Haidu: Top of the Tower

Chapter 15 Music Changes Fate
When Milady was six or seven years old, like many children, she was led by her mother to dance the petal dance.

Open your arms, turn around, and take a step forward... When there are celebrations or festivals, the children imitate wild flowers blooming one after another in spring, stretching the petals and spreading them on the hillside and grass; They jumped one after another on the streets of Haidu, half dancing and half playing, the laughter is still clear when I think about it.

Just 10 minutes ago, Milady saw Petal Dance again.But this time the dancer is a small mechanism in the novelty zoo, only her knees are high.

Even its dance steps were exactly the same as she remembered, opening the metal petals, circling, taking a step forward... When it was interrupted and resumed, it would start all over again.

"That is to say, after knowing its position, by interrupting and repeatedly making it dance from the beginning, it can make it move in the established direction."

Milady explained in a low voice, holding the "Communication Musician" tightly in her hand. "I know how to use music to activate that organ... not only it, but most of the organs in the zoo, I have figured it out."

Fortunately, the rope net was not far from the "Novelty Zoo". At this moment, the man in the old robe was gone, and the music was playing on the wild grass again. The voices of people were all silent, and Milady could successfully control it without being disturbed. organ.

Spraying anesthesia gas on people in mid-air is not an easy task; the circus seems to be planning to save them for last disposal. At this time, the barrel of anesthesia gas is traveling from tent to tent, and this gap is their only chance to save themselves .

The biggest problem is the circus people who keep watching them from under the rope net.Just now when he turned his eyes occasionally, everyone finally passed the "communication musician" to Milady. She held the music mechanism in her hand, but she couldn't find a chance to act.

"I'm here to cover for you," Lu Ranzhou thought for a while, and said, "I have a way, I don't know how long it will earn you."

As soon as the words fell, he suddenly called "Hello" downward.

"Brother, you are also looking for money. You have no grudges or grievances. Everyone understands. Why don't you see, let's buy ourselves with money, okay?"

The man was taken aback, probably he had never seen such a fool. "Oh? How do you buy it?"

"We have precious organs on our bodies, and we are willing to exchange them for freedom, even if it takes only one person away." Lu Ranzhou winked at Milady and said, "I'll show you a demonstration, wait a minute! "

That's it - Milady immediately opened "Communication Musician".

The musical notes manipulated by her flowed into the night with intermittent and wonderful patterns, and when the wind blew, they scattered and scattered on the ground.In the half-bright light, the "Novelty Zoo" really had a movement - one of the many silent organs lit up, turned around, and stirred up the darkness around it.

Sure enough, the dance organization responded!

She stopped the music, squinted her eyes, and identified the organs around it for a while.

"Show me what?" cried the man below.

Milady said hastily, "I made a mistake, it wasn't this one. Wait, I'll come again."

The man looked behind him, as if to make sure that no one noticed this corner.Lu Ranzhou's idea is really tricky, he certainly doesn't want to let go of the opportunity of eating two fish for one fish, and earning more money from Piggy.

The second time, Milady stared at the meticulously dancing little mechanism, followed its direction, turned off the music and started again from time to time, so that the dancing mechanism restarted, turned, moved forward, and retreated... She was a little clumsy at the beginning , but quickly mastered the trick, repeated several times, the dancing mechanism was almost at the destination, the person under the rope net also became suspicious, and asked repeatedly: "What are you doing? Just show me this playing music?"

Another minute, no, half a minute, and Milady will be able to proceed to the next step.

She simply gritted her teeth and continued to play the music. The person under the rope yelled twice and stood up abruptly.

Lu Ranzhou was also in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted: "Brother, it seems that we got confused when we went out and took the wrong mechanism. Look, will this work?"

"It's just an exchange musician, and you want to pay for your life?" The man sneered, "Your lives are cheap enough?"

"It contains the unpublished works of musical genius Shi Lan..."

While Lu Ranzhou was talking nonsense, the dancing mechanism finally arrived at its destination.When the music stopped, it paused and folded its petals; as the music started again, it opened its petals again—Milady couldn't hear the slight click when it collided with other organs, but she knew that it must It worked.

Because from the side of the dancing mechanism, a pair of small green eyes immediately lit up on a chubby mechanism.

Next, it's time to take a risk.

"Captain, let me ask you something." Milady raised her voice, and her voice echoed far away: "What is four plus one?"

Lu Ranzhou was also staring at the movement in the zoo at this time, his eyes lit up when he heard this. "Well, five tails did open," he whispered, "but what's the use of that?"

Milady did not answer, but asked loudly again: "What is five minus five?"

Not far away, the small mechanism with a pair of green eyes immediately retracted all five tails.

"What the hell are you doing?" The attention of the man under the rope net was attracted by the two of them, and he never expected that there was a silent change happening in the zoo not far behind him.He was suspicious and puzzled, and quickly became angry: "If you don't shut up and be honest, I will be rude!"

"I'm sorry, buddy," Lu Ranzhou said, "Our crew, although she looks good, is actually a bit stupid..."

"What's two plus three?" Milady yelled again when they were talking, and then said in a low voice, "Do you think the captain won't be kicked?"

"I think you guys are going to play tricks on purpose." The more the person below didn't understand, the more angry he became: "Don't think I can't do anything about you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned and walked towards a pile of miscellaneous boxes next to him.When Milady shouted again, "What is five minus five?", several other crew members on the rope net stared at the man, and whispered, "He seems to be holding something!"

"He's blocking it, I can't see it, what about you?"

Milady had no time to see him now; her whole attention was in the zoo.

After opening and retracting the tail of the small mechanism twice, just as she thought, another mechanism behind it slowly stood up.

When the five tails open and close, some of them can pass in front of this young hippopotamus; and it is one of the few organs in the zoo that can be activated by gestures.

Milady was very impressed with it.If she hadn't been able to hide quickly at that time, I'm afraid that there were not only wounds drawn by "teeth" on her hands, but two rows of deep blood holes-there are many traps in the zoo that are cute on the surface but not low in attack power .If she had stayed in the zoo for 5 more minutes just now, she would have been besieged by the attack agency instead of being hung on the rope net.

At this time, the young hippopotamus looked around, as if he was not sure why he woke up.

At this moment, an angry shout sounded from below.

"Aren't you trying to mess around?"

The man stood on the grass, raised a long bow gun, put its back seat on his shoulder, aimed the gun at the people on the rope net, and said: "Don't think that there is no anesthetic gas, I can't do anything with you. It doesn't matter to me if I put a few holes on your legs, the big deal is to give you a discount when you sell them."

Everyone on the rope net suddenly fell silent.

"Everyone, don't be afraid, and don't move." When Lu Ranzhou spoke, his voice was extremely low and calm. "The barrel of anesthesia gas has passed through all the tents, and it will be our turn soon. At this time, if he can not damage the goods, he will not damage the goods. Milady?"

Others could not move, but Milady could not.

"I'm just a little bit closer," she replied in a low voice.When Lu Ranzhou spoke just now, her fingers were flying, and within a few seconds, the "communication musician" was quickly taken apart by her. "When I was at the zoo, I discovered that the core material used by the hippopotamus was the same as that used by the exchange musicians. I thought this principle was very interesting..."

"Hey you!"

The man under the rope net yelled suddenly, turned the muzzle of the long-bow gun, and aimed at Milady. "You have been dishonest since just now, what are you doing? Why do you always look at that side? Throw down that music mechanism for me, or I will shoot!"

Among the people on the rope net, someone let out a low moan from his throat.Everyone knew that what Milady was doing now was their only hope of escape. "What should I do?" Someone whispered, "Is it really necessary to..."

Milady looked at the mechanism in her hand, and then at the dark muzzle of the gun below, and was so unwilling that she almost froze for a moment.

When the man was still pointing the gun at her and took two steps back slowly, Lu Ranzhou immediately urged: "Milady, throw it down!"

She clenched her cheeks with her teeth, really unwilling to give up halfway.The man seemed to be particularly worried about her, and there was a light "click" from the far bow gun; at this moment, Milady couldn't be reconciled, and hurriedly shouted: "I'll throw it away, please don't shoot !"

Milady lifted the Communication Musician, and at the last chance, poked her fingers inside it before slamming it to the ground; she hit it right, and it landed beside the nearest mast. .

After the trap landed, the man still cautiously monitored the people on the rope net for a while.

He was very careful, as if he was afraid that the "communication musician" would be a trap. He stayed away from it and did not approach it. He only said loudly to everyone on the rope: "From now on, whoever moves or holds something , I’ll shoot at anyone immediately!”

The crew member who took out the knife and hid it in the palm of his hand swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Under the man's unblinking stare, Milady could not turn her head to look at the zoo.She couldn't control the mechanism with her own hands, and she couldn't see the situation. She didn't even know whether the baby hippopotamus had reacted or not. She had no other choice but to wait anxiously.

"That's about the same." Seeing that everyone was honest, the man muttered.He turned his head and shouted at his accomplice not far away: "Is the anesthesia still gone? The piggies on my side are making a lot of noise!"

"I'm coming,"

The two masked men carried the barrel and walked towards the rope net, saying, "You have a lot of piglets here...you have all the bow guns ready? What about the broken pipe?"

"On the body," the man patted himself on the waist.

Milady suddenly realized.

As the name suggests, the rupture tube will rupture as soon as it touches the target, and it has almost no harm to the human body.But it has this feature for the convenience of filling various liquids, gases or toxins into the rupture tube, and controlling the target from a distance-there is no better target than tightly bound piggies.

"What should I do?" Some crew members panicked, "They are coming soon!"

"Listen to me," Dao Mingke said in a deep voice, "when the broken tube flies over, we will try to blow it away with all our strength!"

"Stop kidding," said the other, almost crying, "I can't even see clearly..."

Although there was obviously no wind, at this moment, Milady suddenly felt the rope net sway slightly in mid-air.

Shocked, she quickly lowered her head to look, her heart pounding for joy.

"What?" "What's going on?"

The other crew members also felt the shaking from the mast, and someone asked in a low voice, "What is that black shadow underneath?"

It's a hippopotamus, Milady couldn't help but smile.It's finally here.

"Don't make a sound, give me the knife," she looked at the shadows below who rushed towards the mast again and again, and shouted in a low voice: "Or you can give it to the captain, the two of us will go down first soon!"

The mast was hit repeatedly, and the rope nets swayed more and more violently, as if a gust of wind was trying to push them down, shaking people's hearts as if they were going to slip out of their mouths.Everyone knew that the critical moment was coming, and they must not attract the attention of the circus personnel. They each gritted their teeth, resisting the feeling of being crumbling, turned around, pulled the rope net, and handed over the knife.

"I got it," Lu Ranzhou flashed the knife in his hand, and asked softly, "What's the matter with the mechanism underneath?"

When the young Hippo came under the mast, it was close enough that Milady could hold it. "It uses the same material as the communicative musician. I made some tricks on the communicative musician. The hippopotamus is attracted by the entanglement characteristics at the particle level of the material, and it really runs towards it. If the hippopotamus is also a musical organ , would start copying music, but it's not. It's a mechanism that mimics a hippopotamus, and its building blocks determine that it can do nothing else but open its mouth like a hippopotamus to bite a person—or, say, a mast. "

Seeing that the timing was almost the same, she hurriedly ordered: "Captain, start cutting the rope!"

The place where Lu Ranzhou cut the knife first was the rope connecting him with another crew member.

When Milady saw it, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.It seems that Lu Ranzhou not only fully understood her intention, but also foresaw what was about to happen - every cut he made at this moment was calculated.

She raised her head, and the few people in the distance were still gathered together, injecting anesthetic gas into the ruptured tube; she lowered her head, and the young hippo mechanism was attacking the bottom of the mast one by one.

Its metal teeth were like small machetes, and when it gnawed at the wood, it made a muffled but clear sound in the night—the few people quickly raised their heads and looked around.

"What sound?" asked a masked figure.

The man carrying the longbow gun turned around, his eyes fell on the rope net, and he was taken aback for a moment. "Why is it shaking so much, and there's no wind—eh? What's that under the mast?"

He reacted quickly, and as soon as he understood, he ran towards the rope net and shouted as he ran, "It's going to fall! The mast is going to fall, come and help!"

But he was too late.

With a "creaking" sound, the piece of rope net hanging on Milady fell down together with the mast; the ground quickly fell in front of her.

The rope nets were attached to four masts, and the one near Milady was quickly bitten off in half by the hippopotamus.Half of the ankles are broken, and where it can stand upright again, it will naturally fall down with the rope net on its body; however, the other three masts are still intact, and they will hold it by the tight rope net, Therefore, even if the ankle is broken, it will only tilt outward at an angle, which is still not enough for Milady and Lu Ranzhou to jump off safely.

But the place where Lu Ranzhou cut the knife just now was very clever. It happened to cut off part of the rope used to "pull" the damaged mast on the other three masts. This time, the mast didn't stop until the rope net was only two or three meters above the ground. Seeing that something was wrong, the man with the longbow immediately aimed his gun at the two of Milady, and shouted: "Don't move, or I will shoot!"

"Obviously he's from the circus," Lu Ranzhou muttered, "but there's nothing new in his mouth...he's not entertaining at all."

"Why don't you go quickly?" Milady glanced at him dumbfounded.

"Then," Lu Ranzhou called out, turning a blind eye to the black muzzle of the gun in front of him, and threw the knife to Milady.

As soon as Milady grabbed the handle of the knife, Lu Ranzhou fell to the ground, and the man suddenly shot a long arrow, three things happened almost at the same time.

The cold light of the long arrow pierced the night sky, and with a sharp sound of air tearing, it brushed past Lu Ranzhou's back; he landed on the ground with a "boom", rolled and jumped up again, Like another long arrow, it flew straight at the circus man—he didn't forget to say "it hurts" when his feet hit the ground.

How he brought down the circus man with his bare hands didn't worry Milady.

When the other two people wearing masks realized something was wrong and rushed towards Lu Ranzhou shouting, she also quickly cut the rope on her body; when she fell to the ground, her swollen and numb legs were shocked by the shock , I almost lost my footing, not to mention, it really hurts.

Milady rushed to the hippopotamus, bent down and patted it, and turned to the other three masts.

Now that she is back on the ground, she can see clearly: the roots of these masts are equipped with "joints" that allow them to rise and fall on the ground; presumably there is a control device nearby that allows the crew to be carried safely Put it back on the ground.

When Dao Mingke saw that the captain was the first to start the battle, he hung in the air impatiently, and urged repeatedly: "Hurry up, you are always very neat, hurry up, the captain will not be able to hold on!"

"I can hold you until you dry!" Not far away, Lu Ranzhou took time out of his busy schedule to curse.

"Stop shouting, save your energy and fight!" Milady shouted, punching a disc.

Except for the damaged one, the other three masts began to lower towards the ground; compared with the speed with which they were erected, it was really sweating.

Before Milady reached the rope net and cut the rope, a large group of members holding weapons and shouting rushed out from all over the circus. The target was Lu Ranzhou who was fighting with three people at the same time.

"Hey, I really can't hold it anymore," Lu Ranzhou yelled, "Isn't it alright?"

"I've sent you a helper," said Milady, seizing the rope and beginning to cut, crying, "Watch your step!"

"Why are the feet..."

Before Lu Ranzhou finished speaking, he suddenly realized and rushed to the side.The baby hippopotamus suddenly rushed past him, turned around, and hit a man's calf bone with its hard metal body; at the same time, it stretched its head forward, and bit deeply into another man's thigh.

The screams suddenly shook the night.

Ever since she first learned the "Hundred Birds Morning Calling Technique", Milady is now very proficient and proficient at controlling multiple organs at the same time, let alone just manipulating the organs to fight while rescuing her companions?
She only took a few glances occasionally, and used the young hippo to block Lu Ranzhou's attacks several times; Dao Mingke, who was first placed on the ground by her, was like a tiger that had been hungry for a long time, with thumping steps. Noisily rushed into the battle group.

After Milady let everyone down from the rope net, she didn't rush to help.

The young hippopotamus sprinted left and right in the battle, its destructive power was amazing, and it bought a lot of breathing space for the crew of the Night Castle for a while; she took this opportunity, found a few weapons, and rushed into the novelty zoo—— —After a while, four animal organs came out one after another from the door.

Milady even wanted to laugh a little when two circus members spotted a lonely woman here and strode towards her.

"Now, it's the Night Castle's turn to perform for you," she murmured to herself as she looked at the two circus members approaching her.

(End of this chapter)