There were already handymen and prisoners who had come ashore earlier carrying a few large tires to the shore. They threw them into the water, jumped on them, and paddled towards the warehouse.
Because there are no other lakes or rivers on Quya except the disappeared Pelican Lake, there are no boats. In this situation, all we can do is remove the tires.
"The warden is still in there, go and rescue him." A prison guard who swam out shouted.
"Is the warden okay?"
"It's okay. He's standing on the highest podium. Someone is taking care of him. There are dozens of people who can't swim crowded there."
"Okay, I'll go right away. Go remove a few more tires at the back."
"yes……"
Several tires were pushed into the warehouse, and more tires were thrown down one after another. Everyone worked very quickly, and in just a short while, they pulled all the remaining people out.
The warden was the last one to come out, and by the time he was halfway through on the tire, the water was almost reaching the roof. He simply jumped into the water with the others and swam. As soon as he came out, he was caught by the prison guards who were paddling tires and pulled back to the opposite shore.
The water level continued to rise, but there was no one there anymore, only a large group of ducks swimming happily around. The kitchen helper in charge of the duck house was so anxious that he ran back and forth along the shore, calling out all the time.
The ducks ignored him.
Lan Yu was still sitting on the roof of the warehouse, and said to Lu Rankong: "I didn't expect Officer Wang to be able to bring the water from Pelican Lake here."
Lu Rankong thought for a moment and said, "Do you remember the last time I entered that cave, you followed me in, and we both backed out?"
"Remember..." Lan Yu said.
At that time, Lu Rankong went to explore the cave, but later found it very dark inside and there was a waterfall falling downwards, so he did not go any further.
"I guess there is a hidden river under the waterfall, one end of which is connected to Pelican Lake. Officer Wang discovered that the other end leads to the back of the prison's circular mountain wall, so he made preparations early and installed bombs on the mountain wall."
Lan Yu said, "Don't call him Officer Wang."
Lu Rankong understood what he meant. The real Police Officer Wang should have died long ago. After all, Liu Zhao’s lover Xu had discovered the Longte alien in prison half a year ago.
And the Lonte alien was staying inside the body of Officer Wang.
Now there is no time to figure out how Xu found "Officer Wang", because the hole in the mountain wall is still gushing out a large amount of water, and under the water lies an unconscious crystal-eating beast, and no one knows when it will wake up.
Lu Rankong had recovered his strength. He stood up and shouted, "Come on, some people who are good at swimming, bring the thickest steel cables, and go into the water with me to catch some small fish."
Lan Yu stood up and he pressed her shoulders down, saying, "You take a rest. Let others go at this time. Swim to the other side first. I will go to find Officer Wang when I get ashore."
The prisoners had already reached the opposite bank, a dark mass of them.
They listened to the group of handymen talking about what had just happened, and realized that it was Lan Yu and Lu Rankong who broke open the door with the big fish. They felt relieved and grateful. Now, when Lu Rankong said that they were going to go fishing, dozens of voices suddenly rang out: "I'll go..." "I'll go too."
Among them were several prison guards.
"No need, just a few will be enough." Lu Rankong was standing on the roof and pointed at a few tall and strong men from a distance, "Just the few of you, follow me into the water."
"Okay..."
Someone had found a long steel cable from somewhere and followed Lu Rankong into the water.
Lan Yu decided not to join in the fun and jumped into the pool to go to the shore.
The three little ducks that had been following him jumped into the water without a hurry and swam beside him, chirping.
The other ducks also gathered and swam towards the shore with Lan Yu. The helper in charge of the duck house finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene.
The water gushing from the mountain wall showed no sign of slowing down, and the entire prison was in danger of being flooded. The warden began to arrange manpower to blast a passage from under the crater to divert the water out.
In the water here, the prisoners who were trying to trap the crystal-eating beast also emerged one after another, shouting that this thing was too heavy and asked for more people to come.
More than a dozen prisoners who were good at swimming jumped down and started to drag the heavy steel cable together.
Lu Rankong swam to the shore and wiped the water off his face while shouting, "While it's still unconscious, take out the stalactite in its throat. It's been stuck there for several days. If you don't get it out, it'll starve to death."
Now it is hard to tell who is the prison guard and who is the prisoner, they are all mixed together. When the warden assigns tasks, they all respond and are busy at the same time.
Lu Rankong walked up to him and whispered a few words. The warden took out a pass card and handed it to him without asking any questions.
Lan Yu saw Lu Rankong holding the card and looking around, and knew that he was looking for her, so she pushed through the crowd and walked over, with the group of little ducks following at her feet.
Then he stood behind him and coughed.
Lu Rankong suddenly turned his head. Lan Yu saw that his eyes lit up when he saw her clearly and he was obviously relieved.
"You are here. I've been looking for you everywhere." Lu Rankong was obviously very happy, but he couldn't help but say, "Why are you running around? You're making me worried."
Lan Yu asked angrily, "Didn't you ask me to swim over here?"
"Really? I said that?" Seeing Lan Yu's face darken again, Lu Rankong said quickly, "Let's go, let's go find Officer Wang, no, that Longte guy."
Lan Yu said nothing more and followed him through the crowd.
Now the crystal-eating beast has awakened, and the stalactites in its throat have been taken out. Seeing that it is surrounded by so many people, it is about to pounce on them and bite them fiercely. As a result, his whole body was caught by the steel cables and he could only struggle in the same place.
Under the command of the warden, a group of people began to bury bombs in an orderly manner at the back of the mountain. Some criminals in particular are very skilled and look like veterans.
The water in the depression has already risen above the roof of the warehouse and is about to flood over the top few steps. The drainage channel must be blasted out before that happens.
Lan Yu and Lu Rankong are now going to find the Longte alien. After walking out of the crowd, they start running.
The group of ducklings couldn't keep up and ran and cried anxiously.
Lan Yu turned around and called to the duck house helper: "Take them back quickly, it's too dangerous here."
"Don't worry, I'll take it back right away."
The ducklings were finally left behind and were chased back by the duck house helpers who caught up with them.
"Where will he go after he leaves the prison gate?" Lan Yu asked as the two men ran towards the prison gate.
Lu Rankong dodged sideways to avoid a prisoner who was running towards him. The prisoner was holding a plastic basin for scooping water in his hand.
"If you were him, where would you go now?" he asked back.
Lan Yu murmured, "If I were him, where would I go now? If I were him, since I've been exposed, it means I can't keep those Galan crystals, so I'd better take a few of them and leave here."
Lu Rankong didn't say anything. He just took a shortcut and jumped over the row of fences next to him. Lan Yu followed suit and continued running side by side.
"If you want to leave quickly, what will you do now?" Lu Rankong asked.
Lan Yu suddenly realized: "Liu Zhao said that the starship that arrives tonight will leave immediately."
"You're right..."
There are still two prison guards on duty at the prison gate. Except for them, all other prison guards and prisoners are now concentrated in the warehouse at the back mountain.
"Hey, you two, what do you want to do?" A prison guard looked at Lan Yu and Lu Rankong who were rushing towards him, and raised the ion gun in his hand vigilantly.
As Lu Rankong ran, he showed him the pass card he got from the warden and said, "It's flooded inside. The warden asked me to go out from the main gate and follow the ridge to the back wall of the mountain to close the gate. It's urgent! If we delay for a few more minutes, the prison will be flooded."
The two prison guards were already panicking. When they saw that the pass card was indeed from the warden and that both of them looked anxious and did not seem to be faking it, they did not have time to think about it. They quickly turned off the scanning device at the gate and rushed into the duty room next door and pressed the button to open the door.
The tightly closed prison gate slowly opened with a heavy chute sound, and the two men ran out of the gate one after another and rushed into the vast night.
"How could you lie like that? It's full of loopholes. Where is the gate on the mountain wall? And the warden sent two prisoners to close the gate." Lan Yu said, "I was afraid that the two prison guards would not let us out."
Lu Rankong ran back, "They don't have the energy to distinguish the truth from the false. What they care most about is whether the prison will be flooded. If I say we are going to catch the Longte people, do you think they will let us out so easily? Even if they don't arrest us, they will interrogate us for a long time."
A few hundred meters away is the parking pad, where a huge starship stands. From afar in the dark night, it looks like a silent and solid metal fortress.
Because it was about to set sail, the starship was already starting to warm up. Lu Rankong and Lan Yu were still at the prison gate when they heard the rumbling sound.
"The starship is about to fly away." Lan Yu's heart tightened and he ran faster.
Lu Rankong said, "Don't worry, there's still a while for the warm-up. You can catch up. Look, there are still people standing at the door."
There was a large open square in the belly of the starship, with bright light shining through, and several figures standing there, facing the direction of the prison.
It was probably because the noise in the prison was too loud, and the people on the ship couldn't help but come and see what was going on. However, their departure time was approaching, so they could only stand at the door of the starship and watch from afar.
As soon as Lu Rankong finished speaking, white gas spurted out from the belly of the starship, and the rumbling sound of the engine suddenly changed its frequency.
"The starship is really about to fly away." Lan Yu shouted in panic.
Lu Rankong said: "Don't worry, it's only a hundred meters away, and the starship door hasn't closed yet."
As soon as these words came out, the open starship door slowly closed.
Lan Yu: ...
Lu Rankong quickened his running speed and shouted, "Run! The starship is really about to fly away!"
Seeing the light coming through the door getting smaller and smaller, the two ran like the wind, shouting, "Wait a minute, wait a minute..."
The starship door was slowly closing, with only the upper half exposed. Three starship soldiers were still standing there, looking in the direction of the prison.
The captain held one hand on the door closing button and used the other to drive them away, saying, "Stop looking, stop looking. We have to leave soon. It's just a leak in the broken mountain wall. It will disappear after a while. It's not Pelican Lake. It won't have any big impact on the prison. If you keep looking at the excitement, the captain will find out that I have blocked the automatic cabin closing. Go away, don't block me from closing the door."
A starship soldier took a step aside angrily, his eyes swept across the road ahead, and his expression suddenly became a little strange.
"Wait, wait, there seems to be someone there, running towards us." he muttered.
The other two starship soldiers heard it and also looked in that direction.
"Sure enough, there was someone running, shouting something." "That was a prisoner, a prisoner in prison, still wearing prison clothes."
"This prisoner has already escaped through the gate and is still chasing the starship?"
The captain's hand pressing the door-closing button subconsciously loosened, looked outside and frowned, "Isn't this prison leaking? How come all the prisoners are out?"
"Why hasn't the hatch been closed yet? Captain Wu, is there something wrong with the hatch door in the rear cabin that you are responsible for?" The captain's serious voice came through the intercom.
"No, no, it will be closed right away. Something fell into the gap just now, and the automatic hatch closing failed to start." Captain Wu replied quickly.
He was about to continue pressing the button to close the door when a Starfleet soldier stopped his hand and asked curiously, "Captain Wu, don't close it yet. What do you hear one of the prisoners shouting?"
The sound of the starship was too loud and difficult to hear. The shouting was intermittent and drifted faintly into my ears along with the wind.
"Starman...Lonte...Starman..."
The Starfleet soldier on the far left put his hands to his ears, listened attentively twice, and said, "He's saying he's a new guy."
Lu Rankong swung his long legs, his prison uniform fluttering in the night wind. He ran while shouting with all his might, "There are people from the Lonte star on board! There are people from the Lonte star on board!"
Lan Yu followed closely behind, his temples throbbing with running. Seeing the door gradually closing, he also shouted with all his strength: "Colonel K of the Second Mecha Battalion of the Imperial Army stationed on Star Ta, I order you to open the hatch!"
"Imperial... Army... Colonel K... Open the hatch..."
The Starfleet soldier on the right who had been listening attentively to the call suddenly shouted: "Captain! I heard it clearly, he is talking about Colonel K."
"Colonel K? Is that the Colonel K I was thinking of? The cruel Colonel K?"
"It should be. Whether it is or not, you can see how anxious they are. There must be something urgent."
"But Colonel K should be in the military headquarters on some planet. Why is this prisoner shouting at us?"
"Could it be that Colonel K is hiding secretly on our ship?"
"Damn it, open the door quickly and let him come up and ask."
Lan Yu's heart sank. If this Longte alien was allowed on board the starship, then he and Lu Rankong would have to report the matter. The failure of their mission is a small matter, but the military will definitely deal with this starship, and may even brutally make everyone on it disappear.
Just as Jiang Zhi said before accepting the mission, if they couldn't find the Longte people in the prison, then thousands of people in the entire prison would die.
At this moment, he saw the starship door, which had been half closed, slowly open again.
"They found us and heard our shouts." Lan Yu said while running and panting.
Lu Rankong had barely caught his breath at this time, and replied in a deep voice: "Of course, I have been shouting that there are Longte people on the ship, and they heard it."
As they ran closer and closer to the cabin door, Lan Yu saw a person lying face down in the shadow on the left side where the light could not reach.
"Look, there's someone there." He kept walking and said to Lu Rankong.
Lu Rankong glanced sideways and said, "It's Officer Wang..."
"Then he——"
"The Lunt alien has left his body and entered the starship. It has been too long, Officer Wang must be dead. We can't take care of his body now, let's capture the Lunt alien first."
"good……"
The two finally ran to the door of the starship. The gangway had been retracted and the door was still three meters above the ground.
Lu Rankong grabbed Lan Yu's legs and threw her up easily. Lan Yu used the force to flip onto the starship and then reached out to pull Lu Rankong up.
As soon as the two men stood firm, they heard several consecutive violent explosions coming from the direction of the prison, and red smoke illuminated half of the sky.
That should be the noise made when the crater was blown up.
"What happened in the prison?" The starship soldiers asked in horror before they could take care of the two men.
Lu Rankong quickly explained: "It's okay, the prison is about to be flooded, so we blasted a hole in the mountain to divert the water out."
The Starfleet soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment: "Why would we need to blow up a mountain to get water?"
"The water from Pelican Lake..." Lu Rankong said briefly.
Several people took a breath.
A starship soldier looked at the two men warily and asked, "What are you chasing us for? If you have anything to say, just say it and get off quickly."
Another starship soldier waved the ion gun in his hand and said, "Just now they mentioned Colonel K or something. Is he on our ship?"
Lan Yu bent over with her hands on her knees, gasping for breath. Upon hearing this, she just raised her hands and shook them.
While Lu Rankong was wiping his vest, he said, "Colonel K of the Second Mecha Battalion of the Empire's Army stationed on Star Ta suspects that a Lonte person has sneaked onto your starship, and is now searching the entire ship."
"Are you Colonel K?" several people blurted out.
Lu Rankong: "I'm not, he is."
"What's going on at the hatch? Why can't the automatic closing system be activated?" A stern question came from the intercom.
Without waiting for Captain Wu to explain, Lu Rankong said, "Lu Rankong from the Third Mecha Battalion of the Empire's Army stationed on Star Ta, requesting to speak to the captain."
The other side replied: "I am the captain..."
Lu Rankong said: "Captain, there is evidence that the Lunt people have boarded this starship. Please stop flying now. I want to search the entire ship."
"Lonte people?" the captain asked doubtfully, "Are you saying that there are people from Lonte on board my ship?"
"Yes……"
The captain paused for a few seconds and then replied, "Colonel Lu, I cannot accept your ridiculous request. The Lunt people were driven out of the Sasu system many years ago, and you actually said that there is one on my ship. Please get off the ship immediately and don't delay our departure."
"There is a Lonte in the prison. He is hiding on your ship. If you return to the main planet and bring him back to the main planet, can you bear the consequences?"
The captain said impatiently: "Captain Wu, please get everyone off the ship, close the door and prepare to set sail immediately."
"Captain, what you are doing is extremely irresponsible--" Lu Rankong said sternly.
"Captain Wu, have you checked Colonel Lu's identity? How did the others get on the ship?" The captain interrupted Lu Rankong.
Captain Wu said awkwardly: "Well, Captain, Colonel Lu just rushed onto the ship."
"Now? Charge aboard?"
"He was still wearing his prison uniform."
After a few seconds of silence on the intercom, the captain roared: "Captain Wu, are you crazy? You put all the prisoners on board? Blast them off immediately! No, we have to contact their warden——"
"If you keep talking nonsense, I suspect you are the Longte alien." Lan Yu, who was standing aside, suddenly spoke up. His voice was low, hoarse and cold, as if it was wrapped in a layer of ice.
Lu Rankong turned his head and looked at him without saying anything.
The captain stopped yelling and asked incredulously: "Who? Who is this? Who else is there?"
Captain Wu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "The prisoner with Colonel Lu said he was Colonel K."
The captain's voice was shaking with anger. "There are still two of them. Drive them away."
Lu Rankong: "Captain, you can verify our identities now. What is the name of your ship? Departure or Start? When we came to Quyu Star, we took the Long-range. You can also ask the captain or vice captain of that ship. They should know our identities."
"Captain Wu, drive them away. Don't pay attention to their crazy talk. And -"
"Shut up, you arrogant Lonte." Lan Yu interrupted the captain in a sinister tone.
"You two prisoners, get off my ship immediately." The captain said sternly, "If you try to escape, I will contact your warden immediately."
"Really? You can contact the Longte star now." Lan Yu said the last sentence word by word in a whisper into the intercom.
Before several starship soldiers could react or see clearly how he moved, Captain Wu, who was standing in the front, was grabbed by the neck by him, and the ion gun was also in his hand, pointing at Captain Wu's solar plexus.
Lu Rankong sighed, lowered his head and rolled up his sleeves.
The next second, the three starship soldiers just raised their guns when they felt someone hit their elbows, causing them to feel sore and numb. Several guns fell to the ground one after another.
Lu Rankong had an ion gun in his hand, and he pointed it at the three people who were bending over to pick up the guns and shouted, "Don't move. Longte people..."
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