Haidu: Top of the Tower

Chapter 27
When "hiding" was no longer an option, Milady's situation became really serious.

She couldn't believe it, the hands on the clock column had only moved for a total of 6 minutes.

The escape of the past 6 minutes was so long that it was almost an endless torture: she jumped off the bone beam, she ran wildly between the triangular pavilions, she was chased and ran all over the hall... until later, every time Dodging, running and jumping seemed to be the last time she could do it.

However, the next time, she still somehow forced herself to squeeze the strength out of her trembling muscles, and continued to run, evade, and roll... She even took the opportunity to fight back, and once almost caught Nava's score card .

Seeing the danger of the prey, Luo Geng's urgency turned into caution, and his bloodthirsty turned into anxiety; the group of them did not dare to push too hard.

From the initial siege to the later having to take turns to rest, their gasps were not at all lighter than Milady's.The three of them maintained a moderate distance, and slowly turned around with her; the main force chasing Milady had already become the "Hui" shaped mechanism.Although it was heavy on its feet and not as agile as a human being, it was tireless and could force Milady to keep running until her physical strength collapsed.

As for the other players in the hall, it seems that they have already transferred the scores that should have been transferred, and I don't know where they all hid.

It's so ironic... Haidu's audience is the only force that makes the committee have scruples and dare not directly sentence her out of the game, but now it has become a loudspeaker to inform Luo Geng of her position all the time.

As long as Milady is in the hall, she cannot escape the sight of the audience; the more those kind-hearted Haidu people see that she is in critical condition, the less they dare to move their eyes away, and the tighter they stare, the more Luo follows her. It's easier for her.

Milady doesn't even believe that this kind of resolutely secretive, quiet and suffocating style is not from Siyado's handwriting.

"I don't know whether to say that this girl is too stupid or too resilient,"

When Milady ran towards the facility area of ​​the hall again, she vaguely heard a loud voice saying, "The communication hall is so big, she has run back and forth a few times? Why doesn't she use the mechanism?"

She can't use the mechanism, at least not yet.

In the past sixteen minutes, in order to give herself a chance to use the mechanism, Milady had to go back and forth in the hall again and again—Rogen and the others followed too closely, many times, what did she do? Can't do it either.

There was only one way she could think of to get out of the desperate situation she was in: go to the exit point.

It wasn't the first time she'd rushed to the exit point, either.

The staff members who exited the table, when they saw Milady and the huge mechanism behind her rumbling towards him for the first time, stood up nervously; after Milady ran around him a few times, he now He just raised his eyes, then continued to lower his eyelids and manicure.

This time he didn't notice that when Milady rushed past him, she left something behind the seat.

If Lu Ranzhou could see that thing, he would probably have smiled—after all, it was the mechanism that the few of them gathered together to collect materials and mechanism diagrams when they were on the Night Castle.

After some pursuit just now, Milady has already noticed that Luo Geng and others will not approach the staff unless necessary; most importantly, since the exit point is the wall of the hall, there are very few spectators who saw her leaving things. It won't be exposed to Luo Geng through sight—if it's hidden anywhere else, it's hard to say.

As soon as the thing was put down, Milady's heart also let go halfway.

She was so tired that she couldn't even control the weight of her steps, but she turned in time and rushed from under the "arm" of the mechanism to the supply booth area.The applause from the audience was broken by her footsteps like waves; their gazes gathered behind her again like waves.

Although they were all cheering for her, maybe in everyone's eyes, she was dying, right?

Milady plunged into the supply booth area and went straight to booth No.15.She ran for a full 6 minutes, until just now, finally found the pavilion, found the materials used with the mechanism, and a way to free her from the audience's sight.

Several brass spheres the size of human heads, usually used as mechanism rollers, were sitting on the table as replacement parts that no one needed.

Looking back, Milady found that the "Hui" shaped mechanism also walked into the pavilion, quickly picked up one, and hurriedly stuffed two balls into the backpack, walked out a few steps, and shouted loudly: " I'm here!"

The "Hui" shaped organ slowly raised its vertical head.

"You are all optimistic!"

Milady picked up a metal ball and lifted it high above her head.The eyes of the whole hall were all focused on her hand; the skylight falling from the lintel window softly bloomed a layer of white reflection on the metal ball.

She raised her index finger and tapped the ring lightly on the ball.

The next moment, from the other side of the hall, in the shadows that no one noticed, a mechanism woke up.

It is only half a person tall, and it is hidden behind the staff. Milady can't actually see it; but she seems to be able to clearly feel every stretch, connection, and breath of it... Its movements are smooth and smooth, slowly Opened, it turned into a cane-shaped mechanism half the height of a person.

At the same time, the tall "Hui" shaped organ was rushing towards her with strides, and the floor trembled slightly with its footsteps.

Go ahead.

With all her strength, Milady threw the metal ball forward.

Before the audience was puzzled, the metal ball violated the parabola, rolling straight and heavily through the air——the "Hui"-shaped mechanism hurriedly lowered itself, and the metal ball brushed against it And pass.

If Milady was able to throw the ball so far, it was already incredible, what happened next was even more incredible: the metal ball did not lose its momentum, but instead accelerated halfway, as if it had been equipped with an engine and wrapped in a whirr The sound of the wind continued to fly to the other end of the hall - the staff member stopped manicuring his nails and jumped up and ran.

When the metal ball was about to hit the exit point, the white light on the top of the cane shone slightly, and the metal ball seemed to loosen its strength suddenly, and fell to the ground from mid-air with a "bang", and rolled out clattering.

Before the audience in the hall understood what was going on, the second and third ones arrived one after another.

Each one rushed to the "Hui" shaped mechanism first, and after it dodged repeatedly, it flew straight to the exit point.The staff member stood far away, staring at the balls falling one after another in front of the table, but did not touch the edge of the table. He simply didn't know what expression to make.

The heavy sound kept echoing in the hall, attracting everyone's attention; when people turned their heads, they found that Milady was gone.

"What about her?"

"what happened?"

Amidst the doubts and discussions buzzing in the hall, Milady at this moment was like a string that had been plucked, her muscles trembling uncontrollably.

She put everything on it, time, physical strength, and the mechanism she left alone outside... Finally, in exchange for such a little bit of time to get rid of Luo Geng and be able to breathe.

"Milady!" Luo was the first person to understand, his roar echoed in the hall, "Come out!"

Milady quickly tapped the ring on her hand.

Inspired by her experience in the circus, she used materials that could respond to most organs at the particle level, combined with the transformation of several classic manipulation mechanism techniques, to create the cane-shaped mechanism.It has no attack ability by itself, but when facing other organs and materials, it looks like a "remote control machine", and it is a "remote control machine" that can be remotely controlled.

Lu Ranzhou named it "The Tease of Fate".

Knowing that she was always in full view, Milady knew that she could not bring out the "trick of fate"; otherwise, once the audience became familiar with its characteristics, it would not be distracted.

But if you can't take it out, you can only be chased. Those sixteen minutes of experience still make Milady tremble.

Maybe they can't find it?
The next moment, her fluke suddenly sank.

"Brother Luo Geng," Nava yelled, "There's a mechanism here!"

Seeing that if she persisted for a while, Milady's physical strength would be exhausted, but she suddenly disappeared; without the guidance of the audience's eyes, finding her became a matter of danger.Luo Geng's anxiety and anger at this time were clearly heard in his voice: "Milady, you seem to have forgotten something."

Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of "Dang", which made Milady twitch.

The mechanism she has always cherished and cherished is now slammed to the ground by Luo Geng, making her heart tremble.

But after it is closed and folded, it shouldn't be affected too much——

Before I finished thinking about it, there were several crashing sounds in the hall one after another, accompanied by Luo Geng's low and vague cursing.He must have been venting his anger on it, and Milady could almost hear which was a kick and which was a smash.

"Come here," Luo Geng's voice suddenly became clearer, and he said to the other person, "You have great strength, try to break it."

Milady's internal organs tightened, squeezing out every trace of breath.

Once the "tease of fate" meets Li Wei's power, it might be like a branch...

As if it was a completely subconscious decision, she immediately tapped the ring.

"Eh?" Li Wei said distantly, "Why—"

Unable to hold the organ in her hand, Milady could only use the basic function and summoned the nearby organs with the highest intensity.

"The trick of fate" has high requirements on the target, too light, too heavy or too small, otherwise she really hopes to use it to catch the score card; when Nava suddenly exclaimed in a low voice, Milady felt that "the trick of fate" "It seemed to be entangled with something - soon, she had an answer.

"My ribbon," Nava yelled, "don't smash it, it's wrapped with mine!"

It turns out that the flexible mechanism like a long snake is called a ribbon?It just happened to be a suitable target.

In any case, Milady's internal organs finally loosened up again, and she was able to catch her breath.

Whether it's her, or her mechanism, it seems that they have to work with all their strength, and they earn it in one second, and they don't know where they will be in the next second.

"Okay, don't waste time on this thing, how many times can she repeat the same trick?" Maybe it took too long for the two to dismantle the mechanism, after waiting for a while, Luo Geng shouted anxiously. "Li Wei, come here!"

Milady immediately pricked up her ears.

But she heard nothing.In the hall where the sound is very easy to reverberate, Luo Geng must have lowered his voice; there was a lot of discussion in the auditorium, only the voices of Luo Geng and others were absent.

How to do?
No matter how anxious Milady was, she didn't dare to show her face casually, so she had to rest while waiting, paying attention to the movement outside; when Luo Geng and the others decided to start searching for her, it was time for her to wait for an opportunity to fight back.

Unexpectedly, when a figure finally covered the floor tiles, Milady found that the person who came was not anyone from the Gaota family.

"You're here," Patriarch Mengsheng stepped into the stone arch and said familiarly, "I just said, it seems that I saw you coming in this direction just now."

Milady got up from the ground in a jerk, and was momentarily stunned speechless.

She didn't expect that the first person she saw was the patriarch Mengsheng who had long been left behind by her.

Not to mention her, the audience obviously didn't care about these patriarchs who were destined to win. He swaggered through the hall without much reaction from outside.

"You won't take my score card, right?" Patriarch Mengsheng seemed to be alerted suddenly, and stopped at the door; there were three cards hanging from his round waist. "Don't do it, I'm here to find you."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Look, I've collected 5 points, and I'll qualify in [-] minutes." The patriarch Mengsheng pointed to his waist, and said, "After people in our family put the score cards together, we found that there are too many score cards. piece."

Milady straightened up slowly.

"I and another clansman can both qualify, it's useless to add this one." The patriarch Mengsheng said, "So I thought of you."

"You want to give it to me? Why?" asked Milady.

"Why don't you give it?" He asked seriously, "What's the use of it if I want it? But it's different if I give it to you. If you really succeed in becoming the patriarch of the tower, this score card will be considered as my investment, and I will give it to you." As long as the Gaota family has a business route in return, it is enough. If you don’t succeed, ha, then you have to promise me that you must make that boy Luo Geng feel very uncomfortable.”

Clan Chief Mengsheng seemed to be the same as Milady, remembering the scene of being dragged into the stone corridor, he felt vaguely angry. "Taros doesn't know how to teach his son, so I will teach him a lesson."

Milediwan did not expect that her subconscious extra-hand arrangement in "Kidnapping the King" would have such a consequence in the most critical game. "I'm very grateful," she replied after deliberation, "It's just that I got an extra piece, so I can't hit Luo Geng... I have to take the score card from Gaota's house to prevent Luo Geng from qualifying."

The patriarch Mengsheng waved his hand. "For such a big event, you have to be prepared to be safe. What if you don't get the score card? You have to make sure you qualify first. After you have three cards, how do you like to win them? That's yours." I don't care about things, I'm watching the show. But you have to think clearly, I'm afraid the only chance I can give you the score card is right now."

"What?" asked Milady at once, "what's going on outside?"

"Luo Geng and the others got together, I don't know what to discuss." The patriarch Mengsheng curled his lips and said, "If you want to go out, you can only go now. The man with the score card on his body, I asked him to stay in the No. [-] supply booth." Waiting."

If she can be sure of qualifying, it means that this game that was designed as a mousetrap by the committee and Xiyado was finally brought back a little bit by her.

"Okay, I'll take the score card." Milady gritted her teeth and made up her mind. "But I can't get out."

"Are you worried about the audience outside?" The patriarch Mengsheng had a rough appearance, but his thoughts were quick. "Well...how about I ask my nephew to go to the other end to make some noise..."

He can use many people, so it is not difficult to attract the audience's attention.The two had a brief discussion. The patriarch Mengsheng was optimistic about the time and was about to leave when Milady suddenly asked, "How is my organization?"

"It's very miserable, all the scratches are scars," said the patriarch Mengsheng, "The little girl is holding it, her mechanism is wrapped around your hand stick, and you can't take it off."

Milady has never let go of her "calling", and the entanglement that responds from the particle level is naturally not easy to unravel.

"Are they still on the other side of the exit point?" Milady just rushed into the stone gate closest to the Triangle Pavilion, half a hall away from the exit point.

The patriarch Mengsheng nodded.

After he left, Milady frowned and pondered for a while; soon, a loud bang came as promised, which made her slightly startled.She probed quietly and found that even a piece of the stairs had collapsed, screams intertwined with figures, smoke and dust billowed up, and she couldn't see anything clearly for a while; supply kiosk.

Sure enough, there was a Mengshengjia contestant standing in the booth, still playing with things on the table. When Milady appeared, he was startled, and put the mechanism in his hand back on the table—it was a goddess-like mechanism , with the Arcana movement wrapped around his arms, as if he could reenact the legendary ritual of the goddess summoning the waves of life.Most of what the committee offers is crap, and this one is more fun than useful.

Seeing that there were really only the two of them inside and outside the triangular pavilion, Milady went in.

"That's the brand," contestant Mengshengjia seemed to be afraid of being discovered, and immediately turned away from her, and whispered, "You pretend to snatch it while I'm not paying attention..."

He raised his arm slightly, showing the white score board beside him.

Milady, who was walking towards him step by step, felt that time seemed to be disturbed by the wobbly score board.

Everything happened softly and quietly: she approached the table and put her hand on the Dreamborn's waist.

The Goddess Statue raises the Arcana movement between her arms.

Milady's hand was only halfway along.

The Arcana stretched out and slid onto the score card on Milady's waist.

At the moment when the score card around her waist tightened slightly, as if being caught by something, Ming Wu illuminated her mind—the trap.

Milady didn't know how she finished her thinking and made a decision in that fraction of a second.

Any other reaction at this time will cause her to lose a score card, and there is only one way for her.

Milady didn't even roll her eyes, letting the statue of the goddess grab her score card and yank it heavily; at the same time, her hand suddenly accelerated, like a goshawk plunging down into the sky, and the Dreamborn tribe took a step back. Before that, he firmly grasped his belt.

Milady's scoreboard and the Mengsheng tribe's scoreboard were released from the buckle almost at the same time.

Only then did the Dreamborn Clan utter an exclamation, and staggered away in a hurry; when Milady turned her head, she saw the statue of the goddess flying straight back; from outside the two triangular pavilions, Nava He jumped down from the bone beam and grabbed the statue of the goddess.

As soon as Milady got the score card that originally belonged to her, she threw away the statue; Nava was still holding the "Trick of Fate" in her left hand, and the ribbon mechanism was tightly wrapped around her cane like a ring snake.

"Why do you—" Nava glanced at the score card in Milady's hand, with a look of surprise on her face.

At the moment when she really wanted to see her, all the restlessness and tension... on the contrary, it left Milady cleanly like an ebbing tide.The world seems to have become a chessboard, and when she lands on this square, she naturally knows what the opponent's next move is.

Was Xiyado intervening again?
Only the executioner's family can get the patriarch Mengsheng, who is really angry with Luo Geng, to agree to participate.The patriarch Mengsheng lured her into the trap, and Luo Geng and others must be nearby.

"Shh," Milady said softly to Nava, "don't bark."

As she spoke, she tapped the ring on her finger.Like a dead snake, the ribbon organ suddenly loosened and slipped off the cane. Nawa was startled, and she reached out to grab her own organ in a hurry.

At that instant, Milady had thrown herself out.

She has only one goal: a trick of fate.

But Nava was different. At the same time, she wanted to catch the ribbon trap and also wanted to dodge Milady, her hands were still occupied by the hand stick and the score card she had just won, and even her feet were too tight. It was just standing still; in the brief confusion, it was not until Milady pulled the cane away that Nava screamed, remembering to call someone: "Brother Luo Geng!"

Milady seemed not to hear. The "Trick of Fate" had finally returned to her hands, and even though, as the Mengsheng patriarch said, it was bruised - it was finally back, and it still worked.

With a wave of it, the Ribbon Mechanism obediently obeyed her call, flashed past Nawa's feet like a snake, and swam away quickly.At the same time, a two-person mechanism also rushed out of the nearby triangular pavilion; among them, the figure with the golden red hair was especially fiery and desperate, desperate.

"Want the ribbon back?"

Milady didn't even look at the ambush coming, she stared at Nava and said, "Grab it, before I maneuver it into the wall."

Nava immediately understood that Milady was trying to lure her away—but she had no time to say anything, and rushed out after the ribbon.

Only then did Milady feel a stream of cold sweat running down her back.When someone came rushing from the corner of her eye, she hurriedly pulled over the table and stopped him, then fixed her eyes and found that she was surrounded: Luo Geng, Li Wei, and the "Hui"-shaped organ.

Amidst the strong emotions about to swallow his prey, Luo Geng is bright and vigorous at the moment, wherever his gaze turns, it seems that there is a raging fire.

He took a look at "Trick of Fate", realized that Milady still had a score card in his hand, suddenly frowned, and his excitement faded a bit: "You...are you not fooled?"

"No, Nava stole my badge," Milady said quickly, "I got this one from the Dreamborn people. I'm disappointed, I still have forty points."

Luo Geng was taken aback—clearly, a cloud of doubt quickly enveloped his face.

Milady continued: "I thought the three of you were going to encircle me, but you want her to withdraw?"

"Exit?" Li Wei turned her head in a murmur, and seemed to see Nawa's shadow, and immediately opened her eyes. "Why is she running towards the exit point... Nava, come back!"

But at the moment, in the hall, it seemed that everyone was talking, and confusion and discussion rumbled into chaos under the dome.Once you run far away, where can you still hear it?
Nava has [-] points in her body, but she didn't join forces with Milady as planned, but rushed to the exit point by herself; in addition, the Gaota family already had a lesson from Milady, so a heavy shadow could be seen - Luo Geng's Suspicion was provoked so much that even Milady couldn't care less, and ordered Li Wei to say, "Go and stop her!"

Li Wei didn't have a single score card on her body, and Milady was a hard nut to crack.If Nava really quit, and Luo Geng didn't grab Milady's score card, then he would lose both ends; how could he take such a risk?
"But..." Li Wei cast a glance at Milady.

"Go!"

When Li Wei ran away, Milady, who had been prepared for a long time, turned around, almost stuck to him, and jumped out from the opened gap.

Once again, she found a hair-thin ray of light from the desperate situation.

Luo Geng and the organ followed closely, but Milady knew that his current position was in a mess.

When she turned her head halfway and suddenly pounced on Luo Geng, Luo Geng was startled, as if he hadn't expected the prey to bite back; Laidi rushed straight towards Nawa and the two of them.

Milady turned to the back of the mechanism, but the mechanism didn't react any further, because its owner had already focused on another person.

"Brother Luo Geng?" Nava seemed surprised: "Why did you come out?"

"The same thing, I would like to ask you," Luo Geng said gravely, "Where are you going?"

"No, it's my ribbon..." Nava looked up, only to find that the ribbon organ was lying limp on the ground not far away.

Luo lowered his head and swept away from Nawa, and smiled. "Already have the score cards on your body?"

Nawa finally realized something was wrong belatedly. "No, because I..."

"If you're not distracted, just raise your hand, I'm going to get the score card." Luo Geng interrupted her and ordered defensively.

He was really careful enough, thinking that when he was approaching the opponent, the opponent might come to grab his score card.

"Hey, okay, okay," Nava raised her arms as if realizing the danger, and said, "I really didn't mean that, brother Luo Geng..."

At that moment, the ribbon in the distance suddenly raised its head like a real snake.

Luo Geng's energy was focused on Nawa, but Li Wei was the first to react.When the ribbon suddenly rushed straight at him from behind Luo Geng, Li Wei broke out and knocked Luo Geng away with his shoulder, and fell to the ground together; Luo Geng's score card fell to the ground with a clatter The voice was crisp and loud for a while.

At this moment, Milady jumped out like an albatross flying across the sea; instead of jumping at the pale-faced Luo Geng, she ruthlessly pulled an albatross from Nava's waist. score board.

Sixty!

Milady succeeded in the blow, her heart beating like a drum, and she rushed towards the exit point.

At this time, beside the exit point, there were several people standing around without incident, all of them seemed unwilling to step into the troubled waters of Gaota's house, and they were about to qualify as soon as the time came.The Mengsheng patriarch who tricked her into the set had just registered and quit, and there was no score card around his waist; when he heard footsteps behind him, he turned his head, and his face turned pale immediately, and he retreated to the side while shouting upstairs Said: "She, she is here!"

Who is he talking to?

Milady looked up following the gaze of the patriarch Mengsheng, and saw Siyado who was dressed in gray and black on the second floor.

Xiyado didn't look at her, but nodded to the other side of the hall.

...as if giving orders.

Milady took the time to turn her head to look, just in time to see a black-haired girl turning her gaze towards her, and immediately after that, she ran after her.

(End of this chapter)