He came from the bell tonight

The orange cat jumped out of the backseat of Blizzard with its cub in its mouth, and glanced back at the drowsy Su Ling before disappearing into the bushes.He grabbed the nutritional supplements that he hadn't finished eating, and buried his head in the square pillow.

"...Report, Area A has been cleared."

"Area C has been cleared."

"The supermarket area has been cleared."

……

Excited voices came from the terminal on the console.

"All roads in Imperial College have been inspected, and there are no surviving mimics."

"We are great, principal, you should drink as much as you want in school today!"

"The news about Feilianxing has been restored! Caiyu City has been successfully defended, but there are still some mimetic insects wandering outside—"

"Report, apply to Caiyu City to help defend. Contributing to the residents of the alliance is the responsibility of Imperial College!"

"It's horrible outside, Toyota Star is still out of contact..."

After a night of fierce fighting, the students of Imperial College quickly counted the wounded, leaving some students of the medical department to take care of them.The rest of the people spontaneously formed a small team, ready to start patrolling Feilian with armaments and resources.

Xiao Huaiyan stared at the sleeping Su Ling from the rearview mirror.Perhaps it was because of the tense state for many years, but there was still a lingering hostility in the dark eyes.But gradually, an imperceptible tenderness appeared.After a while, he looked back and opened the terminal.

A voice cooler than the night sounded in the cheers of the Imperial College public channel: "Report, apply for support for Toyota Star."

When Su Ling woke up, the bell tower outside the window had been replaced by the endless darkness.The blizzard is on a sailing ship.

He was lying on his side in the back seat, as if he was pressing on something.After a while, he realized that he was pillowed on Xiao Huaiyan's lap.

"There are still 5 minutes to arrive in Hong Kong." Xiao Huaiyan's voice sounded above his head.

Su Ling followed the prestige, staring straight at those peach blossom eyes: "You haven't left yet."

Xiao Huaiyan seemed to hold back his cough, and lightly revealed the past: "You can stay longer today."

Su Ling looked at him.

The corners of Xiao Huaiyan's lips were curled up, and he didn't want to talk more, so he changed the subject: "When something happened in Imperial College last time, many people died. Fortunately, you are here this time."

"Am I not here?" Su Ling asked the other party 12 years ago.

Xiao Huaiyan stared at him, his tone became erratic: "No, you are in another place."

"why?"

Xiao Huaiyan didn't answer, just said: "There won't be a next time."

His fingers wrapped around the hair around Su Ling's ear, and before he touched his cheek further, Su Ling grabbed his hand hard and folded it.

Su Ling sat up and found that Xiao Huaiyan's face was pale, as if he was enduring the pain.The sudden cough made him look a little weak, his peach blossom eyes slightly raised, extremely wronged.

Su Ling recalled that the force with which he struck just now was not heavy.But he let go quickly.

After Xiao Huaiyan finished coughing, he stared at his wrist and laughed again: "It seems that we can't be too far away from the bell tower."

When he wanted to touch Su Ling again, Su Ling flinched back.

"Are you afraid of me?" Xiao Huaiyan's hand stopped in mid-air, and the back of his hand lightly rubbed the corner of Su Ling's lips.

Su Ling stared at him fixedly, remembering that fiery dream, so real, even the eyes were similar.Without saying a word, he turned and opened the car door.

Unexpectedly, the car door hit a few onlookers who didn't know how long they stayed there.

Lian Xiao looked blank: "What did the boss say, why do you feel that Su Ling is angry?"

Xizi whistled: "Are you in control, you're a single dog, someone's petty—"

From the corner of his eye, he looked at Xiao Huaiyan, who had been resting all day, and immediately changed his words: "The school celebration is coming, and Lian Xiao said he wanted to sing a song for everyone to cheer up."

At the end of Suling's line of sight, Feiran and Si Jinyu were sitting on the other side of the sailing ship.Feiran nodded slightly at him as a gesture.

Of course, they were not the only ones in the sailing ship, there were also some teachers and students who volunteered.It was not anxiety that occupied them at this time, but the excitement of being reborn from the great victory at Imperial College.

This is not a rational judgment.

Five minutes later, the sailing ship landed on a plain surrounded by mountains in the Toyota Star S area.As it turned out, when everyone saw the nest, the nerves tensed again.

That thing is in the midair of the plain, at a height of 300 meters from the ground.Looking from the ground, it looks like a bottomless hole.

But in a stereoscopic projection, that's just a round black slice.

It suddenly appeared under the dense black clouds, in the pitch-black sky, strangely like a product of an old god era in the universe.

Every once in a while, a black ellipsoid will fall down, which looks similar to a hazelnut from a distance.But once these things touch the ground, they will immediately tear off the transparent mucous membrane, and the black tentacles support the huge body.They rush towards any life they can smell like they are very hungry, and devour them in the most cruel way.

Although the elites of the Imperial College will involuntarily have fear when they really face the mimics, the way to overcome the fear is engraved in their trained nerves.

The Toyota Star is different.

On this fringe, mostly barren and poor planet, there are almost all unarmed civilians.They don't even have legal self-defense weapons.

The Alliance's reinforcements have not yet arrived in Area S—perhaps because it took too long to discuss the emergency plan. They claim to be the first to assist the area with more casualties.And more aid stays on the major developed planets.

"Peace has been too long," Xiao Huaiyan sneered, "very few people know how to face it."

Su Ling jumped out of the truck and pulled out a wooden box full of weapons.

Xizi didn't understand: "Could it be that the mimics can still fly spaceships? The insect nest is here, how did they go to other places?"

"Area S is a port, and there are some small scheduled unmanned ships here." The local police chief Wang Yunxi, who came to dock, appeared next to everyone.She wore long blonde hair and wore a tight uniform, looking very capable.

She didn't have time to exchange pleasantries, and explained straightforwardly: "Toyota Star is very small, and its limited navigation can only transfer to the six main planets in the southern galaxy. The insect nest appeared yesterday evening, just before the weekly scheduled unmanned ship started. Every drone will pass by that position when activated—”

That is, ten meters below the insect nest.

Wang Yunxi smiled wryly and said, "Almost none of the twelve unmanned ships went to other planets empty."

"Then why not turn off the automatic system?" Ou Chuchu asked.

"This is a very old port, and it hasn't been repaired for many years. The valve that shuts off the system is manual, and the program is difficult to invade. This thing is right under the nest."

Wang Yunxi pointed to the dark swarm of insects below.As they crawled away, they revealed a ruin.

"The worst thing is that a large unmanned ship will set sail for M27 at nine o'clock this evening. It's parked underground. The good news is that M27 has no inhabitants—"

Xiao Huaiyan said: "Bad news, M27 is the most suitable place for mimics to multiply."

The eyes around him tightened.

Wang Yunxi was not very surprised, and nodded: "So we must solve all these evils before nine o'clock tonight."

Her eyes wandered over the young faces in front of her: "But are you sure? You are all young, I mean, even if you go to the battlefield, it will not be your turn first."

"Who made us closer than the central galaxy?" Frank leaned drunkenly on the edge of the truck and raised the wine in his hand, "A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. Beauty, is the pheasant of Toyota Star delicious? Roast one tonight? "

Wang Yunxi glanced indifferently, as if asking, "Is this your level?"

"Pa-ta", a pheasant fell from the sky, the dark green slime almost burned the thing, and the stench made people vomit.But no one in the room acted rashly.

Frank raised his head, and saw a mimic lying on top of the truck, mucus flowed out from the quivering polyp, followed by a long touch——

With a "click", the bug was separated like a cake.Ao Lai stepped on its back and stomped a few times in frustration.His skin color was darker, and it turned into a piece of charred charcoal when he was backlit.

Fortunately, this charcoal still has a handsome outline.

Frank smacked his mouth and swallowed his complaint abruptly.

And Wang Yunxi's eyes lit up with hope.

On the way to the Highland Command, Xiao Huaiyan looked out of the window and clenched his hands on his knees into fists.

"In my time, the alliance at that time mishandled it, and most of Toyota Star's casualties. By the time the reinforcements came, this place had already been occupied by mimics. The whole army was wiped out."

"Since then, the Toyota Star and the M27 have been abandoned. Mimics breed here, waiting for the ever-present nest."

Su Ling asked suspiciously: "What are they?"

"You can understand that the mission of the Nest universe is to expand and annex it infinitely. In addition, all life forms must be hunted to obtain the resources for reproduction. When the universe is in an unstable state, the Nest universe will continue to grow. Wormhole, teleport the nest."

"Normally, each hive will have a mother. She takes the swarm that has been breeding for several years to find new food."

Su Ling raised his eyes suddenly: "If you kill the insect mother, the insect nest will disappear."

"Yes," Xiao Huaiyan admitted, "When the worm mother dies, the wormhole channel connecting the two universes will also collapse. But almost no one can do it."

Su Ling stared at his profile during the bumpy drive: "You seem to know mimics very well."

Xiao Huaiyan gave a "hmm" and smiled nonchalantly: "No one knows them better than me."

There seemed to be a deep meaning behind those words.

When they arrived at the headquarters, the enthusiastic young students learned about the tragic situation of Toyota Star. Area S was almost razed to the ground, and those videos full of stumps and dust were unbearable to watch.In addition, there are few intact places in the entire Toyota star.

There is no garrison here at all, and the security is very limited.Because of the backward communication, the reinforcements who arrived first could not contact the alliance at all, so they could only stay as far away from the most dangerous S area as possible.

Several local farmers were rescued to the headquarters by the way, sitting in the corner and sighing.One of them was gnawed off by the mimetic bug, and the whole person was in a state of sluggishness.

Someone said: "This year we will cut production again."

The passing nurses laughed at him: "It's a blessing to be able to survive, and you also take care of the food."

"I don't care, what do so many people in Toyota Star eat? Otherwise, you will give me the gun, and I will fight those bugs now!"

The nurse hurriedly stopped him, desperately trying to appease him.

"...Here, here, and this place may still have survivors," Wang Yunxi drew a red circle on the map, "If possible, I hope to bring them out and send them to the edge of S area, where there will be survivors." Someone will respond, and it will be six o'clock this afternoon at the latest."

Xiao Huaiyan sat lazily, and saw through the plan at a glance: "You want to use low-frequency sound waves to drive all the bugs back to Area S, and then blow them up with heavy weapons."

"That's right." Wang Yunxi nodded, looking at the young man in front of him in surprise.He looked careless, but there was something very complicated about those eyes, far from his apparent age.

"We have enough cars and equipment, so it's no problem to bring those people out," Xiao Huaiyan said, "but the sailing ship flying to M27 needs someone to manually turn off the activation system."

Su Ling said, "I'll go."

Xiao Huaiyan looked at him with calm but firm eyes.

"You are not enough alone, you need an engineer. Sergeant Wang, can you go with my...companion?"

Wang Yunxi was taken aback, the young man seemed to know something——

"No, you have to go with him. You are an engineer, and only you know how to close it. The premise is that you must ensure that the weapons you deploy will not attack indiscriminately before six o'clock this afternoon."

In Wang Yunxi's long career as a police officer, he has never felt the same scalp numbness as he did at this moment.She hates being seen through.But this annoying brat is not a mute.

"I believe Sergeant Wang doesn't want to sacrifice either." Xiao Huaiyan said meaningfully.

The next moment, the complicated things in his eyes disappeared again.He added: "A slew of reinforcements from the Alliance will arrive before dawn tomorrow if we hold out until then."

"I'll go with them too. I have an enhanced radiation gun here." Lian Xiao said first.

"Three people are enough. For the rest of you, please form a group of three. Yun Qing, Ao Lai, and Fei Ran try to go to different places."

Xiao Huaiyan spoke quickly.

Su Ling could tell that he was very tired.

This is the longest time he has stayed here.

He stood behind Xiao Huaiyan and patted his shoulder.But Xiao Huaiyan didn't look back.

Before leaving, Xiao Huaiyan escorted him to the car.

Su Ling was sitting in the back seat and heard Wang Yunxi say, "You must stay at the headquarters to convey the message to us in time, otherwise I will settle accounts with you boy when I come back."

"Yes, Sheriff." While perfunctory, Xiao Huaiyan leaned in and quickly kissed Su Ling's forehead.

He was like a cat stealing fish, his peach blossom eyes narrowed into a slit, and he looked at Su Ling's unprepared appearance with satisfaction.

After watching the last car drive away, Xiao Huaiyan turned around to look for the snowstorm.

"Where are you going?" asked a young guard.

Xiao Huaiyan opened the corner of his mouth, and raised his jaw towards the arc in midair.

"I want to go there and see."