Ming Xu tilted her head, and her white fingers pointed at the Dong Ling Clan's insignia on her neck. The black and white crescent moons formed an X, and Li Xiang's Origin Substance gun also had this insignia.
"A mission from the Dong Ling Clan." She didn't say much. She bent down and pulled up Li Xiang, who was sitting on the ground. Ming Xu's hands were very cold, as if they didn't have much warmth.
As a member of the Dong Ling Clan, it was normal for her to accept a mission from her clan. However, she didn't say anything about the mission, and Li Xiang wasn't stupid enough to ask about her privacy.
After looking at each other, the two of them officially became temporary partners. At this moment, Li Xiang could only choose to believe her. In any case, she had hidden her gun during the Polar night, which meant that Ming Xu didn't have any ill intentions towards him.
As for what she was planning, Li Xiang didn't know.
"I'll take you out. Follow me." Ming Xu gestured at him, indicating that he should follow her as she explored the forest.
She was obviously more familiar with this environment than Li Xiang. She lowered her body and moved quickly through the forest.
"I'm not on guard at all." Li Xiang was even more confused. He tried to raise his fangs and aim them at the girl's back, purposely letting her sense it, but she still didn't react.
Since he was sure that Ming Xu wouldn't do him any harm, Li Xiang let go of his courage and followed her.
The two of them moved very quickly. After passing through the forest for a while, the sky began to brighten.
With Ming Xu leading the way, Li Xiang quickly emerged from the dense forest. In front of him was still a vast plain, but he could vaguely see a towering lighthouse, indicating that there was a small town not far away.
"Where are we going?" Ming Xu wiped the silver dagger in her hand. The dagger's material was very special. It had clearly just been killed, but there wasn't a trace of blood on it. Her repeated wiping only made it cleaner.
"Hangzhou, where is this?" Li Xiang replied without hesitation. He didn't know where Wang Zhongyue would dock the airship, but it was impossible to rush into Hangzhou anyway.
Since the Kuang Tie was clear about the contents of his mission, that place must be the Heavenly Network. The real battle had yet to come.
Ming Xu paused. He tilted his head and thought for a while before he slowly said, "Hangzhou is about 100 kilometers away from here. Let's go to the town in front first and take a black car."
Hearing that there were still 100 kilometers to go, Li Xiang gave up the idea of running over there. She seemed to be quite familiar with this area, so he decided not to make any other plans.
"Oh right, is there a place to dock airships near Hangzhou? Those that are hidden or privately owned. " Li Xiang reckoned that Wang Zhongyue would dock the airship somewhere he could find without attracting too much attention. Although the people from the military weren't targeting Dong Ling and Lan, if the Kuang Tie was given the chance, he might capture them to threaten him.
"Yes, follow me. Let's go to the town first." Ming Xu nodded and continued to run quickly. In order to take care of Li Xiang, who hadn't recovered yet, she purposely slowed down.
Li Xiang didn't know much about Ming Xu, but he had heard a lot about her from other people.
She was the young lady from Dong Ling's family. She was alone and extremely unsociable. In the past, she had always been behind Ji Yanqing. Especially after the cultural classes started to involve mechanical knowledge, the gap between her and Ji Yanqing grew bigger and bigger. She had even been forbidden from going to the Elemental Decomposition House. But on the second day after the night of hiding the gun, she actually surpassed Ji Yanqing and took first place. Li Xiang was almost done for.
This girl was just like her personality. She was full of mysteries.
Looking at her steps and concentration, she was definitely someone who had undergone very professional combat training.
The two of them took advantage of the fact that the sun hadn't fully risen and entered the nearest town.
There were quite a few towns like this in City 0127. Most of them were remnants of the old era. Because they weren't too restricted by the military and other organizations, they were quite popular among the free people. However, because of this, their development had been excluded from the plan. They were increasingly out of touch with the surrounding large cities, and they had a very ancient feel to them.
When they entered the town, there was an endless stream of hawkers who were rushing to the market. Ming Xu and Li Xiang's attire made them not dare to approach them casually. These fully armed free people were usually in town to rest or transit. They all had a murderous aura around them, but nothing would happen if they didn't provoke them.
Ming Xu brought Li Xiang to a small hotel. Li Xiang looked at her suspiciously, but she silently walked in. By the time Li Xiang walked in, Ming Xu had already paid a hundred Blue Astral Coins as a deposit. She took the key and walked up to the second floor.
"You need to rest well. I'll keep an eye out for you." Ming Xu opened the door. The room of the small hotel was filled with an unpleasant smell. She frowned, pulled open the curtains, opened the windows, and placed the long piano case on the table.
She nodded at the bed and sat down on the only chair.
Li Xiang hesitated for a moment, but he still took off his clothes and lay on the bed. As soon as he touched the soft mattress, drowsiness flooded him. After leaving the Polar night, he hadn't had a good night's sleep. During the month he was in the Polar night, he had slept on a very hard wooden bed.
Lying on the bed, he suddenly recalled the time he spent with his sister. As he thought of this, his thoughts gradually became immersed.
Hearing light snoring from the bed, Ming Xu got up and clumsily tucked him in. Then, she returned to her seat and fiddled with an ordinary-looking steam pistol.
It was the first time Li Xiang had used a metal console to make a basic steam pistol.
The gun was exquisitely made, but there were many flaws. She fiddled with it for a while and casually pulled the trigger. After hearing a few strange sounds, Ming Xu slowly frowned.
After repeatedly confirming a few times, she put the pistol back on the table in disappointment. After staring at it for a long time, she suddenly took out a very exquisite silver pistol from her skirt. It was ancient and gorgeous. The hammer was a devil symbol that was erected at the back of the barrel. The gun was covered with fine patterns that bloomed on the barrel like flower petals.
She removed the standard barrel of the silver pistol with a click and began to dismantle the gun …
Li Xiang was in a deep sleep, but his subconscious concern for the mission made him quickly wake up after he recovered his strength. Before he opened his eyes, he heard the continuous mechanical sounds in his ears. He got up abruptly, but paused and couldn't get up immediately.
He didn't know when a pile of thick blankets was on his body, but he was tightly wrapped. Li Xiang smiled in annoyance, turned over and pushed all the blankets to the side. He just happened to see Ming Xu who was concentrating on a pile of mechanical parts on the table under the sunlight.
She heard the movement on the bed and quickly turned around. She subconsciously reached out to block the parts on the table, but Li Xiang had already seen everything.
He saw the steam pistol he made during the Polar night to ambush the Kuang Tie. It was lying on the table, surrounded by a pile of exquisite parts. On the other side, there seemed to be a silver pistol, but it had been dismantled by Ming Xu. She was agonizing over how to put it back together. When she realized that she had been discovered by Li Xiang, her face turned red like a ripe apple.
"Eh? The internal connecting gear of this gun is actually broken. " Li Xiang reached out and picked up the steam pistol he made. Through the internal mechanical structure, he could clearly see that the edges of the largest metal gear had been smoothed out. It could no longer rotate freely.
"Yeah." Ming Xu lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
"I didn't think too much when I made it. The workmanship is a bit poor, so it's normal that it's not durable. But to smooth out the internal connecting gear so much, I'll have to use it many times. " Li Xiang looked at her in confusion. With her status, she probably wasn't equipped with such a basic steam pistol.
He glanced at the scattered silver pistols and suddenly sucked in a breath of cold air.
This was the first time he had seen a mechanical pistol increase the liquefied source substance in the grayish-white scale bar!
The liquefied source substance had jumped from 20% to 20.8%. Even though it was only a 0.8% increase, it still shocked Li Xiang.
He looked at the silver pistol, then looked at Ming Xu. His expression slowly became a bit strange. "You can't be thinking of taking out the internal connecting gear of this gun and putting it in mine, right?"
What a wastrel! She was practically a wastrel!
Li Xiang painfully gathered up the silver pistol parts that Ming Xu had disassembled into a mess. He finally understood why this guy didn't want to go to mechanical engineering classes at all. Looking at the way she disassembled the gun, it was crude and direct. It was like someone who had never learned any professional knowledge.
Just then, when he saw her using so much effort to operate the gun, Li Xiang was a bit suspicious. However, he subconsciously refused to believe that such a strong Polar night trainee could be a mechanical idiot.
Ming Xu's face reddened as she lightly harrumphed and continued to remain silent.
"I don't know if you're crazy or if I'm crazy. The workmanship of this Origin Substance gun is so exquisite, and the internal structure is so intricate. Just to change the internal connecting gear, rich kids really know how to play. " Li Xiang couldn't help but ridicule. Facing the somewhat taciturn Ming Xu, his normally hidden ridicule was completely unleashed.
In most people's eyes, Li Xiang was the same type of person as Ming Xu. However, under special circumstances, he would occasionally ridicule Ming Xu. It was just that he himself didn't know when he would reveal this side of him.
Li Xiang skillfully put the silver pistol back together. Thankfully, Ming Xu's disassembly hadn't destroyed the internal structure. After putting it back together, he was once again shocked.
This silver pistol was probably priceless. At the very least, he hadn't found such an intricate gun among the A-class weapons that he had seen in Dong Ling's warehouse.
The guns produced by Dong Ling Heavy Industries had distinct characteristics. The more valuable they were, the more effort they would put into decorations and patterns. They strived for perfection and perfection.
After handing the silver pistol back to Ming Xu, Li Xiang's liquefied Origin Substance had already risen to a shocking 30%.
"If you still want to use my gun, next time you go to the gun shop, you can buy a built-in connecting gear and install it," Li Xiang said faintly. Then, he paused for a moment before adding, "Oh, I can help you install it."
Ming Xu, who had been playing with the silver pistol in her hand, suddenly stopped. She glared at him with a slightly sullen expression.
She snatched the steam pistol from Li Xiang's hand and put it away. She stood up and tapped on the door, indicating that they could leave.
Li Xiang followed Ming Xu out of the hotel. After resting, he was full of energy. As soon as he went downstairs, he suddenly saw a familiar figure.
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