's hand.

"what is this?"

"Expedition Diary." Grandma exhaled a puff of smoke.

Nian Sui opened the notebook, and the correct handwriting in it recorded the situation of each day in detail, including the situation where they found the Yepulong tag, and the groundwater veins in the Dragon Cave, etc. Although they are only objective and ordinary records, we can learn from them. Read their trajectories that year.

"You may think that these are not important, but the researchers at the armored beast monitoring station told me that it was this information that helped them study dragons and armored beasts, and was able to protect the peace of the village for more than ten years."

Years old stopped talking, because he saw the words written in the blank space of the last page of the diary:

"PS Don't forget to buy a birthday gift for Ah Sui when you go back." A cute puppy was drawn next to it.

Age favorite puppies.

The tears could no longer be held back, the boy began to cry, his sobbing was very small, it was the volume of his habit of secretly hiding his crying, but at this moment he cried louder and louder, and his tears became strings of pearls.

"Dad... why... so stupid..."

Years sat on the grass with a plop.

But grandma grabbed his ear and pulled him up: "Yes, my son is a stubborn donkey. I told him not to join the expedition, but he said to me, 'Mom, I know this trip may never come back, but I have to. Because if I give up this time, in ten or twenty years, I will definitely hate myself.'

"You see, what he said is stupid, but I think he is right. When I was young, my grandma and I also had many dreams of my own that were not fulfilled. Now that I am 70 years old, I still regret it when I think about it, so I let him go. I can only say that the child was unlucky and didn't come back."

Years old wiped away tears: "But I'm different from my dad, I'm...a coward..."

"Coward? We have never had a coward in our family!" Grandma grabbed his ear and asked sharply, "If Ye Pulong invaded the village today, would you go to fight?"

"I do not know."

"Idiot, you will definitely fight." Grandma slapped him on the head.

"I'm not asking you to die blindly. My son is dead. Of course I want you to live. But I know you too well. You keep your dad's mecha and goggles, and imitate him to assemble the machinery. I know you want to be like him in your heart. So what are you afraid of? Face it bravely!"

Years old looked at her blankly.

Grandma embraced the boy forcefully, patted him on the back, and after a long time, she said in a rare and gentle tone:

"I'm not telling you to fight, kid, but I hope that in 20 years, you won't regret your cowardice now."

"Grandma will support you in whatever decision you make."

The wind blows across the grass and fields, and also disperses grandma's incense smoke far, far away.The grandparent and grandson embraced each other among the tombstones, and all the leaves were rustling.

Five days later, the Yepulong Clan·A Beast Monitoring Station.

This is already the fifth day after Ye Pulong's attack, and Dr. Sophia is conducting the third round of in vivo experiments. The guests invited this time are "two teeth missing" and "can't navigate".

The armored beasts were locked in a glass chamber, and Sophia, who was wearing a protective suit, fired a needle at them with a syringe gun. The needle pierced their soft parts, and the medicine was automatically pushed into the armored beasts.

Researcher Nian Liang counted the time: "29, 31, 32, [-]—stop!"

"How is it?" Sofia asked.

"The effect of the drug can paralyze the armored beast for 32 seconds, an improvement of 12 seconds from last time."

"It's not bad, but it didn't meet my expectations." Sophia stood outside the glass cabin, looking at the missing two teeth and the inability to navigate. After a short period of paralysis, she began to attack like crazy again.

"For small monsters, the effect of the drug will be more obvious. Today, I can't navigate the longest paralysis for 40 seconds, a medium-sized monster with two missing teeth is paralyzed for 32 seconds, and for a large armored beast, it can be paralyzed for more than 20 seconds. "

"What about Ye Pulong?"

The researcher shook his head: "No one knows about this."

In recent days, their researchers have also undergone a series of actual combat training on "how to accurately insert the needle tube into the armored beast". Each of them is equipped with a long-barreled sniper rifle and a smart scope. In the cabin of the four elevators, shoot vaccines at the armored beasts outside.

"20 seconds, I really hope it can buy time for the fighters." Sophia said with emotion.

At the same time, on the seventh wall.

The seventh wall is now the outermost wall, and it has become the training ground for the mecha guards. The soldiers are divided into two groups: one group is the heavy armor team, and the players are equipped with heavy mechas, shields and guns, like one by one. The solid turret; the other group is a light-armed team, equipped with simple protective devices, using ropes to swing around on the rock wall, thus forming an attack on the dragon in all directions.

Catching Ye Pulong alive is the goal of all of them.

Cang Xing and Shanuo are both in the lightly armed team, one of them uses a long spear, and the other uses a long sword, which makes other people who are equipped with guns confused.

"In this era, it's the first time I've seen anyone use such a retro weapon." Said Warrior A, who was resting on the sidelines.

"You are so stupid, those are all products of Yin Qi's civilization technology, they are amazing." Warrior Yi said popularly, "Yin Qi technology is the only technology that can compete with Su Huang's eid technology, you didn't see that day Did the spear directly smash the wall?"

"I saw it, I was so scared that I couldn't speak." Warrior A nodded again and again, "I don't know why such a powerful civilization suddenly disappeared?"

"It's said that it was due to natural disasters, and we don't know." Warrior B spread his hands.

So the two fishing fighters watched the practice on the field in this rare free time: Xing and Shano were fighting against the captain and vice-captain respectively, and the cold weapons in their hands were not inferior to the mechs at all.

"Huh." After the battle, the captain took off his helmet and said while wiping his sweat, "Xing, Shano, when the time comes, our heavy equipment team will be responsible for carrying the attack, and the job of subduing Ye Pulong will be left to you."

Star nodded.

"By the way, where is the handsome blond boy who is with you?" the captain asked.

"He set off for the pyramids yesterday," replied the star.

"Oh..." The captain might not have understood, but he didn't pay attention either, and the topic ended quickly.

Xing wiped off his sweat, took off his armor, and went to the side to get water to drink.

Shano was with him.

"You seem to be a little absent-minded recently." Xing noticed that Shano was not performing well on the court, and took the initiative to send out his concern.

Shano sneered: "Maybe it's because I lost my holy object, and it seems ridiculous to help others now."

Xing didn't know how to answer, and felt that the atmosphere was a little cold.

At this time, the sky gradually darkened, the sun disappeared like an ebb tide, and everyone on the wall tensed up, because this was probably a sign of the coming of Ye Pulong.

"Call the monitoring station, is the dragon coming?" The captain grabbed the walkie-talkie.

The person at the monitoring station replied: "No, the EID energy tower is closed. It is now twelve noon, and the time zone will move to the next area."

It turned out to be a time zone migration, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.All the spare lights on the wall were turned on. Although they were not as bright as artificial sunlight, they could still support the lighting. In this way, under the dark sky, the circular glass wall looked more like a big stage under spotlights.

Just when everyone relaxed their vigilance and went about their business, the monitoring station suddenly sent an urgent alarm: "Wait a minute, the dragon is coming too! Ye Pulong is moving from the east to the village! There is about half a minute left!"

"What?! This is too fast!"

Alarms were howling, red lights were flashing, and radios everywhere were yelling: "Ye Pulong is coming! Residents, please be prepared!"

"It took advantage of the closure of the eid tower to carry out a surprise attack, this dragon is too disrespectful of martial arts!" Some team members complained.

When the EID tower is closed, it will interfere with the signal of the monitoring station, and now that the light is dim, it is no wonder that the monitoring personnel did not observe the trace of the dragon for a while, and the alarm they issued has lagged behind for the soldiers on the wall.

Thirty seconds passed in an instant, and Yepulong had already flown above the village, and it uttered a short cry, which seemed to be the last signal before the decisive battle.

Xing had just had time to equip the light armor, and the rope straps hadn't been fastened yet. If Ye Pulong suddenly attacked at this time, he probably wouldn't have time to dodge it.At this time, a big red iron shield covered his head, providing him with cover.

I saw Nian Sui coming to the wall at some point, turned around, and smiled with a missing front tooth: "Brother, I will help you this time!"