Chapter 94

Wen Xin raised his ears and listened. There was more than one sound of iron hammering in the huge factory, but only the one in the deepest part was continuous and huge, deafening.

When you get close, you can even feel the ground shaking.

The little walrus tried to sense it.

After several seconds, it said hesitantly, "I don't sense any mutants in there."

But this seems even more bizarre.

Could it be that the person forging iron inside is a human?

In this extremely dangerous polluted area, there are still people working as ironsmiths here?

Wen Xin continued to carefully explore around the factory.

The lock of the back door was violently damaged by unknown creatures, and the lock core was stuck in the keyhole. The other eight windows were tightly sealed with iron plates or wire mesh. Forcible dismantling would probably cause quite a noise.

Leaning on the window sill and looking inside through the gaps in the wire mesh, my vision was blocked by debris, but I could vaguely see various busy figures, all wearing protective clothing.

The style of the protective suit is exactly the same as the one Wen Xin is wearing.

Are those the missing rat workers? Or the previous batch of trainers?

Wen Xin didn't think about it for long.

He made a bold and effective decision.

"We'll go straight in through the main entrance."

The Scales Viper grinned, his eyes igniting a fire of war, "That's just what I want."

Knock knock.

There was a knock on the factory door, and the busy workers inside stopped their work one after another.

The knocking on the door continued. They talked to each other for a few words, and the one closest to the door reached out to unlock the chain on the door.

As soon as the door lock loosened, a thin and bony hand stretched out from the gap in the door, instantly clamped the worker's arm, and pulled it behind his waist.

Wen Xin said quickly, "Sorry to bother you."

The workers just stood there staring at him stupidly, luckily they didn't react.

The next second, they suddenly screamed "Ahhhhhhhh", dropped the wrenches and hammers in their hands, and ran in an orderly manner to the back room of the factory!

The Scaled Viper was about to strike: "?"

There were many enemies who turned and ran away after being frightened by its power, but I had never seen anyone run so fiercely.

It didn't even have time to release the pressure.

The man captured by Wen Xin was also struggling constantly. Seeing that he had little desire to fight back, Wen Xin loosened his grip and the man immediately ran out using both his hands and feet.

In the blink of an eye, all those people disappeared without a trace.

The green ball held its claws high in the air, looking around blankly, unable to find a target to attack, so it had to put them down, its mouth twitching non-stop: "What on earth are they doing here?"

“Don’t take it lightly.”

Wen Xin did not lose his vigilance. He walked into the factory with his gun in hand, analyzing in an orderly manner: "They ran quickly without any hesitation, which shows that they subconsciously believed that there was something inside that could provide them with protection."

"A-Lu, under what circumstances would you not be able to sense the aura of the mutant?"

The Scales Viper frowned and said, "Either this mutant has the ability to hide itself, and the level of this ability is very high, or..."

Its sound suddenly stopped.

Or, there must be an S-class super-dangerous complete form like them here, which can completely restrain its own aura!

The little walrus also realized this crucial point, and looking at Wen Xin walking in front of them, it hurriedly tried to grab the young man's trousers.

"No, Wen Xin, come back, it's dangerous!"

The frequent ping-pong sounds of steel being hammered inside stopped imperceptibly, and for several seconds, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Lan Tuanzi's persuasion was a step too slow. Before he finished speaking, Wen Xin's footsteps had already stepped into the inner room of the factory.

It's not that Wen Xin was not careful enough, but that he accidentally caught a glimpse of a small purple figure.

Just that one glance made Wen Xin abandon all his concerns and stride forward impatiently.

"It's him!"

The workers who had run into the house earlier crowded in a corner. When they saw Wen Xin enter the inner room, they pointed their fingers at him in panic and said, "He was the one who attacked us as soon as he appeared. He wanted to kill us!"

The second half of the sentence is purely false.

But Wen Xin no longer had time to explain anything, his attention was all on a plush ball with its back to him.

It has a small, fluffy body, not as tall as a water cup, and can be held in the palm of one hand. It has two pointed little ears, a big tail that is as thick as a plush toy, and unique purple hair.

Before Wen Xin noticed it, it was still swinging the big hammer in its claws with a grunt, and even hitting the iron with a rhythm.

Wen Xin clenched her fingers.

That's Ah Zi from their family.

There is only one in the world. It is unique.

The workers raised a high-pitched scream: "He's coming! He's coming!"

As if noticing Wen Xin's approaching figure, the little squirrel turned around and looked over, with scarlet blood in its eyes.

Wen Xin still remembered that one of the basic characteristics of a mutant going berserk was the rapid rise in hormones that caused the eyeballs to become bloodshot, presenting the red-eye symptom that often appears in movies and TV dramas.

So he didn't stop.

A few dumplings came to stop Wen Xin, and he picked them up with one hand, walking as usual.

Ah Zi just needed someone to comfort her, so how could he stop here?

The workers were at a loss, looking at Zituanzi repeatedly: "He's here, why isn't he…"

Wen Xin could almost guess what they didn't say next.

Why haven't you taken action yet?

Why don't you eliminate the enemy in front of you and protect us?

Wen Xin's eyes had always been as warm as spring, but now they showed a hint of cold resentment.

Under the workers' horrified gaze, he picked up the purple ball and put it into his arms.

"Why does it have to take action?"

Wen Xin couldn't feel how much force he used at this moment.

The palm covered with fine ropes was pressed on the back of the purple squirrel's head. A warm heat continuously came from the palm, and the tight embrace made the squirrel feel extremely safe.

It hadn't moved for a long time and couldn't help but blink.

"squeak."

Wen Xin, with a frown on his face, was suddenly grabbed by a pair of small claws that stretched out from below and had his chin grabbed.

He lowered his head and his sight met a pair of red eyes with flickering light.

The purple squirrel carefully touched the young man's face and called out again quickly: "Squeak! Squeak?"

Wen Xin was inevitably stunned for a moment, not understanding why the little squirrel suddenly cried so happily.

The three little dumplings beside him knew that the purple squirrel was saying in surprise: "It turns out that it was not my illusion, you really appeared! But why did you appear here?"

Something is not right.

The purple squirrel's state and mood are very stable, not at all like a person who has lost his self-consciousness.

The Scaled Tree Viper couldn't help but stretched out its claws and poked the Purple Squirrel's tail: "So you're not in a frenzy?"

The purple squirrel asked in confusion: "What frenzy?"

It suddenly realized that the scale viper had not just communicated via sonic waves, and said in surprise, "You are actually willing to learn human language."

The Scaled Tree Viper subconsciously retorted: "That was a special situation at the time. I didn't learn it on my own initiative anyway."

At this moment, there was a sudden burst of chaotic footsteps outside the factory, and the security personnel rushed into the room at almost full speed.

Seeing Wen Xin holding the purple squirrel in one hand, their minds went blank, and the leader's voice almost broke: "What do you want to do! Put the factory director down! We will give you whatever you want!"

What factory manager? Which factory manager?

Is there a director of the ordnance factory here?

It was rare that Wen Xin's brain did not come to its senses at the first moment. He maintained a calm expression and slowly looked down.

The other three dumplings were also looking at the purple squirrel.

The purple squirrel subconsciously changed to a comfortable position in Wen Xin's arms, met several pairs of surprised eyes, and said belatedly: "Did you misunderstand something?"

Wen Xin raised his head.

The guard held his breath, his face full of anger, his hands holding the gun trembling.

If they were also furry little animals, all the hair on their bodies would probably have exploded into dandelions by now.

Looking at the workers behind him, one by one they picked up the shovels and hammers on the ground.

Ever since Wen Xin took the purple squirrel into his arms, they have been in this state of shock and anger.

It was as if Wen Xin had touched their vitals.

"..." Wen Xin said slowly, "Maybe there are some misunderstandings."

But it was easy to clear up the misunderstanding.

The purple squirrel lay in the young man's arms in a relaxed manner, and even looked a little bit enjoying it, which was the best proof that it was not being threatened.

The security guard half-knelt on the ground, looking anxiously at the little squirrel curled up in Wen Xin's arms: "That time when we cooperated with Desire Market, you were involved and almost got hurt. We are too embarrassed to see you again."

Another security guard apologized and said, "There was a reason for our visit today. We saw a lot of mutants that were killed along the way. We thought that people from the Desire Market had once again infiltrated the factory area and intended to attack you."

It's no wonder they think this way.

Even if an ordinary person is fully equipped, he cannot deal with so many mutants at once, and kill them all in just a few hours.

As for the mutants around Wen Xin.

Please forgive these security guards for their lack of knowledge. The recruitment notice has been posted for more than ten days, and only today did they happen to recruit a real trainer.

It turns out they were all fake products and couldn't help at all.

Under such circumstances, how can the security personnel believe that Wen Xin has the ability to deal with so many mutants?

The only thing that can be thought of is that the Desire Market, which has the power to deal with mutants, is causing trouble again. After being taught a lesson, it is still unwilling to give up and wants to murder their factory director once again.

The purple squirrel suddenly realized and pointed to the worker next to him who hadn't figured out the situation yet: "Then they weren't sent here by you to help?"

Purple squirrels' cognition is slightly different from that of their guards.

At first, it stopped and walked along the way, looking for a suitable place to stay and evolve. When it reached the border of the southern region, it accidentally saw the Aurora Arms Factory that was resisting the zombie tide.

The arsenal at that time was in chaos. The concrete and steel bar walls could not bear the weight and collapsed. The falling rocks hit a person, and the broken steel bars pierced through a person's chest, and blood was all over the ground.

A dozen zombies broke in through the breach and started biting anyone they caught.

There were screams and howls everywhere, and the terrifying chewing sounds never stopped.

The purple squirrel has been doing good things along the way.

It's not that it wants to do good things, but it is using doing good things to remind itself not to fall into its murderous nature.

So when the purple squirrel saw that tragic scene, he rushed over without thinking.

An A-class mutant with strength close to that of an S-class, it easily dispersed ordinary zombies that had not yet evolved.

It saved a middle-aged man who, according to the man himself, was the director of the arms factory and the only remaining member of management.

After the apocalypse, the noise from the equipment manufactured in the armory was so loud that all the zombies wandering around the city's border areas and surrounding areas were attracted.

Someone broke out with equipment, saying he was looking for reinforcements, but he never came back.

After several waves of zombies appeared in succession, someone realized that something was wrong, quickly organized people, took away a lot of weapon design drawings and arms/ammunition, and turned to the Desire Market.

The director, with limited authority, was unable to stop them, and the arms factory was nearly emptied by them.

Before the purple squirrel showed up, the arms factory was already on its last legs. Without a sudden helping hand from the other side, it would have fallen.

After learning the whole story, the purple squirrel stayed. It found that forging iron was very tiring and it was a good way to use up the energy that was overflowing in its body.

To put it bluntly, it means exhausting your body to the extreme and not having the energy to go crazy.

At that time, many mechanical equipment stopped working due to lack of electricity. The people who stayed here could only helplessly make subsequent weapons to fight against the zombies by hand.

It sounds incredible.

But just like those great men long ago who used an abacus to calculate the data of nuclear bombs, the conditions were limited and they could only find ways to create conditions to obtain the resources to survive.

Purple squirrels play iron with people.

As the fight went on, everyone stopped and looked at the little squirrel who was swinging the hammer like a fire wheel, with millions of dots of shock on their faces.

It didn't take more than two or three days for the director to respectfully call Purple Squirrel Factory Director.

The cooperation between the Arms Factory and Desire Market was an accident, but also a necessity.

The machinery can continue to operate if it is restored to a continuous power supply, but people must have food and drink, and enough salt. They can plant crops and grow food, but there are no seeds.

The Desire Market is backed by the First Base and has almost monopolized all the resources in this area. The materials that humans rely on for survival need to be obtained from the market.

The result was that during that cooperation, a traitor appeared in the arms factory.

The existence of the purple squirrel has been exposed.

Desire Market was studying how to control mutants, and the southern region had never encountered such a friendly mutant, so they treated it as prey without a second thought.

However, they underestimated the purple squirrel's fighting ability.

There were seven medium armored vehicles, one heavy armored vehicle, more than ten fighter planes, and a company of armed personnel lying in ambush near the arsenal.

In the end, the fighter plane was hit by a hammer and exploded due to the excessive pressure, and the fuselage was charred like charcoal. The muzzle of the armored vehicle was twisted into a knot and exploded, and the steel shell was torn apart like a piece of paper, and the inside of the cockpit was exposed like a crab with its shell removed.

Not a single armed man from the entire company survived.

The little purple ball just stretched its muscles and moved a little, and they felt the fear of the destruction of the world.

After dealing with the man, the purple squirrel stood in a pool of blood and licked its paws slowly.

It suddenly felt that it was approaching the critical point of its evolution, so it informed the dazed director and asked him to evacuate the crowd and not to approach its nest easily to avoid being accidentally injured by it.

The director was very obedient, and after that, the purple squirrel was never seen by anyone again.

It went through a smooth and safe evolutionary phase.

The only problem was that when it woke up one day, a strange red mist suddenly filled the air.

The purple squirrel's power is not yet fully stable.

It went out for a walk and found that everyone had evacuated safely, so it ran back with peace of mind and continued to hammer with the hammer.

It is used to doing things from beginning to end. There are still several artillery pieces that have not been completed in the old factory area, and it must finish them before leaving.

As a result, I was so focused and selfless that when I turned around, I saw several shivering people huddled in the corner of the factory outside.

Upon asking, I found out that they were all recruited by the arms factory.

The purple squirrel took them in first and treated them as one of their own.

Seeing that people kept following it and were unwilling to leave, it thought that the director was asking them to come over to help, so it accepted them.

The reactions of the group members were mixed.

Scaled Viper: "You have an extraordinary heart."

The little walrus grumbled, "I'm glad you're alright."

Panda: "You are pretty good."

The purple squirrel was suddenly given a good mouse card and noticed the new kid. He looked at him for a few seconds and felt a sense of familiarity because of their similar fur colors. "You are not an adult yet, are you? How old are you?"

The little panda felt the care from the elders for the first time in a long time and said positively: "Although I am not an adult yet, I am one year old!"

The purple squirrel patted its head and said, "It's still a cub."

Wen Xin carefully examined Zituanzi's body. Fortunately, Tuanzi was not covered with scales like Canary.

He believed in the abilities of the Tuanzi, but was also afraid of unexpected events. After all, even a powerful creature like the blue whale almost got into trouble.

Wen Xin said softly, "Next time, you must ask clearly first. Otherwise, what if someone takes the opportunity to attack you?"

The purple squirrel hadn't heard the young man's voice for a long time, so he calmed down and listened for a while.

It had never thought that the misunderstanding was so profound, and reflected deeply: "Maybe I was too focused during that time and didn't pay attention to other things."

Then it turned to the workers on the other side and asked suspiciously: "But why didn't you explain your identity?"

The workers were the rat workers who had gone missing before.

They were attacked by mutants, the team was dispersed, and the survivors ran forward desperately and accidentally ran into a friendly purple squirrel.

All you have to do is work harder and you'll have a place to live, food to eat, and the little squirrels to protect you.

What's wrong with this day?

Rat workers are a slang term that first circulated in the desire market to describe those odd jobs at the bottom of the social ladder.

As time went by, everyone forgot what the original official title was, and they just kept calling them "rat workers". All the menial, tiring, and life-threatening jobs were thrown to the rat workers.

They are just a group of rats living in the mud and ditches, and they want to grab even the slightest glimpse of light.

The security guard was furious: "So you deliberately concealed the factory director!"

They thought that the traitor incident had angered the factory director, causing him to no longer want to see them and even threatened that anyone who approached them would be killed.

"..." Wen Xin asked the little squirrel softly, "You said anyone who gets close will die?"

The purple squirrel was also shocked: "I'm saying that anyone who gets close might die."

After all, its mood was unstable when it was evolving and it could go crazy at any time.

In this way, at least everything is finally explained clearly.

The guards could not bear to blame the workers, so they pleaded in a low voice: "It is our fault in the final analysis. We blame ourselves and do not have the courage to come to you to ask for redemption."

"And the director, he has been blaming himself for not keeping a close watch on you, putting you in danger. He no longer trusts others during this period, and his actions have become very extreme."

"If possible, could you go out and see him? Just once would be fine..."

The purple squirrel sighed: "He has misunderstood so much, is it okay for me not to go back?"

"It just so happens that the newly made weapon doesn't have any test data yet, so let him debug it."

Wen Xin noticed very early on that in the center of the factory, on a metal rack made up of dozens of steel pillars, there was a huge object. The object was covered with dust-proof canvas, and the outline of the muzzle was faintly visible.

"Is that it?"

"Yes, I was afraid that after I left, the Arms Factory would be bullied by the desire market, so I hurried to make it."

The purple squirrel leaped over and pulled the canvas apart with its claws.

Dazzling silver light streamed out, and the giant steel structure displayed its majestic figure before everyone's eyes.

This, this thing is——!

Wen Xin was shocked.

He heard the purple squirrel ask him, "I haven't done the accounting for Desire Market yet, Wen Xin, are you interested in giving it a try?"

【Author’s words】

I was writing all the time and didn’t notice that it was late (bowed deeply 180 degrees) (flipped 360 degrees on the spot without standing firmly) (fell to the ground with a thump) QAQ

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