City of Burning Snow

Sentinel's intervention made everything easier.

Now Gogol is like an old-fashioned train full of fuel. Thanks to Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's selfish instructions, the timidity that was originally wrapped around Gogol was torn apart.Dostoevsky could no longer use his timidity to arrange him.He broke through the siege with Gogol and was dragged all the way out of the office area. He stopped and told Gogol not to go downstairs yet.

The two turned to the sky garden on the top floor and took shelter for a while. The transplanted hydrangea and shrubs were completely destroyed by the soldiers. Dostoevsky's mental disturbance prevented the pursuers from seeing their escape direction. Gori came near the birdcage cafe.The labyrinth-like flower garden is like a corridor leading to a secret place. Gogol thought that there was a high-level secret passage hidden here. He probed his head, but saw the other party squatting down and counting the flower pots one by one.The senior guide opened the bottom of the seventh potted flower, and took out a bunch of keys with copper rings.

"Isn't it!?" Gogol burst out laughing, "Feyya, do you still have time to come back and dig the treasure?"

"Maybe it will work."

"When you encounter a disaster, don't be greedy for property... Wow, be careful!!"

The sentinel's eyes froze, and he quickly dodged and jumped aside. A bunch of stone pillars wrapped in fire fell to the ground and plunged into the place where he had just stood.Immediately afterwards, more stone pillars fell from the four corners of the garden, Dostoevsky's illusion was destroyed beyond recognition in an instant, and the flower garden gradually turned into a sea of ​​​​flames around them.

"Ehhhhhhhh-"

The Ukrainian sentinel avoided the stone pillar in the fire, and his golden hair was almost caught by the fire.

Dostoyevsky stood up, maintained the defense of the thinking tentacles, and continued to tear the thinking tentacles that tried to interfere with him and Gogol into foam. "This is the defense system of the Hanging Garden." The guide's calmness was in contrast to the surrounding chaos. "I have deciphered its code. Can you guess its spelling?"

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"!!!"

Quickly stepping on the stone slab and jumping up, Gogol opened up a safe route in the air, and kicked his feet around the turning point, and the gravel fell like rain.The gravel on both sides is like a split Red Sea.Dostoevsky walked forward slowly.As if praying to God, he lowered his head and opened his palms.

"'Babylon.' That's what it's called."

The thought tentacles rushed out, taking advantage of Shi Yu to bite off the spiritual connection of the soldiers.The crowd scattered and retreated.The mental attack gnawed at the neurons of the soldiers, and the blood spattered on the spot.He looked at the bodies of the soldiers who fell into the sea of ​​fire, and remembered the names of every compatriot.The country he defended now breaks with him.

The thin lips opened and then closed, and the unspoken appeal stagnated between the teeth.

"The garden of Eden flourished for a time, and now it burns away with the wrath of God..."

He closed his eyes.He dedicated his most precious youth to the people on this land, supported him yesterday, and came to hold him accountable today.On the first day of stepping into the Novorussian Tower, Belinsky was the first to walk up to him and shake hands with him. Both of them were the sons of doctors, and they inherited the common enthusiasm of doctors.He once neatly signed his full name on the registration form and stroked the bronze national pattern of New Russia. At that moment, he signed a pact with God: He will never abandon her.

He slowly embarked on the path of so-called rebellion, and there was nothing wrong with him if he wanted to commit a crime.He is the only one standing alone in the world, and he regrets this unexpected but doomed battle.Unsatisfactory things often □□, but no different from the speaker.

"When man's folly touches the majesty of God, God is furious and makes lightning strike the Tower of Babel."

He lowered his head, and there was determination and loneliness in the soft hair.

"Should I say it's stupid... or inevitable?"

Wings fell on Dostoevsky's shoulders.He pinched the feathers, and the phantom withered away like smoke.As if in answer, gentle and playful laughter echoed in the sky.God's kingdom was above him, and he looked up, eyes squinted at the ashes of the flames.

High in the sky, the sentinel was having fun, stretching his muscles and bones for a long time, and the flames were burning the withered varnish of the birdcage.It collapsed suddenly, evoking Gogol's fascinated and joyful laughter, and the spirit body flew out with wings, and shuttled joyfully with him in the fire.The golden light flickering like a thin thread of the canary is fragile and subtle, rushing into the fire desperately, and reborn the phantom of the phoenix in the flames.

Gogol deftly leaps back from the air.After kicking down several huge stone pillars to prevent the pursuers from catching up in a short time, he tiptoed back to Dostoevsky's side, with his arms outstretched, like the eagle bird inherited from the national emblem of New Russia.

"Put one piece down!" Gogol cheered. "You can run! Fedya!"

Changfeng gradually lengthened the time apart from the two of them.The lonely silence did not disappear from the senior guide's eyes.He nodded.Even though there are many crimes ahead, Gogol will definitely accompany him on this road leading to the narrow gate...

But, can he still continue to take this person with him?

He has not yet determined why the other party suddenly agreed to pretend to be a "partner". Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's motive for sneaking into the Novorussian Tower is easy to see through. He is already impatient with the two-month wait and wants to urge Dostoevsky Enter the theft segment.But even so, he explained some things to Gogol more clearly, and Gogol's attitude changed too quickly.

Incomprehensibly fast.

He and Gogol left the garden and rushed to the passage on the north side. The remnant soldiers behind them were urgently rescued by the rushed medical team, and there were no more pursuers.It seems that even though the conversation just now was full of loopholes, Belinsky still did not easily confirm the true relationship between the two.

The fact that Belinsky didn't come after him meant that Ta didn't seriously want to drive the two of them to a dead end.

After the failure of the fall of 'Babylon', Soldiers from the Novorussian Tower were dispatched to the various passages, seemingly blocking the way, but perhaps no more damage would be done by forcing it through.He secretly analyzed, and his fingers couldn't help touching the blood vessels on his neck.Under the bluish-white streaks of blood, there is a chip injected into Dostoevsky's body.He wasn't going to take the thing out.This creates some problems.

It was like a pact he had made with New Russia, a passionate and impractical promise of the rare romance of his life: he had sworn not to betray her.So, he will.

The chip contained a deadly toxin that hadn't punctured his blood vessels yet.Dostoevsky was not surprised that Herzen and others were still reluctant to part with his abilities.It can be said that it is very disappointing.

His interference with the tower's technical level and his obstruction of the genetic project, in fact, many people agree with them in their hearts, but they dare not mention them on the surface.This is the same as the problem with the soldier Gogol, and it was also said privately to Dostoevsky that such a risky and inhuman research direction is against the spirit of New Russia.But he was the only one who really acted.He is so alone.

The more practical problem right now is that once he no longer has the authority to modify information, and no longer contacts the soldiers of the supervision department as a senior guide, he will not be able to exploit the loopholes in the procedure and erase his personal action coordinates from the monitoring.

Thinking that his own coordinates looked like a ridiculous pawn on Herzen's screen, while the other party remained on the sidelines, Dostoevsky felt a little envious of the sentinels around him.The two squatted at the corner, waiting for the opportunity to break through the troops like sneaky thieves.

"Nikolai, Shibusawa has told you who you are?" Dostoevsky asked him.

"Yeah, you said I was a Freedom Sentinel or something... Hey, wait, did you really guess who it was?"

"If you think about it a little bit, you will know. The soldiers of New Russia know that the most expensive wine cannot be ordered, it is just for show."

Gogol was shocked.Is there such a thing? ? ? !

"It was neglected in the past, and it was piled up under the scorching sun for three years. The price remained dozens of times that of ordinary wine. Except for foreign fools, almost no one would order it."

Gogol, who was almost a foreign fool, wiped his face. "oh."

"And if you drink while on duty, you will be fined. Only sentries and foreigners like you who don't have a chip will not be detected for alcohol." Dostoevsky looked at him, "said Alcohol level, your drinking capacity is not small. Isn't the sentinel easily affected by alcohol?"

"Haha, that's not true!" Gogol raised his voice, and then withdrew his voice in Dostoevsky's gesture, "Because I usually take too much medicine, and it is harmful to all things that interfere with nerves. Everyone is immune. In the past, if I didn’t spray medicine, I couldn’t even get out of the door. Let’s take the sound of the wheels turning. That’s not turning. It’s an ancient punishment. It will make my whole body hurt like needles. .”

"now what?"

Gogol shook his white cloak.

"Isn't this the isolation suit you gave me sewn into a jacket? It's much better to wear, plus... cough, it's nothing. Anyway, there's nothing to do right now."

He blushed again inexplicably.

Dostoevsky captured it keenly.He closed his eyes.

"So that's how it is—you and my spiritual body have indirect thinking communication."

"scare!"

Gogol jumped up, and Dostoyevsky pulled his coat and pushed him back to sit down.

He leaned his head together, as if he wanted to see someone else's shadow in the other person's eyes.

"...Didn't we agree not to talk?"

"He didn't say it, I guess. Keep your voice down."

Dostoevsky looked at him without changing his expression.

"You have to inject drugs every day to maintain your spirit, but you were safely weaned at the dam. You didn't go into withdrawal when you came back. When I touched your finger, I took a peek at your state of mind. Its outer layer It has something similar to my wizard ability... How did you do it?"

"Don't you know?"

"I don't know. The agreement between me and the spirit body is real, and I will not betray myself."

"Hmm..." Gogol couldn't understand the sense of promise.

After all, except for Dostoyevsky, the spiritual bodies of ordinary people like them are just animal forms.His spiritual body has just miraculously transformed.But since that's the case...

"Well, then I can't tell you either."

Dostoevsky raised his eyebrows. "You want to say, you can't betray a spiritual body?"

"After all, it's your spiritual body." Gogol didn't think much, he waved his hand, naturally.

"I will not betray you. Even if the whole world betrays you, I will only stand with you."

worldwide……

The senior guide looked away again. "Yes. I see."

His attitude was much cooler than before.

He is also very good at saying this kind of beautiful words to others.But, for some reason, Gogol seemed to have a kind of magical power when he said such words.It seems that it is beyond the laws of this world, and it has the attraction of making people fall into it.When he was about to pick Gogol to his side, he had observed Gogol for seven years, counting the time outside the tower for more than seven years. These observations made him confirm that the other party should be of his own use.He should be harmless...

Dostoevsky felt a very unsafe feeling in his heart, like weightlessness.

Since Gogol returned to the office early and expressed his position to Belinsky, he began to feel that he had temporarily lost control of the layout of the matter.He said they were both on the same side.As if that was a matter of course.Why?He heard Gogol's aspirations. If the other party really agrees with what he says, he should be entangled for a long time according to the other party's personality.Dostoevsky would also make up some dirty jokes in order to get revenge on Belinsky and let the other party be scolded by Herzen, but Gogol was so innocent that it made people laugh.

What Shibusawa said, even Dostoevsky could guess.After a normal person knows his identity, he should at least be surprised by such a big thing for a while.Gogol is calmer now than he was a few days ago, and Dostoevsky is watching, his eyes are cold, and he falls into responsible speculation again.

——Gogol has completely exceeded his expectations now.More faithful than he designed.His loyalty is even higher than that of Goncharov, who has interfered with some of his perception bodies.Where is the problem.Dostoevsky finally had time to think carefully about a question without pretending to be married to the other party:

Is Nikolai Gogol still trustworthy?