Poverty makes me capable of anything.

However, after Gray and Anran walked out of the house respectively...

As Eudora led Colin back into the room, she suddenly spoke up: "Is this really a good idea? Don't you value Anran a lot? The R&D center isn't a good place right now."

"There's nothing I can do." Colin's smile vanished, and he let out a long sigh.

"Compared to being by my side as a dying man, the research and development center, though chaotic, is at least a safe place. Her talent in mechanics is extremely rare, and I don't want to see her spend her energy on combat; that's too dangerous."

When this was mentioned, Eudora's face also turned gloomy.

Colin's health was not good, which was why he was so eager to try again and again to realize the technology he had "found".

If it weren't for this reason, Eudora wouldn't have gradually forgiven this middle-aged man who, despite his age, was still somewhat handsome.

After all, she had always considered Colin one of the murderers who killed her daughter.

“If possible, I would like to nurture Anran into a mechanical master far surpassing me, and I also want to watch Ella gradually get used to this world. Until then, I will try my best to live,” Colin said.

Eudora suddenly hugged him from behind.

"I'm sorry," she said, realizing she had been too willful.

As a doctor, she always seemed so powerless.

"In any case, if it weren't for the bionic tissues you developed, Ella wouldn't have been able to be resurrected so successfully," Colin sighed.

……

On the cart leading to a certain place, a charred corpse suddenly moved. The white-coated man pushing the cart suddenly exclaimed, "Wait, wait, this, this corpse just moved!"

"Damn it, what kind of ghost story is this at this hour?" someone next to him said angrily.

"It's not a ghost story, you see for yourself."

The voice in the white coat was filled with fear. He let go of the trolley and pressed himself against the wall of the passageway.

His companion in the blue hat glanced at him, unconvinced.

He was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

The corpse.

It really moved.

"Ghost, ghost, ghost..." he mumbled incoherently, his steps suddenly losing strength.

pat!

Something fell down.

The man in the blue hat instinctively picked up the object—a charred piece of meat.

"Ah! There's a ghost!" he screamed.

"Wait!" But at that moment, his companion in the white coat suddenly stopped the man in the blue hat.

"W-what's wrong?" the man in the blue hat asked in a panic.

"This person doesn't seem to be dead?" the man in the white coat said.

"Not dead? That's even more terrifying. Burned like that and still not dead?"

"No, look for yourself, the charred meat on the outside looks like a layer laid on top." The doctor in the white coat reached out and broke off another piece of meat.

"Ugh—" Blue Hat was retching.

"Bang!" The doctor in the white coat immediately slapped him on the head. "Stop vomiting. Come and help me break these chunks of meat off."

The blue hat was pulled up directly.

He glanced at it timidly and, sure enough, where the piece of flesh had fallen off, a layer of "plastic" was exposed, along with the clothes and skin underneath.

"How come this female corpse is so fat? There's even such a thing!"

They frantically pulled off the charred chunks of flesh, revealing a clear wound on the exposed abdomen. Although it was bandaged, the wound was already stained red with blood.

Precarious.

"Get him upstairs to the emergency room immediately."

"By the way, what about the other corpse?"

“That one has already been confirmed dead, so the higher-ups told us to send this one to the morgue.”

"Anyway, let's not waste any more time."

The two people pushed the cart so fast it was practically flying.

Chapter 43 Mysticism and Science

While Anran was making firearms and high-energy explosives in the workshop, there was a sudden knock on the door.

She stopped what she was doing, placed a gun barrel on the table, and then walked to the door.

"what happened?"

Standing outside the door was Gray, who had a happy expression on his face.

“I have good news for you. Eudora didn’t die; she survived,” Gray said.

"what?"

An Ran was stunned. He was burned like that and he didn't die?

"What about the store manager?" An Ran asked quickly.

"This……"

Gray fell silent.

Seeing his reaction, An Ran already knew the outcome.

Sure enough, there aren't that many good things happening in this world.

Fate seems more real in games, since many things are predetermined by the game designers.

Only as the game progresses will players have a greater impact on it, and at that point, no one knows what direction Night of the Stars will take.

"How is Eudora now?"

Gray said, "Although she survived by sheer luck, she's still in the intensive care unit and we don't know when she'll wake up. The medical staff found that she was wrapped in a layer of bionic tissue and a breathable membrane, which is why she wasn't burned to death. Colin probably did this for her before he died."

Gray sighed.

An Ran didn't know what to say, after all, her relationship with Yudora was very ordinary, not even close.

If Colin could survive too.

Such thoughts were quickly dispelled by An Ran. The dead are gone, and what she needs now is to upgrade to [Junior Mechanic] as soon as possible, so that she will have the strength to deal with Morning Star's squad.

But Eudora isn't dead yet, and this news needs to be told to Ella.

"Ding-dong! The story quest [Mysticism and Science] has been triggered. This quest will be accepted automatically."

what?

An Ran was startled by the sudden game notification.

Has a mandatory story quest been triggered?

After discussing a few more things, Anran immediately opened the game panel after Gray left.

[Story Mission] Mysticism and Science

Mission Summary: Contact the story character Eudora to unlock the storyline "Mysticism and Science".

Task reward: 1000 experience points.

Mission Level: D.

Task repeatability: unique.

"?"

This is the first time I've ever seen a task like this.

You can gain 1000 experience points simply by unlocking a certain part of the story.

I have a feeling this plot is more than it seems.

But Eudora is still in danger, so Anran has to suppress her curiosity for the time being.

The game's careful hint indicates that this is definitely a crucial plot event.

Seeing that it was getting late, Anran finished the last bit of work and packed up her things to leave the workshop.

The residence was very close to the research and development center. After returning home safely, Ella was watching TV out of boredom.

So Anran relayed the news that Eudora was still alive to her.

Ella immediately looked eager to try.

If Anran hadn't said that she wouldn't be able to see Eudora even if she went now, she probably would have run to the hospital by herself.

"When will we be able to see Eudora?"

An Ran really didn't know this. She was completely ignorant about medical knowledge and could only vaguely say, "It will be fine soon. Gray will let us know in a few days."

"Oh." Ella was a little disappointed.

But there's nothing she can do about it; she understands.

Anran was still 9000 experience points away from leveling up to Lv9, and she was so anxious that she went to the research and development center again after dinner.

However, this time she went with Ella.

Unable to dissuade Ella, Anran could only tell her not to do anything outrageous, such as suddenly grabbing a piece of metal and eating it in the workshop.

Who knows if there are any hidden cameras in the workshop? That's why An Ran never dared to do anything out of line.

He's just honestly working with machinery.

Entering the workshop went smoothly, except An Ran noticed that Morton was looking at her with a strange gaze.

"Be quiet and don't move around," Anran said.

After that, she continued making guns.