God's Prayer and Nightwish

"The tide is ebbing..."

"real or fake?"

"Drowned a lot of mutated monsters... It will taste delicious when the sun shines tomorrow morning."

"Well, what else is there in the city?"

"That's all, a lot of guns are soaked..."

The rustling conversation turned from blurred to clear, and Ye Yuan woke up in a daze, aching all over, dazed, and didn't even know when he fell asleep.His first reaction after opening his eyes was—where the tide has ebbed, it is clearly still a vast ocean.

After waking up a bit, he found that the water level had indeed dropped a little—at least the area of ​​the isolated island they occupied had nearly doubled.

"What time is it?" Ye Yuan rubbed his eyes, and Hiji replied, "12:30 at night."

Hearing the master's deep voice close to his ears, Ye Yuan suddenly woke up, and all the memories before falling asleep came back.Before that, his brain had a twitch, and he was determined to reveal his heart, and he had a lot of talk with his master-everything that should be said and should not be said.He couldn't stop the car at all at the beginning, and he became more and more aggrieved as he talked about it later, and he even regretted the stupid thing about losing candy when he was a child.And the master really didn't respond as he promised, but just kept kissing his forehead and hair, and then helped him wipe away the endless tears on his face-his tear pool collapsed like a coastline. After crying, Mio even came to remind him to save water.

Ye Yuan was angry and tired, and fell asleep after crying for a long time.

"The sea water has receded to the west of the city." 29 said, his clothes were dripping with water, and there were some canned food looted from Fancheng and a few pistols at his feet: "I guess it will be dawn." When the time comes, we can catch the ebb tide and continue to move towards the sea.”

"Good news." Feng Yi'an was also very happy, "I can retire so soon."

No. [-] took a can and pried it open, a strong, corpse-like smell rushed over, and everyone wailed.

"Who got the canned herring!" No. [-] kicked the can and made a splash of water a hundred meters away.

"Who the hell are you!" No. 29's overly sensitive sense of smell was unlucky, tears welled up in his red eyes, and he accused [-] angrily, "Why did you use biological and chemical weapons to attack us!"

29 is quite innocent.

"Forget it, let's go to sleep." Mio was also suffocated by the smell, dizzy, "Let's go after the water level goes down."

"Both of you sleep for a while too," Feng Yi'an said to Ye Yuan, "We'll be on our way again at dawn."

"Well," Ye Yuan nodded, but he had just woken up, his throat was dry and itchy, his stomach was growling, he broke off a piece of compressed biscuit with great effort, and chewed dryly.

After eating the dry food, Ye Yuan lay on his back——his mind was still a little numb, he thought, although his back was hard and stiff, the big moon was still very beautiful.

After lying down for a while, there was still no sleepiness, and Anxi, who was one meter away, was also tossing and turning.Sure enough, within a few minutes, Anxi said, "I can't sleep, Miomio, tell me a story."

Mio said, "Once upon a time there was a stupid sheep..."

"Stop!" An Xi stopped immediately, "I have already foreseen how you will laugh at me."

Mio said innocently: "I will only talk about this."

"Forget it, come on number two." An Xi greeted.

Number Two thought for a while and said, "I told my daughter a story before, it seems to be a story about a human being repairing a pre-war cleaning machine killer."

"Oh, I've heard of this," 29 said. "Is it the story of the robot being rescued in the market and then repaired by this human. After the robot resumed operation, it wiped out all the humans in the market."

Everyone looked at them with black lines on their faces: "Did your daughter cry when she heard it?"

So number two was also deprived of the right to speak, and An Xi began to torment Feng Yi'an again: "Doctor, doctor, it's your turn, don't you have a younger brother? Have you ever told a story to your younger brother?"

Feng Yi'an thought for a while and said, "Let's think about it, it seems that every time I read the installation instructions of various equipment at home to Wei An, he will fall asleep very quickly."

Anxi was desperate.

Hiji suddenly said, "Let me tell you a story, it's about the sea."

"Okay, okay!" Anxi became energetic in an instant, turned over and lay on her stomach, and looked excited before she started listening to the story, and Yeyuan also secretly pricked up her ears.

"This story is about a pirate. Do you know what a pirate is?" Hiji said, "Once upon a time, there was a great pirate from country E. Country E is an island country, and everyone on it is a qualified sailor. And one out of ten sailors is a pirate, such as this big pirate. He led countless ships and sailors, and spent the first half of his life burning, killing, and looting on the center line of the Atlantic shipping route."

An Xi laughed: "It's completely different from us, only one out of ten can swim."

"That's right," Hiji said, "The shipping route he often robs is mainly the commercial shipping route of country S. After countless ships were robbed and gold, silver and jewels were looted, country S was very angry. The queen said, this big pirate is too arrogant, you still don't care?" His words and tone were like telling a story to a child, and Nightwish sounded very fresh.

Hiji: "Country S strictly demanded that country E take measures against big pirates, and country E agreed."

"Isn't it a story about a villain getting a bad reward?" Mio snorted, "It's better to listen to the robot go berserk and slaughter."

"No," Hiraji said, "On the contrary, the queen of country E turned around and awarded the great pirate a lord, which is similar to an official title of nobility. The great pirate and his warships turned into a part of the Royal Navy. Private plundering turned into open robbery, and one-third of the gold, silver and jewels they plundered were provided to the royal family of country E, greatly filling the treasury of country E, so the great pirate spent the rest of his life at sea It was only used as a navy to suppress pirates."

"Wow..." An Xi sighed.

"After the great pirate died, he was buried in a pirate town on the central route, which used to be the most important canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Both sides were small towns for pirates to share their spoils and have fun." Hijiki continued.Mio thought for a while and asked, "Did you say before... Freeport is like this small town?"

Hiji nodded: "That's right, the former site of Panama. Less than two years after the death of the great pirate, a tsunami suddenly hit here, and the sea flooded one-third of the town, and his tomb was also swept away." Into the sea."

Yeyuan let out an "ah" and said, "So after he died, he returned to the sea again."

"That's it," Hiji said, "a person who lived at sea all his life and death."

Yao Yaoling rubbed his chin: "Why do I feel that telling this story at this moment is not auspicious?"

But Anxi was very happy, and her dirty face was bright: "It's so interesting! Tell me one more time!"

Mio slapped him on the forehead: "It's late, you still don't rest!"

An Xi struggled to sit up again: "Let's listen to one more, and Ye Yuan definitely wants to hear it too, right?"

Ye Yuan struggled for a while, but still gave a soft "hmm".

He hadn't heard his master tell a bedtime story yet, and the temptation to fall asleep listening to his master's beautiful voice under the starry sky was too great.

Hiji and his eyes met, his black pupils were as deep as the sea, and Yeyuan's ears turned red when he looked at him like this, and he held his breath unconsciously - he vaguely realized that since he said that After the three words irreversible, although the owner didn't have a special mark, the relationship between the two of them seems to have become delicate.

"If Yoruto wants to hear it," Hijiru said softly, "then tell another story about pirates."

"Yeah!" An Xi cheered, hugged her knees and took two steps forward, staring at him with relish.

Hiji cleared his throat and started again: "In the past, there was another pirate ship in this place, on the route near this small town, and its scale...was much smaller than the one we mentioned earlier. This A ship with a black skull on the Jolly Roger, and the captain is called Calico Jack, because he always wears white trousers and coat."

This time, even the high-level mutants raised their ears calmly—only a small number of refuge stations were able to save the video data before the full-scale radiation, and other stories were hearsay, and they had no idea at all. This is the first time I have heard such a long-standing story from the age of great voyages.

"Among Calico Jack's accomplices, there were actually two girls, Anne and Mary, who were very rare female pirates at that time." Hijiki said, "One night, the navy raided to wipe out the pirates, and all the sailors on board at that time They were all so drunk that they all fell asleep, and even the calico Jack hid himself. Only two girls, Anne and Mary, fought against the huge pirate ship and delayed the navy for a while. However, they finally Lost to the attack of the navy, the entire crew of the pirate ship was captured and held in prison to be hanged."

"Anne and Mary were locked in a female prisoner's cage, and both of them tactfully claimed that they had given birth-historical records that Anne was indeed pregnant, but Mary didn't know it. In short, according to the local laws at that time, their execution It will be postponed until they give birth." Hiji said slowly, "And Anne applied to see Jack the cotton one last time before he was sent to the guillotine, so that the unborn child can see his father."

"But isn't that Jack a wimp?" Mio asked, completely forgetting his previous sneer at "Bedtime Stories".

An Xi said, "Maybe there is still some emotion..."

"That's right, the guard also thought that Anne applied for this meeting to say goodbye to Jack for the last time, something like 'Dear Jack, although you will not be here in the future, we will raise our children' and the like "Hisi said, "Unexpectedly, Annie came to Jack's cage and said to him, 'Jack, I'm really sorry to see you here, but if you could fight like a man back then, you wouldn't be like a man today. hanged like a dog.'”

"Wow——" everyone booed, 73 whistled, and sighed: "How come your story has such a delicate ending?"

Hisashi smiled and said, "I heard that Annie escaped from prison, changed her name, and spent the rest of her life in that pirate town, and anyone in that town could be Annie and Jack's wife." Descendants."

Feng Yi'an also laughed: "This story is good, but it's already two o'clock, you should go to bed."

"Okay, okay," Anxi rubbed back to Mio's side contentedly, "Thank you for your story."

"You're welcome." Hijiru replied politely.

Yeyuan also lay down again, the huge moon shifted a little bit, he turned sideways, looked at the profile of Dayu under the moonlight, and called softly: "Master..."

Hiji looked down at him, covered him with his coat, stroked his hair and said, "Stop talking, go to sleep."

Ye Yuan opened his mouth, but closed his eyes obediently.

When he was about to fall asleep, he heard 73 ask: "Will the person in charge of the scooter be changed after it's back on the road?"

He spoke a little loudly, and No. 73 stared at him with a "shh"—An Xing Nest fell asleep in Mio's arms, and was disturbed by it, and everyone looked at [-] complaining.

73 whispered: "I was wrong."

Mi Ao looked down, rubbed his chin against the top of Anxi's head, Anxi stopped moving, and began to snore.

Ye Yuan also closed his eyes again, this time, he fell into a deep sleep.

When morning came, the sea fruit gradually receded, the salty moisture was blown away by the wind, and a large amount of waste soil and yellow sand was swept back into the sea, leaving a collapsed mud pit.

When Ye Yuan opened her eyes, she found that she was covered with the master's coat, her arms were around the master's waist, her head was resting on the master's shoulder, and her nose was buried in the master's neck.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Hiroshi also woke up—his neck was tickled by the slap of eyelashes, Yeyuan's soft hair was rubbed against his cheek, and he turned his head to meet his eyes.

Ye Yuan was startled, felt guilty inexplicably, and retreated subconsciously at the speed of light, but the master remained lying still.

"I... my hands are numb..." Hiroshi said weakly.

"Ah!" Ye Yuan quickly crawled back, "Is this arm?"

"No, no, no, don't move... Ah!" Hiroshi screamed.

After the salty humidity met the rising sun, a layer of mist evaporated on the sea surface, and many fish and shrimps who had not had time to return to the sea with the ebb tide struggled and thrashed on the shallows.No. [-] used the prongs of steel pipes to poke some of the ugliest ones in front of Anxi's face to annoy him. Anxi was chased and ran all over the field screaming, but was stopped by Mi Ao who couldn't stand it anymore: "He won't be able to walk later. You carry him on your back!"

Number two decisively agreed: "Okay."

Mio took a deep breath and roared, "Stop making trouble and go!"

After a good night's sleep, Ye Yuan's muscles all over his body ached even more, and he stepped into a mud pit again, walking very hard, even the wheels of the cart sank in the slippery sand. 29 simply tied a nylon rope to the cart, tied No. 73 at the front to let it be dragged, and [-] and Yaoyaoling at the back lifted and pushed it.

After walking like this for a while, suddenly No. [-]’s body became half shorter—after the soft yellow sand was wet and evaporated, there were many holes hidden in the ground. The scooter also fell ahead of the others.Hiuji was walking beside him, subconsciously going forward to give him a hand, but his center of gravity tilted, and when he looked down, half of his calf was gone.

29 hurriedly supported him from behind, it was so strong that the two rolled backwards into a ball, but unexpectedly stopped sinking due to the increased force, Hiji hurriedly crawled back a few times with hands and feet on the ground step.

Feng Yi'an said: "Don't move around, take off the luggage and other heavy objects!"

The pit was getting bigger and bigger, and the heavy cart tilted forward uncontrollably. Several other high-level mutants hurriedly threw away their bags, and went around behind 73 and Yaoyao Ling to hold them back.However, No. [-] was in the middle of the quicksand pit and could not get close at all. Seeing that it was about to be buried under a cart full of goods, Mio quickly flew out a short black knife and cut off the nylon rope hanging on No. [-]. , to save him from the horror scene of being dragged and sunk.

"Take a deep breath!" 29 shouted, "Don't struggle, move slowly!"

No. [-] didn't dare to move all of a sudden - the sand had already reached his chest, only his arms were barely propped outside.

"Damn, isn't it, I just want to live, so I want to bury me alive!" No. [-] yelled up to the sky.

"Let you take a deep breath!" 29 roared, "Stop talking!"

"Open your arms and lean back, do you know how to swim? Imagine you are lying down and swimming..." Feng Yi'an said anxiously, and 29 interrupted: "He can't swim!"

29 lay on the edge of the sand pit, and stretched the steel pipe that No. [-] was playing with before his waist. Hijiri understood it, and helped explain: "Use the pipe to balance your body, and try to keep it level with the ground. State, the larger the area in contact with quicksand, the better."

Here, 73 and Yaoyaoling have come to a safe place, and they are sitting on the ground slumped in shock. The rest of the people are paying close attention to No. [-] whose chest has been submerged, but they can only stand around and worry about nothing. can not do this.

No. [-] tensed his back, but found that as long as he tried hard, he would sink, so he had to force himself to relax. He took a deep breath to fill his lungs with air, and slowly rubbed back while rolling the steel pipe on his back.

Mio took out the only piece of nylon rope left - he always carried one on his body habitually, in case it could be tied to Anxi's body when the weather was bad.He threw the other end of the rope to Number Two and said, "Hold on!"

No. [-] didn't reach out, Mi Ao said even louder: "Grab it!"

Number Two held his breath, but finally let go, and said, "I don't know how big this pit is, so stop being a monster!"

Mio couldn't help looking at his feet, and blocked his arm Anxi quickly said: "Stand back," and then repeated louder: "Grab it!"

An Xi ignored him, but instead grabbed the end of the rope behind him and shouted, "Number two, number two! Hurry up, I'll pull you up!"

No. [-] had no choice but to grab the end of the rope and use his strength to swim out, rubbing against each other bit by bit.

After struggling for nearly half an hour, No. [-] completely escaped from the sand pit. In order to pull out his feet from the sand more easily, he took off his shoes. At this moment, his feet were covered with wet sand, and he crawled exhaustedly to a safe place on the other side. As soon as he let go, he got down.

The second stall became a piece of cake: "I haven't been so tired for a long time."

29 also breathed a sigh of relief, knelt down and patted its back.

"What about the car?" 73 asked, "Do you want to dig it?"

The cart and all the equipment carried on it have been completely swallowed by the quicksand, and the sand on the surface is still gathering towards the center. It is not known how big the underground cavity is. "No more," Feng Yi'an said, "Safety comes first."

Yaoyao Ling and 73 were quite depressed - they had finally escorted the equipment here, knowing that it was right under their feet, but they wanted to give up at this point, Hiji casually threw a stone into the center of the quicksand pit, and disappeared in a second.

"That's enough, that's enough," Hiji said hastily, "It's enough to be alive."

The group continued on the road without resting for too long, but this time everyone was a lot more careful. 29 walked at the forefront, carefully avoiding the swirling surface on the shallows, and using the butt of the rifle as a crutch from time to time to explore the road. Tianhou finally caught up with the coastline.

The sea water has not completely retreated to the position before the storm, and the original site of the entire bounty hunter union can be seen from a distance—a huge steel factory with only the tip of a chimney sticking out of the water, and a deformed and huge monster floating on the top of the heat-insulating solar panels. Looking closely, it is actually the effect of dozens of normal-sized hot air balloons sticking together, with some plastic sheets in the middle, and a raft made of unknown materials falling underneath. Above, when the tide is low, there are hot air balloons leading it, and it will not be washed away with the tide. It is a mini sky city.

"Damn, you're so talented." No. [-] sighed.

After walking towards the trade union for a while, they soon discovered that they were not the only visitors here. Not far away, a group of people the size of ants were also exploring along the coastline.

Needless to say, all the advanced mutants immediately put on gloves, masks, and hoods. If one didn't look at their skin and eyes, it was still difficult to quickly discover their identities.Anyway, in the wasteland, it's not surprising to wear anything.

There were quite a few people standing or sitting scatteredly by the beach. Mio stepped forward and asked the two people standing nearby: "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" the man asked back.

Mio said, "Wait for the low tide."

The man said, "That's it, so are we."

Mi Ao was speechless, staring at the other party gloomyly, Ye Yuan quickly took the conversation and asked, "Do you know... how to get to the trade union?"

The other party looked over, passed him and saw Feng Yi'an behind him, he seemed familiar, and hesitantly said: "Hey, you are not..."

Another person replied to Ye Yuan, "I can't go now, just wait until the water recedes. But now the trade union has basically shut down. I saw that there are no people there. It's basically because the full payment for the previous task has not been received yet. But...it may be difficult to get it back now."

The person at the front noticed the group of No. [-] not far away, and wondered, "What's the matter with those people?"

"Friend," Ye Yuan said briefly, and asked again: "What if you don't give me money, no one is looking for old Bob to make trouble?"

"Old Bob, ha!" The man laughed, "It's already cold!"

"Dead?" Mio asked in surprise.

"Missing," the man replied, "it's about the same as dead. Now the leader of the union has changed. Missions, bounty payments, and rewards are all wanted and no one cares. After all, the union is flooded... probably still It will be chaotic for a while, I don’t know when it will resume operation, in case there is another wind..."

Mio and Hisuji glanced at each other quickly, and both of them noticed the message "Wanted for reward and nobody cares".

"Where is the original charter port?" Hiji asked, "Can you still rent it?"

"Renting a boat? No way!" The other person sneered: "Where there are boats now, there is still room for you! When the tsunami came, it was already fully occupied. At that time, there was too much competition, and a ship crashed. .”

He pointed out that there were a few pieces of steel remaining there, and it was estimated that the remaining hull had already been taken away by the sea.

While talking, the sun evaporated, the sea receded another ten meters, and the air was hot and humid. The two people glanced at it and said, "It is estimated that we will be able to join the union in half an hour, and we still have task money to collect. Who is going to meet the new manager, let's go first."

"Okay." Mio waved his hand, turned around, and when he was about to take a step, a hunter who was sitting and resting stood up from the ground and said, "Wait a minute."

He leaned closer before whispering, "I know where I can rent a boat."

Mio glanced at him vigilantly, and the other party took off the sunshade scarf to reveal his face—his facial features were deep, and there were gray beard stubbles on his weather-beaten face, but Mio really didn't have any impression, but Yewish took a closer look With a glance, he said in surprise, "It's you!"

The old hunter who had almost lost his hunter badge and was accidentally saved by Yewish nodded with a smile: "I have been waiting for your mission these days, unexpectedly..."

Mio looked at Hiroshi suspiciously, Hiroji shrugged, expressing that he didn't know what was going on.

"I know where there is a boat. You want to go to Humoti?" asked the old hunter.

Ye Yuan nodded, and Si Si said: "It's great if you have a way, let's talk as we walk."

After walking a few steps, the old hunter told Hijiri about Yeyuan saving him back then, Hiji looked back at Yeyuan, said nothing, turned his head again, and continued to ask the old hunter about the capacity of the hull.On the other hand, Feng Yi'an looked at Ye Yuan with a half-smile, and shook his head again.

Ye Yuan asked uncomfortably, "What are you laughing at?"

Feng Yi'an looked at him and said with a smile: "That's right, Ye Yuan is also a good boy."

Nightwish blushed.