Before setting off to the ruins where the expedition team disappeared, Lin Xue first took us to a small town not far from the base.
The town is not big, with only a few thousand people, but the buildings beside the streets look neat and modern, not like an isolated desert town at all.
The people in the town didn't seem to have any reaction to our arrival. They just looked at us outsiders and then went about their own business.
I don't know why, but I always have a strange feeling when walking in this town.
"I didn't expect there to be such a town in the desert." Qian Qian couldn't help but be a little surprised when she saw the flow of people coming and going around her. Although she knew there were people living in the desert, the problem was - this was the center of the Taklimakan Desert.
!The place is inaccessible and has few resources. Even the most basic drinking water cannot be provided. How could a town appear in this place without making her curious?
Lin Feng seemed to be very familiar with this place. He introduced us while leading the way: "This town is not an ordinary place. In fact, it is a refuge - it can also be called a penal colony."
"What?" My gossip soul suddenly burned on fire.
"The world's number one smugglers, arms dealers, expelled descendants of big families, hermit masters who are hunted by their enemies, and even one or two superpowers who have made mistakes and are not allowed to leave this desert for life, don't underestimate this place.
Every one of them, if any one of them goes out, the whole world will tremble, and if they go out collectively, they will even make the earth suffer from Parkinson's disease..."
Lin Xue slapped her brother on the head.
"Ah!" Qianqian exclaimed, and then grabbed my arm tightly. The seemingly friendly desert residents around her suddenly seemed to have turned into vicious thugs in her eyes.
"Don't worry," Lin Xue patted Qian Qian's shoulder comfortingly, "No matter who you are, you must behave honestly when you arrive in this exile town. There are several rules in this place. Firstly: no matter you are outside,
No matter how many mistakes you make, when you get here, they will all be written off, that is to say, you are already 'dead'. Second: Once you come here, no one can leave here without the permission of the organization, unless you are confident that you have the ability to do so.
Escape from the pursuit of the entire organization. Third: No one should try to cause trouble here. No matter how arrogant you are outside, you are just an ordinary town citizen here. Otherwise - haha, throw it out to feed the scorpions here.
It’s not meant to scare people. In addition, this town is not completely isolated from the outside world. Occasionally, some outsiders with permission will come in, but they don’t know the truth about this town. Those who can know the truth, except those in the organization,
There are only special people like Chen Jun and you."
"Awesome," I smacked my lips and said, "Why do you feel like you are a lawless terrorist organization?"
"Tch - we are making a contribution to the world!" Lin Xue habitually retorted to me, "Most of these guys will cause harm to mankind as long as they live in the world, but killing them would be a waste of their abilities.
, so we adopted this approach.
"The organization provides them with shelter so that they will not be killed by their enemies or others. Accordingly, they stay here honestly and use their abilities to serve the organization. Whether you believe it or not, the people in front of you
There is such an example in: They direct the flow of billions of funds in the outside world through the Internet or other means, just to be able to have a full meal here safely, so this is a refuge and an exile at the same time.
land……"
Sanctuary...Penal colony...
I listened carefully to Lin Xue's words and carefully observed the seemingly ordinary desert residents again.
From the outside, they all looked like the most ordinary residents, but when I observed them carefully, I still noticed the difference in their eyes.
Some are indifferent, some are numb, some are unwilling, and some look at us with naked jealousy.
But here they can only suppress these emotions deeply in their hearts and strive to become ordinary desert residents.
"Brother, do you want to play?" A somewhat familiar bass voice came from not far away.
"Crunch——" My body instantly turned to stone.
Accompanied by the sound of "squeaking", I turned my already stiff neck, and then I saw a figure of a knight-faced man dressed like The Matrix selling pirated disks to passers-by.
...Cicaro, an outstanding commander of the empire, was sentenced to death by the emperor on December 6, 2010, on the charge of being an idiot.
Kidding……
But I really want to do this, bastard! Are you really the commander of the Xiling Empire? Are you really not an extra who comes out to make fun of you or an undercover agent sent by the enemy to mess up the scene? Are you in the army?
Haven't you received any training as an intelligence officer? Can't you think of a better way to hide your identity other than wearing a Matrix suit and selling CDs?!
At this moment, I no longer had any hope in the intelligence of this knight-faced man.
"Eh? Why do I think this buying uncle looks so familiar?" Lin Xue, who once saw Cicaro in a car by chance, said to herself strangely.
The crux of the problem isn't here, right? The crux of the problem is how could an uncle buying pirated disks appear in this place, right?
"No - how could such a person appear here?!" Zheng Yiming reacted first, "Catch him!"
"Wait!" I quickly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Lin Xue asked me strangely, "Do you know this person?"
I'm so stupid, why should I make any noise! Wouldn't it be beneficial to the country and the people to catch this black super uncle and imprison him for a few days?
Facing Lin Xue's probing gaze, I quickly organized my inner words, but how could I explain the relationship between this uncle who was selling pirated CDs in Exile Town and myself?
"He is my brother's friend." Pandora suddenly spoke.
...Pandora, do you know that I am trying to find a way to distance myself from this uncle who looks suspicious at first sight!
"He is also a person with super powers." Pandora continued to reveal.
"What?!" Lin Xue, Lin Feng and Zheng Yiming exclaimed in unison. They must have only one idea: these days, are superpowers no longer valuable? How come a suspicious uncle who meets a pirated disk on the street can do this?
Become a superpower?
At this time, Pandora's voice suddenly came through the spiritual connection: "Sicaro is an imperial officer who is very good at positional defense warfare. His own combat effectiveness cannot be ignored. I hope that he can join us in our later operations——
I think this incident is not that simple, and it is always good to have an extra layer of insurance."
"Chen Jun," Lin Xue's voice interrupted the conversation between me and Pandora, "Do you know this person? Is he really a superpower?"
"Well...that's right!" I replied in a panic, and then I had an idea and said: "He will increase blood!"
"ha?"
A few minutes later, Cicaro, who claimed to be able to increase blood... ahem, it was Cicaro who had the ability to heal supernatural powers and walked with us.
"Chen Jun, is this guy really okay?" Lin Xue asked worriedly while looking at the knight-faced uncle selling pirated disks along the way, "Suddenly a person of unknown origin joined."
"I can guarantee with my own personality that he is absolutely reliable!"
"A supernatural person who likes to travel accidentally got lost while visiting the Taklimakan Desert and strayed into an exile town protected by the supernatural group and was reduced to selling pirated CDs for a living - do you think I should believe it? And that one
Weird name, Cicaro. Among the hundreds of surnames, there are people named Ximen but not Xi." Lin Xue was still full of distrust for this uncle who dared to sell pirated CDs in Exile Town, but in the end she sighed.
, said: "Forget it, just think that his father filled out the household registration book incorrectly. Anyway, my intuition tells me that there is nothing wrong with this person. I hope there is no problem with my ability this time."
"Who are we looking for?" Qian Qian finally couldn't hold it back any longer, "We've almost reached the end of the town. When are we going to go to the ruins? My dad hasn't found it yet!!"
"Don't worry," Lin Feng smiled gently, "The person we are looking for now is very important. Without his help, I'm afraid we would have disappeared in that ruins like your father."
"Who is so powerful?" I asked curiously, "Is he someone with superpowers?"
Lin Xue shook his head and said: "No, he is just an ordinary old man, but he has something extraordinary, and that something has the power to stabilize the ruins - it's a pity that the expedition team believed too much in the so-called modern science
Well, their disdain for the mysterious power led to the accident."