Teresa won't starve

"Someone gave it to me. But it's no longer available."

Obviously not long ago, he was thinking of finding a chance to return it to the other party, but Teresa used it not long ago.

But she didn't feel regretful either, because sooner or later these disaster stones would be used up, and at worst, she would use other things to make up for it.

"correct!"

Teresa suddenly remembered that since the liquefied Xi was extracted from the Xi ore, and the Xi ore was an ore produced under the influence of the curse stone.

So can it be understood that it is easier to get the curse stone here?

So Teresa told her about the idea.

"You want the curse stone?"

Alicia didn't ask her what she wanted this thing for. Compared with the previous two's views on the curse stone, she was relatively simpler and clearer.

She stretched out her right hand to Teresa, and spread her palm upwards.

"What?"

Of course Teresa didn't understand.

"Remuneration! Do you think I'm working for you for nothing? If you want to get the disaster stone, you must at least pay the minimum price." At this moment, Alicia fully revealed the mercenary nature of the hunter.

At the same time, it also gave Teresa a deeper understanding of her downward limit:

"By the way, as long as you pay the starting price, I can do anything for you."

Teresa looked disbelieving:

"anything?"

Alicia looked at her meaningfully:

"anything!"

"..."

Teresa was silent for a while, then pointed to the bed next to her: "Then sleep with me tonight?"

"Are you sure you want this?"

"Ugh..."

Then--

"Stop!! I'm kidding!!!"

Teresa hurriedly covered her eyes and ran out. If she stayed any longer, her brain would have to shut down.Alicia, who stayed behind and took off half of her face, was full of boredom.

1443 "Leak"

Blink of an eye is a week later.

During this period, Alicia did not forget to inquire about matters related to Teresa when she was on a mission.

It's a pity that neither the refugees from other places nor the well-equipped convoy have ever met, and even individual outsiders have never appeared.

Fortunately, she doesn't lack that bite, so it's okay for Teresa to stay at her house temporarily.

On the contrary, Teresa wanted to move out.

Not only because it is inconvenient, but also because this is someone else's house, and it is not easy for her to do some dangerous experiments; what's more, even if it is cheating food and drinking, she can't let such a person come.

So I found an opportunity to report this to Alicia.

"It's not that simple."

Alicia can also understand, after all, there is no privacy.Just thinking about Zulag's current situation, he shook his head again and said, "Don't think about that, you stay with me for a while, and I'll send you to another place when I have a chance."

"what happened?"

Teresa doesn't understand, isn't it just moving?

"Well, it's not a big deal."

Seeing her appearance, Alicia knew that if she didn't explain, she would probably think of other ways.In order to avoid any trouble, Alicia decided to tell her.

"Where do I start..."

Due to living in the cold wild for a long time, the evil ghost has slowly evolved a physique capable of adapting to the cold.But relatively will also be very resistant to warm places.

This also led to the fact that unless there was no choice, the Scourge would rarely attack Zulag in an organized manner.

Under such stability, Zulag's population growth rate inevitably began to rise, making the population density getting closer and closer to the limit of the city.

In order to accommodate more residents, but also to increase the living space.

In addition to the uninterrupted excavation to expand and narrow the intervals between houses, Zulag's upper floors also drive out those who are 'unfit' to stay in the city.

So there was a 'sick village' dedicated to receiving prisoners.

It can be said that any prisoner who entered the "sick village" was almost no different from being sentenced to death.Either freeze to death or starve to death, or be killed by hunters on the way to become a scourge.

Few scourges survived by luck.

far away...

Due to the population and housing density of Zulag, there are not many remaining residential houses until now.

Therefore, in order to reduce the waste of space, the upper echelons of Zulag introduced a policy - minors are prohibited from renting houses on their own.

In other words, if Teresa wanted to move out, she had to find another guardian to live with her.Or as a homeless orphan living in a shelter.

But then Teresa would have to be under control, instead of living in Alicia's house free.

It's like not being allowed to enter a hotel without an ID card.

"So, you'd better live with me first. We'll talk about this when we have a chance."

Just mentioning this incident, Alicia also remembered: "Oh, yes! According to the above statement, I am actually your guardian. So, little girl Teresa, do you know what you should call me?"

"Aunt?"

"It's my sister!!!"

......

Alicia's home, that is, above the lower civilian residential area.The industrial area located on the third underground floor of Zulag is also the main industrial class for extracting Liquefy.

Still busy but orderly as usual.

But because Lihuaxi itself is not a completely pure energy source, everyone who works here has to wear extremely heavy metal protective clothing, which looks like an iron can returned from the wasteland.

This also causes people who wear it inside to be stuffy and out of breath.It is necessary to regularly go to the safe area to take off the helmet to prevent various accidents such as overheating shock, which will cause losses that no one wants to see.

Today is no exception.

"It's shift time again?"

Hawk, who was in charge of guarding outside the purification furnace, looked down at the mechanical watch on the back of his hand.When you see the pointer above noon, you know that the day's work is temporarily high.

That's right.

They work half a day during the day and half a night at night, with four people replacing each other.

It not only ensures that there will be no unattended situation in the middle, but also ensures that the staff themselves will not be too tired.There is relatively sufficient time to rest every day.

It's a pity that even so, this burden is a huge test for them.

At least the elderly will definitely not be able to do it.

"Minn, it's time to go."

But Hawke is still young, and there is nothing wrong with his body.Apart from the uncomfortable heat, I didn't feel that my life was affected much, and it was fine to live like this for the time being.

It's just that after he finished shouting, he didn't hear the response from inside, so he hurriedly turned around and looked through the only small round glass where he could see the inside, knocking on the glass while looking for his companion in the purification furnace:

"Minn! What's wrong with you? Answer me! Where are you? I can't see you!"

It's a pity that the small round window can only see the stopped production line inside, and there is no humanoid object at all.

He also didn't notice that a viscous emerald green liquid, which should have been completely sealed in the middle of the door, slowly spread a layer near the soles of his shoes.

1444 "Pollution body"

Quack——

With the sound of a valve being opened, two people who had already put on protective clothing walked out of the clean room leading to the safe area.

Carefully walking across the suspended bridge made of metal mesh and steel bars, they suddenly felt a shaking coming from their feet; they had to hold on to the handrails and squat on the spot when they couldn't stand stably, and they didn't stand up straight again until the shaking stopped.

"Was that just an earthquake?"

The person walking on the right lowered his head and looked down, but unfortunately all he saw was a black abyss that seemed to have a bottom and seemed to have no bottom.

His companion shook his head: "I don't know. Keep going."

The two quickly walked over the short suspended iron bridge, bypassed the watchtower in the middle, and came to the work area.It's just strange that I didn't see my former companions. Normally, they should stand here early in the morning waiting for the handover of work.

This made the two who had never encountered emergencies a little uncertain.

"Why don't you wait here first?"

"Wait for what?"

The person who spoke at the beginning was relatively irritable.While he was a little less calm, he was a little braver than his companions: "Wait any longer, you will be fined if you delay the construction period. Let's go! Let's go over and see what they are doing."

Companions have no choice but to follow.

Then they came to the purification furnace used to initially obtain Lihuaxi puree, and saw the iron door that was opened but not closed for some reason, and there was an unknown green slime flowing all over the place beside the door.

"Oops!"

The two immediately understood that something was wrong.

It's just that the one on the right obviously reacted faster. Almost the moment he realized this, he carried a heavy load into the purification furnace.

The companions around him didn't even have time to stop him.

"Small--"

After hesitating for a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and rushed in.

As a result, as soon as he entered the purification furnace, he saw something flying past him.Before he even realized what it was, he heard—

Bang! !

Turning around subconsciously, I realized that it was a squeezed and deformed iron can.

It seemed that he was thrown out by a very strong guy, and his whole body was completely embedded in the metal inner wall of the purification furnace, and blood gushed out of the gap like a plastic-wrapped ketchup that was squeezed.

"!!!"

This shocking scene, which he had never seen since he was born, shocked him in a daze.He didn't turn his head until he heard a breathing sound next to his ear.

It was a person who still had a lot of green mucus remaining all over his body, and his blue skin was covered with old age-like wrinkles.But judging from the face, it is still possible to recognize that it is a 'person'.

More like a corpse than a living person.

"Meter......"

puff!

A slender old blue finger ignored the hard metal shell of the helmet.If it is pierced back and forth like tofu, life ceases to be active.

......

"Um!?"

Theresa, who was still resting her cheeks, was bored looking at the 'children's book' that Alicia had found.Suddenly, without warning, she patted the table and stood up, scaring Alicia who was manicuring her nails and almost cut off her fingers.

Fortunately, she responded in a timely manner, and because of the calluses on her fingers from using the sword for many years, she did not suffer any injuries.

"What's wrong with you? You jumped up suddenly, which scared me."

"I'm just tired ass and want to stand up for a while."

Teresa ran the train with her mouth full of proficiency, but her mind wandered to other places.

At that moment just now, a carrier of the Houkai energy entered her sensing range; although the concentration of the carrier's Houkai energy was not very strong, it was already higher than most fighters and evil ghosts, and it was close to The level of dirty ghosts.

"Oh, is that so?"