horizon peripheral vision

The name "No Man's Land" has a deep meaning.

It's not really desolate, on the contrary, there are still a lot of people wandering around.

After the rebellion, the territory occupied by the empire has shrunk considerably.The two warring parties refused to give in to each other, preferring to leave a large area of ​​fertile land exposed to the bitter wind and go to desertification and death.

Not too long time has passed, except for the satellite hanging far away in the sky day after day, no one seems to want to have any connection with it.

But at some point, due to various reasons, Congress began to approve the exile of some criminals and wandering mechanical transformation humans to the middle area.

"So...is mechanization really that scary?" one student asked.

This survey team happened to be traveling in the same direction as Gu Huaiyu, so he made up an excuse, got on a ride, and leaned against the corner of the car to watch the yellow sand rising outside the car.

There was a lot of noise in the car, and half of the people in the car were going out of the country for the first time, and they were all new to everything, and even started to discuss topics that were expressly forbidden.

Gu Huaiyu was listening intentionally or unintentionally, but did not make a sound.

These students just regard mechanization as a vague and distant term, unable to understand the true meaning it represents.

Although the government has strictly prohibited mechanized transformation these years, it is still an open secret among the aristocratic circles to carry out such operations secretly.The power beyond ordinary people always attracts a large number of people, and the pain of the operation is the most insignificant.At first, the modification was only to enhance muscle strength, speed, explosive power and attack power, and then gradually evolved to eliminate pain and even perception.

Gu Huaiyu leaned to one side silently, a delicate necklace hanging around his neck was smashed against the iron sheet by a gust of wind, which attracted the attention of others.

But what was hanging on the expensive necklace was nothing more than a bullet casing.

The owner of the necklace hurriedly tucked the bullet casing into the inner layer of his clothes, as if such a little wind could blow it away and disappear.His eyes suddenly became gloomy, and the students beside him didn't dare to look at him, so they quickly turned away.

Gu Huaiyu stepped on his boots slightly, and pressed his back against the wall of the car, widening the distance from others.

The survey team's car stopped just half a day's drive away from the border. Gu Huaiyu thanked him and got out of the car, and walked towards the stronghold hidden in the abandoned town not far away.

This is the stronghold he mentioned to Friedzer last night, no accident, the man should go.

Gu Huaiyu's guess was right, Friedrich had been here, and the food had been tampered with.It can be seen that the person is in a hurry, it doesn't look like he has been waiting here.Half a page of the newspaper wrapping the food box was torn off and turned into a scrawled note with simple content, "Go home."

You can even read a little bit of persuasion.

Gu Huaiyu pinched the torn pages of the newspaper and received it in the innermost layer of the backpack without saying a word.Picked up a bottle of water, unscrewed it and took a few sips.

There were two communication devices in the corner where the boxes were piled up. Gu Huaiyu picked one up. It was a very old earphone communicator. It was too conspicuous. The only advantage was that the technical level was ridiculously low. On the contrary, it was easy to detect whether there was a location-based eavesdropping device installed. .

After checking it once, he activated the communicator, called for a few seconds, and the other end was connected.

"Gu! Huai! Yu!" Fang Ting's tone sounded extremely frantic, "What are you doing?! You know it's such a trouble, it's on the internal affairs page, you know?"

He murmured again, "I'll prepare some tools for you, at most I'll be an accomplice... I think I might as well find a law code to find out how I can reduce my sentence by a few years..."

"Fang Ting." After drinking a lot of water, Gu Huaiyu's throat was still dry, "It's not me."

The voice fell to the ground briefly and forcefully, and the other end fell silent, and Fang Ting's tone became extremely calm almost instantly, "Are you not with Friedrich?"

"No." Gu Huaiyu said.

He looked around and saw the old warped boards and the dusty sofa.I wanted to say that even if we were together, we couldn't stay in this messy place forever.Before I said it, I suddenly felt that it was okay.

Nothing bad.

But whether he thinks it's good or not, it can't change the fact that he's not there.Whether it's the expected birthday celebration, or a desperate connection, it's always his one-man show.

"Out?"

"So smooth?"

"What's wrong with using your authority?" Friedrich lay on a sofa, threw aside a half-drinked bottle of water, and said softly, "How many more days will it take?"

"Wait." Gu Huaipei said vaguely, "I haven't fully found out how much that old bastard knows."

There was a 'click' from the communicator, very soft, and it was Friedzer lighting a cigarette.

Gu Huaipei taunted him that he was too comfortable living a life of fleeing, and asked him with great interest how he encouraged Gu Huaiyu to secretly use the authority to let him go.

"Say a few nice words." Friedrich recalled what happened last night, pursed his lips, and said with a half-smile.

With his wrist resting on the armrest of the sofa, he lazily lit a cigarette ash, exhaled a puff of rising smoke, and turned his head to look at the surveillance projection screen on the side.

Gu Huaipei thought he was just using coercion and lure, so he stopped asking.

After finishing the communication, Fritz threw the communicator to the other side of the sofa, stood up and walked towards the surveillance equipment by the window.

This stronghold is not far from Gu Huaiyu's, all the external glass is covered with dust, and the dense internal and external surveillance equipment is enough to grasp all the surrounding movements.

The man was smoking a cigarette, leaning against the table, and looked back at the video of the surveillance system a few minutes ago.

Gu Huaiyu in the projection screen was wearing a half-worn black windbreaker, carrying a handbag, with a few strands of dark chestnut hair protruding from the tightly wrapped hood, like a refugee in no man's land.

He walked slowly towards a building. The precision of the surveillance system was very high. It was as if he was standing in front of Friedrich, and he could clearly see a thin hair that was blown by the wind on the bridge of his nose.

The young man hesitated before entering the door, licked his dry and chapped lips with the tip of his bright red tongue, and raised his hand to try to smooth the messy hair blown by the wind along the way.Then he quickly dodged and hid in that building, but he hasn't come out yet.

Fritz stood in front of the screen, smoking his cigarette, and waited for a moment.In fact, if Gu Huaiyu was perceptive enough, he should have come to his senses when he saw the note left behind, and realized that something was wrong.

But even if this kid knew that this so-called escape was just a drama, he had no other choice.

After a day or two at most, Gu Huaipei will stand up and announce the wonderful story that Gu Huaiyu and his immediate boss conspired to frame Friedrich and let him go for the purpose of trapping and killing.

At that time, Gu Huaiyu had only two choices, to go into exile and endure hardships and wait to be declared a fugitive, or to be smart and go home and honestly agree to take the blame.

Friedrich put out the cigarette expressionlessly, caught a glimpse of the other pen on his chest that had just written a note, and took it out to play with it twice.

The silver light on the cap of the pen flashed, and then someone raised his hand and threw it into the trash can in the corner.