“Woo…”

Alyssa opened her eyes and looked blankly at the broken ceiling in front of her.

How much time has passed since then?

Alyssa slowly turned her head and looked around, but at this moment she couldn't even think smoothly. She had been like this since that day when she was attacked.

“——!!”

Severe pain came from Alyssa's right hand, which made her groan. She turned her head and saw that her right hand had completely changed. It no longer looked like a human arm, but more like a limb of some monster.

"Has the transformation into a deity... started?"

Seeing this, Alyssa also bit her lip, and a feeling of powerlessness came from her heart.

God Eater is not a perfect warrior.

They were injected with Oracle cells, thus gaining extraordinary strength and speed, which is why Alyssa can pick up a sword heavier than herself with one hand. But on the other hand, this is also a double-edged sword. In fact, the huge bracelet-like thing on the hands of the God Eaters is actually a kind of "inhibitor". If this inhibitor does not exist, then the God Eaters injected with Oracle cells will inevitably transform into the form of the wild gods, and finally become a brand new wild god.

The same was true for Alyssa. In the previous battle, she left the battlefield in order to seek support, but after that, Alyssa still encountered a nightmare she had never imagined.

The wild god who had killed her parents appeared in front of her again and led a group of wild gods to attack Alyssa.

Although Alyssa tried her best to kill those wild gods, and even injured the giant wild god who was leading the group with one blow, forcing the other party to flee, it was also in this last blow that Alyssa's bracelet was shattered by the other party, and she lost consciousness as a result.

When she woke up again, she was in this dilapidated house.

I have to go back and tell everyone about the minister's plan...

Thinking of this, Alyssa tried hard to stand up, but her legs had no strength at all, and she trembled involuntarily just by moving a little.

"……?"

At this moment, Alyssa suddenly felt a cool sensation coming from her right hand as if it was burned by fire, which made her feel relieved. She turned her head and looked around, only to see a girl with short white hair and a tattered robe sitting next to her, looking at her worriedly.

"Xiao..."

Alyssa whispered as she looked at the girl in front of her, and the girl blinked curiously, staring at her.

Although she was unconscious, the girl had been by her side since she woke up, so it could be inferred that she was the one who saved her. But what troubled Alyssa was that the girl in front of her didn't seem to have any ability to interact with others. She didn't even know how to speak, and couldn't understand what she meant.

There's not even a name.

At the beginning, the girl could only make sounds like "ah" and "wu". Gradually, she began to learn to repeat Alyssa's words like a baby, but because she had no name, Alyssa gave her the name "Xio".

But how did this child survive?

Alisa felt that this girl was full of mysteries. You have to know that this is a wasteland world. It is difficult for a child to survive alone. Of course, although it is also possible that the girl may have lost her parents when she was very young, if she was raised by her parents, she should have at least the ability to communicate. Why is she like a baby...

But none of that matters.

She had to go back and tell everyone about the minister's conspiracy... But now Alyssa couldn't move at all, and Xio didn't understand what the God Eater and Fenrir were, and her communication skills were very limited, so it was impossible for her to find someone to pass on the message. And Alyssa was also very worried that if the minister found out, Xio might be in danger.

Could it be that we can only rely on the search party? But Fenrir's manpower...

Thinking of this, Alyssa couldn't help but fall into deep despair.

However, in a place that Alisa could not imagine...

"You didn't find it there either?"

"No, nothing was found."

"Thank you. Please go to another area."

"no problem."

Watching the excited players leave, Fili sighed and frowned as she looked at the map in front of her.

"Something is wrong."

"Is there something wrong?"

"Yes, indeed."

In the face of Fili's words, Misaka Mikoto was still confused, but Shirai Kuroko nodded as if she understood what Fili was saying.

"According to the description of the people who were working with Miss Alisa at the time, they were attacked by a considerable number of wild gods. In this situation, Miss Alisa originally wanted to resist by herself and let them escape, but she eventually chose to leave because of the other party's request. Given Miss Alisa's personality, she should immediately return to Fenrir to seek support."

"But from what I've seen so far, Miss Alisa was attacked on the road... huh?"

At this moment, Riri Saten seemed to have reacted, and Kuroko Shirai nodded.

"That's right. If nothing had happened to her, she would have done her best to come back. Even if we don't find Miss Alisa's... body there, it means she should be alive. But this creates a contradiction."

"contradiction?"

"Yes, if Miss Alisa was seriously injured, she shouldn't have left too far. But if she was not seriously injured, she should have returned to Fenrir as soon as possible. However, we have searched all around Fenrir, but we didn't find anything. This is very strange."

"That's it."

Fili nodded, agreeing with what Shirai Kuroko said. Upon hearing this, Saten Ruiko's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Then, could it be that Alyssa knew that someone in Fenrir was against her, so she had to choose to escape? Look, didn't those people also tell us that they suspected that the minister was planning to kill Alyssa?"

"But if that's the case, she should have looked for us first. But so far, there has been no news from either the Wandering Bus or Zuellni, and the adventurers haven't found any clues either."

"So we still need to expand the search area. Is this really okay? I think it's a bit too much trouble for those adventurers."

Hearing this, Fili seemed somewhat uneasy. To be honest, this time they were worried about their friend, so they had no way to reward those "adventurers". In fact, Fili had just wanted to give it a try at the beginning, but to her surprise, almost everyone agreed to her request. Even if they didn't find it, they didn't mean to be discouraged, but hoped that Fili would continue to ask them for help.

At first, Fili suspected that the other party had some purpose towards her. After all, there were such people in Zuellni. But soon Fili found that although those adventurers seemed to like her very much, they seemed to be sincere in asking her to entrust them with things. Occasionally, Fili would even hear those "adventurers" seriously discussing whether they had found any clues or not. It didn't seem like something they would do just to please women.

These people are really too good!

Since Fili and her friends had no way of offering any reward, these adventurers were basically working for nothing. Therefore, Fili and her friends racked their brains to understand why the other party would be so concerned about such a commission that was a waste of time and energy and had almost no reward.

"But since Xiao Hei said it's okay, then it should be okay."

Riri Saotome seemed calm.

“It’s great that everyone is a good person.”

"That being said..."

"Wahahaha, Miss Fili, we found a clue!"

At this moment, suddenly, a group of "adventurers" rushed in and greeted everyone happily. The girls were used to this. Although these adventurers were very friendly, they didn't seem to care much about etiquette, and they treated them differently from ordinary people... In short, this should be considered a unique characteristic of people from another world?

"What clues? Did you find Miss Alyssa?"

Hearing this, Riri Saotome asked hurriedly, and the leading player shook his head.

"No, no, but I think it has something to do with Miss Alisa's disappearance."

"Oh? Really?"

"Yes, yes."

The adventurer also exchanged glances with his companions, then spoke.

"Didn't we say that the minister must have framed Miss Alisa for some conspiracy? So we sneaked into the base and tried to find out if there were any clues..."

"Well……"

Hearing this, the girls all showed slightly subtle expressions. In fact, this was not the first time they had encountered such a thing. Although these adventurers from other worlds were very friendly and helpful, they were sometimes quite self-centered and basically did whatever they thought of without considering the consequences.

Like now, what the girls couldn't understand was that almost all the "adventurers" seemed to agree that Minister Kalian was the culprit behind the scenes, and then they desperately dug up all kinds of dark history and evidence, as if no one doubted it at all. This made the girls really... not sure what to say.

Strictly speaking, it is illegal to secretly enter a mobile city to conduct an investigation like we are doing now!

"Then we followed the minister and found a secret passage that led to a very far place, and it was pretty disgusting inside!"

"quite……"

"……nausea?"

Faced with this unexpected adjective, the girls looked at each other in bewilderment. If you had said it was quite horrible or quite cruel, they would have had some ideas, but what about quite disgusting?

"We found that the passage and the space inside were all corroded by something like flesh or blood vessels. Anyway, it looked like a scene from a B-grade horror movie..."

"Yes, yes, there is a super huge monster in it, but we were discovered by that man at that time, and then we died and came back."

Come back from death...

After hearing this, the girls didn't know what to say. They had no idea what this meant, but at least they knew what the other party had done.

"What do you think? I think the minister must be plotting something. Why don't we defeat him now?"

"this……"

Looking at the sparkling eyes of the adventurer in front of her, Fili looked at the others awkwardly, then shook her head.

"I'm sorry, but the clues we have right now are not enough. To be honest, we don't know much about the legacy of the God Eater. After all, we are not Fenrir's people. If we want to know what happened, I'm afraid we need to find Miss Alisa..."

Having said that, Fili was relieved deep down in her heart. She knew very well that many of these adventurers were much stronger than herself. But what puzzled Fili was that these adventurers were obviously much stronger than herself and others, but they seemed to have to wait for her orders before taking action.

Logically speaking, if these adventurers wanted to attack Fenrir, they had no right to stop them. But surprisingly, it seemed that all the adventurers regarded them as leaders, and asked them whether they wanted to attack Fenrir directly. After being rejected, they did not get discouraged or go on their own, but continued to do other tasks.

"That is to say, you are the one who knows the situation inside, right? I understand!"

Hearing this, the adventurer nodded vigorously, then walked out with the others, leaving Fili standing there.

"I just...didn't I say anything I shouldn't have said?"

"That... I don't know either..."

For some reason, at this moment, looking at the adventurers' receding backs, the girls had a bad feeling deep in their hearts.