[Dragon Race][Kai Chu]Until the Day

Why—" The female voice suddenly paused unnaturally, and a string of letters mixed with numbers was read out one by one.

Then there is a busy tone after a disconnection.

Chu Zihang hung up the phone.Looking up at the distant horizon, "The destination is there, not far away."

Caesar looked in the same direction, a low and rolling hills with withered and yellow vegetation.According to the vision of the sentinel, it seems that layers of barbed wire and wildly growing weeds and trees can be seen, and a few flat buildings are dotted here and there.

Like some abandoned military base.

"What is that place?" Caesar asked.

"The end of the mission; presumably also the reason 'The Academy thinks I need your assistance.'"

Caesar followed Chu Zihang back to the off-road vehicle.The guide pulled out an encrypted metal box from under the driver's seat, and the fingerprint lock verification was opened, and inside was a laptop; after turning it on, it entered the command line interface, entered commands, and keyed in the key obtained from the phone call.

A prompt of successful verification popped up on the screen, and a pattern flashed, which the sentinel keenly captured. It was the silhouette of a huge, withered tree.The decryption progress began to be read, and finally stopped at the 100% number.The dense text and charts suddenly filled the screen.

"This is your mission?"

"Yes." Chu Zihang quickly scanned the screen.

"Did you take the same steps before you came to me?" Caesar asked.

"Yes."

"Sounds creepy."

Chu Zihang still stared at the screen, "The operation will start tomorrow morning. According to the information, the base has already been occupied by local gangs. Fortunately, there are no sentries or guides among the members. The chance of us being discovered by the same kind is not high."

"how long it takes?"

"If all goes well, I can return in half a day."

"What is my mission?" Caesar probably guessed it.

"Help me and avoid the attention of all armed personnel and sensor devices." Chu Zihang confirmed.

"What about the purpose of the mission?" Caesar asked the most critical part, although he didn't think Chu Zihang would tell him.

"You know very well that I will not answer this question." Chu Zihang said lightly.

Caesar shrugged, "I quite like your tone of voice."

***

Towards evening, the sun slowly slides to the west.

Chu Zihang finally read all the mission materials, selected a few pages, and handed the laptop to the bored Caesar, "You can familiarize yourself with these first."

He got out of the car and began to count the damage caused by the "dramatic" accident at noon.The black car body had a few bomb craters for nothing, and stacked boxes and gasoline barrels were tilted here and there.He found the tarp, temporarily covered the shattered rear glass, and then started to sort out the crumbling boxes and plastic buckets.After roughly cleaning up, Chu Zihang found a portable gas stove and a few food cans.

"This is dinner?" Caesar frowned.

"You can choose, chicken or fish."

"Are you asking me which of these two shits is more fragrant..." Caesar glanced at the can in Chu Zihang's hand, "You choose first. It's the same to me." Bowed his head and continued Browse through the information Chu Zihang gave him.

A nearly abandoned military base indeed.Such bases are not uncommon. After the "Twilight of the Gods" nuclear explosion, the military forces of all countries suffered a devastating blow. A large number of military facilities had to be abolished or downsized. It was looted and occupied by the emerging local gang organization.Caesar focused on the floor plan of the base, and a certain three-story building was marked.There was also a report that a small plane crashed in a nearby mountain during its landing five years ago. Three people, including the pilot, were killed on the spot. Caesar noticed the date, which was five years before the famous "Ragnarok" nuclear explosion. sky.

When dinner was ready, Chu Zihang handed him the canned tuna; Caesar took a bite, and it was dry and sticky, like chewing wood.

The guide caught the displeasure from the sentry and reminded, "Tomorrow's action will require a lot of energy, I suggest you add enough protein."

Caesar felt that nothing good had happened to him from the moment he accosted the guide.Sentinel's sensitive taste magnified this bad taste a hundred times.He had no memory of how he had swallowed the whole can of tuna with the same tasteless can of asparagus.

After a tough dinner, they searched the only remaining buildings in the village one by one. Most of them had been looted, covered with cobwebs and dust, and the toilets were full of sewage.At last they found a barely enough shelter for the night; Caesar was relieved that he would no longer have to sleep outside.

He sat down on a shriveled box spring, the rusty metal springs creaking nastyly, and a cloud of ash flew up.Chu Zihang put the sleeping bag and toiletries beside the bed, turned around and left; the room the guide had found for him was at the other end of the corridor.

"I thought you were going to say goodnight to me anyway?" Caesar dusted off the sleeping bag.

Chu Zihang stopped at the door of the room and turned around. The ability of the guide made him very clear that Caesar had more to say.

"My observation, unless necessary, you always try to avoid talking or contacting me."

Chu Zihang didn't answer.

"It seems I was right."

"You can leave after the mission is over." Chu Zihang said, "Is there any problem?"

"No." Caesar smiled, "I just thought that guides generally liked me quite a bit."

"I don't see what this has to do with the mission. I'll leave if it's okay." Chu Zihang frowned.

"Good night, guide," said Caesar.

Chu Zihang gently closed the door.

***

Chu Zihang returned to his room.The tense spirit was finally relaxed.

He threw the sleeping bag on the half-collapsed spring mattress. After a little thought, he returned to the off-road vehicle, opened the trunk, and took out a portable medicine box.

Fortunately, he and Caesar were not injured in the absurd breakout operation at noon, which allowed them to deal with tomorrow's operation with complete and abundant energy.Caesar was right, he was indeed avoiding further contact unless necessary.This is the first time he has cooperated with someone else on a mission, and this "other person" happens to be an A Sentinel.Judging from the information description, it was just a simple infiltration mission, as long as he was careful enough, he could complete it alone.He didn't understand why the mission instructions from the "Academy" specifically included a sentry.

Without bonding, the guide cannot read the sentry's thoughts; however, the guide is always passively aware of the mood swings of those around him.Since awakening, he has been surrounded by messy and chaotic information, and the anxiety in his heart has been lingering for a long time.

He walked into the bathroom, turned on the rusty faucet, the metal water pipe made a buzzing sound, and the old water with a yellow rust color fell from the shower head, and after waiting for a long time, it finally became clear; he quickly put on soap, and then Stand in the cold water and wash off the foam from your body.The water flowed into the long-dried floor drain, making a whimpering sound.

The cold water was poured on the face, and the clear and turbulent sound of the sea waves when he saw Caesar's eyes for the first time sounded in his ears again.

Caesar's grade is A, higher than any Sentinel he has come into contact with so far.The emotional fluctuations of ordinary people are just raindrops falling on the ground in his ears; the lower-level sentinels are roughly trickling streams; some upwards are broad rivers, and Caesar, who is an A-level, is the sea.

When a sea appears in front of you, you can't get around it, and you can't go further.Will notice him anyway.

It took him nearly two days to get used to walking in the sound of the waves; his instructor didn't give him much guidance in this area, and he needed to explore everything by himself.

After rinsing, he turned off the tap, dried his hair, and put on a change of clothes.He stroked the nameplate on his chest with his fingers, then opened the portable medicine box and took out the medicine inside.

Young's ketone, a stabilizer suitable for sentinels and guides, can maintain the mental stability of such people to a certain extent.Before setting off, Chu Zihang carefully evaluated his own state and the level of his mission collaborators, and asked the doctor for two sticks of Young's ketone.The first was injected the same day Caesar was found; the second in his hand.

The pale light of the emergency light illuminated half of his face, and he stretched out his left arm; after the alcohol swab was sterilized, the needle was inserted into the vein on the inside of the elbow.

The dark liquid was all pushed in, Chu Zihang pulled out the syringe and exhaled long.

After everything was dealt with, the guide got into the sleeping bag and closed his eyes.

***

Caesar finally settled down in the sleeping bag. For a person who is used to sleeping in high-end hotels, this crap is really aggrieved.The quality of life has dropped sharply; the 200 million US dollars he got disappeared; and he was robbed by a strange guide halfway to such a place where no shit... Caesar felt that his luck today could only be described as "Damn" described.He sensitively caught the voice from the room at the end of the corridor, and began to think about this guide in his mind.

What the guide did was no different from coercion, but Caesar didn't find it annoying (except for the bad food); on the contrary, he thought of Chu Zihang's bright eyes when he first met, and was full of enthusiasm for this confusing D-level guide. curious.

The cooperation between sentries and guides is very common, but most of them exist between similar levels; the higher the level, the more picky the sentries are.

He turned carefully.In addition to the guide, there is also the so-called "academy", as well as quests whose contents are still unclear...

The wind outside the window was blowing suddenly, and the raised dust hit the glass window, and the crackling sound was accompanied by countless question marks circling in my mind... whistle