Boundary Convention

The sea is not an unfamiliar thing to the wasteland. He once narrowly escaped death in the icy sea, and he will never forget that feeling in his life. The cold, damp, choking and bitter salt water. Before that, he had no knowledge about the ocean. other memories.

I remember that in the Age of Sails, a celebrity said that if he could choose to go to sea or be thrown into prison, he would choose to go to prison without hesitation. At that time, people probably couldn't imagine what a sea prison was like.

But the wasteland is very curious. If this person is allowed to choose to be thrown into a sea prison or go to sea in a submarine, what choice will this person make?

I don't know how many days have passed since I escaped from the ruins of the eternal undead. After staying in the dark for such a long time in this small submarine, the wasteland has completely lost the concept of time.

But here, his actions are completely based on waking up, or being woken up by someone, as if he has returned to the life of following the rules in the library, which makes him start to have some conflicts in his heart.

"The submarine bed is so small."

He looked at the ceiling and said to the person in his lower bunk.

In recent days, he often chooses trivial and trivial things to initiate topics.

"uh-huh?"

Normally, with Mo Xiao's character, he would probably ignore such meaningless gossip, but it's different now.

Because she was equally boring at this time.

"I think I'm short enough... I still can't straighten my legs when I sleep here."

"Be content, some people are still sleeping in the aisle." Mo Xiao sighed.

"Okay, I just want to say that it's a bit uncomfortable for me to fall asleep like this. What position do you sleep in at night? I see that you snore so loudly at night, you must have slept soundly."

"You heard it wrong, that's the sound of the submarine engine, I don't know how to snore, sir."

"All right…"

In the past few days, their communication has been carried out on the bed, Huangyuan didn't want to ask Mo Xiao any questions, so he had to talk about these things.

However, it's strange to say that there is one thing in the wasteland that I don't quite understand. Why did Mo You arrange Mo Xiao and him in the same cabin? Although Mo Xiao didn't seem to care about it, it was a little inconvenient according to common sense, even though he always regarded Mo Xiao as a man.

Sometimes at night when he heard some murmurs or ravings coming from Mo Xiao's mouth, Huangyuan would have a strange feeling on the bed, like rapid heartbeat and adrenaline rush. He didn't know what it was like, maybe it was because The pressure of the deep sea made him uncomfortable, but... it wasn't great anyway. Although in this big iron cylinder, the sleep time is almost unlimited, but Huang Yuan still feels that his sleep has been seriously affected. This embarrassment gradually weakened as he was in the same room with Mo Xiao, but Huang Yuan still wanted to return to land as soon as possible.

"Speaking of which, Director, where are we going now? The residence of the eternal undead has been destroyed. Are there any bases of the eternal undead in other places?" Huang Yuan asked.

"God knows."

"Are you going to Iceland?"

"Any comments?"

"No... I'll just say it casually... Is there anything we need to deal with?"

"God knows."

"Director, I know your secret."

"Oh, did that unknown creature tell you? It seems that it's better to get rid of the strange things that can be hidden in the brain as soon as possible."

"Why don't you seem to have a strong feeling about this matter, did she tell you too?"

"No, if you want to hear it, I'll tell you. I thought about it a few days ago and kept hiding it from you. You will treat me as a bad person. If you are in danger, it is only right for you to sell me. "

"No, I will never treat you as a bad person, nor will I betray my friends."

"Wasteland, have you ever been to a casino? It's the kind of place where you can have all kinds of gambling."

"Director, have you forgotten that I lost my memory? I don't even remember going there."

"It's true, the gamblers in the casino have many gamblers with each other, and everyone is friends in private, but after they get to the gambling table, except for those who play tricks, the rest are fighting on their own. If you want to win money in your own pocket, do you think they are still friends?"

"I think it should be okay, after all, gambling is just a part of their lives."

"That's a real money game. If your friend wins you tens of millions, I can't imagine that you can buy him a cup of coffee afterwards. I can't do it anyway. In my opinion, a friend like this Relationships, which need to be adaptable, are the product of specific scenarios. Today you say that I am your friend, but tomorrow we have to die together, probably not. So whether you are a friend depends on what kind of things your friend encounters. Like, like that experiment, you have to open the box to know if the cat is dead or alive."

"If that's the case, maybe only family love is the strongest in the world?"

"Heh, did that unknown creature tell you that I died once?" Mo Xiao said, and suddenly kicked the upper bed board with his foot.

"No, I only know that the professor's father died, and the professor held a state funeral for him. Director, you really didn't lie to me. It's unimaginable that the professor has such power."

"So that's the case. That guy kept the rest of the matter silent. He has ulterior motives. He is really a disgusting alien monkey."

"Director, what do you mean you died once?"

After listening, Mo Xiao sat up from the bed, got up and took out a photo from the coat on the hanger and handed it to Huang Yuan.

"This is, this is you, Director..." Huang Yuan took the photo, on which was Mo Xiao lying on the glacier, and a huge ice thorn was inserted into her chest, and the blood had already solidified, Mo Xiao was covered with Already frozen and his pupils dilated, Huang Yuan carefully looked at the surrounding environment, it should be an ice cave.

"Four years ago, I went to Iceland to investigate. On the way, I was inexplicably pushed into the ice cave by unknown people, and then everything you saw."

"Judging from this photo alone, you, the director at the time, were already dying."

"No, it's already dead. I didn't see who took the photo for me, but after a little thought, I know that it was the person who chased and killed me. I guess he took the photo and recorded it and took it back for business."

"Who did it, GST Group?"

"At first I thought the same way. The professor and I were both fugitives and had been hunted down for many years. But when I calmed down, I felt that this was not the case. If it was really someone from the coalition government or the GST, they would definitely arrest him. To live, because it doesn't make any sense for them to die, let alone to push me down."

"It's really puzzling, this method is too..."

"Too childish, isn't it?" Mo Xiao laughed.

"Yes, if you really want to kill people in such a deserted place, you can just shoot them. Then, who saved you, Director?"

"A cloud of black mist, wearing the clothes of the eternal undead, how about it, have you figured out something?"

"Black Mist... Eternal Undead... It was a person with decomposition disease who saved you, but why did he meet you? Could it be that he has been following you? This is too coincidental."

"Yeah, and this man also told me a lot, including the murderer of my mother, I learned a lot about my mother from him, my mother's name is Lanna Ginsberg, a A Jewish energy economist, my father is a Chinese, but before my mother gave birth to me, he died of illness and was buried in Iceland." Mo Xiao said with a sigh.

After listening to Huang Yuan, he had a decision in his mind. It seemed that Mo Xiao had known about the scientific research accident for a long time, but in his opinion, the professor could not be simply attributed to the murderer. After all, in his eyes, there were many more Doubtful.

"Director, your life is really miserable, and the world is really unfair."

"No, I don't think so. There are many people in the world who are more miserable than me. Fate has always been unfair to human beings. Everyone who is born into this world has different chips in their hands. Some people Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, some people are born in extremely poor families, some people are born healthy and strong, some people are born disabled, but God makes these people play on a gaming table, how can this be scientifically How about the theorems and the rules of the universe to explain? Maybe the universe has its own laws, but fate does not, how absurd it is, but fortunately, I am only 22 years old, and I will find the answer."

After listening to Huang Yuan, he felt very heavy. He wanted to change the topic, but then he thought about what Mo Xiao said, and what is his fate? If he loses his memory, he will live again.

"Director, so do you know who killed you?"

"Heh, the person who saved me also lied to me. Fortunately, its lies are too false to stand up to scrutiny."

"Could it be..."

"I have always regarded her as my own sister."

After saying this, Mo Xiao fell silent.

From under Huang Yuan's bed, came the sound of Mo Xiao tossing and turning on the bed, it seemed that she was going to sleep again.

Wasteland took out the stone he picked up from the Eternal Dead from his pocket, and started playing with it. He looked at the stone and suddenly had the urge to throw it into the sea. The function of this stone has not been used in the wasteland until now. Figure it out, the only thing I know is that this stone has a power that ordinary people can't understand. He touched the edge of the stone lightly with his thumb, then drew back.

Many functions of this stone are not yet clear. He probably knows that the irregular shape does not seem to be meaningless, and it can trigger different functions by crossing a specific area. When I was in the library, the professor always said that people should have a thirst for knowledge and a search heart. Wasteland has never taken this seriously. It was not until he picked up this stone that he wanted to figure out something for the first time in his life. He wanted to know the secret here, and his intuition told him that Shi Shi had a deep connection with Mo Xiao.

In fact, when he first entered the submarine, he showed this stone to Mo Xiao, but Mo Xiao showed an incomprehensible...indifference, or disgust? And asked Huang Yuan not to bring such disgusting things in front of her again. In the past, Mo Xiao should have maintained a kind of curiosity about most strange and strange things... She would even pick up centipedes that she had never seen before with great interest to check the information and record them.

"Tick tock."

"Tick tock."

The alarm in the cabin suddenly sounded.

"Ahem, Fang Yuan, grind your feet, come to the podium quickly and report. Repeat, Fang Yuan, grind your feet..."

It was Mo You who uttered such vague words.

Getting down the ladder from the double bed was a real hassle.

Especially when he would hit the ceiling as long as he raised his head a little, he was almost half stuck getting out of the bed.

After waking Mo Xiao up, and then carefully crossing over the eternal undead sleeping in the aisle like an obstacle course, they arrived at the podium about twenty minutes after the broadcast.

"It's too late, guys."

She turned from the captain's position and looked at Huang Yuan and Mo Xiao.

Wilderness spent a lot of effort not to show the slightest smile when facing her gaze.

On her small neck, there was a big head...to be precise, it was a gas mask.

Within two days of entering the submarine, she complained that the recirculating air in the ship smelled bad, so she put on such a gas mask. It's just that this gas mask seemed too big for her, so she had to shake her head from time to time to avoid being caught by gravity. This shaking head, looks a bit pantomime style.

But everyone didn't seem to notice this smell. Even if it did, this submarine was not an antique from the early 21st century. It had an efficient air purification system, so Mo You probably just wanted to be funny.

"I beat you to death. I'm going to ask you guys about the wood floor."

Since the gas mask didn't fit well, her voice appeared to be a little slurred after being inside the mask several times.

"You mean... the destination?"

"It's plain, wedge it here..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Mo Xiao, who was standing beside the wilderness, suddenly strode up without warning, and grabbed the gas mask of the wrong size from her head.

Grabbing and cursing.

"Speak well! Take it down for me."

"Hey...! Give it back to me!"

Mo You reached out to grab it, but staggered and almost fell, Mo Xiao lifted the gas mask high above his head. No matter how Mo You jumped up on tiptoe, even the tip of his middle finger touched the mask.

"Hey! Tang Ren!"

After several minutes of fruitless fighting with her dear sister, she finally remembered that she had a great bodyguard by her side.

"What are you still looking at?! She robbed me!"

She ordered in the tone of a child complaining to a parent. It was rare for Tang Ren to respond after three or four seconds after hearing the order, as if he was fascinated by something just now.

And during the few seconds when he was in a daze, Huangyuan seemed to show a certain expression of relief when he saw this tough guy with a cold face who was used to being expressionless.

"Please return the mask to me, Miss Mo Xiao."

Tang Ren bowed to Mo Xiao, and then stretched out his hand respectfully.

Seeing this, Mo Xiao shrugged and handed the mask to Tang Ren, but Tang Ren didn't seem to want to take the mask to Mo You. He ignored Mo You's hand reaching out to him, and put the mask on his arm without a word, like a waiter holding a bottle of expensive red wine.

"Miss, it's time to change the canister for this mask."

he replied gracefully.

Mo You glared at him, and then she didn't intend to ask him for a mask, but obediently returned to her captain's seat. In fact, she did not need to wear a mask now, but she didn't want to feel like she was being fooled by Mo Xiao.

"So, let's get down to business. I called you this time to ask you what suggestions you have for the next destination."

"Destination... haven't we decided on a destination yet?"

Wilderness scratched his head.

"Didn't you decide to go to Iceland? Then what are we floating on the sea these days?"

"Stop talking nonsense, whatever I ask, you will answer."

"You can ask me..."

Suddenly, Mo Xiao interjected.

"Why did you call this idiot here?"

She pointed to the wilderness around her.

"Like me and this guy would be on the same level."

"Brainstorming, it's just brainstorming. Although you and him are indeed not on the same level, but the so-called fool who thinks a lot will gain something, so the idea of ​​​​a fool is still valuable."

Speaking of this, Mo You showed a meaningful smile.

For some reason, this smile seemed to irritate Mo Xiao to some extent, but she showed her annoyance again, so she had to turn her head and turn her face to the side.

"whatever."

"So, tell me next, where do you think we should go next?"

"If you want to choose, it is definitely better to go to a place where the coalition government has weak control."

Although Mo Xiao turned her head away, she still answered Mo You's question first.

"The farther away from New Milan, the better. It is best to go to places with a large number of illegal areas and gray industries. First, we can get enough resources by relying on the local black market. Second, we can also avoid the coalition government. Fast track, I personally think Navi Mumbai is a good place to go, it has the largest underworld in the world now, or go to New Budapest, where the catastrophe epidemic is very serious, there I think I can get more catastrophe samples. "

Mo You didn't show much interest in Mo Xiao's long list of opinions.

She yawned and turned her gaze to the wasteland.

"how about you?"

"Me? My words... I think I should go to the ice..."

Before he finished speaking, Mo Xiao stepped on him suddenly, but this kick came a bit late, and it still didn't stop him from speaking.

"...Shima. Hey, why did you step on me all of a sudden, Director?"

This answer made Mo You's eyes light up. She put on that intriguing smile again.

"To Iceland? Why? What is your reason?"

"There is no basis...just..."

"You know, Iceland has a scientific research base that was left a long time ago."

"No, I do not know."

The silly boy told the truth without any scruples, but Mo You didn't pay attention to him, but went on talking endlessly.

"There are complete scientific research equipment and materials there. It is said that because the evacuation was too hasty, many other materials were left behind. It is a perfect base, but the reason why I chose to go to Iceland is not just for this reason."

"Any other reasons?"

Moor asked.

"I got a revelation. When I slept in the past few days, I could always feel that God was calling me. She was asking me to go to Iceland and do something for her."

"absurd."

Mo Xiao murmured.

This did not escape Mo You's ears.

"You may say that my idealistic speech just now is absurd, but in fact, during this period of time, our submarine captured a strange signal, which was conveyed through a way we could not understand. We bring news."

"So, what is written in Morse code?"

"Let's go to Iceland. The sonar direction is also from Iceland. So many clues are asking us to go to Iceland. Why should we refuse?"

Mo You smiled.

"Of course, in fact, we are already on our way to Iceland. No one can stop me. There is everything hidden there, everything I need, and secrets about the entire GST and even the coalition government. We will definitely go there in the end. Iceland, where we will find our destiny."

The more she spoke, the louder her voice became, and her speech became more and more contagious. At first she was just talking to Huang Yuan and Mo Xiao, but gradually, the conversation turned into a speech.

And gradually infected some other unimportant undead on the podium.

They suddenly started cheering and applauding, as if they had forgotten what kind of loss and blow they had suffered just now. For a moment, the entire podium was full of voices.

"Then why do you ask, I hate it there."

Mo Xiao retorted in a very small voice. She hugged her shoulders, as if she reacted to the word 'ice' in Iceland and felt cold.

But in the sudden frenzy, no one noticed her trivial rebuttal.

Only the wilderness hugged her silently.

"Director, are you cold?"

"Um."

When I arrived in Iceland, it was already about a month later.

They floated to the surface, and the moment they reached the land, the undead who had been suffocating in the small cans for a long time rushed down to the shore, and then did some incomprehensible behaviors towards the land, such as eating Dirt or something.

Wasteland was not in a hurry to leave, he stayed in the small room, waiting for everyone to go down, and then went down by himself.

If you go down early, firstly, it will be very crowded, and secondly, you will probably be yelled at to carry supplies.

"Aren't you going down, Director."

he asked.

Mo Xiao slept on the bed, motionless, as if the matter of arriving in Iceland had nothing to do with her.

Maybe she was mad at him because Iceland was discovered first on the horizon, the wilderness.

That was the first time Wasteland was looking through a submarine's periscope.

He vaguely remembered that the first time he saw a periscope was probably in a certain episode of the cartoon. At that time, he wanted to look through the periscope no matter what, so he asked Mo You for help. But he obviously didn't know that when asking someone to do something, he couldn't show his eagerness and desire too much.

Therefore, he was teased by Mo You for a long time, and paid an unbearable price and criticism for ordinary people—for example, he served Mo You as a chair for 40 minutes, and then he got the qualification to use the periscope to look outside.

Looking outside through a periscope, it's boring.

There is nothing but water, and more water.

Being in the middle of the sea, this seems to be a very normal thing. Fortunately, he went to look for Mo You as soon as the lights were turned on in the ship, so he caught up with the dawn, and the dazzling light on the sea horizon was reflected in the blue , The beautiful colors make up for the boring sea surface, just like a paintbrush leaves a picture on a white paper.

worth it.

Just when he was still indulging in the spectacular beauty of the dawn, there was a small black dot along with the slowly rising sun. It's like rising from the sea. And as they moved forward, the dot grew bigger and bigger.

It wasn't until the end that Huangyuan suddenly discovered that it was actually an island.

In the age of sail, the watchman on the ship would shout 'Land! ’, and the wasteland announced his discovery to the people present in the same way.

Then, the people drove the big boat all the way to this barren island, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

"That...even if I don't find out, I think we can't escape going to the island, right?"

Wilderness scratched his head.

"Because Mo You decided to go to Iceland from the very beginning."

"I know."

Mo Xiao who was sleeping on the bed suddenly answered.

"You go first, I'll be down in a while."

"Um."

The wilderness nodded and walked out of the room.

Coming out of the submarine, he breathed the fresh salty wind for a long time, and let the sea salt air fill his lungs. He felt that his atrophied muscles due to excessive laziness had become much better.

He didn't know how to describe his feeling here, was it strange or familiar?

It was like a place where I had been in a dream.

Not just the long dream, but other dreams...

Yes, the place where he and the woman in the painting often meet seems to be such a place, with monotonous colors and barrenness.

He was all the more convinced of this when he set foot on Icelandic soil, as if he had often met people here.

But no matter what he thinks, at least in the eyes of others, this is a paradise for the time being.

The gate of the dead who escaped from the submarine either lay down on the ground or knelt down on the ground, forming an absurd scene. In the eyes of the wasteland, these people also gradually lost their color, and the surrounding bleakness Colors blend together. Walking among these people, the wilderness feels the huge difference between itself and these people.

He didn't know where the difference came from, but it made him panic, even a little lonely.

"Rake?"

While thinking, he seemed to see Lake's shadow.

After escaping from the eternal undead, he had no news of Lake.

As the first friend he met in the Eternal Dead, he still cared more about Lake.

But that shadow just passed away in a flash, like a flash of lightning, or an illusion reflected by the pupils.

Nothing at all.

He sighed.

If only Rick was still here.

While thinking like this, he didn't notice that a mass of black mud-like thing quietly retracted behind the distant rock...

"Who's there?"

The action of the black mud was silent. But Huangyuan still noticed something behind the stone. He didn't know what senses he used to detect the sound behind the stone, but he didn't care about it, just like people don't care about breathing.

So he walked cautiously towards the stone.

"Rake?"

he asked as he moved forward.

To be honest, he felt that the chances of Lake being here were very low, even impossible, but he still asked subconsciously. Just as he was slowly approaching the stone, a short figure stepped out from behind the stone.

This short figure has human features, but it is obviously not human. He has an indescribable body that seems to be emitting black light, as if it is a primate body made of spherical and conical shapes. The outlines around him seem shapeless, like sketched lines in hand-drawn animation that change with each frame.

In people's eyes, this is definitely an alien.

But for some reason, Huang Yuan didn't feel the so-called hostility from him, nor did he feel a sense of strangeness. Instead, he felt a sense of kindness and familiarity.

The wilderness stepped forward, wanting to take a closer look at this simple yet profound creature.

But the little black man stretched out his palm to this move.

Stop, if you think about it with the logic of ordinary people, stretching out your palm to the person who is advancing obviously means this.

So the wilderness stopped.

At this time, the shape of the little black man began to change, its body began to split, and then turned into a grid, and the arrangement of the grid was uneven, and the lines were also of different thicknesses. The most important thing was this strange grid. It's constantly changing.

"This is..." Huang Yuan looked at the strange scene in front of him, and quickly took out a pen to draw on the paper,

Following the change of the little black man, Huangyuan drew dozens of pictures in a row, each of which had some slight gaps, while some showed great changes.

"Hey, Wasteland! What are you doing over there?" Mo Xiao's voice came from not far away.

Suddenly, as if being scattered by these words, the little black man suddenly turned into a lump of shapeless black mud, and quickly disappeared into the crevices of the beach.

"Oh, oh...I'll be right there!" Huang Yuan glanced at the beach again, quickly packed up the paintings, and ran towards the goods piled up beside the submarine.

"What are you doing in such a panic, hand over what you're holding." Mo Xiao obviously noticed something strange about the wilderness. And Huang Yuan didn't want to hide it, because the things he drew were really hard for him to understand.

"Uh, it's nothing, just...hey! Don't snatch it!" Huang Yuan was still hesitating, but Mo Xiao snatched the painting in his pocket.

"Who gave this to you? Tell me the truth, or I'll throw you into the sea right now. I'm serious." Mo Xiao's eyes suddenly showed a fierce look.

"I, I don't know, but I won't lie to you, there was a strange person just now, no, it was not a person, it told me, what the hell is this thing? It looks like..." Huang Yuan replied.

"The blueprint, this is the blueprint for the design of the tunnel experiment back then. It was designed by the professor himself. It is the key to another world. Only her and I have seen it in the whole world." Mo Xiao stared at the drawing in his hand and said, " Looks like someone is already on the move."