Chapter 27: "My novel is gone, you have to compensate me"...
A cacophony of screams filled his ears, piercing his eardrums and causing his entire body to tremble. An inexplicable bloody scene flooded before his eyes, and Feng Lan felt as if he were drowned in a sea of blood, sinking to the depths.
"Feng Lan! Feng Lan!"
The anxious voice was drowned out by various cries for help. Feng Lan was trembling all over, and his thoughts seemed to be caught by something and he couldn't break free for a long time.
In a daze, a warm current suddenly surged from all directions, enveloping him in the cold blood. Various colorful flying stars gathered in front of him. Suddenly, a voice sounded in his mind:
“…0301…”
Feng Lan suddenly woke up, the dazzling light hit his face, and he was unable to move. He turned his head and saw that he was handcuffed to a stretcher.
"Hey, you're awake." Yin Xiangrong waved for someone to remove the handcuffs. "At this time, Xu An is the only one who can help."
Feng Lan was breathing heavily, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. When he heard Xu An's name, he quickly asked, "What can we do? Where is Xu An?"
Yin Xiangrong narrowed his eyes and said, "She's almost dead. You can go ask her later."
"Huh?" Feng Lan suspected he was still conscious. "She's dying?"
No, then who just twisted off the head of the alien species with a danger level of III in a rage?
Feng Lan immediately ran out, dragging her shoes carelessly. As she limped to the door, Yin Xiangrong's irritable voice came from behind her: "You keep on doing this and that all the time. You'd better die. I won't serve you anymore!"
After pulling open the heavy curtains, dazzling light shone in through the entire floor-to-ceiling window, and what came into view was a large balcony covered with neon glass, the end of which was connected to the skytrain boarding track.
Feng Lan was stunned. In a trance, he seemed to see a train roaring towards him, a girl in a dress playing music in the center of the balcony, various robots carrying plates around, and a family of three skipping in and out...
He blinked hard, and in the air slowly floated small creatures flapping their hands with colorful tissue paper, playing a melodious tune. Suddenly, the tune became rapid, a hint of blood surged up, the neon glass cover shattered, and the balcony was covered with blood and corpses.
Feng Lan came back to his senses in an instant. The clean ground in front of him was covered with moss and pebbles, and a foul smell came up.
“Ugh—”
"team leader!"
He looked up in a trance, and a sliver of blue drifted past him. For a moment, it resembled the small creatures he had seen before, flapping the multicolored tissue paper.
"Captain, are you okay?"
Someone came over and held his arm. Feng Lan pinched his solar plexus and was about to say "It's okay" when he was shocked by the scene in front of him.
Under the rolling dark clouds, the surroundings were dim and dim, with colorful fragments floating in the sky, flickering gently.
Xu An was sitting at the end of the balcony, facing the sun and with her back to the tall buildings. The neon lights were reflected on her face. The breeze lifted her scattered long hair. When she raised her hand slightly, pieces of crystal core fragments fell on her fingertips.
Under the tall building, the alien species still roared and rushed around as if they were trapped by two invisible walls. Mist rose from their bodies, and many of them turned directly into meat paste, revealing their fluorescent crystal cores.
Feng Lan was very familiar with this process, it was called [deconstruction].
Before, inside the factory, a powerful wave suddenly surged from the periphery, and alien species came in overwhelming numbers. Because A061 was carrying mechanics and researchers who were not good at fighting, he did not dare to carry out high-risk combat tasks, and could only use the gravity body to protect the mechanics and researchers and leave first.
However, this move also put many members in danger. He was forced to use [Anti-Contamination] to replenish the team members' abilities, hoping that the land conquest battle would be able to kill the alien species. However, the alien species became more and more numerous and stronger. It was not until "wings" appeared before his eyes that he realized that there was a problem with the [Anti-Contamination], but it was too late.
If he stopped immediately, the aliens would break through the energy net and attack the team members. Instead of doing that, Feng Lan naturally chose to take the lead himself.
However, they are all [Dissolution], so why when Xu An used it, those alien species fled everywhere, and she even needed to use her supernatural power to circle them?
As he was thinking, the roar of the alien gradually became smaller, and a gaze fell on him. Feng Lan looked up and saw Xu An standing up and looking at him with his eyes slightly raised.
Feng Lan was stunned for a moment, feeling that something was wrong, and then he heard Xu An speak softly: "0301..."
It's this string of numbers again.
Feng Lan was a little annoyed. When he saw Xu An walking towards him step by step from the air, he suddenly froze.
Wait, coming from the sky?!
He widened his eyes in shock, then heard Xu An continue, "Aren't you... a woman?"
Feng Lan was confused.
When he opened his eyes again, the strange scene disappeared. Xu An still had his back to him, but the [Deconstruction] had stopped, and suddenly a tune came to his ears.
"What's that sound?"
The team members looked cautiously towards the source of the sound, and saw a table full of black and white buttons in the center of the balcony.
Feng Lan stopped the team members who wanted to go forward to check and approached quietly.
The table was exactly the same as the one the girl in his dreams used to play the tune, even the tune was the same.
Just as he was about to get closer, a hand suddenly came into view and pressed the pause button.
Xu An raised his eyes calmly, rubbed the newly installed mechanical prosthetic eye, and wiped away the thick dust on the table with his fingertips.
"This is a piano." Xu An said softly, "It's something that humans on earth use to play tunes and please their minds."
The people around her looked at her in silence.
Xu An ignored the vigilance in their eyes and pointed at a small pool covered in dried blood not far from the piano.
"This should be a fountain." As she spoke, she moved her fingers, and the fluorescent light in her hand spread out, drawing the heavy rain outside in, and falling down from the nozzle at the top of the pool.
The sound of splashing water seemed clearer than the thunder and rain outside. After the clear water rushed into the pool, it quickly became turbid.
Xu An blinked: "What a pity, it's broken."
"Because of its remote location, this city was the last to be hit by the alien species, so everything is relatively well preserved. But the creatures on the ground were almost wiped out by the alien species, and it's time for this place to be hit."
She glanced at the still-clouded sky. "The full moon is coming soon. The bromine mist concentration has been fluctuating these past few days, and the alien species has been unusually aggressive. It came out to greet you before you arrived. Why haven't you left yet?"
Xie Shuqin opened her mouth, but her wrist was quickly grabbed by Baili Yunle.
"Your identity..." Feng Lan looked at her, "Dr. Yin has already told us."
Xu An sneered when he heard that and raised his chin towards Yin Xiangrong: "What did you say? Bionic man? What does a little brat know?"
"you……"
Silence.
Yin Xiangrong was born in the year 187 of the New Era. He was one of the few people in the base who had lived on the ground for more than ten years, and Xu An looked to be about twenty years old, so calling him "little brat" was a bit strange.
Especially in front of frontline members who generally do not live past the age of thirty.
"...Anyway, we're already here," Feng Lan said. "We'll leave as soon as we complete our mission."
Xu An looked at him calmly, "Then there's nothing to persuade."
Her expression was cold and indifferent, her azure mechanical eyes flashed with fluorescence, and her eyelashes were slightly blue.
Xu An glanced at them lightly, turned around and jumped onto the railing.
Suddenly, she turned around and glanced at the two girls in the corner. "In three days, the western coastal area will be full of hydrangeas. Don't come here these few days."
"By the way..." She looked at Feng Lan, "My novel is gone, you have to compensate me."
After she finished speaking, she jumped from the tall building and disappeared into the wind and rain.
With the strong wind blowing on his face and the heavy rain pouring down, Xu An closed his eyes and listened carefully to the surrounding fluctuations until a buzzing sounded in his head.
She suddenly opened her eyes, and the rain around her stopped for a moment. Xu An flipped into the air and landed on a transparent object.
Raindrops were pounding around her, and an eye as big as hers appeared out of nowhere in the air and blinked at her.
Xu An imitated it and blinked, then took out a dagger from his leg bag and said with a smile: "If you don't show yourself, I will beat you like I beat your brother."
The pupil shrank, and a wet, furry back instantly appeared beneath the body, with a pair of wings on both sides fanning the water.
Xu An snapped his fingers to hold up the protective net to block the rain, then lay comfortably on its back, watching the water dripping on the net. Suddenly, in a daze, he saw a head popping out from the balcony.
"It's raining so hard, it's a wonder she can see." Xu An lay there leisurely with his eyes closed.
"You asked me who she is?" She sighed. "Well, a girl with great accomplishments in mechas... She could be considered my first friend at the base..."
"Life at the base is pretty good, even though we're forced to drink milk every day, control our sugar intake, and we're all crammed into a small room with blinding bright lights everywhere. We have to beat up aliens regularly... and there are a bunch of mechs covered in blood and mud waiting for me to wash... What? You don't believe I can wash mechs? I wash them real good!"
"Ah, there are just too many intrigues. Tell me, how could Dr. Yin's daughter be so cunning? She locked me up in a mental hospital for so many years. Even if I'm not sick, I'm almost driven into thinking I'm sick. I remember she wasn't like this when she was a child."
"They took advantage of my amnesia to indoctrinate me with this and that, and every day made me feel guilty about Dr. Yin's death, about agreeing to run this experiment and that experiment with her. My neck felt like it was riddled with bugs, full of needle holes. I was so frustrated during that time!"
After pouring out a lot of grievances, Xu An felt much better. The alien creature under him also flapped its wings and flew away.
"They named you and your brother 'Eyes' and 'Wings' respectively. They're really ugly and not as nice as my name." Xu An curled his lips and looked at Wang Yang who came into view. "But why not call us by the ready-made names? Eyes, let's go!"
She opened her eyes, and a blood-red mist dissipated. "Let's go meet those 'ground humans'."
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