The dilapidated laboratory, the corpses all over the floor, and the weak and miserable golden fairy made Chtholly and others speechless for a moment.
Should they be treated like this?
Chtholly herself couldn't say for sure. Golden fairies were consumables, weapons to protect everyone. Others always regarded them as special secret weapons. Weapons were weapons. Should weapons have their own thoughts and ideas?
They never thought about these questions, nor did they have time to think about them, because they would always fight, fight, and fight again.
Fang Zheng stretched out his hand, and soon, a holy light descended from the sky, landing on the injured golden fairies, and then quickly healed their wounds.
"Let's go, get out of here."
Fang Zheng hooked his finger, then leaped out of the hole again. The golden fairies were also put into bubbles and followed Fang Zheng away. Seeing this, the three of them looked at each other and hurriedly followed.
When the four of them left the castle with the golden fairies, they immediately discovered that several airships were surrounding them above the castle.
"What on earth do you want to do? Wing Guard Army!"
The voice coming from the loudspeaker sounded exasperated.
"This is the capital of Elpes. How dare you trespass like this..."
"Ignore him."
Fang Zheng didn't even look at the airship, and left with the other golden fairies. Chtholly and the other two followed behind him, but they were also silent. They didn't have to follow him, after all, Fang Zheng just said that he would be back soon. But now, not only did they come here for nothing, but they were also involved in a troublesome situation. Although the three of them didn't understand politics very well, they knew that invading other countries at will and wreaking havoc in the royal city would definitely bring serious consequences.
However...it's already been done, there's no point in regretting it.
When Fang Zheng and his companions returned to their own airship, Officer Lizard and others also came to the deck.
"What happened?"
Seeing Fang Zheng and others descending from the sky with a few golden goblins, the lizard officer asked with a serious expression.
"Elpes violated the treaty!"
Chtholly was obviously very angry, not only because Elpes had violated the treaty, but also because of the treatment her compatriots had received.
"They secretly imprisoned the golden fairies and did some bad things to them!"
Chtholly wasn't quite sure what those people were doing, but based on what she had seen before, it was enough for her to give a fairly reliable answer.
Although strictly speaking this answer is not reliable.
"So what did you do?"
“We didn’t do anything.”
In this regard, Aisiya was much smarter than Chtholly, and she waved her hand quickly.
"The young man was much faster than us. When we went there, he directly broke into the royal city of Elpes, rushed in and rescued the people... uh... of course, he also killed a few people..."
"Who?"
Hearing this, the lizard officer frowned.
"A few members of the Pighead Tribe..."
"Are you a noble from Elpes?"
The lizard officer had a headache and turned his head away, but Fang Zheng and Nephrine ignored them. The golden fairies had been suffering from the experiments and were very weak. Fang Zheng put them on the deck and let them rest for a while. Then he took out the terminal and started to scan and judge them one by one. Then he used holy light where necessary and applied medical glue where necessary.
Looking at this scene, the lizard officer who was originally planning to walk over stopped, hesitated for a moment, and then turned and left.
"Keep going according to the original plan."
The Guardian Wings airship took in several golden fairies and continued on its way. The golden fairies seemed to have developed psychological traumas due to the previous inhumane experiments, and they had been hiding in their cabins and dared not go out. Only when Fang Zheng and Nephrine appeared did they feel somewhat relieved.
Although golden fairies have a weak attitude towards death, it does not mean that they are unaware of pain. Even if they will not die and are not afraid of death, they will still feel fear when being fiddled with by a group of people on a laboratory table.
To be honest, Chtholly and Essia were also unfamiliar with this situation and didn't know what to do. Fang Zheng, on the other hand, seemed very calm. He was like a doctor in charge, and he would go around the cabin whenever he had time, talking to them and chatting with them. He quickly calmed down these golden fairies.
As for Nephrine...she followed Fang Zheng like a puppy, not caring about this little trouble at all.
"You seem to be good at this kind of thing?"
Chtholly watched from the side for several times, and finally couldn't help asking, and Fang Zheng nodded.
"Of course, I have been to many worlds and seen all kinds of things. In fact, there was a world in the past that was very similar to your world."
"Oh? Really?"
Hearing this, Aiseya and Nephrine also came over.
"Yes, that world is similar to yours, and it is almost destroyed. Of course, it is also the human beings who are killing themselves, and then a kind of monster called protogastric animals is born... The specific mechanism is very complicated, and it doesn't matter if you regard these monsters as beasts. In that world, humans use a kind of stone slab to prevent protogastric animals from invading the city..."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng opened his personal terminal and played the information about the dark world for them.
When they heard that the stone slab could prevent the protostomes from approaching, the fairy soldiers present couldn't help but show some envy.
“It would be nice if we had something like this here.”
Chtholly couldn't help but sigh. The people in this world built floating islands because most beasts couldn't fly. But there were exceptions. For example, the sixth beast would ride the wind to spread its seeds into the air, and once it landed on the floating island, it would hatch immediately. This was also an enemy that the fairy soldiers often had to face.
If this world had such a stone tablet to prevent beasts from approaching, then the fairy soldiers would have it much easier.
Then, they saw the existence of the cursed children and what happened to them.
Seeing this, the three of them fell silent. The fate of the Cursed Child in this world was very similar to that of the Unmarked, but even worse. After all, the Unmarked were still protected, but the Cursed Child... had completely become the enemy of that world.
"How are those kids doing now?"
After Fang Zheng finished playing this short introduction video, Nephrine suddenly asked, and Fang Zheng shrugged.
"Most of them are currently in Tiandao Palace, living a fairly peaceful and lively life. If you want to see it, I will take you back to Tiandao Palace after all this is over so you can experience it for yourself."
"So... you want us to be like them?"
"That's about right. If you can live a better life, why sacrifice yourself? Of course, it depends on your own willingness."
Having said this, Fang Zheng glanced at the three people.
"Aren't you fighting so hard here to protect those little girls in the warehouse?"
"this……"
Hearing Fang Zheng's question, the three of them were stunned, while Fang Zheng just laughed.
"There's a line in a movie I watched before that I really like, 'I had no choice before, but now I want to be a good person'... I think it's also very suitable to be applied to you. You also had no choice before, but now... you can think carefully about what kind of person you want to be and what your happiness will be like."
"Our happiness..."
Hearing this, Chtholly fell silent, and Aiseya frowned and thought for a rare moment.
“Ahem.”
At this moment, suddenly, a cough was heard. Everyone turned around and saw the lizard officer standing in the corridor, looking at them seriously.
"We just received an order, an emergency."
In response to the lizard officer's words, Chtholly, Nevlen and Aiseya's expressions immediately turned serious.
According to the Lizard Officer, they originally planned to go to the second island, but received a report on the way that the salvage team heading to the ground was attacked by a beast. Although they successfully repelled the beast, the airship was severely damaged and could not be repaired. Since they were on this route, closest to the crashed salvage team, and the only three fairy soldiers were also here, the top leaders of the Guard Wing Army issued an order for them to go to meet them.
The so-called salvage team is also a hard job. The people on the floating island will go to the ground every once in a while and salvage some things from the human ruins to use. The holy sword used by Chtholly and others was salvaged from the ruins, so it is called a ruins weapon. The work of the salvage team is very hard and dangerous. After all, the ground is not like the floating island. Although the 17 beasts except the sixth beast cannot fly, it is precisely because of this that the ground has become their territory.
Once you encounter the seventeen beasts, it will be very dangerous.
The salvage team also has a tradition that the number of people going down to the ruins each time cannot exceed seven, otherwise they will surely die.
Although I don’t know where this tradition came from... Of course, Fang Zheng just listened and saw it.
Soon, the airship changed its target and began to descend gradually. Then, the withered earth appeared in front of everyone.
The land is dead.
Fang Zheng didn't need anyone to introduce it to him. He could tell at a glance that there was only a desert left on this land. There was no grass, no water, no trees. The traces of life had almost completely disappeared. There was a dead silence everywhere.
This place is even worse than the chaotic land in the main world. Although it is also eroded by chaos, there are still some trees and water.
But here... it's like a corpse, the flesh has dried up, the skin is gone, even the flies are unwilling to stay and take a bite, only the last bones are left buried in the sand.
And those relics are the last bones left.
Fang Zheng stood on the deck, looking at the ground below. An airship crashed on the ground and broke into two pieces. Next to it was a cleaned-up campsite, and not far away were the remains of a human city covered by sand. Large parts of it had been weathered, and the remaining parts were in tatters, looking like remains that had just been unearthed by an archaeological team.
Soon, everyone on the airship joined the salvage team here and began to quickly transport the wounded and supplies. At the same time, Fang Zheng also met two other fairy soldiers, Landoruk and Noft.
"It's been a long time, Landoruko. Seeing you safe and sound is better than anything else."
"You too."
Landoruk is a quiet girl wearing a long blue dress and dark blue hair, which is different from Chtholly. Noft is a girl with short pink hair who looks like a tomboy.
"Also, may I ask, who is this person..."
As she spoke, Landoruk turned around and looked at Fang Zheng with a cautious and scrutinizing look.
"My name is Fang Zheng, and I'm currently in charge of the goblin warehouse."
Fang Zheng nodded to the two of them, and upon hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Landoruko frowned.
"Wu Zhengzhong, are you also a cannibal?"
"Why?"
Hearing this, the tomboy Noft suddenly became energetic.
"Are you Nigolan's husband?"
"No!"
Before Fang Zheng could answer, Chtholly beside him couldn't help but refute, and Fang Zheng just laughed.
"I am human."
“Huh?”
Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, both of them were stunned.
"Humans? Are you kidding me?"
"Although I am a human, I am not a human from your world."
Having said this, Fang Zheng turned his head again and looked at the ruins in front of him.
"And...it seems I found something good."
In fact, when he stepped on the ground, Fang Zheng felt an aura similar to that of the Goddess of Order.
Obviously, the order node he was looking for was here.