Chapter 77 Killer Simulator
The countdown was ticking away at five times the speed and would return to zero in the blink of an eye. Ji Xu did not delay any longer. He took off his coat and kicked the fern leaves. The frightened fern leaves attacked indiscriminately, but he managed to catch them with his jacket. The surrounding plants were not so lucky and were stabbed several times. They suddenly became more and more crazy and fell into a chaotic civil war.
Ji Xu quickly threw away his coat, jumped into the air and grabbed a vine that was lifted up in pain, and was thrown onto the leaves of the Piranha Plant six meters away. Before he could steady himself, he caught a glimpse of a touch of green that blended into the environment. He kicked in the opposite direction, used the force to slide to the ground, and narrowly avoided the poisonous stranglehold that suddenly emerged from the green vine.
He remained unmoved, rolling half a circle on the ground to release the force, and then threw himself into the next round of dodging and escaping. He used skills rarely seen in humans to move around on a special path, and with the help of the power of plants, he left Adonis, which was about to be destroyed, as quickly as possible.
However, time waits for no one, and six seconds passed in the blink of an eye. Ji Xu had just barely reached the outskirts of Adonis, and the border between the desert and the oasis was right in front of him. He could have been given two more seconds, but a sense of crisis like a thorn in the back suddenly rushed to the top of his head, and the alarm sounded in his mind. At the last moment, Ji Xu gave up his reason, followed his intuition, turned around, and tore off the leaves to cover himself.
He had no time to care about the relentless counterattack from the coconut tree behind him. As he fell to the ground, a violent explosion erupted from the base, with a devastating force that spread to Ji Xu in the blink of an eye.
He was blown away by the air wave and in the last moment before he fell into coma, the whole Adonis came into view. The rescue helicopter crashed at the other end of the oasis, and its tilted fuselage was stuck in the crown of an unknown tree. All the frantic plants were swallowed up by the white light, and the explosion cloud slowly rose like a flower blooming in the desert.
The next second, a belated sound reached his ears, and gravel and tree trunks fell down one after another. His eyes went dark and he fainted completely.
I don't know how long it was before an SUV rushed to the ruins. The bartender stepped on the brakes. He looked normal on the surface, except that the brakes almost sank into the sand. He turned the key three times before the engine was turned off, and it took him some effort to get out of the driver's seat. Then he was so shocked by the scenery that he lost his voice for a short time.
“…”
The oasis as far as the eye could see was razed to the ground, filled with thick smoke, and the bartender was walking with difficulty among the ruins. He trudged through the carbonized charcoal that had burned itself, and accidentally touched the remains of the destroyed building, and found that it was still hot to the touch.
Considering that before leaving, this place was a rare oasis in the desert, lush and vibrant, it became like this just half an hour after Ji Xu arrived. The culprit is obvious.
The bartender didn't have any hope at all. Although he rushed back immediately after hearing the explosion, some people in white coats he met on the way were squatting on the sand dunes and drawing SOS signs. After being threatened, they told him tremblingly that the self-destruct mode should have been activated long ago, but it was five or six minutes later than estimated, proving that the base was stopped once before it was destroyed.
At the time, he was upset and felt that if he thought about it further, he would be in an abyss, so he asked bluntly, "What does this mean?"
The white coat being pointed at showed pity for him. "In the first case, the killer shut down the self-destruct program himself, but he couldn't have just stopped and restarted it for fun, so the second possibility is very high. It was the boss who shut down the program. After the conversation between him and the killer broke down, both sides were desperate. The boss can adjust the program's running speed at will, up to five times the speed. The edge of the oasis in the center of the base is about a hundred meters away, and it takes about nine seconds to sprint without obstacles, but the countdown to the explosion is only six seconds."
His expression seemed to be one of relief, but also one of condolences.
If there is no time to sprint on the ground without obstacles, how desperate would it be for those who are trapped in the base with complicated paths and unable to leave, and who are at the center of the explosion?
The bartender was not close to Ji Xu and they had only four or five official contacts. However, Ji Xu was like a shooting star, disappearing quickly after a brief moment of glory. It was a regret that shocked and saddened anyone who loved talent. He walked on the boiling ruins and decided to collect the body of his colleague and big customer. He approached the center of the explosion in front step by step. Suddenly, there was a violent cough from the right side, as if the man was about to cough out his internal organs. Then there was the sound of stones falling to the ground and the rustling of cloth rubbing against each other. The man seemed to have crawled out of the ruins.
The bartender was stunned, an unknown emotion spreading from the bottom of his heart. Before he could figure out whether this emotion was relief or surprise, his body had already run over quickly.
The man was covered in dust, his black hair was hanging down and stuck to his cheeks with sticky blood, his eyes and ears were bloody, his windbreaker jacket was missing, and the black sweatshirt and tactical pants inside were torn. He turned around when he heard the sound.
Ji Xu closed his eyes and raised his hand to take off his glasses that had broken into a spider web shape. He didn't know who the person was, but the footsteps suggested that he was a human. Ji Xu didn't care whether it was a tourist, a researcher who didn't escape far, or a returning bartender.
He hooked his fingers around the dagger that he had kept close to his body and hidden at his waist, pushed it to the palm of his hand and hid it. Ji Xu raised his head with a sharpness that was totally inconsistent with that of a blind man. It was as if his brain had its own radar, and his unfocused gaze was fixed near the bartender.
As if nothing had happened, Ji Xu greeted the direction of the footsteps. With a smile on his face, he said in a distressed tone: "Good afternoon, my unknown friend. Since I am half blind, would you mind introducing yourself?"
When the bartender heard the nonchalant tone, his agitated mood was calmed down for some reason. He gradually slowed down and looked at Ji Xu, who looked disheveled but with a straight back and didn't seem to be injured. He said to him unhappily, "It's me. How do you feel?"
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Ji Xu breathed a sigh of relief.
The bartender was quick to notice that Ji Xu's tense posture had relaxed a lot, probably because he had gone from being ready to go to being absent-minded. Without the stimulation of the sense of crisis, the young man's attention shifted to other places, and he even forgot to answer the question. He let his body fall to the ground and breathed slowly and consciously. The bartender had to squat down and asked again: "Why don't you speak?"
Ji Xu raised his head. His eyes had been closed except for a few seconds when they were opened briefly just now. There were dried blood and tears on his cheeks. He just opened his mouth and spat out large mouthfuls of blood mixed with tiny internal organs.
"you--!"
The bartender was so frightened that he almost jumped up, and his hand, which was about to help him, stopped in mid-air.
Ji Xu used his fingers to wipe away the residue from the corner of his lips nonchalantly. He threw away his glasses, took the initiative to put his hand on his palm, and said to the bartender with a smile: "My internal organs seem to be injured. You should have driven here, right? I just woke up and didn't hear the sound of the SUV, otherwise I would have recognized you at the first time. I hope you can take me back to the safe house immediately. I need a few days to recuperate."
"Safe house?!" The bartender didn't know where to put his hands. He didn't know whether to help or not. He regretted very much why he didn't bring a stretcher. He said angrily, "What you need now is a hospital, a ward, and surgery!"
Internal injuries are generally recognized to be more serious than fractures and external injuries. The degree of danger lies in the fact that the injuries cannot be judged with the naked eye, and it is very likely that even life-threatening injuries cannot be seen.
Although it is not known how Ji Xu escaped from the center of the base, judging from the extent of the ruins, the CEO of the Ci Tong Group obviously had the extreme idea of destroying the entire artificial oasis when he buried the bomb. The fact that Ji Xu was able to run to the outskirts of Adonis does not mean that he escaped the explosion, it's just that the danger level is not as high as the center of the explosion.
But if the power to kill a human is five, then it doesn't matter whether the damage suffered is ten or a hundred. As a witness, Ji Xu was more surprised than anyone else that he could come out alive. Seeing that the person involved didn't care about his health, he inexplicably felt a surge of anger.
Ji Xu knew nothing, and he retorted disapprovingly: "I am aware of my own body. Surgery and rest are too slow. It's a waste of time and not a good habit..." He didn't realize that he had picked the wrong point, and every sentence was dancing on the bartender's broken nerves. However, the lack of sight also has its advantages. As he spoke, Ji Xu realized that the person next to him seemed too quiet.
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He slowly stopped talking while spitting blood, frowned, and tugged at the bartender's sleeve with his hand.
A few seconds passed and it was very quiet around him, with only the sound of the SUV door opening after receiving the command and the actions of the people around him helping him up.
Ji Xu was relieved. He didn't realize the problem and mistakenly thought that this was the bartender's response. Because he was blind and the pain made him unable to think rationally, Ji Xu didn't know what he looked like now. His forehead was hot, his cheeks were burning red, and his body temperature was terribly high. The side effects of the injury were sweeping over him, and Ji Xu had no way to judge the situation calmly - such as explaining to the people around him why he didn't go to the hospital.
He was lying in the waiting seat, feeling drowsy, but he knew he couldn't faint at this moment, so he tried every way to divert his attention.
Ji Xu tried to say a few words, but the bartender did not respond. Instead, the car drove more steadily. His lungs hurt a little, and he was not interested in explaining why he was not reminding the other party to slow down. He simply changed his thinking direction.
He put the crystal ball in his suitcase. He had been living in a single dormitory in the previous prison break simulator and had few opportunities to appear on stage. The crystal ball might have been a hindrance when he was running around this time. If he hadn't been injured this time, he would have probably forgotten about it again.
The medicine inside can help people restore their health. As for whether it can regain new life like the unexpectedly dead rose, Ji Xu has not tried it. He estimates that even if he cannot bring the dead back to life, he can at least bring the dying back to life. It's a pity that he gave away all the capsules he had purified before. It's not that he regrets it, but he is a person who doesn't care much about weighing the benefits. If he is given another chance, he will make the same choice again... The reason why Ji Xu hesitated and made excuses for himself was that he didn't want to face the fact that he threw the tree hole into the crystal ball for the sake of saving trouble. Now the retribution has come. In order to save his life, he will face the psychological burden of "suspected of drinking cactus bath water."
Regret, really regret, he has never regretted so much in his life.
Time passed in his regret. The SUV roared into the city. There were more and more noisy voices around. Ji Xu couldn't hear the voices clearly and asked a few questions. But the bartender didn't say a word while helping him get out of the car. Ji Xu realized that something was wrong.
He coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood in confusion, and calmly and humbly asked for advice: "I'm sorry to disturb your self-isolation. This doesn't seem to be a safe house. Is there anything wrong with my arrangement just now?"
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