Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Chapter 41 Dao Fan Tian Gang
At 11 a.m., Lin Xian returned home with two small handbags. These were Children's Day gifts he had bought for Yan Qiaoqiao and Zhao Yingjun. Although it seemed a little strange to give Zhao Yingjun, who was already at this age, a Children's Day gift, it was actually just using the holiday as an excuse, taking the opportunity to give Zhao Yingjun a gift while giving one to Yan Qiaoqiao. The relationship between him and Zhao Yingjun was indeed a little subtle!
Zhao Yingjun was always very grateful to Lin Xian, feeling that she owed him a lot. But from Lin Xian's perspective, he felt that he owed Zhao Yingjun a lot!
Both sides felt they owed the other. Who knew who was profiting from this money and sentiment? After a simple lunch, Lin Xian looked at the clock in the living room: 11:47. It was time to prepare for sleep! After all, tomorrow was Children's Day, and he would be going to Disneyland with Yan Qiaoqiao and Zhao Yingjun, so he wouldn't have the chance to enter his dream.
"Cherish this complete day!..." There were still 37 days until July 7th. "If I can clear the dream earlier and answer the Genius Club test questions correctly, maybe I can resolve the decapitation crisis two days earlier!" Lin Xian washed up and lay in bed! Entering his dream!
"Aww!" Big Face Cat let out a howl as he was whipped, a howl that echoed through the entire summer! August 28, 2624, noon. The sunlight shone down, and every black slave's skin was covered in a layer of sweat, like smooth, shiny eggs! Lin Xian had already called Big Face Cat and Gao Wen to a corner where the overseer couldn't see them and explained everything!
"I understand!"
Gao Wen summarized, "You mean that if we want to get back my memory notebook, we can't rely on the brute force of just a few of us, even with that enhanced blue-eyed girl you call 'Terminator'! Because the Lynx Tribe has a lot of guns, and we have no advantage in a direct confrontation. Even that blue-eyed girl can't withstand so many bullets!"
"So, the best option right now is to first borrow the blue-eyed girl's power to escape from the Lynx Tribe's control! Then go to the Grizzly Bear Tribe to find the Turing computer and communicate with the Turing computer, 'father and mother,' and reach a cooperative alliance! Finally, we'll kill our way back and destroy the Lynx Tribe, snatching back my memory notebook!"
Lin Xian nodded!
He gave Gao Wen a thumbs up: "That's right, your summary is perfect, saving a lot of explanation and fluff!"
Then he turned to look at Big Face Cat: "Face-ge, do you have any questions?"
Big Face Cat shook his head, his face full of horizontal lines of flesh that shook with the inertia. "My brain is filled with so much stuff, I mostly hear what you say with one ear and let it out the other. But when I heard you say you want to kill your way back for revenge, I don't need to worry about so much."
"I've been muddling through life for so long, waiting for a chance to avenge my family and friends. Now that I've finally waited for it, of course I'll support it with both hands!"
With that, Big Face Cat raised his hands high, as if surrendering. "So, I propose that we name this plan the 'Escape, Visit Turing, and Kill Back Plan.'"
"No problem!" Lin Xian patted Big Face Cat's shoulder. "That's exactly what we need, someone as straightforward and honest as you!" Afterwards!
The three of them formulated the specific tactics!
Gao Wen had endured humiliation and bided his time for more than three years, observing in all directions and listening to all sides. While constantly learning and thinking, she had also memorized many patrol patterns of the excavation site. "Around 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. every day, the foreman will drive an armored car to patrol the excavation site. That's our only chance to get close to a vehicle!"
"As long as we can grab that car, we can rush out of the excavation site along the slope! This excavation site is relatively far from the Lynx Tribe's main camp. There won't be enough time to send a message and dispatch troops to support us. By the time they arrive, we'll have already driven far away in the armored car!" "As long as we can hijack that armored car, we won't be afraid of the firepower stationed here! Their guns can't penetrate the armor. This is our only chance to escape from here!" "The problem is that the armored car is very sturdy, and the iron plates are very thick, able to defend against the enemy, but not against us. With our weapons and strength, we can't cause any damage to the vehicle... I don't know how to hijack that armored car!"
Lin Xian silently noted the time of 4 p.m. The blue-eyed girl in the hibernation pod would wake up and recover her physical strength much faster than normal humans. This was probably the advantage of drug enhancement and gene editing! It was only a little after 1 p.m. now. He needed to go to the underground hibernation base immediately, then report to the overseer and enter the base to awaken the hibernation pod. There was still time!
"Then..."
Lin Xian raised his head and glanced left and right. "The 'Escape, Visit Turing, and Kill Back Plan' begins!"
Immediately, the three of them picked up their shovels and ran towards the northeast direction of the excavation site!
Lin Xian clearly remembered where the entrance to the underground hibernation base was. He led the two of them to dig, and soon the shovel clanged against something hard. It was out!
Big Face Cat immediately scrambled over, calling out to everyone, "It's out! It's out! Everyone come and see, we've dug up a treasure!"
More and more slave laborers gathered around, seeing the hope of freedom, and gathered together, digging frantically, constantly praying that it must be the Turing computer's underground computer room. If the Lynx Tribe obtained the Turing computer, they would definitely let them leave! But things didn't go as they wished! What they dug up was actually an underground hibernation base. Everyone was greatly disappointed, except for Lin Xian, Big Face Cat, and Gao Wen, who were eager to try!
What happened next went smoothly because it was already the second rehearsal! Entering the hibernation pod base and running towards the blue-eyed girl's hibernation pod, Big Face Cat started the forced awakening procedure. Looking at the time displayed on it, "It will take about an hour for her to fully wake up. Are you sure we want to break out with this little girl? She looks very weak, with thin arms and legs!"
Lin Xian smiled slightly!
He shook his head. "Don't underestimate her. Although I don't know her true identity yet, she's most likely the time-traveling assassin I knew before. She's just lost her memory because of hibernation, otherwise, the first thing she'd do when she woke up would be to chop off my head!"
"We need her combat power, but the prerequisite is that we must persuade her to act with us!"
Big Face Cat listened to Lin Xian's words, letting them go in one ear and out the other, directly locking onto the last sentence. "Then how do we persuade her?"
"When that unlucky guy woke up, I didn't say so much to him. I just dragged him to dig dirt! At that time, his brain was blank, and he didn't know anything, so he just mechanically and numbly followed us to dig... Finally, as he dug, he accepted reality!" Lin Xian nodded. "Amnesia is like this. I've read related reports. People with complete amnesia will instinctively resist everything around them at the beginning, trusting nothing and denying everything!"
"This is a natural rebellious self-protection. That is to say, the more you tell her something, the less she believes it. The more you tell her what your position is, the more she resists."
Big Face Cat's brain couldn't process it. He spread his hands. "Then what do we do? We can't say it directly, so do we have to say the opposite?" Beside him! Gao Wen was seriously analyzing Lin Xian's words, and the logic in her brain gradually became clear. "Hmm, I remembered how I naturally accepted the identity of a slave laborer. Because when I woke up from hibernation, my brain was blank, without the most basic worldview and values. I didn't know what was right or wrong!" "And the main thing is that no one told me so much logic. Big Face Cat dragged me out and handed me a shovel and just went to dig dirt by himself!" "I stood there dumbfounded and didn't know what to do. I saw that everyone else was digging, so I thought I should dig too. So, I reflexively followed everyone to dig. As I dug, I slowly accepted this reality, and I felt that the purpose of my life was to dig!"
"Of course, I understood all of this later, but that was after a long time of cognitive thinking! In the first few days after waking up, I wouldn't think too much in my brain. I would just intuitively do what others did and learn to do what others did. This is a very strange psychological effect. How should I summarize it? It's..."
"The bandwagon effect!"
Lin Xian praised Gao Wen for saying this psychological term. "Not only people with amnesia have a bandwagon mentality, but the vast majority of people in real life have a bandwagon mentality! The specific manifestation is that individuals are influenced by the group and doubt and change their own views, judgments, and behaviors, etc., in order to keep themselves consistent with others. This is also what everyone often calls 'following the crowd'!"
"Most people in the world are unable to maintain independence! Because the bandwagon mentality is a kind of self-protection phenomenon in human instinct. You won't go wrong if you follow what others do!"
"For example, if you are walking on the street and everyone is looking up at the sky, you will inevitably follow and look up. If you go to a place and everyone covers their noses and says it stinks, you will most likely also feel it stinks, even if you didn't smell anything."
"Lacking necessary information, the more people there are, the easier it is to blindly obey and conform." This is too useful for amnesiac patients who wake up from hibernation! "No need for any orders, commands, or education, just subtle influence can make her accept the relevant settings!"
Looking at Lin Xian and Gao Wen chatting like they were exchanging heavenly scriptures, Big Face Cat felt his brain was heating up and about to burn. "Stop, stop, stop!"
He quickly gestured for the two of them to be quiet. "Can you two speak human language? Don't talk so much logic, just tell me what to do later! Okay?"
Lin Xian pointed to a piece of ground behind the three of them and instructed, "You don't have to do anything later. Just stand behind me with your arms crossed, putting on a stinky face and a matter-of-course, supposed-to-be-like-this expression. Be careful not to say anything. Just put on a stinky face, that's all!"
"When the girl wakes up, she will kick the tempered glass away. At that time, you must not scream. Be calm and reveal a kind of completely indifferent kingly aura. See where I'm pointing? That piece of glass will hit here later, and we will be standing next to the hibernation pod, so it is absolutely safe and will not be hit!"
"So, don't scream, okay? You must be calm! I'm most worried about you in this deceptive performance!"
Big Face Cat spat on his face. "Who are you looking down on? Why don't you say so much to Egghead? You said so much about screaming, do you think I'm really going to scream for you? Today, I'll let you see how tough Big Face Cat's mouth is!"
"Don't say that the glass can't kick me. Even if it kicks me, I won't say a word."
Finally!
Lin Xian and Gao Wen checked the plan again!
Anyway, the core idea was not to talk so much to the awakened blue-eyed girl!
Anyway, she was in a state of amnesia. At this blank moment in her brain, other than instinct, she basically had no room for thinking. She didn't understand anything!
They just needed to use a fast-paced information bomb to blast her into a daze, and then put on a matter-of-course, expressionless face to stimulate the bandwagon effect. Simple things didn't need to be complicated! Lin Xian had already thought out the script before entering the dream. Big Face Cat and Gao Wen just needed to be good background boards, that's all!
Looking at his watch!
Yan Qiaoqiao was about to open her eyes. At most a few minutes after opening her eyes, she would kick open the hibernation pod. The three of them had to quickly enter their acting state!
Lin Xian waved his hand! The three of them took their positions!
One in front and two behind, standing in front of the blue-eyed girl's hibernation pod, standing straight, crossing their arms, and putting on a stinky face for a long time! The girl in the hibernation pod opened her eyes! She took a deep breath, feeling her lungs unprecedentedly full, bulging, as if they hadn't been so comfortable in a long time!
Her vision gradually recovered, and her hearing slowly became clear!
She turned her head and looked outside the glass cover... It seemed that there were three motionless figures standing there: not saying a word! Who were they?
What were they doing? And who was she?
She wanted to move her body, but she couldn't control her limbs at all! Suppression! It was so suppressing here! She wanted to get out!
Suddenly... icons began to appear on the display above her eyes, and understandable language followed: "Please move your eyeballs to look at this icon!" She followed the voice prompt and did so! "Please move your eyeballs to look in the direction indicated by the icon!"
She moved her eyeballs! "Please stretch your right leg as hard as possible!"
Boom! With a loud noise! The giant tempered glass shell above her head suddenly shattered, spiderweb-like cracks covering every corner. The entire piece of tempered glass, like a rag, smashed into the ceiling and, after a fierce impact, fell to the ground, smashing out another loud noise!
She didn't know where this was, or who she was! But obviously this hibernation pod made her very uncomfortable, so she grabbed the edge of the shell with her right hand and jumped out, barefoot on the ground!
In the white mist that was腾腾 evaporating, she saw between the smoke and the dust, three tall figures standing straight in front of her... Even though the shattering glass had made such a loud noise just now, the three of them were still motionless, majestic and solemn. This made the girl a little nervous and took a step back slightly, not knowing who the three people were. Just as she was about to question them, a deep voice called out, "Level 3 Agent 15, Yan Qiaoqiao!"
Suddenly! The tall man at the head stood straight in the white mist, his deep voice powerful; "I've been waiting for you for a long time. Return to the team immediately to carry out the mission." The man's voice was calm and forceful, but there was no coercion or command. Everything was so natural and so matter-of-course!
The girl blinked her eyes and began to digest the huge amount of information in the man's words. "I am... Yan Qiaoqiao?"
"Level 3 agent? Carrying out a mission? What is the mission?"
Before she could get any answers! The three men in the white mist turned around and strode away! The airflow drove the white mist to spin in the air. The three of them were very fast, and they had already left several meters away in the blink of an eye! "Hey!" The ploy of playing hard to get was very effective! The blue-eyed girl raised her foot and was about to chase after them! But her feet tripped over something. She looked down and saw! It was a storage cabinet! The nameplate on it really had Yan Qiaoqiao's name written on it!
She immediately understood that her name was indeed Yan Qiaoqiao, the same as that man had said in the blink of an eye! "Wait for me!"
The blue-eyed girl didn't care so much. The amnesiac her knew very well that the three men who were leaving quickly knew her identity! And were carrying out some mission! What exactly was it?
What was she going to do? Why was her brain so blank? She needed an answer urgently. "Dada dada dada!"
She was very fast, like a cheetah, and quickly caught up with the men!
But at this time! At the door facing the sunlight, a man dragging a steel whip, cursing, and wearing an overseer's uniform walked in! Waving his steel whip, he was fierce and evil!
"Yan Qiao!"
The young man at the head shouted sternly, "Present!" The blue-eyed girl reflexively stood at attention! She didn't know where this conditioned reflex came from, but her body obviously reacted faster than her brain!
She gazed at the black-haired young man slowly turning his head!
He called himself a Level 3 Agent, so that meant!
He was her superior?
What order was he going to give?
She saw that, against the sunlight at the door, the black-haired young man turned his head. His dark eyes were half-squinted: "Kill him!" The words were concise, the tone was calm, but there was no room for doubt! The blue-eyed girl took a step forward, clenched the steel whip, tore off the alloy nameplate from the hibernation pod next to her, and was as agile as a cheetah!
In a flash, the overseer's dumbfounded head flew up, spinning in the air for a circle before rolling and rolling to Big Face Cat's feet!
He was immediately tempted to scream!
But thinking of Lin Xian's instructions, he held back!
Then he continued to put on a stinky face, as if the whole world owed him five million, and stared straight ahead like a robot! The blue-eyed girl turned her head!
Shaking off the blood on the alloy nameplate, she stared at the young man at the head: waiting for the next instruction!
But the other party still ignored her and walked past her, bending down to take the handgun from the overseer's headless corpse! He pushed the magazine, counted the bullets, pushed it in, turned on the safety, and cocked the gun. The whole action was done in one go! Then he picked up the dagger on the overseer's belt, got up, and continued to stride towards his eleven subordinates who were ragged but pulled out as important persons. "Wait a minute..."
The blue-eyed girl was still in a daze: her brain couldn't react at all! She had experienced so many things in less than half a minute after waking up, but she didn't even know the most basic situation: And the young man who obviously knew everything and was infinitely kind to her: didn't consider her amnesiac situation at all and insisted on carrying out the mission!
At least he should let her know what the mission was, right? So, she ran up again. "Excuse me—"
Gao Wen stopped her, saying in a deep voice: "This is Officer Lin Xian!" Big Face Cat pointed at himself with a face full of horizontal lines of flesh. "I am Deputy General Big Face." Gao Wen silently stepped on Big Face Cat's foot, signaling him not to say more!
The blue-eyed girl looked at Lin Xian with admiration: "Officer Lin, what is my mission?"
Lin Xian handed the dagger to the blue-eyed girl and looked at the watch on his wrist. It was exactly 4 p.m. "Follow me!"
Just like that!
Walking in front of the three, Lin Xian secretly breathed a sigh of relief!
As expected!
Taking advantage of the blue-eyed girl's amnesia and inability to react, the information bombardment and the tactic of playing hard to get were quite effective!
This was the bandwagon mentality! The blue-eyed girl, seeing that the three of them knew everything and were united, would "instinctively join and approach!"
What's more, the basic persona that Lin Xian had created was very good!
Now, in the blue-eyed girl's eyes, although many things were still unclear, Lin Xian had become the unquestionable Officer Lin!
Maybe in less than a day, the blue-eyed girl's mind and state of mind would recover somewhat, and she would inevitably discover the flaws and oddities in Lin Xian's character!
But who would wait for her a day later? At most, this world would be destroyed in eight hours!
Lin Xian didn't intend to deceive the blue-eyed girl for too long anyway. He just needed to fool her for these eight hours. "See that car?"
Lin Xian and the other three hid behind a pile of dirt, pointing to the fully armed armored car driving on the road ahead. "That is our target!"
The blue-eyed girl had excellent eyesight and immediately locked onto the armored car driving quickly. She nodded: "I see it, Officer Lin. What do I need to do?"
Lin Xian raised his pistol: "That armored car will pass in front of us. Big Face Cat will deliberately make a mistake to attract their attention and make them stop. What you need to do is to tear open the car door at the fastest speed and subdue the people inside!"
"Of course, I will assist you. The moment you tear open the car door, I will shoot the eleven enemies inside with my handgun! After that, we will hijack this armored car and head to the next destination!"
"Received!" The blue-eyed girl responded immediately with the obedience in her bones!
Big Face Cat took his position and strolled on the road that the armored car had to pass, pretending to be lazy!
The armored car braked to a stop!
The eleven fully armed foremen in the car were just about to curse.
The heavy steel car door was torn open by hand.
The entire passenger door was forcibly pulled down and thrown aside by the blue-eyed girl!
The two foremen were dumbfounded and before they could react, a series of gunshots sent them directly to the west, each with a shocking hole blasted open in their foreheads!
Outside the car door!
Lin Xian's handgun was emitting white smoke. Big Face Cat, Gao Wen, and the blue-eyed girl's expressions were all of undisguised shock!
Fast!
Too fast and too accurate. They didn't even see Officer Lin drawing his gun. He didn't even aim. It was like he fired the moment he drew his gun. A true iaido!
Officer Lin... was indeed an officer!
"Pull them out of the car and collect their weapons!"
Lin Xian watched the two foremen rushing over after hearing the noise get dragged out of the car. Then Gao Wen and Big Face Cat hurriedly disarmed the foremen's handguns and daggers and hastily got into the armored car!
Of the four, only Lin Xian could drive! Naturally, he sat in the driver's seat, Gao Wen and the blue-eyed girl squeezed in the back row, and Big Face Cat, who was fat, sat next to Lin Xian in the passenger seat. "I... I don't have a door on my side." Big Face Cat howled, "What do I do?"
"I'll see if there's a seatbelt."
Big Face Cat found nothing with both hands. "What's a seatbelt?" Lin Xian looked left and right and indeed, there were no seatbelts in this car. It seemed that the design ideas of these barbaric tribes were still very primitive and violent!
But there was no time to pay attention to Big Face Cat at this time!
Relying on his understanding of the vehicle's structure, Lin Xian quickly started the vehicle and roughly familiarized himself with the operation. This was an electric vehicle powered by a nuclear battery. There was no internal combustion engine, no transmission, no gear lever! It was also reasonable!
With the industrial level of this world, they definitely couldn't manufacture engines or refined oil!
But relatively speaking, small nuclear batteries were everywhere, and they could also dig up large pieces of ore that were originally products specially supplied to cars! The principle of electric vehicles was indeed much simpler, but it wasn't something that backward groups like the Lynx Tribe could figure out. The Lynx Tribe's huge population advantage!
The Lynx Tribe itself had a large population, plus the large number of slave laborers captured from various excavation sites. When fighting, they would use human wave tactics. At the current stage when the enemy's technology was not very advanced, it was still enough to fight a more or less equal battle and naturally they could also seize some spoils of war!
"Lin Xian, he's on his way!" Lin Xian drove the armored car all the way. The overseers behind him had been shaken off and could only shoot from afar with impotent rage. All the bullets were blocked by the armored car! And in front, another armored car led several armed overseers to block them! "Yan Qiaoqiao, Lin!"
"Received."
Lin Xian shouted at the back row! The blue-eyed girl of course understood what Lin Xian meant and immediately jumped out of the car window, going all out to approach the armored car from the side. Lin Xian on this side had already switched to holding the gun with his left hand, aiming at the overseers outside the window and BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! He never missed a shot. Every shot hit the mark, directly helping the blue-eyed girl to open up the situation!
And the blue-eyed girl, as a physically enhanced "Terminator," never disappointed. She tore off the car door with her bare hands and used the car door as a bulletproof shield to withstand the first wave of shots from the enemy on the left! "Gao Wen, give me the gun!" The bullets in Lin Xian's hand were all used up. He threw away the gun directly and took the spare gun from Gao Wen's hand!
Then, a sideways drift... S.H.I...F.T... Big Face Cat roared, and he couldn't grab hold and was thrown out of the passenger seat without a door, turning into a rolling ball of flesh! Lin Xian used the drift to find a good shooting angle and fired four consecutive bullets at the armored car passing by. BANG! BANG! BANG! Two of them accurately shot into the driver's seat, blowing up the head of the driver in the front row. The other armored car immediately lost control and fell into a deep pit! Lin Xian猛打 the steering wheel again,簡著 Tian ran toward the cat, waved to the blue-eyed girl outside the window, "Dig up the face, hurry up and get in the car," the blue-eyed girl was so agile, the running speed and explosive power were faster than the armored car! In a blink of an eye, the dirt and dust were rippling! The blue-eyed girl had already rushed to the face of the cat, grabbed his thick arm, and threw it to the armored car. Lin Xian and the blue-eyed girl cooperated perfectly, just like playing table tennis, throwing one, picking one up, and accurately using the passenger seat without the car door to catch the face of the cat! Then the blue-eyed girl quickly grabbed the side of the car, flipped over, and entered the back seat from the car window! So far!
The whole team returned to the team. Blood Lin Xian also skillfully drove the car out of the encirclement, out of the territory of the cat tribe, to the free and desolate wilderness.
"Woohoo," the big face of the cat smelled the free direction in the air, and his face roared back, turned around, and high-fived the three in turn: "The four of us are so great."
Then, he rubbed his hands and turned his head to look at Lin Xian, who was holding the direction to find the direction of the north: "Brother, where are we going next?"
Slap... Gao Wen slapped the back of his head on the face of the cat, "Rude, call Lin Guan."
"We are going to the Grizzly Bear Tribe!" Lin Xian put his foot on the accelerator and looked straight to the north: "The first step of the plan!" "It's time to meet my old friend: Turing"