"Class leader, are you okay?"
Thangka froze for a moment and put her ear close to Chu Zhiyun's chest to listen for a while, "Did you drink a lot of water? Why are you making weird sounds from your throat?"
"I, I'm fine!"
Chu Zhiyun also didn't know why her face was so red and hot. She glared at Thangka and bit her lips. She originally wanted to ignore her, but she couldn't help but ask curiously, "What happened just now? Why is little Tiantian in your hands?"
"I, I don't know either!"
Tang Ka said nervously, "We seemed to have triggered a roadside bomb, and a huge hole was blown out on the ground. Down below was the intersection of the sewers. I fell into the water and didn't know what happened. I only heard the cries of children, so I swam over and caught Tiantian. Later, the impact of the dirty water grew stronger and stronger, and I couldn't control the direction at all. I could only hold Tiantian tightly and go with the flow. I was washed all the way to this place before I finally managed to climb to the shore. Then, I saw that you were struggling in the water, so I picked you up."
"It's like this …"
Chu Zhiyun thought for a moment, "Where's little Tiantian's mother?"
"That I don't know."
Thangka shook her head and said, "I only caught little Tiantian, but I didn't see Zhou Xiuyun. She should … have been separated from us, right?"
The two of them looked at both sides of the sewers.
They were in a very spacious sewers, but there wasn't a single bit of light around them. They used the light sticks to barely shine into the distance, but it was as if they had entered a winding underground tunnel. The tunnel was divided into countless forks and was as complicated as a maze.
In such a messy terrain, to find an ordinary person who had been separated from them for more than half an hour was like finding a needle in a haystack.
Chu Zhiyun sighed and said, "It seems like we have to find a way out first."
After resting for a while, Thangka helped Chu Zhiyun stand up.
Luckily, the two of them didn't have any major injuries. Their skin was just a little bruised and white from being soaked in dirty water. Even Little Tian Tian was fine. She was staring at the light stick in Thangka's hand with her big round eyes.
Chu Zhiyun didn't know what to think, but she made a face at the little boy, and the little boy actually made a face at her back. The two children, one old and one young, couldn't help but laugh.
After laughing, he had to face reality.
Unfortunately, they lost all their supplies in the turbulent current. Even Zhou Xiuyun's map was "accidentally" lost by Thangka.
The positioning system embedded in the portable crystal processor was also the first thing that they threw away. Otherwise, they would have been found by the Holy Light Academy and the purge troop a long time ago.
In other words, they had completely lost their way and didn't know where they were.
With everything coming to this point, it was useless to sigh. The two of them held each other's hands tightly, resisting the coldness and the riverbank with the feeble warmth of each other's palms. They walked forward along the narrow channel next to the sewer.
There was no telling whether it was a blessing or a curse. Very soon, a shaft that led to the ground appeared in front of them, as well as a ladder that was not completely rusted.
As they walked forward, they could hear the splashing of water. It seemed that there was a huge gap between the height of the sewer and the height of the water, forming an artificial waterfall that would fall dozens of meters into a deeper, unknown place.
Looking at each other, Thangka took off her belt and hung Little Tian Tian on her back. Then, she climbed up the ladder.
After climbing for more than ten meters, the cover of the manhole had been seriously rusted. However, it was not a big problem for the two elite teenagers who had received the harshest training since childhood.
Thangka opened her fingers and pressed them on the cover of the manhole. Her hands trembled at a high frequency, and the rust fell off. Very soon, the cover of the manhole was opened by her silently.
The two of them walked out in a single file and took a deep breath of fresh air. They both felt as if they had been separated for a lifetime.
Chu Zhiyun narrowed her eyes and carefully observed the street signs and the signs on the buildings. She discovered that they had been washed to the southern suburbs of New Joy City.
The terrain of New Joy City was high in the north and low in the south. Therefore, it was not surprising that the sewage flowed from the north to the south. She just didn't expect that they would be washed so far away. They didn't bump into anything along the way, nor did they get caught by abandoned fences.
However, in this way, they were going in the opposite direction of the "military family shelter" that Zhou Xiuyun had mentioned earlier. They were getting further and further away.
Right now, the news of their disappearance must have been known by the Holy Light Academy and the purification team. Perhaps the entire city was filled with search teams. It would be harder than ascending to the heavens to pass through the downtown area and enter the no man's land.
While Chu Zhiyun was pondering, she suddenly heard Thangka's cheerful voice, "Monitor, look over here!"
Chu Zhiyun looked in the direction that Thangka was pointing at and happened to see a rather large vehicle repair factory. It seemed to be a half-civil and half-military vehicle repair factory. Civilian flying shuttles and military crystal armed shuttles were all repaired here.
"We're so lucky that we've been washed to the bottom of a repair factory. There must be vehicles that have been repaired and enough fuel for us to use inside!"
Thangka winked at Chu Zhiyun. "Monitor, does this count as' God's Blessing '?"
Chu Zhiyun was rendered speechless for a moment, but she had an increasingly weird feeling. In the relationship between her and Thangka, she was the "commander", and Thangka was just her sidekick. Even the escape should've been led by her, and she only took Thangka with her by the way.
But why did she feel that Thangka had suddenly become so proactive and aggressive?
She did not hate the feeling. She was just not used to it. What was going on with the girl in the past few days? She had changed even more than she did.
Chu Zhiyun was still thinking. When she raised her head, she discovered that Thangka had run into the repair factory in excitement.
"Hey, wait for me, Thangka!"
Chu Zhiyun hurried to catch up with her. While running, she wondered why she felt that she was Thangka's sidekick now.
The repair factory was exactly as Thangka had speculated. In the spacious workshop, dozens of vehicles that were under maintenance or had been repaired were placed in a row.
When Chu Zhiyun went in, Thangka had scanned all the vehicles quickly and selected a streamlined silver shuttle. She was pushing a basket of maintenance components and preparing to raise the maintenance frame!
"Monitor, this is the one!"
Thangka said excitedly without looking back, "We are in luck. This is a super high-speed light reconnaissance shuttle of the Imperium. It is fast, stealthy, and boasts a rather powerful spiritual shield. Also, it has been repaired. It will be activated as long as fuel is injected!"
"Is that so?"
Chu Zhiyun did not know when Thangka had become so familiar with the armed shuttles of the Imperium. Thinking for a moment, she said, "Now that it has been repaired, what do you want to do?"
"I'm going to modify it slightly and see if I can completely block its noise and spiritual ripples so that we can escape without alarming anyone."
Thangka licked her lips and made a 'don't worry' gesture. "Don't worry. I'll take care of everything. It will be done soon!"
Chu Zhiyun was at a loss again.
What was going on? Her heart was beating faster and faster.
Was this the feeling of being invaded by extraterrestrial devils?
She felt that her usual cleverness and toughness were all gone when she was soaked and washed by the dirty water. Right now, her head was blank. She simply allowed Thangka to stuff Tiantian into her arms while she watched Thangka show off her skills in a daze.
"When did his hand speed become so fast, and so … close to perfect?"
Chu Zhiyun thought absentmindedly. Also, aren't our maintenance and appraisal courses mostly focused on civil magical equipment? When did he even know how to modify such a complicated piece of military magical equipment as a 'super-high-speed armed reconnaissance shuttle'?
Chu Zhiyun knew that 'maintenance' was different from 'modification'. Maintenance was merely restoring the magical equipment to its original appearance. Everything had templates and examples to follow. But 'modification', on the other hand, required ingenuity. According to the current situation and the limited materials at hand, one had to improvise and improve the performance. The difficulty was more than ten times higher than before!
Thangka was only a teenager. However awesome he was, the best he could do was dabble in the maintenance of a few armed shuttles commonly used in the Holy League. This was a super-high-speed armed shuttle of the Imperium. How could he …
"It's done, monitor."
Thangka patted the grease on her hands and made a 'please' gesture. "Come on in!"
"What?"
Chu Zhiyun was dazed again.
"Come on in. Let's get out of here as soon as possible!"
Thangka slightly frowned. "Monitor, I've noticed that you are much more sluggish all of a sudden. Why?"
"Who — who's sluggish?"
Chu Zhiyun glared at Thangka and crawled into the cockpit of the shuttle with Tiantian in her arms.
Since it was a super-high-speed reconnaissance shuttle, the cockpit was naturally not very spacious. She was almost sticking to Thangka's back. She could even smell the scorching air of Thangka's hands after they were moving at a high speed.
"You'll be the pilot?"
Chu Zhiyun looked at the complicated operation menu in front of the cockpit suspiciously. "It's very difficult to drive a super-high-speed reconnaissance shuttle. The shuttle will spiral at a speed of seven hundred kilometers per hour if there's any mistake. Are you sure you can do it?"
"I'll give it a try!"
Thangka smiled. "Haven't we all implanted the relevant information about the simulation of driving?"
"That's not enough, is it?"
Chu Zhiyun said, "Why don't you let me do it?"
"Platoon leader, please believe in me, just like every outstanding commander must believe in their best soldiers."
Thangka's hands turned into a cluster of shadows and rolled across the operation menu. A series of glittering runes and numbers immediately popped up in her hands like infinite stars.
"Hum!"
The super-high-speed shuttle really floated slowly after a soft noise.
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