Scrap iron

There is no purpose, he has to wait for Constance's letter.

Ten minutes ago, Constance should have led the iron men who were hiding around the big island in the middle of the way and some iron men in the south to attack the hollow zone together.

Lucas's interim goal is to win the territory south of the Crossflow Belt.

He needs to use the southern climate to conduct long-term research—he needs to study how to breed Iron Man.

Lucas is no fool.He understood that after Iron Man left the Iron Tide region, the biggest disadvantage was that he could not regenerate. To win the war completely, he needed to solve the problem of Iron Man's reproduction first.

Lucas had a basic understanding of the working principles of Iron Man. After seeing the map of the New World Islands, he deduced that the only area suitable for his experiment was the Southern Islands.

The easterly cross-current belt is the only passage connecting the southern archipelago and the central archipelago, and the easterly hollow belt is the lifeline of traffic in the south-central region.

If you want to have an undisturbed experimental environment, capturing the Dongfeng hollow belt is the best choice.

After completely cutting off the traffic in the central and southern regions, it will be much easier to besiege Nanda Island.

But Lucas never expected that Xue Dan would come.

He is still not sure whether to attack Dawn Island or not.On the one hand, Lucas suspected that this was Xue Dan's trap, and on the other hand, he worried that this was just Xue Dan's psychological warfare.

Xue Dan definitely has a lot of hole cards, just like he had suspected before, why Xue Dan dared to handcuff him with Qian Ji, and how could Qian Ji react so quickly when he escaped - according to Constance's biography Believe me, Qian Ji is indeed a "God".

This completely dispelled Lucas's idea of ​​dispersing one-third of the iron man's force and attacking the central island at the same time.

He opened his eyes, pressed against the quilt, and turned to face Xue Dan again.

Xue Dan's lips were slightly parted, one hand was hooked on the back of his head, and the other was straight against the bed board, in an unknown sleeping position.

General Xue only slept so boldly during those three years in the Kamo Empire, right?

Lucas thought, when he slept with him on Dawn Island a few days ago, he had never seen him sleep so arrogantly. Usually, his brows were slightly frowned, his lips were tightly closed, and his breathing was as weak as a dormant winter bear.

If Lucas didn't come with him once, Xue Dan would wake up almost as soon as he touched it.

In the past two days on the boat, Xue Dan slept very relaxed, as if there was nothing worth worrying about in the world.

"Boss, these are the bronze real-time images from the four observation ships." Constance's bronze message finally arrived, followed by the four surveillance images presented in the nerves.

"The current offensive is going smoothly." Constance concluded after reporting the combat situation at each location.

Lucas wrote back: "Got it."

Everything went well, the only problem was General Xue lying in front of him now.

Lucas propped up his upper body, sat lightly on the bed, leaned over and buckled the dark cabinet next to the bed, took out a pair of alloy handcuffs from it, and gently lifted Xue Dan's wrist that was buckled behind his head.

"Lucas understands that the biggest disadvantage of the Iron Man is that he cannot regenerate, so he will not gather all the Iron Man in one place." Chen Siqian put her arms on the handle of the chair, and her whole body was nestled in the soft chair.

"Yes..." Xue Dan roughly drew a few places on the map with his fingertips: "There must be one in the east or west of Liming Island, there should be one near the heart-shaped island, and one in the three small islands—I don’t know the hollow zone." Will there be? The remaining large troops are concentrated near Xiaotou Island."

"Be careful when you take the corrosive liquid through the hollow belt this time. The iron man may station iron boats to defend the side island. You'd better stay away from the side island." Chen Siqian told Tang Xiaopu and Li Jiu.

Tang Xiaopu responded.

Li Jiudao: "We are going to eliminate the number of iron men now. We can exchange people and islands for their vitality."

He rubbed his throat with his fingers, and coughed uncomfortably, "How to say, human beings can live a man and a woman, and human civilization is still here."

Tang Xiaopu told Li Jiu to take a rest: "When I get old, my health is not good, and I won't rest for a while."

Li Jiu was not happy to hear Tang Xiaopu say that he was old, but he didn't refute it.

"Your ninth uncle is right." Chen Siqian said, "Let's think of a way to destroy some of the iron men."

"Don't we have a lot of second-generation corrosive fluids in the east wind cross-flow belt?" Akeair said, "You and Qian Ji were messing with it, and the first generation seems to have it too. They are all in the submarine alloy warehouse. Released can wipe out the flooded."

Chen Siqian said: "The corrosive liquid of the first generation can't be used, and the second generation has little effect."

Xue Dan said: "I put a lot of the current fourth-generation corrosive liquid in the cross-flow zone. Before I finished speaking, I wanted to say that I planned to lead them to the cross-flow zone to fight."

"So, Xiaotang, you have a very heavy task." Xue Dan turned his head and said, "You have to hypnotize yourself. There is no fourth-generation corrosive liquid in the Dongfeng Crossflow Zone."

"It's not easy to lure Lucas over." Xue Dan rubbed his temples, "But I guess he's going to play cross-flow belt, just don't let him get suspicious halfway."

Tang Xiaopu looked at Li Jiu, hesitantly said: "I don't know if I can hide it, I'm afraid that I will still use the corrosive liquid from Biandao when I encounter a crisis."

Akeair said: "I can make a show." He briefly talked about how to pretend to be crazy, how to deceive Iron Man with half-truths and half-fakes.

Xue Dan suddenly thought that he happened to use Qian Ji to watch Lucas for him.

Xue Dan was a little moved, but he didn't dare to agree: "In this way, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to come back alive."

Akeair shook his head: "I don't care about it myself, General Xue don't talk about it."

Chen Siqian nestled on the chair and kept silent.

Akeair squinted at Chen Siqian, then turned his eyes in frustration: "I'll go with Xiao Tang."

After he finished speaking, the room suddenly became inexplicably quiet, and everyone had nothing to say for a while.

Chen Siqian slowly broke the silence: "Iron Man doesn't necessarily hit Heart-shaped Island."

Xue Dan said: "As long as Lucas has the intention to fight the Central Island, he will definitely attack the Heart-shaped Island; if he has no intention to fight the Central Island, there is no need for Akeel to say this."

Chen Siqian fell silent again.

In the end, Akeair followed Tang Xiaopu and Li Jiu and left Dawn Island.

The Iron Man Constance saw the huge warehouses rising from under the water, with ice slag on their surfaces, and due to the low temperature, they continuously emitted white mist to the surroundings.

The warehouse was opened wide, and the first and second generations of corrosive liquid inside spewed out to the iron ships on the sea and the iron men on the island.

Without the corrosive liquid in sight, the iron man was already in a state of confusion, the iron boats scrambled to escape, and the iron man howled and ran towards the alloy wall.

-

Just as Lucas saw this change in his nerves, the wrist that was holding Xue Dan was grabbed in reverse.

"Boss, I'm the one who put you together this time."

Lucas looked down.Xue Dan has already opened his eyes, and his eyes are clear, without any sleepiness at all: "Admit defeat."

-

Before the Iron Man who hid under the city wall and the Iron Man who had already attacked the city wall waited under the hoods of the first and second generation corrosive liquid, the Bianjima guard holding a weapon smeared with the fourth generation corrosive liquid pierced through their necks.

The iron men had no desire to fight at all. Threatened by the first and second generation of corrosive liquid on their heads, they ran around in despair.

It wasn't until the end, when those corrosive liquids that were basically scratching itches, poured them all over, that the iron people realized that they had been cheated.However, at this time, even Constance retreated hundreds of thousands of miles in a crooked manner.

-

Lucas knew that this battle could not be won. He was going to contact Constance to let the Iron Man retreat, but found that his bronze piece was useless again.He looked at Xue Dan.

Xue Dan narrowed his eyes and smiled: "What does the chief want to say?"

Lucas sighed, "How did you do that?" - taking his bronze link without him knowing it.

Xue Dan was a little surprised by his calmness, so he planned to explain the question Lucas asked later, and first expressed his doubts: "Why are you not angry or discouraged at all?"

Lucas looked into Xue Dan's eyes and said in a low voice: "Didn't you often ask me why I still choose to help Iron Man beat humans?"

"I've figured it out in the past two days. I just don't want to disappoint those iron men. Do you think I can't see that the iron men are already in decline? I think I still have to try my best to help them win."

"But if I try my best and still can't win, you can't blame me." Lucas said, "I will cry for Iron Man and ecstasy for humans."

Lucas lightly fiddled with Xue Dan's fingers and said frivolously, "General Xue, it's time for you to answer my question."

88. Armistice

"You can do it in the future." Xue Dan then answered Lucas's question without any hesitation, "I will always surpass myself."

Do you always surpass yourself?

For some reason, Lucas remembered the person who gave him a bear doll and told him the prophecy a long time ago;

I also remembered the day when I woke up in my sleep and suddenly realized that the beauty was twilight when I looked in the mirror.

Lucasford said to his heart: "Are you Xue Dan in the future?"

"Yes." Xue Dan answered readily, "I am still staying on Liming Island, and I don't know anything about what happened on this bed."

Lucas stared at his knees, feeling for no reason that he seemed a little sorry for the current Xue Dan.

Xue Dan propped his head up from the pillow with his palms, curled his lips and said, "I still know I'm sorry. You told me about this last week—that's the last week in my time, so don't worry, I haven't reacted yet. , you will be on a business trip on board."

"Let me tell you the truth, let's stop fighting."

Lucas looked complicated: "Even if you have a special status, you won't be able to get to the point so bluntly."

Xue Dan stretched out a finger lazily and scratched his head: "If you delay any longer, don't you want to bring that iron man in Dongfeng Kongkong?"

Lucas said: "Constance is still here, and he will host the retreat."

Xue Dan groaned, and muttered: "I really don't remember what happened to the battle in Dongfeng Crossliu." Then he changed the incision, "It would be great if you could see the scene in Dongfeng Crossliu. "

"Why?" Lucas could indeed see it, but he didn't tell Xue Dan, but asked back calmly.

"Those warehouses filled with corrosive liquid were originally on the bottom of the hollow, and they should have brought a lot of hard ice slag when they went up." Xue Dan said, "Now the bottom of the sea is frozen to death, and the low temperature will slowly erode the Great Transition Islands. —No, the New World Islands."

"I was almost struck by lightning. Fortunately, I only said a wrong term. If I accidentally disturb the timeline, I will be unforgivable." Xue Dan said with a smile.

"When the cryogenic layer goes up to the ground, your precious iron man will die anyway. Why do you have to bring so many people to be buried with you before you die?"

Xue Dan helped Lucas settle the score, "Think about it, the Iron Man is gone, we humans will never be extinct again, and the Iron Man culture has no memory, how shabby."

"I remember you said before that my personal safety—" Xue Dan pointed to his forehead, "is the number one priority in your heart. Now my life is threatened by the cryogenic layer, do you have to join forces with Iron Man?" Join us in strengthening insulation measures."

"I think General Xue will live well in the future." Lucas said.

"That's not how it's calculated." Xue Dan said seriously, "I don't know what to say about this, and I still have to leave it to you—you in the future can explain it better, but I know that the moment of communication between the future and the past is a moment of change, you Decisions made under the influence of my future self can deviate from the decisions I remember you making."

"If you don't stop fighting, it is really possible for human beings to be buried in the Great Transition together with Iron Man—no, the New World Islands." Xue Dan said.

Lucas's desire to capture the islands of the New World was not very strong in the first place, and coupled with Xue Dan's rhetoric, he did have the idea of ​​a truce.

Lucas did not give a clear answer. He said to Xue Dan: "You let me contact Constance first, and I will ask him if the situation of the hollow belt is the same as what you said."

In Lucas' eyes, Xue Dan just whistled, then blinked and said, "Okay, try again."

Lucas really succeeded in connecting this time. He said to Constance: "How is the situation now? Has the hollow belt been withdrawn? What is the general loss? I was controlled by Xue Dan just now, so I couldn't send the bronze message, and I also received it." Not yours."

It took a long time for Constance's bronze tablet to send a reply, but the voice obviously did not belong to Iron Man Constance: "Hello, big boss, I am the crew member of General Constance's lead ship. We have indeed withdrawn from the hollow zone, but Only our boat managed to get rid of the pursuit of humans on Nanda Island."

"General Constance died. General Bilbo died too. I saw its head cut off by a human... I heard the human companion call him Mr. Shop."

How could someone pursue Nanda Island?They were obviously a surprise attack, and they didn't have time to reach the hollow zone so quickly——

"Zhou Yishang you contacted?" Lucas lowered his head and asked Xue Dan.

"Yes." He replied, "The one on Dawn Island can't pinch/point pinch as accurately as I can."

"Boss, what should we do now? Is Iron Man doomed?" said the crew over there.

Lucas responded: "You take your iron man ship back to Xiaotou Island first, and we temporarily retreat to the south of Xiaotou Island."

It was because he had a big appetite and wanted to take down the south of the cross-current belt. Looking at it now, it would be wise to stop at Xiaotou Island.

Xue Dan asked: "How is it? Is it miserable?"

Lucas: "It's not like you can't receive Zhou Yishang's bronze message."

He suddenly thought, if he had been firmer, not doubted his intuition, and designed to kill Zhou Yishang before leaving the Old Continent, the current battle situation would definitely be completely different.

It's a pity that he is not an iron man, and he still longs for the company of his kind and takes chances.

Xue Dan hummed: "Isn't the fight still going on?"

"Never stop talking." Lucas took out the map of the New World Islands from his arms, looked at it in detail, and said: "With the 126.5th sea line as the boundary, I will stick to the south, and you stay in the north, and each other will not cross the boundary."

Xue Dan took the map.Fortunately, the southern archipelago is often clustered, and there is no issue of dividing small islands between Xiaotou Island and Nanda Island. Lucas drew this line quite objectively.

Xue Dan checked for a long time, and finally said: "Yes. The big leader has a rare conscience this time."

Lucas suddenly realized something was wrong: "You have the final say? Shouldn't the current Xue Dan have the final say?"

Xue Dan stuffed the map back into Lucas's arms, and finally couldn't hold back his laughter: "No, my dear, do you think I can really come here without discussing with me now, and come directly to your iron boat ?”

"I really want to see you, but I don't want to lose my mind."

He pointed to the invisible bronze plate on his chest: "I made up the previous remarks about "last week", not only did he know that I was coming, but since I just opened my eyes, my bronze plate and his have been synchronized. "

"I conveyed it to him for a long time."

Lucas's face was burning with pain.It's fucking embarrassing, and a little irrationally sullen.

"As long as he knows-you let me talk to him." Lucas said.

Xue Dan's smile froze, and he reluctantly said: "The future bronze sheet has not developed the function of temporary connection, I have enough energy to spare. If you have anything to say to me, I will pass it on to him."

Lucas was speechless.Did General Xue forget that not to mention the future bronze pieces, the current bronze pieces can be connected at any time—otherwise, how did the crew use Constance’s bronze pieces just now?

Lucas sneered: "You think I want to flirt? I want to confirm a verbal truce with him."

Xue Dan insisted cheekily: "It's not that I don't want you to talk to him, I really can't do it."

During the period when Lucas came to the New World Islands, he had been tacitly not keeping each other's bronze pieces with Xue Dan. This reason is difficult to explain-what can he and Xue Dan say after connecting the bronze?Check each other out?

It's like pulling in a piece of bronze that the heads of state of the Old Continent can communicate with each other at any time-or forget it.

Lucas believed that the two Xue Dans had passed through each other, so he no longer insisted on contacting the current Xue Dan.

He exchanged a few more words with the surviving crew members, asking the crew members to contact him at any time.

During this period, Xue Dan kept looking at his chin from bottom to top with a pair of black eyes, thinking about some philosophy of life.

Lucas couldn't help but said, "What are you thinking about, great/philosopher/scholar?"

Xue Dan was really thinking about the problem, he said slowly: "Are you so thin at this time?"

Lucas heard the words and looked at himself: "It's okay, you said it like this, it seems that you have lost a little weight recently." But his figure is still there basically, and he won't be "so thin".

"Could it be that I became a figure like you after training?" Lucas's heart tightened suddenly, and he hurriedly asked.

Although he couldn't put it down for Xue Dan's figure, he knew that his temperament was not suitable for having such a figure.

Xue Dan shook his head: "No, how is it possible." He just felt that Lucas at this time—especially Lucas, who was rubbing his temples from time to time in the dark night, looked a little too tired.

"That's good." Lucas breathed a sigh of relief, "When are you leaving?"

Xue Dan said: "It's hard to say, I should have to stay for a while."

Lucas slid down into the bed, and Xue Dan grabbed his wrist.He turned his palms and touched Xue Dan's palms: "Have you been living happily?"

Xue Dan stuck to Lucas's side and whispered, "Happy, I'm happy with you, but I still want to try aging and death—of course, the premise is that I'm with you."

Aging and dying.Lucas touched his cheeks and eyes that were sometimes aching: "You haven't experienced getting old."

"Neither have you." Xue Dan retorted.

"Okay." Lucas corrected his wording, "You haven't even experienced it in middle age."

Xue Dan said: "But I have seen your changes."

"What have I changed?" Lucas asked.

"I can't even tell whether you care about this battle or not." Xue Dan said, "Compared to when you were in the Erluo Mountains, now you are about to become a fairy."

"Iron Man suffered such a big setback in the Dongfeng Crosscurrent Belt, you didn't even lift your eyelids, you said the truce more casually than me, and you can chat casually after reaching a verbal agreement." Xue Dan said.

Lucas asked back: "Otherwise, what else can I do."

Xue Dan squeezed the other palm in the palm of his hand: "I can't do anything, I just hope to see you more lively, whether you hate or love, you are more enthusiastic."

Lively?Lucas thought that maybe since he served as the leader of the Iron Man, he was no longer qualified to touch this word.

"But it doesn't matter, only you know how you live the most comfortable life." Xue Dan smiled and kissed Lucas's side face.

He helped Lucas tuck the quilt: "Go to sleep."

The two did not speak again.

Lucas couldn't control his active thinking, and he couldn't help thinking about how the position of Iron Man's chief had affected him——

It wasn't until the surviving crew members and the Xiaotou Island garrison contacted Lucas at the same time, telling him that the surviving Iron Man had arrived safely on Xiaotou Island, that Lucas's heart was relieved, and he fell into a psychedelic dream in a daze.

The author says:

When I wrote the next chapter, I suddenly realized where the problem of my writing was! !Mom, I've got the hang of it! !

感谢在2021-06-2923:14:14-2021-07-0123:40:11期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦——

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 20 bottles of Hejiu;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

89. Despair

He despaired of the future of mankind, and he also despaired of his own future.

Xue Dan, who was sitting in the hut on Dawn Island, was not asleep again.

He sat cross-legged on the sofa, chewing over and over what he said: Lucas said he agreed to a truce, with the 126.5-degree sea line as the boundary, and mutual non-aggression.

Xue Dan couldn't help thinking about how Lucas negotiated with him step by step and finally agreed to his request-he had never made Lucas compromise so quickly.

Will Lucas realize that's not who he is now?

The back of Xue Dan's neck was leaning against the back pillow of the sofa, and his chest felt a little tight.He knows himself very well, and he doesn't think that himself will be easily exposed.

He's definitely going to squeeze Lucas's quilt.Did Lucas tuck him in the quilt, would he be afraid to wake up that self when he woke up in the middle of the night, and then think about how to drive that self out.

Xue Dan lowered his lips, thinking, it's your honor that he can think of how to drive you out.

knock knock knock...

Someone knocked on the door.

Xue Dan frowned.

knock knock knock...

The man continued to knock unhurriedly.

Xue Dan got up, walked across the floor barefoot, stepped on the loose slippers by the door, leaned forward and asked, "Who?"

"It's me, Chen Siqian." Chen Po said from outside the door.

Xue Dan pressed the doorknob and pushed the wooden door outward.

Chen Siqian was still wearing casual long clothes and trousers, and her white hair floated like a cloud in the night. She caught the sliding door, stepped on the carpet at the door, and turned around to close the wooden door: "Don't turn on the light?"

Xue Dan brushed his sloppy hair upwards, casually pulled on a pair of slippers, turned around and walked to the sofa: "Casual."

Chen Siqian stretched out her skinny fingers and pressed the light at the door without hesitation.She walked back and forth in the house, turned on several lights in the living room, and then quietly curled up on the small sofa beside the couch like an old cat.

"I'm not here to comfort you." Chen Siqian opened her mouth and said, "I'm here to tell you the bad news."

"What bad news." Xue Dan couldn't get used to the light, leaned forward and sat on the sofa, squinting his eyes and cheering Granny Chen.

He was in a really bad mood, so he thought maliciously that people will be stubborn when they get old, let alone an old man without a family.He can't blame Chen Po for being too tough, he still has to follow her.

"I detected an abnormal low-temperature frozen layer on the bottom of the sea, but I don't know how deep it is..." Chen Siqian said, "Be prepared, the New World Islands may experience a sudden drop in temperature soon, if the situation worsens , the sea surface temperature of the New World Islands can reach the lowest temperature in the cooling zone during the Great Migration.”

Xue Dan nodded: "I have received news from the side of the cross-current zone that there is a large amount of ice slag on the surface of the corrosive liquid warehouse on the seabed, which should be brought out from the cryogenic layer."

Chen Siqian's two feet were like twig roots, stuck in the slippers: "The cryogenic layer has risen to at least 400 meters above sea level, and our time is running out. What is General Xue's plan?"

Xue Dan briefly explained the verbal agreement with Lucas to Chen Siqian, changed his lukewarm attitude, and said humbly: "As for the thermal insulation building and measures, I still have to leave it to Mrs. Chen."

Chen Siqian didn't even move the wrinkles on her face: "I'm fine, but if you want to snatch someone from death, I'm not enough."

Xue Dan threw a stick: "You mean..."

"Let Lucas come over, I'll work with him." Chen Siqian finally had a slight smile on her lips, "Are you sure you really put him in the south? Let's not worry about it—are you willing to be with him all the time? A Beidi sits in the New World Islands? You are not the left and right gatekeepers, I think your mental state tonight is not quite right."

Although Xue Dan has forgotten who is older between him and Chen Siqian, but at this moment he always feels embarrassed that his elders have seen through his puberty thoughts: "Thank you, Mrs. Chen."

He hurriedly connected with himself over there, regardless of whether the other party was asleep or not, he first passed on what Granny Chen had said.

The bronze message was like a stone sinking into the ocean. I don't know if the other side didn't want to talk to him anymore, or the other side really fell asleep.

Xue Dan thought of something, took out Liu Yuanyuan's fairy tale book from the drawer of the tea table, and handed it to Granny Chen: "Look at this, Liu Yuanyuan—King Erluo once predicted that our way out lies in the snowy land over there." ", when she was alive, she kept this pocket book in her hand every day, and she didn't know what revelation it contained. "

When Granny Chen took the pocket book, she subconsciously straightened her back, looked at her hands left and right, and carefully spread them flat in her palms.

Chen Siqian turned it over carefully from beginning to end with her loose skinned hands, her brows never loosened, and finally she returned the pocket book to Xue Dan, regretting: "After all, I still don't have the wisdom of a king. "

Xue Dan thought, he shouldn't have explained the origin of the book to Chen Po in the first place.He suspected that the three words "King Erluo" made Chen Siqian subconsciously feel that she could not solve the mystery of King Erluo's reading materials.

After Xue Dan sent Chen Siqian away, after much deliberation, she decided to contact Tang Xiaopu and ask him to go out to sea with a copy of the pocket book and focus on exploring the southeast.

The next day, Zhou Yishang told Xue Dan that the future Xue Dan followed Lucas to Nandao Island, and then left.

He explained the whole story to Zhou Yishang, so Zhou Yishang ordered Lucas to be sent to Dawn Island.

Xue Dan went to the city to pick up Lucas' boat.

Without the threat of Iron Man, the city wall at the port of Dawn Island slid to the two sides and overlapped, so Lucas' ship could berth directly on the shore.

He stood at the bow of the ship, took off his light armor, wore a familiar windbreaker and iron boots, jumped from the ladder to the wooden plank, and walked towards Xue Dan.

"Long time no see." Xue Dan couldn't help but said.

"Not long." Lucas patted his side cheek, a little ambiguously.

He loves Lucas who unleashes Iron Man and the shackles of politics.

What Xue Dan didn't expect was that in the following days, Lucas and Chen Siqian really devoted themselves to the construction of thermal insulation measures-the so-called wholeheartedly means that they can't see during the day and can't see at night.

Lucas used all his iron men to quickly implement his and Chen Siqian's designs on the Central Island, Liming Island and South Island.

Since Iron Man inevitably interacted with humans during the construction period, vicious conflicts between Iron Man and humans broke out from time to time. Xue Dan and Zhou Yishang had to travel between the three big islands and became professional firefighters—only "God" can Pull the two sides of the dead hand apart with coercive force.

Halfway through the implementation of Lucas and Chen Siqian's design, the sudden drop in temperature covered the entire New World archipelago without warning.

Xue Dan was "putting out the fire" on the big island in the central part at the time. He watched the joints of countless iron men who were working with iron alloy blocks harden in a few seconds, and then each of them froze in place, unable to move, still choking in anger. The humans rubbed their arms, shouted "Give me back my mother", and knocked Iron Man's head off with an elbow.

Then he came back to his senses in astonishment, took a few steps back in shock, and hid in the crowd of onlookers.

Xue Dan hurriedly asked human beings to help carry these iron men into the insulation shed. The people who were full of resentment just now looked at each other with blank eyes. Finally, someone slowly walked out of the team and poked a hole in his left leg just now. The iron man leaned on his shoulders and walked towards the insulation shed.

The rest followed suit.

The temperature continued to drop after this day, as if the migrants had entered the cooling zone.

Both humans and Iron Man are trapped in the insulation shed, and a fishing team with special shifts is responsible for going out to sea every day.

Two months later, Townshop came back with nothing.Zhou Yishang took his place and continued to explore the sea.

Tomshop returned to Dawn Island.

With a dormant physique, he didn't feel how cold the temperature was. He habitually walked back to his hut on Dawn Island, used the key to unlock, close the door, and turn on the light—the porch light flickered twice, and a burst of sparks burst out ,Went out.

Tang Xiaopu rubbed his hair, took out his slippers in the dark, put them on, walked into the living room, and turned on the headlight in the living room——then the headlight suffered the same tragedy as the porch light.

Tang Xiaopu finally realized that the lights in the house must have failed due to the extremely low temperature. He had nothing to do and tried all the lights on the first floor one by one, and all the lights were broken without exception.

Tang Xiaopu subconsciously and helplessly shouted: "Uncle Nine, are the lights upstairs also broken?"

There was silence in the dark.

He froze for a moment, and suddenly realized that Li Jiu had died on the boat.

Standing in the middle of the empty living room, Townshop belatedly felt a smothered sadness.

Trembling all over, he took two steps in the living room without thinking, trying to grab some straw, walked into the kitchen, picked up and put down the pots that were still on the stove one by one, and then put the cabinet under the stove Also opened and closed one by one, took out the rotten eggs from the refrigerator, and threw them into the more smelly trash can.

People hid in the insulation shed, and no one took care of the house for him.

Tang Xiaopu held the door of the refrigerator, the tears on his face overflowed hot from his eyes, ran coldly across his cheeks, dripped to the ground, and quickly condensed into thin ice.

Huge grief overwhelmed him, and Tonshop leaned his head on the stinky refrigerator door, his arms trembling, and he grasped the moving cabinet door he was leaning against as if drowning, tears pouring out uncontrollably.

Li Jiu is gone, and never will be.

There is only one man named Tang Xiaopu left in this world.

Tang Xiaopu wailed for a few minutes, finally struggled out of his emotions, let go of the refrigerator door, leaned against the refrigerator and sat on the ground, his throat muscles twitched.

He sat silently in the kitchen and the second-story building that were pressed against his body like a box, facing the cabinet door that was higher than his head, his mind was empty.

He took a deep breath, barely propped himself up from the ground, staggered out of the kitchen, and sat on the bench in the living room.

He finally clearly realized that he was different, the other person who accompanied him through countless years of life had left, there was no place in this world where he could relax himself, and there was no place in this world where he could confide without any scruples. people.

Townshop looked out from the glass, and in the dusk, the frost on the ground was still reflecting light.

He despaired of the future of mankind, and he also despaired of his own future.

The author says:

Ah, mother! !

90 - ice sculpture

—even if you die on the road—

The situation is getting worse.

Even if the temperature outside dropped again and again, Tang Xiaopu refused to go to the insulation shed.He knew that he still had to live, so he went out to sea with the fishing team to catch a few nets of live fish from time to time——

The cryogenic layer has not yet risen to the surface of the sea, no matter what big or small fish can only go up, the fishing efficiency is very high - bring it back and throw it into the kitchen.

He was not in the mood to start a fire every day in such a low temperature environment, so he gnawed on raw fish, and went out to fish after gnawing.

"Tang Xiaopu!" Xue Dan called him outside the door.

Tang Xiaopu knew that fresh water was coming, so he got out from the rolls of quilts spread out on the bench, and stepped on his cotton boots to open the door for Xue Dan.

The ground is full of frost.Xue Dan's entire face was covered by a scarf and hat, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and the skin around the eyes was red from the cold.

Wrapped in a heavy cotton coat, he moved a large bucket of fresh water to the carpet at the entrance of the hut: "Aren't you going to the insulation shed today?"

"No." Tang Xiaopu lifted up the collar of his cotton coat and looked at Xue Dan who put down the bucket.

Xue Dan couldn't make any expression, and could only give him a blank look: "Okay, don't look, I know you don't welcome guests, so I'll go." After he finished speaking, he turned around in front of Tang Xiaopu and walked down the stairs .

After walking two steps, Xue Dan suddenly turned around and shouted at Tang Xiaopu: "If you don't go to the insulation shed to keep warm, can you go to the insulation shed to help?"

Without saying a word, Tang Xiaopu immediately pulled the doorknob, ready to close the door.

Xue Dan ran back to the door in two steps, and pressed his thick plush gloves against the door frame: "Xiaotang, you mean that you will be useless from now on, right?"

Tang Xiaopu didn't meet Xue Dan's eyes, he let go of the doorknob speechlessly, and stood inside the door like a hunched art sculpture.

"You fucking come with me." Xue Dan couldn't help but grab Tang Xiaopu's wrist, took off the scarf hanging on the hanger at the door, wrapped it around Tang Xiaopu's neck twice, and pulled him out. "Quickly surround me."

The scarf around Tong Xiaopu's neck was draped like a dead dog, and he was forced to follow his master to move two steps before he was about to slide down.

Tang Xiaopu quickly caught it and fixed it with difficulty while moving: