Haidu: Top of the Tower

Chapter 18 I Like Your Angry Look
On the morning of the registration day for the trial competition, in front of the gate of the "Prosperity Committee", there were only a few reporters, adjusting the camera in their hands, while waiting for the registration to start.

The annual trials are open to Haidu Newspapers and citizens, but they don't arouse much enthusiasm.Knowing who would win, the citizens were quite careless, and the reporters almost yawned through the scene.

After sleeping for nine hours at a stretch, Milady, still feeling a little dazed, was standing behind the window of the "Yuanyang Fragrance Powder Store" across the road, holding a pack of tooth powder, and had stood there for 10 minutes.

One locomotive after another spit out one contestant after another; finally, after a familiar locomotive drove away, she saw Luo Geng in the distance—he got off the car at the gate of the Prosperity Committee, and the reporters surrounded him. Go up, shake hands with him and talk.

Milady couldn't hear their voices, but she could imagine what kind of conversation would be floating under the sky.

10 minutes before the start of registration, those people who were waiting, talking, and watching were finally welcomed into the building by the slowly opened door.

Milady forced herself to be patient, and picked up another bottle of jasmine powder.

Those contestants take the rights for granted, but she has to work so hard and step by step... Even after doing so much, she can only do her best in the end, obey the destiny, and wait for a signal.

After 10 minutes, the signal came.

When Luo Geng suddenly pushed the door and walked out of the building again, looking back and forth on the road, Milady woke up suddenly.Every nerve and every muscle of her was in a state of readiness; without even looking at the things in her hand, she paid the money and went out, and when she was approaching the committee building, she hurriedly stopped.

Someone just got out of the car and strode towards Luo Geng.

Milady dodged to the side, stood in the shadow on the side of the building, pretended to look for something in the backpack with her head down, and swept outside quietly.

That's great, it's not Nanshan, it seems that Nanshan hasn't escaped yet.That person looked like a clerk of Gaota's family, and he was holding a communication mechanism in his hand—— Milady stared at the mechanism, her face gradually turning cold.

On the day Itami fell, Hailan sent the same communication mechanism to Gaota's family.

The two of them held hands tightly and waited for a whole afternoon, but there was still no sign of the doctor.

Afterwards, she didn't even hear anyone mention that sub-communication machine, as if it never existed, as if Yidan never existed.

So what if I call for help?So what if you send a newsletter?Still so contemptuous, so casual, so indifferent, let her mother die in the distant pollution belt.

If Milady still had the last trace of hesitation and worry, it disappeared when she saw the communication mechanism.

"I had an accident with my car,"

Nanshan's voice came from the communication sub-machine, a little vague. "I went out on time today. When I was driving on the driveway, I heard a slap. It seemed that something was caught under the car. The locomotive got stuck and couldn't move."

Looking at Luo Geng's angry side face, Milady almost wanted to smile.

"I can't get out of the car at all. Now someone is holding up the communicator, and I'm calling from the door...because the whole car is trapped in a pool of electric current!"

Speaking of which, I have to thank the rope net of the wandering circus for giving Milady this idea.

She made a loose rope net with extremely thin metal wires. When the locomotive drove into it, the wires were triggered, and they would pounce from below and tighten on the underbody and propulsion machine, just like the rope net caught in the past. Stayed the same night as the crew of the Castle.

The power generation device she made by borrowing the principle of lightning gloves crawled like a spider in the center of the wire mesh. After the trap was activated, it stuck to the bottom of the car body, electrifying all the wires and the bottom plate of the car.

The metal wires are like the "fingers" of lightning gloves, extending from under the car into the air in all directions, forming a grid in the air.The most ingenious thing is that the current will flow back into the next wire, so the power consumption is low and can last for a long time.

Now Nanshan is sitting in a mechanism car that is constantly flashing bright blue currents, trapped alive.Unless he happened to be wearing an anti-electric suit, he couldn't get out of the surrounding grid, and no one else could walk up to him and set him free.

"I'm already called a Mechanism Master." Nanshan didn't know Luo Geng's anger at this moment, and said repeatedly: "My family's one is not good, and I can't see it for a long time...Give me another half an hour, no, twenty minutes! "

It was not enough, Milady knew very well.She made the mechanism by herself for nearly a week, just to trap Nanshan for a morning; because people can't get close to it, they can only wait for the current to slowly run out.

"give me,"

Luo Geng stretched out his hand and took the communicator away from the clerk. Just as he was about to speak, he glanced at the clerk, who quickly backed away.Then he rushed to the communication machine and said deeply: "Don't you know the importance of today? There is a new family in this trial, and I must guarantee a [-]% victory, so you must rush to me before the deadline! Then The power of this device must be limited, you just need to find a way to use it up, and I need to teach you how to do it? There are no electric things, and there are not many servants in your family?"

Milady was taken aback.

When he turned off the communication mechanism and handed it back to the clerk, he also thanked the clerk for his hard work.

Milady stood where she was, and walked out slowly after a while.

She lowered her head, watching the toes of her black boots stepping on the gray road, until she was stopped by a "Milady".

Milady Xunsheng raised her head, Luo Geng was standing in the bright morning light, her slightly blond hair was curled and fell on her cheeks, and her smile was so white that it seemed to reflect the sun.

"Cousin Luo Geng?" She opened her eyes wide, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to sign up." Luo Geng didn't see the anger just now on his face, he was as kind as a friend for many years, "I still want to ask why you are here."

Milady raised the paper bag in her hand and said with a smile, "What a coincidence! I just bought something nearby."

Luo Geng's gaze paused on the words "Yuanyang Fragrance Powder Store", and then turned his head to look at the larger line of the same words in the distance.

"It turns out that the registration for the trial competition is here." Seeing that he didn't speak for a while, Milady could only look at the building of the Prosperity Committee and continued, "I've passed by it many times, but I never noticed it."

Except for "Really?" Luo Geng still didn't say much.

Milady knew she couldn't stand still, otherwise it would be too obvious that she was waiting for something; it took almost all her strength to force herself to say to this only chance: "Good luck, Robin. Cousin, next time I see you, I should call you patriarch."

It's hard to imagine that the young man, who was smiling happily and embarrassedly at this time, asked Nanshan to use his servants to consume electricity just a moment ago.

"Are you going home now?" Luo Geng looked at her, as if deliberating or weighing, and said slowly: "Nanshan hasn't arrived yet, so you might as well wait with me and talk."

Milady was afraid that if she opened her mouth, the other party would hear her heartbeat.She nodded and took two steps towards him.

"You call me cousin, are you younger than me? How old are you this year?"

"A few months," replied Milady, "already."

"It's eighteen too..."

She could almost see that an idea was gradually taking shape in Luo Geng's mind.

The contestants are almost all pre-determined, so the registration time is very short.Just because the trial competition is open to citizens and newspaper offices throughout, even if it is really a large-scale performance, they cannot change the rules on the surface and entrust a certain family with special care.

Either add her, or bring only two people to the competition, Luo Geng only has these two choices now.

But what Milady didn't expect was that Luo Geng, who seemed bright and casual, was actually surprisingly cautious: he inquired about Milady's parents in detail, asked about her relatives, and asked which branch she belonged to, etc. Wait, sometimes it seems that I still don’t believe her answer, and I deliberately say a wrong one to get her to answer—just how she appeared in the jungle meeting and how she met Luna, he tapped sideways from several angles. They were all interrogated.

Even after asking for a long time, he still hesitated.

No, thought Milady.

Luo Geng is completely different from the surface. It seems that he doesn't trust people easily at all, even those from the same family are full of wariness.Besides, she answered too patiently, as if she came here specifically to solve his predicament...

She has to take some risks.

"Don't laugh at me, I haven't had breakfast today," said Milady, "I'm going home early, and I'm going to ask some sisters..."

After Luo Geng hesitated for a moment, he nodded slightly.

Milady's heart sank, and she turned around mechanically. "Come on, I'm leaving then."

Luo Geng still just smiled, not intending to keep her at all.

Every step Milady took did not seem to be walking far away, but rather seemed to be sinking to the bottom of the sea.She wouldn't be surprised if, walking, she disappeared off the sidewalk and fell into some dark place.

After she walked more than ten meters, a "wait" came from behind her.

Milady's whole body trembled, and she was about to turn around hastily, but she suddenly realized: So that's it... Luo Geng just observed whether she really wanted to leave.

Well, she must not act as if she has been waiting for him to bark.

Milady pretended not to hear, and continued to walk a few more steps, until Roger yelled again, and she turned around as if uncertain.

"cousin?"

"Come here," Luo Geng ordered, "It seems that Nanshan is too late. Let me ask you, would you like to sign up for the competition instead of him?"

At that moment, Milady seemed to be split into two.

One she was surprised, hesitated, suggested, declined, and said everything that should be said at this time; the other, in a very distant place, seemed to be crying, but also seemed to be smiling with her head up.

A few minutes later, as if she had been drinking, she walked through the unreal cloud and entered the committee hall.

She took the registration form from Luo Geng, was led to another table by the staff, finished writing the information, and pressed her fingerprints... She felt that there must be a difference in her expression, but when she passed a mirror on the wall, she scanned Taking a look, he found that his face was surprisingly calm and calm.

She spent so much effort, waited for so long, made so many preparations... and finally completed the registration procedures, but it only took a few minutes.

Milady turned around after handing in the registration form, and a white light flashed in front of her, and she hurriedly closed her eyes.When she opened her eyes again, she saw a reporter putting away the camera mechanism, muttering and writing in a notebook. "The Gaota family changed generals..."

"Please come with me," a staff member said to Milady, "All contestants who have registered will be assigned a separate arena room, and you need to prepare there until the trial match begins... Yes, your backpack You can bring it with you. Items that pass the inspection of the committee can be used in the trials."

Milady felt that Luo Geng glanced at her when he heard these words. "You still have something that can be used in trials?"

Of course it was impossible for her to say "yes". Hearing this, she picked up the bag and said with a smile, "Didn't I just buy powder?"

Luo Geng just nodded.

His suspicion is also like a cloud of dust, if there is any movement, it will splash into the air.

In order to wait for Nanshan, he has not started to sign up until now; after Milady said goodbye to him, when he left with the staff, Luo Zheng bent down to fill out the registration form, a lock of golden and red curly hair hanging in the air.

She glanced back before pushing open the corridor door.

This time, she saw the clerk of Gaota's house.

He didn't have a communication mechanism in his hand, so he rushed into the hall in a hurry, and stopped Luo Geng who was writing halfway.Luo Geng stood up, and the two of them leaned together and said a few words in a low voice. While talking, he suddenly cast a glance in Milady's direction—at this moment, Milady heard the female staff in front urging her. : "Why don't you leave?"

She turned her head, looked at the girl, and asked softly: "If someone asks me to retire now, will I be dismissed?"

The girl opened her mouth, as if she had never been asked this question before. "This... as long as you don't withdraw yourself, you have already signed up..."

This answer will suffice.

Milady nodded and entered the corridor door.

Almost at the same moment, Luo Geng rushed behind her like a whirlwind, and grabbed her shoulder; Milady had expected it, slid a step forward, turned around like a flowing cloud, and Luo Geng The four eyes are facing each other.

His complexion was swollen to the same color as his hair, and he looked like an angry red wild horse, quite beautiful.

"Milady," Luo Geng gritted his teeth, "tell me, why did a person whose appearance and description resemble yours appear near Nanshan's house last night?"

There are many servants in the Nanshan family, maybe when she didn't pay attention, who saw it?
Milady looked at him quietly without answering.

After a few seconds, she laughed silently; her smile struck Luo Geng like an electric shock.

"I asked her to retire—" Luo Geng only said half a sentence, but was interrupted by the approaching reporters.

"What's wrong here?" Someone asked.

Looking back, he seemed to understand that it was too late.He suppressed his anger and volume, and slowly said to Milady: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if you enter the competition. I never thought that there is a snake like you in my Gaota family... After entering the competition, it will be more convenient for me to cut you off with my own hands." .”

"I like the way you look angry now." Milady just said softly, "I think I will like your despair even more in the future."

(End of this chapter)