Chapter 11-11- Aurora Night
A few days later, in the city center of Ish, Yvette found a piece of woodland through the curtain of steel and weeds and decided to transform it into her own estate.
This place was probably once a park or something, with relatively few remaining buildings and a beautiful little lake. If you could build a house here, you could at least have a lake view.
Of course, building a manor was a massive undertaking, involving numerous areas such as architectural planning. Even with her magical prowess, Yvette still needed a significant amount of time and knowledge to realize this vision. Therefore, her primary focus in her farming life remained collecting a wide variety of hardcover books, absorbing the technological legacy left by her original civilization.
Even Yvette often thought that her appearance had nothing to do with Black Tower Pharmaceuticals - after all, Black Tower Pharmaceuticals itself was destroyed - in fact, the gods needed someone to witness and record the existence of the original civilization, so she traveled through time and became immortal.
In this way, more than ten years passed as he lived a life of collecting knowledge, building manors, and cultivating fields.
During this period, Yvette traveled to the three cities of Ish Island, from the capital "Ish City", to "Gray Harbor City" in the southwest, and then to "Lua City" in the northernmost part. She marked some dangerous areas that were suspected to be the nests of mutants and should not be approached. She also visited the ruins of many towns and villages, but as expected, she did not see any living people.
But she didn't care, and was even a little numb. She just admired the scenery along the way alone. Occasionally, when she got a hardcover book carrying the technological heritage of the original civilization, her heart would be moved.
Sometimes she would think that maybe it was just because Ish Island was too remote that there were no people. Maybe there was a human settlement somewhere on the three continents that had already sounded the clarion call for a counterattack against the deformed creatures.
This gave her some motivation, and she began studying magical engineering, thinking that perhaps she could repair some magical equipment, or even tinker with some crude and primitive magical circuits. If successful, she would be able to use medium-to-large-scale spells with higher rune specifications, tens of thousands of runes, or even a hundred thousand runes.
but……
When Yvette thought of the terrifying scale of the deformed creatures in the sea, both in terms of number and strength, she felt that hope suddenly became slim.
It's impossible to cross the sea, she shook her head secretly, it's impossible to cross the sea in this lifetime.
It wasn't that she was timid, but she had seen it with her own eyes. On the distant skyline, a snake-like sea monster had once swam across. Its terrifying figure was several kilometers long, and even from a distance of dozens of kilometers, it was still extremely shocking, as if a myth had descended.
What was even more shocking was that the sea beast was not a carbon-based creature like ordinary deformed creatures. Its body was covered with scales, and the small part of flesh that was exposed was actually steel bones left over from centuries ago!
Yes, at this time, Yvette already knew that the mysterious factor that once caused biological deformation could not only infect carbon-based organisms, but even mechanical puppets and magic robots controlled by AI would be infected and parasitized by them, and merged into a crazy form of half-mechanical, half-biological forms.
It is no wonder that the origin civilization was destroyed.
If even machines can't escape infection, how can humans resist?
So, Yvette silently named the sea monster "Metal Seadramon" and sincerely hoped that it could roll as far away as possible, and preferably never get close to Ish Island.
…
That night, a very rare aurora appeared in the sky.
Nearly 300 years after her time travel, it was the first time Yvette saw the aurora in the night sky.
She brought her own small stool and sat on the top floor of the three-story wooden house in the manor, quietly admiring the scenery. The room behind her and some tree branches in the manor were brightly lit. The energy for all the light bulbs came from a simple magic generator that Yvette had repaired some time ago.
Just as she was immersed in this tranquility, suddenly, an extremely abrupt scream was heard from the forest city outside the manor.
"ah--!!!"
In an instant, Yvette's pupils dilated, and her first reaction was not to save people immediately, but to think she had seen a ghost.
She had been wandering around Ish Island for so many years and was certain there was no one here, so how could she suddenly hear a clear human female scream?!
From the sea? Impossible. The sea has become a nest of deformed creatures. How could anyone possibly cross the sea in such a situation?
From the sky? That's more likely, but how could she not have noticed it at all?
Could it be a deformed creature?
A certain humanoid deformed being regained his memory and was able to speak?
Soon, strong curiosity overcame vigilance. Yvette turned over and jumped down from the third floor. Stepping on the strong wind, she flew directly in the direction of the scream. Four fire dragons emerged from the rune ring and swept outward around her, lighting up all directions with flames.
All the deformed creatures attracted from the darkness, whether human or non-human, were swept away by such flames and turned to ashes.
A minute later, on a road at the end of the darkness, on the top of a vehicle that was only left with a skeleton, Yvette saw the source of the voice. It was indeed a human, even a blonde and blue-eyed human girl, probably less than 10 years old, wearing an exquisite classical dress, her pretty little face was panic-stricken.
"Σ(⊙▽⊙"a%!~zxcvb&*!!"
After seeing Yvette, she waved excitedly and uttered a string of strange words that Yvette could not understand at all.
It's not Black Tide Language... Is it Emerald Language? Or Silver Mirror Language?
Yvette's mind raced. She had only learned the Black Tide language in the mist of dreams. Now that the language was different, her first reaction was that the other party was a survivor from the Emerald Continent or the Silver Mirror Continent.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" After flying to the road in front of the other person and landing, she looked at the little girl who jumped down from the roof of the car in panic, and decided to try to speak in Kuroshio language first.
But the girl immediately showed a confused expression, obviously not understanding what Yvette said.
This is a bit troublesome... No, it's okay. At least she doesn't look like a deformed creature, but a real human. We can talk about the language later...
With this in mind, Yvette stopped communicating and gestured, guiding her towards the manor.
…
A few minutes later, back at the large estate in the city center, Yvette settled the little girl in her three-story wooden villa.
When she built the house, she didn't consider that there would be a second tenant here, so she had to give her the only bedroom and sleep on the sofa herself.
At the same time, she took out some meat, vegetables and fruits from her homemade small refrigerator and made some simple magic barbecue to calm the girl's emotions.
However, the girl's self-control was surprisingly good. Although she looked very hungry, she did not lose her composure when faced with the freshly grilled meat and fruit.
At the dining table, she first bowed slightly to Yvette to express her gratitude. Only after Yvette nodded did she sit down, put her hands together in prayer, and finally picked up the knife and fork and ate her meal in small bites.
Of course, despite this, it can be seen that the girl was quite vigilant. While eating, she was also carefully observing the indoor environment. From time to time, she would secretly glance at Yvette with awe in her eyes, and before their eyes met, she would retract her gaze as if she had been electrocuted and pretend nothing had happened.
Seeing this scene, a hint of tenderness appeared in the depths of Yvette's calm eyes, as if a river that had been frozen for hundreds of years was quietly melting at this moment.
She thought that the days to come would not be as boring as before.
(End of this chapter)
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