Ark Journey

"Ah."

After accompanying Provence to communicate with the leader of the camp about the natural disasters nearby, Provence took the reward given by that man and went to the supply area.

Her main purpose this time was to buy some food, medicine and fuel. Although she had the potions given by Xue Zhi, those were good things that could only be used in emergencies.

The food and fuel were fine, everything was normal, but the medicines here really surprised Xue Zhi.

In addition to the normal medicines, he once again saw the black medicine that W once carried with him, as well as more medicines that claimed to be able to suppress mineralogy, but were expensive and had strange appearances and smells.

Chapter 9: The Work of the Scourge Messenger

Xue Zhi frowned as she watched the salesperson take out a medicine that gave off a strange smell.

Although he had encountered infected people before, the Sarkaz in Kazdel generally had a high adaptability and tolerance to Originium, and he did not have much communication with those he met in the wilderness. This was the first time he saw the situation of ordinary infected people.

The means to truly suppress or weaken mineralogy are in the hands of large companies and are basically inaccessible to ordinary people.

So they can only rely on painkillers and their bodies to endure it.

"Do you usually eat these when you have an attack of mineral sickness?"

"Ah."

Afterwards, Xue Zhi learned that there were better medicines available, and the salary of the Scourge Messenger was also very high, but it was still not enough compared to the cost of treating mineral sickness, not to mention that Provence would send money home.

Provence, who had bought the things, happily returned to his car with his bags.

After being away from the camp for a distance, Xue Zhi replaced a lot of medicines and piled them on the back seat of the jeep. His medicine point was finally of some use.

"I wanted to give these to you before I left, but forget it. Just use these from now on. Although this weird stuff is effective, you should eat less of it. Who knows what side effects it may have."

Looking at the pile of medicines on the back seat, Provence tried to refuse.

"How can I do that? I've already taken so much of your stuff, and these medicines don't look cheap at all."

Xue Zhi still waved her hand casually.

Although he can't help everyone, he can still help whoever he sees.

"It's okay, just consider it as paying tuition fees. Besides, this stuff is really cheap for me. And you may not know my name. Every time I met someone on the road, I would leave a lot of things with them. Some of them even called me 'God'."

Apparently Provence hadn't heard the rumors about him.

Unable to refuse, she thanked him softly:

"Thank you, thank you."

"It's a small matter. Where are we going next?"

When talking about his expertise, Provence immediately became energetic.

"There is a place in the north where a large-scale natural disaster may occur. A natural disaster messenger passed by before and determined that a natural disaster may occur there. I received some orders to assist in the observation."

Xue Zhi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately asked:

"Then who will the Originium produced by this natural disaster belong to?"

"First come, first served. However, if it is a major natural disaster, even a large mobile city-state cannot swallow it all, so there will basically be no disputes. Everyone will mine as much as possible."

"That's it."

Xue Zhi nodded. He secretly glanced at his own points and thought that he could try it when the time comes, hoping not to scare anyone.

At this moment, there was a sound of flapping wings suddenly coming from the sky. Xue Zhi stretched his arm out of the window, and Alpha, tired of flying, landed directly on his arm.

It was holding a small snake in its mouth.

Looking at Alpha who tilted his head towards her, Xue Zhi smiled.

"I won't eat it, you eat it, but remember to finish it outside and don't dirty other people's cars."

After eating the little snake, Alpha, who did not carry a camera this time, pointed forward with his wings.

"Is there anyone in front?"

Provence on the side was very surprised that Xue Zhi could understand what Alpha meant.

“You understand this too?”

"Yes, I got a book about animal training before, which describes it in great detail."

"I see."

Not long after, they met the people that Alpha had seen.

There were a few relatively normal motorcycles parked around them. They hadn't set up camp or started a fire. They were just sitting on the ground, and no one knew what they were doing.

Provence, who had little to say, changed direction and tried to bypass them.

But they soon surrounded the jeep on motorcycles.

Seeing this, Provence had to stop the car.

When they saw the car stopped, they surrounded it with machetes and crossbows.

One of them suddenly caught sight of the various supplies placed on the back seat, and whispered something to the man who should be their boss.

Xue Zhi could clearly see that man's eyes were constantly flashing with greed.

Sure enough, the man came to the window and said to Provence:

"Hey, little girl, you know you have to pay a toll to pass through here."

Provence frowned, but seeing that there were so many people on the other side, she decided to spend money to avoid disaster.

"How much do you want?"

The bandit leader rubbed his hands and said in a sympathetic voice:

"Not much, just give us half of the stuff you put in the back."

Provence's eyes widened when he heard that amount.

"Why don't you go and grab it!"

When she shouted, the remaining robbers burst into laughter.

"Little girl, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. It's good enough that we didn't ask you to play with us for a few days."

"That's right, you really haven't seen the world. In our line of work, what we ask for is considered small! If it were someone else, they would have smashed your car long ago!"

"Look, that man has a feather beast in his hand. I haven't eaten roasted feather beast meat for a long time."

"Then ask him to hand over the feathered beast as well, otherwise don't blame us for being cruel and ruthless."

Xue Zhi, who had been silent the whole time, saw that Provence's hands were gripping the steering wheel more and more tightly. He was in a good mood and had no intention of killing anyone, so he gave up the idea of paying some money to let the matter go.

What's more, they want to eat Alpha.

Leaving Alpha in the car, Xue Zhi got out alone and stretched herself amid a barrage of insults and threats.

Only one robber stepped forward, pointed the knife at him and shouted:

"Hey, do you want to die? Hand over that feathered beast!"

The other robbers still did not realize the seriousness of the situation, and even underestimated the enemy and took their hands off the trigger of the crossbow.

The same thing went for the bandit leader, who leaned on the car window and kept scanning Provence, his greedy eyes filled with lust.

"Little girl, have you thought about it? If you don't hand over those things, your friends might be in trouble. It won't be so easy to leave then."

Provence tried hard to resist the urge to take out his crossbow and shoot him with an arrow while watching Xue Zhi getting off the car.

"Xue Zhi, let's..."

The next second, accompanied by a head rising into the sky and a fountain of blood, thick ice instantly wrapped the jeep.

Provence, who couldn't see what was happening outside, could only hear the sound of swords entering flesh and arrows hitting ice.

And the constant screams.

She suddenly remembered what he said when she first met Xue Zhi.

"Don't look at me like this, I'm still quite good at fighting."

In less than 30 seconds, all the sounds outside disappeared, the ice melted, and Xue Zhi, who hadn't changed much from when she got off the car, opened the car door.

Provence saw that the robbers who had been so arrogant just now had all turned into headless knights lying on the ground, with their limbs and internal organs scattered everywhere, and the flowing blood even formed a small river.

A breeze blew, blowing away the bloody smell that was invading the car.

"Let's go, it's all settled."

"Ah."

Chapter 10: Pompeii

When setting up camp at night, Xue Zhi thought that after seeing such a bloody scene, Provence's opinion of him would change, but it didn't.

I can only sigh that it is indeed a wolf walking alone in the wilderness.

Under the light of the matchbox, Provence was teaching Xue Zhi the knowledge needed to be a messenger of natural disasters.

Faced with those natural disaster judgment equations that connected mathematics, geography, physics, chemistry, and some biological knowledge, even Xue Zhi's currently strengthened brain still felt it difficult to proceed.

He suddenly felt like he was back in high school math class, the kind of feeling where he bent down to pick up a pen.

Provence put away the books he had brought with him, glanced at Xue Zhi, who was almost burning out, and said:

"Alright, let's stop here today. I don't think you, Xue Qi, will be able to listen any further."

Faced with the notes that looked like a hieroglyphic book, Xue Zhi, who had just boasted before, scratched her hair in embarrassment.

"Um, can you lend me your book so I can copy it?"

He estimated that he would not be able to learn these, but it would be no problem to record them and bring them to the Integration Movement so that those with talent among them can learn them.

Provence agreed readily.

"Okay."

So Xue Zhi copied the book all night, including Provence's notes.

The next day they successfully met the messenger of the disaster who discovered the signs of the disaster.

"Hello, senior, I am reporting to you from Provence."

"You arrived just in time. Who is this? I remember there should be only one person coming to support us."

"Hello, I'm just an ordinary traveler."

While they were using all sorts of incomprehensible formulas to calculate the likelihood of natural disasters, Xue Zhi, who also wanted to contribute, mainly wanted to find out whether there were really Originiums that could be exchanged for points, so she went ahead to collect samples of wild animals and some minerals as requested by the older messenger.

After shaking off the bloodstains on [Fusang], Xue Zhi collected the dead sand beast on the ground into the space.

It was much more aggressive than the same species Xue Zhi usually saw, which might be related to the sudden increase in the concentration of Originium in the air.

Alpha, who was standing on a tree and watching, took off again when he saw the battle was over, looking for new prey.

Following Alpha's flight trajectory, Xue Zhi quickly captured five or six large Originium worms and three or four other infected creatures and returned home.

His bag also contained quite a few mineral samples and a protective suit.

The bag was also given to me, it can block the radiation of Originium.

Only when they got near the camp did Xue Zhi put on the protective suit.

In front of the older courier's car filled with all kinds of equipment, he pointed to the pile of animal carcasses and backpacks on the ground and said:

"I brought these as you requested."

The older courier nodded excitedly at the sight of so many samples.

"Thank you for your help. Provence, let's quickly test the Originium content in these."

"learn."

While they went to work, Xue Zhi fed Alpha some purification potion to prevent it from being infected.

Then he began to copy the book that the older messenger had not had time to take back. These were all valuable knowledge.

"Looking at the Originium content in these samples, and substituting the parameters into the calculation, the scope of this natural disaster will be very large. We haven't even calculated the limit yet."

“Such a large range… is it possible?”