Back bite

Located in the southern hemisphere, the Tasman Sea is a sea area sandwiched between Australia and New Zealand. Summer begins at the end of November, and February is the hottest time of the year. After the temperature drops in early March, it enters a cool autumn.

According to common sense, it is now March, and the temperature on the island should drop, but they didn't feel cool. Instead, they felt that this summer would never be exhausted.

Cheng Wei once suspected that time passed slowly in the ruins mode of the base, so he compared the correct time, counted 24 hours and made a mark on the wall every day.

It wasn't until today that he suddenly realized that time was not slowing down at all, but was going backwards all the time—only when it started to go backwards from February, and the summer that should have come to the end came back again, all this could be explained.

The desk calendar that Xue Xunye saw on the desk in the office building, the income and expenditure records in the convenience store, the confused time on the watch and mobile phone, and the entry and exit registration book in the security room are all the best evidence.

And as Xue Xunye said, as long as there is a temperature-changing system underground, adjusting the temperature is just a matter of the leader moving his fingers.

He told his thoughts to the two people who came in later, Xue Xunye closed the door, leaned on the edge of the table with his backhand and jumped up to sit: "That's no wonder, time goes backwards, and the ruins will naturally return to their original appearance little by little gone."

Chi Xia didn't speak, his eyebrows were lowered as if he was thinking about something, Xue Xunye whistled at him to bring him back to his senses, and then he raised his head and asked a question: "Since he knows that this model is designed by the lord, why would he want to use it?" Restore the destroyed things? Just like when I was writing, every link I personally designed must have its own meaning, so what is the significance of the lord going back in time?"

"I want to give the challenger information tips, and come up with some brain-burning questions." Xue Xunye tapped his forehead with his fingers, and stretched his arms to grab Cheng Wei, "Honey, think about it."

"I'm thinking." Cheng Wei flipped the entry and exit registration to the blank space on the back, touched the paper and pen and drew a simple map of the entire city with a few strokes on it. The map took up the entire paper. Asterisk, I originally wanted to add another asterisk at the clinic, but when I wrote the pen, I put the second asterisk on the residential building near the clinic.

"Chi Xia, you've been living in the screening hall since you landed on the island last September, haven't you?" Cheng Wei poked the asterisk a with a pen.

"Yes, I entered here directly after landing on the island."

Cheng Wei caught his wording: "Directly?"

Chi Xia nodded, but his eyes were a little erratic.

Cheng Wei pushed the hand-drawn map towards Chixia, and circled several large-scale areas: "This city can be said to be big or small, but you came early, and you should take care of the places we didn't check. have been."

"Passing by." Chi Xia twisted his pen, "The city didn't completely collapse in an instant, but from here—"

The tip of the pen touched the southernmost point, the position south of the clinic, and Chi Xia started to draw a straight line from there to the north: "From here, it collapsed all the way to the north, worried that it would be buried in the ruins, many people would not care about hunting each other, and swarmed to the north of the city Run away, and so do I."

There were no cannonballs thrown, no hydraulic jacks or other machines deliberately demolished, and the building cracked for no reason, and then self-destructed to various degrees.

"The theater wasn't badly damaged at the time, but I followed the flow and fled in the same direction, but I didn't expect to just arrive at the north of the city, which is this place." Chi Xia clicked on the northernmost area of ​​the map, "There The building collapsed immediately, and nothing in the whole city was intact, so we had to keep going—"

"Isn't it the northernmost point?" Cheng Wei asked.

"Yes, but I didn't think too much about it at the time. I ran away when I saw a road, but I went back to the original place after going around. The only thing I'm lucky is that the building didn't collapse again and people can still live in it."

Cheng Wei had an intuition that Chengbei could find an exit clue. He tore the hand-drawn map from the register and folded it into a small storage bag. He patted Xue Xunye's thigh and said, "Let's go to Chengbei to have a look."

Xue Xunye was twisting his upper body and opening a corner of the curtain to observe the situation outside the house. Cheng Wei's action made his fingers tremble. The moment the curtain shook, Xue Xunye suddenly hooked Cheng Wei's neck and pressed down, jumped off the desk and squatted While getting down, he raised his eyes and yelled at Chi Xia: "Get down!"

Almost milliseconds before Chi Xia reacted and made a move, a bullet with strong penetrating power pierced the window glass and curtains and hit the wall behind, burning a small round hole in the thin curtains , Xue Xunye drew out his gun and reminded in a low voice: "Don't get up—"

Before he finished speaking, there were several more gunshots, and the window panes shattered with crisp and continuous sounds, and a piece fell on Cheng Wei's hair. Xue Xunye helped Cheng Wei brush it off: "It's a sniper rifle." , that person has been lying in ambush and staring at us from a distance.”

"How far?" Cheng Wei asked.

"About 600 meters," Xue Xunye estimated the distance when he was most confident about the number. "It's in a three-story western-style building obliquely in front of the school. He's hiding behind the fence on the balcony on the second floor."

Cheng Wei recalled that the day they first arrived, the door of their residence had been shot several times from the outside and still remained intact, and when Biyan Omega lived in the security room, there had never been any damage to the doors and windows, probably after the death of the occupant of the residence, Its dwelling has lost its defense.

It's dangerous now—

The layout of the security room is small and the number of bunkers is limited. As long as someone finds an angle to attack from the outside, they will definitely not get any benefits.

But it would be even more foolish to leave the security room now and find another hiding place. The man was squatting in the distance with a sniper rifle in his hand, and they would definitely become prey in his scope.

After the gunshots stopped for a while, Chi Xia raised his upper body, ignored Xue Xunye's warning eyes, and said softly, "I'll check the situation."

"No." Cheng Wei grabbed his wrist and dragged him to the ground, "Since we've become teammates, I won't allow you to do things that endanger your life without knowing the risk factor."

Chi Xia was slightly stunned, and the moment his hands were forced onto the floor, a slight pain crept into his palms, but his eyes were moved, and there was an obvious change in his expression, he had no intention of hiding his emotions at all.

"It's okay, I'll just open the curtains and take a look." Chi Xia insisted on doing it.

Cheng Wei looked at him coldly: "Then be prepared to be shot in the head at any time. What is the effective distance of your hiding ability?"

Chi Xia sighed: "Within a radius of 500 meters."

Cheng Wei was firm: "Then squat down and think of a countermeasure."

Xue Xunye was reminded by Cheng Wei's thoughts, and rubbed the back of his neck: "Bao, what about you?"

Without Xue Xunye's explanation, Cheng Wei knew that he was asking about his effective frame distance: "In a state of sufficient energy, the radius is 600 meters."

Of course he thought about fixing the person in the distance - but Xue Xunye only said that the person might be around 600 meters away, what if it was beyond 600 meters?

"Try," Xue Xunye said, "I have a way to test whether he is still there, but I have to fight for these five seconds."

Cheng said: "If he is here, who can kill him with one shot at such a long distance?"

Sniping is Cheng Wei's shortcoming, and Xue Xunye never brings a sniper rifle when he goes out.

The two looked at Chi Xia who was carrying Chi Xia behind him, and Chi Xia smiled brightly: "Let me tell you, I still have to do it."

Understanding each other's tasks in each other's eyes, Xue Xunye stretched out his arm and pulled down the curtain with the barrel of the gun. The next moment the gunshots rang out again. This time the entire glass shattered and scattered all over the table. Cheng Wei pointed in the direction of the target. Releases pheromones at a concentration of 60%.

The gunshots stopped suddenly, proving that the man was indeed within 600 meters.

Five seconds was enough for Lai Xia to set up a sniper rifle and shoot accurately at the man inside the fence of the western-style building in the distance without any hindrance.

Cheng Wei's back stiffened, and he suddenly thought of an imperceptible but terribly thoughtful detail.

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