Thanks for the invitation. I am a parasite in Terra.

She put away her smiling expression, then held her skirt with some self-blame, gently stroking the lines on it.

"Next time, I will be really careful so that you don't get hurt."

[Laurentina.....]

"I know, Zuo Jian, so..."

[Laurentina?]

"After all... you are actually worried about me..."

[Laurentina!]

[Can you let go first? And don't bury your head in here!]

"....don't want."

[Let go!]

Zuo Jian struggled to break free, but was held tightly by the latter, who kept rubbing against him.

Chapter 19, Will the C language shark meet the biological light bulb tentacles?

In the endless wilderness, the sun gradually sets, and the cold light gray-blue gradually swallows up the sunset until the cold and darkness completely cover the entire earth.

Compared with the heat of the day, the coldness of the night seems to come from another world.

Temperature

The drastic changes have created such a harsh environment.

Laurentina walked on the cracked land, turned her head and looked at the half-broken human skeleton left.

The clothes on the other person had long since weathered into pieces of cloth, and the bones of his lower body were missing.

It was probably taken away by a wild beast in the wilderness.

The head was half buried in the loess, and the exposed half-broken cuticle seemed to be telling them its seeds.

[Sarkaz people, there are many racial branches, but no matter which kind of Sarkaz, their physical fitness is stronger than most ordinary races, they are highly adaptable to Originium and are easily infected with Ore Disease.]

Zuo Jian opened the Terra Guide on Laurentina's waist, and then found the country called Kazdel.

"It's very easy to be infected with mineral sickness... But after the infected person dies, won't the body quickly crystallize and then explode and become a new source of infection? How could he——"

Laurentina stepped forward and looked at the battered bones in front of her, but she did not find any trace of Originium crystals.

[It’s simple. He is not infected.]

The tentacles reached into the yellow sand and found a hunting knife that was about the length of a person's forearm.

"Sarkaz... are not infected... they are really rare."

Laurentina was a little surprised. According to her understanding of the various countries on Terra, perhaps only one out of ten infected people was a Sarkaz.

But eleven infected people can be found out of ten Sarkaz.

Another one is kept privately.

[It means he has been trying his best to avoid getting involved in battles or disputes. Look at this.]

Zuo Jian showed the found hunting knife to Laurentina.

"What's wrong with this? It's just average size, and doesn't look like a weapon suitable for combat."

Laurentina took the hunting knife and weighed it for a moment.

The material is average, the hardness is average, the forging technique is average, and the aging is extremely serious.

[Yes, it is indeed not suitable for fighting. When walking in the wilderness, if it is used as the main weapon, this hunting knife that is only half the length of an arm will have almost no advantage when encountering robbers using long swords or bows.]

[As a weapon for sneak attacks, it is a bit too long, and it is not as concealed as a short knife or dagger, and it is not as unexpected when it is used.]

[Choosing this as a weapon shows that its owner is almost as good as an amateur in terms of combat or confrontation. This knife doesn't even have a blood groove or reverse toothed edge to ensure secondary damage to the wound when it is pulled out.]

[The only place where it can be used is probably when it is used to split brush or skin prey during hunting.]

[.....it's a pity.]

Laurentina looked at the weapon in her hand and asked in confusion.

"Zajian, why do you feel regretful?"

She was about to continue asking questions, but suddenly she caught a glimpse of the corpse's head out of the corner of her eye.

The curved demon horns seemed to be roaring at her.

“Wait….Kazdel…Sarkaz….what do you mean?!”

Laurentina seemed to understand something.

[The information I have seen is that the living environment of almost every Sarkaz is extremely difficult, and the civil war is extremely serious, and most of the Sarkaz live as mercenaries.]

[But the owner of this corpse...]

Zuo Jian raised his tentacles, and then they quickly expanded, as if four huge fox tails had emerged behind Laurentina.

They burrow into the ground, dig a hole, and then fill it with the bones.

[He was lucky enough to avoid mineral sickness, and tried his best to avoid fighting and disputes.]

The tip of the tail gently lifted the scraps of clothing on the ground.

The rags were made of very rough plant fibers, with crooked marks of stitching on them.

[The fact that he appeared here meant that he wanted to stay away from disputes completely.]

[He almost succeeded. From what I understand, just being able to escape the battle and avoid infection is a rare feat.]

[So I feel sorry... He is like this, but he still can't escape the pursuit of fate.]

Click.

Zuo Jian buried the corpse, and then placed the "unqualified" weapon next to the soil, which symbolized that its owner had only a layman's understanding of fighting.

The half-baked weapon stood there quietly, as if representing something he was defending.

"Zajian, do you believe in such a thing as fate?"

Laurentina looked at the small bulge in the dirt.

Along the way, they had actually seen quite a few such corpses.

Zuo Jian also buried them one by one, so that now he could skillfully control the four huge blood tails to dig up the soil and bury the corpses in just a few tens of seconds.

She said there were too many corpses to bury them all.

He said, since it was passing by, he might as well do something along the way.

He also said that she didn't have to worry about it and just kept moving forward. It was a waste of her time for her to stop and say something every time.

The separated flesh and blood can do this and then catch up with her.

However, every time she did not continue walking forward alone, but always stayed by his side.

However, this time, it seemed like the first time she heard him say

So-called--

The word "destiny".

[Is it fate...Laurentina, for me——]

Zuojian retracted his tentacles and followed Laurentina into the darkness again.

[Only things that have ended can be called fate.]

[Things that have not yet ended, or there are still people walking on the road that continues to move forward.]

[It should be called the future, or hope.]

"then you?"

[My fate is left to others to describe. When I die one day, I will let others describe my whole life. Then I will let them say, "This is Zuo Jian's fate." As for now.]

[I am still alive, so I believe in the future.]

"Left room..."

"...Don't worry, we deep-sea hunters can even kill "Gods"! How can we be described as timid and cowardly like Cricket Fate!"

"That's why I don't believe that thing exists. If it does exist, I'll saw it to pieces!"

Laurentina said this and raised her middle finger to the sky.

[Really? That's really reliable, our deep-sea hunter... Wait, where did you learn that hand gesture?]

Zuo Jian was stunned, watching Laurentina making the middle finger gesture.

"You learned it from the book you brought with you. When you come to land, you have to adapt to the local customs, right?"

[Don't follow the local customs in such a strange place!]

Zuo Jian forced Laurentina to retract her middle finger.

[Tsk, why don’t you learn other foreign languages? How can you learn something like this so quickly?]

"Huh?! Don't underestimate me! I read that book before and I understand a lot of common languages ​​in other countries."

[for example?]

Laurentina touched her chin, thought for a moment, and then began the talent show.

"*Longmen swear words*,*Yanguo swear words*,*Iberia swear words*,*Ursus swear words*."

[Stop, stop, stop!]

Now it was Zuo Jian's turn to lose patience and he immediately stopped the other person from reading out the dishes.

The ribbons of her skirt floated up and brushed off the dust.

Then, a tentacle stretched out, grew a pupil, and looked at Laurentina from a distance.

Zuo Jian synchronized the vision of that eyeball to Laurentina.

[What did you see?]

"Uh? Myself?"

I don't quite understand.

[Lifting her skirt, she turns left and right.]

Laurentina did so.

[What do you see now?]

"... myself holding up my skirt?"

[Wrong! It's a girl! Look carefully, Laurentina! You are now a girl wearing a long skirt, and you look elegant at all times! Even if we are crossing the wilderness.]

[That’s good! It’s not that girls can’t swear, but they can’t just use a series of smooth little combos like you do!]

"Hmm, that sounds familiar."

"It seems like Swordfish is always nagging me. Something like pay attention to basic posture and word choice."

[Then why haven't you changed yet? Am I more lenient with you than your captain?]

Zuo Jian asked somewhat helplessly.

"If I can change, Swordfish won't keep nagging me, right?"

Laurentina spread her hands and gave a straightforward smile.

[...]

After she finished speaking, she continued walking forward as if nothing had happened.

Until suddenly I felt something was wrong with the soles of my feet.

"Left room, left room, don't worry about those things for now, there seems to be some marks here."

At this moment, the sky had completely darkened, and Laurentina seemed unable to see clearly what the marks were under her feet.

[Mark? Let me take a look.]

"By the way, can you still see at night?"