Chapter 20 Maomao Chapter 20 Follow the Tracker

The first thing, Mao Mao walked over and opened the small door with the name of the waiting technician written on it.Then, he passed through the corridor of statues nimbly, and opened the bronze door outside.She had to use all her strength because the door was so heavy. After finishing these two tasks, she ran back to the hall full of clocks, hugged Cassiopeia, and waited for what was about to happen. After a while, it really happened! Suddenly, there was a strange vibration, but the wood that vibrated was not the house, but time, let's call it a time earthquake.Maomao couldn't tell what kind of feeling this was.This vibration was accompanied by a sound such as no one had ever heard before, like a sigh from the depths of centuries.

Then, the shock goes away. At that instant, the multipart ticking and jingling of countless clocks, large and small, ceased completely, and the pendulum, which was flying to and fro, ceased to move, and stopped at the position it had just swung to.Everything around is still.There was a silence that had never existed before, so perfect that it had never existed before, anywhere in the world.Time stopped. Maomao found himself holding a strange, large time flower in his hand.She didn't know how the flower got into her hands.It appeared so suddenly, as if it had been in her hands long ago.

Mao Mao stepped forward carefully.Really, she could move, as usual, effortlessly.The leftover breakfast is still placed on the small table.Maomao sat on a cushioned chair. At this moment, the cushion became as hard as marble and no longer sagged.There was still a sip of drink in her glass, but the glass could no longer be lifted.Maomao put his fingers into the cup, but the drink was as hard as ice, as was the honey, and even the bread crumbs on the plate were firmly stuck together. Where there is no time, not even the tiniest thing can move now.At this time, Cassiopeia kicked her legs, and Maomao looked down to see what it was going to do.

"You're losing your own time!" appeared such a line on the tortoise shell. God!Maomao hurriedly pulled himself together.She crossed the hall, slipped through the little door, ran on down the corridor, peeped left and right in the corner of the gate, and came back at once.her.Already beating violently.The time thieves are not retreating at all! On the contrary, they are walking along Never Never Alley towards Nowhere Building!At this moment, the backward time also stops there.This is an unexpected situation! Maomao hurriedly ran back to the clock hall and hid behind a big clock with her arms around Cassiopeia.

"Good start." She murmured. She heard the gray gentlemen's footsteps already ringing in the corridor outside, and one by one squeezing through the little door, until a whole group of them were all in and standing in the hall.They are looking around. "Great!" said one of them. "This is our new home." "The little girl Mao Mao opened the door for us." Another monotonous voice said, "I observed her carefully. What a clever boy!I should like to know how she managed to change the old man's mind. " A third, identical voice replied, "The old man backed down, as far as I can see. Because the time-sucker in Never Lane has stopped working, it can only be shut down by his own order. That is to say, he has stopped working." Realize that we have to obey us.

Now we must take decisive action against him.Where did he hide? " The gentlemen began to search about, when suddenly one of them said in a more monotonous voice: "There is something wrong, gentlemen! Look at these clocks! Look at these clocks! They have all stopped! Even the The second also stopped." "Maybe he just made them stop," said the other Mr. Gray uncertainly. "Seconds don't stand still," cried the first Mr. Gray. "Yes, gentlemen, the grains of sand that flow down stop in mid-air! The clock won't move! What's the matter? ’ As he was talking, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps from the corridor, and then a fat Mr. Gray lay at the small door, gestured excitedly and shouted inside: “Just now someone from the city reported that they All the cars stopped in place and couldn't move.

All moving objects come to a standstill.The whole world was silent.Not even a minute or a second can be obtained from anyone. All our sources of supplies are gone!No more time!Hola stopped time! " For a moment there was a dead silence among the gentlemen.After a while, a Mr. Gray said: "What did you say? Our supply source is interrupted? What will happen to us if we run out of cigarettes we carry with us?" "You know what's going to happen to us!" cried another Mr. Gray. "It's a terrible disaster, gentlemen!" All of a sudden, the gray gentlemen scrambled and shouted together: "Hurra is going to kill us! - We must stop sieging this place immediately! - We must hurry back to our time vault! - No We can't go back at all! I have only twenty-seven minutes' worth of cigarettes!--I have forty-eight minutes left!--Give me some of yours, then!

—You are crazy! ——Whoever has the ability will protect his own life! " They rushed towards the small gate together, scrambling to get out.From where Maomao was hiding, he could see that they were already fighting each other. You punched, I slapped, pushing and shoving, and the fighting became more and more intense.Everyone is fighting for their short gray life.The top hats on some people's heads were knocked off, and some people wrestled with each other, snatching the cigars from each other's mouths. Mr. Gray, who was unfortunately robbed of his cigar by others, seemed to lose all his strength at once. He stood there limply, holding his hands together, with a dejected look on his face. His crying face was full of fear, and his whole body became transparent. , and then disappeared, and nothing was left, not even the bowler hat.

In the end, there were only three Mister Greys left in the hall, and now they finally managed to escape through the small door. Mao Mao tucked the tortoise under his arm, held the time flower in the other hand, followed them and also got out.Now, the most important thing is not to let Mr. Gray slip away. When she walked out of the gate, she saw that the thieves had already run to the entrance of Never Alley.There, in the cloud of smoke, stood another group of Mr. Gray, who were also talking and gesturing excitedly. When they saw the three Mr. Grays who had fled back from the building of Nowhere come in a hurry, they also ran away.Seeing that the situation was not good, the others also scattered and ran for their lives. In a blink of an eye, the entire encirclement collapsed like a bank burst.The line of Mr. You, who couldn't see the end, hurried through that strange place.The mysterious urban area with white buildings and special shadows is rushing into the city.Since time has stopped, the mysterious phenomenon of opposite speed and slowness here does not exist anymore.

Mr. Gray's team walked past the huge egg-shaped monument and walked towards the ordinary house that was first seen. They were rental houses, all gray and crumbling, and they seemed to be full of tenants who lived on the edge of time. However, they are also completely frozen now. Mao Mao followed at the end of the team and kept a certain distance.And so a reverse stalking through the great city now begins.This time it was the large group of Mr. Gray who were on the run, followed by a little girl with flowers in her hand and a turtle under her arm.How strange the city looked now!Rows of cars were parked on the main road, the drivers sat motionless behind the steering wheel, some of their hands were holding the joysticks, some were honking their horns (one was tapping his finger on his forehead, angrily staring at the person next to him), the cyclist is extending his arms to signal a turn.On the sidewalk, all pedestrians, men, women, children, dogs and cats, stood motionless, even the exhaust fumes from the exhaust pipes of cars.

At the intersection, the traffic policeman stood there with a whistle in his mouth, gesticulating and directing.A group of pigeons just flew up from the square, and they stopped in mid-air without moving.There is an airplane parked in the sky, just like someone painted in the sky. The jets of water from the fountain turned into icicles.The leaves falling from the tree also stopped in mid-air, and a puppy happened to raise one calf and was about to pee against a utility pole. Gray gentlemen raced each other through the center of the big city, as lifeless as a photograph. Maomao always followed them unhurriedly, cautiously, thinking in his heart that he must never be discovered by those time thieves. But they were already overwhelmed, and feeling more and more overwhelmed. The gentlemen in gray were not used to walking such a long distance, and they were all panting and breathing heavily. They had to suck on that long thin cigar all the time, and once the smoke was exhausted, they were finished.Some Mr. Gray was running, and the cigarette fell from his mouth to the ground. Before he picked it up from the ground, the person had already melted like snow. However, not only this external reason made their escape more difficult, but also the threat of their Neijiang, that is, their companions.That is to say, some Mr. Gray, when his own cigars are about to run out, suddenly snatch the cigarettes from other people's mouths. Therefore, as they ran, their numbers gradually decreased. Those gray gentlemen who still have a little stock in their briefcases have to be extra careful not to be seen by others, otherwise those gray gentlemen who have no stock will rush to the richer ones to take their lives.Then there was a crazy fight between them.In order to snatch a cigar, they would wrestle and stack each other.At this time, the smoke will be hit on the ground and crushed by them.The fear of disappearing from the world has completely robbed the gray gentlemen of their minds. The more they ran into the city, the more difficulties they encountered.In some places, the pedestrians in the city are very dense, and the gray gentlemen have to pass through the gaps in the crowd, as if walking in a dense forest.Mao Mao is small and thin, of course it is much easier to walk. And if they are not careful, even a feather that stops in mid-air will knock their heads to pieces. This is really a long road, Mao Mao never imagined how long this road will be.She looked worriedly at the time flower, which had just fully opened at this moment.It seems that there is nothing to worry about yet. However, something happened at this moment, which made Mao Mao forget everything in front of her eyes: she saw old Beppo on a small road! "Beppo!" she cried, ecstatically carried away, and hurried to him. "Beppo, I found you! Where have you been all this time? Why haven't you come here? Well, Beppo, dear Beppo!" She really wanted to throw her arms around his neck and knock him down, but she was thrown back suddenly, as if old Beppo was made of iron. Mao Mao felt very painful to touch, and tears came out of the pain.She sobbed involuntarily and stood in front of him, looking at him lost in thought. Old Beppo's thin body was more stooped than ever.His kind face was thinner, paler, more exhausted.A gray, shaggy beard grew on his chin, for he never found time to shave.He still held the broom in his hand, worn bald from use.He just stood there, motionless like everyone else.He looked through the reading glasses at the trash on the street ahead. Now, Mao Mao finally found him, but she was helpless, and could no longer make him look at herself.Maybe this is the last time they will see each other, who knows how it will all turn out.If things went wrong, old Beppo would be here forever. The turtle moved under Mao Mao's arm. "Let's go!" Mao Mao looked down, and these two words appeared on the tortoise shell. Mao Mao hurried to the street and couldn't help being surprised.The gentlemen in gray are gone!Maomao ran for a while in the direction where Mr. Gray fled just now, but still didn't see one.She let them slip after all! Maomao stood there bewildered.what should I do?She looked at Cassiopeia suspiciously. "You will find them, chase after them!" Such a sentence was displayed on the tortoise shell. Well, if Casiopeia said so, it couldn't be wrong, it was prescient.The path Maomao chose is also completely correct. So, Maomao ran towards the direction she wanted at the moment.Go left for a while, go right for a while, and go straight forward for a while. She came to the northern suburbs of the city, which is the new urban area.The buildings and buildings there are all the same, with no style at all.The street stretches straight to the horizon.Mao Mao ran, ran, but because the houses and streets here were all exactly the same, she soon had the feeling that she was not moving forward at all, but was standing still. It was a real labyrinth, a labyrinth in which all the buildings and streets were ordered and very much alike. When Maomao suddenly found the last Mr. You at a corner, she almost lost her letter.Action and courage. I saw that Mr. You was running with a limp, his trousers were torn, his top hat and briefcase were also lost, only a short gray cigar was still smoking in his mouth.Maomao followed him to a place where a gap suddenly appeared in the middle of the endless building.Behind a high fence wall surrounded by wooden boards, there is a large square scaffolding.There was a small gate in the fence, and the door was ajar.Mr. Gray who finally arrived there quietly slipped in through the crack of the door. There was a sign on the door, Maomao stopped, trying to identify what was written on the sign.