Chapter 81 Have a nice trip There are giants in the desert Oh oh oh oh

When Chu Xiuyan finished shopping at the night market and returned to the base headquarters carrying a lot of bags, the meeting upstairs had not yet ended, and there were still only Zai Zhe, Xuan Wu and Wu Gaoyuan in the lounge.

They seemed a little tired now, even playing cards seemed listless, looking at the time from time to time, and then sighing deeply.

"It's almost ten o'clock now. According to past experience, if a meeting with Zhang Chun lasts for more than three hours, it means that the matter is very difficult and it will probably take another two or three days to discuss the results. In this case, I think we can withdraw first."

Wu Gaoyuan said lazily, holding his chin with his hand, with a calm expression. Seeing the boy jumping back from the window with a lot of things hanging all over his body, he smiled instantly? "You came back with a lot of things. Did you have fun?"

"We caught a big fish!" Chu Xiuyan gave him a thumbs up. "By the way, I thought you all gathered here to attend a meeting, but you turned out to be lazy and playing cards."

As he spoke, he took out various snacks and toys that he brought back from the night market and placed them all on the table in one go, saying very generously that people were welcome to eat as much as they wanted.

"Then I'll give you a 20% discount on your coffin bed, you're welcome."

Zai Zhe was the first to reach out and grab a cup of milk tea. He waved the cards in his hand like a fan and sighed, "As for what you said just now... We should have attended the meeting. If Zhang Chun wasn't here, we would just be there to watch. If Zhang Chun was here, we wouldn't be there to watch. We must have a serious discussion. But if the suggestions we put forward angered someone, the whole building would probably have to be rebuilt. You see, we are trying to save unnecessary expenses in the base."

He pointed to the top of his head jokingly: "Listen, the upstairs is so quiet now, it must be because Zhang Chun is reluctant to fight with Mo Wei. After all, if he hits too hard, the person will die."

Chu Xiuyan: "...Quiet?"

He looked up at the shaking ceiling and vaguely heard a familiar scream.

"I just wanted to say that Boss Lion seems to be getting beaten? Hey..."

Wu Gaoyuan smiled and replied, "It doesn't matter. Boss Lion has thick skin and flesh, so he won't die."

Chu Xiuyan expressed his admiration, saying that it was indeed a touching friendship between super S-level people.

At this time, Xuan Wu, whose face was covered with notes, finally? moved? his eyes away from the deck in his hand, looked at Zai Zhe who was leisurely holding a milk tea, and then looked at Wu Gaoyuan who was quite interested in opening a pile of snacks, and said faintly: "You two, are you cheating?"

Upon hearing this, Zai Zhe was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and sighed, "You actually discovered it."

Wu Gaoyuan stretched out his hands to Zaizhe and said with a smile: "It was fifty-six minutes and thirty seconds before we were found to be cheating. I won. Two hundred yuan, remember to give it to me."

Zai Zhe tried to persuade him, "It's only less than four minutes. Can I use the golden coffin as compensation? It doesn't cost two million or two thousand. It only costs two hundred. You can take a golden coffin home!"

Wu Gaoyuan smiled unchanged: "No."

Xuan Wu had already realized that he was being played by these two guys, so he threw his cards away and rushed over viciously, wanting to fight.

Chu Xiuyan was far away from the battlefield, listening to the screams from upstairs and looking at the fight not far away. He sighed, "So I really like fighting? Fighting is not my problem. The people around me are too violent. I need to be more sociable."

System: [As expected of you. 】

All in all, all was well tonight.

However, as Wu Gaoyuan said, there are too many issues to be discussed in the meeting upstairs. Although the core content is to prevent the outbreak of war, there are too many issues to be dealt with, including whether to send envoys to negotiate with the official to determine the attitude of the other side. After all, they have to pretend on the surface. And after the negotiation fails with a high probability, they have to delay time to contact the many forces in the desert, judge their positions, determine whether they can cooperate, and whether the means are soft or hard, whether the cooperation is mainly based on inducement or threat. Various big and small issues are entrenched in everyone's mind, and they can't figure it out.

But this has nothing to do with Chu Xiuyan. He is only responsible for fighting. Using his brain is too difficult and not suitable for him.

So when he saw Zhang Chun again, it was already two days later.

"Such big—black eye? Circles."

Chu Xiuyan was shocked. He was forced to stay at Zai Zhe's house to look after the store because he lost the bet. Various coffins were neatly placed on the wall, making the house look a bit eerie.

It was five in the morning when Zhang Chun arrived. He still had a bit of the damp smell of the early morning. He put the breakfast he brought on the table and took a bite of the bun. He felt a bit dazed from staying up all night. "I have to go back to the A3 base. You wait for me here for a few days. We will leave in a week."

Chu Xiuyan's eyes lit up when he thought about changing the map to explore: "Okay, who else is going with us?"

"Zai Zhe and Wan Mingxu are leading the team, and there are some people you don't know, but they are not on our way in the first half. I'll make a list for you later, remember to pack your things..."

Zhang Chun suddenly stopped talking while he was talking, and he hadn't finished eating the half-eaten bun.

Chu Xiuyan reached out and poked him, but he was so tired that he fell asleep and didn't respond at all.

He looked around, dragged the person into the coffin beside him, and gently closed the lid, leaving a small gap. He thought that this coffin was the most comfortable and he would definitely be able to have a good sleep.

There were not many people in the store, and Chu Xiuyan felt bored after staying there for only half a day, so he went out for a walk.

Zai Zhe returned to the store at noon. He was not surprised to see the boy was not there. He counted the number of coffins in the room and found that there was not a single one missing. He shook his head and sighed, "Even thieves don't patronize funeral homes these days."

Just as he finished speaking, he heard some rustling noises nearby. His eyes lit up, and he turned around to look. The next second, he couldn't laugh anymore.

Zhang Chun pushed open the coffin lid, sat up from inside, and rubbed his temples, feeling somewhat confused: "Why am I in a coffin... Ah, good morning."

He greeted Zai Zhe.

Zai Zhe’s expression was stiff: “…Morning.”

It's a ghost.

…

A week later.

"Chewing gum, biscuits, apples, chess, trekking poles, cameras, lighters, pots and pans, bricks, and delicious drinks..."

Chu Xiuyan squatted beside the west gate of the ruined city, counting with Captain Ye, who was once the hero team's team tamer and a rich young man, to see if they had everything in their backpacks.

"Report to the captain, the equipment is complete!"

He stood up and reported loudly and excitedly to Zhang Chun who had just returned from the A3 base.

Captain Ye next to him also shouted: "I watched him pack it! It was perfect!"

Zhang Chun half-crouched on the ground with an expressionless face, and threw out several bottles of wine and a bundle of comics that were big enough to be mosaiced in his backpack.

"Ah!" Chu Xiuyan said with great sorrow: "What if we can't communicate with the natives in the desert? We can use wine to fight? To establish a relationship! And these books? But--"

He lowered his voice and said seriously, "This is specially for fishing for a certain water monster."

Zhang Chun had a headache after hearing this. "Even Cui Zhiyong is not that bad?... Forget about him. Let's talk about you. You didn't buy a single thing from the list I made for you! And what's wrong with your outfit? We are going to the desert, not to the ocean or the beach to sunbathe. The sun in the desert can... You'll get sunburned!"

Chu Xiuyan pushed up the sunglasses that almost covered most of his face, and pinched the brim of his hat to press it down, "Sunglasses block light, and the baseball cap blocks the sun."

Then he gestured at the loose sun-proof thin jacket on his body and said confidently: "This is super cool and breathable, and it can prevent heat stroke!"

Zhang Chun reached out his hand expressionlessly and pinched the wide collar of the sweater he was wearing. With a slight tug, the other person's shoulder was exposed.

Chu Xiuyan pretended to be shy and pulled up his coat to cover his collarbone and the large area of exposed skin.

"Oh."

Zhang Chun smiled without any emotion, then cast a sinister look at Captain Ye who was also in costume on the other side.

"...After thinking about it carefully, it seems that this kind of clothes is not suitable for activities on the sofa. I will help him change his clothes now."

Captain Ye admitted his mistake very quickly and pushed Chu Xiuyan to leave.

Zhang Chun rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Forget it, let's wear it like this for now and change it in the afternoon."

Chu Xiuyan: "Great!"

He happily got into the back seat of the SUV, waved goodbye to Captain Ye, ignored the look of help he gave him, and slammed the door shut, leaving Captain Ye alone to deal with an angry elder.

"Brother Jiu, are you going too?"

As soon as Chu Xiuyan got into the car, he found a familiar figure sitting on the passenger seat. It was the bartender who was spreading out the map to look at the route.

"I can't get used to staying in the base. By the way, you look really good in this outfit." The bartender glanced at him. Although his tone remained the same, the compliment still touched the boy deeply.

"I'll prepare something like this for you later. We're all young people, so why don't you wear something that young people should wear?"

The bartender was casual: “Okay.”

Zhang Chun had just scolded Captain Ye and returned to the car. When he heard this conversation, he couldn't help but hold his forehead. When he was about to speak, Chu Xiuyan suddenly caught a glimpse of something and grabbed the collar of his sweater at lightning speed.

"What's wrong..." Zhang Chun was caught off guard.

"Okay, okay, go back to Huangshi Village while I'm away! If you go home without me—"

Zhang Chun coughed lightly, "I just suddenly remembered to go back, it's not a big deal."

Chu Xiuyan's eyes widened. "It's not a big deal. I just went back to change into new clothes, right? It doesn't matter. I can be self-reliant. I can knit my own sweaters. It's more satisfying to knit by myself. Jiuge will teach me? I knit a sweater!"

The bartender thought to himself that this was none of his business, but he said, "Okay."

Anyway, just follow the conversation?

Zhang Chun quickly said, "Don't worry, you have some too. They are placed together with the luggage I packed for you. It's in the back of the car. I just didn't have time to tell you. How could your aunt forget about you?"

"Great!" Chu Xiuyan instantly became happy, "So how are you and aunt getting along?"

Zhang Chun coughed lightly, turned the key, and the SUV roared and drove towards the road to the west.

Chu Xiuyan was still chattering.

But Zhang Chun remained vague.

The bartender shook the map and said calmly, "His ears are red."

Chu Xiuyan quickly touched Zhang Chun's hair, which annoyed him and he shouted, "I'm driving, stop it!"

“Puff, puff, puff…”

Chu Xiuyan laughed quietly.

So? That’s when the journey begins.

The ruined city was located in the forest, and the territory under its jurisdiction was also covered with large tracts of forest, lush and green, with luxuriant branches and leaves. The familiar scene now had a different kind of interest.

Birds chirp, squirrels jump among the leaves, ants migrate in the soil, and dewdrops roll down from the tips of the leaves, reflecting mottled light and shadows.

Further away, scattered strange beasts gradually appeared. They were far away from human habitation and gathered in remote corners. Their scarlet eyes appeared and disappeared in the darkness, but they did not actively attack.

After leaving the beast tide, the strange beasts that already had a little wisdom clearly understood that it would be very troublesome to rashly attack humans.

For the first hour, Chu Xiuyan ate snacks, looked at the scenery, and hummed songs, feeling very relaxed and comfortable.

The second hour, he prepared for bed.

Two hours later, he woke up and found himself surrounded by vast expanses of trees.

He was in a daze for a while, then slowly curled himself up into a ball and started playing with the fog.

Sometimes it condensed into little birds and flew out of the car window, and sometimes it transformed into half a bear head with bared teeth, and a large cloud of gray fog filled the entire space.

Zhang Chun skillfully ignored the large gray fog coming from behind, simply ignoring it as if it didn't exist.

The bartender rolled down the window to let the gray fog in the car dissipate.

Near noon, the bartender suddenly said, "The route is correct. The Moon Lake is just ahead. We can stop and rest for a while."

Zhang Chun responded: "Okay, Yunyan, get off the car later and don't run too far."

After a while, there was no sound from behind. Zhang Chun called out again, but there was still no response. This time, even the bartender was surprised. The two turned their heads, but the back seat was empty.

Zhang Chun's expression changed instantly. Just when he thought that the boy had sneaked out and couldn't be found, a cheerful voice suddenly sounded in front of him.

“I’m here!”

A figure emerged from the roof of the car, with a pair of bright eyes, and looked inside.

Zhang Chun was caught off guard and stepped on the brakes, and the person on the roof of the car immediately rolled down the hood to the ground.

Zhang Chun looked out the window at the boy lying on the ground and rolled around, holding his forehead and sighing.

The bartender put away the map and calmly comforted him: "Look at the bright side, he's not lost."

After being scolded, Chu Xiuyan stayed obediently in the back seat.

They also spent the night in the forest, and around 3:00 p.m. the next day, they finally walked out of the forest.

After leaving the forest, there was an endless grassland, where some familiar or unfamiliar animals began to appear. After driving a little further, groups of strange beasts gradually appeared, but they just looked in the direction of the off-road vehicle from a distance and did not approach.

The bartender suddenly said, "The grassland is a no-man's land."

Zhang Chun: "So it is being divided. It's a pity for this natural buffer zone."

Chu Xiuyan: "From now on, I am the king of the grassland!"

He couldn't hold back his excitement and turned into mist to fly out to explore.

Half an hour later, he was killed by a group of more than a dozen exotic lions.

“Run, run!”

Chu Xiuyan urged hurriedly.

"What did you do?"

Zhang Chun stepped on the accelerator helplessly, and the off-road vehicle quickly drove away from the lion group.

"Nothing, I just went to play with the little lion, and then I was targeted."

Chu Xiuyan was now completely calm, slumped in the back seat in a daze.

The feeling of spending the night on the grassland was no different from that in the forest, and Chu Xiuyan slept very soundly.

The next day, they continued driving on the grassland until the sky became darker in the afternoon. When dusk gradually appeared, Zhang Chun gave a reminder.

"Yunyan, change your clothes. We are going into the desert."

“Ohhhh!”

Chu Xiuyan finally perked up.

Half an hour later, as if crossing a non-existent boundary, the world suddenly changed.

Behind me is a lush grassland with bushes everywhere. The sky is endlessly blue. The bright and warm sunshine penetrates the clouds, casting beams of light that are bright and gentle.

In front of him was a vast expanse of desert, with winding sand marks, large tracts of exposed sandstone, and twisted and broken dead trees. Further away, the sky was as dark as blood, and there was a huge blood-red tree towering into the clouds, as if connecting heaven and earth.

In the distance? Camel bells rang, vultures cried out, and in the blood-red clouds, a giant more than ten meters tall loomed, hunched over, with five chains around its neck embedded in the sand, as if being driven away by something.

Chu Xiuyan's eyes lit up: "Ohhhh! It's a super giant!"

Unlike his excitement, Zhang Chun and the bartender looked solemn.

The bartender estimated the direction: "It's heading southwest, about two thousand meters away from us... too close!"

Zhang Chun immediately turned the steering wheel and drove quickly away from the giant, "Yun Yan, hold on tight."

Chu Xiuyan immediately buckled his seat belt and shouted, "Oh oh oh!"

The next second, the off-road vehicle suddenly accelerated, and I felt dizzy instantly. My stomach seemed to be turning upside down, and I almost vomited.

But even so, he tried to shout out in excitement.

“Ohhhhh—”

Behind the SUV, the giant that was moving slowly suddenly turned its head at an extremely slow speed and looked in the direction of the SUV. Then it slowly raised its head and saw several helicopters flying from the east. Finally, it moved to the side and caught a glimpse of a black dot in the sky.

The sound of camel bells suddenly became quiet, and then suddenly became high and rapid.

The giant opened his mouth, and dense scarlet bugs flew out of his mouth, swarming in three directions.

In one direction, Zai Zhe and Wan Mingxu, who were sent as envoys to negotiate with the Desert Fortress, were startled.

They were sitting in the helicopter, and the moment they saw the giant, they ordered to get away as quickly as possible.

"He is a prisoner. It is unlucky."

Zai Zhe looked coldly at the giant and the dark red swarm of insects that were surging like blood-red waves. As soon as he finished speaking, a domain rose along with the sound. A huge shadow enveloped the three helicopters like a barrier, keeping the densely packed insects out.

The helicopter pilot skillfully continued along the original route.

At the same time, in addition to the off-road vehicles and helicopters with the most energy being attacked by the insect swarm, another small black dot was not ignored by the giant.

“Ahhhhh stop cursing! I’m already chasing you! After all, you clearly discovered two days ago that someone had stolen the core, so why didn’t you tell me?!”

The man with long red hair ran for his life in the air. Even though he was being chased by a swarm of insects, he was only a little embarrassed? He was fighting? He was communicating... But it was unclear whether his embarrassment was because he had lost something important or because he was being chased.

Anyway, he now feels like his brain is about to explode.

"You don't have time in a meeting? What kind of meeting can last for more than a week? I don't believe it!... You were beaten and sent to the hospital. That seems a bit miserable. But I'm even more miserable! I'm being chased by prisoners as soon as I enter the desert! I feel like I'm dying of exhaustion. If you can't call the boss to help, I'll go to the northwest and Liuxiang to live my life!"