Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Dazzling Blue Light

The national anthem was played, and this time there was no face in the sky.The audience must have been restless, eager for new bloody fights.Bit's trap must be very exciting, so the extreme race organizers did not set up new traps.Maybe they were also curious about whether the trap would work. Finnick and I figured it was about nine o'clock, and we all left the shell-filled beach together, crossed the sand at twelve o'clock, and set off quietly towards the Lightning Tree in the moonlight.We were too full to climb up the hill, and far less brisk than the morning.I was starting to regret eating my last dozen oysters.

Pete asked Finnick to help him, and the others stood guard.Before wiring, Bit unwrapped the wire for a long, long time. He asked Finnick to tie one end of the wire firmly to a broken branch and put it on the ground.After that, the two people stood on both sides of the tree and wound the metal wire many times around the tree by passing the spool to each other.At first glance, it seems to be wrapped around casually, but if you look closely, you will find a certain pattern.Seen from Bit's side, the wrapped thread looked like a complex labyrinth, shining brightly in the dim moonlight.I don't know if the way the wire is wrapped makes a difference, or if it's just to get the audience's attention, but I dare say most people know more about electricity than I do.

When the big waves hit, the work of winding the line was just finished.I can never imagine where the big waves come from in the ten o'clock area. It must be a mechanism that was prepared in advance, and then there are waves, and then floods.The position of the sun should be half past ten now. Only then did Bit tell us the rest of the plan.Since Johanna and I were the fastest runners in the jungle, Beetle had us both take the spools and run down the hill.We're going to spread the thread down to the sand at twelve o'clock, and then, whatever thread is left, throw it in the water with the spool, making sure the spool sinks to the bottom, and run back to the jungle.If we go now, right away, we can run to safety.

"I want to go with them so I can protect them," Peeta said quickly.After he gave me the pearl, it was obvious that he never wanted me out of his sight. "You are too slow. Besides, I need you here. Katniss will protect Johanna. There is no time to fight, sorry, if you want them to leave alive, then they have to go now." Bit said, he Give the spool to Johanna. I don't like his arrangements as much as Peeta, how can I protect Peeta from a distance?Cobit was right.Peeta's bad legs made it impossible for him to get down the hill in time.And, if there's anyone I can trust here besides Peeta, it's Beetle.

"It's okay. We'll go up the hill as soon as we drop the spool," I said to Peeta. "Don't run into the lightning zone. Run towards the jungle between one and two o'clock. If you don't have time, then move to another area. Don't go back to the beach until I can judge whether there is still danger." Bit reminded me. I cupped Peeta's face and said, "Don't worry, I'll see you tonight at midnight." I kissed him, and before he could object, I let go and turned to Johanna and said, "Are you ready?" ?” "Why not?" Johanna shrugged.She was no happier with the combination than I was.But we've all fallen into Bit's trap. "Watch out, I'll let you go. We'll replace each other later."

Without saying a word, we ran down the mountain.In fact, we didn't talk much on the way.We acted very quickly, one person released the line and the other was on guard.We were halfway there when we heard the rattling again and knew it was past eleven o'clock. "Better hurry. I want to run as far as possible before the lightning starts, in case the volts are miscalculated," Johanna said. "Let me put the thread on for a while." I said.Because I know that setting out the line is much more difficult than guarding, and she has been running for a long time. "Here you are," Johanna said, handing me the spool.

Before either of us had let go of the wire spool, I felt the wire vibrate.Suddenly, the thin metal wire bounced back from above, coiled into a circle, wrapped around our wrists, and then the severed thread curled up under our feet. It took only a second for this sudden thing to happen. Johanna and I looked at each other. Neither of us had to say anything. Someone cut the thread not far from us on the mountain. They may appear before our eyes at any time.I let go of the wire and reached for the arrow, just as I was touching the nock feather when the wire spool slammed on the left side of my head.I fell to the ground suddenly and felt a sharp pain in my left temple.My eyes couldn't see clearly either, my eyes were blurry, and the moon in the sky sometimes turned into one and sometimes turned into two.I was having trouble breathing when I felt Johanna on my chest, her knees on my shoulders.

My left arm was tingling and I tried to pull away but couldn't.Johanna was digging something, she seemed to be stabbing the point of a knife into my flesh, then stirring it again.Then there was a heart-piercing pain, and warm blood ran down my arm to my wrist, my palm.Then, she slammed my arm onto the ground so hard that half of my face was covered in blood. "Lie still!" she whispered.Then she left me and I was alone. Lie still?My mind is spinning, what's going on?what happened?I closed my eyes, temporarily shut out the unreasonable world, and tried desperately to make sense of my situation.

The image of Johanna pushing Willis down on the sand came back to me. "Stay on the ground and don't get up, okay?" But she didn't attack Willis, not like this.I'm not Willis, and I'm not Volt. "Stay on the ground and don't get up, okay?" Her words echoed in my ears. There were footsteps.Two people.Heavy, doesn't seem to want to hide their tracks. Brutal's voice, "She's dead! Go, Inobel!" The footsteps disappeared in the night forest. I'm dead?I wandered between waking and unconscious states, searching for answers.I'm dead?I can't find an answer to the contrary.In fact, I'm struggling, wishing I could think.All I knew was that Johanna attacked me.She hit me on the head with the spool, cut my arm, maybe a vein and an artery, and then, before she could kill me, Brutal and Inobelli showed up.

The alliance is over.Finnick and Johanna must have made an appointment to strike tonight.I knew I should go this morning.I don't know which side Bit is on.But I'm their prey, and so is Peeta. Peeta!I opened my eyes wide all of a sudden, feeling extremely flustered inside.Peeta is still waiting by the tree, unsuspecting, unguarded.Maybe Finnick had killed him long ago. "No." I said softly.The wire was cut by a professional player not far away.There's no way Finnick, Beetle, and Peeta know what's going on down there.They wondered to themselves what the hell had happened.Why the thread came loose and even bounced back.Based on this alone, it won't be a signal to kill, right?can you?Surely it was just Johanna who felt it was time to separate from us.Kill me, run away from the pros, and with Finnick, kill the others.

I do not know I do not know.All I knew was that I had to go back to Peeta, protect him, keep him alive.I gritted my teeth and sat up with all my strength, and then stood up with the tree desperately.I feel dizzy, but luckily I have something to hold on to.Suddenly, I leaned forward, poured out all the seafood in my stomach, and vomited until there was nothing left.Shaking and sweating, I needed to take stock of my condition. I raised my injured left arm, blood splashed all over my face, and the sky and the earth were spinning again.I quickly closed my eyes and leaned against the tree, waiting for the dizziness to pass.Then I moved carefully to another tree, pulled off some moss, and wrapped the moss tightly around the wound without looking at it.At this time, it is best not to look at your own terrible wounds.Then I tried to lightly touch the wound on my head with my hands.There was a big lump, but no blood.Obviously, I had internal injuries.But it doesn't look like I'm going to bleed to death right away.At least not to death from bleeding from the head. pita.On him is my wish before death, my promise, to let him live.I suddenly realized that before the sound of the cannon, he must still be alive, and my heart had hope again.Maybe Johanna was acting alone, knowing that Finnick would side with her when she knew all about it, though I can't tell what exactly they were up to.I recall Finnick watching Johanna's winks to decide whether to help Bit with the trap.Years of friendship have forged strong alliances, and maybe there are other reasons as well.However, I can no longer trust Finnick if Johanna is already on me. I had only a few seconds to make my decision when I heard someone running down the hill.Neither Peeta nor Bit could possibly run that fast.I quickly hid behind the vines, and just in time to hide, I saw Finnick running past me, his skin was darkened from the medicine, and he looked like a deer as he jumped over the overgrown bushes on the ground.He quickly ran to where I was attacked and he must have seen blood too. "Johanna! Katniss!" he yelled.I stood still until he ran in the direction Johanna and the pro ran off. I try my best to restrain my dizziness and climb up as fast as possible.My head throbs and hurts, keeping the same rhythm as my heartbeat.The insects must have been stimulated by the smell of blood, so they screamed louder, and finally rang in my ears.No, wait a minute.Maybe my ears are ringing from the impact.This will not be known until the insects stop screaming.But when the bugs stopped screaming, the lightning started again.I gotta go fast, I gotta find Peeta. I was taken aback by the bang of a cannon. Someone died.Everyone is running around with weapons now, and anyone could die.But whoever died, the alliance here must have been wiped out.People kill first and think about their motives later.I forced myself to run. Something tripped me under my feet, and I fell to the ground suddenly. I felt that the thing that tripped me entangled me, and it was a very thin fiber.A net!It must be Finnick's beautiful net that was set up here to catch me, and he must be nearby, harpoon in hand.I tried to break free, but the entanglement became tighter.At this time, I saw what was tied to me by the moonlight. I raised my left arm and saw clearly that it was a shiny metal thread.I'm confused.It wasn't Finnick's net at all, it was Bit's wire.I stood up carefully and found myself actually down on a pile of wires that had caught on the trunk of the lightning tree on its way to it.I slowly unwound the line, threw it aside, and climbed up the mountain. Touching the wire is a good thing, on the one hand, it shows that I haven't lost my sense of direction due to dizziness; on the other hand, it reminds me that lightning is coming.I can still hear the click of the insects in my ears, but is it getting quieter?I ran forward a few feet to the right of the wire so as not to get lost, while being very careful not to touch it.If the sound of insects is gradually disappearing, it means that the lightning is about to hit the big tree, after which all the energy will be transmitted down the wire, and anyone who touches it will die instantly. The big tree came into my vision vaguely, with shiny metal wires wrapped around the tree.I slowed down and walked as lightly as I could, lucky that I was still standing.I'll see if there's any sign of anyone else.Nobody, not a single person. "Peeta?" I called softly, "Peeta?" A low moan was heard, and I turned around suddenly to see a person lying on the ground. "Bet!" I yelled, kneeling beside him hastily, his groan must have been involuntary.He was uninjured except for a bruise under the brow bone, but he was unconscious.I grabbed a handful of moss and covered his wound while helping him up. "Bet! What happened? Who cut you? Bet!" I shook him hard, even though I shouldn't be shaking a wounded man like that, but I didn't know what to do.He groaned again, then held out his hand as if to block me. That's when I noticed he was holding one of Peeta's old knives, loosely tangled up in wire.Puzzled, I stood up, lifted the wire, and saw that it had been attached to the tree.It took me a while to remember that there was a second thread, much shorter, that Beetle had wrapped around a branch and dropped on the ground before he could wrap it around the trunk.I thought this wire was for conducting electricity and kept it aside for later use.But the line could not have been attached to the tree, for the line left here alone was twenty to twenty-five yards long. I squinted my eyes and looked hard towards the top of the mountain, realizing that the electromagnetic force field was only a few steps away, and the tell-tale block was still hanging above me to the right, just as I had seen it this morning.What the hell did Bit do?Did he accidentally touch the electromagnetic force field with the knife like Peeta?But what is the metal wire for?This is his alternative?If the plan to introduce electricity into the water fails, he wants to direct the energy of the lightning into the electromagnetic force field?So, what does this do?Does it work or does it work a lot?Roast us all?Electromagnetic force fields must also be energy, I thought.The electromagnetic force field in the arena is invisible, and this electromagnetic force field can almost reflect the entire jungle on it.But when Peeta's knife touches it, when my arrow hits it, I can see it shake, and the real world is behind it. My ears are no longer ringing.It seems that this sound is the chirping of insects.The chirping of insects is rapidly weakening, and only the sounds of nature in the jungle can be heard around.Beetle hasn't recovered yet, and I can't lift him up, and I can't save him.I don't know what he's doing with the knife and the wire, and he can't explain it to me.The moss strapped to my arm is soaked with blood, and I don't have to kid myself, I'm top-heavy and will pass out soon.I gotta get away from this tree and— "Katniss!" I heard his voice even though it was far away.what is he doingIt must have been clear to Peeta that everyone has betrayed us. "Katniss!" I can't protect him.I couldn't run, I couldn't run very far, and it was doubtful that I could even shoot an arrow.The only thing I can do is to draw other people away and to me. "Peeta!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, "Peeta! I'm here! Peeta!" Yes, I'm going to draw them, everyone around me, away from Peeta and to me Come on, the lightning tree will soon be a weapon. "I'm here! I'm here!" With his bad legs and the darkness of night, he couldn't run, and he could never run in the short time limit. "Peta!" My shouting worked.I could hear them running towards me, the two of them walking through the jungle.I had no strength left, and knelt down beside Bit, the bow and arrow still in my hand.If I can take them out, can Peeta take on the others? Inobelli and Finnick come to the Lightning Tree.They couldn't see me because I was on the hillside with black ointment on my body.My arrow flew towards Inobeli's neck.If I'm lucky enough to kill her, Finnick will hide behind a tree just as the lightning will come and hit him, and the lightning will come at any moment.Now the insect's cry is very weak, only once or twice.I can finish them now, kill them both. Another cannon shot. "Katniss!" Peeta called out to me in a mournful voice.But this time, I didn't answer.Beet was lying on the ground next to me, breathing weakly.He and I will die soon.Finnick and Inoberry will die too.Peeta will survive.Two cannon shots were heard.Bluto, Johanna, Chaff.Two of them have died.Peeta only needs to kill one "tribute" to win.That's all I can do.Only one enemy remains for Peeta. enemy.enemy.The word brought back memories of Haymitch scowling, "Katniss, when you were in the arena..." I still remember his serious, unforgiving expression. "What?" Knowing that he was going to accuse me again, my voice became stiff. "You remember who your enemy is," Haymitch said, "and that's all." This is the last piece of advice Haymitch gave me.Why do I need his reminder?I always knew who my enemy was.They are the ones who torment us in the arena and kill us, soon to kill everyone I love. When I finally understood the meaning of these words, I lowered the bow and arrow in my hand.Yes, I know who our enemy is, and it's not Inobeli. My eyes fell on the knife in Bit's hand again, and I pulled the metal wire from the knife, wrapped it around the arrow's tail feathers, and tied it tightly in a knot the way I learned in training. I stood up and turned to the electromagnetic force field, fully exposing myself, but I was no longer afraid.All I know is to point the arrow at one place, and if Bit could choose, the knife in his hand would also be thrown at that place.I raised my bow and arrow, aiming at that flashing square, that slit... what did they call it that day?Hidden in a slit in the shield.The arrow in my hand flew out, and I saw it hit the outer shield, and then disappeared, flying out with the wire behind it. Immediately my hair stood on end, and lightning caught the tree. A white light flashed across the metal wire, and for a moment, the dome of the sky glowed with a dazzling blue light. I was thrown to the ground, my eyes were wide open, my body could not move, and some feathery objects fell from the sky.I can't reach Peeta, I can't even reach out for my pearls.I opened my eyes wide and wanted to take one last look at this beautiful world and take the view away. In the moments before the explosion, I saw actual stars.