Chapter 2016 The way home in a desperate situation
Chapter 2016 The way home in a desperate situation
Perhaps from the first day when Black Mountain was erected, Peanuttown had no intention of lowering it again.
Since being trapped in Peanut Town, Lin Sanjiu has never heard anyone mention that the Black Mountain does not exist naturally; the Black Mountain is the Black Mountain, always standing under the sky, tightly surrounding the Peanut Town, isolated from the world - without knowing
In the history of Peanut Town that has lasted for many years, the fact that "Black Mountain is an artificial barrier" has long been forgotten.
When the two took the opportunity to escape from the mayor's mansion, Lin Sanjiu seemed to be able to see how Montenegro merged with Peanut Town from every cracked floor tile and every tremor that shook the oil painting vase.
Together: the giant mechanism buried deep in the ground slowly and difficultly turned the dusty and rusty gears; the soil, woods, roots, and bricks covering the town and the Black Mountain were all turned for the first time.
It was disturbed, shaken, torn and broken in two.
The process of her and Yu Yuan's escape was unexpectedly smooth - because once Krong understood what had happened, he immediately panicked and forgot about both of them; Lin Sanjiu vaguely heard what he almost heard.
The commanding voice was about to tear apart like the ground in Peanut Town: "Don't run away, this is not an earthquake! Quickly, enter the system and raise it back up!"
"It's okay to move back up,"
Yu Yuan smashed open a camouflage wall with his shoulder, pulled Lin Sanjiu and rushed out. As the two ran through the trembling hall of the mayor's mansion, he shouted loudly amidst the flying sand and gravel: "But wait.
It can only rise again after it has completely landed and returned to its original position. Guess how long it will take for such a huge and long mountain range to completely fall and rise again?"
Lin Sanjiu threw herself into the dark night outside the house. When she turned back and glanced at the distance, she could no longer suppress the strong convulsive impulse in her body - maybe it was the nervousness of escaping from death, or maybe it was the need for anger.
Cathartic, she raised her head, faced the dark night shrouding Peanut Town, and laughed loudly.
"Good job," she slapped Yu Yuan on the back, almost making him choke.
Probably a firework was set up to be released at a scheduled time. It rose far into the corner of the night sky, and many fire-wrapped meteors bloomed under the dark sky. The firelight slowly descended in the distance, and the outline of the Black Mountain became lower and lower, reflecting the twinkling lights.
Uncertain swaying light and shadow - the fireworks are unknown, and their existence is meaningless.
The mayor's mansion is backed by the foot of the Black Mountain and is shaking more violently than ordinary houses. Looking around, the shadows of the mountains in all directions seem to be melting ice, bending down little by little to make way for the broader sky behind it.
Every step the two took was met by a loud rumble coming from deep within the ground. For a moment, it was almost impossible to tell whether it was the earth that was shaking and uneasy, or one's own soul.
"This way," Yu Yuan called, pointing the gun in his hand at the alley between two rows of houses.
"Where is the way to?" Lin Sanjiu shouted.
The door of a residential house opened. An old lady just stepped out. When she raised her eyes and saw the two of them, she immediately went back and closed the door.
Yu Yuan gasped and turned around. When he looked at her, his eyes were so bright that he seemed to have seen another kind of fireworks.
"'Middle-aged black-haired woman with a scar on her right hand' - I checked her home address."
It was as if a hand suddenly tightened the breath in Lin Sanjiu's chest, and then suddenly released it.
"We are already late," Yu Yuan said in a low voice, "If everyone could be pulled up from the ground by someone's hand when they are humiliated or bullied..."
The ground bumped and trembled, the building shook, the roaring like rolling thunder, and the heavy turning sound of hinges deep in the ground drowned out his subsequent words, making Lin Sanjiu unable to hear clearly - but she still heard it, in another way
.
The cold night wind rushed towards the two running people, smashing them into pieces, and was melted by the hot heat on Yu Yuan's body into a trace of breath, washing towards the town behind them.
"It's Montenegro...!"
From the residential alleys they ran through, a mixture of fragments of words came out. The voices of men, women, old and young were either surprised or frightened; eyes flashed through the gaps in the curtains.
"Black Mountain seems to be... falling!"
"I don't know, how can it move? How is it possible? Is it——"
"There's an earthquake, it must be an earthquake," someone shouted in a low voice, "Look what it says on TV!"
Lin Sanjiu soon discovered that even though part of the "Mayor Aoye" system had been destroyed, it was still surprisingly efficient.
Just a few minutes after hearing these words, every house they ran through formed a unified appearance: the doors and windows were closed, and there was no movement; the curtains were tightly closed, and there were no more whispers and peeping -
—I don’t know how many houses there were, but the same loud female voice echoed, as if shouting a battle cry: “Please obey the instructions, don’t go out if you don’t listen, close the windows and curtains, and wait for dawn
,Victory will definitely belong to us..."
Whether it's TV or radio, there seems to be only the same instruction.
Yu Yuan frowned, suddenly turned over and jumped onto a large trash can on the street, grabbed the water pipe outside the wall of a three-story apartment building, stepped on the balcony of the resident, and quickly climbed to the roof. He did not move lightly,
After this series of actions, there was a low exclamation in the room, but no one opened the curtains to see who climbed up to the roof of their apartment building.
"What's wrong?" Lin Sanjiu also jumped up to the room and looked around condescendingly.
"Look," Yu Yuan pointed to the dark streets that were not even illuminated by street lights, and whispered, "...no one really came out."
As majestic as the sound of Black Mountain gradually descending to the ground is, Peanut Town is so silent. The dim light bulbs on the stone slabs have never been disturbed by anyone's footsteps.
"No, there is someone, look over there..."
Lin Sanjiu's eyes were drawn to a figure in the distance, and Yu Yuan also turned his head. Before she could finish her sentence, she ended her sentence because the man shrank his shoulders and was cautious, as if he was afraid of being discovered.
As if he had just gone out, he quickly came to a house, took one last look at the black mountain that had descended halfway in the distance, and then opened the door and entered the house.
Lin Sanjiu looked at the town shaking in silence, and then at the Black Mountain in the distance. They were not standing high enough, but they could barely make out the world behind the Black Mountain: the straight, iron-gray highway under the night sky
The highway stretches into the distance next to large tracts of farmland; little spark-like street lamps seem to be connected one after another, as if they are about to rise into the sky.
This is just one direction she can see, just the farthest corner.
"Please obey the instructions, don't listen or stay out of the house, close the windows and draw the curtains to get through the difficulties, and when dawn comes, victory will definitely belong to us..."
"Let's go," Lin Sanjiu pulled Yu Yuan's arm and whispered: "At least you know that there is someone who needs us to rescue. Is her home nearby?"
Yu Yuan did not move. He looked steadily at the dark and quiet Peanut Town, with a look on his face, as if a child had seen something incomprehensible, or as if he was wandering in a maze-like dream.
"Yes," he murmured, "look, there she is."
Lin Sanjiu glanced in the direction he pointed. What Yu Yuan was talking about was not the middle-aged woman's home, but the middle-aged woman herself - I don't know if she was there as soon as she started landing in Montenegro.
She rushed out of the house, and at this moment, a man grabbed one of her legs and dragged her on the ground like a pig, towards a house.
When she struggled hard, she didn't even scream. She just rolled and kicked on the ground in silence; probably because she knew that no one would come to save her if she screamed.
"Did you see it?" Yu Yuan asked.
Lin Sanjiu nodded.
Several teams of town police officers were standing guard in the shadows of the residential buildings on the corners of the streets, waiting. They watched the middle-aged woman being dragged across the stone road in front of them, with no interest at all; everyone's attention was focused on
At the intersection - there was almost no doubt who they were waiting for.
"When I looked up the address, they may have left a record in the system. They were one step ahead of us." Yu Yuan raised the gun and said with a wry smile: "...I just realized that there are no bullets. What should I do?"
This time, the "key node" had barely taken shape before the answer was obtained and disappeared.
The last choice was made with a hammer and the appearance of the Yu Yuan she knew was finalized.
His black hair was messed up in the night, and his slender silhouette was reflected on the background of Peanuts Town, burning up a ray of light.
"There is another person who is being humiliated and bullied. She has been waiting for too long." Lin Sanjiu stretched out her hand to him, "Let's go, I will go down with you."
"Found it!" Someone suddenly shouted: "They are on the roof!"
With the sudden sound of a gunshot, it seemed as if a burst of white light suddenly illuminated her mind, and all consciousness was dissolved in the white light. Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes tightly, and when she opened them again, another memory,
The memory that truly belongs to her has returned to its place.
Yu Yuan was sitting across from the dining table, his smile as white as the reflection on the snow-capped mountains.
"...I'm back, Xiaojiu."
It's getting later and later every day, and I can't bear it anymore, but I finally got Yu Yuan's letter back... I'm glad to say congratulations.
There is really a lot to say about my new home; in the past two days, I have found a lot of steel wire balls stuffed behind the radiator and in the gaps under the cabinets.
It was very strange why steel wire balls were inserted, so I searched and found that this is... a way to prevent mice...
When I was looking for a house, many landlords were unwilling to rent to me once I mentioned that I had two cats. Only this landlord was very happy and it was not a problem at all... Now I understand...
The two big wastes in my family who usually only consume food have suddenly become the highest-ranking and most useful people in the family (). My life and safety are all in the hands of the cats!