Chapter 9
Anna brought Jiang Fei to the shooting range at the base. The area was not very large, with only four positions. She picked out a pistol that was suitable for Jiang Fei from the shelf.
"This one has less recoil, try it first. If it doesn't work for you, try another one." Anna handed the small gun to Jiang Fei and then explained some gun knowledge, such as how to quickly reload and how to aim.
At the end, she patted Jiang Fei on the shoulder and said, "It's better to just try it."
Just like that, Jiang Fei put on goggles and noise-proof earmuffs. The target was 10 meters away from her. She tried her best to stretch her arms into a straight line, with three points in a straight line. The first shot was not smooth, and the recoil was larger than she expected. It turned out that movies and TV dramas are all lies.
But after using up a magazine, her accuracy improved significantly, and she gradually got used to the recoil.
She took off her earmuffs. Anna came over and said, "Your aim is good, but your physical strength is still too weak, especially your upper body strength. If a fight really breaks out, your weapon will probably be taken away."
It was impossible to significantly improve her upper limb strength in just three days. Anna had no choice but to teach her some self-defense tricks. She was pessimistic about Jiang Fei's decision to go with the guard team.
Jiang Fei didn't think so. Three days passed in a flash. She changed into a black uniform and the team members in the base followed her. After all, they couldn't let the elderly and children die.
To leave the base, one needs to pass through three doors. In front of the third door, Jiang Fei put on a worn red protective suit. The helmet became very clean after washing. She put the helmet on her head and adjusted it.
Gru had already put on his protective suit and was waiting at the door. He complained, "Damn the guards! I really hope they get their comeuppance."
“It’s a shame, people like this only get better and better.” Lucian’s voice squeezed into the conversation, his tone lazy and exuding a sense of world-weariness.
"Oh, brother! I thought you wouldn't come with us!" Gru saw Lucian patting his back excitedly. Lucian frowned in dissatisfaction. "Are you trying to hurt me?"
"Hehe, wasn't I just too excited to see you?" Gru smiled embarrassedly.
Jiang Fei looked at Lucian. She remembered not seeing him on the previous list. Lucian said succinctly, "I joined last night. After all, if you all died, the base wouldn't be able to survive. Don't mistake me for a pushover like you."
"Ah, Lucian is still so hypocritical--" Gru said with a grin.
Lucian rolled his eyes. "Don't make me beat you up if you keep doing that."
Anna arrived at the third door shortly afterwards. The team's configuration was the same as when they returned a few days ago. Anna said, "Check your protective suits again to see if there are any problems and whether your equipment is complete."
“Drip—drip—”
The lock of the third door made a harsh mechanical sound, which was a sign that the door was about to open.
The three people, including Jiang Fei, completed the inspection. At the same time, the heavy iron door opened. Jiang Fei sat in the passenger seat of the transport vehicle, while Gru and Lucian sat in the back compartment.
After getting in the car, Anna handed Jiang Fei another thing. She looked closely and found that it was a brand new computer.
"This is your optical computer. Keep it safe. Don't lose it this time."
With a click, Jiang Fei put the light brain on his left wrist. Once it touched the skin, the surface of the light brain lit up, verifying personal information. However, Jiang Fei was definitely an illegal immigrant, so most of this information was fabricated.
The optical computer has many functions, including the on-the-go recording function. She thought that there is a high probability that she will encounter pollutants later, and she might be able to take pictures of something, so she switched the optical computer to the on-the-go recording mode, clicked the record button, and the recording started from now on.
"Fasten your seatbelts! You don't want to be thrown out of the window, do you?" Anna expertly started the engine. Bill's voice came through her headset. "The detector has detected the location of the pollutants. We're splitting into two groups. You go from the east."
Anna retrieved the location of the pollutant sent by Bill. If they went from the east, wouldn't that mean they would face the pollutant head-on?
She made an annoyed "tsk" sound, and at this time the outermost door also opened. It was now ten o'clock in the morning, the sun was hanging in the sky, and the excessive ultraviolet rays in the air made the ground look lifeless.
Anna drove to the address. Half an hour later, Jiang Fei saw a large black mass at the junction of the sky and the horizon. That was the pollutant that almost killed them last time.
It would be a lie to say that she wasn't afraid. Jiang Fei took a deep breath and touched the pistol at her waist with her right hand.
The speed of the transport truck remained unchanged, and soon they entered the field of vision of the pollutant. It clearly glanced in their direction. Although Jiang Fei liked cats very much in modern society and often fed stray cats, the cuteness of cats was based on their small size. Once the size of a cat was hundreds of times larger than that of a human, it would not be cute, but scary!
"Get ready, we're going to attract its attention." Anna shouted.
Jiang Fei lowered her car window, took out her pistol, and released the safety catch.
It spotted them and began to move at a rapid speed, as fast as the transport vehicle, or even faster.
Anna made a sharp turn and turned the transport truck 180 degrees. Fortunately, Jiang Fei had fastened her seat belt in advance, otherwise she would have been shaken all over the place.
Such a drastic U-turn still made her feel uncomfortable. Gru in the back of the car fired continuously at the pollutants, and Lucian covered him, but it did not slow down its running speed at all.
The pollutants were so large that the ground seemed to tremble when they ran.
“Attack its eyes!” Lucian shouted.
Gru quickly emptied the magazine. In between reloading, he cursed, "Where are those guards?!"
Jiang Fei stuck her head out of the car and saw from afar the guards following behind the pollutants. It seemed that they were determined to use them as bait to wear down the pollutants' combat power and then reap the benefits. Seeing this, Jiang Fei couldn't help but curse inwardly.
Ordinary weapons can only hurt its fur. During the chase just now, the ammunition they used could only slightly injure the skin around its eyes.
"Use the bazooka!" Anna stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the familiar push on the back came again. Jiang Fei was almost stuck to the back of the chair.
The launched rocket launcher drew an arc in the air. Pollution raised its claws and easily knocked the rocket launcher away, like knocking away a small marble.
The huge gap in power was enough to make people feel despair, but before they could react, the black cat-shaped pollutant had already leaped forward, and the shadow it cast in the air covered the entire transport truck.
Bang--
The ground shook.
It landed in front of the transport truck, and its huge claws were pulling at the truck. The angle between the truck and the ground was ninety degrees. Thanks to the seat belt around Jiang Fei's waist, otherwise she would have really fallen out of the window.
Just like a cat playing with a toy, at this moment, this transport truck was its toy. Jiang Fei could see its sharp claws directly piercing through the roof of the transport truck, and the sharp claws passed over her head.
She held her breath, and the next second, she saw the huge green cat eyes appear silently in the car window, staring at her without blinking.
Suddenly her scalp went numb. She suppressed her fear and looked carefully at its eyes. When she looked at its eyes closely, she found that there was a dense mass of things swimming in the depths of its pupils, like small insects. But she soon realized that they were not insects, but floating words.
Reality didn't give her much time. The transport truck was overturned. Jiang Fei hurriedly unbuckled her seat belt and escaped from the passenger seat before the pollutants flattened the transport truck. She couldn't run fast in the heavy protective suit. She had only run a few steps when her shadow was covered by the shadow of the pollutants.
The brief seconds were slowed down infinitely, like an exaggerated slow motion in a movie. She turned around and saw the pollution opening its mouth, and its pale pink tongue rolled towards her. She was swallowed into the pollution's stomach before she even had time to resist.
She experienced several seconds of weightlessness as she fell, and thought she would fall into a sea of stomach acid, but the touch was obviously not liquid. She opened her eyes and looked around. The pollutants were indeed not living organisms, and could not be inferred based on biological knowledge.
The surface beneath her felt soft. She touched it and turned on the lighting mode of the computer. Then she could see clearly that she was in a sea of papers, and each paper was covered with words. She picked up one paper after another, and they were all the contents of the novel "Black Cat".
Come to think of it, it made sense. Since it was a monster derived from a novel, it was also made up of words. But she couldn't think of how to deal with this literary monster.
She struggled to stand up, and suddenly a light appeared in the originally dark environment, and the light illuminated a small pile of paper. On the pile was a table and a chair. It was still so familiar, exactly the same as the configuration in the tower.
The sea of papers beneath her began to surge, and she struggled to climb up the pile. There was a stone slab hanging in front of the table with the words: Complete the following reading comprehension.
Jiang Fei looked down and saw that the paper on the table contained an excerpt from the novel "Black Cat", with a few questions below it.
1. What role does the black cat play in this article?
2. Analyze the rhetoric of the underlined sentence and say what is good about it.
3. What do you think the black cat represents?
“Ding-ling-ling——”
The bell rang, signaling the start of the exam. Jiang Fei grasped the black gel pen on the table, just as he had held his weapon during the exam that year.
Just reading comprehension is not a problem for her at all!
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