Quadruple split.

Chapter 2426 Interlude: Veil
"What the hell?!"

Perhaps because happiness came too suddenly, the unprepared Wang Ba was stunned on the spot. It took him half a minute to come back to his senses. He widened his eyes and repeated in a nearly broken voice: "I stay up there? Can I stay up there? I don't have to go down to this damn place to suffer with you guys?"

Mo Tan glared at him, and until Wang Badan half-retracted his head into his shell in embarrassment, he said unhappily, "You can understand it that way."

"What the hell, this is bullshit!"

Wang Badan's face suddenly showed ecstasy, and he said in a shocked voice: "Brother, why are you so well today! Did you eat something wrong? Ah, I know, it must be my sister..."

"It must be me what?"

Ji Xiaoge crossed her arms across her chest, turned her head and gave Wang Badan a warning glance, a hint of murderous intent flashed in her beautiful almond-shaped eyes.

Admittedly, Mo Tan knew very well that this girl was only trying to scare Wang Badan and prevent him from saying anything shameless in advance. But even so, after seeing Ji Xiaoge's cool and sassy pretended anger, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that his online girlfriend was indeed Ji Xiaodao's biological sister. When she pretended to be angry, the low pressure that could scare a bastard to death was exactly the same as Xiaodao's.

"what?"

Ji Xiaoge, who frightened Wang Badan so much that he retracted his head and limbs into his shell, turned to look at Mo Tan and blinked with a smile: "You were scared too?"

Mo Tan shook his head and said with a smile: "Not really, I just haven't seen you like that before, so I was a little surprised."

"What does accident mean?"

The girl flapped her wings and patted Mo Tan's head, pinching the back of his hand covertly: "Like watching? Or still like watching? Are you the type who likes to be bullied? Are you the type who gets very happy when you get beaten?"

Mo Tan burst out laughing and immediately realized that Ji Xiaoge was holding a grudge. Even though the other party was just a Shikigami of Gu Xiaole, this optimistic girl who was usually carefree and could only think in a single thread most of the time was acting uncharacteristically resentful. Her slightly jealous look was indescribably lethal to any normal person.

The good news is that, as everyone knows, Mo Tan is not a normal person.

The bad news is that despite this, he was still hit critically.

"Stop it……"

Mo Tan, whose face was rarely hot, looked away and tried to chant sutras silently in his heart to calm his thoughts. Unfortunately, although this trick worked before, after Ji Xiaoge hit Mo Tan with a straight shot and the two of them established a relationship more than just friends as online lovers, the effect was only a psychological comfort.

"Hehe~"

Because work was about to begin, Ji Xiaoge did not continue to increase his intensity. Instead, after noticing that someone seemed to be a little bit defeated, he raised the corner of his mouth slightly and stood there grinning foolishly.

"I went to see Burge and felt that he was a little nervous."

Feeling that it would be bad if he continued like this, Mo Tan coughed lightly, then ran away from his online love object and walked towards the pile of equipment in the center of the temporary observation point, and towards the Highland boy who was squatting next to the equipment and nervously checking it repeatedly.

“It’s kind of cute.”

Ji Xiaoge covered her mouth and chuckled, then muttered something softly as she watched Mo Tan's running back.

"What nonsense are you talking about, big sister?"

Wang Badan, who had rubbed up to Ji Xiaoge's feet at some point, looked very sneaky. He curled his lips and complained, "Let's be honest. No matter you say that Big Brother is handsome, reliable, warm-hearted, steady, righteous, a scumbag, kind, generous, or good, I have no objection. But cute... can he be as cute as a baby Longlong like me who just hatched less than a year ago?"

"..."

Ji Xiaoge lowered her eyes and looked at the "Dragon Baby" at her feet. The corners of her mouth twitched several times, but she finally chose to remain silent in order to protect the child's self-esteem.

"No, big sister, your reaction is even more hurtful, okay!"

Wang Badan, who knew Mo Tan and Ji Xiaoge quite well to some extent, laughed dryly, then rolled his eyes and lowered his voice to ask the elder sister who was always mean to him but was very easy to talk to: "Well, elder sister, can you tell me secretly what this conspiracy is?"

Ji Xiaoge was stunned for a moment and asked curiously: "Conspiracy? What conspiracy?"

"That's what I left above!"

Wang Badan rubbed his right front leg against the ground with some uneasiness, and said with lingering fear: "I know my elder brother too well. Whenever there is good food, good drinks or beautiful girls, he will definitely not think of me first. Instead, when it comes to suffering and torture, as long as he can grab me, I will definitely not be able to escape. As a result..."

Ji Xiaoge burst out laughing, and said to Wang Badan, who had a look of "you know what I mean", "Even if you don't want to go down there today, when he really lets you stay up there, you little bastard, are you a little panicked?"

Wang Badan, who never showed off in front of Ji Xiaoge and Mo Tan, nodded vigorously and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes! I'm so scared right now, so big sister, please tell me the truth. I know big brother will definitely not really cheat me, but half-death... big brother can't bear it, big sister, can you bear it?"

"Be patient."

Ji Xiaoge answered without hesitation.

"6."

Wang Badan also made a more concise sigh. The reason was very simple. Since his eldest sister said so, the worst-case scenario in his mind, that is, he would not die but would be skinned alive, would most likely not happen.

But even so, Wang Badan still couldn't understand why Mo Tan chose to keep him there.

"that……"

Logically, he should at least wait until everyone comes back before asking a few more questions. Wang Badan, who should have tried his best to stay out of it, somehow asked one more question: "So what exactly is going on?"

"You are quite curious today."

Ji Xiaoge, who thought that the other party would not say any more, looked at Wang Badan with some surprise. After thinking for a while, he told the truth: "It's okay to tell you. The reason why Mo left you on the ground this time is because he thinks the subsequent exploration will be more dangerous."

Wang Badan blinked in confusion and said, "I know that, but even with all the dangerous things that happened before, Big Brother never showed me mercy even once."

"Because the dangers you took before were not life-threatening."

Ji Xiaoge smiled, squatted on the ground to adjust his multifunctional mechanical arm, and shrugged, saying, "But this time is different. Your elder brother had a bad premonition, so he thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to ask Sister Pera to let you, Bilge, Klaus and others stay up there." "Uh..."

After realizing that nothing bad would happen to him even if he stayed, Wang Badan did not feel relieved as he had imagined. Instead, he continued to ask Ji Xiaoge, "What does a bad premonition mean?"

"I do not know either."

Ji Xiaoge skillfully replaced the spare bearings of the robotic arm and said casually, "It's not that Mo didn't want to say it, but he couldn't explain it clearly. In addition, Sister Peixi kept emphasizing from a professional perspective that the subsequent exploration would be very dangerous, so he just made the decision directly."

Wang Badan rolled his eyes and asked, "What about you guys?"

"us?"

Ji Xiaoge turned her head and glanced at Wang Badan, then said with a smile: "Mo and I are from another world. Even if something happens to us accidentally, we won't really die. We are completely different from you, the little bastard who only has one life."

Wang Badan rolled his eyes even more than before: "Then why don't you leave the dog and the old man there too? What, they have nine lives?"

"They won't be willing to stay, and we are your guardians, not theirs."

Ji Xiaoge made a few gestures, causing the robotic arm to eject a mini pile driver, a high-frequency cutting knife, a rune arrow, a mysterious detector, a frying spoon, a kitchen knife, and an egg beater. He smiled and said, "In short, you don't have to worry about being betrayed by your big brother if you stay up there. He really is just thinking about your safety this time."

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Wang Badan looked at the frying pan that popped out from the mechanical arm with lingering fear and said hesitantly: "But didn't you promise Largo and the others to help with all your strength? If I'm not here, my brother..."

"It's true that your elder brother's profession is a 'knight', but it's not like he can't do anything without you as his 'mount'."

After checking the mechanical arm, Ji Xiaoge walked up to Wang Badan, patted his bastard shell, and comforted him: "Don't worry, he told me that although we were not very good back then in Academy City, Mo can now exert most of his strength even without your cooperation, so even if you are not here, it will not have much impact on us."

"That's right, ox-buck."

Wang Badan hummed a few words casually, then lazily lay on the ground, stretched himself out in the sun, closed his eyes and said, "Then I can rest with peace of mind."

"Just rest."

Ji Xiaoge squatted down and poked Wang Badan's forehead, then took out [Gatelin] from her bag and held it in her arms. She stood up and smiled at her little bastard, "Then we will set off first. You stay here and don't cause trouble for Mr. Burge and Mr. Klaus."

"That's hard to say."

Wang Badan replied in his usual frivolous tone, and after Ji Xiaoge turned and walked towards the entrance of the ruins, he looked up and shouted, "Be careful."

"Do not worry!"

Ji Xiaoge waved without looking back, then flapped her wings and flew away.

Wang Badan, on the other hand, remained as half-dead as usual. Apart from a hint of fuck-up in his slightly opened eyes, he looked normal.

……

"It just looks like that."

Ten minutes later, in the transit hall of the ancient ruins [Codename: Purple Night], after listening to Ji Xiaoge's retelling of her previous conversation with Wang Badan, Mo Tan shook his head and chuckled, "But it's okay, that guy is a little too heartless, it's not a bad thing to put a little pressure on him."

Ji Xiaoge scratched her head awkwardly and said, "I really didn't mean to provoke the child..."

"I know you didn't mean that. After all, this is what Wang Badan insisted on asking."

Mo Tan smiled and said soothingly: "Even if you don't tell me, I will tell him the reason later."

The winged girl pouted and seemed to be a little more energetic: "...Oh."

Next to the two of them, Yaya was stuffing the snacks that Gu Xiaole had brought as a gift into her mouth, Jadka was discussing with Lujiang whether life force could be considered an element, and Largo was working with Peschi to verify the functions of the pair of alchemical gadgets on their chests. Everyone looked quite relaxed.

The reason is that every corner of this transit hall has been explored during this period. Not only that, Peschi even built a large-scale signal station here. In simple terms, it can be linked with other equipment deployed by everyone in the ruins, and there is also a relay point with additional bandwidth between the ground observation station.

As mentioned before, not only the transit hall and the observation hall at the back, but also twelve low-risk areas were discovered in succession during these seven days, and they were converted into safe areas in the shortest possible time. Therefore, until entering the area called the "high-risk area" by Peschi, only the most basic vigilance is enough.

"You can chat casually on the way. Try to relax as much as possible without getting distracted. At least don't let yourself be too tense in the known areas. After all, everyone can maintain a high level of concentration for a very limited time. As the aliens say, I hope you can 'use the best steel on the blade'."

These were what Peshi said after everyone entered the ruins again, and everyone followed his instructions and tried not to get overly nervous. Among them, Largo, Peshi, Yaya, Mo Tan, Gu Xiaole and Jadeka were all fine, but Lu Jiang and Ji Xiaoge found it difficult to really relax at first, until Mo Tan and Jadeka chatted with them for a while, and then the lingering tension in their hearts was slightly relieved.

However, because everyone was too familiar with the known area, this period of time that allowed them to relax was not actually very long. In less than a quarter of an hour, everyone stopped in front of a passage that was once blocked by a heavy gate and had now been opened by Pei Xi and Ji Xiaoge.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen."

Standing in front of the dark passage, Peschi introduced without looking back: "As I said last night, according to the structural diagram I saw before, this passage and everything behind it do not exist at the design level. In other words, we are about to officially step into the non-public area of ​​this research facility from the public area.

If we have been fiddling with the veil on the face of a corpse, now is the time to unveil it.

Combined with what I saw and heard in the observation hall before, I believe that what is behind the veil must be extremely evil, extremely terrible and immoral.

Therefore, please be mentally prepared and build up your mental strength to ensure that you will not be affected by subsequent events and die an untimely death.

You have three seconds.

Three, two, one——

Okay, let's go. "

Chapter 2417: The End