Chapter 16 Ancient Civilization Infection Zone (3) Jinjiang exclusive authorized first release...
The word "outsider" frequently appears in the small town.
There was a lot of discussion in this tavern about outsiders, those guys who wore strange clothes and believed in "evil gods". They could not hide the contempt in their eyes, and their attitude towards the residents in the town who had suffered serious changes was almost discriminatory - in just two days, violent and bloody incidents occurred frequently.
There were so many indigenous people that no one could conquer this isolated land by force. It is even more of a pipe dream to let outsiders unite, as these people are competitors of each other and have conflicting positions.
After these two chaotic days, the atmosphere in the town was extremely tense: there was no more bloodshed, because people spontaneously began to collect outsiders; there was no more discrimination against the indigenous people, because they were the targets of hunting.
The security team went door to door searching for outsiders.
But this has nothing to do with Ani. She has integrated into the town like a duck in water. No one doubts Sister Ani's identity, and the neighbors take the initiative to help her rebuild the old church - even though that church even looks like a ruin.
"Hey, Nini." The middle-aged woman next to the tavern called her affectionately, "Since I can remember, this place has been so deserted. I never thought that people from the temple would come back... It's so unsafe these days. Come here and don't let those weirdos from outside target you."
Ani climbed up the ladder and took the tools to repair the half-broken church stained glass window. She turned around and smiled sweetly, saying, "No, don't worry, my brother is with me."
"Your brother doesn't look like a hard worker. He doesn't help you, so you have to do this kind of work."
Ani glanced at her "brother" who was blind in one eye not far away and said: "I can do this job. And my brother is not idle either... Well, thank you Aunt Mara."
The middle-aged woman stuffed a piece of freshly baked bread into her hand.
Annie held the small piece of bread in her mouth and ate it slowly while working. The "skills" category in the training courses of Hailan University includes some building construction and renovation. Although it was her first time doing restoration work, she was quite fast and her work looked very neat.
After finishing the bread, Annie came down from the shelf and glanced back at Ling Yi San who was chatting and laughing with some local residents.
The people around him were all drunkards, gamblers, and pimps in the town, and the information they had was mixed, some true, some false. It took Ling Yi San a short time to establish good relations with this group of people and become friends with them. He noticed Annie's gaze and soon walked out from the group.
Ani handed him a candy, which was given by Aunt Mara. He lowered his head, took it in his mouth, and crunched it into pieces. He said, "Have you visited the injured residents?"
"Yeah." Ani put the tools back, cleaned the dust off her body, and washed her hands. "The two groups that chose 'generosity' and 'tolerance' got there first. They each treated some of the wounded, and also intended to spread faith through charity. But the two groups were too anxious, and one of them revealed a flaw and was expelled from the shelter."
"And the other one?"
"The other group gained trust, and some injured residents seemed to be very grateful for it. However, one of the members of that group was attacked by other hunters shortly after leaving the shelter, and died. His teammates, in order to follow the divine precepts of tolerance, did not pursue the matter."
"I don't think it's that I didn't pursue it, but I can't beat him." Ling Yisan swallowed the tiny sugar residue like swallowing glass shards and glanced at her: "What about you?"
"Me? I'm just an ordinary nun in town, serving the Mother Goddess of Plenty. What does that have to do with me?" Ani said, "There are other people in that shelter who have hidden their identities. I wonder if they have discovered each other."
"An infected area, a group of distorted experimental subjects that were cultivated, has turned into a dark forest where anyone who shows up will die. Every hunter is lurking in it, trying to conquer the battlefield by killing other beasts." Ling Yi San laughed, and then said, "Oh, right. I heard from them that an outsider was captured by the security team and tied up near the city hall. They plan to burn him at the stake tomorrow."
"Burn to death?" Ani asked.
"What else could it be - Tsk, can a guy like this who can't even escape the raid by the security team be called a Star Sea Warrior? He's ridiculously weak."
It’s a pity that the contestants are not allowed to view the real-time comments in this game, otherwise they would definitely be able to see the audience’s passionate and interesting speeches.
Annie raised her hand to her chin and slowly stroked her jawbone with her fingers. She lowered her head and thought for a while, and a hand reached out from her side, as if to hug her waist. She didn't care about Zero One Three's move, but said, "This doesn't make sense. I'm worried that the other contestants may have done something tricky."
"You mean, he successfully passed the purification of fire and used it to publicize his identity as a messenger of God?" Ling Yisan's hand went around her waist. When he made contact with her, his abnormal state stabilized. "But he won't live to see tomorrow. Someone will deal with the 'outsider' who shows up in the open tonight."
"I'm going to take a look," said Ani.
Dusk was falling all around, and soon it would be dangerous night. Ling Yi San looked back at the people who were drinking and chatting, his eyes swept across the deformed parts hidden by their wraps, and said, "I'll go with you."
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On that cold, frosty night, the infected area was dark and silent.
The two men changed into clothes that were convenient for movement and quietly moved to the vicinity of the Old Town Hall. Annie was very good at stealth. She chose a high place, moved silently, and observed on the bell tower for a while.
"There are people watching the stake in those places." Ani pointed softly, "The one on the left is alone, you can hunt it. It's best not to make any noise."
"What about the right side?"
"The people on the right are the Generous ones. I've seen them before." Ani said, "Lead the night patrolmen from the security team over here and lead them to the other side. It would be best if you could take them for a few laps while I go and rescue them."
"Save him?" Ling Yi San's tone suddenly changed. He raised his hand to hold Annie's shoulder, and his fingertips vaguely hooked her hair and made circles. "I thought you just wanted to eliminate your competitor. Why save him? You don't have any feelings for a teammate you only met once, do you? According to a saying on your Aquamarine Star - what is it, I will raise your brother?"
As dusk fell, the two men mingled in the crowd and passed by a stake. The person tied up there was none other than Mo Wan, whom he had met once on the Rose.
It was An Fei’s brother who was sent to marry.
The residents of the town hated outsiders, and were surrounded by insults and curses to burn him to death. The two men hurried past and saw him huddled on the execution platform with his head lowered. Under his torn veil was a familiar layer of black hair that reached the ground. His wrists were fastened tightly to the rack.
He kept his head down, so his expression couldn't be seen clearly. But judging from his stiff body and clenched fingers, he was very scared. He kept swallowing his saliva dryly and his breathing was shallow but rapid.
Mo Wan was still wearing the traditional robes of the Spider Clan, but the cloth that covered him tightly had traces of burns and had become tattered after experiencing a horrific accident. His pale complexion showed from beneath the velvety black.
"No." Ani answered calmly and simply after recalling the look on Mo Wan's face in the evening.
Ling Yi San stared at her face carefully, but could not see any expression from the little monster's skin. He said, "It's clear now. He shouldn't be here. The Zerg Archon's murder was premeditated. There may be a conspiracy between several organizations behind it. Someone deliberately killed An Fei and threw him into the hunting ground."
"What's the point of doing this?" Many thoughts flashed through Annie's mind. She didn't ask further, but said, "Although he seems to have almost no fighting ability and has been raised by the female Zerg to not know how to resist, he is a brutal Zerg after all. Tomorrow's burning will not only fail to burn him to death, but will also turn into a massacre."
"You're right." Ling Yi San said indifferently, "What does this have to do with saving him? Maybe this is what the authorities want to see. Oh, accidents, conflicts, killings, such complete elements, such great ratings, such a wonderful massacre, the only thing missing is a pornographic scene."
Annie was looking at the direction of the stake from afar. When she heard the word "pornography", she moved her ears slightly and suddenly turned her head to look at Ling Yi San.
Zero One Three was confused. The next second, Ani looked at him and said, "But he is a male Zerg. He is a male without a female to look after him and without the protection of the tribe. Do you know what I am saying?"
Her tone quickened, and this sudden increase in words and slightly satisfied expression had also appeared when she met him. Annie held the man's hand, clenched the knuckles of the man's hands that were exposed outside the gloves, and confided to Ling Yisan: "I can't miss such a good opportunity, I want to get this research sample. To be honest, I don't care about the spoils, I don't care about winning or losing, I have my own mission to complete... I want to get him."
Ling Yi San suddenly felt that when he discovered Mo Wan, or when he saw Mo Wan for the first time. Ani's possessiveness towards this race was growing secretly. If she had any weakness, it was her inability to suppress her desire to reproduce.
"And that's really a very tempting mimicry..." She looked away and murmured, "That's a naturally aggressive race. You can't ask me to give up."
He felt a nameless fire rising up in his throat, choking him and unable to swallow or spit out. Ling Yi San could not help grinding his back teeth, his expression changing again and again, and finally he gritted his teeth and let out a sinister laugh: "Ha, ha, ha! You are really consistent inside and out, not hypocritical at all. You... you have done this to me, and you actually said this in front of me, can you treat me as a... no, can you treat yourself as a human being?!"
Annie's excitement gradually faded away. She calmed her tone, met Ling Yi San's jealous eyes, raised her hands to hold his face, and gently kissed his eyes.
His artificial eye, which was glowing red, suddenly stopped.
"Brother, you're not the kind of human who would mind whether there's love or not, right?"
She feels that the teacher is different from Zero One Three. Even though it was his first time when they met, Zero One Three was clearly not the type of person who needed love to have a relationship.
"I……"
"You just want to have fun with me," she said calmly and rationally. "You want to have fun with me. You want to have fun with me. I know."
“…”
Ling Yi San was almost in a stomachache after hearing this. He didn't know which organ in his body was twitching in inexplicable discomfort. He lowered his head and took a deep breath. Then he grabbed Ani's collar and answered in a very aggressive tone, "Yes. You should keep your heart that is cut into pieces of glass by everyone you meet. I don't need it. Sooner or later, I will kill you and dig out your heart to let me see it."
After he finished speaking, he left the bell tower and disappeared into the darkness.
But Annie knew that Ling Yi San agreed.
Ani is immune to beauty, but she cannot resist the genes of a powerful race beckoning to her. The Zerg's reproductive capacity ranks among the best even among billions of planets and the vast universe. She waited there for a while and heard a scream tearing through the quiet night.
The shouting stopped abruptly.
Zero One Three succeeded. Annie calculated the time and saw the night patrolman's fire light up in the distance. She pulled up her hood and took the opportunity to tumble down the bell tower, moving as lightly as a cat.
Everything went smoothly and almost all the people who were ambushing here were attracted away. Ani quickly and silently pried open the interlocking iron rings on the shelf, and the tightly fastened torture instruments fell to the ground with a click. She pulled Mo Wan up without saying a word, grabbed him and turned away.
It all happened too fast. Mo Wan was too quiet during the process, only letting out a vague hum when Ani grabbed his wrist. She clasped the young man's thin wrist. His fingers were trembling slightly. He instinctively dodged but did not dare to resist.
Ani led him hurriedly through the night, leaving the old town hall behind. At this moment, the night patrol had already clashed with some outsiders who were lying in ambush here, and could not find any trace of Zero One Three.
The fire and noise behind her were getting louder and louder. Annie turned into the shortcut to the alley that the locals had mentioned. After taking a few steps, she saw a figure squatting on the low wall in front of her.
"Hey." The figure jumped down, his hand on the weapon at his waist, "Did you get it too easily? Was the excitement over there led by your companion, or did you take advantage of the opportunity and sneak in, intending to - Hey, why didn't you kill him and run away with him."
Ani looked up. Before their eyes met, she drew her gun without hesitation. The other party also reacted very quickly. At the moment when the two sides shot at each other, the entire dark alley was illuminated by intense light.
The live broadcast curtain was pulled into the camera.
"So decisive... So why did the Prideful Group want to greet her? Are they trying to test her mind and form a temporary alliance?"
"So far, all the guys who were doing the faith mission have died. It's really the inherent tradition of the hunting ground. If they can't beat you, they will kill you."
"Ani is so handsome when she starts fighting when she disagrees with something. [Infatuated face][Infatuated face]"
"If the camera wasn't pointing at the stake and one of the frames showed her face, you fans wouldn't have recognized her..."
The light fell, and on the screen one could almost feel the slight stinging in the eyes after the glare faded away.
The scene zoomed in again, revealing her slightly messy white hair outside her hood. The girl did not dodge. She stood in front of Mo Wan. The hole from her palm to her chest was repairing rapidly, and an inexplicable fragrance emanated strongly.
Opposite her, the blocker also had a hole in his chest, revealing madly spinning gears and machinery, and some kind of black oil was flowing out of his body.
Highly modified? Annie took a quick look, pulled out a long stick from her waist, and used the alloy material to block the opponent's left hand that had turned into a chainsaw. The chain saw rushed towards him, emitting sparks and white smoke on the metal.
"You are," Ani said, "have you replaced everything except your brain with a prosthetic? You'll become mentally ill."
He started shooting as soon as he came up, and now he actually cares about me. Unfortunately, the person opposite is a mentally ill person with highly modified cyborg body, and he is unable to communicate after being stimulated.
The chainsaw struck the alloy rod repeatedly and ferociously. Amid the sparks and the sound of cracking and wearing, Annie actually loosened one of her hands. She blocked the chainsaw that the opponent's arm had transformed into with one hand, and reached into the hole in the cyborg's chest.
There was a gap in the energy pump that was shattered by the laser. Annie's skin was quickly corroded when it came into contact with the leaked oil. She frowned, threw her arm in, and her fingertips turned into those of a mermaid inside the other person's body, tearing apart a thin layer of metal shell with her bare hands.
Click.
The metal shattered, and the neural signal transmission board connecting the body and the brain was grasped in her hand. Annie closed her fingers, grasped the part embedded with chips and interfaces, and pulled it out of the cyborg's body.
The roar of the chainsaw stopped.
In the quiet alley, her arm, which had been corroded to the point of being reduced to bones, healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Ani looked down at the model of the part, and her cold expression suddenly changed: "...very valuable."
As he said this, he wiped the blood off it and put it in his pocket.
The audience was so excited: "..."
How much does a Star Sea warrior need money? ! With your current reputation, any organization you join should have plenty of money to support you!
The most critical connecting plate of the cyborg was taken out, and the opponent's body immediately went limp. But his brain is still alive, he just can't communicate.
Ani removed several important parts, opened the other party's alloy skull, and raised the gun: "Sorry. Goodbye."
Light exploded under her palm, and a mass of brain tissue turned into ashes.
"…Does an apology at this time really make sense? It's really a perverted dining etiquette for a hunter to say "you're delicious" while chewing food." A paid barrage was posted.
"But... he's so handsome."
"This is the A-level modification plan provided by Skydome Technology, and a lot of things have been added by ourselves. Although the popularity of modified warriors has never been high...but his record is very outstanding. He was actually crushed by an ordinary space human like Annie without blinking an eye..."
"Are mutants that strong?"
Most mutants aren't actually that scary. After Annie was considered a mutant, she only received a routine wanted warrant issued by the two organizations.
"Does anyone know where her ranking is now?" This was a message from an official account certified as the "Female Hunter Support Club."
"This is her first official hunt. Of course, outside of the 9999 in this galaxy, newcomers are supposed to be outside the top 10,000."
Aquamarine belongs to the Milky Way controlled by the Free Alliance, so she is also registered in the Milky Way by default.
As the barrage of rewards continued to fill the screen, Annie, who knew nothing about the outside world's comments, shook off the blood on her body, turned around and held Mo Wan's hand again.
He saw the face under the hood, and his eyes suddenly widened: "Woo..." There was only a very light groan, and then he immediately lowered his head without saying anything, allowing Annie's hand to hold him.
Males of the Spider Clan are used to hiding behind members of the opposite sex. This is how they grew up, hiding quietly behind their mothers, sisters, or wives. They thought it was natural - what could a little boy like him do? He can only survive by relying on women.
"Oh my goodness." An unreliable voice sounded from the other side, speaking in a sarcastic tone. Zero One Three, who had managed to pull off a round of hatred and escape safely, stood not far away. He threw the body of his cyborg teammate on the ground and walked over. "Are you going to do this just for your little Spider?"
He kicked the prey that had been torn into parts on the ground and scanned the marks of injury on his body: "You are still using the weapon I gave you."
There was blood on Ling Yi San's clothes, and several electronic decorations on his jacket were missing. He put his hands in his pockets and glanced at Mo Wan behind Ani: "You are so pitiful. You can seduce me. I can't learn it. I went through life and death for you, but you didn't - eh!"
Ani grabbed him, and with her half-healed hand, she hooked her fingers around his equally scarred fingers, and pulled him, saying, "I don't understand what you're saying. Let's go back, brother."
Ling Yisan glanced at her hands and then at her expressionless face. He was very clear about his ability. He would not die, but he would feel pain. Even if Annie could simulate the past, she would definitely feel pain: "Be gentle."
Ani noticed the wound on his palm and immediately relaxed her grip: "Did it hurt you?"
"..." Ling Yisan was silent for a few seconds, raised an eyebrow and wanted to scold her if her pain nerves were dead and she couldn't feel anything even though she was injured like this, but he swallowed his words and answered with only one word, "Yeah."
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