"I've been writing this chapter since yesterday, and I couldn't help but take a nap in the middle. Finally, I'm going to finish it today..."
Silvan's words might be hard to understand, but the facts before her clearly provided Lin Sanjiu with all the footnotes she needed.
When she was young, her parents bought her Legos. At that time, she would sit on the floor and play with them for the whole afternoon. The disassembled parts of different shapes and sizes could fit together seamlessly. They could be scattered or used in different corners. The same batch of parts could eventually show different appearances.
If Legos had limitations, then the building in front of her seemed to be able to surpass all of them.
When Lin Sanjiu turned around, she saw that the long, wall-like gate behind her was now broken into pieces. The ground rose and fell between the gates, moving slowly and intersecting with each other. The garden that she had been running around like a headless fly had found a new order amidst the buzzing sound. The crisscrossing paths and scattered courtyards were quickly paved into squares.
"I see," she mumbled, feeling the smooth and stable movement of the gate under her feet. "So this is how the Protectorate Garden was formed when I saw it during the day."
"It can be made into a thousand different structures," Silvan shrugged. "You can name it."
He was empty-handed, and there was no "baton" in his hands. Lin Sanjiu wondered if he had already put it away.
"But you didn't touch the structure of the Munitions Factory," Lin Sanjiu asked as she stared at the steel city in front of her. The reorganization of the Protectorate Garden had pushed both of them to the entrance of the Munitions Factory. If she were alone, she might not be able to find the exit even if she walked for an entire night. In this place, there was no exit, but any exit could be an exit. "Why? Can't it be separated? "
"Yes, it can." Silvan was the first to jump down from the gate. When both of them landed on the ground, he pointed to the front and smiled. "Look."
Lin Sanjiu, who was still worried about how to get in, suddenly realized that she had worried for nothing. The path was unobstructed for the two of them. At its end, on the steel wall that towered into the sky, at this moment, close to the ground, there was a rectangular door opening.
It was as if someone had intended to open a door on the wall but had forgotten about it. Lin Sanjiu just needed to step through the door and she would be able to enter the heavily guarded Steel City. She really wanted to sigh at how easy it was for her to get in.
Most of the details of the cold and hard Munitions Factory were obscured by the darkness of the night. The dim yellow light from the street lamps illuminated its vague silhouette, and the straight, iron-gray alley stretched ahead of them. Even the alleys of the munitions factory looked as if they were cut out from a piece of iron. They were straight and emotionless.
"But, the easy road ends here." Silvan smiled at her, his green eyes glimmering in the dark night. "There are always people stationed inside the munitions factory. If we make any more noise, they will be alerted. What's more, I haven't gotten this part of the baton yet. "
"Eh? But the wall over there … "
"Since that part of the munitions factory shares the same 'boundary' with the Sanctuary, we can use the baton of the Sanctuary to create an entrance." He did not seem to want to explain in detail, so he just raised his chin and said, "It's not going to be easy next."
Lin Sanjiu knew very well that the "not easy" did not only refer to the fact that both of them had to face the Munitions Factory.
Lin Sanjiu knew very well that if that moment really came, would she be able to fight against Silvan with her current combat ability?
With this thought in mind, she waved her hand a little weakly, "It's been a tough night for me. Let me take a breather before we set off."
Fortunately, the ground of the Steel City was also paved with mud and stone bricks. She sat down with a thud and took out a bunch of curly hairs from her card bank. Under Silvan's unblinking gaze, she pulled out a few small balls and stuffed them into the gaps between the bricks.
Compared to putting away the remaining hairs, the process was surprisingly not as awkward.
Lin Sanjiu clapped her hands and changed the topic as if nothing had happened, "Um … I want to ask you a question."
"Go ahead."
"I have never asked you what happened in the Munitions Factory." Lin Sanjiu frowned as she recalled what the two hairy brothers had told her. "As the head of the security department, why did you have to sneak in here in the middle of the night?"
"Not anymore." Silvan sat down beside her, and a gust of wind mixed with the scent of figs and blood wafted into her nose. "I was a little curious about the relationship between the Munitions Factory and the other 12 organizations, so I did some research."
"Oh, right. You said that the 12 organizations have already achieved symbiosis?"
"Yes, that is the conclusion I came to after my research." Silvan smiled at her, his hair falling messily. He tied his blonde hair into a short ponytail and said calmly, "I saw some things and a few people. The next morning, I used the excuse of searching for Puppeteer to leave the Munitions Factory. I think they will notice that the baton is missing soon after I leave. "
"What did you see?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help asking.
"If the time is right, you might be able to see it with your own eyes." Silvan did not answer. He let out a long sigh, and his white breath dispersed into the night. "No matter what, it has nothing to do with our mission."
Lin Sanjiu felt a little embarrassed when she mentioned the mission.
"Even though I left you behind," she mumbled softly. She wasn't sure if it was an apology or not, "I did it for a reason … You asked me for a favor, and I intend to do it for you."
"I never doubted you."
According to the original plan, they should have split up after they entered the Munitions Factory. Lin Sanjiu sat on the ground for a while. She felt her strength slowly recovering, but she couldn't bring herself to say, "Let's go." It was because they had to split up that she decided to sneak into the Munitions Factory.
"What should I do?"
She had a vague idea of what Silvan was going to do tonight, but she couldn't let him go just like that. "What if it was really what she thought …"
In the end, it was Silvan who broke the silence.
"Do you feel better?" he asked in a low voice. When he was this close, his voice seemed to fill the air like smoke.
At that moment, Lin Sanjiu suddenly made up her mind.
"Alright." She looked at the straight alleyway in front of her. "Where is your first target?"
"The Commander Tower." The few words sounded so gentle and pleasant, as if there was not a single trace of blood in them.
Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes and let out a sigh. She didn't care about the Commander of the Munitions Factory, so she could let Silvan do whatever he wanted. She paused for a moment and said in a low voice, "I need to finish this quickly. How much firepower can you draw away for me? "
The blond man let out a low chuckle. His warm breath captured the cold night.
"If you need, you can direct all the firepower in this Metal City to me."
"That … That's not necessary," Lin Sanjiu waved her hand. Then, she realized that this was his usual way of talking. "Tell me, where is the Commander Tower? Once I get it, I will go to you immediately. "
Silvan stared at her for a while under the flickering light. Suddenly, he let out a sigh. Just when she thought he was going to object, he pointed the way for her without saying a word.
Lin Sanjiu checked her belongings. She couldn't figure out why her weapon pouch was still on her back after such a long night. She stood up and nodded at Silvan.
"Take care."
Without another word, both of them turned around and walked in different directions. In the blink of an eye, the blond man's figure had completely melted into the darkness. When Lin Sanjiu held her breath and listened intently, she couldn't even hear the sound of the wind from afar.
She still remembered the route she took the last time she came in, so it didn't take her much effort to find the building and the ladder on the outer wall. With her previous experience, she climbed up the ladder silently and turned the lock of the roof into a card. Obviously, the Munitions Factory didn't know how she sneaked in last time, so they didn't use a more effective defensive method.
When the door slid open soundlessly, Lin Sanjiu didn't rush in. Both her hypersensory and her [Consciousness Scan] showed that it was quiet behind the door. There was no sign of life. However, she still waited for a while more before she walked in.
The researchers in the Munitions Factory had all left, so all the lights were dark. Only the skylight let in a little bit of night and starlight, casting the cylindrical brass building in complete darkness.
When Lin Sanjiu walked into the elevator, the low hum of the gears and the twisting belt reverberated in the quiet building. Lin Sanjiu almost jumped out of her skin. She took out her flashlight and scanned the building a few times as she descended. When the flashlight flashed past an empty building in the middle of the night, it felt strangely unfamiliar.
When she came to the same door for the second time, she couldn't help taking a few deep breaths.
The journey to the Munitions Factory was such a headache, but she didn't expect to complete the mission so easily. Lin Sanjiu listened attentively for a while, but she couldn't tell if Silvan had started his attack on the Commander Tower. She was more than half the distance from the Commander Tower to the Commander Tower, so even if there were sounds of battle, she wouldn't be able to hear it from the brass wall.
With the help of the flashlight, she found the position of the hinge on the side of the door and stuck her fang into the narrow gap. She sliced up and down, and the hinge that connected the door to the wall immediately broke. It was as easy as cutting a piece of tofu. She grabbed the door frame and held it firmly before it slid open and crashed into the wall. Then, she leaned it against the wall and walked in step by step.
In the shadows, the Scholar stood silently in the middle of the room like a prehistoric dinosaur fossil. It was made up of countless bones, pipes, and branches.
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