Haidu: Top of the Tower

Chapter 32: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
The little luck that Milady managed to earn ended when she was about to touch the small lake.

Fanhua's words that Luo is more likely to be good at stalking people remained in her mind; and when she heard that Luo Zheng was on the same side of the fantasy island as herself, she was even more afraid to take it too seriously.She knew nothing about how to cover up her tracks in the jungle. After thinking about it, Milady simply chose to walk on the beach.

What she walked was not the dry sand, but the far beach that was washed flat and wet by the sea; when she walked, she looked back and noticed that her footprints were smoothed by waves after a while.

Although walking alone among the waves, without shelter, if someone happened to look towards the beach from the island, he would immediately see someone there; Will be seen by her from afar.

Most of the people stayed on the island, and Milady took the beach and walked around the edge of the island, seeing no one along the way, and felt a lot more relaxed.

The white sandy beach is gradually narrowing in front of you, and the black reefs gather the seawater in clusters, forming a series of winding rivers.The blue clam shells pecked by seabirds are densely spread among the reefs, and along with the beach and reefs, they turn to the back of the cliff in front.

It was after turning around the cliff that Milady met Yugan face to face.

And that's not even the worst part.

In addition to a badge on Yugan's shoulder, there is also a mechanism falcon that contains pollution crystals.

At that moment, Milady understood: the mechanism where the building blocks were replaced by pollution crystals was useless to anyone except the Executioner family players, and it was just suitable for the trial competition; not to mention that all the materials were dropped from the air If it comes down, others may still need to look for it. Is Yugan afraid that the organ falcon that can fly to her with a spread of wings will not be able to get it back?
It’s just that she understands it, but it doesn’t help her current situation at all—Mlady took two steps back hastily, never feeling like she was so empty-handed.

She has a unique eye for organs, so Milady is very clear that what she saw in the fourth game is only a small part of the abilities of the organ falcon. Not a single power was exerted.

It's different now.

"Ah, you are not very lucky." Yu Gan said matter-of-factly.

She seemed to have heard footsteps, and just stood up from the beach, her hands and knees were covered with white sand.The organ falcon on her shoulder, like a real big bird, spread its wings slightly as she approached and fluttered a few times, as if maintaining balance.

But Milady knew very well that the Falcon was actually ready to attack.

"Cousin Siyado told me that no matter whether you have a badge or not, you cannot be allowed to continue walking on the island." Yugan said calmly.

When Milady still had the "trick of fate" in her hands, she still had nothing to do with this trick, let alone now?
Milady looked at Yugan, and couldn't think of any idea in her mind for a moment, except for stubborn resistance, she couldn't think of any way to counter the mechanism falcon; but how long could she resist?
"If you don't mind," Yugan asked naturally, pointing to the direction Milady came from, "can you go over there with me before doing anything?"

Milady was taken aback. "why?"

She asked the question, and then remembered to look at the beach behind Yugan.When she poked her head, she was taken aback again—she didn't expect that she would see a seabird lying on the white sand.

"This...is this what you shot down?"

Since Yugan didn't want to do anything here, of course Milady had to stand here for a while longer.

Yugan shrank his neck as if he had been hit.

"No—of course not!" She actually became a little anxious, "When I came, it was lying here."

Milady looked at Yugan a few times, and then at the seabird.

It's strange that Yu Gan is obviously able to attack herself, but she still resists to do it; she doesn't swim around the island like other people, but seems to be sitting on this beach all the time.It's been 10 minutes since the sinking battle, but Yugan doesn't seem to have any progress or changes...

Milady tentatively said, "This is the first orange mouth I saw on the Isle of Fantasy..."

Yugan slightly opened his eyes. "Do you know what kind of bird it is?"

... This matter seems to be quite important to her.

"Orange-billed booby." Milady walked around her slowly, Yugan didn't intend to make a move, but took two steps towards the seabird warily. "I saw it when I was out at sea. It likes to nest in groups. Is it injured?"

As soon as the person approached, the orange mouth immediately flapped its wings uneasily, and its bright red claws scratched the white sand several times, but it still couldn't get up.

"Little poor." Milady squatted down beside it, almost touching the layer of fear floating beside it.

Yugan seemed speechless for a while, but when she finally spoke out, the question was not followed by: "What should I do if I am injured? Are there many other birds like this? Have you ever been out in the sea?"

Since going to the island, the calm and calm Yugan, who lacks emotional ups and downs, seems to have been sitting in a dream, watching scenes of dreams swirling and changing, dazzled.All her facial expressions and reactions can only be explained by a guess.

Milady looked up. "Have you never left Haidu?"

"I... no. This is the first time I've seen trees, land, sea sand and..." Yugan thought for a while, and was not even sure what to say. "nature?"

As she spoke, she knelt down next to the orange-billed booby, and the machine falcon stopped moving.

Compared with the sea capital polluted by crystals, everything on the fantasy island is a brand new, almost fantasy world.

"It's called Orange Mouth?" Yu Gan murmured, "but its feet are red, and its face has blue hair... its body is snow white..."

She almost sounded like she was not convinced by the name and wanted to argue with someone.

Milady smiled.

She felt like she was groping for the stones; there was a way out of this foggy predicament, and she had only to feel for it to break free.

She tentatively asked, "Do you want to help it?"

Yugan stretched out a hand—the hand that was steady and precise when attacking Milady, but now when it touched the orange-billed booby, it was trembling slightly, and he only dared to swim lightly with his fingertips on the edge of the feathers, As if it was frightened. "Can?"

Milady lightly pressed the seabird, opened its wings, and showed Yugan, who couldn't hold back, and took a deep breath.In its wing, a bloody wound was somehow torn out, and its foot was bent in an unnatural direction; for wild animals, after such an injury, there is only a small piece of difficulty But for a short life, he can only struggle day by day, until one day his body loosens and he collapses to the ground.

Yugan panicked even more, and had already forgotten to attack Milady. "How to do?"

"I can only appease it first." Milady looked around, found a sharp stone, grabbed her pants, cut and tore the ground, and tore off the pants at the calf. "Temporarily put it in a hidden and safe place. Further treatment can only wait after the game."

Yugan watched her wrap the seabird in the cloth of the competition suit, and seemed to be in a daze, and at the same time seemed to be crying.

Nor did Milady expect to ask an enemy this question: "Are you all right?"

Yugan lowered his head and took a breath. "I'm fine. It's my first time...it turns out that a real bird is like this. It seems...as if it has me in its body. Isn't this saying weird?"

When she spoke, her fingers rubbed subconsciously, as if she was still feeling the heat of the seabird's body.The organ falcon silently grabbed her shoulder, motionless.

"Is it because it also thinks, is afraid, and has longings and emotions?" Milady asked in a low voice, holding the trembling seabird in her arms but not daring to struggle.

"Maybe." Yu Gan bit her lip and nodded.She would return to the yard by yard, and said very professionally: "You help it, and then we should go to war. This is my task."

... Milady just wanted to give a wry smile.

It seems that Huairou's method won't work, and he still has to fight hard.

If so, come on.

Under Yugan's tight surveillance, she placed Chengzuier under the shelter formed by several reefs, and slowly straightened her waist.

She didn't move in place, but she suddenly leaned over and stretched out her arms. She opened her hand like lightning and grabbed Yugan's arm. With a cry of surprise, she was caught off guard and dragged to the ground.

Yugan tumbled into the sand as the Falcon leaped into the air.

Milady didn't give Yugan a chance to get up again, and immediately rushed forward, pressed her firmly under her body, and punched her in the face——Yugan turned her face away hastily, and she just A piece of white sand was stirred up.As soon as her eyes turned in the sky behind Milady's shoulder, Milady heard the sound of the flapping wings of the Mechanized Falcon approaching.

She knew very well that the only way to minimize the threat of the Falcon was to make it impossible to separate herself from Yugan.

Milady rolled on the spot, but she didn't let go of Yugan's collar, but instead pulled her towards her, simply blocking Yugan into a shield.

As she expected, when she didn't have to worry about the rules, the Mechanized Falcon almost changed into another look.

Even if we narrowly escaped from the attack of the machine falcon's wings, when it slanted past a person, it could suddenly spread out the steel feathers one by one, as if countless thin blades slipped out of the sheath at the same time, about to sink into the person's clothes and skin Even if it is separated at the touch of a finger, when it jumps into the air again, blood spots like bead curtains will scatter on the tips of its wings.

If she hadn't seen the opportunity and entangled Yugan tightly in time, it might have become a one-sided massacre by now.

The mechanism falcon swooped down several times, but had to turn around and rush into the sky again, all because it couldn't find a chance to attack Milady but avoid Yugan; Laidi seized the opportunity, pulled out the metal cylinder containing clear water from the side pocket of her thigh, and hit her stomach with a "dang"—it happened to be the part where she had cut a line with the muff.

The machine falcon didn't seem to have undergone any repairs, and she slammed it hard, and she caught a faint, hallucinatory anxiety again.

But that was obviously not an illusion.

When Milady saw a few blue dots in the corner of her eye, she suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

Yu Gan was taken aback for a moment, as if he just realized that he couldn't listen to her yelling to stop, so he stopped, and turned around to jump up.

"Look!" cried Milady.

Yu Gan stood awkwardly in the sand, misunderstood: "Is it Chengzui?"

"No, look at the sand." Milady's voice was seldom so urgent, she slapped the sand off her body vigorously, and said, "Can't you see what's in the white sand on the beach?"

Yu Gan lowered his head, looked intently, and was speechless.

It is not surprising that there are impurities such as fine gravel and broken shells in the sand, but at this moment, the white sand under their feet is lit up with light blue dots.Under the gloomy sky, those fine blues are almost transparent, only shining in the corner of attention.

"Is this what fell out of my mechanism?" Yu Gan bent down in a daze, and was about to reach out, but stopped again. "No...not..."

"They were originally white sands." Milady said, "We all know what's in your institution. Do you think that Haidu is what it is now at the beginning, where no grass grows and nothing grows? No matter what Whether it's Haidu, or these white sands, the reason why it became like this is because of that thing in your agency."

Yu Gan seemed to be having trouble digesting the news. "Just for a while... the sand just, crystallized?"

"Are you going to let the crystal pollution spread to this island?" Milady asked. "The finely divided sand is the most suitable natural medium for spreading pollution. Look, how far has it spread?"

Yugan looked around.Around them, bits and pieces of light blue gently scattered in the sand.The seabirds among the reefs suddenly trembled, and then became quiet again.

"Put it away," Milady ordered.

Yugan raised his head.

"Put your mechanism away before that seabird turns into crystal."

"But..." Yugan bit his lips, and after a while he said, "You wish I could put the mechanism away. As soon as I put it away, you will come up and grab my badge."

nonsense.

"I can't let you take it away." Yugan's whole body was like a taut string, "Cousin finally came to this point...I can't let him fail because of me."

"Which step is it?" Milady sneered, "The step of spreading pollution?"

Yugan clenched his fists, glanced at the orange-billed booby, and then at the sand at his feet. "I... I didn't know crystal contamination could spread so fast. But..."

She finally made a move—but it wasn't retracting the organ falcon.

The organ falcons surrounded her, flying in a circle, protecting the people in the circle, and retreating step by step.

"I can't let you take away the badge, and I... I don't want to fight with you anymore." Yugan said hoarsely, "I, can I not go to see Orange Mouth? Don't come here, I—— I just want to go."

How could Milady let her go?There is only one way for her to sink Siyado, and that is to take Yugan's emblem.

However, she did not expect that even though Yugan lost his fighting spirit, he escaped extremely fast. He manipulated the machine falcon to force Milady back several times, stepped on the muddy ground, turned around and ran away; Before he even had time to free his hand, Yugan had already disappeared far into the dense forest on the island.Seeing that there was no hope of catching up with her, when she stopped, the organ falcon also glided, and then sank into the forest.

The chance to sink Xiyado just slipped away from her fingertips.

But at least...at least she knew a little about the enemy.

Milady's exhaustion surged up all at once, and she fell down on the white sand, and it took a long time to realize that she could not stay where she was.After this battle, she needed a mechanism even more urgently; she decided to take a little risk and continue walking towards the small lake while no one came to find her.

This time she didn't dare to walk on the beach again, thinking she had put enough distance away from Luo Geng, she tried her best to pass through the trees and bushes as lightly as possible.She found the direction very accurately, and after a few minutes, she saw the iron gray lake under the lead gray cloud.From a distance, the black shadow floating in the center of the lake is even clearer: it looks flat, and slowly undulates with the waves of the lake blown by the wind.

The air condensed heavily and wetly, sticking to the skin.

Milady waited quietly in the forest for a while, and seeing that there seemed to be no one around, she slowly emerged from the forest.She rushed out towards the lake, stepped on a smooth arc, and plunged into the cold lake water from the high lake shore, with a "plop", a white wave was stirred up.

She is very good at water, and soon she swam to the black shadow, and then she saw clearly: the committee probably also worried that the things dropped would sink to the bottom of the lake, and this mechanism was tied to a canvas air cushion.

She clung to the air cushion, and with a little effort, she untied the mechanism; the air cushion was accidentally pulled open by her, and quickly collapsed into a piece of dejected cloth. She rolled it up and stuffed it into her trouser pocket inside.

Into the water, should be all right?
Milady was floating in the middle of the lake, and when the wind blew, her skin immediately trembled and covered with goose bumps.She has always been able to hold her breath, so she simply submerged in the water with the mechanism in her arms, and swam all the way to the shore of the lake.

When she touched the shore of the lake and reappeared her head, she just wiped the water off her face when she suddenly stopped.

Overhead, there was the rustle of cloth rubbing against each other, and the sound of footsteps on grass blades.

Taking advantage of the cover of the lake shore, Milady tightly shrank herself under the lake shore and sank into the water, only half of her face was exposed.

"When you met Milady, did she come in this direction?" said a calm voice, as if every word were the smooth turning of metal cogs.

Her breathing froze for a moment.

It's Siyado.

Yu Gan softly answered "Yes".

Hearing the sound, Siyado seemed to be looking around. "Why is she here?"

This is a question that Yugan can't answer, and Xiyado doesn't seem to want her to answer it.

"Since you came to the island, why have you become more and more fascinated? You clearly saw her, and you still have a trap in your hand. How could you let her escape? You also lost the malt you were asked to find."

Yu Gan didn't seem to dare to tell the truth.Although Siyado's voice was not harsh, Milady seemed to be able to feel Yugan's shame while soaking in the water.She had nothing to answer, so she mumbled a few words before saying, "I... can our agency be used here?"

Xiyado paused. "Why not?"

His tone was flat, but it was as if a whip had been whipped out of the air, and Yugan let out a half-choked sound from his throat. "I just... just to make sure."

She avoided answering, and Xiyado didn't say anything more, just ordered: "Keep wearing your badge, and try to attract her. I won't go with you in the future, lest she worry about the two-on-one The situation does not dare to take the lead."

If it hadn't been for Milady who remained motionless all the time, it was almost doubtful that he was describing himself now.Fortunately, today is gloomy as if a storm is about to come, and the lake is undulating, so that there will be no ripples that spread slowly after swimming-otherwise Xiyado will know that she is nearby as soon as he sees the lake.

"When you meet her, just whistle and I'll be there."

Yugan seemed to hesitate for a while before carefully asking: "Why...why did she have the guts to attack our executioner?"

Xiyado snorted coolly from his nose.

"A week ago, someone reported something to the Haidu Commander. The next day, the factory of our processing agency was sealed... They didn't find the crystals, but they detected very faint crystals in the air Qi content. If the trial family wants to attack us, we will not be able to produce a patriarch this year, which is the most ideal start."

"Yes, who reported it?"

"I don't know." Siyado's voice was a bit gloomy like the sky, "It is said that a child first attracted the commander's attention... We are still looking for the man behind him."

Child?It was the first time for Milady to hear the details of Lu Ranzhou's message, but she did not expect to hear it from Xiyado.

"It won't be..." Yugan obviously thought of the fight with Milady. "Isn't it Milady?"

"She didn't have that chance," Siyado said.

After a few seconds, he denied himself again: "No, no one can be ruled out until the facts are known. One thing is for sure, Milady and the committee have gotten into each other... Amelia, her face doesn't move , secretly moving faster than anyone else, must have made some promise to her."

Could it be that not long after the start of the game, Siyado disappeared for a while and went after Amelia?
Outside the dark green forest, there is a cloudy gray sea, and a long wind blows.Between the clattering of branches and leaves and the sound of sea waves, Xi Yadu said with dry lips and teeth clearly: "That's fine. They were eager to attack us, but they didn't expect that they pushed Luo Geng to Here we come."

Yu Gan asked suspiciously: "Luo Geng? Does he dare to fight against the Judgment Family?"

"I didn't dare at first. But the commander was too suspicious...he suspected that we helped Luo Geng because the tower had something to do with us in private." Xiyado smiled plainly and said, "But I The purpose of defending Luo Geng in this game is indeed to tie the Gaota family to our ship, and the commander really believed it. In addition, I also implicated Miledy and Amelia. Tell Luo Geng... Now that he knows that he has been abandoned by the Judgment Family, why doesn't he form an alliance with us?"

(End of this chapter)