Unexpected incident
"——So, what do you want a fake young master of the Zhang family for?" I asked suddenly.
Silence, sudden silence.
The team leader looked at me, felt a little headache, and pinched the back of his neck.
"Ancestor, why don't you play the emotional card? Can you please change the subject?"
I sighed, thinking that this guy was so passionately reminiscing about the past, as if he could even cry and tell me what color the pants of my second uncle's Samoyed were in the next second. Why couldn't he get the words out of him? It was really a headache.
I believe that all the sincerity he expressed just now was not false.
But this did not prevent him from suddenly realizing at some point that he had revealed too much, so he began to change the subject, trying to fool me and keep me "out of it."
Parents, most parents have this problem. On the one hand, they sincerely shed tears and say that life is hard, on the other hand, when they see you feel ashamed, they are planning to take the opportunity to send you to a cram school to "improve yourself", and on the other hand, they inadvertently refuse to buy the plastic figurine that they originally promised to buy.
Now that he has remembered that I am a naughty kid, there is no way we can continue the conversation on any deeper topics.
I squatted down and examined the bloody man on my own.
This was obviously a dangerous topic. I reached out to see the details of the man's injuries, but my shoulder felt heavy and was held down.
"Just watch yourselves, don't mess around." The captain said helplessly, "Your group of loyal ministers will be here soon. There are some things I don't know what will happen after I finish explaining them, so I can't take risks. If I really wanted to hide it from you, would I still mention it? Wait until the people come, and we can have more manpower, okay, ancestor?"
I looked up at him seriously and asked him how long it would take.
"Two hours at most. It's still a long time before daybreak. The communications we brought down here won't work in this underground place. It will take some time for Xiao Liu to go out and look for them alone."
He moved his hand up and placed it on my neck, obviously threatening me that if I continued to do something wrong, he would knock me out.
His words were vague and he was just trying to confuse people, but I felt like laughing because I understood.
It didn't take Xiao Liu long to take me back to the convoy, and the reservoir in the other direction was only a few steps away from the camp. But now, after they tried to communicate but to no avail, Xiao Liu had to search for two hours to find someone.
I'm not stupid. Nine out of ten words in his sentence reveal the problem.
That is to say, many things may have happened between the time I fell unconscious due to bleeding and the time I woke up in the artificial amniotic fluid in the camp. These things have caused Gao Liu Wildcat and the others to leave the vicinity of the reservoir and hide in a state that needs to be found.
That's why Xiao Liu rushed in first, risked his life to take me away when I was still extremely weak, and brought me directly back to the convoy.
So that's how it is, this makes sense, there must have been a huge change along the way. It was this change that forced the team leader who had been hiding and staying out of the matter to meet me immediately, and even confessed to me a lot of information that I had never suspected.
What is this unexpected event?
Could it be that I wasn't just unconscious for a moment?
I have to admit that for a moment, my worries about the answer to the riddle were completely overwhelmed by the excitement and curiosity that began to bubble up in my mind. I was completely influenced by this group of unethical and wicked lunatics.
I was still complaining and trying to pass the blame on to others, but maybe my expression was too obvious and I immediately felt a pain in my neck. I didn't hold back or hesitate at all.
Oh shit, wait a minute, I just got an idea! I've fainted several times today, and this is the end!
There was another hit on my neck and my eyes went dark.
"Calm down." Before my consciousness completely sank into the dream, I heard the team leader say expressionlessly, "Solve the puzzle, solve the puzzle, solve the puzzle, and even if we all solve them to death, we'll just have to solve them all."
The captain is right.
After falling into a complete coma, I started to dream non-stop. In the dream, countless questions that arose along the way were like huge rolling stones, rolling me back and forth. Every time I answered a question, I was chased by a new question, which made me dizzy.
At this point, I was no longer thinking about the problem, but the problem kept chasing me. This whole mess of dreams made me very tired.
Soon, half asleep and half awake, I even realized that I had started to have a low-grade fever.
Because they wrapped me tightly with a blanket, not letting me move, and took turns using wet towels to cool my forehead. At the same time, I could feel the team leader standing by my side, touching my burning forehead in a very unfamiliar way, and yelling at Xiao Liu:
"How long will it take!"
The noise shocked me enough to wake up for just a second. I struggled to open my eyelids and saw Xiao Liu staring at me in panic. He reached out and knocked me out again.
This time my dream was much simpler. I dreamed that I turned into Kogoro Mouri's neck and was constantly pricked with injections by a naughty kid wearing glasses.
The needles became more and more, and the neck became stiffer and stiffer, until it turned into a steel plate made of only needles. Then, unable to bear the weight, the head on the neck suddenly fell off. The dark red cavity below was densely packed with countless needles like worms.
“……!”
I was pushed awake in a cold sweat of fear. I almost screamed, turned over, and my stomach was churning.
A pair of very steady hands supported me, and the voice was very cold, not directed at me: "You let the consultant burn like this?"
There was an awkward atmosphere in the room, and a group of guys who appeared out of nowhere didn't dare to say a word.
I was dazed for a while, and then my vision and reason gradually returned. I realized that the people in front of me were the guys who had gathered. Now, Gao Liu was the one who squeezed past the team leader and stood in the front.
I retched a few times and reluctantly waved my hands, knowing that I couldn't blame them. Because there was a part in the nightmare where I always felt that a monster with green face and fangs was chasing me with a puzzle, and I bit the monster and tried to fight it, feeling extremely tragic.
Now I have seen that, not to mention others, there are still several teeth marks left on the arms of Wild Cat and Xiao Liu. They were very vicious. It must be difficult to subdue me, but how to prevent me from getting overly stressed and injured is difficult.
When I looked around the room, a strong aroma began to fill the room. The team leader had set up a small pot on the floor, cooking canned beef and instant noodles over low heat, and also tossed in a lot of dehydrated vegetables.
My stomach growled and I felt hungry. I almost drooled, so I quickly asked him to remember to beat me another egg.
The team leader stared at the pot that was still bubbling, his voice a little heavy, and without turning his head, he stuffed an egg into my hand.
"It's raw, just play with it to satisfy your craving."
I nodded, still feeling relaxed, tossing the egg back and forth in my hands.
Under the bluish-white cold light, I saw everyone else looking at me with extremely complicated expressions.
I suddenly felt something was wrong.
Following their gaze, I subconsciously touched my backhand and found that the lower half of my face covered with a towel and the area under my ears were wet with fresh blood.
To be honest, my first reaction was to check if the people in front of me had any other injuries. I suspected that I was too out of control when the nightmare bit me just now, and I had a biochemical crisis.
But then, the dull pain, as if there were many small cracks on my chin and behind my ears, and the slow seepage of blood, came vaguely, reminding me that I was indeed injured.
"You've been talking in your sleep." Shopkeeper Yan Er said, his face extremely pale. "I don't know what you're talking about, but since you started talking in your sleep, your fever has continued to rise and you've become dehydrated."
No wonder. It was due to overconsumption.
I almost ended up with an old man sending off a young man because of the uncontrolled problem solving in my dream.
I felt a little guilty at once, but fortunately they didn't say much, and soon the cooked luxurious beef noodles were handed to me in an aluminum lunch box.
I won’t go into details about the meal process, but in short, no one disturbed me, as if I was having my last meal before execution.
Bah, speaking of beheading, I remembered the nightmare I had just had, and quickly said a few innocent words to myself.
The meal was eaten extremely quickly, as if one had been hungry for a month. In the end, there was not even a drop of soup left in the full aluminum lunch box.
Seeing that I had finished eating, and patiently waiting for me to digest it for a while, the wild cat came up to me and carefully confirmed with me in a very strange tone:
"Have you rested?"
Ah? I was stunned, and nodded hesitantly. It should be fine.
But it is really strange, whether my injury is serious or not.
I don't really have much experience with injuries, I just thought it looked scary, but I'm still alive. It was the same at the beginning of the post, was my standard for "minor injury" always so accurate?
I was still wondering when a guy came up dragging a sleeping bag, and it looked like he was anxious for me to get in.
"It's okay, there's still time." Gao Liu stretched out his hand in front of me, as reliable as the cold-faced door god, "Don't panic, let the consultant change into dry clothes first."
"Brother, bring me the extra set you have. You wash clothes the cleanest."
"The rest of you should check your equipment and divide into groups to check your schedule."
Everyone started to move at once. The team leader watched the pot for a while, then stood up, walked to the door fully armed and stood still.
Although I didn't understand what was going on, I could still feel the tense atmosphere that was about to burst out. It seemed that we had to leave the convoy immediately.
Since there was no time to waste, I didn't call for help. I limped into the shop's bathroom, quickly washed myself, and changed my clothes immediately.
"Things have changed a little. Let's talk about the rest on the way." The team leader asked me to stay in the sleeping bag so as not to cause trouble. After looking around, he asked Fang Ao to carry me and my sleeping bag on his back. He and Wild Cat stood on both sides, one on the left and one on the right, and asked Yan Er and the other guys to follow behind.
As for Gao Liu and Xiao Liu, because they were very agile and fast, they had already consciously walked in front to lead the way.
When I walked out of the rolling shutter door and felt the cool night breeze blowing towards me, I knew what the team leader meant by "changes".
It's getting foggy.
Wrapped in my sleeping bag and unable to move, I shivered slowly and said almost reflexively, "There's something in the fog."
The team leader nodded and gestured for everyone to maintain formation and move forward quickly.
"There is still an hour and a half before dawn. They will all be here soon." Shopkeeper Yan Er suddenly said behind me.
"Advisor, if you have any other inferences or questions, we can discuss them on the way."
Before I had time to savor the emotion behind Manager Yan Er's words, I felt the gentle night breeze blowing on my face suddenly disappear.
There was a movement in the fog, and vaguely there were figures of people standing upright in it, from far to near, countless in number.
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